Shortcuts in CSS - css

I have lot of, a really really lot of CSS3 files as well as HTML5 ones, that is the reason why I use form of CSS3 in this way:
#wrap #head #strLogo {
height: 50px;
padding: 0 5px;
line-height: 50px;
}
Instead of just selecting it this way:
#strLogo {
height: 50px;
padding: 0 5px;
line-height: 50px;
}
As it is easier later to find that practicular element in HTML5 document.
Now, I have rule, applied to all anchor tags, like:
a {
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
But only one, only the anchor tag representing actual logo (textual) should be different.
I know I can write:
#wrap #head #strLogo a {
font-size: 18px;
text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #666666;
text-decoration: none;
}
#wrap #head #strLogo a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
}
As this link should have same rules on normal and hover state, I managed to write it this way:
#wrap #head #strLogo a, #wrap #head #strLogo a:hover {
font-size: 18px;
text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #666666;
text-decoration: none;
}
Could it be written even shorter? For example:
#wrap #head #strLogo (a, a:hover) {
font-size: 18px;
text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #666666;
text-decoration: none;
}

If you are looking for a more sophisticated version of CSS, you should consider
Less (The Dynamic Stylesheet Language)
SASS (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets)

Related

Strange hover behaviour on link on Chrome

I'm experiencing a strange hover behavior on a link inside a list in Chrome.
I've managed to replicate the issue in this jsFiddle copying the whole html and css from the website.
The problem is on the first element of the side menu, which is the link with "Maria Montessori" in it. What happens is that the hover area is like interrupted in the middle, where the text is. It's like there is something covering the middle part of the button. Try it yourself to understand what I mean.
The relative code is this:
<ul class="page-menu">
<li class="page_item page-item-30">Maria Montessori</li>
<li class="page_item page-item-32">La pedagogia scientifica</li>
...
And the css:
.page-menu {
display: inline-block;
margin-right: 25px;
text-align: center;
width: 210px;
li {
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
li.current_page_item {
a {
background-color: $blue-montessori;
border-bottom: 2px solid $blue-montessori;
color: white;
font-weight: bold;
}
}
li.current_page_parent {
a {
background-color: $blue-montessori;
border-bottom: 2px solid $blue-montessori;
color: white;
font-weight: bold;
}
}
a {
background-color: $grey-light;
border-bottom: 2px solid $grey-light;
color: $grey-dark;
display: block;
font-family: Lato;
font-weight: 300;
line-height: 1.2;
padding: 15px 20px;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
&:hover {
background-color: $blue-light;
border-bottom: 2px solid $blue-dark;
color: white;
font-weight: 400;
}
}
ul.children {
margin-top: 10px;
li {
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 10px;
}
li a {
background-color: #f9f9f9;
border-bottom: 2px solid #f9f9f9;
color: $grey-dark;
display: block;
font-family: Lato;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: 400;
line-height: 1.2;
padding: 10px 20px;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
&:hover {
background-color: $blue-light;
border-bottom: 2px solid $blue-dark;
color: white;
font-weight: 400;
}
}
li.current_page_item {
a {
background-color: $blue-montessori;
border-bottom: 2px solid $blue-montessori;
color: white;
font-weight: bold;
}
}
}
.page_item_has_children > .children {display: none;} /*hides the submenu*/
.page_item_has_children.current_page_item > .children,
.page_item_has_children.current_page_ancestor > .children {display: block;} /*shows the submenu for the current page or when on its subpages */
}
Inspecting it with developer tools didn't really help and what's strange is that the issue appears to be only on the first element. And in Firefox works fine, anyway.
Your div menu-menu-1-container is overlapping to your first menu because of line height property of your div .nav-menu use padding instead
.nav-menu {
padding: 17px; /* remove line-height property */
}
Updated working Code

