I probably have one of the easiest questions of the day, but I'm having a hard time finding a direct answer for how to fix it (HTML/CSS -n00b)...
I have in my mark-up an img-tag and under that a div-tag containing an horizontal list.
In the lists ul-CSS I have declared a top and bottom border, the img (which is a .PNG with transparent background) is showed in front of the ul border-top, which is what I want. But for the li-CSS I have border-right for each element to separate them, and this border is in front of the img...
Here you see what I mean:
Edit:
#topLeftImage {
z-index: 999;
margin-left: 1em;
margin-top: 3px;
#navigationlist li
{
z-index: 0;
display: inline;
list-style-type: none;
padding-right: 2px;
font-size: 75%;
border-right: 2px solid #C0C0C0;
}
So how do I declare the img for it to be showed in-front of that li-border?
And another fast question, can I declare so that the last li-element doesn't get that border-right, since it doesn't have a right-neighbour?
Any tips would be helpful!
-Thanks
Are you using IE to check the results of these changes you are making? IE's z-index method is a little mental. Try the code below and see if that helps.
#topLeftImage {
z-index: 999;
margin-left: 1em;
margin-top: 3px;
position:relative;
}
#navigationlist li {
z-index: 0;
display: inline;
list-style-type: none;
padding-right: 2px;
font-size: 75%;
border-right: 2px solid #C0C0C0;
position:relative;
}
and give the parent of these two items:
#parent {
z-index: 0;
position:relative;
}
Firstly the css property z-index should help for the first problem.
img{
z-index:999;
}
That should make it appear above everything.
(IMPORTANT... Be careful with this though... The whole area of the image will be displayed on top of the nav, making it impossible to click the Item one hyperlink.)
For the latter question, you can use last-child pseudo class to set the right border to nothing. eg.
#nav li:last-child{
border-right:none;
}
This is a CSS3 feature... so IE8 and below will not let it work. Maybe just adding a class to the last item will be the most browser friendly way!
#nav li.last{
border-right:none;
}
<li>normal</li><li class="last">furthest right</li>
Let me know if the z-index advised by me and another guy causes the problem I outlined. There will be some solutions to this but require a little bit of effort!
You could set the z-index:9999; for the img if you give it a class and/or set the z-index:0; for the li's class.
e.g.
img.className {
z-index:9999;
}
li.className {
z-index:0;
}
Or if you use ID's:
img#idName {
z-index:9999;
}
li#idName {
z-index:0;
}
in your code you use z-index, and correctly, but you have to keep in mind that z-index works only with positioned elements. So in both #navigationlist li and #topLeftImage add position:relative;
Related
I want to have to click on a hamburger menu icon and then have the list display beneath my icon. I set up my hamburger menu icon with this style
.menu-btn div {
position: absolute;
left: 100%;
top: 64%;
padding-right: 8px;
margin-top: -0.50em;
line-height: 1.2;
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: 200;
vertical-align: middle;
z-index: 99;
}
.menu-btn span {
display: block;
width: 20px;
height: 2px;
margin: 4px 0;
background: #989da1;
z-index: 99;
}
The menu of options taht should appear after you click on the hamburger menu is
<div class="responsive-menu">
<ul id="menu">
<li>Vote</li>
<li>Search</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Log In</li>
</ul>
</div>
but I'm unclear how to set up the style of the hamburger menu so taht it appears directly under the hamburger menu when you click on it. Right now, its appearing centered at the top of the screen -- https://jsfiddle.net/wtp1k57b/1/ . How do I set up such a style?
PS - I'm looking for a solution that doesn't rely on hard-coding numeric (e.g. top: 27px) pixel values. Certainly its good to get things to work in my little Fiddle, but in my broader application I can't guarantee how big or small that hamburger menu will be.
I would like to show a completely different approach without using display: flex.
HTML
Your approach uses too many wrappers in my opinion. You can definitely reduce the amount of divs. Moreover, you should always try to use semantic tags over general tags like div or ul. Consider looking at this article.
Hence, as #scooterlord already mentioned, you should use a button for the hamburger icon. Moreover, I recommend to use a nav instead of a list.
CSS
First of all, you should bundle the attributes for the same selector at the same place for the purpose of improved clarity. You should not have three sections where you apply the universal selector, but combine it into one. Moreover, do not set the box-sizing to a specific value, but rather set it to inherit, so you can always override this value for a specific element without having to do it for all of its children. Furthermore, I do not understand what you want to achieve with margin: 0 auto on all elements and body. It does not make any sense for me.
