CSS - Inline Style Works, But External Doesn't

I'm using an external style sheet with:

p{
text-align: justify;
}

Within myfile.html I have:

<p align="center">My paragraph</p>
<p align="left">My paragraph</p>
<p align="right">My paragraph</p>

I assumed that the html inline would take precedence over the external css but it is not; all of my <p> text is justified! Why? I'm a nube with css and I'm testing. I'm not planning on using the html align, but, if necessary I'd like to know why it is not working as I thought. If I remove the style sheet reference then the <p> statements do work. Help.

Hi,

This is a bit of an odd one but I am working with a shopping cart softwear which generates the html table in the code bellow, including the SELECT section and its formatting. I would like to change the apearance of the select box but I carnt edit any of the code in the table. I can only edit the containing div. Was wondering is there is a way of overwritting the inline style.

Thanks for any pointers.

Code:

<div id="options">
<TABLE BORDER=0 WIDTH="100%" >
	<TR>
		<TD WIDTH=100>
			Choose a colour
		</TD>
		<TD>
			<SELECT STYLE="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000;" NAME="variant_Choose a colour" ID="variant_Choose a colour" MAXLENGTH=5 onChange="javascript:Variants_ProductsOptions();">
				<OPTION  SELECTED VALUE="Black">Black&nbsp;</OPTION>
				<OPTION   VALUE="Red">Red&nbsp;</OPTION>
			</SELECT>
		</TD>
	</TR>
</TABLE>
<BR>
<div>

Is it possible to apply an A style inline? Eg inside a tag?

You can do this obviously:

Code:

<div style="background: url(blah.gif);">blah</div>

But is it possible to apply an A (anchor) style in the same fashion. I do have a very valid reason to do this; being that I need to slide a background image using background-position, but the image is not known until the page loads.....

Thanks for any pointers.

Hi all,

Im hoping someone out there can help me.

Ive just discovered ive made a massive mistake by designing my site and viewing it in IE. It looks fine in IE, but of course there is one part that looks terrible in FF ( not FFs fault i know!)

The navigation bar is an inline list that is supposed to appear tabbed but in FF one of the tabs is pushed up a lot higher and I cant figure out what is pushing it up. i thought it might be the #ul secondary pushing it up (as this appears a bit wonky as well...)and i tried adding /* Hides from IE-mac \*/

#ul secondary {
position: absolute;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
bottom: -41px;
left: 1px;
width: 100%;
}
/* End hide from IE-mac */

but this didnt change anything. i tried using the DOM inspector that comes with firebug but I still cant figure out whats pushing up the one home page tab....

Any tips anyone might have would be greatly appreciated.



My style sheets is




/*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*

2 column container

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*/


#content-container-two-column {
margin-top:3px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
padding:10px;
width:728px;
position:relative;
margin-bottom: 50px;
}

#content-main-two-column {
width:728px;
float:left;
}

#content-side-two-column {
float:right;
width:160px;
}

/*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*

3 column container

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*/

#content-container-three-column {
margin-top:3px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
padding:10px;
width:728px;


position:relative;
}

#content-main-three-column {
width:355px;
float:left;
margin-left:25px;
}

#items-left {
width:148px;
float:left;
margin-right: 45px;

}

#items-right {
width:148px;
float:right;
margin-right: 45px;

}





#content-side2-three-column,
#content-side1-three-column {
width:150px;
font-size:1.1em;
}



#content-side2-three-column {
float:right;
}

#content-side1-three-column {
float:left;
}

/*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*

index page

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*/

#three-column-container {
background:url(../../images/bg-three-column-home.png) repeat-y;
padding:0;
margin:20px 0 10px 0;
}

#three-column-side1 {
float:left;
width:148px;
margin-right: 45px;
}

#three-column-side2 {
float:right;
width:142px;
background-color: #E9E9E9;
padding-left: 2px;
padding-right: 2px;
}
.centre {
background-position: center;
margin-bottom: 5px;
text-align: center;
padding: 0px;
}


