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Example:
Link
How do I change the presentation of the "title" attribute in the browser?. By default, it just has yellow background and small font. I would like to make it bigger and change the background color.
Is there a CSS way to style the title attribute?
It seems that there is in fact a pure CSS solution, requiring only the css attr expression, generated content and attribute selectors (which suggests that it works as far back as IE8):
https://jsfiddle.net/z42r2vv0/2/
a {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
margin-top: 20px;
}
a[title]:hover::after {
content: attr(title);
position: absolute;
top: -100%;
left: 0;
}
<a href="http://www.google.com/" title="Hello world!">
Hover over me
</a>
update w/ input from #ViROscar: please note that it's not necessary to use any specific attribute, although I've used the "title" attribute in the example above; actually my recommendation would be to use the "alt" attribute, as there is some chance that the content will be accessible to users unable to benefit from CSS.
update again I'm not changing the code because the "title" attribute has basically come to mean the "tooltip" attribute, and it's probably not a good idea to hide important text inside a field only accessible on hover, but if you're interested in making this text accessible the "aria-label" attribute seems like the best place for it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/ARIA_Techniques/Using_the_aria-label_attribute
You can't style an actual title attribute
How the text in the title attribute is displayed is defined by the browser and varies from browser to browser. It's not possible for a webpage to apply any style to the tooltip that the browser displays based on the title attribute.
However, you can create something very similar using other attributes.
You can make a pseudo-tooltip with CSS and a custom attribute (e.g. data-title)
For this, I'd use a data-title attribute. data-* attributes are a method to store custom data in DOM elements/HTML. There are multiple ways of accessing them. Importantly, they can be selected by CSS.
Given that you can use CSS to select elements with data-title attributes, you can then use CSS to create :after (or :before) content that contains the value of the attribute using attr().
Styled tooltip Examples
Bigger and with a different background color (per question's request):
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
background-color: #00FF00;
color: #111;
font-size: 150%;
position: absolute;
padding: 1px 5px 2px 5px;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #222222;
opacity: 0;
border: 1px solid #111111;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
Link with styled tooltip (bigger and with a different background color, as requested in the question)<br/>
Link with normal tooltip
More elaborate styling (adapted from this blog post):
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
position: absolute;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
padding: 4px 4px 4px 8px;
color: #222;
white-space: nowrap;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0, #f8f8f8),color-stop(1, #cccccc));
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
opacity: 0;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
Link with styled tooltip<br/>
Link with normal tooltip
Known issues
Unlike a real title tooltip, the tooltip produced by the above CSS is not, necessarily, guaranteed to be visible on the page (i.e. it might be outside the visible area). On the other hand, it is guaranteed to be within the current window, which is not the case for an actual tooltip.
In addition, the pseudo-tooltip is positioned relative to the element that has the pseudo-tooltip rather than relative to where the mouse is on that element. You may want to fine-tune where the pseudo-tooltip is displayed. Having it appear in a known location relative to the element can be a benefit or a drawback, depending on the situation.
You can't use :before or :after on elements which are not containers
There's a good explanation in this answer to "Can I use a :before or :after pseudo-element on an input field?"
Effectively, this means that you can't use this method directly on elements like <input type="text"/>, <textarea/>, <img>, etc. The easy solution is to wrap the element that's not a container in a <span> or <div> and have the pseudo-tooltip on the container.
Examples of using a pseudo-tooltip on a <span> wrapping a non-container element:
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
background-color: #00FF00;
color: #111;
font-size: 150%;
position: absolute;
padding: 1px 5px 2px 5px;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #222222;
opacity: 0;
border: 1px solid #111111;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
.pseudo-tooltip-wrapper {
/*This causes the wrapping element to be the same size as what it contains.*/
display: inline-block;
}
Text input with a pseudo-tooltip:<br/>
<span class="pseudo-tooltip-wrapper" data-title="input type="text""><input type='text'></span><br/><br/><br/>
Textarea with a pseudo-tooltip:<br/>
<span class="pseudo-tooltip-wrapper" data-title="this is a textarea"><textarea data-title="this is a textarea"></textarea></span><br/>
From the code on the blog post linked above (which I first saw in an answer here that plagiarized it), it appeared obvious to me to use a data-* attribute instead of the title attribute. Doing so was also suggested in a comment by snostorm on that (now deleted) answer.
Here is an example of how to do it:
a.tip {
border-bottom: 1px dashed;
text-decoration: none
}
a.tip:hover {
cursor: help;
position: relative
}
a.tip span {
display: none
}
a.tip:hover span {
border: #c0c0c0 1px dotted;
padding: 5px 20px 5px 5px;
display: block;
z-index: 100;
background: url(../images/status-info.png) #f0f0f0 no-repeat 100% 5%;
left: 0px;
margin: 10px;
width: 250px;
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
text-decoration: none
}
Link<span>This is the CSS tooltip showing up when you mouse over the link</span>
CSS can't change the tooltip appearance. It is browser/OS-dependent. If you want something different you'll have to use Javascript to generate markup when you hover over the element instead of the default tooltip.
I have found the answer here: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/11/how-to-create-a-simple-css3-tooltip/
my own code goes like this, I have changed the attribute name, if you maintain the title name for the attribute you end up having two popups for the same text, another change is that my text on hovering displays underneath the exposed text.
.tags {
display: inline;
position: relative;
}
.tags:hover:after {
background: #333;
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .8);
border-radius: 5px;
bottom: -34px;
color: #fff;
content: attr(data-gloss);
left: 20%;
padding: 5px 15px;
position: absolute;
z-index: 98;
width: 350px;
}
.tags:hover:before {
border: solid;
border-color: #333 transparent;
border-width: 0 6px 6px 6px;
bottom: -4px;
content: "";
left: 50%;
position: absolute;
z-index: 99;
}
<a class="tags" data-gloss="Text shown on hovering">Exposed text</a>
I thought i'd post my 20 lines JavaScript solution here. It is not perfect, but may be useful for some depending on what you need from your tooltips.
