I'm working on a web page in Google Chrome. It displays correctly with the following styles.
table {
display: table;
border-collapse: separate;
border-spacing: 2px;
border-color: gray;
}
It is important to note that I didn't define these styles. In Chrome developer tools, it says user agent stylesheet in place of the CSS file name.
Now if I submit a form and some validation error occurs, I get the following stylesheet:
table {
white-space: normal;
line-height: normal;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: medium;
font-variant: normal;
font-style: normal;
color: -webkit-text;
text-align: -webkit-auto;
}
table {
display: table;
border-collapse: separate;
border-spacing: 2px;
border-color: gray;
}
The font-size from these new styles is disturbing my design. Is there a way to force my stylesheets and if possible, completely overwrite Chrome's default stylesheet?
What are the target browsers? Different browsers set different default CSS rules. Try including a CSS reset, such as the meyerweb CSS reset or normalize.css, to remove those defaults. Google "CSS reset vs normalize" to see the differences.
If <!DOCTYPE> is missing in your HTML content you may experience that the browser gives preference to the "user agent stylesheet" over your custom stylesheet. Adding the doctype fixes this.
Regarding the concept “user agent style sheet”, consult section Cascade in the CSS 2.1 spec.
User agent style sheets are overridden by anything that you set in your own style sheet. They are just the rock bottom: in the absence of any style sheets provided by the page or by the user, the browser still has to render the content somehow, and the user agent style sheet just describes this.
So if you think you have a problem with a user agent style sheet, then you really have a problem with your markup, or your style sheet, or both (about which you wrote nothing).
Marking the document as HTML5 by the proper doctype on the first line, solved my issue.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>...
A user agent style sheet is a ”default style sheet” provided by the browser (e.g., Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc.) in order to present the page in a way that satisfies ”general presentation expectations.” For example, a default style sheet would provide base styles for things like font size, borders, and spacing between elements.
It is also common to use a CSS Reset to normalize or remove inconsistencies between browsers due to differences between which base styles are applied by each browser.
From the specification...
A user agent's default style sheet should present the elements of the document language in ways that satisfy general presentation expectations for the document language. ~ The Cascade.
For more information about user agents in general, see user agent.
Answering the question in title, what is the user agent stylesheet, the set of default styles in the browser: Here are some of them:
Chromium (Chrome): https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/third_party/+/master/blink/renderer/core/html/resources/html.css
WebKit (Safari): https://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/css/html.css
Gecko (Firefox): https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/style/res/html.css
Serenity: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/CSS/Default.css#L4
Mozilla Servo: https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/master/resources/user-agent.css#L9
Personal opinion: Don't fight with them. They have good default values, for example, in rtl/bidi cases and are consistent nowadays. Reset what you see irrelevant to you, not all of them at once.
Define the values that you don't want to be used from Chrome's user agent style in your own CSS content.
Some browsers use their own way to read .css files.
So the right way to beat this:
If you type the command line directly in the .html source code, this beats the .css file, in that way, you told the browser directly what to do and the browser is at position not to read the commands from the .css file.
Remember that the commands writen in the .html file is stronger than the command in the .css.
I had the same problem as one of my <div>'s had the margin set by the browser. It was quite annoying but then I figured out as most of the people said, it's a markup error.
I went back and checked my <head> section and my CSS link was like below:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="ex.css">
I included type in it and made it like below:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ex.css">
My problem was solved.
I just wanted to expand on the response from #BenM based on what I read here from Ire Aderinokun. Because the user-agent stylesheet provides helpful default styling, think twice before overriding it.
I had a dumb error where a button element didn't look right in Chrome. I had partially styled it because I didn't want it to look like a traditional button. However, I left out style elements like border, border-color, etc. So Chrome was stepping in to supply the parts that it thought I was missing.
The problem went away once I added styles like border: none, etc.
So if anyone else is having this problem, make sure you are explicitly overriding all the applicable default user-agent styles for an element if you notice it looks wonky, especially if you don't want to reset the user agent styles completely. It worked for me.
Each browser provides a default stylesheet, called the user agent stylesheet, in case an HTML file does not specify one. Styles that you specify override the defaults.
