My designer believes this cannot be done, however it seems possible to me. (Although I have limited CSS experience). However, he also said the background couldn't be fixed, and stackoverflow has proved his wrong in the past; so I question his knowledge.
JQuery can be used if this cannot be done in pure CSS.
The top half will be a gradient that has full flexible to skew left, right, up, down without much distortion. The bottom half is an image that is ideally made for the 1280 x 1024 resolution (as this is the most popular browser display resolution). Then depending on the requirements needed it will sketch and skew to whatever size it needs. Still allowing all of the image to be seen.
The ration between the top half and bottom half is always 50% 50% independent of browser resolution.
I would also like if both the top and bottom parts are fixed.
In a perfect world (one without IE), id like to do this with css3 gradients and multiple backgrounds in 1 DIV. However, because IE9 isnt out yet, I think the best way to approach it would be 2 divs in a DIV container and using a PNG repeating background for the top div.
It should be noted I am going to use css3pie.com to allow some CSS3 for IE6-8 (but I dont want to rely on it, unless 100% proven)
Is this possible with just CSS? How would you do it?
If not possible with just CSS, is there a way I can get JavaScript/JQuery to aid?
I am thinking a base of 1280 x 1024 isn't the best idea because it seems to have an odd radio.
Edit 1
Oh yeah, I have a WIP too:
http://meyers.ipalaces.org/extra/
It looks good in 1280 x 1024...now its just getting the whole resizing of the top DIV to be 50% so the image is 50%.
I'd still like ALL of the water to be seen, because I like the look of the rocks at the bottom. However, I am open to alternative ideas that don't accomplish what I want 100%, but come close.
Edit 2
How about using the top gradient as the true CSS2 background and then just putting a <img> at the bottom of it to resize? Perhaps that will allow for CSS2 ability. I am reference some work-around techniques here: A list apart
Edit 3
I am still looking for results that work on IE6 and also don't cause Internet explorer to lag. I am setting a bounty of 50 to help attract more attention.
I have successfully came up with 2 ways to do this:
Method 1
Click here to view demo
Using CSS3 background-size I was able to set 2 div elements to on top of each other with min-height: 50% and then using background-size: 100% 50% they successfully accomplish what I am looking for.
This method was just a proof of concept, as IE6-8 does not support background-size, I didn't pursue tweaking this method perfectly. As it stands, it currently messes up when you scroll despite have background-attachment: fixed;. I ditched this CSS3 method in order to look for better methods using CSS tricks...
Method 2
Click here to view demo
Following the examples I found from A List Apart (Article | Example1 | Example2). I used Technique #2 from Example 1, and I was able to emulate what I wanted to do using just CSS2. (I am not 100% sure how or why this works, but it does)
Because I am also going to use CSS3PIE to give IE6-8 CSS3 the ability to do linear gradients, border-radius, and box-shadow; I opted to use a linear gradient instead of an image for the top background.
Problems
CSS2 Method from Technique #2, Example 1 does not work with IE6 Correctly
Creates excessive lag in all current Internet Explorers
It can be done with CSS only. No PIEs necessary. Just an IE6 bug and some filter magic.
Demo:
http://www.bundyo.org/test/FPB.html
Do this using raphaeljs. Create a background DIV that becomes a canvas, draw a rect to 50% of the page height (if using jquery then use $(window).resize() to monitor for a window resize and $(window).height() to get the 50% into pixels).
You can fill in the raphealjs rect with specifing it's fill value to something like fill: "90-#000000-#ffffff"
As for the image:
Place the image using raphealjs' image OR just embed it using HTML and update it's height-scale using jquery as mentioned above.
I've done something like this just recently using about 10 lines of code.
Also: Change your water.png, it's about 275kb, where as the next largest file on your page (the css) is like 1.5kb.
If you want to keep the horizon of the water at 50% on your screen, I would suggest a simpler method;
Create an image (probably about 1280 wide) in Photoshop of water on bottom and gradient on top. Fade the top gradient into a solid light blue(#68b for example). Fade the left, right and bottom of the image into the same solid color(#68b).
Set the background of your page as follows;
html {
background: #68b url(waterimage.png) center center no-repeat;
}
In your case, you'll probably want to apply the background to #wdth-100 instead of html, but it all depends on which element you want to put your background on.
All done. Let me know if that works for you.
I don't have a link to your top image, so i used the same image for top and bottom.
You should probably use a CSS solution for normal browsers and the JS for IE.
