Is there a quick and easy way for me to vertically center my SVG icon with the corresponding text? I was able to get it to be close, but I'd like to nudge it down a bit. This is as close as I've got
Here's how I'm implementing it:
HTML:
<ul class="list-goals">
<li>Some text for li number one</li>
<li>Some text for li number two</li>
<li>Some text for li number three</li>
</ul>
CSS:
.list-goals li {
margin-bottom: 1rem;
background: url(../images/trophy.svg) no-repeat left top;
padding: 0px 0 3px 24px;
}
I figure I could always use a png with built in padding, but I'd rather stick to my svg and apply positioning or padding directly to the svg icon.
Thanks for the help!
I know this is a late answer, but you can try this as well.
li { list-style-image: url(img/iphone.svg); }
There is nothing else you need to do because the SVG is applied with default spacing.
Just use the background-position CSS property to move the image where you want it.
Here's a simple example (using a data URI image, but will work just as well with an external file):
li {
font-size: 30px;
list-style-type: none;
margin-bottom: 1rem;
background: url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiID8+PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgd2lkdGg9IjIwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjIwIiB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMjAgMjAiPjxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wIDAgMjAgMTAgMCAyMFoiIGZpbGw9IiNhYWEiLz48L3N2Zz4=) no-repeat left top;
padding: 0px 0 3px 24px;
}
ul.better li {
background-position: left 4px;
}
<p>ok:</p>
<ul class="ok">
<li>Text</li>
</ul>
<hr />
<p>better:</p>
<ul class="better">
<li>Text</li>
</ul>
Given this simple SVG example:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 600 600">
<style type="text/css">
circle:hover {fill-opacity:0.9;}
</style>
<g style="fill-opacity:0.7;">
<circle cx="6.5cm" cy="2cm" r="100" style="fill:red; stroke:black; stroke-width:0.1cm" transform="translate(0,50)" />
<circle cx="6.5cm" cy="2cm" r="100" style="fill:blue; stroke:black; stroke-width:0.1cm" transform="translate(70,150)" />
<circle cx="6.5cm" cy="2cm" r="100" style="fill:green; stroke:black; stroke-width:0.1cm" transform="translate(-70,150)"/>
</g>
</svg>
If I were to change the viewBox to viewBox="0 -20 600 600", it would move the image down -20 units. The result would be this in browser (-20 on right):
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Quick question and a very simple HTML CSS question but I'm not getting it.
Here is my image rendering inside of a tag.
I don't really understand why there's a gap kind of padding-bottom in the aside which is not allowing my image to sit on the bottom => just like it would be bottom:0 if we were talking about position: absolute (which is not the case tho).
Here's the code:
<aside
class="aside"
>
<h1>This is the aside</h1>
<h2
>
Join this great community!
</h2>
<div class="link-container">
<a
class="link"
href="https://app.redpadel.com"
> Link </a
>
</div>
<div class="icon-container">
<svg
width="160"
height="161"
viewBox="0 0 160 161"
fill="none"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
>
<path
d="M12.9859 35.5114C12.9859 35.5114 14.7383 71.4143 37.308 84.3381C53.2318 93.4563 73.9771 87.9876 73.4958 75.7778C73.2413 69.3196 66.3035 68.1061 62.0894 70.5929C54.473 75.0874 59.0025 94.4066 67.3688 102.896C96.385 132.339 151.835 110.545 151.835 110.545"
stroke="white"
stroke-width="2"
stroke-linecap="round"
/>
<path
d="M147.668 119.084L152.597 110.624L143.688 104.809"
stroke="white"
stroke-width="2"
stroke-linecap="round"
stroke-linejoin="round"
/>
</svg>
</div>
<div
class="img-container"
>
<img
class="image"
:src="require('../assets/img/capsule_member.jpg')"
alt="Padel team"
/>
</div>
</aside>
<style scoped>
aside {
background: rgb(19, 20, 21);
width: 90%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.link {
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
}
.image {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
.img-container {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
</style>
The body is set to margin & padding: 0
Use display: block on the image, otherwise it's treated as an inline element, keeping space for descenders below the baseline.
I ran into a weird problem with Safari.
It seems to ignore the padding of a link when the span inside is inline-block.
Works in FF and Chrome but Safari just ignores the right padding.
I can add a padding to the span inside but then FF and Chrome have too much space on the right. The structure is generated by the speeddial component in primefaces so not easily changed.
Here's a Screenshot of the problem in Safari and Firefox for comparison.
Anyone ran into this problem before?
