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Inexplicable margin after input field

I got a little codepen which I am working on. And there is just a random margin after an input field. I set
*{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
, so that shouldn't be the reason. Additionally the css of the both input fields:
#plannername{
width:40%;
background-color:#9eefbc;
margin-left:20%;
border:0;
font-size:2em;
padding:20px;
}
#plannersubmit{
width:17%;
background-color:#6dce91;
border:0;
font-size:2em;
padding:20px;
}
As you can see there is not margin, except the margin-left: 20% of the #plannername. But that shouldn't affect that little margin on the right of it/on the left of the submit button.
What could be causing this little margin???

If you press Ctrl + A you see that it's actually not a margin but a single space.
Here's a great article about it and how to get rid of it: https://css-tricks.com/fighting-the-space-between-inline-block-elements/

opacity of figcaption is mysteriously changing

I am trying to use jquery.caption (https://github.com/louisbros/jquery.caption). I want the caption to be in a black rectangle with white text. When I mouse over my images, some of them display the caption correctly, but others don't display it at all, and others display it very lightly and hard to see. As I mouse over the images, some that were displaying it stop displaying it. If I look at the HTML I can see that the opacity changes and that is why the caption are sometimes not visible. When I first bring up the page, most of the elements have opacity=1, but others will have a very small number like 0.00301952217705548. As I mouse around, elements that started with opacity=1 will change to a very small number.
Here is my code that creates the elements:
$image_div = $('<div />')
.addClass('gImage-row')
.appendTo($preview);
$image_div.append($('<a />')
.addClass('no-highlight')
.attr('href', "{{ IMAGE_DIR }}"+image.image.replace(/thumbnail/,'jpg'))
.attr('rel', "superbox[image]")
.append($('<img />')
.addClass('gImage')
.attr('alt', 'some text')
.attr('src', "{{ IMAGE_DIR }}"+image.image)
.attr('onerror', "noimage(event)")));
This is in a loop and it creates 30-40 images.
In my window.onload function I do this:
$('.gImage-row img').caption();
Here is my CSS:
.figure{
position:relative;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
.figcaption{
position:absolute;
left:0;
bottom:0;
width:100%;
height:20px;
background-color: black;
foreground-color: white;
opacity:1.0;
}
a:hover.no-highlight {
background: transparent;
}
.gImage-row {
float: left;
text-align: center;
}
.gImage {
width: 150px;
height: 100px;
margin-right: 1px;
background-color: transparent;
}
.label {
float: left;
}
I cannot figure out what is making the opacity change or how to fix this. Anyone have any ideas?

So I think I figured out what is going on here. The code in jquery.caption was doing this:
$(this).bind('mouseenter.caption mouseleave.caption', function(){
$(this).data('caption').figcaption.stop().fadeToggle();
});
fadeToggle works by changing the opacity. Because I had so many images close together, when the user moused around there were a lot of mouseenter and mouseleave events, and each time one occurred it would call stop on the existing fadeToggle. This would leave the opacity at whatever it was at at the moment. I changed this to:
$(this).bind('mouseenter.caption mouseleave.caption', function(){
if ($(this).data('caption').figcaption.css('display') == 'none') {
$(this).data('caption').figcaption.show();
}
else {
$(this).data('caption').figcaption.hide();
}
});
And now it's working perfectly.

Scroll Div with Cursor

I have been working with a script by Scripterlative called CursorDivScroll, which scrolls the content of a div based on the cursor position. In my case, I want to scroll content vertically from the right side of the div; not a continuous scroll, but movement that goes a little and then stops so the user has some control. I'm having problems getting the script to work and wondered if anyone knew of a better solution? The script I have uses cursordivscroll.js and this script, which is placed just beneath my div.
<script type='text/javascript' >
$(document).ready(function() {
CursorDivScroll( 'repertoiredetails', 40, 10 ).noHorizontal();
});
</script>
Thanks for any help in advance.
<div id="repertoiredetails">
<p>content</p>
</div><!-- close repertoiredetails-->
#repertoiredetails {
background-color:#000;
width:400px;
opacity:0.7; filter:alpha(opacity=70);
margin-top:140px;
float:left;
height:auto;
display:none;
margin-left:-2px;
padding-top:5px;
border-radius:5px;
-moz-border-radius:5px; /* Firefox 3.6 and earlier */
z-index:999;
}
#repertoiredetails {
cursor: url(../images/arrow.png), auto;
position:relative;
}
#repertoiredetails p {
text-align:justify;
text-justify:inter-word;
color:#999;
font-family:'Arial Narrow', Arial, sans-serif;
font-size:13px;
width:400px;
padding:20px;
}

Don't know why the noHorizontal() is not working, but with a few changes in your CSS you can make it work.
a Fiddle example: http://jsfiddle.net/M4AXB/1/
Good Luck!

