Before introducing you with the creation of circular image only with the help of CSS style, first, let’s go and explore what is CSS and what it is used for?
So, What is CSS?
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet that is used for demonstrating the presentation of a written document in a markup language. If you are a designer, then you will often notice that CSS is used to set up a visual appearance of a wide number of web pages as well as user interfaces that are written in HTML and XHTML language, and it can further be applied to any form of XML document that might include plain XML, SVG, and XUL format. All these features are used to render a speech.
CSS is known for its mainstay technology features that are used by most of the websites to create visually appealing web pages, advanced user interfaces for designing web applications as well as a wide range of current generation mobile applications.
Now, let’s watch out, how CSS works?
CSS makes an efficient use of contents as well as documents by separating them from document presentations, such as the layout, colors, and fonts, to allow a proper separation to improve the content visibility process even more by achieving more flexibility in viewing the content. If we discuss the working style of CSS, then we will see that it separates a wide number of presentation instructions from HTML content in a separate file or in a separate style section of the HTML file. Now for each similar HTML element, it offers a huge list of formatting instructions to developers.
While I was going through few blogs on “creating circular images with CSS”, I found that it’s quite effective to create a circle with the help of CSS coding styles and, of course, it’s easy too. Working with border-radius development rule to design circles with CSS coding style offers you with a fantastic alternative that any web designer can ever have.
Here I will introduce you to few quick steps about how to proceed with the designing process of creating circles with the help of CSS coding style only, without even dragging them into your Photoshop tool or you can say any other image editor tool. So, let’s move with the flow now. Well, the first step, you can do is to create a square image first and then you can edit your CSS section to change your square image into round images. Well, it’s always a better option to edit your CSS files in your main style.css file, and then add an inline-style, if you’re in a hurry to make a quick edit.
Let’s take an example of uploading a photo. Let’s see how it works:-
Step 1: Upload an image
You will come across numerous of ways to upload a photo but as of now, in this tutorial, I will teach you about the procedure of uploading an individual image into the WordPress and how to use that image in your blog.
- In your WordPress dashboard section, just go to “Media” option and then click on “Add New”
- Go and access the square image file on your desktop and drag it into the Uploader section.
- After uploading it, click on Edit link that will appear on the right side of the photo. From here, suppose you want to copy the File URL of your photo, then you have to get access to the URL later to make your image insert into the site.
- Alternatively, you can upload your images into the theme that you have with you is via FTP software, and one among them is working with “Cyberduck” FTP
Step 2: Place your uploaded image
Now, choose an exact place to insert your image. Next, go to the “Appearance” and then click on “Widgets” section and at last add a new Text Widget into your sidebar.
- You need to add the below-shown code into your site and replace it:
[php]your_image_link_here[/php]
- With the link that you have copied your image just now, there is a need to change the description of your image. Here is what you can do:
[php]<img src="your_image_link_here" class="circle" alt="description_of_your_image"/>[/php]
Note of caution:
Your image might give a unique appearance: you might say like, it’s either too wide or too narrow for your sidebar. So, here you need to add something to style your image as well as to adjust it.
Step 3: Add a CSS styling process
The last step, you can say that it’s a form of magic step and it is quite simple and easy to go with, by using the property “border-radius” property.
Next, it is recommended to open up your style.css section and add the following code where you think it’s appropriate to include:
[php].circle { border-radius: 100%; max-width: 100%; }[/php]
Here in this above code, it defines the border-radius property that is set at 100%. It defines all the corners of the image to present it in round format. The max-width is the feature that will define any image sizing issues in a proper manner.
Well, if you find your colors, a little bit awkward, then what you can do is, you can adjust or add a color border to your profile image.
[php].circle { border-radius: 100%; max-width: 100%; border: 2px #333333 solid; } [/php]
I hope, you have got an idea of how to create a circular image with the help of CSS styles. Still, if you have any queries, you are most welcome to come up with your new ideas anytime.
