I'm new to stackoverflow and HTML/CSS/Javascript. I have four tabs and I want them to be able to all be 1/4 the size of the browser width. This is primarily for mobile use and thus 1/4 the width of the browser should be fine.
Again, I'm pretty new to HTML/CSS/Javascript, but I have experience with Java. Thus I know programming basics but I don't really know how HTML, CSS, and Javascript all interact together.
Thanks!
edit: So after seeing a couple comments and such I think I need to be a bit clearer. So I guess I'll clear some stuff up. First, yes I styled some stuff to look like tabs. I just googled it and I found a way. I don't know if it's the best way though. I'll include some code below.
<ol id="toc">
<li><a href="Password.html">
<span class="title">Password</span></a></li>
<li><a href="SSID.html">
<span class="title">SSID</span></a></li>
<li class="current"><a href="Info.html">
<span class="title">Info</span></a></li>
<li><a href="Logout.html">
<span class="title">Logout</span></a></li></ol>
And my CSS
ol#toc {
height: 1em;
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
ol#toc a {
background: #bdf url(tabs.png);
color: #ddd;
display: block;
float: left;
height: 2em;
padding-left: 20px;
text-decoration: none;
}
ol#toc a:hover {
background-color: #3af;
background-position: 0 -120px;
}
ol#toc a:hover span {
background-position: 100% -120px;
}
ol#toc span.title {
font-size:0.6em;
vertical-align:bottom;
font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, Times, serif;
}
ol#toc li {
float: left;
}
ol#toc li.current a {
background-color: #48f;
background-position: 0 -60px;
color: #fff;
}
ol#toc li.current span {
background-position: 100% -60px;
}
ol#toc span {
background: url(tabs.png) 100% 0;
display: block;
line-height: 3.1em;
padding-right: 20px;
}
But I also saw some great stuff using JQuery. I just didn't really know how to use that either.
Well, I assume that you already have your <li> tags looking like tabs already? If that is the case, the CSS is trivial:
/* Note that my choice of selector here is HEAVILY dependent on the styling you already have*/
li span.title
{
width: 25%;
}
Understanding the interaction is CSS/Javascript/HTML is very simple to learn. If this answer didn't make sense, I encourage you to read a good book on that subject first.
Based on your comment to Stargazer712, you may want to check out {less} which is a dynamic stylesheet language that does allow for variables: http://lesscss.org/
Because you want to "pass variables from JavaScript to CSS," this still may not be the answer, but it's worth looking into.
Related
Although sometimes a pixel here or there must be forgiven and forgotten.
But in this example this simple menu's need to be rendered pixel-perfectly!
That is to say, the gaps between the menu items must be exactly equal.
In my example all menu separators looks ugly and fuzzy and disoriented as some items melt together.
While others are too far apart. Its a mess. After a nights sleeping,
I have come to the conclusion that this is one of those scenario's where the life's motto
of accepting whatever comes at you cannot be accepted and a designer must take a stand.
Whether its a dashed or solid line, the problem occurs in each and every whay I approach it.
setting margins to -1px and adding a border of 1px does not fix this.
Both examples are made from the newest version of Chrome and Firefox in 2022.
Is there a way we can separate the items with an equal, exact pixelated/aliased sharp line, without the vague anti-aliased fuzzy line of seemingly random thickness to happen?
You are allowed to rewrite it entirely or use flexbox or any other elegant CSS solution!
..............................
nav ul{
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
nav {
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
position: absolute;
height: auto;
display: inline-block;
font-style: italic;
font-size: 1.25em;
padding: 0px 0 0 0;
}
nav li {
background-color: blue;
writing-mode: vertical-rl;
transform: scale(-1);
line-height: 1em;
border-top: 1px dashed white;
}
nav li a {
display:block;
text-decoration: none;
color: #fff;
padding: 2em;
}
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Bureau</li>
<li>Projecten</li>
<li>Diensten</li>
<li>Ontwerpen</li>
<li>Concepten</li>
<li>Kunsten</li>
</ul>
</nav>
Borders can be fiddly when you start applying transforms to the element they are applied to, so remove the transform:scale(-1) from the containing <li> elements and transform the <a> instead:
nav li {
background-color: blue;
writing-mode: vertical-rl;
line-height: 1em;
border-top: 1px dashed white;
}
nav li a {
display:block;
text-decoration: none;
color: #fff;
padding: 2em;
transform:rotate(180deg); <- other transforms are available :)
}
Snippet here based on your code: https://codepen.io/29b6/pen/KKQZywz
I am learning about CSS from Progate.com (Note that they don't have any doubt clearing forum) and reached the level where I have to work on a simple layout provided in the exercises. It was quite a smooth learning until I was confused by the CSS of a class selector. So, I need to fix some CSS so that only the <li> elements inside header-list are horizontally aligned.
