I have a situation where, in normal CSS circumstances, a fixed div would be positioned exactly where it is specified (top:0px, left:0px).
This does not seem to be respected if I have a parent that has a translate3d transform. Am I not seeing something? I have tried other webkit-transform like style and transform origin options but had no luck.
I have attached a JSFiddle with an example where I would have expected the yellow box be at the top corner of the page rather than inside of the container element.
You can find below a simplified version of the fiddle:
#outer {
position:relative;
-webkit-transform:translate3d(0px, 20px , 0px);
height: 300px;
border: 1px solid #5511FF;
padding: 10px;
background: rgba(100,180,250, .8);
width: 80%;
}
#middle{
position:relative;
border: 1px dotted #445511;
height: 300px;
padding: 5px;
background: rgba(250,10,255, .6);
}
#inner {
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #333;
height: 20px;
left: 0px;
background: rgba(200,180,80, .8);
margin: 5px;
padding: 5px;
}
<div id="container">
Blue: Outer, <br>
Purple: Middle<br>
Yellow: Inner<br>
<div id="outer">
<div id="middle">
<div id="inner">
Inner block
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
How can I make translate3d work with fixed-positioned children?
This is because the transform creates a new local coordinate system, as per W3C spec:
In the HTML namespace, any value other than none for the transform results in the creation of both a stacking context and a containing block. The object acts as a containing block for fixed positioned descendants.
This means that fixed positioning becomes fixed to the transformed element, rather than the viewport.
There's not currently a work-around that I'm aware of.
It is also documented on Eric Meyer's article: Un-fixing Fixed Elements with CSS Transforms.
As Bradoergo suggested, just get the window scrollTop and add it to the absolute position top like:
function fix_scroll() {
var s = $(window).scrollTop();
var fixedTitle = $('#fixedContainer');
fixedTitle.css('position','absolute');
fixedTitle.css('top',s + 'px');
}fix_scroll();
$(window).on('scroll',fix_scroll);
This worked for me anyway.
I had a flickering on my fixed top nav when items in the page were using transform, the following applied to my top nav resolved the jumping/flickering issue:
#fixedTopNav {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
transform: translateZ(0);
-webkit-transform: translateZ(0);
}
Thanks to this answer on SO
In Firefox and Safari you can use position: sticky; instead of position: fixed; but it will not work in other browsers. For that you need javascript.
In my opinion, the best method to deal with this is to apply the same translate, but break children that need to be fixed out of their parent (translated) element; and then apply the translate to a div inside the position: fixed wrapper.
The results look something like this (in your case):
<div style='position:relative; border: 1px solid #5511FF;
-webkit-transform:translate3d(0px, 20px , 0px);
height: 100px; width: 200px;'>
</div>
<div style='position: fixed; top: 0px;
box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #333;
height: 20px; left: 0px;'>
<div style='-webkit-transform:translate3d(0px, 20px, 0px);'>
Inner block
</div>
</div>
JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/hju4nws1/
While this may not be ideal for some use cases, typically if you're fixing a div you probably could care less about what element is its parent/where it falls in the inheritance tree in your DOM, and seems to solve most of the headache - while still allowing both translate and position: fixed to live in (relative) harmony.
I ran across the same problem. The only difference is that my element with 'position: fixed' had its 'top' and 'left' style properties set from JS. So I was able to apply a fix:
var oRect = oElement.getBoundingClientRect();
oRect object will contain real (relative to view port) top and left coordinates. So you can adjust your actual oElement.style.top and oElement.style.left properties.
I have an off canvas sidebar that uses -webkit-transform: translate3d. This was preventing me from placing a fixed footer on the page. I resolved the issue by targeting a class on the html page that is added to the tag on initialization of the sidebar and then writing a css :not qualifier to state "-webkit-transform: none;" to the html tag when that class is not present on the html tag. Hope this helps someone out there with this same issue!
Try to apply opposite transform to the child element:
<div style='position:relative; border: 1px solid #5511FF;
-webkit-transform:translate3d(0px, 20px , 0px);
height: 100px; width: 200px;'>
<div style='position: fixed; top: 0px;
-webkit-transform:translate3d(-100%, 0px , 0px);
box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #333;
height: 20px; left: 0px;'>
Inner block
</div>
</div>
Add a dynamic class while the element transforms.$('#elementId').addClass('transformed').
