New to this, bare with me please.
I've started having fun with HTML code doing offline documents. I just found out that I could easily change my font, in the head, by adding this:
<style type=text/css>
mkf { font-family:'Courier'; color:red; }
</style>
Then, as I go to add code to , every time I want to change the font of a select group of word with the addition of the color red, I just need to type
<mkf>words here</mkf>
Wonderful! It saves me so much time. But then I got to wonder, what if I wanted to add a link to a word. For example, instead of typing all of this out:
<mkf>Example1</mkf>
I would simply be able to parse whatever text I inputted between, let's say,
<linkandfont>Example1</linkandfont>,
which would basically create a link to the file "to_do_list.pdf".
I've tried to find a name or term for this so that I can study and learn more, but I have not found it yet.
Thank you.
Why are you not using classes instead? These achieve the same thing. For example;
<style>
.mkf {
font-family:'Courier';
color:red;
}
</style>
<div class="mkf">test</div>
However, to properly answer your question, what you want is ABSOLUTELY possible in HTML5 and CSS3. And I've used such methods in certain projects of mine (just know this isn't entirely Kocher or conventional).
mkf {
font-family:'Courier';
color:red;
}
<mkf>this is working</mkf>
As for making <linkToSomething>Click Here</linkToSomething> not as easy. You would definitely need JavaScript etc to handle all that. You won't achieve it in CSS and HTML alone.
You cannot. Only way to create a link in HTML is by typing description. You could also shorten by using JavaScript but that's not HTML.
The way you changed the color in head is part of styling or CSS, so you could give a class to a tag like <a class='redlink' href='.. and define that class in head like you did with mkf : .redlink {color:red} or if you want all your links to be red then you could give color to a in head style: a {color:red;}
By typing <mkf> in body I guess you created custom tag which is not part of standard HTML tags, more proper way would be using class to a standard tag like div or p.
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Instead of creating a whole other id and ruleset, why can’t I just put multiple values (ex. font-family: cursive; color: blue) in a single ruleset? I tried it and it works and seems like a quicker way to do it. For example, if I want to change the font, color, and uppercase/lowercase of a title, can't I just put all those values into one ruleset?
The preferred way to do this is using Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). This allows you to edit the visual aspects of the site without having to deal much with the HTML code itself.
Explanation :
<[tag] style="[css]"> Content </[tag]>
Where [tag] can be anything. For example "p" (paragraph), "span", "div", "ul", "li".. etc.
and where [css] is any valid CSS. For example "color:red; font-size:15px; font-weight:bold"
The recommended way to add style to a html element is by assigning it a "class" (a identifier that can be repeated on the document) or a "id" a unique identifier that shall not be repeated in the document.
For example:
<[tag] id="element1" class="red"> Content </[tag]>
<[tag] id="element2" class="red"> Content </[tag]>
Where tag is any html valid tag. id is a unique arbitrary name and class is an arbitrary name that can be repeated.
Then in the CSS (inside the tags of your document):
<style type="text/css">
.red {
color:red;
}
#element1 {
background-color:black;
}
</style>
For this example and to keep it simple to new users I named the class "red". However class="red" isn't the best example of how to name . Better to name CSS classes after their semantic meaning, rather than the style(s) they implement. So class="error" or class="highlight" might be more appropriate. ( Thanks to Grant Wagner for pointing that out )
For a complete guide to CSS you can visit this link: http://www.w3schools.com/css/
Remember:
Keep your HTML Code clean and use CSS to modify ANY visual style that's needed. CSS is really powerful and it'll save you a lot of time.
Yes you can and it’s okay to do that.
Actually this is the right way!
so you create a ruleset with a specific selector, then you write all the properties that you wish and element to have (if the selector applies to the element)
I am wondering if I can make something like:
<myTag>myAwesomText</myTag>
While "myTag" is a combination of other html tags, example:
<div class="myClass">
<p>myAwesomText</p>
</div>
Simply the answer is no, this is not possible in HTML.
Usually your text editor (for example Sublime Text) has an option to create snippets where you can customise a shortcut like <myTag> in which custom HTML or any code can be inserted. If you are interested in this, see Sublime Text and Their Snippet Feature
Note: you could also use a functional language like Javascript to create a feature like this
Also, a hacky way of doing something similar to this is creating a custom html element and using css to modify its properties (although I'm sure this isn't widely supported):
mytag {
font-weight: bold;
color:red;
}
<mytag>This is bold and red</mytag>
Is it possible in CSS (only) to hide some text of a string?
