I have a custom CSS I use with bootstrap. All along I've had my CSS written first before bootstrap then I realised that you're supposed to have Bootstrap first before CSS. Now I'm having problems with my rendering, for example font sizes and colours, particularly with Bootstrap's class=sidenav which I have customised in my CSS file.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/template/style.css">
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For the above, my webpage loads as I want it to (so far). My hover codes in my CSS work properly. But when I try to customise other things, they don't work.
bootstrap CSS
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/template/style.css">
For the above, my webpage loads with my styling except the font size is different but the colours for sidenav are the same as the first scenario. (ie. According to my custom CSS file) My hover codes in my CSS works properly.
However if I try a different (the correct) href for example <link rel="stylesheet" href="/website/template/style.css"> the colours for my sidenav disappear but the font size goes according to my CSS. My hover codes in my CSS don't work properly.
What is going on?
I think something like this is your issue.
Given this order:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles1.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles2.css" />
# style1.css
.my-class .very-specific .class-selector { color: red; }
# style2.css
.my-class .class-selector { color: blue; }
The color will be outputted as red, because the first CSS file was more specific.
Looking at the path of your href=, I think its not able to render in html because its incorrect.
If you are pointing to the same directory where your index.html file is, you should not need to add the / in front of template.
Try using:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./template/styles.css">
The ./ points to the current directory. Or you can try
<link rel="stylesheet" href="template/styles.css">
Related
As the title says, I have two stylesheets, one for mobile, the other for desktop.
I am combining both by using the #media screen and (max-width: 1007) {} query.
This however doesn't seem to function properly for me, as some elements don't get affected by the stylesheet - the desktop stylesheet is overriding some of the elements but not all, for some reason.
Is it bad practice to combine stylesheets? Should I have separate links to them in the HTML file?
My recommendation:
I would have two separate CSS files in your <head> like so.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="mystyle.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="responsive-styles.css">
Otherwise, you can combine them by having only one main.css: This would look like so:
#import url("style.css");
#import url("css/responsive.css");
#import url("css/custom.css");
#import url("css/fonts.css");
#import url("css/jquery-ui.css");
The end goal with this is to have only one .main CSS file which includes all your main styles, responsive styles, fonts, etc.
The result would consist of only this in your <head>
<link href="main.css" rel=stylesheet>
Keep in mind stylesheets are loaded in parallel and the page does not block further parsing waiting for a stylesheet to load. Hence, my recommendation.
While printing HTML page all works fine,
After adding bootstrap library all styling disappear on printing.
wrapping css file with #media all {} not solving the issue.
any ideas ?
you could try to see if you add your style sheet after the bootstrap one it may overwrite the styles in the bootstrap file.
Use your bootstrap css cdn in this way--
<link ../bootstrap.min.css' rel='stylesheet' media='all'>
or
<link ../bootstrap.min.css' rel='stylesheet' media='screen,print'>
I am having an issue as I cannot override the styles of the elements on my website with my custom stylesheet. The issue is because of the foundation.css file as well as the normalize.css possibly. For some odd reason though the styles do override while being in a mobile resolution which has me completely lost. For example in my custom stylesheet (app.css) I have the following line:
li a {background-color: orange;}
Just for testing measures obviously. As the code above is shown you should be able to tell that any list with a link should have an orange background color. When viewing the website in my native resolution (1920px x 1080px) none of them are shown with an orange background. You can view an image of what I have explained.
As you can see the blue button shown with "Right Button Active" inside of it is the default color that the foundation.css stylesheet makes it. Now when I change my Google Chrome window to a thin window and take a look at the "Right Button Active" button it actually turns the button orange as you can see at the following picture.
I have looked at the other question mentioned on stack overflow: How do I get my #import stylesheet to override the main stylesheet?
and tried to follow that solution but that didn't work for me in solving my issue. What makes me confused about my situation is the fact that my stylesheet will work on the mobile dimesion window but when I am in my native resolution and have the window showing on fullscreen it does not show up as I have it styled in my custom stylesheet.