Since you do not want to use absolute positioning, I would strongly advise you to avoid using pixels as a measuring unit. They behave badly if some people change their default font-size because of poor eyesight or other reasons. Instead, consider to apply relative units like rem, em or %. By setting the root element's font-size to 62.5% you are still able to calculate as if you were using pixels (1rem = 10px).
As I already mentioned, I avoided to use display: flex for such a trivial thing. I do not understand why it should be used at this point. Therefore, I also had to change the positioning of the menu button. The navigation could be easily positioned using percentages for top and left.
As a side note: You should really try to only post the relevant CSS code - the first step for me was to remove all the irrelevant parts of it.
Final Solution
This is my final solution without Flexbox, without fixed sizes and without absolute positioning using px:
$('.menu-btn').click(function() {
$('nav').toggleClass('nav-open');
});
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
box-sizing: inherit;
}
html {
font-size: 62.5%;
}
body {
font: 1.6rem/1.4 Benton Sans, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
header {
width: 100%;
background-color: orange;
text-align: center;
padding: 1rem;
position: relative;
}
nav {
display: none;
width: 30rem;
padding: 5rem;
background-color: #ededed;
position: absolute;
right: 5%;
top: 100%;
}
.nav-open {
display: block;
}
nav a {
display: block;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
padding: 1.4rem 1.6rem;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
font-size: 2.2rem;
color: #000;
}
nav a:hover {
background-color: #111;
color: #fff;
}
.menu-btn {
position: absolute;
right: 5%;
top: 50%;
margin-top: -1.1rem;
display: inline-block;
cursor: pointer;
border: none;
outline: none;
background-color: transparent;
}
#media only screen and (min-width: 500px) {
.menu-btn, nav {
display: none !important;
}
}
.menu-btn span {
display: block;
width: 2rem;
height: 0.2rem;
margin: 0.4rem 0;
background: #989da1;
z-index: 99;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<header>
<h2>Page Title</h2>
<button class="menu-btn">
<span></span>
<span></span>
<span></span>
</button>
<nav>
Vote
Search
About
Log In
</nav>
</header>
Or see this fiddle.
Use the css properties: top and right to set the position of the element under your icon.
#menu
{
position: absolute;
top: 48px;
right: 2px;
background: #ededed;
list-style-type: none;
}
Use this CSS for your menu - no margin, and the position defined by the top and right settings:
#menu {
position: absolute;
width: 300px;
margin: 0;
padding: 50px;
background: #ededed;
list-style-type: none;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
top: 50px;
right: 0;
}
https://jsfiddle.net/meuexde6/
I left out the transition for the testing, but you should basically animate the right parameter from -100px to 0 to achieve what you seemed to have in mind.
ADDITION AFTER COMMENT:
To define the position of the menu in relation to the button, you have to apply position: relative to their common parent element, .mobile-nav. The position values of an element with position: absolute always relate to the first ancestor which has position: relative.
I changed the values in my updated fiddle accordingly to these:
#menu {
position: absolute;
width: 300px;
margin: 0;
padding: 50px;
background: #ededed;
list-style-type: none;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
top: 40px;
right: -32px;
}
Updated fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/meuexde6/1/
If you really want the menu to stick directly to the button (hard to say - it has no borders), just adjust the top and right values as needed.
HTML5 Semantic Elements.
details > summary {
padding: 2px 6px;
width:12px;
border: none;
list-style: none;
}
details > summary::-webkit-details-marker {
display: none;
}
ul{
list-style: none;
margin-left:0;
padding-left:0;
}
<details>
<summary>☰</summary>
<ul>
<li>a</li>
<li>b</li>
<li>c</li>
</ul>
</details>
So, here goes. I know you are asking for a solution to a specific problem, I solved it alright, but I couldn't help noticing that you are struggling with your code. You must simplify the way you think and your code will become leaner. The purpose of this forum is to help others become better, right? :)
HTML
It is good practice to keep the menu toggle button OUTSIDE of the menu - will solve a lot of issues - check below.
It is not semantically right to use anything else rather than a button for the toggle function, so, why not use a button here? I also removed unnecessary clutter from your code, like some divs and the id - the id could be traded with the class, your call. I also removed .mobile-nav because it is not needed at all.
