I made a simple "website" that behaves like this:
Clicked paragraph receives focus and changes background color to red.
When user clicked one of the paragraphs (it received focus and changed color to red) and then user clicks other paragraph, the "old" paragraph looses focus and red color and passes it to the "new" clicked paragraph.
When user clicked one of the paragraphs (it received focus and changed color to red) and then user clicks the background (projectsDiv) or any other element of the website the paragraph looses focus and red color.
I want the website to behave like this:
Same as above
Same as above
When user clicked one of the paragraphs (it received focus and changed color to red) and then user clicks the background (projectsDiv) the paragraph looses focus and red color. Clicking any other element of the website doesn't affect focus of the paragraphs inside projectsDiv.
Here is a code:
<div class="container">
<div id="projectsDiv">
<p tabindex="0">P1</p>
<p tabindex="0">P2</p>
<p tabindex="0">P3</p>
</div>
<div id="tagsDiv">
<button id="Tag1" class="Tag">Tag1</button>
<button id="Tag2" class="Tag">Tag2</button>
<button id="Tag3" class="Tag">Tag3</button>
</div>
</div>
#projectsDiv p:focus {
background-color: red;
}
#projectsDiv {
border: 1px solid black;
}
You probably need JavaScript. Just use classes to keep track of which element got clicked last.
document.querySelectorAll("#projectsDiv, p").forEach(element=>{
element.addEventListener("click", event=>{
if (document.querySelector(".lastClicked")) {
document.querySelector(".lastClicked").classList.remove("lastClicked")
}
event.target.classList.add("lastClicked")
event.stopPropagation()
})
})
#projectsDiv p.lastClicked {
background-color: red;
}
#projectsDiv {
border: 1px solid black;
}
<div class="container">
<div id="projectsDiv">
<p tabindex="0">P1</p>
<p tabindex="0">P2</p>
<p tabindex="0">P3</p>
</div>
<div id="tagsDiv">
<button id="Tag1" class="Tag">Tag1</button>
<button id="Tag2" class="Tag">Tag2</button>
<button id="Tag3" class="Tag">Tag3</button>
</div>
</div>
If you're not comfortable with Javascript you can use check-box and labels.
input[name="_radio"]{
display: none;
}
#projectsDiv input:checked+p {
background-color: red;
}
#projectsDiv {
border: 1px solid black;
}
<div class="container">
<div id="projectsDiv">
<label>
<input type="radio" name="_radio">
<p tabindex="0">P1</p>
</label>
<label>
<input type="radio" name="_radio">
<p tabindex="0">P2</p>
</label>
<label>
<input type="radio" name="_radio">
<p tabindex="0">P3</p>
</label>
</div>
<div id="tagsDiv">
<button id="Tag1" class="Tag">Tag1</button>
<button id="Tag2" class="Tag">Tag2</button>
<button id="Tag3" class="Tag">Tag3</button>
</div>
</div>
I reach my button using tab key and after that when it does a focus, I want it to change color so that it shows that you have reached the button and, when you press the enter key, it should change its color back to original.
<div style="position: absolute; margin: 0; left: 0; bottom: 0">
<input id=" vehicles" class="button calculator large top-right-border transition" type="submit" name="submit" />
</div>
and CSS is
#vehicles:hover{
background: red;
}
#vehicles:focus{
background: red;
}
#vehicles{
background: green;
}
On pressing enter I want my color to go back to green.
Using :active won't revert it back to green for good. You will probably need to use JavaScript to unfocus the button.
<input id="vehicles" type="submit" onkeypress="if (event.which === 13) this.blur()" />
You have a space between the opening parenthesis and vehicles in your id assignment in the input element, so your CSS styling isn't applying to it. It should be
<input id="vehicles".../>
rather than
<input id=" vehicles".../>
Demo
I think you should use :active instead of :focus. It will give you your required solution
<input id="vehicles" class="button calculator large top-right-border transition" type="submit" name="submit" />
#vehicles:hover{
background: red;
}
#vehicles:active{
background: red;
}
#vehicles{
background: green;
}
Find the JSFIDDLE
Its will work for you.
Use jQuery for focus-defocus. for more please go through
http://api.jquery.com/focusout/
hope it helps,
<html><body>
<input type="submit"
id="vehicles"
style="background-color:red;"
onfocus ="change_color()"/>
<script>
function change_color()
{
document.getElementById("vehicles").style.backgroundColor="Blue";
}
</script>
</body>
</html>`
Let's say you have something like:
<div class="parent">
<input class="childInput" type="text" />
<div class="sibling"></div>
</div>
I want to change the appearance of the parent/siblings when the child receives focus. Are there any CSS tricks for doing stuff like this?
