I'm having trouble getting the z-index for my bottom triangle on the sidebar to work properly. I need it to be underneath the header box so I can see the 3D effect.. any ideas?
The site is - http://www.dunkleysdairy.com
The sidebar is on the right (with yellow heading)
The issue you are having is that you are trying to set the z-index of an element lower than the one it is nested in. This is not possible - see link for a graphical example:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/Understanding_z-index/The_stacking_context
What you need to do is make sure the element you want to move backwards is not a child descendant of the item you expect to go in front.
In your particular case you would be able to remedy this by applying your styling of .heading to the h2.
Alternatively, you might consider using a psuedo-element for this so you don't have to add extra divs. Your html would just be:
<div class="heading">Title goes here</div>
Then you would add to your current .heading styling with this rule (making sure to keep relative:positioning on your .heading but removing any z-index from it):
.heading:before{
content:" "; display:block; position:absolute;
border-color: transparent #dfb704 transparent transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 15px;
height: 0px; width: 0px;
left: -15px; bottom: -15px;
z-index: -1;
}
This would set your triangle directly below your heading in the z-index stack.
Here's a quick example:
http://codepen.io/chrisboon27/pen/Fprxk
frame is a descendant of heading, and so the z-index property for frame affects it.
If you wish to provide them with a different z depth, you will need to place them on different branches of the DOM tree. For example: both can be child elements of block.
Related
I have been trying to add an image next to my navigation menu using CSS pseudo selectors ::before or ::after.
.menu_container::before{
content: "";
background: transparent url('ISO.png') no-repeat;
position:relative;
float:right;
width: 50px;
height:100px;
}
When i use above code, the image is positioned on a line before the actual menu. When I use the ::after selector it goes to the next line.
I have tried almost all the solutions given in this forum for similar issues. But nothing worked. Really appreciate your support.
Thanks heaps.
Try this.....
.menu_container{
position: relative;
}
.menu_container::before{
position: absolute;
}
/* now u can change where ever you want your before , after div */
You would need to place the :before pseudo element in a way that it will always be positioned according to where the 'actual' element is.
So, to achieve this, you will need to first ensure your 'main' element is positioned relatively:
.menu_container{
position:relative;
display:inline-block; /*more than likely needed for elements*/
}
That's realistically the only required CSS you need on the parent for this to work.
For your pseudo element, you shouldn't look to use a float as that will take the pseudo out of the flow of the dom - we don't want that. We can to position it according to the next relatively positioned parent (which we have just made as the main element).
.menu_container:before{
content: "";
background: transparent url('ISO.png') no-repeat;
position:absolute;
top: 0;
left:0;
height:100%;
width:50px;
}
I would also suggest removing the double :: and replacing with a single : for better browser support (old IE doesn't like the double colon syntax).
So the Position:absolute will allow you to use the top:, left:, bottom: and/or right: properties to position it according to this relative parent.
I'm trying to add an image with the &::before pseudo element and place it on top of it's parent element by adjusting the padding/margin. I have not be able to place the img "on top" of it's parent element. It resides within the box of the parent. I have tried setting both elements to display:block. I have attempted to use relative/absolute positioning. I have adjusted margins/padding without a solution.
HTML:
<div class="foo">
<div class="title">title</div>
<div class="body">text</div>
</div>
LESS/CSS:
.foo {
display:block;
padding: 1em;
&:before {
background-image: url("bar.svg");
padding: .25in;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: top left;
background-position: top outside;
background-color: white;
content: "";
display: block;
max-width: (#column + .45in);
margin-left: -.15in;
margin-top:-.5in;
}
}
I would expect adjusting the value of the margins on the pseudo element would produce the expected result. However this is not the case. Is there a limitation I'm unaware of?
Thanks for your time and your help.
First, I assume by "on top" you mean displayed "before" the .foo element. I assume that based on what it appears you are trying to do with your code. Normally, I would interpret "on top" as a higher z-index and overlapping an element, but I don't think that is what you are asking.
Second, unless I am unfamiliar with something (definitely possible), there is no outside keyword for background-position; therefore, that would seem to be an error (though I would not expect it to cause the issue you face).
Third, I would think that your basic premise should be working. This fiddle demonstrates a shifting of the :before element to be "before" its .foo parent. It could be your mixed use of em units and in units is causing some issues. That would not be a good way to insure you get the positioning you want. I would keep your units in em.
Pseudo-elements are displayed inline by default. Also, they are placed within the content area of an element.
To make it appear 'on top' of that element, set the display to block.
Lastly, pseudo-elements should be initialized using the content property.
.foo::before {
content: url(./bar.svg);
display: block;
}
I have a "ribbon" type header on the top of my website:
#top-wrapper {
border-bottom: 5px solid #A1C1BE;
width: 100%;
background-color: #59554E;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
margin-bottom: 100px;
padding: 10px 0 0 0;
color: #C0C0A8;
}
The absolute positioning is needed to make sure it occupies the complete width of the user's browser (as far as I know). However, the rest of my webpage (the main body which contains all my other divs) is hidden behind this ribbon:
#pagebody {
width: 60%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
The only solution I have been able to find is adding a bunch of <br> between the end of top-wrapper and the start of pagebody.
Is there a better way of doing this?