Because you have not specified values for the table element’s box, the default styles have been applied.
I ran into this same issue, it was because I was working with non-semantic html
<!--incorrect-->
<ul class="my-custom-font">
<button>
<a>user agent styles applied instead of my-custom-font</a>
<button>
</ul>
<!--correct-->
<ul class="my-custom-font">
<li>
<a>now inherits from from my-custom-font</a>
</li>
</ul>
Once the HTML was updated, styles were applied correctly
Every browser will have a rendering engine responsible for converting HTML document to web page.
The rendering engine will have a stylesheet of its own for all the HTML elements, a kind of default stylesheet for all the HTML elements and this stylesheet is called user agent stylesheet.
The rules of user agent stylesheet can be overwritten by author stylesheet.
The rendering engine for google chrome browser is called 𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤. And if you look through its source code you will be able to find the default stylesheet.
check this https://www.linkedin.com/posts/smruti-sagar-pattanaik-a3a000195_html-css-chrome-activity-7027888128115847168-USil?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
I have a solution. Check this:
Error
<link href="assets/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="text/css" type="stylesheet">
Correct
<link href="assets/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
Put the following code in your CSS file:
table {
font-size: inherit;
}
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How would I go about troubleshooting why certain styles are not applied in IE9 ... I can see that they are crossed out when I check my firebuglight.
But in FF, the style is applied, which is what I want.
unfortunately, this is not my css or web app so I'm not familiar with the css.
My second question is this. I'm also noticing that in IE, the class is being "overwritten" multiple times. Meaning - I see the same class repeated in the list of classes, with different properties.
In FF, I only see it once. If FF looks good, can I assume that I can delete all instances of the class name in the css file, except for the one that FF shows in its firebug list?
Thanks.
EDIT 1:
Here's an example. In IE, I have the following 2 styles being applied to an tag.
Everything in the first style is "enabled" but in the second class, the color is disabled.
as is all the padding.
#websiteName {
color:#65605e;
float:left;
letter-spacing:1px;
padding-bottom:4px;
padding-left:10px;
padding-right:10px;
padding-top:11px;
}
#websiteName {
color:#ffffff;
font-size:150%;
font-weight:normal;
margin:0;
padding-bottom:5px;
padding-left:10px;
padding-right:10px;
padding-top:5px;
text-align:center;
width:auto;
}
However, in FF, this is what I see for the same class:
#websiteName {
color:#FFFFFF;
font-size:150%;
font-weight:normal;
margin:0;
padding:5px 10px;
text-align:center;
width:auto;
}
So in my css, I searched to find all instances of this class. And I found the following embedded in a big long string of css code:
#webLogo{display:block;width:25%}#websiteName{color:#65605E;letter-spacing:1px;padding:11px 10px 4px;float:left}.dir-rtl #websiteName{float:right}#someotherclass{}
and also this, also embedded in amongst other css class definitions.
#websiteName{color:#FFFFFF;text-align:center;width:auto;font-size:150%;font-weight:normal;padding:5px 10px;margin:0}
The second code snippet appears after the first.
EDIT 2:
I randomly decided this afternoon to change my monitor for my computer that has IE running on it and guess what? VOILA! The site now appears the same in IE as it does on my FF machine.
Im' just a css newbie so I'm not sure if this correct, but i started look for media queries in my css to see if it was detecting browser sizes somewhere.
I haven't found anything yet but can you give me any other ideas as to what might be going on?
Thanks.
For "troubleshooting why certain styles are not applied in IE9 "; before letting what-so-ever-tool try to help you, read AND understand this : http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html.
Focus on point 6.4 The cascade (precedence)
Style sheets may have three different origins: author, user, and user agent.
Author. The author specifies style sheets for a source document according to the conventions of the document language. For instance, in HTML, style sheets may be included in the document or linked externally.
User: The user may be able to specify style information for a particular document. For example, the user may specify a file that contains a style sheet or the user agent may provide an interface that generates a user style sheet (or behaves as if it did).
