How to change cursor for resizable textarea? - html

I have an HTML element textarea with defined CSS rule { resize: both }. In FF when the user mouse over the right bottom corner of textarea the cursor changed according to value of property resize, but in Chrome cursor doesn't change.
Please open this example in FF and Chrome to check the difference.
Is it a bug of Google Chrome and can I fix it with CSS on my side?
Update
I reported bug to Chromium:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=942017
Update 2
The bug was fixed in Chrome 80.

Actually, there are, or at least were ways in which you could style the resizer and add cursor: se-resize; on hover. Check out this post: Can I style the resize grabber of textarea?
It describes how you can use ::-webkit-resizer to style the resizer:
::-webkit-resizer {
border: 2px solid black;
background: red;
box-shadow: 0 0 5px 5px blue;
outline: 2px solid yellow;
}
Unfortunately it stopped working in Chrome and I couldn't anything similar. (I think it still works in Safari).
But fear not, it's not hard to make a custom handle. Actually, I would encourage you to use a custom one as the default one is too small and hard to hit. Especially with touch. There are actually a lot of sites that use custom handles (or at least automatic resizers based which grows based on the content. Works great on touch too!).
Ie. Stackoverflow uses a custom handle (TextAreaResizer):
GIF of Stackoverflows resize handle
There are also lots of libraries for exactly that purpose, just do a Google search, and you'll find something that works for you :)

This is rendered by browser itself cant be designed using css

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Strange outline appears in Chrome 83/IE on my Windows 10

something very, very strange has happened.
Since a few hours, my Chrome (also IE) shows a different default outline on input.
Inspecting the code I saw that the outline set is as follows:
outline: -webkit-focus-ring-color auto 1px
and result is like this:
happens both incognito and in navigation with or without extensions.
how can I restore it ?
I think you can achieve it with something like this
*:focus {
outline: 1px solid aliceblue
}
so you can define for all of your elements which outline to render on focus.
a similar question can be found here
Chrome default focus outline
ps: although I think the new chrome outline is ugly as hell, don't forget that disabling it at all is a bad practice
http://www.outlinenone.com/
cheers
it's a new "feature" of chrome 83....(that afflict all S.O.) I hope will be removed soon.
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/48974735?hl=en
The teams at Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome spent the last year
collaborating to retheme and improve the functionality of the built-in
form controls on Chromium browsers. ... The new focus indicator uses a
thick dark ring with a thin white outline, which should improve
visibility on both light and dark backgrounds. This is an easy
accessibility win that automatically improves the keyboarding
experience on a number of sites without developers needing to write
any new code. What's New in Chrome 83
You could easily totally remove or customize the focus outline for all or any element that you want like below:
*:focus {
outline: none; /* or customize it */
}
*:focus {
outline: none !important; /* or customize it */
}
You have to add "!important".

