I want to implement a hover effect with CSS for a html input button. (Changing border color on mouse over).
Actually technically no problem - and it is working - however I have issues with Internet Explorer 7 as well as IE8, because the effect is only working like 80% of the times there.
I also change the mousecursor on hover - which is working without problems - but changing the border (or the background-color) is working only most of the times. Sometimes I enter the button with the mouse and nothing happens.
Is thtere anyway to circumvent this behaviour - without using javascript or code-blowing wrapper elements?
See the following example code for details:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html id="document:html" lang="de">
<head><meta content="0" http-equiv="expires" /><meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type" />
<style type="text/css">
input.linebutton {
border: 1px solid #BBB;
margin: 0 2px;
background-color: #EEE;
text-align: left;
background-position: 2px 2px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
padding: 1px 3px 1px 23px;
width: 0; /* for IE only */
overflow: visible;
cursor:pointer;
height:22px;
}
input.linebutton:hover {
border: 1px solid #FF8C00;
background-color: #EEE;
outline: none;
}
input.linebutton:active, .linebutton:focus {
border: 1px solid #000000;
background-color: #EEE;
outline: none;
}
.linebutton[class] { /* IE ignores [class] */
width: auto;
}
</style>
</head>
<body >
<input class="linebutton" id="test" name="test" style="background-image: url('image');" title="Test" type="submit" value="Test" />
</body>
</html>
Thanks in advance!
Digging graves up, but I had the same issue with IE7 and input:hover. When I changed the doctype to strict it was then support in IE7. No js needed.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
IE7 support for hover
Not quite so elegant but maybe some jQuery?
jQuery("input.linebutton").hover(function() {
jQuery(this).addClass("HoverClassName");
}, function() {
jQuery(this).removeClass("HoverClassName");
});
Just replace your input[type=submit] by a button and you should be fine.
Your example modified would like like this:
<button class="linebutton" id="test" name="test" style="background-image: url('image');" title="Test" type="submit" value="Test">Submit</button>
Related
The problem:
I've created a simple test page (below) to demonstrate what the problem is.
When you set CSS on textarea field with border = 2px, the textarea will resize itself
and hence all fields/content below textarea will move down.
This only applies to textarea and select fields while input field doesn't act this way.
I've tested this in IE, Opera and FF and none of them produce the same behavior,
they all work like they should while Chrome moves all elements below them.
Anyone knows a fix that will prevent this with CSS?
The example:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style language="text/css">
textarea:focus {
border: 2px solid #000000;
}
textarea {
width: 300px;
height: 100px;
resize: none;
outline: none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<textarea name="test" cols="0" rows="0"></textarea>
<br />
This text and button will move a few pixels down when you click in textarea field.
<br/>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
It is happening because you are giving border on hover. The border should already be there as transparent color and on hover or focus just give border-color.
textarea:focus {
border-color:#000000;
}
textarea {
width: 300px;
height: 100px;
resize: none;
outline: none;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
border: 2px solid transparent;
}
Use css box-sizing: border-box; property in your textarea css. see example :
textarea {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
I checked your code. Actually Chrome adds the border excluding from width and height.
You can check this by using "box-sizing" property.
The box-sizing property is used to tell the browser what the sizing properties (width and height) should include.
Happy Coding!
When I add a margin to .child in the following code IE8 ignores it. In modern browsers the same code is working as expected. What is causing this?
<html lang=“de“ xml:lang=“de“ xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type“ content=“text/html“; charset=“iso-8859-1“ />
<title></title>
<style>
.parent {
margin: 5px;
border: 10px solid blue;
position: relative;
}
.child {
margin: 10px;
border: 10px solid red;
padding: 4px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="parent">
<p class="child" style="width:80%; position:relative; left:10px; top:10px; background-color:yellow;">I'm the CHILD!
<span id="textOutput"></span>
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The problem is that you have not supplied a doctype which means that IE8 does not know what rendering mode to use and is therefore defaulting to quirks mode. Quirks mode is essential an old, non-standard layout engine used back when the web was young:
There are now three modes used by the layout engines in web browsers: quirks mode, almost standards mode, and full standards mode. In quirks mode, layout emulates nonstandard behavior in Navigator 4 and Internet Explorer 5. This is essential in order to support websites that were built before the widespread adoption of web standards. In full standards mode, the behavior is (hopefully) the behavior described by the HTML and CSS specifications. In almost standards mode, there are only a very small number of quirks implemented.
Quirks Mode and Standards Mode (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Quirks_Mode_and_Standards_Mode)
Browsers handle a lack of doctype in different ways and you should always ensure that you specify one at the beginning of you HTML to ensure consistent rendering of your page. At time of writing I would recommend the HTML5 doctype as it is short, clear and supported as far back as IE6.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="de" xml:lang="de" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title></title>
<style>
.parent {
margin: 5px;
border: 10px solid blue;
position: relative;
}
.child {
margin: 10px;
border: 10px solid red;
padding: 4px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="parent">
<p class="child" style="width:80%; position:relative; left:10px; top:10px; background-color:yellow;">I'm the CHILD!
