Make input invisible through css? - html

I have a form where depending on the website's brand one of two input fields should be visible at one given spot.
I figured I just put both input fields in the same container and then through my stylesheet set one of them to display:none;
This does hide the field, but it still makes it take up space.
I also tried setting the height and width to 0 or setting visibility to hidden or collapse but none of those worked.
Untill now all the branding things could be done with css style sheets so I would like to keep it that way.
The solution should at least be supported in IE6 & up, Firefox 2 & up and Chrome (latest).

why don't you use input type="hidden" ?

What about setting the invisible input field to position: absolute; which should take it out of the rendering flow.
However, setting it to display: none should in theory do the same...

<style>
.hideme
{
display:none;
visibility:hidden;
}
.showme
{
display:inline;
visibility:visible;
}
</style>
<input type="text" name="mytext" class="hideme">
You can either set class="hideme" to hide your control or class="showme" to show your control. You can set this toggeling using JavaScript or server side coding.

This does hide the field, but it still
makes it take up space.
This shouldn't happen; display: none should cause the element to not be included in the flow. Check the rest of your CSS (try using Firebug to figure out where the extra "space", which is probably just padding or margin of some surrounding element, is coming from).

Using the visibility property takes up rendering space even if the element is not visible. Instead of using visivility you have to use display property.
You can set the display to none if you want to hide the element and display to block or inline if you want to show them.
To have a look on display check this
If setting your display property doesn't solve your problem, then I think the textboxes might be absolutely positioned. It might be the reason for the layout not to be changed.
Can you please post the complete code?

You can do this if you want to isolate the css code from other input:
input[type="checkbox"] {
display: none;
}
You can also further isolate it from the same type by indicating another class.

I'm not too familiar with CSS, but you can try implementing JQuery which combines Javascript and CSS to let you do stuff like that with relative ease.

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Adjust <nz-date-picker> (Ng-Zorro) width

I'm using Ng-Zorro for template styling and am currently implementing an date picker, which I would like to have sitting flush with the dropdown menu above it.
I'd like to manually adjust the width of the date-picker within the template, but I'm seeing this link saying that the width cannot be adjusted...
Trying out html in-line styling did not do anything, so now I'm curious if anyone has been able to readjust the width of the nz-date-picker with Ng-Zorro.
May be you need to set the <nz-date-picker> display:block first
then set the span class="ant-calendar-picker" width:100%
hope this could help u.
Adding the following should work to your component's styling should work for you. The additional styling mentioned in the other response is not necessary for me.
nz-date-picker {
display: block;
}

Override standard CSS for hidden input tags

For HTML tags such as <input type="hidden"> when I look at the browser's standard CSS, I see:
input[type="hidden" i] {
display: none;
}
So I added this to my CSS:
input[type="hidden" i] {
display: block !important;
}
And for HTML I have <input name=countrycode type=hidden value=US>
When I open up the developer tools I can see that the old display:none is ignored, however, the field never shows up in the page and is still hidden!
Why doesn't the browser follow my CSS rules, is there another way to force it to do so? If I add width: 200;height:200;background: black this should make it appear in the page, right?
The reason I want to do this is because I have a lot of hidden inputs in many pages that now I want them to be visible (to get input from user) so I decided to do it fast with CSS. I know this can be easily done with JavaScript, but just curious why CSS is not working or maybe it will work on other browsers but not Google Chrome?
The reason that your input[type=hidden] is hidden, is because it doesn't have a control type to show the user it's value, so your display: block; should work, but the browser'll have nothing to render. Your hidden input could be a checkbox, a text field or a number.
More info: https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/input
You should give that input an id="countrycode" and just use javascript to set the value of type attribute from "hiden" to "text" like this:
document.getElementById("countrycode").setAttribute("type", "text");
OR if you prefer to use the name attribute, then do this:
document.getElementByName("countrycode").setAttribute("type", "text");
Voila!

Hide all, show a class with css

Context: making printable invoices to generate in a browser.
It's common in making printable webpages to use an #media print rule to change the way the content looks for a printed page. Ideally, because I'm printing only a small part of the page, I'd like to hide everything and then display the contents of a particular element.
Structure is something like this:
<body>
<div id="topMenu">...lots of elements...</div>
<div id="sideMenu">...lots more...</div>
<div class="tools">...some tools...</div>
<div class="printing">...some elements I want to print...</div>
<div class="tools">...more stuff I don't want to print...</div>
</body>
Stuff I've tried:
Ideally, I'd like to do something like
body * {
display: none;
}
.printing, .printing * { /* Both parts are needed to make it display */
display: block !important;
}
But this won't work because some elements need to be inline and some need to be block. I've played with some different values for display from MDN and can't find one that easily resets the value to its original. display: initial seems to be treated like inline.
The suggestion in CSS: "display: auto;"? seems to only work for JS.
Of course, it is possible to explicity "hide" the stuff I don't want printed rather than display the stuff I do want, but it seems to me that it should be possible to go the other way.
In this question How to only show certain parts with CSS for Print? suggests body *:not(.printable *) {display:none;} but notes (as backed up on the w3 negation page ) that this is not yet supported.
I note that the w3 draft and the display-outside page seem to recommend using an unknown (to webkit) box-suppress property to preserve the display value while not displaying the element.
My questions:
What is the best way to hide everything and target certain elements for display when they don't all share a common display property?
What exactly does box-suppress do?
Since you specifically tagged this CSS3, try using CSS3!
body>:not(.printing) {
display: none;
}
This should work for the example you gave. I hope it works for your real-world application!
To answer your auxiliary question, as of October 2014, box-suppress is a possible future replacement for display:none that will hopefully make it easier to both hide and remove elements from the flow without worrying about changing its display type (as opposed to visibility still keeps it in the flow, and position:absolute which still keeps it visible). I don't think it's currently supported so I'd stay away from it for now. If you want to know more, see http://w3.org/TR/css-display
You cannot use display for this purpose. See Display HTML child element when parent element is display:none
However, you can use visibility, as long as you use absolute positioning for the hidden content:
body, body * {
visibility: hidden;
position: absolute;
}
.printing, .printing * {
visibility: visible;
position: relative;
}
If you don't use any absolute or fixed elements, you can use an alternative way of hiding elements.
Instead of using display: none to hide your elements, try using:
body * {
position:absolute;
top: -999999px;
left: -999999px;
}
To set it back use:
.printing, .printing * {
position: initial;
/* OR */
position: static;
}

