I am currently making a website here. And to the right is a postcode search div. The top corner of that needs to be rounded.
I am using images to round the corners. I do not want to use another method unless it fully supports all browsers, up until IE7.
I have already done this on the navigation (to the left. only top right and bottom left corners). But I cannot seem to get it to work for the top left corner. Please help. This may be a silly little mistake I have made.
If the "postcode search div" is fixed width and height (as it appears to be), the simplest solution would just be to do the entire thing as an image, and set that as the background:
(yes, the images are the correct size and colour)
The problem is that your background color is covering your image. If you remove the background-color property, you will see the corner image.
Take your image http://molossi.psm2.co.uk/assets/images/li-bg-tl.png and add in the grey background with it. Set the width and height of the entire grey background element to 225x120 or whatever you want and you will be good to go. Basically move from it being just the corner image piece to the full image.
If you don't want to do it this way then take your corner image and make it 225px in length with the grey extending out all the way.
There are two methods for creating round corners without using border-radius (CSS3) and without using images:
Use four small divs of height: 1px and progressively increasing widths that create the round corner illusion. This is probably the better option. For a code sample, see the following site:
http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/a/aa072406.htm
Use an HTA file and browser hacks. I've never tried this personally. For code samples and techniques, see the following site
http://jonraasch.com/blog/css-rounded-corners-in-all-browsers
For older browser support using images is the best and probably only option. If you don't mind lower levels of browser support CSS3 Rounded Corners (in the CSS3 Boarders page of W3Schools) may have your answer.
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I like sprites, they are extremely helpful to my overall needs, however. I am trying to figure out if there is a means of using a sprite image as a background image for an element thats 100% wide, but the background part of the sprite I want to apply is 1px wide. Where as the sprite is currently 100px wide and about 180px high currently. Is this even possible/legal? If so how would I do that? Or do I have to stick with the idea of a 1px by 120px image thats independent of the sprite to span a background the way I want to on a given element?
Note I thought about doing just the 0 0 position of the sprite as the BG I want but my issue with that is I have a similar portion of the sprite I want to use as a rollover effect for some areas
For a repeating background image you'd need to use an image that's independent of the sprite; as there is, to my knowledge, no way of specifying a particular segment of a sprite to repeat across the background, so you'd end up simply showing, and repeating, the entirety of the sprite.
And it seems, certainly in Chromium 19, that using background-size isn't the answer.
I think you might be able to achieve this through a pseudo background crop. There's a usful article here: http://nicolasgallagher.com/css-background-image-hacks/ that might help.
However, I'm skeptical that this can be used as a repeating background image. You might be able to stretch it (background-size:100%) but I'm not sure about that.
So it makes 3 divs placed inside one div. For left and right, clip your sprite as you would usually do. For middle, make your sprite LONG ENOUGH so that any middle part of the button is filled with the long portion of the sprite.
Never ask questions, use your imagination.
I need to create this layout and I'd like to do as much of it as possible with CSS, rather than using images and whatever.
As such, how can I do this in CSS? (if at all?)
As you can see, there is the image behind, with the button overlaid with padding. The bit that I'm struggling with is creating the curves on the IMAGE above and to the left of the button and bottom to the right of the button (I've pointed them out on the pic below).
Any help would be great.
Thanks
I know just enough CSS to be dangerous so I can't detail every step, but I think you can approach it like this:
Split the background image into two separate images both at a z-index of 0 at the height of the top of the grey box. I think you can use two div's that reference the same original image with different offsets (similar to CSS Sprites) but I don't know the details of how to do that. The left edge of the lower div would start where the grey box ends. Round the lower-left corner of each "image" div.
Add the grey box at a z-index of 1 with appropriate rounding, and then the blue box at a z-index of 2, again with appropriate rounding.
The background of the block element containing all of this would also have to be grey to match the grey border and properly fill in grey where your right-most arrow is pointing.
You don't have to split your image at all, only the container divs.
Let me detail a bit:
You can have your image set as a background image instead of putting it in a src attribute of an img tag. This technique is most commonly used when working with CSS sprites.
So, if you have you uppermost div at a constant width and height, if you try to apply the background image in it, you'll see it fits very nice.
On the bottom, you have two divs or whatever block element you'll like, just be sure to put fixed width and height, so the background will be applied and you will be able to actually see it.
Then all you have to do is fiddle with css background-position to adjust the SE chunk of image.
I'll be putting a small demo together to better illustrate the idea.
After you have a big div at the top, and two smaller at the bottom, where two of them share the same background-image, but with different background-position, you can safely add some css3 border-radius to fit your roundness needs. You can also use some tool like http://css3generator.com/ to add a compatibility layer on all browsers with ease.
That is very easy to realize with pure css. The page you have shown is divided into 3 divs without any margin. You only need to set the right border radius for each div.
This is a function of the background image, which is a css element if that's what you mean, but it is not a seperate attribute for a selector, at least not in standard CSS. Wait until CSS3 becomes more prevelant, then it's corner-radius or some such thing.