simple onclick applied on <a> not working IE and FF

I have a simple list as follows:
<div class="settingButton">
<div class="subManu">
<ul>
<li><a onclick="alert('clicked!!')" href="#">Default Categories</a></li>
<li><a onclick="alert('clicked!!')" href="#">Wizard</a></li>
<div class="clear"></div>
</ul>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
</div>
I do not see the alerts on clicking the links! It works fine in Chrome, but not in IE and FF. I used this same structure without assigning class and it works as expected. Maybe the problem is with the CSS, but I am not sure what. Here is the CSS for the dropdown,
.settingButton {
background:url(/mobiledoc/jsp/dashboard/images/settings.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
width:25px;
height:37px;
float:left;
position:absolute;
right:13px;
top:-30px;
}
.settingButton a {
display:block;
width:25px;
height:37px;
}
.settingButton:hover {
background:url(/mobiledoc/jsp/dashboard/images/settingsHover.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
}
.settingButton:active {
background:url(/mobiledoc/jsp/dashboard/images/settingsActive.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
}
.settingButton div.subManu {
display:none;
height:100px;
}
.settingButton:hover div.subManu {
background:url(/mobiledoc/jsp/dashboard/images/subNavArrow.png) no-repeat right 3px;
position:absolute;
top:20px;
z-index:99;
right:0;
width:250px;
height:50px;
display:block;
padding:13px 0 0 0;
}
div.subManu ul {
display:block;
background:url(/mobiledoc/jsp/dashboard/images/dropDownMidBg.png) repeat-x;
border-left:#547b9a 1px solid;
border-right:#547b9a 1px solid;
height:29px;
padding:0 0 0 7px;
}
div.subManu ul li {
width:110px;
float:left;
margin:0 5px;
display:block;
height:29px;
}
div.subManu ul li a {
display:inline;
color:#ffffff;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
font-weight:normal;
line-height:28px;
}
div.subManu ul li a:hover {
color:#b7f630;
}
div.subManu ul li.active-manu a {
color:#b7f630;
}
I have gone through different question but didn't find any relevant answers. Let me know if you need any more info.
Thanks!

If you don't want a link, don't use an A element, use a button or styled span instead, e.g.
<style type="text/css">
.clickable:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
cursor: pointer;
}
</style>
...
<span class="clickable">thing to click</span>
Anyhow, the preferred method for links is:
<a href="http://link for script-disabled browsers"
onclick="myFunction(); return false;">...</a>

Reference: jsFiddle
You will notice I only made two changes to your code.
The first change is to include background color for the hover div.
The second change is to make the font words viewable on the white background since the font's are white themselves.
To see both click events working, hover over the black rectangle in the top right corner and you will see the two links that will pop up and allow the alert to invoke when clicked.
The bottom line is there is nothing wrong with your code, it's just you need to hover to access the clickable links.
Disclaimer: It's for the Question only and doesn't cover other things like the preferred method for anchor links. ;-)

You might want to try something like this instead:
Default Categories

jquery fadeIn acting funny?

