Lets say I have a header banner on a webpage I'm about to print. Instead of wasting someone's ink printing the entire block of the image, is there a way via css to replace the image with text of H1 size?
I usually just add the following to my style sheet:
.nodisplay
{
display: none;
}
#media print {
* {
background-color: white !important;
background-image: none !important;
}
.noprint
{
display: none;
}
}
And then assign the noprint class to elements which shouldn't be printed:
<div class="noprint">
</div>
And for your example, something like the following should work:
<img src="logo.png" class="noprint" ...>
<h1 class="nodisplay">Text Logo</h1>
You could put an h1 element and an image in the same place in the source, and have the image CSS display:none for print media, and have the h1 set to display:none for screen media.
Bryan, typically on things like logos I use image replacement for the graphic anyway so the logo itself is really in an H1 tag. Then in my print style sheet. I do something like this...
h1#logo a, h1#home-logo{
text-indent: 0 !important;
background-image: none !important;
font-size: 1.2em !important;
display: block !important;
height: 1em !important;
width: 100% !important;
text-decoration: none !important;
color: black !important;
}
Which removes the image replacement and shows the text. Make sure of course that you call this stylesheet separately using media="print".
Adding to Adam's solution: If your text is fixed ("head banner was there" not "ad for such and such was there"), you can use :before or :after pseudo-elements to insert text instead of having the text pre-inserted in the HTML.
I makes your HTML lighter if you are replacing many images with the same text.
I have to say that I dislike this CSS feature, but it is there if you want to use it.
Related
I want to use a standard set of buttons on a website regardless of what is written in them (i.e. submit, pay, go, spell correct) but for some reason I can not get the sprite image to show up. My codes is as follows:
HTML:
<div id="iconic">
Place Sprite button here <span><a class="button" href="#">Test</a></span>
</div>
CSS:
span.iconic a:link
span.iconic a:visited
{
display: block;
background-image:url('images/an_nav_btn.jpg');
width: 150px;
height: 45px;
}
span.iconic a:hover
{
background-position: 0 -50px;
}
span.iconica a:active
{
background-position: 0 -100px;
}
Any suggestions on how to get this to display with the text on top (in this case it will have the button with the word "test" on it.
Thanks in advance.
According to your posted css you are attempting to manipulate a link inside a span with the class of "iconic"... and that doesn't work with what you have in the html:
to get you on the right track, try
replacing all the span.iconic's
with #iconic span's
#iconic span a translates to "all <a>'s inside a <span> inside any element with the id of 'iconic' "
In CSS:
. is used for to prefix class names
# is used to prefix IDs.
Your element is a DIV, and you're specifying a SPAN in your CSS. You've got both of these mixed up.
The CSS declaration for <div id="iconic">
would be:
#iconic {
...
}
You may want to consider looking at Font Awesome, that handles a lot of this for you.
I'm trying to take away a white border that is appearing from behind an image on my sidebar. I can't figure out what is causing the white border. I thought it was the padding, and then I thought it was the border. If you visit our home page (http://noahsdad.com/) and look on the side bar under the "new normal" picture you will see a "Reece's Rainbow" image. I'm trying to remove that white around the image. I pasted in the code below, but it's not doing anything. Any thoughts as to what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks.
#text-23 { background: none}
the reason it's not working is the background: none is never getting to the img which has the background set on it (backgrounds don't cascade down they exist in the element and you can have multiple elements layered on top of each other much like a painting. Which has the effect of the background cascading)
#text-23 img { background: none; }
that should resolve your problems. I am assuming that when you call the class textwidget you still want it to append the white background, just not for this instance. So if you set the above it will cascade properly with the correct specificity while leaving the rest of your page alone.
This can also be done by
#text-23 .textwidget img { background: none; }
but that level of specificity is not required. However if you try to just do:
.textwidget img { background: none; }
this will override all of the instances where the background is set on an image in the textwidget container.
You have added the white border yourself by setting the following in line 884 of style.css:
.textwidget img {
background: #fff;
padding: 5px;
max-width: 290px;
}
Simply remove the background declaration. If you only want to remove this instance of a white border, add the following rule:
#text-23 .textwidget img {
background: none;
}
This seems to be the conflicting CSS class.
.textwidget img {
background: white;
padding: 5px;
max-width: 290px;
}
If you want to debug css you should really look into Firebug(a plugin for Firefox) or Opera and use builtin dragonfly
These allow you to rightclick on your HTML page and inspect it.