Thanks in advance!
ul{
width: 200px;
height: auto;
list-style: none;
}
li{
margin-bottom: 1em;
}
a{
display: inline-block;
background: red;
padding: 0 1em;
}
span{
white-space: nowrap;
}
svg{
margin-right: 0.5em;
max-width: 1.25rem;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#"><span>
<svg enable-background="new 0 0 20 21.4" viewBox="0 0 20 21.4">
<path d="m13.1 8.4v-6h1v-2h-8.2v2h1v6l-4.4 9.6c-.1.1-.1.3-.1.4v.5c0 .2 0 .4.1.6s.1.4.3.5c.2.3.4.5.7.7.2.2.5.3.9.3h11.2c.3 0 .7-.1 1-.3s.5-.4.7-.7c.2-.3.3-.6.3-1 0-.3 0-.7-.2-1zm-4.2.7c0-.1.1-.2.1-.2 0-.1 0-.1 0-.2v-6.2h2v6.2.2c0 .1 0 .2.1.2l2.1 4.7h-6.4z" fill="#fff"></path>
</svg>
Link text one
</span></a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#"><span>
<svg enable-background="new 0 0 20 21.4" viewBox="0 0 20 21.4">
<path d="m13.1 8.4v-6h1v-2h-8.2v2h1v6l-4.4 9.6c-.1.1-.1.3-.1.4v.5c0 .2 0 .4.1.6s.1.4.3.5c.2.3.4.5.7.7.2.2.5.3.9.3h11.2c.3 0 .7-.1 1-.3s.5-.4.7-.7c.2-.3.3-.6.3-1 0-.3 0-.7-.2-1zm-4.2.7c0-.1.1-.2.1-.2 0-.1 0-.1 0-.2v-6.2h2v6.2.2c0 .1 0 .2.1.2l2.1 4.7h-6.4z" fill="#fff"></path>
</svg>
Link text
</span></a>
</li>
</ul>
I am having issues with underlining button text using box-shadow and wrapping it on multiple lines. It should be solved using just CSS.
Needs to use the following HTML (can't add HTML tags, special characters etc.):
<button class="button">
<span class="button__inner">
<span class="button__text">
Button with very very very long example text
</span>
<svg class="button__icon" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
<path d="M4,11V13H16L10.5,18.5L11.92,19.92L19.84,12L11.92,4.08L10.5,5.5L16,11H4Z" />
</svg>
</span>
</button>
Visually it should look like this!
Requirements:
Use box-shadow to underline text on multiple lines.
Do not add additional HTML (needs to use HTML structure provided above).
.button__inner has to be display: flex or inline-flex.
The icon needs to be aligned right (in its own column), vertically centered and not have underline.
.button {
background: none;
border: none;
font-size: 12px;
cursor: pointer;
}
.button:focus {
outline: none;
}
.button__inner {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: flex-start;
text-align: left;
}
.button__text {
box-shadow: inset 0 -1px currentColor;
}
.button:hover .button__text {
box-shadow: none;
}
.button__icon {
width: 1em;
height: 1em;
}
p {
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 1.2em;
}
<div style="max-width: 200px">
<p>
Following button using correct HTML, however box-shadow does not underline correctly on multiple lines. The icon needs to be on the right in its own column so therefore adding display: inline; to .button__inner is not an option.
</p>
<button class="button">
<span class="button__inner">
<span class="button__text">
Button with very very very long example text
</span>
<svg class="button__icon" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
<path d="M4,11V13H16L10.5,18.5L11.92,19.92L19.84,12L11.92,4.08L10.5,5.5L16,11H4Z" />
</svg>
</span>
</button>
<p>
Below is the visually desired result, however it uses an additional span element. How to achieve this using just CSS and without altering the HTML?
</p>
<button class="button">
<span class="button__inner">
<span>
<span class="button__text">
Button with very very very long example text
</span>
</span>
<svg class="button__icon" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
<path d="M4,11V13H16L10.5,18.5L11.92,19.92L19.84,12L11.92,4.08L10.5,5.5L16,11H4Z" />
</svg>
</span>
</button>
</div>
Is this even possible using just CSS?
Does it work in your case to use text-decoration: underline instead of box-shadow? like this example: https://codepen.io/annaazzam/pen/PoZEJwX
Is there any way to make a transparent text cut out of a background effect like the one in the following image, with CSS?
It would be sad to lose all precious SEO because of images replacing text.
I first thought of shadows but I can't figure anything out...
