I'm trying to hide some text inside an <li> element using CSS by setting text-indent: -999px;.
For some reason this doesn't work when I set the direction of the document to "rtl" (right to left - my site is in Hebrew).
When direction is "rtl" the text still shows...
Anyone knows why, and a way around this?
Along with text-indent: -9999px try using display: block;. It solved for me.
Additionally, if you need the li elements to float horizontally (e.g. a horizontal menu), use float: left;.
What about setting direction:ltr on the elements you're trying to give negative text-indent?
Demo: jsfiddle.net/Marcel/aJBnN/1/
My problem was with text-align. In case you modify align mode of the element or parent element(s) wrapping it to left, you must give a negative index for text-indent. Otherwise you must give a positive value.
.case1{text-indent:-999px;text-align:left;overflow:hidden;display:block}
Otherwise
.case2{text-indent:999px;text-align:right;overflow:hidden;display:block}
Try setting text-alignment to match the direction in which you are indenting text.
For example, if you use LTR and want to indent text negatively, besides adding display: block, you should also add left alignment.
Not sure for RTL, but seems logical you should indent it positively and use right alignment.
I found the best way is to make the text a transparent color:
color: rgba(0,0,0,0);
Note:
This bug still exists in firefox 12 (text-indent value is ignored on rtl)
color: transparent;
or
font-size:0px;
You can use line-height specifying a large value, say 100px for a 30px high container.
only works if your container is limited in size. you may have to specifically set height if it isn't yet.
I prefer this solution:
.hide_text { text-indent: 100%; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; }
The text-indent: -99px is an old trick, which is not the optimal way to hide text. Why not use visibility:hidden instead?
text-align: right; works for me
Add overflow hidden then it will work fine.
div{
text-indent: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
<div>
search
<input type="text">
</div>
Related
I need to keep a group of images from wrapping.
I was hoping the css below would do it, but it's still not working.
img {
display: inline;
vertical-align: top;
float: none;
}
Here's the demo: http://plnkr.co/edit/BwM8SuOpV49MuxXSnfP6?p=preview
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks!
-- EDIT --
Here's a better example: http://plnkr.co/edit/WwIh6EoHcpHO18Ln06Td?p=preview
This shows a sentence (with each character rendered as an image) being wrapped at the wrong spot. Is it possible to set a css nowrap value per image?
...ok, figured it out: the solution is to wrap each word in an inline-block span
CSS clear property
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_class_clear.asp
clear: none|left|right|both|initial|inherit;
Inline elements are great, because their width is the width of the content and because it's possible to center them with on rule of CSS:
text-align: center
But inline elements stay on the same line. Is it possible to align them vertically?
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/_bop/NhVaF/
Full screen fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/_bop/NhVaF/show
Please don't:
Change the HTML in the example. Change the CSS!
Come up with other techniques to center elements, unless you have a better solution that works on elements with unspecified width and doesn't need tons of containers and/or float hacks.
Thanks in advance!
In your markup, if the span are on different rows you could add on the parent container:
white-space: pre-line;
With this CSS declaration, your span are still centered, and you don`t have to add HTML markup.
pre-line
- This value will cause sequences of whitespace to collapse into a single space character. Line breaks will occur wherever
necessary to fill line boxes, and at new lines in the markup (or at
occurrences of "\a" in generated content). In other words, it’s like
normal except that it’ll honor explicit line breaks.
You can find more informations here about white-space:
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/white-space
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#white-space
For an IE7 compatibility, you could also add on the parent container:
*white-space: pre /*FixIE7*/;
You need some holding block to hold your spans if you want to display it on top of another. This is the best I can do.
http://jsfiddle.net/NhVaF/5/
If you want to make it work without altering the html, then your best bet is to simply float: left; clear: left; like so:
span {
float: left;
clear: left;
color: #FFF;
padding: 30px;
}
display: block; will not work because it requires you to set a width (or else they'll fill the available space).
display: inline-block; will not work because still display on the same line.
I was just playing around with this too, and found my solution by simply placing <br> after each inline-block element. I know it's altering the html but only slightly!
If you want to create line breaks with CSS try using the :after pseudo class. Would something like this work?
div.class:after {
content:"\a";
white-space: pre;
}
break :after trick: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10934138/6586407
I have an inline element with a line break in it. It has padding on all sides. However, the side padding on where the line break cuts the element is not there.
This is what i mean:
http://jsfiddle.net/4Gs2E/
There should be 20px padding on the right of tag and left of with but there isnt.
The only other way I can see this working is if i create a new element for every line but this content will be dynamically generated and will not be in a fixed width container so i dont see that working out. Is there any other way I can do this in css without any javascript?