Then go on to declare in css,
.translat3d(#x, #y, #z) {
-webkit-transform: translate3d(#X, #y, #z);
transform: translate3d(#x, #y, #z);
//All other subsidaries as -moz-transform, -o-transform and -ms-transform
}
then
#elementId {
-webkit-transform: none;
transform: none;
}
then
.transformed {
#elementId {
.translate3d(0px, 20px, 0px);
}
}
Now position: fixed when provided with a top and z-index property values on a child element just work fine and stay fixed until the parent element transforms. When the transformation is reverted the child element pops as fixed again. This should easen the situation if you are actually using a navigation sidebar that toggles open and closes upon a click, and you have a tab-set which should stay sticky as you scroll down the page.
One way to deal with this is to apply the same transform to the fixed element:
<br>
<div style='position:relative; border: 1px solid #5511FF;
-webkit-transform:translate3d(0px, 20px , 0px);
height: 100px; width: 200px;'>
<div style='position: fixed; top: 0px;
-webkit-transform:translate3d(0px, 20px , 0px);
box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #333;
height: 20px; left: 0px;'>
Inner block
</div>
</div>
Related
You know those three lines in the bottom corner of a textarea / div that indicate it can be resized? The ones like these. I want to restyle this icon so the resize functionality of my div is much more obvious. Perhaps something like this. How do I remove these lines while retaining the resize functionality of my div?
I've tried googling and searching SO. The closest I found to someone else asking the same question was this guy, but the best answer suggested turning off resize altogether, which is not what I want.
Obs: This answer is for WebKit only, couldn't find for other browsers nor testing with their - names worked.
Not with standard css. The resizer widget, like scrollbars, is typically from OS. You may be able to style it with custom browser selectors, however, that depends on the browser. Webkit can do some limited styling by using the ::-webkit-resizer selector.
textarea::-webkit-resizer {
background-image: url(http://i.imgur.com/hQZDwHs.png);
}
<textarea></textarea>
Also, you can set background-color
textarea::-webkit-resizer {
background-color: red;
}
<textarea></textarea>
Extra
You can read emulating frame-resize behavior with divs using jQuery
without using jQuery UI post to emulate frame-resize, here you
will have more possibilities.
-moz-resizer does not work on Firefox 46.0.1. Fiddle.
All (or most of) Shadow DOM selectors.
You can have a textarea set to a auto resize and removing the resize handler: Follow instructions here:
https://css-tricks.com/examples/TextareaTricks/
Note that this icon is generated by browser and is not a part of HTML Spec. So you can hide or show it, but you cant change its appearance.
Hope it helps.
html
<div class="form-group resizer">
<div class="arrow-resizer-textarea"></div>
<textarea id="mytextArea" class="form-control" placeholder="text here....."></textarea>
</div>
sass
textarea {
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
min-width: 1141px;
min-height: 58px;
}
.resizer {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
&:after {
content: "";
border-top: 8px solid #1c87c7;
border-left: 8px solid transparent;
border-right: 8px solid transparent;
-webkit-transform: rotate(-45deg);
z-index: 1;
opacity: 0.5;
position: absolute;
bottom: 1px;
right: -3px;
pointer-events: none;
}
}
.arrow-resizer-textarea {
height: 0;
width: 0;
border-top: 8px solid #1c87c7;
border-left: 8px solid transparent;
border-right: 8px solid transparent;
-webkit-transform: rotate(-45deg);
position: absolute;
bottom: 1px;
right: -3px;
pointer-events: none;
z-index: 2;
}
This jsfiddle..
https://jsfiddle.net/9e1wd245/12/
..demonstrates a browser behavior I'd like to understand better than I do.
If you remove the positioning from the crumbtray and the crumb, the hover- selected CSS is applied when the crumb is hovered and mouseover events are triggered when the mouse enters the crumb.
With the positioning in place, neither of those things happen; but if you hover over the top border, the hover CSS is applied and the mouseover event is triggered.
