CSS not applying to body tag - css

I have the most basic PHP code with just these 13 lines:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link href="design/faq.css" media="display" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="js/jquery.main.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<?php
print_r( $_GET );
echo "hey";
?>
</body>
</html>
When I am opening this page as: faq.php?code=sth; The PHP code is getting executed correctly, but the CSS is not working at all(in any browser). Since I primarily use Opera, here are screenshots:
Parsed Page
Code
The faq.css
What I tried
My first instinct was to check if the faq.css was accessible or not. Yes, the file has write property as 0644 same as all other files.
Then I checked if the path was not getting parsed correctly, but that is not the case either, as I later tried it with full path too.
Trouble
I am completely stumped at such a behavior from the least troublesome of languages as CSS. What could be the problem here? The CSS file contains only these 4 lines.
body {
background-color: #DC2826;
margin-top: 0px;
}

You're using media="display". This is not a valid type for the media attribute.
See this link for valid types of devices (all, aural, braille, handheld, projection, print, screen, tty, tv).

Related

How to detect if JavaScript is disabled using Meteor.com

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>

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.

Targeting different pc and mac separately and calling different stylesheets

First a link to the site: www.fish-fry.com
I know this is considered bad practice, but I have been dealing with this issue for about a months, the site I've built is now 100% finished except for this issue and I can't get paid until it's resolved.
When viewing from Mac, site looks good on all major browsers, when viewing from PC, my navmenu and search bar input are 2px lower.
I've found some code that seems like it will let me call different stylesheets pending the platform, but it's not working for me, wondering if anyone here has any insight:
<script type="text/javascript">
} if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Windows NT')) {
document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/style-windows.css" />');
}
else {
document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/style.css" />');
}
</script>
Any help is greatly appreciated!
#sarnold, no validation errors.
Though removing the closing bracket did not seem to work either. Originally it screwed how things looked on a mac, so I changed it to this:
<script type="text/javascript">
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Windows NT')) {
document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/style-windows.css" />');
}
elseif (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac OS')) {
document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/style.css" />');
}
</script>`
but, when I open chrome or firefox from Windows, it's still reading from the default stylesheet.
Is anyone familiar with the script above? Not sure why my PC is still referencing the Mac stylesheet.
Thanks in advance for any help!
I've tried this script too, seems that still, both platforms are only referencing 'style.css'
<script type="text/javascript">
/***********************************************
* Different CSS depending on OS (mac/pc)- © Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com)
* This notice must stay intact for use
* Visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code
***********************************************/
var csstype="external" //Specify type of CSS to use. "Inline" or "external"
var mac_externalcss='http://www.fish-fry.com/dev/wp-content/themes/FISH-FRY-MUSIC-AND-SOUND-CUSTOM-THEME/style.css' //if "external", specify Mac css file here
var pc_externalcss='http://www.fish-fry.com/dev/wp-content/themes/FISH-FRY-MUSIC-AND-SOUND-CUSTOM-THEME/style-windows.css' //if "external", specify PC/default css file here
///////No need to edit beyond here////////////
var mactest=navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Mac")!=-1
if (csstype=="inline"){
document.write('<style type="text/css">')
if (mactest)
document.write(mac_css)
else
document.write(pc_css)
document.write('</style>')
}
else if (csstype=="external")
document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="'+ (mactest? mac_externalcss : pc_externalcss) +'">')
</script>
Any help? This is driving me bananas :|
Your problem is the stray closing brace at the beggining of the script
As a suggestion for future projects, you may want to use reset stylesheets to synchronize all browsers. This will help avoid viewing headaches. Any of these are a good starting point:
http://html5doctor.com/html-5-reset-stylesheet/
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
http://www.cssreset.com/scripts/html5-doctor-css-reset-stylesheet/
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/reset/
Yahoo's reset is probably the oldest and most outdated. Search for most recent, most popular reset stylesheets in the past year for the poison of your choice.
I guess from the comments above that you found the problem in the stylesheet and fixed it - which is great news.
But for those situations where it's the browser which is buggy, the approach used by the developer of Thematic is really elegant:
They have created a nice bit of code in the theme which adds styles to body that you can hook styles into throughout the site if you need. Here's a real example:
<body class="home page page-id-5 page-template-default windows firefox ff1">
That means you can have one stylesheet with css like:
.firefox #menu { margin-top: 2px; }
.IE6 #menu { margin-top: 4px; }
If you want to play with different user agents check out the Thematic theme website or if you prefer go to my website.