When to use it
Automatically styles the tooltip for all HTML elements with a TITLE attribute defined (this includes elements dynamically added to the document in the future)
No Javascript/HTML changes or hacks required for every tooltip (just the TITLE attribute, semantically clear)
Very light (adds about 300 bytes gzipped and minified)
You want only a very basic styleable tooltip
When NOT to use
Requires jQuery, so do not use if you don't use jQuery
Bad support for nested elements that both have tooltips
You need more than one tooltip on the screen at the same time
You need the tooltip to disappear after some time
The code
// Use a closure to keep vars out of global scope
(function () {
var ID = "tooltip", CLS_ON = "tooltip_ON", FOLLOW = true,
DATA = "_tooltip", OFFSET_X = 20, OFFSET_Y = 10,
showAt = function (e) {
var ntop = e.pageY + OFFSET_Y, nleft = e.pageX + OFFSET_X;
$("#" + ID).html($(e.target).data(DATA)).css({
position: "absolute", top: ntop, left: nleft
}).show();
};
$(document).on("mouseenter", "*[title]", function (e) {
$(this).data(DATA, $(this).attr("title"));
$(this).removeAttr("title").addClass(CLS_ON);
$("<div id='" + ID + "' />").appendTo("body");
showAt(e);
});
$(document).on("mouseleave", "." + CLS_ON, function (e) {
$(this).attr("title", $(this).data(DATA)).removeClass(CLS_ON);
$("#" + ID).remove();
});
if (FOLLOW) { $(document).on("mousemove", "." + CLS_ON, showAt); }
}());
Paste it anywhere, it should work even when you run this code before the DOM is ready (it just won't show your tooltips until DOM is ready).
Customize
You can change the var declarations on the second line to customize it a bit.
var ID = "tooltip"; // The ID of the styleable tooltip
var CLS_ON = "tooltip_ON"; // Does not matter, make it somewhat unique
var FOLLOW = true; // TRUE to enable mouse following, FALSE to have static tooltips
var DATA = "_tooltip"; // Does not matter, make it somewhat unique
var OFFSET_X = 20, OFFSET_Y = 10; // Tooltip's distance to the cursor
Style
You can now style your tooltips using the following CSS:
#tooltip {
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid red;
padding: 3px 10px;
}
A jsfiddle for custom tooltip pattern is Here
It is based on CSS Positioning and pseduo class selectors
Check MDN docs for cross-browser support of pseudo classes
<!-- HTML -->
<p>
<a href="http://www.google.com/" class="tooltip">
I am a
<span> (This website rocks) </span></a> a developer.
</p>
/*CSS*/
a.tooltip {
position: relative;
}
a.tooltip span {
display: none;
}
a.tooltip:hover span, a.tooltip:focus span {
display:block;
position:absolute;
top:1em;
left:1.5em;
padding: 0.2em 0.6em;
border:1px solid #996633;
background-color:#FFFF66;
color:#000;
}
Native tooltip cannot be styled.
That being said, you can use some library that would show styles floating layers when element is being hovered (instead of the native tooltips, and suppress them) requiring little or no code modifications...
You cannot style the default browser tooltip. But you can use javascript to create your own custom HTML tooltips.
a[title="My site"] {
color: red;
}
This also works with any attribute you want to add for instance:
HTML
<div class="my_class" anything="whatever">My Stuff</div>
CSS
.my_class[anything="whatever"] {
color: red;
}
See it work at: http://jsfiddle.net/vpYWE/1/
I'm using ASP.NET, some of my buttons just do redirects. I'd rather they were ordinary links, but I don't want my users to notice much difference in the appearance. I considered images wrapped by anchors, i.e. tags, but I don't want to have to fire up an image editor every time I change the text on a button.
Apply this class to it
.button {
font: bold 11px Arial;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #EEEEEE;
color: #333333;
padding: 2px 6px 2px 6px;
border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-right: 1px solid #333333;
border-bottom: 1px solid #333333;
border-left: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
Example
Why not just wrap an anchor tag around a button element.
<button type="button">Text of Some Page</button>
This will work for IE9+, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and probably Opera.
IMHO, there is a better and more elegant solution. If your link is this:
Click me!!!
The corresponding button should be this:
<form method="GET" action="http://www.example.com">
<input type="submit" value="Click me!!!">
</form>
This approach is simpler because it uses simple html elements, so it will work in all the browsers without changing anything. Moreover, if you have styles for your buttons, this solution will apply the same styles to your new button for free.
The CSS3 appearance property provides a simple way to style any element (including an anchor) with a browser's built-in <button> styles:
a.btn {
-webkit-appearance: button;
-moz-appearance: button;
appearance: button;
}
<body>
<a class="btn">CSS Button</a>
</body>
CSS Tricks has a nice outline with more details on this. Keep in mind that no version of Internet Explorer currently supports this according to caniuse.com.
If you want nice button with rounded corners, then use this class:
.link_button {
-webkit-border-radius: 4px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
border-radius: 4px;
border: solid 1px #20538D;
text-shadow: 0 -1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.4), 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
-moz-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.4), 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.4), 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
background: #4479BA;
color: #FFF;
padding: 8px 12px;
text-decoration: none;
}
Example
a {
display: block;
height: 20px;
width: auto;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
You can play with <a> tags like this if you give them a block display. You can adjust the border to give a shade like effect and the background color for that button feel :)
As TStamper said, you can just apply the CSS class to it and design it that way. As CSS improves the number of things that you can do with links has become extraordinary, and there are design groups now that just focus on creating amazing-looking CSS buttons for themes, and so forth.
For example, you can transitions with background-color using the -webkit-transition property and pseduo-classes. Some of these designs can get quite nutty, but it's providing a fantastic alternative to what might in the past have had to have been done with, say, flash.
For example (these are mind-blowing in my opinion),
http://tympanus.net/Development/CreativeButtons/ (this is a series of totally out-of-the-box animations for buttons, with source code on the originating page).
http://www.commentredirect.com/make-awesome-flat-buttons-css/ (along the same lines, these buttons have nice but minimalistic transition effects, and they make use of the new "flat" design style.)
You may do it with JavaScript:
Get CSS styles of real button with getComputedStyle(realButton).
Apply the styles to all your links.
