CSS - Can You Generate Dynamic Stylesheets From Database Settings?

I am working on a project in which users will be able to sign up for a program, lets compare it to a myspace page... and they can customize the look and feel of that page to a very limited extent.

What is the best way to have them choose colors of the page through CSS, have those changes be there always applied to their page and their page alone?

I don't need help with the implementation, I currently have it to where users can choose from pre-built stylesheets and those are used, but how do you set it up to where what options they choose in the setup wizard are then creating a new stylesheet just for that user on the fly?

Thanks a ton,

SS

I'm writing an application that uses stylesheets to display certain items. The user can alter the positioning etc. of these items (which then rewrites the stylesheet for future use), and then reloads the page. Unfortunately the old coordinates are still apllied to the elements in question until I manually hit the browser's reload button, then the new values are used.

I'm guessing the style is being cached somewhere?

If so can anyone advise how to stop this?

thanks

p.s. Its just a basic refresh that sorts it out, not a *hard* refresh.


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I've come up with a fix of sorts.

If I write the style out dynamically within the div itself each time then my problem is solved.

I'm building a site that will have a style sheet that should be applied site wide (main.css) and then some pages will have styles that should only be applied to them (custom<X>.css).

Should I use multiple <link> tags to import each stylesheet or should I edit custom<X>.css and add @import "main.css"; to the beginning. Doing this would make the code look cleaner, but will the browser still cache the main.css file?

Am I being too persnickety about the look of my code and just use multiple <link>s?

i thought i was pretty well versed in css, but i have come across an annoying problem.

on my website, i have multiple external stylesheets; there is virtually 0 internal and inline styling. this is to make the code as clean and elegant as possible.

the primary stylesheet, full.css , references to two other external stylesheets ( background.css and spacing.css ). background.css ' only purpose is to enable the background scaling feature. spacing.css ' only purpose is to set the margins, padding, etc of the page(s).

i have an alternate stylesheet, bw.css , but it only references spacing.css , since the scaling background feature is not intended to part of how the page looks when styled with bw.css .

i have used (or attempted to use) the * universal selector in bw.css to style every element to use a different background, different font color, and different font than what was used in full.css .

the problem is, the * doesnt seem to work as intended, when combined with @import . only certain css properties seem to work, but i do not know which ones work and which ones dont.

i can rectify the problem by using !important , but id rather not, since its not as elegant as not using it.

my question is, how do i solve this problem without using !important ?

my site: prototism.co.cc

full.css
css Code:
Original - css Code @import url("background.css"); @import url("spacing.css"); * { cursor: default; font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif; } a { color: #ddd; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; } a:hover { background-image: url("../img/link-bg.png"); color: white; } #links, #header { font-size: 34pt; letter-spacing: -3px; } #links, #footer { text-transform: lowercase; } #header { color: white; } #footer { font-size: 12pt; } #footer span { color: #ddd; }

  

 @import url("background.css");


 @import url("spacing.css");


  


 * {


 cursor: default;


 font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;


 }


  


 a {


 color: #ddd;


 cursor: pointer;


 text-decoration: none;


 }


  


 a:hover {


 background-image: url("../img/link-bg.png");


 color: white;


 }


  


 #links, #header {


 font-size: 34pt;


 letter-spacing: -3px;


 }


  


 #links, #footer {


 text-transform: lowercase;


 }


  


 #header {


 color: white;


 }


  


 #footer  {


 font-size: 12pt;


 }


  


 #footer span {


 color: #ddd;


 } 

bw.css
css Code:
Original - css Code @import url("spacing.css"); * { font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif; background-image: none; color: black; } a:hover { color: white; background-color: black; } .check { color: #006400; } #links a { margin-left: 30px; } #background { display: none; }

  

 @import url("spacing.css");


  


 * {


 font-family: "Georgia", "Times New Roman", serif;


 background-image: none;


 color: black;


 }


  


 a:hover {


 color: white;


 background-color: black;


 }


  


 .check {


 color: #006400;


 }


  


 #links a {


 margin-left: 30px;


 }


  


 #background {


 display: none;


 } 

Hi all,

I know this info is out there, but I'm having trouble getting a precise answer.

I am a web software developer, and I would like to include one stylesheet that points to x number of other stylesheets. My goal is to give the designers full control over the styles and I won't have to re-cache pages when they want to import another css file.

Will it work to simply link to one main stylesheet, such as @import url('http://www.somewhere.com/css/main.css');, that includes additional @import statements?

Thanks!

Hello all!

Is there a way to set a resolution % for a certain type of resolution size and any above that resolution to another specific %

For example I want it to be:

1024x 768 : width : 90%;

and anything higher than 1024x 768 to be 80% since 90% on a resolution higher than 1024 for my navigation is just too make of a banner.

