As an example I'm trying to create a thumbnail, but my automatic img css as listed below is applied
img, img a {
border: none;
margin-top:10px;
margin-bottom:10px;
}
I can't make sense of it in my mind for some reason. I know the syntax is probably simple, but I can't seem to remember it.
Thanks
Chris
The reason you can not add margin to your images is because img elements are, by default, inline. It means you can not give them dimensions, or add margin from the bottom or top (and some other stuff you should probably read about).
This means that in order to give img element margin from top or bottom, you need to declare it as a block, or rather inline-block. This is achieved using
img { display: inline-block; }
Then you can add away your margins, and viola:
img {
display: inline-block;
margin: 10px 0; }
Are you trying to style all images a certain way, then exclude images within a certain container div? If your container div is called #wrapper, then do something like this:
#wrapper img,
#wrapper a img /* assuming that's what you meant rather than img a */
{
/* undo what you did above for images inside #wrapper */
margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;
}
Such loose selectors for img can be troublesome because images are used all the time in different contexts. I prefer to style only images that are inside a #content div, or similar.
Related
I have this site header I'm working on but I can't get the logo and the site title to line up horizontally. I'm relatively new to CSS so would appreciate any hand-holding anyone can offer please ;-)
The logo image is styled with:
.logo {
float:left;
}
Whereas the h1.site-title and h2.site-description text is styled thus:
h1.site-title, h2.site-description {
position:relative;
margin-left: 130px; !important
}
I'm pretty sure I need to make another DIV and can't get the positioning right so the logo is at the left, then immediately next to it the site title/description.
(it should be #logo) Floating them both left works
#logo {
float: left;
}
.home-link {
float: left;
}
and remove the margin-left
There are a couple of things that I would recommend changing:
In your HTML, you have logo set to an ID, so in your CSS it should use a # instead of a period.
You do not need to tag qualify your classes in your CSS, meaning the h1 and h2 are not needed, just .site-title and .site-description should work.
Avoid using !important whenever possible. It makes your code very hard to adjust later.
instead of working with .site-title and .site-description work with their wrapping container, .home-link. Float both it and #logo left.
If you want them to line up side by side, you will have to change the width of home-link to something smaller than 100%.
remove the margin-left.
so your CSS would look like this:
#logo { float: left; }
.home-link { float: left; width: 75%; }
I have a paragraph in HTML using the p tag. Now i want to change the height and width of this paragraph so it only shows the begining (head) of the paragraph and then when i hover over it, it displays the full paragraph. How do I do this using CSS?
NOTE** I CANNOT CHANGE THE HTML CODE SO I MUST ONLY PLAY AROUND WITH CSS..
The following base code will work for you, you can modify it to enable CSS animations etc. as necessary.
p {
// Put whatever height you want here, we're using max-height here so that
// paragraphs that are smaller than this don't get extra blank spacing.
max-height: 20px;
// Hide the extra content
overflow: hidden;
}
p:hover {
max-height: none;
}
It's better if you use JavaScript for such stuff, but if you insist on CSS, here you go.
p{
border: solid;
height: 10px;
overflow:hidden;
}
p:hover{
height: 100%;
}
A small Example here
I have an image with text aligned to the left of it. Both the image and text is sitting inside a div that I have styled to look like a red bubble in the background of the post. The bubble only goes as far as the text and not the image (the image goes down much farther than the text), causing the image to break into other posts. How do I make this div the correct size that can fit anything i put into it (in this case the image)?
jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Sederu/CzNr6/
Add overflow:auto to your .post-bubble rule.
div.post-bubble {
padding: 10px;
background-color: #e17474;
border-radius: 10px;
overflow:auto;
}
jsFiddle example
If you want the content to allow anything inside of it, give it overflow:auto.
If you want the bubble to extend so that it also covers the img tag, however, give .post-bubble a height:
div.post-bubble {
padding: 10px;
background-color: #e17474;
border-radius: 10px;
height:600px;
overflow:auto;
}
The reason why the image extends farther than the div is because the img is taken out of the flow of the page, i.e. no longer being a block element, when you declare align:right.
either add overflow:auto; to your post-bubble div or define a height to the post-bubble div eg.. height: 600px; covers it nicely..
On div tag do a display:block in css
I think the best solution is to force element to self-clear its children.
div.post-bubble:after {
clear: both;
content: '';
display: table;
}
You can also create a specific class for other elements in your project/projects like:
.clear-children:after {
clear: both;
content: '';
display: table;
}
And add this class (.clear-children, without :after) to every element with floated children.
http://jsfiddle.net/CzNr6/4/
Im having trouble lining up the thumbnails (4 blocks). The last block broke to the second line. Is it the width of the container inside div? If I minimize the browser smaller, the blocks are lined up just fine, but no gaps between them. http://magnixsolutions.com/dev/test/test.html.
Also why is the cursor centered in the textfields?
To position the cursor to the left in the textfields, you can use this:
.fname, .lname, .zipcode
{
text-align: left;
}
Yes, it is. Your thumbnails container is shorter than your thumbnail sum their lengths together with their gaps.
Try something like this:
.thumbnails {
margin-left: -15px;
...
}
.thumbnails li {
margin-left: 15px;
...
}
.thumbnail {
width: 220px;
...
}
This is the modification to your bootstrap css file. So if it does not take any effect, apply !important to enforce them.
UPDATE:
you forgot to apply:
.thumbnails > li {
margin-left: 15px !important
}
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;
}