I am looking to improve the style of a Wordpress site.
I have a div with the group-input class which has this style:
.group-input {
display: inline-block;
margin-bottom: 0px;
float: right;
padding-left: 10px;
text-align: right;
}
I would like that below 572 px of screen we switch to float : left so I wrote this below the previous code, in my theme's CSS file, like this:
.group-input {
display: inline-block;
margin-bottom: 0px;
float: right;
padding-left: 10px;
text-align: right;
}
#media (max-width: 572px) {
.group-input {
float: left !important;
}
}
On the other hand it does not work, the new style does not apply to my div.
suddenly I don't know how to do it. Do you have an idea, a lead to advise me?
I want some explanations, something simple for you is not necessarily obvious to me suddenly I need to understand. Thanks for your time and help.
In general, that should overwrite the css rule you are trying to do, but it's probably another css rule that more specifically targets that element. A few reasons it may not be overwriting is because:
another css rule is more specific than yours
it's in a breakpoint more specific than yours
it uses !important
A combo of all of those will require you to be even more specific in targeting the element.
If you find you are unable to overwrite a rule, try and be more specific in your targeting of the element by targeting it's grandparent/parent and working down the html tree. If you notice that that isn't working either, then try using !important.
Check the html structure around it try that. Sometimes even body .group-input might be specific enough, but the closer you specify to the element, the better off you will be.
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On my website, I added the following code which I had only intended to apply to my posts, like this.
#media screen and (min-width: 767px) {
p {
font-size: 21px;
padding-right: 20%;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-left: 20%;
}
}
Obviously, it was applied to all the pages on the website. It's fine on some pages, but the homepage/frontpage is messed up on computers. If you scroll down, the excerpts (descriptions) below the posts have these margins applied to them.
How can I make the change above only apply to posts and not to the frontpage/homepage? To be clear, I want to remove these paddings from the homepage/frontpage. I want to keep them on my posts.
This is one of the suggestions people gave me that didn't work. If I decreased the number from 20%, nothing happened. The margins got bigger if I increased the padding, as if the minimum is set to 20%.
.home .posts-loop .entry-summary{
font-size: 21px;
padding-right: 20%;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-left: 20%;
}
Welcome Ahmed.
The suggestion that people gave you that didn't work, is related to class names (note the point before the names: .home | .ports-loop | .entry-summary . This indicates that are classes).
In your first sample you only use p . This affect to all p html elements.
So, your solution is to add a class to the paragraphs where you want to aply the css rules:
<p id="xxxx" name="xxxx" class="SomeClass">
And then, in your css code, use .SomeClass {...} to set the rules to apply.
This rules should be applied only in the elements set as class="SomeClass", and not to other elements.
For home page/front page just give another custom class name and just give padding to 0 or else you want and write " !important ".For e.g .cstm_home { padding: 0 !important; } . I hope it will solve your issue.
An easy way I see around this is to create a different stylesheet for the homepage. I'm not sure if you're using a global stylesheet, if you are, you should remove the line that links the CSS to this page.
A more prudent approach would be to use another type of selector instead of your paragraph tag, put an id in all the paragraphs you would like to style the aforementioned way and use this id or any other selector in your CSS.
Cheers!
I hope this helps....
What I would suggest is to add a class to the p tag on home page. The HTML should be like
<p class="homepagepara">blah blah blah.....</p>
And the css will be like.
p.homepagepara {
margin: 0;
padding:0;
}
After you have created the class you can style those pages any way you want. And it will target the home page paragraphs only. Hope this helps. Let me know if you have more questions
I wish you had shared your HTML as well. But a general answer is that you are selecting all the p elements in the html document to have the mentioned paddings. So of course it's applied everywhere on the page.
Solution 1: If they're separate html pages you can link separate stylesheets and include the paddings only in the desired pages.
Solution 2: Be more specific with the css selector. For example if the wrapper div for the posts has the class of .posts, write your css as following:
.posts p {
font-size: 21px;
padding-right: 20%;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-left: 20%;
}
Ok, this is the styling I want to be used
.suggestion-taxonomies-product-visibility span {
display: inline-block;
float: left;
padding-left: 10px;
}
The usual of mentioning the element here doesn't seem to work, any ideas? I can specify more if need be. I am new and not great at specifying my problem!
Thanks.
use important like
.suggestion-taxonomies-product-visibility span {
display: inline-block !important;
float: left !important;
padding-left: 10px !important;
}
Place your style after the theme stylesheet. It will override the theme styling. Better still, you can replace the suggestion-taxonomies-product-visibility class span styling in the styles.css file. If you opt for the latter, changes will be lost when updating the theme. You can avoid this by building a child theme to the theme you are currently using.
