I have the following div:
<div id="views" style="margin-top:34px; margin-left:35px;">
// code...
</div>
this works perfect for me in all explorers but in safari in order to work perfect I need to set margin-top: -40 px; Any idea which is the easiest way to do this? I mean to make is select browser and if safari to apply margin-top: -40 px;
You could try to set specific vendor prefixes (although chrome and safari are both webkit)
this way you could set different styles for different browsers.
Vender Specific Prefix
Or the much more difficult way... detecting the browser and assigning CSS
Browser Detection
You should post some code though, I feel this problem your having could be avoided in a much more graceful manner.
Take out your inline styles.
Detect the browser by JavaScript,
add a class of .safari to the body tag if Safari is detected, then have your general
and Safari specific styles like this:
CSS:
#views {
margin-top:34px;
margin-left:35px;
}
.safari #views {
margin-top:-40px;
margin-left:35px;
}
Safari styles will be applied to Safari due to higher CSS specificity.
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my safari browser version is 5.0.and my problem is how to give a css for safari browser not a chrome browser.
please, help me.Thanks
Use this. It will work only in Safari.
/* Css for Safari */
#media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0){
::i-block-chrome, .yourClassName {
background:#f00;
}
}
CSS Selector/Property/Value Hacks are imho problematic, as
preprocessors like SASS might not work with them
browsers or browser-versions they apply to, are subject to change
Therefore - if you really need to use browser-specific css - I'd recommend you to use JavaScript to set a certain class to the or tag, which is then used by a CSS Selector to style only in these desired browsers.
JS:
if(doSomeUserAgentLogic()) {
document.body.classList.add("is-safari")
}
CSS:
body.is-safari .custom-selector {
property: value;
}
Detecting the browser and certain versions using the userAgent in JavaScript is not that easy, therefore you should probably use something like https://github.com/DamonOehlman/detect-browser, but at least this way of detecting is "quite" stable.
I know how to target IE, but that's only in HTML (which means I need to create another CSS file for IE bugs). Is their anyway, how I can implement the fixes in the same CSS file. This mean I target IE with CSS code?
You can do with these hacks
For example:
selector {
color: red; /* all browsers, of course */
color : green\9; /* IE8 and below */
*color : yellow; /* IE7 and below */
_color : orange; /* IE6 */
}
There is no equivalent to conditional comments/code in CSS. The only thing you could do there are the old CSS hacks -- that people struggled with before conditional comments became known.
You can make CSS hacks work, for a bit, but it's not a smart or robust approach.
Recommended approach:
Always start with a CSS reset. Here's a good one: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/reset.css
If at all possible, get your boss or client to realize that IE6 support is not cost-effective.
Design HTML and CSS with an eye for IE bugs, as much as possible. EG, float-problems, height and margin problems, etc.
For those few things that still need different CSS in IE, putting them in a conditionally-included, separate CSS file really is the simplest, most robust approach. The bonus is it doesn't penalize decent browsers one bit.
In your CSS code, precede your selectors with something that only IE will recognize. Examples of selecting <div> elements in IE6 and IE7:
IE6 only: * html div
IE7 only *:first-child+html div
A comprehensive list can be found here: http://paulirish.com/2009/browser-specific-css-hacks/
The title sums it up. I'll get this out of the way and say I am aware that css hacks are dirty ugly horrible things. Sometimes dirty problems call for dirty solutions though :)
So does anyone know of a css selector hack that works for recent safari versions but is not a general webkit hack ? My site behaves properly in chrome but has a bug in safari. So if anyone knows how i can select an element to only have a certain style in safari let me know!
What I'd do, is sniff the user agent of the browser with javascript, and add a class to the <body> element, based on that. That way you don't have to rely on any kind of hack, you just write your selectors based on the class:
.safari .misbehaving-div {
}
I believe there is already a JS framework that does exactly this, but I don't remember the name.
Ended up using this:
http://rafael.adm.br/css_browser_selector/
This works perfectly
#media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
/* Safari and Chrome */
.myClass{
background: red;
}
/* Safari only override */
::i-block-chrome,.myClass{
background: green;
}
}
Firefox 3.5 now supports the nth-* pseudoclass, which was what I was using to target my css for Safari and Chrome. Now Firefox reads those too, causing minor layout issues. Does anyone know a way to specifically target FF 3.5+?
BODY:nth-of-type(1) #topsearch input[type=submit] /* Safari 3.1+ and Chrome */ {
height:19px
}
How about this, I tested it in Safari 4 and the height is 19px, in Firefox 3.5 the height displays as 39px.
<style>
BODY:nth-of-type(1) #topsearch input[type=submit] /* Safari 3.1+ and Chrome */ { height:19px }
BODY:nth-of-type(1) #topsearch input[type=submit], x:-moz-any-link, x:default { height: 39px; }
</style>
CSS Browser selector lets you write CSS that targets specific browsers, without worrying about hacks. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
On a "religious" note, we shouldn't be using CSS to target any browser. Unfortunately due to IE being waaaay behind on supporting CSS features (and all the bugs) hacks have been applied to target CSS for a given browser.
