In this fiddle, you can see that the horizontal rule does not go all the way across (under the number). I want it to. I have tried using list-style-position:inside;, however this means that I cannot force the number to appear in the correct position (because of the floated left image). Is there an elegant way to do this using CSS, or do I have to resort to generating the numbering myself and then styling appropriately?
You seem to be well aware of the list-style-position property, so you should know why the horizontal rule will not span all the way under the bullet/number. The list has a padding on the left, pushing the list elements to the right. Their contents won't go out of their space :).
Here's how I got over the issue: http://jsfiddle.net/J4b6Y/14/
[EDIT]
Fix for webkit browsers: http://jsfiddle.net/J4b6Y/16/
[EDIT2]
Works in all browsers AND has valid HTML o_O http://jsfiddle.net/J4b6Y/37/
[EDIT3]
OK, here's another one... http://jsfiddle.net/J4b6Y/39/
UPDATE 4
Seems like Update 3 worked well on webkit but not FF... so it's time to use real CSS power.
http://jsfiddle.net/J4b6Y/122/
UPDATE 3
Now what about this
http://jsfiddle.net/J4b6Y/105/
UPDATE 2
http://jsfiddle.net/J4b6Y/48/
UPDATE
Try this if it works for you
http://jsfiddle.net/J4b6Y/33/
I would suggest that you remove the hr tag and the floating image properties.
If you cannot set the image with css background, you can do the following:
HTML
<li>
<img src="" alt="test"/>
<p>Test</p>
</li>
CSS
li{
border-bottom:1px solid black;
list-style-position:inside;
}
li p{
display:inline-block;
}
Also, if you can remove the p tag, you will save few bites.
From the other answers to the question, it would seem that whilst there are ways of accomplishing this with CSS, there isn't an elegant way. As such, my prefered solution is to generate the numbering in the HTML and style appropriately. This can be trivial to do if the page is generated as a result of server side scripting.
I shall keep an eye out for more elegant ways of solving this with CSS and update this question if I find any.
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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.
Is there a way to display a row of links horizontally without using float:left? It's way too hard to center a div when using float:left, I can never get it to work.
Use display:inline;
http://jsfiddle.net/tcQzL/3/
If your elements are inline elements they will display in one row, otherwise you must make them inline.
I'm not sure if I understood correctly, but just make new div-where your buttons are in. And in that new div make your links have float:left
Then just normally position that new divyou made.
But I think that those those earlier answers from Andrei S and mesiesta are more better.
you could try display: inline or inline depending on your needs (from what I know, inline-block offers more flexibility than just inline)
here, check this fiddle
There's a catch though if you use these, if you look in the fiddle, my first two elements are written one after another so that I don't have any gaps between them (that's why I added the borders) and the other ones are written one below each other and as you can see, there's the gap I was talking about. So keep that in mind while writing your code.
There are different workarounds about this, but if you do need borders, and not just the text, you should really consider using float to avoid any workarounds
You can use display:inline-block for that. Write like that
.link{
display:inline-block;
*display:inline;/* For IE7 */
*zoom:1;/* For IE7 */
vertical-align:top;
}
Check this http://jsfiddle.net/tcQzL/10/
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.
I don't wan't to use clearfix on all the parents above, because that would mess up my layout.
What is the best way and the correct way to do this?
I added a nbsp; after the last li and everything worked perfectly. No need for clearfix spamming. But is this the "correct" way to do it?
Edit: I've just seen List doesn't contain its floated list items.
So my new question is: what's better,   or adding overflow: auto?
Using overflow: auto or overflow: visible is obviously the better way but a concern may be that it may not render correctly in all browsers (*cough* Internet Explorer *cough*) with different rendering engines, etc.
In reality, if using works, then use it.
A good article to read about floats is this one
EDIT: Don't use overflow:visible, that was just silly of me to suggest that.
You could us display:inline-block; to achieve the same thing.
http://jsfiddle.net/jasongennaro/w7U26/
See the picture above. Each navigation tab needs to have 2 pixels separation on either side and line up exactly with the header image on the edges.
Now they would like to introduce a 5th navigation tab (and possibly a 6th). Is it possible to code this in a way where you could stick a 5th or 6th tab in there and everything would resize appropriately with lists or tables or some other solution? Still keeping the 2 pixels separation and lining up with the edges exactly? I wasn't sure if it was possible or you would just have to define the widths each time for each tab based on the math involved to line it all up correctly flush with the edges.
I think the best way is to emulate table behavior with CSS. So you can use a list, and still get table behavior.
ul {
display:table;
}
li {
display:table-cell;
}
Here is a demo displaying this with CSS and proper markup. Here's a demo of how it looks with an actual table. I'm not certain on IE<8 support for this CSS, so it may be something to be aware of.
UPDATE: Confirmed: This is not supported on IE6 or 7 natively. You may be stuck with tables or hard-coded widths if you want to support those browsers. There may be a javascript fix to support these display values but I'm not aware of it.
EDIT: I realized my demos were sloppy, so I made another that actually addresses your point about the margins, it uses the :first-child selector to remove the margin from the first link, giving the evenly distributed appearance. http://jsfiddle.net/wesley_murch/pe6wd/3/
It may not be easy. One of the requirements in most implementations of css horizontal menu type displays is setting a fixed width for each element. If you try and do percentages, things start to come apart. However, any thing is possible.
Have you tried looking at LESS or SASS so you can do simple math in CSS?