contrain dimension of an image in a div - css

i have a div (which is a 200x200 square) inside which i'd like to place a 180x60 image at the top and then some text.
<div class='box_item'>
<img src="<? echo base_url(); ?>img2/avengers_assemble_small.jpg" class='box_item_img'/>
<h4>some text...</h4>
</div>
CSS is:
.box_item {
float: left;
height: 190px;
width: 190px;
overflow: hidden;
border: 1px solid grey;
padding: 5px;
margin: 5px 5px 0px 0;
}
.box_item_img{
width: 180px;
height: 60px;
margin: 5px;
}
i would expect the image to appear at the top of the box with the dimensions specified by the box_item_img class.
instead, i get a stretched image that expands to almost the entire box (a 5px margin is left at the top and on the left).
ideas?

The CSS rules you gave are working fine. There must be some other styling rules interfering, for example, a generic img rule.
Just inspect the img and div elements in FireBug or Chrome developer tools and look what rules are applied to each of them. Then try removing the most suspicious rules one by one to find the real cause.

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Creating a border gap

I'm trying to get a gap created within a div's border to fit an image, similar to this:
Is there a way to do this in pure CSS? All I can see is:
.box {
background: url(img.png) bottom left;
border-top: 1px solid #eee;
border-left: 1px solid #eee;
}
But my problem is border-right: 1px solid #eee; creates a line on top of my image, which is of course not desired.
It needs to be responsive. This image is an example, but you get the general idea.
Something like this?
http://jsfiddle.net/6Ufb5/
div {
border: 1px solid #ccc;
position: relative;
}
img {
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
left: 10px;
}
Give the container position relative and the img absolute, shift it to left 10px and shift it down 10px from the top and you have what you desire.
For the responsive part, that's just giving the container and/or img a % width.
Like so:
http://jsfiddle.net/6Ufb5/2/
You can achieve this by using absolute positioning of the image element - and it has to be in a <img> element, not as the background image because it will never overlap the parent border (or even if it does by adjusting the background-position property, the border will lie on top of the background image... a behavior that is expected, by the way.
<div class="box">
Content goes here
<img src="http://placehold.it/300x200" />
</div>
And the CSS:
.box {
position: relative;
border: 1px solid #333;
}
.box img {
position: absolute;
bottom: -1px;
right: -1px;
}
If you want a dynamic and/or responsive solution, you might have to resort to JS to doing so - such as resizing the image depending on the box dimensions, and assigning a height to the box to take into account of the image height (since image is absolutely positioned, it is taken out of the document flow).
See fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/teddyrised/xH6UV/
This might work if you can alter your markup. For accessibility I think the image should be an image and not a background, and this method is responsive (though you may want to alter margins at small sizes with media queries).
http://jsfiddle.net/isherwood/79Js5
.box {
border: 1px solid #ccc;
display: inline-block;
padding: 10px 0 10px 10px;
width: 40%;
}
.box img {
margin-right: -10%;
margin-bottom: -10%;
width: 105%;
}
<div class="box">
<img src="http://placehold.it/200x100/f3f3f3" />
</div>

How to make overflow blocks working well ()

Here is 8 floating blocks with equal content with some problems:
if I use padding:10px for sideblock .inner to create "border" it does not work good (padding-bottom it's look like disapeared)
if I put a cursor on block - it can't be appeared at the top, and do not move othes block
How makes block working well?
HTML:
<div class="sideblock"><div class="style-menu"><div class="inner">
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.</div></div></div>
CSS:
.sideblock {
width: 220px;
height: 80px;
overflow: hidden;
margin: 10px;
float: left;
}
.sideblock .inner {
background: #ffffff;
padding: 10px;}
.sideblock .style-menu {
padding: 3px;
background: #157ba1;
background: linear-gradient(to right, #157ba1 0%,#5fa31c 100%);}
.sideblock:hover {
box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px #000;
overflow: visible;
height: auto;}
Here is my code - http://jsfiddle.net/2HqZV/1/
Thx for support
Well i assume you want the have the same look as when the div is hovered but then smaller? You shouldn't have to use any overflow on the div it self atfirst, it should response to your given height.
When you inspect your element you can easially see the heights of your elements.
You'll see that your .style-menu div hasn't the same height as .sideblock, to fix that you can add a inherit height to your style-menu:
.sideblock .style-menu {
height: inherit;
padding: 3px;
background: #157ba1;
background: linear-gradient(to right, #157ba1 0%,#5fa31c 100%);
}
Now when you look further you see that your padding at the .inner div element expends the actual given height. What you want is the padding to be inline. You can easially do this with box-sizing. And finally you can 'cut' the text by adding a overflow:
.sideblock .inner {
background: #ffffff;
padding: 10px;
height: inherit;
box-sizing: border-box;
overflow: hidden;
}
jsFiddle
I hope this is what you meant.
btw, i find your way of adding a border very unique ^^
Update
So to let every element that expends ignore every other element, you should take it out of the document flow. You can do this with position: absolute;. However what absolute position does is indeed ignoring all the other elements, but you want to have the same position. Because the element has no offset positioning (top, right, bottom, left) it will be placed at the left corner of your screen(acts like it is the only element in the DOM). To keep the elements position we are not changing the .sideblock but the content of that; .style-menu:
.sideblock:hover .style-menu
{
box-shadow: 0px 0px 5px #000;
position: absolute;
}
Because this element goes on top of the other, you want to add the shadow here.
Now the .sideblock element has no content because the content has become absolute and so out of the document flow. To fix this you can give this element a min-height:
.sideblock:hover
{
min-height: 80px;
height: auto;
}
jsFiddle

