Questions tagged [css]
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a representation style sheet language used for describing the look and formatting of HTML (HyperText Markup Language), XML (Extensible Markup Language) documents and SVG elements including (but not limited to) colors, layout, fonts, and animations. It also describes how elements should be rendered on screen, on paper, in speech, or on other media.
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Is there a CSS parent selector?
How do I select the <li> element that is a direct parent of the anchor element?
As an example, my CSS would be something like this:
li < a.active {
property: value;
}
Obviously there are ...
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How to remove the space between inline/inline-block elements?
There will be a 4 pixel wide space between these span elements:
span {
display: inline-block;
width: 100px;
background-color: palevioletred;
}
<p>
<span> Foo </span>
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Flexbox: center horizontally and vertically
How to center div horizontally, and vertically within the container using flexbox. In below example, I want each number below each other (in rows), which are centered horizontally.
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How can I horizontally center an element?
How can I horizontally center a <div> within another <div> using CSS?
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">Foo foo</div>
</div>
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Why don't flex items shrink past content size?
I have 4 flexbox columns and everything works fine, but when I add some text to a column and set it to a big font size, it is making the column wider than it should be due to the flex property.
I ...
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Is there a "previous sibling" selector?
The plus sign selector (+) is for selecting the next adjacent sibling.
Is there an equivalent for the previous sibling?
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In CSS Flexbox, why are there no "justify-items" and "justify-self" properties?
Consider the main axis and cross axis of a flex container:
Source: W3C
To align flex items along the main axis there is one property:
justify-content
To align flex items along the cross axis there ...
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How can I vertically center a div element for all browsers using CSS?
I want to center a div vertically with CSS. I don't want tables or JavaScript, but only pure CSS. I found some solutions, but all of them are missing Internet Explorer 6 support.
<body>
<...
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CSS-only masonry layout
I need to implement a masonry layout. However, for a number of reasons I don't want to use JavaScript to do it.
Parameters:
All elements have the same width
Elements have a height that cannot be ...
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Image inside div has extra space below the image
Why in the following code the height of the div is bigger than the height of the img ? There is a gap below the image, but it doesn't seems to be a padding/margin.
What is the gap or extra space ...
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Can I combine :nth-child() or :nth-of-type() with an arbitrary selector?
Is there a way to select every nth child that matches (or does not match) an arbitrary selector? For example, I want to select every odd table row, but within a subset of the rows:
table.myClass tr....
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How can I vertically align elements in a div?
I have a div with two images and an h1. All of them need to be vertically aligned within the div, next to each other. One of the images needs to be absolute positioned within the div.
What is the CSS ...
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How can I center text (horizontally and vertically) inside a div block?
I have a div set to display:block (90px height and width), and I have some text inside.
I need the text to be aligned in the center both vertically and horizontally.
I have tried text-align:center, ...
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What is a clearfix?
Recently I was looking through some website's code, and saw that every <div> had a class clearfix.
After a quick Google search, I learned that it is for IE6 sometimes, but what actually is a ...
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Why doesnt percentage height work in HTML/CSS?
I am trying to set a <div> to a certain percentage height in CSS, but it just remains the same size as the content inside it. When I remove <!DOCTYTPE html> however, it works; the <div&...
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