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Apply CSS styles to Light DOM (shadow DOM) in custom element HTML5

I have read all the documentation about web components and according to the standards it is not possible to apply isolated CSS styles (shadow) to the elements that the user enters inside a custom element (light DOM), that is, the content that the user adds within a slot element, an example below:
 
<! - Custom element ->
    <index-book>
     <slot>
       <! - Light DOM here / This content was introduced by the user ->
       <div class = "container">
         <span class = "section"> Section title ... </ span>
         <ul class = "sections">
           <li> ... </ li>
           <li> ... </ li>
           <li> ... </ li>
         </ ul>
       </ div>
     </ slot>
    </ index-book>
In fact, making use of the pseudo-element class of CSS ::slotted () could apply styles only to the first direct child of the slot element, that is, to div.container, but not to its children.
I have reached two conclusions, or if you can apply Shadow styles to the entire structure of elements of the DOM light and I do not know how, or the second option is that the user should not be allowed to enter content into a slot that has multi -level as in the previous example, div within div ...
If the correct answer is the second one, how should I do so that the user inserts content within the custom element and the final result is the same or similar to the example shown above (trying to create a custom book index element) and can apply isolated styles in the DOM tree of the custom element.
I must mention that I am not using Polymer or any other library to develop this custom element.
Thank you very much!

According to web fundamentals:
<name-badge>
<h2>Eric Bidelman</h2>
<span class="title">
Digital Jedi, <span class="company">Google</span>
</span>
</name-badge>
<style>
::slotted(h2) {
margin: 0;
font-weight: 300;
color: red;
}
::slotted(.title) {
color: orange;
}
/* DOESN'T WORK (can only select top-level nodes).
::slotted(.company),
::slotted(.title .company) {
text-transform: uppercase;
}
*/
</style>
<slot></slot>
So I guess you're out of luck here.
However if it's light dom maybe you could style it directly or wrap it in another custom element?

Why not use use normal CSS, that is bundled with your web component file, but applies to the normal dom instead of the shadowDOM, e.g.
<style>
index-book.container {
color: red;
}
index-book.sections{
color: blue;
}
/* or */
index-book > div {
color: red;
}
</style>
Since these styles beging with the custom web component name, they will not apply to any other elements

TinyMCE and multiple CSS selectors on the parent css file handling

I got a problem with TinyMCE when it comes to parent site CSS selectors.
My TinyMCE opens an iframe. I add the parent css to the tinyMCE via content_css property, no problem from there.
Now imagine that i got a css style like this:
.mysite.default .content h1 {
...
}
.mysite.default .info h4 {
}
The problem comes when i want to access to .content h1 or .info h4.
As by default, by adding to the body the class .mysite.default, if you got an h1 or h4, those won't be applied of course due to the selector .content and .info in the middle.
So inside the iframe's body i would be able to set styles only for
.mysite.default h1 { ... }
.mysite.default h4 { ... }
Is there a good strategy to have this kind of flexibility?
Problem is that I don't have only one h1 or h4 or span styling, I may got many of them, that's why I need a flexible selector strategy for this...
I can't just copy all the styles of the parent dynamically at runtime, because what if one of the parent selectors has a border, margins, padding (because it might be a parent div wrapper container with some unique styling) ?
So it's not that easy as saying, "hey add every parent style and that's all", because the child will have extra borders, extra margins when starting to edit that div.

If I understand you correctly, you should be able to use
.mysite.default * h1 { ... }
to select all h1s inside other tags: the * wildcard covers any wrapping tag/class/id.
Hope that is helpful...!

Dojo Dijit styling issues

I'm trying to use a dijit/layout/TabContainer with a modified dijit theme. I need to modify some of the styling of the TabContainer tabs such as the padding of the tabs, boldness, etc. However the styling commands specific to the pages that use the TabContainer are not working.
This piece of code is on my home page's CSS file.
.myTheme .homeTabContent
{
font-weight: bold !important;
}
.myTheme .homeTabContent .dijitTab /* The .dijitTab is the original CSS class of the tab*/
{
font-weight: bold !important;
padding-left: 3px !important;
padding-right: 3px !important;
}
The tabs' padding and font-weight remain unchanged despite the !important. Editing the TabContainer CSS file in myTheme isn't a practical solution because I that will just mess up the styling of a different page. What happens is that as I load the page with the styling, my commands appear to be working for a split second, however all of that is undone when the TabContainer finishes loading. Can anyone tell me why or offer me a solution? Thanks in advance!

Here is a working solution. http://jsfiddle.net/oamiamgod/rd58M/
I have included class myTheme to body tag. Like this
<body class="claro myTheme">
I'm not good at english but I will try to explain.
If you write css like this .myTheme .homeTabContent .dijitTab that mean an element of class homeTabContent have to stay inside some element that has class myTheme
Like this
<body class="claro myTheme">
<div class="homeTabContent">
<div class="dijitTab"></div>
</div>
</body>
But if you write css like this .myTheme.homeTabContent.dijitTab (with no space) it will be
<div class="myTheme homeTabContent dijitTab"></div>

Is there a way to have a div tag without having a line break, or is there an alternative?

