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I need to make a simple web page using CSS however i couldn't find out some simple yet one eluding thing: a css vertical line which stretches through the page.

What i try to achive is to put a floating red vertical 1px line (which is 20 px left of the right margin) and put a floating simple logo just on top of it. The reason i need to do is that the placement of the logo should be resolution independent...

Should i use a contender div which is covering the whole page and put inside a div with low z-index ?

Can anyone give me a hint ?

Thx in advance

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  On 13/05/2013 at 12:38, yodat said:

@Uplift - is it possible to use a specific value (px) for the distance from the left side ? Like 20 px ?

If i use %, it changes with the browser size...

http://jsfiddle.net/CQfvH/1/

all i done here was added 20px whitespace after the red line and positioned it 100%, this way it will never move.

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I've hopefully fixed it for IE10, I've used a DEG instead of "right center" which might not have been valid syntax.

Although Uplifts works, I don't like the idea of an image for something like this, and it shouldn't need an extra element like the other one. :p

http://jsfiddle.net/WrjK2/6/

(Actually hold off for one minute....) Here you are...

http://jsfiddle.net/WrjK2/7/

and I still have the logo in the wrong place, but I'm sure that's trival to change. I couldn't tell what you wanted with this part.

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  On 13/05/2013 at 13:57, lunamonkey said:

Although Uplifts works, I don't like the idea of an image for something like this, and it shouldn't need an extra element like the other one. :p

It's an old method but it works, linear-gradient is not support in IE9 and below so you need to use a filter for that... at this point your creating problems rather than solving them, use the 10kb image and be done with it.

I get the whole 'it's 2013 we should be using css3 methods' .. but definitely no point in over coding for this when it can be solved in a matter of seconds using an image.

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  On 13/05/2013 at 17:03, ashpowell said:

I don't get it, theres no need to use images or css3 from what I assume he wanted, whats wrong with this?

http://jsfiddle.net/WrjK2/5/

Maybe I read wrong or something :/

I'd personally prefer not to make an extra element for purely aesthetic purposes. "Logo" has a meaning and deserves it's space in the markup. "Rightbar" doesn't mean anything.

Also, Uplift... 10KB for no reason is a real waste. 10KB could provide the whole page's markup and basic "reset" styles once gzipped. I doubt the image was really that large though... 10KB?

Bandwidth is more valuable than that for such a simple non-essential design feature. No one will miss it. Of course, you can provide the image as a fallback, but still include the CSS3 for the browsers that support it. Win-Win! :yes:

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If you'd rather not have the extra element (dont see why not, it wont even add a kb to your page, and class names don't have to mean anything :s), you could just apply the styles to the logo div, and set the logo as the background image in x position

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  On 13/05/2013 at 19:51, ashpowell said:

If you'd rather not have the extra element (dont see why not, it wont even add a kb to your page, and class names don't have to mean anything :s), you could just apply the styles to the logo div, and set the logo as the background image in x position

That might not work with the style of the logo DIV. It appears to have a left border of 3-4 pixels, so if you wanted to set the single pixel as the style of the logo DIV and set it to 100% height of the page, the second border wouldn't be able to only ~80px high. The two styles appear to need to be on two different elements. :s

I don't want to get into semantics of naming, superfluous elements and page weight arguments as that's a whole different issue. :D However, I think that at the moment, a combination of mine and uplift's solutions would work with the requirements in the opening post.

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  On 13/05/2013 at 16:06, Uplift said:

It's an old method but it works, linear-gradient is not support in IE9 and below so you need to use a filter for that... at this point your creating problems rather than solving them, use the 10kb image and be done with it.

I get the whole 'it's 2013 we should be using css3 methods' .. but definitely no point in over coding for this when it can be solved in a matter of seconds using an image.

yeah it was something like that, not web optimised though, either way it's an insignificant number.

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  On 13/05/2013 at 20:37, lunamonkey said:

That might not work with the style of the logo DIV. It appears to have a left border of 3-4 pixels, so if you wanted to set the single pixel as the style of the logo DIV and set it to 100% height of the page, the second border wouldn't be able to only ~80px high. The two styles appear to need to be on two different elements. :s

I don't want to get into semantics of naming, superfluous elements and page weight arguments as that's a whole different issue. :D However, I think that at the moment, a combination of mine and uplift's solutions would work with the requirements in the opening post.

