I have a ccs sheet with the usual tags
a. {}
a.hover {}
I also have a div=id "footer" that I want to change the font style but the global a. and a.hover are overriding it even when I add a
#footer{
color: #333333
}
Can I override using this or do I need to try? a.#footer or a.hover:#footer
Basically the #footer as is wont work because of the a. mentioned above even though the other elements are working in the #footer div such as margin...just the font color and hover??
Can someone tell me how to style this and not let the global a. interfere with it?
Many thanks
It's all about the hierarchy of code:
HTML:
<div>
Sample link
<div id="footer">
Footer link
</div>
</div>
CSS:
a {
color: #ebebeb;
}
a:hover {
color: #000;
}
#footer a {
color: #3e3e3e;
}
#footer a:hover {
color: #609;
}
Try this piece of code
#footer a,
#footer a:hover{
color:#333;
}
what is dot after a ?
the correct form is a {} , a:hover {} , a#footer and a:hover #footer
If you are nesting a inside div element you need to use
#footer a {
color: #333333;
}
If you only use #footer {} it will apply the styles to div and a won't inherit the color, so you can also write
#footer {
color: #f00;
}
#footer a {
color: inherit;
}
This is a matter of specificity. Styling the <a> elements directly is more specific then just applying some CSS to the <div id="footer"> element and all of its children. You can target any links within your footer by using
#footer a {
color: #333;
}
Due to the descendant selector this rule itself is more specific than the one you're using for all the other <a> elements outside of the footer.
Related
I found a way to override .sb-show-main by having a storybook.scss as below.
//.storybook/storybook.scss
.sb-show-main {
background-color: green;
padding: 16px;
margin: 20px;
}
Then simply import it into .storybook/preview.js
import "./storybook.scss";
The problem I'm facing and couldn't understand is that, background-color: green do have effect, but padding & margin seems to be ignored. Wondering if anyone ever modifying sb-show-main?
The default value for padding is 1rem, I would like to change it to 20px instead.
The styles you are trying to overwrite may be using the css !important directive, or may be more specific in their targeting of an element. I always try to be specific first, but otherwise I will use !important as a last resort.
.container header ul li p {
color: blue;
}
// OVERWRITE STYLES
p { /* this wont work, because it's not as specific as the original rule */
color: yellow;
}
.container header h1 ul li p { /* try this first */
color: purple;
}
p { /* otherwise use !important as last resort */
color: orange !important;
}
<div class="container">
<header>
<h1>Logo</h1>
<ul>
<li><p>One</p></li>
<li><p>Two</p></li>
<li><p>Three</p></li>
</ul>
</header>
</div
I'm trying to stop a link from turning purple when you click it. My link is within a div with the class name "header". My code doesn't seem to work and the link just stays purple.
.header a:visited {
color: black;
}
The :visited selector is used to select visited links. If your HTML looks the same as below it should be working, Possibly you might want to use :focus or :active?
.header a:visited {
color: black;
}
.header a:focus {
color: pink;
}
<div class="header">
sdfsd
</div>
a:visited {
color: black;
}
<div>
Link
</div>
try ctrl + shift + r, might just be a browser cache thing.
here is a fiddle with the problem:
https://jsfiddle.net/c2exs2f7/3/
How does the second "blue" stay like the first instance (it should have color: white) without changing the HTML structure?
HTML
<div class="blue">
<div class="content">
<div class="label">blue</div>
<div class="yellow">
<div class="content">
<div class="label">yellow</div>
<div class="blue">
<div class="content">
<div class="label">blue</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
SCSS
// Skip until...
div {
border-radius: .25em;
padding: .5em;
font-family: helvetica, sans-serif;
}
// ...here:
.blue {
background-color: hsl(220,100%,50%);
.content {
color: white;
}
}
.yellow {
background-color: hsl(60,100%,50%);
.content {
color: hsl(0,0%,10%);
}
}
EDIT #1
Thank you guys for these fast responses!
I am working on a grid system where I am able to nest different grid systems (with different CSS values).
The selectors .yellow .content and .blue .content have the same specificity (20 in this case), therefore the selector that appears later in the stylesheet will override the first one due to the cascading nature of a stylesheet. In this case, the selector .yellow .content is overriding .blue .content, which is why the nested .blue element is black.
One quick solution would be to select nested .blue element with the selector .blue .blue:
Updated Example
.blue,
.blue .blue {
background-color: hsl(220,100%,50%);
.content {
color: white;
}
}
An arguably better approach would be to only select direct .content children elements using the child selector, >:
Updated Example
.blue {
background-color: hsl(220,100%,50%);
> .content {
color: white;
}
}
.yellow {
background-color: hsl(60,100%,50%);
> .content {
color: hsl(0,0%,10%);
}
}
Based on your comments, the ordering/layering of the elements may vary. An alternative solution would be to set the color property on the .blue/.yellow element and then set the color property of the children elements to inherit:
Updated Example - this seems to work for all variants.
