How to detect if JavaScript is disabled using Meteor.com - meteor

When using Meteor.com anyone know how to detect if the browser's JavaScript is disabled...
AND show a message to the end user in the browser window, i.e "Turn on JavaScript."

I assume that you have a layout.html or at least a main.html that contains at least a <head>.
A trick is to place <noscript> in the <head> instead of the <body>.
Meteor does not render everything in JS. There are some stuff that get's rendered in an initial page, proof of which can be seen in View Source (CTRL+U).

I'm using the latest Meteor in Chrome, and head tags were not merged. Only this worked for me:
<head>
<noscript>Please enable JavaScript.</noscript>
</head>
<template name="index">
...
</template>

I just used this and it really worked like a charm
<head>
<noscript>
<style>
body {font-size: 32px;text-align: center;line-height: 100vh;}
body:after {content: "Please enable JavaScript";}
</style>
</noscript>
</head>

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Wrong opacity transition behaviour in Chrome when loading CSS from file?

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong here or whether this indeed is a Chrome rendering bug.
Here is my very small example:
.hover-test span {
opacity: 0;
transition-property: opacity;
transition-duration: 1000ms;
}
.hover-test:hover span {
opacity: 1;
}
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>TEST opacity</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"/>
<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<button class="hover-test">hover me<span>hidden</span></button>
</body>
</html>
It works in all browsers I checked like expected.
It does work in Chrome as well, when I put the CSS in a style tag directly in the HTML file.
It does NOT work in Chrome (91.0.4472.101), when I put the CSS in a separate file and include it with a link tag.
With "not working" I mean, that on page load the span is shown and then faded out, without the mouse cursor being near the button.
Is this a Chrome bug, or am I doing something wrong here?
How can I achieve the desired behaviour in Chrome, which is: span is hidden on page load and only shown/hidden on hover?
It looks like it is a Chrome bug,as written here: https://www.hawkbydesign.com/weird-google-chrome-css-transition-on-load-bug/
Well, after making some further updates and refreshing the page, I noticed that the transition was firing on page load. What I mean by this is instead of being hidden on page load, as they should be, the elements were visible and would transition to their hidden state.
this is exactly the problem reported.
More:
The bug happens whenever you don’t have any script tags on the page, apparently. For whatever reason, this causes css transitions to trigger upon page load. While I was also digging, it appears that this happens sometimes with the form tag as well. What a weird bug!
The solution is to include a script tag in your page. Whenever I found the solution, they said to include a space in the script tag, but I found that it works fine even without the space.
I actually added jQuery on the page using the CDN link and the bug seems gone.
You appear to be bumping up against a timing problem.
Try this code with your styles file:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>TEST opacity</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"/>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet">
<style>
</style>
</head>
<body>
<script>
function insert() {
document.body.innerHTML = '<button class="hover-test">hover me<span>hidden</span></button>';
}
window.onload = insert;
</script>
</body>
</html>
This waits for loading before putting the button in the document and on Chrome (and Edge) on Windows10 at least all is well.
Chrome/Edge seem to differ from say Firefox in whether loading is synchronous or not - or maybe it's just a lot faster writing the document.

CSS Stylings Tips

I have a web page that is was optimized mostly for IE and Chrome. I am trying to figure out tips on how I should display this image since it looks quite awful just sitting above the copyright on all my webpages. I am looking for any CSS tips on how I can make the highlighted portion of this web page have a more professional look to it. All suggestion are greatly appreciated!
<p class="clearfix">
This page is optimized for Internet Explorer and Chrome. To ensure accurate processing of your mail packet, please ensure JavaScript is enabled in your browser.
</p>
What I suggest doing is center the copyright info. Then create two separate CSS files. One that will be used if the user doesn't have javascript enabled and the other if they do. The text you have ("This page is optimized for..") should be in the CSS file where javascript is disabled(Also move that text to the top of the page and center it).
How do you check to see if they have javascript enabled? do this
<link rel="stylesheet" href="jsdisabled.css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" href="jsenabled.css" />');
</script>
"although the solution below works it does not validate
inside your noscript tag you can put some style tag that hides the rest of your content. "
*no script option *
<noscript>
<style type="text/css">
#content { display:none; }
</style>
no js content goes here.
</noscript>
How can I show different content when JavaScript is disabled?
This way that text won't appear for everyone, just the people who don't have javascript enabled.

fullcalendar UI not displaying

I believe i have everything coded right ,as Dreamweaver shows no Syntax errors, however the fullcalendar UI is not displaying either in Dreamweavers' preview pane, it does however display the div, or in Mozilla Firefox.
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head><link rel="stylesheet" href="fullcalendar/fullcalendar.css"/>
<script src="fullcalendar/fullcalendar.js"></script>
<script src="lib/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="lib/moment.min.js"></script>
<script> $(document).ready(function() {
// page is now ready, initialize the calendar...
$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
// put your options and callbacks here
})
});</script>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id='calendar'></div>
</body>
</html>
all files are local
Dreamweaver CC 2014 1.1 and Firefox 36.0.4
You are missing one css file fullcalendar.print.css please include it. you can use the cdn path //cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fullcalendar/2.3.1/fullcalendar.print.css
Check console there might be error of jquery not defined. Include the file in that case.
cdn path https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.js
For full download fullcalendar Click here..
Include your files in this sequence.
Moment js
jQuery js
Fullcalendar js
P.s: And make sure each of the file is included properly.
I have created a jsfiddle link on the left menu click on external sources. Click here for jsfiddle

How to load CSS asynchronously without using JavaScript?

