I'm creating a web application where I need to do some design tweaks. Please check this one http://jsfiddle.net/rkumarnirmal/5w3FG/9/
When I hover, it shows the border in gray. What I need is I want to fit the border box to fit the width of the text. I tried to set the width:auto but still its not working, showing the border box to the page width size.
How can I do it?
Thanks!
Set text-preview to inline-block:
#text-preview {
display:inline-block;
zoom:1; /* if you need IE7 support */
}
Inline-block will cause the element to render as if inline rather than occupying all of the available horizontal space, but will lets you set inner dimensions and padding as a block element would.
Note that IE7 doesn't support inline-block unless you force the hasLayout property. The easiest way to do that is with zoom:1;.
width:auto on a div translates to width:100% because a div is a block level element.
If you want to have it size to the text you'll need to either use a more appropriate inline tag like a span or depending on the semantic meaning of the data, a definition list (dl).
You can also change the display property of your wrapper div to be inline or inline-block but that is not semantically correct.
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Here is a test-case for my problem:
http://game-point.net/misc/testParaPadding/
I want the progressBarGreen.png image to be inside the DIV, and the DIV is exactly the right height (15px) to hold it, but there are a couple of pixels padding at the top of the DIV. Why? The browser seems to be sizing the content as if it contained text because the padding changes if I remove the font-family styling for the body, but there is no text in the DIV.
Interestingly this problem doesn't happen in Firefox's quirks mode.
jsFiddle Example
You need line-height:15px on the div holding the image
edit: Explanation for this behaviour line-height affecting even no-text blocks
Your image is the right size, but images are inline elements by default, and will be affected by the page's line-height, font-size, and other properties of inline elements.
If you add a line to your image's style reading display: block;, it will become a block-level element, and not be affected by any of those properties.
The initial value for vertical-align is always "baseline".
You can fix that by adding a vertical-align:top to your image ;)
Use
position:absolute;
To get the image on the other DIV exactly inside it.
Check this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/sRhXc/2/
Since I am having trouble with Firefox about positioning a block element by nature (header) to be inline by using display:run-in; i'm asking you for your help ! been searching for quite some time now and I cant find which CSS method could be used instead of just applying display:run-in; to the element, which is supported in all the major browsers. It is crucial that i position the element this way.
Anyone knows a method how to do this ?
If you'd like to display your element as a block element, but would position it inline, then
display: inline-block;
will do the trick for you.
The MDN still lists run-in as an experimental value, so we shouldn't be too surprised if it doesn't fully function in Firefox at this time.
As for options, there are at least two you could use: display: inline and display: inline-block.
Inline might suffice if you don't need the properties of a block element on your header. Inline-block keeps it as a block element, so you can still do nice things like give it width, height, margin and so on.
View them on JSFiddle.
Alright i found a solution ! :) Using display:inline; in a combination with float:left; will make a block element by nature use space only as much as he needs, not full 100% of its parent element.
There is just one problem with this tecnhique if you are using bigger font for lets say a heading and want to add a paragraph right after it (on the same line). If the headings font-size is a bit bigger, heading could take 2 or even more lines of space in height where paragraphs text should be,and you will have a small gap between header and another row of paragraph under it. The solution is to add display:block; and margin-top:Xpx; to the paragraph element to align it as needed.
I have emoticons in a css sprite image that I want to display within text, so I have spans inserted with background definitions but as these spans are inline elements I can not define the width and height.
The only thing I could think of is make them block elements and float left, but I'm not sure if this is the best approach. What do you think is the best way to do this?
try to use the css property and value display: inline-block
I do not think that display: inline-block is supported enough to rely on. Obviously I am talking about <=IE7, and possibly other mobile devices. Which unfortunately are still in use. However there comes a point when one stops supporting IE.
I would try using a div floated, with background attributes set. Failing that a single image.
using css how do I put a span on top of other spans.
I have several spans in the page and at the end of the page I have this
<span id="lastSpan" style=" margin-left:726px; margin-top:30px;"></span>
problem with that is that it never goes to 30px down from top. and stuck at same height.
any help will be appreciated
thanks
Span's are inline elements and don't adhere to margin on top and bottom. You need to set it to display: inline-block if you want margin to work.
spans are inline elements. you cant apply margins to them. use a div if you need a generic container with margins/height.
Inline elements can't be styled the same way as block elements. For one, they are (entirely?) unresponsive to margin and height commands. The solution is to add display: block; to your styling to force block styles.
span wont accept margin properies, cos it is inline element. You can change it to block element by display:block, float:left/right or position:absolute
This might be captain pædantry to the rescue, but that spans are inline-level has little to do with this. The fact that most (all) browser's house-style sheet implicitly sets the span's property on display:inline does unless the author or the user explicitly overrule this does though. As far as I know, the W3C does not define what the house style of browsers must be, but they do give some pointers for interoperability.
Of course, this might not be as relevant here, but there are actually some places where browsers don't pick their styles all the same. Notably Safari and Chrome do not place a dashed border under abbr by default while Firefox and IE do. Also, some browsers space paragraphs by using margin-top:1em; while others use margin-bttom:1em, in most cases this doesn't matter but there are some cases where defining explicitly which of the two you want in your site is in fact needed for a consistent look.
I'm trying to create css buttons by using the following html markup:
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But it ends up being not bigger than the text in the middle. Even though I've set the class's height and width.
You can preview the problem here btw, www.matkalenderen.no
Notice the first button, that's a form button and it's using it's own class. At first I tried to use the same class on the css button as well and the same problem appeared, so I tried to separate them into their own classes. In case there was some kind of crash. But it didn't matter anyway.
What am I missing here?
As the others have said, by default <a> is an inline element, and inline elements can't specify a width or height. You can change it to be a block element like this:
a {
display: block;
}
Though it will then display (unsurprisingly) as a block, sitting on its own, outside the flow of the surrounding text. A better solution is to use display: inline-block which might be a best-of-both-worlds solution depending on your situation.
See PPK's writeup about it.
The real use of this value is when you want to give an inline element a width. In some circumstances some browsers don't allow a width on a real inline element, but if you switch to display: inline-block you are allowed to set a width.
Because <a>'s are inline elements by default. In CSS define a { display:block; } and height and width settings will be applied.
Of course, you may not want to declare all anchor tags as block level elements, so filter by class or id as needed.
I think the most proper solution is display: inline-block; which will allow you to set height for the element that still will be treated as inline element.