Change CSS through div and not class - html

I'm using an app that allow me to change only the CSS of a webpage.
The devs create a step_btn class for 2 distinct buttons (previous and next button) and i want to change the CSS of each button separately.
I tried to make the changes through the div id but nothing happened...
Here is the page code :
<div id="j_id0:j_id73" class="navbuttonsContainer">
<div id="j_id0:j_id74" style="height:35px;overflow:visible;position:relative;" class="rowElem">
<div id="j_id0:j_id78" class="btnWrapper">
<a class="step_btn" onclick="saveAndGoTo('next')" title="Next Page">
<span id="j_id0:nextBtn">Next Page</span>
</a>
</div>
<div id="j_id0:j_id81"></div>
</div>
</div>
Here are my tries :
#j_id0:j_id78
div#j_id0:j_id78 {}
div#j_id0:j_id78 .step_btn {}
Is it my tries that failed or the webpage doesn't interpret my code correctly ?
Thanks for your help !

use an attribute selector to enclose the id as a string, e.g.
[id="j_id0:j_id78"] .step_btn { ... }
In fact using the id selector — like for #j_id0:j_id78 — the parser would consider j_id0 as the id and :j_id78 as a pseudoselector
Note: no need to specify the div element in front of the attribute, since the id should be unique in the page.

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Changing the visibiliy of one DIV based on presence of another div or element

Ok, I've been trying to figure this out for a while, and not quite sure it's possible in pure CSS.
I'm trying to create a bit of custom styling on a page of FileRun links that I send to clients. Sending a bunch of subfolders of large TIFF images (I split them up to make the download manageable). Most clients can figure out that they should go into each subfolder and download them individually. However, the "download all" button appears on the main page of the link, and plenty of not so tech-savvy clients send me angry emails complaining that they hit the "download all" button, and can't open or download the 5GB zip file that FileRun creates of the entire main folder link.
An example of a page is here:
https://demo.filerun.co/wl/?id=T2Gv5oGiGMxO3welkXbaqs92fZ6meJmU
The main limitation is that FileRun is encoded in IonCube, so I only have access to the CSS file, so no way I can add javascript or PHP code.
I've been trying to find a way to write CSS to hide the DOWNLOAD ALL button <a class="actionBtn"> by changing the CSS to .actionBtn {display:none;} in the main link page, but not any subfolders. I have found you can tell when you are in a subfolder page when there is a 2+ level breadcrumb containing a carat.
e.g. in the 'elf' subfolder, this can be detected by the presence of the > in the breadcrumb, and the presence of <span class="bcSep">></span>
Is there any way to change the attribute of actionBtn or right div on the right, depending on the presence of the <span class="bcSep">></span> or number of elements in the breadcrumb?
The nesting order in the header div on the root page is:
<div class="left">
<a class="breadCrumb">xxx</a>
</div>
<div class="right">
<a class="actionBtn">DOWNLOAD ALL</a>
</div>
On any subfolders it is:
<div class="left">
<a class="breadCrumb">xxx</a>
<span class="bcSep">></span>
<a class="breadCrumb">xxx</a>
...
</div>
<div class="right">
<a class="actionBtn">DOWNLOAD ALL</a>
</div>
I've tried child selectors, but can't find a way to target the actionBtn or right element from the breadCrumb or left element... Any ideas or am I asking for the impossible from pure CSS?
Since all three of your products (colored, samba and skaven) as well as the DOWNLOAD ALL anchor link have unique URLS, you can just use the href attribute value to only select the anchor tag on the homepage using a css attribute selector like this:
a[href="http://someUniqueURL.com/"].actionBtn {
display:none;
}
Check and run the following Code Snippet for a practical example of the above approach:
/* CSS */
a[href="https://demo.filerun.co/?module=weblinks&section=public&multidownload=1&id=T2Gv5oGiGMxO3welkXbaqs92fZ6meJmU"].actionBtn {
display:none;
}
<!-- HTML -->
<p>Homepage Link</p>
Download All
<hr/>
<p>Product 1</p>
Product 1
<hr/>
<p>Product 2</p>
Product 2
<hr/>
<p>Product 3</p>
Product 3
<hr/>

