Is there a vr (vertical rule) in html? - html

I know there is a hr (horizontal rule) in html, but I don't believe there is a vr (vertical rule). Am I wrong and if not, why isn't there a vertical rule?

No, there is no vertical rule.
EDIT: It's 2021 (twelve years after I answered this question), and I no longer think my original explanation is true:
(original explanation)
It does not make logical sense to have one. HTML is parsed
sequentially, meaning you lay out your HTML code from top to bottom,
left to right how you want it to appear from top to bottom, left to
right (generally)
A vr tag does not follow that paradigm.
I'm not sure why a VR tag was never introduced, but it's likely not because of the way HTML is parsed - there are many different layout modes in HTML/CSS now that do not follow this "paradigm".
If I were to now speculate as to why there is no VR tag, I might look at MDN's definition of the HR tag as a clue:
The HTML <hr> element represents a thematic break between
paragraph-level elements: for example, a change of scene in a story,
or a shift of topic within a section.
In practice, however, the <hr> tag often ends up used for things other than it's semantic meaning. Although it may seem based on it's real world use that there should be a <vr> tag, it probably would not resemble anything related to the semantic definition of the <hr> tag. It was probably never thought to be introduced.
My hunch is that the creators would suggest that the domain of the solution for this problem lies in CSS, not HTML (and most of the answers to this SO question reflect that).
Nixinova's solution looks like the most elegant and modern solution to this problem.
(The rest of my old answer follows below):
This is easy to do using CSS, however. Ex:
<div style="border-left:1px solid #000;height:500px"></div>
Note that you need to specify a height or fill the container with content.

You can make a vertical rule like this: <hr style="width: 1px; height: 20px; display: inline-block;">

An <hr> inside a display:flex will make it display vertically.
JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/w6y5t1kL/
Example:
<div style="display:flex;">
<div>
Content
<ul>
<li>Continued content...</li>
</ul>
</div>
<hr>
<div>
Content
<ul>
<li>Continued content...</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

As pointed out by others, the concept of a vertical rule does not fit in with the original ideas behind the structure and presentation of HTML documents. However, these days (especially with the proliferation of web-apps) there are is a small number of scenarios where this would indeed be useful.
For example, consider a horizontal navigation menu fixed at the top of the screen, similar to the menu-bar in most windowed GUI applications. You have several top-level menu items arranged from left-to-right which when clicked open up drop-down menus. Years ago, it was common practice to create this with a single-row table, but this is bad HTML and it is widely recognised that the correct way to go would be a list with heavily customised CSS.
Now, say you want to group similar items, but add a vertical separator in between groups, to achieve something like this:
[Item 1a] [Item 1b] | [Item 2a] [Item 2b]
Using <hr style="width: 1px; height: 100%; ..." /> works, but may be considered semantically incorrect as you are changing what that element is actually for. Furthermore, you can't use this within certain elements where the HTML DTD allows only inline-level elements (e.g. within a <span> element).
A better option would be <span style="display: inline-block; width:1px; height:100%; background:#000; margin: 0 2px;"></span>, however not all browsers support the display: inline-block; CSS property, so the only real inline-level option is to use an image like so:
<img src="pixel.gif" alt="|" style="width:1px; height:100%; background:#000; margin: 0 2px;" />
This has the added advantage of being compatible with text-only browsers (like lynx) as the pipe character is displayed instead of the image. (It still annoys me that M$IE incorrectly uses alt text as a tooltip; that's what the title attribute is for!)

<style type="text/css">
.vr
{
display:inline;
height:100%;
width:1px;
border:1px inset;
margin:5px
}
</style>
<div style="font-size:50px">Vertical Rule: →<div class="vr"></div>←</div>
Try it out.

How about:
writing-mode:tb-rl
Where top->bottom, right->left?
We will need vertical rule for this.

I know I am adding my answer very late, but it would be worth I am sure. You can achieve vertical line using flex and hr
See my codepen here.

There isn't, where would it go?
Use CSS to put a border-right on an element if you want something like that.

