I have the following html structure.
<ul>
<script id="agendaTmpl" type="text/x-jquery-tmpl">
<li class="arrow boundElement" style="height:40px;" onclick="GoToPage('session.html?session_id=${agenda_id}');">
</li>
</script>
<li class="arrow boundElement" style="height:40px;" onclick="GoToPage('session.html? session_id=2');"> test</li>
<li class="arrow boundElement" style="height:40px;" onclick="GoToPage('session.html? session_id=2');"> test</li>
</ul>
I need to apply class to the first li of the list.
The script tag cannot be removed, coz it is a template for the structure.
I tried with ul > li:first-child but it is not working. It works only if the li is the first child of the ul, i.e. if the script tag is not present.
Please suggest me a way to apply style to the first li of the ul.
Note: I am not allowed to add a new class to the first li.
Try using first-of-type instead:
ul > li:first-of-type
This is a CSS3 selector - so is not completely supported across older browsers. See #Boltclock's answer for much better cross-browser support
It works only if the li is the first child of the ul, i.e. if the script tag is not present.
Exactly.
Since you're using a jQuery template, and you're trying to manipulate the first li to give it a class without modifying the HTML source, you may as well do this all with jQuery:
$('ul > li:first').addClass('first');
There's also a trick for selecting all first items of adjacent lists of items:
li:not(li + li) {
background: #f00;
}
/* Or the more intuitive one: */
ul > :not(li) + li, ul > li:first-child {
background: #f00;
}
<ul>
<div></div>
<li>I'm selected</li>
<li>test</li>
<li>test</li>
<div></div>
<li>I'm selected</li>
<li>test</li>
</ul>
Related
Having the following structure:
<ul>
<li>
<div><span class="node">Content1</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div><span class="node">Content2</span></div>
</li>
<!-- but also: -->
<li>
<div><span class="node">Content3</span>
<ul>
<li>
<div><span class="node">Content on 2nd level</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
Now I want to select all span elements with the CSS class node which are on the first level of the hierarchy. How to do that without also matching the last span on level 2?
Edit: The div tags are just for demo purposes. They can change to span or even be nested within another div. I don't want to get a brittle CSS selector out of this (web testing), so I do not want to use direct child selectors. Furthermore, I cannot make changes to the HTML code myself.
You can use > selector:
#parent > ul > li .node
Or, if you haven't parent id:
ul > li :not(ul) .node
You will need to start from the parent of the top-level ul and work your way down using child selectors. For example, assuming the parent element is identified by #parent:
#parent > ul > li > div > span.node
If the hierarchy of elements between the li and the span.node is not fixed, then things get a little more complicated. In order to avoid matching the inner span.node elements, you will need to make some assumptions about the markup, since a simple descendant selector like the following will always return every span.node since every nested list occurs as a descendant of your top-level li elements:
#parent > ul > li span.node
Fix/Ammend your html code, simple is better.
Working fiddle
<div><span class="node test">Content2</span></div>
add 2 class names to your span
.node.test {
color: red;
}
points to the right span
For my <ul> list, I would like to add a <hr> after each element of a list. The Result should render like:
<ul class="mylist">
<li>
moooo!
<hr width="40%">
</li>
<li>
maaaaa!
<hr width="40%">
</li>
...
</ul>
It is bad style adding <hr> to each <li> so I would like to refractor this using css only. I cannot use:
.mylist > li: after{
content: "<hr>"
}
as content would escape the characters.
I also do not want to use jQuery:
$('.mylist').find('li').append('<hr width="40%">');
So the question is, how could I append <hr width="40%"> to each <li> of a certain list using css3 ?
jQuery Solution
Just realized that you wanted to nest the hr element inside the li before you close it, yes it's perfectly valid, so simply use append(), and note, you cannot do this using CSS only, as you cannot modify DOM using CSS, you need to use jQuery or JS
jQuery("ul li").append("<hr />");
Demo
CSS Solution
If you don't need an extra element, or you don't want a jQuery solution(As you want)
Using hr element as a direct child to ul element is not a valid markup, instead, you can use a border-bottom for each li which will behave same as hr does, still if you want an explicit way to do so, say for controlling the width of the separator without changing the width of li than you can do it like this
Demo
ul li:after {
content: "";
display: block;
height: 1px;
width: 40%;
margin: 10px;
background: #f00;
}
Here, am just creating a virtual block level element, which doesn't actually exists in the DOM, but it will just do the thing which you need. You can just design the element, the same way you style a normal div. You can also use border on this but to keep the thin line horizontally centered, I've assigned height: 1px; and than am using margin to space up.
I think it's better to use CSS for this. for example you can stop using <hr> tag, instead do something like:
<ul class="mylist">
<li>
moooo!
</li>
<li>
maaaaa!
</li>
...
</ul>
and then with CSS:
.mylist li { border-bottom: 1px solid black; }
There are other options too, for example if you want to show the horizontal line only for some list items, you can give them a class and add a CSS rule only for that class. like this:
<ul class="mylist">
<li class="hr">
moooo!
</li>
<li>
maaaaa!
</li>
...