Use !important tag in each, ex:
.someclass {
width: 10px !important;
}
One of the things I find hard to work with in CSS is how rules mix layout (ie: position, sizing) and look and feel (color, shadows, fonts, etc.).
We're working in a 'reskin' project, where we want to keep the layout of our solution, but change the look and feel. To this end I'm thinking of splitting the current styles in two: one stylesheet for layout and the other for skin, and then replace the latter with the new, reskinned one.
Just to illustrate my point. A current CSS rule could look like this:
Styles.css:
.my-class {
/* layout rules */
width: 100px;
height: 50px;
float: left;
/* look and feel rules */
border: 1px solid red;
font-weight: bold;
}
My idea would be to split this into 2 individual rules, in 2 files:
Layout.css:
.my-class {
width: 100px;
height: 50px;
float: left;
}
Skin.css: (could be replaced with a different 'skin' file)
.my-class {
border: 1px solid red;
font-weight: bold;
}
Is there any reason why this would not work? Does this have any drawbacks (other than the increased page load time?)
If you have a clear way of separating the CSS you can do it this way. In our company it is separated the same way, you just have to pay attention when adding new CSS so you don't mix it up.
There is no increase in page load time, when you use PHP to merge the files together and minimize it when the user visits your website.
Check out this link, there is an explanation on how to combine and minify CSS with PHP.
Using Firebug, I finally (this has been an ongoing struggle) found the CSS that I need to edit to fix my sidebar spacing program. It's below:
#sidebar .widget {
margin-bottom: 45px;
position: relative;
}
What I want to do is edit the margin-bottom to be 5px instead of 45. However, I cannot seem to find this specific CSS anywhere. When I find it through Firebug, it's in a file called all.css, but I can only edit the style.css file through Wordpress.
I've tried changing it in the custom CSS, but that doesn't fix anything. Can someone please help me? I know nothing about CSS, and I was so excited to finally figure out what I need to change, and now I can't change it!
Check in the <head> section, if the style.css is loaded after the all.css. If not, you must provide a CSS rule that will be more precise than the one from all.css, e.g.
#sidebar div.widget {
margin-bottom: 5px;
position: relative;
}
(if the .widget is a div, of course)
Iam needing help with my footer in CSS.
I'm a new wordpress developer and I get the gist of how to work with it but as usual I've run into a problem, it's probably simple too, as I'm not sure exactly how to pick out the certain CSS snippets I need. I use Firebug but sometimes I just not sure whats happening with my CSS I guess.
This is my testing site so you can have a look at what I'm going to be talking about. In my footer, my last < li > element (the Archives) I'm hoping to get up right underneath Follow Us. I can always us the last child css rule however I know IE ignores that. So whats my next option? I know what to do if wordpress has given the lists individual styles but in this case it hasn't, so I'm not sure what to do.
CSS
#footer { width: 100%; height: 503px; background: url(img/FOOTER-bg.jpg) repeat-x; background-color: #821d20; position: relative; top: 100px;/*border: 1px solid #0C0;*/}
.footer-widgets { width: 960px; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; /*border: 1px solid #fff;*/ }
.footer-widgets li { width:280px; height: auto; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; float: left; color: #fff; padding: 13px; margin-right: 10px; /*border: 1px solid #fff;*/ }
.footer-widgets li ul {color: red;}
.footer-widgets li ul li {color: #fff; margin-left: -50px; margin-top: -15px;}
What is the best way to make this work? Any help is appreciated!
If you need to support browsers that do not accept a :last-child selector then you have two options.
Manually add a class to the last element and style it.
Use javascript to find the last <li> and add a class, then style it.
[edit]
Unfortunately, the very handy lastElementChild that was introduced in the W3C Traversal Spec is also not supported in IE8/7. That leaves you, again, with two options.
Use a library like jQuery, which has very simple $('.footer-widgets li:last-child') selector
Use regular js and find the element through tedious DOM traversal.
I would say it's silly to use jQuery for this one thing, but if you will be doing other javascript stuffs on your site, might as well use jQuery, right? Otherwise, I would stay away from the DOM traversal as it's just a pain. Just manually put a class on the last <li> and be done with it :)
There are 2 alternatives I see:
Add a class to your last element and take it with JavaScript to do your own manipulation.
Use jQuery to get the nested elements (unnecessary I think).
Example:
$('.yourElement').css('property', 'value')
Complement:
Getting any element with JavaScript:
var x = document.getElementById("id");
I suggest you to take a look at this W3C documentation with an example. Right after you get the element with JavaScript comes manipulation anyway you need it.
I think it may help you!