Wasn't being funny was just throwing ideas out there :)

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  On 13/05/2013 at 13:57, lunamonkey said:

I've hopefully fixed it for IE10, I've used a DEG instead of "right center" which might not have been valid syntax.

Although Uplifts works, I don't like the idea of an image for something like this, and it shouldn't need an extra element like the other one. :p

http://jsfiddle.net/WrjK2/6/

(Actually hold off for one minute....) Here you are...

http://jsfiddle.net/WrjK2/7/

and I still have the logo in the wrong place, but I'm sure that's trival to change. I couldn't tell what you wanted with this part.

  On 13/05/2013 at 17:03, ashpowell said:

I don't get it, theres no need to use images or css3 from what I assume he wanted, whats wrong with this?

http://jsfiddle.net/WrjK2/5/

Maybe I read wrong or something :/

Sorry guys, i've been away for work - so i can just check it out your comments.

First of all thank you very much - thx to you i saw that there are much simpler & cleaner solutions that i tried and thought...

- http://jsfiddle.net/WrjK2/5/ - in this solution with IE10 i see that there's an empty space on the top part... the red is not continous from top the bottom.

- http://jsfiddle.net/WrjK2/7/ - for this solution it works perfectly in IE10, Firefox 21 & Opera however the red line is completely missing in Chrome Release Version (26) & Nightly (28) ! Is it possible to fix it ?

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  On 16/05/2013 at 15:52, yodat said:

Sorry guys, i've been away for work - so i can just check it out your comments.

First of all thank you very much - thx to you i saw that there are much simpler & cleaner solutions that i tried and thought...

- http://jsfiddle.net/WrjK2/5/ - in this solution with IE10 i see that there's an empty space on the top part... the red is not continous from top the bottom.

- http://jsfiddle.net/WrjK2/7/ - for this solution it works perfectly in IE10, Firefox 21 & Opera however the red line is completely missing in Chrome Release Version (26) & Nightly (28) ! Is it possible to fix it ?

fixed first link: http://jsfiddle.net/WrjK2/12/

Also use a reset css!! otherwise stuff will always look different in different browsers...

Below css should be fine as reset css ;)


html,
body,
div,
span,
object,
iframe,
h1,
h2,
h3,
h4,
h5,
h6,
p,
blockquote,
pre,
abbr,
address,
cite,
code,
del,
dfn,
em,
img,
ins,
kbd,
q,
samp,
small,
strong,
sub,
sup,
var,
b,
i,
dl,
dt,
dd,
ol,
ul,
li,
fieldset,
form,
label,
legend,
table,
caption,
tbody,
tfoot,
thead,
tr,
th,
td,
article,
aside,
canvas,
details,
figcaption,
figure,
footer,
header,
hgroup,
menu,
nav,
section,
summary,
time,
mark,
audio,
video {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
outline: 0;
font-size: 100%;
vertical-align: baseline;
background: transparent;
}
article,
aside,
details,
figcaption,
figure,
footer,
header,
hgroup,
menu,
nav,
section {
display: block;
}
[/CODE]

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  On 16/05/2013 at 15:52, yodat said:

Sorry guys, i've been away for work - so i can just check it out your comments.

First of all thank you very much - thx to you i saw that there are much simpler & cleaner solutions that i tried and thought...

- http://jsfiddle.net/WrjK2/5/ - in this solution with IE10 i see that there's an empty space on the top part... the red is not continous from top the bottom.

- http://jsfiddle.net/WrjK2/7/ - for this solution it works perfectly in IE10, Firefox 21 & Opera however the red line is completely missing in Chrome Release Version (26) & Nightly (28) ! Is it possible to fix it ?

here you go:

http://jsfiddle.net/WrjK2/13/

Should work in all browsers, all the same.. just needed to set margins and padding to 0.

Also as seahorsepip said, always include a css reset :)

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