(In this situation, the approach used uses positioning to enable z-indexing so that the curved right border will appear over the left side of the adjacent elements.)
Note that you can take the negative right margin off the crumb, and the problem persists, so it isn't being caused by the negative margin.
I realize I could use an svg for a crumb, or maybe use a couple of separator elements over a shared background rather than using positioning and z-indexing, but why doesn't this work? Is there something in the spec that says hover and mouseover events aren't expected to work for positioned elements? Is there something else entirely that I'm overlooking?
html:
<div class="crumbtray">
<span class="crumb">USA</span>
<span class="crumb">California</span>
<span class="crumb">Sacremento</span>
</div>
css:
.crumbtray {
position: relative;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
display: inline;
z-index: -10;
font-family: ariel, sansserif
font-size: 12px;
}
.crumb {
position: relative;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
display: inline;
border: solid 1px gray;
border-left: none;
border-radius: 0px 10px 10px 0px;
padding: 0px 8px 0 12px;
margin-right: -10px;
cursor: pointer;
background: #c3f4c6;
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #c3f4c6 0%, #96f788 8%, #98e0a4 92%, #419330 96%, #188700 100%);
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #c3f4c6 0%,#96f788 8%,#98e0a4 92%,#419330 96%,#188700 100%);
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #c3f4c6 0%,#96f788 8%,#98e0a4 92%,#419330 96%,#188700 100%);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#c3f4c6', endColorstr='#188700',GradientType=0 );
}
.crumb:hover {
background: none;
background-color: yellow;
}
.crumb:first-child {
border-left: solid 1px gray;
z-index: 60;
padding-left: 2px;
}
.crumb:nth-child(2) {
z-index: 50;
}
.crumb:nth-child(3){
z-index: 40;
}
JavaScript:
var ViewModel = {
init: function(){
console.log("ViewModel.init called");
$('.crumbtray').on('mouseover','span',function(){
console.log('mouseover crumb: ', this);
});
}
};
$(ViewModel.init);
Your problem is here:
z-index: -10;
This puts the element behind the background, which means although you can see it, the mouse can't "see" it because it is behind the (transparent) background, so it does not recieve mouseover events.
Now, it should still work, because the .crumbs have a positive z-index, above the background. It's likely that there is simply a bug, I do not believe this behaviour is documented anywhere.
It doesn't work, because you've set a negative z-index to parent element (Why did you do that?). Just remove it from there or change it to some positive value, like 1, for example.
When you set a negative z-index to element, it creates negative stacking context of all children element, so z-index width 40, 50, 60 just make sense inside it's parent, but main z-index will be negative (under body element).
So the main problem is negative z-index, you can cut it and search some information with 'negative z-index hover' keywords to clear the situation
.crumbtray {
position: relative;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
display: inline;
z-index: -10;
font-family: ariel, sansserif
font-size: 12px;
}
Example:
Link
How do I change the presentation of the "title" attribute in the browser?. By default, it just has yellow background and small font. I would like to make it bigger and change the background color.
Is there a CSS way to style the title attribute?
It seems that there is in fact a pure CSS solution, requiring only the css attr expression, generated content and attribute selectors (which suggests that it works as far back as IE8):
https://jsfiddle.net/z42r2vv0/2/
a {
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
margin-top: 20px;
}
a[title]:hover::after {
content: attr(title);
position: absolute;
top: -100%;
left: 0;
}
<a href="http://www.google.com/" title="Hello world!">
Hover over me
</a>
update w/ input from #ViROscar: please note that it's not necessary to use any specific attribute, although I've used the "title" attribute in the example above; actually my recommendation would be to use the "alt" attribute, as there is some chance that the content will be accessible to users unable to benefit from CSS.
update again I'm not changing the code because the "title" attribute has basically come to mean the "tooltip" attribute, and it's probably not a good idea to hide important text inside a field only accessible on hover, but if you're interested in making this text accessible the "aria-label" attribute seems like the best place for it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/ARIA_Techniques/Using_the_aria-label_attribute
You can't style an actual title attribute
How the text in the title attribute is displayed is defined by the browser and varies from browser to browser. It's not possible for a webpage to apply any style to the tooltip that the browser displays based on the title attribute.
