I'm currently coding a jQuery slideshow effect and need a bit of help.
I have all of the sideshow functionality working properly, my only problem is that I want to have my navigation arrows to be automatically positioned on either side of the slideshow box (960px, centered on the screen).
The end product should be something like Kriesi does here: http://www.kriesi.at/themes/upscale/
I've looked at his code, but can't quite figure it out. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!
I don't understand what you mean by "I can't quite figure out how to initially position them over the slideshow... If I do it in CSS, then it won't work on all screen resolutions."...?
If you position the arrows relative to the slideshow, there will be no issue. For example to place them at the top left and top right corners, include the following in your styles:
#slideshowcontainer{
width: 960px;
height: 400px;
position: relative;
}
#leftarrow{
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: -40px; /* position the arrow 40px to the left of the slideshow */
}
#rightarrow{
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
right: -40px; /* position the arrow 40px to the right of the slideshow */
}
Obviously you will need to adjust the values to suit, depending on the size of your arrows and where you want them etc
Arrows are situated in . That block is positioned as absolute with top value as 50% - 12px (margin-top: -12px);
Then, there is a list which contains images and other data and affect height of it's parent .
So, basically, in the code, when user clicks on an arrow, jQUery probabaly uses outerHeight() to get height of li elements in and then uses animate() to change height of the which affects height of the and that in it's turn smoothly changes position of the arrows.
Personally, i think it's a bad designing when arrows change it's position. Very annoying when you have to move mouse up and down every time you want to see the next slide.
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I'm trying to make my application responsive.
For that, the first thing I did was placing my buttons and logo by using percentages instead of pixels.
The problem is that when I resize my window to a smaller one, the buttons and logo are moving but they are also cropped on the side like this:
Here is what the button looks like before resizing:
And here is what it looks like after resizing to a smaller one:
How can I make it move but still appear in its entirety ?
Here is my CSS for this button:
#next-step{
position: absolute;
top: 90%;
left:88%
}
Change the CSS as follows:
#next-step{
position: absolute;
bottom: 1em;
right: 1em;
}
By using bottom and right instead of top and left, the reference will be the bottom right corner of your container. This way your button will never crop. You can play with the values to adjust the position of the button as you like.
Changing the position values to bottom and right might help you out. You could try this CSS code and maybe adjust the percentage values to your liking:
#next-step{
position: absolute;
bottom: 10%;
right: 12%;
}
This comes down to the way you're positioning the element.
#next-step{
position: absolute;
top: 90%;
left:88%
}
Is positioning the button based on the top-left corner.
If you were to instead use:
#next-step{
position: absolute;
bottom: 10%;
right:12%
}
It'll set the position to a similar place on-screen, but based on the bottom-right corner (you'll need to fine tune the numbers).
However, one thing to note: when using percentages, once you get below a certain screen size it can get messy, so it'd be worth looking at media queries too.
A bit weak on the CSS front. I am trying to achieve the exact efferct as on http://www.usatoday.com/. The left and right navigation arrows persist vertically even if you scroll up and down the page vertically. Does anyone have any sample code to do that?
You'll wanted to give them position: fixed. If you'd like them to be centered vertically you could do something like this*:
.nav-arrow {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
margin: auto;
}
See this codepen demo
*you'll need to be sure to give them a specified height
I have an issue that only affect Chrome. Furthermore its only visible when the screen is at certain widths.
I've created a fiddle that can replicate the issue.
http://jsfiddle.net/T8LvA/63/
When you rollover the red box the width of the parent is animated to reveal more of the red box.
You may need to adjust the width of the html pane several times before you see the wobble,
Any thoughts on how best to resolve this?
Thanks
Use float:right instead of positioning it absolutely.
http://jsfiddle.net/T8LvA/70/
It happens because when you change the width, it extends to the right - then it's reflowed and moves back to the left to the correct position, which causes the wobble. Floating it to the right always keeps it there.
To clarify: you'll need to replace position: absolute width float: right on both #widget and .hidden for the correct result.
if you use postion you need use left and top, in this case it is useless.
Try fx you css in this way
#wrapper{
width: 100%; // was 600px
height: 100px;
margin: 0 auto;
//position: relative;
}
I've having an issue with the background images i have embedded into my carousel. click here I've noticed when i click from one slide to another the background image on my site moves out of place. The margin-top for my carousel is current set to margin-top:-275px; and the background image is set to margin-top:-64px; I am slight concerned about these settings.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem?
In order to activate the slides click the thin red tab under the nav bar
I guess that's because you have
.rslides li {
top:0;
}
It does nothing with position:relative (and the current slide has it), but it moves down the slide with position:absolute (hidden slides).
When you click a tab, there's a moment in which the new one is fading in, but it doesn't have position:relative yet. Then, in that moment, the new slide isn't where you want.
So remove that line.
The jumping is occurring because you are switching the LI items from position: absolute; to position: relative; at the end of the animation toggle. This can be avoided by removing your CSS rule:
.rslides li { left: 0; top: 0; }
Specifying width and height is fine, but as soon as you specify left and top - then switch from relative to absolute positioning, you get that jump you're seeing.
As for the positioning of each panel - it has to do with the way you are laying out your boxes. The sizes you are specifying are not large enough for the content you are providing. For instance: <div id="header"> is 37px tall, which is the appropriate size for the social media buttons, but you also have it as the container for the #nav-menu UL - which is another 102px tall.
It appears that in order to correct this and make things overlap, you are using negative margins - which is getting you all thrown off.
My suggestion would be to use a standardized layout system, such as any of the following:
http://cssgrid.net/
http://960.gs/
http://www.1kbgrid.com/
http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/grid.php
And use it to perform your layout tasks, rather than trying to self-craft overlapping layers with mixed absolute/relative positioning.
Alternatively, if you're going to go the overlapping layers route (again, not suggested), really commit to it. Position things absolutely throughout the layout.
In order to accomplish this, you might consider CSS rules like:
#header {
display: block;
position: absolute;
left: 50%; top: 0px;
height: 139px; /* Your Social media links height + nav buttons height */
width: 1018px; /* Your current width */
margin-left: -509px; /* Half the width - centers on page */
}
Again - this is MUCH more work, MUCH harder to maintain and MUCH less elegant - but will yield you at least a consistent spacing / sizing.
I found this awesome .js called kinetic. I've been messing with the html, css for sometime now and am unable to set the container to full screen.
http://designobvio.us/v4design/demo.html
I've set all the parents to 100% height and tried a fullscreen jQuery. Unfortunately still no luck.
I've paired down the code as much as possible for readability. As you can see I've set the height to just 400px because it just goes crazy otherwise. If there's any thing else i can offer as support, please don't hesitate to ask.
As a second request would anyone have any idea how to set the border to inside. Or make sure that the width fits nicely with borders as is?
You can position your #wrapper div absolutely and just stretch it in all directions with the top, right, bottom, left properties like so:
CSS
#wrapper {
border: 5px solid #000000;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 0;
}
With this method the borders play nicely with the positioning, but if you want to place them inside your container you can set the border style to inset instead of solid. Also, your control buttons will disappear so to make them pop in front of your image just set them to position:relative and give them a large z-index so they appear on top of everything else.