In my website, there are lots of buttons. When viewing in Chrome, the button width just fit on the dynamic button text, but in IE, I can see extra padding are produced on both left and right...
Would there be any CSS rule that can allow me to take away these padding? Thanks.
Might be a bit late, but when I searched SO for the very same problem today I found this question. Obviously, this is no real padding (in a sense that it cannot be turned off by padding:0px), but rather one of those weird oddities that we all love so much about IE. (Note how the false padding scales with button text length O_o). Fortunately, there is a simple solution to it, as described here.
Basically you only add overflow:visible; to the button (I did not need the extra width:auto;as described there). Don't ask - it's absolutely not what you'd have thought this should do, but well... It's IE Land and the rules are different over there. Just note that this apparently does not work when your buttons are inside a table cell.
I guess the CSS reset might have solved this, because someone already included this in some global declaration. Just adding this answer to shed some more light on the how and why.
Never give up, people - our children will see a world without IE quirks... One can hope.
You can use reset css as it avoids browser inconsistencies.
Please refer http://sixrevisions.com/css/css-tips/css-tip-1-resetting-your-styles-with-css-reset/
Visit http://www.cssreset.com/scripts/html5-doctor-css-reset-stylesheet/ for reset.css
Managed to avoid extra spacing in IE with extra statement display:block; in CSS like so:
.menu button{
display:block;
width:100%;
padding:0;
}
Note that I didn't use width:auto as it wasn't an option in my case - buttons are empty, width is taken from parent div.
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I've set the padding of the li element to 0 but there is still about 10 pixels worth of padding. How do I shorten the amount of padding provided?
Don't want to be boring :) But in my opinion negative declaration text-intend:-5px; a kind of wrong trick. I know it does trick the browser default styles. But basically it just moves the text outside of the parent element, making something like a hanging intend.
I've tried to find those browser inherited styles, but there are none of them that would create such padding around bullets/discs.
I did some research and found out that CSS3 has special pseudo-element ::marker to address this issue. The idea is great, but unfortunately it is still not implemented in any browser :(
Mozilla has own temporary trick to better style bullets :-moz-list-bullet - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/:-moz-list-bullet
No other vendors that either support or have implemented such hack
CSS3 also has new value for list-style-position: hanging, that may help. But it's still not well defined.
Another solution is to use pseudo-element ::before (no support in IE7)
li:before {
content:"•";
margin-right:1px;
}
After all seems there is no any interest or need to address this issue. Everybody happy with text-intend.
In fairness in the end of the day why the heck would you want to remove that space between bullet and text :)) I think that's the case they called - accidental implementation
I noticed the navigation li items (yellow section) were right of center, so I altered the containing div/nav widths and background background colors just so I could see what was going on in an attempt to fix the misalignment; however, I can't seem to see a reason why this is occurring (in about 6 browsers).
Here is problematic markup/css: http://building-more.site50.net/
It seems to work fine in jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/cTXXH/1/
It doesn't seem to display at all in IE, what is going wrong here?
Also, it looks like you forgot the ending bracket in your endif statement for the IE check.
Should be:
<![endif]-->
It's because some of the elements already have default values such as padding and marging that are skewing your positionings, and this could be different for each browser. That's why people often 'reset' CSS to use 0 margins and 0 paddings by default instead, before starting with their own styles.
Your example works fine in your Fiddle because 'normalize CSS' is checked. This is a framework similar to CSS resets which can be found here: http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/ - it makes sure that your default positionings are consistent between browsers, and gives you a clean slate to work with.
If you were to include it into your web page it would solve your issues. Hope that helps.
Alright this is probably a newbie question but it is very much frustrating me. I clearly say in the style tags that the top blue bar needs to be snug against the top and the two side panels need to be snug against the sides.
Yet for some reason it has taken the liberty of inserting a blank white space around my html.
Here is the link: http://popularn.com/nate/error.html
See that white space on the left and at the top?
Even when I say top:0% and left:0%, it still doesn't work. It's like it's laughing at me and I've had enough. It's like it is starting the document at top:2% and left:2% and there's nothing I can do...
remove margin from the body, set top left to 0, and off course don't forget the position attribute
html,body{padding:0; margin:0;}
#someElement{position: absolute; top:0; left:0}
also -
putting position:absolute; top:0; left:0; to the body is like doing nothing
and the position of the #top_menu should be position: fixed and not fixes which has no meaning
Browsers have a set of default styles which are known as 'User-agent styles'. These are a generic set of CSS rules that it applies to elements. You know when you put a H1 in a page, and it appears big, and in bold? These are those styles.
The base elements in your pages are all styled with these UA rules. Body, HTML, div, etc - they all have a small amount of padding on them, which is where this is coming from.
Consequently, it's good practice to always use a CSS reset, when you are developing beyond basic styles. There's a couple of good ones I'd recommend. As CSS is hierarchical (hence cascading!) you need to include resets first.
