I have a website where all links are working normally in the major browsers except Safari. In Safari, if the user clicks on a link with target="_blank" and then goes back to the original tab, the link is no longer styled as a link. If you then close the newly opened tab, the link immediately updates to being styled.
That is:
In my site at https://mysite.umich.edu/myapp I have a link in this format:
Accept Role in our Glossary of Terms
On the page, it looks like this:
When I click on that link, the linked-to URL (the glossary) opens up in a new tab, and I am taken to that tab. If I then go back to the tab where I started (https://mysite.umich.edu/myapp), the link is no longer styled as a link:
If then, staying on the original page, I close the newly opened tab (the one showing the glossary), the link will immediately go back to looking like the first screenshot above.
Debugging this is made more complicated by the fact that the problem doesn't happen if Developer Tools are open. Also, some sequence of clicks will make the problem go away, but I have not yet been able to reproduce that effect.
It seems like this must be some sort of timing issue in Safari. Does anyone have any clues about how to fix it?
There does seem to be some sort of timing issue with Safari whereby it holds on to the CSS for A:HOVER in the original tab even after the user has moved the cursor away from the link, but this would not have been a problem if we had had a reasonable CSS rule for A:HOVER. Since our A:HOVER CSS rule set the text color to the same color as our default text, we could not, of course, distinguish the link from the surrounding text. Changing the CSS made this a non-issue.
So it seems like Safari is misbehaving, but in our situation, at least, there is a workaround.
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After too many hours of frustration spent not understanding what was happening, a random idea to test seems to have confirmed the issue, but no idea how to properly resolve, and I'm truly not certain if this is a wordpress, css or even a theme caused issue (Avada theme). So a quick explanation:
Wordpress, Avada theme. Everything updated and patched. There is a menu on the site. There is a basic white color for the text, and hovering over a menu item changes the text color to orange and adds a border to the top and bottom. Nothing crazy. Just a little "animation" by setting a base state for the menu items (text white, background transparent, no border), and setting some different parameters for when it's hovered/active. I actually set the options in the avada builder, but also confirmed what was being applied with chrome dev tools. While in the builder back end after setting this, it works flawlessly. Hovering a menu item triggers the transition and moving off returns it to original state. If I visit the page normally however, all the menu items are already displaying and stuck in their hover state. From first moment it's visible it's already like that, and all the menu items are the same as if they were all being hovered. Hovering, clicking etc doesn't change the state. It acts like the hover/active properties are always active. Even trying to force change the element state in chrome dev tools doesn't change anything. If I go back into the live edit mode (which is still rendering the site as well), it's functioning perfectly.
I couldn't find much of anything hunting the forums. But a lucky break....I noticed that all the links in the menu were of anchor link variety. The kind that has ...com/#xxxxx in the url where clicking on it scrolls to a section or part of the same page instead of taking you to a unique page. The site was set as a one page. Using the avada Wedding demo site as a starting point. So I tested replacing a menu item with an anchor link url with any other link without the #xxxxx . Suddenly, it works perfectly again. Any of the anchor link items will still be stuck in that hover state appearence, but any item not using an anchor link looks and works fine even when the menu is a mix of both.
So the dillema. The page is all on one page, so the menu items need to use the anchor style. I'm not certain why anchor link seems to be be stuck on hover/active. I had wondered if it's just technically always active by the way it works which would explain this. Any thoughts?
Menu items with anchor link urls don't change between regular or hover/active state
Have you seen the smiley jobs guy at the right of the LinkedIn website?
I want him go away!
(https://static-exp1.licdn.com/scds/common/u/images/promo/ads/li_evergreen_jobs_ad_300x250_v1.jpg)
so, I open inspect element on it, add display: none; to its CSS, and there, he's gone...
But when I change pages or refresh it, he comes back, he is very persistent in finding a job for me.
Now, how can I make my browser to remember my appearance preference??
The same goes for the advertisement banners as well,
How can you teach your browser to not show elements again when you made them disappear by inspect element?
Have you seen the smiley jobs guy at the right of the LinkedIn website?
I haven't.
