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Center-Tile-O-Rama.markdown

Center-Tile O Rama

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index.html

<div class="tile x1x1">

<!--
  <div class="title">
    <span class="because">because you like</span>
    <span class="thing">band name</span>
</div>-->
  <h4 class="label">Name of Station Might be Kind of Long Actually Dude</h4>
  <img src="http://www.slacker.com/~cmullins/v6/images/station3.jpg"/>
  
  
  <div class="overlay"></div>
  
  
  <div class="actions">
    <button>Play</button>
    <button>More</button>
  </div>
    <span class="caption">This station contains song that's really really long and I'm hoping I can make it</span>

  
</div>

style.scss

@import "compass/css3";
body {
  font-family: sans-serif;
}
@import "compass/css3/transform";

$tile_height: 300px;
$tile_width: 300px;
$actions_height: 40px;
$actions_top_final : ($tile_height / 2) - ($actions_height / 2);

.tile {
  float: left;
  position: relative;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  background-color: orange;
  z-index: 1;
  transform-style: preserve-3d;
  &:hover {
    .actions {
      opacity: 1;
      top: $actions_top_final;
    }
  }
  
  h4.label {
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    width: $tile_width;
    @include translateY(-50%);
    line-height: 1;
    background-color: rgba(white, 0.2);
    text-align: center;
    z-index: 50;
    padding: 0 10px;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    margin: 0;
  }
  img {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    z-index: 25;
  }
  
  .actions {
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 100;
    width: 100%;
    text-align: center;
    opacity: 0;
    @include transition(opacity .3s, top .2s);
    top: 0 - ($actions_height / 2);
    
    button {
      border: 0;
      width: 40px;
      height: 40px;
      color: white;
      background-color: rgba(red, .5);
    }
    
  }
}

  .caption {
    position: absolute;
    background-color: rgba(white, 0.2);
    width: 100%;
    height: 10px;
    min-height: 40px;
    bottom: 0;
    padding: 2px 10px 0px 10px;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    text-align: center;
    z-index: 200;
  }



.x1x1 {
  width: $tile_width;
  height: $tile_height;
  overflow: hidden;
  h4.label {
    // ELEMENT MAY NOT HAVE A WIDTH!
    width: $tile_height;
  }
  .overlay{
    background-color: rgba(0,0,0,.5);
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    width: $tile_width;
    height: $tile_height;
  }
}