#three-column-side22 {
float:right;
width:148px;
}

#three-column-middle {
width:340px;


margin:0px 10% 0px20%;
margin-right: 10%;
margin-left: 20px;
}


#three-column-middle-air {
width:340px;


margin:0px 10% 0px20%;
margin-right: 10%;
margin-left: 20px;
}


/*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*

html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*/

body {
margin:0px;
background-color:#FFFFFF;
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:0.7em;
line-height:1.4em;
color:#666666;
}

p {
margin:10px 0;
}

p.no-padding-no-margin {
padding:0;
margin:0;
}

hr{
color: #E5E5E5;
background-color: #E5E5E5;
height: 1px;
border:0;
margin:15px 0;
_margin:10px 0;
}




/*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*

headings

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*/


h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
font-size:1.8em;
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
line-height:1.1em;
margin:5px 0;
}

h1 {
margin-bottom:0;
}

h1, h2 {
margin-top:0px;
}

h2 {
font-size:1.3em;
}

h3 {
font-size:1.1em;
}

h3.small {
font-size:1.2em;
}

h4 {
font-size:1.1em;
}

h5 {
font-size:1.1em;
}

h6 {
font-size:1em;
}


a:link {
color:#d61719;
text-decoration:none;
}

a:visited {
color:#980000;
text-decoration:none;
}

a:hover {
text-decoration:none;
}

a:active {
color:#980000;
}

#content-side-two-column a:link,
#content-side2-three-column a:link,
#content-side1-three-column a:link,
#content-side-two-column a:visited,
#content-side2-three-column a:visited,
#content-side1-three-column a:visited {
text-decoration:none;
}

#content-side-two-column a:hover,
#content-side2-three-column a:hover,
#content-side1-three-column a:hover {
text-decoration:underline;
}



.img_text {

float:left;
margin-top:0px;
margin-right:10px;
margin-bottom:0px;

}




#poster-photo-container {

margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
width:750px;

position:relative;
}

.poster-photo-image {

display:block;

}


ul {
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style:none;
}

li {
list-style:none;
background:url(../../images/list-bullet-02.gif) no-repeat 0 .8em;
padding:.2em 0 .2em 1em;
margin-left:0.4em;

}



#content-side1-three-column ul.list-of-links,
#content-side2-three-column ul.list-of-links {
margin: 0 0 30px 0px;
}

ul.list-of-links li{

background-image:url(../../images/list-bullet-01-link.gif);
}

ul.list-of-links li.current {
background-color:#E5E5E5;
}


ul.no-lines,
ul.no-lines li {
border:none;
}



.feature-area {
background-color:#6799D1;
}


/*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*

images

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*/

img {
border:none;

}

.img_footer {
border:none;
padding-right:10px;

}
.photo-border {
padding:0px;
margin-bottom:5px;
display:block;

/*background-image: url(../../images/bg-photo.png);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: top;*/
}

.photo-float-left {
float:left;
margin-left:0px;
margin-right:10px;
margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:40px;

}

.photo-float-details {
float:left;
margin-left:0px;
margin-right:10px;
margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:1px;

}

.image-border-none {
border:none;
}




/*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*

FOOTER

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*/

#footer {
margin-top:3px;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
width:740px;
padding:.8em 0 1em 10px;
position:relative;
font-size:0.9em;
text-align: center;
}



#footer a:link,
#footer a:visited {
color:#555450;
text-decoration:none;
padding:0px 0px 0px 10px;
}

#footer a:hover {
color:#64645c;
text-decoration:none;
padding:0px 0px 0px 10px;
}

#footer a:active {
color:#FFFFFF;
padding:0px 0px 0px 10px;
}






.arrow {
vertical-align:middle;
}



.clear {
clear:both;
}

.none {
display:none;
}

.dent {
margin-left: 20px;
}



/*Tabs*/


html, body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

body {
text-align: left;
}

#Wrapper {
font-family: Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color: #333333;
text-align: left;
width: 750px;
margin-top: 20px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: auto;
padding: 0px;
}

#Container {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
color: #333;
clear: both;
margin: 0px;
padding-top: 2.2em;
padding-right: 0;
padding-bottom: 0;
padding-left: 0;
width: 750px;
float: left;
border-top: 1px solid #C0C0C0;
display: block;
}




#Content {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
border-top-width: 1px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-top-color: #C0C0C0;
padding-bottom: 20px;
margin: 0px;
width: auto;
height: auto;
}

