I am new to CSS and am working on an intraweb application which will render in modern standard browsers (IE support is not necessary). I have spent much time looking for answers on this and other sites, only to find the answers "It's impossible because..." or "Do this hack instead...." but I just won't accept that.
Here's what I need:
A table with one header row and multiple body rows;
A solid border under the header row;
Vertical white space (padding? margin? spacing?) between the header row and first body row only;
Body rows being highlighted on mouse hover.
I couldn't get (2) to be visible until I styled the table border-collapse: collapse;. Fine. But (3) apparently only works with border-spacing, and only on <td> elements (not <tbody> or <tr>), which is anyway disabled by the collapse. Meanwhile, for some unknowable reason, margin's are not recognized for <thead>, <tr>, or <th> elements, but having padding-top on the first row of the body's <td>'s works, except it doesn't, because when I mouse over that first row, the whole margin-which-is-implemented-as-padding gets highlighted as well, which nauseates me.
I know having a few pixels of margin between a table's header and body is like a really out-of-left-field, why-would-anyone-ever-want-that thing to want, but what should I tell you? I'm no cheap date.
Please be as brutal and condescending as you can in pointing out my stupidity in understanding CSS, provided you also either 1) say how to do it without changing the markup (thereby preserving the separation of presentation from content CSS was evidently designed to encourage) or 2) agree with me that CSS is weird.
<head><style>
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
}
thead {
border-bottom: 4px solid #123456;
}
/*** something goes here ***/
tbody tr:hover {
background-color: #ABCDEF;
}
</style></head>
<body>
<table>
<thead>
<tr><th>Fruit</th><th>Color</th><th>Yummy?</th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Apple</td><td>Green</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Banana</td><td>Yellow</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Pear</td><td>Brown</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
This would fix your problems without any hacks and ofcourse its completely possible. The updated code(only CSS changes) is shared below with explanations.
Problem 3 :
We can make use of the CSS selector :first-of-type(targeting only the first row) in succession with all the <td> under it and use attribute padding-top. Simple :-)
<tr> cannot have margin values by default. Again hacks are available(above mentioned answers) but I wouldn't go there as you don't want it.
And also since we have used padding, the hover effect would work perfectly on the entire row content. Hence getting the desired change without any markup changes.
Problem 2 :
We can remove the attribute border-collapse from table and instead apply the border on the <th>tags (let the border-spacing: 0 remain or the border would be discontinuous). Simple again :-)
Problem 1 and 4 are already covered. No markup changes as you wished. Here is the Fiddle
So the updated style code would look like
<head><style>
table {
border-spacing: 0;
}
thead tr th {
border-bottom: 4px solid #123456;
}
tbody tr:hover {
background-color: #ABCDEF;
}
/*** added ***/
tbody tr:first-of-type td {
padding-top: 10px;
}
</style></head>
Okay, in order:
1: A table with one header row and multiple body rows:
This is what the elements thead and tbody were designed for:
<table>
<thead>
<tr><th>heading one</th><th>Heading two</th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<!--
all body table rows in here
-->
</tbody>
</table>
There's also tfoot (see references), which, if used, must be declared before the tbody element.
2: A solid border under the header row:
thead tr th {
border-bottom: 2px solid #000;
}
Select the th elements within the thead element, the tr selector is probably unnecessary here, and, while it does no harm, can be simplified to: thead th {/*...*/}.
3: Vertical white space (padding? margin? spacing?) between the header row and first body row only. padding, it seems, cannot be applied to the thead, tbody or tr elements, since they're, essentially (I suppose) 'non-visual', so it has to be defined on the td elements. This does, on hover, mean there's a disconcertingly large 'row' occupied by the first row during the :hover (see the next part).
tbody tr:first-child td {
padding-top: 1em;
}
4: Body rows being highlighted on mouse hover.
tbody tr:hover td {
background-color: #ffa;
}
While you can apply a :hover to the currently-hovered cell, and later siblings (with the general sibling ~ combinator) you can't apply a style to siblings that appear previously, so here we're styling the td elements in response to the :hover of their parent tr.
The reason that we have to style the td (rather than directly change the background-color of the tr is because td elements don't typically default to a transparent background, which means the changed/highlighted background-color is 'hidden' by the background-color of the td elements.
JS Fiddle demo.
References:
Table row-groups, thead, tbody, tfoot elements.