/* javascript, after body is loaded */
'use strict';
{ // Namespace starts (to avoid polluting root namespace).
const btnCssText = window.getComputedStyle(
document.querySelector('.used-for-btn-css-class')
).cssText;
document.querySelectorAll('.btn').forEach(
(btn) => {
const _d = btn.style.display; // Hidden buttons should stay hidden.
btn.style.cssText = btnCssText;
btn.style.display = _d;
}
);
} // Namespace ends.
<body>
<h3>Button Styled Links</h3>
<button class="used-for-btn-css-class" style="display: none"></button>
first
second
<button>real button</button>
<script>/* You may put JS here. */</script>
</body>
You could create a standard button, then use it as the background image for a link. Then you can set the text in the link without changing the image.
The best solutions if you don't a special rendered button are the two already given by TStamper and Ólafur Waage.
This gets into the details of the css a bit more too, and gives you some images:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/item/css_square_buttons/
Much belated answer:
I've been wrestling with this on and off since I first started working in ASP. Here's the best I've come up with:
Concept: I create a custom control that has a tag. Then in the button I put an onclick event that sets document.location to the desired value with JavaScript.
I called the control ButtonLink, so that I could easily get if confused with LinkButton.
aspx:
<%# Control Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="ButtonLink.ascx.vb" Inherits="controls_ButtonLink" %>
<asp:Button runat="server" ID="button"/>
code behind:
Partial Class controls_ButtonLink
Inherits System.Web.UI.UserControl
Dim _url As String
Dim _confirm As String
Public Property NavigateUrl As String
Get
Return _url
End Get
Set(value As String)
_url = value
BuildJs()
End Set
End Property
Public Property confirm As String
Get
Return _confirm
End Get
Set(value As String)
_confirm = value
BuildJs()
End Set
End Property
Public Property Text As String
Get
Return button.Text
End Get
Set(value As String)
button.Text = value
End Set
End Property
Public Property enabled As Boolean
Get
Return button.Enabled
End Get
Set(value As Boolean)
button.Enabled = value
End Set
End Property
Public Property CssClass As String
Get
Return button.CssClass
End Get
Set(value As String)
button.CssClass = value
End Set
End Property
Sub BuildJs()
' This is a little kludgey in that if the user gives a url and a confirm message, we'll build the onclick string twice.
' But it's not that big a deal.
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(_url) Then
button.OnClientClick = Nothing
ElseIf String.IsNullOrEmpty(_confirm) Then
button.OnClientClick = String.Format("document.location='{0}';return false;", ResolveClientUrl(_url))
Else
button.OnClientClick = String.Format("if (confirm('{0}')) {{document.location='{1}';}} return false;", _confirm, ResolveClientUrl(_url))
End If
End Sub
End Class
Advantages of this scheme: It looks like a control. You write a single tag for it, <ButtonLink id="mybutton" navigateurl="blahblah"/>
The resulting button is a "real" HTML button and so looks just like a real button. You don't have to try to simulate the look of a button with CSS and then struggle with different looks on different browsers.
While the abilities are limited, you can easily extend it by adding more properties. It's likely that most properties would just have to "pass thru" to the underlying button, like I did for text, enabled and cssclass.
If anybody's got a simpler, cleaner or otherwise better solution, I'd be happy to hear it. This is a pain, but it works.
This is what I used. Link button is
<div class="link-button">Example</div>
CSS
/* body is sans-serif */
.link-button {
margin-top:15px;
max-width:90px;
background-color:#eee;
border-color:#888888;
color:#333;
display:inline-block;
vertical-align:middle;
text-align:center;
text-decoration:none;
align-items:flex-start;
cursor:default;
-webkit-appearence: push-button;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 1px;
border-radius: 5px;
font-size: 1em;
font-family: inherit;
border-color: #000;
padding-left: 5px;
padding-right: 5px;
width: 100%;
min-height: 30px;
}
.link-button a {
margin-top:4px;
display:inline-block;
text-decoration:none;
color:#333;
}
.link-button:hover {
background-color:#888;
}
.link-button:active {
background-color:#333;
}
.link-button:hover a, .link-button:active a {
color:#fff;
}
How about using asp:LinkButton?
You can do that - I made a linkbutton look like a standard button, using TStamper's entry. Underlining showed under the text when I hovered, though, in spite of the text-decoration: none setting.
I was able to stop the hover-underlining by adding style="text-decoration: none" within the linkbutton:
<asp:LinkButton
id="btnUpdate"
CssClass="btnStyleTStamper"
style="text-decoration: none"
Text="Update Items"
Onclick="UpdateGrid"
runat="server"
/>
By using border, color and background color properties you can create a button lookalike html link!
a {
background-color: white;
color: black;
padding: 5px;
text-decoration: none;
border: 1px solid black;
}
a:hover {
background-color: black;
color: white;
}
<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/
">Open StackOverflow</a>
Hope this helps :]
Use this class. It will make your link look the same as a button when applied using the button class on an a tag.
or
HERE IS ANOTHER DEMO JSFIDDLE
.button {
display: inline-block;
outline: none;
cursor: pointer;
border: solid 1px #da7c0c;
background: #478dad;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
font: 14px/100% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
padding: .5em 2em .55em;
text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.3);
-webkit-border-radius: .5em;
-moz-border-radius: .5em;
border-radius: .3em;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
}
.button:hover {
background: #f47c20;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#f88e11), to(#f06015));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #f88e11, #f06015);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#f88e11', endColorstr='#f06015');
}
.button:active {
position: relative;
top: 1px;
}
HTML
<a class="btn">Button</a>
CSS
background-color: #4CAF50; /* Green */
border: none;
color: white;
padding: 15px 32px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
display: inline-block;
font-size: 16px;
.button {
font: bold 11px Arial;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #EEEEEE;
color: #333333;
padding: 2px 6px 2px 6px;
border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
border-right: 1px solid #333333;
border-bottom: 1px solid #333333;
border-left: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
}
Example
I use an asp:Button:
<asp:Button runat="server"
OnClientClick="return location='targetPage', true;"
UseSubmitBehavior="False"
Text="Button Text Here"
/>
This way, the operation of the button is completely client-side and the button acts just like a link to the targetPage.
Use below snippet.