However, you can create something very similar using other attributes.
You can make a pseudo-tooltip with CSS and a custom attribute (e.g. data-title)
For this, I'd use a data-title attribute. data-* attributes are a method to store custom data in DOM elements/HTML. There are multiple ways of accessing them. Importantly, they can be selected by CSS.
Given that you can use CSS to select elements with data-title attributes, you can then use CSS to create :after (or :before) content that contains the value of the attribute using attr().
Styled tooltip Examples
Bigger and with a different background color (per question's request):
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
background-color: #00FF00;
color: #111;
font-size: 150%;
position: absolute;
padding: 1px 5px 2px 5px;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #222222;
opacity: 0;
border: 1px solid #111111;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
Link with styled tooltip (bigger and with a different background color, as requested in the question)<br/>
Link with normal tooltip
More elaborate styling (adapted from this blog post):
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
position: absolute;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
padding: 4px 4px 4px 8px;
color: #222;
white-space: nowrap;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
border-radius: 5px;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0, #f8f8f8),color-stop(1, #cccccc));
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #f8f8f8, #cccccc);
opacity: 0;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
Link with styled tooltip<br/>
Link with normal tooltip
Known issues
Unlike a real title tooltip, the tooltip produced by the above CSS is not, necessarily, guaranteed to be visible on the page (i.e. it might be outside the visible area). On the other hand, it is guaranteed to be within the current window, which is not the case for an actual tooltip.
In addition, the pseudo-tooltip is positioned relative to the element that has the pseudo-tooltip rather than relative to where the mouse is on that element. You may want to fine-tune where the pseudo-tooltip is displayed. Having it appear in a known location relative to the element can be a benefit or a drawback, depending on the situation.
You can't use :before or :after on elements which are not containers
There's a good explanation in this answer to "Can I use a :before or :after pseudo-element on an input field?"
Effectively, this means that you can't use this method directly on elements like <input type="text"/>, <textarea/>, <img>, etc. The easy solution is to wrap the element that's not a container in a <span> or <div> and have the pseudo-tooltip on the container.
Examples of using a pseudo-tooltip on a <span> wrapping a non-container element:
[data-title]:hover:after {
opacity: 1;
transition: all 0.1s ease 0.5s;
visibility: visible;
}
[data-title]:after {
content: attr(data-title);
background-color: #00FF00;
color: #111;
font-size: 150%;
position: absolute;
padding: 1px 5px 2px 5px;
bottom: -1.6em;
left: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px #222222;
opacity: 0;
border: 1px solid #111111;
z-index: 99999;
visibility: hidden;
}
[data-title] {
position: relative;
}
.pseudo-tooltip-wrapper {
/*This causes the wrapping element to be the same size as what it contains.*/
display: inline-block;
}
Text input with a pseudo-tooltip:<br/>
<span class="pseudo-tooltip-wrapper" data-title="input type="text""><input type='text'></span><br/><br/><br/>
Textarea with a pseudo-tooltip:<br/>
<span class="pseudo-tooltip-wrapper" data-title="this is a textarea"><textarea data-title="this is a textarea"></textarea></span><br/>
From the code on the blog post linked above (which I first saw in an answer here that plagiarized it), it appeared obvious to me to use a data-* attribute instead of the title attribute. Doing so was also suggested in a comment by snostorm on that (now deleted) answer.
Here is an example of how to do it:
a.tip {
border-bottom: 1px dashed;
text-decoration: none
}
a.tip:hover {
cursor: help;
position: relative
}
a.tip span {
display: none
}
a.tip:hover span {
border: #c0c0c0 1px dotted;
padding: 5px 20px 5px 5px;
display: block;
z-index: 100;
background: url(../images/status-info.png) #f0f0f0 no-repeat 100% 5%;
left: 0px;
margin: 10px;
width: 250px;
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
text-decoration: none
}
Link<span>This is the CSS tooltip showing up when you mouse over the link</span>
CSS can't change the tooltip appearance. It is browser/OS-dependent. If you want something different you'll have to use Javascript to generate markup when you hover over the element instead of the default tooltip.