In order to apply margin to the first table row you need to make it display: block; first, as margin can only be applied to block elements (including inline-blocks)
But here is another solution using positioning:
<head><style>
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
position: relative; /* Add positioning */
margin-top: 40px; /* Add some margin */
}
thead {
border-bottom: 4px solid #123456;
}
/*** something goes here ***/
thead {
position: absolute; /* Position this element absolute */
top: -40px; /* And move it up */
}
tbody tr:hover {
background-color: #ABCDEF;
}
</style></head>
<body>
<table>
<thead>
<tr><th>Fruit</th><th>Color</th><th>Yummy?</th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Apple</td><td>Green</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Banana</td><td>Yellow</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
<tr><td>Pear</td><td>Brown</td><td>Yes</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Thats how its done!</p>
</body>
Basically we apply position: relative; to the table and position: absolute; to thead.
Now you can move the thead inside the table using top, bottom, left and right properties. We are going to move it up by 40px using top: -40px;
We do not apply position: absolute; to tbody, because if we do - this element will no longer 'strech the page' or in other words all the following elements will ignore its height. (try doing it and see what happens to the following block)
The only thing we got left - is to apply some margin-top to the table itself, moving it down (as we moved the thead up)
Yes, CSS can seem a bit weird from time to time, but this is mostly because we forget how some page elements are supposed to be handled (namely tables and their child elements)
What about adding an empty row at the beginning like
<tbody>
<tr><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>blablablabla</td></tr>
And use this CSS
tbody tr:first-child td{
padding-top: 15px;
}
tbody tr:first-child:hover{
background-color: transparent;
}
So the padding will be added to first row and first row won't highlight on mouse over? :)
All your 4 points are covered there-
First download metro ui css here http://metroui.org.ua/
Include its two css file 1. metro-bootstrap, 2.metro-bootstrap-responsive into your project.
Register that in BundleConfig.
bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/Content/css/metroUI").Include("~/Content/css/metro-bootstrap.css",
"~/Content/css/metro-bootstrap-responsive.css"));
Now use class "gr-items" for table
< table id="divAllActivities" class="gr-items">
<thead>
<tr><th><span>Comment</span></th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><span>OperationDateTime</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span>OperationDateTime</span></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
Hope this is what you want.
Related
I have two table in two div, each div having a different class. I would like to apply a padding to the cells of one of the tables only.
(the code below is also at JSFiddle)
The HTML part:
<div class=tight>
<table>
<tr>
<td>hello</td><td>world</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div class=wide>
<table>
<tr>
<td>bonjour</td><td>tout le monde</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
The CSS part:
td {
background: green;
color: white;
padding: 10px;
}
This applies padding to all cells. I tried to be specific though various combinations of
td .wide { ... }
td, .wide { ... }
td.wide { ... }
but I failed to find the right one.
Is it possible to set a property for an element, but which is a child of a specific div (specific = having a specific class)?
For example, if you want to apply padding on < td > of the first div, use:
.tight td{
padding: 10px;
}
If you prefer to exclude one of the class, you can also use :
div:not(.tight) td {
padding: 10px;
}
Use some thing like this .wide td
I have this two styles in CSS, both in an external linked css file, and applied to the same table, with class myTable (it's a simplified version of a larger problem):
.myTable th
{
background-color: gray;
}
.myTable tr:nth-child(odd)
{
background-color: blue;
}
When I run the page, the header is gray, but why? What I want to know is why the first rule is overwriting the second. If I understood well specificity calculations (and obviously I didn't) the second rule is more specific (all calculators give me 0, 1, 2 in the second rule and 0, 1, 1 in the first one). Why then, the header is gray and not blue, if the second rule has more specificity???? Could someone help me understand this, please? Thank you very very much...
You forgot th or td:
.myTable tr:nth-child(odd) th,
.myTable tr:nth-child(odd) td {
background-color: blue;
}
Because you are applying for th in your first class, you need to use that here. The th is inside the tr, so whatever you put, th will be in front showing the grey colour.
CSS specificity does not apply in your situation.
Your CSS targets two different elements; th and tr.
You have to think about this from a layer perspective.
Because th's are contained in tr's then the background-color of the th will be displayed above the background-color of the tr.
Take this code for example:
<tr style="background-color: gray">
<th>Heading One</th>
<th style="background-color: red">Heading Two</th>
<th>Heading Three</th>
</tr>
The first and third th have a transparent background-color, so the background-color of the tr shows through them. The second th has a background-color defined so it shows as expected.
You can take a look at this jsfiddle to see it in action.
Your first rule is not overwriting the second rule.
The reason is that your header is grey is because it contains th elements, and you only specified background: grey for the th elements. (And a th is not the same as a tr).
If you want alternating column colors in your header also, then modify your code to address both the th and the td, like so:
.myTable th {
background-color: gray;
}
.myTable td:nth-child(odd),
.myTable th:nth-child(odd) {
background-color: blue;
}
I am trying to make a table that when mouse hover on the row the first thead row column will change background. I know it can be done using jQuery, I just want to know if I can use CSS only.
