I created a spanned line with dots to fill in between text of links and phone number, but i cant get it so that if i have to many dots that the text does not go underneath. The problem is on some different brwosers and computers the .... will look fine or it will push it out of the way. How wouldi go about making it so the dots.... would span and the text would not go below the width its supposed to.
<style type="text/css">
#contactInfo {
margin:auto;
width: 480px;
height: auto;
}
</style>
<div id="contactInfo">
<p>Email: .........................................................................info#hereistheemail.com</p>
<p>Phone: ..................................................................................<span class="redBold">888-888-8888</span></p>
</div>
I tried putting less dots buton some browsers it just doesnt look right.
A better way to do what you want is with a definition list. This will semantically present the information you want and not require you to type out a bunch of dots:
HTML
<dl>
<dt>Phone</dt>
<dd>123-4567</dd>
<dt>Email</dt>
<dd>info#email.com</dd>
</dl>
CSS
dl {
/* Adjust as needed. Note that dl width + dt width must not be greater */
width: 300px;
}
dt {
/* The definition term with a dotted background image */
float: left;
clear: right;
width: 100px;
background: url(1-pixel-dot.gif) repeat-x bottom left;
}
dd {
/* The definition description */
float: right;
width: 200px;
}
You can see an example of it here.
You will have to try and create a workaround for this, instead of just using characters.
Some solutions could be using a background image that repeats itself inside some div/span: http://www.htmlforums.com/html-xhtml/t-toc-style-dotted-line-tab-fill-in-html-103639.html
Or you could think of creating a span between the word e-mail and the e-mail address and try to create a border-bottom: dotted 1px black or something equivalent. Or maybe put the information in a table and create one td with that border-bottom.
Another solution would be to check the number of dots needed with some javascript, but this is most certain not robust at all and will not justify-align your content.
So, be creative with a solution. Filling the line with characters is probably not the way to go.
Try this:
#contactInfo {
[ your other styles ]
white-space: nowrap;
}
Another method is with position:absolute
Demo
#contactInfo p
{
position:relative;
}
#contactInfo span,#contactInfo a
{
position:absolute;
right:0px;
}
Edit (cleaned up version)
Related
I am learning how to code HTML and CSS, and I decided to make my own website in the process.
My question is: how would I align smaller text to a bigger object, for example, links to different pages on my website neatly aligned under my full name with the links flush to the of the beginning and end of my full name?
I know describing it may have been a bit confusing, so here's an image of what I mean:
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
You can approximate the look and design regardless of the header length, but in the end, CSS doesn't offer as precise typographical tools as you'd need and you will have to nudge the percentages one way or another once you know the length of your actual text.
Sample Jsfiddle
HTML:
<div id="container">
<h1>Large Title Here Etc</h1>
<div id="sub">
<span>music</span>
<span>film</span>
<span>web</span>
<span>photo</span>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
body {
text-align: center;
}
#container {
display: inline-block;
}
h1 {
font-size: 2em;
}
#sub {
font-size: 1em;
display: table;
width: 120%;
box-sizing: border-box;
margin: 0 -10%;
}
#sub span {
display: table-cell;
padding: 0 2%;
}
links flush to the beginning and end of my full name
Get out of the habit of thinking this way as you design websites. This will lead to endless headaches and frustrations for you, as it depends on browser rendering (and possibly rendering bugs), the user's font size, the user's font, and loads of other factors you cannot control. Instead of going for 'pixel precision', the idea is simply to make it look as good as you can on most things.
When designing things like this, consider the markup first. What is the structure of what you're actually writing? In your linked image, Full Name looks to me like a header (perhaps h1), while menus like that are normally done as styled unordered lists (ul) these days. Below is an example of how I might make something similar to what is in your image.