I have found the answer here: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2012/11/how-to-create-a-simple-css3-tooltip/
my own code goes like this, I have changed the attribute name, if you maintain the title name for the attribute you end up having two popups for the same text, another change is that my text on hovering displays underneath the exposed text.
.tags {
display: inline;
position: relative;
}
.tags:hover:after {
background: #333;
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .8);
border-radius: 5px;
bottom: -34px;
color: #fff;
content: attr(data-gloss);
left: 20%;
padding: 5px 15px;
position: absolute;
z-index: 98;
width: 350px;
}
.tags:hover:before {
border: solid;
border-color: #333 transparent;
border-width: 0 6px 6px 6px;
bottom: -4px;
content: "";
left: 50%;
position: absolute;
z-index: 99;
}
<a class="tags" data-gloss="Text shown on hovering">Exposed text</a>
I thought i'd post my 20 lines JavaScript solution here. It is not perfect, but may be useful for some depending on what you need from your tooltips.
When to use it
Automatically styles the tooltip for all HTML elements with a TITLE attribute defined (this includes elements dynamically added to the document in the future)
No Javascript/HTML changes or hacks required for every tooltip (just the TITLE attribute, semantically clear)
Very light (adds about 300 bytes gzipped and minified)
You want only a very basic styleable tooltip
When NOT to use
Requires jQuery, so do not use if you don't use jQuery
Bad support for nested elements that both have tooltips
You need more than one tooltip on the screen at the same time
You need the tooltip to disappear after some time
The code
// Use a closure to keep vars out of global scope
(function () {
var ID = "tooltip", CLS_ON = "tooltip_ON", FOLLOW = true,
DATA = "_tooltip", OFFSET_X = 20, OFFSET_Y = 10,
showAt = function (e) {
var ntop = e.pageY + OFFSET_Y, nleft = e.pageX + OFFSET_X;
$("#" + ID).html($(e.target).data(DATA)).css({
position: "absolute", top: ntop, left: nleft
}).show();
};
$(document).on("mouseenter", "*[title]", function (e) {
$(this).data(DATA, $(this).attr("title"));
$(this).removeAttr("title").addClass(CLS_ON);
$("<div id='" + ID + "' />").appendTo("body");
showAt(e);
});
$(document).on("mouseleave", "." + CLS_ON, function (e) {
$(this).attr("title", $(this).data(DATA)).removeClass(CLS_ON);
$("#" + ID).remove();
});
if (FOLLOW) { $(document).on("mousemove", "." + CLS_ON, showAt); }
}());
Paste it anywhere, it should work even when you run this code before the DOM is ready (it just won't show your tooltips until DOM is ready).
Customize
You can change the var declarations on the second line to customize it a bit.
var ID = "tooltip"; // The ID of the styleable tooltip
var CLS_ON = "tooltip_ON"; // Does not matter, make it somewhat unique
var FOLLOW = true; // TRUE to enable mouse following, FALSE to have static tooltips
var DATA = "_tooltip"; // Does not matter, make it somewhat unique
var OFFSET_X = 20, OFFSET_Y = 10; // Tooltip's distance to the cursor
Style
You can now style your tooltips using the following CSS:
#tooltip {
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid red;
padding: 3px 10px;
}
A jsfiddle for custom tooltip pattern is Here
It is based on CSS Positioning and pseduo class selectors
Check MDN docs for cross-browser support of pseudo classes
<!-- HTML -->
<p>
<a href="http://www.google.com/" class="tooltip">
I am a
<span> (This website rocks) </span></a> a developer.
</p>
/*CSS*/
a.tooltip {
position: relative;
}
a.tooltip span {
display: none;
}
a.tooltip:hover span, a.tooltip:focus span {
display:block;
position:absolute;
top:1em;
left:1.5em;
padding: 0.2em 0.6em;
border:1px solid #996633;
background-color:#FFFF66;
color:#000;
}
Native tooltip cannot be styled.
That being said, you can use some library that would show styles floating layers when element is being hovered (instead of the native tooltips, and suppress them) requiring little or no code modifications...