<button class="menu-btn">
<span></span>
<span></span>
<span></span>
</button>
<div class="responsive-menu">
<ul id="menu">
<li>Vote</li>
<li>Search</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Log In</li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS
I absolutely positioned the menu-btn on the top right corner, and gave it a width equal to the #pageTitle height (which I set at 50px - a gold standard) to keep it rectangular; it should be a rule of thumb that the toggle buttons are rectangular and always the same height as the top navigation bar - in this case the before-mentioned id. The same I did for the .responsive-menu. I absolutely positioned it as shown below. The changes allowed me to remove a lot of css styling - now obsolete - like for example the absolute positioning of the ul menu inside the .responsive-menu.
.menu-btn {
position:absolute;
display:block;
right:0;
top:0;
width:50px;
height:50px;
background:yellow;
border:none;
padding:16px;
}
.responsive-menu {
position: absolute;
top: 50px;
right: 0;
display: none;
}
Javascript
By years of practice I realized that the most efficient way to toggle a menu instead of adding and removing classes is to add a class on the body tag; this can help heaps if you want to restyle anything else on the page depending on wether your menu is opened or not.
$('.menu-btn').on('click', function() {
$('body').toggleClass('responsive-menu-open');
});
Here is a working jsfiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/scooterlord/4atafhge/
I could have done a lot of other things in order to simplify the code even further - remove unnecessary ids and classes since most elements are considered unique and could be targeted using descendant classes, eg .responsive-menu ul, etc. After a lot of practice, you'll manage to think simpler and produce code with a smaller footprint.
Edit: Concerning the fact that you don't like the absolute pixels for alignment here is a trick.
Giving a fixed height to the parent container, equal to the toggle button's -in this case '#pageTitle' and setting its position to relative allows you to use top:100% to properly place the responsive menu exactly below the button (which is essentially the same height):
#pageTitle {
display: flex;
height: 50px;
position:relative;
}
.responsive-menu {
position: absolute;
top: 100%;
right: 0;
display: none;
}
Here is an updated fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/scooterlord/4atafhge/1/
Edit: Natalia, I gave it some thought and here is what I came up with. I created an absolutely positioned .menu-wrapper, inside of which I placed the button and the responsive menu with float:right and no positioning - aka they are positioned statically. No more pixel values! YAY!
.menu-wrapper {
position:absolute;
top:0;
right:0;
}
.menu-btn {
float:right;
...
}
.responsive-menu {
float:right;
clear:both; // to clear the .menu-btn and sit exactly below it
...
}
Here is a working fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/scooterlord/4atafhge/2/
How can I add a short line below link ? The line should be visible only on hover.
I tried with border-bottom, but that way the line is 100% of the link width and I want the line to be shorter than the link .
Here is a example image of the effect that I try to make.
You can try using ::after pseudo element:
a {
position: relative;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover::after {
content: "";
position: absolute;
left: 25%;
right: 25%;
bottom: 0;
border: 1px solid black;
}
<a href='#'>Demo Link</a>
This is something I just thought of, check it out see what you think. So we use :after and create a line under the text. This only works if the parent has a width (for centering).
HTML:
<div>Test</div>
CSS:
div {
width: 30px;
}
div:hover:after {
content: "";
display: block;
width: 5px;
border-bottom: 1px solid;
margin: 0 auto;
}
DEMO
Updated CSS:
div {
display: inline-block;
}
Not sure why I didnt think of this but you can just use inline-block to get it to center without the parent having a width.
DEMO HERE
Here is a link using the same method, just incase you got confused.
DEMO HERE
So I have now be told I should even point out the most obvious thing so here is an update just for the people that don't know width can be a percentage.
width: 70%;
Changed the width from 5px to 70% so it will expand with the width of the text.
DEMO HERE
Edit:
Ruddy's solution has the same result and is more elegant so based on that, I used it recently with addition of transition, making it a bit more eye catching and I thought it would be useful to share here:
a {
display: inline-block;
text-decoration:none
}
a:after {
content: "";
display: block;
width: 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid;
margin: 0 auto;
transition:all 0.3s linear 0s;
}
a:hover:after {
width: 90%;
}
jsfiddle link
(Original answer below)
Check this i just came up with, playing in the fiddle:
<a class="bordered" href="#">I am a link, hover to see</a>
a.bordered {
text-decoration:none;
position: relative;
z-index : 1;
display:inline-block;
}
a.bordered:hover:before {
content : "";
position: absolute;
left : 50%;
bottom : 0;
height : 1px;
width : 80%;
border-bottom:1px solid grey;
margin-left:-40%;
}
Depending on the percentages, you may play with a.bordered:hover:before margin and left position.