Edit:
The reason for my question is as follows:
I'm creating an Angular app which needs editable text fields. It should look like a label until it is clicked, at which point it should look like a normal text input. I styled the text field based on :focus to achieve this effect, but the text is cut off by text input's boundaries. I also used ng-show, ng-hide, ng-blur, ng-keypress and ng-click to switch between the label and the text input based on blurs, key presses and clicks. This worked fine except for one thing: After the label's ng-click="setEdit(this, $event)" changes the edit boolean used by ng-show and ng-hide to true, it uses a jQuery call to .select() the text input. However, it isn't until after the completion of the ng-click that everything is $digest'd, so the text input loses focus again. Since the text input never actually receives focus, using ng-blur to revert back to showing the label is buggy: The user has to click in the text input and then click out of it again to revert back to showing the label.
Edit:
Here's an example plunk of the issue: http://plnkr.co/edit/synSIP?p=preview
You can now do this in pure CSS, so no JavaScript needed 😁
The new CSS pseudo-class :focus-within would help for cases like this and will help with accessibility when people use tabbing for navigating, common when using screen readers.
.parent:focus-within {
border: 1px solid #000;
}
The :focus-within pseudo-class matches elements that either themselves
match :focus or that have descendants which match :focus.
Can I use...
You can check which browsers support this by visiting http://caniuse.com/#search=focus-within
Demo
fieldset {
padding: 0 24px 24px !important;
}
fieldset legend {
opacity: 0;
padding: 0 8px;
width: auto;
}
fieldset:focus-within {
border: 1px solid #000;
}
fieldset:focus-within legend {
opacity: 1;
}
<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<div class="container">
<form>
<fieldset>
<legend>Parent Element</legend>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="name">Name:</label>
<input class="form-control" id="name" placeholder="Enter name">
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="email">Email:</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" id="email" placeholder="Enter email">
</div>
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>
There is no chance how to do that with CSS. CSS can style only siblings, children, etc. not parents.
You can use simply JS like this:
<style>
.parent {background: green}
.focused {background: red;}
</style>
<div class="parent">
<input class="childInput" type="text" />
<div class="sibling"></div>
</div>
<script>
$('.parent > *')
.focus(function() {
$('.parent').addClass('focused');
})
.blur(function() {
$('.parent').removeClass('focused');
});
</script>
http://jsfiddle.net/C4bZ6/
This code takes all direct children of .parent and if you focus one of them, class focused is added to parent. On blur, this class is removed.
You can use pure CSS to make the text input look like it's not a text input unless it is in focus
http://jsfiddle.net/michaelburtonray/C4bZ6/13/
input[type="text"] {
border-color: transparent;
transition-duration: 600ms;
cursor: pointer;
outline-style: none;
text-overflow: ellipsis;
}
input[type="text"]:focus {
border-color: initial;
cursor: auto;
transition-duration: 300ms;
}
Try the contenteditible attribute. This may require more work to turn it into usable form data however.
http://jsfiddle.net/michaelburtonray/C4bZ6/20/
<span class="parent" contenteditable>Click me</span>
You can style it even for focus-within and not(focus-within) like this (without using JavaScript => more accessible and faster):
.myform:not(:focus-within) button[type="submit"] {
display: none;
}
.myform:focus-within button[type="submit"] {
display: block;
}
Is there a way to style (or script) <input type=file /> element to have visible only "Browse" button without text field?
Thanks
Edit:
Just to clarify why to I need this. I'm using multi file upload code from http://www.morningz.com/?p=5 and it doesn't need input text field because it never has value. Script just adds newly selected file to collection on page. It would look much better without text field, if it's possible.
<input type="file" id="selectedFile" style="display: none;" />
<input type="button" value="Browse..." onclick="document.getElementById('selectedFile').click();" />
This will surely work as I have used it in my projects.
I was having a heck of a time trying to accomplish this. I didn't want to use a Flash solution, and none of the jQuery libraries I looked at were reliable across all browsers.
I came up with my own solution, which is implemented completely in CSS (except for the onclick style change to make the button appear 'clicked').
