I'm working on a website, and I wanted to show it to someone. So I set up a webserver. Now I'm getting some strange behavior when I'm trying to reach the website via LAN instead of using my localhost.
First of all, when I visit the page in my localhost, everything seems to be rendered much smaller. I designed the page at a width etc. because it looks good. Now when I visit the site it fills up the whole page.
Secondly, I'm using #font-face for the titles etc. This works on my localhost, but not when I visit the page via my network.
And last, when I visit the page on my phone (using 3g, so not my home network), the css is not rendered at all.
Can you explain this strange behavior?
This has got to be that some of the stylesheets are not getting delivered when you view over the LAN.
When you look in Firebug NET tab (or similar) can you verify that all the stylesheets are being included and loaded (no 404s).
Also, if you look at the element that should have a font-face (for example) set, and check its styles, what is being applied? Is it that the styles are not there, or are they there and not being applied as you expect? (I am thinking the former).
Everything is working now, except for one thing. My phone only shows
the right font for only the capitols. Any ideas on this?
If you look at the text with incorrect font in DOM inspector, does it show that the style is being applied?
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I have WordPress page whose theme seems to be loading an undesirable CSS background-image. I want to try to locate the code that is responsible for loading this image but first I have to find its name. I was wondering if there is some tool that allows coders to list and identify the urls of all css-background images that a page calls.
Obviously finding background-images is trivial if all of the page's CSS is controlled only by inline code and directly linked CSS-stylesheets: a text search "find" operation for "background-image" will allow you to find all bg images. But the task becomes complicated if styling is js dependent, and in this case, it was at times.
For those of you who immediately wonder why I need would want to go this route instead of simply using development tools in Chrome or Firefox, below is a list of reasons why.
Why I want a way to automatically extract the background-image urls:
The unwanted ghost images only loads on my mobile phone, so I can't inspect the element to find the image in using my desktop development environment. This is true even if I set the developer tools to "mobile".
I don't have a development environment for my phone that will let me inspect the relevant element.
I tried downloading the exact html loaded by the mobile phone in my browser, but the css ghost image will not appear on my desktop even when use the code my phone had loaded.
The ghost image is not from a virus in my mobile phone browser, because the ghost image loads on my phone even when I used a different browser.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
UPDATE: I figured out the cause of the ghost image using the free trial provided by Browserstack, a mobile emulator. At allows you to view interactive content and inspect it with dev tools. I learned about it from this question: test mobile website in desktop browser.
My problem turned out to be that the css-image in the theme was pointing to my local address, which different from what it should have been on my remote server. The issue turned out not to be a desktop vs. mobile problem, but rather local vs. remote. The emulator reproduced my issue, and it allowed me to inspect and find the problematic code. Still I would love to know if there is a such a css-crawling tool, so I will leave this question open.
My ASP.NET project seems to run the best in Firefox.
Mainly while someone is navigating around the site, Firefox has no blank pages of white screen while the page is changing, and it looks like it's not reloading the top nav bar of the page or the footer/wrap around the partials that go in the middle.
Chrome and Internet Explorer (obviously) not so much. They seem to reload the entire page every time there is navigation performed.
Is there something I can change about my project configuration that would cause this kind of behaviour? I suppose it isn't too important but it would be nice if it looked as good on Chrome as it does on Firefox.
If anyone wanted to see code from a specific place/config in my ASP.NET project I can post it.
Hopefully someone can help me out with this. I've been tasked with giving a mobile template an overhaul on a site that uses BigCommerce.
Does anyone know of an IDE or a windows based browser that would allow me to preview the changes that I make on the fly, preferably via Dreamweaver CC but this isn't a necessity.
Basically I want to completely revamp the homepage so that instead of having a mundane and dreary menu that take up the entire page, I'd like to change it so that I have responsive windows 8 like tiles that one could use to navigate the site.
Since BigCommerce is a paid service you are limited to what is available. You cannot simply download the site and run it on your localhost. I worked on one of those sites before, the best work around I found what to edit in google chrome's inspect element and console "F12" - this way you can make changes directly to the site to see how they render. But keep in mind, F12 is after chrome builds the page and will not match the actual code all the time.
I developed a website using code igniter, styled it with CSS, locally it works fine but online it looks like css is not loaded it picks up the old css style. I checked the link but it's correct. What gives?
Without more information (such as seeing the site in question), I can't give you a direct answer, but I can give you some pointers.
My suggestion is to use a tool like Firebug (in Firefox) or Chrome's Developer Tools, etc. These tools allow you to see full details of all requests being made by the browser.
(the exact instructions will differ according to the tool you're using, so I'll assume Firebug for simplicity).
Open your page in the browser, with Firebug open, and look at Firebug's "Net" tab (And make sure that the option below the tab is set to "All"). This will list all requests that are made by the browser.
The key thing for you is to look for any 404 errors. Since you say your CSS isn't working, it's a pretty good bet that your stylesheets are failing to load. The 404 errors listed in Firebug will show you why they're failing to load.
If you hover over the filenames, Firebug will expand it to show you the full URL that it attempted to load. This will almost certainly show you that you've got something wrong in your configuration, and it's trying to load the stylesheets (and possibly other files too) from the wrong location. This should show you what's going wrong and give you a enough clues to be able to work out how to fix it.
Hope this helps you solve the problem.
This may sound like a SuperUser issue, but I wrote the page in question and I'm wondering if there is something I can do to fix the problem....
I have a page in production that simlply displays data in a bunch of tables. Our employees basically go to this page to print a form with our clients information filled in for them. Today for a specific client the page is not printing. I've tried printing using IE 7 and 8 as well as Chrome on Windows XP and Windows 7. This client's data is by no means make the page longer or contain more data that others clients.
Symptoms:
Does NOT print using IE8 or IE7 on WinXP and Windows 7.
DOES print with Chrome.
The page to print is displayed fine as a far as the actual web page goes... it scrolls, there are no errors and and nothing seems to be wrong with the page.
When using IE to print, the document just spools with out actually printing out...I end up canceling the document from the printers window.
When viewing print preview the first page is displayed, but when we try to go to the second page in the print preview IE locks up.
This does not happen for every client, but when it does happen it can be reproduced.
The page is pretty long and has client info that is keeping me from just copy and pasting the markup for you guys. I am hopeing that some one else has experienced a similiar issue in IE and has some advice.
NOTE: The users are not allowed to use other browsers, so save the IE flamming please.
Hmmm, very hard to tell without markup.
Just to throw some ideas:
Are you using anything difficult on the pages, like Flash or Java?
Custom fonts / cufon?
Huge downscaled images?
opacity or IE specific crazy filter CSS rules?
A huge structure that IE doesn't manage to break up into pages, e.g. a giant table with position: absolute ?
If you use images, try turning off the images. Try turning off CSS.
A few things to try when debugging:
Switch everything over to a standard font and font size (e.g. Arial 12px).
Eliminate all CSS and JavaScript, and if that fixes it then you can narrow down from there by taking out chunk by chunk until it starts working.
If that doesn't work, try cutting down the content significantly to see if it will show up.