How can I convince Firefox to redraw CSS Pseudo-elements? - javascript

I'm having issues getting Firefox to update a webpage when its class is changed dynamically.
I'm using an HTML table element. When the user clicks a cell in the table header, my script toggles the class back and forth between sorted_asc and sorted_des. I have pseudo element which adds an arrow glyph (pointing up or down) depending on which class the cell currently is.
.thead .tr .sorted_asc .cell:after {
content: ' \25B2';
}
The problem is, that when you click the cell header a second time, the page doesn't update the arrow... until the user mouses away from the element. I think it's a bug as it works fine in Safari, and as I don't see any :hover tags in my CSS or other entries that might interfere.
Anyone seen this before, or know how to work around the issue?

It's kind of cheesy, but since you're using javascript anyway, try this after you changed the className:
document.body.style.display = 'none';
document.body.style.display = 'block';
This will re-render the layout and often solves these kind of bugs. Not always, though.

This is 2014 and none of the proposed solutions on this page seem to work. I found another way : detach the element from the DOM and append it back where it was.

Would you be able to use different CSS to accomplish the same thing without relying on the :after pseudo-selector? You might be able to simple define a background-image which you align as needed (I assume you would want the arrow on the right hand side).
For example:
.thead .tr .sorted_asc .sorted_asc {
background: url(images/down_arrow.png) no-repeat right;
}
.thead .tr .sorted_asc .sorted_des {
background: url(images/up_arrow.png) no-repeat right;
}
I only suggest this since I assume there isn't a specific reason why you need to use the :after pseudo-class. If you do need to use it, please update.

The bug can still be triggered in Firefox 58. Thankfully the opacity trick also still works. Just make sure to time it correctly. You might need to set a timeout between opacity changes.

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I can't scroll to the bottom

You see, for some reasons some times I can't scroll to the bottom of the page (some times it happens in the middle too). Here is a screenshot:
Why does this happen? I can't create a jsfiddle, because I can't reproduce it since sometimes when I reload I have this problem, sometimes it works fine... It happens in a random way. I have no idea what might be causing this. It just stops scrolling before reaching the bottom. I know this might be classified as an open question but I just want to see, if anyone have had this problem. Any suggestions are appreciated..
UPDATED
Ok, here is the code I used to style the scrollbar and the scrolling, in CSS:
body
{
scrollbar-face-color: rgb(0,131,168);
scrollbar-track-color: rgba(0,131,168,0.8);
scrollbar-arrow-color: rgba(0,131,168,0.5);
scrollbar-shadow-color: rgb(0,131,168);
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-track
{
background-color: rgba(0,131,168,0.5);
}
::-webkit-scrollbar
{
width: 5px;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb
{
background-color: rgb(0,131,168);
}
in the javascript, "vista" is the main container, I wrote:
var vistaProfesional = document.getElementById('vista');
vistaProfesional.style.overflow = "auto";
vistaProfesional.style.overflowX = "hidden";
vistaProfesional.style.height = 100 + '%';
I have been thinking, and I found out that, when I was doing the whole thing, I wanted it to have a smooth scroll, therefore I used the smoothWheel plugin because it is easy to use and since I am new to programming this seems a charm. However, right after the code abode I wrote:
$("#vista").smoothWheel();
to initialize it and though it works, it is when this plugin is active that I have this issue. If I comment that line of code and stay with the normal scroll, the problem described doesn't occur. As for one of the comments, yes, the zoom is already in 100%
I have seen this problem in several websites before. Set your zoom level to 100% to allow you to scroll to the bottom of the page.
Often when the zoom is not equal to 100% there is a partial row that is not shown, so the website thinks that you have not displayed the bottom of the page, so won't fetch the rest, or update the scroll bar properly.
I think you should specify height to body and html because as for as i know Scrolling plugins need that, so
body, html {
height: 100%;
}
If this does'nt solve your issue you may use Nice Scrolling Plugin which has a lot of properties, also it has been documented very well.
Hope this helps you.

jQuery/CSS - Whole Div Clickable, on hover activate a tag hover state

I'm trying to make the .wrapper div a clickable link that goes to the a.icon location. Also, when they hover over the .wrapper div the a.icon:hover state actives, not just when you hover over the icon itself.
Any help would be great.
This is what I have so far:
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$(".aca-question-container").hover(function() {
$(".icon").trigger("hover");
});
$(".aca-question-container").click(function(){
window.location=$(this).find("a").attr("href");
return false;
});
});
Example: http://jsbin.com/diyewivima/1/edit?html,css,js,output
In HTML5, you can wrap block elements such as your .wrapper div, within anchors. This is a rudimentary version of what I think you're looking for: http://jsbin.com/qegesapore/edit?html,css,js,output
I removed the JS you had there as I'm not sure it's necessary, and obviously some styling will be needing to be tweaked.
There shouldn't be any requirement for JS to achieve this really.
The hover state can still be applied to the icon as per:
.your-anchor:hover .icon {
background: #666;
}
As I commented, you can use jQuery and a class to achieve what you want. Below is the JS: (it must be inside the onload function)
$('div#wrapper').mouseenter(function(){
$('a.icon').addClass('hover');
});
$('div#wrapper').mouseleave(function(){
$('a.icon').removeClass('hover');
});
And, you must not forget, in your CSS you have to replace a.icon:hover with a.icon:hover, a.icon.hover, so that it emulates the hover state when the class is added. Like this:
a.icon:hover, a.icon.hover{
//CSS GOES HERE
}
For the CSS portion- propagating the hover is pretty easy. Just use .wrapper:hover .icon
as the hover effect selector. You can drop .icon:hover, too, since the parent is hovered when the child is hovered.
As for propagating the click down to it... also easy without jQ.
.wrapper:hover .icon{
color:#f00;
}
<div class="wrapper" onclick="this.getElementsByClassName('icon')[0].click()">
icon
testit
</div>
The error generated is the "there's not stackoverflow.com/google.com" error, showing that the link was followed. Slap https:// in front of the href and pull it out of an iframe and you'll be able to fully see it works.
EDIT:
bsod99's fix is cleaner. So long as you can rearrange the DOM and don't need to support ancient relics (pre-HTML5 spec browsers, like Firefox <3.5) (which you probably don't have to do), use his instead.

