Consider the following example: (live demo)
HTML:
<div>
<p>
<strong>Stack</strong>
<span>Overflow</span>
</p>
</div>
CSS:
p {
background-color: #aaa;
}
span {
background-color: #777;
}
How could I make <span>'s width to be all the available space?
Note: <strong> and <span> should be on the same line.
If you want the items on the same line with the full width taken up you could do this.
http://jsfiddle.net/Sohnee/Gfyjc/
p {
background-color: #aaa;
}
strong {
float: left;
}
span {
display: block;
background-color: #777;
margin-left: 40px;
}
But a better alternative would be to get the background-color run from the parent element.
If you don't need the span to actually be that wide, only have it look like it is, you can simply give the <p> the background colour of the <span> in your example, and the <strong> the background colour of the <p>.
p {
background-color: #777;
}
p strong {
background-color: #aaa;
}
See this example.
This only works correctly as long as the <p> has a padding of zero, though. Otherwise, you'll need the solution with the float.
Use display: inline-block to have possibility to set size and keep element positioned as inline elements. Mathias example changed to use inline-block: http://jsfiddle.net/gXDjZ/7/
span is basically an inline element
making it a block element using display:block; will add a \n before n after the element
so making it a block will take the span to the next line and you can float:left; on its sibling and bring it back to the same line
something like this
strong{
background-color: #aaa;
float:left;
}
span {
display: block;
background-color: #777;
}
you can also use padding-right:__px; in span
so that it takes up the adjacent spaces
span{ padding-right:433px; }
http://jsfiddle.net/gXDjZ/15/
Related
Ok, first off I want you all to know that I have tried using the <span></span> tag (though maybe incorrectly).
Is there something I'm doing wrong with the <span></span> tag? Or is there something I need to do differently altogether?
Here is my current code to create a space without <br></br>:
#beforeImage span {
padding: 40px;
}
<span id="beforeImage">text</span>
2 things to fix:
you were applying the CSS to span of an ID selector, but you were using a span with an ID selector in your HTML.
span won't have padding because it is an inline element by default, so set inline-block or block
Snippet
#beforeImage {
padding: 40px;
display: inline-block; /* or block */
/* demo */
background: red
}
<span id="beforeImage">Foo bar</span>
<span> is by default an inline element and will not be sized nor accept vertical padding without resetting its display to inline-block ( or else but inline).
You might look for:
span{
display:inline-block;
padding: 40px;
}
beside, br could still be used
br {
line-height:3em;
vertical-align:top;/* debug FF/IE */
}
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/GoVdYY
But, do you really need an extra tag, could you not apply a bottom margin or padding to another element ?
Can simply target the Id of the span:
#beforeImage{
display:inline-block;
padding: 40px;
}
Or all spans:
span{
display:inline-block;
padding: 40px;
}
I have applied background-color: #C0C0C0; to my span element .grey_bg but the background is not changing color. Why is that?
.grey_bg {
width: 100%;
background-color: #C0C0C0;
}
<span class="grey_bg">
<h1>Hey</h1>
</span>
Because it's not really valid HTML to put block-level H1 element inside span (inline element). You can either use div instead of span
.grey_bg {
width: 100%;
background-color: #C0C0C0;
}
<div class="grey_bg">
<h1>Hey</h1>
</div>
... or make span block-level too:
span {display: block;}
.grey_bg {
width: 100%;
background-color: #C0C0C0;
}
<span class="grey_bg">
<h1>Hey</h1>
</span>
First your markup is not correct. You can't have a block element, h3, inside an inline element, span.
But in case you want to keep that markup, you have to make the container element to behave as block. So make it as:
.grey_bg {
width: 100%;
background-color: #C0C0C0;
display:block;
}
Your code is incorrect because your span is wrapping your H tag.
You should not use span to wrap inline element's like H tag's. Instead you want the span to be inside your H tag.
The span element is the inline level generic container. It also helps to inform the structure of document, but it is used to group or wrap other inline elements and/or text, rather than block level elements.
The line between the two different types might seem fairly arbitrary at first. The difference to bear in mind is the type of content, and how it would appear when written down without any styling. A div is placed around a group of block level elements—for example, to wrap a heading plus a list of links to make a navigation menu. A span wraps a group of inline elements or (most usually) plain text. The key word is “group”: if a div wraps just one block-level element, or a span just one inline element, it's being used unnecessarily. For example, check out the way the div and span elements are used in the following simple markup:
W3C
.grey_bg {
width: 100%;
background-color: #C0C0C0;
}
<h1><span class="grey_bg">Hey</span></h1>
I figured out that I had to target the h1 as well in the css:
.grey_bg h1 {
background: #C0C0C0;
}
I want to create a span with a fixed width that when I type any thing in the span like <span>lgasdfjksdajgdsglkgsadfasdfadfasdfadsfasdfasddkgjk</span>, a long string of non-spaced text, the word(s) break or wrap to next line.