Ancient question but I solved this with display:flex; and it works great:
<div style="display:flex;border:1px dotted black;margin-bottom:20px;">
<div>
This is a div
</div>
<div style="border-left:1px solid black;margin:0 7.5px;"></div>
<div>
This is another div
</div>
</div>
https://jsfiddle.net/6qfd59vm/3/
This solution also doesn't require fixed height.

Try this.
You can set height and width on "div", like the scope for "hr".
The margin of "hr" is used to alignment.
<div style="display: inline-flex; width: 25px; height: 100px;">
<hr style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 12.5px;">
</div>

HTML has little to no vertical positioning due to typographic nature of content layout. Vertical Rule just doesn't fit its semantics.

Try it and you will know yourself:
<body>
rokon<br />
rkn <hr style="width: 1px; height: 10px; display: inline; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px;" />rockon<br />
rocks
</body>
</html>

you can do in 2 way :
create style as you already gave in div but change border-left to border-right
take a image and make its width 1-2 px

You can very easily do this by
hr{
transform: rotate(90deg);
}
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<hr>
</body>
</html>
Be careful about the height and width of hr

In the context of a list item being used as navigation a <vr /> tag would be perfectly useful. The reason it does not exist is because "It does not make logical sense to have one" in the context of HTML a decade ago.

For use in HTML email for most desktop clients you have to use tables. In this case, you can use <hr> tag, with necessary (but simple) inline styling, like:
<hr width="1" size="50">
Of course that styling with CSS is more flexible, but GMail and similar don't allow using of any CSS styling other than inline...

You can use css for simulate a vertical line, and use the class on the div
.vhLine {
border-left: thick solid #000000;
}

You could create a custom tag as such:
<html>
<head>
<style>
vr {
display: inline-block;
// This is where you'd set the ruler color
background-color: black;
// This is where you'd set the ruler width
width: 2px;
//this is where you'd set the spacing between the ruler and surrounding text
margin: 0px 5px 0px 5px;
height: 100%;
vertical-align: top;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
this is text <vr></vr> more text
</body>
</html>
(If anyone knows a way that I could turn this into an "open-ended" tag, like <hr> let me know and I will edit it in)

There is no tag in HTML, but you can use |.

You could use the new HTML5 SVG tag:
<svg style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;">
<line id="myVerticalLine" y1="0" y2="100" x1="0" x2="0">
</line>
</svg>

I find it easy to make an image of a line, and then insert it into the code as a "rule", setting the width and/or height as needed. These have all been horizontal-rule images, but there's nothing stopping me (or you) from using a "vertical-rule" image.
This is cool for many reasons; you can use different lines, colors, or patterns easily as "rules", and since they would have no text, even if you had done it the "normal" way using hr in HTML, it shouldn't impact SEO or other stuff like that. And the image file would/should be very tiny (1 or 2KB at most).

Too many overly-complicated answers. Just make a TableData tag that spans how many rows you want it to using rowspan. Then use the right-border for the actual bar.
Example:
<td rowspan="5" style="border-right-color: #000000; border-right-width: thin; border-right-style: solid"> </td>
<td rowspan="5"> </td>
Ensure that the "&nbsp" in the second line runs the same amount of lines as the first. so that there's proper spacing between both.
This technique has served me rather well with my time in HTML5.

Today is possible with CSS3
hr {
background-color:black;
color:black;
-webkit-transform:rotate(90deg);
position:absolute;
width:100px;
height:2px;
left:100px;
}

For people who're trying to make columns for text, there's a column-rule property which you should consider using!
.content{
margin: 20px 5%;
padding: 5px;
}
.content p{
-webkit-column-count: 3;
-moz-column-count:3;
-o-column-count:3;
column-count: 3;
-webkit-column-rule: 1px solid #ccc;
-moz-column-rule: 1px solid #ccc;
-o-column-rule: 1px solid #ccc;
column-rule: 1px solid #ccc;
text-align: justify;
}
<div class="content">
<p>
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</p>
</div>

<div style="width:1px;background-color:red;height:30px;float:right;"></div>
Easily can be done using a div like this

