Changing CSS styles with javascript - Page 2

dan.vendel

Hi,

I know nothing about javascript, but quite a lot about regulat html and
CSS.
Have bumped into a problem that people in this fine congregation
perhaps can help me with.

I'm making a webshop. When user eventually ends up at the credit card
processor's secure pages, the styles are quite different from the
actual site's. I have managed to change some basics through a control
panel, but not everything that needs to be changed to make it look OK.

The pages are generated dynamically. In the head section, there's the
CSS which I cannot access/change. Many tags also have inline styles
(e.g. <span style="font-family: Times...blah blah">

What I'm trying to do is to...

1) Add styles AFTER the body tag (I can do that, but not in the head)
2) Use a javascript, placed in the body, that substitutes the classes
and styles in the head to the corresponding styles defined in the body.

I have Googled a lot, and eventually found this page:
http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/...eparation.html
which I think is addressing a similar (or the same?) issue.

But if someone can point to a tutorial or some help for me who is a
complete ignoramus about javascript, and that will help me achieve what
I want, that would be highly appreciated.

Cheers,

Sep 13 '05

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Dr Clue

da********@gmai l.com wrote:

With my limited knowledge about javascript, it seems to me as if both
examples require code in the head section, no? If so, I'm sorry to say
that I can't use neither.

You can do this approach without placing any code
in the <head></head> at all, as long as you can get some of your content
delivered inside that page delivery.
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Sep 14 '05 #11

Robi

Dr Clue wrote in message news:Fd******** *********@newsr ead2.news.pas.e arthlink.net...
[...]

Heres a demo that loads new CSS stylesheet files on the fly.
It can be raided for all the basic components to beat on yourpage.
http://www.drclue.net/projects/jsDHT.../OperaCSS.html

Heres another that tears a page apart and translates it to another form
http://www.drclue.net/projects/jsDHT.../HTML2CSS.html

Your examples (and work) are impressive, I have a small remark/comment
on the HTML2CSS.html page(s)

I loaded "lesson 4" and realized how horribly mis<tag>ged the page was.
I don't know if it's on purpose or if you took the pages as they were
and didn't validate them.
example 1:

<body bgcolor="#fffff f">
<p>
<table border="0" width="100%">
<tbody>
[...]

</tbody></table>
</p><p></p>
^^^
endtag without opening tag. According to the DTDs the P element cannot contain
table elements.
<!ELEMENT P - O (%inline;)* -- paragraph -->
<!ENTITY % inline "#PCDATA | %fontstyle; | %phrase; | %special; | %formctrl;">
<!ENTITY % fontstyle "TT | I | B | BIG | SMALL">
<!ENTITY % phrase "EM | STRONG | DFN | CODE | SAMP | KBD | VAR | CITE | ABBR | ACRONYM" >
<!ENTITY % special "A | IMG | OBJECT | BR | SCRIPT | MAP | Q | SUB | SUP | SPAN | BDO">
<!ENTITY % formctrl "INPUT | SELECT | TEXTAREA | LABEL | BUTTON">
in other words, the <p> tag was closed when before <table>
and now </p> is there all by itself.

The same applies to the following (<h2> within <h5>):

<h5>
<center>
<h2><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Lesson 4 -- Tools to
Use in Selecting Materials</font> </h2>
</center>
</h5>

<!ENTITY % heading "H1|H2|H3|H4|H5 |H6">
<!ELEMENT (%heading;) - - (%inline;)* -- heading -->
<!ENTITY % inline "#PCDATA | %fontstyle; | %phrase; | %special; | %formctrl;">
<!ENTITY % fontstyle "TT | I | B | BIG | SMALL">
<!ENTITY % phrase "EM | STRONG | DFN | CODE | SAMP | KBD | VAR | CITE | ABBR | ACRONYM" >
<!ENTITY % special "A | IMG | OBJECT | BR | SCRIPT | MAP | Q | SUB | SUP | SPAN | BDO">
<!ENTITY % formctrl "INPUT | SELECT | TEXTAREA | LABEL | BUTTON">

only here the closing tag is mandatory. You cannot nest certain block elements.

Sep 15 '05 #12

Dr Clue

Robi wrote:

Dr Clue wrote in message news:Fd******** *********@newsr ead2.news.pas.e arthlink.net...
Heres a demo that loads new CSS stylesheet files on the fly.
It can be raided for all the basic components to beat on yourpage.
http://www.drclue.net/projects/jsDHT.../OperaCSS.html

Heres another that tears a page apart and translates it to another form
http://www.drclue.net/projects/jsDHT.../HTML2CSS.html

Your examples (and work) are impressive, I have a small remark/comment
on the HTML2CSS.html page(s)

I loaded "lesson 4" and realized how horribly mis<tag>ged the page was.
I don't know if it's on purpose or if you took the pages as they were
and didn't validate them.

The purpose of the tool was to aid someone converting nearly a thousand
yucky pages of tag soup, so the ditty was developed in one evening
to work with the pages as they existed, and therefore w/o the benefit
of any validation.

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Sep 15 '05 #13

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