In my website, I have the following structure on some html page:
<html>
<head><!-- All the usual information here, including the link to the css file --></head>
<body>
<div id="splash">
<!-- The good stuff -->
</div><!--End of Splash-->
</body>
</html>
Now that #splash div only appears on that one html page, and I need the css affecting that page's html {} to be a little different. Is the below notation going to do what I need?
html>body#splash {/* CSS that only affects the html that contains div #splash */}
I think you're looking for a parent selector; sadly this doesn't exist in CSS, so you're out of luck.
This is, from what I understand, mostly for performance reasons -- Jonathan Snook's article goes into a little more detail.
It's either time to change your page generation so that a class or ID gets added to the html element on your "splash" page, or resort to JavaScript, such as the jQuery cssParentSelector library that arkanciscan mentions.
Since IDs are unique, you can just do:
#splash {
/* stuff */
}
About your question:
html>body#splash
Will not work; try
html>body #splash
The > is basically the same this as a space, but selects only direct children.
(I'm assuming you're trying to select #splash; that's how I read your question. If you want to select body if #splash exists, then... well, you can't.)
Like others have said, you can't do this is CSS... yet! In the next version of CSS you'll be able to add an exclamation point to any part of a compound selector to indicate which element of the selector your rules should apply to. This will be called a "subject" (http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors4/#subject)
If you want to use this today you can try this polyfill https://github.com/Idered/cssParentSelector
Child selectors are indicated by >: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#child-selectors
It means you are selecting a first-level descendent.
Your code needs this space:
html>body #splash
This reads: "Select the element with the id of splash that is a descendent of body which is a child of html."
Your code is this:
html>body#splash
Your current code reads: "Select the body element with the id of splash that is a child of html.
As has been said, this can't be done in current CSS.
But just to give you a suggestion: you could add a unique ID or a class to the HTML in question; if you know which one it is ahead of time, just add it statically; if not, you'll have to actually look (with JS) if there's a div like you describe in the body, you can't do it with CSS alone.
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I'm on my road trip roundabout of learning more coding languages. Never practiced HTML since HTML 4.01. But this is more of a CSS thing.
I was expecting, since I see H1 and P1 being a thing, so I try button1. Feel stupid, then think about using an ID as an identifier. I want to make one button on the left and the other on the right side.
I can't find anything on w3schools, and other sites. I feel like I'm wording everything wrong.
Yes, you can. Ensure the class name or ID are set to your elements:
<div class="my-div-class" id="my-div-id"></div>
And then in your stylesheet, you can access these using 'selectors'. Classes are selected with a preceding ., and IDs with a preceding #:
.my-div-class {
/* Some styles... */
}
#my-div-id {
/* Some styles... */
}
You can see all CSS selectors here from W3Schools: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.php
Or here from MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Selectors
I have a page where I am reading an HTML from email.
Sometimes, the text which comes from the email has HTML and CSS and it changes my page style completely.
I don’t want my page style to be impacted because of this. How do I read the HTML and CSS strictly inside a particular div (box) and not let the page get impacted by this?
you have to write your css using some parent > child format. You might have to use !important.
May be you are using some kind of common selectors like "a", "p", "div". In these cases we can prevent the overriding by using parent class/id or with "!important.". I will not recommend the second one.
Ex. using parent className:
.parent-classname p{
/*style here*/
}
put that div in iframe so it behave like a seperate window so your html content not effected by loadded css.
You can use <iframe></iframe> tag instead of the <div></div>. Using Parent>Child Css format will also help make your styles more unique and protect them from being overridden.
I need to put an image background for the whole page. I use to do this applying the style to the body tag.
Just wondering if ss good practice to put a style to the html tag
Yea nothing wrong with it.You can put style to html tag.
Reference: http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_style.asp
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/styles.html#edef-STYLE
Sure. Actually, the html tag can be omitted in html5, so if you have it, you can sure use it for styling if you will. It has hardly any other purpose, so if it saves you from having to add an extra div, I think you should.
I normally add the height-property to the HTML-element, in order to make the background-image as large as possible. Don't forget to set the body's height aswell:
html {
height:100%;
}
body {
height:100%;
background:#000 url(your-image.png);
}
Yes, you can apply style to the HTML element. What's more, it doesn't even have to exist in your original HTML document (as is allowed in HTML5), e.g. this code below is fine:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<title></title>
<style>
html {
/* ... CSS properties go here ... */
}
</style>
The technical reason for this is because the <HTML> element is defined in the W3C specs as an implied element - basically user-agents must assume it is there, and all good UAs will append it to the DOM when rendering the web page.
Abu's answer, with respect, although in the context he is talking about is correct, is a misunderstanding of the question. Abu is referring to applying an inline STYLE attribute to the HTML element within the HTML document itself. I believe this question, on the other hand, is referring to using the html {} selector in an external CSS style sheet.
No its not recommended to use style tags inside HTML as styling should be taken care by CSS.
You shouls avoid it unless there requires a specific scenario where you want to dynamically set the style for some part.
But in that dynamic case also, I would recommend to create a class level style inside a CSS and then just add that class to the element while creation so that the required styles are applied.
