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)
Related
I imported another stylesheet using #import in the main style sheet file. I would like the changes I have made in the #import stylesheet to override the main style sheet. Is this possible?
If your goal is to override styles by importing another stylesheet, you should use the order of precedence.
<head>
<title>Title</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="style-override.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
Here the style.css is the original and style-override.css would contain your new custom css. These styles will override the styles from style.css. This means you won't need to use !important because the style is overwritten.
Avoid !important whenever you can.
To do #import
<style type="text/css">
#import url("style.css");
#import url("style-override.css");
</style>
Also as a side note if you would rather remove all styles from the page, use a css reset.
<style type="text/css">
#import url("style.css");
#import url("reset.css");
#import url("style-override.css");
</style>
Check out a CSS reset at http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ and add it to reset.css.
#import the second stylesheet at the end of the first.
You're confusing !important and #import
This solution working perfect for me.
Make copy of your main.css and rename it to style.css.
In main.css delete all and past :
#import url("style.css");
#import url("style-override.css");
Thats all.
If your second stylesheet uses the same selectors, then it should override the first without any problem.
CSS has a very strict order of precedence for determining which one should be used, but if all else is equal and two styles have exactly the same precedence level, then it will use the one which was specified last. This allows you to override a style simply by repeating the same selector later on.
The only exception to this is if the first style was specified as !important. In this case, it is much harder to override it. Even specifying another style as !important may not always work (I've seen cases where it worked in some browsers but not others).
So if the previous stylesheet used !important then you may have problems overriding it. But if not, it should be fairly simple.
You can also use more specific class name - for example if you want to change
div#sample {
max-width: 75%;
}
on new css use
body div#sample {
max-width: 75%;
}
Just keep in mind, that overqualified selectors are not the best idea ;)
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 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.
I am working on a plugin for a wordpress page and in the theme it's going in, there is a style.css for that theme. In that style.css there are CSS attributes that apply to all img and p tags and that is messing up the appearance of my plugin. How can I make it so my plugin, which has its own stylesheet, ignore the style of the theme's css?
Include your stylesheet after the style.css
So:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/path/to/style.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/path/to/yourStylesheet.css">
If this still is not working use !important, but try to avoid this.
!important is placed after the style rule, like so:
p {
color: red !important;
}
You can also use more specific styles like #SarahBourt said.
#news-item > p {
color: red;
}
Craete a new CSS file and include your stylesheet after the default bootstrap css file, your styles will override the bootstrap styles
If still you are getting some problems you can also use !important next to that style
!important will ensure that your style will be given first preference
Ex:
p{
display:inline-block !important;
}
You can place styles in your stylesheet specifically to override the theme's styles.
Assuming your stylesheet is loading after the default theme stylesheet, then you can do the following.
In your web inspector, find the offending style in the theme's stylesheet. Copy it into your stylesheet, and replace every value with 'initial' to reset it to the defaults, or with your custom styles if that's more appropriate.
If your stylesheet is loading before the theme's styles, then you can still override the theme styles, even if they include !important. To override !important, create a more specific selector than the theme uses (Read about CSS specificity to figure out the best way of doing this), and add !important only to those which have !important in the theme style. If the style you're overriding doesn't use !important, just use the more specific style, as including too many !important tags can make it harder for you or someone else to modify your code later, as you're experiencing now.
In addition, you want to be sure that your overrides only get applied to your plugin, and not the rest of the site. So, wrap the plugin with a div or other element if it isn't already, and give the wrapper a unique class or id, e.g. class="my-plugin". Preface all of your overrides with this class to avoid breaking other areas of the site.
HTML:
<div class="my-plugin>
<!--plugin HTML-->
</div>
CSS:
.my-plugin img {
//override styles
}
.my-plugin p {
//override styles
}
Overriding original styling like this can get messy, but sometimes it's the only way to get things done when you don't have access to the other .css files. Just do the minimum necessary to make your styles more specific and you should be okay.
Note, this is different than the older question How can I apply CSS on all buttons which are present in that page? because this is an already existing style. So given that a style, which we'll call "standard_label_style" already exists in an included CSS file, what can I do to say that all the labels on this page should have that style short of adding:
class="standard_label_style"
to each and every one? And yes, I know I could apply the styles ex-post-facto with a snippet of jQuery or JavaScript code. I'm just trying to learn how I'm supposed to do it with CSS.
Follow Up
I've gotten several comments that say just use syntax like this .standard_label_style, label... Unfortunately that does nothing like what I want. That would allow me to apply additional rules to the standard_label_style class, as well as rules to labels within this page, but would not allow me to apply that style to all the labels on this page. To see an example of this, here is a stylesheet and html to demonstrate. The label without a class will still not appear in red but that's what I'm hoping to have happen. I want to apply an existing class to all those labels on the page, not just the one with the class and without adding new styling on this page, the existing style should be the only style.
included.css:
.standard_label_style { color: red; }
test.html:
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="included.css">
<style>
.standard_label_style, label { }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<label class="standard_label_style">Test Label</label><br/>
<label>Unclassed Test Label</label>
</body>
</html>
CSS doesn't really work like that.
You can apply a style to all labels directly:
label {
color: Lime;
}
or apply a class to all labels
.labelClass {
color: Lime;
}
<label class="labelClass"></label>
You can also have multiple selectors, so you could ammend your current style to be
.labelClass, label {
color: Lime;
}
What you can't do in standard CSS is something like
label {
.labelClass;
}
The good news is that there are a bunch of server side libraries which make CSS suck less and let you do exactly this kind of thing, see for example dotLess if you're using .NET which provides nested rules and a basic inheratance model.
To apply a style to every label on the page, use this CSS:
label {
/* styles... */
}
If you have an existing style (e.g. "standard_label_style") in the CSS already, you can apply that to every label:
.standard_label_style, label {
/* styles... */
}
This will affect every label through the site, so use with caution!
In your css file, can't you just put
.standard_label_style, label
{
//styles
}
.standard_label_style, label {
/* stuff */
}
I'm not sure you can... one possible workaround (feels a bit hackish though) is to attach the style to your body tag, then change the css to be this:
body.standard_label_style label{
//Your styles here
}
One of the most underused CSS tricks of all time: Give your bodies an id or class!
HTML:
<body id="standard_label_style">
<label>Hey!</label>
</body>
CSS:
#standard_label_style label{
the styles
}
will take the styles, while
HTML:
<body id="custom_label_style">
<label>Custom!</label>
</body>
Will not.
You are dealing here with CSS precedence. Declarations which are "more vague" (body tag, classes) are applied before declarations which are "less vague" (specific elements, inline CSS).
Thus your answer depends on how the stylesheet is defining label styles. If for example it says label {...}, then that's fairly specific, and your best bet is to use a more specific CSS style, see:
http://www.vanseodesign.com/css/css-specificity-inheritance-cascaade/ (good tutorial?)
CSS precedence
The level of "specificity" you need to override, as I said, depend on how specific your other stylesheet was. According to the link, "CSS embedded in the html always come after external stylesheets regardless of the order in the html".
There is also a chance that if you yourself define label {your custom css} that should work, if you import your stylesheet afterwards. It is what I would try first to see if it works. Have you tried this? What was the result?
Note that if you want to completely override the other stylesheet, you will need to also reset any CSS you are not using by settings its values to inherit or as appropriate.