css rules not applied when page load - css

I am new to CSS. I am observing a strange CSS behaviour where an element has the below CSS property
.container .header{
color: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 2em;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 5px;
position: relative;
text-align: center;
top: 21%;
}
When the page loads on Mozilla and chrome, the top property is not applied but inspecting the firebug shows the property. When I edit in firebug just by 1px, the elements gets properly aligned and even if I set the top value to 21% after that, the position is correct. Only on load the CSS property is not applied. Can you please let me know where I am going wrong?

It's because you are calculating the top value in percentages and to make that happen, you need a declared height for it's parent i.e. container.
.container, body, html {
height:100%;
}
Add the rule above and see it working. FIDDLE HERE
NOTE - body and html also need their height declared(either in percentages or pixels) too as container's parent is body and like so.

I know exactly what it is now. Its your style class names themselves. After much testing I have discovered:
.container, .header {
color:#ffffff;
font-size:2em;
font-weight:bold;
padding:5px;
position:absolute;
text-align:center;
top:21%;
}
Notice what's after the .container? A COMMA. You need a Comma after every class name that inherits those same attributes! Hope this helped!

Related

Header Block and Widget area content

I am a newbie and designing a Wordpress website (www.dimjaa.org). I am sticking to a minor css problem for last two days but failed to find out the solution. I want to take help from you to solve it and also eager to know root of the cause.
I am using evolve themme. I added header widgets.
Content of the header widget area are Login and Logout links. I want to display these at the top-right of the widget area.Image of the header-block showing unnecessary padding on both sides
Two problems that I am facing now are : 1. Background-color of the header-block which holds the widget area can not be changed. Or the header-block can not be covered by the widget area completely (it takes margin in left and right). The header-block can not be targeted properly. Any one of the above may be considered as solution of the issue.
2. Moreover the Login and Logout links can not be placed on the top-right of the area. Even can not be vertically centered. Interestingly when I remove the float: right; then it can be vertically centered. My html and css as below:
.header-block{
background-color: red;
}
.header-widgets{
background-color: #CDAE02;
}
.user-log a{
float: right;
text-decoration: none;
background-color:#581845;
color: #ddd;
border-radius: 15px;
font-size: 14px;
margin-right: 1em;
}
.user-log a:first-child{
padding: 4px 13px;
}
.user-log a:last-child{
padding: 4px 8px;
}
.user-log a:hover {
background-color:#B12307;
font-size: 15px;
}
<ul class="user-log">
Login
Logout
</ul>
I expect a solution from the experts and also hope to gather knowledge for understanding the issue better.
container is a class used by Bootstrap, so you can force that class to have width 100% by using !important in your rule, or you can define a new class called container-full and replace it with the container class:
.container-full{
margin: 0 auto;
width: 100%;
}
Also, changing the color of header-block won't affect, since it has other children that have other colors and has no space to show the color in the background. You may change the header-widgets' color. And it seems like you have padding and margin rules already defined in .widget-content & .header-widgets classes. You either have to change these rules in style.css, or write new rules that contain !important command in the end of the rules, so you can force them to affect the rules.

How can I add padding to an element on my page?

I am working out of wordpress. I have tried using inspect element to move a line of text that is basically overlapping another line of text in the ecwid plugin.
It does not seem to work, every time I edit the css code by using margins or padding attributes nothing happens
On my page where it says $205 for the product , was $295 is touching it and I want to separate that from the actual price.
How can I achieve this?
I have tried using this code
html#ecwid_html body#ecwid_body div.ecwid-productBrowser-price-compareTo-container{
padding-bottom: 5px;
}
here is a look at exactly what im reffering to
https://surveillanceshack.com/store/#!/Elec-Surveillance-system-w-4-bullet-&-4-dome/p/55396210/category=0
Add a line height like this:
html#ecwid_html body#ecwid_body div.ecwid-productBrowser-price {
font-size: 24px;
font-weight: 400;
color: #a20505;
white-space: nowrap;
line-height: 21px;
}
Both of your prices are included inside the same div. When you have text that wraps, the only way to separate them is to define a height between the lines.
To fix your checkout problem fix the line-height there as well on this class:
.hentry table, #comments table {
margin-bottom: 1em;
font-size: 80%;
line-height: 21px;
}
If you want to fix this problem in one single CSS set of instructions do this instead:
.hentry table, #comments table, .ecwid-productBrowser-price {
line-height: 21px;
}
The issue is that it is a span element, which does not really accept margin / padding well.
The element in question is this:
html#ecwid_html body#ecwid_body .ecwid span
So, to make it have space above it, you can add this style to the stylesheet (at the end):
html#ecwid_html body#ecwid_body .ecwid span {
display: inline-block;
padding-top: 15px;
}
Adjust the padding-top to suite your desired layout.
Alternatively, you could do this by increasing the line-height of the element (in which case it does not need to be display: inline-block):
html#ecwid_html body#ecwid_body .ecwid span {
line-height: 2.5em;
}
It is a span element, to make padding active, you need to add :
{
display :inline-block;
}
You can set padding for "was" element.
html#ecwid_html body#ecwid_body div.ecwid-productBrowser-price-compareTo-container, html#ecwid_html body#ecwid_body div.ecwid-productBrowser-price-save-container {
padding-bottom:5px;
}
(Ecwid team here)
While the answers here can help to fix the issues yourself, we will investigate how Ecwid works with your "DMS" theme and make sure to fix those on our side. The issue is already in our devs queue, we will roll out the solution in one of the Ecwid plugin updates in the near future.

