Stylesheets - Random property values

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Random property values

Taras_96

2006-11-05, 11:33 pm

Hi everyone,

Has anyone ever had problems with random CSS properties being assigned?
The other day I created a span, coloured it red, and for some reason
the 'text-decoration: captilization' property was set!!! I got aroudn
this by manually setting that property to none. I do not use this value
for this property ANYWHERE in my style sheet!

Another similar problem has cropped up. On a particular member's
computer the background for text inputs have become yellow!!? We don't
set the background of these inputs, and it is fine on everyone else's
computer. The backgrounds are yellow in BOTH IE and FF!

Is this a documented bug?

Taras

Els

2006-11-05, 11:33 pm

Taras_96 wrote:

> Hi everyone,

Hello Taras,

> Has anyone ever had problems with random CSS properties being assigned?

Never.

> The other day I created a span, coloured it red, and for some reason
> the 'text-decoration: captilization' property was set!!! I got aroudn
> this by manually setting that property to none. I do not use this value
> for this property ANYWHERE in my style sheet!

Prove it :-)

> Another similar problem has cropped up. On a particular member's
> computer the background for text inputs have become yellow!!? We don't
> set the background of these inputs, and it is fine on everyone else's
> computer. The backgrounds are yellow in BOTH IE and FF!

You probably have the Google toolbar installed in both IE and FF then.

> Is this a documented bug?

No, it's a documented feature of the Google toolbar.

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Harlan Messinger

2006-11-05, 11:33 pm

Taras_96 wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Has anyone ever had problems with random CSS properties being assigned?
> The other day I created a span, coloured it red, and for some reason
> the 'text-decoration: captilization' property was set!!!

CSS is contained in text files. What you are saying implies that the
text in your file spontaneously changed to something else. Is that true?

Either that, or you're defining your CSS properties using some
application, like Dreamweaver or Visual Studio or something, the
workings of which are transparent. It's impossible to answer your
question without knowing what you're doing.

> I got aroudn
> this by manually setting that property to none. I do not use this value
> for this property ANYWHERE in my style sheet!
>
> Another similar problem has cropped up. On a particular member's
> computer the background for text inputs have become yellow!!? We don't
> set the background of these inputs, and it is fine on everyone else's
> computer. The backgrounds are yellow in BOTH IE and FF!

Google toolbar, probably. It highlights fields it guesses are name,
address, and so on that it can fill in for you if you want to use its
Autofill feature.

Ed Mullen

2006-11-05, 11:33 pm

Taras_96 wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Has anyone ever had problems with random CSS properties being assigned?
> The other day I created a span, coloured it red, and for some reason
> the 'text-decoration: captilization' property was set!!! I got aroudn
> this by manually setting that property to none. I do not use this value
> for this property ANYWHERE in my style sheet!

The first question I'd ask is: What program are using to create/edit
the page? If it's a WYSIWYG editor I'd suspect that.

>
> Another similar problem has cropped up. On a particular member's
> computer the background for text inputs have become yellow!!? We don't
> set the background of these inputs, and it is fine on everyone else's
> computer. The backgrounds are yellow in BOTH IE and FF!
>
Could be the user is over-riding the site CSS with a personal style sheet

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Taras_96

2006-11-05, 11:33 pm

Sorry guys, my bad. Another developer had sneaked a 'capitalize'
property into it without me noticing it :(.

And the other problem was the toolbar being installed, so that explains
that :)

Thanks for the help guys

Taras

Ed Mullen wrote:
> Taras_96 wrote:
>
> The first question I'd ask is: What program are using to create/edit
> the page? If it's a WYSIWYG editor I'd suspect that.
>
> Could be the user is over-riding the site CSS with a personal style sheet
>
> --
> Ed Mullen
> http://edmullen.net
> http://mozilla.edmullen.net
> http://abington.edmullen.net
> Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?