Brightening an image using styles or Javascript - javascript

I would like to brighten an image on my webpage on mouseover using css or javascript.
Ive seen some examples using opacity and filters in styles but they dont seem to work for me.
Thanks in advance
CP

[UPDATE]
A pure CSS solution would be to use CSS filters:
img:hover {
filter: brightness(1.5);
}
Here we add 50% brightness to all images on hover.
Why not? You can always set the background of the parent container to #fff (white) and then lower the opacity of the image.
HTML:
<div class="white">
<img src="image.jpg" alt="Image" />
</div>
CSS:
.white { background: #fff; }
img:hover {
opacity: 0.5;
filter: alpha(opacity=50);
}
Another solution is to use a JavaScript library, such as Pixastic.

You could use CSS sprites. Create 2 versions of the image: one normal, one bright and combine them into 1 image using Photoshop or whatever you use.
There's a good explanation of what CSS sprites are here.
Of course, this may not be something you could use on your site. For example, it's probably not something you'd want to use on large images (they'd double in size). You also couldn't do it this way if the images you want to brighten come from outside sources or are uploaded by users for example. It would work well for things like navigation bar images and other UI elements.

I would use something liek:
filter: alpha(opacity=80);
opacity: 0.8;
As far as I know, this is the only way to accomplish it in CSS. Is that what you are after?

Related

Translucent effect in css or jQuery?

I've been searching for some CSS or jQuery that will achieve a translucent effect. Most of what I've seen are people using translucent as a synonym for transparent, and that's not really accurate or what I'm trying to get.
I would like a box and when this box passes over objects, it distorts the objects underneath. Think a bathroom window. It allows light to pass through, but not a clear picture. I've attached an image showing what I want to achieve.
My thinking is I would apply this effect on the top image (the white box in the sample image) but it might possibly be something else. Also, I'm pretty sure this will be javascript but I'm including CSS as an option in case there's something out there I didn't know could produce this type of thing.
Just use a transparent PNG, especially if you need a texture like your example.
Otherwise you can set the opacity of the inner div to some value < 1
As been suggested:
If you only need the effect to appear over an image (and not on top of html text etc.)
The number of images the effect should appear over is limited
Then you could prepare an alternate version of each image with the translucent effect applied, then use the alternate image inside the effect box as background image, where the background-position is calculated based on the box position.
Or you could look into this more complicated way: http://abduzeedo.com/ios7-frosted-glass-effect-html-5-and-javascript
There is an alternative to the opacity or translucent image solutions listed in the other answers. You could try using a CSS3 filter with blur effect:
img {
-webkit-filter: blur(10px);
filter: blur(10px);
}
Please note however, that this is still in the experimental phase and subject to change. It also may note be supported by all browser vendors. For a list of compatible browsers, check here.
This list from CanIUse may also be helpful for you to look at.
In addition, here is another good resource on CSS Filters.
Looks like a good candidate is the jQuery Blur plugin. Seems to do exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks for everyone's suggestions.
http://www.blurjs.com/
An extention of the idea proposed by #Dryden Long
Here is a working Example: jsFiddle
You can create a translucent version of the image in GIMP/photoshop. Then set the css background property of the child div to fixed:
.parent-div {
position:relative;
background: url(normal.png) no-repeat 0 0 ;
}
.child-div {
width: 100px;
height:100px;
background: url(distorted.png) no-repeat <X> <Y> ; /* x y relative to the parent*/
background-attachment:fixed;
}

