Change option text color in IE - css

I'm trying to force the text color in the option of a select input and it's working on every browser in the world but guest what, yeah IE still don't give a damn about the color in the stylesheet.
Do you guys know how to force IE to make my text color like I wish
Here's what I expect
and this is what IE does
CSS
#footer .findProduct select{background: transparent; border:0; color:#fff!important; font-weight:700; text-transform: uppercase; font-family: 'Crimson Text',serif; }
#footer .findProduct select option{color:#000!important; text-transform: uppercase;}

Styling selects with css is just a bad idea. It is impossible to get them styled correctly in all browsers. All you can do is mimic the select box with js. There are frameworks and plugins availble. Basicly they will hide the select and replace them with a list or something that acts like a select, and wich you can style completly. In the background they will update the select in sync with the list to still make your form work on submit. You could also do something similar yourself (best to use jQuery), it should not be to hard if you are a bit familiar with it.
I guess the custom arrow button you use in your screenshot is not working eather...

Your css rules contradict each other change them to this:
#footer .findProduct select{background: transparent; color: #fff; border:0; font-weight:700; text-transform: uppercase; font-family: 'Crimson Text',serif; }
#footer .findProduct select option{color:#000 !important; text-transform: uppercase;}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/dan_barzilay/tJZek/

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How to change default text color for entire site

I built a website with a WYSIWYG website builder using a template provided by the program. I have since abandoned the template and use CSS to style everything, but for some reason I cannot change the default text color of the whole site.
I thought that simply changing the body color in the CSS would change the default color:
body {
font-family: Lato;
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 1.42857143;
color: #ff9900;
background-color: #750204;
So I tried changing the color: #ff9900 to "b6b6b6" but that didn't work.
Then I literally replaced every instance of ff9900 in the CSS file to b6b6b6 and still the website shows the color ff9900. I don't get how that's possible.
Obviously I don't really know what I'm doing so be gentle. Thanks for any advice.
EDIT: here is what I see when I inspect the live page:
Why your code is not working
Although your code logically is correct, you must take into account how CSS works, especially in how it sets styles. If you have a certain element with that has color: blaa;, then it will always set that after what it inherits. So when you use body {blaa...}, you will only be able to see the results if nothing else later on overrides that. Here is a diagram to show you this:
For an element with the ID of "ID" in something like: body > nav > #ID then the styles will be applied like this:
BODY STYLES:
NAV STYLES
#ID STYLES or .CLASS STYLES
* STYLES
In this, if you specify a rule like: body { color:red }, and then #id { color:blue } then the color will be blue as it is the latest out of the 2 in the list above.
Why dooj sahu's answer has been down voted
This is because !important is not the best to use when there are other ways to go without it.
The way to do it
The best way to solve your problem is by using;
* {
color: #b6b6b6
}
* {
color: #b6b6b6
}
If you are begineer, i add a precision:
"*" target entire website, you can change background-color for example and whatever property you want.
Simply use !important:
body {
font-family: Lato;
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 1.42857143;
color: #b6b6b6 !important;
background-color: #750204;
}

how to customize the look of a Tab for Android in codename one?

I am using the CSS Plugin for codename one and I am trying to customize the look of Tabs.
Here is my entry for the Tab:
Tab {
background: none;
cn1-background-type: none;
color: white;
background-color: #005EA8;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: x-large;
}
Tab.selected {
background: none;
cn1-background-type: none;
color: white;
background-color: #005EA8;
text-decoration: underline;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: x-large;
}
This works perfectly for IOS, see here:
But not at all for android:
I have already tried by overriding all the styles, unselected, selected, disabled and pressed
.
I also tried by customizing TabbedPane and Tabs, but that did not work as expected either.
What am I missing here? Additionally, the size (height) should be the same on both devices, which is not the case for now. Another point I could not figure out is, how to stretch the tabs onto screen size?
The Android native theme defines a default background color of #f0f0f0 on ALL styles. This is an annoyance when you are trying to create themes that look the same across all platforms. Luckily, I think this is the only style that it defines in default so you can easily combat it by explicitly setting your own default background color for your theme.
In CSS, you can define a default background with
* {
background-color: transparent;
}
Alternatively, just keep this default in mind, and explicitly set the background color for any style you are defining.
You need to override the border and declare it to be "empty". I'm not sure how something like that is done in the CSS syntax as I don't use that myself.

