Web Design Course: CSS lecture 5

Web Programming and
Design
CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)
By: Gheyath M. Othman

CSS Layout (The Position Property)
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The position property specifies the type of positioning method used for an element .
There are four different position values:
• static
• relative
• fixed
• absolute
Elements are then positioned using the top, bottom, left, and right properties.
However, these properties will not work unless the position property is set first.
They also work differently depending on the position value.

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position: static;
• HTML elements are positioned static by default. It doesn’t affected by the
top, bottom, left, and right properties.
• An element with position: static; is not positioned in any special way; it is
always positioned according to the normal flow of the page:
This <div> element has position: static;

Property (position:static;)
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Example:
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head>
<style>
div.static {
position: static;
border: 3px solid #8AC007;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>position: static;</h2>
<p>An element with position: static; is not positioned in any
special way; it is
always positioned according to the normal flow of the page:</p>
<div class="static">
This div element has position: static;
</div>
</body>
</html>
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position: relative;
• An element with position: relative; is positioned relative to its normal
position.
• Setting the top, right, bottom, and left properties of a relatively-positioned
element will cause it to be adjusted away from its normal position. Other
content will not be adjusted to fit into any gap left by the element.

Property (position:relative;)
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Example:
<style>
div.relative {
position: relative;
left: 180px;
max-width:300px;
top:0px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>position: relative;</h2>
<p>An element with position: relative; is positioned relative to
its normal position:</p>
<div class="relative">
This div element has position: relative;
</div>
<span>this is another text in span element</span>
</body></html>
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position: fixed;
• An element with position: fixed; is positioned relative to the viewport,
which means it always stays in the same place even if the page is scrolled.
The top, right, bottom, and left properties are used to position the
element.
• A fixed element does not leave a gap in the page where it would normally
have been located. like

Property (position:fixed;)
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Example:
<style>
div.fixed {
position: fixed;
bottom: 20px;
height:150px;
width: 300px;
background-color:#8AC007;
color:#FFF;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>position: fixed;</h2>
<div class="fixed">
This div element has position: fixed;</div>
<p>An element with position: fixed; is positioned relative to the viewport,
which means it always stays in the same place even if the page is
scrolled:</p>
</body></html>
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position: absolute;
• An element with position: absolute; is positioned relative to the nearest
positioned ancestor (instead of positioned relative to the viewport, like fixed).
• However; if an absolute positioned element has no positioned ancestors, it uses
the document body, and moves along with page scrolling.

Property (position:absolute;)
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Example:
<style>
div.relative { position: relative;
width: 400px;
height: 200px;
border: 3px solid #8AC007; }
div.absolute { position: absolute;
top: 80px;
right:0px;
width: 200px;
height: 100px;
border: 3px solid #8AC007; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>position: absolute;</h2>
<p>An element with position: absolute; is positioned relative to the nearest
positioned ancestor (instead of positioned relative to the viewport, like fixed):</p>
<div class="relative">This div element has position: relative;
<div class="absolute">This div element has position: absolute;</div> </div>
</body></html>
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Overlapping Elemenets
• When elements are positioned, they can overlap other elements.
• The z-index property specifies the stack order of an element (which element
should be placed in front of, or behind, the others).
• An element can have a positive or negative stack order
• An element with greater stack order is always in front of an element with a
lower stack order.
Note: If two positioned elements overlap without a z-index specified, the element
positioned last in the HTML code will be shown on top.
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Overlapping elements(z-index)
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Example:
<style>
.img1 { position: absolute;
left: 0px;
top: 0px;
z-index: 1; }
.img2 { position: absolute;
left: 0px;
top: 150px;
z-index: -1; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<img src="../smiley.gif" width="100" height="140" class="img1">
<p>Because the image has a z-index of -1, it will be placed behind the text.</p><span>
<br><h1>This is a heading</h1>
<img src="../smiley.gif" width="100" height="140" class="img2">
<p>Because the image has a z-index of -1, it will be placed behind the text.</p><span>
</body></html>
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CSS Layout (Change the cursor)
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<p>Mouse over the words to change the cursor.</p>
<span style="cursor:auto">auto</span><br>
<span style="cursor:crosshair">crosshair</span><br>
<span style="cursor:default">default</span><br>
<span style="cursor:e-resize">e-resize</span><br>
<span style="cursor:help">help</span><br>
<span style="cursor:move">move</span><br>
<span style="cursor:n-resize">n-resize</span><br>
<span style="cursor:ne-resize">ne-resize</span><br>
<span style="cursor:nw-resize">nw-resize</span><br>
<span style="cursor:pointer">pointer</span><br>
<span style="cursor:progress">progress</span><br>
<span style="cursor:s-resize">s-resize</span><br>
<span style="cursor:se-resize">se-resize</span><br>
<span style="cursor:sw-resize">sw-resize</span><br>
<span style="cursor:text"> text</span><br>
<span style="cursor:w-resize">w-resize</span><br>
<span style="cursor:wait">wait</span><br>
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CSS Opacity
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The CSS opacity property is a part of the CSS3 recommendation,
is used for transparency.
opacity: value;
The opacity property can take a value from (0.0 – 1.0) The lower value, the
more transparent .like
filter: alpha(opacity=value); /* For IE8 and earlier */

CSS Opacity (opacity: value;)
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Example:
<style>
img {
opacity: 0.4;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Image Transparency</h1>
<img src="klematis.jpg" width="150"
height="113" >
</body></html>
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
img {
opacity: 0.4;
}
img:hover {
opacity: 1.0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Image Transparency</h1>
<img src="klematis.jpg" width="150" height="113"
alt="klematis">
<img src="klematis2.jpg" width="150" height="113"
alt="klematis">
<p><b>Note:</b> In IE, a !DOCTYPE must be added
for the :hover selector to work on other elements
than the a element.</p>
</body></html>
On mouse over
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CSS Opacity (opacity:value;)
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Example:
<style>
div.Background {
background: url(klematis.jpg) repeat;
border: 2px solid black; }
div.Transbox {
margin: 30px;
background-color: #ffffff;
border: 1px solid black;
opacity:0.6; }
div.transbox p {
margin: 5%;
font-weight: bold;
text-align:center; }
</style>
</head>
<body><div class="background">
<div class="transbox">
<p>This is some text that is placed in the transparent box.</p>
</div></div>
</body></html>
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