Glowing right angle quote animation with CSS3 and/or Javascript

I'm looking to make a clever animation that makes three sucessive right angle quotes like » » » glow successively from left to right, then back to the left-most one again. I'm wondering if this might be a clever effect for other developers to use as well, and could be good Google-fodder.
The inspiration for this is obviously the slide-to-unlock screen on an iPhone, where the text glows in a progressive manner.
I do know about CSS3 animations with keyframes and have implemented these successfully before, but am not sure how to code in the part with the loop. I'm guessing Javascript is the answer here, with some kind of loop. I already have jQuery on the page I'm using so it wouldn't be anything extra to use jQuery functionality.
My HTML structure would be something like this:
<span class="glowquote"><span>»</span> <span>»</span> <span>»</span></span>
Any ideas on the best/most clever way to implement this? I realize not all browsers support CSS3 animations if they are to be used and honey badger don't care, I only need to support modern webkit and gecko implementations.
Edit 1: added span tags around each » to allow changing CSS properties individually for each right angle quote in JavaScript, as most people have done. For the guy who did the CSS3 method, not necessary!
Edit 2: Just for absolute clarity on what the goal is, the left-most one will glow a certain color first, using a CSS color:green etc. change and transition:color linear 0.4s etc, then the next one will do the same right after with maybe a short delay.
Edit 3: For further clarification, the exact animation I'm looking for looks like this, though in the example they've used a VERY hack-ish method that I don't think will work for a lot of people. I'm wondering if we are just coming up against the limitations of javascript/css3 or if there is more refinement possible. Link: http://css-tricks.com/examples/SlideToUnlock/
FINAL EDIT WITH SOLUTION SUMMARY: I decided to go with the pure CSS3 option but there are many valid options presented here that are all worthy of your time. I wish StackOverflow would allow for more than one correct answer. For anyone coming to this question from Google or elsewhere, make sure to browse the whole question to choose what may work the best for you! I figured that since this is mostly just for fun, I would feel okay leaving the Firefox & IE guys out in the dark. You can see what my final implemention was here: http://ezrahub.com/board/ at the top of the page, where it is used to expand the posting form. One quirk is that if you change the text size, you will also have to change the property background-size in your CSS stylesheet. I used background-size: 120px 50%; for mine, and if you play around with it you can see how the effect changes.
Hope everyone has fun with this and enjoy using it on your creations! Shout out to autistic moderators such as #JaredFarrish. (Why so mad?)
For the fun of it, here is a method using pure css. It has very limited support for browsers.
.glowquote {
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, black 0%, green 40%, green 60%, black 100%);
background-size: auto 50%;
padding: 0 100px;
-webkit-background-clip: text;
-webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
-webkit-animation: gradient-animation infinite 1s linear;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/grc4/uF8H2/3/
Edit: The jsfiddle now partly works in firefox. The gradient animation works correctly, and the only thing that does't work is the text clipping (-moz-background-clip:text doesn't exist). This could be solved by using an image mask over the top of the background.
First, I'd put spans around the individual arrows so that you can change their CSS settings individually:
<span class="glowquote"><span>»</span> <span>»</span> <span>»</span></span>
Then, assuming you're using jQuery UI (because as far as I know core jQuery won't animate colours) you can do something like the following:
function doGlow(numTimes) {
var $arrows = $("span.glowquote span");
function nextGlow(i) {
$arrows.eq(i).animate({
color: "green"
}, 400).animate({
color: "black"
}, 400, function() {
i = (i + 1) % $arrows.length;
if (i === 0) numTimes--;
if (numTimes > 0) nextGlow(i);
});
}
nextGlow(0);
}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/KrL44/1
(Or here is the original version of my demo that just kept looping indefinitely: http://jsfiddle.net/KrL44/)
try this:
html:
<span class="glowquote"><span>»</span> <span>»</span> <span>»</span> </span>
js:
$(document).ready(function(){
var i = 0;
function run() {
$('.glowquote span:eq('+ i +')').animate({color: 'green'}, 500, function(){
$(this).animate({color: 'black'}, 500);
i++;
if (i > 2) { i = 0 }
run()
})
}
run()
})
http://jsfiddle.net/wQ9AT/

CSS - Extra background image for when the first image doesn't load?

Okay, let's say you have something like this:
<span class="image" style="background-image: url('http://www.example.com/images/image1.png')"></span>
Every CSS tutorial I've ever read has covered the concept of using a background color after the background-image code, which of course takes the place of the image when one is unavailable, but...
How do you specify a backup background-image - one that should be displayed if the image referenced is unavailable? If there's no CSS trick for this, maybe JavaScript could handle it?
In modern browsers you can chain background images and have more than one on each node. You can even chain background-position and background-repeat etc!
This means you can declare your first image (which is the fallback) and then the second one appears over it, if it exists.
background-color: black;
background-image: url("https://via.placeholder.com/300x300?text=Top Image"), url("https://via.placeholder.com/300x300?text=Failed To Load");
background-position: 0 0, 0 0;
background-repeat: no-repeat, no-repeat;
JFIDDLE DEMO
Simple answer:
You could either nest the span inside another span - with the outer span set to use the backup background image. If the inside span's background isn't available, then you'll see the outside one's
Better, more difficult answer:
You could achieve a similar result in pure CSS, by adding some psuedo content before the span, and then styling that to have the fallback background. However, this usually takes some trial and error to get it right;
Something lile
span.image:before{content:" "; background:url(backup.png); display: block; position:absolute;}
Well, I know that the actual tag has onload, onerror, and onabort events.
You could try loading it in an image, then if that succeeds, use JS to set the background property of the body.
EDIT: Never mind. I like his answer better.
Just declare the preferred default image after your background declaration:
.image
{
background: #000 url('http://www.example.com/images/image1.png') 0 0 no-repeat;
width: xxpx;
height: xxpx;
background-image: url('http://www.example.com/images/image1.png');
}
<span class="image"></span>
idk the dimensions of your img, so they are "xxpx"
working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/jalbertbowdenii/rJWwW/1/