Twitter Bootstrap Select Arrow Missing

I'm having an issue with the select drop down button in twitter bootstrap. It's happening in the two browsers I have installed on the machine (IE11, Chrome) and it's not just restricted to 'my sites'.
Here is a screenshot of the bootstrap website (OS: Windows 8.1 Broswer: Chrome) (http://getbootstrap.com/css/#forms-controls):
I have checked the console window and all resources are loading correctly.
Could anyone help me with why this is happening / steps to resolve?
TL;DR: you can't use CSS to change the icon. You'll have to use a library that implements a select-like control using HTML and JavaScript (at the expense of mobile-friendly selects on iOS and Android).
The icon displayed in <select> is determined by the user's browser or operating system. You can't change it using CSS.
Select display in Chrome on a Mac:
Select display in Chrome on a Mac with some styles removed:
I removed line-height, background-color, border, border-radius, and box-shadow. Note that the arrow has changed even though I didn't change any related style.
Select display in Chrome on Windows:
Notice that the icons are different, even though the code is the same.
Now what?
Although select isn'g very styleable, there are many libraries that provide a very customizable implementation of a select-like control. I like to use Bootstrap-select.
This library creates a <div class="caret"></div> that can be styled to change the icon. For example after including the Bootstrap-select JavaScript, the following code:
HTML
<select class="selectpicker">
<option>Mustard</option>
<option>Ketchup</option>
<option>Relish</option>
</select>
CSS
.caret{
color: red;
}
Gives me this display:
You'll lose mobile display, though:
Using a custom library will disable the mobile-friendly way iOS and Android implement selects, so make sure a custom icon is important enough to you before proceeding.
I found a solution to this, add this CSS and put 'form-override' class on each select dropdown:
.form-override {
appearance: auto !important;
}
I'm not sure why this works or why it's needed, just wanted to share how I was able to fix this problem. For me it seems to be sporadic, sometimes the problem occurs and I need this style setting to fix it, and sometimes it does not need this fix.
Use for select
select {
-moz-appearance: none;
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url("../images/dropdown.png") no-repeat scroll 100% center / 20px 13px !important;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 6px 20px 6px 6px !important;
width: auto;
}
You can't style the <select> element itself at this moment. Every browser applies its own styling to most form elements.
So you can create your own custom select by hiding the original one, create markup, e.g. div with ul + li and live it up with javascript.
OR
If you don't mind using jQuery, try these libraries:
SelectBoxIt
Select2
Chosen
Bootstrap select
jquery-selectBox
jQuery UI
I have experienced that behavior with IE on Windows 8.1. For some reason IE renders the arrow differently as soon as you start to style the select element (which bootstrap themes usually do). Even something as simple as setting the background color triggers this behavior.
The only solution I've found so far is to style the arrow as needed. You can use the ::-ms-expand pseudo element for that. The following css rule should restore the "default" look:
select::-ms-expand {
background-color: #fff;
border: none;
}

Recreating the HTML5 range input for Mobile Safari (webkit)?

So I've been working on a HTML5 iPad application for work and have come across a problem. I didn't have access to an iPad whilst first working on this app and relied on desktop Safari to get my app quickly together (probably not the best thing, anyhow...)
I'm having to rely on a input range for a part of the interface. After seeing that HTML5 had a range input, I was happy as this is just what I needed. I even managed to style it up to exactly what was designed:
This is great! ...until I actually tried it on an iPad and it doesn't work. Just shows a text input. I'm now wondering what to do... I do need a slider, something that when dragged, it spits out the data. Obviously needs to work with touch. After looking around all over the web, there doesn't seem to be a solid solution.
What do you guys suggest here? What's the proper way of coding up a working touch-friendly slider, just like the native HTML5 one that it doesn't support!?
Any ideas/thoughts/knowledge/experience would be greatly appreciated!
James
I tested all the proposed "solutions" and found them all lacking.
All are excessively bloated, some change your existing markup or force unnecessary CSS styles.
So I crafted my own solution in 2kb of JavaScript (minified).
Try it (on your mobile device): https://range-touch.herokuapp.com
Code: https://github.com/dwyl/range-touch (concise and commented)
To get this working in your own project all you need to do is include the range-touch.min.js file in your page/template.
Magically <input type="range"> works on all mobile devices.
You can style the slider & button how ever you like.
I've included sample styles in the optional/style.css
Note: this solution Assumes you have JQuery or Zepto.js
You could have a look over http://jqueryui.com/demos/slider/ .
Try accessing the page on the iPad and see if it's touch friendly.
I have exactly the same problem, only with an iPhone.
This is because Mobile Safari only supports a subset of HTML5. I am using JqTouch which is causing me all manner of issues so do avoid this framework.
Take a look at jquery mobile. Its currently Alpha 3, but has a slider control which works on iOS.
Hope this helps you a little.
Try this one - https://github.com/freqdec/fd-slider. Even the tooltip on the demo page is working on mobile safari - http://www.frequency-decoder.com/demo/fd-slider/tooltip/.
There's a fix for rangeinput from jquerytools for touch devices: https://github.com/Patrick64/jquerytools/blob/dev/src/rangeinput/rangeinput.js
Works like a charm!
I found that you have to use a very light touch on Safari mini-tablet (or phone), and the slider works. If you press down too hard, Safari Mobile (or tablet), tries to bring up the "select/select all" pop-up bubble, as if it were a text field. Also, Safari on my tablet or phone thought that I wanted to "move the window around" - I have not found a solution to these issues yet. However, I did get the slider to work in Safari with a "light finger touch".
I found the following resources to be helpful:
Pen by Aron Woost:
https://codepen.io/aronwoost/pen/nlyrf
Here is a sample of Woost's code:
input[type="range"] {
-webkit-appearance: none;
-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);
width: 100%;
height: 20px;
margin: 0;
border: none;
padding: 1px 2px;
border-radius: 14px;
background: #232528;
box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 0 #0d0e0f, inset 0 -1px 0 0 #3a3d42;
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 0 #0d0e0f, inset 0 -1px 0 0 #3a3d42;
outline: none; /* no focus outline */
}
Daniel Stern:
https://css-tricks.com/styling-cross-browser-compatible-range-inputs-css/
You can do a google search on " How to style range sliders in Webkit
By Sara Vieira" and find her article.
I hope this helps.
An easy and quick SOLUTION!
The input range slider can be made User-Friendly on a mobile device by removing the troublesome highlight effect on the slider when tapped upon.
The Fix - Add the CSS property, -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent to the CSS of the element or the complete html page. This will remove the highlight effect on an element when it is tapped on a mobile device.

