Images won’t center align in WordPress

If you click on the image and hit the Align Center icon inside the editor, it will give to that image a class named “aligncenter” (or left “alignleft” and right to be “alignright” in case you align it left or right) and it will look good in the editor. In some cases once you save the changes and go to check how the image looks on the site you can notice that it’s not properly aligned and instead of being centered your image is right aligned.

This issue occurs on some themes while it works fine on the other (it works nice on the default WordPress theme) and the reason for that is that the theme doesn’t define these aligncenter (or alignleft and alignright) classes in CSS. These are introduced with WordPress 2.5 so some older themes are usually lack this and thus don’t work as expected.

There are some workarounds to solve this issue, but the best one is to just edit default styles.css and add the following css classes in it:

/* =WordPress Core
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
.alignnone {
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

.aligncenter,
div.aligncenter {
    display: block;
    margin: 5px auto 5px auto;
}

.alignright {
    float:right;
    margin: 5px 0 20px 20px;
}

.alignleft {
    float: left;
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

a img.alignright {
    float: right;
    margin: 5px 0 20px 20px;
}

a img.alignnone {
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

a img.alignleft {
    float: left;
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

a img.aligncenter {
    display: block;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto
}

.wp-caption {
    background: #fff;
    border: 1px solid #f0f0f0;
    max-width: 96%; /* Image does not overflow the content area */
    padding: 5px 3px 10px;
    text-align: center;
}

.wp-caption.alignnone {
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

.wp-caption.alignleft {
    margin: 5px 20px 20px 0;
}

.wp-caption.alignright {
    margin: 5px 0 20px 20px;
}

.wp-caption img {
    border: 0 none;
    height: auto;
    margin: 0;
    max-width: 98.5%;
    padding: 0;
    width: auto;
}

.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
    font-size: 11px;
    line-height: 17px;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0 4px 5px;
}

/* Text meant only for screen readers. */
.screen-reader-text {
	clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
	position: absolute !important;
	height: 1px;
	width: 1px;
	overflow: hidden;
}

.screen-reader-text:focus {
	background-color: #f1f1f1;
	border-radius: 3px;
	box-shadow: 0 0 2px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
	clip: auto !important;
	color: #21759b;
	display: block;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-size: 0.875rem;
	font-weight: bold;
	height: auto;
	left: 5px;
	line-height: normal;
	padding: 15px 23px 14px;
	text-decoration: none;
	top: 5px;
	width: auto;
	z-index: 100000; /* Above WP toolbar. */
}

 

You can add the code anywhere in the file, but the end of the file is probably your safe bet. Once you save the changes you can reload the site and your images should now be aligned same way as in your editor.

 

How to remove “X” from search input field on Chrome and IE

On input fields that are type “search” on HTML5 browsers add some a little blue “X” at top right side that is actually a clear button. It would clear user search input if user clicks on that “X” or if he presses ESC on keyboard. It’s a useful feature, to be sure, but for some stylish search forms it just doesn’t fit and can look quite ugly. While working on one project this became a problem and I was a looking for a way to disable it?

Here’s how it looks like on average field:
input type search with X
Well doesn’t look bad but if you style that box a bit it can look quite ugly…

The first solution was to simply replace type=”search” with type=”text” but that would be just too easy. And why the hell they added search type if I can’t use it! So I was looking for some other solutions. Clearly different browsers have different approaches.

To remove “X” from all search input fields in IE, simply add this to bottom of your css:

input[type=text]::-ms-clear {  display: none; width : 0; height: 0; }
input[type=text]::-ms-reveal {  display: none; width : 0; height: 0; }

To remove “X” from search input field on Chrome Browser (and all it’s mutations), simply add this to bottom of your css:

input[type="search"]::-webkit-search-decoration,
input[type="search"]::-webkit-search-cancel-button,
input[type="search"]::-webkit-search-results-button,
input[type="search"]::-webkit-search-results-decoration { display: none; }

The following CSS code should remove that clear button on all search fields on page:

input[type=text]::-ms-clear {  display: none; width : 0; height: 0; }
input[type=text]::-ms-reveal {  display: none; width : 0; height: 0; }
input[type="search"]::-webkit-search-decoration,
input[type="search"]::-webkit-search-cancel-button,
input[type="search"]::-webkit-search-results-button,
input[type="search"]::-webkit-search-results-decoration { display: none; }

I have tested this in following browsers IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera.

Added on May 26th 2014:
I have discovered another Chrome bug/issue that is really annoying in case you have a custom design and you don’t want Chrome to mess with it at all. It happens on all auto-complete forms where Chrome adds yellow background color to the autocomplete fields. Sample picture from WordPress loign page (but it happens on other fields too):

chrome yellow field bug

The solution is easy and all you need to do is to add this code into your CSS and change the color (if needed):

input:-webkit-autofill {
-webkit-box-shadow:0 0 0 50px #ffffff inset;
}

Useful links that can help you solve this problem:

If you have any questions or comments feel free to comment using the comment box below.

Tags: testing