Not sure how to really categorize this question, but on this page, the file http://d1el287zd12c0j.cloudfront.net/assets/hitgrid-0a8239a14fba0de87431c06cd75774f3.css seems to be completely ignored by browsers. It appears to load successfully and no different than any other css file on the page, but the styles in it are simply not applied to the page.
The content-type, encoding and everything appears to be working as expected. Roughly the same content "applies" fine on my local installation of the app.
I'm at a loss as to what's going on here.
I just check it out and everything went right.
Try to make the filename shorter in the CDN. Large names tend to make error in some way or maybe check if no other stylesheet is interfering with the styles
If that didn't work, answer these questions and Ill try to git it a try again
Which OS are you using?
2. Are you using wordpress?
I have a site whose stylesheets are becoming overwhelming, and a full 50% to 90% or so is not used on certain pages. Rather than have 23 separate blocking CSS sheets, I'd like to find out which are being used on the page I'd like to target, and have those exported into one sheet.
I have seen several questions that recommend "Dust me selectors" or similar add on which will tell what selectors are and are not being used; but that's not what I want. I need to be able to export all used styles from all sheets for that particular page into one new sheet that can be used to replace the 23 others. The solution should be able to support a responsive website (media calls). The website page I'm targeting is: http://tripinary.com.
I've found: https://unused-css.com but this is a paid service and I need free;
The next closest thing I've come across is http://www.csstrashman.com/ but this does not look at stylesheets. In fact, it completely ignores them and ultimately I'm having trouble with the responsiveness of the site. Many times as well, this site just crashes.
I don't mind a programmatic solution if someone has had to do this before and can recommend a direction.
(deleted my comment to RwwL answer to make it a thorough answer)
UnCSS, whether node.js or as a grunt or gulp task, is able to list used CSS rules by an array of pages in an array of Media Queries.
uncss: https://github.com/giakki/uncss
grunt-uncss: https://github.com/addyosmani/grunt-uncss
gulp-uncss: https://github.com/ben-eb/gulp-uncss
Multipage:
You can pass files as an argument to any of the 3 plugins, like:
var files = ['my', 'array', 'of', 'HTML', 'files'],
options = { /* (…) */ };
uncss(files, options, function (error, output) {
console.log(output);
});
Avoid:
urls (Array):
array of URLs to load with Phantom (on top of the files already passed if any).
NOTE: this feature is deprecated, you can pass URLs directly as arguments.
Media Queries and responsive are taken into account:
media (Array):
By default UnCSS processes only stylesheets with media query "all", "screen", and those without one. Specify here which others to include.
You can add stylesheets, ignore some of them, add inline CSS and many other options like htmlroot
Remaining problems:
1/ Conditional classes if you use them for IE9-. They obviously won't be matched in a WebKit PhantomJS environment!
HTML:
<!--[if IE 9]><html class="ie9 lte-ie9" lang="en"><![endif]--> <!-- teh conditional comment/class -->
CSS:
.ie9 .some-class { property: value; ] /* Only matched in IE9, not WebKit PhantomJS */
Should they be added by hand or script to the html element in testing environment? (how it renders is of no importance)
Is there an option in uncss?
As long as you don't style with :not(.ie9) (weird), it should be fine.
EDIT: you can use the ignore option with a pattern to force uncss to "provide a list of selectors that should not be removed by UnCSS". Won't be tested though.
2/ Scripts that will detect resolution (viewport width) and adapt content to it by removing/adding it or adding a class on a container. They will execute in PhantomJS in desktop resolution I guess and thus won't do their job so you'll need to modify calls to PhantomJS or something like that... Or dig into options or GitHub issues of the 3 projects (I didn't)
Other tools I heard of, not tested or barely or couldn't test, no idea about the MQ part:
in grunt-uncss readme, the Coverage part
ucss from Opera (there's already an ansswer here, couldn't make it work)
Helium
CSSESS
mincss
Addy Osmani has countless presentations of 100+ slides presenting awesome tools like this one: https://speakerdeck.com/addyosmani/automating-front-end-workflow (you'll regret even more that days are made only of 24 hours and not 48 err wait 72 ^^)
How about the CSS Usage plugin for Firebug?
Steps:
Visit your page in Firefox
Click "CSS Usage" tab in Firebug
Click the Scan button
Click the bold file name
Save page of CSS selectors to disk
Here are some screen shots and walk through. Not sure about media queries or if it'll work on your site, and it'll probably not keep -webkit etc, but maybe it'll get you part of the way there.
Opera Software released a CSS crawler on Github that claims it can find unused and duplicate selectors. It might do the trick if you're comfortable with a command-line tool. https://github.com/operasoftware/ucss
You Can Check in Google Chrome by doing inspect element (F12) . The unused CSS has Line over the tags.