Simply use this class:
.link:hover {
background-image:url("YOUR-SMALL-LINE-BOTTOM.png")
}
like this, the line will appear when you hover over the element. And you can specify in the image, how small or big the line has to be.
Try creating another Div for border. And adjust the width of that div according to your choice. I hope this will help.
what about this?
a {text-decoration:none;position:relative;}
a:hover:before {content:"_";position:absolute;bottom:-5px;left:50%;width:10px;margin:0 0 0 -5px;}
check this fiddle for more: http://jsfiddle.net/h7Xb5/
use underline or if u want the line to be much shorter try scalar vector graphics(svg) with this you can have custom lines.
<svg id="line "height="40" width="40">
<line x1="0" y1="0" x2="700" y2="20" style="stroke:rgb(125,0,0);stroke-width:2" />
I'm pretty terrible at CSS/design so I'm struggling with some CSS here.
The page looks fine when loaded in a full screen browser at 1920x1080, however, as soon as you minimise or load the page on a mobile device the header content completely loses its placing but the body is fine.
Here's the CSS elements in question:
#header {
background: url(assets/header_bckg.gif) repeat-x ; height:120px;
}
#logo { display:inline-block; float:mid-left; padding:50px 0 0 570px; }
#logo { color:#FFFFFF; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; height:12px; font-size:20px; text-transform:uppercase;}
#login { display:inline-block; float:mid-right; padding-left:400px; padding-bottom: 7px; vertical-align:middle;}
#login{ color:#FFFFFF; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; height:12px; font-size:12px; text-transform:uppercase;}
#avatar { display:inline-block; position:absolute; margin-top:28px; float:mid-right; padding-left: 505px; padding-bottom: 15px; vertical-align:middle; }
#avatar_online {
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #7BAFD6 5%, #506D92 95%) repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
filter: none;
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
padding: 3px;
background-color: #545454;
border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px;
}
#avatar_offline {
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #706C6B 5%, #4E4D4D 95%) repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
filter: none;
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
padding: 3px;
border: 1px solid #545454;
border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px;
}
#avatar_playing {
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #9BC861 5%, #789E4C 95%) repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
filter: none;
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
padding: 3px;
border: 1px solid #545454;
border-radius: 3px 3px 3px 3px;
}
#menu {position: absolute; margin-left:550px; top:88px; color:#fff; text-align:center; margin-top:0px;}
#menu ul{ width:800px; margin:0 auto;list-style:none; padding:0; text-align:left;}
#menu ul li{display:inline}
#menu ul a { float:left; font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; text-decoration:none; color:#fff; padding:8px 10px; width:118px; text-align:center; text-transform:uppercase; background:url(assets/menu_active.gif) no-repeat bottom center; color:#232323; }
#menu ul a:hover {
color: #85B0DF;
cursor: pointer;
text-decoration: none;
}
As always, help is greatly appreciated.
Make sure your CSS and HTML are valid. As others have pointed out, there is no such thing as float:mid-left. Also, if your jsfiddle is indicative of your HTML, you're probably throwing browsers into quirksmode, because your HTML isn't structured properly (your first three tags need to be wrapped in a <head> tag, everything needs to be wrapped in an <html> tag, and the very first line should be <!DOCTYPE html>). Use the W3C's HTML validator and CSS validator to ensure your code is correct. Only then can you begin to fix other issues.
Learn what the various CSS declarations do. While your CSS may be valid, it doesn't mean it's right. This: #avatar { display:inline-block; position:absolute; margin-top:28px; float:mid-right; padding-left: 505px; padding-bottom: 15px; vertical-align:middle; } will technically validate once the float part is fixed. However, position: absolute and float are mutually exclusive -- float doesn't work when position is absolute or fixed. It will also help to learn how padding and margin affect the positioning of the element, and how they differ from one another. Finally, vertical-align doesn't work at all unless the element is a table cell, or display is set to table-cell (and the table-related set of display properties has its own quirks, so you can't necessarily just throw display: table-cell on an element and expect it to work a certain way).
Learn how elements naturally behave, so that you can work with them, instead of against them. Make sure you know how block, inline, and inline-block elements behave, and then work with them to get the layout you want, instead of throwing display: inline-block on everything and hoping for the best. The same goes for things like links (which will naturally have cursor: pointer on hover, unless you've disabled it elsewhere). Doing this will substantially clean up your CSS, making it easier to maintain. It may also clean up your HTML, as you find out what wrapper elements you truly need or can do without.
