I'm trying to remove styling from select elements using CSS. For example:
http://jsfiddle.net/HTseX/
No matter what I try, there is extra padding between the border of the element and the text, mainly in IE8. Firefox, Chrome and IE9 are simliar to each other, but IE8 is taller.
I'm guessing it just isn't possible. I always try to use the same code in all browsers, so I'm try to make sure I actually need to do specific coding for IE8, or use JS pulldowns.
Thanks.
The select renders slightly differently depending on the browser and operating system in use, and is well known as a troublesome HTML element to style with CSS (because the display is inherited from the operating system, rather than provided by the browser).
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I have a HTML page where i have div to show help as shown in image above at bottom.
I also have combo box (select input) which is comming on top of this help div in IE 6.
For other browser and and IE6+ versions, it is working fine.
Is there any CSS hack for this issue for IE 6?
This is a very famous and old bug with IE6. What you need to do is to have an iframe before the div. This bug is quite well documented. It happens because in IE6 select boxes were ActiveX controls and were meant to be above all the elements of the page. iframe is also an ActiveX control and can be set above the select box. You can read up about the hack on this website http://www.javascriptjunkie.com/?p=5.
I am pretty sure a similar question has been asked around on SO as well but I couldn't find it.
There are well-documented CSS hacks for all the versions of IE.
For IE6, use the underscore hack -- put an underscore character at the front of the selector to target just IE6.
This page has full details: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/quick-tip-how-to-target-ie6-ie7-and-ie8-uniquely-with-4-characters/
As i know, by default IE6 will put above the other elements.
You could hide them (display: none) when this div.help is shown
I have an HTML5 canvas image where I've drawn some points and I want to align some div tags and text input tags next to the points.
Unfortunately, browsers do not agree with the space between each div and input tags.
I've found a hack for the input tag, by specifying height with CSS. Now input tags have the same space between them for every browsers. It seems the default height of input tags was not the same depending on the browser, very very weird.
I've tried the same thing for my div tags, but I can't get the right alignment for every browsers.
text input tags alignment working with every browsers with CSS hack:
http://jsfiddle.net/baptx/XcKZj/
div tags alignment is not the same depending on the browser (configured for Firefox):
http://jsfiddle.net/baptx/92gPY/
I'm using Firefox on Linux and I've noticed that Windows version does not render the same margins.
Chrome does also not agree with Linux Firefox, when running on Linux or Windows.
Opera is great, it always agree with Linux Firefox, running on Linux or Windows.
I first thought, it was due to web browser engine, Gecko rendering differently compared to Webkit, but if Windows and Linux version of Firefox do not agree, it should be something else.
Has anyone and idea where it comes from and how to fix this with div tags?
Why: because the prescribed stylesheet does not prescribe spacings like margins.
The solution: use a CSS reset stylesheet, and explicitly declare your own defaults in your site-wide stylesheet.
Here's a website with some resets: http://www.cssreset.com/
It sounds like you need to include a reset css into your styles. This will help unify (but not completely eliminate) the differences between browsers.
Here are two popular resets:
Eric Meyer's reset
YUI Reset
I have a form with text area and defined resize:both in css.
However, the resize handle / icon is missing on IE and Firefox but visible in Chrome. How can I fix this, or does these browser doen't support it.
Note that I'm using Twitter Bootstrap CSS as my CSS framework.
In Firefox 14.0.1, the handle disappears when you change the CSS border property on a textarea in any way - color, width, style, whatever. If you leave it as default, then the handle is visible. Could be a bug.
Check out the support table. No support in IE yet. Support exists in Firefox, and my test just confirmed this—but the handle is a little less noticeable than in Chrome:
Perhaps there is something else in your CSS code that overrides the setting, in a manner that affects Chrome but not Firefox.
Padding is never the same in Firefox and IE, while IE adds padding to the height and width, Firefox just ignores it. what is the correct interpretation and what is the nest way to achieve the same look in all the browsers. Does firefox and Ie differ in margin a well?
In modern browsers, you can use the box-sizing CSS property to instruct the browser about the exact box model you want. If such property is missing, all browsers built since year 2000 (aprox.) will default to the good old W3c box model. In such model, neither margin nor padding are part of the content dimensions (width and height), as this figure illustrates.
In practice, I'd dare say that 99% of web sites rely on the latter, and the rest are legacy sites that were designed for Netscape and Internet Explorer 4 and have been abandoned since then.
If you need to support very old versions of Internet Explorer, make sure you have valid HTML with an appropriate DOCTYPE. Otherwise, IE will render under quirks mode and might revert to old box sizing model.
You need to use a reset CSS to ensure the different defaults the different browsers have chosen are neutralized.
The differences you see are due to different default values for margin and padding that each browser has for different elements.
One additional wrinkle is that some browsers require some content to be in a container (say table cell or div) before applying width/height to it. This can easily be done by adding a non-break-space - .
All browsers from the last 10 years render the box model correctly IF you are not running in compatibility or quirks mode. That means you have to have a valid doctype, it must be on the first line (anything before the doctype throws IE into quirksmode) and you can't do illegal things that also throw it into quicksmode.
If you have valid content, with a valid doctype, content will render the same.. although different browsers may have different default values for some styles, which is where a good html reset file comes in handy. This levels the playing field so all browsers have the same default styles.
If you look on the right, http://forensicon.net/blog/ - the width for the sidebar names renders differently in IE9 and FF. I'm not sure why it fills all the way to the right in IE9 even when I explicitly give it a width. I'd like to understand what is causing this behavior so I can avoid it in the future.
The problem is you have a comment before the doctype. This puts IE into quirks mode and it won't attempt to perform like all the other far more modern browsers. Remove everything before the doctype.
Yes, this is an age-old problem. Different browsers have different defaults for things like header and list tags.
Use a CSS reset and explicitly style them the way you want.
There may be different CSS base styles defined by the browser that are causing it to render inconsistently. You might want to consider using a base reset CSS that resets all the styles to a common foundation across browsers, and then lay your custom CSS on top of it.
A very popular one out there is YUI Reset CSS
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/cssreset/