.a{
color: $brn-acc-clr;
background-color: transparent;
border-color: #888888;
&:hover:active{
outline: none;
color: #888888;
border-color: #888888;
}
&:fill{
background-color: #888888;
color: #fff;
box-shadow: 0 3px 10px rgba(#888888, 0.5);
&:hover:active{
color: #fff;
}
&:hover:not(:disabled){
transform: translateY(-2px);
background-color: darken(#888888, 4);
}
}
}
Simple button css now you can play around with your editor
a {
display: inline-block;
background: #000000c9;
color: #000;
padding: 12px 24px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 16px;
cursor: pointer;
}
a:hover {
background:#000
cursor: pointer;
transition: 0.3s ease-in;
}
Link tag
<a href="#">Hover me<a>
If you need some cool effect, hover and shadow; you can use this:
.button {
text-decoration: none;
padding: 15px 25px;
font-size: 24px;
cursor: pointer;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
outline: none;
color: #fff;
background-color: #450775;
border: none;
border-radius: 15px;
box-shadow: 0 9px #e1d5ed;
}
.button:hover {background-color: #220440}
.button:active {
background-color: #230545;
box-shadow: 0 5px #e1d5ed;
transform: translateY(4px);
}
This worked for me. It looks like a button and behaves like a link. You can bookmark it for example.
<a href="mypage.aspx?param1=1" style="text-decoration:none;">
<asp:Button PostBackUrl="mypage.aspx?param1=1" Text="my button-like link" runat="server" />
</a>
How about using asp:LinkButton?
I am trying to create a box that has a 'highlight' down the sides of it, and at the top.
The CSS for the box was pretty simple, however, now that I introduced this 'highlight' to the design, it has added another level of complexity to the CSS...
I have tried a lot of things, not sure if they will help but here is my most recent:
/* Define the Main Navigation Drop Downs */
#mn_navigation .dd {position:relative;width:226px;padding:29px 0 0;background:transparent url("//beta.example.co.uk/_images/_global/dd_handle.png") no-repeat;z-index:1000;}
#mn_navigation .dd nav {padding:30px 0;background:#3E5032 url("//beta.example.co.uk/_images/_global/dd_bg.png");border-radius:3px;}
#mn_navigation .dd nav a {font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;color:#fff !important;height:25px;line-height:25px;}
Please note I have posted the above to show that I have actually tried to sort this myself. The above code will probably not even help as a starting point as a restructure of the HTML may be necessary!
Here is the current HTML (probably needs to be restructured):
<div id="dd_foo" class="dd">
<nav>
LINK
</nav>
</div>
Here is a possible restructure (something like):
<div id="dd_foo" class="dd">
<div class="handle"><!-- Dropdown Handle --></div>
<nav>
LINK
</nav>
</div>
This is what I need the box to look like (notice the faint white border at the top and half way down the sides):
I have also included the box split into its separate elements (handle and background)
I think I can see how this can be done with clever overlaps and nested divs, but ideally I don't really want to resort to this... Can anybody suggest an alternative solution?
Simplest approach
You can try achieving this using a simple box shadow:
.plaque {
box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.32);
/*...*/
}
An Example
Here's an example using 1 class and a div on jsbin.
Copy paste code
This code is only for modern browsers; it might cause ie < 9 and other non supporting browsers to explode.
.plaque:after {
top: -9px;
content: " ";
height: 11px;
width: 30px;
position: absolute;
pointer-events: none;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -15px;
display: block;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
.plaque {
width: 250px;
height: 100px;
display: block;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
padding: 12px 16px;
line-height: 1.4;
box-shadow: inset 0 1px 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.32);
border-radius: 5px;
border: 1px solid transparent;
font-family: sans-serif;
color: white;
font-size: 1.2em;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
position: relative;
top: 6px;
}
/* Use whatever background you want */
.plaque { background-color: green; }
.plaque:after { background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,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); }
Is there any way of getting rounded corners on the outline of a div element, similar to border-radius?
I had an input field with rounded border and wanted to change colour of focus outline. I couldn't tame the horrid square outline to the input control.
So instead, I used box-shadow. I actually preferred the smooth look of the shadow, but the shadow can be hardened to simulate a rounded outline:
input, input:focus {
border: none;
border-radius: 2pt;
box-shadow: 0 0 0 1pt grey;
outline: none;
transition: .1s;
}
/* Smooth outline with box-shadow: */
.text1:focus {
box-shadow: 0 0 3pt 2pt cornflowerblue;
}
/* Hard "outline" with box-shadow: */
.text2:focus {
box-shadow: 0 0 0 2pt red;
}
<input class="text1">
<br>
<br>
<input type=text class="text2">
I usually accomplish this using the :after pseudo-element:
of course it depends on usage, this method allows control over individual borders, rather than using the hard shadow method.
you could also set -1px offsets and use a background linear gradient (no border) for a different effect once again.
body {
margin: 20px;
}
a {
background: #999;
padding: 10px 20px;
border-radius: 5px;
text-decoration: none;
color: #fff;
position: relative;
border: 2px solid #000;
}
a:after {
content: '';
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
border-radius: 5px;
border: 2px solid #ccc;
}
Button
Similar to Lea Hayes above, but here's how I did it:
div {
background: #999;
height: 100px;
width: 200px;
border: #999 solid 1px;
border-radius: 10px;
margin: 15px;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 1px #fff inset;
}
<div></div>
No nesting of DIVs or jQuery necessary, Altho for brevity I have left out the -moz and -webkit variants of some of the CSS. You can see the result above
Use this one:
box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 1px red;
I wanted some nice focus accessibility for dropdown menus in a Bootstrap navbar, and was pretty happy with this:
a.dropdown-toggle:focus {
display: inline-block;
box-shadow: 0 0 0 2px #88b8ff;
border-radius: 2px;
}
Visit Stackoverflow
We may see our wishes soonish by setting outline-style: auto It's on WebKits radar: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/198062/webkit
See ya in 2030.
