I'm trying to figure out how to use Position: relative in order to keep an object (let's call it text) in the same place on the screen regardless of screen size.
When I use Position: relative, and set "left" to 30% for example... It's 30% of the screen. I'm trying to figure out how to put text on top of an image and set the text to be 30% left within the image. I need this to work regardless of the screen size. So far I have been unable.
Could someone explain to me how Position Relative and Position Absolute work in these kinds of situations? Or how this would best be handled?
Thanks!
Here's my JsFiddle, and here's the snippet
.center {
display: table;
margin: 0 auto;
}
body {
background-color: #27ae60;
}
.image {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
/* for IE 6 */
}
.element {
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 30%;
width: 100%;
font-size: 45px;
font-family: 'Just Me Again Down Here', cursive;
}
.input {
/*color: blue;*/
outline: none;
border: none;
background-color: transparent;
position: absolute;
top: 220px;
left: 18%;
width: 480px;
height: 475px;
overflow: hidden;
font-size: 30px;
font-family: 'Just Me Again Down Here', cursive;
}
<img id='image' class='center' src='https://s13.postimg.org/li2l28a0n/White_Board.gif'>
<h1 class='element'>This is a header </h1>
<textarea id='text1' class='input' placeholder="Write your answer here."></textarea>
First we setup a div with a .desk class, desk will receive the desired background image, a fixed width and height, and it will margin 0 auto since the desk doesn't have a container.
The .header class doesn't need to be absolute, we use it within the desk which is already positioned relatively. We give it a little padding so it will fit in the desk image.
The .answer class is applied to the textarea element we give it a width 100%; since we use it within the .desk which already has pre-defined width, that means .answer will equip all of possible width within the desk.
A great tip is always think simple in CSS, understand the usage of position: absolute, when it's really necessary. By the way if you're unfamiliar with rem sizing, I suggest you take a look here: https://www.sitepoint.com/understanding-and-using-rem-units-in-css/
Good luck!
You can get the desired effect in a much simpler code.. have a look:
body {
background-color: #27ae60;
}
.desk {
position: relative;
background-image: url(https://s13.postimg.org/li2l28a0n/White_Board.gif);
width:560px;
height:839px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.header {
padding: .5rem 0 0 2rem;
font-size: 2.5rem;
font-family: 'Just Me Again Down Here', cursive;
}
.answer {
width: 100%;
margin-left: 2rem;
outline: none;
border: none;
background-color: transparent;
overflow: hidden;
resize: none;
font-size: 2rem;
font-family: 'Just Me Again Down Here', cursive;
}
Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/y3h1ogms/5/
When set position: relative on an element, it will be positioned relative to the nearest positioned ancestor, where "positioned" according to MDN means:
A positioned element is an element whose computed position property is either relative, absolute, fixed or sticky.
In your example, the header is not a descendant of the image, so there's no way to position it relative to the image. What you might do instead is convert the <img> to a <div> set the background-image of your div to be the image URL. You would also need to explicitly set the width and height of the div.
Related
I have replaced my sites logo to another image, however its not in the correct position within the header I have made. I have tried to move the image with padding and/or margin to no resolve. How do I move the image to the left side of the header.
Here is an overlook of the site:
The following styling has been applied to the image:
position: absolute;
height: 120px;
width: 100px;
margin: 0px 200px 0px 0px;
border: 0;
display: block;
color: -webkit-link;
cursor: auto;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
The original HTML has been edited through javascript to the image you can see above, I can only use javscript therefore. This means I would like to avoid JQuery and cant use CSS.
Because of "position: absolute;" you need to use something like "left: 50px; top: 10px;" to move it around.
In the very middle of the screen I have a piece of text, along with an image. When the text gets longer, the image is forced to move the right, which is what its supposed to do. But what I want it to do, is keep the image in the same spot, and make the text shift over to the left instead.
(I will also be adding more names so I need this fix to be universal, not like manually changing it for each piece of text.)
(It might be hard to see, but its noticeable, and yes I'm using a template...)