Simple Mouseover not Working in Chrome?

Okay, so I am working on a game-center. I got this cool idea so when I mouseover a hyperlink it shows a scary face (just for kickz & gigglez);
The problem is, it works perfectly in Firefox, but not Google Chrome? The demo is over here:
http://bouncygames.org/games/scary/
Please help... :(
*My Question: * *How come this is not working in Chrome, and how can I fix this?*
You don't need any javascript whatsoever, just use this css-declaration and it will work perfectly in all browsers:
#img{
display:none;
}
a:hover ~ #img{
display:block;
}
To make it more specific (so that it will not trigger on all hovered anchors), put a class onto your anchor and write ( e.g. .scary:hover ~ #img ).
Don't use onmouseover and onmouseout these are considered bad coding practice for several reasons.
Also, don't use the center tag, but use the css-declaration text-align:center instead.
In your script, instead of using img.style.visibility, use
img.style.display="none";
and
img.style.display="block";
make sure you also remove the visibility='hidden' attribute from your img tag or it won't work
There is a space between getElementById and ('img'), remove that and try again.

Cannot position Google +1 button with CSS?

I'm having some trouble positioning the Google +1 button on my website. The div is as follows:
<div class="g-plusone"></div>
The CSS I'm using is pretty simple:
.g-plusone
{
position: absolute;
top:95px;
left:715px;
}
Despite what would seem straightforward, it simple does not want to move.
I know for a fact that the div in question is being accessed. What's strange is that other social sharing buttons, such as the FB like below follow the same syntax and are positioned perfectly.
.fb-like
{
position: absolute;
top:62px;
left:715px;
}
Adding !important to the values does nothing, unfortunately.
Any ideas?
When Google loads +1 button the .g-plusone class seems to disappear, so try to put this DIV inside another DIV, as illustrated below:
HTML:
<div class="google-button">
<div class="g-plusone"></div>
</div>
CSS:
.google-button
{
position: absolute;
top:95px;
left:715px;
}
After page loads, the Google div called g-plusone turns into a lot of code, but, you can manipulate this button with id generated.
In my case, for example, to align the button in the middle of the line I put:
#___plusone_0{
vertical-align: middle !important;
}
Note: The id ___plusone_0 is the id generated by the google codes. Do whatever you want with this id.
Use something like Firebug to ensure you're targeting the correct element. The +1 button is very deeply nested, so you'll most likely need to look further up the DOM tree to get to it's outermost wrapper. You will be able to set the position of that without needing to use !important or anything, so I would definitely check this first.
Sorry, I would have just added this as a comment above but I don't seem to be able :)

CSS pseudo class won't work when normal class is set from javascript, under FF

I have p.first_p:first-letter in my stylesheet, as I checked, it works well when class first_p is set in HTML. Problems start when I use javascript to find elements and then set their class.
Under Chrome and Opera it works fine (I need to check IE 8 and 9, and FF3).
FF 5.01 changes the class, but still pseudo class setting doesn't affect the element.
It seems that FF needs to 'refresh' css settings of element before pseudo class starts working, so I made rather dirty workaround - script replaces affected node with its clone.
Is there a better way to solve that issue? Some way to make FF recalculate everything it knows about node? Also that workaround isn't enough for IE 7.
Edit: yeah, pseudo-element not pseudo-class, my bad
It is definitely a bug. A possible work-around would be changing the display style of the element. Unfortunately, this needs to be done delayed, after the previous style change applied:
element.className = 'first-class';
element.style.display = 'inline';
setTimeout(function(){
element.style.display = '';
}, 0);
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/pvEDY/3/
You're running into https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8253
Is it possible to not use javascript?
I'm guessing that you're applying first_p to the first paragraph of particular elements.
It possible for you to use the :first-child selector instead?
I'm not sure if this will work, but you could try something like the following, assuming you want to apply this to children of divs with class "copy"
.copy p:first-child:first-letter{
color: #abcdef; /* or whatever */
}
this definitely works and you don't need javascript, except for crappy old IE.
Alternatively you could try this:
.element p:first-letter{
font-size: 20px;
}
.element p + p:first-letter{
font-size: inherit;
}
This css makes any paragraph that is not preceded by another paragraph have a styled first letter. Would that solve your problem?
Wait, you want it to work in Firefox. Try this:
.element p:first-of-type:first-letter{
font-size: 20px;
}
It selects the first matching element. The :first-of-type pesudo-element is supported by Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari according to SitePoint's page for :first-of-type

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