I'm new to CSS. I've got a deceptively simple problem. This is a fiddle of a simple page.
http://liveweave.com/c6j68I
The objective is to show a fixed 900px white div centered against a coral background.
I've tried to achieve this using two divs maked #outerWrapper and #wrapper.
However, the whole page still seems to have a white background, which seems to be connected to the body tag. (Please use the fullscreen mode to see it).
If I give the body the background color of the #outerWrapper, again, the color appears on the top and bottom of the page too, which is undesired. (Please uncomment the CSS of body to see this.)
I've tried using the article tag; using negative margins; and changing dimesions of the body tag. Nothing seems to work.
In simple terms, a want a 'columned' look: coral-white-coral; instead of the 'boxed' look I currently have.
Please help.
Just add a style for the body in your CSS and set the margin to 0px, like so:
body {
margin: 0px;
}
Because most major browsers, the default margin is 8px on all sides. It is defined in pixels by the user-agent-stylesheet your browser provides.
If you want to change it, you can just do this, add it on your css
* {
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
Want to be more complete?
use normalize.css. It resets a lot of default values to be consistent across browsers.
Try adding the following
<style>
body,html {height:100vh; width:100vw; padding:0; margin:0;}
</style>
Body has default margins set by the browser (most browsers set default styles to different elements and they can vary depending on the browser) as seen below in developer console.
Note: In most browsers you can open the developer console by pressing F12 on your keyboard:
Just set the following css to avoid it:
html, body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
Demo: http://liveweave.com/EzWH0o
When I use in-page links or "anchors" to reach a part of the page, the scrollbar doesn't allow me access to the content above -- even though it is there in the HMTL.
My site is developed in WordPress but I think the problem is more my CSS.
See the naughty
http://adanewmedia.org/submissions/#review
versus the nice http://adanewmedia.org/submissions/
Any ideas are appreciated!
Line 92 of style.css, remove this:
#main {
overflow: hidden;
}
Seems like a weird bug, or maybe you have a height set in some parent element to the #main div. Removing that style should fix it though.
Further inspection I found this (style.css line 96):
#main-content, #secondary {
margin-bottom: -32767px;
padding-bottom: 32767px;
}
This is where your issues begin. Removing this nonsense fixes your original issue, but changes up the style of your site quite a bit. If you want to remove the black sidebar/footer, do that instead of pushing the containers all over the place.
When I tried playing with your code, it seemed to be this line in your style sheet that caused it - http://adanewmedia.org/wp-content/themes/twentyfourteen-child-ada/style.css?ver=3.9.1
#main-content, #secondary {
margin-bottom: -32767px;
padding-bottom: 32767px;
}
Not sure what you are trying to do with that.
Also: firebug is rendering the page very oddly - I'd try validating your code as if Firebug is struggling to render the page correctly, then browsers are also likely to throw unexpected layout issues.
I just finished my portfolio site, which is my first attempt with html5 and it looks great in Chrome. But when I tested it in IE and FF, exept IE9, there are some major differences that all occur in the header. I think this is because the header has a fixed position. I did this because of the menu. I created a one pager and if I didn't set the position on fixed, the menu disappeared when you clicked on a menu item.
A second error is that with IE all the images get a blue border, which doesn't appear on Chrome.
And a third error is the font in the header is also different with IE. I used an #font-face font for it.
My HTML and CSs code validates on W3C.
You can find the website at www.nathaliedehertogh.be
Can someone please help me out with this one.
All you need to do is add clear:both to #menu, and border:0 to img.
The blue outline is default in some browsers to show that the images are links.
You need a clear in your header to allow the content to flow as wanted after.
The blue border for IE simply needs a CSS setting:
img {
border: 0;
}
As for the font, some fonts don't read correctly in IE. The error I get is:
#font-face failed OpenType embedding permission check. Permission must be Installable.
You don't have a height defined in your div 'kopregel'.. this is causing an issue since you have elements with heights defined inside it.
NOTE: I see it all broken in FF, stuff is being smooshed to the right.
The problem with your header is you need the clear function in your css.
Here is the new and edited code.
#content, hr {
clear: left;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 80%;
}
No issue with fixed positions this is just a common issue, hope this helps let me know!
Another major Difference Chrome vs IE check this out
http://technofizzle.blogspot.in/2013/04/chrome-and-ie-display-image-completely.html
I'm having a problem in Google Chrome. I'm using a simple hover state on a display:block; link to change only the background:url(); property on the hover.
Google Chrome shows the actual hover change ok, but when I mouse out of the area, the background goes transparent/disappears.
Here's my CSS:
#branding #logo a {
width: 259px;
height: 201px;
border:none;
display: block;
background:url(images/logo.png) top left;
}
#branding #logo a:hover {
background:url(images/logo_hover.png) top left;
}
The actual site is here: http://beerblestudy.org. Again this is only happening for me in Chrome. Any thoughts?