.blue {
background-color: hsl(220,100%,50%);
color: white;
.content {
color: inherit;
}
}
.yellow {
background-color: hsl(60,100%,50%);
color: hsl(0,0%,10%);
.content {
color: inherit;
}
}
See https://jsfiddle.net/c2exs2f7/4/
What I did was to enforce inheritance only for the child content classed DIV, not the entire descendance.
Applying the immediate children operator > in the SCSS makes the .content div to consider only its immediate parent color.
Go on and try nesting more DIVs, you will see that it works.
You can't. Not with inherent anyway. Because the second blue will inherent from the yellow. So if u want all blue always have white letters and yellow always black letters. Why not just put:
.blue { color: #fff; }
.yellow { color: hsl(0,0%,10%); }
And you won't need the ".content" wrapper.
I had this same issue where the HTML nesting varies and so it's not possible to make more specific selectors due to overwhelming complexity and non-DRY code.
Here's the solution I came to:
https://jsfiddle.net/cg0u8v1s/
Basically, a systematic approach to the class names is key so you can use a CSS attribute selector reliably (although I'd recommend a more unique naming convention than "color-" as it's too generic.).
Example:
.color-blue {
&,
[class*="color-"] &,
[class*="color-"] [class*="color-"] & {// Only needed if you want a 3rd level of nesting to work.
background-color: blue;
.content {
color: skyblue;
}
}
}
.color-yellow {
&,
[class*="color-"] &,
[class*="color-"] [class*="color-"] & {// Only needed if you want a 3rd level of nesting to work.
background-color: yellow;
.content {
color: brown;
}
}
}
This will output selectors that become more specific with nesting without the need for non-DRY code or having to use !important.
The CSS output will look like this:
.color-blue,
[class*="color-"] .color-blue,
[class*="color-"] [class*="color-"] .color-blue {
// code...
}
i already have a css section:
.leftMemberCol
{
width:125px;
vertical-align:top;
padding: 13px;
border-width:0px;
border-collapse:separate;
border-spacing: 10px 10px;
text-align:left;
background-color:#f2f3ea;
}
for a td section (a left side bar). I want to make all of the links inside this cell be the color green.
is there any syntax like:
.leftMemberCol.a
{
color:#E3E3CA;
}
or any other suggestions instead of having to go to each page and wrapping all the links around another class name.
Just do:
.leftMemberCol a
{
color:#E3E3CA;
}
That will select all anchor tags nested within the element with the class of .leftMemberCol
If the color doesn't work, check if you set it earlier on in your CSS file for any of the pseudo selectors of the a tag, i.e. a:link etc.
override them using
.leftMemberCol a:link,
.leftMemberCol a:hover,
.leftMemberCol a:visited,
.leftMemberCol a:active
{
color: #E3E3CA;
}
replace the last dot with a space
.leftMemberCol a {
style goes here
}
The dot indicates a class. A hash indicates an id (
<div id="home">
can be styled with
#home { }
). A regular html element, like a td or a doesn't need a prefix.
.leftMemberCol a
{
color:#E3E3CA;
}
should do the trick.
You are very close. This is how you select the links inside the cell:
.leftMemberCol a
{
color: #E3E3CA;
}
You can read more about selectors here.
Edit:
If the style doesn't take effect, it's probably because you have some other style defined for the links that is more specific. You can make the style more specific by adding specifiers, for example:
td.leftMemberCol a
{
color: #E3E3CA;
}
As a last resort you can also use the !important directive:
.leftMemberCol a
{
color: #E3E3CA !important;
}
.leftMemberCol>a
{
color:#E3E3CA;
}
.leftMemberCol a
{
color:#E3E3CA;
}
This targets all <a> elements that are descendents of .leftMemberCol
Is there a reason my below CSS only half works?
div.share
{
position:relative;
top: -4px;
left: 25px;
font-family:Tahoma;
background-color:#000000;
font-size:11px;
font-weight:bold;
}
/* share link css */
a.share:active
{
color: #000000;
}
a.share:hover
{
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color:#000000;
text-decoration: none;
}
The div.share CSS is all working but the CSS for the active and hover is not
CSS is valid, but make sure the link does have the "share" class, if its in the DIV, change the css to:
div.share a:active
{
color: #000000;
}
div.share a:hover
{
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color:#000000;
text-decoration: none;
}
adding your html would make this easier.
I can only guess that you have a <div> with class='share' and no <a> tag with the same.
e.g., does your html look like:
<div class='share'>
<a class='share' href='http://yoursite.com'>Your site</a>
</div>
or
<div class='share'>
</div>
...
<a class='share' href='http://yoursite.com'>Your site</a>
If it's the first, then
div.share a:hover {
...
}
would make more sense.
If it's the second, then the selector looks fine... though it might be better to choose different, but appropriate class names.
Use div.share a:active and div.share a:hover.
The way you have it right now it is looking for an <a> tag with a share class applied directly. However the share class is on the outer div.
Can you show us an HTML snippet using this CSS? Is it really the <a> tag that has the share class or is it nested inside the <div class="share">?