I'm creating a bookmarklet. It will display a widget on page. However, some existing css on page can effect to my widget. How to avoid this? I don't want to use iframe.
Use a localised reset.
Take an existing CSS reset (or roll your own), and namespace it by putting your widget's id (or class) in front of it.
Example
HTML
<div id="my-bookmarklet-panel">...</div>
CSS
#my-bookmarklet-panel a,
#my-bookmarklet-panel div,
#my-bookmarklet-panel span {
/* Reset rules */
}
make use of the !important statement in our widget CSS to protect your rules from overriding.
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I'm a new user of GWT and I'm looking for some advice concerning "theme management".
I have to make a website that can handle theme changes. What I mean is that a user can make is own theme by filling a form, then the website will automatically and dynamically changes its color to display the new ones.
I thought using a CSS sheet for all the static properties and using some GWT lines (e.g. label.getElement.getStyle.setColor(...)) to change color. But I have many "hover" properties and I think creating many MouseOverHandler is not a good idea ...
Is there a way to edit CSS sheet dynamically or a magic trick to do that ?
Thanks.
You have many options - the most straight forward (to me) is to make use of the existing CSS classes that GWT introduces. If you look at javadocs for any of the widgets GWT provides, you'll notice the CSS Style Rules section. For example, Button:
.gwt-Button
the outer element
That means that every Button you add to the page has a .gwt-Button style applied to it. If you inject a CSS stylesheet with a rule that overrides this style:
.gwtButton {
background: red;
}
All your buttons will turn red. You can inject stylesheets using StyleInjector. Creating the stylesheet's content dynamically is up to you - but it's just text, it shouldn't be hard (but make sure the generated CSS rules are valid!).
To get you started, try hooking up this code to some button and see if clicking it triggers changing all the Buttons on the page red:
StyleInjector.inject(".gwt-Button { background: red; }");
If you have custom widgets that you want styled differently, just add an individual class to them (.customWidgetWhatever, like Button has .gwt-Button, etc.) that you will include in your custom stylesheet.
Make sure you understand how CSS works and what it can do for you. For example, if you want to style each button the same, you don't have to change each button's style individually, just use:
button {
background: green;
}
And all the <button>s will turn green.
The easiest way to change themes without reloading the whole application is to assign a theme class to the body element.
You'd want to prepend each CSS class in your app with a particular theme, e.g.:
.theme1 .myClass {
color: red;
}
.theme2 .myClass {
color: blue;
}
Then you'll apply a particular theme to the body element:
<body class="theme1">
When you want to change themes, you'll have to change the body class so it will become:
<body class="theme2">
this way, each element that has class myClass will have its color changed from red to blue.
You cannot edit a CSS file dynamically, but you can inject CSS style either as a new CSS file, or directly into your document.
For example, you can define all key CSS rules in your "main.css" file, and add your user-defined rules directly into the host HTML page with a style tag.
Is there a way or operator in CSS to assign a new style to specific element? I don't want to change original style because it belongs to a plugin and changing it will change it on all my pages. However I want to change the position of the element on a specific web page.
I also can't call those styles in my html because that CSS file is used solely in jquery plugin, you only put class="slideshow" in html div and thats that. I can change that CSS file to suit my preferences, however I don't know how to change it for specific instances?
In order to make a specific styling on a specific instance of your plugin, you should assign a specific class or id to a parent container of that plugin for the instance you need customization.
Example : you can give the id="special" to a parent of the plugin in the page you want customization.
Then you can use that selector to style it independently from other instances of that same plugin.
example CSS:
#special .slideshow /*other selectors */ {
/*your specific style */
}
In your scenario CSS specificity Rule will be helpful for you.
For example in your plugin you are using RED Font Color in class slideshow. Then in your another CSS file you can create a more specific Rule.
Check the Demo what I've posted above on comments section. Here is the direct link.
div.slider .slideshow {color:green;}
You can refer to the element by name:
#htmlitemname{
color: green;
}
CSS is cascading, i.e. it will apply it top down - general, class and then the id.
You can add !important to your css if you wish it to override any inline styles. So long as you make a style sheet specifically for that page, this should work for what you need. Hope this helps :)
I have a page from which I call fancybox which contains some html template (something like an email template). The problem is that all CSS from the main page affects the content in the fancybox and vice versa. What I would like is to isolate them somehow, so that their CSSs don't affect each other.
Example: I have background image set for h3 for the main page. Also, in fancybox I have h3 element which has no CSS assigned to it, but it pulls the style from the main page and gets the same background image (which shouldn't happen).
Is this somehow possible?
You could split your CSS into multiple files, only pulling in what you need to for each html. If you aren't able to do that you can give the body a specific #id for your template that gets loaded into the fancybox.
