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I want to absolute position an iframe and define it's left, top, right, bottom offset:
#x {
position: fixed;
left: 10px;
top: 10px;
right: 10px;
bottom: 10px;
width: auto;
height: auto;
border: 2px solid #aaa;
z-index: 100002;
background: #abc;
display:none
}
I found the left and top value is respected while right and bottom value is ignored. When I don't have a left and top value set, then the right and bottom value is treated correctly. Check this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/7fTEF/
Any idea?
Note I don't want to set width and height of the element because I want it be relative to the viewport, neither do I want to set the width and height to a percentage, I just want to keep the border offset a fixed value, say "10px" here.
Not sure why, but, after a little playing around, it seems like IFrames don't like that style of positioning for some reason.
One solution I could make was to container it in a div, and get the div to the size/position you want.
http://jsfiddle.net/7fTEF/1/
Also, despite being 500x500px, the body background color will keep going to fill up all the space in a page, but the sizing of the div is still correct. (resize the body to check it out... )
You can not set both left and right or both top and bottom property. edit: Turns out you can actually provided you are positioning absolute, as i just learned from this article: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/conflictingabsolutepositions (all credits to #thirdender for the tip!). Iframes seem to behave differently though.
You could achieve what you are after like this: http://jsfiddle.net/7fTEF/2/
Note that there is no absolute postioning required. Also i used the css3 property box-sizing. You will have to add browser specific prefixes as explained here http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_box-sizing.asp
Note that this solution will not work in old browser, you will end up with scrollbars. If you want to make it fully browser compatible i think yoy will have to resort to some js, but then you have problems with people who have this disabled. You could also try a combination of both. It all depends on your audience and how import you find it...
You can find the container size via javascript and after set the iframe size.
I found this page here http://www.alistapart.com/articles/conflictingabsolutepositions/ that explains a couple of solutions that are also compatible with older IE browsers using just CSS. Otherwise some JavaScript calculations would probably be required.
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CSS: Background image and padding
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I'd like to add a background to a div, position right center, but!, have some padding to the image. The div has padding for the text, so I want to indent the background a little. probably makes most sense w/ example:
http://jsbin.com/umuvud/edit#javascript,html,live
Thanks!
Updated Answer:
It's been commented multiple times that this is not the correct answer to this question, and I agree. Back when this answer was written, IE 9 was still new (about 8 months old) and many developers including myself needed a solution for <= IE 9. IE 9 is when IE started supporting background-origin. However, it's been over six and a half years, so here's the updated solution which I highly recommend over using an actual border. In case < IE 9 support is needed. My original answer can be found below the demo snippet. It uses an opaque border to simulate padding for background images.
#hello {
padding-right: 10px;
background-color:green;
background: url("https://placehold.it/15/5C5/FFF") no-repeat scroll right center #e8e8e8;
background-origin: content-box;
}
<p id="hello">I want the background icon to have padding to it too!I want the background icon twant the background icon to have padding to it too!I want the background icon to have padding to it too!I want the background icon to have padding to it too!</p>
Original Answer:
you can fake it with a 10px border of the same color as the background:
http://jsbin.com/eparad/edit#javascript,html,live
#hello {
border: 10px solid #e8e8e8;
background-color: green;
background: url("http://www.costascuisine.com/images/buttons/collapseIcon.gif")
no-repeat scroll right center #e8e8e8;
}
this is actually pretty easily done. You're almost there, doing what you've done with background-position: right center;. What is actually needed in this case is something very much like that. Let's convert these to percentages. We know that center=50%, so that's easy enough. Now, in order to get the padding you wanted, you need to position the background like so: background-position: 99% 50%.
The second, and more effective way of going about this, is to use the same background-position idea, and just use background-position: 400px (width of parent) 50%;. Of course, this method requires a static width, but will give you the same thing every time.
Method 1 (99% 50%)
Method 2 (400px 50%)
There is actually a native solution to this, using the four-values to background-position
.CssClass {background-position: right 10px top 20px;}
This means 10px from right and 20px from top.
you can also use three values the fourth value will be count as 0.
you can use background-origin:padding-box; and then add some padding where you want, for example: #logo {background-image: url(your/image.jpg); background-origin:padding-box; padding-left: 15%;}
This way you attach the image to the div padding box that contains it so you can position it wherever you want.