As per my comment in another answer:
You can just use width: 100%, but make sure you remove the default gap it leaves with:
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
You should also check out necolas' normalize.css. It includes all of this basic CSS rules you're going to need in pretty much every site :)
Absolutely positioned elements (top-wrapper) are always on top of relative elements (pagebody), unless you do some hacky stuff with z-index (and even that is limited). What you probably want to do is move the pagebody element down just past the top-wrapper. I don't know how tall your top-wrapper is because it has no specified height. And you might not know it due to font-size differences. But overall, you simply need to add a top margin or padding to the pagebody tag, something like this:
margin-top:50px;
Absolute positioning takes an element out of the normal flow. You do not need absolute positioning to maximize width. You do that with width:100%.
There are many ways to do this. First, you can place your top wrapper outside the pagebody element and then just define its width as 100%.
If you have a graphic that is a ribbon and it is supposed to overlap the top of the pagebody element - as I think you are saying above - then you would use position absolute and z-index to place it above the pagebody element. Then add the proper padding-top to pagebody.
You didn't provide html so we don't really know what you're up to totally.
I have an inline element with a line break in it. It has padding on all sides. However, the side padding on where the line break cuts the element is not there.
This is what i mean:
http://jsfiddle.net/4Gs2E/
There should be 20px padding on the right of tag and left of with but there isnt.
The only other way I can see this working is if i create a new element for every line but this content will be dynamically generated and will not be in a fixed width container so i dont see that working out. Is there any other way I can do this in css without any javascript?
I want the final result to look like this :
http://jsfiddle.net/GNsw3/
but without any extra elements
i also need this to work with display inline only as I want the background to wrap around the text as inline block doesnt do this
Is this possible?
edit, altered the examples to make what i want more visible:
current
http://jsfiddle.net/4Gs2E/2/
what i want it to look like
http://jsfiddle.net/GNsw3/1/
In some cases you can use box-shadow for a workaround.
Move the right and left padding of the element to its parent and add two box-shadows.
The result: http://jsfiddle.net/FpLCt/1/
Browser support for box-shadow: http://caniuse.com/css-boxshadow
Update:
There is also a new css property for this issue called box-decoration-break. It is currently only supported by opera, but hopefully more browsers will implement this soon.
Hope this helps
Found a solution for you, but it ain't pretty :)
Since you can't target the <br> element with css, you have to use javascript. Here's how you can accomplish what you want with jQuery:
// Add two spaces before and after any <br /> tag
$('br').replaceWith(' <br /> ');
Play with the number of elements to acheive your padding on both ends.
Here's an updated Fiddle demo:
http://jsfiddle.net/4Gs2E/8/
Maybe you can use float: left instead of display: inline:
http://jsfiddle.net/GolezTrol/4Gs2E/1/
Usually that is implemented by wrapping each word in an own SPAN which has border.
I just wanted to make css-animated menu for myself. Workaround I have found is to wrap your INLINE-BLOCK element (change in css if necessary, lets call it a span with such an attribute for purpose of this solution) into block element. Then I'm using margins of span as it was padding for the surrounding div.
div.menuopt {
margin: 10px;
padding: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
width: 500px;
height: 150px;
background: grey;
}
span.menuopt {
display: inline-block;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
margin-left: 150px;
margin-top: 10px;
font-size: 25px;
}
Example:
http://jsfiddle.net/ApbQS/
hope it will help anyone
i have a parent div, which can change its size, depending on the available space. Within that div, i have floating divs. Now, i would like to have spacing between these divs, but no space to the parent div (see drawing).
Is there a way to do this with CSS?
Thank you
I found a solution, which at least helps in my situation, it probably is not suitable for other situations:
I give all my green child divs a complete margin:
margin: 10px;
And for the surrounding yellow parent div i set a negative margin:
margin: -10px;
I also had to remove any explicit width or height setting for the yellow parent div, otherwise it did not work.
This way, in absolute terms, the child divs are correctly aligned, although the parent yellow div obviously is set off, which in my case is OK, because it will not be visible.
You can do the following:
Assuming your container div has a class "yellow".
.yellow div {
// Apply margin to every child in this container
margin: 10px;
}
.yellow div:first-child, .yellow div:nth-child(3n+1) {
// Remove the margin on the left side on the very first and then every fourth element (for example)
margin-left: 0;
}
.yellow div:last-child {
// Remove the right side margin on the last element
margin-right: 0;
}
The number 3n+1 equals every fourth element outputted and will clearly only work if you know how many will be displayed in a row, but it should illustrate the example. More details regarding nth-child here.
Note: For :first-child to work in IE8 and earlier, a <!DOCTYPE> must be declared.
Note2: The :nth-child() selector is supported in all major browsers, except IE8 and earlier.
Add margin to your div style
margin:0 10px 10px 0;
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_margin.asp
I'm late to the party but... I've had a similar situation come up and I discovered padding-right (and bottom, top, left too, of course). From the way I understand its definition, it puts a padding area inside the inner div so there's no need to add a negative margin on the parent as you did with a margin.
padding-right: 10px;
This did the trick for me!
Is it not just a case of applying an appropriate class to each div?
For example:
.firstRowDiv { margin:0px 10px 10px 0px; }
.secondRowDiv { margin:0px 10px 0px 0px; }
This depends on if you know in advance which div to apply which class to.
A litte late answer.
If you want to use a grid like this, you should have a look at Bootstrap, It's relatively easy to install, and it gives you exactly what you are looking for, all wrapped in nice and simple html/css + it works easily for making websites responsive.