How to alter Squarespace Navigation Menu Colors - css

We are building a prototype shop using Squarespace with the four pages:
Home, Store, About, Contact.
Unfortunately all pages inherit the same style from the site's design templates. What we would like to do is something similar to this where the colour of the link on certain pages could be changed.
Is there a method of overcoming the fact that the same class class="header-nav-item header-nav-item--collection"is being used for all pages in order for this type of solution using custom CSS can be applied?

Yes, this is possible. Using nth-child() selectors is an option, though you might consider referencing the element via its href attribute instead, like so (of course, substituting the color of your choice):
.header-nav-item a[href='/about'] {
color: red;
}
If you choose to use nth-child(), do like so:
.header-nav-item:nth-child(3) a {
color: red;
}
Finally, to edit the color of the nav item that corresponds to the active page (whatever page the user is on), you'd write something like:
.header-nav-item.header-nav-item--active a {
color: blue;
}
Finally, if you'd like to change the color of all navigation items when the user is on a specific page, you can do so by using the collection ID, which is used as the id attribute on the body element in most if not all Squarespace templates:
#collection-5d7ef2011673f45f239d1c51 .header-nav-item a {
color: green;
}
As a helpful tip (which you may already be aware of), you can use your browser's developer tools web inspector to inspect the element and then write your own CSS according to the rules generated by Squarespace.

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WP Shopify Plugin CSS Button Color Issues

I am working on a website, https://wordpress-625707-2032312.cloudwaysapps.com/, with the WP Shopify Plugin, and trying to change the default button colors. I have gone into dev tools and found the div class to change the button background. I can clearly see it's labeled as "wps-btn wps-btn-secondary wps-add-to-cart css-7k7g1c-buttonCSS-addToCartCSS-AddButton"
But when I use this class for my css changes, it doesn't work. The change is "wps-btn wps-btn-secondary wps-add-to-cart css-7k7g1c-buttonCSS-addToCartCSS-AddButton {
background-color: #D71614 !important;
}"
Why is this not working?? I can't attach screenshots since I'm too new on here...sorry!
Actually you are pretty lost here.
This is not actually a class:
wps-btn wps-btn-secondary wps-add-to-cart css-7k7g1c-buttonCSS-addToCartCSS-AddButton
There are 4 classes there, separated by spaces. The last one is actually unique for the first button. And in css, when you are styling a class, you should start with a dot, like: .class-name
The code you are looking for is:
.wps-btn.wps-btn-secondary.wps-add-to-cart {
background: red;
}
We concatenate 3 classes here with dots and NO spaces.
You should take a look at CSS Selectors:
https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.asp

CSS Code for different color for various links on my wordpress blog

I am about to create a new blog but before launching it I want to test all the functionality for it. So I am not good with either CSS or any other coding. I want to know how can I show the internal links of my blogs in Green color, the links going out to some other sites (external links) in Red color and Affiliate links to Amazon or Ebay in Blue color on my all blog posts.
Please, can anyone tell me how to do it on my upcoming wordpress blog?
Depending on your linking convention you "could" make some assumption and use attribute selectors.
The following is based on the assumption that internal links are not absolute. E.g <a href="/somepath/to/somepage"> and external paths are absolute (which they have to be), e.g <a href="https://www.google.com">
/*Default style, applied to internal links*/
a {color:red;}
/*href contains // therefore absolute, and therefore external*/
a[href*='//'] {color:blue;}
/*href starts with #, therefore a link to an element on the page*/
a[href^="#"] {color:black;}
Google - External
Apple - External
Intneral
Links to internal page Id
HOWEVER
I would probably make this explicit and use classes instead. No assumptions made and you have control
/*Default style, applied to internal links*/
a {color:red;}
/*class for external links*/
a.external {color:blue;}
/*class for links to page id*/
a.idLink {color:black;}
Google - External
Apple - External
Intneral
Links to internal page Id
You should use a css attribute selector … something like this:
// All green
a {
color: green;
}
// External red
a[href*="//"] {
color: red;
}
// Amazon and ebay blue
a[href*="amazon.com"], a[href*="ebay.com"] {
color: blue;
}
You can select like this:
[attribute=value]: exact value
[attribute*=value]: value somewhere
[attribute^=value]: value at start
[attribute$=value]: value at end
With this you can select the links based on the href attribute they have and style them as you wish … you get the point i think?
A good solution for checking link on a specific page is Integrity for Mac Thats a app that lists all links of a page.

