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👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Asther

how to make a neon pink button

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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You can create a neon pink button with HTML and CSS. By setting the background property of the <button> element you can potentially create an element with a blazingly pink background. For example, this CSS code will produce a neon pink button (code language is CSS):

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button { background-color: #F084E4; border: none; border-radius: 8px; padding: 10px 24px; font-size: 12px; color: white; font-weight: bold; }

You can also use online tools like colorHEX to play with colors and find the perfect one for your button.

👩‍💻 Technical question

What is a form in JavaScript and how create a form?

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In JavaScript a form is an HTML element used to collect user input. Forms consist of one or more input elements and a submit button used to submit the form's data to a web server.

To create a form you can use HTML markup. Here's an example of how to create a simple form using HTML markup:

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<form> <div> <label>Name:</label> <input type="text" name="userName" /> </div> <div> <label>Email:</label> <input type="email" name="userEmail" /> </div> <div> <input type="submit" value="Submit" /> </div> </form>

You can also use the <form> and <input> elements with JavaScript to dynamically generate forms. Here's an example of how to create a simple form using JavaScript:

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// Create form var form = document.createElement('form'); // Create form inputs var inputName = document.createElement('input'); inputName.type = 'text'; inputName.name = 'userName'; inputName.placeholder = 'Name'; var inputEmail = document.createElement('input'); inputEmail.type = 'email'; inputEmail.name = 'userEmail'; inputEmail.placeholder = 'Email'; // Create submit button var buttonSubmit = document.createElement('input'); buttonSubmit.type = 'submit'; buttonSubmit.value = 'Submit'; // Add elements to form form.appendChild(inputName); form.appendChild(inputEmail); form.appendChild(buttonSubmit); // Append form to the DOM document.body.appendChild(form);

For more information on forms in JavaScript, see W3Schools Tutorial on HTML Forms and Input.

👩‍💻 Technical question

How do I create gradients in CSS?

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Gradients can be created in CSS with the background: linear-gradient(<angle>, <color-stop>, <color-stop>) syntax. For example, to create a gradient that rotated clockwise from white to blue to red and was Perpendicular to the top-left corner, the syntax would look something like this:

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background: linear-gradient(90deg, white, blue, red);

For more information, check out this guide from MDN web docs: Creating a linear gradient in CSS

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Michaela

how do I change the background of the page?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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It depends on what type of page you are working with. If it is HTML, you can use the following css code to set the background to a particular color:

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body { background-color: #rrggbb; }

You can replace #rrggbb with a hex code of your desired color to change the background. You can find a list of CSS color codes here.

If you are trying to set the background in a specific language, such as JavaScript, it might not be as straightforward. It would be helpful to share more information about your page and language if you are looking for more specific guidance.

👩‍💻 Technical question

how to set background

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Background or background color can be set in many different ways depending on the language you are programming in. Here is an example in HTML/CSS:

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html { background: linear-gradient(#FDC, #F26); }

This code would set the background color to a linear gradient of two different colors, #FDC and #F26.

You can set the background image using CSS as well. Here is an example:

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body { background-image: url('background.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; }

This code sets a background image with the URL 'background.jpg'. It also makes sure the image does not repeat by setting 'background-repeat' to 'no-repeat', and it also sets it to cover the entire page by setting 'background-size' to 'cover'.

For more information about setting backgrounds with HTML/CSS, check out this tutorial.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Chizomam

how do I fix a background image?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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To fix a background image, you can use the CSS background-image property. To set the background of an element, use a basic syntax combining the background-image property and the url() function. See the example below:

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element { background-image: url("image.jpg"); }

You can also set the size, position, and tiling option of the background image with the background-size, background-position, and background-repeat properties. See the example below:

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element { background-image: url("image.jpg"); background-size: cover; // makes background image full-coverage background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; // removes any tiling that would otherwise occur }

For more information about the CSS background-image property and how to use it, you can refer to MDN's documentation.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Rishita

How do I make bullet points with different colors using the list element?

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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You can use the <ul> list element in HTML along with the style attribute and a background-color value to make bullet points with different colors. Here is an example:

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<ul> <li style="background-color: #e6e6e6">Bullet 1</li> <li style="background-color: #FFCCCC">Bullet 2</li> <li style="background-color: #CCFFCC">Bullet 3</li> </ul>

This will produce a list like this:

  • Bullet 1
  • Bullet 2
  • Bullet 3

More information on the <ul> list element and the style element can be found on the Mozilla Developer Network website.

👩‍💻 Technical question

create a see through white background on html

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In HTML you can create a transparent background colour by using rgba(255,255,255,0.5) as the colour value. This will create a semi-transparent background with a 50% opacity. If you want to make the background fully transparent you can use rgba(255,255,255,0) instead.

If you would like to make sure that the background is rendered in all browsers you can use background-color: transparent; instead.

Here's a quick example of how to use this in CSS:

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.my-div { background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.5); }

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Liang Laura

how to add the blue color box around the button?

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The easiest way to add a blue color box around a button is to use CSS. For example, if you have an HTML button element with a class of "button" you could use CSS to apply the styling of a blue color box to the button. You could do this by adding the following line of code to your button class CSS:

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.button { background-color: blue; }

Now when the button element is rendered in the browser, it will have a blue background. You can further customize the design around the border such as border thickness or rounded-corners with the padding or border-radius properties.