In case anyone else needs to add padding to something with background-image and background-size: contain or cover, I used the following which is a nice way of doing it. You can replace the border-width with 10% or 2vw or whatever you like.
.bg-image {
background: url("/image/logo.png") no-repeat center #ffffff / contain;
border: inset 10px transparent;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
This means you don't have to define a width.
first off, to be a bit of a henpeck, its best NOT to use just the <background> tag. rather, use the proper, more specific, <background-image> tag.
the only way that i'm aware of to do such a thing is to build the padding into the image by extending the matte. since the empty pixels aren't stripped, you have your padding right there. so if you need a 10px border, create 10px of empty pixels all around your image. this is mui simple in Photoshop, Fireworks, GIMP, &c.
i'd also recommend trying out the PNG8 format instead of the dying GIF... much better.
there may be an alternate solution to your problem if we knew a bit more of how you're using it. :) it LOOKS like you're trying to add an accordion button. this would be best placed in the HTML because then you can target it with JavaScript/PHP; something you cannot do if it's in the background (at least not simply). in such a case, you can style the heck out of the image you currently have in CSS by using the following:
#hello img { padding: 10px; }
WR!
To add space before background image, one could define the 'width' of element which is using 'background-image' object. And then to define a pixel value in 'background-position' property to create space from left side.
For example, I'd a scenario where I got a navigation menu which had a bullet before link item and the bullet graphic were changeable if corrosponding link turns into an active state. Further, the active link also had a background-color to show, and this background-color had approximate 15px padding both on left and right side of link item (so on left, it includes bullet icon of link too).
While padding-right fulfill the purpose to have background-color stretched upto 15px more on right of link text. The padding-left only added to space between link text and bullet.
So I took the width of background-color object from PSD design (for ex. 82px) and added that to li element (in a class created to show active state) and then I set background-position value to 20px. Which resulted in bullet icon shifted inside from the left edge. And its provided me desired output of having left padding before bullet icon used as background image.
Please note, you may need to adjust your padding / margin values accordingly, which may used either for space between link items or for spacing between bullet icon and link text.
Is there a way to position a background image a certain number of pixels from the right of its element?
For example, to position something a certain number of pixels (say, 10) from the left, this is how I'd do it:
#myElement {
background-position: 10px 0;
}
I found this CSS3 feature helpful:
/* to position the element 10px from the right */
background-position: right 10px top;
As far as I know this is not supported in IE8. In latest Chrome/Firefox it works fine.
See Can I use for details on the supported browsers.
Used source: http://tanalin.com/en/blog/2011/09/css3-background-position/
Update:
This feature is now supported in all major browsers, including mobile browsers.
!! Outdated answer, since CSS3 brought this feature
Is there a way to position a background image a certain number of pixels from the right of its element?
Nope.
Popular workarounds include
setting a margin-right on the element instead
adding transparent pixels to the image itself and positioning it top right
or calculating the position using jQuery after the element's width is known.
The easiest solution is to use percentages. This isn't exactly the answer you were looking for since you asked for pixel-precision, but if you just need something to have a little padding between the right edge and the image, giving something a position of 99% usually works well enough.
Code:
/* aligns image to the vertical center and horizontal right of its container with a small amount of padding between the right edge */
div.middleleft {
background: url("/images/source.jpg") 99% center no-repeat;
}
Outdated answer: It is now implemented in major browsers, see the
other answers to this question.
CSS3 has modified the specification of background-position so that it will work with different origin point. Unfortunately, I can't find any evidence that it is implemented yet in any major browsers.
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#the-background-position
See example 12.
background-position: right 3em bottom 10px;
As proposed here, this is a pretty cross browser solution that works perfectly:
background: url('/img.png') no-repeat right center;
border-right: 10px solid transparent;
I used it since the CSS3 feature of specifying offsets proposed in the answer marked as solving the question is not supported in browsers so well yet. E.g.