To do the same I changed the code to the following:
body {
font-family: "Avenir Next";
}
.header-list li {
list-style: none;
float: left;
padding: 33px 20px;
}
.header {
background-color: #26d0c9;
color: #fff;
height: 90px;
}
.header-logo {
float: left;
font-size: 36px;
padding: 20px 40px;
}
.header-list {
float: left;
}
.main {
background-color: #bdf7f1;
height: 600px;
}
.footer {
background-color: #ceccf3;
height: 270px;
}
This gave me the same result as they wanted in the answer. But, when I try submitting the answer, a popup pops out saying that
The CSS for the float property of <li> elements should be deleted.
So, to understand why this was needed, I re-read their instructions once again and it stated that:
Rewrite the following properties specified for <li> elements so that they are applied only to the <li> elements inside header-list.:
float: left;
padding: 33px 20px;
Thus, here I am confused why it is that much necessary to write the code as follows in order to advance myself to next stage:
body {
font-family: "Avenir Next";
}
.header-list li {
list-style: none;
/* CSS properties from here are moved to line 32. But why?
We still get the required result without doing so.
*/
}
.header {
background-color: #26d0c9;
color: #fff;
height: 90px;
}
.header-logo {
float: left;
font-size: 36px;
padding: 20px 40px;
}
.header-list {
float: left;
}
/* Added -> CSS for <li> tags within header-list
(CONFUSION: The float and padding property could have been applied in the first .header-list li{}.
But I didn't understand why the same has been told to do again below)
*/
.header-list li {
float: left;
padding: 33px 20px;
}
.main {
background-color: #bdf7f1;
height: 600px;
}
.footer {
background-color: #ceccf3;
height: 270px;
}
I searched over the internet in order to get some clue about the same. But I think, being a beginner it is very hard to clear the smaller concepts. Hence, I took it to our saviour forum - Stackoverflow. Some help or hints about the same will be greatly appreciated.
You may want to try using display: inline; instead, and deleting the floats. You stated above that they mentioned
The CSS for the float property of <li> elements should be deleted.
This is another way of of displaying your list horizontally without using floats.
Hope this helps!
I highly recommend checking out The Net Ninja on YouTube though. He is an amazing teacher, you will learn a LOT, and he is very thorouhg and makes it really easy for you to grasp the concepts. Check out the playlists on his channel he has some for html, css, and a ton more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9XRrlOOazo&list=PL4cUxeGkcC9gQeDH6xYhmO-db2mhoTSrT
I want to have to click on a hamburger menu icon and then have the list display beneath my icon. I set up my hamburger menu icon with this style
.menu-btn div {
position: absolute;
left: 100%;
top: 64%;
padding-right: 8px;
margin-top: -0.50em;
line-height: 1.2;
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: 200;
vertical-align: middle;
z-index: 99;
}
.menu-btn span {
display: block;
width: 20px;
height: 2px;
margin: 4px 0;
background: #989da1;
z-index: 99;
}
The menu of options taht should appear after you click on the hamburger menu is
<div class="responsive-menu">
<ul id="menu">
<li>Vote</li>
<li>Search</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Log In</li>
</ul>
</div>
but I'm unclear how to set up the style of the hamburger menu so taht it appears directly under the hamburger menu when you click on it. Right now, its appearing centered at the top of the screen -- https://jsfiddle.net/wtp1k57b/1/ . How do I set up such a style?
PS - I'm looking for a solution that doesn't rely on hard-coding numeric (e.g. top: 27px) pixel values. Certainly its good to get things to work in my little Fiddle, but in my broader application I can't guarantee how big or small that hamburger menu will be.
I would like to show a completely different approach without using display: flex.
HTML
Your approach uses too many wrappers in my opinion. You can definitely reduce the amount of divs. Moreover, you should always try to use semantic tags over general tags like div or ul. Consider looking at this article.
Hence, as #scooterlord already mentioned, you should use a button for the hamburger icon. Moreover, I recommend to use a nav instead of a list.
CSS
First of all, you should bundle the attributes for the same selector at the same place for the purpose of improved clarity. You should not have three sections where you apply the universal selector, but combine it into one. Moreover, do not set the box-sizing to a specific value, but rather set it to inherit, so you can always override this value for a specific element without having to do it for all of its children. Furthermore, I do not understand what you want to achieve with margin: 0 auto on all elements and body. It does not make any sense for me.