Here is the markup:
<div id="container">
<h1>Full Name</h1>
<ul>
<li>music</li>
<li>film</li>
<li>web</li>
<li>photo</li>
</ul>
</div>
and the CSS used, with comments:
#container { border: 1px solid; }
h1 {
margin-bottom: 0;
text-align: center;
}
ul {
margin: 0.5em;
/* remove default padding inserted by browser */
padding-left: 0;
/* no bullets */
list-style-type: none;
/* this works on inline objects, not just text */
text-align: center;
}
li {
/* hybrid of inline and block; obeys text-align */
/* Also note this does not work in IE <9. Workarounds exist. */
display: inline-block;
padding: 3px;
}
And here is the end result: http://jsfiddle.net/3PLgz/1/
I'd like to have a line that starts right after my text on the same line, I've tried with the following simple code
<html><body>My Text<hr/></body></html>
It seems that <hr> is not an option because it is always on a new line and I'd like the line to start at the right of my text.
Any help ?
The <hr> has default styling that puts it on a new line. However that default styling can be over-ridden, in the same way as it can for any other element. <hr> is in essence nothing more than an empty <div> with a default border setting.
To demonstrate this, try the following:
<div>Blah blah<hr style='display:inline-block; width:100px;' />dfgdfg</div>
There are a number of ways to override the styling of <hr> to acheive your aim.
You could try using display:inline-block; along with a width setting, as I have above. The down-side of this approach is that it requires you to know the width you want, though there are ways around this - width:100%;, and the whole line in a container <div> that has overflow:hidden; might do the trick, for example:
<div style='overflow:hidden; white-space:nowrap;'>Blah blah<hr style='display:inline-block; width:100%;' /></div>
Another option would be to use float:left;. You'd need to apply this to all the elements in the line, and I dislike this option as I find that float tends to cause more problems than it solves. But try it and see if it works for you.
There are various other combinations of styles you can try - give it a go and see what works.
Using FlexBox Property this can be achieved easily.
.mytextdiv{
display:flex;
flex-direction:row;
align-items: center;
}
.mytexttitle{
flex-grow:0;
}
.divider{
flex-grow:1;
height: 1px;
background-color: #9f9f9f;
}
<div class="mytextdiv">
<div class="mytexttitle">
My Text
</div>
<div class="divider"></div>
</div>
Try this:
<html><body>My Text<hr style="float: right; width: 80%"/></body></html>
The inline CSS float: right will keep it on the same line as the text.
You'll need to adjust the width if you want it to fill the rest of the line.
Using inline or float, as far as I tested it doesn't work properly even if this was my first thought. Looking further I used the following css
hr {
bottom: 17px;
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
}
div {
background:white;
position: relative;
width: 100px;
z-index: 10;
}
html
<div>My Text</div><hr/>
Demo http://jsfiddle.net/mFEWk/
What I did, is to add position relative in both elements (to give me the advantage of z-index use). Also from the moment I had position:relative for hr I moved it from the bottom:17px. This move it above the div that contains the text. Applying z-index values and adding background:white for the div puts the text above the the line. Of course don't forget to use a width for the text, otherwise will take the whole width of the parent element.
<div style="float: left">Some text</div>
<hr style="clear: none; position: relative; top: 0.5em;">
Exactly what you want.
Try this. It works
<p style="float:left;">
Hello Text
<hr style="float:left; width: 80%"/>
</p>
You can also use this to draw a line between texts like
Hello -------------------------- Hello
The OP never specified the purpose of the line, but I wanted to share what I ended up doing when I was making an html template where the user needed a line to write on after the document was printed.
Because the hr tag defaults to its own line and defaults to being centered in the line, I decided to use a div and style it instead.
HTML
This is my text.<div class='fillLine'></div>
CSS
.fillLine {
display:inline-block;
width: 200px;
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
}
JSFiddle Demo
Style Div for Line After Text
Hope that helps anyone who had the same goal as me.
hr {
width: {so it fits on the same line as the p tag};
}
p {
float: left;
width: {enough to accomodate the hr};
}
That sort of make sense?