The most appropriate answer is the new four-value syntax for background-position, but until all browsers support it your best approach is a combination of earlier responses in the following order:
background: url(image.png) no-repeat 97% center; /* default, Android, Sf < 6 */
background-position: -webkit-calc(100% - 10px) center; /* Sf 6 */
background-position: right 10px center; /* Cr 25+, FF 13+, IE 9+, Op 10.5+ */
A simple but dirty trick is to simply add the offset you want to the image you are using as background. it's not maintainable, but it gets the job done.
This will work on most modern browsers...apart from IE (browser support). Even though that page lists >= IE9 as supported, my tests didn't agree with that.
You can use the calc() css3 property like so;
.class_name {
background-position: calc(100% - 10px) 50%;
}
For me this is the cleanest and most logical way to achieve a margin to the right. I also use a fallback of using border-right: 10px solid transparent; for IE.
Ok If I understand what your asking you would do this;
You have your DIV container called #main-container and .my-element that is within it. Use this to get you started;
#main-container {
position:relative;
}
/*To make the element absolute - floats above all else within the parent container do this.*/
.my-element {
position:absolute;
top:0;
right:10px;
}
/*To make the element apart of elements, something tangible that affects the position of other elements on the same level within the parent then do this;*/
.my-element {
float:right;
margin-right:10px;
}
By the way, it better practice to use classes if you referencing a lower level element within a page (I assume you are hence my name change above.
background-position: calc(100% - 8px);
The CSS3 specification allowing different origins for background-position is now supported in Firefox 14 but still not in Chrome 21 (apparently IE9 partly supports them, but I've not tested it myself)
In addition to the Chrome issue that #MattyF referenced there's a more succinct summary here:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=95085
If you have proportioned elements, you could use:
.valid {
background-position: 98% center;
}
.half .valid {
background-position: 96% center;
}
In this example, .valid would be the class with the picture and .half would be a row with half the size of the standard one.
Dirty, but works as a charm and it's reasonably manageable.
If you would like to use this for adding arrows/other icons to a button for example then you could use css pseudo-elements?
If it's really a background-image for the whole button, I tend to incorporate the spacing into the image, and just use
background-position: right 0;
But if I have to add for example a designed arrow to a button, I tend to have this html:
Read more
And tend to do the following with CSS:
.read-more{
position: relative;
padding: 6px 15px 6px 35px;//to create space on the right
font-size: 13px;
font-family: Arial;
}
.read-more:after{
content: '';
display: block;
width: 10px;
height: 15px;
background-image: url('../images/btn-white-arrow-right.png');
position: absolute;
right: 12px;
top: 10px;
}
By using the :after selector, I add a element using CSS just to contain this small icon. You could do the same by just adding a span or <i> element inside the a-element. But I think this is a cleaner way of adding icons to buttons and it is cross-browser supported.
you can check out the fiddle here:
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/PNzYzZ
use center right as the position then add a transparent border to offset it?
If you have a fixed width element and know the width of your background image, you can simply set the background-position to : the element's width - the image's width - the gap you want on the right.
For example : with a 100px-wide element and a 300px-wide image, to get a gap of 10px on the right, you set it to 100-300-10=-210px :
#myElement {
background:url(my_image.jpg) no-repeat -210px top;
width:100px;
}
And you get the rightmost 80 pixels of your image on the left of your element, and a gap of 20px on the right.
I know it can sound stupid but sometimes it saves the time... I use that much in a vertical manner (gap at bottom) for navigation links with text below image.
Not sure it applies to your case though.
my problem was I needed the background image to stay the same distance from the right border when the window is resized i.e. for tablet / mobile etc
My fix is to use a percenatge like so:
background-position: 98% 6px;
and it sticks in place.
yes! well to position a background image as though 0px from the right-hand side of the browser instead of the left - i use:
background-position: 100% 0px;
I think the answer is no, but can you position a background image with CSS, so that it is a fixed amount of pixels away from the right?
If I set background-position values of x and y, it seems those only give fixed pixel adjustments from the left and top respectively.
background-position: right 30px center;
It works in most browsers. See: http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-background-offsets for full list.
More information: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#the-background-position
It is possible to use attribute border as length from the right
background: url('/img.png') no-repeat right center;
border-right: 10px solid transparent;
There is one way but it's not supported on every browser (see coverage here)
element {
background-position : calc(100% - 10px) 0;
}
It works in every modern browser, but it is possible that IE9 is crashing. Also no coverage for =< IE8.