Go to your style.css file and search for .textwidget img and change the background-color property to none. It is currently set to #FFFFFF which is the hex color code for white and is resulting in the white border or background (precisely).
.textwidget img {
background-color: none;
}
This question was asked before but the solution is not applicable in my case. I want to make sure certain background images are printed because they are integral to the page. (They are not images directly in the page because there are several of them being used as CSS sprites.)
Another solution on that same question suggests using list-style-image, which only works if you have a different image for every icon, no CSS sprites possible.
Aside from creating a separate page with the icons inline, is there another solution?
With Chrome and Safari you can add the CSS style -webkit-print-color-adjust: exact; to the element to force print the background color and/or image
Browsers, by default, have their option to print background-colors and images turned off. You can add some lines in CSS to bypass this.
Just add:
* {
-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact !important; /* Chrome, Safari 6 – 15.3, Edge */
color-adjust: exact !important; /* Firefox 48 – 96 */
print-color-adjust: exact !important; /* Firefox 97+, Safari 15.4+ */
}
I found a way to print the background image with CSS. It's a bit dependent on how your background is laid out, but it seems to work for my application.
Essentially, you add the #media print to the end of your stylesheet and change the body background slightly.
Example, if your current CSS looks like this:
body {
background:url(images/mybg.png) no-repeat;
}
At the end of your stylesheet, you add:
#media print {
body {
content:url(images/mybg.png);
}
}
This adds the image to the body as a "foreground" image, thus making it printable.
You may need to add some additional CSS to make the z-index proper. But again, its up to how your page is laid out.
This worked for me when I couldn't get a header image to show up in print view.
You have very little control over a browser's printing methods. At most you can SUGGEST, but if the browser's print settings have "don't print background images", there's nothing you can do without rewriting your page to turn the background images into floating "foreground" images that happen to be behind other content.
The below code works well for me (at least for Chrome).
I also added some margin and page orientation controls.(portrait, landscape)
<style type="text/css" media="print">
#media print {
body {-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;}
}
#page {
size:A4 landscape;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin: 0;
-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact;
}
</style>
Make sure to use the !important attribute. This dramatically increases the likelihood your styles are retained when printed.
#example1 {
background:url(image.png) no-repeat !important;
}
#example2 {
background-color: #123456 !important;
}
Like #ckpepper02 said, the body content:url option works well. I found however that if you modify it slightly you can just use it to add a header image of sorts using the :before pseudo element as follows.
#media print {
body:before { content: url(img/printlogo.png);}
}
That will slip the image at the top of the page, and from my limited testing, it works in Chrome and the IE9
-hanz
Use psuedo-elements. While many browsers will ignore background images, psuedo-elements with their content set to an image are technically NOT background images. You can then position the background image roughly where the image should have gone (though it's not as easy or precise as the original image).
One drawback is that for this to work in Chrome, you need to specify this behavior outside of your print media query, and then make it visible in the print media query block. So, something like this...
.image:before{
visibility:hidden;
position:absolute;
content: url("your/image/path");
}
#media print {
.image{
position:relative;
}
.image:before{
visibility:visible;
top:etc...
}
}
The drawback is that the image will often be downloaded on normal page loads, adding unnecessary bulk. You can avoid that by just using the same image/path you'd already used for the original, visible image.
it is working in google chrome when you add !important attribute to background image
make sure you add attribute first and try again, you can do it like that
.inputbg {
background: url('inputbg.png') !important;
}
Browsers, by default, have their option to print background-colors and images turned off. You can add some lines in CSS to bypass this. Just add:
* {
-webkit-print-color-adjust: exact !important; /* Chrome, Safari */
color-adjust: exact !important; /*Firefox*/
}
Note: It's not working on the entire body but you could speciy it for a inner element or a container div element.
You can use borders for fixed colors.
borderTop: solid 15px black;
and for gradient background you can use:
box-sizing: border-box;
border-style: solid;
border-top: 0px;
border-left: 0px;
border-right: 0px;
border-image: linear-gradient(to right, red, blue) 100%;
border-image-slice: 1;
border-width: 18px;
https://gist.github.com/danomanion/6175687 proposes an elegant solution, using a custom bullet in place of a background image. In this example, the aim is to apply a background image to an a element with class logo. (You should substitute these for the identifier of the element you wish to style.)
a.logo {
display: list-item;
list-style-image: url("../images/desired-background.png");
list-style-position: inside;
}
By including this within a
#media print {
}
block, I'm able to replace a white-on-transparent logo on the screen, rendered as a background-image, with a black-on-transparent logo for print.
