Sidebar.php inheriting css from multiple style sheets

s_ff_da_b_ff · December 16, 2009

Hi. I am making a WordPress site and I am having trouble with my sidebar.php

I have a side bar where 80% of the content is inherited through a stylesheet called Stylesheet.css. The last part of the sidebar I want to be a tabber. This tabber I am trying to get in is inheriting domtab.css.

So as you can imagine it looks like this

<div>

Stylesheet.css content

</div>

<div>

domtab.css content

</div>

Now the problem is, the tabber is inheriting attributes from the Stylesheet.css file and I don't want that.

Here is the site and some images to help..

http://www.theselectedfew.com/

OK in this first image you see how the tabber is portrayed in the sidebar.php ... this is not how its supposed to look

http://img6.imageshack.us/i/tabber.png/

this is the tabber in a isolated .html file on my local computer...this is how its supposed to look...

http://img519.imageshack.us/i/tabber2.png/

Basically, I want to know why my tabber looks so much different (and also not working properly)

Here is the code to domtab.css:

	*{
		margin:0;
		padding:0;
		list-style:none;
		border:none;
	}
	body{
		font-family:Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif;
		font-size:40%;
		background:#fff;
		color:#000;
	}

	div.domtab{
		padding:0 3em;
		width:20%;
		font-size:90%;

	}
	ul.domtabs{
		float:left;
		width:100%;
		margin:2em 0 0 0;	
          		
	}
	ul.domtabs li.domtabs{
		float:left;
		padding:0 .5em 0 0;
	}
	ul.domtabs a:link,
	ul.domtabs a:visited,
	ul.domtabs a:active,
	ul.domtabs a:hover{
		width:8em;
		padding:.2em 1em;
		display:block;
		background:#fff;
		color:#000;
		height:3em;
		font-weight:bold;
		text-decoration:none;
		border-top: 1px solid #000;
	}
	html>body ul.domtabs a:link,
	html>body ul.domtabs a:visited,
	html>body ul.domtabs a:active,
	html>body ul.domtabs a:hover{
		height:auto;
		min-height:3em;
	    
	}
	ul.domtabs a:hover{
		background:#ccc ;
	}
	div.domtab div{
		clear:both;
		width:auto;
		background:#fff;
		color:#000;
		padding:1em 3em;
		border: 1px solid #000;
	}
	ul.domtabs li.active a:link,
	ul.domtabs li.active a:visited,
	ul.domtabs li.active a:active,
	ul.domtabs li.active a:hover{
		background:#ccc;
		color:#000;
		border-top: 1px solid #000;
	}
	#domtabprintview{
		float:right;
		padding-right:1em;
		text-align:right;
	}
	#domtabprintview a:link,
	#domtabprintview a:visited,
	#domtabprintview a:active,
	#domtabprintview a:hover{
		color:#fff;
	}
	p.domtabs{
		margin:0 0 .5em 0;
		line-height:1.3em;
	}
	h2.domtabs{
		font-size:1.3em;
		color:#cfc;
		text-transform:uppercase;
		font-family:"Trebuchet MS",Arial,Sans-Serif;
		padding:0 0 .7em .2em;
	}
	h1.domtabs{
		font-size:2em;
		text-align:center;
		font-weight:normal;
		text-transform:uppercase;
		font-family:"Trebuchet MS",Arial,Sans-Serif;
		padding:.5em 0;
		background:#000;
		border-bottom:1px solid #000;
	}
	pre.domtabs{
		font-size:1.2em;
		padding:1em;
	}
	div.domtab div a:link,
	div.domtab div a:visited,
	div.domtab div a:active
	{
		color:#fff;
		display:block;
		padding:1em .5em;
		font-weight:bold;
		font-size:1.3em;
	}
	div.domtab div h2.domtabs a,
	div.domtab div h2.domtabs a:hover,
	div.domtab div h2.domtabs a:active
	{
		color:#000;
		display:inline;
		padding:0;
		font-weight:normal;
		font-size:1em;
	}

/* other scheme! */
#other{
font-size:.8em;
margin-left:.3em;
width:60em;
margin-bottom:3em;
float:left;
}
div#other.domtab div{
clear:both;
width:54em;
background:#669;
color:#fff;
padding:1em 3em;
}