Well it's 3 probably 3 seperate divs, a hole "burned" into the background image, or a div being overlayed for the button.
The best way to figure out how it's done is to read the source of the page you found it on.
For convenience:
If you have a webkit based browser like chrome or safari then enable developper mode mouse over the button "right click" and choose inspect element. Otherwise you can pour over the page source until you find what you want.
I'm having some problems traying to place 3 images into a background, I mean, I have one image on top, actually a is 2000x550 pixels, then I need to leave 200px (vertical) and place another image that cover also the all the center and them one image into the footer.
Do you think that is better to make a full image a place it? full it's about 30KB. Or there is any way to place it using css?
Kind Regards
You should be able to achieve this with css z-index. See the following links for more information:
W3C Schools explanation of z-indexes:
http://www.w3schools.com/Css/pr_pos_z-index.asp
Indepth explanation of z-index's from Smashing Magazine:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/15/the-z-index-css-property-a-comprehensive-look/
To answer the question of how to place the header image, the best way would be to define a div with a specified height (a 550px tall header seems awfully large to me, but hey, its your site) and width (probably set to 100%), and use the background-image css property to place the image there. This will prevent any side-scrolling.
A sample of the what you have going on to go with the sample images would be nice. From your description though it sounds like you have not implemented the z-index properly. My guess is that you need to declare the position of the divs you are adding a z-index to. Even if it is position:relative you still have to declare it or the z-index doesn't work.
-- Edit for real answer --
After looking at your images this is not actually that hard to implement. Here is how I would do it -
Set the background of BODY to white and the green/pink/gray background:
body{background:URL(images/green-pink-gray_bg.png) #fff no-repeat;}
Set the background of the DIV to the gray image -
div#gray{background:URL(images/gray_bg.png) #fff no-repeat;}
There is no need to set the z-index of anything since the div with the gray background is already "on top" of the BODY of the page. Using PNG images with transparent backgrounds will allow the white background to show through anywhere it is not covered by one of the background images.
I would like to have a repeat-x on my body background for a web site, but the background is 1024 wide, so on wider displays, the line where the image begins again will be positioned to the right of the body, and possibly visible. My content is in a div 800 wide centred on the body. I would like the 'split' like from the repeating background to occur in the centre of the body, where it is hidden by the content.
I'm sure this is possible, with some trickery, the details of which are beyond my novice design and layout skills.
WORKAROUND: I used the Liquid Rescale GIMP plugin, which uses seam carving, to stretch the images to twice their original size. It works great, and I'm happy for now, but it's not an answer to this question.
A straightforward way to do this without any CSS trickery or extra markup is to modify the image. Center the background image with:
background-position: top center;
...and then offset the actual image file in an editor. In Photoshop use Filter >> Other >> Offset and use a horizontal value that is half of the image's width. Likewise, in the Gimp use Layer >> Transform >> Offset.
That's not the clean CSS solution you were looking for, but it's a nice pragmatic fix.
just put in the style:
background-position: 400px 0px;
this will start the repeating 400px from the left side (thus moving the split under the content)
I think it is not possible to do this dynamically (without taking the screen size into account) without using CSS expressions. I don't know the details about browser support though. A quick google search turned up this page as an example of how to do this.
http://valums.com/vertical/
Adding to what David said, creating a seamless, tiling background image isn't that tough:
Seamless background with Photoshop
It takes a bit of time, but it will look good at all screen resolutions once you're done.
I have this website.
The div container contains a background with a grungy look, and the body contains another background that is repeated on the x coordinate.
If you view the site you'll see whitespace on the left and right side. I am wondering how I can set the background images to expand based on the screen resolution. Would it work to set a width based on percentage for each div?
To my knowledge, CSS does not support scaling background images, which is disappointing to say the least. Long story short, you'll probably have to fake it with a fixed-position, z-indexed img tag. That, or what you did: a large image with a background-repeat.
I dont see any issues with what you've got in FF3/IE6/IE7 and chrome. only issue i see is the transparent png in ie6 with the ugly gray behind it.
ie6 I gotta fix but what the customer wants is for the with of the page to size up based on the users computer resolution
Unfortunately, you can't scale the image itself.
What you could do would be remake the div structure so that the inner div contains the center of the grungy background and the sides were tiled through two separate divs. You could then recut the center piece to tile both vertically and horizontally and give it a width that is a percentage of the window size. You could keep it from getting too small via javascript.
This is not an optimal solution, but if the client is set on having it scale with the browser window, this might accomplish it for them.
thanks for all your answers, when i said white space i didnt mean actual white space what i was refering to was that the entire container div wasnt sizing (width wise) towards what the users computer resolution was. and since allot of the divs are set with a background image there is no css code for setting the width on the image but i guess it would work on the divs. but thankfully after talking with the customer he changed his mind and doesnt want it anymore :)