I read an article online for tips using CSS and one of the pointers was:
Use a master stylesheet. “One of the most common mistakes I see
beginners and intermediates fall victim to when it comes to CSS is not
removing the default browser styling. This leads to inconsistencies in
the appearance of your design across browsers, and ultimately leaves a
lot of designers blaming the browser. It is a misplaced blame, of
course. Before you do anything else when coding a website, you should
reset the styling.”
Could anyone point me to any tutorials (or even help on here) as to how I can setup a Master CSS Page for my website, and also how I can call classes from the Master CSS Page to objects in my webpages.
For example if I set some styles in my Master CSS page,
I could set class on a div to class="main-header-blue" and it would call that style from my Master CSS Page and apply it to my div (and I could call this class from any of my web page)
Any help or advice is appreciated. Thank you in advance.
I think what you're looking for is Normalize.css. By including this asset prior to your own custom styles, it will help to remove browser inconsistencies with things like margins and padding on the document.
Otherwise, just style as you would normally and you should just be fine. Let me know if you have any other questions!
I hope my interpretation is your answer:
CSS is applying styles from a top-down perspective. This means, if you insert two stylesheets, the top one is applied first and then the second one overrides the first stylesheet
That means that:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystyle.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystyle2.css"> // this one overrides the first
That applies to styles too:
div {
background-color:green;
}
div {
background-color:red;
}
// the background color is red.
That could mean that the first stylesheet is the master stylesheet. That one is containing the 'master styles' and the second one is for 'overriding the defaults'. This is useful when you import a stylesheet from 3rth parties (e.g. Bootstrap).
A second interpretation is SASS. Within SASS you can create a master stylesheet containing the variables that will be applied in the other stylesheets. So, in the master stylesheet you say this:
$font-stack: Helvetica, sans-serif;
$primary-color: #333;
Then in your other stylesheets you use those:
body {
font: 100% $font-stack;
color: $primary-color;
}
The basic way of setting a "master" stylesheet is the following:
Assume you have a folder structure like this:
webpage (folder)
css (folder)
style.css (file)
index.html (file)
Lets say you have a file called index.html at the root of your project folder. You need to include/reference the stylesheet (style.css) in the index.html like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="mydiv">Your content</div>
</body>
</html>
Then you can have this in your style.css file:
.mydiv {
width: 300px;
height: 300px;
background-color: red;
}
This will make the <div>inside the <body>to have a width and height of 300 pixels and a background-color of red. And you can call this style anywhere inside the webpage by giving a <div> the class mydiv.
That is it simply put.
Related
I am using a template (A). This has some CSS files and I want to inlcude an other template (B) in this template and the other template has also some CSS files. By including the css of template B in A, some forms are looking different because of the new CSS of template B.
How can I inlcude all CSS files of both template without replacing some forms.... Can I set a priority to one CSS? Or is there a tool where I can put more CSS files which will compress all CSS files to one?
Or can I use one CSS file to only one DIV?
CSS means "Cascading Style Sheets". Here "Cascading" means that If something is found two times than the last has priority. So link the CSS file at last which you want to give priority. You can also use !important to give priority. For instance:
color: red !important;
Here red will be used overall.
I’m not completely sure what you are trying to do.
However assuming you want to link more than 1 css file to page. You could play with priorities of CSS selectors. An ID for example has more priority than a Class. You could also make them more specific.
For example:
body ul li span {
Color: red;
}
Span {
Color: blue;
}
Here the span should be red
You should try to include the CSS you want for your login page only (template (B)) into your login page HTML only, like for instance:
index.html file :
<link rel="stylesheet" href="templateA.css">
login.html file :
<link rel="stylesheet" href="templateB.css">
The objective if simply to avoid conflicts between both template, you cannot use both of them on the same page it will cause a lot of bugs and slowdown your website a lot.
Please feel free to ask me in the comment if I'm not clear about anything.
I am currently trying to change the color of a title by referencing a div's class.
So far I have tried:
.pagetitle-title.heading {
color: purple;
}
<div class="container">
<h1 class="pagetitle-title heading">IT•ONE Method</h1>
</div>
And even:
h1 {
color: purple;
}
As mentioned per my comment, it looks like a classic case of "CSS overwrite". One of the "hacks" to avoid this, is to use the CSS property !important to tell the browser which CSS rule is particularly important, and should not be overwritten.
Example: color: purple !important;
CSS applies the style in the fashion that it is loaded. So if you have 1 CSS file with x rules, and a 2nd CSS file with y rules, and they both target the same elements, then the CSS file that was loaded last will generally overwrite the styles of the one prior.
The order is known as the top-down rule, and is only overwritten by the !important property and in-line CSS. The !Importantproperty will generally overwrite any in-line CSS.
Given the information about the top-down rule, and you have the means to edit the CSS and/or choose the order of how the CSS is loaded, you can make sure that you are able to apply your own CSS rules by having them load as the last included file in your project.
Example:
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="loadedfirst.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="loadedsecond.css">'
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="loadedlast.css">
</head>
In case these 3 files have rules that applies to the same elements, the loadedlast.css file is the CSS that will overwrite the ones prior, except in the case of the !important property and in-line CSS. By managing the order of your CSS, you can avoid having to resort to such "hacks" as using the !important property.