Fading a border (css)

Here is a picture of what I am working with:
I need the borders below the vertical menu bar (on the left) to fade out (the one going up and the one going down). How would I make these two borders fade out? It seems kind of blocky now. I prefer not to use JavaScript but I will probably do what is necessary (I'm trying to make the site as light weight as possible).
EDIT
By fade, I do mean over space, not time.
You can use two fade-out images as background-image
li.edge_top, li.edge_bottom {
background-position: right;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
li.edge_top {
background-image: url:('fadeout_top.png');
}
li.edge_bottom {
background-image: url:('fadeout_bottom.png');
}
You can make a bunch of 1px tall blocks with successively lighter border-right colors.
(Assume you mean "fade" as in over space, not time)
You could try the new CSS3 border-right-image attribute (http://www.css3.info/preview/border-image/) with a tall gradient PNG. However, this isn't going to be widely supported in most browsers. You're probably better off creating an image with the right gradient and setting it as the background-image on the .edge_bottom and .edge_top css classes (be sure to remove the existing border from those classes, too)
CSS3 gradients to the rescue!
Live Demo
Note: Gradients are only set up for Firefox. I can't test Webkit, but it should be pretty much the same.
This will remove it, these pseudo elements are not supported in older browsers
ul.vertical_menu > li:first-child {
border-right:none;
}
ul.vertical_menu > li:last-child {
border-right:none;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/5Ceb5/

