Why does my page look different in design than at run-time? - html

I'm studying HTML/CSS and doing a single-page project using WebStorm and Chrome. Normally I test the way my page running Chrome in WebStorm which results in opening http://localhost:63342/ in my browser address line.
After I finished my project I closed WebStorm and ran it again in Chrome, but this time I open it by clicking on the shortcut on my desktop.
To my surprise, the way the page looks was different from the one that I saw when I opened Chrome through WebStorm.
The question is: Why so? It's the same HTML/CSS code, the same browser.

You can use http://brackets.io/ as an alternative. It has a similar feature called "live preview".
It seems that there is no style applied to your page. If you have your css in a separate file, my guess is that WebStorm doesn't locate your CSS file or you are not referencing it correctly in your html. Try looking at the "Sources" tab from the Chrome Developer Tools (F18) and see if it loaded the .css file.

It turned out that it had something to do with the page scale. When I press cmd and + and the page zooms in, it gets a slightly different look.

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Why Is My HTML and CSS Code Not Running Properly On The Internet?

I recently added some text effects to my website in HTML and CSS. It runs perfectly on VS Code live sever but whenever I upload the code files on to my cpanel, the effects just seem to go away when I actually click and go on my website and I am not sure why. Does anyone know a fix for this? Here is my website julianwsanchez.com
And this how it is supposed to look:
How It Looks When I open it:
The output I'm seeing on your site matches the output of the code snippet here, effects and all.
Check to see if you have some browser extension that affects the way a site might look (e.g. a dark mode extension). Also, try going to your site in a different browser and/or in Incognito mode.
it Works for me just fine, both the link given, and the files running on localhost
You might need to do a hard reload.
try Ctrl-Shift-R on chrome when viewing the page.
This clears the browsers cache for that webpage,
alternative: open the web page in another browser.

After editing css in Chrome Developer Tools, css file does not load

I'm developing a basic web page with css file on my local machine and testing by opening the html file in the browser straight from the filesystem.
This works, but now since using the Chrome developer tools to play around with different styles by editing the css file under the Sources tab, whenever I refresh the page none of the CSS loads until I again edit it in the sources tab - just adding a return to the end is enough to load all the CSS.
Also, occasionally when refreshing the page, the Sources tab shows the contents of the css file as corrupt (a load of random characters)
I've run the css through a validator and that says it is all fine and there is no javascript on the page
I'm not a web developer so probably missing something obvious...
This is happening because you are editing css inside the Inspect Element (Chrome developer tools).
This is because the css literally lives on a webpage and it is pulled from your actual css file on your desktop (css file from the folder of your website).
Because of this, you are never actually changing an actual css on your computer, just in the browser, and that is temporary, because the same old css from your computer will load everytime you reload the page (untill you modify the css on your computer).
You should edit your changes in your actual css file on your computer inside your text editor (notepad++, visual studio code, atom, sublime text, etc ...).
That way, it is going to work as you want ! Hope you understood what I meant, if not, just tell me, so I can clarify again :)
Add this to the nginx configuration:
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
....
}
this solved it for me.
Thanks

Editing a chrome extension

I use the extension New Tab Wallpaper for Google Chrome. I am wondering if it's possible to modify it so that it doesn't show the annoying Settings button on the bottom right corner. Or at least doesn't appear unless you move your cursor down there.
screenshot of new tab page
Looking at the extension in the Chrome Web Store, it doesn't look like the author linked the project to a homepage or an open source code repository such as GitHub.
That being said, if you really wanted to alter the extension, you can find the code on your computer, see this answer regarding where to find the extension on your computer for various operating systems. A Google Chrome extension is simply HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Chrome / Firefox inspector to edit HTML

I know I can edit HTML elements in Chrome / Firefox inspector. But how can I save changes to the local file on my desktop?
Chrome is able to do some stuff via workspaces. Open devtools go to Sources add folder to workspace pick your index.html (or whatever) edit and save by clicking ctrl+s. Refresh browser and you'll see that changes are permanent. You can't however go to Elements/Inspector pick some tag change it and save because "DOM!==HTML".
Yes you can edit a locally saved html file in IE9 by right clicking the page in the browser window, choosing "view source" which opens in notepad and editing the code and then go to file and save the changes.
You can do the same thing In Firefox by opening Firebug and then opening the Firebug editor which is notepad.
I just thought I remembered doing it by just right clicking the page and opening "view source" in Firefox just as I did in IE9.
View Source in Firefox allows you to play around with your code and edit it but to save and edit the actual working file requires opening it up, making those same changes, then saving. I'd suggest using the developer tools and once you have what you want, copying and pasting the altered source code to use in the original file. If you have firebug and the firebug editor I think you may then be able to actually update the file itself. Chrome allows you to edit JavaScript like that but I'm not sure about HTML and CSS
I have the same problem, how to edit the DOM html and save the results. On my PC I can effectively do this operation using Scratchpad by changing the file type to all, open the file, edit it, do a save, then refresh the page. With a bit of messing around you can copy and paste from the Inspector to the Scratchpad. It's pretty hacky, but it does work.
However, one of my students who is using a Macbook AIR can't edit html files with ScratchPad, she can edit .js files, but all the html files are grayed out and can't be clicked. Bottom line is I don't know if this "solution" works for all systems.

Netbeans with Chrome integration on HTML5 project

I have successfully installed both netbeans and the chrome extension for doing html/css/js work. It appears to work for the most part but I've seen some questionable activity that is... "limiting".
Netbeans > Chrome seems like a fragile interaction. In netbeans, I select run file, and the page opens in chrome always in a new window (is that right?). Part of the marketing here is that you're supposed to be able to edit the css without having to constantly go to the browser and reload. But in netbeans, when I go to the tab of the css file (in the same project), the chrome page bombs with the Dead Folder icon and the text "Something went wrong while displaying this webpage".
What's supposed to be the process here? It seems to work in principle, but not in practice.
[update]
I had also had the addon problem that if I did Run Main Project while looking at the css file, it would show the css file as if it were the main html file. After setting chrome as the default browser, this action shows the actual main html file. At that point, making any change to the css file, any typing at all, will bomb the chrome page.
Take a look at this tutorial.
Once you run a page/project in Chrome with NetBeans integration, in NetBeans there is a window CSS Styles and slightly different Navigator (in 7.3). Now in browser you can start Inspect mode (for instance right click on NetBeans logo in omnibar and check "Inspect in NetBeans mode") and then you can for instance click on elements in browser and if you do that, the CSS Styles window in IDE shows all css properties and rules applied to selected element. You can edit CSS from either CSS Styles or by plain old editing of CSS file in NetBeans. In both cases, changes are visible in Chrome without any reload (without even saving the css file). And you can also use JavaScript debugger in NetBeans.
I don't know what do you mean by "chrome page bombs", but page cannot be debugged by 2 "debuggers" at the same time in Chrome - so you can either use NetBeans or Chrome Developer tools.
There are many new features in the upcoming NetBeans 7.4 (you can download 7.4 Beta from netbeans.org). You can try it as well.