Visit http://jsfiddle.net/G9G65/1/
<table>
<thead><tr><th></th><th>Title 1</th><th>Title 2</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><th>List 1</th><td>Data 1</td><td>Data 2</td></tr>
<tr><th>List 2</th><td>Data 1</td><td>Data 2</td></tr>
<tr><th>List 3</th><td>Data 1</td><td>Data 2</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<style>
table tbody tr:hover {background: yellow;}
table tbody tr:hover thead tr th {background: red;}
</style>
Unfortunately I don't think you can achieve what you're after with css alone.
Basically you would need a parent's sibling selector to make this work, and no such selector exists.
While you can hover over a parent element and effect a child element, CSS doesn't yet allow interactions with child elements to effect parent elements or a parent element's sibling.
So...
#parent:hover #child { /* this works */
background: green;
}
#child:hover #parent { /* this does not work */
background: yellow;
}
Example
I'm not well experienced in CSS, could somebody tell me how could I override styling so that a cell called "Existing Price Breaks" retains it's left border? Similarly the one below would do the same, splitting the content. But the rest of the header should stay without them as it is now.
Here's the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/kacpr/YkL5j/2/
That's the part I would like to override on the 'cell' level:
.table > thead > tr > th, .table > thead > tr > td {
border: 0;
}
It doesn't seem the proper way of using the CSS selectors, but here is a possible solution (there's no class for the cell, so we use ":nth-child()" as example:
.table > thead > tr > td:nth-child(4) {
border-left: 1px solid #ff0000;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/YkL5j/3/
If you need backward browser compatibility, then you may need to assign a class to the selected cell: .existingPriceBreaks {}
A better way for using CSS selectors could be:
.table tr td:nth-child(4) {}
.table tr td.existingPriceBreaks {}
...except you plan to use nested tables for some reason...
You could use a class e.g. leftBordered to override the common border definitions like:
/* in html */
<tr>
<td>Currency</td>
<td style="font-weight: normal;">EUR</td>
<td></td>
<td colspan="2" class="leftBordered">Existing price breaks</td>
<td colspan="3">New price breaks</td>
</tr>
/* must be applied to all td-fields, that need to be changed */
/* in css */
table > thead > tr > td.leftBordered {
border-left: 1px solid #ccc;
}
see fiddle for working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/YkL5j/5/
According to the W3Schools CSS notes, if you use an ID on an element, then the CSS styles defined for that ID (using #id_name) should only apply to that element, and this is how you should style an element which only appears once.
I've a site which includes a display table (of actual tabular data, it's a grid of phone numbers in different classifications). So I've placed the table inside a div and set the div to have an ID. I then defined styles for the ID in the stylesheep.
HTML:
<div id='phone_number_grid'>
<table>
...
</table>
</div>
CSS:
#phone_number_grid table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
#phone_number_grid th,td {
border: 1px solid #000040;
background-color: #ccccff;
padding: 5px;
}
The style works perfectly on the table it's intended for, but it is also affecting a completely different table which has no class or id settings, and is contained in a completely unrelated div with it's own (completely unrelated) class settings, on a different page that uses the same stylesheep.
How do I stop the #phone_number_grid styles from affecting unrelated tables?
Note I previously tried the same thing using a class ID on the div, with the same results - the styles "leaked" onto other tables that didn't mention them.
Q1: Why are these styles applying themselves to elements that don't reference them?
Q2: Is there a CSS way of saying "do not apply any styles at all to this specific element"?
Your second style extends to all td elements, instead of just those belong to table #phone_number. Update as per below.
#phone_number_grid table {
border-collapse: collapse;
}
#phone_number_grid th, #phone_number_grid td {
border: 1px solid #000040;
background-color: #ccccff;
padding: 5px;
}
#phone_number_grid th,td affects all #phone_number_grid th and all td, not only all #phone_number_grid th and all #phone_number_grid td.
So write in your selector:
#phone_number_grid th, #phone_number_grid td
Your problem is with this line:
#phone_number_grid th,td {
CSS selectors separated by commas aren't actually read like you'd first expect. They're two separate selectors, so you're actually matching #phone_number_grid th and all td elements.
You need to be a little more explicit:
#phone_number_grid th,
#phone_number_grid td {
...
}
Putting the selector on its own line may make it easier to see as well.
tYou don't have to define it as a table.
#phone_number_grid table{
border-collapse: collapse;
}
#phone_number_grid th, #phone_number_grid td {
border: 1px solid #000040;
background-color: #ccccff;
padding: 5px;
}