Achieve nth-child to have nth-background image - css

Hello is there a way to write css for let me say 100 elements with .class to have different background images?
So that first .class element will have background-img_1.svg, second .class element will have background-img_2.svg and so on...
I was thinking about workaround with ::before/::after and merge counter and image-url to content property but it seems I cannot merge two strings into content.

As #Paulie_D said with CSS only isn't possible, you can use JavaScript.
// gets all elements with the classname ".class"
const ELEMENTS = document.querySelectorAll('.class');
// counts how many elements exist with the classname ".class"
let numberOfElements = ELEMENTS.length;
// for-loop that iterates over the ELEMENTS Node-List
for (let i = 0; i < numberOfElements; i++) {
let element = ELEMENTS[i];
let pathToImage = `background-img_${i + 1}.svg`;
element.style.backgroundImage = pathToImage;
}
W3Schools Javascript

vanilla CSS can not do this an easy way. The easiest lightweight solution would be the usage of a pre-compiler such as SASS or LESS.
There you can make use of a for-loop:
#for $i from 1 through 100 {
.class:nth-child(#{$i}) {
background-image: url(background-img_#{$i}.svg);
}
}
that would compile into normal CSS:
.class:nth-child(1) {
background-image: url(background-img_1.svg);
}
.class:nth-child(2) {
background-image: url(background-img_2.svg);
}
...
.class:nth-child(100) {
background-image: url(Background-img_100.svg);
}

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CSS - How to select multiple attribute values?

If I have multiple div tags with an attribute containing different numbered values, and I would like to select only number 1 through 10, what is the most efficient way to do this in css?
Is there anything like e.g. .div[line-number=1-10] ?
This is not possible in the standard CSS. It is convenient to use a CSS preprocessor like SASS or LESS which allow you creating loops among many other features. An example with SASS:
$selector: '.div';
#for $i from 1 to 10 {
$selector: $selector + '[line-number=' + $i + ']';
}
#{$selector} {
// style
}
In pure CSS you are doomed to use this solution instead:
.div[line-number=1], .div[line-number=2], .div[line-number=3], .div[line-number=4], .div[line-number=5], .div[line-number=6], .div[line-number=7], .div[line-number=8], .div[line-number=9], .div[line-number=10] {
}
if you have the ability to modify the line-number attribute starting with 0 (01,02,03,04...10) you can do this:
div[line-number^="0"], div[line-number="10"] {
// css properties
}
if not see the answer from #jackBauer
You cannot specify line-number in range (1-10).
This is not available in attribute selector - https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#attribute-selectors.
But alternatively you can apply css on each attribute value with something like below
div[line-number="1"] {
color: red;
}
div[line-number="10"] {
color: green;
}
<p>Use attribute selectors</p>
<div line-number="1">one</div>
<div line-number="2">two</div>
<div line-number="10">ten</div>
Hope this will help in some way(y).

