beginner need help with basic CSS

emucxg

Finland4559 Posts

November 15 2011 18:00 GMT

Fixed.

Im learning some HTML/CSS, again^^. and I found a problem... I googled for like an hour but still cant find answer -.-

Im trying to print a simple text with top and bottom border:

So, this is what I want:

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Here is the code
html:

 <body>
    <h1>CSS border property example</h1>
  </body>

css:

 h1 {
   border-top-width: 1px;
   border-right-width: 0px;
   border-bottom-width: 1px;
   border-left-width: 0px;
   border-style: solid;
 }

however the result is this, which is not what I want:
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like u can see the lengths of borders are way too long, I know I can fix this by using the <table> element instead of <h1>, but i wanna know how can I fix this without touching the html code? I guess I need some magic to my CSS file T.T

halp =(

ps. Fixed... thanks everyone

tofucake

Hyrule19193 Posts

November 15 2011 18:16 GMT

use overline and underline instead of borders

emucxg

Finland4559 Posts

November 15 2011 18:17 GMT

On November 16 2011 03:16 tofucake wrote:
use overline and underline instead of borders

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noob question again, How can I change the color of underline?

Blazinghand

United States25558 Posts

November 15 2011 18:24 GMT

I thought this was going to be someone asking for Sc2 help and I was like "yayyyyy i'm going to help"

I saw a screenshot with some computer-ey stuff and was like "oh, clearly he's having trouble installing, I can still help"

then I read the post. D: I can't help, sorry.

emucxg

Finland4559 Posts

November 15 2011 18:26 GMT

OK, I fixed this.^^

here is the solution if someone is curious:


h1 {
     display: inline;
     border-bottom:1px solid black;
     border-top:1px solid black;
     }

Moff

United Kingdom166 Posts

November 15 2011 18:28 GMT

It's doing that because the h1 is a block level element, add:


display: inline;

to the CSS, or additionally set a width on the element:


width: 400px;

See you fixed already! :p

WickedSkies

Netherlands81 Posts

November 15 2011 19:44 GMT

Another helpful thing might be to use firebug or chrome console (F12) so you can edit your javascript/css directly on the css declaration in the page (no need to refresh and seems more intuitive at least to me).

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