Alternative to text-align-last of safari? - css

Apparently none of Safari browsers support text-align-last -property. Is there any neat alternative(non-js) without redrawing select to achieve the same result?
Particularly desired result: centered text of selected value in full-width select.
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I was able to get a slight work around for this using text-indent, it requires some javascript code if you want it perfectly centered or you can hard code it for some padding.
Text-align-last (if supported by the browser) will overwrite the text-indent value.

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<select> box styling difference on safari and firefox?

I am trying to simply style my select box so the text is centre aligned. It works in Firefox but not in Safari or Chrome. When inspecting the element in Chrome it says the text is centred, however this is not the case. Can anybody see why it is not centred in Chrome and Safari?
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It will not work. Your best best is to use a plugin. E.g select menu :http://filamentgroup.com/lab/jquery_ui_selectmenu_an_aria_accessible_plugin_for_styling_a_html_select/
That actually replaces the select with a span but retains select functionality.
Well, styling tag is really hard. You have to test different browsers and OS, and hardly you will reach an uniform result.
http://bavotasan.com/2011/style-select-box-using-only-css/
I suggest you to use some alternative component or js replacement that emulate selects behaviour, if you want to style it in an easier way.
http://cssglobe.com/custom-styling-of-the-select-elements/
There's no totally cross browser way of centering the test of a <select> element using just css. Some browsers allow you to do it and some don't.
If you really have to have it centered then I would suggest that you look into using an alternative component like Select2 or Chosen.

Remove div if webkit scollbars are supported

I am using a custom scrollbar for webkit browsers. The thing is that when the browser supports webkit. I want it to remove the border I have around the entire body.
I got it to work by using -webkit-box-sizing on the right div and a negative margin value as you can see in the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Yfw49/1/
And it works really great except for browsers that supports box-sizing but not webkit scrollbars. For example mobile browsers that don't have scrollbars at all.
Is there a way to make it work? I tried a jQuery method that asked if the browser supported webkit, and if so, remove the div. But that made the div appear for a short while and then removed it. It looked bad.
Please have a look at the jsfiddle http://jsfiddle.net/Yfw49/1/
(I know I could make the markup cleaner without all the elements. But let's focus on the other problem)

css padding compatibility firefox 9 chromium 15

I'm using css gradients and padding to simulate buttons around an anchor tag. The problem I am running into is that firefox seems to make the button 3 pixels larger. 1 pixel on top and 2 on bottom. This seems to happen with not only the example i posted but everywhere on the page where i use the padding. I put up and example at http://wemw.net/example.php. In firefox the button top and bottom line up perfectly with the search box, but in chrome as i said its off by 1 pixel on top and 2 on bottom. I am using the w3 transitional(tried strict as well) doctype and a css reset. In the reset all anchor tags are set to padding: 0, so I'm confused as to why this extra padding is being added. Is there a workaround to this or is it just something you have to deal with when working with gecko and webkit browsers?
EDIT: So I logged over to windows and it is appearing the same in both browsers now. I'm assuming it is OS specific problems? Since no where near as many people use linux I'm going to change the padding to make it work, but in the interest of consistency can anyone offer a solution for cross-os cross-browser solutions? I do not own a mac and cannot easily test it there, but if windows/linux can have problems with the same versions of the same browsers is it safe to assume mac could also have issues i am unaware of?
It's not the padding on the anchor tag, it's the size of the text box that is inconsistent. <input> elements always caused such problems for me too, and I always found it extremely tedious to align them together nicely (you haven't yet seen it in IE8, have you?). I think that the easiest cross-browser solution here would be to remove the border from the text box and use a background image instead (or better yet, a background image on the element containing the text box) properly aligned with the button.

Webpage rendering very differently on different browsers

Like my title says, my webpage which has a couple position:relatives that look perfect in google chrome and firefox are offset in safari.
Is there a way in my css to counter-act this offset? I'm not even sure why it's happening.
have you tried using a css reset?
by using a reset you can set the margins and padding of all elements to 0. 0 is the one number that all browsers agree on...from there you will have to add margins and padding to the elements but you should achieve a consistent look in different browsers

chrome css problem: border (right) around link not displayed

I have this small testcase: http://jsfiddle.net/sV8js/
You can see that in Chrome (tested on win7 11.0.696.68) the first 2 links right border is "cut off" and is not shown. FF and IE 7/8/9 seem to show it OK.
Browsershots: http://browsershots.org/http://top3skills.com/1.html
Also "buggy" on Safari (so it's webkit related?)
Anyone knows what's the problem with this approach or how to solve this?
(or if I should report a bug to chrome) Any workaround that doesn't affect other browsers?
Also, my testcase is different from Right border not displaying on google chrome but maybe it's the same bug?
Updated: I don't want to use inline-block as IE7 doesn't support it and I'm finding this bug because I'm removing the inline-block I previously had there :) Also this is dynamic so it's not easy to add after each link because some links can break to a new line, others don't... so I'm trying first to get the "right way" and then resort to more "tricky" ways.
You have set the containing DIV at a fixed width of 250px. This is cutting off the edges. Also, you should add display:inline-block; to your CSS link class. This will make your link a block element while keeping it inline. It will also apply the padding you have asigned properly.
See updated link here http://jsfiddle.net/sV8js/12/
Dan
Try giving those links a display: inline-block or display: block property, as links are inline elements.
you need to add display: block to .referencesSkills

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