The image is the site background, an absolute positioned <img> tag
It's possible with css3 but it's not supported in all browsers
With background-clip: text; you can use a background for the text, but you will have to align it with the background of the page
body {
background: url(http://www.color-hex.com/palettes/26323.png) repeat;
margin:10px;
}
h1 {
background-color:#fff;
overflow:hidden;
display:inline-block;
padding:10px;
font-weight:bold;
font-family:arial;
color:transparent;
font-size:200px;
}
span {
background: url(http://www.color-hex.com/palettes/26323.png) -20px -20px repeat;
-webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
-webkit-background-clip: text;
display:block;
}
<h1><span>ABCDEFGHIKJ</span></h1>
http://jsfiddle.net/JGPuZ/1337/
Automatic Alignment
With a little javascript you can align the background automatically:
$(document).ready(function(){
//Position of the header in the webpage
var position = $("h1").position();
var padding = 10; //Padding set to the header
var left = position.left + padding;
var top = position.top + padding;
$("h1").find("span").css("background-position","-"+left+"px -"+top+"px");
});
body {
background: url(http://www.color-hex.com/palettes/26323.png) repeat;
margin:10px;
}
h1 {
background-color:#fff;
overflow:hidden;
display:inline-block;
padding:10px;
font-weight:bold;
font-family:arial;
color:transparent;
font-size:200px;
}
span {
background: url(http://www.color-hex.com/palettes/26323.png) -20px -20px repeat;
-webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
-webkit-background-clip: text;
display:block;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<h1><span>ABCDEFGHIKJ</span></h1>
http://jsfiddle.net/JGPuZ/1336/
Although this is possible with CSS, a better approach would be to use an inline SVG with SVG masking. This approach has some advantages over CSS :
Much better browser support: IE10+, chrome, Firefox, safari...
This doesn't impact SEO as spiders can crawl SVG content (google indexes SVG content since 2010)
CodePen Demo : SVG text mask
body,html{height:100%;margin:0;padding:0;}
body{
background:url('https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8760/17195790401_94fcf60556_c.jpg');
background-size:cover;
background-attachment:fixed;
}
svg{width:100%;}
<svg viewbox="0 0 100 60">
<defs>
<mask id="mask" x="0" y="0" width="100" height="50">
<rect x="0" y="0" width="100" height="40" fill="#fff"/>
<text text-anchor="middle" x="50" y="18" dy="1">SVG</text>
<text text-anchor="middle" x="50" y="30" dy="1">Text mask</text>
</mask>
</defs>
<rect x="5" y="5" width="90" height="30" mask="url(#mask)" fill-opacity="0.5"/>
</svg>
If you aim on making the text selectable and searchable, you need to include it outside the <defs> tag. The following example shows a way to do that keeping the transparent text with the <use> tag:
body,html{height:100%;margin:0;padding:0;}
body{
background:url('https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8760/17195790401_94fcf60556_c.jpg');
background-size:cover;
background-attachment:fixed;
}
svg{width:100%;}
<svg viewbox="0 0 100 60">
<defs>
<g id="text">
<text text-anchor="middle" x="50" y="18" dy="1">SVG</text>
<text text-anchor="middle" x="50" y="30" dy="1">Text mask</text>
</g>
<mask id="mask" x="0" y="0" width="100" height="50">
<rect x="0" y="0" width="100" height="40" fill="#fff"/>
<use xlink:href="#text" />
</mask>
</defs>
<rect x="5" y="5" width="90" height="30" mask="url(#mask)" fill-opacity="0.5"/>
<use xlink:href="#text" mask="url(#mask)" />
</svg>
There is a simple way to do this with just CSS:
background: black;
color: white;
mix-blend-mode: multiply;
for transparent text on a black background, or
background: white;
color: black;
mix-blend-mode: screen;
for transparent text on a white background.
Put these styles on your text element with whichever background you want behind it.
Example CodePen
Read up on mix-blend-mode and experiment with it to use different colours.
Caveats:
For this to work in chrome, you also need to explicitly set a background colour on the html element.
This works on basically all modern browsers except IE.
It is possible, but so far only with Webkit based browsers (Chrome, Safari, Rockmelt, anything based on the Chromium project.)
The trick is to have an element within the white one that has the same background as the body, then use -webkit- background-clip: text; on the inner element which basically means "don't extend the background beyond the text" and use transparent text.
section
{
background: url(http://norcaleasygreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/turf-grass1.jpg);
width: 100%;
height: 300px;
}
div
{
background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1);
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);
width: 60%;
heighT: 80%;
margin: 0 auto;
font-size: 60px;
text-align: center;
}
p
{
background: url(http://norcaleasygreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/turf-grass1.jpg);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/BWRsA/
just put that css
.banner-sale-1 .title-box .title-overlay {
font-weight: 900;
overflow: hidden;
margin: 0;
padding-right: 10%;
padding-left: 10%;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: #080404;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .85);
/* that css is the main think (mix-blend-mode: lighten;)*/
mix-blend-mode: lighten;
}
I just discovered a new way to do this while messing around, I'm not entirely sure how it works ( if someone else wants to explain please do ).