HTML5 custom elements (or pure CSS)
1. javascript
Register your element.
var vr = document.registerElement('v-r'); // vertical rule please, yes!
*The - is mandatory in all custom elements.
2. css
v-r {
height: 100%;
width: 1px;
border-left: 1px solid gray;
/*display: inline-block;*/
/*margin: 0 auto;*/
}
*You might need to fiddle a bit with display:inline-block|inline because inline won't expand to containing element's height. Use the margin to center the line within a container.
3. instantiate
js: document.body.appendChild(new vr());
or
HTML: <v-r></v-r>
*Unfortunately you can't create custom self-closing tags.
usage
<h1>THIS<v-r></v-r>WORKS</h1>
example: http://html5.qry.me/vertical-rule
Don't want to mess with javascript?
Simply apply this CSS class to your designated element.
css
.vr {
height: 100%;
width: 1px;
border-left: 1px solid gray;
/*display: inline-block;*/
/*margin: 0 auto;*/
}
*See notes above.
link to original answer on SO.

No there is not. And I will tell you a little story on why it is not. But first,
quick solutions:
a) Use CSS class for basic elements span/div, e.g.: <span class="vr"></span>:
.vr{
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
/* note that height must be precise, 100% does not work in some major browsers */
height: 100px;
width: 1px;
background-color: #000;
}
Demonstration of use => https://jsfiddle.net/fe3tasa0/
b) Make a use of a one-side-only border and possibly CSS :first-child selector if you want to apply a general dividers among sibling/neigbour elements.
The story about <vr> FITTING in the original paradigm,but still not being there:
Many answers here suggest, that vertical divider does not fit the original HTML paradigm/approach ... that is completely wrong. Also the answers contradict themselves a lot.
Those same people are probably calling their clear CSS class "clearfix" - there is nothing to fix about floating, you are just clearing it ... There was even an element in HTML3: <clear>. Sadly, this and clearance of floating is one of the few common misconceptions.
Anyway. "Back then" in the "original HTML ages", there was no thought about something like inline-block, there were just blocks, inlines and tables.
The last one is actually the reason why <vr> does not exist.
Back then it was assumed that:
If you want to verticaly divide something and/or make more blocks from left to right =>
=> you are making/want to make columns =>
=> that implies you are creating a table =>
=> tables have natural borders between their cells => no reason to make a <vr>
This approach is actually still valid, but as time showed, the syntax made for tables is not suitable for every case as well as it's default styles.
Another, probably later, assumption was that if you are not creating table, you are probably floating block elements. That meaning they are sticking together, and again, you can set a border, and those days probably even use the :first-child selector I suggested above...

There is not.
Why? Probably because a table with two columns will do.

Related

Convert whole div which contains anchor tags into a link

<div style="height: 100px; border: solid; border-width: 2px; border-color: #000">
Box 1
<p>A</p>
</div>
I want to convert the div into a link. Note that div includes an anchor tag. What is the best way to do it.
Following code doesn't work. But that's the rough idea to my problem.
<a href="/x">
<div>
Box 1
<p>A
</p>
</div>
</a>
The a element may be wrapped around entire paragraphs, lists, tables, and so forth, even entire sections, so long as there is no interactive content within (e.g. buttons or other links).— W3C Documentation
The anchor element may not contain any interactive content. This includes other anchors. This is one of the more strict rules too. It not only goes against spec, but it completely breaks functionality in major browsers. Chrome alone parses your example to include four links!
You'll need a preprocessing language to alter the markup (server side language or javascript on the front end manipulating ajax return data), or you'll just have to manually change the HTML. Either way, in the end, you'll need to switch that inner anchor out with a span or some other non-interactive element.
I have found a useful jsfiddle for you that uses <a class='default-link' href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='window.location = "http://www.google.com"'</a> for the actual <div>'s link, and then has independent links within this.
Click here to see the jsfiddle
You can simply add display: block; and use the height you need it will do the trick !
DEMO
or you can use inline javascript as that
<div style="height: 100px; border: solid; border-width: 2px; border-color: #000; cursor: pointer;" onclick="window.location='/a'">
Box 1
<p>A
</p>
</div>
The following code is worked for me. But I don't know it's a valid one even with HTML5.
<a style="display:block" href="/a">
<div style="border: solid; border-width: 1px; border-color: #FFF">
<div>
<h3>Heading</h3>
</div>
B
C
</div>
</a>

