Is there a tool that allows me to load a CSS file, and apply filters to the color scheme? Like rotating hue of all color, change global lightness/darkness, saturation... Something like a photoshop of the CSS world! Thanks!
http://cssprism.com/
have a look at sass http://sass-lang.com/ recent check-ins on github allow for pretty extensive manipulation of colors
See: http://nex-3.com/posts/89-powerful-color-manipulation-with-sass
I see that this question was posed quite a while ago, but in case someone else lands here in search of the same info...
Here's a good one:
http://adityabhandari.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ColorChanger.html
It allows you to shift the hue for the whole color scheme, though unfortunately it doesn't have lightness/darkness and saturation capabilities.
Occasionally this tool may work also: http://css-color-replace.orca-multimedia.de/
It is pretty much close to what
http://cssprism.com/
can do
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I tried to understand how does the WooRank loader (of rank) is working by the CSS?
Take a look on the below shot so you'll understand what im asking for.
While the background of the loader is
this is a wonderful animation that i wanna know how to do myself.
It's not done with CSS. They use Raphaël to build an SVG. You can find the JavaScript code for the generation around line 844 in their JavaScript file.
You might also look at this example, it uses some similar effects.
I'm note sure if there is a practical solution in pure CSS right now. Anybode else got some ideas?
I'm looking for an easy way to view colors / choose colors for my CSS styles besides just the generic ones like:
color: Purple;
I just want an easy way to view / select them based on their #XXXXXX (Hex Color?)
Thanks!
Colorpicker.com
I find myself using this all of the time for design-related issues, as it also features analogous colors, complementary colors, and other color-scheming tools.
If you want a desktop type solution, I know that ColorPic features a similar desktop-based solution. Hope this helps
If you are using Firefox and Firebug, Firepicker could be a lifesaver.
How about this: http://html-color-codes.com/
Is this what you mean?
Use Photoshop, take a screenshot and select the eyedropper tool click a color on the document color area, then click the swatch in the toolbar to bring up the Color Picker. The hex color is there :P
Piknik color picker http://color.aurlien.net/ is very sleek/cool and might be just what you're looking for. Also, if you want to extract a color from a particular webpage, and use firefox, you can install the ColorZilla Firefox add-on. Personally, I use the eye-drop color pickers in ColorZilla in combination with Adobe Photoshop to get hex colors.
With hundreds of thousands or maybe more custom made colors and pallets to choose from as well as the ability to make your own hex's colourlovers is by far the best I've encountered.
Try ColorSnapper
Has options for Hex, RGBA and even XCode!
http://colorsnapper.com/
I've just been assigned the task to refactor a huge 5000 line CSS file... but here's the worst part - I also need to make it IE6 compatible. Any CSS gurus have suggestions of tools, or possibly tips (common pitfalls) for use in my monolithic expedition? Cheers.
checkout sass... it includes the ability to convert css to sass.
http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/docs/rdoc/classes/Sass.html
A sass file is a yaml file that can be parsed down into a css file. It allows you to use variables and alternate organization...
sass example:
!main_color = #00ff00
#main
:color = !main_color
:p
:background-color = !main_color
:color #000000
css output:
#main {
color: #00ff00; }
#main p {
background-color: #00ff00;
color: #000000; }
Some tips:
Use version control so you can roll back when needed.
Come up with a checklist of visual tests to run through after each change, in each browser. A spreadsheet of URL links and things to look for, building on them as you run across problems (think "unit tests" but not automated).
Use a CSS-specific beautifier first to get everything into the format you prefer for braces, etc.
Consider using something like SASS to "compile" your CSS as you go along.
Comment the heck out of things, especially where you're doing IE6-specific stuff.
Future-proof yourself by building a separate file with IE6-specific directives as you go along, or at least use Microsoft's way of filtering them out for other browsers.
Use the W3C Validation often.
Mechanically, I would attack it like this:
<link type="text/css" href="newhotness.css" />
<link type="text/css" href="newhotness-ie6.css" />
<link type="text/css" href="oldandbusted.css" />
Move code from the third (old) file into the other two, cleaning up as you go. That way you can validate your code without worrying about tons of errors in the old stuff, and you can track your progress, Ctrl-Tab between them more easily than between locations in a single file, etc.
(If you can't control the markup to add your CSS files, use an #import at the top of the old file.)
Start from scratch!
