CSS randomly not working

[callumacrae]

I'm using FF and looking at the first page of my site ( http://paperforum.x10hosting.com/ ) but the link on the top right (login) stays that colour and size whatever I put in the style or class tags.

Looking at the source, it should be white and small, but it is red and big instead,

Does anyone know why?

Thanks if you can help.

 

[TechAsh]

The Login link looks small and white to me. Make sure you clear your cache (Ctrl + F5) every time you make a change.

 

[Trigintillion]

Well, if it's insufficiently small and white, I suggest removing your <span> around the link, just for clarity. You don't need it if you've got the necessary styling information in the <a class="genmedw">.

Also, I'm not too familiar with the "em" measurement; I believe that since it only corresponds to what has been stored on the particular computer that's viewing it, you should use px values (say, a.genmedw {font-size:12px;}). That's all I can suggest.

 

[Nathan H]

I belive your problem might be in the fact is is a link, try changing your a:visited definition

edit: nm its not that

it's odd you use different stylesheets for your homepage and everything else

 

[callumacrae]

I have now logged out, it is fine...

Logged in again...
Red again.

Okay, if anyone want to look, the test account is:

Freddy
password

I'm now confused. It looks different to the forum, yet it uses the same stylesheet?

UnFoundBug: I know it's odd, but I take bit's of it down at a time to develop it, and I need the stylesheets as well. Actually, I'll change it now.

 

[TechAsh]

Looking at the source code I see:

<td height="32" align="right">&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="genmedw"><a href="forum/ucp.php?mode=logout&amp;sid=f537e37ba92101b548500a02bd5b39c2" class=\"genmedw\">Logout [ Freddy ]</a></span></td>

Are those backslashes meant to be there. I don't know if there are causing a problem or not but...

The font size problem may be caused but the "1em" in the CSS. em usually means something like bold, try using "px" instead. Try 10px that should work.


I've tested my ideas using a Firefox plugin and have found that if you remove those backslashes and change the CSS as I've suggested everything should work.

 

[tnl2k7]

TechAsh, well found. It looks as if they've been done like that to escape them in PHP, but maybe he used a different type of quote, leading to it being displayed to the browser. These may well be the source of the issue.

-Luke.

 

[woiwky]

The font size problem may be caused but the "1em" in the CSS. em usually means something like bold, try using "px" instead. Try 10px that should work

An em is a browser/OS-dependant unit of measurement which is based on the default font size. For example, Firefox has a default font size of 16px(I think), so 1em = 16px, 1.5em = 24px, etc. But regardless, you're right about using px since an em can vary from user to user.

 

[callumacrae]

What text size would I want to set it too?

TechAsh: Well found, I would give you rep, but you help me too much and so it won't let me.

echo '<a href="http://forums.x10hosting.com/programming-help/' . append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}ucp.$phpEx", 'mode=logout', true, $user->session_id). '" class=\"genmedw\">Logout [ ' . $user->data['username'] . ' ]</a>';

Now I see
Colour now works, but size doesn't.

 

[TechAsh]

What text size would I want to set it too?

Try 10px, that should be about right.