Why is there extra padding happening in my div? - css

I've coded my website for all browsers but of course IE has issues. Specifically only IE 7. I'm hoping to find a resolution to why it's behaving the way it is with two issues and what I can add so IE will display it properly.
My submit buttons are aligning to the bottom of their containing divs.
CSS for the SUBMIT button for the SEARCH field
#searchform { /*container widget */ position: relative; left: 15px; width: 97%; height: 30px; background-color: #f3f3f3; border: 2px solid #742222;}
#searchform label { display: none; }
#searchform input#s { width: 75%; height: 20px;}
input[type=text],input#s { margin: 0 10px 0 0; width: 60%; }
#searchsubmit{ position: relative; float: right; width: 30px; height: 30px; text-indent: -999px; background: url(http://averylawoffice.ca/img/SEARCH-submit.jpg) center; border: 0px;}
This CSS works in all browsers but IE version 7. Is there a way to make it top align without having to position absolute?

I've managed to move the SUBMIT button up (to the correct position) by left-floating the text-box.
.subscription_email {
...
float: left;
}
Same goes for the search text-box:
#s {
...
float: left;
}
By making those changes, the resulting presentation will be exactly the same as in Firefox.

Related

CSS border in Chrome: strange grey line

I have a problem with a border in Chrome. The green border has some grey lines.
Firefox: not visible -> ok!
Chrome: not visible but visible in the dev tools, mobile phone.
Chrome on my phone: visible
Here is a screenshot that shows my problems!
https://abload.de/img/cssiee7s.jpg
1) When you go to http://www.seelenpuls.at/hpneu/m_biografie_leander_de.php
there are two small grey lines
2) When you go to http://www.seelenpuls.at/hpneu/m_neues_de.php there are even more problems.
3) The menu button has an orange border (mobile only) ... and I don't know why as there is no such color in my CSS.
Please help!
Here's the code. The bold part is the border that causes the problems.
* { padding: 0; margin: 0; }
body
{
font-family: sans-serif, Verdana, Arial;
color: #000000;
background-color: #556B2F;
}
#center {
position: relative;
width: 350px;
height: 630px;
box-sizing: border-box;
margin: 5px auto 0px auto;
}
#logo {
position: absolute;
width: 350px;
height: 220px;
background-color: #ffffff;
box-sizing: border-box;
background-image: url("img/m_bg_c.jpg");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: 350px 220px;
}
#navi
{
position: absolute;
top: 175px;
width: 60px;
height: 40px;
font-size: 16px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ffffff;
margin-left: 10px;
}
#header
{
position: absolute;
top: 187px;
width: 238px;
height: 30px;
font-size: 16px;
color: #000000;
left: 85px;
}
#content
{
position: absolute;
top: 218px;
width: 350px;
box-sizing: border-box;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ffffff;
font-size: 14px;
overflow: auto;
padding-left: 5px;
padding-right: 5px;
**border-bottom: 5px solid #556B2F**;
}
Ok so there is a couple of things that are going on in your css.
White lines
For your content div, I would use a width of 100% for mobile devices now, as you scale to tablets and desktops you can change to a more fixed or fluid width. I would also remove the border bottom property. This is not fully extending to the width of the content box and I am unsure if it has to do with the border-sizing property you are using. I would also apply the border-sizing this way so it is applied to every element in your html
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
Orange border - this is caused by the :focus pseudo css property of the button you are using, you can remove it this way
button:focus {
outline: none;
}
CSS Normalize or CSS Reset - consider using one of these stylesheets in your website. They help you rendering all elements more consistently through all browsers. This will save you the time of remove the :focus property, like I mentioned above in any project moving forward. Most popular CSS frameworks utilize this to normalize basic styles.
Link to Normalize.css