#Navigation {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight:bold;
color: #333333;
position: relative;
height: 50px;
display: block;
width: auto;
}
ul#primary {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
position: absolute;
bottom: -1px;
width: 728px;
}

ul#primary li {
display: inline;
list-style: none;
}

ul#primary a,ul#primary a.active {
width: 10em;
display: block;
float: left;
text-align: center;
font-family: tahoma, verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
text-decoration: none;
color: #333;
letter-spacing: .1em;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 2px;
margin-bottom: 0;
margin-left: 0;
padding-top: 4px;
padding-right: 0;
padding-bottom: 4px;
padding-left: 0;
}




ul#primary a.active,ul#primary a.active:hover {
border-top: 1px solid #c0c0c0;
border-right: 1px solid #c0c0c0;
border-bottom: none;
border-left: 1px solid #c0c0c0;
background: #ffffff;
color: #333;
margin-top: 0;
margin-right: 2px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
padding-top: 4px;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-bottom: 4px;
padding-left: 0px;
}




ul#primary a {
border-top: 1px solid #c0c0c0;
border-right: 1px solid #c0c0c0;
border-bottom: none;
border-left: 1px solid #c0c0c0;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 2px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
padding-top: 4px;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-bottom: 3px;
padding-left: 0px;
background: #e8e9e1;
}

ul#primary a:hover {
margin-top: 1;
border-color: #c0c0c0;
color: #333;
padding-bottom: 3px;
margin-right: 2px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
padding-top: 4px;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-left: 0px;
background: #e9eaea;
}
ul#secondary {
position: absolute;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
bottom: -21px;
left: 1px;
width: 100%;
}

/* Hides from IE-mac \*/
#ul secondary {
position: absolute;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
bottom: -41px;
left: 1px;
width: 100%;
}
/* End hide from IE-mac */



ul#secondary li a {
width: auto;
display: block;
float: left;
padding: 0 10px;
margin: 0;
text-align: center;
border-top: none;
border-right:none;
border-bottom: none;
border-left: none;
background: none;
color: #666;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
}

/* Hides from IE-mac \*/
#ul secondary li a {
width: auto;
display: inline;
float: left;
padding: 0 10px;
margin: 0;
text-align: center;
border-top: none;
border-right:none;
border-bottom: none;
border-left: none;
background: none;
color: #666;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
}
/* End hide from IE-mac */

ul#secondary li a:hover {
color: #333;
border-top: none;
border-bottom: none;
border-left: none;
margin: 0px;
padding-top: 0;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-bottom: 0;
padding-left: 10px;
background: none;
}

ul#secondary li a:active {
color: #000;
font-weight: bold;
}

ul#secondary li:last-child a {
border: none;
}

.bold {

font-weight:bolder;
color:#000000;}


#number {

width:20opx; }



And some of the html

<div id="Wrapper">
<img src="pics/logo2.gif" align="right" />
<div id="Navigation">
<ul id="primary">
<li><a href="index.html" class="active">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="print.html">Printing</a>

<ul id="secondary">
<li><a href="about.html">About us</a></li>
<li><a href="environment.html">Environment</a></li>
<li><a href="links.html">Links</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="products.html">Products</a></li>
<li><a href="cart">View Cart</a>
<li><a href="contact.html">Contact us</a></li> </ul>
</div>
<div id="Container">
<div id="Content">
<div id="poster-photo-container"><img src="pics/header6.jpg" alt="" class="poster-photo-image" /></div>
<div id="content-container-two-column">
<div id="content-main-two-column">
<h1>
Welcome to The Picture Works Printing Room</h1>

i have 10 div's with abolute positioning
and the css is external

the html is like this <div class="1">
<div class="2">.........

it works in IE but in firefox the images get put all below eachother on the left...except if i put the css inline it works

Can you have both inline styles AND a linked style sheet? would this cause confusion?

I have the following defined in my css file:

Code:

table {
	border:1px dashed #999;
	}

And the following code interspersed throughout other parts of my code:

PHP Code:
echo "<table nowrap border=\"0\">"; 





The problem I have is that the border is still appearing around these tables where I have specified no border.

As I understand, the inline style should take precedence, right?

Is this a php issue? Or am I doing something else wrong?