alternative of text-justify:newspaper html

I have a paragraph, which is text-align:justify. But due to some words the difference between words increase so much. There was a property text-justify:newspaper; which breaks the words to make them relevantly spaced. But it is not supported by any browser except IE. Is there any alternative for this property.
Or what is the best way to justify them.
Fiddle Here
In your case, the best way would be to keep text-align:left; by applying a fixed width (either in percentage or pixels) to achieve what you are looking for.
For Instance,
element.style {
text-align: left;
width: 220px;
}
Fiddle Demo
Hope this helps.
PS: width: 220px; is an illustrative value. You can change it as per your scenario.
HTML :
<div class="pad1" style="width:190px;">
<h2 class="center">Why are</h2>
<p style="word-spacing: 2px;">Our work process includes the smooth communication between the client and the execution team As soon as we receive a project <b>request, it is</b> immediately registered in the system and a project code is assigned to it. </p>
<div class="wrapper center">
<a class="button" href="users/About#why"><span><span><font style="margin-top:1px;"><cufon class="cufon cufon-canvas" alt="More" style="width: 51px; height: 20px;"><canvas width="63" height="25" style="width: 63px; height: 25px; top: -3px; left: -1px;"></canvas><cufontext>More</cufontext></cufon></font></span></span></a>
</div>
</div>
I thik u can use only word-spacing: 2px; instead of text-align: justify; text-justify: newspaper;
The text-justify: newspaper setting does not break words; instead, it adds spacing between letters of a word when justification is needed. Browsers that do not support it (all but IE) do not provide any way to affect the justification process: justification causes spacing between words to be added, and that’s it.
However, you can usually get much better justified text if you make browsers hyphenate words. This reduces the need for added spacing. There are several ways to do hyphenation, but nowadays the approach that works most widely is JavaScript-based hyphenation client-side, using e.g. Hyphenator.js.

HTML div with a background

I'm making a website (Although I know nothing about HTML & Photoshop).
Its quite a challenge for me and I'm pretty happy with what I got so far.
Now I want to make boxes / floating squares on the site.
So I wanted to do this by using a the div but I have no clue how :#
<div id="div1" style="background-image: url(../bg_content_middle.png);height: 129px">
HELLO IS THIS A BOX?
</div>
I have this in my style.css:
#div1 {Background: url("bg_content_middle.png");}
bg_content_middle.png is a 1 pixel high "bar" which I want between top and bottom.
And thats not even working :(
Please help me.
You're mixing in-line CSS with external CSS rules. The inline style with ../bg_content_middle.png is overriding the other background image url of bg_content_middle.png. You only need to define it once.
In this case you could go for a pure CSS solution:
<div id="div1">HELLO I AM A BOX ^_^</div>
#div1 {
background-color: #900;
border: #f33 1px solid;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
}
Please don't number your divs though, call them something relevant like <div id="content">.
Hope that helps
1) Make the B in background lower-case
2) Is the image in the same directory as style.css? If not, you'll have to link to the correct directory.
well, if all you want your div to have a backround, you can have something as simple as this example from this tutorial:
<body>
<div style="background: green">
<h5 >SEARCH LINKS</h5>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com">Google</a>
</div>
</body>
First of all, you only need to define this particular style once, but inline styles (styles within the tag's <style> attribute.) take precedence. You should remove the inline style in this case, since it's redundant and double check your image paths just in case. Remember that css paths can be document relative, in which case they refer to the location of the css file, and are not relative to the HTML page.
If it's one pixel high you might want to set the repeat property as well. put this in the element's CSS:
background-repeat: repeat-y;
And set a width equivalent to the image width.
You need to set the position : absolute in your css. From there you can use top, left and height to position and size your tags

