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");
Related
I'm working on a website and am struggling with one thing. Basically, when you hover over the main logo, the background of the logo goes white and it looks awful. I've tried this in three different browsers. Apart from the mouse pointer changing to a link indicator, I don't want any other visual changes on hover. This is a bootstrap based mediawiki theme if that helps.
The site is: www.nebdat.com
I've figured out that that section is called p-logo and have tried the following:
#p-logo:hover { background-color: transparent !important; }
It doesn't seem to do anything though. However, when I try:
#p-logo:hover { opacity: 0; }
the logo and background all go transparent, so I know it's the right name of the object. However, I want the logo name to remain.
I hope that makes sense. I'm pretty new to this.
Hope you have some advice.
Thanks,
JT
#media screen
.nav > li > a:hover, .nav > li > a:focus {
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #eeeeee;
}
That's causing it.
This should do it:
#p-logo > a {
background: transparent;
}
It's not the image that's got a background on hover, it's the anchor tag.
You don't have to override it, you can simply remove it. Find and remove this code from load.php:
img:hover{background:white url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAAAAAA6mKC9AAAAGElEQVQYV2N4DwX/oYBhgARgDJjEAAkAAEC99wFuu0VFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) repeat;background:white url(http://www.nebdat.com/wiki/skins/common/images/Checker-16x16.png?2013-05-25T13:38:20Z) repeat!ie}
I've been instructed to make links on a website have a different colour underline than the font colour. It all seemed quite easy, using border-bottom as below, except that linked images are now also underlined.
Is there a way, without using JS, to stop happening?
a{
color: #6A737B;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover{
border-bottom: 1px solid #C60B46;
text-decoration: none;
}
An example - hovering over the below image now adds the border-bottom CSS style to it, which I don't want -
<a title="Dyne Drewett" href="http://test.dynedrewett.com">
<img class="attachment-full" width="202" height="78" alt="Dyne Drewett Solicitors" src="http://test.example.com/Website-Header.png">
</a>
The only static way to do this would be to use a class on image links like:
<a href='http://whatever.url.here/' class='imglink'>
<img src='img/image.png' alt='Alt text'>
</a>
Then apply a CSS style to this class:
a.imglink:hover {
border-bottom: 0px solid;
}
You'd have to declare this AFTER the other a:hover CSS class.
Technically, you cannot set a style on an element based on what elements it contains. You cannot make the border of an a element depend on the presence of an img element inside (and this is what you are dealing with). Using classes would help, but from the comments, it seems that this is out of the question.
There’s a workaround: place each image at the bottom of the containing element (not on the baseline as per defaults), and shift it down one pixel, or whatever the border width might be. This way, the image will cover the bottom border, provided that the image has no transparency. CSS code:
a img {
vertical-align: bottom;
position: relative;
top: 1px;
}
This slightly changes the position of all images, so it might affect the overall layout unless you take precautions.
I'd suggest adding a class to the link, so you can do
a.imglink:hover{
border:0;
}
Alternatively, if you can't control that class, you can try adding a negative margin to your image to ensure the border doesn't show:
a img{
margin:0 0 -1px 0;
}
That -1px might need adjusting based on your other rules
Here's a fiddle to show the negative margin solution: http://jsfiddle.net/QRXGe/
Your solution will require you adding an additional class name to links that wrap images (or anything where the border should be removed). There's no way to sort of "reverse select" unless you want to employ a JavaScript technique.
A jQuery technique would be something like this:
$('a > img').parent().css('border-bottom', 'none');
That will remove a "border-bottom" style from all anchor tags that have image as a direct descendant. But you'll need it on every page, and every page is getting parsed by this script, so it's a little added overhead on each page.
Otherwise, if you have access to the HTML, creating a CSS class to target these specific links such as:
a.img-link{ border-bottom:none; }
And apply it to any link that's around an image such as:
<img src="#" alt="" />
I hope that helps!
Another way to achieve this is to simply make the images in links relative and then offset the bottom to cover the border. 5px seems to do it http://jsfiddle.net/ECuwD/
a{
color: #6A737B;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover{
border-bottom: 1px solid #C60B46;
text-decoration: none;
}
a img {
position:relative;
bottom: -5px;
}
a:hover img {
border-bottom:none;
}
or perhaps...
a:hover img.attachment-full {
border-bottom:none;
}
Apparently, what you want is a different behavior for the same markup (<a>) based on its content.
Sadly, there is no real way to do this with pure CSS, as this language is not programming language and therefore lacks the condition structures, such as if.
That does not mean that there is no solution! Here is a couple of things you can do:
Declare (say) in your HTML that the element (<a>) should be handled differently (with classes, in your case either <a class="text"> or <a class='image'>.
Use JavaScript to change your style dynamically, which means based on conditions, such as content for instance. In your case it would probably be something like:
function onLoad() {
for (var element in document.body) {
// look for links
// if this is a link:
// look for image inside link
// if there is one:
// remove the border
}
}
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;
}
when I hover the mouse over it, the cursor doesn't change into hand until you actually over over the text. (For example, if you pay attention to SO navigation, your cursor changes into hand as soon as you touch the gray area. I am talking about Questions, Tags, Users, Badges, Unanswered navigation)
when I click on it, it borders the link-text.. like it's dotted border or something by default. How do I get rid of that?
There are two ways of getting the hand cursor on the entire area; either you make the link take up the entire area (perhaps by being the entire area), or you add the style cursor:pointer; to the area. (Making the link cover the whole area is usually the better option, as that also make the entire area clickable.)
To get rid of the dotted border on links when they‘re clicked:
a:active {
outline: none;
}
For SO navigation, it is done in following way:
<li class="nav">
Questions
</li>
.nav a {
padding: 6px 12px;
}
The gray area you see is actually the link itself (achieve by setting the padding). To get rid of the border, you should specify by a:link:
.nav a:active { outline: none; }
For (1), use the <a> around your whole <div>, not just the text, and that will make the cursor change to the hand cursor when entering the div. Another way is to change the <a> to have a style similar to
a { display: block; width: 300px; height: 100px; background: orange }
the background is just for trying it here. It can be removed.
For (2), use
a { outline: none }
Try using the following in your CSS.
a:focus {outline: none;}
However, I believe older versions of IE will not honor this code.
I have a small thumbnail image that I wish to change when the mouse rolls over it. I was wondering if there was a way to do this without swapping images on the rollover. For example, through CSS could I have the opacity change on rollover? If you have any other ideas about how to manipulate the image with CSS on rollover for making a change I am open.
Thanx!
You could put both images in one bigger image, use it as a background image and change only the position on roll-over.
With CSS3, there is an opacity option. This way you wouldn't be forced to reload an image when they hover above something.
#div {
background-image: url('blah.png');
}
#div:hover {
opacity: 0.5;
}
I'm not exactly sure if that's the right way to use it so you should use google for more examples. However, you should be careful because not all browsers might be supporting CSS3 yet.
Try using the :hover style on a tag. It may not be supported very well in early IE editions. But you can do something like:
img {
border: 1px solid black;
}
img:hover {
border: 1px solid white;
}