Since you do not want to use absolute positioning, I would strongly advise you to avoid using pixels as a measuring unit. They behave badly if some people change their default font-size because of poor eyesight or other reasons. Instead, consider to apply relative units like rem, em or %. By setting the root element's font-size to 62.5% you are still able to calculate as if you were using pixels (1rem = 10px).
As I already mentioned, I avoided to use display: flex for such a trivial thing. I do not understand why it should be used at this point. Therefore, I also had to change the positioning of the menu button. The navigation could be easily positioned using percentages for top and left.
As a side note: You should really try to only post the relevant CSS code - the first step for me was to remove all the irrelevant parts of it.
Final Solution
This is my final solution without Flexbox, without fixed sizes and without absolute positioning using px:
$('.menu-btn').click(function() {
$('nav').toggleClass('nav-open');
});
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
box-sizing: inherit;
}
html {
font-size: 62.5%;
}
body {
font: 1.6rem/1.4 Benton Sans, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
header {
width: 100%;
background-color: orange;
text-align: center;
padding: 1rem;
position: relative;
}
nav {
display: none;
width: 30rem;
padding: 5rem;
background-color: #ededed;
position: absolute;
right: 5%;
top: 100%;
}
.nav-open {
display: block;
}
nav a {
display: block;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
padding: 1.4rem 1.6rem;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
font-size: 2.2rem;
color: #000;
}
nav a:hover {
background-color: #111;
color: #fff;
}
.menu-btn {
position: absolute;
right: 5%;
top: 50%;
margin-top: -1.1rem;
display: inline-block;
cursor: pointer;
border: none;
outline: none;
background-color: transparent;
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 500px) {
.menu-btn, nav {
display: none !important;
}
}
.menu-btn span {
display: block;
width: 2rem;
height: 0.2rem;
margin: 0.4rem 0;
background: #989da1;
z-index: 99;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<header>
<h2>Page Title</h2>
<button class="menu-btn">
<span></span>
<span></span>
<span></span>
</button>
<nav>
Vote
Search
About
Log In
</nav>
</header>
Or see this fiddle.
Use the css properties: top and right to set the position of the element under your icon.
#menu
{
position: absolute;
top: 48px;
right: 2px;
background: #ededed;
list-style-type: none;
}
Use this CSS for your menu - no margin, and the position defined by the top and right settings:
#menu {
position: absolute;
width: 300px;
margin: 0;
padding: 50px;
background: #ededed;
list-style-type: none;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
top: 50px;
right: 0;
}
https://jsfiddle.net/meuexde6/
I left out the transition for the testing, but you should basically animate the right parameter from -100px to 0 to achieve what you seemed to have in mind.
ADDITION AFTER COMMENT:
To define the position of the menu in relation to the button, you have to apply position: relative to their common parent element, .mobile-nav. The position values of an element with position: absolute always relate to the first ancestor which has position: relative.
I changed the values in my updated fiddle accordingly to these:
#menu {
position: absolute;
width: 300px;
margin: 0;
padding: 50px;
background: #ededed;
list-style-type: none;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
top: 40px;
right: -32px;
}
Updated fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/meuexde6/1/
If you really want the menu to stick directly to the button (hard to say - it has no borders), just adjust the top and right values as needed.
HTML5 Semantic Elements.
details > summary {
padding: 2px 6px;
width:12px;
border: none;
list-style: none;
}
details > summary::-webkit-details-marker {
display: none;
}
ul{
list-style: none;
margin-left:0;
padding-left:0;
}
<details>
<summary>☰</summary>
<ul>
<li>a</li>
<li>b</li>
<li>c</li>
</ul>
</details>
So, here goes. I know you are asking for a solution to a specific problem, I solved it alright, but I couldn't help noticing that you are struggling with your code. You must simplify the way you think and your code will become leaner. The purpose of this forum is to help others become better, right? :)
HTML
It is good practice to keep the menu toggle button OUTSIDE of the menu - will solve a lot of issues - check below.
It is not semantically right to use anything else rather than a button for the toggle function, so, why not use a button here? I also removed unnecessary clutter from your code, like some divs and the id - the id could be traded with the class, your call. I also removed .mobile-nav because it is not needed at all.
<button class="menu-btn">
<span></span>
<span></span>
<span></span>
</button>
<div class="responsive-menu">
<ul id="menu">
<li>Vote</li>
<li>Search</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Log In</li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS
I absolutely positioned the menu-btn on the top right corner, and gave it a width equal to the #pageTitle height (which I set at 50px - a gold standard) to keep it rectangular; it should be a rule of thumb that the toggle buttons are rectangular and always the same height as the top navigation bar - in this case the before-mentioned id. The same I did for the .responsive-menu. I absolutely positioned it as shown below. The changes allowed me to remove a lot of css styling - now obsolete - like for example the absolute positioning of the ul menu inside the .responsive-menu.
