Reputation: 77
i am currently working on css
. i have a sample form and a css but it is not working
its only working with the labels but there is no change in the design part i am beginner in CSS
so i am not sure what is the issue here
the html code :
<%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style1.css">
</head>
<body>
<form action="" method="post" class="STYLE-NAME">
<h1>Contact Form
<span>Please fill all the texts in the fields.</span>
</h1>
<label>
<span>Your Name :</span>
<input id="name" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Your Full Name" />
</label>
<p>
<label>
<span>Your Email :</span>
<input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="Valid Email Address" />
</label>
<p>
<label>
<span>Message :</span>
<textarea id="message" name="message" placeholder="Your Message to Us"></textarea>
</label>
<p>
<label>
<span>Subject :</span><select name="selection">
<option value="Job Inquiry">Job Inquiry</option>
<option value="General Question">General Question</option>
</select>
</label>
<p>
<label>
<span> </span>
<input type="button" class="button" value="Send" />
</label>
</form>
</body>
</html>
i have linked this code with an external style sheet which i downloaded from net just for practice but its not working
CSS file :
.basic-grey {
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;
max-width: 500px;
background: #F7F7F7;
padding: 25px 15px 25px 10px;
font: 12px Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
color: #888;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #FFF;
border:1px solid #E4E4E4;
}
.basic-grey h1 {
font-size: 25px;
padding: 0px 0px 10px 40px;
display: block;
border-bottom:1px solid #E4E4E4;
margin: -10px -15px 30px -10px;;
color: #888;
}
.basic-grey h1>span {
display: block;
font-size: 11px;
}
.basic-grey label {
display: block;
margin: 0px;
}
.basic-grey label>span {
float: left;
width: 20%;
text-align: right;
padding-right: 10px;
margin-top: 10px;
color: #888;
}
.basic-grey input[type="text"], .basic-grey input[type="email"],.basic-grey textarea,
.basic-grey select {
border: 1px solid #DADADA;
color: #888;
height: 30px;
margin-bottom: 16px;
margin-right: 6px;
margin-top: 2px;
outline: 0 none;
padding: 3px 3px 3px 5px;
width: 70%;
font-size: 12px;
line-height:15px;
box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 4px #ECECEC;
-moz-box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 4px #ECECEC;
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 4px #ECECEC;
}
.basic-grey textarea{
padding: 5px 3px 3px 5px;
}
.basic-grey select {
background: #FFF url(arrowhead.png) no-repeat right;
background: #FFF url(arrowhead.png) no-repeat right;
appearance:none;
-webkit-appearance:none;
-moz-appearance: none;
text-indent: 0.01px;
text-overflow: '';
width: 70%;
height: 35px;
line-height: 25px;
}
.basic-grey textarea{
height:100px;
}
.basic-grey .button {
background: #E27575;
border: none;
padding: 10px 25px 10px 25px;
color: #FFF;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 5px #B6B6B6;
border-radius: 3px;
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #9E3F3F;
cursor: pointer;
}
.basic-grey .button:hover {
background: #CF7A7A
}
Upvotes: 0
Views: 2049
Reputation: 34653
For a start you have unbalanced <p>
tags, i.e.
<p>
<label>
<span>Subject :</span>
<select name="selection">
<option value="Job Inquiry">Job Inquiry</option>
<option value="General Question">General Question</option>
</select>
</label>
<!-- this last one should be a closing tag </p> -->
<p>
Secondly, you have
<form action="" method="post" class="STYLE-NAME">
Are you sure STYLE-NAME resolves to what you want it to be? Perhaps your template engine is spitting something else out?
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 19870
You have to replace STYLE-NAME
with basic-grey
in the HTML. See this jsfiddle.
The CSS uses the selector .basic-grey
, which means “elements whose class
attribute contains at least basic-grey
”. You don’t have any attribute with this class in your HTML. You thus need to either change the CSS’ selectors to something like form
, or add the class on the HTML elements. In this case, adding the basic-grey
class to the form fixes the whole thing.
Upvotes: 3
Reputation: 60047
None of your items in the HTML have a class .basic-X
.
For the CSS to work you need to do this or change the HTML/CSS.
Please re-read the chapter on selectors
Upvotes: 0