I am looking for some direction pointing as I am a bit lost.
I have a container div with a :before style I am using to add some information on a page. This works well as I found an example using SO at How can I add a large faded text background via css?. What I want is that when the "main" div is expanded, that it covers up the :before pseudo element's content.
I have tried various combinations of div structuring (containers) and palyed with the z-index of the pseudo element and the main div. NOTE that I can not put a "z-index" of -1 on the "title" text ... as that actually hides it behind content I actually want to see in my actual application.
HTML
<div class="show-title" data-div-title="Div Title">
<div class="center-me">
This is my box!
</div
<div>
<button id="set500">500px</button>
<button id="set1000">1000px</button>
<button id="set1500">1500px</button>
CSS
.show-title::before {
color: dimgrey;
content: attr(data-div-title);
display: block;
font-size: 1.2em;
line-height: 1;
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
left: 10px;
-ms-writing-mode: vertical-lr;
writing-mode: vertical-lr;
text-orientation: upright;
padding: 3px;
background-color: gainsboro;
border: 1px solid darkgray;
border-radius: 3px;
z-index:1;
}
.center-me {
color: dimgrey;
padding:10px;
background-color: gainsboro;
border: 1px solid maroon;
width: 500px;
height: 300px;
margin-left: auto ;
margin-right: auto ;
overflow: auto;
z-index:10;
}
JavaScript (just for enlarging the main content div, not apart of the actual question!)
(function($){
$("#set500").on("click", function() {
$(".center-me").width("500px");
})
$("#set1000").on("click", function() {
$(".center-me").width("1000px");
})
$("#set1500").on("click", function() {
$(".center-me").width("1500px");
})
})(jQuery);
I created a little jsFiddle to show what I am referring to. When the "box" is expanded, I would like it to go "over" (basically hiding) any of the "Title" text. (Any little bit left over showing is fine!)
http://jsfiddle.net/uLohn3e4/3/
Any direction pointing would be useful as I just could not find what I was trying to accomplish. Even if that is to try a new layout altogether (that achieves something similar). If I am missing any useful information, please ask ... thanks in advance.
Simply add position:relative; to your .center-me element
in order for your z-index to apply z-index#MDN.
http://jsfiddle.net/uLohn3e4/5/
Related
My current project wants to have a decoration in front of some of the anchors (A), so far this is done by using ::before. However, it shows up that some of the links will line-break and then the second and eventual additional lines will align left with the decoration where it's nicer if it aligns with the text on first line.
There's a fiddle which I hope explains what we are trying to achieve. The .fake class is just for demonstration how it should look, it's of course not an attempt to solve it: https://jsfiddle.net/p0jLoyqz/
.decorated::before {
content: ">",
font-weight: 800
}
One solution could be to wrap the anchor in another element and add the decoration to the wrapper, but it would be good to keep down the markup as much as possible.
You can make the pseudo element position:absolute; and position it left:0; and give the container a padding of 10px or15px
.small-box {
width: 120px;
border: 1px solid gray;
padding-left: 10px;
position: relative;
}
.small-box a::before {
content: '>';
display: inline-block;
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
}
<div class="small-box">
<a class="fake" href="#">my link that line breaks</a>
</div>
I'm trying create a balanced (2-) column-layout.
The content is not text but blocks and varies in height.
The content should be placed alternatingly left and right, as long as "left" and "right" have (roughly) the same height..
I.e. in this image:
The space between 1 and 3's shouldn't be there.
Or in this image:
the 2's should stand alone on the right side and the 1, 3's and 4 should stand on the left side (without space between them).
