I'm trying to come up with a solution for this problem.
I have a control where the background is an image.
The text that I would like on the form is included in the bg image, however for the purpose of accessibilty, I'd like to include it in an H3 tag.
The problem I have encountered with the solutions I have is that the space is still allocated and I need it to be supressed. It also needs to be Google friendly too.
Here's 2 solutions I have:
text-indent:-999px;
text-indent:100%;
white-space:nowrap;
overflow:hidden;
Any ideas?
The normal way to hide elements is to use one of the following:
visibility:hidden; which hides the element but still takes up space.
display:none; which hides the element and does not take up space.
I believe the second is what you want in this instance.
Well, first of all
display: none;
But, if you want, there might be other solutions for styling your heading tag
/* on its container */
overflow: hidden;
/* on h3 tag */
float: left;
margin-left: -100%;
or
font-size: 0;
line-height: 0;
height: 0;
overflow: hidden;
You may also need to set/reset few other properties, to clear any other space around your heading, like
margin, padding, white-space, text-indent, border, etc.
You can give font-size:0; to your h3 tag HEADING will be in your code with your background.
And this will help you in SEO also..
DEMO
HTML
<div id="wrap">
<h3>heading</h3>
</div>
CSS
#wrap {
height: 230px;
width:660px;
background:url("http://www.eldercarefunding.org/Portals/18/Skins/s_eldercare_green/images/header.bgL.png") no-repeat 0 0;
}
#wrap h3 {
font-size:0;
}
Related
I have a layout using DIV tags and I have having a hard time controlling the fill of the div tags as well as unnecessary scroll bars. When the content in the "rightside" div tag doesn't fill the screen there is still a scroll bar on the page. How do I cut the tags so they don't fill past the first screen if not needed.
A second issue that I have is when there is enough content in the "rightside" div tag to create the need for a scroll bar, the background of the "sidebar" div tag does not extent to match the bottom of the "rightside"
I have played around with so many of the tag, I have no clue where to go from here. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Here is my CSS Code:
.content_container {
border:2px solid red;
overflow: auto;
height:100%;
}
#sidebar {
background:#a4c2c2;
width:231px;
font:12px georgia;
color: #336666;
line-height:18px;
float:left;
position: absolute;
overflow:hidden;
z-index:-1;
height:100%;
min-height:auto;
}
#sidebar div {
height:2000px;
}
#rightside {
float: left;
width: 500px;
height:100%;
margin-left:231px;
padding: 10px 0px 0px 25px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/03hcm6ta/
EDIT-
I solved my issue, well almost, with a table. However there is a weird border issue happening and I can't seem to solve it. The side bar and rightside div tags dont seem to completely cover the content_container div. Any suggestions?
http://jsfiddle.net/eh92awh0/
Hopefully I've understood your issue... You had a couple of stray /div tags plus you'd opened paragraphs with P and closed with /p and some duplicated classes in your CSS :)
EDIT - Updated fiddle; http://jsfiddle.net/richardblyth/L9afr65f/
The key is setting all relevant elements to
height: 100%;
position: relative;
And on your container
overflow: hidden;
See my fiddle :)
Im having problem vertically aligning a text with CSS. I have tried probably everything but it just doesnt want to work. You can see my demo jsfiddle demo here:
http://jsfiddle.net/zcU7M/7/
.section {
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
display:table-cell;
}
With this code it should work but something is wrong.
How can I fix this? Thanks in advance.
EDIT: Updated demo: http://jsfiddle.net/zcU7M/7/
Write:
.section {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
}
Updated Fiddle.
The .section needs the display: table-cell
.section {
height: 200px;
background:#ccc;
border-bottom: 1px solid #dcdcdc;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
display:table-cell;
}
The display:table-cell is what allows an element to have children vertically aligned, so it has to be on the parent to be able to have the children aligned vertically.
Here's a Working Demo.
For a vertical paragraph align use that:
p {
height:200px;
line-height:200px;
text-align:center;
vertical-align: middle;
}
JSFiddle example: Exemple
The problem is, that the <p>-Tag just adds some margin at the bottom. You can see this, when inspecting with firebug. Simply add a margin: 0 to your .section p selector:
.section p {
font-size: 15px;
font-family: Arial;
font-style: italic;
margin: 0;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/zcU7M/22/
all credit goes to this link owner #Sebastian Ekström Link, please go through this.
see it in action codepen,
by reading above article I crated a demo fiddle also.
