I'm styling a form that was already marked up (made some markup changes), and I normally work in Firefox to style so I can use firebug and the web developer toolbar.
On this project, I noticed that my styles are displaying quite differently for one particular area (several elements) in webkit based browsers Chrome and Safari, than in Firefox (we won't even get into Internet Explorer, although it is siding with the Firefox display).
I can't figure out though why the styles are displaying so differently. Normally there is some rule that I'm neglecting that Firefox just takes for granted, and the others need it specified. But here I'm not getting why it's displaying this way. In particular I'm referring to the bottom area of the form where users can enter their contact info, then submit the form. I'll attach screen shots for reference as to the discrepancy.
Here's the URL so feel free to check it out on your own. Although be advised that this is a production page (already released) so if you try out the form, you WILL BE added to CURE's contact database.
http://www.helpcurenow.org/survey2010
Here's the screen shots:
Firefox (the way I intend it to look) alt text http://static.helpcurenow.org/images/test/firefox.jpg
Chrome, and then Safari - strange change to submit button alt text http://static.helpcurenow.org/images/test/chrome.jpg
alt text http://static.helpcurenow.org/images/test/safari.jpg
As a bonus, if anybody wants to help me with figuring out why on earth IE7 wants to not show the background behind the questions only, and how to fix that I would be much obliged!
Thanks very much.
Your <ol> is not closed, which makes webkit place the submit button inside the <fieldset> in an attempt to fix up your code.
FF and Webkit browsers do have a few differences, I have encountered them as well, especially with forms!
I solved it by splitting my CSS to target the two browsers with the CSS Browser Selector script. Worked wonders, just set some things differently for Webkit and fixed the whole thing.
Do you have a live example or some source code to post up so we can help you more with your IE7 issues as well?
Hope that helps.
Edit:
<ol>
<li class="contact-info">
<label class="field-required" for="first_name">First Name</label>
<input type="text" size="35" maxlength="250" name="first_name" value="" id="first_name" />
</li>
<li class="contact-info">
<label class="field-required" for="last_name">Last Name</label>
<input type="text" size="35" maxlength="250" name="last_name" value="" id="last_name" />
</li>
<li class="contact-info">
<label class="field-required" for="email_address">Email Address</label>
<input type="text" size="35" maxlength="100" name="email_address" value="" id="email_address" />
</li>
</fieldset>
<!--TransactionFields section end-->
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
...
</script>
<div class="button-row">
<input type="button" name="SubmitButton" id="SubmitButton" value="Submit" onclick="SubmitForm425952(form);" class='HtmlButton' />
</div>
</form>
<!--form javascript-->
<script language="JavaScript">
...
</script>
NO OL
</div></td></tr>
</table>
</div>
<!--End Featured Content-->
Your <ol>hasn't been closed after the second script tag.
You may have forgotten -moz specific css rules.
For example - to use box-sizing you may have to specify -moz-box-sizing
Have you used browser reset css. Different browsers have different default styles for various elements, the reset CSS resets all these default styles so that stuff looks similar in all browsers.
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I am seeing an issue when viewing a website in IE8 (but which works fine when using the emulation mode in dev tools in IE 11).
In modern browsers I see what I would expect:
But in IE, I see the following:
I've added the html5 shim and respond,.js as suggested in the docs, and I've tried wrapping the controls in divs to manually size them, but I end up with gaps between the inputs that look pretty bad. Is there something obvious that I'm doing wrong here?
<form class="form-horizontal" role="form" style="max-width: 500px">
...
<div class="form-group">
<label class="control-label col-sm-2">Phone</label>
<div class="input-group">
<span class="input-group-addon">
<input type="radio" name="SearchMethod" value="2" class="radio-inline" />
</span>
<input type="text" id="phone" class="form-control" placeholder="Phone" />
<input type="text" id="phoneExt" class="form-control" maxlength="4" placeholder="Ext" />
</div>
</div>
Your input group is invalid since it has two text input form-controls. Per the docs:
Basic example
Place one add-on or button on either side of an input. You may also place one on both sides of an input.
We do not support multiple add-ons on a single side.
We do not support multiple form-controls in a single input group.
So you'll need to either hack together some custom styles, or restructure your form.
http://jsfiddle.net/4LXkE/
The code:
<form>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" placeholder="Name*" required="required" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
In the above fiddle, you can see that in IE9+ (that's what my target browser is) the input box is surrounded by an ugly red highlight and a popup message to show it is a required field.
