I need to style all the input fields but one.
So i have set a rule for all the inputs on the site.
For the seachfield i need to use the browser default, so i was thinking i could just inherit all the values i have set for the general input fields. (have tried border: none to)
This does not work in FF nor Safari :( The border just gets transparent.
http://jsfiddle.net/N5KKH/1/
Any idea how i could get the default browser styling back?
EDIT: i need the first input field look like the second one:
http://jsfiddle.net/N5KKH/2/
You should be using a class on all inputs you want styled rather than a general selector on tag name.
If you cannot control this, you could try to set the input back to the default css properties which are listed here although this is not a nice solution and will probably not actually result in the default appearance of the input box.
CSS3 has the not pseudo class which could be used to select all the other inputs although this is not supported by all browsers. JS abstraction frameworks such as jQuery often allow you to use "not" selector syntax cross-browser although this is much less elegant than a pure html css solution.
EDIT
Actually, it doesn't seem to. Just gives me a solid border. Hold on, seeing what I can play with.
EDITv2
It appears that in CSS3 it can be done using the not pseudo-class. However, there doesn't appear to be a way to bring it back from a styled form element. That being said, try just adding a class to input fields you would like changed, then have it ignore the one you don't want changed.
Alternatively, you could use something like jQuery to select only the elements you'd like styled and apply the class to it or manually add the properties (but now you're adding a JS-dependance).
I'm not sure if you generate them from codebehind or hardcode them into the website, but I'd recommend that you use either a class or a name attribute on the input fields you want to look different, like this: http://jsfiddle.net/VeXgw/
I don't believe there is a simple way to unset styles because technically there is no default set style. I think your only chance would be to write some browser specific style rules with javascript to try to make it look like the defaults for each browser.
The better method may be to give all of your inputs (except the searchfield input) a class that you use to style them instead of styling ALL input tags.
Can you use an ID or Class for that single link?
Update:
Try using
border-style:inset;
should do the trick...
http://jsfiddle.net/N5KKH/10/
Related
Well I wish to know how one can avoid a specific html element from getting styled by the default assigned CSS to it. Let me explain with an example:
Suppose I have an image element with it's respective default CSS assigned to it (img{}) but if I want a particular image element like logo or social icons from getting the default CSS styling then what should I do?
I know of ID's being used to target specific elements in CSS but I wish to know if their is any other way of doing this using some special markup or CSS or use of the wrapped elements like div to overcome default values. Many Thanks in Advance! :)
There is no way to prevent CSS rules with a selector that matches an element from applying to that element.
The best you can do is write more specific rules to override them with different values. You could, in browsers that support it, use the initial keyword.
Is there any way to disable one CSS property value only? For example, with the property 'text-decoration' there are possible values of none, underline, overline, line-through, blink and inherit.
I would like to allow all values of text-decoration with the exception of underline on ALL elements.
The pages I'm working with are dynamically generated, and can have content from all over the web- so it's not possible to target any specific element. Using text decoration 'none' works of course, but it blows away all other values as well :(
Suggestions?
There's no way to do this with just CSS and HTML. What you'd need is something like a property selector to target all of the elements on your page with text-decoration set to underline, but such a thing doesn't exist right now.
However, if JavaScript is an option, then you could accomplish this. You would first determine the style of the elements and then, if you needed to, set the style to get rid of the underline.
Since there's no such thing as property selectors in Javascript and neither JQuery, You should get all of possible elements and then check for their css property and change it if needed. Something like this:
$('*').each(function() {
if ($(this).css('PROPERTY') == 'FORBIDDEN-VALUE') {
$(this).css('PROPERTY', 'REPLACE-VALUE');
}
});
I have a piece of HTML that I need to modify and I need to keep the changes minimal (out of CSS). All I need to do is to hide a table cell until something happens. So I went ahead and added the style tag as shown below:
<td style="display:none;">
However, this causes the style class to reset, e.g. the cell which used to be vertically center-aligned is now top-aligned, and so on. My understanding is that this is because the style attribute overrides the default CSS stuff. Is that correct? If yes, how can I prevent it? I just need to add the display attribute, not reset the rest of style attributes.
I spend some time searching online and noticed that HTML5 has introduced something called scoped style. Is there an HTML4 easy-to-do equivalent for it?
