How do I make text spanning multiple lines, have each letter vertically aligned in CSS?
I have set the following using CSS.
word-spacing: 0px;
padding: 0px;
letter-spacing: 24px;
I think the mis-alignment is happening because I'm not using a monospaced font.
Is there a way to force all the characters in a font to be the same width to make things easier? All so they can all be vertically aligned when spanning multiple lines?
You can try out the code here.
For future reference I've copied the code below.
HTML
<div class="gridpaperfocus">
<p>paragraph one</p>
<p>paragraph two</p>
</div>
CSS
body {
font-family: Tahoma;
}
.gridpaperfocus {
background-image: url('https://i.imgur.com/HezKKmn.png');
background-color: #dcdcdc;
/* font-weight: bold; */
/* max-height: 100px; */
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
box-sizing: border-box;
border-style: double;
margin: 16px;
/* color: rgb(255, 153, 51); */
color: #3c3c3c;
padding: 0px 30px;
/* padding: 0px; */
word-spacing: 0px;
margin-left: 32px;
letter-spacing: 24px;
line-height: 30px;
display: block;
width: 90%;
}
.gridpaperfocus p {
margin: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 30px; /* 42px with gridpaperback.png */
}
.gridpaperfocus p:last-of-type { margin-bottom: 0px; }
If using a monospace font isn't possible then one way would be to wrap each character in a span element and force that to have a fixed width and the character to be centered within it.
Not very elegant and you'd want to employ some preprocessing rather than do it by hand - could be done fairly simply in Javascript.
Here's a trivial snippet with a couple of wide characters and a narrow one to show the idea:
span {
width: 24px;
display: inline-block;
text-align: center;
}
<span>A</span><span> </span><span>i</span><br><span>i</span><span>A</span><span>X</span>
Related
I just stumbled upon this issue where the height of the <span> is greater than the font size I have set. Here it is:
span {
font-size: 36px;
padding: 0px;
line-height: 1;
background:red;
}
<span>Hello world</span>
Even with line-height: 1 and padding: 0px the span seems to get an extra 4 pixels of height. I noticed that display: block solves the issue but in my case that's not something practical because I need it inline.
Is there any 'trick' which would do this?
Try display: inline-block;
span {
font-size: 36px;
padding: 0px;
line-height: 1;
background: red;
display: inline-block;
}
span.last {
display: inline;
}
<span>Hello world (inline-block)</span> <span class="last">Hello world (inline)</span>
You can do it like this using css, use percentage as line-height. As your font have extra top and bottom space with total of 25%, So I gave 75% line-height
span {
font-size: 36px;
padding: 0px;
background: red;
line-height: 75%;
display: inline-block;
}
<span>Hello world</span>
Hi to all out there familiar with materialize.
I would like to make the divider:
<div class="divider"></div>
Look similar to this:
It is basically the divier with text in the middle.
Does anyone have a solution? If not with material divier even with other html and css would be fine
Thanks
I am a fan of wrapping the text with a div with a fixed height. Then position: relative the text inside the div. See the snippet below.
.wrapper {
background-color: black;
height: 1px;
margin: 32px 0 0;
text-align: center;
}
span {
position: relative;
top: -8px;
padding: 0 15px;
font-weight: 500;
border-radius: 4px;
text-transform: uppercase;
font-size: 1em;
color: #000000;
background: #ffffff;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<span>OR</span>
</div>
I have researched this problem for several days now and have found no solution so far. If this is just a beginners questions with a lot of answers out there I apologise, and please point me in the right directions.
I am trying to developp a "Headline" or "Banner" to be displayed at the top of my website.
I have a colored box, in which i want to display an image (a little off the left side), right next to it some text (the name of the website) and then centered in the middle of the box again some very short text (the name of the document, Home, Contact, things like that).
So it should look like this:
<-space-><-Image-><-Website name-><----------centered text------------------------>
So far whatever I have tried just gets me this:
<-space-><-Image-><-Website name-><-text at the left--------------------------------->
I am currently using a div element for the box with three different elements so i can format them separately in the style sheet. The main problem seems to be that the last header (Centered Text) is just created around the text, and not until the right edge of the box. So aligning left, right or in the center makes no difference.
<div class="box blue-box ">
<img class="icon" src="file://C:/Users/jafa/Desktop/juggling/website/images/white_design.png" alt="icon">
<h8 class="white-text-header">Website name </h8>
<h9 class="white-text-main-header"> Centered Text</h9>
</div>
with css style sheet:
<style>
.blue-box {
background-color: #401841;
padding: 10px;
border:1px solid white;
border-radius: 4px;
.white-text-header {
font-family: Arial;
color: white;
font-size: 24;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: left;
}
.white-text-header {
font-family: Arial;
color: white;
font-size: 24;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: center;
}
img.icon{
width: 120px;
height: auto;
align-items: left;
}
</style>
If anyone knows a better solution, I would be very grateful. Thank you for spending your time helping me.
