I'm looking to create a Zune/Microsoft-style oversized title in CSS so that a div has a semi-transparent text behind it.
Any ideas? I'm hoping to keep it as unreliant on plugins and images as possible — but it's important that the text can overflow (invisibly), and that it can be changed (probably by JS). It must be able to overflow slightly without appearing outside the div; that is, notice the bottom of the "text" letters; this is the equivalent of setting bottom: -5px;
in CSS.
This is what I'm considering:
#about_big {
font-family: "Proxima Light", sans-serif;
font-size: 2000%;
color: rgba(100, 100, 100, .5);
overflow: hidden;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
position: absolute;
}
...inside an about
div that is also overflow: hidden;
but... Alas. It does not hide.
Thanks!
This can be easily achieved with CSS by using the following methods. Using absolutely positioned element inside relatively positioned element: The absolutely positioned element inside a relative positioned element with absolute element having lower z-index value gives text appears as the background.
To set the opacity of a background, image, text, or other element, you can use the CSS opacity property. Values for this property range from 0 to 1. If you set the property to 0, the styled element will be completely transparent (ie. invisible).
You can use the :before pseudo element with absolute positioning and negative z-index to extend the background color of a contained div the entire way to the edge of the page. Save this answer.
A surprisingly good way for making overlaid text legible is to blur part of the underlying image. One way to do that is to to have a section of the area inherit the same background, position it the same (fixed attachment is one way), then blur it.
I understand that an answer has been accepted for your question already, but I thought I could provide my two cents, just for the sake of completeness.
While there is no inherent problem with creating an additional <div>
element to hold the text, I prefer using the ::after
pseudo-element to create one. It's probably (IMHO) more semantically correct, but it really depends what purpose you want the text to serve as.
In my example, I have placed the text you want to appear in the background in a HTML data- attribute, say, data-bg-text
:
<div class="bg-text" data-bg-text="text">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi eu quam dolor, et aliquet lectus.
</div>
And for your CSS, you simply have to create a pseudo-element, and assign content from the custom HTML data- attribute:
.bg-text {
background-color: #aaa;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 20px 20px 100px 20px;
position: relative;
width: 400px;
}
.bg-text::after {
color: #fff;
content: attr(data-bg-text);
display: block;
font-size: 80px;
line-height: 1;
position: absolute;
bottom: -15px;
right: 10px;
}
See the fiddle here - http://jsfiddle.net/teddyrised/n58D9/ or check the proof-of-concept example below:
.bg-text {
background-color: #aaa;
padding: 20px 20px 100px 20px;
position: relative;
width: 400px;
overflow: hidden;
}
.bg-text::after {
color: #000;
content: attr(data-bg-text);
display: block;
font-size: 80px;
line-height: 1;
position: absolute;
bottom: -15px;
right: 10px;
}
<div class="bg-text" data-bg-text="text">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi eu quam dolor, et aliquet lectus.</div>
Here's my solution. Preview in jsfiddle
.about_box {
z-index: 5;
width: 728px;
height: 400px;
position: relative;
background: #0099ae;
overflow: hidden;
}
#about_small {
z-index: 7;
position: relative;
top: 0;
left: 0;
color: #f7f7f7;
padding: 20px;
}
#about_big {
z-index: 6;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 120px;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5);
overflow: hidden;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
position: absolute;
}
<div class="about_box">
<div id="about_small">
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
</div>
<div id="about_big">
text
</div>
</div>
You might want to experiment with line-height
or make bottom
negative in #about_big
to get the background text right at the bottom.
You overlap on div with another DEMO http://jsfiddle.net/FkE2V/
#container {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
position: relative;
}
#text, #other {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
#other {
z-index: 10;
color:#f00;
}
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