I found the following question which is close, but doesn't give a full answer to my specific question:
override css for html5 form validation/required popup
In my application I have my own stylings (twitter bootstrap defaults) but they are hidden behind these styles which show up.
While I tried to debug the app in Developer tools, i couldn't find what CSS classes were being added or how.
Any help turning these off would be much appreciated, thanks!
IE9 does not support the "required" attribute natively, and it is not part of the UA stylesheet.
Are you using Modernizr or something similar along with Bootstrap? In IE9, the "required" attribute is useless without a polyfill. (see caniuse or this article for more information) Please look at Modernizr for a solution to this problem. If you're using a polyfill already, you should be able to style the shim element to get the appearance you want.
I just started with twitter bootstrap.
I want to create a disabled form field. In the documention I found this snippet:
<input type="text" placeholder="Disabled input here..." disabled>
But in IE9 the placeholder doesn' work. When I use the value attribute to set the content it works (and overwrite the palceholder text, which worked in other browsers like chrome).
There is an alternative way without using the input element:
<span class="uneditable-input">Some value here</span>
This also works in IE9 and chrome. Which solution is better (compatible with old browsers, like IE8, 7 (and 6) ?
I found out, when I want to use the Prepended and appended inputs of twitter bootstrap
I must use the input element. It doesn't work with the span element.
Example:
<div class="input-prepend">
<span class="add-on">#</span>
<input class="span2" id="prependedInput" type="text" placeholder="Username">
</div>
<div class="input-append">
<input class="span2" id="appendedInput" type="text">
<span class="add-on">.00</span>
</div>
IE 7/8/9 doesn't support the HTML5 placeholder. The best solution must be to use a script/plugin that provide the functionality (when it does not exist)
See https://github.com/miketaylr/jQuery-html5-placeholder
I also have had great experiences with http://jquery-watermark.googlecode.com/
They both use the HTML5 if it is available, and emulate it if it's not.
They are incredible simple to use. To use watermark for instance, just include it and add a line to your document.ready()
$("#my-input").watermark('default text');
<span class="uneditable-input">Some value here</span>
is better imho..
Reason- it will act as expected in new and old browsers and it doesn't depend on any external script but only css style uneditable-input
When you can simply echo your value in a span tag than why to use a disabled form field..??
The placeholder attribute is HTML5 and does not work in many browsers, especially older ones, which is why it doesn't work in IE9. (Microsoft doesn't follow standards even in IE9.)
If your question is if a span would be more compatible than the placeholder attribute, then yes it is. A span should be supported by all browsers.
You could go with the javascript alternative...
<input type="text" placeholder="Disabled input here..." onfocus="this.blur()" />
I'm using jquery mobile for my project. It automatically converts all radio buttons in its inputs with its styles. The major problem is that in different situations i have different number of buttons (it depends on user) with its different width and i need it every time center.
<div data-role="fieldcontain" id="inline" >
<fieldset data-role="controlgroup" data-type="horizontal" data-mini="true">
{section name=i loop=$data['input'] start=0}
<input name="position" id="radio{$smarty.section.i.index}" value="{$data['input'][i]}" type="radio" />
<label for="radio{$smarty.section.i.index}">
{$data['input'][i]}
</label>
{/section}
</fieldset>
</div>
As you see each button has his size (for example Up and Zoom In are different). As i said before - i don't know what buttons will be for each users - it depends on their own settings, so i need somehow automatize process of centering it - is some ideas?
You could try it with <a> instead of <input> as done in the documentation, if at all possible in your situation.
I'm working on some cross-browser form styling and have hit upon a snag in ie7.
If you look at my linked fiddle here in ie7 you will see that the input on the first line is offset. The span styled similarly below it is not subject to the same problem.
The system I'm testing works on every other browser I've tried.
Does anyone have a fix to this or indeed a simpler way to style it?
The answer is to wrap a div around all field elements undoing the hasLayout bug.
More info can be found here: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/web-development/css/9780321703392/the-usual-suspects/ch04lev1sec3
<form action="#" class="form-horizon">
<fieldset>
<legend>Test Form</legend>
<!-- div fixes hasLayout inherited margin bug in ie7-->
<div>
<label for="input-focused">Focused</label>
<input type="text" id="input-focused" class="focus" value="focused input" />
<label for="input-no-edit">Non editable</label>
<span id="input-no-edit" class="no-edit-input">none editable</span>
</div>
</fieldset>
</form>