.menu-btn {
position:absolute;
display:block;
right:0;
top:0;
width:50px;
height:50px;
background:yellow;
border:none;
padding:16px;
}
.responsive-menu {
position: absolute;
top: 50px;
right: 0;
display: none;
}
Javascript
By years of practice I realized that the most efficient way to toggle a menu instead of adding and removing classes is to add a class on the body tag; this can help heaps if you want to restyle anything else on the page depending on wether your menu is opened or not.
$('.menu-btn').on('click', function() {
$('body').toggleClass('responsive-menu-open');
});
Here is a working jsfiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/scooterlord/4atafhge/
I could have done a lot of other things in order to simplify the code even further - remove unnecessary ids and classes since most elements are considered unique and could be targeted using descendant classes, eg .responsive-menu ul, etc. After a lot of practice, you'll manage to think simpler and produce code with a smaller footprint.
Edit: Concerning the fact that you don't like the absolute pixels for alignment here is a trick.
Giving a fixed height to the parent container, equal to the toggle button's -in this case '#pageTitle' and setting its position to relative allows you to use top:100% to properly place the responsive menu exactly below the button (which is essentially the same height):
#pageTitle {
display: flex;
height: 50px;
position:relative;
}
.responsive-menu {
position: absolute;
top: 100%;
right: 0;
display: none;
}
Here is an updated fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/scooterlord/4atafhge/1/
Edit: Natalia, I gave it some thought and here is what I came up with. I created an absolutely positioned .menu-wrapper, inside of which I placed the button and the responsive menu with float:right and no positioning - aka they are positioned statically. No more pixel values! YAY!
.menu-wrapper {
position:absolute;
top:0;
right:0;
}
.menu-btn {
float:right;
...
}
.responsive-menu {
float:right;
clear:both; // to clear the .menu-btn and sit exactly below it
...
}
Here is a working fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/scooterlord/4atafhge/2/
I'm trying to enlarge a smaller picture. I have a small and a large version of the pictures. I've searched on the internet, the one i'm using is the best i've found.
I know this would be much easier with 'Lightbox2' or other javascript things, but the purpose is to only use html & css.
Here you can find the link (dropbox, .zip file) to the website' folder --> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61634717/Website.zip
It would be nice if someone could find the problem why my smaller pictures aren't enlarged when hovering over. The website is only showing the small pictures when hovering over them.
Here is the html code (for one picture):
<div class="ienlarger"><a href="#nogo"><img src="Pictures/Artists/PeopleTalkTechnoSmall.png" alt="thumb" class="resize_thumb" /><span>
<img src="Pictures/Artists/PeopleTalkTechno-Large.png" alt="large" /><br />Some text can go here.</span></a>
</div>
Here is the css code:
.ienlarger {
float: left;
clear: none;
padding-bottom: 5px;
padding-right: 5px;
}
.ienlarger a {
display:block;
text-decoration: none;
cursor:default;
}
.ienlarger a:hover{
position:relative;
}
.ienlarger span img {
border: 0px solid #FFFFFF;
margin-bottom: 8px;
}
.ienlarger a span {
position: absolute;
display:none;
color: #FFCC00;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
background-color: #2E2E2E;
font-weight: bold;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-bottom: 13px;
padding-left: 10px;
}
.ienlarger img {
border-width: 0;
}
.ienlarger a:hover span {
display:inline-table;
top: 50px;
left: 90px;
z-index: 100;
}
.resize_thumb {
width: 170px;
height : auto;
}
NOTE: Do not pay attention to the background colors :D. I know they are weird, but it is just for me to see the different < div > (they will be changed when the website is closer to being completed).
Alright, I downloaded your code and messed around with it.
Removing max-width: 100%; from the img CSS seems to have fixed it (line 25). In the future, please post the code along with your question, or if there are a lot of parts to it, a JSFiddle is also acceptable.
Thanks.
In your css you have all images set to a max-width of 100% probably to make it responsive, which is good. But that is also your problem. The images can only be 100% of their container and no bigger. If you remove img {max-width: 100%} from your css that fixes your issue.
But is also makes it not repsonsive. :-(
So your solution is to add a class="larger" to the bigger image and add another line to your css. You would end up with something like this:
img {
max-width:100%;
height:auto;
}
img.larger {
max-width: 500px; /* the maximum size you would allow for larger images */
}
I have some links to my facebook and twitter, these links are images. I want these links to turn lighter when I hover over them. I was thinking I could do this by making two images and making the images change when I hover over the image link. Is this the best way to do it and if it is how do i do it? I couldn't find any help on how to do it this way.