Here is a difficulty I am trying to solve. I am working inside a client's page to develop a scroller interface. Basically, I cannot change the doctype, the surrounding elements and the stylesheets or scripts that are already in the client's page and I have to make my little block of code "fit" inside this. This is common for web developers.
The tricky part now is that some img elements inside my block are actually being targeted by a CSS rule inside the inherited client's stylesheet (which, of course, I cannot remove or change). It would be too long to explain why here in this case I actually can't use more specific CSS rules myself to compensate this, but it's a fact. So my question is : is there a way to prevent a HTML element from being targeted by a CSS rule other than creating another rule or deleting the rule? The difficulty is that a rule like
.containter1 .containter3 { ... }
will target an element inside :
<div class="container1">
<div class="containter2">
<div class="containter3">Element
...
Elements inside the page don't make "walls" for CSS rules, which "jump" over containers to target elements. So a rule like
img { ... }
will target any img tag. The only way I know to compensate this is to create a more specific CSS rule targetting the precise img to protect. But I cannot do that here. Is there a way to get the same result without creating a CSS rule, only by adding HTML?
/* EDIT TO CLARIFY */
I know CSS rules, specificity, inheritance, etc. My question was more pragmatic. Consider this example to clarify the problem : imagine you have a client's stylesheet that you can't touch and that defines the following general rule:
img { display:none; }
The problem is that you cannot set a corresponding generic rule to do the opposite, like :
img { display:not-none; }
because there is no such thing as the opposite to none. The opposite of "none" can either be "inline", "block", "inline-block", and so on.
So basically, this means that the first generic rule forces you to explicitly define the display property for each and every img in your page. And that sucks. So I was trying to find a hack to solve situations like this (my actual problem is even worst than this, believe me, but this example is much clearer and quicker to explain).
If you're saying you want to prevent targeting without changing any code, then no, that's obviously not possible.
In-line styles always over-ride style-sheet rules ( unless they're using an !important tag, then you'll need to also use it).
You should be able to reset whatever elements you need, using syntax from your favorite CSS reset. Here are some options:
http://www.cssreset.com/
So, something like -
<div style="border:0 !important;padding:0 !important;margin:0 !important;height:auto;"></div>
is your best bet.
The only way you can change CSS for specific element is modification of existing styleshits or creating new style which is more specific and will overload other styles.
and I have to make my little block of code "fit" inside this.
Once you have make some block of code, you can put style tag inside that block of HTML code like this, for instance:
<div id="block_of_code_available_for_modification">
<style type="text/css">
//css code which will fix styles of your content without influencing other elements on a page.
</style>
</div>
Or, if you have just a few elements you need to fix styles for, you can use style attribute of HTML elements (once you can set modify HTML, you can always add something like below... Well, the same as adding style tag). Priority of css properties inside style attribute is the highest one. Except if there is no !important in some previouse styles:
<img style="any css properties you need" src="..." />
The default display value for an img element is inline-block. If you want to reset the display value for all images, why not use that?
If you've got multiple different types of elements that are being set to weird values, then the problem is maybe a bit more complex as you'd need to consider which elements to set to what display type. But all HTML elements do have well-defined default display types, so it shouldn't be too hard to reset them all.
img {display: inline-block;}
span, a, etc {display:inline;}
div, etc {display:block;}
... etc ...
If it comes down to it, you could just use one of the reset CSS scripts that are available, to set everything back to the correct defaults.
No there is no way you can stop other rules from getting applied on a particular element.
you have to redefine all those rules for that html element so they will overwrite all the other rules.
I have an external CSS file (I cannot change it at all) which I need to use in my HTML file, but I want the CSS to only affect a section of my HTML. (For example everything in <div id="externally_styled"></div>)
How is this possible, again, without changing the CSS file (and the CSS file contains also general styles that affect body tags etc)
You'd probably have to use an iframe with a page containing only the HTML you want styled and a reference to the stylesheet. This would mean the general styles wouldn't be applied to the containing page, but it sounds like that's what you want.
Any classes or style-declarations attached to a tag will override the declarations in the CSS-file.
Just add your own style-declaration to a tag:
<div style="<your own declarations>">
...
</div>
You can overwrite the general styles that you don't want to be applied to your HTML document. This may be a good idea if the CSS if not that extensive.
The way to overwrite an style is using the keyword important!.
e.g:
original stylesheet:
body {
color: #000000;
}
your stylesheet:
body {
color: #CCCCCC !important;
}
You can find more information here.
I'd guess any client side solution is going to be messy.
Can you use a server side solution where you suck in the external CSS file and append a class selector to the start of each rule? I'm sure this would be easy enough with regex.
One way that springs to mind is to have the "to-be styled" portion of your HTML exist in a completely separate file and then pull it in via an iframe that uses the CSS from the external file.
The only thing i can think of is to re-render the content from your DIV to an Iframe.
Either use classname of the class that you have created for your specific section or use proper parent child relationship css that will render only when it falls under the parent child relationship.
You can enforce style by using "!important" in your css codes.
take a look at this example.
http://www.craiglotter.co.za/2010/01/21/important-css-how-to-force-one-style-above-another/