You're looking for something like this, I think.
div {
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
border: 1px solid black;
background-color: #CCC;
height: 100px;
width: 160px;
}
Edit
There is a Firefox-only -moz-outline-radius properly, but that won't work on IE/Chrome/Safari/Opera/etc. So, it looks like the most cross-browser-compatible way* to get a curved line around a border is to use a wrapper div:
div.inner {
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
border: 1px solid black;
background-color: #CCC;
height: 100px;
width: 160px;
}
div.outer {
display: inline-block;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
border: 1px solid red;
}
<div class="outer">
<div class="inner"></div>
</div>
*aside from using images
Firefox 88+: border-radius
From April 2021 you will be able to use a simple CSS for Firefox:
.actual {
outline: solid red;
border-radius: 10px;
}
.expected {
border: solid red;
border-radius: 10px;
}
In Firefox 88+,
<span class="actual">this outline</span>
should look like
<span class="expected">this border</span>
Current behaviour in Firefox 86.0:
Webkit: no solution
Using outline-style: auto will tell the «user agent to render a custom outline style»: see [MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/outline-style(.
Webkit-based browsers will then draw the outline over the border, when you use outline-style: auto. It's difficult to style it properly.
.actual {
outline: auto red;
border-radius: 10px;
}
.expected {
border: solid red;
border-radius: 10px;
}
In WebKit browsers (Chrome, Edge),
<span class="actual">this outline</span>
should look close to
<span class="expected">this border</span>
Current behaviour in Chrome 89.0:
More information
From Firefox 88 (to be released April 20 2021), outline will follow the shape of border-radius.
The current -moz-outline-radius will become redundant and will be removed.
See MDN's entry about -moz-outline-radius:
From Firefox 88 onwards, the standard outline property will follow the shape of border-radius, making -moz-outline-radius properties redundant. As such, this property will be removed.
(Feb 2023)
As far as I know, the Outline radius is only supported by Firefox and Firefox for android.
-moz-outline-radius: 1em;
I just found a great solution for this, and after looking at all the responses so far, I haven't seen it posted yet. So, here's what I did:
I created a CSS Rule for the class and used a pseudo-class of :focus for that rule. I set outline: none to get rid of that default light-blue non-border-radius-able 'outline' that Chrome uses by default. Then, in that same :focus pseudo-class, where that outline no longer exists, I added my radius and border properties. Leading to the following
outline: none;
border-radius: 5px;
border: 2px solid maroon;
to have a maroon-colored outline with a border radius that now appears when the element is tab-selected by the user.
If you want to get an embossed look you could do something like the following:
.embossed {
background: #e5e5e5;
height: 100px;
width: 200px;
border: #FFFFFF solid 1px;
outline: #d0d0d0 solid 1px;
margin: 15px;
}
.border-radius {
border-radius: 20px 20px 20px 20px;
-webkit-border-radius: 20px;
-moz-border-radius: 20px;
-khtml-border-radius: 20px;
}
.outline-radius {
-moz-outline-radius: 21px;
}
<div class="embossed"></div>
<div class="embossed border-radius"></div>
<div class="embossed border-radius outline-radius">-MOZ ONLY</div>
I have not found a work around to have this work in other browsers.
EDIT: The only other way you can do this is to use box-shadow, but then this wont work if you already have a box shadow on that element.
Chrome 94.0+
I tested it in chrome 94.0 and it seems that the outline property honors the border-radius now.
.outline {
outline: 2px solid red;
}
.border {
border: 2px solid red;
}
.outline-10 {
border-radius: 10px;
}
.border-2 {
border-radius: 2px;
}
.outline-2 {
border-radius: 2px;
}
.border-10 {
border-radius: 10px;
}
.outline-50 {
border-radius: 50%;
}
.border-50 {
border-radius: 50%;
}
.circle {
display: inline-block;
width:50px;
height: 50px;
}
<strong>Test this in chrome 94.0+</strong>
<br/><br/>
border-radius: 2px
<span class="outline outline-2">outline</span>
<span class="border border-2">border</span>
<br/><br/>
border-radius: 10px
<span class="outline outline-10">outline</span>
<span class="border border-10">border</span>
<br/><br/>
border-radius: 50%
<span class="outline outline-50">outline</span>
<span class="border border-50">border</span>
<span class="outline circle outline-50">outline</span>
<span class="border circle border-50">border</span>
As others have said, only firefox supports this. Here is a work around that does the same thing, and even works with dashed outlines.
.has-outline {
display: inline-block;
background: #51ab9f;
border-radius: 10px;
padding: 5px;
position: relative;
}
.has-outline:after {
border-radius: 10px;
padding: 5px;
border: 2px dashed #9dd5cf;
position: absolute;
content: '';
top: -2px;
left: -2px;
bottom: -2px;
right: -2px;
}
<div class="has-outline">
I can haz outline
</div>
No. Borders sit on the outside of the element and on the inside of the box-model margin area. Outlines sit on the inside of the element and the box-model padding area ignores it. It isn't intended for aesthetics. It's just to show the designer the outlines of the elements. In the early stages of developing an html document for example, a developer might need to quickly discern if they have put all of the skeletal divs in the correct place. Later on they may need to check if various buttons and forms are the correct number of pixels apart from each other.
Borders are aesthetic in nature. Unlike outlines they are actually apart of the box-model, which means they do not overlap text set to margin: 0; and each side of the border can be styled individually.
If you're trying to apply a corner radius to outline I assume you are using it the way most people use border. So if you don't mind me asking, what property of outline makes it desirable over border?
COMBINING BOX SHADOW AND OUTLINE.
A slight twist on Lea Hayes answer
I found
input[type=text]:focus {
box-shadow: 0 0 0 1pt red;
outline-width: 1px;
outline-color: red;
}
gets a really nice clean finish. No jumping in size which you get when using border-radius
There is the solution if you need only outline without border. It's not mine. I got if from Bootstrap css file. If you specify outline: 1px auto certain_color, you'll get thin outer line around div of certain color. In this case the specified width has no matter, even if you specify 10 px width, anyway it will be thin line. The key word in mentioned rule is "auto".
If you need outline with rounded corners and certain width, you may add css rule on border with needed width and same color. It makes outline thicker.