You can do some tricks like that:
<style>
#page {
size: 21cm 29.7cm;
size: landscape
/*margin: 30mm 45mm 30mm 45mm;*/
}
.whater{
opacity: 0.05;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
z-index: 9999;
}
</style>
In body tag:
<img src="YOUR IMAGE URL" class="whater"/>
i'm making a splash image div that changes the background with different css class, here's rules i defined:
#splash {
height: 130px;
}
#splash.homepage {
background: #F7EECF url("images/splash_home.png") no-repeat 0 0 scroll;
}
#splash.projectspage {
background: #F7EECF url("images/splash_projects.png") no-repeat 0 0 scroll;
}
this works fine in firefox and chrome, but the background somehow doesn't show up in ie 6. The weird thing is, it works for the homepage class but not the projectspage class. so ie 6 seems to interpret these almost identical rule differently. i tried clear the cache, didn't help. i'm quite new to css and ie 6 hacks, so am i missing anythings here?
also another problem that's slightly related to this, it seems it doesn't work in firefox when there is space before the class, like "#splash .homepage", but somehow i see other people's websites using the css with a space. what could be the problem?
update:
i tried to reverse the order of the #splash.homepage and #splash.projectspage, then now projectspage works but not the homepage. It seems whatever is immediately followed by #splash is used.
here are some relevant css & htmls:
#splash {
height: 130px;
}
#splash.projectspage { background: #F7EECF url('images/splash_projects.png') no-repeat 0 0 scroll; }
#splash.homepage { background: #F7EECF url('images/splash_home.png') no-repeat 0 0 scroll; }
#splashtext {
padding: 53px;
height: 40px;
width: 450px;
}
#splashtext h2 {
color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: italic;
}
#splashtext p {
color: #FFFFAA;
font-family: Calibri, Arial, san-serif;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: normal;
margin-top: 10px;
font-style: italic;
}
<!-- splash, this one does not show -->
<div id="splash" class="homepage">
<div id="splashtext">
<h2>some header</h2>
<p>some description</p>
</div>
</div>
<!-- splash, this one shows -->
<div id="splash" class="projectspage">
<div id="splashtext">
<h2>some other header</h2>
<p>some other description</p>
</div>
</div>
IE6 does not support multiple combined selectors to select elements (#id.class or .class.class, etc). IE6 will ONLY recognize the last class/ID in your chain.
Details and example
However, in this case, as long as you only have .homepage and .projectspage on one element on the page, the background image should be showing up on the correct element.
I noticed that you are probably using .homepage and .projectspage to differentiate between two PAGES and the same ELEMENT on those different pages. A good practice is to put the class on the <body> element so you can use it to differentiate each page and their descendants.
<body class="homepage">
<div id="splash">
Then your CSS would be:
body.homepage div#splash { blah }
body.projectspage div#splash { blah }
Added benefit: you can now target any elements on a per page basis, not just the ones that you add ".homepage" or ".projectspage" to.
It's possible you're having an issue with the .png image files. IE6 cannot handle the transparency layer that is part of .png images, it simply renders any pixel with a transparent marker as a grey background.
As for the second part of your question, #splash.background is a significantly different rule than #splash .background. The first one (no space) refers to the element with id splash that also has a background class. The second rule (with a space) refers to any element of class background that is a child of the element with id splash. Subtle, but important difference.
Try taking out the quotes around your URLs in the background specifiers, or changing them to single quotes.
Why are you worried about ie6? Anyway it works in ie7 and ie8.
Are you sure that is not a problem with png? Try with a jpg or gif image.
I would bet that the problem is specifically to do with the IE6 misshandling of .pngs
To test, try replacing these graphics with a gif or jpg and check to see if the selectors are working correctly.
Once you've identified that it is a problem with pngs try using the Supersleight jQuery plugin.
I think using min-height property will sometimes work.
Try the below code.
#splash {
min-height:130px; /* first */
height:auto !important; /* second */
height: 130px; /* third */
}
#splash.homepage {
background: #F7EECF url("images/splash_home.png") no-repeat 0 0 scroll;
}
#splash.projectspage {
background: #F7EECF url("images/splash_projects.png") no-repeat 0 0 scroll;
}
Note: Please use the same order of css in #splash selector.
