Hey I am trying to place the 'title' attribute of a <section> tag inside a <h3> tag located just below and inside the <section> tag.The following works
<section title="General Information">
<h3>General Information</h3>
....
</section>
what I would like to do is not repeat 'General Information' inside the <h3> tag but use CSS content along with attr() to get the info inside of the tittle attribute in the <section> tag and place it inside the <h3> tags.
<section title="General Information">
<h3></h3>
....
</section>
section h3:after
{
content:attr(title);
}
This as expected looks for the 'title' attribute inside of the <h3> tag instead of the <section> tag. Is there any way I can achieve what I am trying to accomplish? Is what I am trying to accomplish the right way of doing things? I know I could skip the <h3> tags altogether and format the <section> tag to display whatever text is in 'title' attribute the same way that the <h3> tag would.
The attr() function can only obtain an attribute from the element that's generating the content. You won't be able to get the section element's title because it's not the element that's generating the content.
As ScottS mentions, you should really avoid having an empty heading element, as there wouldn't be a point in having it there at all then. Your best bet is to either leave out the title attribute (is it really needed?), or leave the content duplicated.
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Normally, CSS works by matching element names in the HTML:p.heading1 {} affects all elements of type p with class heading1.
Is there a way to display an object/text that only exists as an attribute?
For example, this is my HTML:
<body var="text I want to insert">
<div class="titlepage">
<p class="titlepagetext">this should also be displayed</p>
The title page has a number of <p> children. In addition to them, I want to display the content of body/var on the title page.
You can probably consider CSS variables. The custom property will get inherited by all the elements inside the body and you can use pseudo element to display it where you want:
.titlepage:before {
content:var(--var);
}
<body style="--var:'text I want to insert'">
<div class="titlepage">
<p class="titlepagetext">this should also be displayed</p>
</div>
</body>
AH Formatter has an -ah-attr-from() extension function that will let you get the contents of an ancestor's attribute (see https://www.antennahouse.com/product/ahf66/ahf-ext.html#attr-from).
You could use -ah-attr-from() in a rule for .titlepagetext::before.
When you using css, you can't target parent. There is no way to get parent selector. And content: "" can apply only for pseudo-classes.
I am trying to use my <div> element as <p> a element.
The HTML doesn't allow this and when I try to use <p> inside <p> or <h1> inside <p> I got
my <p> wrapper closed. (something like this <p></p><h1>blah</h1>)
I need that my <div> get the same behavior of my <p> tag.
Can I do this using css style?
[UPDATE]
Just to explain, I need to do this because I am using tinymce and abcpdf.. the rendered pdf over the html has problems when text is rendered inside div.
I think that default values of the parent (in this case, the <div>), get over not assigneds properties.
[/UPDATE]
Thanks in advance.
try to use
<span>
instead
<div>
The tag is used to group inline-elements in a document.
The tag provides no visual change by itself.
The tag provides a way to add a hook to a part of a text or a part of a document.
References:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_span.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_span
In HTML, should block level elements always wrap <a> tags? What if it's necessary for the tag to wrap the block level element to ensure the correct styles are applied? For example can this
<h3>Your Header</h3>
be this
<h3>Your Header</h3>
NB: I'm going for the latter approach to ensure the correct styles are applied (I'm working with legacy code that is just not worth re-working for this one element), but while doing this I was interested to know what the community's views are.
And yes I have read this question In HTML which way round should a and h1 be nested? but I'm not sure if a different or more flexible rule applies for <h3> tags.
Taking in the comments below and looking again at the code, I have two possible solutions:
Wrap the <h3> elements with <a> elements (ok in HTML5)
Add .class a to the CSS so that it inherits parent div styles as follows:
HTML
<div class="class">
<h3>Your Header</h3>
</div>
CSS
.class, .class a {
width:296px;
height:46px;
overflow:hidden;
color:#FE5815;
}
In this context, it is absolutely allowed for the a element to contain the h3 element, at least according to HTML5.
An a element is known as a "transparent" element: it may contain whatever its parent element may contain. The only criterion is that it may not contain any other "interactive" content, e.g. other a elements, button elements, iframe elements. In this case, presuming that the first version is allowed, the second version is also allowed under HTML5.
This is the page in the HTML5 spec that specifies this. It takes a little interpretation to understand, unfortunately...
Note that there is one case in HTML5 where
<h3>Your Header</h3>
would be valid, but
<h3>Your Header</h3>
would not, and that's when the parent of the <h3> element is an <hgroup> element.
The <hgroup> element can only have <h?> children, so while the transparent content model of the <a> element allows an <h3> to be its child, the <a> element remains invalid as a child of <hgroup>.
In this case
<hgroup>
<h3>
Your Header
</h3>
</hgroup>
and
<a href="/">
<hgroup>
<h3>Your Header</h3>
</hgroup>
</a>
are the only valid arrangements.
Both are ok
<h3>Your Header</h3>
<h3>Your Header</h3>
But I will use 1st one if I don't care whatever there is in the anchor and I just want it to look like <h3>
And I will use 2nd one if I am concerned about a particular part of anchor needs <h3>. For
example below I need the 2nd one.
check normal text <h3>check large text</h3>
In HTML 4.01 and XHTML, an h3 tag may contain a a tag, but not the other way around.
In HTML5, both ways are valid. If an a tag contains an h3 tag though, the a tag must NOT be nested in an element that cannot contain an h3 element.
I read about semantic HTML online...
Semantic HTML means using HTML tags for their implied meaning, rather than just using (meaningless) div and span tags for absolutely everything.