It seems to work very well, and requires no double backgrounds or JavaScript.
Here's the code:
JSFIDDLE
body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
div {
background: url(http://www.color-hex.com/palettes/26323.png) repeat;
width: 100vw;
height: 100vh;
}
body::before {
content: '$ALPHABET';
left: 0;
top: 0;
position: absolute;
color: #222;
background-color: #fff;
padding: 1rem;
font-family: Arial;
z-index: 1;
mix-blend-mode: screen;
font-weight: 800;
font-size: 3rem;
letter-spacing: 1rem;
}
<div></div>
In the near future we can use element() to achieve this
The element() function allows an author to use an element in the document as an image. As the referenced element changes appearance, the image changes as well ref
The trick is to create a common div with text then use element() combined with mask.
Here is a basic example that works only on the latest version Firefox for now.
#text {
font-size:35px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#000;
font-family:sans-serif;
text-transform: uppercase;
white-space:nowrap;
/* we hide it */
position:fixed;
right:200vw;
bottom:200vh
}
body {
background:url(https://picsum.photos/id/1018/800/800) center/cover;
}
.main {
margin:50px;
height:100px;
background:red;
-webkit-mask:
-moz-element(#text) center/contain no-repeat, /* this behave like a background-image*/
linear-gradient(#fff 0 0);
mask-composite:exclude;
}
<div id="text">
You can put your text here
</div>
<div class="main">
</div>
It will produce the following:
It's reponsive since we rely on basic background properties and we can easily update the text using basic CSS.
We can consider any kind of content and also create patterns:
#text {
font-size:30px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#000;
font-family:sans-serif;
text-transform: uppercase;
white-space:nowrap;
padding:20px;
/* we hide it */
position:fixed;
right:200vw;
bottom:200vh
}
#text span {
font-family:cursive;
font-size:35px;
}
body {
background:url(https://picsum.photos/id/1018/800/800) center/cover;
}
.main {
margin:50px;
height:100px;
background:red;
-webkit-mask:
-moz-element(#text) 0 0/20% auto, /* this behave like a background-image*/
linear-gradient(#fff 0 0);
mask-composite:exclude;
}
<div id="text">
Your <span>text</span> here 👍
</div>
<div class="main">
</div>
And why not some animation to create an infinite scrolling text:
#text {
font-size:30px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#000;
font-family:sans-serif;
text-transform: uppercase;
white-space:nowrap;
padding:20px 5px;
/* we hide it */
position:fixed;
right:200vw;
bottom:200vh
}
body {
background:url(https://picsum.photos/id/1018/800/800) center/cover;
}
.main {
margin:50px;
height:100px;
padding-right:calc(50% - 50px);
background:red;
-webkit-mask:
-moz-element(#text) 0 50%/200% auto content-box, /* this behave like a background-image*/
linear-gradient(#fff 0 0);
mask-composite:exclude;
animation:m 5s linear infinite;
}
#keyframes m{
to {-webkit-mask-position:200% 50%}
}
<div id="text">
Srolling repeating text here
</div>
<div class="main">
</div>
I guess you could achieve something like that using background-clip, but I haven't tested that yet.
See this example:
http://www.css3.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/webkit-backgroundcliptext_color.html
(Webkit only, I don't know yet how to change the black background to a white one)
You can use an inverted / negative / reverse font and apply it with the font-face="…" CSS rule. You might have to play with letter spacing to avoid small white gaps between letters.
If you do not require a specific font, it's simple. Download a likeable one, for example from this collection of inverted fonts.
If you require a specific font (say, "Open Sans"), it's difficult. You have to convert your existing font into an inverted version. This is possible manually with Font Creator, FontForge etc., but of course we want an automated solution. I could not find instructions for that yet, but some hints:
How to convert a bitmap font into a TrueType font (plus yet another way to do that). One would first use ImageMagick commands to render the font glyphs into high-resolution raster images and to invert them, then convert them back to a TrueType font with the above instructions.
Is it possible to invert a font with FontForge or another PGM?
Creating a reverse (white on black) font
You can use myadzel's Patternizer jQuery plugin to achieve this effect across browsers. At this time, there is no cross-browser way to do this with just CSS.
You use Patternizer by adding class="background-clip" to HTML elements where you want the text to be painted as an image pattern, and specify the image in an additional data-pattern="…" attribute. See the source of the demo. Patternizer will create an SVG image with pattern-filled text and underlay it to the transparently rendered HTML element.
If, as in the question's example image, the text fill pattern should be a part of a background image extending beyond the "patternized" element, I see two options (untested, my favourite first):
Use masking instead of a background image in the SVG. As in web-tiki's answer, to which using Patternizer will still add automatic generation of the SVG and an invisible HTML element on top that allows text selection and copying.