Suppose if I have a website http://somethingsomething.com
And I have 3 css file
common.css
homepage.css
inner-pages.css
homepage.css is required for homepage and common.css is for whole site but inner-pages.css is for other pages only and it's big file. Is it possible to load inner-pages.css after homepage data download. In the same way like we use async attribute for script tag. As far as I know async attribute is only for JS not CSS
my one friend suggested to use requirejs for this http://requirejs.org/docs/faq-advanced.html#css but I don't want to use javascript to load css and even I would think upon JS way i would not use require.js just for this. So if it is not possible with CSS only. what would be the simple JS way to do this?
Async CSS with media="bogus" and a <link> at the foot
Say we've got our HTML structured like this:
<head>
<!-- unimportant nonsense -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" media="bogus">
</head>
<body>
<!-- other unimportant nonsense, such as content -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</body>
More at http://codepen.io/Tigt/post/async-css-without-javascript
You can place an iframe in your page pointing to some dummy page that serves the CSS, that should serve the CSS file async.
<iframe src="loadcss.html"></iframe>
Do note it seems pretty trivial, this causes a minimum of 2 css file transfers per page and 3 css file transfers per child page (if it isn't cached). If you were to minify the css you would only have 1 transfer regardless.
try
$.ajax({
url:'/css.css',
type:'get',
success:function(css){
$('html').append('<style>'+css+'</style>');
}
});
or
function getCss(url){
$('<link>',{rel:'stylesheet',type:'text/css','href':url}).appendTo('head');
}
getCss('/css.css');
ok sorry I didn't see you don't want to use javascript
how about using css #import:
<style>
#import url('/style1.css');
#import url('/style2.css');
</style>
Include your CSS in the <body> instead of <head> ... "it seems this trick causes Chrome & Firefox to start the body earlier, and they simply don't block for body stylesheets." and add a condition for IE:
head
<head>
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"> <!-- blocking, but what else can ya do? -->
<![endif]-->
</head>
body
<body>
<!--[if !IE]> -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" lazyload>
<!-- <![endif]-->
</body>
by Taylor Hunt #codepen.io
As suggested Require is not necessary for loading CSS assets. If you want to get your larger payloads asynchronously without relying on JavaScript you should be looking at leveraging HTTP/2 Server Push to deliver your non-critical style assets. And here's a performance technique you may find useful for delivering critical CSS payloads for browsers which works well even today.
Finally, if you are optimizing your pages for performance and don't want to pull in heavy or complicated tools like Require I've an alternative minimal asset loader you may use if you like.

