How can I insert text before an item with CSS? - css

I'm sorry, I'm a complete newbie to CSS and I'm trying to create a custom display for an xml file with CSS.
My question is: how can I display a certain text before a certain element, e. g. "Project:" before each element?
I tried like that with ":before" but that does not seem to do the trick
ThinkingRock
{
background-color: #ffffff;
width: 100%;
}
project
{
:before{content:"Projekt:";};
display: block;
margin-bottom: 30pt;
margin-left: 0;
}
description
{
color: #FF0000;
font-size: 20pt;
}
notes
{
color: #0000FF;
font-size: 20pt;
}
id, created, parent, topic, context, state, done, priority, modified, purpose, success, brainstorming, processed
{
display: block;
color: #000000;
margin-left: 20pt;
}
The xml file use is this one: http://www.trgtd.com.au/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=16&Itemid=71
I've only added the first line <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="thinkingrock.css"?>

:before is a pseudo-selector itself, so it needs its own style block, like below:
project:before {
content:"Projekt:";
}
project {
display: block;
margin-bottom: 30pt;
margin-left: 0;
}
fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/wNEt3/
fiddle using your xml and css: http://jsfiddle.net/pRwMT/1/
Btw, http://htmldog.com/ is a great place to go for HTML & CSS tutorials, and they kindly point out W3schools inconsistencies, if you've visited there first :D

use z-index , z-index Only Work with position: fixed,relative,absolute:
project:before {
width:100%;
height:100%;
position:absolute;
content:"";
z-index:-2;
}
project {
position:relative;
display: block;
z-index:30;
}
or:
project:before {
width:100%;
height:100%;
position:relative;
content:"";
z-index:-2;
}
project {
display: block;
z-index:30;
}
documention : https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_pos_z-index.asp

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How to use custom classes inside elements in sass

I have declared a css property in sass as below:
.submit-link {
float: left;
i{
float: left;
display: inline-block;
transform: rotate(180deg);
}
}
Now I need to add a custom class which would be added to the i element. I tried using &.back-to-home within the element i
.submit-link {
float: left;
i{
&.back-to-home
{
float:right !important;
}
float: left;
display: inline-block;
transform: rotate(180deg);
}
}
But it doesn't work. I tried adding as &:back-to-home too. It didn't work.
How can I add the custom class to the above sass. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Cheers
Not sure what isn't working for you, but I've created this simple demo and its working fine:
HTML:
<i>Test</i>
<i class="back-to-home">Home</i>
SCSS:
i {
color: white;
background: red;
padding: 10px;
&.back-to-home {
background: blue;
}
}
jsFiddle - https://jsfiddle.net/kr29b1dn/

css hover info display

ok it's supposed to be really simple but for some reason it isn't working. when i hover over an image a box with information is supposed to pop up like when you hover over a question mark and the question is answered.
.infodot {
position: relative;
}
.redinfo {
background-color: red;
color: white;
padding: 10px;
border-radius: 5px;
position: relative;
width: 280px;
display:none;
}
.infodot:hover .redinfo {
display: block;
}
<img src="http://www.brokenarrowwear.com/embroidery/img/infodot.png" class="infodot" />
<p class="redinfo"><strong>PLEASE NOTE</strong> - Info dot information</p>
You need 'next sibling', actually: adjacent sibling selector:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Adjacent_sibling_selectors
.infodot:hover + .redinfo {
display: block;
}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/d1taznfb/
Another option is to change your markup, so you can use different selector(s).

SASS, when to extend?