How to remove button outline in Opera on focus

Does anybody know how to remove the dotted outline on buttons in Opera?
I have done it.
Here you go: http://jsbin.com/oniva4. [tested on Opera 10.5/11]
The secret is using outline-offset:-2px; (effectively covering the dots) and the background's color for the outline. outline-offset is supported since version 9.5.
The introduction of the article Do not lose your focus
For many web designers, accessibility conjures up images of blind users with screenreaders, and the difficulties in making sites accessible to this particular audience. Of course, accessibility covers a wide range of situations that go beyond the extreme example of screenreader users. And while it’s true that making a complex site accessible can often be a daunting prospect, there are also many small things that don’t take anything more than a bit of judicious planning, are very easy to test (without having to buy expensive assistive technology), and can make all the difference to certain user groups.
In this short article we’ll focus on keyboard accessibility and how careless use of CSS can potentially make your sites completely unusable.
And the list of test given by the article on outline management.
Update 2011-02-08
I can confirm that it is not possible for now. There is an open bug for it.
I say this with the clear proviso that you shouldn't remove the outline unless you replace it with something else that indicates focus state ...
If you apply a transform to the element, it kills the outline in opera; it doesn't even need to do a visible transform, merely applying the property is enough. So this will do the job:
#myButton:focus
{
-o-transform:rotate(0);
}
But I can't promise that wouldn't be considered a rendering bug, and consequently something that may change in the future.
I believe the problem lies in where you specify the outline properties. Try this:
*:focus, *:active {
outline: none; (or possibly outline: 0)
}
I researched this more and it looks like on input fields and buttons it will not work unless you edit the browser's config, like Firefox's about:config page. It seems to be done for accessibility reasons so that a keyboard can be used to fill out and send a form without using a mouse.
I used that trick above for my text area and worked fine! Using a Text Area with an id "itens", here it goes!
#itens:focus, #itens:active{
outline: 1px solid white;
outline-offset: -2px;
}
So, you can play with that:
#itens:focus, #itens:active{
outline: 1px solid lime;
outline-offset: -2px;
}
Are you looking for:
button{
outline:none;
}
or if your button is an input...
input[type=button]{
outline:none;
}
Just read this forum post on the opera website
http://my-beta.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=712402
There seems to be no fix for it
Further to my tip above -- with experience I've found that it doesn't always work, and isn't always appropriate anyway, since it can change the way the element is rendered in subtle and sometimes unpleasant ways.
So, if that doesn't work, another thing you can do which often does, is to specify the outline color as "rgba(0,0,0,0)"
if you attached css-reset in your stylesheet should solve the issue.
Remove outline for anchor tag
a {outline : none;}
Remove outline from image link
a img {outline : none;}
Remove border from image link
img {border : 0;}
This is less of an answer, and more of an explanation as to what seems to be going on:
The story
My reason for removing opera's outline was to add an outline of my own. To add an outline I used:
:focus{
outline:1px dotted #999;
outline-offset:-3px;
}
This works perfectly fine in every other browser... except Opera. Opera instead gives you this weird interference pattern, which looks like a dotted-dashed outline:
now if you remove your outline, you still have the standard outline that Opera provides, a nice simple 1px spaced dotted line:
Since I have no way of adding a style to every browser except Opera, I instead decided on removing Opera's outline before adding my own. Using brothercake's solution, -o-transform:rotate(0); to do this and then applying my own outline:
Voila!
An Explanation?
From what I can tell, Opera adds it's own secondary outline on top of any outline defined by CSS.
This secondary outline seems to have an independent color, width, style, and offset.
Color is the opposite of the background,
Width is 1px,
Style is dotted,
and the offset is 2px smaller than the border.
sorry there is no style image, the upload didn't work correctly
one interesting thing is that the dotted style of the Opera outline is not the same as the CSS outline's dotted, otherwise there would be no interference pattern with both:
Conclusion:
As I stated above, I am using brothercake's solution which is to nullify the opera border with:
-o-transform:rotate(0);
As he mentioned in his later comment this 'fix' does have some issues as it is a rendering bug:
I have noticed that when returning window or tab focus to the page containing the button, if the button previously had focus, the Opera outline will reappears until the button loses focus or is hovered over.
better:
outline: solid 0;
for all web browsers