As far as I know, the CSS specification does not provide for exactly what you're asking, outside of CSS expressions, of course. Working off the assumption that you don't want to use expressions or Javascript, I see three hackish solutions:
Make sure your background image matches the size of the container (at least in width) and set background-repeat: repeat or repeat-x if only the width is equalized. Then, having something appear x pixels from the right is as simple as background-position: -5px 0px.
Using percentages for background-position exhibits special behaviour that is better seen than described here. Give it a shot. Essentially, background-position: 90% 50% will make the right edge of the background image line up 10% away from the right edge of the container.
Create a div containing the image. Explicitly set the position of the containing element position: relative if not already set. Set the image container to position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;, obviously adjusting the final two as you see fit. Place the image div container into the containing element.
Try this:
#myelement {
background-position: 100% 50%;
margin-right: 5px;
}
Note though that the code above will move the whole element (not the background image only) 5px from the right. This might be ok for your case.
You can do it in CSS3:
background-position: right 20px bottom 20px;
It works in Firefox, Chrome, IE9+
Source: MDN
Image workaround with transparent pixels on the right to serve as right margin.
The image workaround for the same is to create a PNG or GIF image (image file formats that support transparency) which has a transparent portion on the right of the image exactly equal to the number of pixels that you want to give a right margin of (eg: 5px, 10px, etc.)
This works well consistently across fixed widths as well as widths in percentages.
Practically a good solution for accordion headers having a plus/minus or up/down arrow image on the header's right!
Downside: Unfortunately, you cannot use JPG unless the background portion of the container and the background color of the CSS background image are of the same flat color (with out a gradient/vignette), mostly white/black etc.
If you happen to stumble on this topic in these days of modern browsers you can use pseudo-class :after to do practicaly anything with the background.
.container:after{
content:"";
position:absolute;
right:20px;
background:url(http://lorempixel.com/400/200) no-repeat right bottom;
}
this css will put background to bottom right corner of ".container" element with 20px space on the right side.
See this fiddle for example http://jsfiddle.net/h6K9z/226/
The most appropriate answer is the new four-value syntax for background-position, but until all browsers support it your best approach is a combination of earlier responses in the following order:
background: url(image.png) no-repeat 97% center; /* default, Android, Sf < 6 */
background-position: -webkit-calc(100% - 10px) center; /* Sf 6 */
background-position: right 10px center; /* Cr 25+, FF 13+, IE 9+, Op 10.5+ */
If you want to specify only the x-axis, you can do the following:
background-position-x: right 100px;
Just put the pixel padding into the image - add 10px or whatever to the canvas size of the image in photohop and align it right in CSS.
I was trying to do a similar task to get a dropdown arrow always on the right side of the table header and came up with this which seemed to work in Chrome and Firefox, but safari was telling me it was an invalid property.
background: url(http://goo.gl/P93P5Q) center right 10px no-repeat;
After doing a bit of messing around in the inspector, I came up with this cross-browser solution that works in IE8+, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, as well as responsive designs.
background: url(http://goo.gl/P93P5Q) no-repeat 95% center;
Here is a codepen of how it looks and works. Codepen is written with SCSS - http://cdpn.io/xqGbk
You can position your background image in an editor to be x pixels from the right side.
background: url(images_url) no-repeat right top;
The background image will be positioned in top right, but will appear to be x pixels from the right.
Works for all real browsers (and for IE9+):
background-position: right 10px top 10px;
I use it to RTL WordPress themes.
See example: temporary website or the real website will be up soon.
Look at the icons at the big DIVs right corners.
Another solution I haven't seen mentioned is to use pseudo elements and I do believe this solution will work with any CSS 2.1 compliant browser (≥ IE8,≥ Safari 2, ...) and it should also be responsive :
element::after
{
content:' ';
position:relative;
display:block;
width:100%;
height:100%;
bottom:0;
right:-5px; /* 10 px from the right of element inner-margin (padding) see example */
background:url() right center no-repeat;
}
Example: The element eg. a square sized 100px (without considering borders) has a 10px padding and a background image should be shown inside the right padding. This means the pseudo-element is a 80px sized square. We want to stick it to the right border of the element with right:-10px;. If we'd like to have the background-image 5px away from the right border we need to stick the pseudo-element 5px away from the right border of the element with right:-5px;...