HTML not loading CSS file

I am completely stumped as to why this doesn't work. It seems the HTML file can't load the CSS for some reason, even though both are in the same directory. Any idea what might be the problem?
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Home Page</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" media="screen" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=1100">
</head>
<body>
<div id="main"> Hello </div>
</body>
</html>
style.css
body{
background-color: #F9F9F9;
background-image: url(images/bg3.png);
background-position: center top;
background-repeat: repeat;
text-shadow: #FFFFFF 0px 1px 0px;
font-family: "Georgia", "Times", serif;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}
a{
text-decoration: none;
}
#main{
margin: 50px auto 50px auto;
width: 1000px;
min-height: 500px;
padding: 0px 20px 0px 20px;
}
The above doesn't work. Adding the css inline in index.html works fine though
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Homepage</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
body {
background-color: #F9F9F9;
background-image: url(images/bg3.png);
background-position: center top;
background-repeat: repeat;
text-shadow: #FFFFFF 0px 1px 0px;
font-family: "Georgia", "Times", serif;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}
a {
text-decoration: none;
}
#main {
margin: 50px auto 50px auto;
width: 1000px;
min-height: 500px;
padding: 0px 20px 0px 20px;
}
</style>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=1100">
</head>
<body>
<div id="main"> Hello </div>
</body>
</html>
Add
type="text/css"
to your link tag
While this may no longer be necessary in modern browsers the HTML4 specification declared this a required attribute.
type = content-type [CI]
This attribute specifies the style sheet language of the element's
contents and overrides the default style sheet language. The style
sheet language is specified as a content type (e.g., "text/css").
Authors must supply a value for this attribute; there is no default
value for this attribute.
Check both files in the same directory
and then try this
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
As per you said your both files are in same directory. 1. index.html and 2. style.css
I have copied your code and run it in my local machine its working fine there is no issues.
According to me your browser is not refreshing the file so you can refresh/reload the entire page by pressing CTRL + F5 in windows for mac CMD + R.
Try it if still getting problem then you can test it by using firebug tool for firefox.
For IE8 and Google Chrome you can check it by pressing F12 your developer tool will pop-up and you can see the Html and css.
Still you have any problem please comment so we can help you.
You have to add type="text/css" you can also specify href="./style.css" which the . specifies the current directory
I have struggled with this same problem (Ubuntu 16.04, Bluefish editor, FireFox, Google Chrome.
Solution: Clear browsing data in Chrome "Settings > Advanced Settings > Clear Browsing Data",
In Firefox, "Open Menu image top right tool bar 'Preferences' > Advanced ", look for this image in the menu:
Cached Web Content click the button "Clear Now".
Browser's cache the .css file and if it has not changed they usually won't reload it. So when you change your .css file clear this web cache and it should work unless a problem exists in your .css file.
Peace,
Stan
With HTML5 all you need is the rel, not even the type.
<link href="custom.css" rel="stylesheet"></link>
Well I too had the exactly same question. And everything was okay with my CSS link. Why html was not loading the CSS file was due to its position (as in my case).
Well I had my custom CSS defined in the wrong place and that is why the webpage was not accessing it. Then I started to test and place the CSS link to different place and voila it worked for me.
I had read somewhere that we should place custom CSS right after Bootstrap CSS so I did but then it was not loading it. So I changed the position and it worked.
Hope this helps.
Thanks!
Also make sure your link tag's media attribute has a valid value, in my case, I was using WordPress CMS and passed the boolean value true in the media field so it showed like that.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./style.css" media="1">
That's why it was giving error.
There are three main attributes on which the css style loading depends.
Make sure that your link tag's relation rel attribute's value must be valid for a css file i.e. stylesheet.
Make sure that your link tag's target href attribute's value must be pointing to a valid an existing Cascading Stylesheet file. Like in your case it's ./style.css.
Remember that you can use both absolute and relative paths in the href attribute's value. That means if your file style.css is present at the root i.e. / then you can also use /style.css in the href attribute's value or else if the file is present in the same directory in which your HTML file is present then you can use ./style.css as the value in your link tag's href attribute's value.
