CSS not being applied to an element - html

Have hit a problem I've never encounted before.
I have a element, its a panel that is fixed to the right side of the screen, and the css for the positioning is:
.myPanel{
position:absolute;
left:0;
}
This works fine, the mark up for the panel is generated by vaadin.
Now everything works fine, however every now and then when I refresh the page the css position:absolute
is being ignored.
Naturally I open my devtools and see that according to the styles tab position:absolute IS being applied, it just doesnt look like it.
Now the odd bit
When I uncheck the tick box to remove the position:absolute styling nothing changes (as I'd expect) but when I re-check it, and the position:absolute is reapplied, the panel then shows correctly.
So even though there is no new css, removing then re-adding position:absolute fixes it.
I've always been under the impression that dynamically added elements will still take css styles that have been loaded pior. Is that incorrect?
I have ONLY had this in chrome, currently version 39
Any ideas?
UPDATE:
if at some point the css was being overridden I'd expect dev tools to flag that (style with a strikethrough etc) but its not. I have tried adding !important to it but get the exact same result (see is applied in devtool, disable and reenable fixes it).
I've noticed in the dom that vaadin is loading my custom javascript in the head, then the css, then its own inbuilt javascript.

This seems to be working according to the spec. If width and height
for a replaced element (which input is one) is auto, it's supposed to
use the elements intrinsic width and height, which might cause
absolute positioning to be overconstrained.
One fix is to wrap your inputs in a div, absolutely position that, and
use width/height 100% on the inputs. Note that Firefox also has this
behavior, and it is indeed in the spec, so it's better to fix the
website than to change Chromium.
~#9 chromo...#gmail.com
As per you saying:
I've noticed in the dom that vaadin is loading my custom javascript in
the head, then the css, then its own inbuilt javascript.
I would say this would be the case for all browsers. For more info, see a previous answer of mine in relation to this

Its a known bug which looks te be solved and the appears again, see also https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=313221

Related

Page Extends Beyond HTML Tag

This is completely different from the regular overflow issues people struggle with. First of all, I've only been able to produce this issue in Chrome (Version 41.0.2272.101 64-bit). IE 9+ and Firefox seem to behave as expected.
The body element grow with the content. No height: 100% or position: absolute styling used here.
The problem is that there seems to be something unknown forcing the browser to scroll further than it should by roughly 400px or more on both x and y axis. The inspector cannot select anything in this empty space and ends up selecting the html tag.
I've been through every element on the page and nothing seems to extend beyond the html tag!
Unfortunately I cannot link anything as the site is on a work server and requires authentication to access the page :(
I'm stumped, so any suggestions would be much appreciated!
I found that the issue involved jQuery UI, css provided with the plugin and my company's css. We use jQuery UI for input suggestion in our app.
What seems to be happening was that a recent change in our html structure set particular elements height and width to 100%. This css happened to include jQuery UI's ui-helper-hidden-accessible class. The css provided with the plugin sets ui-helper-hidden-accessible to, amongst other things, position: absolute; and clip:rect(1px,1px,1px,1px);. As the parent element was not explicitly set to position: relative;, the ui-helper-hidden-accessible element was overflowing, though due to the clip property it was not visible in the developer tools! Neither selecting the hidden element or clicking it in the dev tools elements tab would reveal how large it was.
There are two solutions to this problem:
Altering the css selector that sets width and height to 100%
Setting the parent element to position: relative;

Why can't I see the page content in the browser?

I am not sure what is the problem, but my CSS is not working and I am not able to figure out what is the exact problem as I am new to CSS. I have tried the code on Chrome and Firefox and need someone to explain what is the real issue.
This is a Chrome screenshot and when I am inspecting the element then it highlights the <div> on the browser, but it is not visible.
This screenshot is from Firefox and I am using Firebug, but the interesting thing is all the content, which is not visible on the browser, has a different color (grey) than the content visible on the browser.
Can anyone explain me how to fix this?
The pale display within Firebug indicates that the element is not visible.
According to the Firebug wiki this can have different reasons:
Faintly displayed elements mean they are not visible inside the page. That is e.g. when the CSS style display: none is applied to the element or the element doesn't have any dimensions.
So it looks like the ancestor <div> with id ebBannerDiv_... is hidden (meaning it's offsetWidth and/or offsetHeight DOM property is 0) and therefore all its children are hidden, too.
It may be related to font-size and line-height being set to 0px for that <div>.
For further investigation you can check the dimensions and visibility of that element via the Layout side panel. If you see there that display is set to none or it's width or height are 0, you can then investigate further by checking the style trace for the width, height, display, font-size and line-height properties within the Computed side panel.

