I'm attempting to get a drop caps (or initial caps; whatever you may call it) effect on a heading. Here is an example of what I'm trying to accomplish.
I've found success with inline span tags that are floated, but when the heading wraps into a second line, the paragraph section breaks onto its own line. See this jsfiddle for an example and adjust the viewing window to see the effect I'm referring to. http://jsfiddle.net/fEn4U/
The structure in the first two jsfiddle examples (with the h1 and p tags) is how I would prefer to have the html. But I can settle for a span in the p tag if that's the only solution. As you can see, I'm further away from a solution with the h1, p structure than I am with the span and p tags.
Also note that the container will be a fixed width, and the content within will be dynamic, so I can't always rely on the heading breaking into two lines or staying on one.
Try to make your small text inline-block and set a maximum size.
http://jsfiddle.net/fEn4U/2/
p {
display: inline-block;
max-width:150px;
}
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I have a fairly long H1 title containing a link with a pseudo ::before element that I want to wrap to two lines correctly. Here's what I need:
A pseudo ::before element on an a link inside of an H1 (it needs to be clickable, so can't be on the H1).
I have this done successfully.
The text to wrap normally and align with the left side of the first word.
This is where the problem is.
See my testing codepen here: http://codepen.io/dmoz/pen/EaZqKv
Seems like it should be a simple fix, but I can't think of what controls how the text wraps. Any thoughts?
Adding float:left to pseudo element will do it.
Check updated demo
Right now your image is being displayed as an inline element (think of it flowing like a single character like an 'A' or a '9'). To have text wrap around it, you need it floated. I'm not sure if this forces block level formatting, but it does force other elements to
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/MYJNEp
Like so:
.site-title a:before {
...
float:left;
}
Edit: remember to clear your float if you have other elements that appear after the your h1 (highly likely)
I have a panel div with a title bar div. In the title bar, I may have several different icons on the right side (to be determined at runtime). I'm trying to construct the CSS so the icons will always stack as far to the right as possible, and also have it that the title text doesn't run over the icons (ie, it'll wrap around to a new line if necessary). I just haven't been able to get it right. For my icons, I have <img class="icon" ...> where
.icon {
display: block;
float: right;
padding-left: 4px;
}
The icons appear fine on their own. But when I try to add the actual title is when things get wonky. I can't seem to get the title to take up the remaining space to the left correctly. The div (or span, which I've tried) will either be completely below or above the icons. Or sometimes, it'll force the icons to stacked vertically on the right, depending on the length of the title.
So in essence, what I'm looking for is one or more small fix-sized elements stacked horizontally to the upper right, and a longer element to take up the remaining space to the left, and this last element may end up taking more space vertically depending on if there's any text wrapping.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Adding the following rule to the css of the element you have your text in might help:
white-space: nowrap;
I think I got it working.
Basically, I had the title text within a div (also tried span). But if I didn't put it within anything (ie, it's part of the main title div), everything seems to work.
Here is an example of what I'm working with. http://jsfiddle.net/5J4PE/
I want the red and greed boxes to show up wrapped tightly around the text (like it is when using inline-block).
However, I want it to take up the space like when using block, such that the boxes appear stacked instead of in a line.
I don't want them to be the same width, so I don't want to use table-cell or any of the table displays.
I could just add a <br/> between the elements, but I was wondering if there was a way to do this in CSS.
you could use a span around the text & then set bg Color in css
<div><span class="red">hello</span></div>
then additionally you may use whatever styles on the outer divs.
It's just as nasty as <br /> tags, but float: left; clear: left; on all elements would get you the effect you want. Pick your poison?
Obviously you'd lose some of the layout flow with the floats, so you'd need to adjust your parent to account for that.
Have you tried using the before: or after: pseudo-classes? These allow you to add content before or after a block, using CSS.
eg <span>Hello</span> styled with span:after {content:" world";} will produce Hello world in the browser.
If you specify a line-feed, it should put a blank line at the end of your block. Note: You'll need to specify it using the unicode value of the line-feed character.
Hope that helps.
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What is the difference between display: inline and display: inline-block?
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What is the basic difference between the following CSS:
display:inline
and this:
display:block
Using these separately on an element, I get the same result.
display: block means that the element is displayed as a block, as paragraphs and headers have always been. A block has some whitespace above and below it and tolerates no HTML elements next to it, except when ordered otherwise (by adding a float declaration to another element, for instance).
display: inline means that the element is displayed inline, inside the current block on the same line. Only when it's between two blocks does the element form an 'anonymous block', that however has the smallest possible width.
Read more about display options : http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html
Block
Takes up the full width available, with a new line before and after (display:block;)
Inline
Takes up only as much width as it needs, and does not force new lines (display:inline;)
display: block - a line break before and after the element
display: inline - no line break before or after the element
Here is a comparison table:
You can view examples here.
display: block; creates a block-level element, whereas display: inline; creates an inline-level element. It's a bit difficult to explain the difference if you're not familiar with the css box model, but suffice to say that block level elements break up the flow of a document, whereas inline elements do not.
