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This is probably pedantry, but so far no one has really given a solution "to create a close button using CSS only." only. Here you go:
#close:before {
content: "?";
border: 1px solid gray;
background-color:#eee;
padding:0.5em;
cursor: pointer;
}
× and font-family: Garamond, "Apple Garamond"; make it good enough. Garamond font is thin and web safe
As @Haza pointed out the times symbol can be used. Twitter Bootstrap maps this to a close icon for dismissing content like modals and alerts.
<button class="close">×</button>
× is better than ✖ as ✖ behaves strangely in Edge and Internet explorer (tested in IE11). It doesn't get the right color and is replaced by an "emoji"
✕ is another great one that's not too thick. The HTML code is ✕, or 2715 in hex.
I prefer Font Awesome: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/
The icon you would be looking for is fa-times. It's as simple as this to use:
<button><i class="fa fa-times"></i> Close</button>
there's another one not mentioned here - nice thin - if you need that kind of look for your project: ╳
╳ or decimal: ╳
Using modern browsers you can rotate a + sign:
.popupClose:before {
content:'+';
}
.popupClose {
position:relative;
float:right;
right:10px;
top:0px;
padding:2px;
cursor:pointer;
margin:2px;
color:grey;
font-size:32pt;
transform:rotate(45deg);
}
then simply place the following html where you need:
<span class='popupClose'></span>
This is for people who want to make their X small/big and red!
HTML:
<div class="col-sm-2"> <span><div class="red-x">✖</div></span>
<p>close</p>
</div>
<div class="red-x big-x">✖</div>
CSS:
.red-x {
color: red;
}
.big-x {
font-size: 70px;
text-align: center;
}
You can use text that is only accessible to screen readers by placing it in a span which you hide in an accessible way. Place the x in the CSS which can't be read by screen readers, thus won't confuse, but is visible on the page, and also accessible by keyboard users.
<style>
.hidden {opacity:0; position:absolute; width:0;}
.close {padding:4px 8px; border:1px solid #000; background-color:#fff; cursor:pointer;}
.close:before {content:'\00d7'; color:red; font-size:2em;}
</style>
<button class="close"><span class="hidden">close</span></button>
What about using the ×-mark (the multiplication symbol), × in HTML, for that?
"x" (letter) should not be used to represent anything else other than the letter X.
This works nicely for me:
<style>
a.closeX {
position: absolute;
right: 0px; top: 0px; width:20px;
background-color: #FFF; color: black;
margin-top:-15px; margin-right:-15px; border-radius: 20px;
padding-left: 3px; padding-top: 1px;
cursor:pointer; z-index: -1;
font-size:16px; font-weight:bold;
}
</style>
<div id="content">
<a class="closeX" id="closeX" onclick='$("#content").hide();'>✖</a>
Click "X" to close this box
</div>
× × or × (same thing) U+00D7 multiplication sign
× same character with a strong font weight
? ⨯ U+2A2F Gibbs product
? ✖ U+2716 heavy multiplication sign
There's also an emoji ❌ if you support it. If you don't you just saw a square = ❌
I also made this simple code example on Codepen when I was working with a designer who asked me to show her what it would look like when I asked if I could replace your close button with a coded version rather than an image.
<ul>
<li class="ele">
<div class="x large"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x spin large"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x spin large slow"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x flop large"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x t large"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x shift large"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
</li>
<li class="ele">
<div class="x medium"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x spin medium"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x spin medium slow"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x flop medium"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x t medium"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x shift medium"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
</li>
<li class="ele">
<div class="x small"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x spin small"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x spin small slow"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x flop small"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x t small"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x shift small"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
<div class="x small grow"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
</li>
<li class="ele">
<div class="x switch"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b></div>
</li>
</ul>
Forget about a font and use a background image!
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" >
<head>
<title>Select :after pseudo class/element</title>
<style type="text/css">
.close {
background:url(http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/images/ui-icons_222222_256x240.png) NO-REPEAT -96px -128px;
text-indent:-10000px;
width:20px;
height:20px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" class="close" value="Close" />
<button class="close">Close</button>
</body>
</html>
This will be more accessible for users visiting the page with a screen reader.
HTML
? ✕ ? ✓
? ✖ ? ✔
? ✗
? ✘
× × ×
CSS
If you want to use the above characters from CSS (like i.e: in an :before or :after pseudo) simply use the escaped \ Unicode HEX value, like for example:
[class^="ico-"], [class*=" ico-"]{
font: normal 1em/1 Arial, sans-serif;
display: inline-block;
}
.ico-times:before{ content: "\2716"; }
.ico-check:before{ content: "\2714"; }<i class="ico-times" role="img" aria-label="Cancel"></i>
<i class="ico-check" role="img" aria-label="Accept"></i>Use examples for different languages:
✕HTML'\2715'CSS like i.e:.clear:before { content: '\2715'; }'\u2715'JavaScript string
❌
looks like:
?
its good for me :)
Source: Stackoverflow.com