<a href="#..."> link not working

I am trying to create a set of links to specific sections in the page using the <a href="#..."> notation, but it doesn't seem to work. Clicking on the link seems to do nothing and right-click -> open in a new tab changes the url but does not move to a different section of the page. I am using Firefox 28.0. My links are as follows:
<div>
<p>Contents</p>
<ul>
<li>Map</li>
<li>Timing</li>
<li>Timing Details</li>
</ul>
</div>
And they should be linking to:
<div id="map">[content]</div>
<div id="timing">[content]</div>
<div id="timingdetails">[content]</div>
Links to external webpages work fine. Placing the id="..." feature inside an <a> tag instead did not fix the problem. My webpage url is of the form http://127.0.0.1/foo/bar/baz/. This is within a Python Django project.
Any idea why this isn't working?
Every href needs a corresponding anchor, whose name or id attribute must match the href (without the # sign). E.g.,
Map
<a name="map">[content]</a>
An enclosing div is not necessary, if not used for other purposes.
Wow, thanks for pointing that out OP. Apparently Mozilla Firefox doesn't associate the id attribute with a location in the HTML Document for elements other than <a> but uses the name attribute instead, and Google Chrome does exactly the opposite. The most cross-browser proof solution would be to either:
1.Give your anchor divs both a name and an id to ensure max. browser compatibility, like:
Go to Map <!-- Link -->
----
<div id="map" name="map"></div> <!-- actual anchor -->
Demo: http://jsbin.com/feqeh/3/edit
2.Only use <a> tags with the name attribute as anchors.
This will allow the on-page links to work in all browsers.
what happened with me is that the href does not work second time and that because I should Remove hash value first,,
take look how I resolved it
go to Content 1
function resetHref() {
location.hash = '';
}
Just resurrecting this post because I had a similar problem and the reason was something else.
In my case it was because we had:
<base href="http://mywebsite.com/">
defined on the .
Obviously, don't just remove it, because you need it if you are using relative paths.
Read more here:
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_base.asp
Content 1
Content 2
Content 3
....
<a name="1"></a>Text here for content 1
<a name="2"></a>Text here for content 2
<a name="3"></a>Text here for content 3
When clicking on "Content 1" it will take directly to "Text here for Content 1.
Guaranteed!
Today being March of 2022, I had a specific occurrence of this problem that illustrates how the whole web environment is an "issue" today.
Same requirement: links that go to a section of the page.
It worked on my desktop's Chrome and Firefox, but not on my client's and neither on my Android's Chrome.
After reading multiple threads several times for a few hours, I found out that, in order for this behavior to be the most consistent across browsers and browser versions, you have to implement both things:
a container with an id, and
an anchor with a name property,
The most important part is that the anchor tag with a name, must have content inside of it.
So, you have your links
Go to section
<!-- more links -->
And you have the sections you want your links to go to
<div id="page-section">
<a name="page-section" class="collapse"> placeholder-content (important) </a>
<!-- your section content -->
</div>
Since you MUST have content inside the anchor with the name, you can then hide it in several ways.
My approach was to just set it's height to 0.
In order for the height to be effective, the anchor tag's display property should be set to block or inline-block for example.
.collapse {
height: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
display: block;
}
Finally it all worked, and I have to thank the many developers who struggle with this sort of thing (which should be much easier to do, but, the web...), and all the people who answer questions like this and share their knowledge.
This might help
JS:
function goto($hashtag){
document.location = "index.html#" + $hashtag;
}
HTML :
<li><a onclick="goto('aboutus')">ABOUT</a></li>
In my case The input tag was the problem. I implemented my tabs by input (radio buttons) which was preventing the anchor tag's behaviour.
It was like this at first (not working):
<a href="#name">
<li>
<label></label>
<input></input>
</li>
</a>
Then I removed the input tag and it worked:
<a href="#name">
<li>
<label></label>
// <input></input> <!-- removed it -->
</li>
</a>
Make sure you're not using preventDefault in javascript
Here is something that I finally got to work in IE, Chrome and Firefox.
Around any text create an anchor tag like this:
<a class="anchor" id="X" name="X">text</a>
Set "X" to whatever you want.
You must enclose something in the anchor tags such as text or an image. It will NOT work without these.
For the link, use this:
text
As for getting rid of the CSS for links using our anchor tag use something like this:
a.anchor {
color:#000;
text-decoration:none;
}
This seems to work well.

Can I define (override) a class using a style attribute?

I'm working in a content management system that allows me limited (no) access to the stylesheets, but does allow me to insert CSS into certain templates. So I have this:
<div class="inside_widget">
<div class="input"><span class="form_label">Form stuff</span></div>
<div class="input"><span class="form_label">Form stuff</span></div>
<div class="input"><span class="form_label">Form stuff</span></div>
etc...
</div>
Where inside_widget, input, and form_label are all defined in a sheet I can't touch. I want to put some custom CSS on "form_label" without having to touch every single span.
I tried using the style attribute in the containing div, but that did not work.
<div class="inside_widget" style=".form_label {color:#FFFFFF;}" >
Note: I want to retain everything else in the inside_widget styling, and not have to define a whole new class.
I think what the OP is trying to achieve is not having to repeat the style="" attribute for every single <span> in his form.
This can be done by simply adding your own class name to the enclosing div's classes:
<div class="inside_widget myclass" ...>
<!-- ... -->
</div>
Then make your own secondary stylesheet and define myclass:
.myclass span
{
color: #ffffff;
}
You can put this secondary CSS either in a <style> tag in the HTML itself, or in its own CSS file linked in.
You could do it this below.
<span class="form_label" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Form Stuff</span>
Inline styles like this will overwrite any css rules in a stylesheet, unless in the stylesheet they have a rule with !important
you do not know css right? will look like
<div class="inside_widget" style="color:#FFFFFF;" >
but I suggest you create a new css file and add whatever you want in the same