You can try a working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/VQJ9V/307/ (Tested in FF 7, IE 9, Safari 5, Opera 11 and Chrome 14)
It works by creating a big file input (with font-size:50px), then wrapping it in a div that has a fixed size and overflow:hidden. The input is then only visible through this "window" div. The div can be given a background image or color, text can be added, and the input can be made transparent to reveal the div background:
HTML:
<div class="inputWrapper">
<input class="fileInput" type="file" name="file1"/>
</div>
CSS:
.inputWrapper {
height: 32px;
width: 64px;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
cursor: pointer;
/*Using a background color, but you can use a background image to represent a button*/
background-color: #DDF;
}
.fileInput {
cursor: pointer;
height: 100%;
position:absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
z-index: 99;
/*This makes the button huge. If you want a bigger button, increase the font size*/
font-size:50px;
/*Opacity settings for all browsers*/
opacity: 0;
-moz-opacity: 0;
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=0)
}
Let me know if there are any problems with it and I'll try to fix them.
I wasted my day today getting this to work. I found none of the solutions here working each of my scenarios.
Then I remembered I saw an example for the JQuery File Upload without text box. So what I did is that I took their example and stripped it down to the relevant part.
This solution at least works for IE and FF and can be fully styled. In the below example the file input is hidden under the fancy "Add Files" button.
<html>
<head>
<title>jQuery File Upload Example</title>
<style type="text/css">
.myfileupload-buttonbar input
{
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
margin: 0;
border: solid transparent;
border-width: 0 0 100px 200px;
opacity: 0.0;
filter: alpha(opacity=0);
-o-transform: translate(250px, -50px) scale(1);
-moz-transform: translate(-300px, 0) scale(4);
direction: ltr;
cursor: pointer;
}
.myui-button
{
position: relative;
cursor: pointer;
text-align: center;
overflow: visible;
background-color: red;
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="fileupload" >
<div class="myfileupload-buttonbar ">
<label class="myui-button">
<span >Add Files</span>
<input id="file" type="file" name="files[]" />
</label>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Add a label tag with for attribute assign the for attribute value to the file input button.
Now when you click the label, the browser will open up the file browse dialogue popup automatically.
Note: Hide the file input button using CSS.
Check the live demo below.
$('#imageUpload').change(function() {
readImgUrlAndPreview(this);
function readImgUrlAndPreview(input) {
if (input.files && input.files[0]) {
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(e) {
$('#imagePreview').removeClass('hide').attr('src', e.target.result);
}
};
reader.readAsDataURL(input.files[0]);
}
});
.hide {
display: none;
}
.btn {
display: inline-block;
padding: 4px 12px;
margin-bottom: 0;
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 20px;
color: #333333;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
cursor: pointer;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px #eee;
border-radius: 4px;
}
.btn-large {
padding: 11px 19px;
font-size: 17.5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 4px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
border-radius: 4px;
}
#imagePreview {
margin: 15px 0 0 0;
border: 2px solid #ddd;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div clas="file_input_wrap">
<input type="file" name="imageUpload" id="imageUpload" class="hide" />
<label for="imageUpload" class="btn btn-large">Select file</label>
</div>
<div class="img_preview_wrap">
<img src="" id="imagePreview" alt="Preview Image" width="200px" class="hide" />
</div>
Hide the input-file element and create a visible button that will trigger the click event of that input-file.
Try this:
CSS
#file { width:0; height:0; }
HTML:
<input type='file' id='file' name='file' />
<button id='btn-upload'>Upload</button>
JAVASCRIPT(jQuery):
$(function(){
$('#btn-upload').click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();
$('#file').click();}
);
});
I tried to implement the top two solutions, and it ended up being a HUGE waste of time for me. In the end, applying this .css class solved the problem...
input[type='file'] {
color: transparent;
}
Done! super clean and super simple...
That's going to be very hard. The problem with the file input type is that it usually consists of two visual elements, while being treated as a single DOM-element. Add to that that several browsers have their own distinct look and feel for the file input, and you're set for nightmare. See this article on quirksmode.org about the quirks the file input has. I guarantee you it won't make you happy (I speak from experience).
[EDIT]
Actually, I think you might get away with putting your input in a container element (like a div), and adding a negative margin to the element. Effectively hiding the textbox part off screen.
Another option would be to use the technique in the article I linked, to try to style it like a button.
