Take the following example:
This is a textarea, with a background image (the grey bar) and a relative positioned div after the textarea with a top offset to move the text in place.
The Markup:
<textarea cols="40" rows="6" class="some_textarea">Hello</textarea>
<div class="message_text">This is a message</div>
The CSS:
.some_textarea {
background: transparent url(gray_bar.png) repeat-x 50% 100%;
width: 99%;
padding: 5px;
margin: 0;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
border: 1px solid #C3C3C3;
}
.message_text {
display: inline;
color: #999;
font-size: 10px;
position: relative;
top: -21px;
padding: 0 6px;
}
The problem is that Firefox is the only browser that doesn't agree with the offset, and results in this very small pixel pushing annoyance:
What is causing this? How can I fix this for consistency? What non-clunky workarounds exist if it can't be fixed?
UPDATE
http://jsfiddle.net/UnsungHero97/maHkr/7/
How about something like this...
http://jsfiddle.net/UnsungHero97/maHkr/2/
What I did was wrap your textarea/message combo in a relatively positioned div and then absolutely positioned the message to the bottom left. You can play round with the exact positioning/margins/paddings to get it looking good across the browsers.
I hope this helps.
Hristo
use jQuery(window).load() instead of jQuery(document).ready()
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Context:
I'm trying to use CSS to display playing cards for a game I'm designing on my free time
What I'm trying to do, specifically:
Nothing revolutionary, there's a place on my cards in which I need to write some text, and I want to center the text so that it looks good
What I did:
The relevant part of the HTML is simply this:
<div class = "card_header">
<div class = "card_cost">1</div>
</div>
And the relevant CSS:
.card_header {
position: relative;
top: 110px;
box-sizing: border-box;
width: 100%;
height: 75px;
}
.card_cost {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
right: 165px;
transform: translateY(-50%);
font-size: 60px;
font-weight: bold;
}
What's the problem:
I expected the card_cost text to be vertically centered between the top and bottom borders of the card_header, but under the browser I was using (Firefox), the text was a bit too high. I tried to fix this by using top: calc(50% + 4px);, which looks like this (a bit better):
Since it felt a bit too tweaky for my taste, I went and checked how it looked like under another browser (Safari) to see whether it looked the same, and it looks like this:
which is the opposite problem: the text is too low.
I've tried adding border: 1px dotted gray; to get a better idea of what's happening, and here's what I see (safari on the left, firefox on the right):
The text seems to be vertically centered within card_cost in Safari (which means it would probably get centered properly if I simply used top: 50%; as I originally did), but in Firefox the box seems to be bigger and text way-high within the box.
What exactly is going on here? Why is this behaving differently depending on the browser? Is there a way to make this render the same? Or, more broadly, is there any browser-independent way for me to make the text vertically centered here?
Edit:
Since someone mentioned line-height in the comments, here's what it looks like when I add line-height: 1; for card_cost (again, Safari on the left and Firefox on the right):
With this, the text doesn't seem as centered as before under Safari, and it's even more clear that the text is way-high under Firefox
I usually take approach with invincible :before on parent with 100% of height and vertical-align: middle;. That way this :before justifies other inline-block content:
// I would apply this style everywhere
.card_header,
.card_header * {
font-family: arial;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.card_header {
position: relative;
top: 110px;
width: 100%;
height: 75px;
text-align: center;
background-color: rgba(100, 0, 0, .1);
}
.card_header:before {
content: '';
height: 100%;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
border-left: 1px solid blue;
}
.card_cost {
display: inline-block;
font-size: 60px;
height: 60px;
font-weight: bold;
vertical-align: middle;
background-color: rgba(0, 0, 100, .1);
}
<div class="card_header">
<div class="card_cost">1</div>
</div>
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.
I'm attempting to style heading text similar to how your default legend text appears in fieldsets; that is to say, I'd like a strikethrough-like line to come up to, but not through, the text. I can't seem to find any information on how I might accomplish this, and since on numerous other questions Google's always directed me to Stack Overflow for answers, I thought someone here may be able to give me advice.