Having trouble getting multiple styles to work with hover / links etc

I am having issues trying to make some changes to my wife's web site. I have set up multiple classes for different hover over colours etc. Eg. Lft menu all navy text except for underline & light blue with hover over, top menu all white text except for underline & light blue with hover over.
I have tried all sorts of things but can't get them to work together. One keeps overriding the other. Any help would be awesome.
The site is live. www.spunkerella.com
here is the code for the style sheet.
<style type="text/css" >
<!--
* { padding: ; margin: 0; }
body {
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
background-color: #17215f;
}
#wrapper {
margin: 30px auto;
width: 900px;
background-color:#ffffff;
border:medium solid #00a9cb;
}
#header {
width: 900px;
float: left;
padding: 0px;
height:250px;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
background: #ffffff;
}
#leftcolumn {
background: #ffffff;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 10px;
width: 180px;
float: left;
}
#rightcolumn {
float: right;
background: #ffffff;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 5px;
width: 688px;
display: inline;
}
#footer {
width: 900px;
clear: both;
background: #ffffff;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
.style1 {color: #17215f}
.style2 {font-size: xx-small}
a:link {
color: #453223;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: #453223;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #453223;
}
a:active {
text-decoration: none;
color: #453223;
}
.style3 {color: #453223; font-weight: bold; }
.lgfont {color: #453223;}
.style4
a:link {
color: #ffffff;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: #ffffff;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #00a9cb;
}
a:active {
text-decoration: none;
color: #ffffff;
}
.style5
a:link {
color: #17215f;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: #17215f;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #00a9cb;
}
a:active {
text-decoration: none;
color: #17215f;
}
-->
</style>
When you specify multiple styles for the same attribute in CSS (example here: setting the color to two different ones on hover), it can only choose one of them, so the others have to get overridden. Here is a good resource on CSS styling priority:
http://www.w3.org/wiki/CSS/Training/Priority_level_of_selector
Hope this helps!

Fixed bar menu transition css

I am trying to set a fixed bar menu in my webpage, with with a transition, not an instant transition, but a 1s transition. Here I leave the code
http://jsfiddle.net/t2fPk/
.sf-menu {
border-bottom: 3px solid #333;
background: #000;
position: relative;
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
}
.sf-menu > li {
border-right: 1px solid #333;
margin-bottom: -3px;
float:left;
}
.sf-menu > li > a {
border-bottom: 0px;
color: #B3B3B3;
font-family: 'Handlee', cursive;
font-weight: 500;
font-size: 28px;
text-transform: none;
font: 600 18px/22px "Open Sans", sans-serif;
color: #484848;
display: block;
padding: 17px 20px;
}
Something like this, but i can't get it
http://jsfiddle.net/ShL4T/8/
What kind of transition are you trying to do? I added a simple background color change to yours, fiddle
.sf-menu {
border-bottom: 3px solid #333;
background: #000;
position: relative;
padding: 0;
width: 100%;
}
.sf-menu > li {
border-right: 1px solid #333;
margin-bottom: -3px;
float:left;
}
.sf-menu > li > a {
border-bottom: 0px;
color: #B3B3B3;
font-family: 'Handlee', cursive;
font-weight: 500;
font-size: 28px;
text-transform: none;
font: 600 18px/22px "Open Sans", sans-serif;
color: #484848;
display: block;
padding: 17px 20px;
background-color:green;
}
.sf-menu > li > a:hover{
transition: background-color 1s ease;
background-color: red;
}
Here is a nice article on CSS transitions that should help http://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/transition/
If you want to do nice animations I recommend looking into the javascript library Greensock. It's really fast and does a nice job of animation.
Noticing your class tags I'm guessing you might be using the Superfish navigation plugin.
If so, the best way to animate would be done inside their JavaScript file. Here's a link to the documentation:
http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/options/
The animation ones you want to use are:
speed: 'normal'
speedOut: 'fast'