It might be because doing display:none remove the node from the DOM display calculation. You no longer have a placeholder for that cell in your table. You might try visibility:hidden, which will have the DOM element keep its place in the document rendering but just not be visible.
Try visibility:hidden; instead of display:none;
Let me know if that does the trick.
I have a div with class "class1" . And a class: .class1 input {etc} so that all the inputs in the div get styled.
Is there away to make sure one specific input in the div does not get styled, but instead keeps the default input styling/button?
Since there is no :not selector in CSS 2.1, your best bet would be to assign classes to all of the inputs that you want to have a certain style. Then, target them like this:
.class1 .inputclass1
and then your other input (the one that needs default styling) won't be affected.
If you want to use CSS 3, then you can use :not like so:
.class1:not(.defaultclass1)
and give defaultclass1 to the element you want to have default styling.
You can either:
(1) Amend .class1 input {etc} to .class1 input.a {etc} and apply the style a to all your inputs bar the special one.
or
(2) apply an inline style to the special input in question resetting its format.
in a situation like that you have two kinds of inputs in this div. one that should be styled and one that shouldn't. You basically have two classes of inputs, but you haven't givven them class names. I would suggest giving them class names (e.g. styled and nonstyled or what not) and basing your css off of that. Otherwise you could use a pseudoclass, but that I'm not too sure on.
You can take a look at the :not() selector. However, this is not supported by IE. Probably easiest to provide a CSS over-ride for the specific input that you would like to be "default" styled.
in case you are planning to support all browser which do not support CSS3. You can over-ride the rule by making another class. like
.class input {etc}
and then over-ride etc rule by giving some other class to that input e.g. .notClass
input.notClass {over-ride etc }
You can use .class imput[type]{} if this is another type of input
Best way is use a class for that all input like .class1 input.all{} and leave the non style one without any class
My understanding about CSS is that, generally if you set <div style="color: Red">, all content inside <div> will be affected. However if you put a html button inside, the color on the words on the button is not affected. I'm a bit disturbed by this exception. How do I give a reasonable explanation to it?
It's about users' expectations of the user interface.
Buttons (and other user interface widgets) prefer to look like their operating system counterparts. On Windows, users expect buttons to be grey with black text, so that's how browsers present them. It's intentional that you have to try quite hard to override that behaviour.
It's because it would be impractical for input elements to inherit style information from parent elements, this means whenever you style a form, you would have to create style rules for every type of input used in it, to make sure they don't turn out unexpected. you can however force inputs to inherit their parent's style with css:
input {
color: inherit;
}
That code will cause all input elements to inherit their parent's text color style.
The "cascading" part of "Cascading Style Sheets" (CSS) means that in general, you're right: a property set on an object will cascade down to objects below it.
However for some properties this doesn't make sense, so those properties are explicitly non-cascading (eg if you set a border on a div, you don't want all its children to have borders as well).
If we were dealing with raw XML in our DOM, that's where it would end. The colour would indeed cascade all the way down. However, we're dealing with HTML, and HTML has some pre-existing conditions, exceptions and overrides. For example, a <div> always defaults to display:block; whereas a <span> will default to display:inline;.
Buttons and input fields have a lot of defaults and overrides, which is why they show up as buttons and input fields without you having to do loads of styling on them. This is also why they override the cascading effect of certain CSS rules, including color.
You can override the override by specifying inherit for the overridden styles. So if you want you button to take the red colour you specified previously, you would do something like this:
.mybutton {
color:inherit;
}
You will want to look up the rules for inheritance in CSS; certain property values will cascade to certain descendant elements, and certain ones won't. In fact, one of the possible values for many CSS properties is inherit, which suggests that this value is not always the default.
The browser itself has default styles for input types, dependent on the OS it's running on. So for Windows, it will most likely be grey, for Apple OS' blue and round (fancy).
There are very easy ways to override this in CSS, I use it all the time in my websites, customising buttons and input fields to better match my site design with images and as mentioned before color values either inherited or changed.
Here is a nice article explaining the cascade and inheritance rules native to using CSS that might help you out.
:)
Buttons and some elements else come with their own style. This style is browser dependent. In different browsers the buttons can look a bit different.