I am applying the following CSS to a div in a page that is used for a horizontal menu the selected div is missing it's right border.
Also, selecting the div changes the size so it jumps to a new line so maybe there is a way of making it inside the div
box-sizing: border-box;
width: 100%;
border: dashed $color-button-passive; 1px;
However for some reason I just can not find, this is coming out like this:
enter image description here
Please can someone help me? I think the 1px is extending to the next div
I'm on a site where you are allowed to customize a profile, but you can only touch the css.
I've managed okay but I have a problem with the scrollbar here. It is going out of boundaries because it is in a div box with border radius on.
How could i fix this? to either make it smaller or pushed away from the side. just as long as it doesnt go out of the div border.
Sorry for no jsfiddle.
It looks as though you have a container element, with an inner element that holds your icons. You cannot clip the scrollbar corners, but there are a few things you can try to fix this visually.
Firstly, for the container element, you need to make sure that you have set its CSS 'overflow-y' property to 'scroll':
.container {
overflow-y: scroll;
}
Then, you can try getting rid of the border radius altogether by doing this:
.container {
border-radius: 0;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
Or, you can adjust the 'border-radius' and increase the 'border' to give the appearance that the scrollbar is properly nested inside of the container and no longer going outside of its bounds:
.container {
border: 7px solid black;
border-radius: 10px;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
I've written a Codepen example for you.
I have four boxes in a row and they all have the same class. They all should be the same width but one is 1 pixel wider than the rest and it's throwing the row out. As far as I can see, the content is not pushing it, and there is nothing in the box to make it 1 pixel wider. It's the second last box to the right with the contact form in it on this site: http://www.guitarworldcityarcade.com.au/
If it's not content, how can I tell what's making this particular div 1 pixel wider than the rest?
I had compensated for the border in the widths of each box: layout is 1120px wide. 1120/4 = 280. Each box has a padding of 5px, so thats 5 on the left and right. 280-10=270. Then the border, which is 1px on each side, so thats 270-2 = 268. I have set my class for the boxes to be 268px wide and yet one is one pixel wider. I don't really want to sacrifice the border (yet).
You are using border: 1px solid #111111; on line 247 of global.css.
So if you are aware of CSS Box Model
The border is counted outside of the element and not inside hence it offsets your element by 2px and not 1px because it takes 1px on the left, 1px on the right as well as top and bottom too.
So two solutions here, either you can use border: 0; or you need to use box-sizing: border-box; on that element, which will count the border inside instead of outside.
That extra space is coming because of border. So you need to set it to zero.
Declare border: none; for the last box and it will work.
Add this code in your class
border: none;
outline: none;
width:0;
Remove the css border property to that div
border:0px;
My application should look good on small screens. When it is normal size, everything looks good. But when the screen is too small my buttons starting to mess up.
Red square represents an image, yellow represents some text and blue represents buttons.
Normally, the top version is displayed (the correct one)
When the screen is small, the second situation happens, when the bottom button jump to a new line.
Ideally, both buttons should stay one above the other. This is my css code:
{
background-color: #6b89ac;
border: 1px solid #89a9d0;
border-bottom-color: #1d4474;
color: white;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
padding: 2px 5px 2px 5px;
margin-bottom: 3px;
text-align: center;
display: inline-block;
width: 100px;
}
It happens on small screens because the button is being pushed far enough down to slide under the picture. Try wrapping the text and buttons together in a div. The buttons would then be bound by the left edge of that new div.
Depending on your code that new div might also need overflow: hidden.
In the 1st situation, the 2nd blue box being held to the right only because the red box is tall enough to prevent it from clearing.
To ensure the blue boxes stay to the right right, float them right {float:right}
You should then wrap each set in a div so that the 2nd red box doesn't run up into the middle of the 1st group. And you'd probably need to apply a cleafix solution to that div to ensure its height grows approprirately with the addition of floats.
clearfix references:
1. What methods of ‘clearfix’ can I use?
2. The New Clearfix Method
(I prefer #2)
You can give the body a fixed width. Then, your layout doesn't change when the window width is reduced. You can use the overflow-x property to control the scrollbar behaviour
What is the difference between border and outline properties in CSS?
If there is no difference, then why are there two properties for the same thing?
From: http://webdesign.about.com/od/advancedcss/a/outline_style.htm
The CSS outline property is a confusing property. When you first learn about it, it's hard to understand how it is even remotely different from the border property. The W3C explains it as having the following differences:
Outlines do not take up space.
Outlines may be non-rectangular.
In addition to some other answers... here are a few more differences I can think of:
1) Rounded corners
border supports rounded corners with the border-radius property. outline doesn't.
div {
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
margin: 20px;
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
}
.border {
border-radius: 75px;
border: 2px solid green;
}
.outline {
outline: 2px solid red;
border-radius: 75px;
-moz-outline-radius: 75px;
outline-radius: 75px;
}
.border:after {
content: "border supports rounded corners";
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
transform: translateY(100%);
}
.outline:after {
content: "outline doesn't support rounded corners";
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
transform: translateY(100%);
}
<div class="border"></div>
<div class="outline"></div>
FIDDLE
(NB: Although firefox has the -moz-outline-radius property which allows rounded corners on outline... this property it is not defined in any CSS standard, and is not supported by other browsers (source))
2) Styling one side only
border has properties to style each side with border-top:, border-left: etc.
outline can't do this. There's no outline-top: etc. It's all or nothing. (see this SO post)
3) offset
outline supports offset with the property outline-offset. border doesn't.
.outline {
margin: 100px;
width: 150px;
height: 150px;
outline-offset: 20px;
outline: 2px solid red;
border: 2px solid green;
background: pink;
}
<div class="outline"></div>
FIDDLE
Note: All major browsers support outline-offset except Internet Explorer
Further to other answers, outlines are usually used for debugging. Opera has some nice user CSS styles that use the outline property to show you where all the elements are in a document.