Apply CSS to ASP.Net webpage which includes the default master page

In have created a new simple ASP.Net Web Application, in the Default.aspx file added new div as below
<div id="TestDiv"> Hi, This is CSS test. </div>
And for styling the above div, added below css in Site.css file
#TestDiv{ color:Red; }
If I check the Default.aspx page in Design view, found that the above text color is changed to Red.
But when I ran this application and check in browser, found that color is not changed and css is not applied to it.
I want to use the same Site.css which is declared in master page to be applied for the above div and I don't want to declare css style explicitly in Default.aspx page.
Could you please help me out how can I make it work.
Sharing Site.css content on request
/* DEFAULTS
----------------------------------------------------------*/
body
{
background: #b6b7bc;
font-size: .80em;
font-family: "Helvetica Neue" , "Lucida Grande" , "Segoe UI" , Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
color: #696969;
}
a:link, a:visited
{
color: #034af3;
}
a:hover
{
color: #1d60ff;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:active
{
color: #034af3;
}
p
{
margin-bottom: 10px;
line-height: 1.6em;
}
/* HEADINGS
----------------------------------------------------------*/
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
{
font-size: 1.5em;
color: #666666;
font-variant: small-caps;
text-transform: none;
font-weight: 200;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
h1
{
font-size: 1.6em;
padding-bottom: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
h2
{
font-size: 1.5em;
font-weight: 600;
}
h3
{
font-size: 1.2em;
}
h4
{
font-size: 1.1em;
}
h5, h6
{
font-size: 1em;
}
/* this rule styles <h1> and <h2> tags that are the
first child of the left and right table columns */
.rightColumn > h1, .rightColumn > h2, .leftColumn > h1, .leftColumn > h2
{
margin-top: 0px;
}
/* PRIMARY LAYOUT ELEMENTS
----------------------------------------------------------*/
.page
{
width: 960px;
background-color: #fff;
margin: 20px auto 0px auto;
border: 1px solid #496077;
}
.header
{
position: relative;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background: #4b6c9e;
width: 100%;
}
.header h1
{
font-weight: 700;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
color: #f9f9f9;
border: none;
line-height: 2em;
font-size: 2em;
}
.main
{
padding: 0px 12px;
margin: 12px 8px 8px 8px;
min-height: 420px;
}
.leftCol
{
padding: 6px 0px;
margin: 12px 8px 8px 8px;
width: 200px;
min-height: 200px;
}
.footer
{
color: #4e5766;
padding: 8px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0px auto;
text-align: center;
line-height: normal;
}
/* TAB MENU
----------------------------------------------------------*/
div.hideSkiplink
{
background-color: #3a4f63;
width: 100%;
}
div.menu
{
padding: 4px 0px 4px 8px;
}
div.menu ul
{
list-style: none;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
width: auto;
}
div.menu ul li a, div.menu ul li a:visited
{
background-color: #465c71;
border: 1px #4e667d solid;
color: #dde4ec;
display: block;
line-height: 1.35em;
padding: 4px 20px;
text-decoration: none;
white-space: nowrap;
}
div.menu ul li a:hover
{
background-color: #bfcbd6;
color: #465c71;
text-decoration: none;
}
div.menu ul li a:active
{
background-color: #465c71;
color: #cfdbe6;
text-decoration: none;
}
/* FORM ELEMENTS
----------------------------------------------------------*/
fieldset
{
margin: 1em 0px;
padding: 1em;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
fieldset p
{
margin: 2px 12px 10px 10px;
}
fieldset.login label, fieldset.register label, fieldset.changePassword label
{
display: block;
}
fieldset label.inline
{
display: inline;
}
legend
{
font-size: 1.1em;
font-weight: 600;
padding: 2px 4px 8px 4px;
}
input.textEntry
{
width: 320px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
input.passwordEntry
{
width: 320px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
div.accountInfo
{
width: 42%;
}
/* MISC
----------------------------------------------------------*/
.clear
{
clear: both;
}
.title
{
display: block;
float: left;
text-align: left;
width: auto;
}
.loginDisplay
{
font-size: 1.1em;
display: block;
text-align: right;
padding: 10px;
color: White;
}
.loginDisplay a:link
{
color: white;
}
.loginDisplay a:visited
{
color: white;
}
.loginDisplay a:hover
{
color: white;
}
.failureNotification
{
font-size: 1.2em;
color: Red;
}
.bold
{
font-weight: bold;
}
.submitButton
{
text-align: right;
padding-right: 10px;
}
#TestDiv
{
color:Red;
}
One of the reason of it not working is Directory Structure , which is making the CSS not reachable from your Default.aspx . otherwise there is no reason why it will not WORK. You can use the IE developer tool by pressing F12 and select the div and see if your site.css is applied or not. You also see the view source and copy the CSS path in the browser to see if it renders or not or your are getting 404
Make sure you made a tag that containing your currect css file location, and your link tag have to be on header but the div part has to be on body.
There are several reasons for this issue. It's always best to use a browser's dev tools to see what is actually being affected by your front-end changes. Chrome offers the absolute best suite for debugging...just right-click on your page and select "Inspect Element" on your div.
As for the specifics of this problem:
Check to see you have referenced Site.css specifically.
Ensure there are no other parent css definitions overriding yours
If there is a conflict (eg: a "div" definition for color), make sure your css ID definition comes AFTER it in the page flow
Alternative options:
Define CSS on a per-page basis using script closures.
Use inline styling for the particular element.
Response To Comments
Well, every browser has default rules that are assigned to the majority of elements. If you find a style that has been inherited from the body, it's likely due to a css "reset" stylesheet and/or schema where body has been given more reasonable default values. I doubt you'll even find that in an ASP.NET application.
I would suggest creating your own stylesheet and referencing it in your default.aspx page. It doesn't actually matter (so long as you reference YOUR stylesheet AFTER the GENERATED stylesheet) but it keeps everything separate. You don't have a need to change the generated CSS for the most part.
Got 2 answers for you:
Tell me where your deafult.aspx file is located? inside a follder something like site/asp/deafult.aspx and your style is in site/style/site.css, if it does then add in link tag <link href="../Style/Site.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
If your website is in Site/deafult.aspx and css is in Site/Styles/Site.css then make sure the different bettwen the big and small words are same.