You cannot style the default browser tooltip. But you can use javascript to create your own custom HTML tooltips.
a[title="My site"] {
color: red;
}
This also works with any attribute you want to add for instance:
HTML
<div class="my_class" anything="whatever">My Stuff</div>
CSS
.my_class[anything="whatever"] {
color: red;
}
See it work at: http://jsfiddle.net/vpYWE/1/
I've been experimenting with a way to get a page element to overlap the elements on either side of it and stay perfectly centered between them. My solution was to declare position:relative and set negative margin values roughly equal to 50% of the element's width, but the closest I've been able to come is to half the element's percentage of its parent's width:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.clap {
position:relative;
margin:auto -16.66%; // This element's share of the entire parent's width = 33.33%
color:#f00
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<span style="display:inline-block">1234567890<span class="clap">1234567890</span>1234567890</span>
</center>
</body>
</html>
I'm trying to find a CSS-only solution that will use the width of the element itself, not the width of the container. I can't use JavaScript to do this because I plan to use it as a MathJaX fix by embedding it in a \style command. (As far as I know, MathJaX does not provide for embedded HTML or JavaScript code within its formulas, so you see why this must be CSS-only. I know it's possible with scripting. Is it possible with CSS, or is my endeavor hopeless?
Update: Thanks to a suggestion from #Daiwei, I think I'm on the road to the right solution. Thanks for all your answers. Here is the revised code:
.clap {
position:absolute;
display:inline-block;
transform: translate(-50%,0);
color:#f00 // for contrast
}
I'd love to show you the results, but I can't upload a picture. Sorry.
Another update: The solution I presented above works best in an HTML/CSS context, but it breaks in a MathJaX array, matrix, or similar tabular environment. Specifically, if the element is too long, it clips on the left side. Relative positioning moves the element halfway to the left but leaves a gaping space where it used to be! Any ideas for patching it up?
One pure CSS solution is to use transform.
element
{
position: relative;
top: 50%;
transform: translateY(-50%);
}
Notes:
You can use top: 50%; for vertical and left: 50%; for horizontal.
You would then use translateY(-50%) for vertical and translateX(-50%) for horizontal centering.
You can also use this trick to align elements to the bottom or right of it's parent, like in a table-cell by using 100% instead of 50% in the css.
If you want to support older browsers, then you'll need to use prefixes for transform. I highly recommend autoprefixer in your workflow.
As the size of the element is only known after it has been styled, how should the style be able to use it? Imagine this: Some element has a width of 200% of it's own width (=double size than "normal") set in CSS. One of it's children has its width set to 100% of the parent (=our element). The default width of an element is determined by its content. Content's of our element are as width as the element itself. Our element has no width yet however, as we're waiting for it to get some default, so we can double that one. Result: Nothing will ever get any width.
Therefore: What you're trying to do is not possible. But CSS3 has its calc, maybe you can get closer to what you want to acheive using it?
I don't know if this is what you wanted to do, but here is a demo: http://cdpn.io/bgkDf
HTML
<div class="container">
<div id="box-left"></div>
<div id="box-overlap">
<div id="box-overlap-inner"></div>
</div>
<div id="box-right"></div>
</div>
CSS
.container > div {
height: 50px;
float: left;
}
#box-left {
width: 40%;
background-color: red;
}
#box-right {
width: 60%;
background-color: green;
}
#box-overlap {
width: 0;
}
#box-overlap-inner {
position: relative;
z-index: 10;
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
transform: translate(-50%,0);
background-color: rgba(0,0,255,.5);
}
"Using element's own width for calculation or percentage" In general:
(Maybe not the best solution for your issue, but an answer to your question)
At the moment,the attr function doesn't work in Chrome. That would have been nice.
But you can use variables, if you either set the parent attribute yourself, or are able to use a predefined one. That way you can use the calc() function to calculate your child attribute.
Here is an example, using the browser defined viewport size, to calculate the width of an element:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
:root {
--module-size: 33vw;
}
.clap {
display:inline-block;
width: calc(var(--module-size) / 2);
color:#f00;
border: 1px solid;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<span style="display:inline-block">1234567890
<span class="clap">1234567890</span>
1234567890</span>
</center>
</body>
This can be used in many interesting ways, to streamline your CSS. For instance with the #media style...
