What are the target browsers? Different browsers set different default CSS rules. Try including a CSS reset, such as the meyerweb CSS reset or normalize.css, to remove those defaults. Google “CSS reset vs normalize” to see the differences.
There aren’t a lot of “Best Practices” yet. Those of us that are using inline-styles, for React components, are still very much experimenting. There are a number of approaches that vary wildly: React inline-style lib comparison chart All or nothing? What we refer to as “style” actually includes quite a few concepts: Layout — how … Read more
You asked for a link that looks like a button, so use a link and a button 🙂 This will preserve default browser button styling. The button by itself does nothing, but clicking it activates its parent link. Demo:
Since Bootstrap 3 doesn’t have a style for checkboxes I found a custom made that goes really well with Bootstrap style. Checkboxes Run code snippetExpand snippet Radio Run code snippetExpand snippet Custom icons You can choose your own icon between the ones from Bootstrap or Font Awesome by changing [icon name] with your icon. For example: glyphicon glyphicon-remove for Bootstrap, or fa fa-bullseye for Font Awesome
There is an experimental webkit property called text-stroke in CSS3, I’ve been trying to get this to work for some time but have been unsuccessful so far. What I have done instead is used the already supported text-shadow property (supported in Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and IE 9 I believe). Use four shadows to simulate a stroked text: Run code … Read more
You are not applying text-decoration: none; to an anchor (.boxhead a) but to a span element (.boxhead). Try this:
Children inherit opacity. It’d be weird and inconvenient if they didn’t. You can use a translucent PNG file for your background image, or use an RGBa (a for alpha) color for your background color. Example, 50% faded black background:
You are not applying text-decoration: none; to an anchor (.boxhead a) but to a span element (.boxhead). Try this:
Try the line-height property. For example, 12px font-size and 4px distant from the bottom and upper lines: Or with em units
It means, essentially, what it says; that ‘this is important, ignore subsequent rules, and any usual specificity issues, apply this rule!’ In normal use a rule defined in an external stylesheet is overruled by a style defined in the head of the document, which, in turn, is overruled by an in-line style within the element itself (assuming equal specificity … Read more