I know there these attribute-selectores like:
[att^=val] – the “begins with” selector
But for instance, having this:
<div class="some_random_text">
This is a default text
</div>
I want to (display: none) only a certain substring - in thise case "default". I know how to do it with JS, but I'm looking for a CSS-solution only (if there is any).
Even though I guess it isn't possible to manipulate the DOM via CSS, which would be neccessary to have something like:
this is a <span class="hideThis">default</span> text
why would you need this and where does it occur?
For instance in a CMS (in my case OXID). You can add a title to a specific payment-method. Here I have
paypal
paypal (provider1)
paypal (another dude)
I want to have only PayPal visible in the frontend. The other PayPal-Paymenttypes have to remain however. Naming them all PayPal just leads to confusion.
there is the content-property. Is it somehow managable with that?
Again, no JS :-)
To answer your question - no, it's not possible using only CSS.
You can;
Edit the HTML as you suggested
this is a <.span class="hideThis">default<.span > text
Use JS to alter the elements innerHTML value
Use a pre-processing language (like PHP or ASP, whatever you are able to use) to reduce the string to a substring.
Sorry if that's not the answer you wanted, but those are your options.
It it not possible. The only thing that can actually modify the inside text is the content property. Assuming something changes in your dom, you can have rules like:
.some_random_text:after {
content: "This is a text";
}
other_select .some_random_text:after {
content: "This is a default text";
}
But sincerely, I don't get the point, as JS and consors are made for that.
It's not possible, here's the documentation on selectors: https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#selectors
I just finished creating a site with a few HTML pages and a CSS style sheet. Near the end of the project I decided I would like to change some of the class names.
Example:
In my CSS I have .classname and in my HTML I have quite a few tags linked to that css class using
class="classname"
I would like to change .classname to .class-name in my CSS Style Sheet, however, if I do this I would have to go through thousands of lines of code in my html pages to find and change all the class names from class="classname" to class="class-name"
is there a program that can be used that allows you to change a class name in the css and it will go through all html pages and change it there as well?
I use dreamweaver. Is there a way to do this in dreamweaver?
Note: I have tried using the find and replace options in dreamweaver however this does not fully work.
I'm not able to search "class="classname"" and replace it with "class="class-name" because some tags use "class="example someclass classname test""
I'm not able to search "classname" and replace with "class-name" because "classname" can be found in between <p></p> as content and I do not want it to change here.
Thank you!
I am not familiar with DreamWeaver options, but if you have a preferred advanced text editor (I use NPP) you can use regex.
I would try an expression such as (?<=class="[^"]*)(classname)(?=[^"]*")
And replace that
I want to write an application that sends html formatted email. I have the css and html files as I want them. I'm trying to send the email with the embedded css using the style element like so:
<style type="text/css">
h1 {border-width: 1; border: solid; text-align: center}
</style>
<h1>Title</h1>
<p>Content of the email</p>
It works in some clients (e.g. it works on Mac OSX mail app) and not others (e.g. it doesn't work when reading the email in gmail). When I translate the above to:
<h1 style="border-width: 1; border: solid; text-align: center">Title</h1>
<p>Content of the email</p>
Then it works everywhere. What I'm looking for is a way to place the css as style properties on their corresponding dom elements according the css rules I defined. So for a given file.css and file.html I want to create a new file result.html which displays correctly but in which all the css is embedded as style properties in the dom elements. Any ideas?
This is what you're looking for:
http://www.mailchimp.com/labs/inlinecss.php
Hope this helps!
Drop the style tag, use inline styles.
I have the same issue - I have a php app that sends out a confirmation email once a customer has placed an order. In various email clients it's fine, but web based clients tend to strip out the HEAD tag, which includes the STYLE tag - so any style is lost.
While it's still a good idea, as #Zack mentions, to include a plain text version of what you wanted to say, nobody likes to read plain text. I doubt that Zack is reading Stack Overflow on Lynx, for example.
A quick Google search for 'CSS inliner php' brings up: http://classes.verkoyen.eu/css_to_inline_styles
Also it seems that this question has been asked before on stackoverflow (at least once), at least for php, and there was a Ruby answer given in php class to inline css styles?
I want to write an application that sends html formatted email
Never do this. Email MUST be plain text. You cannot even rely on attachments.