Strange Chrome behavior: calculates all margin percentages right except for margin-top!

When I declare this style for a div:
#fbInner{
position: absolute;
margin: 11.2% 9.7% 0% 26.4%;
width: 63.5%;
height: 54.6%;
overflow: visible;
/*max-height: 190px;
max-width: 490px;*/
font-size: 11px;
font-family: "lucida grande",tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;
color: #FFF;
/*border: solid 2px gray;*/
}
Chrome sets every margin right except of the margin top, which is set much smaller than in other browsers ... strange, all other margins are displayed like it should ...
What is the reason for that?
Is there a workaround that still uses percentages?
Seeing as this is an x-browser css question, resetting the css styles would be a valuable first step - maybe even the solution. You haven't disclosed any HTML code, so I can't know what other tags or styles are affecting #fbInner
In any case, here is the "meyerweb reset" stylesheet: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
Link it topmost in your HTML file. It will probably break your site, but that's a good thing. At least it should be equally broken in all browsers now. When you've fixed the look of your page, it should work properly in most/all browsers.

css background doesn't show up in ie 6 when using rules like #id.class

i'm making a splash image div that changes the background with different css class, here's rules i defined:
#splash {
height: 130px;
}
#splash.homepage {
background: #F7EECF url("images/splash_home.png") no-repeat 0 0 scroll;
}
#splash.projectspage {
background: #F7EECF url("images/splash_projects.png") no-repeat 0 0 scroll;
}
this works fine in firefox and chrome, but the background somehow doesn't show up in ie 6. The weird thing is, it works for the homepage class but not the projectspage class. so ie 6 seems to interpret these almost identical rule differently. i tried clear the cache, didn't help. i'm quite new to css and ie 6 hacks, so am i missing anythings here?
also another problem that's slightly related to this, it seems it doesn't work in firefox when there is space before the class, like "#splash .homepage", but somehow i see other people's websites using the css with a space. what could be the problem?
update:
i tried to reverse the order of the #splash.homepage and #splash.projectspage, then now projectspage works but not the homepage. It seems whatever is immediately followed by #splash is used.
here are some relevant css & htmls:
#splash {
height: 130px;
}
#splash.projectspage { background: #F7EECF url('images/splash_projects.png') no-repeat 0 0 scroll; }
#splash.homepage { background: #F7EECF url('images/splash_home.png') no-repeat 0 0 scroll; }
#splashtext {
padding: 53px;
height: 40px;
width: 450px;
}
#splashtext h2 {
color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: italic;
}
#splashtext p {
color: #FFFFAA;
font-family: Calibri, Arial, san-serif;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: normal;
margin-top: 10px;
font-style: italic;
}
<!-- splash, this one does not show -->
<div id="splash" class="homepage">
<div id="splashtext">
<h2>some header</h2>
<p>some description</p>
</div>
</div>
<!-- splash, this one shows -->
<div id="splash" class="projectspage">
<div id="splashtext">
<h2>some other header</h2>
<p>some other description</p>
</div>
</div>
IE6 does not support multiple combined selectors to select elements (#id.class or .class.class, etc). IE6 will ONLY recognize the last class/ID in your chain.
Details and example
However, in this case, as long as you only have .homepage and .projectspage on one element on the page, the background image should be showing up on the correct element.
I noticed that you are probably using .homepage and .projectspage to differentiate between two PAGES and the same ELEMENT on those different pages. A good practice is to put the class on the <body> element so you can use it to differentiate each page and their descendants.
<body class="homepage">
<div id="splash">
Then your CSS would be:
body.homepage div#splash { blah }
body.projectspage div#splash { blah }
Added benefit: you can now target any elements on a per page basis, not just the ones that you add ".homepage" or ".projectspage" to.
It's possible you're having an issue with the .png image files. IE6 cannot handle the transparency layer that is part of .png images, it simply renders any pixel with a transparent marker as a grey background.
As for the second part of your question, #splash.background is a significantly different rule than #splash .background. The first one (no space) refers to the element with id splash that also has a background class. The second rule (with a space) refers to any element of class background that is a child of the element with id splash. Subtle, but important difference.
Try taking out the quotes around your URLs in the background specifiers, or changing them to single quotes.
Why are you worried about ie6? Anyway it works in ie7 and ie8.
Are you sure that is not a problem with png? Try with a jpg or gif image.
I would bet that the problem is specifically to do with the IE6 misshandling of .pngs
To test, try replacing these graphics with a gif or jpg and check to see if the selectors are working correctly.
Once you've identified that it is a problem with pngs try using the Supersleight jQuery plugin.
I think using min-height property will sometimes work.
Try the below code.
#splash {
min-height:130px; /* first */
height:auto !important; /* second */
height: 130px; /* third */
}
#splash.homepage {
background: #F7EECF url("images/splash_home.png") no-repeat 0 0 scroll;
}
#splash.projectspage {
background: #F7EECF url("images/splash_projects.png") no-repeat 0 0 scroll;
}
Note: Please use the same order of css in #splash selector.
(I guess your projectspage is under a sub-directory of home-page?)
Try using absolute paths to each image in the CSS (eg. url("/images/splash_projects.png")) - it chould be that IE6 resolves images relative to the containing page instead of the CSS file (depends whether your CSS is inline or in an external file I suppose.)
I've got the same problem, and it's not PNGs.
e.g.
column2menu li { border-bottom : 1px solid;}
column2menu li.goats { border-bottom-color : brown;}
...works in IE6, but...
td#menu { background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:bottom right;}
td#menu.goats { background-image :
url(../images/goats.jpg);}
...doesn't.
But I found a solution for ie6 that works so far in FF, i.e.:
.tdgoats { background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:bottom right;
background-image : url(../images/goats.jpg);}
...so you use:
...and ie6 is happy
Thsi post looks OK where I'm typing it, but the preview in the blue box is a bit odd.
Somehow lines 2 and 3 got <h1>'d