If you use <h1> instead of <div class="header">, and <h2> instead of , et cetera, Google and other search engines will interpret your headers as being important titles in your page. This way, when people search on the words in your headers and sub-headers, your page will be considered more relevant (and rank higher). Plus, it's much shorter and cleaner.
So, below is semantic,
<h1>My Website Name</h1>
<h2>My Website Tagline </h2>
What about this below?
<div id="header">
<h1><span class="hide">My Website Name</span></h1>
<h2><span class="hide">My Website Tagline</span></h2>
</div>
I tend to combine h tags with div and span tags like above - is this practised considered as the lack of semantic?
The reason why I have the span with the hide class is that I want to display the site logo instead of text. So use CSS to set the background of h1 as image and then hide the text. is this incorrect practise?
Then, if I don't use div, what can I use to make a box around the h1 and h2?
As far as I know, html 5 is not fully ready yet, we must not use <header> yet, must we??
Thanks.
I would do something like the following if I was going to use HTML5:
<header>
<hgroup>
<h1>My Website Name</h1>
<h2>My Website Tagline</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
Remember to add display: block; to the HTML5 elements and createElement for IE in the CSS though. The header element shows the block is a header and the hgroup element is there to show that the second h* element is a sub heading, so shouldn't be taken into account when calculating the header levels in the document.
If you don't want to use HTML5 yet then you could use divs instead of the new elements, and use the HTML5 element names as the class value. This will make it easier to switch over when you feel comfortable using HMTL5 on a live site.
You don't really need to use the span elements. You can use tricks such as using a large negative text-indent in the CSS to hide the text off the screen.
If you want to display a logo instead of text, use an image. Google say so (even if they don't know the difference between a tag and an attribute). Taglines, BTW, are not subheadings (and the site name (and thus logo) is usually only a heading on the homepage).
<div id="header">
<h1><img src="foo.png" alt="My Website Name"></h1>
<p><img src="foo.png" alt="My Website Tagline"></p>
</div>
Unfortunately, Internet Explorer 8 does not recognize many HTML5 tags, and when I've tested it, I was unable to set CSS values for the <header> tag, for example. So for now I would recommend that you continue to use div tags to group your semantic meaning.
As a sidenote, Google does not like hidden text, and if you have a lot of it, it will consider it deceptive coding. One is probably fine, but you'd be better off using the alt attribute on the image tag.
Nobody suggested that you should not use DIVs at all... semantic HTML does not mean there cannot be div or span tags in your code. It just only means that whenever possible (there is a specific tag available for a specific semantic meaning) you should try to give semantic meaning.
h2 is not to be used for taglines, as somebody else already suggested.
Also, in my interpretation (some will argue), h1 is not for the name of your website. It is the title for the content on a specific page.
I agree with #David Dorward, the tag line should be in a p tag.
Your example (wrapping the header elements with a div) is perfectly acceptable, though I would like to raise a small caution: Be careful that you do not get in the habit of wrapping everything in div tags. For example:
<div class="content">
<div class="list">
<ul>
<li>something</li>
<li>something</li>
<li>something</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
Since a ul tag is already a block element, the above markup would be better off like this:
<div class="content">
<ul class="list">
<li>something</li>
<li>something</li>
<li>something</li>
</ul>
</div>
And then just style the ul to look like the div.
On the matter of displaying the logo as an image:
If your logo is text-based, or has text in it, you would be better off doing the following:
HTML
<div id="header">
<h1 class="logo">My Logo Text - My Website Tagline</h1>
</div>
CSS
.logo { text-indent:-9999px;background-image:url(thelogo.jpg) no-repeat;}
/* Also add height and width based on your logo height and width */
I know that it's incorrect to style a <section> tag but how about the <header> and <footer> tags. If using these tags provides a more semantic markup then they should be used, however, if they can't be styled then a <div> would still need to be inserted inside the tag to wrap the content and style it.
I know that <header> can be styled but I'm not sure if it's correct to do so.
So the question is: Should html5 tags be styled or should a <div> be placed inside to take care of the styling?
Nothing in the spec says you can't or shouldn't style HTML5 elements such as <section> or <article>. It only says that you shouldn't place a semantic HTML5 element somewhere 'for the sake of' styling something. Use a <div> instead.
So if you have a semantic reason to add the <section> or <article> somewhere, then by all means add it AND also feel free to style it as well. But if you have to wrap a section of your mark-up for styling purposes (eg. to add a border, or float left etc.), but that section does not have any semantic meaning in your mark-up, then use a <div>.
For instance:
<div class="mainBox">
<nav class="breadcrumbs">
<ol>
<li>...list of links (snip)....</li>
</ol>
</nav>
<section>
<h1>Latest Tweets From Twitter</h1>
<article>
//... a Tweet (snip)... //
</article>
<article>
//... a Tweet (snip)... //
</article>
//... lots more Twitter posts (snip)... //
</section>
</div>
The <section> element is the main part of your page (ie. your list of tweets) and also has a heading at the start which is required. But it's wrapped in a div.mainBox element because maybe you want to wrap a border around the both the breadcrumbs and section parts, ie. it's purely for styling. But there's nothing to stop you styling the <section> and <article> elements also.
It's is not incorrect to style these tags, but they are not solely for styling purposes as they serve a semantic function. By all means style the elements that you need to use, but don't add them to achieve styles thereby ruining the semantics.
Having said that you must also beware of styling them as they are not recognised by all browsers. For example IE6 and 7 will not apply the styles as they won't recognise the element names. You can get around this in IE7 using ARIA tags which will allow you some styling control.