Centering a background image, using CSS

That should work. If not, why not make a div with the image and use z-index to make it the background? This would be much easier to center than a background image on the body. Other than that try: background-position: 0 100px;/*use a pixel value that will center it*/ Or I think you can use 50% if you have set … Read more

Vertical Align Center in Bootstrap

Important! Vertical center is relative to the height of the parent If the parent of the element you’re trying to center has no defined height, none of the vertical centering solutions will work! Now, onto vertical centering… Bootstrap 5 (Updated 2021) Bootstrap 5 is still flexbox based so vertical centering works the same way as Bootstrap 4. For example, align-items-center, justify-content-center or auto margins can used … Read more

Why em instead of px?

I heard you should define sizes and distances in your stylesheet with em instead of in pixels. So the question is why should I use em instead of px when defining styles in css? Is there a good example that illustrates this?

CSS Font Border?

There’s an experimental CSS property called text-stroke, supported on some browsers behind a -webkit prefix.  Run code snippetExpand snippet Another possible trick would be to use four shadows, one pixel each on all directions, using property text-shadow:  Run code snippetExpand snippet But it would get blurred for more than 1 pixel thickness.

Responsive font size in CSS

The font-size won’t respond like this when resizing the browser window. Instead they respond to the browser zoom/type size settings, such as if you press Ctrl and + together on the keyboard while in the browser. Media Queries You would have to look at using media queries to reduce the font-size at certain intervals where it starts breaking your design and creating scrollbars. … Read more

Set parent style via child

Let’s say I have the following <ul>: Is it possible for me to change the style of the <li> via the active <span>? E.g.: I’ve been able to achieve this with jQuery, but it flickers on the screen for a split second (waiting for the DOM to load) and I want to avoid that.