It's working for me an all browsers. Try deleting your cache because it's working normally. I recomment you to delete the lines top left since they aren't necessary
Your background is disappearing in chrome here too.
I know I shouldn't "me too" on here, but this is odd and what brought me here was the same problem I'm having on a site I built recently: http://macvillain.com - the right hand column image blocks.
I tested thoroughly on most browsers (not ie6 or 7 - I've banished them) and has been fine in chrome for the past two weeks until today. Sometimes clearing cache etc works for a little while then it comes back. I don't get it...
UPDATE:
Hi I got an answer on the Google Chrome forum which said:
"Chrome uses strictly HTML5. Validate HTML code http://validator.w3.org/"
I had forgotten to do this and there were a couple of invalid things which I fixed and now all is fine and dandy.
I suggest you do the same.
Try this technique: I saw a JQuery plugin that automatically download images specified in CSS style sheets.
http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/update_automatically_preload_images_from_css_with_jquery/
An image set as the background of a DIV is displayed in IE, but not in Firefox.
CSS example:
div.something {
background:transparent url(../images/table_column.jpg) repeat scroll 0 0;
}
(The issue is described in many places but haven't seen any conclusive explanation or fix.)
Sorry this got huge, but it covers two possibilities that consistently happen to me.
Possibility 1
You may find the path to the CSS file isn't correct. For example:
Say I have the following file structure:
public/
css/
global.css
images/
background.jpg
something/
index.html
index.html
On public/index.html the following paths will include the CSS file:
#1: <link href="./css/global.css"
#2: <link href="/css/global.css"
#3: <link href="css/global.css"
However on public/something/index.html number 1 and 3 will fail. If you are using a directory structure like this (or an MVC structure e.g.: http://localhost/controller/action/params) use the second href type.
Firebug's Net monitor tab will tell you if the CSS file can't be included.
On the subject of paths remember that images are relative to the path of the CSS file. So:
url('./images/background.jpg') /* won't work */
url('../images/background.jpg') /* works: ../ == up one level */
Hover over the url() part of the background attribute in Firebug's CSS tab to check if the file's being loaded.
Possibility 2
It could be that the div has no content and thus has a 0 height. Make sure the div has at least a line of something in (e.g.: lorem ipsum delors secorum) or:
div.something {
display: block; /* for verification */
min-height: 50px;
min-width: 50px;
}
Check Firebug's layout tab (of the HTML tab) to check the div has a height/width.
Strangely enough, after smashing my head on the keyboard for hours, I added display:table; to the DIV's style and the background image magically appeared in FF.
It looks like a background-attachment issue. It needs to be set to fixed (not scroll) to work in FF.
See: http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_background-position
Happend with me. The jpg does shows in IE but not in Firefox or Chrome. Here is the solution
Change the following css for the element where image is displayed. It can be span, div or any other element :
display:block
Old post but I just Had a similar problem images not showing up in Firefox turns out it was Ad-block add-on, had to change the names of my images
Try putting the image name in quotes, e.g.:
background-image: url('image.jpg');
I've had a similar issue. The reason is that firefox is sensitive for missing fields in your css. Chrome will (sometimes) auto complete missing field, thus the issue appears on your firefox browser.
You need to add a display type, because right now it is being translated to 0 height.
In my case:
.left-bg-image {
display: block; // add this line
background-image: url('../images/profile.jpeg');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: cover;
background-position: center center;
opacity: .6;
min-width: 100%;
min-height: 100vh;
}
Make sure that the image you are referring to is relative to the css file and not the html file.
try this.
background-color: transparent;
background-image: url("/path/to/image/file.jpg");
background-repeat: repeat;
background-position: top;
background-attachment: scroll;
Instead of using URLs relative to the page/stylesheet, a cross-browser solution is to give a relative URL starting with the application/domain root.
/* Relative to Stylesheet (Works in Firefox) */
background: url('../images/logo.gif');
/* Relative to Page (Works in IE, Chrome etc.) */
background: url('images/logo.gif');
/* Absolute path (Fine, unless you change domains)*/
background: url('http://www.webby.com/myproduct/images/factsheet.gif');
/* Domain Root-relative path (Works in Firefox, IE, Chrome and Opera) */
background: url('/myproduct/images/factsheet.gif');
FYI: As far as I'm concerned, there is no requirement to use quotes in CSS URLs, I've used them here 'cause it looks prettier.
I solved a similar problem by renaming the CSS class. MSIE allows CSS class IDs to begin with numbers; Firefox doesn't. I had created a class using the width of the image in pixels e.g. .1594px-01a
I actually knew it was non-standard syntax but since it was working fine in MSIE I had forgotten about it. After trying all the other stuff it finally dawned on me that it could be a simple as the naming, and as soon as I put a letter in front of the class, presto!
For me, it was a matter of the file-name being case-sensitive. I'm not sure if it was CSS or if it was my Ubuntu operating system, or if it was firefox, but the way that I finally got the background images to display was by referring to BlueGrad.jpg instead of bluegrad.jpg. The former of the two is how it was saved. I didn't think it would be case sensitive, but it was.
