I am trying to set a divider image between links in the navigation bar. I currently have it set up as a background image, positioned to the right. This works fine, except I also want the divider to appear to the left of the first link. I have tried adding background-position:right,left; to the first link class, but this doesn't work. Any ideas on how I would do this?
Assuming you don't need to support old school browsers, the easiest way is probably with multiple background images like this: http://jsfiddle.net/P25TC/1/
#nav li.first{
background:url(http://i.imgur.com/CED9fuN.png) no-repeat left, url(http://i.imgur.com/CED9fuN.png) no-repeat right;
}
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What I want to achieve:
I am doing the very familiar CSS zen garden however I can't seem to get the image to float like this. I want it at the top of the page and to stay at the top like a toolbar like stackoverflow has mounted to the top of the page.
Unfortunately, any time I try to display my image it is not only behind the text but also far too large. I only see about 1/3rd of my image. If I try to scale it in any way then it disappears completely. I have seen that other people do this with the added <divs> but I am told that I should use ::before to do this ....either way I can't get either to even display my image ...the only thing that does barely work is ...
body{
background: url("../CSSMidterm/Header.png") center;
}
but as I said that displays 1/3rd of the image....any idea how I can rectify this situation?
To make it clear, I am asking how to mount an image to the top of a webpage using ONLY CSS no touching HTML at all. I want it to be fairly similar to the toolbar at the top of Stack Overflow own page.
You can try this
body {
background : transparent url("../CSSMidterm/Header.png") no-repeat center center/cover;
}
Link to the documentation for background css
I'm working with the Shape5.com Corporate Response Joomla template and been asked to make a change to the color of the four icons for social media in the upper right-hand corner. The demo of this template can be found here:
http://www.shape5.com/demo/corporate_response/
Their CSS for each icon looks like this from the template.css file. I'm just including the first icon to keep this brief, which is for RSS:
#s5_rss {
height:23px;
width:22px;
background:url(../images/rss.png) no-repeat top left;
cursor:pointer;
margin-left:8px;
float:right;
}
#s5_rss:hover {
background:url(../images/rss.png) no-repeat bottom left;
}
The rss.png is here:
http://www.shape5.com/demo/corporate_response/templates/corporate_response/images/rss.png
I've been asked to use CSS to change the active/hover color from what it is now to red. I'm not sure if this can be done with CSS or not. Can it? Or does this require a new .png file created with the image by the designer to be the desired red color?
I'd also like to understand why this rss.png file has two images of the icon inside of it at different shades and how does the CSS toggle between them to know which to use for hover? Is this a special .png file that allows this, perhaps in a different format than most .png files? Thanks!
The image is known as a sprite image: a single image file consisting of multiple sprites which you apply as a single background image, and position according to the constraints set by the width and height properties on an element. It's just a regular PNG image and is not intrinsically different from other PNG images.
As for actually changing the color of the image to red, that is not something you can do with CSS alone depending on what you mean by "changing the color" — the safest bet is to modify the image to add a new sprite with the desired color. Since it's just a regular PNG image it's a simple matter of extending the canvas another 23 pixels down, rendering the new sprite in the extra space that's created, and modifying your CSS so it looks like this:
#s5_rss:hover {
background:url(../images/rss.png) no-repeat center left;
}
#s5_rss:active {
background:url(../images/rss.png) no-repeat bottom left;
}
You can also replace the background:url(../images/rss.png) no-repeat portion with background-position: in your :hover and :active rules as you're really only modifying the background position when using a sprite in CSS:
#s5_rss:hover {
background-position:center left;
}
#s5_rss:active {
background-position:bottom left;
}
Experimental CSS filters are up around the horizon, but without good cross-browser support, you're basically out of luck on that front. If you can handle reduced browser support, go take a look at this overview of CSS filters.
Your current code shows only half the rss.png which conveniently is the exact height of just one of the sub-images within it. When you declare the background: you're telling it to stick the image from the top and hide the bottom half.
On hover, you're instructing it to draw just the bottom half of the image (the hovered state part). To make it a different color, you pretty much need to edit the file (short of having the background image partially transparent and showing a red background through it).
