I have a 3 elements stacked on top of each other. The top element is the overlay content. The second element is a background border image. The bottom element is a background.
What I want to do is hollow out the middle element, so that I can see through the top element into the bottom element, but leave the border of the middle element surrounding the top element.
http://jsbin.com/unimux/4/edit
As you can see the middle element is blocking the view to the bottom element.
Edit: I did try using border-image but it wouldn't render correctly for me with border-radius.
Edit2: is it possible to get the desired effect with border-image? Kudos to anyone who can make it look not terrible with border-image.
Edit3: Some progress based on Zuul's answer:
http://jsbin.com/unimux/15/edit
Setup a new element, with a class, e.g., .apple and place it over all other existent elements with the same image as the bottom one:
See your JS Bin Example Altered!
div.apple {
margin: 100px;
width: 200px;
height: 200px;
background: url(http://www.ipadwallpapersonly.com/images/wallpapers/1gk0rv4ng.jpg) center center;
}
Having the image centred and by give a correct margin value, it simulates the "hollow" effect at the div.middle.
See the result preview:
If the elements dimensions aren't the same, the use of CSS position helps keepping everything into the proper place:
An example here!
You can't really do that with the current state of CSS. Maybe just put the bottom element on top of the middle one, and work?
As per egasimus, you can't really do that with CSS.
Try something like this though, with four divs creating the 'window'.
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I'm confused in some CSS trick. The scenario is painted below. In the 2nd container is a plugin like http://workshop.rs/projects/coin-slider/
I want to move that 2nd container up (the green one), to be connected with the menu bar. The purpose is, I want the Image Logo overlaping the 2nd container. How can I achieve that ?
I tried simply set the negative value of the margin-top property of the 2nd container but it causes that the div's are moved.
This should do it:
#container-2 {
display:block;
position:relative;
top:-0px /* <-- Put actual value here */
}
It would be easier if you could post you css code.
Somes possibilites:
set "image logo" margin-bottom to a negative value and make sure container#1 height isn´t preventing the bottom container go up.
or set both containers position: absolute and then set property top to match the desired result.
I would go for a position: absolute for the image logo.
The problem I'm having is I have two divs at the top of my page, one contains a repeating blue background, the other contains a background image.
I have to set the height of both divs in order for them to expand vertically, the don't expand with the content. I have that form on the right hand side set to overflow. Which I believe is what's causing the problem.
I have tried not having the height css in the code, but it still won't expand vertically.
In order to get the backgrounds to even show up I have to manually set the height.
This is the page: http://www.repipespecialists.com/landing/google/repiping.html
This is the CSS code:
#top_container {
width:100%;
height:1040px;
background-image:url(../images/top_bg_repeat.jpg);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
background-color:#83b4e9;
}
#top_header {
width:1200px;
height:1040px;
background-image:url(../images/header_bg.jpg);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-color:#83b4e9;
margin: 0 auto;
}
I agree with WDan in that the issue you are having is due to your use of float: left and float: right on the left_content and right_content div elements.
When you use float on an element, you are basically removing it from the normal flow of the document. By default, elements will appear on the page in whatever order you specify in the markup. Using float (or things like position: absolute) will remove the element from this "order", or "document flow", such that the floated element will be ignored when placing other elements in their default position on the page.
Since the space used by these floated elements are ignored, the top_header div does not take the floated element's size into account when determining its own size. This is why your div is not automatically expanding.
Another alternative to float is to use display: inline-block. Here are some links you can read to learn more about the differences:
http://www.ternstyle.us/blog/float-vs-inline-block
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/inline-block-vs-float/
http://designshack.net/articles/css/whats-the-deal-with-display-inline-block/
http://robertnyman.com/2010/02/24/css-display-inline-block-why-it-rocks-and-why-it-sucks/
I think the problem is you use float in 'left_content' and 'right_content'
Use “overflow: hidden” in the wrapper div.
I am trying to construct this shape in CSS:
But I can't figure out how to put the triangle shape (considering I have a rectangle for the "body" of the tag and a triangle for the tip) facing right. Because I'm working with positions, how can I tell the triangle to appear right after the rectangle, when tags can all have different sizes? I just can't work it out.
