Today I have had a problem with hiding text with text-indent: -9999px rule. I realized that it was caused by some parent element which has had text-align: right. Example on jsfiddle. Setting text-indent to positive value of 9999px did not work as well.
I have managed to hide text by setting it's text-align to the left, but I do not understand why such problem occurred.
Could someone explain why text-indenting does not work while text-align is set to the right?
Fiddle with ids:
http://jsfiddle.net/sNbfv/2/
It seems that maintaining the alignment is more important to the browser, so the right edge of the text is kept to the right side, no matter what.
The document is set to the ltr direction, so the indent is applied to the left of the line, but since you've said you want it to align to the right, the browser disregards the indent entirely. I have no explanation as to why this happens, other than early browsers setting a precedence of justification importance. There is nothing in the CSS spec as far as text-align explicitly ignoring text-indent.
The box is indented with respect to the left (or right, for
right-to-left layout) edge of the line box. User agents must render
this indentation as blank space.
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/text.html#propdef-text-indent
If we update the fiddle to have an rtl direction, the indent indeed affects the right side of the text. I've added a border to show that the overflow is happening.
http://jsfiddle.net/sNbfv/3/
.rtl{direction:rtl;}
.parent { text-align: right; border:1px solid blue}
.indented { text-indent: -9999px; }
<div class="rtl">
<div class="parent">
<div class="indented">
Lorem ipsum ipsum!
</div>
</div>
<div class="indented">
Cupcake ipsum!
</div>
</div>
The simple solution seems to be aligning that nested indent to text-align:left.
http://jsfiddle.net/sNbfv/4/
.parent { text-align: right; border:1px solid blue}
.indented { text-indent: -9999px; }
.parent .indented{ text-align:left; }
<div class="parent">
<div class="indented">
Lorem ipsum ipsum!
</div>
</div>
<div class="indented">
Cupcake ipsum!
</div>
CSS 3 Specs:
“This property specifies the indentation of the first line of text in a block container. More precisely, it specifies the indentation of the first box that flows into the block's first line box. The box is indented with respect to the left (or right, for right-to-left layout) edge of the line box. …”
“Note: Since the 'text-indent' property inherits, when specified on a block element, it will affect descendant inline-block elements.”
May be the last quote can explain magic display: inline-block; effect.
Also, accordingly to this answer to similar question. direction: rtl; force element to respect css spec: “box is indented with respect to the left (or right, for right-to-left layout”. I think text-align: right; works in similar way.
Just change text-indent:-9999px to text-indent:9999px when combined with text-align: right
So... I found something interesting on this.
If you have an element with text-align:right and you indent the text left (text-indent:-9999px) the text will show.
I guess aligning text one direction and indenting another is rather contradictory. However, changing the text-indent to a positive number (text-indent:9999px) the indent is respected.
On another note, another (more elegant?) solution is to not indent the text at all but to push it outside the element.
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/robche/TNdbh/
white-space: nowrap property solved the issue in my anchor element.
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I have several DIV's displayed as inline-blocks; and they seem to be getting spacing automatically applied in between them from the browser. They have margin/padding set to 0. Is there a way to correct this without using negative margins?
Sam, that space you're seeing is actually whitespace. That's why removing the paddings and margins does nothing. Let me explain. When you have this:
HTML
<div>
a
a
a
a
</div>
this is how it's rendered:
a a a a
...right?
So, if you have this:
<div>
<div style="display:inline-block"></div>
<div style="display:inline-block"></div>
<div style="display:inline-block"></div>
</div>
...you'll get the same thing:
block [space] block [space] block
Now... there are many different solutions to this problem. I believe the most common is commenting out the whitespace in the html:
<div>
<div style="display:inline-block"></div><!--
--><div style="display:inline-block"></div><!--
--><div style="display:inline-block"></div>
</div>
I don't like it though - I prefer keeping the html as clean as possible. My preferred way is to set the parent's font-size to 0, and then set back the desired font-size on the inline-blocks themselves. Like so:
div {
font-size: 0; /* removes the whitespace */
}
div div {
display: inline-block;
font-size: 14px;
}
You don't need to use negative margins to offset the original margins.
