Newbie question here. I have a navigation bar with padding in all of my li's, and I want to be able to target the ahref when you click in the padding. Would this be done with onclick/javascript for each li? or is there a simple CSS method?
Also I have a search bar, that I want to focus by clicking on it's padding as well. I assume this would require a similar method.
First, you must set display:inline-block as a property for your links. Then, remove the padding from your list-item and apply it to the links.
Your CSS should reflect the following:
li a {
display: inline-block;
padding: 10px;
}
Here's a fiddle for a working example.
maybe you could specify:
li.someclass a {
display: inline-block; //or display:block;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
(remember to specify width/height of parent container aswell)
not sure if i got you right though
Set the padding to the anchor instead of to the li.
See http://jsfiddle.net/FBsKH/ and compare.
About the search bar, can you post some code?
If I add padding to a <input type="text" /> and I click it on it's padding, it gets focus (tested on Firefox and Chrome). See it here: http://jsfiddle.net/fnsRu/
Edit:
Ah, now I understand what you want with the search bar.
The problem is that AFAIK with CSS you can't set focus to an element.
Then, you can:
Remove paddings: http://jsfiddle.net/fnsRu/3/
Use JavaScript: http://jsfiddle.net/fnsRu/4/
Related
Is it possible to prevent non-clickable area between lines in a multi-line html anchor tag? Here in this example I use line height 1.5 and you can't click between lines.
I know in html5 we can put block-level tags in anchor like <a><div>Link</div></a> but the problem is this part of content can be edited by users and I can't ask them to write their anchor links like this. Is it possible to fix this issue with css only?
CSS:
a {
line-height:1.5em;
}
HTML:
This is a <br> multiline anchor
<br><br><br>
This is a very long anchor displayed as a multiline anchor without BR
DEMO:
http://jsfiddle.net/ergec/F52uY/2/
You can set display: inline-block; or display: block to a, and then it will be clickable.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/RMXfc/
Or you can increase padding and set negative margin at the same time. This will reduce gap.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/693z4/
If you give your anchor tags a display: block; you will have a solid clickable area.
a {
line-height:1.5em;
display: block;
}
JSFIDDLE
One problem with display: block; is without a specified width, then entire 100% width is clickable.
The only way to approximate it without messing with the rest of the layout of your text (including the surrounding text of the link) is to add some top/bottom paddings to these links..
So adding padding:3px 0; to your code would fix the issue.
(it will require adjusting, though, in relation to your font-size and line-height)
Demo at http://jsfiddle.net/F52uY/7/
I need the anchor text to wrap to the second line and still maintain the layout.
I have tried everything and I am not sure what I am doing wrong here.
Above is how I want it. My demo site where u can see the live layout : http://www.iamvishal.com/residen/?q=node/54
I have tried many variations
max-width
word-wrap
but nothing seems to work.
The strange wrapping is due to the use of padding on an inline element. You should either move the padding to the li elements instead of the anchors or change the anchors to display: block or display: inline-block.
I played arnd with your CSS on your website. This seems to do the trick. Do post your css and html on jsFiddle so we can better help you.
#navigation .links, #navigation .menu {
text-align: -moz-center;
}
I have an inline element with a line break in it. It has padding on all sides. However, the side padding on where the line break cuts the element is not there.
This is what i mean:
http://jsfiddle.net/4Gs2E/
There should be 20px padding on the right of tag and left of with but there isnt.
The only other way I can see this working is if i create a new element for every line but this content will be dynamically generated and will not be in a fixed width container so i dont see that working out. Is there any other way I can do this in css without any javascript?
I want the final result to look like this :
http://jsfiddle.net/GNsw3/
but without any extra elements
i also need this to work with display inline only as I want the background to wrap around the text as inline block doesnt do this
Is this possible?
edit, altered the examples to make what i want more visible:
current
http://jsfiddle.net/4Gs2E/2/
what i want it to look like
http://jsfiddle.net/GNsw3/1/
In some cases you can use box-shadow for a workaround.
Move the right and left padding of the element to its parent and add two box-shadows.
The result: http://jsfiddle.net/FpLCt/1/
Browser support for box-shadow: http://caniuse.com/css-boxshadow
Update:
There is also a new css property for this issue called box-decoration-break. It is currently only supported by opera, but hopefully more browsers will implement this soon.