this is what I'm working on right now
http://www.dsi-usa.com/yazaki_port/hair-by-steph/
as you can see when you click the tabs the fade in and fade outs look extremely funny. I'm wondering if anyone can take a look at the code and tell me what I'm doing wrong. I'm extremely new to Jquery and Javascript (like yesterday new) so I apologize if the code is messy. I'm wondering if 1. there was an easier way to write this and 2. if there's a way to just have the sections fade into each other/any other cool ideas anyone has.
the html structure (pulled out all of the content for space purposes)
<div id="main">
<div id="display_canvas">
</div>
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li><a class="btn" title="contact">CONTACT</a></li>
<li><a class="btn" title="resume">RESUME</a></li>
<li><a class="btn" title="portfolio">PORTFOLIO</a></li>
<div class="clear"></div>
</ul>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>
<div id="resume">
//contents here
</div>
<div id="contact">
//contents here
</div>
</div>
the css
*
{
margin:0;
padding:0;
font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#main
{
width:1200px;
margin:0 auto;
}
#display_canvas
{
height:700px;
background-color:#fefea8;
box-shadow:5px 5px 5px #888888;
-moz-box-shadow:5px 5px 5px #888888;
-webkit-box-shadow:5px 5px 5px #888888;
display:none;
}
.clear
{
clear:both;
}
#resume
{
clear:both;
float:right;
width:100%;
background-color:#000000;
background-image:url("../imgs/resume_back.png");
background-position:300px 0px;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
height:200px;
text-align:left;
display:none;
}
#contact
{
clear:both;
float:right;
width:100%;
background-color:#000000;
background-image:url("../imgs/contact_back.png");
background-position:left;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
height:200px;
text-align:left;
display:none;
}
#nav
{
margin:1em 0 0 0;
text-align:right;
}
#nav ul
{
list-style-type:none;
}
#nav li
{
display:inline;
}
.btn
{
margin-right:20px;
display:block;
text-align:center;
float:right;
color:#000000;
font-size:15px;
font-weight:bold;
line-height:30px;
text-decoration:none;
cursor:pointer;
width:150px;
height:30px;
}
.over
{
background-color:#888888;
color:#ffffff;
}
.active_contact
{
background-color:#000000;
color:#00a8ff;
}
.active_resume
{
background-color:#000000;
color:#9848c2;
}
.active_portfolio
{
background-color:#000000;
color:#ffffff;
}
and finally a whole mess of javascript
$(document).ready(function(){
//handles general navigation
$(".btn").hover(
function(){
$(this).addClass("over");
},
function(){
$(this).removeClass("over");
}
)
$(".btn").click(function(){
var btn = $(this);
var newClass = "active_" + btn.attr("title"); //set the new class
var section = $("#" + btn.attr("title"));
if ($("#curSection").length)
{
alert('there is a section');
var curClass = "active_" + $("#curSection").attr("title"); //get the current class active_section name
var curSection = "active"
$("#curSection").removeClass(curClass).removeAttr("id"); //remove the current class and current section attributes
btn.addClass(newClass).attr("id", "curSection"); //designate new selection
$(".currentSection").fadeOut("slow", function(){ //fade out old section
$(".currentSection").removeClass("currentSection");
section.fadeIn("slow", function(){ //fade in new section
alert('faded in');
section.addClass("currentSection"); //designate new section
});
});
}
else
{
alert('first time');
btn.addClass(newClass).attr("id", "curSection"); //designate new selection
section.fadeIn("slow", function(){
alert('faded in');
section.addClass("currentSection");
});
}
});
//handles resume navigation
$(".res-btn").hover(
function(){
$(this).addClass("res-over")
},
function(){
$(this).removeClass("res-over")
}
)
$(".res-btn[title=experience]").click(function(){
$("#scroller").stop().animate({top: "0px"}, 1000);
});
$(".res-btn[title=expertise]").click(function(){
$("#scroller").stop().animate({top: "-180px"}, 1000);
});
$(".res-btn[title=affiliates]").click(function(){
$("#scroller").stop().animate({top: "-360px"}, 1000);
});
});
if anyone has any ideas as to why this doesn't work let me know. I thought maybe it was having problems loading the content, but the content should be loaded already as they are on the screen already, just no display. I'm stumped, I saw a few posts similar to mine, so I followed some of their thinking. When I set the fadeIn() to like 5000 instead of "slow" The first 60% or so of the fadeIn is skipped and the section appears at say 60% opacity and then fades in the rest of the way. Not sure what I'm doing so thank you in advance.

Off the top of my head, I think the problem might be that you are initiating an alert dialogue box rather than a jquery Fancybox / Thickbox type of overlay lightbox which accommodates the speed at which the it animates to open or close. And in any case, I am unable to replicate the issue you are facing despite going directly to your link.
So rather than to try and resolve that chunk of codes you have picked out from different sources and since the content that you wish to display is an inline one, you might as well consider using Thickbox or Fancybox instead.
Alternatively, you could also kinda script your own lightbox without using the alert dialogue boxes if you like. It could look something like this:
HTML:
<!--wrapper-->
<div id="wrapper">
Box 1</li>
Box 2</li>
<!--hidden-content-->
<div class="box-1">
This is box 1. close
</div>
<div class="box-2">
This is box 2. close
</div>
</div>
<!--wrapper-->
CSS:
#wrapper{
background:#ffffff;
width:100%;
height:100%;
padding:0;
}
.box-1, .box-2{
display:none;
width:300px;
height:300px;
position:fixed;
z-index:3000;
top:30%;
left:30%;
background:#aaaaaa;
color:#ffffff;
opacity:0;
}
JQUERY:
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".toggle-1").click(function(){
$(".box-1").show(900);
$(".box-1").fadeTo(900,1);
});
$(".close-1").click(function(){
$(".box-1").hide(900);
$(".box-1").fadeTo(900,0);
});
$(".toggle-2").click(function(){
$(".box-2").show(900);
$(".box-2").fadeTo(900,1);
});
$(".close-2").click(function(){
$(".box-2").hide(900);
$(".box-2").fadeTo(900,0);
});
});
Well, of course there's still quite a bit of styling to be done in order for the content to appear nicely in the center of the screen, but I'm gonna be leaving that out as this is more of a question of how to control the speed of which the overlay appears.
In any case, if you wanna change the speed of which it appears or close, simply alter the "900" value to something else - a lower number means a faster animation speed and vice versa. If you have noticed, I'm applying the .hide() and .fadeTo() functions together. This is partly because I will try and enforce for the shown divs to be hidden after the Close button is clicked. This will prevent it from stacking on top of other content and thereby disabling any buttons, links or functions. You can try to play around with their "900" values as well. For e.g. when you press the close button, you can actually make .hide() execute slower in relation to the fadeTo() simply by assigning maybe 3000 to the former and 700 to the latter. This will give the illusion that it is fading only rather than fading and swinging, the latter of which is prominent when you utilize the .hide() or .show() function.
Hope this helps some how. =)