I'm currently working on a team that uses SASS. I see that we are extending styles that are very simple and to me I don't see the benefit of doing this. Am I missing something?
Here are some examples of a _Common.scss that is imported and used throughout other sass files:
.visibility-hidden{visibility: hidden;}
.display-inline { display: inline; }
.display-inline-block { display: inline-block; }
.display-block { display: block; }
.display-none { display: none; }
.display-box { display: box; }
.float-left { float: left; }
.float-right { float: right; }
.clear-both { clear: both; }
.width-percent-100 { width: 100%; }
.width-percent-65 { width: 65%; }
.width-percent-50 { width: 50%; }
.width-percent-45 { width: 45%; }
.width-percent-40 { width: 40%; }
.width-percent-33 { width: 33%; }
.width-percent-30 { width: 30%; }
.width-percent-20 { width: 20%; }
.height-percent-100 { height: 100%; }
.cursor-pointer { cursor: pointer; }
.underline { text-decoration: underline; }
.text-decoration-none { text-decoration: none; }
.bold { font-weight: bold; }
.font-weight-normal { font-weight: normal; }
.text-align-center { text-align: center; }
.text-align-left { text-align: left; }
.text-align-right { text-align: right; }
.font-10 { font-size: 10px; }
.font-11 { font-size: 11px; }
.font-12 { font-size: 12px; }
.font-13 { font-size: 13px; }
.font-14 { font-size: 14px; }
.font-15 { font-size: 15px; }
.font-16 { font-size: 16px; }
.font-17 { font-size: 17px; }
.font-18 { font-size: 18px; }
.font-percent-65 { font-size: 65%; }
.font-percent-80 { font-size: 80%; }
.font-percent-90 { font-size: 90%; }
.font-percent-100 { font-size: 100%; }
.font-percent-110 { font-size: 110%; }
.font-percent-120 { font-size: 120%; }
.font-percent-130 { font-size: 130%; }
.font-percent-140 { font-size: 140%; }
.font-percent-150 { font-size: 150%; }
.font-percent-160 { font-size: 160%; }
.font-percent-170 { font-size: 170%; }
.font-percent-180 { font-size: 180%; }
Example:
#CategoriesContainer
{
ul{
li{
&:first-child{
#extend .font-11;
}
a
{
#extend .font-11;
#extend .text-decoration-none;
}
}
}
}
You should only use extend when you have a certain attribute set that will be used multiple times. The sheer stupidy of extending a class with a class with one attribute that has the unit value worked into the name of it is incomprehensible.
A better example for a reason to extend can be found in the reference guide
Say we have 2 classes
.error {
border: 1px #f00;
background-color: #fdd;
}
.seriousError {
border-width: 3px;
}
.error is a general no interesting style but a serious error should be really clear.
.seriousError is created to thicken the line, the only problem is that now we have to use both classes in the html to combine the styles.
Because we're lazy and just want to use one class and not duplicate code that might be changed in the future we can extend .seriousError with .error
.seriousError {
#extend .error;
border-width: 3px;
}
Now we didn't duplicate the code in our sass file but did get the right styles on the page.
Check out the reference guide for more/better examples.
Just please for the sake of kittens stop extending classes with one attribute classes. And don't implicitly state the value/attributes in the selector, thats not very semantic.
You, and your team, should read this post which explains a few problems with the aproach you take here vs semantic code. Couldn't find a better tuned post this quick.
You aren't missing anything, this is just bloated code in poor form and not a great way to extend classes.
There is maybe one (bad) reason I can imagine why this would be used. If for example .font-10 needs to be .7em instead of 10px, it can be easily changed - but then you've just defeated the point of naming the class "font10". Something like small-font would even make more sense in that case (and I'm not suggesting you use that either).
I won't discuss the merits of semantic class names and the folly of presentational ones (especially as literal as these are), but I will suggest that this is a very narrow use of extending classes. With a 1:1 mapping of class name to property/value, you've practically defeated the purpose of #extend, which is supposed to make you write less CSS.
Better example of what to use #extend for:
.media {
padding:1em;
border-color:blue;
background-color:red;
clear:left;
}
.my-media {
#extend .media;
background-color:green;
}
Atomic CSS
The technique of very simple CSS rules does have a bit of precedent - at Yahoo! they call it Atomic CSS. Thierry Koblentz argues in this Smashing Magazine article for using the simple classes directly in your markup, similar to inline styling. This can be helpful on very large projects across multiple web properties, where styles are not consistent. Base styles for OOCSS components can't be reused as much in such a situation, causing you to have to write many more lines of extension classes or overrides.
The downside is, of course, as Wesley mentioned, that it is much more difficult to make changes across your entire project's styles, such as updating the text size of a specific selector.
I've been playing around with a variant of this technique recently in a fairly large project, where styles can often be one-off. In an effort to avoid the I try to avoid putting hard values directly in the selectors. For instance, the following css (example fiddle):
_colors.scss
.text-white {
color: $white;
}
.blue {
#extend .text-white;
background: $blue;
}
_effects.scss
.circle {
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
border-radius: 50%;
text-align: center;
line-height: 50px;
font-size: 40px;
}
.matted {
border: 4px solid $white;
}
.shadow {
#include box-shadow(0 1px 4px 1px rgba($black, 0.25));
}
HTML:
<div class="blue matted circle shadow">?</div>
Specificity issues
One last thing to keep in mind if you decide to use this technique - it can cause specificity problems if you're extending base-level classes that use the same CSS properties. For instance, in the following example (fiddle), how would your border-radius appear? You wanted the top to be squared off (no border-radius) but this isn't happening, because the .circle class is further down in your css and just as specific (single class) as the other effects. This is a bit of a contrived example, but if you reuse CSS properties across your atomic selectors, this can be a real problem.
_colors.scss
.text-white {
color: white;
}
.blue {
#extend .text-white;
background: royalblue;
}
_effects.scss
.squared-top {
border-top-left-radius: 0;
border-top-right-radius: 0;
}
.rounded {
border-radius: 10px;
}
.circle {
width: 50px;
height: 50px;
border-radius: 50%;
}
HTML:
<span class="circle blue rounded squared-top"></span>
If you do it that way you can also use it directly in the HTML - so it looks like they took the OOCSS path and because it's already in the CSS you can now also extend to it. Very flexible but it could also turn very messy.
Extend option is used poorly here. It should be used for extending classes with more content and in that case extend can be very helpful.You can find more about extend and its options here.