Input width differs when there's an icon

I'm trying to build a form using twitter bootstrap and having the input fields' width maximized by using the .input-block-level class.
This works well in this example below, taken from the official site.
http://pastebin.com/Hi5nTDQq
However, if I take the icon example, also from the official site, and use the .input-block-level class on the input element, it doesn't work.
http://pastebin.com/2KMbyDxT
If I apply the .input-block-level class to both input-prepend and input, it gets wide but a little bit wider than desired.
http://pastebin.com/uQd3QcBm
What am I doing wrong here?
You aren't doing anything wrong. The extra space you have is because of icon. I think You will need to manually make the adjustments.
An interesting question, here are the best two solutions I can think of so far:
http://jsfiddle.net/panchroma/jckTk/
Both have a blank prepend on the password field. One uses the default background and border and on the other you remove the background and right-hand border with some simple CSS.
.passwordAddon{
background-color:inherit !important;
border-right:none !important;
}
.password-With-Prepend{
border-left:none !important;
}
Good luck!

How to make pure css floating tooltips (absolutely positioned span) dynamically resize to accommodate text

I recently had an idea for using the CSS pseudo-class :hover to display a styled tooltip when the mouse is hovered over a link.
The basic code for the link looks like this:
.hasTooltip {
position:relative;
}
.hasTooltip span {
display:none;
}
.hasTooltip:hover span {
display:block;
background-color:black;
border-radius:5px;
color:white;
box-shadow:1px 1px 3px gray;
position:absolute;
padding:5px;
top:1.3em;
left:0px;
max-width:200px; /* I don't want the width to be too large... */
}
This link has a tooltip!<span>This is the tooltip text!</span>
The result is exactly what I want, but with one annoying problem: the span does not expand to accommodate text, and if I don't specify a width, the text is squashed.
I did some searching on Google, found a couple examples of work people had done (this example is creepily similar to what I've gotten), but no one seems to have addressed the span width problem I'm having.
I know this answer is extremely late, but it appears the key to your issue would be to use:
white-space: nowrap;
inside of your span, and get rid of any sort of width definition. Of course the drawback to this will be that the tooltip will only be able to support a single line. If you want a multiline solution you will most likely have to use javascript.
Here is an example of of this method:
http://jsbin.com/oxamez/1/edit
An added bonus is that this works all the way down to IE7. If you do not need to support IE7, I would suggest folding the span, and img styles into a :before, and :after for the .tooltip. Then you can populate the text using the data-* attribute.
I don't think there's a perfect solution to this problem with pure CSS. The first problem is that when you place the span inside the a tag the span only wants to expand as far as the width of the link. If you place the span after the the a it's possible to get close to what you're trying to do but you'll have to set the margin-top: 1.3em and then have to set a negative margin to slide the tooltip left. However, it's going to be a fixed setting so it won't sit exactly at the start of each link.
I whipped up a jQuery solution that sets left dynamically (and a nice little fade effect for good measure).
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/wdm954/9jaZL/7/
$('.hasTooltip').hover(function() {
var offset = $(this).offset();
$(this).next('span').fadeIn(200).addClass('showTooltip');
$(this).next('span').css('left', offset.left + 'px');
}, function() {
$(this).next('span').fadeOut(200);
});
These tool tips can also be integrated into a word press theme easily. Just copy the CSS into your style. Css file and when creating your posts, just take help of the HTML code and create your own tool tips. Rest is all styling, which can be altered according to your own choice. You may also use images inside the tool tip boxes.
http://www.handycss.com/how/how-to-create-a-pure-css-tooltip/
Even though this question is a bit older already, I would suggest the following compromise:
Just use max-width: 200px; and min-width: 300%; or so,
whereas the min-width could result higher than the max-width.
Just figure it out.
This way you could not have entirely liquid tooltips but the width would stand in kind of a correlation with the width of the containing link element.
In terms of optical pleasantness this approach could be of value.
edit:
Well I must admit it is nonsense what I wrote. When the min-width can be higher than the max-width, there is no sense to it.
So just putting the min-width in percent would achieve what I tried to suggest.
Sorry for that.
I found this and it was working for me. It's a good solution when you have a lot of elements and jquery plugins on the same page and you can't work with
Text <span>Tooltip</span>
View pure CSS solution: JS BIN
Credit to trezy.com