Button not taking css attributes

So I have a button inside a div. I want to make the font-weight: bold so I put it in the css. I fire up the website and the text of the button isn't bold. I then check it with Firebug and the font-weight: bold isn't even there? When I manually type it there in firebug my text becomes bold, just as I want it.
I'm working with bootstrap, here is the css of the button:
.btn-primary {
background: url("../img/bg-nav.png") repeat-x scroll left bottom #198901;
color: #ffffff;
font: 17px "bowlby_oneregular",sans-serif !important;
font-weight: bold;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
I find it strange that it doesn't show up with Firebug, and yet when I put it there with Firebug it works
There are two solutions:
Remove !important:
font:17px "bowlby_oneregular",sans-serif;
font-weight:bold;
Split the shorthand property up:
font-size:17px;
font-family:"bowlby_oneregular",sans-serif;
font-weight:bold;
The exact solution depends on how exactly you want to apply the fonts. But I’d simply rewrite your code so that !important will never become necessary.

Inconsistent underline thickness in IE

I would like content of my anchor links to be consistenly bold and underlined, but spans inside anchor tag should not be bold.
Sample markup:
<a>Hello, <span>fooooo</span> bar</a>
Styles:
a {
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: underline;
}
span {
font-weight: normal;
}
(right click on image and select view/open in new tab to get a better view)
In IE8+, underline thickness is inconsistent: apparently it is determined by percentage of bold text inside link. Is there a way to make underlining look exactly the same for every link on the page?
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/FfBGn/
Kinda hack-ish, but instead of text-decoration:underline, you could use this instead:
border-bottom:1px solid #000;
demo
Alternatively, if you have to use text-decoration:underline,
you could just make bold bolder.
font-weight:800;
demo
Maybe an easier way could be to set the border of the anchor instead of underline? That way you can dictate the thickness yourself?
border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;

How to change text color in Disqus comment textarea?

I'm using Disqus external comment system with Wordpress (as a WP plugin) and I'm trying to customize it with my custom CSS.
Everything works great, but I have problems with replacing the default text color in the form textarea.
I tried it with:
#dsq-content .dsq-textarea .dsq-textarea-wrapper, #dsq-content .dsq-input-wrapper { color: red !important }
but I was not successful, even when I targetet just "textarea" it not worked.
It seems that javascript is playing together because there are 2 events: when the textarea is focused and blurred. When there is a "blur" then .placeholder-grey CSS class is added to the textarea, but targeting that with CSS not worked as well.
Disqus has very poor documentation, so I figured out all this with code inspection.
Any ideas would be really appreciated.
P.S. I don't have a working example online, you can see it on any blog/website where Disqus is used, for example on their own blog at: http://blog.disqus.com/post/974280725/achievement-unlocked-merging-profiles#disqus_thread
Depending on how the theme is laid out, Disqus may inherit a different text color which may be the same as the background. You can change it using the following override:
#dsq-content { color: #ffffff !important; }
If the text color still does not change, you will need to target comments more directly. This can be done with the following CSS:
.dsq-full-comment { color: #ffffff !important; } /*for Narcissus theme users*/
.dsq-comment-body { color: #ffffff !important; } /*for Houdini theme users*/
If you didn't solve it yet I found a solution that worked for me. Just a bit after the body{} tag in the style sheet of wordpress, you will find the ul{} in there change the color:#FFFFFF to color:#000000 (or what ever color you like). It worked for me and I hope it will work for you to.
body{
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #000000;
}
a:hover{
color: #FFFFFF;
}
a {
color: #CCCCCC;
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 14px;
}
li {
padding: 10px 10px 0px 10px;
}
ul {
list-style:none;
>>> color: #000000;
margin-left: 25px;
}
The site you link to has a css style block just before the textarea, if you edit this to add color: #f90; it'll change the color from the usual black to orange (in this example). Presumably you could also add this in the head of the document instead.
If you use something like Chrome's developer tools or, I imagine, Firebug for Firefox you can edit the html/css in place to see the effect live (although it won't persist) to see what changes you can, or need to, make.
The website you weblink to has a css design prevent just before the textarea, if you modify this to add color: #f90; it'll modify along with from the regular dark to lemon (in this example). Presumably you could also add this in the go of the papers instead.
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