aligning text in a span tag wrapping incorrectly

This is part of a more complex dynamic template code so I'm trying to keep the structure as is but trying to style the text so that the cast members line up with the directors below.
Right now the cast gets wrapped to 3 lines but it does not keep its indenting. Anyone know how I could style it to hold its indented look.
http://jsfiddle.net/N2y88/
http://jsfiddle.net/N2y88/2/
try something like this
.support p span:first-child {
color: #81848A;
display: inline-block;
padding-right: 10px;
text-align: right;
width: 50px;
float:left;
}
.support p span:last-child {
display: inline-block;
float:left;
width:400px;
}
.support .cast, .support .director{
color:blue;
}
.support p {
color: #D0D0D0;
margin: inherit;
padding: 0.1em 0;
clear:both;
}

CSS code customization

I am an iPhone App Developer and have very very little knowledge about css.I have a code to create a no of cells.here this is:
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
body {
margin: 0;
width: 320px;
height: 200px;
}
.ad-carousel-view .cells > li {
width: 200px;
height: 70px;
padding-top: 16px;
padding-left: 20px;
color: white;
font-size: 20px;
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
background-image:url('13.jpg');
}
.ad-carousel-view .cells > li:nth-child(odd) {
background-color: rgb(255,59,59);
}
.ad-carousel-view .cells > li:nth-child(even) {
background-color: rgb(80,80,80);
background-image:url('13.jpg');
}
.ad-carousel-view .cells > li.active {
background-color: red;
background-image:url('23.jpg');
}
</style>
<style type="text/css">
.wrap{
border:solid 1px #000000;
width:320px;
height:150px;
position:relative;
top:0px;
left:0px;
}
</style>
in the above code the following section is used to set cell's BG color and image
//odd cell
.ad-carousel-view .cells > li:nth-child(odd) {
background-color: rgb(255,59,59);
}
//even cell
.ad-carousel-view .cells > li:nth-child(even) {
background-color: rgb(80,80,80);
background-image:url('13.jpg');
}
//highlighted cell
.ad-carousel-view .cells > li.active {
background-color: red;
background-image:url('23.jpg');
}
now what i need is to change BG image dynamically...i mean instead of using
background-image:url('23.jpg');
i want use variable something like
background-image:url(var);
is it possible in CSS??....if no then can anyone have any idea to dynamically set image name??
It's not possible in pure CSS. You could use Javascript to set the background-image property on load:
jQuery example:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.ad-carousel-view .cells > li.active').each(function(){
var img = getYourImagePath();
$(this).css({backgroundImage: img});
});
});
You can do this in your HTML if you're using a server-side technology by using an inline style, so on your element you'd have something like:
<li class="active" style="background-image:url(###);"></li>
where you would replace ### with whatever output method you're using to dynamically set the image.
You can also set it with javascript if you don't have any server-side technology to work with:
var obj= document.getElementById('aUniqueId');
obj.style.backgroundImage = yourImage;
jQuery is similar but a little nicer because it can pick up the class instead of just the ID - which would be better if you want to apply more than one active class on the page:
$(".active").css("backgroundImage",yourImage);
Yes this should be fine. Have you tested it? I'm sure it works OK.
The LESS allows you to use variables in the CSS :)
Example:
#brand_color: #4D926F;
#header {
color: #brand_color;
}
h2 {
color: #brand_color;
}

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