Sub-Pixels calculated and rendered differently among browsers

The purpose:
I am working on a code similar to this to create a component where an input field has an embedded button:
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/pgwbWG?editors=110
As you can see, the button is positioned absolutely with top and bottom set to 0, to achieve a 100% height element.
Also to note is that the border of the text-input must stay visible and also wrap the button.
To achieve this I added a margin: 1px to the button so that there is (should be) space to display the surrounding text-input red border (usually when the input field content is invalid).
The problem:
is that on Firefox it is (mostly) rendered correctly, while on Chrome (and apparently on the newest Safari) it will have a 1px gap at the bottom of the button.
CSS seems ok but it appears to be a calculation/rounding problem in the rendering, where the bottom or the top margin of the button are not really 1px (can see it inspecting the element).
And also the padding of the input seems to influence in that.
At different zoom-rates it will add or remove 1px of margin to the top or the bottom of the button, resulting in a 1px-gap or in a covered-border.
As I set the button margin to 0px then the bottom margin is fixed but I loose the 1px margin on the top, finishing to cover the red border of the text-input.
The examples:
Probably I am not clear or too verbose in explaining it, so here are some screenshots of the bug, from different zooms on Chrome (note the CSS is always the same):
The solution:
I was not able to find a cross-browser solution.
How to deal with it and get a consistent component?
(no Javascript please)
As you already know, the problem arises from a different approach to subpixel calculus between browsers
In Chrome, for instance, borders can have a fractional size, but margins are handled different (as integers).
I don't have documentation about it from the Chrome team, but it's what can be seen in dev tools:
AFAIK, there is not a way to change that.
Instead, you can transfer the use of the margin in the button to a border.
Since you need to get space for the 1px border of the input, do the same in the button, set a 1px border (instead of a margin), and set it transparent.
The remaining trick is to set the background-clip property to padding box, so that this transparency is not affected by the background
There is another bug in Chrome, the padding expressed in em is not reliable at this level of precision when the browser is zoomed. I changed this in the snippet.
Since we are using the border button to get the dimension ok, we can style the border using instead a inset shadow.
* {
margin: 0; padding: 0; box-sizing: border-box;
}
button, input, wrapper {
display: inline-block; border-radius: 3px;
}
.wrapper {
position: relative;
width: 60%;
margin: 1em;
background-color: #ccc;
}
input {
border: 1px solid red;
width: 100%;
background-color: limegreen;
line-height: 3em;
/* padding: 0.75em; */
padding: 10px;
}
button {
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
border: 1px solid transparent;
width: 7em;
margin: 0px;
background-clip: padding-box;
box-shadow: inset 0px 0px 0px 2px black;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<input type="text">
<button>Test</button>
</div>
Another example, where the button has a border. But we need a wrapper around it to get the dimensions ok.
* {
margin: 0; padding: 0; box-sizing: border-box;
}
button, input, wrapper {
display: inline-block; border-radius: 3px;
}
.wrapper {
position: relative;
width: 60%;
margin: 1em;
background-color: #ccc;
}
input {
border: 1px solid red;
width: 100%;
background-color: limegreen;
line-height: 3em;
/* padding: 0.75em; */
padding: 10px;
}
.buttonwrap {
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
border: 1px solid transparent;
width: 7em;
margin: 0px;
background-clip: padding-box;
}
button {
position: absolute;
right: 0px;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
border: 2px solid blue;
margin: 0px;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<input type="text">
<div class="buttonwrap">
<button>Test</button>
</div>
</div>
Use http://autoprefixer.github.io/ to get the cross browser support you need for display: flex;
button, input, wrapper {
display: inline-block; <----- Remove "display: inline-block;"
border-radius: 3px;
}
.wrapper {
position: relative;
display: -webkit-box;<----- Add "display: flex;"
display: -webkit-flex;<----- Add "display: flex;"
display: -ms-flexbox;<----- Add "display: flex;"
display: flex;<----- Add "display: flex;"
width: 60%;
margin: 1em;
background-color: #ccc;
}
Extra reading and learning material:
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
http://flexbox.io/#/
https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/holy-grail/
http://www.sketchingwithcss.com/samplechapter/cheatsheet.html
Note: to overide a flex rule you will need to use flex shorthand rather than specific over-ride due to current browser shortfalls eg.
.item {
flex: 0 0 300px;
}
/* overide for some reason */
.item {
flex: 1 0 300px;
}
/* NOT */
.item {
flex-grow: 1;
}
You MAY need to do an over-ride for ie11:
.ie11std .wrapper {
display:table;
}
.ie11std .item {
display:table-cell;
}
although this won't be responsive.