Hello

I'm having trouble with displaying a background image in a div.

It worked fine with embedded CSS but when I changed the CSS to external, the text loads but the bg image doesnt.

I'll post some code to explain it...

This is in the external style sheet:

#navbgtop {
position:absolute;
left:38px;
top:185px;
width:194px;
height:18px;
z-index:2;
background-image: url(images/navbartop.jpg);
}








and yes of course I have made the proper link to it in the <head> tag:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/nav.css" media="all" />


For some reason the background image wont display. Any ideas?



One more question also, does it matter if I use media="all" for the whole website? Or do I even need to bother using media=xyz ? I heard most browsers don't even read that as of yet.

Ok, I just started a new website. I have been putting all of the html on every page. So, when I change one small thing on my Nav Bar, I have to go to every single page and change it! There has to be an easier way, right? Isn't it by using external sytle sheets? I tried this code in my homepage, but it isn't working:
Code:

<head>

<STYLE TYPE="text/css" MEDIA="screen, projection">
<!--
  @import url(http://www.freewebs.com/ohhdanggggraphics/BASIC.css);
  -->
</STYLE>

</head>

Basically on my site the only thing I want to change from page to page is the information in the center table. How would I do this? Thanks for your help

My Website

Is this possible?

Currently onclicking a dynamically created option in my select menu an URL is sent to change the .src of an IFRAME.

The external content in the IFRAME does not match my site (it's a portal) style (bg, alignment, font etc.) I want to make it fit in but ofcourse cannot set attributes to external pages.

Can the URL be loaded in a 0 size frame or hidden IFRAME and it's contents, the source code, be taken on load and put into a new div tag on my own page with the neccessary style additions?

Notably the URL source has it's own style.css, is an alternative to change the href of that style.css onload?

=D

Mark.

Is there anyway to make GoLive automatically apply styles to external style sheets rather than internal?

Hi All,

How can i apply style to following table? Class attribute is not working. following is the code.

function links(){
var xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.xmlDOM")
xmlDoc.async="false";
xmlDoc.load("ticker.xml") ;
xmlObj=xmlDoc.documentElement;
nodes=xmlDoc.documentElement.childNodes;
document.write("<table border=1 align=left >");
for( var count = 0; count<nodes.length; count++){
document.write("<tr>");
document.write("<td>");
document.write("<a href='" + (xmlObj.childNodes(count).getAttribute('URL')) + "'>" + (nodes.item(count).text) + "</a><br>");
document.write("</td>");
document.write("</tr>");
}
document.write("</table>");
}
Please guide me for the same.
Thanks in advance

I swear I've done some searching on this but I haven't been able to find a satisfactory answer.

I have a style sheet in the root of my site with this declairation in it:
Code:

#nav
{
	float: left; 
	width: 190px; 
	height: 600px; 
	min-height: 600px; 
	margin-right: 10px; 
	background-image: url(images/gradientBg.jpg); 
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
}

The file the id="nav" is in is being included in the index.php page that's being called from the root also. So we have a structure that looks like this:
Code:

/root
  styles.css
  index.php

/includes
  nav.php

/images
  gradientBg.jpg

The stylesheet is being included like this
Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles.css" />

Now for my problem...

The styles and backgrounds all show as expected in Firefox. However, in IE any of the styles that apply to files from the /include directory like nav.php are not followed at all.

I find it hard to believe that my only option is to make the styles inline but I'm not sure what else to do at this point.

Thanks for staying with me this far and for any advice.

I need to modify an external style sheet so that background images on each page can be changed. Please help

I've been involved in building an intranet site with about 1200 pages. Now that it's been launched we've found problems in printing many of the pages - there are blank pages printing before the content, probably because of floated divs being pushed down when the width is restricted to A4. (That's a guess).

Now I know that what we should have done was create a print style sheet which would have solved this problem easily, but if we do that we'll have to place the link to it in every page, which involves quite a lot of signing-out of 1200 pages etc. I'm prepared to do that if there isn't another way but I wondered if there's any way the existing external style sheet can be amended so it loads (imports) the print styles dependent on some statement or other. I'm doubtful, but if anyone knows of a method that involves editing the one stylesheet rather than the 1200 pages I'd love to hear it!