Hide a whole div with CSS with part of it is empty

Is there a way to hide a whole div if part of it is empty? For example if "dd" is empty as shown below can I hide the whole class "test" so the keyword Restrictions does not show either. I tried .test dd:empty { display: none; } but this does not work. thanks!
<div class="test"><dt>Restrictions:</dt>
<dd></dd></div>
I don't think there's any easy way to do what you're talking about with just CSS. Better to test it server-side if you can. But if you can't here's some JS that will do the job.
<script type="text/javascript">
// handles multiple dt/dd pairs per div and hides them each conditionally
function hideIfEmpty() {
// get all the elements with class test
var els = document.getElementsByTagName('dl');
// for every 'test' div we find, go through and hide the appropriate elements
Array.prototype.map.call(els, function(el) {
var children = el.childNodes;
var ddEmpty = false;
for(var i = children.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
if(children[i].tagName === 'DD' && !children[i].innerHTML.trim()) {
ddEmpty = true;
} else if(children[i].tagName === 'DT') {
if(ddEmpty) {
children[i].style.display = 'none';
}
// reset the flag
ddEmpty = false;
}
}
});
}
window.addEventListener('load', hideIfEmpty);
</script>
<div class="test">
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
<dl>
<dt>Restrictions:</dt>
<dd></dd>
<dt>Other Restrictions:</dt>
<dd>Since I have content, I won't be hidden.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
Just a fair warning: the code uses some functions that may not exist in older IE, such as Array.prototype.map, String.prototype.trim, and addEventListener. There are polyfills available for these and you could also write your own pretty easily (or just do it with a for loop instead).
CSS alone can't do that. Either, you need a javascript to retrieve empty elements and hide their parents, or your CMS applies special CSS classes if there's no content.
Put as an answer as requested by #Barett.
You could update your CSS to be
.test{
display: none;
color: transparent;
}
This would make the text transparent too, but display:none should hide it anyway.
To make the div with the id test ONLY show when the dd tag is EMPTY, and you can use jQuery, try the following JavaScript along with the CSS:
if($("dd").html().length ==0)
{show();
}
Note: this solution requires jQuery, which is a JavaScript library.

Is there any pseudo selector in CSS to select a letter:hover?

I would like to reproduce this, just with CSS:
http://jsfiddle.net/g32Xm/
$(function(){
var text = $('h2').text();
var atext = text.split("");
var newText = '';
for(var i=0; i< atext.length; i++){
newText += '<span>'+ atext[i]+'</span>';
}
$('h2').html(newText);
});
CSS
h2 span:hover{
position:relative;
bottom:3px;
}
Is there any workaround that doesn't envolve Javascript? and (i forgot to mention) without putting the spans in the html
Thanks in advance
CSS is generally applied to selectors, not individual letters in a text node. With modern CSS, you can use the :first-letter pseudoelement, but as far as I know, this is about as far as you can go with styling individual characters. The only way is wrapping each character in a separate element (a span, probably) and working with that.
So, to cut the long answer short: as of now, no, there's no way to do that with just CSS.
You can eventually wrap every single character in a span manually and avoid using javascript that way:
HTML
<h2>
<span>M</span><span>a</span><span>n</span><span>d</span><span>a</span><span>r</span><span>i</span><span>n</span><span>a</span>
<span>L</span><span>i</span><span>m</span><span>ó</span><span>n</span>
</h2>
CSS
h2 > span:hover{
position:relative;
bottom:3px;
}
JSFiddle example

Can I accomplish this with CSS?

