How do I set inline styles in internet explorer? - css

In all other browsers, element.style seems to work fine.
But Internet Explorer 8 doesn't know it...
Getting this error when x is a div:
Error: 'x.style.left' is null or not an object
x.style itself is undefined. I looked at http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/changess.html but it doesn't say anything about styles on specific elements, just like http://help.dottoro.com/ljuefnvw.php doesn't say anything either.

<div id="example">
Test
</div>
<script>
document.getElementById('example').style.marginLeft = '50px';
</script>
works

instead of using element.style, use the specific tag name.

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Can anyone tell me why this gridset css isn't working?

I've used gridsetapp.com in the past to create responsive grids, but on the one I've recently tried creating just isn't working and I can't figure out why.
The link to the css is here; https://get.gridsetapp.com/37722/
Just trying to get something basic:
<html><head>
<link href="https://get.gridsetapp.com/37722/" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="d1-d5" style="background:#aaa">ffggg</div>
</body>
</html>
Any thoughts?
Despite an unusual CSS link, the browser should recognize the CSS file your referenced.
However, looking at your reference, you are just trying to apply CSS to the class d1-d5. However, as best I can tell, there is no exact match in the CSS file to Just d1-d5. Use the Development tools (F12 on most browsers); they are your friend. It will show you what CSS is applied at that moment including, any applied through JavaScript or Linked files.
With CSS, you need to make sure that you call out exactly what the browser can identify, but not more (unless going for a higher order of precedence). For example, the most you could call out to select your d1-d5 is:
html body div.d1-d5{...}
Whereas in you linked CSS file, I see a lot of parents or children when searching d1-d5, such as .d1-d5 .d1,.d1-d5 .d2,.d1-d5 .d3,.d1-d5 .d4,.d1-d5 .d5.
If you wanted the last one in this chain (.d1-d5 .d5), you would need an HTML such as:
<html>
<body>
<div class='d1-d5'>
<div class='d5'>
This text will have the CSS applied.
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The CSS written as .d1-d5 .d5 literally means "select the element with class d5 as a descendent of an element with class .d1-d5". Your HTML doesn't match any of the classes in the CSS file, including the parent and child selectors. If you were to try the above HTML, you would see width:18.05273834%; applied (which isn't a very obvious thing to see... why not try background:yellow; or something like that for an easy verification).
Finally, why are you inline styling when you have the CSS? This is bad form, and only appropriate if you can't control the CSS file.

Bug? in alignment with custom fonts in chrome

This is a weird "bug", I cant reproduce it always, but on the fiddle test case seems to fail more often. This is ONLY showing in chrome/windows, I couldn't reproduce it in IE at least and someone confirmed it doesn't happen in chrome/Linux.
The fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/u25zr/2/
As you can see, text is not horinzontally aligned.
A weird thing: if you right-click on the text, click "inspector tools" and untick/tick again the font-family property, it magically fixes.
I attach an image so you can see what should happen:
Since I used a jsfiddle link, I need to add a code block also, so ill just add the markup, which is not related at all...
<div class="recipe">
<div class="recipe-top">
<div class="category">Text</div>
<h2>Test Recipe 1</h2>
<div class="date">12 Jan 2013</div>
</div>
</div>
EDIT: Moving the SVG font to the bottom so Chrome uses the woff instead of the svg fixes the problem. So it looks like the problem its in the SVG rendering.
Well, after some wasted hours this seems to be a (another) chrome bug.
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=95102
And i also found a solution here:
Chrome svg-Font-Rendering breaks Layout
Which is good, but doesnt validate CSS. Anyway nothing else we can do.

AngularJS view rendering issue

I am using ng-view to render dynamic data on my page. When the page loads, if I use static html I get this (top):
When Angular loads the page the data is there but it's like the element is still empty (bottom).
If I make even the slightest adjustment in Chrome dev tools, the items snap into place but I cannot get them to prefill without using CSS to make them static sizes, which doesn't work because text is different sizes. The elements in question have CSS of inline-block.
As you can see in this screenshot, I have tried two ways of populating the data, both with the same result:
<div class="cd-rating" ng-class="caseData.scoreClass">
<span class="score" ng-bind="caseData.adjustedScore | number:0" ng-cloak>N/A</span>
<span class="verdict">{{caseData.recommendation}}</span>
</div>
Here is the what the HTML looks like in the browser:
<div class="cd-rating medium" ng-class="caseData.scoreClass">
<span class="score ng-binding" ng-bind="caseData.adjustedScore | number:0">349</span>
<span class="verdict ng-binding">review</span>
</div>
If I hard-code that HTML identically, then it renders perfectly. It's only when Angularjs renders it that the elements are collapsed, appearing if there is not content.
I would also like to add that I am using RequireJS and manually bootstrapping the app instead of using the ng-app directive, in case that matters.
Any ideas on how to make the view fill the elements?
EDIT: Here is a video that demonstrates the behavior: http://youtu.be/zTwv-o6mWRM
I am not able to figure out what exactly you mean by the "..data is still there but the element is empty.." - the only issue that I find with the rendering by AngularJS is that the "Review" (button?) is overwritten with the number.
Looking at your code (which, as #Wingman4l7 suggests needs to be posted in the question rather than as a image), I see that you are using bindings to define a class dynamically. Instead, can you use the ng-class directive and see if it resolves the issue?
That is, replace:
<div class="cd-rating {{caseData.scoreClass}}">
with
<div class="cd-rating" ng-class="caseData.scoreClass">
instead and check if the issue gets resolved?