Or use automatic alignment of the pattern image. Can be done with JavaScript code similar to the one in Gijs's answer.
I needed to make text that looked exactly like it does in the original post, but I couldn't just fake it by lining up backgrounds, because there's some animation behind the element. Nobody seems to have suggested this yet, so here's what I did: (Tried to make it as easy to read as possible.)
var el = document.body; //Parent Element. Text is centered inside.
var mainText = "THIS IS THE FIRST LINE"; //Header Text.
var subText = "THIS TEXT HAS A KNOCKOUT EFFECT"; //Knockout Text.
var fontF = "Roboto, Arial"; //Font to use.
var mSize = 42; //Text size.
//Centered text display:
var tBox = centeredDiv(el), txtMain = mkDiv(tBox, mainText), txtSub = mkDiv(tBox),
ts = tBox.style, stLen = textWidth(subText, fontF, mSize)+5; ts.color = "#fff";
ts.font = mSize+"pt "+fontF; ts.fontWeight = 100; txtSub.style.fontWeight = 400;
//Generate subtext SVG for knockout effect:
txtSub.innerHTML =
"<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='"+stLen+"px' height='"+(mSize+11)+"px' viewBox='0 0 "+stLen+" "+(mSize+11)+"'>"+
"<rect x='0' y='0' width='100%' height='100%' fill='#fff' rx='4px' ry='4px' mask='url(#txtSubMask)'></rect>"+
"<mask id='txtSubMask'>"+
"<rect x='0' y='0' width='100%' height='100%' fill='#fff'></rect>"+
"<text x='"+(stLen/2)+"' y='"+(mSize+6)+"' font='"+mSize+"pt "+fontF+"' text-anchor='middle' fill='#000'>"+subText+"</text>"+
"</mask>"+
"</svg>";
//Relevant Helper Functions:
function centeredDiv(parent) {
//Container:
var d = document.createElement('div'), s = d.style;
s.display = "table"; s.position = "relative"; s.zIndex = 999;
s.top = s.left = 0; s.width = s.height = "100%";
//Content Box:
var k = document.createElement('div'), j = k.style;
j.display = "table-cell"; j.verticalAlign = "middle";
j.textAlign = "center"; d.appendChild(k);
parent.appendChild(d); return k;
}
function mkDiv(parent, tCont) {
var d = document.createElement('div');
if(tCont) d.textContent = tCont;
parent.appendChild(d); return d;
}
function textWidth(text, font, size) {
var canvas = window.textWidthCanvas || (window.textWidthCanvas = document.createElement("canvas")),
context = canvas.getContext("2d"); context.font = size+(typeof size=="string"?" ":"pt ")+font;
return context.measureText(text).width;
}
Just throw that in your window.onload, set the body's background to your image, and watch the magic happen!
mix-blend-mode is also a possibility for that kind of effect .
The mix-blend-mode CSS property sets how an element's content should blend with the content of the element's parent and the element's background.
h1 {
background:white;
mix-blend-mode:screen;
/* demo purpose from here */
padding:0.25em;
mix-blend-mode:screen;
}
html {
background:url(https://i.picsum.photos/id/1069/367/267.jpg?hmac=w5sk7UQ6HGlaOVQ494mSfIe902cxlel1BfGUBpEYoRw)center / cover ;
min-height:100vh;
display:flex;
}
body {margin:auto;}
h1:hover {border:dashed 10px white;background-clip:content-box;box-shadow:inset 0 0 0 2px #fff, 0 0 0 2px #fff}
<h1>ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ</h1>
This worked for me mix-blend-mode: color-dodge on the container with opposite colors.
.main{
background: url('https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2015/04/23/22/00/tree-736885__340.jpg');
height: 80vh;
width: 100vw;
padding: 40px;
}
.container{
background-color: white;
width: 80%;
height: 50px;
padding: 40px;
font-size: 3em;
font-weight: 600;
mix-blend-mode: color-dodge;
}
.container span{
color: black;
}
<div class="main">
<div class="container">
<span>This is my text</span>
</div>
</div>
Not possible with CSS just now I'm afraid.
Your best bet is to simply use an image (probably a PNG) and and place good alt/title text on it.
Alternatively you could use a SPAN or a DIV and have the image as a background to that with your text you want for SEO purposes inside it but text-indent it off screen.
Is there any way to make a transparent text cut out of a background effect like the one in the following image, with CSS?
It would be sad to lose all precious SEO because of images replacing text.
I first thought of shadows but I can't figure anything out...
