From what I understand, IE 8 should display embedded fonts, however my version substitutes generic fonts -- not just for my code, but on other sites, even when the CSS is properly IE-hacked (for example, this sample displays all the IE-hacked properties for me (shadows, etc.), except for the embedded font).
I'm wondering if there is a setting in IE8 that would cause this? I'm on a heavily locked-down work computer (this is why I'm using IE8), so that may have something to do with it, though I'm not sure why this would affect font-face specifically.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533034(v=vs.85).aspx
On the View menu, click Options and then click the Security tab.
Select Custom and click Settings.
Scroll to the Downloads section.
Change the Font Download setting from Disable to Enable.
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I want to quickly see how the fallback-fonts is working for a website by excluding one or more specific fonts. Is this possible in Chrome? How?
Have searched for it with no luck.
It's quite easy with the Chrome Inspector. You just have to find the HTML lines which include your custom font (Or in your CSS) and delete it.
Of course you can just modifiy your css directly in Chrome to see what happens.
UPDATE: Delete directly the font in the sources tab in you Chrome Inspector.
I am involved recently in a project to restyle a certain published website. I have no access to the code and the CSS files. what I can to do is to load my custom local CSS as a new "user stylesheet" into firefox or chrome using the extension Web developer toolbar which is available on chrome, opera and firefox.
For a reason, "Web developer toolbar" offer a great feature called [Add User Style Sheet] which enable me to load my local CSS and tweak it using firebug to restyle the page as needed.
but of course some tweaks are necessary to do over IE and there is no tool like "Web developer toolbar" over IE. I know there is a way to load a user style sheet from Internet options > accessibility. but it is very dummy, specially when switching from various IE versions using the built-in IE developer tool. and of course that user style sheet will be active only when restarting IE!! ... so it doesn't make sense doing modification on my CSS and restart to see the affected modification !!
Until the time we decide to eliminate IE forever, I am wondering. if there is a way/tool to load my custom CSS over IE and tweak it from outside IE and just reload it? or by refreshing the page[F5]?
Thank in advance.
It wont be easy or quick but the best solution for you r problem would be to do your css styling with IE code inspector. I know its not as good as Firefox or chrome but you will at least be able to see what works and what doesn't. You can ofcouse copy and paste directly out of IE code inspector into your stylesheet but if you refresh you would have to insert all the new styles again.
I'm trying to re-skin an existing site using CSS only. I will be taking one of their CSS files and redoing it to match a new design, without changing any HTML. I want a good way of continually updating and then testing, but I have to do it locally because they do not have a dev environment. The site itself is dynamic and authenticated, so I can't just download pages from the site and test the entire thing locally. I was hoping that there is a way to tell my browser (Firefox, preferably) to disable that specific remote CSS file and replace it with a local file.
I don't want to use something like Web Develop Toolbar or Firebug because that requires me to manually make the changes each time I load a page. I want something more seamless.
I was thinking one possibility is to load my new stylesheet in userContent.css, but I would still need a way of telling the browser not to load the original stylesheet from the server.
Any ideas?
UPDATE: I found this Mozilla bug report https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208641 discussing the issue of being able to change userContent.css without restarting Firefox. One of the posters (Simon Wilper) posted some files and info about adding a menu item to refresh userContent.css, but it talks about modifying browser.xul and I can't find that file on my system. This seems like the last piece of the puzzle.
You can use AdBlock Plus to create a custom filter to block that one particular stylesheet, so it will not load when you go to the site. This rule will always be in effect, so as you refresh the page, you will not have to do anything extra.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
As for adding your own stylesheet onto that external site, you can use Stylish, an add-on for adding your own stylesheets to particular domains. This, too, will always be present as you refresh the page.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/
The issues you will run into, I imagine, will be what to do with images you are intending on linking to in the CSS. You will have to upload them somewhere, reference them absolutely, and then once you are finished, replace the URLs with new locations on their server. Also, that editing Stylish stylesheets within their editor is pretty poor (no code colouring, no code completion.) Probably better to edit it in your editor of choice, and then paste it into the Stylish textarea. Hit save, then see your work (I believe you won't even have to refresh, but I might be wrong.)
Also, both these add-ons are available for Chrome too.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe?hl=en
I am not sure why people are suggesting to install extensions for this simple task. I would suggest you to just follow these steps to disable whichever file you want from being loaded in your browser that you want. Just follow these few simple steps:
Hit Ctrl + Shift + C to open source inspection
Navigate to Network tab
Right Click on any file from the list and and click Block request URL
Now the file won't load. Cheers!
PS: Steps are same for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers. Not tested on Opera and/or Safari.
Install web developer extension
http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/firefox/
And then it will create a menu under the Address bar, click on the css tab and then "Disable Styles" > Disable Individual Style Sheet" > then select the style sheet file you want to disable
after this, again click on the css tab and then "Add User Style Sheets" , next select your css file.
I'm reading the guide/documentation for Android at http://developer.android.com/guide/components/loaders.html on Google Chrome on Windows.
I have made certain changes with Chrome Developer Tools like
Changed body background to grey
Changed monospaced font from courier new to consolas
for easier reading. For some reason this site doesn't obey Chrome font setting rules, even though other sites do. So I have to manually go in and change the monospace font from courier new to consolas.
But these changes go away as soon as the page is reloaded. Is it possible to make these changes permanent ?
You can handle the settings > Show Advanced Settings> Web Content> Customize fonts. I am on mac but there should be something equivalent to pc. Also, to run your own css, just use any extension from the web store. One of the many is Style Chooser
I hate Firefox, I really do, but as a web developer I'm chained to it b/c of the robust set of tools that Firebug offers. Recently Chrome and Safari's inspection tools allowed users to edit full chunks structural code (in a very buggy manner), but you still can't edit full stylesheets. Usually when someone brings this up, Chrome and Safari developers say "BUT YOU CAN EDIT CSS," and that's true, to an extent. You can edit CSS property-by-property (which takes forever if you have a lot of changes) in both browsers, but there is no way to see the full computed stylesheet, make edits within it, and immediately see the results. To date, only a full install of Firebug on Firefox allows you to do this.
Has there been any momentum in either of the Chrome or Safari camps to build a plugin to match this unparalleled function? Cheap plugins that allow you to insert CSS into the page are not the answer. It's really simple:
Have a list with the current stylesheets that are being referenced
Choose the one you want to edit, and click an edit button
See all the code in the stylesheet
Make changes and see them reflected on the page immediately
Is it really that hard to build something that does this? I think it must be, b/c why else would the developer communities of two browsers completely ignore it? If there's something out there that now offers this capability, I'd love to hear it; otherwise, maybe someone will step up to the plate and develop it for either Chrome or Safari. It seems like the guys who developed the CSS Edit app would be all over this.
Thanks to you I found it!
The Live Stylesheets extension for Chrome is what you are looking for. Be sure to restart Chrome after installation to use it.
You can edit external stylesheets in Chrome DevTools, too (since Chrome 15 or so). Just double-click the stylesheet contents in the Resources panel (or click the "Edit" button below), edit, Ctrl-S to commit a new revision, Esc to cancel editing. And it updates your page as you type!
You can edit your CSS files directly on Chrome without relying on any extension.
Here is how: Edit CSS files on the fly using Chrome DevTools
A different way to access it:
right click the page, select inspect
on the DevTools, click on "Sources"
locate the css on the "Network" pane and click it
change the css and save it ( by pressing ctrl+s )