Assuming you can check all the major pages manually, I would be VERY tempted to wipe the entire file and start from scratch. Spot-checking for IE6 inconsistencies, you'll be doing nearly the same amount of work anyway, but it will be much, much more painful if you're modifying old, browser-specific CSS.
That 5000 lines may well be expressable in 2000 lines of modern, well-designed CSS. I think most experienced CSS developers would find it less work to write 2k lines of new CSS than modify 5k lines of horrible CSS.
http://www.codebeautifier.com/
which is based on this:
http://csstidy.sourceforge.net/
Not necessarily CSS, but here's worflow tip: use GIT.
start off by importing the files in git;
commit for every minor step, and record what you did;
whenever you find that you broke something, you can identify the exact same step broke using git bisect ( a good description );
For extra kicks, here's a talk about code coverage for CSS to help you quickly weed out unused rules.
As Triptych said, I would start from scratch. Also, consider the following:
use a CSS reset file to smooth out cross-browser inconsistencies: http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/
get it working perfectly in Firefox, then tweak for other browsers as needed
study the underlying HTML. How is it organized? Is it laid out with tables? all DIVs? Semantic tagging?
is the CSS used for layout or simply styling (fonts, colors, etc.)?
Once you get a feel for that, study the content. Categorize the layout and elements as much as possible, so that you identify all the common elements and can maximize the efficiency of your CSS
remember the C in CSS, Make the most commonly used font the body font, so that other elements will inherit it by default.
use relative units (ems) for font size, to allow proper scaling of text
try not to use ANY inline styles
make use of Firebug - it will let you inspect an element and see exactly what CSS is in effect and where the rules came from
don't be afraid to re-use portions of the old CSS, especially for things like dropdown menus, which can need very specific incantations to work properly
have fun! starting from scratch lets you implement best practices and learn a ton along the way. When you are done you are probably going to look back on this as a good experience.
there is a presentation here that should get you in the right headspace for tackling this task: CSS Systems
I would be tempted into creating a test suite first: automating page visits (perhaps with Selenium?), taking screenshots, then using something like ImageMagick to compare those with reference images.
Also, I second all the suggestions to use source control. If you later discover that your refactorings broke something that wasn't checked by the test suite, you can add a new test and then bisect your history to find the change that broke it. Git is good for that.
Get a code editor with good syntax highlighting. Also, goodluck I dont envy you.
My initial thought was does some like NCover exist for CSS, as it would be handy to see if all of the CSS is referenced. A quick Google on CSS code coverage found a few things- you might want to look yourself though: http://development.lombardi.com/?p=436
Install sass, run css2sass on your 5000 lines of css, proceed. After you are done with your sass file refactoring, run sass2css to regenerate the css file. Best of luck!
I'd suggest Stylizer - it is a CSS editor with an embedded live preview browser. It makes life much easier when editing CSS files and can tell you which rules affect which element on the page and more.
All of you guys saying he should start from scratch are wrong. You shouldn't. Try to identify the different parts the site uses. Put them on a sheet of paper. Find the parts that match together. Build a structure. Find parts of the application that are the same but are still styled with different rules.
Take that one part and name it. Then match all app parts that use that "pattern" with the correct HTML/CSS.
Repeat until you're done. Break up the large task in small chunks.
Identify whether the original CSS writer used standard methods like using a CSS reset. If he didn't, and everything is defined by #id without reusable classes, well, then maybe the guys saying you should start from scratch are in fact right. But my point here is that you can't just recommend that without assessing the situation.
Using the Dust-Me Selectors Firefox Plugin can be handy. It's a bit like a code coverage tool for CSS.
Tool suggestion: ReSharper by JetBrains. It will autocomplete CSS and rename selectors site wide from the CSS file editing window.
I am looking for a 'one-stop' solution/tool to give a Photoshop guy who knows nothing about CSS as a means for him to choose fonts and styles that can be made as CSS.
I'm looking for something very similar to this 'CSS Font and Text Style Wizard', but that will also allow for changes to color, backgrounds, be friendly to a 'Photoshop guy' and preferably have built in styles.
Any better tools out there?
You can start with the oh-so-limited but web-safe font list and the standard CSS text decorations. Then move on to the CSS box model. You're better off learning how to "really" do it than depend on a tool
This should fit the bill: http://www.typetester.org/
The link to generate the CSS style is a bit hard to find - it's just to the right of the sample text box
Maybe http://www.blueprintcss.org/ , it's not a wizard, it's a code base which has lots of predefined values.