Eliminate flash of unstyled content

How do I stop the flash of unstyled content (FOUC) on a web page?
The problem with using a css style to initially hide some page elements, and then using javascript to change the style back to visible after page load, is that people who don't have javascript enabled will never get to see those elements. So it's a solution which does not degrade gracefully.
A better way therefore, is to use javascript to both initially hide as well as redisplay those elements after page load. Using jQuery, we might be tempted to do something like this:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('body').hide();
$(window).on('load', function() {
$('body').show();
});
});
However, if your page is very big with a lot of elements, then this code won't be applied soon enough (the document body won't be ready soon enough) and you might still see a FOUC. However, there is one element that we CAN hide as soon as script is encountered in the head, even before the document is ready: the HTML tag. So we could do something like this:
<html>
<head>
<!-- Other stuff like title and meta tags go here -->
<style type="text/css">
.hidden {display:none;}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$('html').addClass('hidden');
$(document).ready(function() { // EDIT: From Adam Zerner's comment below: Rather use load: $(window).on('load', function () {...});
$('html').show(); // EDIT: Can also use $('html').removeClass('hidden');
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- Body Content -->
</body>
</html>
Note that the jQuery addClass() method is called *outside* of the .ready() (or better, .on('load')) method.
This is the one that has worked for me and does not require javascript and it works great for pages with many elements and lots of css:
First, add a dedicated <STYLE> setting for the <HTML> tag with visibility 'hidden' and opacity as '0' at the top of your HTML, e.g, in the beginning of the <HEAD> element, for example, at the top of your HTML add:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<style>html{visibility: hidden;opacity:0;}</style>
Then, at the end of your last .css stylesheet file, set the visibility and opacity styles to 'visible' and '1', respectively:
html {
visibility: visible;
opacity: 1;
}
If you already have an existing style block for the 'html' tag, then move the entire 'html' style to the end of the last .css file and add the 'visibility' and 'opacity' tags as described above.
https://gist.github.com/electrotype/7960ddcc44bc4aea07a35603d1c41cb0
A CSS-only solution:
<html>
<head>
<style>
html {
display: none;
}
</style>
...
</head>
<body>
...
<link rel="stylesheet" href="app.css"> <!-- should set html { display: block; } -->
</body>
</html>
As the browser parses through the HTML file:
The first thing it will do is hide <html>.
The last thing it will do is load the styles, and then display all the content with styling applied.
The advantage to this over a solution that uses JavaScript is that it will work for users even if they have JavaScript disabled.
Note: you are allowed to put <link> inside of <body>. I do see it as a downside though, because it violates common practice. It would be nice if there was a defer attribute for <link> like there is for <script>, because that would allow us to put it in the <head> and still accomplish our goal.
A solution which doesn't depend on jQuery, which will work on all current browsers and do nothing on old browsers, include the following in your head tag:
<head>
...
<style type="text/css">
.fouc-fix { display:none; }
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
try {
var elm=document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0];
var old=elm.class || "";
elm.class=old+" fouc-fix";
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(event) {
elm.class=old;
});
}
catch(thr) {
}
</script>
</head>
Thanks to #justastudent, I tried just setting elm.style.display="none"; and it appears to work as desired, at least in current Firefox Quantum. So here is a more compact solution, being, so far, the simplest thing I've found that works.
<script type="text/javascript">
var elm=document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0];
elm.style.display="none";
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(event) { elm.style.display="block"; });
</script>
An other quick fix which also works in Firefox Quantum is an empty <script> tag in the <head>. This however, penalizes your pagespeed insights and overall load time.
I had 100% success with it. I think it's also the main reason, why above solutions with other JS in the works.
<script type="text/javascript">
</script>
None of the CSS-only solutions presented here work with modern browsers (asynchronous loading of css and fonts). You have to use Javascript. What I've done to avoid FOUC is:
<html>
<body onload="document.body.style.visibility=`visible`;">
<script>document.body.style.visibility=`hidden`;</script>
With this approach the body of my web page is kept hidden until the full page and CSS files are loaded. Once everything is loaded, the onload event turns the body visible. So, the web browser remains empty until a point when everything pops up on the screen.
It is a simple solution but so far it is working.
This will not affect users who have disabled Javascript because the <script> tag is ignored.
No one has talked about CSS #import
That was the problem for me i was loading two extra style sheets directly in my css file with #import
Simple solution: Replace all #import links with <link />
Every answer on this page slows down the load and it only hides the underlying issue. If you're experiencing FOUC, find out WHY it's happening and fix that.
At the core, this is happening:
because your stylesheets are not being loaded correctly: they should be loaded via link tag in the HTML, not via JavaScript
because you placed script tags before link tags, which may force a "layout operation" and trick the browser into rendering before it even attempts to load the style.
For reference, here's an example of FOUC:
I came up with a way that requires no real code change whatsoever, woohoo! My issue was related to importing several css files AFTER some javascript files.
To resolve the issue I just moved my CSS links so that they would be above my javascript imports. This allowed all my CSS to be imported and ready to go ASAP, so that when the HTML appears on the screen, even if the JS isn't ready, the page will be properly formatted
Here is my code .. hope it solve your problem
set <body style="opacity:0;">
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("body").css('opacity', 1);
});
</script>
A simple solution to avoid a flash of unstyled content without javascript:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Bla bla</title>
<link href="..." rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="..." rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<body style="opacity: 0">
<!-- All HTML content here -->
<script src="..."></script>
<script src="..."></script>
<style>
body {
opacity: 1 !important;
}
</style>
</body>
</html>
When the parser arrives at the body, it is faded out using "opacity: 0". When the parser finally arrives at the very bottom after everything else is parsed, the body is faded in again using an in-page style. The !important keyword there is important ;-), because it overrules the previous inline style of the body tag.
In this case, using "opacity: 0" to fade out is better than "display: none", because if you have layout operations done by javascript, they may not work when the affected element is not rendered.
That worked for me.
The best solution I found till now is like this:
Add all styles of your header to a <style/> tag in <head/>
at the top of style tag add .not-visible-first{visibility: hidden} + other header style
Add css via JS at the end of body
document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].insertAdjacentHTML("beforeend","<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"/css/main.min.css?v=1.2.4338\" />");
And remember to add .not-visible-first{visibility: visible} to the end of main.min.css
This option will create better user experience
You could try this with vanilla
function js_method(){
//todos
var elementDiv = document.getElementById("main");
elementDiv.style.display ="block";
}
<body onload="js_method()" id="main" style="display:none">
//todos
<h2>Hello</h2>
</body>

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