<span id="textOutput"></span>
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
It should also be noted that you need to use normal quotation marks not curly quotes for your attribute values and need a closing html tag.
Does someone know why there is a margin (about 1px) around the button background-image, only in Internet Explorer ?
Try this code in IE vs Firefox :
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
<style type='text/css'>
button {
background: grey url("http://eagle.phys.utk.edu/guidry/android/images/red_square.png") 0px 0px repeat-x;
border: 1px solid black;
font-size: 24px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<button>LOL</button>
</body>
</html>
Here is how it is displayed on my computer in IE9 (in big size) :
Notice : If I remove the (black) border, the margin disappears.
Thanks.
Differnet browsers have different definitions of the button tag (and other tags). In fact, Chrome have a margin of 2px. You can easily solved it by making margin explicit:
button {
background: grey url("http://eagle.phys.utk.edu/guidry/android/images/red_square.png") 0px 0px repeat-x;
border: 1px solid black;
font-size: 24px;
margin: 0; /* or ex 1px */
}
Update:
I think it is the font-family (or the rendering of it) which is different, try:
button {
background: grey url("http://eagle.phys.utk.edu/guidry/android/images/red_square.png") 0px 0px repeat-x;
border: 1px solid black;
font-size: 24px;
/* To get it exact */
margin: 0; /* or ex 1px */
padding: 0; /* or ex 1px */
font-family: Consolas;
}
Update:
Without <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> I can reproduce the problem. And in this case IE is running in Quirks mode. Do you include the doctype when you test it?
Anyway, you just have to avoid quirks mode: http://www.google.dk/search?aq=0&oq=avoid+qui&gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=avoid+quirks+mode
Ex avoid ANYTHING before doctype.
I didn't faced such problem with your code, probably this is because you ie version is older one.
Different browsers have different generic style standards for different html elements. To avoid this problem (or defend against it the best you can!) you should really include a reset style sheet in all your sites to try and synchronise the styles of all browsers best you can. One of the greats I have found is Erics Archived thoughts:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/
This typically does the trick (with a few little tweaks after a penultimate cross browser test).
Can someone else take a look at this code and either confirm that this is an IE9 bug or tell me what I am doing wrong? With the following HTML code. The bottom border of the button will render the same color as the text even though a border color of red is defined. IE8 and every other browser on the planet renders this OK. Make sure that IE9 is rendering in standards mode.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
button.button {
color: blue;
border: 0px;
border-bottom: #FF0000 2px solid;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<button type="button" class="button">Update</button>
</body>
</html>
So far the only fix I've found for this is to redeclare a border color for all sides at the bottom of the style.
border-color: #FF0000;
dont know it if helps checked it out its fine for me
use this
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
button {
border:0;
}
.update {
color: blue;
border-bottom: 2px #FF0000 solid;
display: block;
outline:none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<button type="button" class="update">Update</button>
</body>
</html>
and if you accept my opinion, dont use tag names as class name
Given the following markup
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML Strict//EN"><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<style type="text/css">
div.apartBox
{
padding:12px;
background: #FFFFFF;
border: solid 1px #6182A3;
}
.browser
{
background: #fff;
border: solid 1px #0055E3;
border-top: solid 12px #0055E3;
border-bottom: solid 4px #7A99C5;
padding:10px 10px 8px 14px;
color: #333;
font: 0.8em/1 arial;
margin: 8px 20px;
}
.callout
{
background: #EEF2F0;
border: solid 1px #9CC7C0;
padding:8px;
}
</style>
</head>
<BODY>
<div class="apartBox" id="subPopout" style="Z-INDEX: 2; WIDTH: 400px; POSITION: relative">
<div id="upSubPop">
<div class="callout" id="subDetails">
<div class="browser">
<span id="txtExample">Me afecta que digan que soy incapaz.</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</BODY></HTML>
The styles from the css .browser and .callout are not visible in IE6 unless I manually remove the position:relative style from subPopout. This div is generated automatically from a modal popup so I unfortunately can't touch this style. It displays fine in FF. If I select the .browser div with my mouse, it displays when I unselect it!
Why are these styles not visible in IE6
To be short, because it's IE6!
Can the box have a fixed height?
If yes, a possible solution would be to set a fixed size to upSubPop element. For example, if you add:
div#upSubPop{background:red;height:500px;}
to your stylesheet, the blue borders are displayed correctly in IE6.
Another workaround would be to set the height of <div class="browser" style="height:1px;" /> to 1 pixel. In this case, IE6 displays the element with appropriate height based on contents (so you will see the whole "Me afecta que digan que soy incapaz." message. The problem is that the real browsers as FF will then display everything incorrectly (to be more precise, the message will overlap the bottom border). So in this case, you can use conditional CSS to ensure that your message block is displayed as required both in real browsers and in IE6.