Check your link "stylesheet" for your CSS
Open you debug console and identify your h2 to see if CSS option are targeted
Try another hexa color code
Add "!important" after touy color code
color: purple!important;
I see your code and it's correct method to modify this color so... Try my checklist first and give us your feedback.
I would avoid adding important as much as I can. I would just go higher up the parents and try to target the div as specific as I can. Instead, I would go
.container h1.pagetitle-title.heading {
color: purple;
}
If that doesn't work only then I would use important.
I include bootstrap link in my website like this:
<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
And right below, I include my own css stylesheet like this:
<link href="css/header.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
But as I included bootstrap, I could no longer edit the website's style through my original stylesheet in header.css. I can still edit the website's appearance through <style="....">, but I'd like to integrate every style in the css file. Does anyone know how to solve the problem? Thanks.
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, which may sound a bit arbitrary, but it's very important to understand that it functions exactly as the name states. The styles "cascade" down the file. You can easily override any attribute you want if you put it further down the file. If you don't want it overwritten, you give it more weight, or more accurately, more Specificity.
Many bootstrap styles are notoriously specific, and require heavier selectors to overwrite.
So first of all, make sure you're loading you header.css file _after your bootstrap.min.css, and make sure you're using specific enough selectors.
Take a look at this snippet: If you want the .alt div to be black, you'll need to make sure you're using a heavier selector if your library is using a really specific one, even if your selector comes afterwards.
/* Library.css */
div {
background: #0095ee;
color: #fff;
}
div + div.alt {
background: #ee3d96;
}
/* Custom.css */
.alt {
background: #000
}
<div>I'm the first div</div>
<div class="alt">I'm the second div</div>
<div>I'm the third div</div>
I have prepared a page in HTML. I can only edit the HTML file - I cannot edit the CSS.
In the CSS file, there is a colour declared: color: #fff000. I created a new style in the HTML file. However, the CSS file style.css is more important - when I add a new color in the HTML page, the style.css colour overrides it.
Is there any possibility to set that CSS in the HTML as more important than the colour declared in style.css, without editing style.css?
Inline CSS always takes precedence so if you put your styles directly on the HTML elements themselves, it should work:
<div id="title" style="color:white">Title</div>
This is acceptable, but not something I would do.
What I would recommend is making an overriding style sheet in the header of the HTML. This keeps the styling away from the HTML content, but you have to be sure to use the !important tag to override the specificity. Adding the !important tag is not 100% required, since internal stylesheet take precedence over external style sheets but it might be something to consider.
So, in the case of the earlier example, this would look something like:
<style>
#title {
color: white!important;
}
</style>
Hope this helps you!
Inline CSS has more importance than a style.css rule. Maybe someone has added !important in the CSS though, then that would override your inline CSS. To try this out, do a:
Link
You can use <style> element with scoped attribute like this:
<style scoped="scoped" type="text/css">
//Add rule here
</style>
It is possible to set the css in html like this:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.more-important-style {
background-color: #352e7e;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Generally speaking we can say that all the styles will "cascade" into a new "virtual" style sheet by the following rules, where number four has the highest priority:
1. Browser default
2. External style sheet
3. Internal style sheet (in the head section)
4. Inline style (inside an HTML element)
I am currently making a website for my college project and I want to make it as good as possible. I basically want to have several HTML pages for my website which I have setup but I want to use only the one CSS page. So basically if I edit one page, for example my second page, how do I change the look of it without editing any of the CSS for my first page. I have tried several things but I honestly have no idea.
Any help is appreciated and thank you in advance.
You cannot just change the layout of each page in CSS, CSS is not aware of what the page you are at.
Either do you change the layout by changing the whole CSS file. Or you try to put the CSS special functions for that page inside the page elements.
Otherwise you can't do that!
For example:
You can create a single CSS file and link it as:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="site.css" type="text/css">
Then in each page, where you want the style to be different you can change the style inline:
<element style="property: value; property_2: value_2;"></element>
Like this!
How about adding a class to the body tag on the second page, then specifying the style that are just for that page by using the class.
Page one:
<body>
<p>This page is boring</p>
</body>
Page two:
<body class="page-two">
<p>That's a mighty fine body</p>
</body>
Then your CSS could be
p {
background: white;
}
.page-two p {
background: red;
}
If you have a lot of extra CSS to apply to the second page, then you might consider using LESS or something similar to make your life easier.
Your best method is to have an app.css file that has global settings like height, width... and then have specific page files index.css, portfolio.css.. that have specific styles like colors.
You can specify your button general style in your app.css, and then more specific styles in each page css file.
app.css:
button{
height: 30px;
width: 150px;
border: 1px solid purple;
color: purple;
}
index.css:
button{
border: 1px solid black;
color: black;
}
Add the app.css to each html file, and then only the specific page css file to each html file. This will make it easy to expand in the future.
You need to create a template for your HTML pages and then link an external style sheet in your <head> section of each page like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="mystyle.css" type="text/css">
Then for any special cases that are not part of the template, you can link additional style sheets. Just a side note, embedding styles in elements directly is harder to maintain than linking multiple CSS files.
If you are allowed to use JavaScript, you might like to use a JavaScript template engine like Handlebar.js.
The beauty of template engines is that you can define sections and create dynamic HTML. This may be more complex than what you're wanting here, but it is very cool.
A large list of template engines can be found here: http://garann.github.io/template-chooser/