[Targon]

Im no web developer and i have tried to understand CSS numerous times without success.

I'd like a CSS that i could use as a substitute for an authors CSS in my browsers. I have alot of trouble with many sites on many browsers due to an authors CSS.

Im wondering if anyone would be prepared to knock up a custom CSS for me?

features :

Id like a CSS that does not allow a web site to use its own 'font style' and 'size'. Id like all pages to use only the font style/size i have chosen in the web browsers preferences.

Link Colors- I prefer ALL links on pages to be 'Underlined' and in 'Blue' and all 'Visited Links' to be in Purple. I guess there will be a situation that occurs where parts of a page are blue like macnn.com left side and the links would be blue also and thus difficult to read. Perhaps this is a situation where the background color should remain but the links on this blue should be inverted (White), im not sure if that possible tho.

Background color should remain as the author has set it. In other words background colors used by the page should remain unchanged but all links should conform to blue for unvisited an purple for visited.

Id appreiate greatly some assistance.

[snotnose]

css is easy. it seemed hard for me to get at first, but it is simple common sense. you will see. i will be more than happy to help you out (a friend just did the same for me last week with css too).

specify the normal font colors, active link colors, hover color, and visited that you want me too use, and anything else you think of and i will do it asap. when i get up tomorrow morning

you will learn a lot just diggin in to your first css file. it really is simple

[Millennium]

What font style and size do you have set in your preferences? This is important, because that's the only thing I can't do without the information you've given here.

This method isn't totally foolproof, but it's pretty close.

Code:
a:link, a:link:hover {
    color: blue !important;
}
a:visited, a:visited:hover, a:link:active {
    color: purple !important;
}
a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active {
    text-decoration: underline !important;
    background-color: inherit !important;
}

The important part is, not surprisingly, the !important declaration that I've put on all of the rules. This will make sure that the browser will use your stylesheet's colors. Note that "inherit" (which I'm using often here) does not work properly on Netscape4, but that's OK because Netscape4 can't do user stylesheets anyway.

[EDIT: Added underlines and refactored some code]

[Targon]

Hi guys, cheers for the replys.

In the preferences I have

Font 'Techno' and (the old classic font)
Size '11'

[Targon]

here is a pic of the way i want my browser pages to look...this is iCab with Quartz rendering disabled . (i dont think this is possible in Safari)

Image of Techno Font Size 11 Blue and Purple colors.

[Millennium]

That's your proportional font; what about monospace? I've substituted Monaco for the monospace font at this point, because it looks as close to Techno as you're likely to have in a monospaced font. I'm including the CSS from my previous post as well, so that you should be able to just cut/paste...

Code:
html, body, * {
    font-family: Techno !important;
    font-size: 11pt !important;
}
pre {
    font-family: Monaco !important;
}
a:link, a:link:hover {
    color: blue !important;
}
a:visited, a:visited:hover, a:link:active {
    color: purple !important;
}
a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active {
    text-decoration: underline !important;
    background-color: inherit !important;
}

[Targon]

Mill...in all browsers every Font is set to 'Techno' cos its the only one i ever want to look at. I dont know the difference between 'proportional' and 'monospace'

in iCab i can tell u Techno is assigned to the following

Serif
Sans Serif
Monospace
Cursive
Fantasy

In Safari there are two font types both assigned 'Tecnho' they are 'Standard' & 'Fixed-Width'

Im totally unaware of all this font teminology and have no idea what any of it means. All i know is i only like 'Techno' font size 11.

Sorry for being so painfully hopeless

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by Targon:
Mill...in all browsers every Font is set to 'Techno' cos its the only one i ever want to look at. I dont know the difference between 'proportional' and 'monospace'

in iCab i can tell u Techno is assigned to the following

Serif
Sans Serif
Monospace
Cursive
Fantasy

In Safari there are two font types both assigned 'Tecnho' they are 'Standard' & 'Fixed-Width'

Im totally unaware of all this font teminology and have no idea what any of it means. All i know is i only like 'Techno' font size 11.

Sorry for being so painfully hopeless

Mono (monospaced) fonts (also called Fixed-Width fonts) are fonts where the characters are all the same width. If you want to create a text table without tags, or render source code, you use a monospaced font. I doubt you want to use a proportional font like Techno for monospaced, but I suppose you could if you wanted. If so, save the style sheet above as "style.css" and use that for your style sheet in your browser. I tested it and it does work in Safari.

[Rainy Day]

Originally posted by Targon:
Id like a CSS that does not allow a web site to use its own 'font style' and 'size'. Id like all pages to use only the font style/size i have chosen in the web browsers preferences.

Link Colors- I prefer ALL links on pages to be 'Underlined' and in 'Blue' and all 'Visited Links' to be in Purple.

Since you're using iCab, you can do everything you just asked for in Preferences without CSS: Select "Display" under the "Web Content" section. Uncheck the boxes/pop-ups which say "page decides" or "page sets."

[Targon]

Originally posted by Rainy Day:
Since you're using iCab, you can do everything you just asked for in Preferences without CSS: Select "Display" under the "Web Content" section. Uncheck the boxes/pop-ups which say "page decides" or "page sets."

I rainy day..i re-read my first post..i can't believe i didn't mention that im using Safari !!!!

Anywayz, i have long since been an iCab user. I have iCab set to exactly as u mentioned for years now to obtain the view i prefer.

Now, there are a few things that annoy me about iCab so now im using Safari 90% of the time, mostly cos of tabs, the ultra fast cache when hitting back button, and also text selection abilities.

My biggest problem is that ALL browsers including Safari wont use my font, size, color ect. Id liek to make Safari load pages in the same manner as i have set up iCab. the only way this is going to be possible is thru a customs CSS with the properties i have stipulated. those are

Font type 'Techno'
Font Size, min 11-max 11
Links underlined in Blue,
Unvisited Links Purple

even with milleniums css above this forum still ignores some of these properties same with some other sites.

im not sure this is ever going to be possible. Id just like to to Disable CSS altogether...it would be the easiest solution for me.