What is the easiest way to do it?
I have difficulties to understand and not having now enough time to spend and study Greasemonkey properly, to just apply a PERMANENT css change to ANY website.
I thought that was more easy, to just add a CSS that would stay with the browser. But I do not find any easy/quick tool customization to just add a simple .css file to do my changes.
For example I would like to restyle Twitter, because I hate the new design, It is killing any kind of graphic personalization that I would like to have.
I need it simple, because I want to let people with not high tech knowledge, to be able to get my personalization, implement it and do it as well.
I know that this could have a security issue, but all that I want to do it is add a piece of CSS, and not additional Javascript functionality.
EDIT: Possibly that could work in all the browsers, not only Chrome and Firefox (I know that might not exist, but I would like to have an alternative for people that use IE)
I am an expert web designer, but I am not a programmer. Outside Javascript I do not script anything else.
Install Stylish. Make custom CSS file. Winning.
You're looking for the Stylish extension.
You can add a user stylesheet in several major browsers that will override the site stylesheet. It will require a good working knowledge of CSS though and for firefox you have to create the file manually in your profile.
http://www.squarefree.com/userstyles/user-style-sheets.html
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Basically my question is as exactly as the title suggest.
I want to override the css styling of Shopify's embedded buy button iframe, but I am not sure how.
I as assuming this will be extremely tricky, if not impossible? As I have tried many things and it seems that all of my css affecting the Shopify's embedded button is ignored.
I have tried adding !important to styling and this doesn't seem to do anything either.
Is there a way to add styling after the iframe has loaded in browser? I am guessing that this is the last thing that loads, hence why my css is being ignored/overwritten.
Any help would be great.
PS. I do not have a website link to provide as it is for a client and a signed NDA has legally prevented me from uploading the site, even in a test environment.
Thanks,
Currently, the only supported customizations are the ones listed here. There's no way to override styles within an iframe on another domain. However, we've built the JS Buy SDK to support greater customization, though it would require more intensive development. That said, there are some examples you could use to get started.
I have a massive CSS file that is applied to several pages. I'm hoping to break it down to a common CSS file and several page-level CSS files, since it is becoming difficult to work with. Unfortunately, it's not easy to tell what exactly is common. I was hoping there was a way to quickly see what lines/selectors were being used on a given page. Does anyone know of a tool that can do this? I don't want to use developer tools and go through the DOM elements one by one. I'd like to look at the CSS file and see unused selectors grayed out or something. Thanks!
You can use, at least in Chrome, the Audits tab in the developer tools. Once you run it, it says you which styles aren't used in the current page.
Testing it on this site:
And for Firefox there an add-on called CSS Usage – might be worth a look too.
I am looking for a tool to help with some CSS editing, but I am not planning to use it in what seems to be the normal way.
I have a website that is getting a reskin, we already have the CSS files with the changes as it is already applied to a related website.
What I ideally want, is an editor of some kind that will help me to visualize the structure or hierarchy of the old CSS and the new CSS so I can more easily find the classes that will cross over nicely, the classes that require tweaking, and the classes that will need to be created from scratch.
I'm not worried auto completion, or being able to view the changes instantly or anything like that, what i really want is just the easy way to view and traverse it.
Does anyone know of anything that can do this? Ideally free or open source, but all suggestions welcome.
Try this tool: Compare CSS Stylesheet Tool
Are there any utilities that will crawl a site and determine which css rules are in use and which are not? We have a large site and a huge CSS file (--don't blame me I just got here). And, I think much of it is not being used however I'm afraid to strip stuff out just in case.
The file is confusing and difficult to manage and I think if we can trim it down by getting rid of the unused rules we will have a good starting point to go through and try to make it better.
Try the Dust-Me Selectors Firefox extension by SitePoint. It finds CSS selectors whose rules are never applied to your pages so you can remove them from your stylesheets.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10704/?src=collection&collection_id=23d14a2d-b396-c08f-e9ba-b4d34691d5a9
It's an addon in Firebug.
I had the same problem a while ago (5k lines in a CSS) and found this Firefox Plugin which worked very well for me.
The Google Page Speed plugin for Firefox's Firebug addon is also a great tool that will highlight the unused CSS selectors as well as inform you which ones are poor performers.
As always though, you need to be aware that the CSS selector may not be used on "this" page but may very likely be used on another page so be careful when pruning them to ensure they are truly unnecessary.
You can use a service like Unused-CSS
This web app explores the pages of your site and builds clean CSS files
I'm terribly new to web development. I'm trying to make a pretty simple site with a friend. My friend has taken the time to design the layout for our site, and we have things looking how we want in a static HTML page.
What I'd like to do now is move over to a Content Management System like Drupal but keep the same design that we have all ready laid out.
Since I'm completely new to this field, I'm looking for some best-practices advice as to how to make this leap.
It's apparent to me that I could probably edit some existing Drupal Theme to make it give me the layout that I want, but is that the path I should go down?
Thanks!
Update: Also, is it more than just replacing my style.css with their style.css?
Update 2: The end goal is for people to be able to log in and create news entries, very similar to a blog that will then appear on the front page. There will be other items on the left- and right- but they don't need to be directly accessed by anyone, really. They'll stay pretty static.
The Zen theme is sort of a meta-theme that's designed to be fully standards compliant and make pretty much every aspect of theming readily customizable, with lots of informative commenting. It's the best place to start if you want to develop your own theme. Even if you find a theme that looks a lot like the one you want to create, it's probably still better to start with zen because it's extremely well laid out and instructive. That being said, I've never built a theme from scratch, but it sure looks like a lot of work.
Update
In general the best approach will likely end up being to use your designer's HTML and CSS as a reference, and to edit the Zen-based templates and CSS files to recreate that appearance. It's a bit magical.
You will end up breaking the styles used in your designer's layout into chunks that are part of various template files. The mostly-static stuff on the side columns will become what Drupal calls "blocks"; you'll likely use the top part of the page to refine the HTML for the header section of the main page template; and you'll use the central part to add any necessary tags to the content section of the main page template.
I tend to make liberal use of the Firebug extension for Firefox, or the developer tools built into Chrome. These tools let you quickly locate a given CSS element that you want to change, and edit it to see how the change will look. At first though it's probably better to just read through the whole CSS file to get a feel for how it works. Again, Zen's CSS is very easy to digest.
Pour your heart and soul into the Drupal Theming Guide for the next few days. Theming, like most things, is best done if followed by a gratuitous amount of time in the documentation.
Start with either Zen or Framework themes. They provide good starting points for working with the CSS to adapt to your design.
This helps too:
http://drupal.org/theme-guide
Whatever you do, don't take Garland theme as how a good drupal theme is done. I went down that path when I first started Drupal...