Here is my HTML:
<div class="social">
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/seth.urquhart?sk=wall&v=wall">
<img src="../img/facebook_logo_extended.jpg"/>
</a>
</div>
<br>
<div class="social">
<a href="https://twitter.com/SethUrquhart">
<img src="../img/twitter_logo_extended.jpg"/>
</a>
</div>
Here is my CSS:
p {
color: #232323;
text-indent:0px;
margin-left:30px;
padding-right: 30px;
}
ul {
text-align: center;
color: gray;
}
ul a {
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
}
ul a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
}
html {
background: #e8e9e1;
}
h1 {
text-align: center;
}
body {
font-family: sans-serif;
color: #232323;
}
.wrap {
min-width: 600px;
width: 1200px;
margin: auto;
height: 100px;
text-align: center;
background-color: none;
}
.content {
background: #ffffff;
width: 900px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right:auto;
height: auto;
text-indent: 50px;
}
.footer {
text-align: center;
background-color: #383838;
width: 900px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
color: #e8e9e1;
}
.social {
width: 900px;
margin: auto;
height: 100px;
text-align: center;
background-color: none;
}
.social:hover {
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
background:#cccccc;
color:#000;
}
ul#list-nav {
padding: 0;
list-style: none;
width: 605px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
ul#list-nav li {
display:inline;
}
ul#list-nav li a {
text-decoration:none;
padding:5px 0;
width:150px;
background:#383838;
color:#eee;
float:left;
border-left:1px solid #fff;
}
ul#list-nav li a:hover {
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
background:#cccccc;
color:#000;
}
Assuming you're willing to use CSS3, I created an example showing one way to get a brief widening effect for the icons (I suppose that is what "dense" means in the question). Reduced code here:
.icon {
-webkit-transition: 0.25s;
transition: 0.25s;
}
.icon:hover {
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
transform: scale(1.7);
-ms-transform: scale(1.7); /* IE 9 */
-webkit-transform: scale(1.7); /* Safari and Chrome */
}
The transform property has good support. The effect with transition isn't so well supported (no IE9 support), but if you are thinking on graceful degration, I think it's quite valid to use that.
EDIT
I'm updating this answer because it could help other people in future. The accepted answer isn't the right approach, since it's using obtrusive JavaScript to do things about styling, where CSS is the right tool. I really hope the OP will take a look here and change their code.
Based on the OP's feedback, I updated the example showing how to get a brightness effect simulated by changing the opacity property with a fallback using filter for IE6-8. In short, here's the code:
.icon {
opacity: 1;
filter: Alpha(Opacity=100);
}
.icon:hover {
opacity: .6;
filter: Alpha(Opacity=60);
}
It's easy and works very well when the parent's background-color is lighter than the element. If you need something more elaborated (if you really want changing between two images), I really suggests you to use CSS sprites.
I don't know what you mean by dense, but you can alter any image property via the onmouseover and restore it with onmouseout. Here's a code snippet to show how to do it. This code simply makes an image dimmer when the mouse is over it, then restores it when the mouse leaves:
<img
src = "test.jpg"
style = "width:50%;"
id = "test"
onmouseover = "document.getElementById('test').style.opacity=0.5"
onmouseout = "document.getElementById('test').style.opacity=1" />
If you wanted to make the images bigger on the hover, you'd change any of the size attributes. For instance, here's a particularly dramatic size jump:
<img
src = "test.jpg"
style = "width:50%;"
id = "test"
onmouseover = "document.getElementById('test').style.width='75%'"
onmouseout = "document.getElementById('test').style.width='50%'" />
Please note that the above is for illustrative purposes only. There are other ways of doing this, and I am not saying the way I presented is the best or even a good one. However, it's clear and I just want you to clearly see how this can be done.
The simpliest solution would probably for you to use background-images rather than images so you can just switch between them. You can even go as far as creating 3 states this way.. inactive, hover, and selected..
Consider cascades and specificity.. If you define your inactive state first, hover state is defined second overwriting the same definitions, selected state is defined last, again with the same definitions and level of specificity. Now each will overwrite the other in the appropriate or they will happen.
An image
div { background:url('http://www.placehold.it/200x200/f2f2f2') no-repeat; }
On hover display a different image
div:hover { background:url('http://www.placehold.it/200x200/666666') no-repeat; }
If the element is an anchor or has some onclick function defined with it.. display a different image on select with a new class
div.selected { background:url('http://www.placehold.it/200x200/000000') no-repeat; }