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    <p>I'm having difficulty getting CSS to work like I want it to for flashes (those little messages that show when you log in or do something or whatnot to confirm your action, eg in Rails).</p> <p>I want it to:</p> <ul> <li>live within any arbitrary div</li> <li>look like a centered box with text in it</li> <li>be only as big as needed to fit the text (if less than specified max width) or wrap the text (if larger) </li> <li>have centered or left-aligned (or combination) text, depending on the flash (e.g. short errors are centered; longer how-to newbie intros are left-aligned); an extra CSS class (e.g. 'flash info left') to support this is OK</li> <li>play well with having multiple flashes on a page right next to each other (as in example)</li> <li>preferably consist of a single element w/ a class around the text, rather than text within an element within a wrapper element</li> <li>preferably be YUI CSS compatible and pure CSS (not JS)</li> <li>work right on IE7+, FFx 3+, Safari 3+; work 'good enough' on older browsers</li> </ul> <p>Most of the CSS I've seen for this doesn't do one of those - e.g. most specify a fixed width, which means that either it gets wrapped poorly or it's got way too much padding.</p> <p>How can I do this? (Or: Why can't I?)</p> <p>Here's my current CSS:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div class="flash info"&gt; &lt;span class="close"&gt;&lt;a href="AJAX callback"&gt;X&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Some informational text here that can be closed w/ the X &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="flash error"&gt; Some other simultaneous error &lt;/div&gt; .flash { text-align: center; padding: .3em .4em; margin: 0 auto .5em; clear: both; max-width: 46.923em; /* 610/13 */ *max-width: 45.750em; /* 610/13.3333 - for IE */ } .flash.error { border: thin solid #8b0000; background: #ffc0cb; } .flash.notice, .flash.info { border: thin solid #ff0; background: #ffe; } .flash.warning { border: thin solid #b8860b; background: #ff0; } .flash .close { float: right; } .flash .close a { color: #f00; text-decoration: none; } </code></pre> <p>Bonus points: I achieved what I want only partially with the tooltip code below; namely, it isn't capable of wrapping.</p> <p>For some reason, unless nowrap or a width is specified, it defaults to being very small in width. I couldn't figure out why, or how to make it just wrap at a specific, wider width (like I want to happen w/ the flash).</p> <pre><code>Some text with &lt;span class="tooltip"&gt;info &lt;span&gt;i can has info?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; about a word .tooltip { position: relative; /*this is the key*/ background-color: #ffa; } .tooltip:hover{ background-color: #ff6; } .tooltip span { display: none } .tooltip:hover span { /*the span will display just on :hover state*/ z-index: 1; display: block; position: absolute; top: 1.6em; left: 0; border: thin solid #ff0; background: #ffe; padding: .3em .6em; text-align: left; white-space: nowrap; } </code></pre> <p>Thanks!</p> <ul> <li>Sai</li> </ul>
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