I am working on changing the styling of pages within a learning platform. The platform allows for the user (me) to use my own CSS to change the styling of pages I myself have created. The problem is that the platform uses som predefined (and unknown to me) CSS before appending their CSS with my CSS. I don't have access to the actual HTML.
Here is the problem: I would like to use web fonts in my CSS. I have therefore been trying to use #import at the start of my CSS. My CSS is appended too late to the predefined CSS for #import to take effect. The only code I can give the system is my own CSS so I can't directly edit the html head to link to the web fonts.
Is there any other way to add web fonts to my CSS with said CSS being the only code I can write? Is it possible within CSS to append links to the html head? The support team of the platform consider this is a bug but don't offer a workaround. It would be nice not to have to wait for an update if possible.
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I am currently creating a Bootstrap 3 website for mobile and desktop, taking the mobile first approach.
I have been following this webpage Creating a Mobile-First Responsive Web Design
It mentions using a style.css for mobile view and enhanced.css stylesheet for a desktop view.
I know this is possibly quite basic but I am slightly confused as I am currently using one stylesheet which holds the mobile styles as default and I am using media queries for the tablet and desktop views.
I want to know what styles should be added into the enhanced.css stylesheet for desktop view?
It really doesn't matter whether or not you separate it into multiple stylesheets or one stylesheet. It really is a matter of personal preference.
I personally use one style sheet for things that I want to be universal throughout the entire website (such as a universal font, or a universal font color). I call that sheet pageFormat.css.
Then I create a separate CSS file for each page I create if I plan on adding and adjusting things such as button sizes specific for that page.
Just be sure that whether you are including one stylesheet, or multiple, you are including the link reference so your HTML browser knows where to locate the CSS file that has all the data.
I'm using google's css package in my google script app:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/script/css/add-ons1.css">
However, I would like to use my own css for styling table elements. The only problem is that google's css package contains css for table elements, and it seems to be overwriting my custom css except it's not doing it consistently. For example, on my laptop the web app uses my table css and for my desktop it uses google's css package (both running windows 10 using chrome--although the desktop's chrome might not be updated). Is there any way to ignore google's css for tables or even to know for sure which styling will supersede the other? What if I were using two third party stylesheets that both defined css for tables? How could I specify which one I wanted for a specific selector?
If you want to overwrite styling of other CSS files make sure to include you CSS file after the ones you want to override. And learning about CSS specificity helps alot.
EDIT:
I think this link may help you: https://css-tricks.com/specifics-on-css-specificity/
I'm using jQuery mobile to create a list menu.
I use a 'slide' effect, when you click an element to show the next page.
I was using a css style sheet which had too many design elements.
So I went ahead and removed the stylesheet and instead added the required styling in the html document.
But now the slide effect doesn't work if I click the elements.
If I include the css style sheet, then it starts working again.
Here is the http://jsfiddle.net/r24XY/ code.
The whole reason why you see those cool looking animations is because of that CSS file.
You must have both JQuery Mobile .js and .css library files in order for things to move.
Ripping certain elements out of the library CSS files just to build your own is a bad idea, very bad idea. What if you miss something ? Even if you don't.. what if they release an update tomorrow? You're going to have to maintain a lot of code.
CSS animations (or transitions / transforms) are used in jQuery Mobile and other mobile web frameworks since these are hardware accelerated on certain devices (namely iOS). Thus, removing the CSS file of course removes the animations.
If it possible to use #import in a .css file to load a style sheet from another site? Specifically, I have a main style sheet for my site which loads in other (local) style sheets using #import. I'd also like to load in a jquery ui theme hosted by google, e.g.
#import "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css";
This does not seem to work - I wanted to check whether this is allowed before working out exactly where the problem is.
That should work. Are you sure it is not loaded? What browsers does this happen in? Can you confirm using Firebug?
There is no mention of it not working in the w3 specs nor in the related MSDN Article (The latter applies to IE only of course).
According to those specs, adding url(...) around the address is optional, but try whether that yields better results.
I'm building an application in GWT and have a skin from my graphic designer which I've plugged into the app using UIBinder and it works beautifully. Now I want to bundle all the images using ClientBundle.
Mayne of these images are used in the css file e.g.
.nav{background:url(nav_bg.jpg) left top repeat-x; height:27px; clear:both;}
Before this css I have defined a tag to include the bundle.
How can I change the css entry so that it uses an ImageResource from my ClientBundle? I guess I can do inline styles for all the html tags but that's horrible separation and a lot of extra work.
I have successfully used ImageResources in the html part of the uibinder file (e.g. in a ) but I cannot see how to do this in the css. I have even inlined the css in a block but I still don't see the correct way to do this.
Any suggestions?
ClientBundles can now be used to host CssResources as well.
These CssResources are CSS files with some extra functionality.
The docs of GWT describes what you need in the section about ImageSprites.
I ended up skipping GWT css and image bundling altogether. Instead I've had my carve done using a css sprited image block made by the design/carve team. This has these advantages.
1/ Much less css porting since I can plug the html directly into ui binder and use the css tags from the carve i.e. not using uibinder css. As long as the html structure matches the carve then this is a lot less work than migrating all the css into gwt css.
2/ It also allows me to use svn/diff when applying changes - this was not possible when using gwt css/image spriting.
3/ I can easily put the image/css files on a CDN since the load tags are in the host page and don't suffer from Same Origin restrictions. FYI : yes I know about the XS linker as another way to do this.
It stops being useful when the carve uses css for positioning and I want to use LayoutPanels but that's not too bad as long as I request that the layout css is separate from the style css.
So in the end I discovered that, when working with design/carve from a third party, it's much easier to avoid using gwt css/images but to reproduce the same benefits using traditional css spriting and minification. I hope this helps someone.