<p>My text</p>
<hr />
Here's one potential approach, but it has some assumptions/requirements. Your question should be edited to give more specific information about what you're building.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Blah</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color : white;
font-family : Arial;
font-size : 16px;
}
.wrap {
background: transparent url(px.png) repeat-x 0px 85%;
/* Different fonts or text sizes may require tweaking of that offset.
px.png is a one-pixel(though can be thicker if needed) image in whatever color you want the line */
}
.inner {
background-color : white;
/* Should match the background of whatever it's sitting over.
Obviously this requires a solid background. */
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="wrap"><span class="inner">Here is some text</span></div>
</body>
</html>
I used the following technique:
Give the container div a background-image with a horizontal line.
Put an element (like <h3>) in the container div (I have it on the right so float: right; )
Use the following css:
.line-container {
width: 550px;
height: 40px;
margin-top: 10px;
background-image: url("/images/horizontal_line.png");
}
.line-container h3 {
padding-left: 10px;
float: right;
background-color: white;
}
Below code did the job for me
HTML File:
----------
<p class="section-header">Details</p><hr>
CSS File:
----------
.section-header{
float: left;
font-weight: bold
}
hr{
float: left;
width: 80%;
}
INLINE:
-------
<p style="float: left;font-weight: bold">Details</p><hr style="float: left;width: 80%;">
I want to show images on the page but I don't want to hardcode the references to the images in html.
Is it possible to do something like:
HTML:
<span id="got-easier"></span>
CSS:
#got-easier { image: url(/i/trend-down.gif); }
(IE6 should be supported)
Yes, use a background image :)
#got-easier { background-image: url(/i/trend-down.gif); }
Remember to set a span to display: block; and set width/height of your image if you use it.
As David Dorward pointed out, if it's an image relevant to the information, it should be included in the document with an <img> tag and alt attribute.
Heya, the common term for it is css Image Replacement technique (or IR). Here are the commonly used methods currently. Just choose any of the two ;)
/* Leahy Langridge Method */
span#imageName {
display: block;
height: 0 !important;
overflow: hidden;
padding-top: 0px; /* height of image */
width: 0px; /* width of image */
background: url(url/of/image.jpg) no-repeat
}
/* Phark Method */
span#imageName {
display: block;
width: 0px;
height: 0px;
background: url(url/of/image.jpg) no-repeat;
text-indent: -9999px
}
In case you want to display the images inline, position:absolute does the trick:
#got-easier {
display:inline;
position:absolute;
width:img-Xpx;
height:img-Ypx;
background:url(/i/trend-down.gif) no-repeat;
}
The only problem with this is that, since the image position is absolute, it will overlay whatever is next to it (in IE6 it might appear behind), and the workarounds that I found to fix this (with both CSS and jQuery) aren't supported in IE6. Your image-container will have to be followed by new line.
This might be useful when, for instance, you'd like to place a (?) image next to a form caption or a button (that usually have nothing next to them) to display help with onmouseover.
I have the following that I would like wrapped as units.
<div class='tag-box'>
<a href=#>Axe Committee</a>
<div class='circle'><a href=#>x</a></div>
</div>
The CSS for these classes are:
.tag-box {
display:inline;
}
.circle {
display:inline;
padding-left:4px;
padding-right:4px;
background:rgb(196,15,24); /*dark red*/
-moz-border-radius:10px;
-webkit-border-radius:10px;
}
.circle a {
font-size:10px;
text-decoration:none;
color:#fff;
position:relative; top:-2px;
}
I can have upwards of 20 or 30 of these tag-boxes displayed inline. The problem is that the wrapping will break the words from each other or even break the red circle from the link. This makes it hard to differentiate which circle belongs to which link. (In the future, each circle corresponds to a different action with respect to the link.) See below.
alt text http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/f0c5a72ac9.png
How do I prevent this kind of wrapping from occurring?