(I guess your projectspage is under a sub-directory of home-page?)
Try using absolute paths to each image in the CSS (eg. url("/images/splash_projects.png")) - it chould be that IE6 resolves images relative to the containing page instead of the CSS file (depends whether your CSS is inline or in an external file I suppose.)
I've got the same problem, and it's not PNGs.
e.g.
column2menu li { border-bottom : 1px solid;}
column2menu li.goats { border-bottom-color : brown;}
...works in IE6, but...
td#menu { background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:bottom right;}
td#menu.goats { background-image :
url(../images/goats.jpg);}
...doesn't.
But I found a solution for ie6 that works so far in FF, i.e.:
.tdgoats { background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:bottom right;
background-image : url(../images/goats.jpg);}
...so you use:
...and ie6 is happy
Thsi post looks OK where I'm typing it, but the preview in the blue box is a bit odd.
Somehow lines 2 and 3 got <h1>'d
I have a CSS rule like this:
a:hover { background-color: #fff; }
But this results in a bad-looking gap at the bottom on image links, and what's even worse, if I have transparent images, the link's background color can be seen through the image.
I have stumbled upon this problem many times before, but I always solved it using the quick-and-dirty approach of assigning a class to image links:
a.imagelink:hover { background-color: transparent; }
Today I was looking for a more elegant solution to this problem when I stumbled upon this.
Basically what it suggests is using display: block, and this really solves the problem for non-transparent images. However, it results in another problem: now the link is as wide as the paragraph, although the image is not.
Is there a nice way to solve this problem, or do I have to use the dirty approach again?
Thanks,
I tried to find some selector that would get only <a> elements that don't have <img> descendants, but couldn't find any...
About images with that bottom gap, you could do the following:
a img{vertical-align:text-bottom;}
This should get rid of the background showing up behind the image, but may throw off the layout (by not much, though), so be careful.
For the transparent images, you should use a class.
I really hope that's solved in CSS3, by implementing a parent selector.
I'm confused at what you are terming "image links"... is that an 'img' tag inside of an anchor? Or are you setting the image in CSS?
If you're setting the image in CSS, then there is no problem here (since you're already able to target it)... so I must assume you mean:
<a ...><img src="..." /></a>
To which, I would suggest that you specify a background color on the image... So, assuming the container it's in should be white...
a:hover { background: SomeColor }
a:hover img { background-color: #fff; }
I usually do something like this to remove the gap under images:
img {
display: block;
float: left;
}
Of course this is not always the ideal solution but it's fine in most situations.
This way works way better.
a[href$=jpg], a[href$=jpeg], a[href$=jpe], a[href$=png], a[href$=gif] {
text-decoration: none;
border: 0 none;
background-color: transparent;
}
No cumbersome classes that have to be applied to each image. Detailed description here:
http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/10/14/css-remove-link-underlines-borders-linked-images/
Untested idea:
a:hover {background-color: #fff;}
img:hover { background-color: transparent;}
The following should work (untested):
First you
a:hover { background-color: #fff; }
Then you
a:imagelink:hover { background-color: inherit; }
The second rule will override the first for <a class="imagelink" etc.> and preserve the background color of the parent.
I tried to do this without the class="", but I can't find a CSS selector that is the opposite of foo > bar, which styles a bar when it is the child of a foo. You would want to style the foo when it has a child of class bar. You can do that and even fancier things with jQuery, but that may not be desirable as a general technique.
you could use display: inline-block but that's not completely crossbrowser. IE6 and lower will have a problem with it.
I assume you have whitespaces between <a> and <img>? try removing that like this:
<a><img /></a>
I had this problem today, and used another solution than display: block thanks to the link by asker. This means I am able to retain the link ONLY on the image and not expand it to its container.
Images are inline, so they have space below them for lower part of letters like "y, j, g". This positions the images at baseline, but you can alter it if you have no <a>TEXT HERE</a> like with a logo. However you still need to mask the text line space and its easy if you use a plain color as background (eg in body or div#wrapper).
body {
background-color: #112233;
}
a:hover {
background-color: red;
}
a img {
border-style: none; /* not need for this solution, but removes borders around images which have a link */
vertical-align: bottom; /* here */
}
a:hover img {
background-color: #112233; /* MUST match the container background, or you arent masking the hover effect */
}
I had the same problem. In my case I am using the image as background. I did the following and it resolved my problem:
background-image: url(file:"use the same background image or color");