With just 3 lines of CSS (excluding vendor prefixes) we can with the help of transform: translateY vertically center whatever we want, even if we don’t know its height.
The CSS property transform is usally used for rotating and scaling elements, but with its translateY function we can now vertically align elements. Usually this must be done with absolute positioning or setting line-heights, but these require you to either know the height of the element or only works on single-line text etc.
So, to do this we write:
.element {
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
}
That’s all you need. It is a similar technique to the absolute-position method, but with the upside that we don’t have to set any height on the element or position-property on the parent. It works straight out of the box, even in IE9!
To make it even more simple, we can write it as a mixin with its vendor prefixes:
I have an H3 heading that I'd like to style as having a particular background color, but without having the element's background take up the full width of the parent element. Seeing as H3 is by default a block element, my style would need to change the element to an inline-block element, or just an inline inline element like so:
h3 {
background-color: #333;
color: white;
display: inline-block;
}
This will work fine, but only if it is immediately followed by a block element. I do not want to change the markup just to cater for this style, so I was wondering if there is a way to cause any adjacent element, irrespective of how it displays, to start on the next line?
Assume I can use CSS3.
try this:
h3:after {
content: ".";
display: block;
height: 0;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
}
display:block;
width:auto;
This will make the width as small as possible (not filling the whole parent element) and make other elements appear below.
How often does it happen that the element after the <h3> is an inline element? (Usually after a header there should be like a <p>, <ul> or other block elements, although this totally depends on your html. Is it predictable? Is it an option to just turn every element that directly follows a <h3> into a block element?
h3 ~ * { display: block }
The only other way I know to have a block-element not take up all the space is floating it, but this leaves another problem.
I come across this all the time in my code, usually for div's that are inline-block'ed. The best way I've seen is to force a new line is to wrap your code in an additional div. Your original html gets the formatting you expected and the div wrapper forces a new line.
Assuming this is your h3 styling,
h3 {
display: inline-block;
}
Then just wrap it in a div.
<div>
<h3>My heading</h3>
</div>
I've had to do something similar with inline nav items that need breaking at certain points. Does this work?
h3:after {
content: "\A ";
line-height: 0;
white-space: pre;
display:inline-block;
}
I seem to remember IE7 having an issue with it.
If you don't need to center h3, this may help:
h3 {
background-color: #333;
color: white;
display: inline-block;
float: left;
clear: left;
}
What's the best way to align icons (left) and text (right) or the opposite text on left and icon on right?
Does the icon image and text have to be the same size? Ideally I would like them to be different but be on the same vertical alignment.
I am using background-position css property to get the icons from a larger image.
Here is how I do it now, but I am struggling with either getting them to be on the same line or be vertically aligned to the bottom.
Text
This is what I get after I try your suggestions.
Though the text is now aligned with the icon, it is superimposed over the icon to the right of the icon that I want. Please note that i am using the background position to show the icon from a larger set of images.
Basically I am getting
<icon><10px><text_and_unwanted_icon_to_the_right_under_it>
<span class="group3_drops_icon group3_l_icon" style="">50</span>
group3_drops_icon {
background-position:-50px -111px;
}
.group3_l_icon {
-moz-background-clip:border;
-moz-background-inline-policy:continuous;
-moz-background-origin:padding;
background:transparent url(/images/group3.png) no-repeat scroll left center;
height:35px;
overflow:hidden;
padding-left:55px;
}
I usually use background:
<style type="text/css">
.icon {
background-image: url(path/to/my/icon.jpg);
background-position: left center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
padding-left: 16px; /* Or size of icon + spacing */
}
</style>
<span class="icon">Some text here</span>
You can do it on the same line using vertical-align and line-height
<p style='line-height: 30px'>
<img src='icon.gif' style='vertical-align: middle' />Icon Text
</p>
Alternatively, you can go the background approach with no-repeat and positioning:
span.icontext {
background: transparent url(icon.gif) no-repeat inherit left center;
padding-left: 10px /* at least the width of the icon */
}
<span class="icontext">
Icon Text
</span>
Sadly, neither of these answers are bullet proof and each have one big flaw.
#rossipedia
I used to implement all my icons this way and it works quite well. But, and this is a big but, it does not work with sprites, since you're using the background-position property to position the icon inside the container that includes your text.
And not using sprites where you can is bad for performance and SEO, making them imperative for any good modern website.