Make sure that your link tag's media attribute should be one of the following.
For every device you can use the all keyword as your media attributes's value.
For PC's and laptops only you can use the screen as your media attribute's value.
For webpage prints you can use the print keyword as your media attributes's value. Note that it also applies when you press the Print Screen button to capture the screen's image.
At last for screen readers you can use the speech keyword as your `media attribute's value.
By following these rules your HTML structure for link tag will be.
Your css file should be defined as UTF-8. Put this in the first line of you css file.
#charset "UTF-8";
You could try this:
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection"/>
Make sure that the browser actually makes the request and doesn't return a 404.
I found myself out here looking for an answer and figured out that my issue was a missing character - spelling is important.
<link href="tss_layout.css" rel=styleheet" />
once I put the s in the middle of stylesheet - worked like a charm.
I had been facing the same issue,
For Chrome and Firefox but everything was working how it should in internet explorer. I found that making the CSS file UTF-8 made it work for chrome.
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
I had a similar problem and tested different ways to solve it.
Eventually I understood that my index.htm file had been saved with "Unicode" encoding (for using Farsi characters in my page) while my .css file had been save with "ANSI" format.
I changed the encoding of my .css file to "Unicode" with Notepad and the problem got solved.
Not sure this is valuable, but I will leave this here for others. Making sure that "Anonymous Authentication" was set to "Enabled" loaded my CSS file correctly.
To do that in Visual Studio 2019:
Select your solution's name, right click, and hit "properties"
Navigate to the "Properties" frame, typically in the bottom right corner
Ensure that "Anonymous authentication" is set to "Enabled" as shown below
Here is another cause to add to the collection on this page. In this code...
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles/styles.css" media="screen">
...I misspelled rel as ref.
After digging and digging on this issue, for me it was solved by Johannes on another thread: Local CSS file is not loading from HTML
The type attribute in your link tag has typographical quote
characters: type=“text/css”. Try to change these to "plain" quotes
like type="text/css"
I had similar problem.. my code was working fine but suddenly css sheets stopped working.. after some detection I found out that somehow the MIME of style sheet was changed from type="text/css" to "text-css".. Idk how they were changed since the code was working few hours ago but however I changed it and it worked fine. hope this helps.
Well I faced this issue today and as workaround (not the best) I did below
<script type="text/javascript" src="testWeb/scripts/inline.31e1fb380eb7cf3d75b1.bundle.js"></script>
where testWeb is my root app folder in my htdoc dir. in windows (using xampp) or in /var/www/html directory as for some reason I do not know yet
<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/inline.31e1fb380eb7cf3d75b1.bundle.js"></script>
not loading while html index file beside scripts folder in same directory.
This may be a 'special' case but was fiddling with this piece of code:
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
As a quick test for extentionless file handling, when a similar problem occurred.
Some but not all php files thereafter treated the css files as php and thus succesfully loaded the css but not handled it as css, thus zero rules were executed when checking f12 style editor.
Perhaps something similar might occur to any-one else here and this tidbit might help.
I was having similar problem but resolved changing the Style.css to style.css Because of this name caps letter "S"change it was throwing 404 error we won't notice small changes in my system it was working but when I hosted in cloud it was throwing this error make sure this all being checked after uploading in cloud
i have the same probleme, i always change the "style.css" to "styles.css" or any other name
and it worked fine for me.
HTML was not loading my css because i had placed the style.css in template folder rather it should be in static folder . After replacing my file to static folder it worked for me
Use the following steps to load .CSS file its very simple.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="path_here.css">
note: 1--> don't forget to write "stylesheet" in rel attribute.
2--> use correct path e.g: D:\folder1\forlder2\folder3\file.css"
Now where ever directory you are in, you can load your .css file exactly path you mention.
Regards! Muhammad Majid.
guys the best thing to try is to refreash the whole website by pressing ctrl + F5 on mac it is CMD + R
Add type="text/css"
It worked for me.

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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