If you wanted, you could try to build a script that runs on a (non-production) server that goes through every css rule, removes it from the stylesheet, loads the page using something like phantomjs, and checks to see if anything changed from the last time it loaded the page. If so, then put the css rule back, if not, then leave it out and move on to the next rule. It would take a while to run, but it would work. You would also have to setup an instance of your server that does not use caching for it to run on.
Try using this tool,which is just a simple js script
https://github.com/shashwatsahai/CSSExtractor/
This tool helps in getting the CSS from a specific page listing all sources for active styles and save it to a JSON with source as key and rules as value.
It loads all the CSS from the href links and tells all the styles applied from them
You can modify the code to save all css into a .css file. Thereby combining all your css.
I have been using a central CSS file to build my site and have added to and modified it over time. I use cloudflare which caches CSS files every few hours, so to avoid this I change the number on the end of the file name each time and update it in my header template. This worked fine for months on two different servers.
But just recently it has decided not to allow this. If I change the CSS's file name and reference link, the CSS will not load. If I set it back to what it was before (site_main61.css) then it works just fine. I've even tried using different characters than increment numbers at the end and still end up with the same result.
This started happening out of the blue; no changes had been made to the server. Could this be a problem with Cloudflare? Something else?
I can provide more details if needed, but I can't think of anything that would be relevant right now.
The problem is not related to forgetting to update the link in html. I've tested this countless times to be sure.
You can add a query string the to end of the file name. It will be cached as a separate file, but it will be the same filename. It's basically a forced recache for the file. Just go to the link in the HTML and add something like this:
<link href="path/to/file/site_main61.css?version=1" ... />
This will work with most caching systems and you no longer have to change the file name.
Using developer tools, I can amend a css file for a site I'm currently viewing in a browser.
I want to, effectively, do the same - but instead of amending the css file, loading a local css file, just for that particular domain.
Another way of phrasing it: "When any page of stackoverflow.com is loaded, load C:\test.css to the browser".
Yes, it's possible. Have a look at http://userstyles.org.
Userstyles.org offers CSS files for usage with the extension "Stylish", and Stylish recently announced that they are becoming evil (https://forum.userstyles.org/discussion/comment/109966/#Comment_109966) and can therefore not be used anymore.
One can use the styles with greasemonkey, but then the activation for various websites doesn't work anymore (the CSS is converted into a JS file and the list of sites where it should be applied onto is hardcoded inside an if-statement in that script). I.e. in order to use e.g. "dokuwiki highlight and full width" on a site using dokuwiki but not being http://dokuwiki.org, you have to edit that if-statement and reload.
We have a lot of elements on the project I am working on that use ellipsis styles, which, of course, work fine with pure CSS in all major browsers but FireFox. We implemented the -moz-binding fix for that which references the xml file with the binding information for cropping an element defined with XUL/XBL as defined here and it worked great... Until we decided to move all our static files (CSS, images, etc) to performance optimized servers. The -moz-bindings no longer worked because FF has disabled XUL from working cross-domain as a security precaution.
I found a lot of references online about putting the binding xml directly into the url clause of the -moz-binding like this:
-moz-binding: url(data:text/xml;charset=utf-8,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%3F%3E%3Cbindings%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A//www.mozilla.org/xbl%22%20xmlns%3Axbl%3D%22http%3A//www.mozilla.org/xbl%22%20xmlns%3Axul%3D%22http%3A//www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul%22%3E%09%3Cbinding%20id%3D%22ellipsis%22%3E%3Ccontent%3E%3Cxul%3Adescription%20crop%3D%22end%22%20xbl%3Ainherits%3D%22value%3Dxbl%3Atext%22%3E%3Cchildren/%3E%3C/xul%3Adescription%3E%3C/content%3E%3C/binding%3E%3C/bindings%3E);
But that didn't work... the binding just fails and the element does not display at all in the browser. No error (that I can figure out how to capture at least) is thrown and so I can't diagnose what's going on.
I thought maybe it was just the way I encoded the xml but even trying the sample on the Mozilla documentation or this other sample doesn't work for me. I have tried simple html pages with nothing but an element with the Mozilla example and it fails. What is it I am missing configuration-wise to make this inline stuff work?
I am either looking for 1) a way to make the inline -moz-binding work or 2) a way to resolve it so that the external xml file works when the CSS is coming from another domain.
If anyone has advice it is much appreciated!
By the way, I'm not interested in any other solutions in applying ellipsis to fields (such as Javascript implmentations). This works fine for our purposes and is used too many places in the site as a CSS class to make a refactoring for another approach feasible.
You could try that adding in your .htaccess:
Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin *
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