I have a button with long text like "Click here to start playing". I want to control the width and display the text in multiple lines. Is it possible in html/css?
Yes, you can have it on multiple lines using the white-space css property :)
input[type="submit"] {
white-space: normal;
width: 100px;
}
<input type="submit" value="Some long text that won't fit." />
add this to your element
white-space: normal;
width: 100px;
Here are two options:
<button>multiline<br>button<br>text</button>
or
<input type="button" value="Carriage
return
separators" style="text-align:center;">
This CSS might work for <input type="button" ..:
white-space: normal
Yes it is, and you can also use it like this
<button>Click here to<br/> start playing</button>
if you want to make the break yourself.
one other way to improve and style the multi-line text is
<button>Click here to<br/>
<span style="color:red;">start playing</span>
</button>
You can break a text using an entity in between the value. See the entity in example below:
<input style="width:100px;" type="button" value="Click here
to
start playing">
Related
I have a submit button and the text shall in two lines. This is working in Firefox&Chrome, but not in IE:
HTML:
<input type="submit" value="This is a very long
two line Text" class="submit_button" >
CSS:
.submit_button {
width:200px;
height:100px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/g6AKG/1/
Any ideas for IE (I tried IE11)?
you can also use
http://jsfiddle.net/g6AKG/2/
.submit_button
{
white-space: normal;
}
Use a button instead.
<button type="submit" class="submit_button">
This is a very long<br>
two line Text
</button>
<button type="submit" class="submit_button">
This is a very long<br>
two line Text
</button>
Edit: Looks like user Telic and I submitted the same answer seconds apart.
I have a web application in which i have these two submit button inside a table
<input type="submit" value="Modifier" name="btn" style="display:inline" />
<input type="submit" value="Exporter" name="btn" style="margin-left:10px ; display:inline" />
I'd like that it be displayed in the same line but i have this result:
Why this happens? how can i fix my code to show the buttons in the same line?
I'd stay away from this method of css personally, just my preference this will mean that every submit button is exactly the same but what if you don't want this styling with every submit button. But then again that method is much better than doing css inside a HTML file
input[type=submit]{
}
You're better off giving the submit buttons a class called submit then you can pick and choose which submits you want to do you're styling for
<input type="submit" class="submit">
.submit{
float: left;
etc.
}
The main problem is your table column widths perhaps give them all a class and give them a width and/or height that meets your needs inside an external css file.
you may try this styling;
input[type="submit"] {
float: right
}
you may also try float left.
Though you could increase the width of the table column or use display: inline-block, maybe you want to do something else:
Increaseing table/column width seems natural, as the two buttons look too wide to fit into that.
Once you have it, you may prefer to use something like block display with a float component.
The inline-block performs poorly in Internet Explorer browsers, even in recent versions like IE9, and a lot of your visitors will be using it for a while.
input[type=submit] {
display: block;
float: left;
width: 100px; /* or whatever fixed width you need */
}
You can try like this
Define a css rules for your submit buttons
input[type=submit] {
display: inline-block;
float: left; /* use this if you want them to be aligned other wise not */
width: as per needed
}
here is an example.. uses bootstrap though
http://jsfiddle.net/QYBHm/
<h3>
<input type="button" href="/users/sign_up">Sign up</input>
or
<input type="button" href="/users/sign_in">Sign in</input>
</h3>
Sign up
or
Sign in
Increase your column size if not auto and add float:left to "Exporter"
In your table row in column with the buttons try this code
<td nowrap="nowrap">
<input type="submit" value="Modifier" name="btn" style="display: inline" />
<input type="submit" value="Exporter" name="btn" style="margin-left: 10px;" />
</td>
I would say that the container column isn't wide enough, so even too they are inline they appear like this. Try changing the width of that column to check if that's the problem.
Try this css
input[type=submit] {
display: inline-block;
float: left;
width: /*adjust as per your table */;
}
Ive been trying to style a submit button using an image. I would use CSS but the button is too complex design wise. I have tried adding a background image to a button but the image was badly positioned. I have also tried using
<input type="image" src="myimage.png">
But alas this is not a submit button so It doesn't work. I have looked and tried everything I believe possible but can't find a solution to making the button submit the form. Thanks.
if <input type="image"> doesn't work as expected just try instead
<button type="submit"><img src="myimage.png"></button>
but as I wrote in the comment above your code should work fine too
You have different possibilities for a submit button:
<input type="image">
<input type="submit">
<button></button> <!-- no type needed, since submit is the default type -->
These are all submit buttons. Pick the one, which suits you best.
Now you can choose to put an image between the button or use background-images and position them properly.
Example for button with background-image:
button {
background:url(data:image/gif;base64,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) no-repeat 5px center;
padding:5px 5px 5px 27px;
}
<button type='submit'>Submit</button>
(Or as a fiddle)
Use a button element and style it with css. Don't omit the text, you form should be accessible without images or css.