Test it for your self here : http://jsfiddle.net/yHucT/
If the container has a fixed height:
Tweek the percentages (background-position) until it fits correctly.
If the container has a dynamic height:
If you want a padding between your background and your container (such as when custom styling inputs, selects), add your padding to your image and set the background position to right or bottom.
I stumbled on this question while I was trying to get the background for a select box to fit say 5 px from the right of my select. In my case, my background is an arrow down that would replace the basic drop down icon. In my case, the padding will always remain the same (5-10 pixels from the right) for the background, so it's an easy modification to bring to the actual background image (making its dimensions 5-10 pixels wider on the right side.
Hope this helps!
Tweaking percentages from the left is a little brittle for my liking. When I need something like this I tend to add my container styling to a wrapper element and then apply the background on the inner element with background-position: right bottom
<style>
.wrapper {
background-color: #333;
border: solid 3px #222;
padding: 20px;
}
.bg-img {
background-image: url(path/to/img.png);
background-position: right bottom;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
.content-breakout {
margin: -20px
}
</style>
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="bg-img">
<div class="content-breakout"></div>
</div>
</div>
The .content-breakout class is optional and will allow your content to eat into the padding if required (negative margin values should match the corresponding values in the wrapper padding). It's a little verbose, but works reliably without having to be concerned about the relative positioning of the image compared to its width and height.
Its been loong since this question has been asked, but I just ran into this problem and I got it by doing :
background-position:95% 50%;
Solution for negative values. Adjust the padding-right to move the image.
<div style='overflow:hidden;'>
<div style='width:100% background:url(images.jpg) top right; padding-right:50px;'>
</div>
</div>
Better for all
background: url('../images/bg-menu-dropdown-top.png') left 20px top no-repeat !important;
This works in Chrome 27, i don't know if it's valid or not or what other browswers do with it. I was surprised about this.
background: url(../img/icon_file_upload.png) top+3px right+10px no-repeat;
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I want to set a background image for a div, in a way that it is in the upper RIGHT of the div, but with a fixed 10px distance from top and right.
Here is how I would do that if wanted it in the upper LEFT of the div:
background: url(images/img06.gif) no-repeat 10px 10px;
Is there anyway to achieve the same result, but showing the background on the upper RIGHT?
In all modern browsers and IE down even to version 9 you can use a four-value syntax, specified in CSS3:
background-position: right 10px top 10px;
Source: MDN
Use the previously mentioned rule along with a top and right margin:
background: url(images/img06.gif) no-repeat top right;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
Background images only appear within padding, not margins. If adding the margin isn't an option you may have to resort to another div, although I'd recommend you only use that as a last resort to try and keep your markup as lean and sementic as possible.
There are a few ways you can do this.
Do the math yourself, if possible. You already know the dimensions of your image. If you know the dimensions of the div, you can just put the image at (div width - image width - 10, div height - image height - 10).
Use Javascript to do the heavy lifting for you. Pretty much the same method as above, except you don't need to know the dimensions of the div itself. Javascript can tell you.
A more hackish way would be to put a 10px transparent border around the top and right of your image, and set the position to top right.
I don't know if it is possible in pure css, so you can try
background: url(images/img06.gif) no-repeat top right;
and modify your image to incorporate a 10px border on the top and right in a transparent color
You can use percentages:
background: url(...) top 98% no-repeat;
If you know the width of the parent div it should be pretty easy to determine what percentage you need to use.
One solution is to absolutely position an empty div, and give that the background. I don't believe there's a way to do it purely with CSS, no changes to the image, and no extra markup in a fluid layout.
You can fake the space on the right hand side with a border in pixels (white most of the time or maybe something else)
background-image: url(../images/calender.svg) center right
border-right: 5px white solid
The correct format is:
background: url(YourUrl) 0px -50px no-repeat;
Where 0px is the horizontal position and -50px is the vertical position.
CSS background-position accepts negative values.