What do you call this gray line thing in HTML

What do you call this "gray line" in HTML, where you can use like a separator?
<hr /> is this what you mean?
this is called a horizontal rule and can be created using the following:
<hr />
However, the fact that the line is gray is online its default behaviour. Using CSS you can style it as you like.
I assume you're talking about the <hr /> element. HR stands for horizontal rule.
You're probably referring to <hr/>, which is a Horizontal Rule.
<hr />, which is horizontal rule
It doesn't need to be gray either as it can take styles just like anything else, although how these behave in different browsers can be tricky.
Do you mean simply a nicely formatted | character?
Or perhaps a horizontal rule? <hr />
One thing I always found was CSS control over an HR tag is very limited, I always tend to go for a div defined in my CSS as being long and thin.
you can customize the <hr/> by
<hr style="margin: 0px 5em; border: 1px solid grey; border-radius: 1em; background-color: gray;">

Chrome and fixed width on a div (or other tags)

I have some html which looks like this:
<div style="{ display:inline; width: 80px}">fig</div>vitamin c<br>
<div style="{ display:inline; width: 80px}">apple</div>vitamin a<br>
<div style="{ display:inline; width: 80px}">coconut</div>vitamin <br>
in IE.8 this is shown as
fig vitamin
apple vitamin
coconut vitamin
and all of the 'vitamins' are nicely aligned.
in Chrome the gap is not created and therefore it is not nicely rendered.
figvitamin
applevitamin
coconutvitamin
The question is:
is this a problem/bug with Chrome or is it because the html is not correct and ie8 (in this case) just guesses better my intentions ?
Chrome and Firefox are correct. Width is not a valid style property for inline elements. You have several options:
Inline Blocks
You can do this:
<span>fig</span>vitamin<br>
<span>apple</span>vitamin<br>
<span>coconut</span>vitamin
with:
span { display: inline-block; width: 80px; }
You'll notice I used <span> instead of <div>. There is a reason for this. <span>s are naturally display: inline and according to Quirksmode:
In IE 6 and 7 inline-block works
only on elements that have a natural
display: inline.
Firefox 2 and lower don't support this
value. You can use -moz-inline-box,
but be aware that it's not the same as
inline-block, and it may not work as
you expect in some situations.
Floats
You can float the left labels:
<div>fig</div>vitamin<br>
<div>apple</div>vitamin<br>
<div>coconut</div>vitamin
with:
div { float: left; clear: left; width: 80px; }
If the text after the <div> is sufficiently large it will wrap to the beginning of the line (not with the 80px buffer). You might want that or not.
Definition List
Using this markup:
<dl>
<dt>fig</dt><dd>vitamin</dd>
<dt>apple</dt><dd>vitamin</dd>
<dt>coconut</dt><dd>vitamin</dd>
</dl>
with:
dt { float: left; width: 80px; }
Tables
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="left">fig</td>
<td>vitamin</td>
</tr>
<td>apple</td>
<td>vitamin</td>
</tr>
<td>coconut</td>
<td>vitamin</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
with:
table { border-collapse: collapse; }
td.left { width: 80px; }
Tables will be by far the most backward compatible solution (going back to IE5 or earlier) so they're still often used in situations where some might argue they aren't appropriate. The ideals of the so-called semantic Web are well-intentioned and worth adhering to where possible but you'll also often end up in situations where you're choosing between "semantic purity" and backwards compatibility so a certain amount of pragmatism needs to prevail.
That being said, unless you're not telling us something, you shouldn't need to go this path if you don't want to.
Lastly, always put a DOCTYPE declaration on your pages. It forces IE from quirks mode to standards compliant mode (both euphemisms). For example:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
...
You could use a div that is floated to the left for the headings - this is popular for two column forms and the like on websites that don't want to use tables, or need more flexibility that the strict layout that a table restricts you to.
<div class="wrapper">
<div style="float: left; width: 80px;">Banana</div>
<div>Vitamin Awesome</div>
</div>
I guess the outer div could be replaced with a <br clear="both" /> afterwards.