CSS Border with a botton

Can I achieve a custom CSS border with a button at one end which looks like this
Without url(some image link)?
Note: I want so because when I want to change color, I have to manipulate image.
I have achieved using image JS Fiddle
#stretch {
border-image: url(http://akitech.org/img/border.png) 30 30 stretch;
}
The easiest way is to use CSS pseudo-elements to create the decoration (the circle at the left) and to mask the chamfer at the right of the border (the angle at which the border-right would otherwise meet):
div {
border: 10px solid transparent;
width: 250px;
padding: 10px 20px;
position: relative;
/* this property has to be set to change the border-color: */
border-bottom-color: #f90;
}
/* common shared styles: */
div::before,
div::after {
/* to ensure the pseudo-elements are rendered: */
content: '';
/* for positioning: */
position: absolute;
/* positioning the element with its uppermost edge
against the bottom of the element, against the
upper side of the bottom-border: */
top: 100%;
/* again, set to change the color of the ends: */
background-color: #f90;
}
div::before {
/* position against the left edge: */
left: 0;
/* move the pseudo element 10px up, and
10px left: */
margin: -10px 0 0 -10px;
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
/* making the pseudo-element a circle: */
border-radius: 50%;
}
/* masking the chamfer of the border-bottom's
right-most edge: */
div::after {
left: 100%;
/* making the height/width the same width
as the border itself: */
height: 10px;
width: 10px;
}
div {
border: 10px solid transparent;
width: 250px;
padding: 10px 20px;
position: relative;
border-bottom-color: #f90;
}
div::before,
div::after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 100%;
background-color: #f90;
}
div::before {
left: 0;
margin: -10px 0 0 -10px;
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
border-radius: 50%;
}
div::after {
left: 100%;
height: 10px;
width: 10px;
}
<div id="stretch">Here, the image is stretched to fill the area.</div>
In order to have these borders adapt to the length of the text, either the elements you want to have custom-bordered must themselves be able to contract to the width of the text, either using float:
div {
border: 10px solid transparent;
position: relative;
border-bottom-color: #f90;
padding-left: 20px;
/* forces the element to take up only that space required by
its (non-floated) contents: */
float: left;
/* forces the floated elements to the next line: */
clear: left;
}
div {
border: 10px solid transparent;
position: relative;
border-bottom-color: #f90;
padding-left: 20px;
float: left;
clear: left;
}
div::before,
div::after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 100%;
background-color: #f90;
}
div::before {
left: 0;
margin: -10px 0 0 -10px;
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
border-radius: 50%;
}
div::after {
left: 100%;
height: 10px;
width: 10px;
}
<div>text</div>
<div>longer text</div>
<div>much longer text</div>
<div>much much much longer text</div>
Or, possibly more simply, use display: inline-block:
div {
border: 10px solid transparent;
position: relative;
border-bottom-color: #f90;
padding-left: 20px;
display: inline-block;
}
div {
border: 10px solid transparent;
position: relative;
border-bottom-color: #f90;
padding-left: 20px;
display: inline-block;
}
div::before,
div::after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 100%;
background-color: #f90;
}
div::before {
left: 0;
margin: -10px 0 0 -10px;
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
border-radius: 50%;
}
div::after {
left: 100%;
height: 10px;
width: 10px;
}
<div>text</div>
<div>longer text</div>
<div>much longer text</div>
<div>much much much longer text</div>
Or display: inline (these don't automatically force new-lines between elements, obviously):
div {
border: 10px solid transparent;
position: relative;
border-bottom-color: #f90;
padding-left: 20px;
display: inline;
}
div {
border: 10px solid transparent;
position: relative;
border-bottom-color: #f90;
padding-left: 20px;
display: inline;
}
div::before,
div::after {
content: '';
position: absolute;
top: 100%;
background-color: #f90;
}
div::before {
left: 0;
margin: -10px 0 0 -10px;
height: 30px;
width: 30px;
border-radius: 50%;
}
div::after {
left: 100%;
height: 10px;
width: 10px;
}
<div>text</div>
<div>longer text</div>
<div>much longer text</div>
<div>much much much longer text</div>
summary:
for simplist way to this question, should not using svg, pure css can draw the shape author expected very well cause it's a combination of cycle(border radius)+rect(thicker line), let's refer to the David's answer should be the easiest and most clean way to draw that shape under text.
//below is my debugging history and tries (i searched out many ways to approach it);
//though not good answers
I use background css attribute (not OP wanted) Op used border-image also valid.
<div class="custom-border" >SOME TEXT HERE</div>
<style>
.custom-border{
padding-left:20px;
width:200px;
background:url(http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140224040010/shantae/images/b/bc/HGH_border_bottom.png) 0px 5px no-repeat;
background-size:contain;
height:150px;
}
</style>
later I realized OP might dislike using image traditional way, I re understand the
question is asking how to draw that shape in pure css and place it under the text and the responsive should be as flexible as the traditional way the svg shape will auto strech with the text placed on it.
after that, I've find some way to generate svg and place under text
see if it works for no image solution or you can get it improved based on fiddle
http://jsfiddle.net/hahatey/hsfxS/1464/
during the process, i've found this useful tool of generating svg from below reference url: http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.6/editor/svg-editor.html
But the flaw is it's still a fixed width solution, the line svg won't auto stretch.
Have found a unclean way to improve auto stretch though not in pure css responsive way.
but auto strech can be done by dynamically change below line
<rect stroke="#ff0000" id="svg_2" height="8" width="100%" y="27" x="40" stroke-width="5" fill="#FF0000"/>
where width="100%" or fixed value => width="function return value"; //
// during this try, i found a little bug, jquery seems unable to select svg or element inside svg? however svg element tag attribute can be written in backend languge so still valid.
//3.44
Another way without touching the inner "rect' element below "svg" tag, is to add a container to the whole thing, and using function to dynamically
assign width for the container;
like my attempt in this
fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/hahatey/hsfxS/1468/
so at least the width can be dynamically calculated out by a function to calculate the text length of the upper text so the line will be able to strech if the calculation is accurate enough. There could be other ways to do svg auto strech with the text using pure css if other ppl find it.
Thanks.
5.02// since the author didn't say how complex the content is inside the container,
I've created a demo in pure css triggered effct --- auto strech the shape along with the text above it in below fiddle. but i said it sure has many limitations though looks similar.
http://jsfiddle.net/hahatey/a9z1kyx7/
my upper fiddle is only able to align correctly for singleline auto strech
I'm wondering if complex content (more than one line, there maybe a lot of block,inline mixed tag element inside which increases complexity for alignment) can also use css to do such decoration width auto adjustment without touching javascript or backend language.