</ul>
and CSS:
.mylist li.hr { border-bottom: 1px solid black; }
You can use like this:
<ul>
<li></li>
</ul>
<hr/>
Thats simple. If you have nested ul and li then you use li instead of <hr/> or simply <hr/> inside a <li></li> tag. See below. Its purely your choice.
<ul>
<li>
<ul><li></li></ul>
</li>
<li style="height:1px;border:solid 1px #666"> </li> // or you can also use
<li><hr/></li>
<li>
<ul>
<li></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Tags in content are not allowed and even if it would be very misleading (css { content: "text"}, How do i add tags?)
If you think is wrong to add <hr> in HTML than it is wrong adding with css (if it would be possible) or js. IMHO a first You should try to use border of <li> if result won't be as expected add that <hr>
Insert A Class That Creates A bottom-border: For Each <li>
<!--########## STYLE EACH li USING CLASS ##########-->
<style>
.hr {
width:40%;
border-bottom:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,.7);
}
</style>
<!--########### PAGE CONTENT ############-->
<ul class="mylist">
<li class="hr">
-CONTENT-
</li>
<li class="hr">
-CONTENT-
</li>
...
Try this CSS:
li:after {
content: " ";
display: block;
height: 2px;
width: 100%;
}
I have a page with a default CSS file. In this page I have:
<ul>
<li>A1</li>
<li>A2</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul>
<li>B1</li>
<li>B2</li>
</ul>
<br>
<ul>
<li>C1</li>
<li>C2</li>
</ul>
<br>
I can view the default CSS but I cannot amend
ul {
paddind-left:15px;
}
what I want to do is to exclude only B1 and B2 from the default css. A and C should still have the default property but B1 and B2 should have PADDING-LEFT:0PX;.
I have used (cssreset-min.css) but all the css was eliminated. Any help?
Give the parent ul a new class:
<ul>
<li>A1</li>
<li>A2</li>
</ul>
<ul class="newClass">
<li>B1</li>
<li>B2</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>C1</li>
<li>C2</li>
</ul>
Then do:
ul.newClass {
paddind-left:0px;
}
This will work in all browsers. If you're not concerned about that, use #Andy answer.
if you want to apply for this 3 named list..simply use div with different id for B1,B2....but if you want to apply for an huge list it would be difficult
If I understand right, ul li:nth-child(3), ul li:nth-child(4) { padding-left: 0; } should work
The nth-child selector targets specific children, in this case the 3rd and 4th
Edit: After seeing your edit, the new code that you will need to do is: (I will use #container as the name for your containing div, whatever that is)
#container ul:nth-child(2) li { padding-left: 0; }
You can try something like this :
http://jsfiddle.net/4X62Y/
Here's another solution without changing the HTML:
ul:not(:nth-child(3)) {
padding-left:15px;
}
Example
This will probably not work in all browsers, you'll need to change the HTML for that and use the answer provided by #Alex Thomas .
<style type="text/css">
#featured a:first-child
{
background-color:yellow;
}
</style>
<div id="featured">
<ul class="ui-tabs-nav">
<li><span>test 1</span></li>
<li><span>test 2</span></li>
<li><span>test 3</span></li>
<li><span>test 4</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
I wanted to highlight first anchor from the list, but unfortunately all anchors are highlighted. What is the mistake do here.
They are all highlighted because each a is the first-child of its parent li
What you probably want is something like:
#featured li:first-child a
{
background-color:yellow;
}
Because all anchors are the first child of their parents. You need to:
#featured li:first-child a {
background-color: yellow;
}
If you always have a list I would prefer the CSS solution like #powerbuoy and #danwellman posted. If you just want to format the first anchor tag nested inside an arbitrary tag (with id featured) with arbitrary nesting-level then I would prefer jQuery:
$('#featured a').first().css('background-color', 'yellow');
Example with div's rather than an unordered list: http://jsfiddle.net/9vAZJ/
Same jQuery code formatting a list (like in the question): http://jsfiddle.net/9vAZJ/1/
The jQuery code is a more general solution and fits better to your initial try to format the anchor tag in your question since both solutions are decoupled from list tags.
Nevertheless when list-styling is your only task here then I would recommend the CSS solution.
<div id=menu>
<ul>
<li class="section-title">auto-text1</li>
<li class="section-title">auto-text2</li>
<li class="section-title">auto-text3</li>
</ul>
</div>
How can I give special treatment to auto-text3 through css?
See section 6.6.5.7. of the CSS3 - future - proposal:
:last-child pseudo-class
Same as :nth-last-child(1). The :last-child pseudo-class represents an element that is the last child of some other element.
ul > li:last-child { }
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#last-child-pseudo
(In your example </menu> probably is meant to be the closing </div>.)
For the time being I guess it's still best to use classes marking the first and last list element, or simple Javascript on your #menu id.
You could use the :nth-of-type() pseudo-class selector:
#menu > ul > li.section-title:nth-of-type(3)
This will select the third element of all li elements with the class section-title.
Just to clarify the other answers, there aren’t (currently) any CSS selectors that let you select an element based on its content.