I tried using "floating <li>'s" like this:
HTML:
<ol class="context">
<li class="gruppe">1</li>
<li class="gruppe">2.0<br />2.1</li>
<li class="gruppe">3.0<br />3.1</li>
<li class="gruppe">4</li>
</ol>
CSS:
ol.context
{
border: 1px solid #048;
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0 0 8px 0;
overflow: auto;
}
li.gruppe
{
background: #048;
color: white;
float: left;
font: bold 32px Arial, sans-serif;
margin: 1px;
text-align: center;
width: calc(50% - 2px);
}
(See attempt 1 and attempt 2)
I have also tried to use column's (column-count: 2; column-fill: auto;) but this does not fill the columns left-to-right first. (It fills top-to-bottom first.)
Is this even possible without JavaScript?
I would say this is not possible without JS. Here is a fiddle I made based on an article from Ben Holland. At least to me looks like what you are after.
http://jsfiddle.net/QWsBJ/2/
HTML:
<body onload="setupBlocks();">
<div class="block">
<p>***Content***</p>
</div>
<div class="block">
<p>***Content***</p>
</div>
<div class="block">
<p>***Content***</p>
</div>
<div class="block">
<p>***Content***</p>
</div>
<div class="block">
<p>***Content***</p>
</div>
</body>
CSS:
.block {
position: absolute;
background: #eee;
padding: 20px;
width: 300px;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
}
JS:
var colCount = 0;
var colWidth = 0;
var margin = 20;
var blocks = [];
$(function(){
$(window).resize(setupBlocks);
});
function setupBlocks() {
colWidth = $('.block').outerWidth();
colCount = 2
for(var i=0;i<colCount;i++){
blocks.push(margin);
}
positionBlocks();
}
function positionBlocks() {
$('.block').each(function(){
var min = Array.min(blocks);
var index = $.inArray(min, blocks);
var leftPos = margin+(index*(colWidth+margin));
$(this).css({
'left':leftPos+'px',
'top':min+'px'
});
blocks[index] = min+$(this).outerHeight()+margin;
});
}
Array.min = function(array) {
return Math.min.apply(Math, array);
};
Updated: I believe this is almost impossible to achieve with CSS only. There are many different solutions, but they all require some compromises unless you are willing to use JavaScript or some server-side code.
Using CSS columns
Here's an alternate fiddle using reordered blocks. Here's a fiddle demo using CSS columns without reordering.
You can use CSS colunms to change your block flow to vertical unless you alter the order of their output. If you can output odd numbers first, then even numbers, you win.
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="block1">1</div>
<div class="block3">3</div>
<div class="block2">2</div>
<div class="block6">4</div>
</div>
.wrapper {
column-count: 2;
column-width: 100px;
-moz-column-width: 100px;
-webkit-column-width: 100px;
width: 260px;
}
div {
border: 1px solid #999;
display: inline-block;
margin: 10px;
width: 100px;
}
.block1 { height: 100px; }
.block2 { height: 130px; }
.block3 { height: 150px; }
.block4 { height: 100px; }
This solution is not compatible with IE9 and below.
Block Height Known
If you do know your block heights you can solve this problem by using absolute positioning.
block1 {
height: 100px;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 0;
}
block2 {
height: 110px;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: 100px; /* The height of the div above it */
}
A big drawback is dynamic content; we seldom know block height. So this solution is very limited in its application unless you are willing to calculate the height block height.
If you are willing to use JS
Use a plugin like Masonry. Both in vanilla js or jQuery flavour.
Other Options
This leaves you with the following options that require some compromises.
Group your blocks into columns. See this Fiddle for a demo. This will alter the flow of your blocks to vertical, then horizontal.
Use display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; on your blocks. This will leave some white space below your blocks.
Force the height of your blocks, rendering this a non-issue. For blocks with additional content use the overflow property to allow in-block scrolling.
As others have commented, you could attempt to calculate the height of the blocks on the server.
You could try a mix of flex and float (only tested in Firefox/IE10 and safari 5.1.7 , cause to my own opinion, CSS is not your solution)
http://codepen.io/gcyrillus/pen/zgAiw
But, in any CSS case you choose, the best is to relay on the mansonry script.
CSS is not really adapted to this kind of layout. At this time you have many CSS method for layout and basicly: display and float.