Hope this helps
Found a solution for you, but it ain't pretty :)
Since you can't target the <br> element with css, you have to use javascript. Here's how you can accomplish what you want with jQuery:
// Add two spaces before and after any <br /> tag
$('br').replaceWith(' <br /> ');
Play with the number of elements to acheive your padding on both ends.
Here's an updated Fiddle demo:
http://jsfiddle.net/4Gs2E/8/
Maybe you can use float: left instead of display: inline:
http://jsfiddle.net/GolezTrol/4Gs2E/1/
Usually that is implemented by wrapping each word in an own SPAN which has border.
I just wanted to make css-animated menu for myself. Workaround I have found is to wrap your INLINE-BLOCK element (change in css if necessary, lets call it a span with such an attribute for purpose of this solution) into block element. Then I'm using margins of span as it was padding for the surrounding div.
div.menuopt {
margin: 10px;
padding: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
width: 500px;
height: 150px;
background: grey;
}
span.menuopt {
display: inline-block;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
margin-left: 150px;
margin-top: 10px;
font-size: 25px;
}
Example:
http://jsfiddle.net/ApbQS/
hope it will help anyone
I'm working on the navigation for this website and am having trouble with the dropdown nav.
Basically, I have overflow: hidden applied to the container that holds the navigation items so that the rollover effect works properly (the bottom of the nav item is 'masked' off); you'll see what I mean if you roll over the nav on the website.
For Products there is a dropdown nav. As the site in built in Business Catalyst (CMS), I don't have control over how the navigation items are nested, but I can obviously style them / target them with JQuery.
Is there a way to make the dropdown container within div#navigation ignore the overflow: hidden rule I have applied? I have tried setting position to absolute and playing with the z-index, but no luck.
Any suggestions to achieve the same result are also welcome.
Solution:
Remove position:relative; rule from box with overflow:hidden; and set it to one of her parent boxes. Then absolute boxes in the box with overflow:hidden; will ignore this rule.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/88fYK/5/
overflow: hidden can't be overridden by descendent elements - they will always be clipped by the element with overflow: hidden.
Setting the element's position:fixed will remove the element and its children from the normal document flow allowing it to be unclipped. But you'll have to manually reposition it relative to the browser window. Not a great solution but it is a work-around.
if your container is set to "overflow: hidden;" and your dropdown menu is under this container, you just need to set "position: absolute;"
.container {
overflow: hidden;
}
.your_dropdown_menu {
position: absolute;
}
try to put position:fixed on dropdown content.
.dropdown-content{
position:fixed
}
For those of you who didnt find the solution to you problem in the answers already given, you can try and do what i did, wich is to give your "nav-bar" a different "ID" than the rest of the "containers"..........wich after 2h46min of trying everything.....i said why not and it worked, you never know it might be as simple as that
I have this CSS and I cannot set the width on a span element. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
#address-readonly
{
margin-left:150px !important;
padding-left:100px;
}
I am using this in 2 areas in my application. Here is the first area:
<tr>
<th colspan="2">Address Details</th>
<th><span id="address-readonly" class="address-readonly"></span></th>
</tr>
And here is the second area:
<div id="addressHeader" class="addressHeader">
<span>Address Details</span>
<span id="address-readonly" class="address-readonly"></span>
I want the address-readonly span to be more right aligned. The padding/margin combo has almost no effect. What should I be doing here? I don't want to add a bunch of non-breaking spaces, but that's basically the effect I am looking for. This particular client has an office full of IE7 machines, so no FireFox or Safari etc... I have tried setting the width of the span as well.
Try this:
#address-readonly
{
display:block;
float:left;
margin-left: 150px;
width: 100px; /* If you want to set the width */
}
or you could use a div and not set the display attribute.
If applicable, you could try using display: block:
#address-readonly {
display: block;
width: 200px;
}
Without floating, the span will be on it's own row. Hope that helps.
Your only choice is a display value of block or inline-block, because inline elements are resized by their content. Also, please note that inline-block is not that well supported.
Guillaume's and Wicked Flea's answer complement each other, but some points are missing.
Only "box elements" can have its width/height attribute set. Span is a inline element, so it will resize it self to fit content.
So, if you want your elements to have width set, you should use a box element. The problem here is that box elements do not line up in the same row by default. You can then use float and margins to align a box element with another box element.
All that being said, it would be good to use Guillaume's answer. BUT some quirks may appear, check this link link about clearing floats.
What would I do: Use the workaround presented in the link, then use both spans as divs, and have them floated to the left, with your widths and paddings set.