If I've got elements like this:
A
B
A
C
I know I can use something like
body
{
counter-reset:section;
}
a:before
{
counter-increment:section;
content:counter(section)". ";
}
to get
1. A
2. B
3. A
4. C
but is there a way to get the following?
1. A
2. B
1. A
3. C
ie. uniquely identify all links on a page by prefixing the text with the same number.
Note: hardcoding specific URLs isn't an option, I'm potentially dealing with hundreds of links and don't know the URLs ahead of time.
I realize this would be easy/possible with javascript, I am only interested in CSS-based solutions or an explanation of why this isn't possible with CSS.
Ok, I got what you mean with your question. Just with plain CSS it's not possible (at least not cross-platform..)
If you can use javascript, you have several possibilities.
My preference would be to use a data-attribute to hold the value, for this example I chose data-counter. If you do like this, the CSS becomes trivial:
CSS
a:before
{
content:attr(data-counter)". ";
}​
And the Javascript would look like this if you have jQuery:
JS with jQuery
var linkcounter = {};
var counter = 0;
$("a").each(function() {
if (!linkcounter.hasOwnProperty($(this).attr("href"))) {
counter++;
linkcounter[$(this).attr("href")] = counter;
}
$(this).attr("data-counter", linkcounter[$(this).attr("href")]);
});
​
or like this without jQuery:
vanilla JS
var linkcounter = {};
var counter = 0;
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for(var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++) {
if (!linkcounter.hasOwnProperty(anchors[i].getAttribute("href"))) {
counter++;
linkcounter[anchors[i].getAttribute("href")] = counter;
}
anchors[i].setAttribute("data-counter", linkcounter[anchors[i].getAttribute("href")]);
}
You can view the version without jQUery here: http://jsfiddle.net/ramsesoriginal/CVW7Y/5
And the version with jQuery here: http://jsfiddle.net/ramsesoriginal/CVW7Y/4
Sadly there is no CSS only way to do this (yet). I hope this helps.
​
I don't think you can get this behaviour with pure CSS, and you need Javascript. And there are always cases like this:
http://google.com/
http://google.com
google.com
google.com/
www.google.com
You get the point.
In jQuery this is quite trivial, so I'd suggest you use that.
If using jQuery is OK, this can be done by manipulating the :before pseudo element's content:
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/rwMWx/2/
JS
var labels = [
"1",
"2",
"1",
"3"
// and so on...
];
// OR maybe put in some algo for this sequence
$('a').each(function(i) {
$(this).attr('data-label', labels[i] + '. ');
});
CSS
a:before {
content: attr(data-label);
color: red;
text-align: left;
padding-right: 10px;
font-size: 11px;
display: inline;
}
You could use :contains but I'm not sure how supported it is so you might be better off with JavaScript.
a:contains("A") {
/* Styles here */
}
a:contains("B") {
/* Styles here */
}
EDIT:
Apparently :contains isn't supported at all. I'll leave this up here though so no one else bothers putting it.
You could use :contains in jQuery though and add a class accordingly.
$('a:contains(A)').addClass('CLASS_NAME');
try this code:
var counter = 0, cache = {};
$('a').each(function (i, a) {
a = $(a);
var href = a.attr('href');
var c = cache[href];
if (!c) {
counter++;
c = counter;
cache[href] = c;
}
a.text(c + '. ' + a.text());
});
​
I'm using jQuery, and that's how it works: http://jsfiddle.net/pDLbQ/

CSS if/else statement for counting list items

I need an if/else statement for my CSS which can count list items. Would this be possible?
Basically I want to say, if there are less than 10 list items, the UL container should be 200px wide, and it there are more than 10 list items, it should be 400px wide. Something like that.
Can it be done?
I would appreciate a working demo on jsFiddle, both so I can see working code, and for anyone who looks here in the future so they can see a working example and how to do it :)
CSS only does styles, but not dynamically (unless with assistance of JS). you can use the following JS snippet for the task. just to make sure, load this at the very last, just before the </body>
<script type="text/javascript">
(function resize() {
//get all lists with selected name
var lists = document.getElementsByClassName('myList');
//loop through all gathered lists
for (i = 0; i < lists.length; i++) {
//shorthand elements for easy use
var list = lists[i];
var items = list.getElementsByTagName('li');
//append class names
list.className = (items.length < 10) ? 'myList less' : 'myList more';
}
}())​
</script>
.less{
width:200px;
}
.more{
width:400px;
}​
CSS has no if else statements. You can do this easily with jQuery. Another option would be to use LESS or SCSS.
Short answer: no. CSS offers no conditional support.
Long answer: you need to use javascript or a server side language to either add a class when there are more than 10 items (or elements) in the list, or in the case of javascript, directly manipulate the style after it's loaded.
That doesn't sound possible for CSS. There are no logical if/else statements in the CSS spec. Your next best bet would probably be javascript. You could achieve this with jQuery with the following code:
if($('ul#target-list li').length < 10) {
$('ul#target-list').css('width', 200);
}
else {
$('ul#target-list').css('width', 400);
}
Pure CSS3 Solution
If you only want to support CSS3, then this does what you need:
li {
width: 200px;
}
li:nth-last-child(n+11),
li:nth-last-child(n+11) ~ li {
width: 400px;
}
But you will need to make the ul either display: inline-block or float it so that the width is controlled by the li elements themselves. This may require you to wrap the ul (display: inline-block) in a div so that it still is a block element in the flow of the page if you need it so.

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