I was making custom radio buttons and the best customisable way i've found is using pseudo elements like this: Codepen
/*CSS is compiled from SCSS*/
.product-colors {
margin-bottom: 1em;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
.product-colors label {
position: relative;
width: 2.1em;
height: 2.1em;
margin-right: 0.8em;
cursor: pointer;
}
.product-colors label:before {
opacity: 0;
width: inherit;
height: inherit;
padding: 2px;
border: 2px solid red;
border-radius: 0.2em;
content: "";
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
background: transparent;
top: -4px;
left: -4px;
}
.product-colors input {
position: absolute;
opacity: 0;
width: 0;
height: 0;
}
.product-colors input:checked + label:before, .product-colors input:focus + label:before {
opacity: 1;
}
<div class="product-colors">
<input type="radio" name="cs" id="cs1" value="black">
<label for="cs1" style="background:black"></label>
<input type="radio" name="cs" id="cs2" value="green">
<label for="cs2" style="background:green"></label>
<input type="radio" name="cs" id="cs3" value="blue">
<label for="cs3" style="background:blue"></label>
<input type="radio" name="cs" id="cs4" value="yellow">
<label for="cs4" style="background:yellow"></label>
</div>
clip-path: circle(100px at center);
This will actually make clickable only circle, while border-radius still makes a square, but looks as circle.
The simple answer to the basic question is no. The only cross-browser option is to create a hack that accomplishes what you want. This approach does carry with it certain potential issues when it comes to styling pre-existing content, but it provides for more customization of the outline (offset, width, line style) than many of the other solutions.
On a basic level, consider the following static example (run the snippent for demo):
.outline {
border: 2px dotted transparent;
border-radius: 5px;
display: inline-block;
padding: 2px;
margin: -4px;
}
/* :focus-within does not work in Edge or IE */
.outline:focus-within, .outline.edge {
border-color: blue;
}
br {
margin-bottom: 0.75rem;
}
<h3>Javascript-Free Demo</h3>
<div class="outline edge"><input type="text" placeholder="I always have an outline"/></div><br><div class="outline"><input type="text" placeholder="I have an outline when focused"/></div> *<i>Doesn't work in Edge or IE</i><br><input type="text" placeholder="I have never have an outline" />
<p>Note that the outline does not increase the spacing between the outlined input and other elements around it. The margin (-4px) compensates for the space that the outlines padding (-2px) and width (2px) take up, a total of 4px.</p>
Now, on a more advanced level, it would be possible to use JavaScript to bootstrap elements of a given type or class so that they are wrapped inside a div that simulates an outline on page load. Furthermore, event bindings could be established to show or hide the outline on user interactions like this (run the snippet below or open in JSFiddle):
h3 {
margin: 0;
}
div {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.flex {
display: flex;
}
.clickable {
cursor: pointer;
}
.box {
background: red;
border: 1px solid black;
border-radius: 10px;
height: 5rem;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
text-align: center;
color: white;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 0.5rem;
margin: 1rem;
}
<h3>Javascript-Enabled Demo</h3>
<div class="flex">
<div class="box outline-me">I'm outlined because I contain<br>the "outline-me" class</div>
<div class="box clickable">Click me to toggle outline</div>
</div>
<hr>
<input type="text" placeholder="I'm outlined when focused" />
<script>
// Called on an element to wrap with an outline and passed a styleObject
// the styleObject can contain the following outline properties:
// style, width, color, offset, radius, bottomLeftRadius,
// bottomRightRadius, topLeftRadius, topRightRadius
// It then creates a new div with the properties specified and
// moves the calling element into the div
// The newly created wrapper div receives the class "simulated-outline"
Element.prototype.addOutline = function (styleObject, hideOutline = true) {
var element = this;
// create a div for simulating an outline
var outline = document.createElement('div');
// initialize css formatting
var css = 'display:inline-block;';
// transfer any element margin to the outline div
var margins = ['marginTop', 'marginBottom', 'marginLeft', 'marginRight'];
var marginPropertyNames = {
marginTop: 'margin-top',
marginBottom: 'margin-bottom',
marginLeft: 'margin-left',
marginRight: 'margin-right'
}
var outlineWidth = Number.parseInt(styleObject.width);
var outlineOffset = Number.parseInt(styleObject.offset);
for (var i = 0; i < margins.length; ++i) {
var computedMargin = Number.parseInt(getComputedStyle(element)[margins[i]]);
var margin = computedMargin - outlineWidth - outlineOffset;
css += marginPropertyNames[margins[i]] + ":" + margin + "px;";
}
element.style.cssText += 'margin:0px !important;';
// compute css border style for the outline div
var keys = Object.keys(styleObject);
for (var i = 0; i < keys.length; ++i) {
var key = keys[i];
var value = styleObject[key];
switch (key) {
case 'style':
var property = 'border-style';
break;
case 'width':
var property = 'border-width';
break;
case 'color':
var property = 'border-color';
break;
case 'offset':
var property = 'padding';
break;
case 'radius':
var property = 'border-radius';
break;
case 'bottomLeftRadius':
var property = 'border-bottom-left-radius';
break;
case 'bottomRightRadius':
var property = 'border-bottom-right-radius';
break;
case 'topLeftRadius':
var property = 'border-top-left-radius-style';
break;
case 'topRightRadius':
var property = 'border-top-right-radius';
break;
}
css += property + ":" + value + ';';
}
// apply the computed css to the outline div
outline.style.cssText = css;
// add a class in case we want to do something with elements
// receiving a simulated outline
outline.classList.add('simulated-outline');
// place the element inside the outline div
var parent = element.parentElement;
parent.insertBefore(outline, element);
outline.appendChild(element);
// determine whether outline should be hidden by default or not
if (hideOutline) element.hideOutline();
}
Element.prototype.showOutline = function () {
var element = this;
// get a reference to the outline element that wraps this element
var outline = element.getOutline();
// show the outline if one exists
if (outline) outline.classList.remove('hide-outline');
}
Element.prototype.hideOutline = function () {
var element = this;
// get a reference to the outline element that wraps this element
var outline = element.getOutline();
// hide the outline if one exists
if (outline) outline.classList.add('hide-outline');
}
// Determines if this element has an outline. If it does, it returns the outline
// element. If it doesn't have one, return null.
Element.prototype.getOutline = function() {
var element = this;
var parent = element.parentElement;
return (parent.classList.contains('simulated-outline')) ? parent : null;
}
// Determines the visiblity status of the outline, returning true if the outline is
// visible and false if it is not. If the element has no outline, null is returned.