You can easily use this together within your html tree structure but this methods are not meant to be mixed. A boxe will be floatting, an inline-level-box or block-level-box and each are suppose to interact in the flow.
Float, breaks a line before itself after a non floatting element or slides down untill it has enough room, that you dispatch right/left via CSS r not.
inline-block moves away from floatting elements and breaks a line if not enough room left, floatting elements among inline-blocks will keep breaking a line before floating.
Column CSS will fill columns with content one by one. see : http://codepen.io/gcyrillus/pen/AtazJ
Inline-flex elements seems to work with floatting elements ... but is it suppose to untill it's a validated rule ?
What seems to be wised to me , is to used a javascript for the layout expected and relay on float or display:inline-block + width as a fall back.
Last solution is to think this ahead on your server side and dispatch your items in 2 containers with another appropriate markup if that is possible ( no idea of your real life content dispatched in your ol li ).
The CSS for the FLEX test :
li.gruppe
{
background: #048;
color: white;
font: bold 32px Arial, sans-serif;
text-align: center;
box-sizing:border-box;
border-bottom:1px solid white;
border-bottom:1px solid white;
display: -webkit-inline-flex;
display: -moz-inline-flex;
display: -ms-inline-flex;
display: inline-flex;
width:50%;
}
li:nth-child(even){
float:right;
clear:right;
border-left:1px solid white;
margin-top:0;
}
EDIT: This is an interesting solution, but unfortunately it does not solve the problem that was asked for.
The solution I propose here puts subsequent elements into alternating columns, so: 1 -> left, 2 -> right, 3 -> left, 4 -> right, etc.
This is a interesting problem by itself, but not what was asked for.
Thanks to #Nils in the comments for pointing this out.
Original answer
Here is my attempt with flex!
https://jsfiddle.net/vqLr8t3e/
I am not sure if it works in IE11.
Code
.the-beginning {
background: green;
color: white;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
}
.the-end {
background: red;
color: white;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
cursor: pointer;
}
.container-outer {
overflow: hidden;
}
.container {
display: flex;
flex-wrap: wrap;
flex-direction: column;
max-height: 19999px;
margin-top: -10000px;
}
.container > div {
width: 50%;
box-sizing: border-box;
border: 5px solid grey;
padding: 5px;
background: white;
order: 1;
}
.container > div:nth-child(odd) {
order: -1;
}
.container > div:nth-child(1),
.container > div:nth-child(2) {
margin-top: 10000px;
}
<div class="the-beginning">THE BEGINNING</div>
<div class="container-outer">
<div class="container">
<div>LEFT 0</div>
<div>RIGHT 0<br>RIGHT 0</div>
<div>LEFT 1<br>LEFT 1<br>LEFT 1</div>
<div>RIGHT 1</div>
<div>LEFT 2</div>
<div>RIGHT 2<br>RIGHT 2<br>RIGHT 2</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="the-end">THE END</div>
Idea
Use flex-direction: column; and flex-wrap: wrap; on the container, and width: 50%; on the items, as a first step towards showing the items in columns.
Use order: -1; and order: 1 to sort odd and even elements into different columns.
Use a gratuitous margin-top: 10000px; on the first element of each column, and a max-height: 19999px; on the container, so that no two such items fit into one column. This will make sure each of these items starts in a new column. Compensate with a negative margin-top on the container. Cut it off with an outer container with overflow: hidden;.
I'm not sure if I got this right . .
"the 2's should stand alone on the right side and the 1, 3's and 4
should stand on the left side (without space between them)."
html:
<div id="box">
<div class="data">1</div>
<div class="data" style="float:right">2<br/>2<br/>2<br/>2</div>
<div class="data">3<br/>3</div>
<div class="data">4</div>
</div>
css:
#box {
width:100%;
height:auto;
float:left;
}
.data {
height:auto;
width:50%;
float:left;
background-color:#ccc;
border-bottom:solid 1px #000;
}
Fid:
http://jsfiddle.net/YdEW9/26/
This is pure css. Everything is floated left then gave inline-css to float:right on the div with (4) 2's
I kinda don't know how to set the inline-css without javascript. Server side maybe? but I doubt you can get the height of the elements.
