I'm working on two different WordPress sites that are in many ways similar but are skinned differently.
For example, let's say I'm working on two 'magazine' sites, which share the same CSS layout e.g. grid system, margin's etc., but different CSS decorational properties e.g. gradients, colours, shadows.
What is the best way to get them to share the same base CSS layout, but different decorational CSS?
Initially I thought something like ...
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="LINK-TO-BASE-CSS-ON-PRIMARY-DOMAIN.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="<?php bloginfo( 'template_url' ); ?>/style.css" /> <!-- This would be the 'top-up' CSS -->
This doesn't seem particularly clean to me though. I admit though, there is also a very similar question here.
Is this still considered the best way?
Are there any disadvantages to linking to another domain? I've read that this may even be an advantage because of cross-domain loading.
What you suggested is fine. I'm not sure that there is an advantage called "cross-domain loading", but hosting your style sheets in another server is a very common practice. This other server is known as a CDN, or Content Delivery Network. Here's some information about CDNs and their advantages:
http://www.sitepoint.com/7-reasons-to-use-a-cdn/
Also, pro-tip: do some DNS prefetching if you're going to use a separate domain to host your files. It's as easy as:
<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//myexternalcdn.com" />
try to separate layout structure and templates and call everything from the same domain
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="fileserverdomain/css/structure.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="fileserverdomain/css/firsttamplatename.css" />
OR
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="fileserverdomain/css/structure.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="fileserverdomain/css/secondtamplatename.css" />
Benefit of this solution is that you can adtionaly offer switching templates :D
You can use this filter, to filter out styles with any condition or alternate output href string, example:
add_filter( 'style_loader_src', function($href){
if(strpos($href, "name-of-allowed.css") !== false) {
return $href;
}
return false;
});
Related
I don't want the render blocking of declaring a custom font using #font-face, so I've tried to copy how my google font CDN font is loaded for my custom server font, arriving at this:
<noscript id="deferred-styles">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="../BluuNext-master/Fonts/webfonts/bluunext-bold-webfont.woff2?family=bluuNext" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</noscript>
But it does not work.
I've tried changing href for src="../Bluu...
But that didn't work.
I've tried omitting the type, since woff2 isn't text/css.
It's important, I'm not willing to block my page load for a 35kb font file, and there's no CDN for BluuNext, so I need to find a performant way to make this work or I'll just be resigned to a beiger website.
RIGHT!
I've tried the answers below, possibly they work for other fonts but not BluuNext. Perhaps other fonts maybe come in configurations beyond bold, unlike BluuNext, so maybe that causes the issue.
It IS possible to load BluuNext font, but so far only with render blocking #font-face method, loading betwixt the tags.
Here's a minimum example including a few of the proposed solutions not working...
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:fb="http://ogp.me/ns/fb#">
<head>
<title>Bluu Next test</title>
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="../BluuNext-master/Fonts/webfonts/bluunext-bold-webfont.woff2?family=bluuNext:bold" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../BluuNext-master/Fonts/webfonts/bluunext-bold-webfont.woff2?family=bluuNext" media="print" onload="this.media='all'">
<link rel="stylesheet" media="print" onload="this.media='all'" href="../BluuNext-master/Fonts/webfonts/bluunext-bold-webfont.woff2?family=bluuNext:bold" type="text/css" />
<noscript id="deferred-styles">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../BluuNext-master/Fonts/webfonts/bluunext-bold-webfont.woff2?family=bluuNext:bold" type="text/css"/>
</noscript>
<script type="text/javascript">
// Load CSS
var loadDeferredStyles = function() {
var addStylesNode = document.getElementById("deferred-styles");
var replacement = document.createElement("div");
replacement.innerHTML = addStylesNode.textContent;
document.body.appendChild(replacement)
addStylesNode.parentElement.removeChild(addStylesNode);
};
var raf = window.requestAnimationFrame || window.mozRequestAnimationFrame ||
window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame || window.msRequestAnimationFrame;
if (raf) raf(function() { window.setTimeout(loadDeferredStyles, 0); });
else window.addEventListener('load', loadDeferredStyles);
</script>
<style>
h2{font-family: bluuNext; font-size: 3em;}
</style>
</head><body>
<h2>Is this Bluu Next?</h2>
</body>
</html>
You can see some fancy javascript governing the loading of id="deferred-styles", that came at the suggestion of Google lighthouse and works well for Google's CDN fonts, not working for BluuNext so far.
Here's the link to download BluuNext, a lovely gothic, serif font. CLICK THE DOWNLOAD ARROW TOP RIGHT.
I'd love some ideas. I'd love to use this particular font, which is for some reason seemingly resistant to existing solutions.
You can not load a font directly in HTML, you need help of CSS for this. And if you open the google font link you will be able to see how it's done.
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500
This url is a css file not a font file.
Open it and you will understand how google used #font-face to load the font.
Here is the documentation from mdn:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/#font-face
The modern approach to async-style <link rel="stylesheet" /> elements is to use media="print" with onload="this.media='all'".
The media="print" attribute means browsers should still download the stylesheet, but won't block the page's loading.
The onload="this.media='all'" event-handler causes the stylesheet to become enabled when and if it does load.
Because browsers might still not download print stylesheets at all, you should also add an explicit <link rel="preload" /> version (for the same stylesheet) as a strong hint that the browser should download it anyway.
However this still depends on browsers having JavaScript enabled in order for the onload="" handler to work.
...hence the need for the duplication of code in a <noscript> wrapper element.
