Comments on: There is a minor bug with the text stylesheet.

There is a minor bug with the text stylesheet.

xyzzy — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 10:24:35 -0800

There is a minor bug with the text stylesheet. The a:hover in the head class is not declared, causing the text to disappear into the white background when moused over.

By: xyzzy

xyzzy — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 10:25:50 -0800

I think (although I admit I didn't study it too closely) that this can be fixed by explicitly defining a hover class for the links within the head class.

By: Su

Su — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 10:43:55 -0800

Hover is declared, but it appears last.
I recall there being some odd little cascading issue(whose details I can't dredge up at the moment) that makes the hover state not work if the pseudo-classes are declared in an order other than: link, visited, hover, active.

By: mikhail

mikhail — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 11:36:01 -0800

Actually Su, a.menu:hover is not declared in the stylesheet xyzzy linked to (text.css), which is causing the menu to pick up the hover style from default.css instead (which is where it is declared). I didn't compare them line for line to see if both Style Sheets are needed (Matt?), but overriding the hover in text.css would take care of it.

As for remembering the cascading issue with pseudo classes you could try this mnemonic:

Luther Vandross Finds Her Attractive

:link
:visited
:focus
:hover
:active

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 11:39:27 -0800

I added a menu:hover class and broke out the previous mention of hover, does it work now?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 11:44:52 -0800

What a weird bug. I purposely load the text.css after the default.css, so that the classes override the previous ones. It didn't work on both versions until I broke out all the a classes into individual ones, and did them in the order mikhail suggested.

By: mikhail

mikhail — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 11:50:58 -0800

Yep, everything seems to be working.

And yeah, that pseudo class cascade was always a pain.

By: machaus

machaus — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 12:14:39 -0800

Do y'all talk like this at parties?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 12:30:49 -0800

Do y'all talk like this at parties?

A wise man once said "The way to a woman's heart is through arcane discussions of pseudo class support across browsers."

He died alone.

By: mischief

mischief — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 12:32:33 -0800

machaus: Without realizing it, you just stepped into a geek party. Feeling a need to shower is the normal reaction.

By: mikhail

mikhail — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 12:47:51 -0800

*cries*

By: timeistight

timeistight — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 12:57:07 -0800

Don't cry mikhail. I know I'll use "Luther Vandross Finds Her Attractive" soon.

Threads like this are my favorite part of MetaFilter.

By: Yelling At Nothing

Yelling At Nothing — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 15:21:58 -0800

Yeah, I' really just here for the involved discussion of the finer points of CSS.

Don't think this is related, but when I visited the other day the stylesheet refused to load at all (at least I'm fairly sure that's what it was); I got the sidebar all the way across the page.

By: xyzzy

xyzzy — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 16:43:46 -0800

Yes it a:hover works now (thanks matthowie!).. but now the sidebar is black text on MeFi deep blue, which is not terribly legible. Looks like another CSS loading order issue.

And yeah, the way to this woman's heart is not chocolate or flowers, but an understanding of CSS and the finer points of structural markup. And a big TV, a tasteful DVD collection, and a good surround sound system. *grin*

By: xyzzy

xyzzy — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 16:47:44 -0800

Sigh, that would it (a:hover) works now.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 16:52:18 -0800

I fixed the sidebar oddity.

By: xyzzy

xyzzy — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 17:04:07 -0800

All lovely now, thank you kindly sir.

By: riffola

riffola — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 17:06:54 -0800

Matt, could you fix smart dalek's post from yesterday? It's still messed up in IE6 SP1 on XP. Thanks.

By: riffola

riffola — Sat, 02 Nov 2002 17:07:34 -0800

Smart Dalek's MetaTalk thread.