For greater clarity. I'm attempting to get this effect on header text:
Centered Header Text
Is there any way to do this?
See: http://jsfiddle.net/thirtydot/jm4VQ/
If the text needs to wrap, this won't work. In IE7, there will be no line.
HTML:
<h2><span>Centered Header Text</span></h2>
CSS:
h2 {
text-align: center;
display: table;
width: 100%;
}
h2 > span, h2:before, h2:after {
display: table-cell;
}
h2:before, h2:after {
background: url(http://dummyimage.com/2x1/f0f/fff&text=+) repeat-x center;
width: 50%;
content: ' ';
}
h2 > span {
white-space: nowrap;
padding: 0 9px;
}
Edit:
<h2><strike> </strike>Your Text Here<strike> </strike></h2>
Here's how you can do it with a few simple tags and non-breaking spaces.
I'd use an image and call it a day, but this seemed to work for me:
CSS
fieldset {
border-right: 0px;
border-left: 0px;
border-bottom: 0px;
width: 200px;
}
legend {
margin: 0 25%;
}
HTML
<fieldset>
<legend>My Text Here</legend>
</fieldset>
That's the only way I could figure out how to do it with css. Note the width is fixed. Once again I wouldn't do this myself.
I came up with a quick, image-less solution that seems to work pretty well in IE 8+ and other browsers, whilst gracefully degrading in IE 6/7:
<h1>CSS 2.1 EXAMPLE</h1>
h1 { position: relative; text-align: center; }
h1:first-line { background-color: white; }
h1:before {
position: absolute;
z-index: -1;
content: '';
left: 0px;
right: 0px;
height: 1px;
top: 50%;
background-color: black;
}
It does come with the following limitations, though:
The text must match the overall background colour exactly, otherwise it will look weird.
If you want any kind of padding on the text, you need to use non-breaking spaces at either side of the text (see demo).
Heading text must always be on one line (works best if fixed width).
Here's a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/AndyE/3tFQJ/
With flexbox being supported by all the latest browsers out there, and it being five years since the IE8 requirement was mentioned by the author, I wanted to have some fun building a new solution using that.
A variety of examples getting more complicated:
https://jsfiddle.net/0mL79b4h/1/
https://jsfiddle.net/0mL79b4h/2/
CSS
div {
display: flex;
align-items: center;
}
div:before,
div:after {
border: 1px solid #000000;
border-radius: 2px;
height: 2px;
display: block;
content: "";
flex: 1;
width: 100%;
}
h1 {
text-align: center;
margin: 8px;
}
HTML
<div>
<h1>Example Text</h1>
</div>
<div>
<h1>Multi-Line<br>Example Text</h1>
</div>
Pros:
Uses flexbox!
Super simple HTML.
Left and right sides can be adjusted for asymmetry.
Zero background issues, no inheriting colors, etc.
Fluid width.
Multi-Line support.
Left/Center/Right/Custom Alignment: Just adjust the flex property separately for the before and after elements, higher numbers will dedicate more space to that side. Remove one entirely to left or right align it.
Interesting effects by playing with the border style (I actually chose a round border in this example). Set height to 0px and use border-top instead for a generic line.
Cons:
Uses flexbox. Call me lazy, but I didn't build in any backward compatibility in this example so it'll look odd on a browser that supports psuedo elements but doesn't support flexbox, although last I checked that was Chrome (Firefox, etc), which are all automatically updated anyway. Might want to use some Modernizr.
Here is what I am using on a client's site: http://jsfiddle.net/TPgE4/
Pros:
No images needed - renders instantly
Uses padding to control space on both sides of text
Text can be center aligned, or left/right aligned — just add, e.g., margin-left: 8px or margin-right: 8px on h2 span style definition to make it look good
Cons:
Requires use of additional tag such as <span>...</span> inside heading tag
Text must fit on one line for good appearance
Background color on <span> element must match surrounding background color, so if you have a non-solid background image, gradient or pattern it won't match perfectly
Kind of late to the party, but this is my solution: https://jsfiddle.net/g43pt908/
Requires no images, and doesn't depend on a background color.
