Final Styling Touches to the Autocomplete Enabled Engine
Explore how to apply final CSS and layout refinements to an autocomplete search component. Learn to add icons, align buttons, and achieve pixel-perfect styling while maintaining clean and maintainable code structure. This lesson helps you polish the user interface for a smoother frontend experience.
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We'll cover the following...
Adding a microphone icon
Let’s add the little microphone icon.
Changelist #
- Microphone
- Since the text shouldn’t extend to the icon, we added extra padding to the text field
- Since we’ve introduced a dependency between two elements, we should make that clear in the code. So I took the width of the microphone as a variable, and the padding is
calced to that width along with the default width (0.6rem).
- Since we’ve introduced a dependency between two elements, we should make that clear in the code. So I took the width of the microphone as a variable, and the padding is
- We’re using absolute positioning so that it always sticks to the right side of the input bar, and since absolute positioning is relative to the first parent that has a non-static (default) position, we’re setting the search bar position relative.
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- Since the text shouldn’t extend to the icon, we added extra padding to the text field