I am currently trying to make a custom underline with border-bottom. However, currently the underline is going all the way of my block-element (whole page).
I’d prefer to have it being only 50px longer than my headline (however the text is flexible and I do not know the length).
Can I do this without adding another <span> tag within the <h2> somehow? I do not wannt to add a <span> element to each <h2> just to change my design.
Current HTML is:
<h1>My title</h1>
CSS:
h1 {
font-size: 18px;
color: #b62525;
border-bottom: 2px solid #c68181;
}
Is it possible to adjust the border-bottom length to my text length? (e.g. behave like inline element for border, but like block for newlines, padding and margin)
Using display: inline-block works, the only caveat being that the content after the <h1> tag must be the full width of the container element. The other solutions here also assume this. You can also use display: inline (supported by older browsers), but inline-block allows for setting of explicit widths, should you need it.
Here's a JSFiddle
CSS
h1
{
display: inline-block;
padding-right: 50px;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #888;
}
Inline or floating methods can be problematic if you're unable to compensate for them in other rules. One alternative is to use display:table
h1
{
display:table;
border-bottom:1px solid black;
padding-right:50px;
}
You can use
h1 {
font-size: 18px;
color: #b62525;
border-bottom: 2px solid #c68181;
float: left;
padding-right: 50px
}
Simply add one more property in css like this :
h1 {
display:inline;
font-size: 18px;
color: #b62525;
border-bottom: 2px solid #c68181;
}
Related
This jsfiddle looks like this:
I want it to look like this (I created this with MS Paint)... flush:
Is there anything I can add to the styles to achieve this?
div {
border: 1px solid blue;
font-size: 50px; // this number should be treated as arbitrary
}
One option is to use line-height. The amount will depend on the font-family you are using. The advantage would be that line-height can directly depend on font-size so it can be dynamic. However, it doesn't have a concept of vertical top and bottom individually (it applies to both) so you won't have that space under the text.
div {
border: 1px solid blue;
font-size: 70px;
font-family: 'Times';
line-height: 0.7; /* This will work for any font-size on 'Times'*/
}
<div>Hello</div>
You could simulate that bottom space by wrapping the text in an element with margin-bottom.
div.outer {
border: 1px solid blue;
font-size: 70px;
}
div.inner {
font-family: 'Times';
line-height: 0.7;
margin-bottom: 20px;
}
<div class="outer">
<div class="inner">Hello</div>
</div>
Another option is to use relative positioning. An advantage of this method over line-height is that the div size does not change.
div {
border:1px solid blue;
font-size: 64px; // works for arbitrary font sizes
}
span{
position:relative;
top:-0.21em;
}
<div>
<span>Hello</span>
</div>
As with line-height, you might have to adjust "-0.21em" depending on your font. -0.21em worked well for me for sans-serif and serif, but not cursive.
I'm trying to achieve this in CSS:
I would like the green line to always be the width of the text (no fixed width). I have a constraint, the tex is contained in an H3 tag with no ability to add a span tag inside it.
you could maybe try this aproach also:
<div class="container">
<div class="line"></div>
<h3>RECENT EPISODES</h3>
</div>
.container {
width:100%;
position:relative;
}
h3 {
display:inline-block;
border-bottom:1px solid green;
padding-bottom:10px;
margin:0;
position:relative;
}
.line {
height:1px;
background-color:#ededed;
width:100%;
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/az6pr1mz/
The grey line needs to go on a block level tag while the green needs to go on an inline tag. This means that you need two nested tags for it to work and that you must either add a span inside the h3 or a div surrounding it. An h3 can always be made inline if needed.
A slightly different approach would be to add the secondary element outside the h3 without surrounding it and position that so it lies directly under the h3.
In any case, you will need a minimum of two elements for the borders to cling to.
Update:
I missed that you don't need span inside the h3. I added a workaround. I am not sure whether this is the only solution. But I think it can be improved though. In the below code, I am using css content property to hide the border of the container.
NOTE: Use as many dots . as you can use to make it work on all resolutions.
CSS
.container {
border-bottom: 1px solid red;
padding-bottom: 10px;
position: relative;
max-width: 100%;
word-break: break-all;
}
.container:after {
content:"....................................................................................................................";
color: transparent;
border-bottom: 1px solid green;
padding-bottom: 10px;
position: absolute;
bottom: -1px;
}
Working Fiddle
For example this code: (is clearly and not uses absolute positions)
HTML:
<h3><span>Recent episodes</span></h3>
CSS:
h3{
text-transform:uppercase;
border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;
}
h3 span{
display:inline-block;
border-bottom:1px solid #080;
margin:0 0 -1px 0;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/tp0nnapu
I am trying to make a CSS :after triangle the usual way. But it does not look as a triangle at all, please see http://jsfiddle.net/lborgman/eX3HL/:
/* triangle after */
#st:after {
position: relative;
margin-left: 10px;
content:"";
border-top:4px solid transparent;
border-bottom:4px solid transparent;
border-left:4px solid black;
}
#st {
line-height: 2em;
}
If I change "position:relative" to "position:absolute" the triangle will become a triangle. But that does not work where I want it (because it is on a float div).
What can I do?
Add display:inline-block to fix the triangle
#st:after {
position: relative;
margin-left: 10px;
content:"";
border-top:4px solid transparent;
border-bottom:4px solid transparent;
border-left:4px solid black;
display: inline-block;
}
JS Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/eX3HL/2/
It's a phenomenon that has to do with the native display of an object. The native display property of span is inline. Inline elements behave like plain text, while block elements behave more like images.
In your example when you do not override the default property of the span your element behaves like text and thus has also an font-size shadow-property which is set to inherit. It's an unexpected behavior since the shadow-properties are not visible to developers directly, so causing a lot of unclarities. You don't have to just believe my words, here is a proof: http://jsfiddle.net/eX3HL/5/
After each h2 I want to append and style a dash and after that a line break.
I tried the following:
h2:after {
content: '\A\2014';
white-space: pre;
font-size: 70px;
}
It does work in general, but when I in- or decrease the font-size, the space both over and under the dash change, instead of just the dash-size.
I also tried adding a line-height: 0.6em; but it seems to move everything around.
At the moment I'm getting this:
I want to get this, being able to change the space:
Here is the FIDDLE
Why don't you just use borders?
h2 { border-bottom: 4px solid #000; }
and then you could just adjust the padding on the bottom of the H2:
h2 { padding-bottom: 15px; border-bottom: 4px solid #000; }
UPDATE BASED ON COMMENTS
To keep the dash the same width regardless of the title width I simply styled the :after pseudo element with a border and display block: http://jsfiddle.net/uzVhz/2
I have paragraphs on a page which i would like to add a border.
<p class="valid">paragraph</p>
CSS
p.valid {
padding:5px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
The Problem is this displays the paragrph as 100% of the page
I have also tried adding inline-block which wraps the text as i would like, but inline is like float left.
p.valid {
padding:5px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
display: inline-block;
}
When you float the element, also set it to clear any (left) floating elements:
p.valid {
padding:5px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
display: inline-block;
float: left;
clear: left;
}
From the MDN documentation:
The clear CSS property specifies whether an element can be next to floating elements that precede it or must be moved down (cleared) below them
I would use a <span> tag instead of <p> because a paragraph is supposed to extend across the entire page, and it looks like <span> will help you more with what you're trying to accomplish.