Rounded image corners in IE and Firefox - html

I cannot make the image a background image to a div and round the div's corners because the image is resized, and as far as I know, you cannot resize a background image.
What are my options, if any? Open to all suggestions including wrapper divs and corner images.
Also, if it cannot be done in IE but there's a solution for Firefox, that's just fine with me.

If you're re-using the image and it's varying in size, you should be chopping up your corners accordingly if possible. I had a quick look for you, and here's a site that shows you how to achieve it using sprites. This increases your markup because you need to use positioned divs to position each section of the box.
Of course, recent versions of Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome support border-radius which allows you to create rounded corners without using images. IE9 will support this too, when it gets released.
I've seen sites that use border-radius and just leave it at that, so the borders aren't rounded in browsers that don't support it.

If you're interested in creating corners in IE then this may be of use - http://css3pie.com/

The jQuery corner plugin is what I use. You can do:
$('#div').corner('10px');

I am not sure, but maybe you can achieve what you want by using svg backgrounds. This will not work in IE.

Related

Responsive video banner on Safari has huge gaps top and bottom

I'm trying to implement a very simple video as a banner on a website using html5 tags. I just need it to be full width and responsive, which appears to work perfectly in Chrome and Firefox, but not Safari.
Here is a simplified version taken from a more complex wordpress page using exactly the same markup and the same happens.
http://noisilyfestival.com/video-test.html
I've set the video background to red, see in Safari there are huge gaps at the top and bottom whereas in Firefox and Chrome it sits flush.
Can't figure out for the life of me what's going on here! I've set the video to display:block which fixes the few pixel gap at the bottom but cannot resolve this. Thanks in advance!
I removed display:block; from #homepage-video and Safari looked just fine.
It was pointed out to me that on resizing the browser width the issue would correct itself. Therefore the intrinsic ratio technique is the most efficient way to ensure this works cross browser...
http://alistapart.com/article/creating-intrinsic-ratios-for-video
Works as it should now on all browsers I've tested it on.

Mask Sizing on Firefox

I am trying to mask dynamically sized images on a webpage. The SVG mask I use for Chrome and Safari with their webkit-mask-box-image work great by resizing the mask to fit the element I'm using which in this case is an image. Is there any thing that is similar to webkit-mask-box-image for Gecko-baised browsers?
Have you seen this html5rocks article? http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/masking/adobe/
Regardless, I think the best cross-browser solution for masks is canvas.

what is the cleanest way to get rounded corners on images using html/css? (crossbrowser)

I've fixed image size. And I want to achieve rounded corners through html/css.
Options I'm thinking about is to overlay image with four corner png. Using img:after and content. But unfortunately img:after is purely supported across browsers, let alone compatibility with IE 6.7.
Is there any simple clean way to achieve this?
In theory I could also create div with corner background and make it go absolute over the image... but that would break save as functionality.......
any ideas?
Well, there's always CSS3 rounded corners border radius which has very good support in every modern browser, then the CSS3PIE polyfill for older versions of IE.
If you can live with the fact that browsers that don't support border-radius will show plain old square images, you could use this jQuery script to automatically wrap your images in div's and give them corners:
http://www.smoothdivscroll.com/roundedimagecorners/
(View the source to get the js and see how it's used)
Here's an article that I've written that explains the background to this script:
http://www.swedishfika.com/2010/03/19/rounded-corners-on-images-with-css3-2/
Regards,
Thomas
To make border round in IE there is little work around for that. Please have a look at this link

CSS3PIE issues in IE6 and 8

I'm using CSS3PIE to apply some rounded corners to elements in Internet Explorer that will get them by stylesheet in other browsers. I've run into some issues with it though.
In IE8, I discovered that any element that had the PIE behaviour would behave strangely. The container would jump a few pixels to the right, but the content would stay in its original position, giving the appearance that the content had all shifted left relative to its container. This would be especially problematic on elements with no or small amounts of padding.
I was able to hack my way around the problem in IE8 by using X-UA-Compatible, but I'd rather avoid this solution if at all possible. I don't have access to IE9 for testing but my understanding hacks like PIE aren't necessary and it would be wasteful to force a compatibility mode in a browser that doesn't need it.
I have worse issues in IE6, with the PIE layout breaking down completely on a list that is set up to use display:inline; zoom:1; list items (to simulate inline-block, which works in IE8 and the other browsers). Here the borders of the list items get rendered in completely the wrong place.
So ideally, I'd like to have PIE work properly in IE6, and in IE8 without having to resort to compatibility mode. As far as IE6 goes, a graceful fallback where PIE is just not applied will do. IE7 is the only browser where the page displays as intended.
I can't provide an example page just at the moment unfortunately, I can add one later though.
Follow up:
Here are some screen grabs made with IE Tester. I'm hoping they will make things a little more clear for everybody. As you can see, IE7 is fine. However, in IE8, the containers are offset to the left relative to their content, and in IE6 the list elements (with the rounded 1 pixel border) are a complete mess!
Full size versions for IE8, IE7 and IE6 are also available
Followup 2
Here's a link to a demo page.
As other designers are working on the stylesheets and other parts of the design I can't promise it will remain fully reflective for very long, but hopefully it will for long enough to solve the problem. (Yes, I'm aware there's JS errors in IE6, those aren't my problem).
Example page
i prefer using http://www.curvycorners.net/
I was experiencing a similar issue with IE8. The elements PIE was applied to would first display 10-20px lower, then jump up to the proper position.
Applying the rule "display: inline" to the element seemed to stop the issue.
"Position: relative;" and "zoom: 1" on the element or parent element seemed to have no effect.
It's a bit weird. Once the rule "display: inline" is applied, the issue dissappears on
refresh. But if you remove the rule, it still looks okay on refresh, until you
close and reopen the browser window - then the jumping reappears.
Hope that helps someone.
Try adding
position:relative;
z-index: 0;
as suggested here http://css3pie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10
This question is similar to the one posted here: CSS3 PIE - Giving IE border-radius support not working?

Rounded Corners Optimization

Now that CSS3 includes styles to add rounded corners to images automatically, does this mean that adding rounded corners to images without CSS should be discarded?
I would assume that shaving off some of the image would load the page faster then shaving off some of the CSS, but at the same time, that would all depend on how fast the browser renders the rounded corners from CSS. Also, images with rounded corners should be completely browser independent and I could assume they would look, and act the same in all browsers.
If you are capable of creating your own images with rounded corners, is that the best way to go? Or should you cut the image down to be square, and add the rounded corners using CSS?
Thanks for any help!Metropolis
Internet Explorer 8 and lower do not support CSS3 rounded corners. I would stick with an image-based solution for a couple more years.
EDIT: CSS3 PIE emulates border-radius on IE 6 to 8. You might want to use that for your page load time comparisons.