Hide something with CSS without display:none or JavaScript

How can I hide the div without using display:none or JavaScript?
In my country, a lot of Blackberrys come with the CSS support disabled (the mobile companies here are not so good to developers). I have text that says
<div class="BBwarn">
please activate your css support and a link
</div>
I want to hide that once the user activates CSS support, but i can't use display:none; because it is only supported in BB firmware 4.6. It is a public site and I can't make all my visitors upgrade.
Does anybody knows a solution to this? I hope the question is easier to understand now.
Update:
Thank you all for the answers but I can't use
position:absolute
overflow
because they are available from Blackberry firmware 4.6 and up
things to try:
use the z-index to put it behind some other element
move it off the screen by absolute positioning
visbility: hidden
make the content "invisible" by setting background to foreground color (works only for text)
opacity: 0
but the real question is: why?
This is a common way:
margin-left: -9999;
How about:
visibility: hidden;
That should hide the DIV, (note how it will still be rendered but be invisible, that means it will take space in the document as if it was visible, but be invisible (unlike display:none; where the div will not be rendered)).
<div style="height:0;width:0;overflow:hidden;">
<!-- content here -->
</div>
Incidentally, this is what I do to preload images, which is nice because it doesn't use javascript.
Visibility:hidden won't do the same thing because some browsers are smart and won't make the request unless it thinks its actually visible.
Why not try the simple:
position: absolute;
left: -1000px;
I can't see why it wouldn't work.
I'm not sure of the percentages you're talking about that are using < 4.6, but if it's that important to you, then I can see a rationale for accepting that you can't please all the people all the time, and an acceptable cascading solution to this should be achievable. Probably with a link to explain the benefits of upgrading and enabling css.
height: 0;
overflow: hidden;
visibility: hidden;
color: #fff;
background: #fff;
BTW - you'd better make sure that you're css is good if you're telling someone to turn it on... :-)
What makes you think display: none is not supported before version 4.6? Did you test that, or are you going by their documentation?
I'm not a mobile developer either, so I'm just going by what I gleaned from the documentation.
The BlackBerry Browser 4.6 CSS Reference indeed mentions "Availability: BlackBerry® Device Software version 4.6 or later" for the display property, but their BlackBerry Browser 4.3 Content Developer Guide indicates that 4.3 already supported a very limited version of the display property, including display: none. Versions before 4.3 don't support the display property (again, going by the BlackBerry Browser developer documentation).
Can you assume your users do at least have firmware version 4.3, or is that just as unacceptable as assuming they have 4.6?
Have you tried simply setting the width and height to zero? I'm not familiar with the BlackBerry (Browser), but I'm sceptically assuming its CSS support is less than perfect, certainly on the older versions. I wouldn't be surprised if this worked:
.BBwarn {
display: none; /* for 4.6 and up */
width: 0px; /* for 4.3 */
height: 0px;
}
But then width and height are only supported on all elements starting from version 4.3. Before that they could only be applied to <button> and <img> tags and some <input> types (according to the documentation).
So perhaps the safest way to really make it work on all BlackBerry firmware versions is to use an image for the warning, and use CSS to set its width and height to zero.
If an image is not an option (due to lozalization issues or so, perhaps), an ugly hack might be to specify an empty/illegal image source and put the warning text in the alt attribute. I don't know if setting its width and height to zero would still hide that alt text then.