Well anyway hope this helps.
PURE CSS SOLUTION:
Add the following to your css file:
ol.context li:nth-child(even) {
float: right;
}
DO NOT change your html or anything else.
Result in FF:
--
How it Works
Instead of floating all your elements "left" and creating gaps, we float each container according to the side/column the element they reside in.
Just a simple image that uses some jQuery to fade some content over the top when moused over.
Only problem is that when the hover over takes effect, the hover spills into the div gutter making the hover over bigger than the actual container.
each image is layed out like so
<li class="large-4 columns item">
<div class="description"><h1>Image hover</h1></div>
<img class="display" src="http://placehold.it/400x300">
</li>
Can see a live example here.
http://jsfiddle.net/QLUMH/
Any ideas on ways to fix/improve what I am doing here? Cheers
Demo
Here you have live example,
you are giving 100% to width and height.
so that really goes overflow.
Code edited-
#portfolio .description {
position: absolute;
background: rgba(0,199,134,0.8);
display: none;
width: 400px;
height: 300px;
}
The issue is that your description fills the entire column, which is wider than your image. If you add an "inner column"/container that collapse to the same width as your image, it will work alright. I've created a fork of your demo that demonstrates this.
I've added a wrapper "ib" (Just stands for inner block. rename this to a proper name) inside each .column.item like so:
<div class="ib">
<div class="description">
<h1>Image hover</h1>
</div>
<img class="display" src="http://placehold.it/400x300">
</div>
And then just created a very simple CSS rule for making this wrapper collapse to its contents:
.ib {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
}
You did not style your li. The issue is that in foundation.css it is getting padding-left and padding-right. You need to remove that and use margin-left and margin-right instead. And you also need to fix the width of the li. As .description will get its 100% height. So you need to include a small css in your own file (don not modify foundation.css).
#portfolio li.columns{
/* You can use the width in '%' if you want to make the design fluid */
width: 400px;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px 0.9375em;
}
Fiddle
You'll just have to get rid of the padding on tne li
li{ padding:0 }
or use the the box-sizing property:
`li { box-sizing:border-box; -moz-box-sizing:border-box; }
Change in CSs will help,
I have updated the same in fiddle
with change in CSS,
#portfolio .description {
position: absolute;
background: rgba(0,199,134,0.8);
display: none;
width: 400px;
height: 300px;
}
#portfolio .description h1 {
color: white;
opacity: 1;
font-size: 1.4em;
text-transform: uppercase;
text-align: center;
margin-top: 20%;
width:400px;
height:300px;
overflow:hidden;
}
Update:
If the H1 created extra cutter and wrapping issue(for some), please use the DIV tag instead, which should work fine!
I hope this will solve your problem :)
I'm trying to make a header's background color look like a rectangular speech bubble by adding a text element ◥. Below you can see the spanned text for the background shape and the style for ◥. But this creates a blank space between the bottom of the border and the ◥, and I would like the two to line up in order to look like a speech bubble.
Image of fail in action.
http://i.imgur.com/1T09F.png
{block:Link}
<h1><span class="Headers"><a href="{URL}" {Target}>{Name} ☞</a></span>
<div class="triangle">◥</div>
</h1>
{block:Description}{Description}{/block:Description}
{/block:Link}
.triangle{
margin-left: 10px;
font-size: 35px;
color: #123033;
}
span.Headers{
display: block;
background-color: #123033;
padding: 8px
}
I tried the trick with adding a parent group in which the font size is 0, and that didn't work. Nor did setting the margin on the header to 0. Putting the ◥ div on the same line hasn't done anything either. I spent about an hour looking through other questions to see what I could do, and I couldn't find a solution, but I am nub so forgive me if I missed something obvious.