JQuery Mobile + Knockout , CSS Styles fails

I'm using html5, JQuery Mobile and KnockoutJS, I Have a foreach template that renders a grid like GUI from an observable array.
However, when I add items to the bound array, the styles are not applied to any new items.
They appear unstyled, most of the times.
some times they appear with style, but once the styling fails, it stays broken for as long as I run my app.
Does anyone have any idea how to resolve this problem?
Snippet:
<div id="timeEntryList" data-bind="foreach: timeEntries">
<div data-role="header" data-theme="c">
<h1>some header</h1>
The odd thing is that it works sometimes.
Hard to guess without any code. But I guess you 're saying jqm doesn't render properly after dynamically adding elements. That's right it doesn't. I guess it's like the list. And you probably can do something like $('#mylist').listview('refresh'); but I don't know what sort of component you're talking about.
you can find more info in the documentation
jQM might not support more than one data-role="header" section. I would try conforming to their standard page layout with one header, one content and one footer section and see if that helps.
I've found that if I update my KO observables in pagebeforeshow I don't have to use .listview('refresh')

How does CSS formatting in a Google Maps bubble work?

I'm using KML and the GGeoXml object to overlay some shapes on an embedded Google map. The placemarks in the KML file have some custom descriptive information that shows up in the balloons.
<Placemark>
<name />
<description>
<![CDATA[
<div class="MapPopup">
<h6>Concession</h6>
<h4>~Name~</h4>
<p>Description goes here</p>
<a class="Button GoRight FloatRight" href="#"><span></span>View details</a>
</div>
]]>
</description>
<styleUrl>#masterPolyStyle</styleUrl>
...Placemarks go here ...
</Placemark>
So far so good - the popups show up and have the correct text in them. Here's the weird thing: I'm trying to use CSS to format what goes in the popups, and it halfway works.
Specifically:
The <h6> and <h4> elements are rendered using the colors and background images I've specified in my stylesheet.
Everything shows up in Arial, not in the font I've specified in my CSS.
The class names seem to be ignored (e.g. none of the a.Button formatting is applied; if I define a style like the one below, it's ignored.)
div.MapPopup { background:pink; }
Any ideas? I wouldn't have been surprised for the CSS not to work at all, but it's weird that it only partly works.
Update
Here's a screenshot to better illustrate this. I've reproduced the <div class="MapPopup"> markup further down on the page (in yellow), to show how it should be rendered according to my CSS.
As suggested I've gone in with Firebug to see what's going on. It looks like Google is doing two obnoxious things:
It's stripping out all class attributes from my HTML.
It's throwing all kinds of hard-coded styles around.
Here's my HTML along with the first couple of wrappers inserted by Google:
<div style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<div id="iw_kml">
<div>
<h6>Concession</h6>
<h4>BOIS KASSA 1108000 (Mobola-Mbondo)</h4>
<p>
Description goes here</p>
<a target="_blank"><span />View details </a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
As you can see, my classes (e.g. MapPopup in my first div, Button etc. in the <a> tag) have all been stripped out.
Knowing this I'll be able to work around Google's interference, using !important and targeting the container div for the whole map - still, this is annoying, and unexpectedly clumsy coming from Google.
More related obnoxiousness related to the HTML in a KML <description> block: Any links are given the attribute target="_blank", whether you like it or not. I'm currently exploring ways to undo that, using jQuery, but what a drag. I really don't understand why Google feels the need to tamper with this HTML.
See also this thread on the official Google Group.
I've had similar issues. I don't know how you are implementing your Marker, or if you are using InfoWindow, or .addListener, but they way I have had to get css styling to work inside of the "pop up bubble" (over the Marker) is to use what is called "inline styling." So I have a variable that I pass into InfoWindow. Assuming you have initialized a variable "marker" with some options, and have the "map" instance created, some example code would look like this:
/*start of myHtml2 variable*/
var myHtml2 = "<div style=\"background-color:lightgray\"><div style=\"padding:5px\"><div
style=\"font-size:1.25em\">Some text</div><div>Some more text<br/>
Yet more text<br/></div><table style=\"padding:5px\"><tr><td><img src=\"A lake.jpg\"
width=\"75px\" height=\"50px\"></td><td>More text<br/>Again, more text<br/><div
style=\"font-size:.7em\">Last text</div></td></tr></table></div></div>"
/*end of variable*/
var infowindow2 = new google.maps.InfoWindow({content: myHtml2});
/*mouseover could be 'click', etc.*/
google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'mouseover', function(){
infowindow2.open(map, marker);
});
I know the css styling code is cumbersome, but I haven't found a way to use complicated css styling inside "the bubble pop up" using css in the head, or from a style sheet There are always conflicts, and some features don't render properly.
My first guess is that you're running into an issue with CSS specificity. There is a good article on it at http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/27/css-specificity-things-you-should-know/, so if you can include a container element ID, that may help.
Let me know if this doesn't turn out to be the problem and I'll come up with more ideas.

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