Any ideas?
You can use the CSS property word-wrap:break-word;, which will break words if they are too long for your span width.
span {
display:block;
width:150px;
word-wrap:break-word;
}
<span>VeryLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongLongExample</span>
Try following css with addition of white-space:
span {
display: block;
word-wrap:break-word;
width: 50px;
white-space: normal;
}
Like this
DEMO
li span{
display:block;
width:50px;
word-break:break-all;
}
By default a span is an inline element... so that's not the default behavior.
You can make the span behave that way by adding display: block; to your CSS.
span {
display: block;
width: 100px;
}
Try this
span {
display: block;
width: 150px;
}
Just to extend the pratical scope of the question and as an appendix to the given answers:
Sometimes one might find it necessary to specify the selectors a little bit more.
By defining the the full span as display:inline-block you might have a hard time displaying images.
Therefore I prefer to define a span like so:
span {
display:block;
width:150px;
word-wrap:break-word;
}
p span, a span,
h1 span, h2 span, h3 span, h4 span, h5 span {
display:inline-block;
}
img{
display:block;
}
In my case, display: block was breaking the design as intended.
The max-width property just saved me.
and for styling, you can use text-overflow: ellipsis as well.
my code was
max-width: 255px
overflow:hidden
Here is the simple html
<p> some text here </p>
more
and the css I tried
p+a{
color: #f00;
display: inline-block;
/* also tried float: left; */
}
To bring up the output as this
some text here more
I want more in the line of p.
p is a block level element. So you couldn't inline to a. Therefore you need to style your p as display: inline; or display: inline-block; and then give display: inline; or display: inline-block; to a
here is the fiddle.
You need to give the paragraph display: inline-block; as well, because it is a block-level element. Therefor it automatically takes the available space and pushes the anchor to a new line. Also you'll need to add the closing " to your href-attribute.
(If you're able to manipulate the markup of the paragraph – just add the anchor inside of it.)
HMTL:
<p>some text here</p>
more
CSS:
p {
display: inline-block;
}
p + a {
color: #f00;
display: inline-block;
}
Note: Please use classes to style things like that instead of elements. Add a class to your anchor and select it with p + .read-more or something like that.
just add the below css to your stylesheet.
p{ dislpay:inline-block;}
P is a block level element make it inline-block so next inline element come up next to p tag.
use this code
CSS:
p > a {
color: #f00;
display: inline-block;
font-size: 18px;
}
HTML:
<p>some text here more</p>
I am not that good with html and css so i am using a template, but whatever i do know i try to use it.
Here is an image of the problem http://i53.tinypic.com/dmw6yt.jpg
As you can see the user test is actually on a new line. That is not how it's supposed to be. It is supposed to be on the same line as this text "Accounts stats for user X".
The html and css i use are
<div class="user">Account stats for user<div class="info">test</div></div>
div.user
{
font-size: 13px;
text-align: center;
}
div.info
{
font-size: 18px;
}
use inline element <span> instead of block element <div>
Inline elements are for elements like text that you want to display on the same line and then fall down below previous inline elements when there is not enough space left. Block elements are intended to be used for the structure of a site.
This is because a DIV automatically assigns a new line because it is a 'block-level' element. In a situation like this I'd swap out all of the <div> for <span> as these are an inline-element.
You could also use the CSS attribute display:inline on the <div> to override this behaviour.
You put the word "test" in new div. This means that this word will be on new row. Try using span with class or id instead of div. If you really want to use div for the word "test" you could assign float property or inline display
<div class="user">Account stats for user<span class="info">test</span></div>
.info
{
margin-left: 10px;
font-size: 18px;
}
If you automatically want it to be on the same line, i would suggest using <span> instead.
<span class="user">Account stats for user</span><span class="info">test</span>
And if you absolutely need to use divs then:
<div class="user">Account stats for user</div><div class="info">test</div>
With the CSS:
div.user
{
font-size: 13px;
text-align: center;
}
div.info
{
font-size: 18px;
float:left;
}
Either use a <span class="info"> instead of a <div>, or use these CSS:
div.info
{
font-size: 18px;
display: inline-block;
}
Normally you should prefer using a span, but there are several cases (e.g. if you want to specify a width for the element) that require a div. In your case as it stands, go with a span.
Try this:
div.user
{
font-size: 13px;
text-align: center;
display: inline;
}
div.info
{
font-size: 18px;
}
I think this will do the trick.
you could add 'display:inline;' to them and it should work.
Or you could float them both to the left, also would probably work.
'float:left;'
put this inside div.info
display: inline;
So your div.info class should look like this
div.info
{
font-size: 18px;
display: inline;
}