<script type='text/javascript'>
$(document).ready(function() {
wh=$(window).height();
ww=$(window).width();
if(wh%2) {
h1=Math.round(wh/2);
h2=Math.round(wh/2)-1;
} else {
h1=h2=wh/2;
}
img1=$("<IMG/>",{'src':'http://meyers.ipalaces.org/images/bottom-bg.jpg','id':'img1'} )
.css({'width':ww,'height':h1,'top':'0','left':'0','position':'absolute','z-index':'-100'});
img2=$("<IMG/>",{'src':'http://meyers.ipalaces.org/images/bottom-bg.jpg','id':'img2'} )
.css({'width':ww,'height':h2,'top':h1,'left':'0','position':'absolute','z-index':'-100'});
$(document.body).append(img1);
$(document.body).append(img2);
});
$(window).resize(function() {
wh=$(window).height();
ww=$(window).width();
if(wh%2) {
h1=Math.round(wh/2);
h2=Math.round(wh/2)-1;
} else {
h1=h2=wh/2;
}
$('#img1').css({'width':ww,'height':h1,'top':'0','left':'0'});
$('#img2').css({'width':ww,'height':h2,'top':h1,'left':'0'});
});
</script>
The pragmatic answer would seem to be to do it using multiple divs with their own background, all of which would be positioned absolutely and behind everything else using z-index.
I know that's not the clean markup solution with a single div with some magic CSS, but this is a tricky problem in pure CSS in any browser, and almost certainly impossible if you need to support IE6.
An even more pragmatic answer would be to say "I'll support IE6 as far as I can, but if it can't support my lovely background effect then that's just tough luck for anyone still using it".
Related
I am trying to animate lines going from left, right, top and bottom(lines should start from edges of the screen). Animation works fine in IE11 but not in Mozilla and Chrome. Other browsers I haven't tested. I used Adobe Illustrator to draw. http://codepen.io/Ljanmi/pen/WbyLWv
In Chrome and Mozilla(IE11 is fine and acts normal) if in Illustrator I set Object>Artboards>Fit To Artwork Bounds(minimizing Artboard size which I usually do when create or edit SVG) I get this result(even worse) - http://codepen.io/Ljanmi/pen/yyqVqz
I spent hours and hours trying to figure out on my own without success. I started topics on GSAP forum and CSS tricks forum(stackoverflow.com is limiting me to post only 2 links as a newcomer).
I used GSAP JS library for animating(generally very happy with GSAP) but animation behaves the same if I use CSS3 to animate. I concluded that it is not related to GSAP(viewbox size property seems to have little bit of effect here) , more likely to be related to SVG structure itself or browser compatibility or both. So I guess there must be some work around to make it work like I would like to. I most likely lack some SVG/HTML/CSS3 knowledge since I am not very experienced but trying to learn as much as I can. Thanks everybody for reading.
Add svg { overflow: visible } and it should work the same in all browsers (longer explanation below). If you want to see why the lines get clipped, add borders to the svg element.
Another way is to make sure the size of the svg matches what you want, e.g by using css.
All browsers except IE implemented hidden as the initial value for the overflow property for the <svg> element, as called for by the SVG 1.1 spec. SVG 2 has changed this for (outermost) inline svg elements, such that it requires what IE11 is currently doing. It will take some time before that gets changed in all browsers, so for now just add the overflow: visible rule and it should work correctly in all browsers.
I had some trouble with browsers still not showing the overflowed content for SVGs and found that this finally got past it:
svg:not(:root) {
overflow: visible !important;
}
I was wondering if there was any jQuery library that will allow us to change the perspective of an image.
I know that modern browsers already support vendor specific rotate() in CSS but it doesn't quite give the desired result. Most of them just vary the width of the image but doesn't shrink the height of one side and increase the height of one side to produce the effect that you are viewing the image from another angle.
Any more details that you may need, please tell me. Thanks!
EDIT
I already tried transforms but they don't increase the height of the side that is moving towards you and decrease the one that is moving away from you. And I don't do full rotations, i just tilt the image a few degrees so the change in height has to really be there
Have a look at script3D.js
http://minimal.be/lab/Sprite3D/
could be usefull for 3D css animations.
CSS3 has 2D-transforms and 3D-transforms. While the first is well supported (by all browsers, not by all used versions [1]) the second is currently only supported by mozilla and webkit [2]. Both features mostly need vendor-prefixes.
And of course you can animate them with jQuery, if you want to.
Here's the problem. I have an image:
<img alt="alttext" src="filename.jpg"/>
Note no height or width specified.
On certain pages I want to only show a thumbnail. I can't alter the html, so I use the following CSS:
.blog_list div.postbody img { width:75px; }
Which (in most browsers) makes a page of uniformly wide thumbnails, all with preserved aspect ratios.
In IE6 though, the image is only scaled in the dimension specified in the CSS. It retains the 'natural' height.
Here's an example of a pair of pages that illustrate the problem:
The list, which should show thumbnails
A single blog post, which shows the full-size image.
I'd be very grateful for all suggestions, but would like to point out that (due to the limitations of the clients chosen platform) I'm looking for something that doesn't involve modifying the html. CSS would also be preferable to javascript.