Instead you can override them with the following:
* { margin:0; }
or:
.div { margin:0; }
if it's element specific.
EDIT:
It appears the problem may be a result of unintended whitespace. For instance:
<div style="display:inline-block">
...
</div>
<div style="display:inline-block">
...
</div>
There exists white space between the two dividers and the browser will print the white space as a result. To fix this, you'll need to change it to:
<div style="display:inline-block">
...
</div><div style="display:inline-block">
...
</div>
Enjoy and good luck!
You can use both display: inline-block and float: left to remove that space.
Here goes plunkr: https://plnkr.co/edit/Sn3NG77asiXO8UrrpxWD?p=preview
Inline-block is originally a IE6 hack
This is what its used for:
To fix the IE6 double-margin bug on floated elements
To place multiple block-like elements on the same horizontal line
without floating them(if you can't float 'exceptional cases)
To allow an inline element to have width and/or height while still
remaining inline
To allow an inline element to have padding or margins
So if you wanna have multiple divs beside eachother please use float, its gonna solve many of your css problems that inline-block can cause, especially cross browser issues
More about inline-block here arcticle 9.2.4
Best regards
SP
please comment if disagree
Another way I have found the method altering the word-spacing on the parent container works for me https://jsfiddle.net/1ex5gpo3/2/
.parent {
word-spacing: -1em;
}
.child {
word-spacing: normal;
display: inline-block;
}
How can I align the bottom of an inline block (call it 'IB') with the bottom of the text - excluding descenders like that on 'g' - in a parent element (call it 'PE')? This should be in a way which generalises whatever the size of the text - I don't want to hardcode size-specific pixel values.
Here is an example of the HTML I'd use, with the classes I'd need CSS for:
<div class="pe">
Parent text line
<span class="ib" style="display: inline-block;">
- and child text line
</span>
</div>
And here's what I'd like it to look like:
OP updated saying: "Thanks, but I've edited the question to clarify I don't want to hardcode size-specific pixel values."
In that case, I'm afraid there isn't a solution that will automatically fix different lines with different text sizes. The other solution I provided isn't even perfect across all of the browsers with some combinations of font sizes, because Chrome/Opera round inexact values differently than Firefox/IE, so even with my solution, you'd need to use some browser-specific css. The only thing similar to an universal solution would be setting vertical-align: middle; but I wouldn't trust that to work consistently.
You can add below css to ib. And change the bottom margin to control alignment.
.ib{
display: inline-block;
font-size: 10px;
vertical-align: bottom;
margin:0 0 1px 0;
}
#Rorok_89 I know i am adding one more line of css but its justa way to do it in a different way. Your answer is perfect.
This seems to have worked for me: http://jsfiddle.net/Rorok_89/Z8TWH/
.ib{
display: inline-block;
font-size: 10px;
vertical-align: 1px;
}
So the problem is when you have a block of text, and an image that is slightly too tall that you want to place in-line with the text. For example, a smiley. It will cause the line height of that line of the paragraph to grow, making the block of text look ugly.
I've actually already come up with a solution, but it's messy and I don't like it... If I wrap the smiley in a relatively-positioned div, and give it an absolute position I get the effect that I'm after:
.holder{display:inline-block;position:relative;width:16px}
.holder img{position:absolute;top:-16px}
<span class="holder"><img src="/smiley.gif" height="16" width="16"></span>
But it adds extra markup. Is there any way to achieve this without adding extra HTML elements - a pure CSS solution (no javascript!)
I wonder if I'm missing some application of overflow/vertical-align/float/display etc?
Many thanks!
Depending on the desired image position and whether you have a fixed line-height in pixels you could set a maximum height on your image that equals your line-height and set vertical-align: bottom on the image so it fits exactly into your line.
