Having Trouble With Max-Width Menu - css

I'm having trouble with the main menu in the header of my Wordpress site here: http://eptestdev.us/qa
The only way I can get it to fill the entire box is by declaring it to have a width of 950px. However, I want it to disappear when the user is on a mobile device leaving just the mobile menu.
My CSS looks like this, but it is not working:
#media screen and (max-width: 900px){#access {display:none;}}
Not sure how I can get it to collapse otherwise. Any help would be appreciated.

You just need to add the !important tag to your css, so that it overrides everything else. Like this:
display: none !important;
I tested this on your site and it worked.

In general it's good to avoid using !important - and instead use CSS's natural way of determining which rule is used.
Earlier rules (at the top of the stylesheet) are overruled by later ones:
.box { width: 200px; border: 1px solid black }
.box { width: 500px; }
The second rule will override the previous width declaration, giving you a 500px box with a black border.
In your case, the reason your media query rule isn't working is because it occurs before the 'normal' one. If you switch:
#media screen and (max-width: 900px){#access, #copyright, .menu-footer-menu-container {display: none;}}
/* ... other rules ... */
#access, #access-footer {
background:#000000;
clear:both;
display:block;
float:left;
margin:0 auto 2px;
width:100%;
max-height:20px;
}
with
/* ... other rules ... */
#access, #access-footer {
background:#000000;
clear:both;
display:block;
float:left;
margin:0 auto 2px;
width:100%;
max-height:20px;
}
#media screen and (max-width: 900px){#access, #copyright, .menu-footer-menu-container {display: none;}}
This rule will work without needing to use !important.
There are other ways to make rules keep: for instance, a more specific rule will be used before one that is more generic:
#menu .submenu-item { color: green; }
.submenu-item { color: red; }
As long as your .submenu-item divs are within a '#menu' div, they'll be green, because the subsequentcolor: red` declaration doesn't have the same level of specificity.
You can read more on this here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Specificity

Related

how to override #media (max-width) using stylish

Intro
this is similar to this question but unfortunately the answer only applies to greasmonkey (which only works on firefox). Further, this was asked on the stylish forum but the answer was ambiguous.
Question
I want to remove the left column in the azure help page and
expand the main body to make it cover the widht of the screen.
The first part can easily be done by this
#sidebarContent {display:none}
How ever the second part must conver this
media (max-width: 1199.99999px)
to this
media (max-width: 100%)
But I have no idea how to do that using stylish.. ideas?
To override a media query you just need to load another media query - that also applies to your device - after it.
Well...you want a blunt media query that applies to everything. The best way is to use #media (min-width: 1px) since that includes all devices.
Now, put it all together - along with some other CSS cleanups like padding and margin removal and setting a new width for .mainContainer and you get this
#sidebar {
display: none;
}
#media (min-width: 1px) {
.mainContainer {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 100vw;
padding: 0;
}
body>.container {
padding: 0;
}
}
New code: (with different selector for width)
#sidebar {
display: none;
}
#media (min-width: 1px) {
.mainContainer { /*example styles*/
margin: 0 auto;
width: 100vw;
}
body>.container {
padding: 0;
}
body>.mainContainer>main {
max-width: 100vw!important;
}
}
You still have to adjust the padding to your preference as setting the padding to 0 breaks the design a little bit but this should be good starting point.
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Is there possible that remove !important property from element on specific resolution?

I'm using carousel slider more than two times and its .item height is 100%. I had to adjust the main slider on specific height, so i added a class .custom-slider in header tag put the style with !important tag, because there was already 100% height .
.custom-slider {
height: 645px !important;
}
Its adjusted and working fine. Now I have to adjust the on different resolution, so i have to reduce the height 645px to 496px, but due to !important property new added height does not working.
I'm trying following style on 1024 reslution, but its not working.
.custom-slider {
height: 496px !important;
}
This accepted answer is well explained, but i didn't resolve my issue, can any guide me regarding this. I would like to appreciate.
Change the style to max-height and remove the important!
.custom-slider {
max-height: 645px;
}
You could also make the selector more specific by adding the tag or a parents id/class. This would give the style a higher priority.
body div.custom-slider {
max-height: 645px;
}
If your trying to do this within the same resolution ( without using media queries ) you should be able to add a second class and give that a defined height as well - it should overwrite the first one. For example:
<div class="custom-slider secondary-height"></div>
.custom-slider.secondary-height {
height: 496px !important;
}
please check this: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/LGmrwZ
when you define a media query, it will catach the relevant one.
if you go from bottom up, only the relevant !important will catch.
and since they have same "cascading juice" the winner will be:
the one that have the appropriate media trageting and the one that comes last, so combining them will solve the issue.
scss example
.custom-slider{
width:100px;
border:1px solid red;
#media (min-width:700px) {
height: 20px !important;
border:1px solid green;
}
#media (min-width:900px) {
height: 80px !important;
border:1px solid blue;
}
}
by the way, if your css is loaded after the slider's css, you do not need !important.
same goes if you add a parent container to your css.