My site - Updated link
I tried messing with the HTML to get the margin-right once the page is fully loaded, then when it updates the text change the margin-right to that, but it did absolutely nothing.
Any help is appreciated, I have no idea how to fix this issue.
What about this?
#banner .content {
display: inline-block;
margin-right: 1%;
max-width: 95%;
padding: 6em;
position: relative;
text-align: right;
vertical-align: middle;
z-index: 1;
float: left;
width: 66%;
}
You can solve this issue by defining the width property for the containing content layer, and then floating the image and the text to the right.
For example, if you want the right-hand side of the text to be aligned to the center of the page your image + it's left-hand margin needs to be half the width of the containing #banner .content layer.
With your image being 18rem square with a left-margin of 3rem your containing #banner .content div needs to be 42rem wide ((18 + 3) * 2).
#banner .content {
position: relative;
width: 42rem;
height: 18rem;
text-align: right;
vertical-align: middle;
/* center div.content */
margin: 0 auto;
clear: both;
display: block;
z-index: 1;
}
#banner .content .image {
width: 18em;
height: 18em;
border-radius: 100%;
vertical-align: middle;
margin-left: 3rem;
display: inline-block;
}
Content inside .content slides to the right with the span.image locked to its right-hand edge. As long as the text-container's width (header) does not exceed half the width of `.content' it will remain right-aligned 3rem from images left-hand side. Avoid using css-padding for positioning control and use css-margin properties instead.
I'm trying to make a puzzle out of a background image with numbered pieces. The pieces will eventually be movable with javascript. Right now, I'm stuck simply trying to position the pieces of this image. The html has a div with id called puzzlearea, and I have appended children with javascript, which I know works because it displays the new div pieces and their numbers. The CSS refuses to move the pieces relative to this background, and my two test pieces are stuck in the top left corner, seemingly ignoring my background-position values. Here is the CSS:
body {
text-align: center;
font-family: cursive;
font-size: 14pt;
}
#puzzlearea {
width: 400px;
height: 400px;
margin: auto;
position: relative;
background-image: url("planck-image.png");
}
.tile {
font-size: 40pt;
color: red;
line-height: 70pt;
width: 90px;
height: 90px;
border: 5px solid black;
background-position: -200px -200px;
position: fixed;
}
Update: Screenshot.
Would you have any ideas as to why the positioning is not occurring?
You need position: absolute on .tilein order to be able to place them with the top/bottom/left/right parameters (and you need those too).
fixed position refers to the viewport, not the parent element.
My Goal:
Here is what I'm trying to accomplish. We have an list of categories that appear on a page. The number of categories is unknown. The description can be pretty much any size... yet we want a uniform look. So, we are using the dotdotdot plugin to put ellipses on the paragraphs. When you hover over the item, it should expand the description and show the full text.
I want that hover to float or overlay whatever is below it. Due to some of my layout items (see my NOTE below) my sccontainer element doesn't have a set height. It's dynamic based on the content... with a max-height set.
When I change that height to AUTO in the hover event (which causes the text to flow down and displays all the content), I lose the background on the sccontainer element.
Some pertinent CSS:
.sccontainer { width: 280px; zoom: 1; float: left; margin: 5px 10px; padding: 0; border: 1px solid #8697a1; -moz-border-radius: 5px; border-radius: 5px; -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 6px #777; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 6px #777; box-shadow: 0 0 6px #777; -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=6, Direction=90, Color='#777777')"; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=6, Direction=90, Color='#777777'); position: relative; background: #fff url(http://imagecss.com/images/background.jpg) repeat-x left top; }
.sccontainer .parent { position: absolute; width: 270px; }
.sccontainer .image { margin: 5px; float: left; }
.sccontainer .image img { width: 48px; }
.sccontainer .icon { margin: 0; }
.sccontainer p { margin: 8px; padding: 0; max-height: 145px; }
.sccontainer h1 { line-height: 24px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: 200px; height: 48px; padding: 0; margin: 5px 0 0 0; overflow: hidden; }
.sccontainer h1 a { padding: 0; font-size: 24px; color: #fff; font-weight: normal; }
.sccontainer .content { position: relative; height: 210px; padding: 0 5px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; width: 270px; }
.sccontainer a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
.sccontainer.hover { height: 250px; }
.sccontainer.hover .content { height: auto; }
.sccontainer.hover .content p { min-height: 135px; max-height: none; }
jsFiddle:
Here is a jsFiddle version of what I have right now. You can see this in action, if you hover over the text in the blue box. It's a bit large, so I used jsFiddle instead of putting all the bits here code tags...