You could try this:
div.something {
background: transparent url(../images/table_column.jpg);
}
The other declarations are shorthand CSS properties, and I afaik they are not needed.
Do you have this online somewhere? I'd like to see if I can fiddle with it a bit. (locally)
More questions than answers I'm afraid, but they might help you get to the right answer:
Is it possible that you are collapsing the div in Firefox in some way (with some floats or similar)?
Is there any other content in the div to ensure it's large enough to display the image?
Have you installed Firebug and taken a look at the CSS definitions on the page?
Are you absolutely sure the image is a JPG file and not a PNG/Other file?
I'm wondering if IE is letting you get away with something other browsers are not.
Likewise, is the files case exactly as specified?
There's this HTML 'base' tag like in
<head>
<base href="http://example.com/some/bizarre/directory"/>
</head>
If this is present in your page, the image for the url is not relative to your current url, but to the given base url. I wouldn't know why IE displays it and Firefox doesn't, though.
The Webdeveloper Firefox extension provides the option to "Display broken images" - this may come in handy. Also, you might try "Live Http Headers" to see if/what image is requested and what the return code is.
I had a similar problem regarding the CSS background-image property in FF. It worked fine in IE but refused to work in FF ;) After reading a few posts I established that the issue was indeed that there was no content in the div except for a table (I was trying to make the background image adjust to the size of the broswer without collapsing or expanding and therefore used a much larger image in the background of the div in order to form a 'cropping' of sorts.) The solution for me it seems was to simply 'cheat' by placing an img tag that displayed a blank .png file that I then re-adjusted to the the correct height of the image with width set to 100%. This worked for my problem, and I hope it helps anyone else who is running into a similar problem. Probably not the best fix, but it's a fix ;)
The only other thing I can think of besides what has already been said is the way the picture was created. If you made/edited the image in Photoshop, make sure you save as Save For Web...
Sometimes if you use a JPG image for Photoshop without saving as a Web image, it may not appear in Firefox. I had that happen a few weeks ago where a graphic artist created a beautiful header for a mini site and it would NOT appear in FF!
Wait...
Try setting a width and height on the div to expand it. It may be a no-content issue in your div.
For those, who encounter the problem in FF, but not in Chrome:
You could mistakenly mix between different value types for the position.
For example,
background: transparent url("/my/image.png") right 60% no-repeat;
Will make this error. The fix could be:
background: transparent url("/my/image.png") 100% 60% no-repeat;
My mistake was to use '\' instead of '/'. Worked OK in IE, but not in other browsers.
I found two things that were causing this problem:
I was using a .tif file which Firefox did not seem to like - I changed to a .png file.
I added overflow:auto; to the CSS for the div - display:block; did not work for me.
It may look very weird, but this works for me >
#hwrap {
background-color: #d5b75a;
background: url("..//design/bg_header_daddy.png"), url("..//design/nasty_fabric.png");
background-position: 50% 50%, top left;
background-origin: border-box, border-box;
background-repeat: no-repeat, repeat;
}
Yes, a double dot and double slash ... ??!!?? ... I can't find anything on the internet that reports this strange behaviour.
[edit]
I've made a seperate post > https://stackoverflow.com/q/18342019/529802
(It doesn't seem like these are the exact circumstances as of the OP but the issue is somewhat related and I've found a workaround for that which I want to share)
I've had the same problem – background-image visible everywhere except in Firefox – and for me, the issue had to do with the fact that I'm working on a browser add-on.
I'm injecting a file style.css in the pageMod module with the contentStyleFile attribute. In it, there's the rule background-image: url(/img/editlist.png); where I'm referencing an image file external to the add-on. The problem here is that Firefox, unlike other browsers, misinterprets this external domain root as the add-on's internal root!
The css-file is a 1:1 port from the Chrome version of the extension/add-on, so I didn't want to mess around with it. That's why I've added an additional contentStyle rule in combination with a copy of that image in my resource folder. This rule simply overwrites the rule inside the css-file.
(In hindsight maybe even a more elegant method than before …)
Nobody mentioned background-origin so there you go :
background-image:url('dead.beef');
background-size: 100% 100%;
background-origin:border-box;
Solved the problem for me ; my background apparently was outside my div.
In my case it caused by "Strict" mode in FF Privacy & Security settings. After I have changed to "Standard" all background images had become visible.
This worked for me:
1) Click on the background image table.
2) Right click on the status bar at the bottom of the page.
3) Click Inline styles.
4) Click the Background styles tab.
5) If you see 'Transparent' in the colour title, that is the problem.
6) Click the colour box and select a colour (white is a good choice.)
7) The colour title should now read white.
8) Click OK.
9) Save the page.
10) Upload the page and overwrite the existing file.
11) Refresh the page and your background picture will display.
Note: Please ensure that you have uploaded your background picture jpeg. I forgot to upload the background jpeg once and spent ages trying to sort it before I realised my error.
Regards
Martin