I want the final result to look like this :
http://jsfiddle.net/GNsw3/
but without any extra elements
i also need this to work with display inline only as I want the background to wrap around the text as inline block doesnt do this
Is this possible?
edit, altered the examples to make what i want more visible:
current
http://jsfiddle.net/4Gs2E/2/
what i want it to look like
http://jsfiddle.net/GNsw3/1/
In some cases you can use box-shadow for a workaround.
Move the right and left padding of the element to its parent and add two box-shadows.
The result: http://jsfiddle.net/FpLCt/1/
Browser support for box-shadow: http://caniuse.com/css-boxshadow
Update:
There is also a new css property for this issue called box-decoration-break. It is currently only supported by opera, but hopefully more browsers will implement this soon.
Hope this helps
Found a solution for you, but it ain't pretty :)
Since you can't target the <br> element with css, you have to use javascript. Here's how you can accomplish what you want with jQuery:
// Add two spaces before and after any <br /> tag
$('br').replaceWith(' <br /> ');
Play with the number of elements to acheive your padding on both ends.
Here's an updated Fiddle demo:
http://jsfiddle.net/4Gs2E/8/
Maybe you can use float: left instead of display: inline:
http://jsfiddle.net/GolezTrol/4Gs2E/1/
Usually that is implemented by wrapping each word in an own SPAN which has border.
I just wanted to make css-animated menu for myself. Workaround I have found is to wrap your INLINE-BLOCK element (change in css if necessary, lets call it a span with such an attribute for purpose of this solution) into block element. Then I'm using margins of span as it was padding for the surrounding div.
div.menuopt {
margin: 10px;
padding: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
width: 500px;
height: 150px;
background: grey;
}
span.menuopt {
display: inline-block;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
margin-left: 150px;
margin-top: 10px;
font-size: 25px;
}
Example:
http://jsfiddle.net/ApbQS/
hope it will help anyone
Just a quick question regarding CSS positioning. I have several "segments" on my site which are 100% wide (fills the screen), and I want them floated next to each other. So only the first one will be visible, the other ones will be off-screen. I've tried playing around with positions and the overflow property without luck. Right now they just pop down below each other instead of floating.
This would work perfectly if the elements did not exceed the screen width, but as they do, they just pop down as I said earlier. I've tried setting a huge width to the "wrapper", something like 99999px. And then setting the segments to 100%, but that will just fill the whole 99999px width instead of the screen.
Any ideas?
JSFiddle example: http://jsfiddle.net/9xGPb/
Do you mean like this?
Example Fiddle: here
I used my favourite alternative to floats, inline-blocks
if you actually take it out of the fiddle it has some pretty (gaudy?) colours which show that it allows for the min-width: 900px; on the centered_content div to work too, and I removed the absolute positioning for the menu so the content would go below it, for demo only but you may find it useful..
let me know if any good or if you have any questions
Updated with some jQuery and to make corrections for default word-spacing
New Example: here
re: the IE6/7 hack rightly mentioned in the comments;
.segment {
display: inline-block;
overflow: hidden;
width: 0;
}
.segment {display: inline !ie7;}
needn't be a "parse hack" if that's your preference as long as that second rule is given to [lte IE 7] somehow, and separately at that it cannot be combined into the original rule with the * hack or anything, it won't work.. has to be in a separate ruleset.
I discovered word-spacing might be a problem if relying on width to hide, the natural behaviour of inline blocks is to put 3-4px between the elements like the space in between words, the workaround to this is to correct the word-spacing on the wrapper
.segment-wrapper {
white-space: nowrap;
word-spacing: -4px;
}
then restore it normal for the actual content divs, same place as you would restore the normal wrapping behaviour
.centered_content {
width: 900px;
margin: 0px auto;
background: #fcf;
white-space: normal;
word-spacing: 0;
}
and last, apart from this was fun.. there's 2 effects in that new fiddle - uncomment and comment the other.. forgive me I was playing! :)
The meaning of float is to try to float to the right or left unless there is not room for it.
This means that you cannot ever float an element off the page.
If you need to keep the element off the page, you will need to use a different positioning mechanism like position: absolute.
It sounds like you're creating a horizontal one-page portfolio. I've recently been working on something similar.
Using your fiddle I've set the .segment class to
.segment {width:90%;height:90%;position:absolute;}
and then offset each left positioning further off the screen
#home {background-color:red;left:5%;}
#work {background-color:yellow;left:105%;}
#portfolio {background-color:green;left:205%;}
#contact {background-color:blue;left:305%;}
http://jsfiddle.net/9xGPb/2/
I also added some jQuery logic to switch views for the divs.