PNG transparency issue in IE8

I'm having problems with a transparent PNG image showing black dithered pixel artifacts around the edge of the non transparent part of the image. It only does this in Internet Explorer and it only does it from a Javascript file it is used in.
Here's what I'm talking about...
http://70.86.157.71/test/test3.htm (link now dead)
...notice the girl in the bottom right corner. She has artifacts around her in IE8 (I haven't tested it in previous versions of IE, but I'm assuming it probably does the same). It works perfectly in Firefox and Chrome. The image is loaded from a Javascript file to produce the mouseover effect.
If you load the image all by itself, it works fine.
Here's the image...
http://70.86.157.71/test/consultant2.png
How to fix this?
The image was produced in Photoshop CS3.
I've read things about removing the Gama, but that apparently was in previous versions of Photoshop and when I load it in TweakPNG, it doesn't have Gama.
FIXED!
I've been wrestling with the same issue, and just had a breakthrough! We've established that if you give the image a background color or image, the png displays properly on top of it. The black border is gone, but now you've got an opaque background, and that pretty much defeats the purpose.
Then I remembered a rgba to ie filter converter I came across. (Thanks be to Michael Bester). So I wondered what would happen if I gave my problem pngs an ie filtered background emulating rgba(255,255,255,0), fully expecting it not to work, but lets try it anyway...
.item img {
background: transparent;
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#00FFFFFF,endColorstr=#00FFFFFF)"; /* IE8 */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#00FFFFFF,endColorstr=#00FFFFFF); /* IE6 & 7 */
zoom: 1;
}
Presto! Goodbye black, and hello working alpha channels in ie7 and 8. Fade your pngs in and out, or animate them across the screen - it's all good.
I put this into a jQuery plugin to make it more modular (you supply the transparent gif):
$.fn.pngFix = function() {
if (!$.browser.msie || $.browser.version >= 9) { return $(this); }
return $(this).each(function() {
var img = $(this),
src = img.attr('src');
img.attr('src', '/images/general/transparent.gif')
.css('filter', "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled='true',sizingMethod='crop',src='" + src + "')");
});
};
Usage:
$('.my-selector').pngFix();
Note: It works also if your images are background images. Just apply the function on the div.
I know this thread has been dead some time, but here is another answer to the old ie8 png background issue.
You can do it in CSS by using IE's proprietary filtering system like this as well:
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled='true',sizingMethod='scale',src='pathToYourPNG');
DEMO
you will need to use a blank.gif for the 'first' image in your background declaration. This is simply to confuse ie8 and prevent it from using both the filter and the background you have set, and only use the filter. Other browsers support multiple background images and will understand the background declaration and not understand the filter, hence using the background only.
You may also need to play with the sizingMethod in the filter to get it to work the way you want.
I had the same thing happen to a PNG with transparency that was set as the background-image of an <A> element with opacity applied.
The fix was to set the background-color of the <A> element.
So, the following:
filter: alpha(opacity=40);
-moz-opacity: 0.4;
-khtml-opacity: 0.4;
opacity: 0.4;
background-image: ...;
Turns into:
/* "Overwritten" by the background-image. However this fixes the IE7 and IE8 PNG-transparency-plus-opacity bug. */
background-color: #FFFFFF;
filter: alpha(opacity=40);
-moz-opacity: 0.4;
-khtml-opacity: 0.4;
opacity: 0.4;
background-image: ...;
PNG transparency prоblеm in IE8
Dan's solution worked for me. I was trying to fade a div with a background image. Caveats: you cannot fade the div directly, instead fade a wrapper image. Also, add the following filters to apply a background image:
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#00FFFFFF,endColorstr=#00FFFFFF)progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled='true',sizingMethod='image',src='assets/img/bgSmall.png')"; /* IE8 */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#00FFFFFF,endColorstr=#00FFFFFF)progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled='true',sizingMethod='image',src='assets/img/bgSmall.png'); /* IE6 & 7 */
Please note that the paths in the src attributes of the filters are absolute, and not relative to the css sheet.
I also added:
background: transparent\9;
This causes IE to ignore my earlier declaration of the actual background image for the other browsers.
Thanks Dan!!!
please try below code.
background: transparent\0/;
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#00FFFFFF,endColorstr=#00FFFFFF)progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled='true',sizingMethod='image',src='assets/img/bgSmall.png'); /* IE7 */
-ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#00FFFFFF,endColorstr=#00FFFFFF)progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(enabled='true',sizingMethod='image',src='assets/img/bgSmall.png')"; /* IE8 */
Dan Tello fix worked well for me.
One additional issue I found with IE8 was that if the PNG was held in a DIV with smaller CSS width or height dimensions than the PNG then the black edge prob was re-triggered.
Correcting the width and height CSS or removing them altogether fixed.
I use a CSS fix rather than JS to workaround my round cornered layer with transparent PNG inside
Try
.ie .whateverDivWrappingTheImage img {
background: #ffaabb; /* this should be the background color matching your design actually */
filter: chroma(#ffaabb); /* and this should match whatever value you put in background-color */
}
This may require more work on ie9 or later.
Just want to add (since I googled for this problem, and this question popped first) IE6 and other versions render PNG transparency very ugly. If you have PNG image that is alpha transparent (32bit) and want to show it over some complex background, you can never do this simply in IE. But you can display it correctly over a single colour background as long as you set that PNG images (or divs) CSS attribute background-color to be the same as the parents background-color.
So this will render black where image should be alpha transparent, and transparent where alpha byte is 0:
<div style="background-color: white;">
<div style="background-image: url(image.png);"/>
</div>
And this will render correctly (note the background-color attribute in the inner div):
<div style="background-color: white;">
<div style="background-color: white; background-image: url(image.png);"/>
</div>
Complex alternative to this which enables alpha image over a complex background is to use AlphaImageLoader to load up and render image of the certain opacity. This works until you want to change that opacity... Problem in detail and its solution (javascript) can be found HERE.
My scenario:
I had a background image that had a
24bit alpha png that was set to an
anchor link.
The anchor was being
faded in on hover using Jquery.
eg.
a.button { background-image: url(this.png; }
I found that applying the mark-up provided by Dan Tello didn't work.
However, by placing a span within the anchor element, and setting the background-image to that element I was able to achieve a good result using Dan Tello's markup.
eg.
a.button span { background-image: url(this.png; }

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