#Jamie Wong
The first solution has two markup flaws. Using elements semantically correctly is sadly underrated by some, but you'll see the benefits in prioritizing form in your search engine ranking. So first of all, you shouldn't use a p-tag when the content is not a paragraph. Use span instead. Secondly, the img-tag is meant for content only. In very specific cases, you might have to ignore this rule, but this isn't one of them.
My Solution:
I won't lie to you, I've checked in a lot of places in my time and IMHO there is no optimal solution. These two solutions are the ones that come closest to that, though:
Inline-Block Solution
HTML:
<div class="container">
<div class="icon"></div>
<span class="content">Hello</span>
</div>
CSS:
.container {
margin-top: 50px;
}
.container .icon {
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
background: #000;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.container .content {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}
"display:inline-block;" is a beautiful thing. You can do so much with it and it plays very nicely with responsive design.
But it depends on your client. Inline-Block does not work well with IE6, IE7 and still causes problems with IE8. I personally no longer support IE6 and 7, but IE8 is still out there. If your client really needs his website to be usable in IE8, inline-block is sadly no option. Assess this first. Replace the black background of the icon-element with your sprite, position it, throw no-repeat in there and voilà, there you have it.
Oh yeah, and as a plus, you can align the text any way you want with vertical-align.
P.S.: I am aware that there's an empty HTML-tag in there, if anyone has a suggestion as to how to fill it, I'd be thankful.
Fixed Height Solution
.clearfix:after {
content: ".";
display: block;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
line-height: 0;
height: 0;
}
.clearfix {
display: inline-block;
}
html[xmlns] .clearfix {
display: block;
}
* html .clearfix {
height: 1%;
}
.container {
margin-top: 50px;
border: 1px solid #000;
}
.container .icon {
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
background: #000;
float:left;
}
.container .content {
line-height: 30px;
float: left;
display: block;
}
I hate this one. It uses a fixed line height for the text, and if you choose the same height as the Icon's box, the text is centered to that height. To align the text to the top, cut the line height, and as to the bottom, you'll have to fix that with position: absolute and a fixed width and height for the container. I'm not going to get into that unless someone requests it, because it's a whole issue for itself, and brings with it a lot of disadvantages.
The main disadvantage of this path is the fixed height. Fixed heights are always unflexible and especially with text, it can cause a bunch of problems (You can no longer scale the text as a user without it being cut off, plus different browsers render text differently). So be sure that in no browser the text is cut off and that it has some wiggle room inside its line height.
P.S.: Don't forget the clearfix for the container. And, of course, replace the black background with your sprite and according position + no-repeat.
Conclusion
Use inline-block if at all possible. ;) If it's not, breath deeply and try the second solution.
I am using the text-indent technique to replace my <h1/> tag with my website's image as so:
<h1 title="Homepage">My logo</h1>
CSS:
#header h1 {
float: left;
background: transparent url('../images/logo.png');
width: 214px;
height: 64px;
text-indent: -9999px;
}
The only problem is that I want to still have the new image act as a hyperlink. I tried doing:
<h1 title="Homepage">My logo</h1>
But since it is being indented, the link is too. I wanted to know if anyone had any suggestions on how to do this and still be valid XHTML.
EDIT I'd rather do it in a way that is accessible to users with screen readers, from what I read, doing a display:none will not work with some readers.
There are many ways to do this, this is the way that I prefer, it works well, and is easy to implement.
<div id="header">
<h1>Homepage</h1>
</div>
Then i do this css, this is also know as the "Leafy/Langridge image replacement" method
#header h1 a {
display: block;
padding: 22px 0 0 0;
overflow: hidden;
background-image: url(../images/sidebar/heading.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height: 0px !important;
height /**/:22px;
}
The only thing you should have to edit is the height, and the padding-top. In this example it is 22px, this should be equal to your image-height.
Why are you mucking about with negative indents - just use the alt attribute of the img tag?
<h1 title="Homepage><img src="images/logo.png" alt="My logo"/></h1>
#Partrik Hägne: You should't use display:none, because some screen readers will ignore that...
You can see a list of Nine Techniques for CSS Image Replacement on http://css-tricks.com, which describes the cons and pros for each solution.
What you can do is remove the indent. And use a span to hide instead:
<h1 title="Homepage"><span>My logo</span></h1>
#header h1 span
{
display: none;
}
You might have to set the width and height of the A-tag also since nothing fills using this trick.