I'm still not entirely sure which segments you want to start off the page but this jsfiddle uses positioning to shove the #two div off to the right: http://jsfiddle.net/EdAZP/1/
Which part of your example did you want to start off the page?
Did you try to just hide the other elements and toggle them with some javascript (jQuery is much easier)?
http://api.jquery.com/toggle/
Two divs are next to eachother, both floating left within a wrapper. In IE and firefox they appear correctly, but in Chrome, the 2nd floating div clears down below Div A. When I remove "float:left" in the css, it goes to the correct position in Chrome, but clears down in IE and firefox (as it should). I dont know why it is appearing this way in Chrome. Any ideas?
The HTML and CSS would be useful to answer this.
If you have just two divs and you want them to float next to one another, then set a width on each of them and float one left and float the other right. Remember to leave some space in between the two.
in my case i use display:inline-table for the parent element of the floated elements.. Even if it is not a table.
I used the display:inline-table in order to fix the bug that google chrome had encountered..
I've same issue in Chrome and I solve it by giving display:inline-table to parent div
The solution is simple - just add the div which contains all these divs an attribute: display: table; - it should solve the problem.
I had multiple css float left divs with text links inside and the container was over lapping on the right of each. The fix was to remove space in the link display text. eg. ...> TEXT </a> to ...>TEXT</a>
You must give 1 div the height
For example
Div 1
.oneColFixCtrHdr #mainContent {
background: #FFFFFF;
width: 375px;
height: 0px; /* deze hoogte op 0 instellen, die bepaal je met de onderstaande div. */
position: relative;
display: block;
float: left;
padding-left: 10px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-top: 20px;
}
Div 2
.oneColFixCtrHdr #maincontent2 {
background: #FFFFFF;
width: 390px;
height: auto;
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
float: right;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 5px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
padding-top: 20px;
padding-left: 20px;
border-left-style: groove;
In Chrome - Seems this issue has something to do with display attribute of parent element. I had same issue and did lot of search. Finally i got it fixed by removing display CSS attribute of parent TD tag. I also obsorved one wiered thing. When i had display:block; for parent a TD table element, in Chrome, colspan was not working (in IE it was working fine). I scratched my lots of hairs finding this problem.
I faced the same problem with Div and its Children Span both had float right, to solve i just added display inline to the Div parent and now it works fine in Chrome and Safari both.
I wrapped everything in <div style="display:inline;"> ... code .. </div> and solved the problem.
Without a code example this really is just guessing
I am not sure how Chrome works but I do know IE ads its own styles. Did you use a css reset? most cross browser issues can be fixed by this.
Sounds like the combined width of the 2 floating divs exceeds the width of the wrapper. Try setting the wrapper width to 100% or no width... or reducing the width of the two floating divs.
do you have any display: inline, block etc style properties set on any of those divs?
What about setting display:inline-block and the width for both divs?
EDIT: Setting a max-width of %50 for each one would work in all browsers except IE6, assuming there's no padding/margin set.
I've faced with the same problem. Chrome incorrectly displays divs with float. The block is displayed under the first. Not aside how I expected.
Solition is simple! Surround both blocks with div that no any other sisterly blocks inside.
I had a problem where I had a container div with a bunch of inner divs that had the float:left property set. My last inner div (most right) also wrapped down.
I fixed my problem by making sure that the combined inner divs with margins does not exceed the width of the container div.
Chrome's developer tool similar to firebug was great in helping me fix the problem.
For my container div I did not explicitly set a width but chrome's developer tool could show me the inherited width. I then looked at all the widths of the inner divs combined and then adjusted some of the inner div's width.
also similar issue with floating child div's. In my case .. I was floating a surrounding div to right, that contained h3 element (with text-align property) - followed by 2 child block elements.
Intent center h3 text, in relation to child block elements below it.
-
Problem? I did not have a set width for block child elements.. Why? I wanted the width to hold distinct padding on left / right relative to text amount in that container. eg. padding:10px 30px;
Solution I resorted to setting a width to surrounding and child divs, also center aligning text on child divs to give similar results of first case attempt.
I experienced the same problem. I had two divs with float: left inside a table td -- I had to set the table td style to include style="text-align: left;" for them to correctly align.
I'm no HTML hero so in my case the problem was really silly.
It was just a syntax error so be sure you check all your syntax before you start pulling your hair out like I did.
And SAFARI was completely ignoring it and displaying the divs correctly floated so I got really confused.
BASICALLY it was an unclosed div tag that was creating the problem :
<div class="seperator" </div> instead of <div class="seperator"> </div>