How can you teach your browser to not show buggers again when you made them disappear by inspect element?
Use tampermonkey if you are using chrome or similar software to automate the process of setting display: none on a DOM element. Or more conveniently use some ad-blockers available online.
I am currently working on a online resume website, and I am experiencing an odd issue with meteor.
CSS styling for certain elements on the page will work, and not work at the same time. What I mean is say you load the site and land on skillset you will see a white background behind the text and grey words. Now if you navigate to another page and come back all you will see are the stars and H2 tags the background has become transparent. However if you open your Developer console the background will magically come back.
Now example 2, with the Developer console already open repeat the process above. Open Skillset, navigate away, and go back to skillset. Now you will see the CSS styling is there, mess with the background for the class '.skillset' and you will see that the background is back. Isnt this odd?
My site is http://patrickml.com/
For some reason I needed to add "position: relative" to my main container. I do not understand why, but it did fix my issue.
I have a bit of a IE8 problem (sound familiar?)
I have a button. when you hover over the button the hover state produces a larger box that has html inside. in this particular case, it's a small music player.
so it goes like this, when you hover over the button it produces a small music player with clickable links and some text. you can move your mouse anywhere inside this box, but as soon as you leave the box/music player, the hover state goes away again.
sorry but I don't know how else to explain it.
this all works a treat except for IE8.
in IE8, the hover state disappears as soon as the mouse leaves the original small button. so navigating around the music player becomes impossible.
now I have noticed that when there is no html in the hover box, it works fine, but when there is html (in this case an iframe) it loses the hover as soon as I touch any html inside the hovering box. so it looks like the problem is not the hover box, but the code inside the box that makes it lose focus
what I would like to know is, is this a known issue in IE8, or could it just be bad coding from my side. in which case i can post the css.
I've had problems with :HOVER states in IE8 too and I noticed that the same CSS (even pointing to the same external CSS file) worked on some pages but not others. The solution for me was to consistently add a DOCTYPE to the top of all pages (above the starting HTML tag).
It seems obvious now, but sometimes (especially when editing old sites) the DOCTYPE is not always specified.
I hope this helps!
Your problem doesn't seem to lie in hover itself. Firstly you assume some window height and your project just look weird if the height is different. Assuming you did some very exact calculations on such assumptions your problem is probably the box model problem. box-sizing:border-box might help, but you would have to recalculate everything.
Also you can use timeout before the elements gets hidden/drop down so that micro mouse movements don't shake elements and maybe allow to "catch" them.
Having both things in mind all hovering problems should be fixable.
EDIT: For iframe hover have a look at: Iframe hover not working in IE (all versions).
I don't even know where to start.
On one page of my project, when you enter the page for the first time, some parts of the site disappear and some don't get styled (e.g. border-radius doesn't work).
First off, some parts of the header shows up again when you hover over links, or select some text (that is actually invisible before selecting). Everything looks as it should when you refresh the page.
Before I found out that hovering or selecting fixes some parts, I thought that styles don't get applied or something like that. I've even tried to remove all the #imports and check if that works.
This happens only in Safari, styles get applied to proper elements but those are not rendered properly and are not visible.
I don't even know which parts of my code should I post here since it's just basic CSS and it works perfectly everywhere except Safari.
Any ideas?
#edit:
Here's an example of an issue (link your profile is shown, cause I hovered over it)
And when you select some parts of the invisible text and than deselect, it shows up:
This is Bootstrap based site, and here's the code for this alert:
<div class="alert">
<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert">×</button>
<strong>You are not connected to Stripe yet.</strong>
<p>Other people will not be able to find or participate in your experiences until you connect to Stripe. Go to your profile to connect to Stripe now.</p>
</div>
Regarding the styles, it's basically just some padding and, obviously orange gradient. On the screenshot, you can see the border radius but sometimes it's not there.
An advice by a friend of mine: put empty style tag in your document worked! Just placed line <style></style> in the header and everything works.
Check out safari developer tools : https://developer.apple.com/technologies/safari/developer-tools.html
Posting screenshots of individual problems along with html snippets would help us narrow down the issues.