http://jsfiddle.net/ztMM5/1/
And here is a mockup of what I'd like to see. Method 5a expands slightly to show the full content.... yets overlaps the red line. None of the other items move around or are affected.
NOTE: Sorry for the size of things. I've trimmed it down about as much as I can. Also, I am modifying an existing intranet website... it's 3rd party, so I have limited control of the source code - hence the table usage. :(
What I've Tried/Researched:
I believe the issue stems from the fact that my sccontainer item is floating, and doesn't have a height specified. That's why the image disappears.
I had a version that kept the background... but the sccontainer box didn't resize like we need... the text just overflowed it... rather ugly.
I don't know enough CSS to make this all work right. I'm not adverse to using jQuery to do more if needed.
I did work on a version that handled most of the hover using the :hover stuff... but it didn't work quite as well as the jQuery approach.
This answer may not solve your specific problem but it may help others with a similar scenario (working with tables makes difficult to render a clean layout in most cases.)
I ran into this issue before and this is how I solved it. It basically relies in an html nested div structure to achieve the expandability of the content without affecting the floating layout of the near elements :
<div id="wrapper" class="cf"><!--wrapper with border and CLEARED-->
<div class="sccontainer"><!--position relative-->
<div class="inner"><!--position absolute-->
<div class="content"><!--position relative-->
<!-- my content here -->
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- more containers etc-->
</div><!--END wrapper-->
First, we are going to apply the infamous clear-fix hack to the #wrapper container (use your preferred method):
.cf:after {
visibility:hidden;
display:block;
content:"";
clear:both;
height:0
}
* html .cf {
zoom:1
}
/* IE6 */
*:first-child+html .cf {
zoom:1
}
Then the style for the .sccontainer container :
.sccontainer {
width: 280px; /* or whatever - could be % for responsiveness */
padding-bottom:200px; /* any value to give height without using height ;) */
position: relative;
float: left;
margin: 5px 10px; /* or whatever */
overflow: hidden; /* this is important to keep all same height and big content out of sight */
z-index: 1; /* this is important too, see later */
background: white url("imagebackground.jpg") 0 0 repeat-x; /* need to explain? */
}
Then the .inner container, which actually will help to keep the layout in order if we hover the elements
.inner {
position: absolute; /* please don't move */
width: 100%; /* to fill the whole parent container */
height: 100%; /* same */
}
And the content :
.content {
position: relative;
background: white url("imagebackground.jpg") 0 0 repeat-x; /* not redundant though */
width: 100%; /* helps to fill the gaps with small content */
height: 100%; /* same, specially if using image backgrounds */
/* other styles, etc */
}
NOTE: we should apply same border-radius properties to the three containers and box-shadow to .sccontainer and .content for consistency
Now, what happens when we hover ?
.sccontainer:hover {
overflow: visible; /* show the full content */
z-index: 999; /* place me on top of the others if needed (which lower z-index, remember?) */
}
.sccontainer:hover .content {
height: auto; /* as it really is, including background image */
}
NOTES : this effect will happen regardless if the content's height is smaller than the parent container's height. You may not like the effect mostly if you are using borders and shadows (could be shown as smaller box inside the parent container) so we could add an extra class to .sccontainer like
<div class="sccontainer withhover">
and apply the hover effects only if that class exist like
.sccontainer.withhover:hover {
overflow: visible;
z-index: 999;
}
... and use a bit of jQuery to remove that class for shorter content, so it won't be affected :
jQuery(document).ready(function ($) {
$(".sccontainer").hover(function () {
var $contentHeight = $(this).find(".content").height();
if ($(this).innerHeight() > $contentHeight) {
$(this).removeClass("withhover");
}
});
});
See JSFIDDLE
Relative newbie here. I have two different mouseover/hover functions I can get to work just fine: one, an inline mouseover that 'darkens' an image/box by making it lose opacity; and the second, text that appears over this image/box on hover (jumping up from a hidden position).