Overall, there's nothing magical going on, just well-documented magic that we all share and use every day.
Currently there is no way to change the colours within an image using css and likely there will either never be or a long way off. There is the potential to do a color overlay but this would not help unless the image you were dealing with was a block colour.
In order to change the color you will need a separate image to reference on the hover styling rule for that element.
The alternative way to do this is to use a sprite, where all the images are loaded as one image and css just focuses on a portion of it depending on the state ie hover, active etc. This is what you mentioned earlier. Have a look at the following links for information on using a sprite, but put simply if you have a 40*40px social icon. You would create a 40*80 image and then in css say use the top half for normal and the bottom for hover. This actually saves time when loading your page and you should always try and use sprites where ever possible, remember the faster the page the better for the user.
http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/ (good guide on sprites)
http://spriteme.org/ (very handy and will do the work for you - recommended)
I need help creating something like this link (http://www.standardchartered.co.in/borrow/)
When the user hovers over the navigation, the grey triangle image will appear. I'm not very sure how to go about doing it. Please help!
The best way to do this is to use a plug-in, possibly for jQuery. There are many drop down menu plugins available. A google search for "jquery drop down menu" will help you. One of the first results for me is:
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/css/38-jquery-and-css-drop-down-multi-level-menu-solutions/
The second one down on that page appears to have the effect you want, but it also depends on how you want the rest of the menu to appear. You will need to do some research and choose one that suits you.
OR, if you just want a grey triangle to appear, without the menu, when you hover over an element, then some css like this is what you want:
li:hover {
background:url('./images/grey_triangle.png') center bottom;
}
Which says, when the li element is hovered, use ./images/grey_triangle.png as the background image and place it in the center at the bottom of the element. You would need to create your own grey triangle, set appropriate padding etc, but that is the basic css you need for the effect.
This website (click) should look like this website here (click) for the most part. The first link is in BVCommerce cart, the second was the initially designed HTML and CSS. You'll notice on the first link the center content is slightly off center as well as missing the background with the shadow, which is my main issue. (The image that should be showing up is images/bg.png)
There are a few bugs with the first website but I'm really just trying to get this background to show up properly.
First website CSS: justicejewelers.com/css/styles.css
Second Website CSS: justicejewelers.rcmhosting.com/css/styles.css
First Website Image: justicejewelers.com/images/bg.png
Second Website Image: justicejewelers.rcmhosting.com/images/bg.png
UPDATE
I've combined the bar and background gif to save some heartache. But any ideas on how to get the whole center area shifted to the right properly?
I do not know about your main issue, but on the first page I would change the text inside the head. Search robots such as Google will often ignore pages with too much information in the head due to spam protection.
I believe you have something like this in the CSS:
.wrapper { background: url("images/bg2.gif") repeat-y scroll center top transparent; padding-top: 0; }
and it overrides this:
.wrapper {
background: url("../images/bg.png") repeat-y scroll center top transparent;
padding-top: 0;
}
About background error, Firebug shows no-repeat :
/BVModules/Themes/Painted%20Paper/styles/styles.css :
url("../images/bg.png") no-repeat scroll left top transparent;
Also, your #maincontent div is smaller than the width of the background image (you have no padding in the first website (1016 pixels versus 960 pixels)
I guess you should remove /BVModules/Themes/Painted%20Paper/styles/styles.css CSS link
and give a try to a helper like Firebug :)
In the below image my drop down menu is not displaying over the content.It is very transparent know.Can anyone help me what I have to add to make this drop down menu un-transparent.
Your dropdown is probably a div in the html dom. You could find the name of that `div' and then apply a background to it using css:
.dropdown_div_name { background-color: white; }
Edit:
Re looking at the image you posted it is most probably a problem with the z-index as others also suggested, since for example if you look at the 'Technology/Connected TV' header, that shows over the menu contents. That could be fixed by changing the z-index of the dropdown menu
.dropdown_div_name { z-index:100; }
where 100 should be a number bigger than the z-index of the rest items that you want it to overlap
A background-color. Without one, the default colour is transparent, hence you see everything behind it.