You've duplicated "white-text-header" class definition. Also , left out "blue-box" class' closing brace. The code should be written as followed.
<style>
.blue-box {
background-color: #401841;
padding: 10px;
border:1px solid white;
border-radius: 4px;
}
.white-text-header {
font-family: Arial;
color: white;
font-size: 24;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: left;
}
.white-text-main-header {
font-family: Arial;
color: white;
font-size: 24;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: center;
}
img.icon {
width: 120px;
height: auto;
align-items: left;
}
</style>
h8 and h9 probably aren't the elements you want to be using. Update these and you will get what you want. You need to update your css classes. You have some bad syntax and duplicated names.
.blue-box {
background-color: #401841;
padding: 10px;
border:1px solid white;
border-radius: 4px;
}
.white-text-header {
font-family: Arial;
color: white;
font-size: 24;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: left;
}
.white-text-main-header {
font-family: Arial;
color: white;
font-size: 24;
display: inline-block;
text-align: center;
}
img.icon {
width: 120px;
height: auto;
align-items: left;
}
Here is the fiddle closer to what you want: https://jsfiddle.net/475sdf9w/26/
h8 and h9 are not standard heading tags. Related question
You can reuse text styling properties by adding the rules to the parent (font-family, font-size, and color.
font-size needs a unit -- 24px
You can create your layout with Flexbox. Learn more here.
body {
margin: 0;
}
.blue-box {
background-color: #401841;
padding: 10px;
border: 1px solid white;
border-radius: 4px;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 24px;
color: white;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
.blue-box img {
/* adds space to the left of the image */
margin-left: 20px;
}
.white-text-main-header {
margin: auto;
}
<div class="box blue-box ">
<img class="icon" src="https://unsplash.it/120" alt="icon">
<h5 class="white-text-header">Website name </h5>
<h6 class="white-text-main-header"> Centered Text</h6>
</div>
I'm quite new on web development. I'm struggling with this question for a while. Now I post my question(s) here.
The souce code is as linked: Source Code
The HTML:
<div id="wrap">
<div id="main" class="clearfix">
<ul class="ranklist" id = "ranklist">
<li class="ranklistitem font-size-0">
<div class="itemnumber divinline"> <span class="helper"></span>1</div>
<div class="userprofile divinline"><img class="profileimg" src=""/></div>
<div class="nameandcredit divinline">
<div class="username">SteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteveSteve</div>
<div class="credit">I'm description</div>
</div>
<div class="ranktitle divinline">Total:</div>
<div class="usercredit divinline">1000</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
The CSS:
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
html {
background: #aaaaaa;
}
body {
-webkit-user-select: none; /* Chrome/Safari */
-moz-user-select: none; /* Firefox */
-ms-user-select: none; /* IE10+ */
font-family: "PingHei", "Helvetica Neue", "Helvetica", Arial, "Microsoft YaHei";
font-weight: lighter;
}
#wrap {
min-height: 100%;
}
#main {
overflow-y: auto;
padding-bottom: 55px;
}
div, ul, p {
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
color: #ffd8d0;
}
.rewarddes
{
margin-top:10px;
display:block;
color:#ffdcc5;
overflow:hidden;
font-size:87.5%;
}
.ranklistitem {
height: 60px;
border-bottom: solid 1px #faa559;
font-size:87.5%;
}
.font-size-0 {
}
.divinline {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
}
.helper {
display: inline-block;
height: 100%;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.itemnumber {
line-height: 60px;
height: 60px;
background:#aa8800;
width: 6%;
text-align: right;
padding-right: 5px;
}
.userprofile {
line-height: 60px;
height: 60px;
width: 14%;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
background:#228845;
}
.profileimg {
height: 36px;
width: 36px;
vertical-align: middle;
border-top-left-radius: 50%;
border-top-right-radius: 50%;
border-bottom-left-radius: 50%;
border-bottom-right-radius: 50%;
border: solid 2px #fff;
}
.nameandcredit {
height: 60px;
width: 45%;
padding-left: 5px;
background:#342389
}
.username {
height: 55%;
text-align: left;
vertical-align:bottom;
overflow:hidden;
}
.credit {
height: 25%;
font-size: 66.7%;
text-align: left;
overflow:hidden;
color:#fdff6e;
}
.username:before, .credit:after {
content:'';
height:100%;
vertical-align:middle;
display:inline-block;
}
.iconaward {
vertical-align: middle;
height: 20px;
width: 14px;
}
.ranktitle {
line-height: 60px;
height: 60px;
width: 15%;
background:#cd8912;
text-align: right;
padding-right: 0.125em;
}
.usercredit {
line-height: 60px;
height: 60px;
background:#ff0000;
width: 20%;
text-align: right;
padding-right: 0.5em;
}
I have 2 questions based on the linked(or above) code.