You can check the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ExZFe/ with a similar tag to the one I'm making. This example uses just positions, so giving the triangle a fixed position is useless. I tried with :after but got stuck too, because of the same reason. What am I missing? Thank you in advance.
Simply position the triangle using the right property (which start from the right of the rectangle) instead of the left (which starts from the left of the rectangle and is useless here as you can't know the width of the tags): http://jsfiddle.net/Gv3rf/
Just add a line-height to .tag
.tag {
line-height: 10px;
/* the rest of your styles here */
}
http://jsfiddle.net/ExZFe/3/
I want the black and white squares that share a tile/cell to overlap. The tile/cell blocks (There will be more, ideally) should fill the container of arbitrary size from left to right before going to the next row. What am I doing wrong? I thought left to right was default, but I know I am overriding some defaults with absolute positions.
http://jsfiddle.net/Hc7af/
Thanks!
.cell{
...
float: left;
}
Is this what you mean?
Also if you change the p element to a div it will fix the no-wrapping issue. I suspect it has to do with default styles.
I'm using a background image to add a custom bullet to list items in my content. In the content there are also images floated left. When an image and a list item are next to each other, the bullet appears where it would do if the image wasn't there, but the text wraps around the image.
Here is an example:
http://golf2.test.textmatters.com/content/greenkeepers/turfgrass/turfgrass_speci/cool_season_gra
is there a way to make the bullet appear where is should (i.e. next to the text)?
In Firebug / Firefox (you'll have to check other browsers) I solved your problem adding a:
li {
overflow:hidden;
}
Don't know why exactly, but that magical line solves lots of problems around floated stuff :-)
Edit: Solution if you can change the html slightly
If you have any control over the html, you could perhaps use paragraph tags instead of list items:
p.list_item {
background: transparent url(/++resource++stylesheets/images/bullet.gif) no-repeat scroll left 0.45em;
padding-left: 11px;
}
However, that would kind of change the semantic meaning of the list items...
This is an old topic... but thought I would add how I usually do this in case someone stumbles in here via a search...
If I have an image on the left, and plan to have graphic bulleted unordered list (UL) to the right of it, I place the image statement inside DIV tags, and add a float:left style to that DIV.
Then, I wrap my UL tags inside a DIV, and give that DIV a float:left style as well, causing it to appear to the right of the first DIV.
If I have additional text that I would like to resume UNDER my UL, then I give the second DIV a width that equals the total width of the page/column minus the graphic width - basically, to account for all of the space to the right of the image. That will force continuing text to flow directly under the UL DIV, and if the UL is shorter than the graphic, the text will flow to the right of the graphic and then under the graphic as expected.
If the UL extends lower than the graphic, then the text will just start under the image, as expected.
If you want the text to simply start UNDER the left graphic regardless of the height of the UL, then you could just apply a clear:both style to the ensuing , i.e.
In general this approach works so long as the UL isn't too much taller than the left image, because obviously in this scenario, the list itself isn't going to wrap under the image, leaving whitespace - so to make a long list look right may require some purposeful image sizing, or stacking a couple of images in the first DIV, or whatever other solution you might have.
If you really want to get whacky, I've had a few times where I've used the two DIV method described above, but setting the first DIV to position:relative, and placing the second DIV containing the UL INSIDE the first, with a position:absolute and of course top:??px and right:??px, set of course to absolutely position my UL to the right of the image. It takes the right kind of layout to use this method, obviously...
OK that's all I had to say, hope this makes sense & good luck to whomever!
Try wrapping your list items in a <p> tag, and then give that tag a left margin.
Why do you have div.fig width set to 0 in the html?
<div class="fig" style="width: 0px;"><img src="/images/43_Fescue.jpg" float="0"/></div>
Remove that and the list will float around the image.
Well, it's not the best fix from a stylistic point of view, but floating the images right avoids this problem. Thanks for everyones suggestions
If you want the whole ul to NOT float under the image try adding overflow:hidden to the ul