I'm trying to create an effect where h# elements are bracketed by bullet characters. If the the heading breaks across multiple lines, the bullets should be to the left and right of the text block, and vertically centred.
Take this example HTML5 and CSS3:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="content-container">
<h1>Short title</h1>
<h1>Really long title that will hopefully span multiple lines to demonstrate the problem I'm trying to solve here</h1>
</div>
</body>
</html>
h1 {
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
}
h1:before {
content: '— ';
}
h1:after {
content: ' —';
}
This renders the bullets, but when there are line breaks the bullets end up wrapping with the text itself.
How can I change the CSS so that the bullets are placed to the left or right of the whole text block, and vertically centered against it? This jsFiddle depicts the effect better than I can describe it. Note that there are containers that exist above the header element (they just aren't exclusive containers for it) which could also be used.
I don't want to change the HTML because that's just too fragile a solution: it requires changes in the CMS templates, the content itself, and an edict to all future content authors — which will be superfluous if the theming ever changes again.
I can't see a way of doing this with text bullet points, but it can be done with background images. CSS3 supports multiple background images and multiple image positions, so we can position an image bullet point at either end of the h1 like so:
Replace your CSS with this:
body {text-align:center}
h1 {
font-weight: bold;
padding: 0 16px;
background-image: url(http://www.getyourgame.net/images/BulletPointGreen.png),url(http://www.getyourgame.net/images/BulletPointGreen.png);
background-position: left center, right center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
display: inline-block;
}
The padding is required to make room for the bullet points. I have used some random bullet point image, but note that I have specified it twice. I can then specify different positions for these two images; one left and one right of the h1. Finally display:inline-block prevents the h1 filling the entire width, which would cause the bullet points to constantly sit at the edges of the parent element instead of at the edges of the heading text.
Hope this works for you.
I managed to get quite close with creative use of table display styling:
h1 {
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
display: table;
vertical-align: middle;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
h1:before {
vertical-align: middle;
content: '—';
display: table-cell;
padding-right: '1em';
}
h1:after {
vertical-align: middle;
content: '—';
display: table-cell;
padding-left: '1em';
}
Why just "quite close"? Well, firstly I haven't verified that this is standard-mandated behaviour and not just some quirk of rendering. Secondly, it works in Chrome 18 and Firefox 12, but I haven't bothered to check in Internet Explorer or Safari — and I know it doesn't work quite right in the Android browser engine.
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I am trying to put a <p> tag inline with an <a> tag, but I can't figure out how. I've tried several display types in css, but they either don't work or do something weird to it.
(Here is a bunch of unnecessary words because the thing is saying there is too much code and not enough words. I think its pretty dumb because what I said is enough unless someone specifically asks for details about something).
Here's some example code:
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background-color: #efefef;
}
header {
margin: 0;
margin-top: -10px;
background-color: #ffffff;
}
header p {
margin: 0;
font-family: "arial";
font-size: 50px;
color: #3c3c3c;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-left: 10px;
text-align: center;
}
header a {
}
#information {
width: 500px;
height: 250px;
background-color: #ffffff;
box-shadow: 7px 7px 4px grey;
margin-left: 100px;
margin-top: 150px;
}
#information p {
font-family: "arial";
font-size: 20px;
color: #1febff;
}
#delete {
margin-top: 2000px;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>SaHa | Color Scheme</title>
<link href="style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<body>
<header>
<p>SaHa</p>
Menu
</header>
<div id="information">
<p>Pretend that there is a bunch of important information here even though there really isn't.
This is normally where a message that actually means something would go, but this is just a
placeholder because I have nothing important to put here right now.
</p>
</div>
<div id="delete"></div>
</body>
</html>
In your HTML, try directly typing or after whatever text you want it to appear.
For example:<div>When i came<a> ut yiur name</a>so what do i do</div>
In your CSS body, try inline-block or just inline parameters with DISPLAY property to get any image or text into the normal flow of a line.
For example:
a {display:inline-block;}
Could you specify which elements in your example code you want inline?
Generally using display: inline and display: inline-block will make elements flow as if they were text. They will sit next to each other and jump to new lines when their container width gets too narrow. Browsers commonly apply display: block to <p> elements by default.
Assuming we are talking about the contents of your <header>, I added the following rule to your existing CSS. Check it out in action.
header p {
display: inline-block;
}
EDIT: Based on further comments, here is a solution to what you are looking for.
First of all I've wrapped your menu items in a nav element and made your main title a h1 element. Search engines like this better. A h1 element is also displayed inline by default and respects text-align properties on its parent container (which in this case is header).
<h1>SaHa</h1>
<nav>
Menu
Thing
Stuff
</nav>
On the CSS side I've made two crucial changes.
First, I've center-aligned your header text. This centers the new h1 element. Additionally I've set position: relative because we will need it in the next step.
header {
text-align: center;
position: relative;
}
Second, to position your menu to the right side of the screen I've lifted it from the regular flow of content with position: absolute. Now, by specifying either a top or bottom and left or right, we can position the menu anywhere in the header. Why the header? Because it is the nearest parent to nav that has a relative position. This is why we set it earlier!
nav {
position: absolute;
right: 10px;
bottom: 10px;
}
Try changing the values for right and bottom in this Codepen example. Try changing right to left and see what happens. What happens if you remove position: relative from .header?