If he has no clue about css, I think it's better for him to have a consistent basis like blueprint or http://960.gs and overwrite only the typography and other parts he needs, with help of w3schools docs and some wizards like the one you mention.
It sounds like you want something like Microsoft Frontpage or Adobe Dreamweaver. Generating CSS styles for text only is a really narrow problem domain for a full-fledged application. Aside from perhaps some online scripts, you're not likely to find any programs designed with such a limited scope.
Like Diodeus said, anyone who's interested in doing web design should just learn some basic CSS. If 13-year-olds on Myspace can do it, than so can a "Photoshop guy." Otherwise, just get a WYSIWYG editor. That's what they're there for.
But honestly, the CSS involved in styling text is so simple & basic that if that's all you want to do, then it's hardly worth buying (or even installing) an HTML editor. There are maybe 10 commonly used tags that you need to know (if that), and they all have the same 15-20 attributes that are related to text appearance/formatting.
The web is literally overflowing with online guides & tutorials for CSS/HTML aimed at every level of programming proficiency. Anyone who spends even 2 weeks reading/following them should be able to pick up everything that you are talking about, and then some.
I'm using CSS Filters to modify images on the fly within the browser. These work perfectly in Internet Explorer, but aren't supported in Firefox.
Does anyone know what the CSS Filter equivalent for these is for Firefox? An answer that would work cross browser (Safari, WebKit, Firefox, etc.) would be preferred.
<style type="text/css">
.CSSClassName {filter:Invert;}
.CSSClassName {filter:Xray;}
.CSSClassName {filter:Gray;}
.CSSClassName {filter:FlipV;}
</style>
Update: I know Filter is an IE specific feature. Is there any kind of equivalent for any of these that is supported by Firefox?
Please check the Nihilogic Javascript Image Effect Library:
supports IE and Fx pretty well
has a lot of effects
You can find many other effects in the CVI Projects:
they are also JS based
there's a Lab to experiment
Good Luck
Could you give us a concrete example of what exactly you're trying to do? You'd probably get fewer "Your brower sux" responses and more "How about trying this different approach?" ones.
Normally CSS is used to control the look and feel of HTML content, not add effects or edit images in clever ways. What you're trying to do might be possible using javascript, but a behavior-oriented script still probably isn't very well suited for the kind of tweaking you want to do (although something like this is a fun and very inefficient adventure in CSS / JS tomfoolery).
I can't imagine a scenario when you would need the client to perform image tweaking in real-time. You could modify images server-side and simply reference these modified versions with your CSS or possibly Javascript, depending on what you're doing exactly. ImageMagick is a great little command-line tool for all the image effects you would ever need, and is pretty simple to use by itself or within the server-side language of your choice. Or if you're using PHP, I believe PHP's GD library is pretty popular.
There are no equivalents in other browsers. The closest you could get is using a graphics library like Canvas and manipulating the images in it, but you'd have to write the manipulations yourself and they'd require JavaScript.
filter is an IE-only feature -- it is not available in any other browser.
SVG filters applied to HTML content.
Only works in Firefox 3.1 and above, though I think Safari is heading in the same direction.
None that I know of. Filter was an IE only thing and I don't think any other browser has followed with similar functionality.
What is there a specific use case you need?
I'm afraid that you are pretty much out of luck with most of the cross-browser filter-type functionality. CSS alone will not allow you to do most of these things. For example, there is no way to invert an image cross-browser just using CSS. You will have to have two different copies of the image (one inverted) or you could try using Javascript or maybe go about it a completely different way, but there is no simple solution solely in CSS.
There are filters, such as Gaussian Blur et al in SVG, which is supported natively by most browsers except IE.
Pure thought experiment here, you could wrap your images in an SVG object on the fly with javascript and attempt to apply filters to them.
I doubt this would work for background images, though perhaps with alot of clever positioning it could work.
It's unlikely to be a realistic solution. If you don't want to permanently modify your source images, Rudi has the best answer, using server side tools to apply transformations on the fly (or cached for performance) will be the best cross browser solution.
This is a very very old question but css has updated to now support filters. Read more about it at
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/filter
Syntax
With a function, use the following:
filter: <filter-function> [<filter-function>]* | none
For a reference to an SVG element, use the following:
filter: url(svg-url#element-id)
Not really, and hopefully there never will be. It's not a web standard CSS feature for the reason that you're using CSS to format the webpage, not the browser itself. The day that other web designers and developers think they should style my browser how they wish and are then do so is the day I stop visiting their pages (and I say this as a front end web guy).