Discovering the file/s relevant to a specific part of a webpage - html

I have a website, which you can see here: Minutify.
The website is based on wordpress, and I have installed a number of widgets. One of them is for visitors to enter their email. You can see it on the right hand of the main page in a box that is called "SUBSCRIBE TO MINUTIFY".
As it can be seen, the box to enter the email is narrower than the outer white box. You can see that there are two vertical border lines in the middle of the white box (SUBSCRIBE TO MINUTIFY), which is visually unpleasant.
As I don't have any experience with we the website design, and css, html, etc. I am wondering what is a good way to find what file/s control the visual effects of the webpage, for example the box that I am talking about and how to fix the issue I am talking about in the files.
For example, if I write click on the page and choose "View page source" (in chrome) can I get a clue on what files should I look at and where?

As others have said, it's fairly easy to inspect the element and see what CSS is applied. In this case, there is no explicit width set--the browser's default is in effect. It appears as though the CSS for the site is being combined and cached, so the inspector may not be reporting the file you'd edit to make changes. Look for a CSS file in your template directory.
I'd apply a width to that element with the following CSS, included in almost any CSS file that's available to you:
.sml_emailinput {
width: 100%;
box-sizing: border-box;
border: none;
}
This makes the input element the full width of the available space, resulting in a more integrated appearance.
To give that widget an appearance resembling that of the search box above, try this:
p.sml_email {
background: #d0d0d0;
padding-bottom: 20px !important;
}
input.sml_emailinput {
width: 93%;
}

You can use Firebug or inspector Element.
right click on the element you want to see the Style and choose inspector element or Firebug tool(which you can get from internet free)
as i can see you can easily hide it using editing http://www.minutify.com/wp-content/themes/Zoren/A.style.css,qver=4.1.pagespeed.cf.aQXaS7GeSC.css file
input[type="text"], input[type="email"], textarea{
edit border: 1px solid #ccc; into border: 1px solid #fff;

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WordPress css problem - borders not showing up

I'm working on page in Word press. The theme buttons aren't what i was looking for so i decided to make a custom ones. I thought it would be simple:
<button type="button" class="btn menu-button">BUY</button>
and css:
.btn{
font-size: large;
background: transparent;
border: solid;
}
So here is where my problem occur.
Some of the css code is working just fine (font-size for example) but the borders won't show up no matter what. I thought that the problem lies in the button tag itself but after futher investigations i noticed that it happens for every html element on my page, no matter div, p, H - the border stylization is not working neither color choice nor size, style etc.
So please help me, how can i make not only some but every css line work.
Im using WP 5.5.3 with customify theme. I've put The css from above into the custom css tab.
Borders usually require the border-style in order to have any of the other border styling properties to work. Try replacing with:
border-style:solid;
Alternatively, you can add them all to one line allowing you to omit the border-style by adding something along the lines of:
border: 1px solid black;

Proper CSS required to make text and href alignment perfect

I'm new to CSS. I have copied a CSS from existing code and changed as below:
.feedback_h1 {
width: 100%;
float: left;
margin: 0px;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 12px;
font-width: 400;
color: #000000;
margin-bottom: 15px;
}
<div Class="feedback_h1">
We will use only personal information. Our <a href="https://example.com" target="_blank">privacy
policy</a> agreed?
</div>
Right now I'm getting result as below:
We will use only personal information. Our
privacy policy
agreed?
However, I'm expecting a result like (in one line) :
We will use only personal information. Our privacy policy agreed?
I think, I need a right alignment (as left is aligned properly) OR
Am I missing something in CSS? What additional attribute can I consider in CSS to make this in a single line?
Is VS 2013 provides a designer view to align cshtml page?
It seems as though your <a> anchor element might have a display of block. This will cause the words wrapped between the anchor elements to have a width of 100% by default.
Try putting the following in your css
.feedback_h1 a {
display: inline-block;
}
<a> elements are display: inline by default, so not sure why it might be like this. But from the code, that seems to be the most obvious reason your code is having this result.
To figure out what's going on, I would suggest using your browser's inspector tools and directly inspecting the element. It usually helps with debugging to look at the CSS styles applied to an element, and test by unchecking them, or changing them, to see the live effect of this on your site.

