Easiest css for Facebook style “red” notifications

Question

I need a facebook style notification, but getting something that looks nice cross browser seems tricky. For example, different browsers seem to treat paddings differently,

Answer 1

Here's one that includes animation for when the count changes.

http://jsfiddle.net/rahilsondhi/FdmHf/4/

<ul>
<li class="notification-container">
    <i class="icon-globe"></i>
    <span class="notification-counter">1</span>
</li>

    .notification-container {
    position: relative;
    width: 16px;
    height: 16px;
    top: 15px;
    left: 15px;

    i {
        color: #fff;
    }
}

.notification-counter {   
    position: absolute;
    top: -2px;
    left: 12px;

    background-color: rgba(212, 19, 13, 1);
    color: #fff;
    border-radius: 3px;
    padding: 1px 3px;
    font: 8px Verdana;
}




$counter
.css({opacity: 0})
.text(val)
.css({top: '-10px'})
.transition({top: '-2px', opacity: 1})

Animation with jQuery:

$('button').click(function()
{
    var $counter = $('.notification-counter')
    var val = parseInt $counter.text();
    val++;
    $counter.css({opacity: 0}).text(val).css({top:'-10px'}).animate({top: '-1px', opacity: 1}, 500);
});

It uses Font Awesome for the globe icon and jQuery Transit for the animation.

Answer 2

Markup:

<div id="ContainerDiv">
    <div id="MainImageDiv"> //Add the image here or whatever you want </div>
    <div id="NotificationDiv"> </div>
</div>

Css:

#NotificationDiv {
    position: absolute;
    left: -10 //use negative values to push it above the #MainImageDiv
    top: -4 
    ...
}

Answer 3

I am sure that the answers about absolute positioning are correct. For the sake of experiment, I tried to make an SVG-only solution. The result is far from ideal, maybe someone knows a more elegant solution to a similar svg puzzle? :)

http://jsfiddle.net/gLdsco5p/3/

<svg width="64" height="64" viewBox="0 0 91 91">
    <rect id="Artboard1" x="0" y="0" width="90.326" height="90.326" style="fill:none;"/>
    <g id="Artboard11" serif:id="Artboard1">
        <g id="user-circle-o" transform="matrix(2.69327,0,0,2.69327,7.45723,7.45723)">
            <path d="M14,0C21.734,0 28,6.266 28,14C28,21.688 21.766,28 14,28C6.25,28 0,21.703 0,14C0,6.266 6.266,0 14,0ZM23.672,21.109C25.125,19.109 26,16.656 26,14C26,7.391 20.609,2 14,2C7.391,2 2,7.391 2,14C2,16.656 2.875,19.109 4.328,21.109C4.89,18.312 6.25,16 9.109,16C10.375,17.234 12.093,18 14,18C15.907,18 17.625,17.234 18.891,16C21.75,16 23.11,18.312 23.672,21.109ZM20,11C20,7.687 17.312,5 14,5C10.688,5 8,7.688 8,11C8,14.312 10.688,17 14,17C17.312,17 20,14.312 20,11Z" style="fill:rgb(190,190,190);fill-rule:nonzero;"/>
        </g>
        <g transform="matrix(1,0,0,1,1.36156,0)">
            <circle cx="63.708" cy="18.994" r="9.549" style="fill:rgb(255,0,0);"/>
        </g>
        <g transform="matrix(1.66713,0,0,1.66713,-51.5278,-2.33264)">
            <text  id="counter" x="68.034px" y="15.637px" style="font-family:'ArialMT', 'Arial', sans-serif;font-size:7.915px;fill:white;">1</text>
        </g>
    </g>
</svg>

Answer 4

Probably absolute positioning:

<div id="globe" style="height: 30px; width: 30px; position: relative;">
 <img src="/globe.gif" />
 <div id="notification" style="position: absolute; top: 0; right;0;">1</div>
</div>

Something like that. Obviously you would want to change the specifics and probably use background images. The point is to emphasis the absolute positioning which it really consistent across browsers, at least in my experiences.

Answer 5

The best way to achieve this is by using absolute positioning:

/* Create the blue navigation bar */
.navbar {
  background-color: #3b5998;
  font-size: 22px;
  padding: 5px 10px;
}

/* Define what each icon button should look like */
.button {
  color: white;
  display: inline-block; /* Inline elements with width and height. TL;DR they make the icon buttons stack from left-to-right instead of top-to-bottom */
  position: relative; /* All 'absolute'ly positioned elements are relative to this one */
  padding: 2px 5px; /* Add some padding so it looks nice */
}

/* Make the badge float in the top right corner of the button */
.button__badge {
  background-color: #fa3e3e;
  border-radius: 2px;
  color: white;
 
  padding: 1px 3px;
  font-size: 10px;
  
  position: absolute; /* Position the badge within the relatively positioned button */
  top: 0;
  right: 0;
}

<!-- Font Awesome is a great free icon font. -->
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.6.3/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<div class="navbar">
  <div class="button">
    <i class="fa fa-globe"></i>
    <span class="button__badge">2</span>
  </div>
  <div class="button">
    <i class="fa fa-comments"></i>
    <span class="button__badge">4</span>
  </div>
</div>