User agent: Conforming user agents must apply a default style sheet (or behave as if they did). A user agent's default style sheet should present the elements of the document language in ways that satisfy general presentation expectations for the document language (e.g., for visual browsers, the EM element in HTML is presented using an italic font). See A sample style sheet for HTML for a recommended default style sheet for HTML documents.
For your other question : firebug can be 'setUp' to 'Only show applied styles', 'Show user agent style'. Try those to show/hide at your preference. Also, if you declare something like this :
div, td, span, .selector, a {
color:red;
}
...
<td>
<div>
<span>
text link
</span>
</div>
</td>
...
then you inspect an anchor within a span, within a div within a td, Firebug will show you 4 times the style applied (due to your firebug settings)
Chances are the reason they are crossed out in IE then applied with new styles is they are using IE specific values for those css rules, which will overwrite any existing style. Same goes with firefox, you might be seeing MOZ only rules for instance as IE cant do everything Firefox can so IE is ignoring that css. If you have a example it might help.
I found this reset.css file inside a jquery image slider demo, but it was never included in the main index.html file. what is is suppose to do, and more importantly, where do you put it? Do you put it before any referenced stylesheets()?
Here is the code inside reset.css
/* CSS reset */
body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,form,fieldset,input,textarea,p,blockquote,th,td {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
html,body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
table {
border-collapse:collapse;
border-spacing:0;
}
fieldset,img {
border:0;
}
input{
border:1px solid #b0b0b0;
padding:3px 5px 4px;
color:#979797;
width:190px;
}
address,caption,cite,code,dfn,th,var {
font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal;
}
ol,ul {
list-style:none;
}
caption,th {
text-align:left;
}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {
font-size:100%;
font-weight:normal;
}
q:before,q:after {
content:'';
}
abbr,acronym { border:0;
}
In the beginning, there was no standardisation on how styles worked, each browser implemented what it felt was right. One of the reasons you see so many questions about style errors in IE is because IE was the browser with the most dissimilarities from other browsers in terms of styling. Though IE has improved and so have other browsers they still apply their own borders, padding and margins, zoom, fonts to elements to give their own unique feel to pages. One example is, chrome gives its own yellow borders to text boxes. The "reset" actually "resets" all these styles to zero/none, so that you don't see any styles you haven't applied to your page.
If these styles are not "reset", you will see unwanted styles/effects and things breaking. Its generally recommended to "reset" the browser's styles.
Have a look at this article Should you Reset Your CSS?
reset.css is used to normalize browser's default styles.
Example:
Looking at the answers here there seems to be a bit of mixup between "reset" and "normalize". Their goals are slightly different.
A CSS reset is a set of styles you load prior to your other styles, to remove browser built-in styles. One of first and most popular ones was Eric Mayer's Reset CSS.
Another option is to harmonize browser built-in styles. The most popular tool to achieve this is currently Normalize.css.
Browser have different "built-in" styles which they apply to different html-elements. These styledefinitions may vary accross different browsers. The normalizing css files are meant to „normalize“ the rendering of the page across browsers by resetting these browser-specific styes.
You have to include it before your own style definitions. Otherwise these styles would possibly override (due to the cascading nature of css) your declarations too, which wouldn't make much sense;)
The most popular styles reset is probably Eric Meyer's which comes along with a little background information..
Browsers may render the HTML and CSS received according to its native rendering engine. Different browsers may use different rendering approaches [IE ;) if you know what i mean] so the intension of reset.css is to set all the attributes to common predefined values so the developers/ designers are can forget some rendering engine and start development from the scratch.
A CSS Reset (or “Reset CSS”) is a short, often compressed (minified)
set of CSS rules that resets the styling of all HTML elements to a
consistent baseline.
In case you didn’t know, every browser has its own default ‘user
agent’ stylesheet, that it uses to make unstyled websites appear more
legible. For example, most browsers by default make links blue and
visited links purple, give tables a certain amount of border and
padding, apply variable font-sizes to H1, H2, H3 etc. and a certain
amount of padding to almost everything. Ever wondered why Submit
buttons look different in every browser?
Obviously this creates a certain amount of headaches for CSS authors,
who can’t work out how to make their websites look the same in every
browser.