I'm not finding the issue with my css #media query

tldr; I can't get mobile.css to work right on my site.
My site is http://sweepsmeoffmyfeet.com
My mobile.css file
/* CSS Document */
#media all and (min-width:401px) and (max-width:970px) {
body { font-size:1em;}
.headwrapper { width:100%;}
.headwrapper .sitelogo{width: 100%;}
.wrapper { width:100%;}
.wrapper .container2{width:100%;display:block; }
input:not([type]), input[type="url"]{width: 400px; height: 20px;}
.crossborder .content{ width:100%; margin: 0 auto;}
.boxHousing{width:48%;display:inline-block;}
.siteHosted{max-width: 400px;}
.card{width:400px;margin:10px auto;text-align:center;}
.rules{max-width:400px;padding:5px; margin: 5px auto}
.sideBar{width: 100%;display:block;}
}
#media all and (max-width:400px) {
body { font-size:1em;}
.headwrapper { width:100%;}
.headwrapper .sitelogo{width: 100%;}
.crossborder .content{ width:100%; margin: 0 auto;}
.wrapper { width:100%;}
.wrapper .container2{width:100%;display:block; }
input:not([type]), input[type="url"]{width: 300px;}
.boxHousing{width:100%;display:block;}
.container .content{display:block; margin-right: 0;width: 100%;}
.siteHosted{ max-width: 300px;}
.rules{max-width:300px;padding:5px; margin: 5px auto}
.sideBar{width: 100%; display:block;}
}
I am attempting to change a few things for mobile views.
I have a large container that on normal screens, will display at 972[x wide, but I would like it to go to 100% on smaller screens.
I set up the css and uploaded it, but it doesn't seem to be detected. I even changed the background colors to see if they were getting picked up, but am having no luck.
I am very unfamiliar with doing this, so I am not sure exactly what I could be doing wrong. Could someone take a look and see what I'm doing wrong. I will tell you that I have been reading on it through google searches, and it appears as though I am doing what they're saying to, unless I'm just missing a piece of the puzzle.
Thanks in advance.
There is a file style.css called later than mobile.css in your tag. This will override rules for an element from mobile.css if it is declared a value in style.css.
So e.g. in style.css element with class .headwrapper is declared a width of 95%. Although in mobile.css you give it a width of 100% it will be overwritten by style.css.
Moving the call for the mobile.css stylesheet under style.css in the <head> will fix it.

Why do I have to put media queries at the bottom of the stylesheet?

I am new to learning responsive design. What I have noticed on my journey is that when I put media queries at the bottom of the stylesheet, everything works flawlessly in regards to breakpoints. If I put the media queries at the top of the stylesheet, nothing works, and only recently I found out that I need to add !important and max-DEVICE-width ( as opposed to max-width) to the css that is being changed.
Why is this? Why do the media queries work on both desktop and mobile when put at the bottom of the stylesheet.
Why is it that when I put media queries on the top of the stylesheet I need to add !important and also max-DEVICE-width in order for the breakpoints to work on desktop and mobile?
Because css is read from top to bottom. The rule that is set last, is the one that will be executed.
Translating, it is like this:
#media (max-width: 600px) { //If my screen fits this size
.text {
color: red; //Paint it red
}
}
.text {
color: yellow; //Now, forget about everything and paint it yellow!
}
When you add !important is like saying:
#media (max-width: 600px) { //If my screen fits this size
.text {
color: red !important; //Paint it red, and don't change it ever!!!
}
}
.text {
color: yellow; //Ok, I'm not going to paint it yellow....
}
CSS is read from top to bottom.
Everything that is below some other css will overwrite what's on top of it.
It is possible however to use !important at the end of a CSS parameter to make it overwrite everything else
body{
background-color: black !important;
}
body{
background-color: pink;
}
The background-color will be black.
If you remove the !important, it will be pink.
Media queries cascade with the rest of the stylesheet. You can intersperse media queries within your stylesheet, and so you can also cascade styles as needed.
For example:
.my-class {
color: red;
}
.my-class--modifier {
color: blue;
}
#media screen and (min-width: 760px) {
.my-class--modifier {
color: green;
}
}
.some-other-class {
width: 200px;
}
#media screen and (min-width: 760px) {
.some-other-class {
width: 700px;
background-color: gray;
}
.some-other-class .my-class {
border: 2px solid red;
border-radius: 4pt;
}
}
This works precisely due to CSS's cascading nature. You can organize media queries as required based on sections, individual selectors and more.
Basically you are using media queries when you want to apply CSS styles depending on a device's general type (such as print vs. screen), specific characteristics (such as the width of the browser viewport, or environment (such as ambient light conditions).
When you started designing, you generally started doing it for one device of known specifications. So you design it according to you current device and then apply it for other screen sizes.
Hence the order goes like this: Make complete design --> Add the media query to fit for desired screen sizes at the bottom.
It is preferrable to write the query at the bottom became of precedence. That will save you from stress of using important! everytime.