Fix to work in all browsers
RESOLVED:
<input type = "button" value = "Choose image"
onclick ="javascript:document.getElementById('imagefile').click();">
<input id = "imagefile" type="file" style='visibility: hidden;' name="img"/>
I have tested in FF, Chrome & IE - working fine, applied styles too :D
Here is my good ol' remedy:
<input type="file" id="myFile" style="display:none;" />
<button type="button" onclick="document.getElementById('myFile').click();">Browse</button>
At least it worked in Safari.
Plain and simple.
Another easy way of doing this. Make a "input type file" tag in html and hide it. Then click a button and format it according to need. After this use javascript/jquery to programmatically click the input tag when the button is clicked.
HTML :-
<input id="file" type="file" style="display: none;">
<button id="button">Add file</button>
JavaScript :-
document.getElementById('button').addEventListener("click", function() {
document.getElementById('file').click();
});
jQuery :-
$('#button').click(function(){
$('#file').click();
});
CSS :-
#button
{
background-color: blue;
color: white;
}
Here is a working JS fiddle for the same :- http://jsfiddle.net/32na3/
I used some of the code recommended above and after many hours of waisting my time, I eventually came to a css bag free solution.
You can run it over here - http://jsfiddle.net/WqGph/
but then found a better solution - http://jsfiddle.net/XMMc4/5/
<input type = "button" value = "Choose image #2"
onclick ="javascript:document.getElementById('imagefile').click();">
<input id = "imagefile" type="file" style='display:none;' name="img" value="none"/>see jsfiddle code for examples<br/>
You could label an image so when you click on it the click event of the button will be triggered. You can simply make the normal button invisible:
<form>
<label for="fileButton"><img src="YourSource"></label> <!--You don't have to put an image here, it can be anything you like-->
<input type="file" id="fileButton" style="display:none;"/>
</form>
It worked for me on all browsers, and is very easy to use.
You can dispatch the click event on a hidden file input like this:
<form action="#type your action here" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<div id="yourBtn" style="height: 50px; width: 100px;border: 1px dashed #BBB; cursor:pointer;" >Click to upload!</div>
<!-- hide input[type=file]!-->
<div style='height: 0px;width:0px; overflow:hidden;'><input id="upfile" type="file" value="upload"/></div>
<input type="submit" value='submit' >
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
var btn = document.getElementById("yourBtn");
var upfile = document.getElementById("upfile");
btn.addEventListener('click',function(){
if(document.createEvent){
var ev = document.createEvent('MouseEvents');
ev.initEvent('click',true,false);
upfile.dispatchEvent(ev);
}else{
upfile.click();
}
});
</script>
HTML:
<input type="file" name="upload" id="upload" style="display:none"></input>
<button id="browse">Upload</button>
JQUERY
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#browse").click(function(){
$("#upload").click();
});
});
Hope this works :)
This HTML code show up only Upload File button
<form action="/action_page.php">
<input type="button" id="id" value="Upload File" onclick="document.getElementById('file').click();" />
<input type="file" style="display:none;" id="file" name="file" onchange="this.form.submit()"/>
</form>
You can give the input element a font opacity of 0. This will hide the text field without hiding the 'Choose Files' button.
No javascript required, clear cross browser as far back as IE 9
E.g.,
input {color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);}
Ive a really hacky solution with this...
<style type="text/css">
input[type="file"]
{
width: 80px;
}
</style>
<input id="File1" type="file" />
The problem is the width attribute that is hiding the text field will obvously vary between browsers, vary between Windows XP themes and so on. Maybe its something you can work with though?...
I know this is an old post but a simple way to make the text dissapear is just to set text color to that of your background.
eg if your text input background is white then:
input[type="file"]{
color:#fff;
}
This will not effect the Choose File text which will still be black due to the browser.
There is a simple and hacky way to show only the file input button while keeping the render and translations of this file input button :
Make the text that is displayed after a file input invisible using a the color transparent.
<input type="file" style="color: transparent" />
my solution is just to set it within a div like "druveen" said, however i ad my own button style to the div (make it look like a button with a:hover) and i just set the style "opacity:0;" to the input. Works a charm for me, hope it does the same for you.
This works for me:
input[type="file"] {
color: white!important;
}
I just styled an input file with width: 85px, and the text field disappeared at all
Select Logo <input type="file" id="logo">
$("#logo").css('opacity','0');
$("#select_logo").click(function(){
$().trigger('click');
return false;
});
For me, the simplest way is using a font color like background color. Simple, not elegant, but usefull.