It's a little difficult to tell what the intended result should be at smaller or "mobile" widths, even with the screenshots that you included above.
It looks like there are a number of issues with your HTML, too. Be careful with things like the <font> tag (it's deprecated as of HTML4).
That said, fixing things in your CSS such as float: mid-right and float: mid-left, which are both invalid, should help a bit. Additionally, you might want to investigate CSS positioning - specifically, you'll likely want to use position: relative on your #header div.
Take a look at this slightly cleaned up version of your example - with background colors added to see where the header ends and what space the navigation occupies.
It looks like you have multiple issues but it is hard to tell without seeing your HTML as well. For starters, #menu { margin-left:550px; } is going to be part of the problem if you are trying to align on the left edge.. You should also know that float:mid-right; is not valid CSS. Check out http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_float.asp for more information on float.
EDIT AFTER JSFIDDLE
Put your <div id='header'> inside of your <div id='main'> and change your #menu css to be:
`
#menu { margin: 0px auto; top:88px; color:#fff; text-align:center; width:800px;}
#menu ul{list-style:none; padding:0; text-align:left;}
`
Since you already have a width defined on your menu, you can use margin: 0 auto; to keep it centered based on window size. This will allow you to remove your margin-left and keep it from being pushed to the right.
Say you specify some div with height 500px. In this div, you have a list - maybe ol or ul - and instead of filling it up left-right, top-bottom (this can be done with display:inline-block on the li element), you want to fill it up right to left, bottom to top.
I think right to left can be done with something like float:right in the li element, but I wonder about going bottom to top?
Example result (elem1 is filled before elem2, etc.):
-----------------------------------
[elem10][elem9][elem8][elem7][elem6]
[elem5][elem4][elem3][elem2][elem1]
-----------------------------------
(So it's kind of like putting blocks on top of each other and sliding to the right.)
I hope I'm overthinking and there's actually an easy way to do this.
Thoughts appreciated.
PS. I've seen ol's new 'reversed' attribute in HTML5 and even if that helps I would prefer avoiding something that has very little browser support right now.
Only supported by WebKit, but -webkit-writing-mode: horizontal-bt; seems to work:
http://jsfiddle.net/zzXhp/
There may be other prefixed properties for it. Obviously it's not very well supported though.
Just rotate the list and then counter-rotate the li's
the HTML is
<ul class="container">
<li class="inner">one</li>
....
</ul>
the CSS is
.container {
left: 46px;
top: 100px;
width: 400px;
height: 400px;
position: absolute;
border: 1px solid black;
background-color: lemonchiffon;
}
.inner {
background-color: lightsalmon;
font-size: 20px;
margin: 20px;
width: 80px;
float: left;
}
.container:hover,
.container:hover li {
-webkit-transform: rotate(180deg);
-webkit-transition: all 3s;
}
In the DEMO I have done the effect in the hover, just to make it prettier. the real code would be without transitions :-)
To show something from right to left (usually pages in Arabic), you should use the dir tag.
dir="rtl" : RIGHT to LEFT
<ul id="myList" dir="rtl">
<li>1st</li>
<li>2nd</li>
<li>3rd</li>
</ul>
Here's a JSFIDDLE
A Simple JavaScript to do the whole work, no rtl required.
var list = document.getElementById("myList");
var i = list.childNodes.length;
while (i--)
list.appendChild(list.childNodes[i]);
Here's a JSFIDDLE
I made a shorter, unformatted version of #vals answer, credit goes to him.
The HTML:
<ul class="reverse">
<li>one</li>
...
</ul>
The CSS:
.reverse {
position: absolute;
list-style: none;
}
.reverse li {
margin: 5px;
float: left;
}
.reverse,
.reverse li {
-webkit-transform: rotate(180deg);
}
JSFIDDLE
Here's a solution for filling up from bottom to top and aligned right:
#mylist {
position:absolute;
top:58px;
right:4%;
height:40px;// height of max rows you might need - this allows two rows for me
line-height:1;
font-size:14px;
margin:0;
border: 1px dashed #38e800;
}
#mylist ul {
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
right:0;
overflow: hidden;
vertical-align:bottom;
list-style: none;
text-align:right;
margin:0 0 2px 0;
}
#mylist li {
display:inline-block;
padding:0 0 0 18px;
}
Use the below CSS for reversing from bottom to up:
ul {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column-reverse;
}
or use the below CSS for reversing from right to left:
ul {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row-reverse;
}
Problem
I am working on a project to theme a website, but I am not allowed to change the HTML or JavaScript. I can only update the CSS stylesheet and add/update images.