If you're trying to find out why an element isn't appearing where you expected or at the size you expected, add a few outlines and see where the elements are.
As already mentioned, outlines do not take up space. When you add a border, the element's total width/height in the document increases, but that doesn't happen with outline. Also you can't set outlines on specific sides like borders; it's all or nothing.
tldr;
The W3C explains it as having the following differences:
Outlines do not take up space.
Outlines may be non-rectangular.
Source
Outline should be used for accessibility
It should also be noted that outline's primary purpose is accessibility. Setting it to outline: none should be avoided.
If you must remove it it maybe a better idea to provide alternative styling:
I’ve seen quite a few tips on how to remove the focus indicator by using outline:none or outline:0. Please do not do this, unless you replace the outline with something else that makes it easy to see which element has keyboard focus. Removing the visual indicator of keyboard focus will give people who rely on keyboard navigation a really hard time navigating and using your site.
Source: "Do Not Remove the Outline from Link and Form Controls", 365 Berea Street
More Resources
http://outlinenone.com/
A practical use of outline deals with transparency. If you have a parent element with a background, but want a child element's border to be transparent so that the parent's background will show through, you must use "outline" rather than "border." While a border can be transparent, it will show the child's background, not the parent's.
In other words, this setting created the following effect:
outline: 7px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2);
From W3 School Site
The CSS border properties allow you to specify the style and color of an element's border.
An outline is a line that is drawn around elements (outside the borders) to make the element "stand out".
The outline shorthand property sets all the outline properties in one declaration.
The properties that can be set, are (in order): outline-color, outline-style, outline-width.
If one of the values above are missing, e.g. "outline:solid #ff0000;", the default value for the missing property will be inserted, if any.
Check here for more information :
http://webdesign.about.com/od/advancedcss/a/outline_style.htm
Border is created inside the element, where as outline is created outside the element. So border is computed along with the width and height of the element, while outline draws outside the element.
A little bit of an old question, but worth mentioning a Firefox rendering bug (still present as of Jan '13) where the outline will render on the outside of all child elements even if they overflow their parent (through negative margins, box-shadows, etc.)
You can fix this with:
.container {
position: relative;
}
.container:before {
content: '';
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
outline: 1px solid #ff0000;
}
Super unfortunate that it's still not fixed. I much prefer outlines in many cases since they do not add to the dimensions of an element, saving you from always having to consider border widths when setting dimensions of an element.
After all, which is simpler?
.container {
width: 960px;
height: 300px;
outline: 3px solid black;
}
Or:
.container {
width: 954px;
height: 294px;
border: 3px solid black;
}
It is also worth noting, that W3C's outline is IE's border, since IE does not implement W3C box model.
In w3c box model, the border is exclusive of element's width and height. In IE it is inclusive.
Differences between border and outline:
Border is part of the box model so it counts against the element's size.
Outline is not part of the box model so it doesn't affect nearby elements.
Demo:
#border {
border: 10px solid black;
}
#outline {
outline: 10px solid black;
}
<html>
<body>
<span id="border">Border</span>Other text<br><br>
<span id="outline">Outline</span>Other text
</body>
</html>
Other differences:
The outline is displayed outside the border.
Outlines cannot have rounded corners; borders can.
I've made a little piece of css/html code just to see the difference between both.
outline is better to inclose potential overflowing child elements, especially into an inline container.
border is much more adapted for block-behaving elements.
Fiddle for you sir!
The outline property in CSS draws a line around the outside of an element. It's similar to border except that:
It always goes around all the sides, you can't specify particular
sides It's not a part of the box model, so it won't effect the
position of the element or adjacent elements
Source: https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/o/outline/
As a practical example of using "outline", the faint dotted border that follows the system focus on a webpage (eg. if you tab through the the links) can be controlled using the outline property (at least, I know it can in Firefox, not tried other browsers).
A common "image replacement" technique is to use, for example:
<div id="logo">Foo Widgets Ltd.</div>
with the following in the CSS:
#logo
{
background: url(/images/logo.png) center center no-repeat;
}
#logo a
{
display: block;
text-indent: -1000em;
}
The problem being that when the focus reaches the tag, the outline heads off 1000em to the left. Outline can allow you to turn off the focus outline on such elements.
I believe that the IE Developer Toolbar is also using something like outline "under the hood" when highlighting elements for inspection in "select" mode. That shows well the fact that "outline" takes up no space.
think about outline as a border that a projector draw outside something as a border is an actual object around that thing.
a projection can easily overlap but border don't let you pass.
some times when i use grid+%width, border will change the scaling on view port,for example a div with width:100% in a parent with width:100px fills the parent completely, but when i add border:solid 5px to div it make the div smaller to make space for border(although it's rare and work-aroundable!) but with outline it doesn't have this problem as outline is more virtual :D it's just a line outside the element
but the problem is if you don't do spacing properly it would overlap with other contents.
to make it short:
outline pros:
it doesn't mess with spacing and positions
cons:
high chance of overlapping
Google web.dev has a good explaintion for Box Model.
The border box surrounds the padding box and its space is occupied by the border value. The border box is the bounds of your box and the border edge is the limit of what you can visually see. The border property is used to visually frame an element.
The margin box, is the space around your box, defined by the margin rule on your box. Properties such as outline and box-shadow occupy this space too because they are painted on top, so they don't affect the size of our box. You could have an outline-width of 200px on our box and everything inside and including the border box would be exactly the same size.
Copied from W3Schools:
Definition and Usage
An outline is a line that is drawn
around elements (outside the borders)
to make the element "stand out".