You want each of your .tag-box to be inline (not taking all the width available) but still being considered as a block (its content shouldn't be cut in half). Here enters ... inline-block!
Here is a complete HTML code: http://pastebin.com/24tG7tCz
I used a list of links to better represent the lists of couple of links tag+action (bad news: you've a divitis syndrome ;))
I also added titles: your 'x' links aren't accessible at all and can be confusing for everybody, with or without any handicap, because one is never sure if the x will suppress the tag on the left or on the right: there are dozens of links, each with the text 'x'! A title attribute on the a element tells blind users and everybody else via a tooltip what'll really do that x.
With a span inside a.x, you can change the background-color on hover and focus, it wouldn't be possible with a inside a span or div.
0: Use white-space: nowrap;.
1: You could have the circle as background of your .tag-box (or your .circle a). eg:
.tag-box {
display: inline;
background-image: url('circe.png');
background-position: 100%; /* Display to the right */
background-repeat: no-repeat;
padding-right: 10px /* To leave space for the image */
}
2: You could use fixed-size floating .tag-box-es ( :/ )
3: You could have a (ready made) script put a circle on the right of every ".circle a"
You could try:
.tag-box {
display: inline-block;
}
Although you may experience some issues with firefox 2 and older versions of IE
Like this one:
Or should I do like this instead and change the font-size to zero:
Home
Edit:
No one here seems to understand my question. So I'll post some CSS too:
#logo {
display: block;
width: 326px;
height: 69px;
background-image: url(images/logo.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
#logo:hover {
background-image: url(images/logo-hover.gif);
}
It looks like that, so I can't replace it with an image because then the hover wouldn't work. Seems like there is no solution to this so I guess I'll skip it.
Not including descriptive text of one form or another (text, title or description) would be a serious accessibility failure regardless of any SEO issues.
Edit: If you're asking how to hide the text of a link given a desire to use a background image, there's a few ways to do that. My preferred option (where possible) is to provide a fixed height and then a line height ~3 times as large and turn overflow off. You can also adjust letter spacing to reduce the width towards zero, e.g. from production code:
background: transparent url(../images/sprites/icons.gif) no-repeat;
a.foo
{
width: 16px;
height: 16px;
display: block;
overflow: hidden;
line-height: 666px;
letter-spacing: -1.1em;
}
As I understand, Google does use link text to rank pages. A page with an incoming link text of "foo" will give that page a higher search result position when searching for "foo".
Using your example, you could do the following:
Use a descriptive text in the link:
Foo
<style type="text/css">
a.foo {
display: block;
text-indent: -999em; /* Hide the text, using a negative indent (only works on single lines) */
background: url(foo.png) no-repeat;
width: 329px;
height: 69px;
}
a.foo:hover {
background-position: 0 -69px; /* Using spites to switch between normal and hover state */
}
</style>
Use an image in the page:
<img src="foo.png" width="329" height="69" alt="Foo" />
<style type="text/css">
a.foo:hover {
background: url(foo-hover.png) no-repeat;
}
a.foo:hover img {
visibility: hidden; /* Hide the image on hover, so the background of the link is shown, but dimensions and page flow stay the same */
}
</style>
Which method you choose, depends on what you want to do with it. For example: if you're creating an print style sheet, using the image would be preferred, because background images won't be printed (by default).
You should provide either an image or text for the link. If you go the image route, be sure to have alternate text as well that describes the image and/or the link destination.
Failure to provide ANY context for the link, which is what you are doing now, having nothingness be a link, is poor usability as there is no visual hint for a user using a conventional browser or any way for a screen-reader to handle the link.
A better approach may be to put an image in the a tag; the a:hover CSS can still work with this (at least with some browsers). As a simple example,
a { color: #30f; }
a:active, a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #F30;
background: yellow;
}
can cause a yellow bar to appear adjacent to an image in an a href.
In the terms of SEO, Atl tag is needed as long as it involves images.