Requrements
I need to style a h3 tag to have an
underline/border after the content.
This h3 will be used multiple times
on the page, so the conent length can
vary
The solution needs to be
cross-browser (IE 6/7/8, FF 3, &
Safari)
Sample Code
<div class="a">
<div class="b"><!-- etc --></div>
<div class="c">
<h3>Sample Text To Have Line Afterwards</h3>
<ul><!-- etc --></ul>
<p class="d"><!-- etc --></p>
</div>
</div>
Sample Output
Sample Text to Have Line Afterwards ______________________________________
Another Example __________________________________________________________
And Yet Another Example __________________________________________________
Notes
I think #sample:after { content: "__________"; } option wouldn't work since that would only be the correct length for one of the tags
I tried a background-image, but if it gave me problems if I gave it one with a large width
Using text-indent didn't see to give me the effect I was looking for
I tried a combination of border-bottom and text-decoration: none, but that didn't seem to work either
Any ideas would be much appreciated!
This will work if class 'c' is always the parent of the h3...
.c {
position: relative;
margin-top: 25px;
border-top: 1px solid #000;
padding: 0px;
}
h3 {
font-size:20px;
margin-top: 0px;
position: absolute;
top: -18px;
background: #fff;
}
It lets the container have the border, then uses absolute positioning to move the h3 over it, and the background color lets it blot out the portion of c's border that it's covering.
try attaching a background image to class c of a repeating underline, then add a background color to the h3 to match the background of the container. I believe that you would have to float the h3 left in order to get the width to collapse. does that make sense?
.c {
background: #ffffff url(underline.gif) left 20px repeat-x;
}
.c h3 {
margin: 0;
padding: 0 0 2px 0;
float: left;
font-size: 20px;
background: #ffffff;
}
.c h3 { display: inline; background-color: white; margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1em; }
.c ul { margin-top: -1px; border-top: 1px solid; padding-top: 1em; /* simulate margin with padding */ }
http://besh.dwich.cz/tmp/h3.html
H3 {
border: 1px solid red;
border-width: 0 0 1px 0;
text-indent: -60px;
}
You need to know the width of the text, but works pretty well.
The only solution I've imagined so far is to make a PNG or GIF image, with 1px height and a very large width (depends on your project, could be like 1x2000px), and do something like this:
h3#main-title { background: url(line.png) no-repeat bottom XYZem; }
where the XYZ you'd set manually, for each title, in 'em' units. But I can't figure out a 100% dynamic solution for this one, without using JS or adding extra markup.
this worked for me
div.c
{
background-image:url(line.gif);background-repeat:repeat-x;width:100%;height:20px;
}
div.c h3
{
height:20px;background-color:white;display:inline;
}
you make the div the width of your content
then you set the background of the h3 to the background of your page. this will then overlap the background imageof the full div. You might want to play with background positioning depending on your image
Can you pad content in the UL tags? If so, this might work:
h3 { display: inline; margin: 0; padding: 0 10px 0 0; float: left;}
ul { display: inline; border-bottom: 1px solid black; }
check source code of: http://nonlinear.cc/lab/friends/elijahmanor.html
then again i have NO IDEA how to control the end of the line.
Assuming that you're working with dynamic content, the best I could suggest is to accept graceful degradation and use a mix of great_llama and Bohdan Ganicky
Imagine:
A long title that will wrap to two lines___________________
and leave you like this in great_llama's solution
and nothing appearing at all with Bohdan Ganicky's solution if ul isn't immediate preceded by ul.
Solution:
.c h3 { display: inline; background-color: white; margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1em; }
.c + * { margin-top: -1px; border-top: 1px solid; padding-top: 1em; /* simulate margin with padding */ }
We care about IE6, but accept that this is an aesthetic touch and IE6 users will not suffer. If you can't get the designer to accept this AND you can't alter the HTML, then do something else (before you find another job ;))
Here's a better answer:
.c {
background: url('line.png') repeat-x 0 20px;
}
H3 {
background-color: white;
display: inline;
position: relative;
top: 1px;
}
Use a small, 1px height, couple px wide image as your underline and occlude it with a background color on your H3.
h3:after {
content: '___________';
}