visibility: hidden; will work, but the space taken up by that particular div will still appear. If you are going to use the negative left-margin method, remember that you will need to set the object's position to absolute.
How about this:
clip: rect(0,0,0,0);
Note: Please note the clip property does not work if "overflow:visible" is used.
In your case:
<div class="BBwarn">
please activate your css support and a link
</div>
just add this css:
.BBwarn{
position: absolute;
clip: rect(0,0,0,0);
}
You could position it absolutely off the screen.
But I, also, am not a mobile developer.
I assume You don't want to use JavaScript because the Blackberrys don't support it.
What about if you did the opposite and displayed the block of code with JavaScript, rather than tried to hide it?
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
document.open();
document.writeln('<div class="BBwarn">');
document.writeln('please activate your css support and a link');
document.writeln('</div>');
document.close();
//--></script>
This is a bit of a hack, but would not display the text with disabled JavaScript...
You can do something like wise:
.class{
opacity:0; overflow:hidden; visibility: hidden; height:0;
}
for being more precise you can add :
color:transparent; background-color:transparent;
What exactly is wrong with (the earlier mentioned)
width: 0
height:0
visibility: hidden
width: 0 height:0 visibility: hidden
...Does not always work with firmware 2.2 and older. Sometimes you can get an element to be hidden, but it will reappear with certain keystrokes (like underscore, for instance).
Or you could use Please enable Javascript
And use an image that reads "Enable CSS" and style it using "display:none".
So that whenever the corresponding feature is enabled these warnings wont show.
Alternately, I presume you are using some server side code? You could try detecting for the most common known platforms that support specific versions of css/javascript and deliver content accordingly. You might not even have to write it all yourself.
I had a similar problem when I was trying to customize a select box using javascript in BlackBerry Curve 8530 (OS 5.0). But, the menu created couldn't be hidden because the css following properties still don't work:
display
overflow
position: absolute
visibility
z-index
And destroying and recreating the HTML elements didn't work either, so I got here and could solve my problem.
I know my answer isn't exactly about the question raised here, but once I got here when had problems, I think I'm not the only one with it happened and is going to.
Anyway, even if those css properties worked, what I needed was some code that could work on the most of the BB models.
My solution was made using all the answers found here. It was simple. I made two classes:
.element
{
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
font-size: 12px;
color: black;
background-color: transparent;
border: 1px solid black;
}
.element_hidden
{
width: 0px;
height: 0px;
font-size: 0px;
color: white;
background-color: white;
border: none;
}
Yes. I've made two of them for each kind of element I had in my page.
Initially, all classes are set to class="element_hidden", so when the mouse is over the select box menu, all the classes are changed to class="element" and they are shown and hidden as if they were made invisible/visible.
I hope this can be useful to someone! ;D
We can use the transform property to scale the element along the x and y axis.
. BBwarn{
transform : scale(0,0);
}
I used font size to obtain this without using display none
font-size: 0px;
As you said in question that you need solution for Blackberry version below 4.6 and there are very few CSS properties supported for Blackberry version below 4.6 so we can use some sort of hack for this purpose. Try and set the text color to whatever the background is or set font-size to 0. It's a hack, but it makes it invisible. Run the following snippet and let me know if its works for you.
.alert1 {
color: #fff; //3.8 or later
}
.alert2 {
font-size: 0; //3.8 or later
}
<b>Alert1</b>
<div class="alert1">
please activate your css support and a link
</div>
<b>Alert2</b>
<div class="alert2">
please activate your css support and a link
</div>