Creating a styled button representation (not an actual button) with css

I have an application that has a lot of buttons in the window. In writing the HTML documentation pages for this, I've been successful in creating a bordered, sorta-shadowed CSS <span> with text within that represent the buttons that just have legends on them.
This allows me to show "momentary" buttons like these...
...that just have a legend on them in such a way that it's reasonably obvious what I'm describing by simply putting...
<span id="button">LAP</span>
...in line with the associated description (and my custom documentation system makes it even easier by letting me invoke the style inline with [s button LAP]. Fun. :) Here's the style I built for that:
span#button
{
font-family: Courier;
font-weight: bold;
white-space: pre;
border: 1px solid #000000;
background: #ddddee;
padding-left: 2px;
padding-right: 2px;
color: #000000;
}
Here's screen clip of part of the documentation that uses that technique:
Also within the application, I have buttons that have "LED" indicators on them. A typical one might display a green LED when on, and a dark LED when off. Screen clip from the application (with a dark style sheet, so the buttons are dark) showing some of these:
I already have nice little .jpg images that show all the "LED" colors I use, conversely, an embedded CCSS box filled with the right color would be fine too.
What I would like to do, and am having no luck at all doing, is create a <span> within the text that looks as least somewhat like one of those buttons -- without going to specific images for each button, or in other words, using CSS. Since the only things that vary are the LEDs and the text, I want to can the LEDs and feed in the text. Something like...
<span id="greenbutton">Run</span>
In order to do that, I need the LED to appear above the text, and size the text small enough to land underneath it, and center them both within a bordered box as the text-only version above does. I would like an output like this (button built in an image processor)...
press to start
...from this:
press <span id="greenbutton">RUN</span> to start
It seems like it ought to be easy enough; and I can add quite a bit of complexity within my documentation system if required to make it all work -- multiple nested spans, divs, images, test, whatever it takes -- but I keep running into these two showstoppers:
<span> wants things to come one after another horizontally
<div> either causes line breaks or floats left or right
I can't seem to get a <div> to just land in the text where I put it in the first place, although I've been able to make them look just like I want them to because they understand vertical alignment and positioning withing their own context.
I was also thinking of some actual images of buttons with the text removed from them in each LED state, used as background to a span, where the text is overlaid on that background, thereby looking like a specific button. I've not tried this, as I can't seem to find how to make a span have a background and <div>... a <div> won't stay where I want it (not left or right, but right there, or else refrain from breaking the lines if it's not floated.
I'm not opposed to putting a table inline, either. If I knew how...
I hope I'm missing something. In which case, help! Or is this impossible, and the only solution is to screen-cap the many, many buttons in each of their various states (some actually display multiple LED colors for various settings, worse yet) and then drop the images in where I want them? Because although I could do that, it's awfully clumsy and effort intensive. :(
Introducing the pseudo element "before"! Ta-da!
<p>Green button</p>
<span class="myButton greenbutton">RUN</span>
<p>Red button</p>
<span class="myButton redbutton">RUN</span>
<p>Click this purple button <span class="myButton purplebutton">RUN</span> here.</p>
<style>
span.myButton {
display:inline-block;
border-top: 2px solid #eee;
border-left: 2px solid #eee;
border-right: 2px solid #000;
border-bottom: 2px solid #000;
padding:1px 2px 0;
background: #dde;
width:20px;
height:auto;
font-size:10px;
font-family:monospace;
text-align:center;
}
span.myButton:before {
display:block;
margin:2px auto 0;
width: 16px;
height: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000;
content: "";
}
span.greenbutton:before {background:#99FF00;}
span.redbutton:before {background:#FF0043;}
span.purplebutton:before {background:#A200C1;}
</style>
Updated answer: I changed the display on the span to inline-block, so it will go inside a paragraph. I missed that requirement on my previous answer.
I added a class to each span, so that all spans in your document won't be affected, just the ones with that class.
Technically, if you are going to have more than one green button, you shouldn't use an ID for it. ID's are supposed to be unique and therefore only used once in a document. So I've also converted that to a class.
in CSS, the period denotes a class, as opposed to the # sign denoting an id. Ergo: span.myButton targets the span with class "myButton". span.greenbutton targets a span with the class greenbutton. You can have more than one class on an element.
I took the background-color property out of the span:before style, and put it in a class specific style -> span.greenbutton:before. Basically, the classes for the span.myButton and the pseudo element span.myButton:before are the same for all these buttons. But for each color, put an additional class on the span, and create a style with that class for it, using the background color you want. Hope that's clear. Fiddle updated too.
https://jsfiddle.net/maguijo/05zwwjy6/

Built in column shortcode on Wordpress - nice border solution

I'm hoping to find a nice way to edit the css on this page:
http://carbonbi.com/build/?page_id=46
I'm using the wordpress layout shortcodes to create three separate columns. I'd like to add a border in between the first and the second column and the second and the third.
I realize using the built in shortcode might not be the best way to do this, and may require creating my own class to handle this, but if anyone has any effective ways to work on this it would be nice to see.
Thank you in advance.
Just a general tip: by using plugins like "Web Developer" for Firefox (my favorite) or simply left clicking an element and choosing "inspect element" (Firebug is a good choice, although most browsers have their own, firefox actually has a spacy 3d one that can come in handy) you can get the names of classes and id's used by plugins and the like, and then add them to your style.css and edit away!
Bonus Tip: Firebug let's you edit the CSS in real time to preview what it would look like without having to refresh the page.
Add the following CSS to your stylesheet.css:
body .three_col {
margin-right: 2%;
border-right: 1px solid #CCCCCC;
padding-right: 1.75%;
}
body .last {
padding-right: 0px !important;
border-right: none !important;
}
This will add a 1px solid gray border in-between the columns.

Why do my HTML form elements move around when clicking on them in IE8?

I have an HTML form with a bunch of input fields (of type text and select). I am floating them such that there are two on each row. In all browsers (including IE7), everything works okay, but for some reason in IE8, whenever I click inside any of the fields or their labels, that field or a surrounding one vertically moves up or down. The position then returns to normal once I click away from the box, though then another nearby box might move. Also, not all of the textbox fields have this issue, and clicking the same textbox doesn't always cause this issue. Any ideas?
I had the exact same problem, and to fix it, I set
display:block
On the element that was jumping around and that fixed it. Hope that helps.
Problem is when you focus an input text element, your browser puts 2px border around it for focus which is shifting its position if it is contained in a tight container...
I think it is more related to having 2px border all the times. Use the same color border and your text field to have transparent borders...
Your problem is addressed on this question
StackOverflow Question when focusing an input field border 8270380
This is speculation, but since focusing in an element seems to trigger the shifting, you may have different styles applied to those focused elements. Increased margins or borders could be responsible.
Not a big deal just put:-
outline: none;
in input tags
input {
width: 100%;
padding: 10px;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
display: block;
border-radius: 5px;
outline: none;
}
if you want to have a border of your own then put
input:focus {
border: 2px solid salmon;
color: #333;
}
I think your structure conflicting with your parent structure CSS (there may possible is you using third party plugin something like jQuery UI or else) do one thing just for confirmation cut or copy your conflicting code and paste out side of you parent structure or beginning of your body tag. you find the difference.
For proper help I want to review you code.
Thnx