Using a CSS Reset, CSS authors can force every browser to have all its
styles reset to null, thus avoiding cross-browser differences as much
as possible
refer http://www.cssreset.com/what-is-a-css-reset/
Every browser has its own default user agent stylesheet, that it uses to make unstyled websites appear more legible. For example, most browsers by default make links blue and visited links purple, give tables a certain amount of border and padding, apply variable font-sizes to H1, H2, H3, etc. and a certain amount of padding to almost everything.
Ever wondered why Submit buttons look different in every browser?
Obviously this creates a certain amount of headaches for CSS authors, who can’t work out how to make their websites look the same in every browser.
Using a CSS Reset, CSS authors can force every browser to have all its styles reset to null, thus avoiding cross-browser differences as much as possible.
From the consistent base that you’ve set up via your reset, you can then go on to re-style your document, safe in the knowledge that the browsers’ differences in their default rendering of HTML can’t touch you!
Hopefully it helped, you may want to take a look at this article, Which CSS Reset Should I Use?.
In simple words CSS reset is required due to browsers’ inconsistency. In detail all browsers rendering are not the same. Therefore web rendering could be different from browser to browser.
Meyer Web providing a utmost CSS reset code if you're want to use/reset. You can find it here. If you need more details, here also you can find out what CSS reset in more details and why we need to use it.
I have a page where the UL is set to padding-left: 40px and I can't find where it is being set. In firebug it shows in 'computed' but isn't in the inherited styles list. I've tried removing the jquery in case it was set in js. I've removing the css - it's still there. I've set a breakpoint on attribute change - nothing.
Setting padding-left:0px doesn't fix IE7
Is there a plugin or some better way of inspecting applied css rules?
It's probably a browser default. If it's not in firebug's style tab, it's being applied by the browser itself.
To get Firebug to show user-agent defined CSS, click on the style tab drop-down and click "Show User Agent CSS" (thanks Gerben).
You can override styles that are set by the user-agent, simply by defining the style attribute for that element:
ul{
padding-left:20px;
}
Note that IE7 uses margin instead of padding as the default style for lists.
You can 'reset' all user-agent defined rules using something like Yahoo's reset stylesheet.
You can also 'normalise' the style applied to a page. This means overriding user-agent defined styles so that all browsers use a standard style. I personally prefer this method over 'resetting' the CSS and having to explicitly define CSS rules for everything. It's easier and takes up less space. Try this library.
That padding-left on ul is coming from the user agent stylesheet.
You can remove it with:
ul {
padding-left: 0;
margin-left: 0
}
Firebug is already the best Firefox plugin for this sort of task. You just need to enable this option:
Debugging experience http://www.dmhermitage.org/wtfborders.pngThis is making me want to kill myself.
I have some really simple CSS to style my input objects:
input, button
{
border: 1px solid #c66600;
background-color: white;
color: #7d212f;
font-family: "Eras Light ITC", Tahoma, sans;
}
But I don't like the ugly border it puts around radio buttons, so I use a selector to kill the border:
input[type=radio] { border: none; }
You can probably guess what browsers this works in and which ONE it does not work in. What's funny is when I press F12 to launch the excellent developer tools in IE8 it actually tells me that the style of the radio buttons has been overridden to 'none' just like I asked it to do, but the border remains on the radio button objects.
I have tried a variety of semantic things, like setting the border width to 0px or the color to something insane like lime green, but it remains the originally assigned color that it got from the first style.
And finally, I have tried only styling 'text' objects, in which case no style is applied to anything. Again, the browser claims to fulfill the CSS selection, but it visually does not happen.
Thoughts?
By the way, this is a DotNetNuke installation with generated code where I can't explicitly set the style of the radio buttons.
Thanks,
Dan
IE8 appears to be rendering in quirks mode instead of standards mode, which always messes everything up in IE. To switch to standards mode, the easiest way is to replace the doctype on the first line of the document with this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
You may also want to look at some of the HTML being output. You have a span with ID dnn_dnnMENU_ctldnnMENU that contains dozens of made-up attributes like BackColor, SysImgPath, MenuItemHeightand so on. These will have no effect in most browsers (maybe IE interprets them specially, I dunno).
problem is...