The 5 container div's width was set as:
.itemnumber 6%, .userprofile 14%, .nameandcredit 45%, .ranktitle 15%, .usercredit 20%. So in total they are 100%. But as you see, the last one .usercredit is not in the same line and there're margins between each div, which is not what I want.
for the .username, I have set overflow:hidden, but as you see, when there's a large string, the .username was totally disappeared. If there're spaces in the string, it will only hide the overflow part and show the front part. I want to know what's the problem?
I know it's a little bit messed up of a lot code here. But my question is as listed as above. Thanks in advance for any kind suggestion.
For the spacing, you have two problems:
Implicit spaces between inline-block elements, and
Defining widths for elements with padding.
Regarding username overflow, you have one issue:
Default word wrapping behavior is to wrap the whole word to the next line. You need to change that behavior.
Let's take a look at each of them:
Implicit Spaces
The problem is that your divs have a display: inline-block; style. Elements displayed as an inline-block have any white-space between them converted to a single space.
See the "Fighting the Space Between Inline Block Elements" article on CSS Tricks for more information on how to overcome this.
One fix, for instance, is to have the li element that is wrapping the divs to have a 0 font-size, and reset a non-zero font size to its children, e.g. in your CSS:
.font-size-0 {
font-size: 0;
}
.font-size-0 > * {
font-size: 12px;
}
Any of the links outlined in the link above would work; for example, removing spaces and newlines between your closing tag and opening tag would do the same thing, without forcing you to set and reset the font-size.
Widths for elements with padding
In CSS, a width is defined by default for an element to include only its content area (box-sizing: content-box; by default) and not the padding. Set the box-sizing to border-box and you'll be all set.
E.g.
.font-size-0 > div {
box-sizing: border-size;
}
Properly wrapping a single word without spaces
See this StackOverflow answer to see how to address the issue. You will basically need to add this to your .username rule:
.username {
...
word-wrap:break-word;
}
Final Result jsFiddle
Given the following html:
<div class="body">
<div class="banner">
<div class="name">
<h2>
<a href="http://www.example.com">
<span class="bold">Test Link</span><br/>
</a>
</h2>
</div>
<div class="title">
<h3>A Connections Learning Partner Program</h3>
<p>Quality online learning for high school students in Oakland County and surrounding counties.
</p>
</div>
<div class="link">
Learn More
</div>
</div>
</div>
How can I vertically align .link a (the button) within .link without giving a height or width? Like this...
Here's my fiddle
Here is one way that you can do it. Your HTML is good, no need to change anything.
For the CSS:
.body { width: 920px; }
.banner {
background-color: #454545;
border-bottom: 3px solid #F9F9F9;
height: 100px;
margin: 0 0 5px;
padding: 0;
display: table;
}
.banner > div {
outline: 1px dotted yellow; /* optional to show cell edges... */
display: table-cell;
}
.banner .name {
width: 25%;
vertical-align: top;
padding-top: 25px; /* control top white space */
text-align: center;
}
.banner .name h2 {
color: #F9F9F9;
max-height: 55px;
text-transform: uppercase;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.banner .title {
width: 50%;
vertical-align: top;
padding-top: 25px;
}
.banner .title h3 {
font-size: 15px;
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 15px;
margin: 0px 0 0 0;
padding: 0;
}
.banner .title p {
font-size: 12px;
max-height: 35px;
overflow: hidden;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.banner .link {
width: 25%;
vertical-align: middle;
text-align: left; /* set to left, center or right as needed */
}
.banner .link a {
margin-left: 25px; /* controls left offset */
background-color: #FA9800;
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
cursor: pointer;
display: inline-block; /* use inline-block if you want to center element */
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
height: 23px;
line-height: 23px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
width: 100px;
}
See the fiddle at: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/jsG8F/
How This Works
The trick is to use display: table on your .banner container and then display: table-cell on your child div elements, and set the % widths to 25%, 50%, 25% respectively for .name, .title, .link.
You can then use vertical-align and text-align to control vertical and horizontal placement of the various text blocks.
I added comments related to using padding-top to control white space from the top of the banner.
For the .link a element, you can adjust the left margin (or right) as needed.
These CSS rules offer you a lot of fine control over the placement of the various elements within the banner.
Backwards Compatibility
The display: table-cell property is backwards compatible back to IE8.
Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/display
If the size of the element and banner are fixed, use margin-top to offset the element.
Marc Audet was very close but I ended up going a slightly different route.
I gave .link a a fixed top margin and made margin-left: auto; and margin-right: auto; and that did the trick.
Here is the fiddle for reference.