Element.prototype.outlineStatus = function() {
var element = this;
var outline = element.getOutline();
if (outline === null) {
return null;
} else {
return !outline.classList.contains('hide-outline');
}
}
// this embeds a style element in the document head for handling outline visibility
var embeddedStyle = document.querySelector('#outline-styles');
if (!embeddedStyle) {
var style = document.createElement('style');
style.innerText = `
.simulated-outline.hide-outline {
border-color: transparent !important;
}
`;
document.head.append(style);
}
/*########################## example usage ##########################*/
// add outline to all elements with "outline-me" class
var outlineMeStyle = {
style: 'dashed',
width: '3px',
color: 'blue',
offset: '2px',
radius: '5px'
};
document.querySelectorAll('.outline-me').forEach((element)=>{
element.addOutline(outlineMeStyle, false);
});
// make clickable divs get outlines
var outlineStyle = {
style: 'double',
width: '4px',
offset: '3px',
color: 'red',
radius: '10px'
};
document.querySelectorAll('.clickable').forEach((element)=>{
element.addOutline(outlineStyle);
element.addEventListener('click', (evt)=>{
var element = evt.target;
(element.outlineStatus()) ? element.hideOutline() : element.showOutline();
});
});
// configure inputs to only have outline on focus
document.querySelectorAll('input').forEach((input)=>{
var outlineStyle = {
width: '2px',
offset: '2px',
color: 'black',
style: 'dotted',
radius: '10px'
}
input.addOutline(outlineStyle);
input.addEventListener('focus', (evt)=>{
var input = evt.target;
input.showOutline();
});
input.addEventListener('blur', (evt)=>{
var input = evt.target;
input.hideOutline();
});
});
</script>
In closing, let me reiterate, that implementing this approach may require more styling than what I have included in my demos, especially if you have already styled the element you want outlined.
outline-style: auto has had full browser support for ages now.
Shorthand is:
outline: auto blue;
This let's you set a custom color, but not a custom thickness, unfortunately (although I think the browser default thickness is a good default).
You can also set a custom outline-offset when using outline-style: auto.
outline: auto blue;
outline-offset: 0px;
you can use box-shadow instead of outline like this
box-shadow: 0 0 1px #000000;
border-radius: 50px;
outline: none;
Try using padding and a background color for the border, then a border for the outline:
.round_outline {
padding: 8px;
background-color: white;
border-radius: 50%;
border: 1px solid black;
}
Worked in my case.
I just set outline transparent.
input[type=text] {
outline: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
border-radius: 10px;
}
input[type=text]:focus {
border-color: #0079ff;
}
I like this way.
.circle:before {
content: "";
width: 14px;
height: 14px;
border: 3px solid #fff;
background-color: #ced4da;
border-radius: 7px;
display: inline-block;
margin-bottom: -2px;
margin-right: 7px;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 1px #ced4da;
}
It will create gray circle with wit border around it and again 1px around border!
Example:
Link
How do I change the presentation of the "title" attribute in the browser?. By default, it just has yellow background and small font. I would like to make it bigger and change the background color.
Is there a CSS way to style the title attribute?
It seems that there is in fact a pure CSS solution, requiring only the css attr expression, generated content and attribute selectors (which suggests that it works as far back as IE8):
https://jsfiddle.net/z42r2vv0/2/
a {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
margin-top: 20px;
}
a[title]:hover::after {
content: attr(title);
position: absolute;
top: -100%;
left: 0;
}
<a href="http://www.google.com/" title="Hello world!">
Hover over me
</a>
update w/ input from #ViROscar: please note that it's not necessary to use any specific attribute, although I've used the "title" attribute in the example above; actually my recommendation would be to use the "alt" attribute, as there is some chance that the content will be accessible to users unable to benefit from CSS.
update again I'm not changing the code because the "title" attribute has basically come to mean the "tooltip" attribute, and it's probably not a good idea to hide important text inside a field only accessible on hover, but if you're interested in making this text accessible the "aria-label" attribute seems like the best place for it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/ARIA_Techniques/Using_the_aria-label_attribute
You can't style an actual title attribute
How the text in the title attribute is displayed is defined by the browser and varies from browser to browser. It's not possible for a webpage to apply any style to the tooltip that the browser displays based on the title attribute.
However, you can create something very similar using other attributes.
You can make a pseudo-tooltip with CSS and a custom attribute (e.g. data-title)
For this, I'd use a data-title attribute. data-* attributes are a method to store custom data in DOM elements/HTML. There are multiple ways of accessing them. Importantly, they can be selected by CSS.
Given that you can use CSS to select elements with data-title attributes, you can then use CSS to create :after (or :before) content that contains the value of the attribute using attr().
Styled tooltip Examples
Bigger and with a different background color (per question's request):
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
background-color: #00FF00;
color: #111;
font-size: 150%;
position: absolute;
padding: 1px 5px 2px 5px;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #222222;
opacity: 0;
border: 1px solid #111111;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
Link with styled tooltip (bigger and with a different background color, as requested in the question)<br/>
Link with normal tooltip
More elaborate styling (adapted from this blog post):
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
position: absolute;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
padding: 4px 4px 4px 8px;
color: #222;
white-space: nowrap;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0, #f8f8f8),color-stop(1, #cccccc));
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
opacity: 0;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
Link with styled tooltip<br/>
Link with normal tooltip
Known issues
Unlike a real title tooltip, the tooltip produced by the above CSS is not, necessarily, guaranteed to be visible on the page (i.e. it might be outside the visible area). On the other hand, it is guaranteed to be within the current window, which is not the case for an actual tooltip.
In addition, the pseudo-tooltip is positioned relative to the element that has the pseudo-tooltip rather than relative to where the mouse is on that element. You may want to fine-tune where the pseudo-tooltip is displayed. Having it appear in a known location relative to the element can be a benefit or a drawback, depending on the situation.
You can't use :before or :after on elements which are not containers
There's a good explanation in this answer to "Can I use a :before or :after pseudo-element on an input field?"
Effectively, this means that you can't use this method directly on elements like <input type="text"/>, <textarea/>, <img>, etc. The easy solution is to wrap the element that's not a container in a <span> or <div> and have the pseudo-tooltip on the container.