Being most helpful ever, please notice, that somehow, your page get's rendered in quirks mode, thus in some screwed way nobody should ever use.
solution [edit]
due to: http://dorward.me.uk/www/ie8/
set your html 4 doctype to:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
Just in case, have you tried with:
input[type='radio'] { border: none; }
Notice the addition of the apostrophe (or whatever you call the ' in your funny language :P)
I looked at the site, your CSS is correct and there is nothing I can help you with. Good luck!
You can remove the border by setting an inline style attribute in the developer toolbar to border: none;... So for some reason the style isn't applied to the radio-button although the style is traced correctly. Seems like some sort of bug.. Have you tried jacking up the specificity of the rule (it should already be higher than input, but just to try it out)?
For instance:
#page input[type=radio] {
border: none;
}
It's not possible with CSS anymore (as far as I know), but using this Javascript here it will be possible for you; Styling checkboxes and radio buttons with CSS and Javascript.
Nasty. Try specifying the border colour to white?
Here is my code:
.blue {
color:#6E99E1;
font-size:9px;
}
<span class="blue">::CLICK HERE:: to view our New Equipment inventory. <br /><br /></span>
I've somehow triggered something that prevented the <a> tag from inheriting color of parent <span>.
Just an addendum to the other responses, if you want your <a> tags to inherit the colour from their parent you can use
a {color: inherit; }
By default an anchor tag does not inherit attributes like color if an href attribute is present.
Check out the difference between these two on a page:
<span style=color:green>test</span>
<span style=color:green><a>test</a></span>
The following link is to the w3 c:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.2
User agents generally render links in
such a way as to make them obvious to
users (underlining, reverse video,
etc.). The exact rendering depends on
the user agent. Rendering may vary
according to whether the user has
already visited the link or not.
.....
Usually, the contents of A are not
rendered in any special way when A
defines an anchor only.
This is an answer to the question as well as a reply to Kevin's answer and its comments.
Anchor tags do inherit color, linked or not. The only reason they don't in practice is because they already have their color set in the browser's default stylesheet. The same can be said for the underlining of the link (which, I presume, you didn't notice, because you actually want it or had already changed it yourself).
In Firefox, you can see this in Firebug if you toggle "Show User Agent CSS" (or you can have a look at Firefox's internal stylesheets directly. You can see the browser's defaults in Webkit's Web Inspector and Opera's Dragonfly as well. I don't think you can in IE.
I don't know of any site which has an overview of all browser's defaults. CSS2's "informative" HTML4 stylesheet as well as the YUI reset stylesheet would be a good starting point, but neither of them mention any (link) colors (the HTML4 stylesheet does mention the underline).
To find out which properties are inherited in general, you can use the CSS2 reference property index table (see the "Inherited?" column). SitePoint also mentions it in its CSS reference.
So if you want to make sure your link inherits its color from its parent instead of from the browser's default stylesheet, you would ideally do something like this:
.blue a:link {
color: inherit;
}
You could set it for the different pseudo-classes separately (so :visited, :hover and :active as well), or for the a tag altogether.
However, IE6 and IE7 don't support the inherit keyword, so if you want to support them too, you'd have to set the color explicitly.
I think a doesn't inherit color by default. (certainly it has always worked that way on my sites). Why not change
.blue {
color:#6E99E1;
font-size:9px;
}
to
.blue, .blue a{
color:#6E99E1;
font-size:9px;
}
Firebug will show you exactly which style rules are applied to which elements. It's perfect for this.
(A non-CSS possibility: Do you have link/alink/vlink attributes on your <body> tag?)
Edit: Duh, silly me, the others have it right - <a href> doesn't inherit colour. But Firebug is still a good tool for this kind of problem (even if I'm not. 8-)
In addition to firebug (which should be your first port of call), the IE developer toolbar will also tell you where a given style is sourced from, just in case IE - shock, horror - should be different.
You need to explicitly set the color of the links to override the default blue color.
You are likely seeing the a:visited colouring. Try this:
.blue, .blue:link, .blue:visited {
color:#6E99E1;
font-size:9px;
}