<button type='submit'>Informative submit text</button>
button {
background-image:url('myimage.png');
}
In case someone needs a newer html5 good answer:
<button id='' name='' value='' ><img src='img.jpg' /></button>
<input type="image" src="myimage.png">
or
<input type="submit" style="background:url(myimage.png)">
I have a submit button which is simply marked up as this:
<input type='submit' name='foo' value='Continue ⇢' class='button' />
I would like to make the rightward dotted arrow a tad larger.
<input type='submit' name='foo' value='Continue <span class='makemeatadlarger'>⇢</span>' class='button' />
is obviously not working... Is there a simple way to do this (I am not interested in adding tons of outher divs/spans and preferable without having to use images)
UPDATE
Inspired by accepted answer below I came up with this:
html
<button type='submit' name='foo' value='Continue' class='button'>Continue</button>
css
.button:after {
content: ' ⇢';
font-size: 220%;
height: 26px;
margin-top: -19px;
float: right;
}
example
And heres a live example over at jsfiddle
I don't believe so because taking the span out takes it out of the button. The best way would be a button instead of an input like so: <button type="submit" name="foo" class="button">Continue <span class='makemeatadlarger'>⇢</span></button>
You must style the button text as a whole, not just a portion. To achieve your desired effect wouldn't it be much easier to create an image?
I'd like to ensure that there's never a line break between a radio button and the start of its adjacent label. However, I want text within the label to be allowed to wrap. Is this possible? You can see my failed attempts by rendering the following HTML:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.box {
border: solid gray 2px;
width: 200px;
margin: 5px;
}
.chopped {
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
The boxes need to be fixed-width, so long content needs to be wrapped, as seen in the first box below. And if someone tries to post a ridiculously long string without any spaces, we need it to be truncated, rather than extend beyond the edge of the box -- the problem is visible in the second box:
<div class="box">
<input type="radio"/>
<label>This is a really long string with no spaces</label>
</div>
<div class="box">
<input type="radio"/>
<label>This_is_a_really_long_string_with_no_spaces</label>
</div>
<hr/>
So I add "overflow: hidden", and things are somewhat better, but I still don't like how the second box has a line break between the radio button and its label:
<div class="chopped box">
<input type="radio"/>
<label>This is a really long string with no spaces</label>
</div>
<div class="chopped box">
<input type="radio"/>
<label>This_is_a_really_long_string_with_no_spaces</label>
</div>
<hr/>
If I add <nobr>, the radio buttons are next to their labels, and so the unspaced string now looks perfect. However, this breaks the first string (the one with spaces), since it no longer wraps:
<div class="chopped box">
<nobr>
<input type="radio"/>
<label>This is a really long string with no spaces</label>
</nobr>
</div>
<div class="chopped box">
<nobr>
<input type="radio"/>
<label>This_is_a_really_long_string_with_no_spaces</label>
</nobr>
</div>
</body>
</html>
First, move the radio buttons inside your labels. This adds the nice feature that you can select the radio buttons by clicking the text. Then add a span around the text.
<div class="chopped box">
<label>
<input type="radio"/>
<span class="wrappable">This is a really long string with no spaces</span>
</label>
</div>
<div class="chopped box">
<label>
<input type="radio"/>
<span class="wrappable">This_is_a_really_long_string_with_no_spaces</span>
</label>
</div>
Second, add the following style to your css:
label {
white-space:nowrap;
}
.wrappable {
white-space:normal;
}
The white-space style on the label prevents the linebreak between the radio button and the text, and the span around the text allows it to wrap just within the text.
have you tried white-space:nowrap; inside your .chopped definition?
If you don't mind the less-neat markup, you can get what you want by simply eliminating the white space between the <input> and <label> text.
<div class="chopped box">
<label><input type="radio"/>This is a really long string with no spaces</label>
</div>
<div class="chopped box">
<label><input type="radio"/>This_is_a_really_long_string_with_no_spaces</label>
</div>
(<label>s placed around <input>s per JacobM's suggestion.)
If you want a bit of room between the <input> and the first character of the label, use a non-breaking space ( ) entity.
The solution provided by JacobM is for this special case ofcourse the best solution. But this problem goes beyond just some radio buttons with their labels. My solution in general:
In line text blabla <span style="white-space: normal;"><element /></span> blabla
Thus as a solution for this specific case, the result would be:
<label>
<span style="white-space: normal;">
<input type="radio" />
</span>
This_is_a_really_long_string_with_no_spaces
</label>
PS: My situation was an <input /> element inline in wrapping text. The problem was that it would break the line after the element instead of the text at the end of the line. It was really hard to search for this problem using a searchengine, I hope this helps others out.
Sometimes you can't move the tags around because the output is generated beyond your control. So if you can't move the checkbox / radio button into the label you might want to go with:
.box {
white-space: nowrap;
}
.box label {
white-space: normal;
}