Some examples of block level elements include: div, h1, p, and hr HTML tags.
Some examples of inline level elements include: a, span, strong, em, b, and i HTML tags.
Personally, I like to think of inline elements as typographical elements. This isn't entirely or technically correct, but for the most part inline elements do behave a lot like text.
You can read a more through article on the topic here. Seeing as several other people in this thread have quoted it, it may be worth a read.
Display : block will take the whole line i.e without line break
Display :inline will take only exact space that it requires.
#block
{
display : block;
background-color:red;
border:1px solid;
}
#inline
{
display : inline;
background-color:red;
border:1px solid;
}
You can refer example in this fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/RJXZM/1/.
block elements expand to fill their parent.
inline elements contract to be just big enough to hold their children.
display:block
takes the entire row(100%)of the screen ,it is always 100%of the screen size
display block example
display:inline-block takes up as much width as necessary ,it can be 1%-to 100% of the screen size
display inline-block example
that's why we have div and span
Div default styling is display block :it takes the entire width of the screen
span default styling is display:inline block :span does not start on a new line and only takes up as much width as necessary
Add a background-color to the element and you will nicely see the difference of inline vs. block, as explained by the other posters.
Display:block
It very much behaves the same way as 'p' tags and it takes up the entire row and there can't be any element next to it until it's floated.
Display:inline
It's just uses as much space as required and allows other elements to be aligned alongside itself.
Use these properties in case of forms and you will get a better understanding.
a block or inline-block can have a width (e.g. width: 400px) while inline element is not affected by width. inline element can span to the next line of text (example http://codepen.io/huijing/pen/PNMxXL resize your browser window to see that) while block element can't.
.inline {
background: lemonchiffon;
div {
display: inline;
border: 1px dashed darkgreen;
}
Block Elements: Elements liked div, p, headings are block level. They start from new line and occupy full width of parent element.
Inline Elements: Elements liked b, i, span, img are inline level. They never start from new line and occupy width of content.
I'm using a background image to add a custom bullet to list items in my content. In the content there are also images floated left. When an image and a list item are next to each other, the bullet appears where it would do if the image wasn't there, but the text wraps around the image.
Here is an example:
http://golf2.test.textmatters.com/content/greenkeepers/turfgrass/turfgrass_speci/cool_season_gra
is there a way to make the bullet appear where is should (i.e. next to the text)?
In Firebug / Firefox (you'll have to check other browsers) I solved your problem adding a:
li {
overflow:hidden;
}
Don't know why exactly, but that magical line solves lots of problems around floated stuff :-)
Edit: Solution if you can change the html slightly
If you have any control over the html, you could perhaps use paragraph tags instead of list items:
p.list_item {
background: transparent url(/++resource++stylesheets/images/bullet.gif) no-repeat scroll left 0.45em;
padding-left: 11px;
}
However, that would kind of change the semantic meaning of the list items...
This is an old topic... but thought I would add how I usually do this in case someone stumbles in here via a search...
If I have an image on the left, and plan to have graphic bulleted unordered list (UL) to the right of it, I place the image statement inside DIV tags, and add a float:left style to that DIV.
Then, I wrap my UL tags inside a DIV, and give that DIV a float:left style as well, causing it to appear to the right of the first DIV.
If I have additional text that I would like to resume UNDER my UL, then I give the second DIV a width that equals the total width of the page/column minus the graphic width - basically, to account for all of the space to the right of the image. That will force continuing text to flow directly under the UL DIV, and if the UL is shorter than the graphic, the text will flow to the right of the graphic and then under the graphic as expected.
If the UL extends lower than the graphic, then the text will just start under the image, as expected.
If you want the text to simply start UNDER the left graphic regardless of the height of the UL, then you could just apply a clear:both style to the ensuing , i.e.
In general this approach works so long as the UL isn't too much taller than the left image, because obviously in this scenario, the list itself isn't going to wrap under the image, leaving whitespace - so to make a long list look right may require some purposeful image sizing, or stacking a couple of images in the first DIV, or whatever other solution you might have.
If you really want to get whacky, I've had a few times where I've used the two DIV method described above, but setting the first DIV to position:relative, and placing the second DIV containing the UL INSIDE the first, with a position:absolute and of course top:??px and right:??px, set of course to absolutely position my UL to the right of the image. It takes the right kind of layout to use this method, obviously...
OK that's all I had to say, hope this makes sense & good luck to whomever!
Try wrapping your list items in a <p> tag, and then give that tag a left margin.
Why do you have div.fig width set to 0 in the html?
<div class="fig" style="width: 0px;"><img src="/images/43_Fescue.jpg" float="0"/></div>
Remove that and the list will float around the image.
Well, it's not the best fix from a stylistic point of view, but floating the images right avoids this problem. Thanks for everyones suggestions
If you want the whole ul to NOT float under the image try adding overflow:hidden to the ul