The Conditional Comments that IE uses... although ugly... do provide a handy mechanism for targeting a browser (and version)... I almost wish other browsers supported this.
I've seen a few sites do this... which is an interesting approach to handling targeting of various browsers.
<head>
<style>
body.safari form input{
/*special styles for Safari*/
}
body.firefox form input{
/*special styles for Firefox*/
}
body.firefox.v3-5 form input{
/*special styles for Firefox 3.5*/
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<script>
//run code here, that sets the class and or id attribute on the body tag...
</script>
In the long run, they are all hacks... it just depends what kind of hacks you're willing to live with ;-)
Incidentally the "BODY:nth-of-type(1) ..." syntax breaks YUI compressor's ability to minify CSS. Instead I use "body:first-of-type ...".
My approach using a PHP class to detect os, browser and browser version. You can target any version of almost any browser on any operating system.
using http://rafael.adm.br/css_browser_selector/
just substitute this part:
is('firefox/2')?g+'
ff2':is('firefox/3')?g+' ff3'
for this part:
is('firefox/2')?g+'
ff2':is('firefox/3.5')?g+'
ff3_5':is('firefox/3')?g+' ff3'
that should do the trick
PS: if you want to also catch other 3.x versions you might want to add:
is('firefox/2')?g+'
ff2':is('firefox/3.5')?g+'
ff3_5':is('firefox/3.6')?g+'
ff3_5':is('firefox/3.8')?g+'
ff3_5':is('firefox/3')?g+' ff3'
This works:
#media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0){
#topsearch input[type=submit] { height:19px; }
}}
That targets newer WebKit browsers, and not Gecko or Trident.
A lot has changed in the last few years. For a Firefox 3.5+ hack, here is one I created for that purpose:
/* Firefox 3.5 and newer */
_:-moz-handler-blocked, :root .selector { property:value; }
To test it you can see these live along with many others for different versions of browser at my live CSS hacks test site here: http://browserstrangeness.bitbucket.org/css_hacks.html#firefox
Enjoy!
For IE 6 we have plenty of bugs to bug us as a designer.
incorrect box model etc etc.
i have searched for fixes via JavaScript and found
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IE7.js
IE7 is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.
but do we have real life saver other than javascript via css.
Ways to deal with IE6 bugs with CSS? Sure.
See: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html
for conditional comments
There are other ways, such as adding some specific characters in some CSS properties that get ignored in some browsers but not in others.
However, in some cases, web designers should be very cautious when using these.
The alternative is to live within the IE 6 world of bugs and design your pages to look right despite them. You can serve up different css for your IE6 clients, or even different html if necessary, depending on your design. In some cases, you can use one CSS file that will mean different things to IE6 clients, but that technique is problematic with respect to IE7 and 8.
this link is also handy one
How do you deal with Internet Explorer?
I never knew this - thanks svinto
"IE6 doesn't have the incorrect box model unless you have the wrong doctype. – svinto"
There are some simple stylesheet hacks that can modify the presentation in various internet explorer versions to solve your CSS problems. For example these three:
Simplified box model hack for IE4, IE5, IE5.5:
div.values { margin: 10px; m\argin: 20px; }
star html hack for IE4, IE5, IE5.5 and IE6:
* html div.values { margin: 5px; }
star first-child+html hack for IE7:
*:first-child+html div.values { margin: 5px; }
PNG transparancy issues could be solved with solutions like this:
<div style="width:50px;height:50px;filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='/images/logo/logo.png');">
<img src="/images/logo/logo.png" height="50" width="50" alt="" style="filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=0);" />
</div>
Great info so far but one thing to note is that IE7.js doesn't fix pngs in all cases (at least last I looked). For instance, you won't be able to tile a background image with transparency.
In the case of DXImageTransform you may find that when this is applied to elements that contain links, those links are no longer 'clickable'. You can sometimes fix this by giving the parent element that has the transform applied to it static positioning and to position the child anchor element e.g.,
h2{
position:static;
zoom:1;
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src="/images/mypng.png", sizingMethod="scale");
}
h2 a{
position:relative;
}
<h2><a href="" >a link!</a></h2>
If you have to do this sort of garbage put it in a separate stylesheet and control loading with conditional comments. If the design is of any complexity try you best not to support ie6 or <. If you can't avoid doing it, charge more ;). Sometimes that is enough to persuade someone that supporting ie6 isn't "worth their while".
why don't you try FireBug Light for IE? It's not as powerful as FireFox FireBug but can be helpful
Many bugs can be worked around in CSS using conditional comments or CSS selector hacks. But there are some bugs that CSS hacks alone cannot handle such as IE6's .multiple.class.selector.bug
There's another quick and dirty hack for IE6 styles
for e.g.
You can define the CSS as;
.divTitle
{
padding: 5px;
width: 600px;
_width: 590px;
}
All the other browsers picks up 600px as the width value & IE6 overwrites it & take 590px;
I've tested this in IE7 & FF as well.
Also you may want to check this link;
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