For more detailed examples and documentation, you can look into the official documentation for styling buttons with CSS: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_buttons.asp

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Limpho

how to edit background with hover

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Using CSS, you can edit the background color when a user hovers over an element by using the :hover selector. An example of this can be seen below:

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div:hover { background-color: red; }

When a user hovers over the div element, the background will be changed to red. More information about this can be found here.

👩‍💻 Technical question

How to change the background of a div class when dark mode button is clicked on with javascript

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You can use the following javascript code to change the background of a div class when a dark mode button is clicked on:

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//Put this code in a document.ready const darkModeButton = document.querySelector("#dark-mode-button"); darkModeButton.addEventListener("click", ()=> { //change the background of the div class with class of "darkMode." document.querySelector(".darkMode").style.background = "black"; });

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Tetiana

How to make an image circle

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

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In order to make an image into a circle, you will need to use HTML, CSS, and some javascript.

Using HTML, you will need to create a div where the image will be housed:

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<div class="image-container"></div>

Using CSS, you will need to set the border-radius of the div to 50%:

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.image-container { border-radius: 50%; }

Finally, using some javascript, you'll need to set the background image attribute of the div to the image you want to use:

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let pathToImage = 'images/profile.png'; document.querySelector('.image-container').style.backgroundImage = `url(${pathToImage})`;

For more information on how to make an image into a circle, please refer to this guide.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Farzanehhh

I want images to be centred inside a square (1:1) background. How can I do this?

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To center an image inside a square (1:1) background, you can use CSS. The code will ensure that the image stays proportional and is centered:

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img { background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center center; }

Here is an example of this in action: https://codepen.io/juliangarnier/pen/idhuG

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Fallon

How to make background partially transparent but NOT the text

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 6.64 seconds

The easiest way to make background partially transparent but not the text is by using the opacity css property. You can use the property in the following way:

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.element { background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); /* partial transparency */ opacity: 1; /* no transparency on the element, only on its background */ }

This will give the element a background with 50% transparency and the element itself will have no transparency.

You can learn more about this in this CSS Tricks article.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Brittany

code to create a background with linear-gradient on an html page

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body { background-image: linear-gradient(red, blue); }

You can find more information about linear-gradient at MDN Web Docs.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in CSS by Theodora

css background image too big

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 5.93 seconds

If a CSS background image is too big, one way to adjust it is by using the background-size property in the CSS. The background-size property can take two values, cover and contain. cover will scale the background image to be as large as possible so that the background area is completely covered. contain will fit the whole image into the background without distortion, however, this may cause some parts of the background to be left empty.

For example:

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.background-image { background-image: url(image.jpg); background-size: cover; }

More information on the background-size property can be found in Mozilla's documentation.

👩‍💻 Technical question

Asked 2 years ago in HTML by Theodora

my background image didn't show up

🤖 SheCodes Athena says:

Answered in 5.8 seconds

If you are using HTML and CSS to display a background image, there are a few possible reasons why the image may not appear:

  1. The path to the image is incorrect. Make sure that the path you used in the background-image property is correct and leads to the intended image.

  2. The image is not in a compatible format. HTML and CSS can only display images in some standard formats, such as .jpg, .png, .bmp, and .gif.

  3. The image is corrupt. Try viewing and downloading the image in another browser to make sure that it is not damaged.

  4. The image is being blocked. If the image is being hosted externally, make sure that it is not in a blocked domain.

If you're still having trouble, it may be helpful to share more information about the exact language and code you are using to display the background image.

👩‍💻 Technical question

How can i change bacground color in boostrap for my personal color ?

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In Bootstrap, you can change the background colour by adding the following CSS rule to your project:

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.bg-custom-class { background-color: #your_colour; }

Then you need to link to the rule in your HTML, by adding the class:

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<div class="bg-custom-class"> Content of your page </div>

For more information, see the Bootstrap website.

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how to change background color of a website?

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To change the background color of a website using CSS, add the property background-color to the element you want to apply the color to. For example, to change the background color of the body of the page:

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body { background-color: #ffffff; }

You can also use color names, rgb, rgba, hsl or hsla values. For a list of possible values, see this page.

👩‍💻 Technical question

opacity 50 percent on background not text

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In CSS3, you can specify an opacity on elements such as background but not on text. To achieve the desired effect, you can either wrap each text in a separate container or use a pseudo-element like ::before and ::after to generate a layer behind the text and apply the opacity there. For example:

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div { background: rgba(0,0,0,0.5); }

👩‍💻 Technical question

How to create a gradient that is forever animating in css?

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You can use the <animation> style property in CSS to create an infinite animated gradient. An example implementation is provided below.

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body { background: linear-gradient(90deg, #FF0000, #FFFF00); background-size: 400% 400%; animation: gradient 10s ease infinite; } @keyframes gradient { 0% { background-position: 0% 50%; } 50% { background-position: 100% 50%; } 100% { background-position: 0% 50%; } }

For more information about the <animation> style property, you can visit the MDN page.

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