Changing css property in firefox developer console

I'm having some trouble with CSS in Firefox.
Here his the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/6Fq4z/2/
The div with .item-container class should fill vertically it's parent (td). It does in chome and IE. But not in Firefox.
But there is a strange behavior. Step to reproduce:
Open the fiddle in firefox
Inspect element and select the div with the class .item-container
change the display property to inline-table and press enter (it does not solve the problem)
then change another time this property back to inline-block and press enter. It now shows up as it should...
Can anyone explain me why this happen and if possible, how can I solve it?
It'l be better to use Firebug. After install right click on tag you want and in css section change values. With firebug you can run custom JS in your page.
Playing a bit with the height properties I came to the point that the problem might be with the height being assigned using percentiles and considering you are using table it might be some kind of a bug with rendering in Firefox (I tested on 31 and 29 versions both).
I fixed some heights properties using pixels and forked the fiddle that might help you further
A possible workaround
http://jsfiddle.net/6Fq4z/3/

webpage items change size when zoom in and out

My page, it keeps on getting different menu width when i zoom in and out. It is fine in IE, and no one else. I did not spot any fixed positioning, this seems to be using relative position.
have tried playing and disabling all CSS property to my menu bar through google chrome inspect element.
turn this from none to auto: " -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto "
Tried to use em ex px for my font-szie and padding. I am juiced out of ideas, save me internet!!!
www.magentek.com
Try zooming out, you will find press room gets pushed down. I got this SimplyBiz theme from wpcrunchy. It seems even the paid version have this problem too. The CSS and html is way too large to post, too much bloated codes, i think is sufficient to just use chrome inspect element.
I took a look at the site, and my opinion is that the css and js that make up the menu functionality are creating a 6th menu element. That would explain why an extra little tab is hanging off the end there. Since it doesn't have any content, the browsers are all handling the whitespace a little differently.
Did you by any chance modify the menu to take it from 6 elements to 5?

Internet Explorer 7 css/html float bug

The problem is a footer on a web page that seem to not follow the correct flow like it does in FireFox. The problem feels like it is an Internet Explorer related bug, because the layout will "magically" snap into place when i move the mouse over the link "Legg til i handlelisten". On pages where the "description" part of the page is longer then the left column, the footer displays correctly. From what I can gather the bug is only active in IE8 when its running in "IE8 Compatibility Mode" or "IE7 mode". I am not able to recreate the bug when running IE6.
I was wondering if anyone is able to find a solution to this bug, maybe some CSS property I can set or a tag that needs modification.
These two images show the error and what its supposed to look like:
http://tinyurl.com/layout-error
http://tinyurl.com/layout-fixed
The page referred to is here: http://tinyurl.com/yb9h34d
Edit: Clear: both; doesnt seem to do anything to solve the problem.
Yes... it looks like a float-caused problem.
Try adding this line into your HTML, just before the footer:
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
I think it is expecting an item that clears the floats.
Try floating the div.container or remove it, as it is useless and a mild case of divitis.
In older browsers, the float property in CSS removes the height from the element. Therefore an element which is floated to the left or right which would normally have a height of say 100px would now have a height of 0px and whatever content is below it would move up to fill that space where the content is supposed to be. Most browsers have fixed that error by now, but it still reappears in even the modern browsers. There is a very simple fix that you can add to your footer container in the CSS:
clear: both;
This will cause the element to clear any boxes that may be floating around and start fresh on its own line, or should anyways. It never hurts to try.
Read more about the clear property: http://www.w3schools.com/Css/pr_class_clear.asp
What happens exactly is that the left column gets shorter by a line when you hover the first link in the leggtilihandleliste div, and it gets longer by a line again when you hover the second link. It's only the left column div that is affected, not the link, the list containing the links or the div containing the list.
I don't know exactly why this is happening, but if you specify a height for the div containing the links, it stops happening (eventhough it's not that div that changes size).
Why does DIV#footer have display:none on it?
Anyway, if you float: left on .footerWithRightAndLeft you should be ok.
You can inspect things in IE if you hit F12, in case you didnt know. It's not as good as firebug, but it's something.