I have an image inside the .nav container with background-positioning property set to right that is set under the hover selector to display. It's working almost perfect except I want to move the image over to the left a bit closer to the actual navigation link. When I try to use inset border thickness or absolute positioning it it either moves the text for the nav link as well (inset border thickness) or its get really messed up when I use absolute positioning for background-position. Any way to move the image without it affecting any things else around it? New to HTML5 and I am using dreamweaver CC and am unfortunately away from my comp at the moment.
Try setting the left property of the background image. In my experience, if you mess with the container then it will mess with everything else. Also, you might have to tinker with the actual image to get it look right.
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I have a fixed size layout where I center the content container.
I want the menu (home, about, contact, login), to span 100% of the screen.
Take a look at this jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Hxhc5/1/
The result I want is this:
I have tried a to make a 100% width container with the menus, where I would have a container inside to center the menu, but it did not work well, because then the layout is relative, changed with the window size.
Wrap an extra div arround the menu, give it the grey background, remove the extra padding, make the menu bg white:
http://jsfiddle.net/sg3s/Hxhc5/3/
This is problematic when we want to keep the space between the menu and the right col 'open' though.
The easiest way and probably the best is to have a mock image of which the middle is left 'open' and use it as a background. Since a png image of this type is insanely small it is better than more markup, css or a js solution, plus it has no quirks if used correctly:
http://jsfiddle.net/sg3s/Hxhc5/10/
You also showed your actual developement site; if you want to implement this for the menu you will have to make the menu fixed height (everthing else and its width can still be fluid) due to the type of opacity you use in the layer. The same background trick can be made to work with it.
Why not use a background image that spans the entire page instead?
Just add the content of the menu into another div, with width: 500px, margin: auto; and set the menu width to 100%. Here is updated jsFiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/Hxhc5/2/
I need to create this layout and I'd like to do as much of it as possible with CSS, rather than using images and whatever.
As such, how can I do this in CSS? (if at all?)
As you can see, there is the image behind, with the button overlaid with padding. The bit that I'm struggling with is creating the curves on the IMAGE above and to the left of the button and bottom to the right of the button (I've pointed them out on the pic below).
Any help would be great.
Thanks
I know just enough CSS to be dangerous so I can't detail every step, but I think you can approach it like this:
Split the background image into two separate images both at a z-index of 0 at the height of the top of the grey box. I think you can use two div's that reference the same original image with different offsets (similar to CSS Sprites) but I don't know the details of how to do that. The left edge of the lower div would start where the grey box ends. Round the lower-left corner of each "image" div.
Add the grey box at a z-index of 1 with appropriate rounding, and then the blue box at a z-index of 2, again with appropriate rounding.
The background of the block element containing all of this would also have to be grey to match the grey border and properly fill in grey where your right-most arrow is pointing.
You don't have to split your image at all, only the container divs.
Let me detail a bit:
You can have your image set as a background image instead of putting it in a src attribute of an img tag. This technique is most commonly used when working with CSS sprites.
So, if you have you uppermost div at a constant width and height, if you try to apply the background image in it, you'll see it fits very nice.
On the bottom, you have two divs or whatever block element you'll like, just be sure to put fixed width and height, so the background will be applied and you will be able to actually see it.
Then all you have to do is fiddle with css background-position to adjust the SE chunk of image.
I'll be putting a small demo together to better illustrate the idea.
After you have a big div at the top, and two smaller at the bottom, where two of them share the same background-image, but with different background-position, you can safely add some css3 border-radius to fit your roundness needs. You can also use some tool like http://css3generator.com/ to add a compatibility layer on all browsers with ease.
That is very easy to realize with pure css. The page you have shown is divided into 3 divs without any margin. You only need to set the right border radius for each div.
This is a function of the background image, which is a css element if that's what you mean, but it is not a seperate attribute for a selector, at least not in standard CSS. Wait until CSS3 becomes more prevelant, then it's corner-radius or some such thing.
Well it's 3 probably 3 seperate divs, a hole "burned" into the background image, or a div being overlayed for the button.
The best way to figure out how it's done is to read the source of the page you found it on.
For convenience:
If you have a webkit based browser like chrome or safari then enable developper mode mouse over the button "right click" and choose inspect element. Otherwise you can pour over the page source until you find what you want.
I need to modify a website to make the clickable zone of all links bigger for mobile devices. I gave all links a transparent border and a negative margin of the same size, to not affect the text-flow. Now this works like a charm. But not on elements that have a background. The background spreads out to the transparent border. This is behaviour seams to be consistent among all browsers.
http://jsfiddle.net/hq65C/1/ here a other example: http://jsfiddle.net/DytDA/
Why is this? I was always thinking that the border is outside of the element. How could I fix this. (I need a solution that does not require to modify the HTML).
How about background-clip: padding-box;?
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i think that if the border were outside the element, the behaviour you are behind (that clicking on the border behaves as clicking inside the element) wouldn't work either
if the background-image is not repeated, you can set background-position x position to the same amount that your border width. else, you can also try setting the border-color to the same as the color behind the element, but if it is an image, good luck
CSS background fills the area of the border, with the border-color layering over this.
As you have a transparent border, it is displaying the background-color behind it.
With plain HTML/CSS, I'm not sure there is a way around this.
This jsFiddle demostrates this:
http://jsfiddle.net/hq65C/8/
try this:
<span style="background: red">link</span> test test test <br/>
test test test
notice: the span means an inline element with another style (other CSS values). other that div which will force a new block.
I am currently making a website here. And to the right is a postcode search div. The top corner of that needs to be rounded.
I am using images to round the corners. I do not want to use another method unless it fully supports all browsers, up until IE7.
I have already done this on the navigation (to the left. only top right and bottom left corners). But I cannot seem to get it to work for the top left corner. Please help. This may be a silly little mistake I have made.
If the "postcode search div" is fixed width and height (as it appears to be), the simplest solution would just be to do the entire thing as an image, and set that as the background:
(yes, the images are the correct size and colour)
The problem is that your background color is covering your image. If you remove the background-color property, you will see the corner image.
Take your image http://molossi.psm2.co.uk/assets/images/li-bg-tl.png and add in the grey background with it. Set the width and height of the entire grey background element to 225x120 or whatever you want and you will be good to go. Basically move from it being just the corner image piece to the full image.
If you don't want to do it this way then take your corner image and make it 225px in length with the grey extending out all the way.
There are two methods for creating round corners without using border-radius (CSS3) and without using images:
Use four small divs of height: 1px and progressively increasing widths that create the round corner illusion. This is probably the better option. For a code sample, see the following site:
http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/a/aa072406.htm
Use an HTA file and browser hacks. I've never tried this personally. For code samples and techniques, see the following site
http://jonraasch.com/blog/css-rounded-corners-in-all-browsers
For older browser support using images is the best and probably only option. If you don't mind lower levels of browser support CSS3 Rounded Corners (in the CSS3 Boarders page of W3Schools) may have your answer.
I'm trying to use two divs, one with a non repeating background in the left corner to serve as a 'curved border' image, and the second div, within that one, with a background that is offset by the width of the first div's image so that it seems to be one solid image, that fluidly stretches with the page width. I tried doing this the way I described but it isn't working, only the stretched repeating background div shows up. I would prefer to try from scratch something one of you suggests.
Try setting an explicit widh on the left div, and try using float:left on both (to make sure they align properly).
And set border:none (I'm stating the obvious here, probably).