I have a link icon next to each link. How do I exclude the link icon from images?

I've got the following in my .css file creating a little image next to each link on my site:
div.post .text a[href^="http:"]
{
background: url(../../pics/remote.gif) right top no-repeat;
padding-right: 10px;
white-space: nowrap;
}
How do I modify this snippet (or add something new) to exclude the link icon next to images that are links themselves?
If you set the background color and have a negative right margin on the image, the image will cover the external link image.
Example:
a[href^="http:"] {
background: url(http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/monobook/external.png) right center no-repeat;
padding-right: 14px;
white-space: nowrap;
}
a[href^="http:"] img {
margin-right: -14px;
border: medium none;
background-color: red;
}
Google
<br/>
<a href="http://www.google.ca">
<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/50px-Commons-logo.svg.png" />
</a>
edit: If you've got a patterned background this isn't going to look great for images that have transparency. Also, your href^= selector won't work on IE7 but you probably knew that already
It might be worth it to add a class to those <a> tags and then add another declaration to remove the background:
div.post .text a.noimage{
background:none;
}
You need a class name on either the a elements you want to include or exclude. If you don't want to do this in your server side code or documents, you could add the classes with javascript as the page is loaded. With the selection logic wrapped up elsewhere, your rule could just be:
a.external_link
{
background: url(../../pics/remote.gif) right top no-repeat;
padding-right: 10px;
white-space: nowrap;
}
It would be possible with XPath to create a pattern like yours that would also exclude a elements that had img children, however this facility has been repeatedly (2002, 2006, 2007) proposed and rejected for CSS, largely on the grounds it goes against the incremental layout principles.
So, while it is possible to do neat conditional content additions as you have with a contextual selector and a prefix match on the href attribute, CSS is considerably weaker than a general purpose programming language. To do more complex things you need to move the logic up a level and write out simpler instructions for the style engine to handle.
If you have the content of the links as a span, you could do this, otherwise I think you would need to give one scenario a class to differentiate it.
a > span {
background: url(../../pics/remote.gif) right top no-repeat;
padding-right: 10px;
white-space: nowrap;
}
a > img {
/* any specific styling for images wrapped in a link (e.g. polaroid like) */
border: 1px solid #cccccc;
padding: 4px 4px 25px 4px;
}

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