It is unreliable to use text to create the effect. Different devices will render it differently, which is not what you want.
In your case, it would be best to use an image with the same colour, placing it in a <div/> below the heading, ensuring that they touch each other. Then, add some padding on the left, as you did with the .triangle style.
I have created an image for you to use: Grab it here
All in all, your markup would look like this:
HTML:
{block:Link}
<div class="header">
<h1><a href="{URL}" {Target}>{Name} ☞</a></h1>
<div class="triangle"></div>
</div>
{block:Description}{Description}{/block:Description}
{/block:Link}
CSS:
div.header > h1 {
background-color: #123033;
padding: 8px
}
div.header > div.triangle {
background: url('Arrow.png') top left no-repeat;
height: 50px;
padding-left: 10px
}
Do let me know if this works for you.
If you're able to use generated content (which, I suppose, depends on your site's users), then I'd suggest (with the slightly amended HTML for demo purposes):
<h1><span class="Headers">a name</span></h1>
The following CSS:
h1 {
display: block;
position: relative;
background-color: #ffa;
padding: 0.5em;
}
h1::after {
content: '';
border: 1em solid #ffa;
position: absolute;
top: 100%;
left: 2em;
border-bottom-color: transparent;
border-left-color: transparent;
}
JS Fiddle demo.
In terms of compatibility caniuse suggests that generated content is supported in IE from version 8 onwards.
References:
CSS generated content compatibility, from caniuse.com.
I have a containing div that is NOT restricting the width of its child divs. The divs are stretching all the way to the full width of the screen, when i have a set width on both the container and the child. Why is this happening. I do NOT have any positioning or floating going on.
Please view my HTML:
<ul class="tabs_commentArea">
<li class="">Starstream</li>
<li class="">Comments</li>
</ul>
<div id="paneWrap">
<div class="panes_comments">
<div class="comments">member pane 1</div>
<div class="comments">member pane 2</div>
<div class="comments">member pane 3</div>
</div>
My CSS, the relevant parts of it at least:
#MembersColumnContainer {
width: 590px;
float: left;
padding-right: 0px;
clear: none;
padding-bottom: 20px;
padding-left: 2px;
}
ul.tabs_commentArea {
list-style:none;
margin-top: 2px !important;
padding:0;
border-bottom:0px solid #666;
height:30px;
}
ul.tabs_commentArea li {
text-indent:0;
margin: !important;
list-style-image:none !important;
padding-top: 0;
padding-right: 0;
padding-bottom: 0;
padding-left: 0;
float: right;
}
#paneWrap {
border: solid 3px #000000;
}
.panes_comments div {
display: ;
padding: px px;
/*border:medium solid #000000;*/
height:150px;
width: 588px;
background-color: #FFFF99;
}
You could set max-width on either, or both, of the div elements to prevent their expansion:
#containerDiv {
min-width: 400px; /* prevents the div being squashed by an 'extreme' page-resize */
width: 50%; /* defines the normal width of the div */
max-width: 700px; /* prevents the div expanding beyond 700px */
}
It might also be that you're allowing the div's overflowed contents to be visible, as opposed to hidden (or auto). But without specific examples of your mark-up and css it's very difficult to guess.
Generally giving elements layout is pretty straight forward (always assuming you have a good understanding of floating, positioning and the box model), and in most cases you wouldn't have to use max- min-width to control elements on the page.
My two cents: If I was you, I'd start stripping out code (starting with the !important rule), and see when the problem is solved. De-constructing the code like that is a good way to find bugs.
Sorry I couldn't help, but I'm reluctant to give advice since the code you provided shows a lot of other stuff going on elsewhere that might be contributing to your problem (like having to use !important).
:D
I figured out the problem. The file that was calling in the css was conflicting with another external css file that had the same element with the same name in it. Thank you all for your help though.