Simplest way to convert all the classes to inline in CSS

I have some classes that are used for Styling and all of them display using block mode.. I would like to convert them all to inline.. Is there a simple way to convert them all to inline, instead of manually going to each class to convert them individually to inline...
Section of your code:
<div class="contentbody">
<p>
Register here!
</p>
<a href="{% url 'parent_register_step1' %}"
class="bbutton textshadowclass boxshadow">
<div class="boxshadowinset green">
Register
</div>
</a>
<p>
Forgot your password?
</p>
<a href="{% url 'parent_forgot_password' %}"
class="bbutton textshadowclass boxshadow">
<div class="boxshadowinset green">
Reset Password
</div>
</a>
</div>
I would like to change the classes bbutton, textshadowclass, box shadow, boxshadowinset green into inline.. What is the simplest way?
Note: This classes are used in other sections of the page. I would like to change the certain section to be inline only. It shouldn't affect the whole page...
Let me explain more in detail what i am doing:
I would like to convert this into inline such that the register and reset password appear on the same line...
To only select the classes that are instead the contentbody class, you need a CSS element>element Selector:
div.contentbody>.bbutton, div.contentbody>.textshadowclass, ... {
display: inline;
}
(add more classes to the list if you want others included as well)
Additional note: If you permanently need these classes to be inline, then I would suggest to just (once) going to each class and add an inline class to each element, this keeps your code clearer in the long run.
Edit:
use the union selector (sorry I cannot find a more official link) to select elements that have multiple classes set:
div.contentbody>.boxshadowinset.green {
display: inline;
}
Note the . (and no space) between boxshadowinset and green
I do believe this is supported by modern browsers, but IE6 does seem to have some problems with it.
One way is just to apply an id to your wrapping element.
<div class="contentbody" id="contentbody">
Then in your css, add the styling
div#contentbody a, div#contentbody div{ display: inline; }
Due to CSS Element Hierarchy, they will all take the inline style rather than their own style.
Basic example here. http://jsfiddle.net/H97c5/2/

CSS: Highlight current menu item

I have a menu with links in the following form, in which I am trying to highlight the current menu item. I can't seem to get it working. Please advice as to what I am doing wrong
HTML
<body id="home">
<div id="topMenu">
<div class="nav-home" id="topMenuBlock"><p>Home</p></div>
<div id="nav-about"><p>About</p></div>
<div id="nav-rates"><p>Rates</p></div>
<div id="nav-faq"><p>FAQ</p></div>
<div id="nav-contact"><p>Contact</p></div>
<div id="nav-careers"><p>Careers</p></div>
</div>
<div id="rightTopMenu"></div>
</div>...other stuff</body>
Then for the CSS I have the following:
#home a.nav-home{ border-bottom:2px solid white; }
Do the links HAVE to be in a List, or can I leave them in div's, and if so, how can I make this work?
Thanks.
You've a little bit of a mess here.
Do the links HAVE to be in a List, or can I leave them in div's?
They don't have to be, but they probably should be. There's not good reason to use the strange markup you have chosen, you should definitely consider switching to a list and <li> tags.
Problem with duplicate ids
You have <body id="home"> and <a href="" id="home">
You also have several instances of id="topMenuBlock" (I see you fixed this in your edit.)
You cannot have more than one element with the same id. id attributes must be unique, always. Use class names instead, if anything.
You are using this selector: #home a.nav-home {} but it doesn't match anything. There is no <a class="nav-home">. You can use something like:
#home {} because that's the id of the <a> element you want
.nav-home a {} - Selects the <a> inside an element with class="nav-home"
Perhaps you have the concept of ids and classes mixed up. Ids are supposed to uniquely identify HTML elements, whereas classes can be used as many times as you like. Right now you have 6 elements with the id #topMenuBlock. You should make a .topMenuBlock class instead. I would also make a #nav-home id instead of a class since there should only be one such element on each page.
Secondly, there is no need for the <p> tags you have within your <a> tags. In fact, it's against HTML standards to do so since anchors are inline elements and paragraphs are block-level elements.
Lastly, your CSS selector that sets the border is incorrect because the .nav-home div is not contained within an <a> element. Use this CSS instead (assuming you change nav-home to be an id rather than a class):
#nav-home{ border-bottom:2px solid white; }
Fix these issues and then see what happens. If you're new to HTML and CSS, I would recommend going through some tutorials, such as the ones found at http://www.w3schools.com/.
Your class identifier should be in the <a /> tag
You have
<div class="nav-home" id="topMenuBlock"><p>Home</p></div>
but you want
<div class="something" id="topMenuBlock"><a class = "nav-home" href="" id="home"><p>Home</p></a></div>
Modify your CSS class accordingly.