The image is the site background, an absolute positioned <img> tag
It's possible with css3 but it's not supported in all browsers
With background-clip: text; you can use a background for the text, but you will have to align it with the background of the page
body {
background: url(http://www.color-hex.com/palettes/26323.png) repeat;
margin:10px;
}
h1 {
background-color:#fff;
overflow:hidden;
display:inline-block;
padding:10px;
font-weight:bold;
font-family:arial;
color:transparent;
font-size:200px;
}
span {
background: url(http://www.color-hex.com/palettes/26323.png) -20px -20px repeat;
-webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
-webkit-background-clip: text;
display:block;
}
<h1><span>ABCDEFGHIKJ</span></h1>
http://jsfiddle.net/JGPuZ/1337/
Automatic Alignment
With a little javascript you can align the background automatically:
$(document).ready(function(){
//Position of the header in the webpage
var position = $("h1").position();
var padding = 10; //Padding set to the header
var left = position.left + padding;
var top = position.top + padding;
$("h1").find("span").css("background-position","-"+left+"px -"+top+"px");
});
body {
background: url(http://www.color-hex.com/palettes/26323.png) repeat;
margin:10px;
}
h1 {
background-color:#fff;
overflow:hidden;
display:inline-block;
padding:10px;
font-weight:bold;
font-family:arial;
color:transparent;
font-size:200px;
}
span {
background: url(http://www.color-hex.com/palettes/26323.png) -20px -20px repeat;
-webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
-webkit-background-clip: text;
display:block;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<h1><span>ABCDEFGHIKJ</span></h1>
http://jsfiddle.net/JGPuZ/1336/
Although this is possible with CSS, a better approach would be to use an inline SVG with SVG masking. This approach has some advantages over CSS :
Much better browser support: IE10+, chrome, Firefox, safari...
This doesn't impact SEO as spiders can crawl SVG content (google indexes SVG content since 2010)
CodePen Demo : SVG text mask
body,html{height:100%;margin:0;padding:0;}
body{
background:url('https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8760/17195790401_94fcf60556_c.jpg');
background-size:cover;
background-attachment:fixed;
}
svg{width:100%;}
<svg viewbox="0 0 100 60">
<defs>
<mask id="mask" x="0" y="0" width="100" height="50">
<rect x="0" y="0" width="100" height="40" fill="#fff"/>
<text text-anchor="middle" x="50" y="18" dy="1">SVG</text>
<text text-anchor="middle" x="50" y="30" dy="1">Text mask</text>
</mask>
</defs>
<rect x="5" y="5" width="90" height="30" mask="url(#mask)" fill-opacity="0.5"/>
</svg>
If you aim on making the text selectable and searchable, you need to include it outside the <defs> tag. The following example shows a way to do that keeping the transparent text with the <use> tag:
body,html{height:100%;margin:0;padding:0;}
body{
background:url('https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8760/17195790401_94fcf60556_c.jpg');
background-size:cover;
background-attachment:fixed;
}
svg{width:100%;}
<svg viewbox="0 0 100 60">
<defs>
<g id="text">
<text text-anchor="middle" x="50" y="18" dy="1">SVG</text>
<text text-anchor="middle" x="50" y="30" dy="1">Text mask</text>
</g>
<mask id="mask" x="0" y="0" width="100" height="50">
<rect x="0" y="0" width="100" height="40" fill="#fff"/>
<use xlink:href="#text" />
</mask>
</defs>
<rect x="5" y="5" width="90" height="30" mask="url(#mask)" fill-opacity="0.5"/>
<use xlink:href="#text" mask="url(#mask)" />
</svg>
There is a simple way to do this with just CSS:
background: black;
color: white;
mix-blend-mode: multiply;
for transparent text on a black background, or
background: white;
color: black;
mix-blend-mode: screen;
for transparent text on a white background.
Put these styles on your text element with whichever background you want behind it.
Example CodePen
Read up on mix-blend-mode and experiment with it to use different colours.
Caveats:
For this to work in chrome, you also need to explicitly set a background colour on the html element.
This works on basically all modern browsers except IE.
It is possible, but so far only with Webkit based browsers (Chrome, Safari, Rockmelt, anything based on the Chromium project.)
The trick is to have an element within the white one that has the same background as the body, then use -webkit- background-clip: text; on the inner element which basically means "don't extend the background beyond the text" and use transparent text.
section
{
background: url(http://norcaleasygreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/turf-grass1.jpg);
width: 100%;
height: 300px;
}
div
{
background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1);
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);
width: 60%;
heighT: 80%;
margin: 0 auto;
font-size: 60px;
text-align: center;
}
p
{
background: url(http://norcaleasygreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/turf-grass1.jpg);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/BWRsA/
just put that css
.banner-sale-1 .title-box .title-overlay {
font-weight: 900;
overflow: hidden;
margin: 0;
padding-right: 10%;
padding-left: 10%;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: #080404;
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, .85);
/* that css is the main think (mix-blend-mode: lighten;)*/
mix-blend-mode: lighten;
}
I just discovered a new way to do this while messing around, I'm not entirely sure how it works ( if someone else wants to explain please do ).