EDIT: Should mention that the images are of different sizes and aspect ratios.
Adam Luter gave me the idea for this, but it actually turned out to be really simple:
img {
width: 75px;
height: auto;
}
IE6 now scales the image fine and this seems to be what all the other browsers use by default.
Thanks for both the answers though!
I'm glad that worked out, so I guess you had to explicitly set 'auto' on IE6 in order for it to mimic other browsers!
I actually recently found another technique for scaling images, again designed for backgrounds. This technique has some interesting features:
The image aspect ratio is preserved
The image's original size is maintained (that is, it can never shrink only grow)
The markup relies on a wrapper element:
<div id="wrap"><img src="test.png" /></div>
Given the above markup you then use these rules:
#wrap {
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
}
#wrap img {
min-height: 100%;
min-width: 100%;
}
If you then control the size of wrapper you get the interesting scale effects that I list above.
To be explicit, consider the following base state: A container that is 100x100 and an image that is 10x10. The result is a scaled image of 100x100.
Starting at the base state, the
container resized to 20x100, the
image stays resized at 100x100.
Starting at the base state, the
image is changed to 10x20, the image
resizes to 100x200.
So, in other words, the image is always at least as big as the container, but will scale beyond it to maintain it's aspect ratio.
This probably isn't useful for your site, and it doesn't work in IE6. But, it is useful to get a scaled background for your view port or container.
Well, I can think of a CSS hack that will resolve this issue.
You could add the following line in your CSS file:
* html .blog_list div.postbody img { width:75px; height: SpecifyHeightHere; }
The above code will only be seen by IE6.
The aspect ratio won't be perfect, but you could make it look somewhat normal.
If you really wanted to make it perfect, you would need to write some javascript that would read the original picture width, and set the ratio accordingly to specify a height.
The only way to do explicit scaling in CSS is to use tricks such as found here.
IE6 only, you could also use filters (check out PNGFix). But applying them automatically to the page will need javascript, though that javascript could be embedded in the CSS file.
If you are going to require javascript, then you might want to just have javascript fill in the missing value for the height by inspecting the image once the content has loaded. (Sorry I do not have a reference for this technique).
Finally, and pardon me for this soapbox, you might want to eschew IE6 support in this matter. You could add _width: auto after your width: 75px rule, so that IE6 at least renders the image reasonably, even if it is the wrong size.
I recommend the last solution simply because IE6 is on the way out: 20% and going down almost a percent a month. Also, I note that your site is recreational and in the UK. Both of these help the demographic lean to be away from IE6: IE6 usage drops nearly 40% during weekends (no citation sorry), and UK has a much lower IE6 demographic (again no citation, sorry).
Good luck!
I'm looking for a JavaScript library that can create round corners on div tags with a transparent background, such that the background colour/image of the parent element is visible at the rounded corners. For an example of rounded corners without a transparent background, have a look at the left menu on this page. Notice that the background of the parent element is not shown at the corners of the menu items.
I need this to work in IE7+ and FF3+ (ideally the other browsers too), and I'd prefer a JQuery plugin.
Does anyone have any good resources or plugins that would help?
JQuery Corner?
I tried 2 different JQuery corner-rounding plugins. This one didn't work in either FF or IE and this one only worked in FF.
However, I found a non-JQuery library that worked perfectly in both, DD_roundies.
It's got a lot of limitations... but the Transparent Background Corners plugin might work in your scenario.
If you can, however, I'd suggest actually doing all the rounding server-side with CSS. It's all just divs within divs, with different padding for the corner divs. It gets rid of the huge performance hit that Safari and IE will take if you have lots of rounding to do, and allows you to have the page still look stylish for your users who don't/can't enable javascript.
I've got a <div> that needs a gradient background. However, the size of the div is variable, which lands me back in "can't do gradients in CSS" land.
However, I'm pretty sure this is possible in jQuery, I just can't seem to find a decent example. Does anyone have something they can point my way?
Thanks.
in case that someone needs this, and if you think that the jQuery plugin is too heavy, you can use this
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#00A622', endColorstr='#00B726'); /* for IE */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#00A622), to(#00B726)); /* for webkit browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #00A622, #00B726); /* for firefox 3.6+ */
While this will most likely give you precisely what you want, there seem to be quite a few potential collisions. Give it a shot, though; if it fails, I recommend generating the gradient server-side.
Not Jquery but a suggestion: you could generate your gradient with SVG: http://www.w3schools.com/svg/svg_grad_linear.asp
The Background Canvas plugin lets you do that sort of thing and more.
Is it absolutely necessary to generate the gradient rather than simply create one in your favorite graphics program? Might be more efficient to save resources by simply tiling a graphic.
Why not calculate the gradiant to be larger than the div and hide the excess in overflow so on resize the rest is revealed?