Please help/advice.


Regards,
Kingofqueens.

I've got an image placed inside a div tag where the div is set to a height and width of 100%. The div has a "fixed" position with a "left" value set to "-36px", which ensure's it shows up exactly where I want it to. Everything that I setup in the style sheet works fine with Firefox 1.5x; the problem - big surprise - is that it doesn't work at all in IE6.

Basically what's happening in IE is that the scroll bars are still showing up (which I don't want to happen) and it doesn't appear to be recognising the negative-positioning either.

I'm just now learning to use div tags so there's probably some trick I haven't figured out yet. Here's the code I'm using.
Code:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
body, html {
	height: 100%;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	background-color: #566f5f;
	background-image: url(images/bg.gif);
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	text-align: center;
}
#myTable {
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	position: fixed;
	left: -36px;
}
-->
</style>
</head>


<body>
<div id="myTable"><img src="images/picture.jpg" width="1071" height="738" border="0" usemap="#Map" />
<map name="Map" id="Map">
<area shape="poly" coords="812,437,828,463,1038,409,1018,390" href="mailto:info@email_address.com" alt="Contact Us" />
</map></div>

As I mentioned, it works great in FF but not in IE. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions it would be a massive help

Thanks!

Hello Again,

My new site design for www.everything.ie is finally coming together mostly due to the great help I've been getting here.

The next little problem I need help with is this.

Have a look here first:

http://www.grahamvard.com/everything.html

Look at the headings for the catagories (grey background with red writing).

I'm trying to replicate them on my test site but can't quite get it right.

Look here to see my attempts:

http://www.eveythingfree.buildtolea...fieds/index.php

It's basically alright but I want to make the grey headings boxes bigger so they occupy almost the full width of the 3 columns just like in the example page.

Because this part of the page is controled by a php script which generates the text and layout, the only thing I can alter is the style sheet in this case the heading font, .cfmaincat

Here's the piece of the .css that controls the heading:


Code:

.cfmaincat { 
   FONT-SIZE: 11px; 
   COLOR: #cc0000; 
   FONT-STYLE: normal; 
   FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 
   TEXT-DECORATION: none; 
   background-color: #e9e9e9; 
   width: 100%; 
   height: 100%; 
} 

I can't work out what I need to change to fix this, I really hope some of you can. I'm sure it's fairly straightforward, I just don't know what to do.

I tried increasing the padding but because the length of words of the heading vary, so too do the grey boxes generated this way. I need them to be all the same size, like in the design example.


Many Thanks,
Robert

I need to change some page setup setting for print like orientation, headers and footers
Is it possible to define it in CSS.

Happy New Year!

I'm having issues with my website in progress, http://www.vilardojardim.com/about.html

Everything seems to be displaying fine in Firefox, Safari and Explorer 8.0.6, but the IE 'Compatibility View Settings' makes the layout go all wiggy. Is there any way of automatically turning this off? Or, can someone help me out with a way to adjust the CSS to avoid the problem altogether?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Hi,

I've been struggling for a long time now about how to create a CSS menu with opacity of whatever rating. If anyone can help me out by telling me how or a good code source place please please let me know.

I found a software which costs a $139 and i really feel its not worth it. So if someone can please help me out.

Thanks.

I've found out that IE and Firefox both handle CSS page structure differently. I have a CSS container of width: 740px Height: 960px and IE prints the page with extra spaces at the top and bottom while this same setting is a bit short both width and height wise in Firefox. How do I compensate for both two browsers by using the same CSS file? I don't want to create different CSS for each browser. I have FF 2.0 and IE 7. However, I assumed many of my users will still be using IE6.

Any help is appreciated.

I have done my best to GOOGLE this problem but am not coming up with anything. I'm fairly certain that there is some setting/code that I need to add in CSS that would make this error go away.

When I view my site in INTERNET EXPLORER, the main content box is shoved down almost below the sidebar/nav menu. The site works fine in FIREFOX & CHROME.

I was hoping someone could help me.

I have attached a picture of what it looks like in IE.

Hi,

I have the definition of the <body> tag in my external CSS file
as follows:

body {
background:URL("fundo5.gif");
scrollbar-arrow-color: yellow;
scrollbar-base-color: black;
scrollbar-dark-shadow-color: yellow;
scrollbar-track-color: green;
scrollbar-face-color: blue;
scrollbar-shadow-color: white;
scrollbar-highlight-color: silver;
scrollbar-3d-light-color: black;
}

However, this settings do get displayed on IE 6.0

Do I have to set any other properties so that I can change the colors of the scrollbar?

thanks in advance

Daniel