It seems to work very well, and requires no double backgrounds or JavaScript.
Here's the code:
JSFIDDLE
body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
div {
background: url(http://www.color-hex.com/palettes/26323.png) repeat;
width: 100vw;
height: 100vh;
}
body::before {
content: '$ALPHABET';
left: 0;
top: 0;
position: absolute;
color: #222;
background-color: #fff;
padding: 1rem;
font-family: Arial;
z-index: 1;
mix-blend-mode: screen;
font-weight: 800;
font-size: 3rem;
letter-spacing: 1rem;
}
<div></div>
In the near future we can use element() to achieve this
The element() function allows an author to use an element in the document as an image. As the referenced element changes appearance, the image changes as well ref
The trick is to create a common div with text then use element() combined with mask.
Here is a basic example that works only on the latest version Firefox for now.
#text {
font-size:35px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#000;
font-family:sans-serif;
text-transform: uppercase;
white-space:nowrap;
/* we hide it */
position:fixed;
right:200vw;
bottom:200vh
}
body {
background:url(https://picsum.photos/id/1018/800/800) center/cover;
}
.main {
margin:50px;
height:100px;
background:red;
-webkit-mask:
-moz-element(#text) center/contain no-repeat, /* this behave like a background-image*/
linear-gradient(#fff 0 0);
mask-composite:exclude;
}
<div id="text">
You can put your text here
</div>
<div class="main">
</div>
It will produce the following:
It's reponsive since we rely on basic background properties and we can easily update the text using basic CSS.
We can consider any kind of content and also create patterns:
#text {
font-size:30px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#000;
font-family:sans-serif;
text-transform: uppercase;
white-space:nowrap;
padding:20px;
/* we hide it */
position:fixed;
right:200vw;
bottom:200vh
}
#text span {
font-family:cursive;
font-size:35px;
}
body {
background:url(https://picsum.photos/id/1018/800/800) center/cover;
}
.main {
margin:50px;
height:100px;
background:red;
-webkit-mask:
-moz-element(#text) 0 0/20% auto, /* this behave like a background-image*/
linear-gradient(#fff 0 0);
mask-composite:exclude;
}
<div id="text">
Your <span>text</span> here 👍
</div>
<div class="main">
</div>
And why not some animation to create an infinite scrolling text:
#text {
font-size:30px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#000;
font-family:sans-serif;
text-transform: uppercase;
white-space:nowrap;
padding:20px 5px;
/* we hide it */
position:fixed;
right:200vw;
bottom:200vh
}
body {
background:url(https://picsum.photos/id/1018/800/800) center/cover;
}
.main {
margin:50px;
height:100px;
padding-right:calc(50% - 50px);
background:red;
-webkit-mask:
-moz-element(#text) 0 50%/200% auto content-box, /* this behave like a background-image*/
linear-gradient(#fff 0 0);
mask-composite:exclude;
animation:m 5s linear infinite;
}
#keyframes m{
to {-webkit-mask-position:200% 50%}
}
<div id="text">
Srolling repeating text here
</div>
<div class="main">
</div>
I guess you could achieve something like that using background-clip, but I haven't tested that yet.
See this example:
http://www.css3.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/webkit-backgroundcliptext_color.html
(Webkit only, I don't know yet how to change the black background to a white one)
You can use an inverted / negative / reverse font and apply it with the font-face="…" CSS rule. You might have to play with letter spacing to avoid small white gaps between letters.
If you do not require a specific font, it's simple. Download a likeable one, for example from this collection of inverted fonts.
If you require a specific font (say, "Open Sans"), it's difficult. You have to convert your existing font into an inverted version. This is possible manually with Font Creator, FontForge etc., but of course we want an automated solution. I could not find instructions for that yet, but some hints:
How to convert a bitmap font into a TrueType font (plus yet another way to do that). One would first use ImageMagick commands to render the font glyphs into high-resolution raster images and to invert them, then convert them back to a TrueType font with the above instructions.
Is it possible to invert a font with FontForge or another PGM?
Creating a reverse (white on black) font
You can use myadzel's Patternizer jQuery plugin to achieve this effect across browsers. At this time, there is no cross-browser way to do this with just CSS.
You use Patternizer by adding class="background-clip" to HTML elements where you want the text to be painted as an image pattern, and specify the image in an additional data-pattern="…" attribute. See the source of the demo. Patternizer will create an SVG image with pattern-filled text and underlay it to the transparently rendered HTML element.