HTML
<div class="hr-text">
<span>Some text</span>
</div>
CSS
.hr-text {
border-top: 1px solid #999;
text-align: center;
background-color: inherit;
}
.hr-text span {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
height: 14px;
top: -12px;
font-size: 14px;
font-style: italic;
color: #666;
background-color: inherit;
padding: 0 10px;
}
I'm not sure if this would suit your need...
h1:before, h1:after {
content: " ------------- ";
}
This doesn't feel like a very good answer, but I'm posting it anyway.
See: http://jsfiddle.net/rFmQg/
<h2><span>Centered Header Text</span></h2>
h2 {
background: url(http://dummyimage.com/2x1/f0f/fff&text=+) repeat-x center;
text-align: center
}
h2 span {
background: #fff;
padding: 0 9px
}
I don't like it because:
You have to use an image.
This. (it only works if the backgrounds match)
body { padding-top: 100px; }
div.parent {
text-align: center;
border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
}
div.parent div {
display: inline-block;
margin-top: -0.8em;
padding: 0 0.5em;
background: #fff;
}
<body>
<div class="parent">
<div>My Text Here</div>
</div>
</body>
This is a fluid-width solution that matches your design and should be ok in IE7 (though I'll admit I didn't check). There are a couple of downsides:
You lose the fieldset/legend semantics.
You can't put a transparent background on the text.
If you don't need it to be fluid-width, onteria_'s solution is probably your best bet.
I have this CSS code:
#tweet-container{
width: 290px;
height: 272px;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
color: #CCC;
font-size: 28px;
text-align: center;
letter-spacing: -2px;
min-height: 10px;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
padding: 15px;
}
But firefox doesn't seem to recognize the top and bottom padding. Safari and Chrome both show it normally, and even in Firebug when I add padding-top: it doesn't work. Its like its not a valid statement or something. Is there something I'm missing?
Humm, this is a bit interesting. You've set the width as 272px, but its actually displayed as 270px. You've set the height as 290px, with the 30px total of padding, the real displayed height should be 320px, but its actually 318px.
Had a little play and taking out display: table-cell; seems to sort the issue. Although the padding isn't spread equally for some reaosn, it all appears at the bottom. Putting the text in a p tag, and giving that a 15px top margin has done the job though I think.
did you try adding padding:15px!important; ?
/* Normal Bubble */
.bubble {
width: auto;
font-size: 0.75em;
margin-bottom: 24px;
}
.bubble blockquote {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
border: 1px solid #c9c2c1;
background-color: #000;
}
.bubble blockquote p {
margin: 10px;
padding: 0px;
font-size: 21px;
}
.bubble cite {
position: relative;
margin: 0px;
padding: 7px 0px 0px 15px;
top: 6px;
background: transparent url(b/tip.gif) no-repeat 20px 0;
font-style: normal;
}
I have this for my comments.. that looks like "speech bubbles" .
I dont want it big from the beginning, i want to have it custom after the text.. I mean if you wrote "hello" then it should be around it with maybe 1-2px margin from the bubble, so if you wrote "Hello my name is and i like to cook!" then it should be bigger..its like this right now:
<div class="bubble">
<blockquote>
<p>the comment text is here</p>
</blockquote>
<cite>Written by me</cite>
</div>
A div, by default, is block level and, therefore, will expand its width to the width of its parent container (rather than its contents).
Two options to consider would be to set the div to
display: inline-block
Or float it.
Do you mean to put it like that?
.bubble blockquote p {
display: inline;
/*(...)*/
}
See http://www.htmldog.com/reference/cssproperties/display/
I'm not sure quite what you are asking either.
Perhaps you are referring to creating a popup (using images) that scales according to the size of the content? To do that you need multiple overlapping images. It it only scales in one direction (vertically or horizontally) you need two images, if it scales in both directions you need to create four images. This technique is sometimes called "sliding doors".