Examples of using a pseudo-tooltip on a <span> wrapping a non-container element:
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
background-color: #00FF00;
color: #111;
font-size: 150%;
position: absolute;
padding: 1px 5px 2px 5px;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #222222;
opacity: 0;
border: 1px solid #111111;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
.pseudo-tooltip-wrapper {
/*This causes the wrapping element to be the same size as what it contains.*/
display: inline-block;
}
Text input with a pseudo-tooltip:<br/>
<span class="pseudo-tooltip-wrapper" data-title="input type="text""><input type='text'></span><br/><br/><br/>
Textarea with a pseudo-tooltip:<br/>
<span class="pseudo-tooltip-wrapper" data-title="this is a textarea"><textarea data-title="this is a textarea"></textarea></span><br/>
From the code on the blog post linked above (which I first saw in an answer here that plagiarized it), it appeared obvious to me to use a data-* attribute instead of the title attribute. Doing so was also suggested in a comment by snostorm on that (now deleted) answer.
Here is an example of how to do it:
a.tip {
border-bottom: 1px dashed;
text-decoration: none
}
a.tip:hover {
cursor: help;
position: relative
}
a.tip span {
display: none
}
a.tip:hover span {
border: #c0c0c0 1px dotted;
padding: 5px 20px 5px 5px;
display: block;
z-index: 100;
background: url(../images/status-info.png) #f0f0f0 no-repeat 100% 5%;
left: 0px;
margin: 10px;
width: 250px;
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
text-decoration: none
}
Link<span>This is the CSS tooltip showing up when you mouse over the link</span>
CSS can't change the tooltip appearance. It is browser/OS-dependent. If you want something different you'll have to use Javascript to generate markup when you hover over the element instead of the default tooltip.
I have found the answer here: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/11/how-to-create-a-simple-css3-tooltip/
my own code goes like this, I have changed the attribute name, if you maintain the title name for the attribute you end up having two popups for the same text, another change is that my text on hovering displays underneath the exposed text.
.tags {
display: inline;
position: relative;
}
.tags:hover:after {
background: #333;
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .8);
border-radius: 5px;
bottom: -34px;
color: #fff;
content: attr(data-gloss);
left: 20%;
padding: 5px 15px;
position: absolute;
z-index: 98;
width: 350px;
}
.tags:hover:before {
border: solid;
border-color: #333 transparent;
border-width: 0 6px 6px 6px;
bottom: -4px;
content: "";
left: 50%;
position: absolute;
z-index: 99;
}
<a class="tags" data-gloss="Text shown on hovering">Exposed text</a>
I thought i'd post my 20 lines JavaScript solution here. It is not perfect, but may be useful for some depending on what you need from your tooltips.
When to use it
Automatically styles the tooltip for all HTML elements with a TITLE attribute defined (this includes elements dynamically added to the document in the future)
No Javascript/HTML changes or hacks required for every tooltip (just the TITLE attribute, semantically clear)
Very light (adds about 300 bytes gzipped and minified)
You want only a very basic styleable tooltip
When NOT to use
Requires jQuery, so do not use if you don't use jQuery
Bad support for nested elements that both have tooltips
You need more than one tooltip on the screen at the same time
You need the tooltip to disappear after some time
The code
// Use a closure to keep vars out of global scope
(function () {
var ID = "tooltip", CLS_ON = "tooltip_ON", FOLLOW = true,
DATA = "_tooltip", OFFSET_X = 20, OFFSET_Y = 10,
showAt = function (e) {
var ntop = e.pageY + OFFSET_Y, nleft = e.pageX + OFFSET_X;
$("#" + ID).html($(e.target).data(DATA)).css({
position: "absolute", top: ntop, left: nleft
}).show();
};
$(document).on("mouseenter", "*[title]", function (e) {
$(this).data(DATA, $(this).attr("title"));
$(this).removeAttr("title").addClass(CLS_ON);
$("<div id='" + ID + "' />").appendTo("body");
showAt(e);
});
$(document).on("mouseleave", "." + CLS_ON, function (e) {
$(this).attr("title", $(this).data(DATA)).removeClass(CLS_ON);
$("#" + ID).remove();
});
if (FOLLOW) { $(document).on("mousemove", "." + CLS_ON, showAt); }
}());
Paste it anywhere, it should work even when you run this code before the DOM is ready (it just won't show your tooltips until DOM is ready).
Customize
You can change the var declarations on the second line to customize it a bit.
var ID = "tooltip"; // The ID of the styleable tooltip
var CLS_ON = "tooltip_ON"; // Does not matter, make it somewhat unique
var FOLLOW = true; // TRUE to enable mouse following, FALSE to have static tooltips
var DATA = "_tooltip"; // Does not matter, make it somewhat unique
var OFFSET_X = 20, OFFSET_Y = 10; // Tooltip's distance to the cursor
Style
You can now style your tooltips using the following CSS:
#tooltip {
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid red;
padding: 3px 10px;
}
A jsfiddle for custom tooltip pattern is Here
It is based on CSS Positioning and pseduo class selectors
Check MDN docs for cross-browser support of pseudo classes
<!-- HTML -->
<p>
<a href="http://www.google.com/" class="tooltip">
I am a
<span> (This website rocks) </span></a> a developer.
</p>
/*CSS*/
a.tooltip {
position: relative;
}
a.tooltip span {
display: none;
}
a.tooltip:hover span, a.tooltip:focus span {
display:block;
position:absolute;
top:1em;
left:1.5em;
padding: 0.2em 0.6em;
border:1px solid #996633;
background-color:#FFFF66;
color:#000;
}
Native tooltip cannot be styled.
That being said, you can use some library that would show styles floating layers when element is being hovered (instead of the native tooltips, and suppress them) requiring little or no code modifications...
You cannot style the default browser tooltip. But you can use javascript to create your own custom HTML tooltips.
a[title="My site"] {
color: red;
}
This also works with any attribute you want to add for instance:
HTML
<div class="my_class" anything="whatever">My Stuff</div>
CSS
.my_class[anything="whatever"] {
color: red;
}
See it work at: http://jsfiddle.net/vpYWE/1/