<body id="fancy_content">
and then adapt your styles for that template
body#fancy_content h3 {
color: green;
}
You may still end up with a bit of style clash if you leave it in one file but this will give you a method to go on to get it working.
You have 3 options really.
Run the fancybox content in iframe mode which means the content will have to be on it's own page without the main stylesheet. You can do any styling you like here or none at all.
Reset styles in the fancybox content, though this may be quite tedious depending on the number of elements affected.
Place the fancybox content outside the main #wrapper div of your page, and make all page styles inherit from #wrapper. i.e. instead of h3 {...} use #wrapper h3 {...}
try adding IDs to your html elements then use CSS IDs
h3#idname { color: #FF0000; }
The title pretty much says what I'm looking to do, but to elaborate a little more, I want to apply some CSS to a class called prochart-colitem for users who do not have javascript enabled.
The reason? I am using percentages for column widths to equal 100%, then using javascript to subtract 2 pixels from each div for a border that is also added.
If there's no javascript enabled, the columns + borders equal more than 100% of the parent div, and I need to subtract a couple pixels from a class to make it fit in the parent div to no-js users.
Any easy way to do this? I tried <noscript> with <style> inside of that, no luck.
One way to approach it is by always adding a CSS class to the elements you wish to have a specific style and then, once loaded, run some JavaScript to remove those classes from the elements with that class.
As an example (I use jQuery here for simplicity's sake but this can obviously be done without a JS library):
$(document).ready(function()
{
$(".nonJsClass").each(function()
{
$(this).removeClass("nonJsClass");
}
}
Where the 'nonJsClass' has CSS rules that will now only apply if the user doesn't have JS enabled.
You could add a class to the body tag, that triggers your desired CSS when JS is not enabled, then right after the body tag, remove it with JS.
Thus users with JS support won't see the effects of the special class.
Including a stylesheet inside a noscript tag was not possible before HTML5, but it is now (as long as you do it in the "head" of the document).
http://adapt.960.gs/
In the case of JavaScript being purposefully disabled or unavailable, stylesheet defaults can be served via , which is perfectly valid in the for HTML5.
scunliffe's answer is good. An alternate way would be to write a CSS style that only displays if JavaScript is enabled and only targets the div you want, using class chaining:
.prochart-colitem.js-enabled {
/* your JS-specific styles */
}
You can then use jQuery, for example, to add that additional class:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.prochart-colitem').addClass('js-enabled');
});
I am using the jQuery UI library out of the box, based on a theme.
Having links rendered as buttons is great, however I need to override some buttons with different colours.
How do I specify an specific class for a particular button to use?
I recommend looking at the CSS for the jQuery UI buttons and duplicating the structure of the CSS which specifies the buttons, but with your own class instead of the jQuery UI classes. Make the overrides that you need in this CSS and include it after the jQuery UI CSS. CSS uses a combination of the most specific selector and ordering to determine which values to apply. By doing this you will make sure that you have the same specificity for each of the CSS selectors used by jQuery so that your CSS takes precedence based on order.
Smashing Magazine has an article that probably has more information than you care to know about the specificity issue.
You can also:
Use Developer Tools in the browser (Chrome has great ones).
See what class from jQuery UI defines the button color.
Override it in your CSS file with the "!important" attribute.
For example, when I needed to override jQuery UI spinner control and remove the borders, I found the class that defines the borders using Chrome Dev Tools. Then in CSS: I added something like that:
.<jquery-ui-class-that-i-found> { border: 0px !important; }
Works great!
I would say, give the particular button or buttons an id, and:
$("#buttonId").removeClass().addClass("myClass");
If you want to apply it to multiple buttons each with its own id:
$("#buttonId, #anotherButton").removeClass().addClass("myClass");
I think the button API should include a configuration like this where you can change color etc. by passing parameters
$("button").button({background:"FFFFFF",hover:"FFFFF"});
this is just an idea where you can change some of its visual attributes.
I found this worked for me:
$(".btnSave").removeClass("ui-state-default").addClass("SaveButtonStyling");
Basically needed to remove the ui-state-default class and then add my own for the background colour etc.
Thsi meant that the rounded corner class etc stayed put and I was able to amend the background colour etc.
If you simply wish to have some additional/different for particular buttons, simply give the buttons some classes like class="mybuttonclass otherbuttonclass" - multiple classes are allowed. Then, just add css rules for your class(es)
.mybuttonclass
{
background-color: red;
}
.otherbuttonclass
{
color:white;
}
thus the background is red with white text - or whatever combination you wish, which would override items in the cascade (CSS) above it. (assumption is that your .CSS file is linked in AFTER the jquery UI css file, or is in-line on the page, both of which would override the jQuery UI css.