The problem is, I want to get them working together without this text losing opacity, which it does when part of the same div class as the image/box. But when I try two separate div classes and position them on top of each other (using z-index), whichever one I put on top seems to block the other one. Is there any way to have it so the image/box loses opacity, but the text that appears doesn't, all in the same mouseover/hover action?
These are the relevant bits in my stylesheet, mostly covering the text part:
.rightbox {
background: rgb(140, 183, 98);
width: 290px;
height: 160px;
margin-bottom: 18px;
padding: 2px;}
.rightboxtext {
display: table-cell;
height: 160px;
width: 290px;
vertical-align: bottom;
text-align: center;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 20px;
color: #8CB762;
}
.rightboxtext span {
display: block;
height: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
}
.rightboxtext:hover span {
height: 80px;
}
This is the inline stuff that I used where everything, including text, gets the opacity treatment. (In this case the image is attached to the rightboxtext div class, but I also tried it attached to the rightbox div class.)
<div class="rightbox"
onmouseout="this.style.opacity=1;this.filters.alpha.opacity=100"
onmouseover="this.style.opacity=0.6;this.filters.alpha.opacity=60">
<div class="rightboxtext"
style="background-image: url(image.jpg); height: 160px; width: 290px;">
<span>Hello text.</span></div>
</div>
Otherwise I achieved this mangled bit of code, where one seems to block the other:
<div class="rightboxcontainer">
<div class="rightboxtext"
style="position: absolute; z-index: 100; height: 160px; width: 290px;">
<span>Hello text.</span></div>
<div class="rightbox"
style="position: absolute; z-index: 50; height: 160px; width: 290px;"
onmouseout="this.style.opacity=1;this.filters.alpha.opacity=100"
onmouseover="this.style.opacity=0.6;this.filters.alpha.opacity=60"><img
src="image.jpg">
</div>
</div>
With this extra bit in the stylesheet:
.rightboxcontainer { width: 290px; height: 160px; margin-bottom: 18px;}
Thanks in advance!
As a commenter pointed out above, you can do this entirely with CSS:
<style>
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
.box {
width: 250px;
height: 250px;
overflow: hidden;
}
.box img {
width: 250px;
height: 250px;
}
.box .message {
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
opacity: 0;
width: 250px;
height: 250px;
position: relative;
top: -256px;
color: #fff;
font-size: 32px;
line-height: 250px;
text-align: center;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: arial;
}
.box .message:hover {
opacity: 1;
}
</style>
<div class="box">
<img src="http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geology/people/clark-n/personal/copy_of_images/Satellite-map-of-Antarctica/image">
<div class="message">Antarctica</div>
</div>
.message is positioned on top of the container, .box. When you hover over .message, it fades in from 0 opacity. Its background is semi-opaque (using RGBA, where the fourth value is the opacity), so it dims the image. You could make the image the background-image of the .box if you wanted to.
http://jsfiddle.net/dgGG3/4/
Fist of all, try to avoid inline event handling as you can achieve the desired result with css :hover.
The problem as you can see here http://jsfiddle.net/UjY5Q/ is with opacity on a parent element all child elements also get that opacity.
.rightbox:hover {
opacity:0.5;
}
You can cheat on that one by setting positions to the elements and overlap one to the other one. That's kind a tricky and may also need browser support.
so the easyest way to get what you want is on :hover show a transparent background image example here: http://jsfiddle.net/UjY5Q/1/
I would say that's the way to go