GWT - Changing CSS hover property

I'm a new user of GWT and I'm looking for some advice concerning "theme management".
I have to make a website that can handle theme changes. What I mean is that a user can make is own theme by filling a form, then the website will automatically and dynamically changes its color to display the new ones.
I thought using a CSS sheet for all the static properties and using some GWT lines (e.g. label.getElement.getStyle.setColor(...)) to change color. But I have many "hover" properties and I think creating many MouseOverHandler is not a good idea ...
Is there a way to edit CSS sheet dynamically or a magic trick to do that ?
Thanks.
You have many options - the most straight forward (to me) is to make use of the existing CSS classes that GWT introduces. If you look at javadocs for any of the widgets GWT provides, you'll notice the CSS Style Rules section. For example, Button:
.gwt-Button
the outer element
That means that every Button you add to the page has a .gwt-Button style applied to it. If you inject a CSS stylesheet with a rule that overrides this style:
.gwtButton {
background: red;
}
All your buttons will turn red. You can inject stylesheets using StyleInjector. Creating the stylesheet's content dynamically is up to you - but it's just text, it shouldn't be hard (but make sure the generated CSS rules are valid!).
To get you started, try hooking up this code to some button and see if clicking it triggers changing all the Buttons on the page red:
StyleInjector.inject(".gwt-Button { background: red; }");
If you have custom widgets that you want styled differently, just add an individual class to them (.customWidgetWhatever, like Button has .gwt-Button, etc.) that you will include in your custom stylesheet.
Make sure you understand how CSS works and what it can do for you. For example, if you want to style each button the same, you don't have to change each button's style individually, just use:
button {
background: green;
}
And all the <button>s will turn green.
The easiest way to change themes without reloading the whole application is to assign a theme class to the body element.
You'd want to prepend each CSS class in your app with a particular theme, e.g.:
.theme1 .myClass {
color: red;
}
.theme2 .myClass {
color: blue;
}
Then you'll apply a particular theme to the body element:
<body class="theme1">
When you want to change themes, you'll have to change the body class so it will become:
<body class="theme2">
this way, each element that has class myClass will have its color changed from red to blue.
You cannot edit a CSS file dynamically, but you can inject CSS style either as a new CSS file, or directly into your document.
For example, you can define all key CSS rules in your "main.css" file, and add your user-defined rules directly into the host HTML page with a style tag.

Maintaining CSS Hierarchy

I have a HTML5 page which has a master css and tabbed layout. Some tabs have 3rd party controls (like bootstrap.css etc ) which gets loaded when that tab is clicked resulting in overriding some of the properties of styles set by master.css
We can solve this issue by not allowing those particular properties to NOT get overridden by !important. But we have 1000's of such properties and may not be possible to do it manually for all.
Any workaround for this?
As mentioned in one of the comments, you can use something called as CSS specificity to solve the problem.
You can read more about it here.
To be brief, make the more important styles more specific.
For example:
.my-divs .green {
color: green;
}
receives more priority then
.green {
color: green;
}

same css class work different on different url

In my site I am stick with some CMS. In my cms there is some sticky layout.
Now My client needs two different look on it.
So when I am on "homepage" my DIV class test show different and when I am on other page so that same class work different.
This is for home page
.test {
some data
}
This is for Other Page
.test {
some data
some data
}
So is there any way to make condition in css that if my URL is homepage so call this otherwise call this.
You should add a custom class on your body, like the page name.
<body class="home">
...
</body>
<body class="my_page">
...
</body>
Then you can have a different style for each one.
.home .test {
background: red;
}
.my_page .test {
background: blue;
}
You can't use CSS to detect the URL. So, you'll need to detect the URL with JavaScript (like this), or better, detect it on the backend.
Same css wont work differently for different pages(URLs), One way you can do is changing the inline styles with JavaScript. But it will be painful if you suppose to change a whole style-sheet.
Other way is, it is more than detecting the URL, you need to change the style-sheets dynamically for different pages. Different style-sheets may have same classes but with different styles.
Therefore, create separate style-sheets and apply dynamically.
You can get some idea about changing style-sheets dynamically here
You could use JavaSctipt to detect the URL, and then again use JavaScript to add an extra class to the body if you are on the home page. You then write separate CSS styles for elements contained within this new class.

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