<div style="color:#FFFFFF"> <!-- if background page is white, of course -->
<input class="fileInput" type="file" name="file1"/></div>
So here's the best way to do this FOR ALL BROWSERS:
Forget CSS!
<p>Append Image:</p>
<input type="button" id="clickImage" value="Add Image" />
<input type="file" name="images[]" id="images" multiple />
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script>
$('#images').hide();
$('#clickImage').click( function() {
$('#images').trigger('click');
});
</script>
All these answers are cute, but CSS won't work since it isn't the same across all browsers and devices, the first answer I wrote will work in everything but Safari. To get it to work accross all browsers all the time it must be created dynamically and recreated every time you want to clear the input text:
var imageDiv = document.createElement("div");
imageDiv.setAttribute("id", "imagediv");
imageDiv.style.cssText = 'position:relative; vertical-align: bottom;';
var imageText = document.createTextNode("Append Image:");
var newLine = document.createElement("br");
var image = document.createElement("input");
image.setAttribute("type", "file");
image.setAttribute("id", "images");
image.setAttribute("name", "images[]");
image.setAttribute("multiple", "multiple");
imageDiv.appendChild(imageText);
imageDiv.appendChild(newLine);
imageDiv.appendChild(image);
questionParagraph.appendChild(imageDiv);
The answer of tmanthey is quite good, except that you can't play with border-width in Firefox v20. If you see the link (demo, can't really show here) they solved the problem using font-size=23px, transform:translate(-300px, 0px) scale(4) for Firefox to get the button bigger.
Other solutions using .click() on a different div is useless if you want to make it a drag'n'drop input box.
There are several valid options here but thought I would give what I have come up with while trying to fix a similar issue. http://jsfiddle.net/5RyrG/1/
<span class="btn fileinput-button">
<span>Import Field(s)</span>
<input id="fileupload" type="file" name="files[]" onchange="handleFiles(this.files)" multiple>
</span>
<div id="txt"></div>
function handleFiles(files){
$('#txt').text(files[0].name);
}
I wrote this:
<form action='' method='POST' name='form-upload-image' id='form-upload-image' enctype='multipart/form-data'>
<div style="width: 0; height: 0; overflow: hidden;">
<input type="file" name="input-file" id="input-file" onchange="this.files.length > 0 ? document.getElementById('form-upload-image').submit():null;" />
</div>
</form>
<img src="image.jpg" style="cursor: pointer;" onclick="document.getElementById('input-file').click();" />
Work fine in all browsers, no jQuery, no CSS.
Here is a simplified version of #ampersandre's popular solution that works in all major browsers.
Asp.NET markup
<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="FilePath" CssClass="form-control"
style="float:left; display:inline; margin-right:5px; width:300px"
ReadOnly="True" ClientIDMode="Static" />
<div class="inputWrapper">
<div id="UploadFile" style="height:38px; font-size:16px;
text-align:center">Upload File</div>
<div>
<input name="FileUpload" id="FileInput" runat="server"
type="File" />
</div>
</div>
<asp:Button ID="UploadButton" runat="server"
style="display:none" OnClick="UploadButton_Click" />
</div>
<asp:HiddenField ID="hdnFileName" runat="server" ClientIDMode="Static" />
JQuery Code
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#UploadFile').click(function () {
alert('UploadFile clicked');
$('[id$="FileInput"]').trigger('click');
});
$('[id$="FileInput"]').change(function (event) {
var target = event.target;
var tmpFile = target.files[0].name;
alert('FileInput changed:' + tmpFile);
if (tmpFile.length > 0) {
$('#hdnFileName').val(tmpFile);
}
$('[id$="UploadButton"]').trigger('click');
});
});
css code
.inputWrapper {
height: 38px;
width: 102px;
overflow: hidden;
position: relative;
padding: 6px 6px;
cursor: pointer;
white-space:nowrap;
/*Using a background color, but you can use a background image to represent
a button*/
background-color: #DEDEDE;
border: 1px solid gray;
border-radius: 4px;
-moz-user-select: none;
-ms-user-select: none;
-webkit-user-select: none;
user-select: none;
}
Uses a hidden "UploadButton" click trigger for server postback with standard . The with "Upload File" text pushes the input control out of view in the wrapper div when it overflows so there is no need to apply any styles for the "file input" control div. The $([id$="FileInput"]) selector allows section of ids with standard ASP.NET prefixes applied. The FilePath textbox value in set from server code behind from hdnFileName.Value once file is uploaded.