Also, you really should be using root-relative (i.e. "/foo"-style) URIs in your <link href="" attributes, otherwise they wont' work if the user isn't accessing a page in your site's root.
I assume your BluuNext-master directory is located in your site's root.
So change your HTML to this:
<head>
<!-- onload+media trick to defer loading these stylesheets: -->
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500" />
<link rel="preload" as="style" href="/BluuNext-master/Fonts/webfonts/bluunext-bold-webfont.woff2?family=bluuNext" />
<link rel="stylesheet" media="print" onload="this.media='all'" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" media="print" onload="this.media='all'" href="/BluuNext-master/Fonts/webfonts/bluunext-bold-webfont.woff2?family=bluuNext" type="text/css" />
<!-- But if Javascript is used the <noscript> will ensure the browser will load it: -->
<noscript>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/BluuNext-master/Fonts/webfonts/bluunext-bold-webfont.woff2?family=bluuNext" type="text/css" />
</noscript>
</head>
I do think it's silly that we need to basically repeat ourselves three times as a workaround for something that should just be a part of HTML already.
One of my stylesheets doesn't seem to load every style. I've read everything i can find but the issues that people usually have are obvious things to me but i can't seem to figure out my own issue. I have a site made using Razor and this is where i call my stylesheets in the head section.
<link href="#Url.Content("~/css/reset.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="#Url.Content("~/css/jquery-ui-1.10.1.custom.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="#Url.Content("~/css/searchLayout.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="#Url.Content("~/css/searchSkin.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="#Url.Content("~/css/skin.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="#Url.Content("~/css/AvailabilityLayout.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link href="#Url.Content("~/css/AvailabilitySkin.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen"/>
<link href="#Url.Content("~/css/Home.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
The issue seems to be with the AVailabilitySkin.css and sometimes AvailabilityLayout.css. So for example i have this code in AvailibilitySkin.css:
td#price h2, td#price h4
{
text-align:center;
}
And it doesn't get picked up, I don't even see it being overwritten by another style or anything. But if I add the same code to the Skin.css file then it works perfectly fine. I can't add all my styles to Skin.css so i can't just put that style in there and call it a day. It has to be separated, right now the site is being developed locally so unfortunately i cannot post a link to the site but if anything is needed (like more code) please let me know. I haven't been able to find the issue and I've tried adding #charset "UTF-8"; at the top of the stylesheets and it didn't really do much.
Problem has been fixed guys/gals. In the end it was just another mistake by me and it wasn't coming up in the Console and Visual Studio wasn't flagging it as an issue. It was mostly just a missed single quote and another programmer here ran the code through WebStorm and it came right up and fixed it. Thanks for the help and sorry for the dumb mistake question.
I know this is a simple question but for some reason I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong here.
My understanding is that if you declare 2 CSS files
<script type="text/css" src="JQueryUI.css"></script>
<script type="text/css" src="Override.css"></script>
I want to use the "Override.css" to override some values, so if I type let's say ".ui-accordion" and put my own values, i would expect them to take priority over the original values located under that name on the JQuery.css file.
Mainly because the declaration states that Override.css comes AFTER JWuery.css.
For some reason this is NOT happening.
I tried switching the declaration of the 2 files
...but the Jquery.css seems to ALWAYS seems to take priority.
Any reason why ??
This is not working because you are not loading correctly the css files.
It should be:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="JQueryUI.css" type="text/css" media="all" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="Override.css" type="text/css" media="all" />
I am agree with Zhihao about specificity of elements, but I have also noticed that your are using <script> to attach CSS files, use <link> tags instead, maybe that would load your css and it will override existing styles:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="JQueryUI.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Override.css" />
P.S. just posted my notice in the comment as an answer
I've just got a fresh Drupal 6 install. The CSS didn't work. Then I realized that a "?U" was appended, and Drupal couldn't find it. Does anyone know where to unset this?
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/node/node.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/system/admin.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/system/defaults.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/system/system.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/system/system-menus.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/modules/user/user.css?U" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" href="/themes/bluemarine/style.css?U" />
the ?U (or really any alphabet) is just a method drupal uses to cache information. it has no relevance to the location of the file (ie, node.css and node.css?U is in the same location to drupal).
it sounds like you may have a different issue. perhaps you enabled your cache and moved things around? you may need to clear your cache. or, if you've modified your install variables perhaps you're picking up the wrong base path or something. it's hard to tell the exact issue based on the limited information given.
You're right. Its because of the cache. I configured nginx to serve css files directly. But after I modified the configuration, it works fine now. Thank you!
Did you install Drupal into a sub-directory? Like:
http://domain.com/drupal
This would certainly cause the problems you speak of, though Drupal should have properly accommodated for that.
I'm just curious how most people make their ASP.NET pages printer-friendly? Do you create a separate printer-friendly version of the ASPX page, use CSS or something else? How do you handle situations like page breaks and wide tables?
Is there one elegant solution that works for the majority of the cases?
You basically make another CSS file that hide things or gives simpler "printer-friendly" style to things then add that with a media="print" so that it only applies to print media (when it is printed)
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="print.css" />
Our gracious host wrote a good blog post on this topic:
Coding Horror: Stylesheets for Print and Handheld
I am a php user, but the point must be that the result no matter what is HTML and HTML is styled with CSS and there is an option for your style sheets for just using the style for printing. This should be the way to do it, imho. About big tables, there isnt really a magic "fix" for that. Page will break where it breaks, dont really understand the problem here either.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="print.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="screen.css" />