How to get an offset border round the visible part of the browser window

I've got a set up similar to this: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/iAJnx where the main content is rather long. What I want to do is to put a border round the visible part of the screen as in this screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/ENtLau4.png
What I want to do is to create 4 divs that are positioned at the edges of the screen, but I'm struggling both with the positioning and giving the divs height and width without content. Does anyone have an idea about this?
Note: I've already tried using an overlay, but it makes the content non-clickable.
Try this:
HTML:
<div class="border-box"></div>
CSS:
body { position: relative; }
.border-box {
border: 5px solid blue;
box-shadow: 0 0 100px 100px #fff;
position: fixed;
pointer-events: none;
bottom: 10px;
left: 10px;
right: 10px;
top: 10px;
}
How it works:
I absolutely positioned an overlay with borders, that will stick the edges of the screen by using top, bottom, left, right definitions. To make the content below selectable, you set pointer-events: none; on the overlay.
Example: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/BxJbh
If you want to achieve the same results without adding additional HTML markup, you can use the :before sudo selector to prepend a block to the body. Simply add this CSS and it will produce the same results:
body:before {
border: 5px solid blue;
box-shadow: 0 0 100px 100px #fff;
display: block;
content: '';
position: fixed;
pointer-events: none;
bottom: 10px;
left: 10px;
right: 10px;
top: 10px;
}
Example: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/BDhql
you have to set in your content id (#content)
border:4px solid blue;
min-width:700px; //change accordingly.
min-height:1600px //change accordingly
The above code will fix the problem of border as well as the height & width you want to set without having any content.

HTML-CSS: span inside button aligning right

I am having trouble with the alignment of a span contained within a button tag.
I have already done something like this before and it worked. In fact, it's the same css but different sizes.
The problem is that the containing span seems to be aligning to the right.
CSS:
#closePreviewBtn {
position: absolute;
height: 24px;
width: 24px;
right: 0;
background: #B9DEFD;
border-top: solid 1px #333333;
border-left: solid 1px#333333;
border-right: solid 1px #333333;
border-bottom: solid 1px #333333;
border-radius: 4px;
}
#closePreviewBtn .close {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
height: 20px;
width: 20px;
background: url(../imagenes/close.png) no-repeat center;
padding: 0;
/*right: 2px;
bottom: 1px;*/ //This fixes the problem but it's manual
}
HTML:
<html>
<body>
<button id="closePreviewBtn" name="closePreviewBtn"><span class="close"></span></button>
</body>
</html>
Thanks a lot!
Simple fix - seems like the button has a padding by default. Just set it to 0:
#closePreviewBtn {
padding: 0;
}
Now you can position however you want - maybe adding a margin to the span if you want to move it around.
Hope that helps you,
In your #closePreviewBtn rule, remove the right:0;. Setting the position to absolute and right to zero will take the element out of the document flow and position it as far to the right as possible.
jsFiddle example
I noticed that the button still has some padding after resizing it to 10px. I found no way to set that space off.
The solution i've foud to center it was removing the button height and width, because it will expand to wrap the span and it will be centered.
For some weird thing, it works for small buttons. But for bigger buttons like 30px x 50px it will just be fine to set height and width, or at least the padding is very very hard to notice if there's some.

IE8 showing a margin but shouldn't

In IE8 my header looks like a bottom margin is set, yet margins are set to 0px. I've set a border property to test this.
I'm using DIV tags not HTML5 header, nav, etc.
Now that I'm looking at this picture, I'm noticing an extra pixel on the right as well.
#header
{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
width: 800px;
height: 200px;
border: 1px solid red; /* test */
}
#nav
{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
border: 1px solid black; /* test */
}
Where is the grey colour in the header coming from? If it's an image, you might want to check that its dimensions match those in your CSS definition (i.e. 800px x 200px). Otherwise, try removing any margins on the image.
Without seeing your full HTML structure, it's difficult to troubleshoot.

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