And if someone (like me) was trying to center the element by its parent, use this simple style:
.clap {
position:absolute;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%,0);
}
What about converting the content to divs and enclose each within another div to use
margin: auto
?
Example (each super div within its own colour and shifted a little in height for clarity):
<html>
<head>
<style>
.dl
{
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
max-width: 50%;
width: 50%;
text-align: left;
background: red;
opacity: 0.5;
}
.dls
{
margin: auto;
}
.dc
{
position: absolute;
left: 25%;
top: 10px;
max-width: 50%;
width: 50%;
text-align: center;
background: green;
opacity: 0.5;
color: white;
}
.dcs
{
margin: auto;
}
.dr
{
position: absolute;
right: 0px;
top: 20px;
max-width: 50%;
width: 50%;
text-align: right;
background: blue;
opacity: 0.5;
color: white;
}
.drs
{
margin: auto;
}
.overall-width
{
position: absolute;
left: 0%;
width:100%;
height: 20px;
margin: auto;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="overall-width">
<div class="dl">
<div class="dls">
1234567890
</div>
</div>
<div class="dc">
<div class="dcs">
1234567890
</div>
</div>
<div class="dr">
<div class="drs">
1234567890
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I'm building an html/javascript theme designer for a CMS. Elements are positioned absolutely and can be moved/resized via the mouse, and/or contain editable text whose height may be determined by the number of lines. However I'm running into the problem where a parent element's height does not expand to include its absolutely positioned children.
Minimal code (also on JSFiddle here):
<style>
div.layer { position: absolute }
div.layer1 { width: 400px; border: 1px solid #ccc }
div.layer2 { top: 15px; left: 100px; width: 100px; border: 1px solid blue }
</style>
<div class="layer layer1">container should expand to the bottom of the child.
<div class="layer layer2" contentEditable>Child with<br/>editable text.</div>
</div>
A CSS-only solution is ideal and I'm not concerned about older browsers. But I'm mostly looking for any way to prevent the need for javascript to run on every page using a created theme to set their height (since pages with the same theme may have different amounts of text).
There are already a few similar questions but their accepted answers (e.g. don't use absolute positioning) won't work in my case. Unless there is a way to have multiple layers of draggable/resizable elements without them being position: absolute.
I found a pure-css solution! In summary:
Set the child elements to position: relative instead of absolute.
Set their margin-right to be their negative width, to give them zero effective width, and make them float: left to keep them all on the same line. This makes all of them have an origin of 0, 0.
Then we can set their left and margin-top properties to position them absolutely within their parents. Note that margin-top is required instead of top because top won't push down the bottom of the parent element.
JSFiddle here or code below:
<style>
div.layer { position: relative; float: left; }
div.layer1 { width: 400px; border: 1px solid black }
div.layer2 { margin-top: 20px; left: 100px; width: 100px; margin-right: -100px; border: 1px solid blue }
div.layer3 { margin-top: 30px; left: 170px; width: 100px; margin-right: -100px; border: 1px solid red }
div.layer4 { margin-top: 30px; left: 20px; width: 60px; margin-right: -60px; border: 1px solid green }
</style>
<div class="layer layer1" style="position: relative; display: block; width: 400px; border: 1px solid black;">
Container
<div class="layer layer2" contentEditable>Edit me</div>
<div class="layer layer3">
<div class="layer layer4" contentEditable>Edit me</div>
</div>
</div>
absolute positioned elements are removed from the flow, thus ignored by other elements
the only way you have is to set the child position to position:relative, in this way it is possible to move it using right,left,top and bottom and also change parent display to display:inline-block
If you want keep the children absolutely positioned, you can use the following script to resize the container : http://jsfiddle.net/6csrV/7/
var layer1 = document.getElementsByClassName('layer1'),
i = 0, len = layer1.length, childHeight;
for(; i < len; i++) {
childHeight = layer1[i].getElementsByClassName('layer')[0].clientHeight;
layer1[i].style.height = childHeight + 'px';
}
document.addEventListener('keyup', function(e) {
if(e.target.className.indexOf('layer2') !== false) {
e.target.parentNode.style.height = e.target.clientHeight + 'px';
}
});