CSS Triangles: A Tragedy in Five Acts As alex said, borders of equal width butt up against each other at 45 degree angles: When you have no top border, it looks like this: Then you give it a width of 0… …and a height of 0… …and finally, you make the two side borders transparent: … Read more
The correct approach is to use element.getBoundingClientRect(): var rect = element.getBoundingClientRect(); console.log(rect.top, rect.right, rect.bottom, rect.left); Internet Explorer has supported this since as long as you are likely to care about and it was finally standardized in CSSOM Views. All other browsers adopted it a long time ago. Some browsers also return height and width properties, though … Read more
Actually, in this case it’s quite simple: apply the vertical align to the image. Since it’s all in one line, it’s really the image you want aligned, not the text. <!– moved “vertical-align:middle” style from span to img –> <div> <img style=”vertical-align:middle” src=”https://via.placeholder.com/60×60″ alt=”A grey image showing text 60 x 60″> <span style=””>Works.</span> </div> Tested … Read more
If you want to match only elements with both classes (an intersection, like a logical AND), just write the selectors together without spaces in between: $(‘.a.b’) The order is not relevant, so you can also swap the classes: $(‘.b.a’) So to match a div element that has an ID of a with classes b and … Read more
In light of the passage of time, as people have mentioned, you can now safely just use: li { cursor: pointer; }
Sass is a CSS pre-processor with syntax advancements. Style sheets in the advanced syntax are processed by the program, and turned into regular CSS style sheets. However, they do not extend the CSS standard itself. CSS variables are supported and can be utilized but not as well as pre-processor variables. For the difference between SCSS … Read more
The solution is to set your div to display: inline-block.
Either use a semi-transparent PNG or SVG image or use CSS: background-color: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5); Here’s an article from css3.info, Opacity, RGBA and compromise (2007-06-03). Beware that the text still needs sufficient contrast with the background, once the underlying background shines through. <p style=”background-color: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5);”> <span>Hello, World!</span> </p>
2015 update: the flexbox approach There are two other answers briefly mentioning flexbox; however, that was more than two years ago, and they don’t provide any examples. The specification for flexbox has definitely settled now. Note: Though CSS Flexible Boxes Layout specification is at the Candidate Recommendation stage, not all browsers have implemented it. WebKit … Read more
TL;DR: By default I use margin everywhere, except when I have a border or background and want to increase the space inside that visible box. To me, the biggest difference between padding and margin is that vertical margins auto-collapse, and padding doesn’t. Consider two elements one above the other each with padding of 1em. This … Read more