how to make the file input field wrap? - html

In a HTML form I have a file field like this:
<div class="filefield">
<input type="file" name="myfile" id="fileinput">
</div>
It displays a button and some text besides the button. When no file has been selected yet, the text is: No file chosen. If there is a file already selected, it displays the name of the file.
This text displays on the right side of the button. I want it to display below the button. I have tried numerous things in CSS, and nothing works, the No file chosen just always displays on the right side of the button, even if both the div and the input are given fixed widths only as wide as the button, and a fixed height high enough for a button and two lines of text, the text still displays on the right, outside of the div, and not below where the is space inside the div. How to make it wrap so the text displays below the button?

With #Guffa's answer showing that you can't mess with that field, you could create a hack around it.
What about a button element, that on click acts like a file browser button? And then a span element that holds the value of that file browser input? It would be some js hackery for sure, but could solve the problem.
EDIT
Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/nmeAW/1/
Edit 2
Even more better working example: http://jsfiddle.net/nmeAW/2/

You can't. The file input field is a single control, even if it looks like several controls that could be controlled separately.
Besides, how the file input control is displayed depends entirely on what browser you are using. It's appearence is not specified in the standards, so any browser vendor can choose to display it any way they see fit.

You might look into jQuery and some of the upload file plugins that can help you "restyle" the input essentially by hiding it and activating/displaying file selected information in html.
http://www.tutorialchip.com/jquery/9-powerful-jquery-file-upload-plugins/
http://www.uploadify.com/demo/
http://www.plupload.com/example_queuewidget.php
http://blogs.bigfish.tv/adam/2009/06/14/swfupload-jquery-plugin/

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How to break lines in Input field via Development tools

I need to perform a full PDF print of a website with a populated questionnaire. It's accessed via Chrome, but some fields contain extensive answers and they are partially cut as they do not fit within the line. The text can be extracted via copying, but it's not fully visible in a print (I'm sorry, I cannot provide a full picture).
To make the full contents visible in the print, I would like to break it into several lines. I heard that it could be done by adding the "word-wrap: break-word" or "overflow-wrap: break-word" properties, bit it appears that it's an Input field and, from what I heard, such fields are not breakable and I would need to change it to Textarea.
However, when I change the field type to Textarea, the contents of the field disappear.
Is there any relatively simple way to somehow make this field breakable and show full text which was previously provided as an input?
textarea does not have a title attribute. That's why the text disapears. Try to insert the text like this: <textarea>Text should be here</textarea>.

Auto resize the width of input text area on hidden DIV

I use a Hide/Show .js script that hides some checkboxes and on the right side there is the search field when I click to hide it I want to expand.
Ex.
Before hidding:
Before hidding Image
After hidding I want the search field to be expanded 100%
After hidding Image
I searched for 2 days something and can't find a way to make it expand I use the bTemplate engine to store the HTML code.
Did you try changing the CSS properties through the "setAttribute" method of the elements in question through Javascript? Basically, the code you used to "hide some of the checkboxes" in the first place is pretty much like how you'd write the code to do the other things you're looking to do.
In other words, When you want the checkboxes out of view and the text entry box centered, as in your second reference pic, you could have the Javascript code written through the "setAttribute" method so that when a particular event happens, the css "display" parameter for the check boxes could be set to "hidden", the size of the text entry box can be increased, and the css "position" parameter for the text entry box can be set to have it centered, etc.
That is, of course if I understand your issue correctly. Can you provide the code you are using? I'm sure me or someone else could clarify things more if we could see what you have written.
Hope that helps at least a little! :)

CSS for inplace editing

How do I create a label that is editable? I am displaying data in a table, and would like to provide in place editing for the displayed data. What CSS styles can I use for it?
Put a text input box there and make its background same as the background of its container and put 0 border on it and use same font style and color as other items in the table
What CSS styles can I use for it ?
It's not really a matter of CSS (unless your questions pertains solely to achieving a particular style).
You can:
Make all table cells contain inputs. This has the (potentially significant) downside that all data will be submitted to the server if the form is POSTed. I wouldn't recommend this approach unless the table is small or you are never fully submitting the whole page.
Change the label to an input on click. When the form is submitted, this value will now be a part of the request.
Change the label to an input in response to an action elsewhere (e.g. focusing the row, clicking an edit button next to the row, etc.)
Set contenteditable="true" on the element. This allows rich formatting but also requires that you keep track of the changes the user has made; they will not be submitted to the server unless they are placed into a form field.
You will likely want/need a snippet of JavaScript to change the label to an input (#2 and #3). You will need JavaScript to get the data to the server with approach #4.

