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Submitted

NFT preview card component using CSS Flexbox and :hover

@Ryan-OHanlon

Desktop design screenshot for the NFT preview card component coding challenge

This is a solution for...

  • HTML
  • CSS
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Solution retrospective


What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

What I'm most proud of for this challenge is being able to apply CSS Flexbox as a solution to this challenge. I now have a better understanding how Flexbox works and that it should be used on container elements and will affect only the child elements directly inside that parent element. Any elements that are grandchildren will not be affected by Flexbox.

What I would do differently next time would be to design the HTML framework and CSS naming schema to be more efficient and understandable. Developing an effective HTML framework to design CSS rules around is a lot more important when I had to start creating container elements just to be able to position images on top of each other.

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

The main challenge I had with this project was applying the :hover effect over the NFT image and having both images and the background color stay inside the container.

I was able to overcome this by creating two div elements. The first div element to serve as a container for both images and a div container. I was able to use the position attribute to place both images and the div container classified as overlay to be inside the parent div classified as container.

Then I set the opacity of the overlay to 0 and the display attribute of the hover-img to none to make them invisible. Then using the :hover rule, I set the display of the hover-img to block to be visible and the opacity of the overlay to .5 to make the cyan color appear.

.container {
    position: relative;
    width: 100%;
    max-width: 320px;
}

.container:hover .hover-img {
    display: block; 
}

.hover-img {
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
    display: none;
}

.overlay {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
    opacity: 0;
    transition: .3s ease;
    background-color: hsla(178, 100%, 50%);
    border-radius: 1em;
}

.container:hover .overlay {
    opacity: .5;
  }

What specific areas of your project would you like help with?

If there is help I would like with this project it would be to have a better understanding of the position attributes and if there is a better solution to achieve the same effect of creating the overlay over the NFT image because surrounding an entire div element with an element does not seem like the best solution.

Community feedback

Sebastian 1,560

@dnksebastian

Posted

Hey Ryan, good job on finishing your project! If you're looking for a nifty solution for making various overlays, I recommend experimenting with css ::before and ::after pseudoelements. Using them can help you reduce the number of HTML elements. You can see a few examples and read more about this method here:

https://bryanlrobinson.com/blog/how-to-css-after-elements-for-background-overlays/

Hope that helps, keep it up!

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@Ryan-OHanlon

Posted

@dnksebastian Thank you very much for the advice and more importantly a link to a website that goes into detail about the::before and ::after pseudoelements.

There's a lot of CSS that I still don't know about to be able to make effects like making an overlay which was one of the primary purposes of this challenge.

Once again, thank you. It really does help as there's just so much to learn.

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