No dust-me-spider. No firebug.
I have made a project and I want to export only the CSS which has been used in the project or page. I have tried, dust-me-spider and firebug, but these add-ons grab all the CSS of the project! I need to grab only the CSS which has been used and export it to another CSS file. Does any program exist for such a reason?
Its tricky because you can't know all of the javascript renderings on a page that would affect the css. I wrote my own plugin that i could run which would extract the visible css on the page and resort the css in order of cascading hierarchy. This is useful in that i can run it after any javascript action but it still requires investigation into the existing javascript. You are welcome to use it.http://stcreative.co.uk/tutorials/css_sorter/
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Because I'm using Webpack to also bundle my css and that my script tag is at the bottom of my HTML, on initial page load I get the content of the page without any of the styling.
Then all of a sudden the styling comes in when the script kicks in.
Webpack is very useful to help bundle the CSS but this behavior is quite unsettling and not really acceptable.
What are common ways to remedy this problem?
You can try using extract-text-webpack-plugin to break out the css in to their own files. That way you can add <link> tags yourself to those pages you wish to have their styles loaded before the JS is loaded. See stylesheets as separate bundle.
For webpack v4, mini-css-extract-plugin should be used instead of extract-text-webpack-plugin (source). There are usage examples on their README.
In my asp.net mvc application, I'm using bundling for css. When I created a new css stylesheet and used the same id names as another page in the application, the styles on the first page were messed up.
I must be doing something wrong as I know that the same id can be used on different pages, but I don't find others having this problem when I searched the web on the subject.
Please help. Thanks.
The two CSS files are styling with the same ID (yet intended to style different pages) are bundled together and causing styling problems on those IDs.
This is because the page is loading the bundled CSS file then all the styles (from both CSS files) are applied to that ID regardless of page. The solution is to only load the relevant CSS file (and not bundle) or of course use different IDs.
id re-use throughout an application is unusual and often overcome by using class instead.
^^ summarized from comment discussion
You should be able to look in your developer tools (firebug, chrome devtools) and see which styles from which stylesheets are messing things up. Or am I misunderstanding the problem?
I have a DotNetNuke skin that has a single CSS file over 3,500 lines long. It contains styles for YUI, Telerik, Cluetip as well as the actual customisation of the site. The old developers just kept adding styles and never cleaned up the old unused ones.
I want to cleanup the file and get it to a more managable size. I first thought about scanning through the code base but this is 5,500 files with a mixture of CSS applied in the .aspx, .ascx and .cs files as well as jQuery aplying styles sometimes from generated code and sometimes from js files. Some styles are applied with class selectors and others with id selectors.
Is there a way I can easily check just which styles the website actually needs across all of its pages? Is there some crawler that could do this?
For firefox there is an add-in called dust-me-selectors. If you provide a sitemap, it will find all unused css styles.
If you run dust-me-selectors, remember to run it in every page of your website so you don't delete any styles that are actually used.
I'm making a website that will have to render correctly on FF/IE6/IE7/Opera/Safari. IE6 came as a late requirement (when I had done all the other browsers) and it just has to be useable, not necessarily the same as on the other browsers. Now I'm tweaking it so that it's useable on IE6 as well.
To this end I've created another stylesheet in my theme called IE6_override.css. As you might have guessed, I want it to be applied only when the browser is IE6. Conditional comments would perfect for this.
The only problem is - ASP.NET renders a <link> tag for every CSS file that is in the theme's folder, thus including this file unconditionally on all browsers.
I would like to stick to themes because it's completely feasible that we might create more skins for our application later (if the customers desire that).
Is there any way how I can make ASP.NET exclude this specific .CSS file from its auto-including?
Added: Thank you for your answers! In the end I found a workaround. Due to some other styling problems I've asked about earlier, I'm forced to have a IE6-workaround Javascript as well. Thus I prefixed all my IE6-specific rules with a .ie6_dummy class selector and then removed it in JS upon page loading. :)
Yes you can... You can just remove the specific page header control in code behind. The css files are added automatically through theming, but u can remove them again after. Like for example u can put in the page load of your master file:
Page.Header.Controls.Remove(YourCssFile);
Or if you wanna have all the css files removed at the same time:
var themePath = string.Format("~/App_Themes/{0}", Page.Theme);
var removeCandidate = Page.Header.Controls.OfType<HtmlLink>().Where(link => link.Href.StartsWith(themePath)).ToList();
removeCandidate.ForEach(Page.Header.Controls.Remove);
I don't think you can. We stopped using the App_Themes folder for exactly that reason. This also saved us having to prefix every css file with a number so they load in the right order.
Indeed it's not possible to exclude a specific CSS file. However, there seem to be several workarounds located here. I'd suggest reading through those and choosing an appropriate solution (if any).
There are a couple of posts out on the web which seem to address your problem - looking for "Conditional comments in asp.net themes" I came across these which look like they may help:
How to take control of style sheets in ASP.NET Themes with the StylePlaceholder and Style control
Conditional stylesheets in Themes
The first one will also address the media issue with theme stylesheets as well.
I would like to control which parts in Stackoverflow are visible to me by a css file.
There are about ten css -files in Firefox installation folder. I am not sure whether I should edit them or not.
How can I customize Stackoverflow by CSS in Firefox?
You can create a file called "userContent.css" in your profile folder and it will be loaded on each page. Here's more information: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html
If you need to make changes which only affect one particular site instead of every site, then you can use this syntax:
#-moz-document domain(stackoverflow.com) {
body {
background-color:#f0f;
}
}
The CSS equivalent of GreaseMonkey is the Stylish extension which allows you to overwrite site CSS without modifying your userChrome.css file.
With Stylish installed, you can simply create a custom user style for stackoverflow containing your css overwrites without risking messing up userChrome.css. You can also disable or enable that particular stylesheet at any time. Also, make sure to use !important in your style declaration as CSS specificity comes into play.
Try using firebug from http://getfirebug.com
You can also use greasemonkey to do further customization.
You can get a very handy addon in Firefox, called GreaseMonkey. It executes a custom javascript after a page loads, and is able to modify the html on the client side. For example people use it to strip out various elements, change color, fonts, rearrange elements etc
There is also a book about it available online for free
You can get the Greasemonkey add-in here.