Firstly is Eric Meyer's CSS reset. This applies generally to everything, and is invisible for most purposes. You include the file, everything gets reset to base.
Secondly is Yahoo UI 3 (YUI) reset, which takes a slightly different approach. They let you selectively apply a reset to different areas of a page by including a class. This is useful for some things, but for almost every small/medium sized project I'd recommend Eric's reset linked above - but it's useful for comparison and learning.
Instead of trying to tune out inconsistencies as you go along - using a CSS reset will give you a baseline for all elements which is the same on every browser. Believe me - you want this. When you get further into html, forms for example or fun stuff like that, then this kind of thing is an absolute life saver.
Hope that helps!
You need to reset the default padding and margin on any browser. I usually use this:
*{padding:0;margin:0;}
I have an image and a rectangle (a paragraph with a coloured background) that should have their tops line up. They're both absolutely positioned and have the same style-top value, but the top of the rectangle is appearing about 15px below the top of the image, and I can't figure out why. Is there any reason why this might be happening?
HTML:
<img class="v1" id="image" src="/COMP2405A4/images/resized_adorkable!.jpg" style="position:absolute;top:313px;left: 61px;" alt = "Your Image">
<p class="mask" id="tmask" style="position:absolute;top:313px;left: 61px;width: 400px;height: 20px"> </p>
CSS:
p.mask {background: rgb(255,255,255);
opacity:0.5;
}
Your elements don't line up because the margins of your elements aren't the same.
Try explicitly setting margin: 0; on the p element.
Seems like you have the right idea. One of your other classes may be throwing you off. I made an example if you want to take a look.
http://jsfiddle.net/hwrQA/
It can't be other classes since the relevant styles are applied through a style tag, which overrides the default styles it may have.
However I can theorize that it may have to do with on of the elements, probably the image, having additional styles through the stylesheet creating extra offset.
Like padding on an image, the effect differs per browser but it may create the extra offset.
The best thing you can do to check why the offset it not correct is use the developer tools in chrome or firebug in firefox to select the relevant element and see which styles get applied and where they are coming from. Internet Explorer has debugging tools too but I wouldn't recommend them to start with.
If you want a better answer you're going to have to reproduce it in jsfiddle so we can see what is wrong. Try taking away stuff until nothing irrelevant to be bug remains, or if the bug dissapeared in this process you may have solved it yourself. Read the how to ask faq for more information.
I've noticed that some browsers have trouble with margins, especially when an element is floated. For example, this website I'm doing looks fine in Firefox, but IE7 screws up the margins completely it seems. I also testet it on several Linux browsers as well and some of the make similar mistakes.
The site is
http://w3box.com/mat
This looks fine in FF3.0 as far as I can tell. Haven't seen it in FF2 yet, or IE6.
Why does this happen? Is it because I've got floated DIVs with specified margins?
Are there some things I should avoid or should have done differently?
Edit: So it looks like my tags was the source of the screwup.
I'd placed images in the that was not defined in the CSS and that had floats on them, combined with margins. These screwed up everything and I have to redo these.
Also, some stuff happened when I used XHTML Strict instead :)
Thanx everyone! I'll try to fix this on my own :)
I disagree with using a library if you want to learn about CSS part of the curve unfortunately is learning about the ways different browsers react to CSS. I wouldn't even suggest using a reset stylesheet. If you are going to be doing this a lot learn how CSS works. If you use a library or a set stylesheet which you don't understand how will you fix it when it breaks.
Marging are not bad, but IE has some troubles with the margins of float elements. While there are many recipes for fixing, I believe that in your case you may use absolute positioning instead of float+margins (you don't really need "float" behavior when the image is wrapped by text)
There is nothing wrong with using margins.
Old versions of IE have one bug and that alone isn't nearly enough of a reason to avoid using one of the core layout features of CSS. Specifically, this bug occurs in IE when you float an object and give it a margin in the same direction, e.g.:
.whatever {
float: right;
margin-right: 5px;
}
You can deal with this a number of ways, depending on your layout. One way would be to add another div around your box and use padding on that to replicate the same space a margin would.
I'd suggest using some form of CSS Framework (Blueprint CSS, 960 Grid, etc) as they have a number of margin, padding and other common HTML element resets. You should find cross browser development is easier using a framework.
Different browsers have different ways to handle box model. Most of the time the sites which are displayed well in FF, Chrome or IE8 can have problems in IE6 and 7.
To workaround this problem you can try to set all the default margin and padding to 0 (and adjust them as needed on specific elements):
*{ margin:0px; padding: 0px; } //Simplest rule...
To see more on CSS reset you can look at: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
And then apply different styles for IE7 and 6 with conditional comments.
As mentioned on other answers it's to do with IE's interpretation of the box model.
Whenever anything is floated IE tends to double the margins specified. This can be fixed with an extra stylesheet for IE using conditional comments.
See also: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/doubled-margin.html