How can I place <a> tags over another (greater) <a> tag?

Here's the case: I have a series of thumbnails in a page, and I would like to display several keywords over each image when the user hovers with the cursor. Each of those keywords are anchor tags that point to a search query. And each thumbnail (the image) should also be clickable (through the empty spaces that the keywords leave) and point to a specific page.
I have everything already coded, I'm just missing a way to display the keyword anchors over the image anchors. I already tried with an onclick="window.location.href=..." but when the user clicks the keyword, the onclick is also triggered (for instance: if I ctrl+click on a keyword, i get the keyword search on a different window, but the main window content changes as well).
Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!
This is quite common and can definitely be done with plain HTML and CSS. You can also do it with JavaScript, but I prefer to avoid doing so if possible.
This example is perfectly valid HTML/CSS and should have no weird browser rendering issues (even as far back as IE 6).
http://jsfiddle.net/2JD76/1/
Basically you have a containing element, in this case a div, which has your linked thumbnail and linked keywords. They're hidden by default and only shown when the containing div is hovered.
The linked thumbnail is absolutely positioned so that it's taken out of the page flow which then allows the linked keywords to appear on top. I then use z-indexes to make sure that the keywords are always on a layer that is higher than that of the linked thumbnail.
You can not. It is illegal html.
Attach a click handler that changes the current location instead of the "greater ".
I was going to answer with a long reply but, well check out my Jsfiddle here. I was trying to solve something before and well...check it out.
http://jsfiddle.net/somdow/KSt6a/
If you look at the code, its doing exactly what you are describing.
On my Jsfiddle, theres a div box with space for an image(this is wher YOUR image would go), The image is on the code but not on the jsfiddle so youll see the alt tag....Anyways so, on mouse-over, it brings up another div with text dynamically created inside of it.
All you have to do is replace the image content with your own image, then Insert the links/keywords links you want into this line
.prepend('<div class="portSecRollOver"><div class="portSecInner"></div></div>');
and stick your words in between the <div class="portSecInner"> **YOUR WORDS HERE** </div> line
And change the CSS to fit your needs.
oh AND ps, DELETE this line (below) which is the one that dynamically appends text inside of "portSecInner", since your going to insert your own words, then you dont need this line.
$(this).find('.portSecInner').html("<h3 class='h34roll'>" + $(this).find('img').attr("alt") + "</h3>");

How to make a paragraph-granularity-editable document in GWT with paragraph meta-data

I want a UI that is basically a document having souped-up paragraphs that are (a) editable and (b) each have a column of meta-data/widgets on their left. That is, I want a tree layout that looks like an HTML document, except:
to the left of each paragraph is a column of controls like buttons, state indicators, very short textbox fields (3 chars), and
if you click on a paragraph (or hit an edit button on the left) it morphs into a textarea you can edit; when you are done, you hit a done button on the left (probably the edit button morphed into a done button) and the textarea goes back to being a paragraph.
When you hit edit, some labels in the meta-data on the left should also morph into text areas, etc. and back again when you hit done. Also, I want to be able to hit a button and show only part of the paragraph (imagine a paragraph having a title and a body).
I'm sure I can cobble something together that does this if I hit it over the head with enough HTML tables and GWT Panels, but I'm trying to do this in as lightweight manner as possible, given that such documents of these things may be large, I want it to resize naturally in the browser, and since browsers already naturally lay out things that look like documents I should be able to use very vanilla HTML for most of it.
I've spent several days being frustrated with GWT Panels of various kinds. Ideas?
You should just be able to hide a Label and show a TextArea, and then switch back when you're done editing. Set whatever styles you need to on them - I think a Label comes out as a <div> and a TextArea comes out as a <textarea>. No panels required... just a <div> container to put these two widgets in.