Media Query Styles Not Overriding Original Styles

I'm attempting to use some media queries for a website I'm building. The problem I'm having however, is while the media query styles are actually being applied, they're being overridden. I can't for the life of me tell why because I'm using the same exact selectors. Can anyone point out something that I'm not seeing?
ORIGINAL CSS
#global-wrapper-outer > #global-wrapper-inner {
width: 85%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
}
#global-wrapper-outer > #global-wrapper-inner > nav {
background: #fff;
padding-bottom: 20px;
box-shadow: 0 4px 2px -2px gray;
}
MEDIA QUERY CSS
#media screen and (max-width:1024px) {
#global-wrapper-outer > #global-wrapper-inner {
width: 100%;
}
#global-wrapper-outer > #global-wrapper-inner > nav {
display: none;
}
}
The second media query is working fine, where I set the nav to have a display of none. However, when I try to set the width of #global-wrapper-inner to 100% it doesn't apply. I can see the style being "applied" when I press F12 and select that element. However, the style itself is crossed out and not actually applied and it still has the original width of 85%.
The selectors in your original CSS have the same specificity as the selectors within your media queries (the first declarations are also targeting the same property - width) and because the media query rule set is being overridden I'm going to assume that it appears before the original rule set.
The second media query selector works because it's targeting a property that wasn't set in your original CSS, so specificity isn't relevant.
To have the first media query selector take precedence, prepend an ancestor element to it:
#media screen and (max-width:1024px) {
body #global-wrapper-outer > #global-wrapper-inner {
width: 100%;
}
#global-wrapper-outer > #global-wrapper-inner > nav {
display: none;
}
}
You need to link the media query file (queries.css) later than the normal css file (style.css). That way the rules in the queries.css will override those in style.css.
I have been at least 2 hours trying to find the override CSS problem till I found that my line comments where wrong... And the second definition of CSS wasn't working:
So, don't be so stupid as I !:
/* LITTLE SCREENS */
#media screen and (max-width: 990px) {
... whatever ...
}
/* BIG SCREENS */
#media screen and (min-width: 990px) {
... whatever more ...
}
never use: Double bar as I did:
// This is not a comment in CSS!
/* This is a comment in CSS! */
Here is the answer. (at least what worked for me)
I've had this problem before, and it took me a while to realize what I did, but once I figured it out it's actually pretty easy.
Ok so imagine I have this as the html
<main>
<div class = "child1"> </div>
<div class = "child2"> </div>
</main>
and then this as the CSS
main .child1{
height: 50px;
}
/* now let's try to use media quaries */
#media only screen and (max-width: 768px) {
.child1{
width: 75%;
}
}
The code above won't affect the .child. Just like someone mentioned above, the main .child1 overrides .child1. So the way you make it work is to select the element just like we did at the very beginning of the CSS above.
/* this will work */
#media only screen and (max-width: 768px) {
main .child1{
width: 75%;
}
}
So as a conclusion... select the elements the same way every time.
Meaning ... for example in the above code, in your CSS, you should either select it as main .child1throughout the whole CSS or .child1 or else they get mixed up, one ends up overriding the other.
From the code you submitted, this probably won't resolve your issue. However, in your CSS if you are nesting styles inside of one another:
.main-container {
.main {
background: blue;
}
}
A media query for .main won't work because of the nesting. Take .main out of .main-container and then the media query will work as assumed:
.main-container {
}
.main {
background: blue;
}
Check if your media query braces are equal.
Sometimes it is very subtle but when you miss a single brace the rest of the media queries mentioned for certain break points will not work
example:
#media(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 991px){
#media (max-width: 767px){
.navbar-brand p {
font-size: .6em;
margin-top: 12px;}
.navbar-brand img {height: 20px;}
#collapsable-nav a {
font-size: 1.2em;
}
#collapsable-nav a span {
font-size: 1.2em;}
}
Here you can see i have started the braces for max-width:991px but forgot to end so the next set of codes in media query for max-width:767px will not work.
It is a very simple mistake but took hours because of lot of braces in the codes.
Hope it helps. Happy Coding!
What about using !important? If you range your media query from ( min-width: 176px ) and ( max-width: 736px ) or even up to 980px?
There can be some reasons because of which this type of error may occur.
I myself faced this issue where I was not able to understand what I am needed to do and was confused that, does media query just overrides the elements.
Here's what I understood:
MEDIA QUERY CSS:
#media screen and (max-width:1024px) {
#global-wrapper-outer > #global-wrapper-inner {
width: 100%;
}
#global-wrapper-outer > #global-wrapper-inner > nav {
display: none;
}
}
here you were able to override #global-wrapper-inner > nav i.e., 2nd media query selector, by display: none;
because you never added the display line in the original css, because of which there was nothing to override you just have given that display type should be none.
Whereas just in the 1st media query selector you already had given width:80%;
Basically media query doesn't override as far as I have understood but it take precedence, like already explained by one of them
by which media query comes to work:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/19038303/15394464
also if still did not get your doubt clear, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acqN6atXVAE&t=288s
then this might help.

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