If, as in the question's example image, the text fill pattern should be a part of a background image extending beyond the "patternized" element, I see two options (untested, my favourite first):
Use masking instead of a background image in the SVG. As in web-tiki's answer, to which using Patternizer will still add automatic generation of the SVG and an invisible HTML element on top that allows text selection and copying.
Or use automatic alignment of the pattern image. Can be done with JavaScript code similar to the one in Gijs's answer.
I needed to make text that looked exactly like it does in the original post, but I couldn't just fake it by lining up backgrounds, because there's some animation behind the element. Nobody seems to have suggested this yet, so here's what I did: (Tried to make it as easy to read as possible.)
var el = document.body; //Parent Element. Text is centered inside.
var mainText = "THIS IS THE FIRST LINE"; //Header Text.
var subText = "THIS TEXT HAS A KNOCKOUT EFFECT"; //Knockout Text.
var fontF = "Roboto, Arial"; //Font to use.
var mSize = 42; //Text size.
//Centered text display:
var tBox = centeredDiv(el), txtMain = mkDiv(tBox, mainText), txtSub = mkDiv(tBox),
ts = tBox.style, stLen = textWidth(subText, fontF, mSize)+5; ts.color = "#fff";
ts.font = mSize+"pt "+fontF; ts.fontWeight = 100; txtSub.style.fontWeight = 400;
//Generate subtext SVG for knockout effect:
txtSub.innerHTML =
"<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='"+stLen+"px' height='"+(mSize+11)+"px' viewBox='0 0 "+stLen+" "+(mSize+11)+"'>"+
"<rect x='0' y='0' width='100%' height='100%' fill='#fff' rx='4px' ry='4px' mask='url(#txtSubMask)'></rect>"+
"<mask id='txtSubMask'>"+
"<rect x='0' y='0' width='100%' height='100%' fill='#fff'></rect>"+
"<text x='"+(stLen/2)+"' y='"+(mSize+6)+"' font='"+mSize+"pt "+fontF+"' text-anchor='middle' fill='#000'>"+subText+"</text>"+
"</mask>"+
"</svg>";
//Relevant Helper Functions:
function centeredDiv(parent) {
//Container:
var d = document.createElement('div'), s = d.style;
s.display = "table"; s.position = "relative"; s.zIndex = 999;
s.top = s.left = 0; s.width = s.height = "100%";
//Content Box:
var k = document.createElement('div'), j = k.style;
j.display = "table-cell"; j.verticalAlign = "middle";
j.textAlign = "center"; d.appendChild(k);
parent.appendChild(d); return k;
}
function mkDiv(parent, tCont) {
var d = document.createElement('div');
if(tCont) d.textContent = tCont;
parent.appendChild(d); return d;
}
function textWidth(text, font, size) {
var canvas = window.textWidthCanvas || (window.textWidthCanvas = document.createElement("canvas")),
context = canvas.getContext("2d"); context.font = size+(typeof size=="string"?" ":"pt ")+font;
return context.measureText(text).width;
}
Just throw that in your window.onload, set the body's background to your image, and watch the magic happen!
mix-blend-mode is also a possibility for that kind of effect .
The mix-blend-mode CSS property sets how an element's content should blend with the content of the element's parent and the element's background.
h1 {
background:white;
mix-blend-mode:screen;
/* demo purpose from here */
padding:0.25em;
mix-blend-mode:screen;
}
html {
background:url(https://i.picsum.photos/id/1069/367/267.jpg?hmac=w5sk7UQ6HGlaOVQ494mSfIe902cxlel1BfGUBpEYoRw)center / cover ;
min-height:100vh;
display:flex;
}
body {margin:auto;}
h1:hover {border:dashed 10px white;background-clip:content-box;box-shadow:inset 0 0 0 2px #fff, 0 0 0 2px #fff}
<h1>ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ</h1>
This worked for me mix-blend-mode: color-dodge on the container with opposite colors.
.main{
background: url('https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2015/04/23/22/00/tree-736885__340.jpg');
height: 80vh;
width: 100vw;
padding: 40px;
}
.container{
background-color: white;
width: 80%;
height: 50px;
padding: 40px;
font-size: 3em;
font-weight: 600;
mix-blend-mode: color-dodge;
}
.container span{
color: black;
}
<div class="main">
<div class="container">
<span>This is my text</span>
</div>
</div>
Not possible with CSS just now I'm afraid.
Your best bet is to simply use an image (probably a PNG) and and place good alt/title text on it.
Alternatively you could use a SPAN or a DIV and have the image as a background to that with your text you want for SEO purposes inside it but text-indent it off screen.