Here is my head.php file to show you how my stylesheets are sorted and / or arranged:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html class="no-js" lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Foundation example</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="foundation/css/normalize.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="foundation/css/foundation.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="includes/app.css">
<script src="foundation/js/vendor/modernizr.js"></script>
</head>
<?php
include 'header.php';
?>
Any ideas?
The Proper Selector
You need more specific selector to make it work like you need.
The better way is to set up variables in Foundation's settings.scss file. However, SCSS compilation is needed in this case and if you don't want to do it (or if you simply can't) these lines will be enough:
.top-bar-section li.active:not(.has-form) a:not(.button) {
background-color: #FFA500; /* orange color */
}
.top-bar-section li.active:not(.has-form) a:hover:not(.button) {
background-color: #F09600; /* darker orange, lightness -6% is Foundation's default */
}
Note: You don't need using !important if you include app.css style file after the Foundation's one. It is better to avoid of usage of this keyword.
CodePen working example
Note: If you don't use the proper selector then you take a risk than some other stuff change their color too which shouldn't be the correct behaviour. However, if you want to change blue color to the orange one in general you should use SCSS distribution of Foundation, change $primary-color variable and then compile your own CSS.
How To Find Proper Selector
You need some web development tool, e.g. Firebug, which is abailable for all modern browsers. Then use it as is described below:
Select inspect element tool.
Click on the element which you want to inspect.
Search for the attribute which you want to change - in your case, you are looking for attribute background-color. Then you can see the selector and you are also able to redefine color in the Firebug tool in place to see results immediately.
If your foundation.css has more specific rules to what you are trying to change, they could override your code done in app.css. One way to try this is to put the !important at the end of your CSS-statement, before the ; of the row.
In a case if that changes something, you should inspect your website via your browser's inspector in order to figure how it is being styled and what overrides what.
Please refer to this question for more information about load order and rule priorities.
You have set the orange colour here in app.css
ul.dropdown>li>a{background-color: orange !important;}
This is only pointing to the drop down list for styling, not the button you hover/click to get there. Add this to your app.css style sheet and I am confident it will fix it.
ul .has-dropdown a:hover {
background-color: orange;
}
I am modifying my CSS3/HTML5 site to work with different Medial Queries.
The site pages are in the Root directory. The CSS files are within a folder in the root directory called css.
Within the HEAD tags of my page, I have one CSS file for the default stuff and then I have another one for iPad in an external CSS file called ipad.css
When I am in the Developer Tools within Google Chrome, it doesn't seem to be applying the rules within the ipad.css file. I know this because I am wanting to change the text size of an element and it is not changing. Nothing is happening.
This is what I have within the HEAD tags:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/default.css" title="Default Styles">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/ipad.css" media="screen and (max-device-width: 768px)" title="iPad Styles">
According to the Google Chrome Developer Tools, an iPad width is 768px. I have referenced this within the link tag. Any ideas or suggestions welcome.
Use max-width: 768px rather than max-device-width: 768px.
Also, remember to specify a viewport meta tag in the head section of your html.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
Also, you might want to check
What is the difference between max-device-width and max-width for mobile web?
Also, keep in my you're not targeting devices, you're targeting resolutions.
Another possible source of your problem might be that you are using less specific selectors in your ipad.css. Don't forget that the styles from your default.css are also used on resolutions lower than 769px!
To test this, put this css rule on the very top of your ipad.css:
* { display: none !important; }
If your site vanishes then, your stylesheet is loaded and applied.
I tried the max-width as well and the style isn't applying. Even if I change the font-color of the text within the div class (p tag), nothing is happening.
As an example, I have a div class called banner-textoverlay so, in my ipad.css file, I wrote the following to see if it would change the text color and nothing happens at all.
.banner-textoverlay p {
font-color:#000000;
}
I'm having trouble with a print in html, because my background color web-site is black and when window.print() is activated i need the background color switched to white.
How can I do this? considering Time X Work.
I´ve tried to change Css, transform to PDF and others.
I can´t use PHP.
You should be able to do this in a stylesheet with an #media print directive.
You can configure a separate stylesheet for printing. Take a look online at print stylesheets.
E.g. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/
The key part being
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="print.css" />
You can then add this in the print.css stylesheet
body {
background: white;
}
to get rid of the background