Element inherits wrong style

I have a huge amount of elements in my website... And since I added the following css... Some elements inherit from these css styles... While they don't have anything to do with it: other scope, no direct definition to the css style etc... What am I doing wrong?
#InformationForDiv
{
width: 205px;
height: 180px;
background: #FFFFFF;
clear: both;
float: left;
margin: 0 35px 0 35px;
text-align: center;
}
#InformationForDiv ul
{
text-align: left;
padding: 0px;
display:block;
}
#InformationForDiv li
{
border-bottom: solid 1px #D6D6D6;
padding: 0px;
list-style: none;
line-height: 20px;
display: block;
}
#InformationForDiv p
{
display:inline;
float:right;
margin:0;
text-align:right;
font-size: 16px;
color: #B02229;
}
#InformationForDiv li a:link, a:visited
{
color: #544B42;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 12px;
width:100%;
display:block;
}
#InformationForDiv li a:hover
{
color: #544B42;
border-bottom: 1px solid #544B42;
font-size: 12px;
}
#InformationForDiv li a:visited
{
color: #544B42;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 12px;
}
#InformationForDiv img
{
margin: 10px 0 5px 0;
}
At least this one:
#InformationForDiv li a:link, a:visited
will select all a:visited elements and it doesn't look like your intention.
Perhaps because those elements have an ancestor in the HTML document in which they exist that has the ID "InformationForDiv".
Its generally not a good idea to include in an external css selectors the use of specific element IDs. External CSS ought to rely on class names to select appropriate elements.

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