See this fiddle for an example.
p {
line-height: 18px;
}
p img {
max-height: 18px;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
<p>Some text <img src="/smiley.gif"> more text.</p>
Set the image as a background of a DIV and give the DIV fixed dimensions.
<div class="smiley"></div>
CSS:
.smiley {
float:right; <-- or inline-block if you want.
background-image:url(../smiley.gif);
height:20px;
width:20px;
}
OK so what would happen if I have 2 divs (one containing text, the other an image). The image always has a static width but the text varies. hence making its containing div variable.
I can make it work for all other browsers (except IE6 and IE7) by using CSS display:table. IE6 and 7 don't have that so I can't find a workable solution to center them all.
... so you know what I'm talking about...
.container{text-align:center; width:100%}
.container .centered{display:table; margin:0 auto}
<div class="container">
<div class="centered">
<div id="text">varying length text</div>
<div id="image">IMAGE</div>
</div>
</div>
Quite apart from the lack of IE support, setting display: table as you have without its children using display: table-row/table-cell results in undefined behaviour. It doesn't make sense to put block elements directly inside a table element and the browser might do anything at all.
What you are trying to do is get shrink-to-fit width behaviour without using float, which is a normal way of getting shrink-width but requires that the block in question goes to the left or right not centre. Probably a better way of saying that would be to use an inline-block:
.centered { text-align: center; }
.centered span { display: inline-block; border: dotted red 1px; }
<div class="centered">
<span id="text">varying length text</span>
</div>
<div class="centered">
<span id="image">IMAGE</span>
</div>
(You have to use a naturally-inline element like span to make it work under IE<8; div would fail. There is also -moz-inline-box if you need to target Firefox 2.)
Are you using quirksmode or standards compliant mode? In other words have you included a DOCTYPE declaration at the top of your html page?
You shouldn't need to use display:table just margin:auto should do the trick provided you are using a standards mode.
Any ideas how I get rid of white space on my IE browser. It is caused by a hidden div. When I remove the div the white space goes. Works fine in FF.
Here is the DIV:
<div class="hidden" id="popup">
<div>
<H1 class="center" id="popupTitle"></H2><br/><br/><br/>
<div style="position:relative; display:inline;">
<p id="popupText" style="float: left"></p>
<img id="popupImage" style="float: right"></img>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Here are the styles associated with it:
.ofCommunications .hidden { display:none; visibility: hidden; }
I am also trying to get the p and the img inside the third div to display on the same line but that doesn't seem to be working either.
Thanks in advance
Caroline
The spacing problem is most likely caused by your improperly closed tag ("") as well as using both display: none; and visibility: hidden;
Visibility will cause the element to still take up space so you need to get rid of that style.
If you make those adjustments it should work unless you have other issues not seen in the code provided (for example: your parent container to .hidden having a misspelled class name).
Tips:
Never create space with < br/ > tags. They're only used for breaking text.
Get rid of display: inline; and position: relative; on your other < div > as it doesn't make sense to have it there (relative positioning is default).
Lowercase all of your tags. Uppercase tags are a thing of the distant past and not ideal.
A couple of comments. Once you clean this up it might help to resolve this and other future headaches:
Remove your inline styles and put them in a stylesheet.
What is that second div doing under the hidden div? It looks redundant and unnecessary to me. Remove it.
If you're floating elements then you'll need to clear them down the track. This could be why you have things floating in the wrong spots.
Have you display:block'ed the p element next to the image and given it a width? Otherwise it's not going to float anyway.
Your h1 should not be uppercase.
Hope those few suggestions help out a bit.
Try this to get the <p> and <img> lined up:
<div>
<p id="popupText" style="float: left"></p>
<p style="float: right"><img id="popupImage" /></p>
</div>
I removed the position: relative because it's not needed with the code you provided, and the display: inline because it doesn't make sense to make the div inline.
Have you checked the widths of the parent elements? If a width is set too small on a parent element there will not be enough space to render your paragraph and image on the same line. This could cause your paragraph and image to render on different lines.