In my website, in asp.net 4 / vb, I have a situation where I need to include a class, "noprint", in my footer, as defined in print.css. But I already have a span class, so I wrapped div tags around it. And my tr's and td's all have classes in them already.
Basically, I have this in my footer:
Knowledge Base | Contact USS | Copyright © USS Vision Inc. 2012 | 888-888-8888
And the only thing I want printed out is the phone number.
I use
<div class="noprint">whatever I want omitted when printing</div>
And that works fine. But when viewing the webpage, I don't want the 888-888-8888 to appear below everything else, so I can't use div tags, I suppose. The noprint works great, but is there any way I can use the noprint in my footer without putting the phone number below the rest of the footer due to the div tags? Thanks for any help anybody can offer!
Update: My print.css stylesheet looks like this:
#media screen
{
/* whatever styles you have for display */
}
#media print
{
.noprint { display: none; }
}
So I don't know how to make the div tags display: inline, but I will search around and try to figure it out!

gd1 is absolutely right about span/div and display inline/block, but on a side note I'd add that what you're trying to achieve is often done with a list (as it really is a list of links in your footer)
<ul class="footer">
<li class="no-print">KnowledgeBase</li>
...
<li>888-888-888</li>
<ul>
with a css like
.footer li {
list-style-type: none;
display: inline;
padding: 0 10px;
border-right: 1px solid black;
}
.footer li:last-child {
border-right: none;
}​
hope that helps

Use <span>.
However you can make a div "inline" using the style display: inline, but in this case you just need a <span>.

use css
<div style="display:inline" class="noprint">whatever I want omitted when printing </div>
If not use the inline counterpart span, as a answer already said. But remember inline display donot have block properties like height, top-margin, bottom-margin.

If you still want to use an extra div, I recommend using display:inline, but if you just want the whole footer to have both classes you can do that as well.
You can add multiple classes like this:
<span class='footer lower noprint'></span>
In CSS this would look like:
.footer.lower.noprint{ display:none; }
Alternatively, the 'noprint' class will also work without specifying all three classes.
Here's an example: http://jsfiddle.net/yKRyp/

well set the specific width and height of the div using CSS and apply float
<div style='float:left; border:1px solid blue; width:100px; height:100px'>
div 1
</div>
<div style='float:left; border:1px solid red; width:100px; height:100px'>
div 2
</div><div style='float:left; border:1px solid orange; width:100px; height:100px'>
div 3
</div>
a live example here
http://jsfiddle.net/AGWGs/

div is a block-type element, it is usually used as to group and contain block-type elements.
Using CSS, you can change the display type of any element, however.
In a quick example:
display:inline Makes an element to show inline, they can be put side by side. span element is an inline element. This cannot use block-type-only css rules such as: margin, padding, width, height ...
display:block Makes an element to be displayed as a block. Unless inherited values or given CSS rules, they will take a line long, blocked. They can take block-type CSS rules. And they can be stacked side-by-side using float. However, unless the line is cleared(clear: left, clear:right or clear:both), following elements after the floated element will overflow the previous container.
display:inline-block Makes an element have block features, with inline displaying. This is pretty similiar to using float and making block-type elements shown in-line. However this rule is IE8+ support only, so I would encourage you to use floating to keep the maximum compatibility.
P.S: There are hacks that can be used to have display:inline-block feature used on IE5.5+.

conflict between the same class or id of multiple css files

Is there any way to stop the conflict between same class or id of multiple css files. As I am explaining below for better understanding:
There is a master web page which has several <div> but there is a <div class"dynamic"> which always reload the contents including css files. Let's suppose if any class of master page has the same name to reloaded elements' class while properties are different. Then how should I handle this to stop the conflict.
master.html
<html>
<head> //attached master.css file here </head>
<body>
<div class="myClass"> </div>
<div class="dynamic"> /* often reload elements by ajax */ </div>
</body>
</html>
master.css
.myClass { height: 100px; width: 150px; background : red;}
.dynamic { height: 200p; width: 200px; }
now i am showing the reloaded html elements & css files into dynamic div of master page
reloaded tag line by ajax : <div class"myClass"> </div>
reload.css
.myClass{height: 30px; width: 25px; background: yellow; }
Now as you can see there are two classes with same name but different properties. Then how should I stop the confliction?
#Edit Thanks everyone for your support & time but my problem is different here.
the dynamic reloaded contents & css files are streaming from the client/user machine while master html page & it's css streaing directly from server.
so whatever the contents loads in dynamic div, it's coming from client side (e.g. tag lines & css, js). in that case i am not able to handle the css file which is just reloaded by ajax() so i think it can be sort out using js/jQuery fn().

You could apply the cascading rules of the CSS:
In your case, div.myClass inside div.dynamic should override div.myClass belongs to the body.
you adjust the reload.css rules to
.dynamic .myClass{height: 30px; width: 25px; background: yellow; }
The cascading rules which are applied when determine which rules should apply to html div could be referenced here
Updated 11.23
As the OP only have control over master.css, the above solution won't work. Thus, I suggest use child selector to limit the CSS rules to only the outer div.myClass. Modify the rule in your master.css to:
body > .myClass {...}
This rule will only apply to the .myClass which is the child of body. It leaves the spaces of styling for inner .myClass div.

Option 1: A more specific selector
.dynamic .myClass { }
This selector selects the .myClass element that is a descendent of .dynamic.
.dynamic > .myClass { }
This selector selects the .myClass element that is a direct child of .dynamic.
Option 2: Inline CSS
<div class="dynamic">
<div class="myClass" style="background-color: yellow;"></div>
</div>
Option 3: Use a different class.
UPDATE
If you want to avoid the previous defined property to be overwritten by a later defined value, you can use the !important syntax.
.myClass { background-color: red !important; } /* Sets the property to red */
.myClass { background-color: yellow; } /* Property is NOT overwritten */
If I understand your question correctly, this should sort it.
So you should add !important to the properties that seem to be overwritten.

div.myclass { ble ble }
div.main div.myclass { ble ble }
<body>
<div class="myclass"></div>
<div class="main><div class="myclass"></div></div>
</body>

Whichever css class of the same name is loaded last will overwrite anything set by the earlier class. However, if you use an inline style attribute this will always take precedence over anything set by the css file (so using an inline style is one option).
You could also use different style names or clarify your style with tag names div.myClass or id's #myDiv.myClass.