Another CSS overlapping issue

UPDATE: Here's a jsFiddle.
I want it to look like this:
... but it looks like this:
The #container is horizontally centered, and must stay so. Can't seem to get this right...
this happens when you float boxes side by side, one box to the left, the other to the right, both having width:50%. But padding, margins and border unintentionally increase the width of the boxes causing them to be more than 50% and forcing the right box to move under the previous box.
try setting static width to the boxes (will need calculation)
http://jsfiddle.net/fuYYv/
Bryan Downing in the comments gave me a clue.
I added
footer #container {
position: relative;
top: -XXXpx;
}
Works perfect. Big thanks to you wizards :)
This should be useful for others. jsFiddle with answer. Code below:
header, #container, section, footer, footer img#iphone { display: block; }
header {
background: url('images/header.jpg') repeat-x;
height: 160px;
border: 5px solid #aa3;
color: #aa3;
}
header img#logo {
margin: 0 auto;
}
#container {
width: 550px;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: hidden;
border: 5px solid #33a;
color: #33a;
}
section {
float: left;
width: 310px;
height: 200px;
border: 5px solid #3a3;
color: #3a3;
}
footer {
background: url('images/footer.jpg') repeat-x;
height: 150px;
border: 5px solid #aa3;
color: #aa3;
}
footer #container {
position: relative;
top: -320px;
}
footer img#iphone {
float: right;
height: 400px;
width: 204px;
border: 5px solid #a33;
color: #a33;
}

div line doesnt show up correctly ie6 floated left

I have a similar problem to this question Why does my floated left div go to the next line in IE6 using the 960.gs?
In my design, the subcategories should be 4 per row. They look fine in FF,Safari,Chrome, but in ie6 they only show 3 per row. I tried creating a different css for ie6, but it didnt work, also i tried reducing the width and padding of each row, but still i have 3 subcategories per row.
I asked again because i bet the solution can be very specific to the css you have.
try setting width of each .subcategory at 24% or max 237px
.subcategory
{
width:24%;
}
updated
in category.css change in this way:
.subcategory {
FLOAT: left; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15px; WIDTH: 24%; HEIGHT: 230px; TEXT-ALIGN: center
}
.category-item-image {
DISPLAY: block; BACKGROUND: #fff; MARGIN: 5px 30px; WIDTH: 170px; PADDING-TOP: 5px; HEIGHT: 170px; oveflow: hidden
}
.subcategory-image {
DISPLAY: block; BACKGROUND: #fff; MARGIN: 5px 30px; WIDTH: 170px; PADDING-TOP: 5px; HEIGHT: 170px; oveflow: hidden
}
Problems are
MARGIN: 5px 34px;
and
WIDTH: 25%;
I've tried to set them at 30px and 24% and in IE6 it works!

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