I have labels aligned in three rows and displayed in regular text. I'd like to make these labels bold, but when I apply the property in CSS, the alignment gets a little messed up.
I have included some padding and margin properties to have more space between text box and label, but that doesn't seem to help.
I am trying to have the text bold with "*" and have it aligned with "Surname" label.
How can I make the labels bold and still keep the alignment? I can only make changes to the CSS file and not HTML or font size of the text.
Before
After
**Before code-**
.bold-label {
}
.bold-label:after {
color: #e32;
content: ' *';
display:inline;
}
**After code-**
.bold-label {
font-weight: bold;
margin-left: -1em;
padding-right: 0.75em;
}
.bold-label:after {
color: #e32;
content: ' *';
display:inline;
}
Thanks in advance
The only way to do this is to have the labels that need to be right aligned (above Surname) in a container element, like a div and apply text-align: right to that container.
Here's the problem you're having:
Each label box (.bold-label) is the width of its content (the text). This means that when the content expands (because you make it bold), the box will expand with it. This breaks your alignment.
To overcome this you could assign a width to each label box. With a large enough set width you can create enough space for the text to expand without changing the length of the box.
Try this:
.bold-label {
display: inline-block;
text-align: right; /* only works on block containers */
width: 150px;
}
DEMO
This is my code, but it puts the bullet-points on the left. Hope it is of help:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
li{
font-weight:bold;
text-align:right;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<li>Consultation
</li>
<li>Pharmacist
</li>
<li>Registration No.
</li>
</body>
Cant seem to find how to remove vertical space between two text elements, There are some similar problems on this website but doesn't seem to actually work.
HTML Code:
<p>this website is</p> <h1>Encrypted</h1>
it seems that I would have to use a position code, but when I use a position code that lets other elements get close to it, the text gets pushed to another spot on the website
Remove white space between elements using CSS:
Horizontal being (top and bottom space)
h1, p {
margin-top: 0;
margin-bottom: 0;
line-height: /* adjust to tweak wierd fonts */;
}
Vertical being (left and right space)
.parent {
font-size: 0;
line-height: 0;
}
h1, p {
font-size: 12px;
margin: 0;
display: inline-block;
}
JSFIDDLE
Every browser has pre-set styles for elements. p and header tags have margins set. You can change this by using margin: 0;: JS Fiddle
You may also benefit from using a CSS Reset to avoid these issues.
Also, I don't imagine a scenario where the word "encrypted" in your code should be using an <h1> tag: How to properly use h1
I simply want all of my p elements to be the length of the text in it. It works if I put .intro p at inline-block, but I would like my p elements all to be displayed underneath each other. Is there a way to do this?
HTML:
<div class="intro">
<p>fjsdqk dhksjfd kjsh kdshjkd</p>
<p>hsdqjkf kjdsh</p>
<p>hdsqkhfj sdhkjf fsjqkfhdks hjs</p>
</div>
CSS:
.intro {
margin-top: 80px;
color: #ffffff;
text-align: center;
}
.intro p {
margin-bottom: 12px;
padding: 6px 12px;
background: #25d6a2;
}
Just add br tag after each p element
<div class="intro">
<p>fjsdqk dhksjfd kjsh kdshjkd</p><br>
<p>hsdqjkf kjdsh</p><br>
<p>hdsqkhfj sdhkjf fsjqkfhdks hjs</p><br>
</div>
Demo
If you don't want to add <br /> in the DOM or for some reason you cannot modify your HTML, you can simulate line break using CSS :after pseudo with content property having an value of \a and white-space set to pre
As far as the explanation goes for \a, its an hexadecimal value for line feed which is equivalent to 10.
p:after {
content:"\a";
white-space: pre;
}
Demo
In a sense, you want to eat your cake and keep it: make the p elements inline elements as far as box formatting is considered (in this case, for the purpose of setting background behind the text only) but block elements in the sense of starting on a fresh line.
There are various methods and tricks, but perhaps the simplest one is to use floating (instead of display: inline-block): float the elements to the left but also clear floating, so that no real floating takes place—you just want the side effect of floating, the effect of making the element just as wide as its content requires:
.intro p {
float: left;
clear: both;
}
In addition, you need to set clear: both on the element after the intro.
I have a part of this site where I want H3s that look like this...
------------------- Centered Text Here -------------------
where the "---" parts are fancy wiggley background images. The left one and the right one are reflections of each other.
So one option is...
<h3>
<div class="left-image-thing"></div>
<span>Centered Text Here</span>
<div class="right-image-thing"></div>
</h3>
...and put the images in the divs around the span. But I'd like to just have...
<h3>Centered Text Here</h3>
...and just use css for the left and right background images. Is there a way to do this? just one tag, css, etc?
You could use pseudo elements, :before and :after:
h3 {
text-align: center;
}
h3:before {
content: url('myimageurl1.png');
}
h3:after {
content: url('myimageurl2.png');
}
Of course your CSS will be more complex, but this is a way to handle your use case.
EDIT: here's an example.
Psuedo elements scare me because we need to support lower end browsers... this will work everywhere (even low end):
CSS:
h3 {
background: url('myimageurl1.png') no-repeat left middle;
padding-left: 100px /*This should be the width of myimageurl1.png */
}
h3 span {
background: url('myimageurl2.png') no-repeat right middle;
padding-right: 100px /*This should be the width of myimageurl2.png */
}
HTML:
<h3><span>Centered Text Here</span></h3>