#other ul.domtabs a:hover{
background:#669;
}
div#other ul.domtabs li.active a:link,
div#other ul.domtabs li.active a:visited,
div#other ul.domtabs li.active a:active,
div#other ul.domtabs li.active a:hover{
background:#669;
color:#fff;
}
#other div{
float:left;
}
ul.prevnext{
float:left;
width:100%;
}
ul.prevnext li{
float:left;
width:49%;
}
ul.prevnext li.next{
float:right;
text-align:right;
}

Here is the code to sidebar.php:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.theselectedfew.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/domtab.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
	document.write('<style type="text/css">');    
	document.write('div.domtab div{display:none;}<');
	document.write('/s'+'tyle>');    
    </script>
</head>
<div id="sidebar">
        <ul>
		<?php 	/* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
				if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>

	<li><h2>Search</h2>
	<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?></div><div class="clear"></li>

	<?php wp_list_categories('show_count=&title_li=<h2>Categories</h2>'); ?>

	<li><h2>Latest Posts</h2>
			<ul>
			<?php query_posts('showposts=4'); ?>
			<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
			<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
			</li>
			<?php endwhile; ?>
			</ul>
		</li>

	<li><h2>Recent Comments</h2>
		<ul id="recent_comments">
			<?php
			global $wpdb;
			$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title, post_password, comment_ID, comment_post_ID,
			SUBSTRING(comment_content,1,80) AS com_excerpt
			FROM $wpdb->comments
			LEFT OUTER JOIN $wpdb->posts ON ($wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID =
			$wpdb->posts.ID)
			WHERE comment_approved = '1' AND comment_type = '' AND
			post_password = ''
			ORDER BY comment_date DESC
			LIMIT 4";
			$comments = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
			$output = $pre_HTML;
			foreach ($comments as $comment) {
			$output .= "\n<li><a href=\"" . get_permalink($comment->ID) .
			"#comment-" . $comment->comment_ID . "\" title=\"on " .
			$comment->post_title . "\">" .strip_tags($comment->com_excerpt).
			"...</a>";
			}
			$output .= $post_HTML;
			echo $output;?>
		</ul> <!-- END -->
		</li>

		<?php endif; ?>
<div style="padding-top: 20px;"><a href="http://thesidetracked.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.thesidetracked.com/beta/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/tsttsfad.png" border="0" alt="TST"></a>
</div>
</ul>

<div class="domtab">
<ul class="domtabs">
	<li class="domtabs"><a href="#what">LATEST</a></li>
	<li class="domtabs"><a href="#how">CATEGORIES</a></li>
	<li class="domtabs"><a href="#pr">COMMENTS</a></li>
	<li class="domtabs"><a href="#style">ARCHIVES</a></li>
</ul>
<div>
	<h2 class="domtabs"><a name="what" id="what">LATEST</a></h2>
	<p></p>
</div>
<div>
	<h2 class="domtabs"><a name="how" id="how">CATEGORIES</a></h2>

</div>
<div>
	<h2 class="domtabs"><a name="pr" id="pr">COMMENTS</a></h2>
	<p></p>
</div>
<div>
	<h2 class="domtabs"><a name="style" id="style">ARCHIVES</a></h2>
	<p></p>
</div>
</div>

        </div>

and lastly, here is the code to Stylesheet.css:

/*
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Theme Name:Equilibrium
Theme URI:http://madebyon.com
Description:Magazine style WordPress theme. Visit <a href="http://equilibrium.madebyon.com"title="Equilibrium">http://equilibrium.madebyon.com</a> for more infomation.
Version:1.4
Author:Tudinh Duong
Author URI:http://madebyon.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
/*
-----------------------------------------
RESET
----------------------------------------- 
*/
*, html, body, div, dl, dt, dd, ul, ol, li, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, pre, form, label, fieldset, input, p, blockquote, th, td{margin:0; padding:0}
table{border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0}
fieldset, img{border:0}
address, caption, cite, code, dfn, em, strong, th, var{font-style:normal; font-weight:normal}
ol, ul, li{list-style:none}
caption, th{text-align:left}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6{font-size:100%; font-weight:normal}
q:before, q:after{content:''}

strong{font-weight:bold}
em{font-style:italic}
a img{border:none}

h1, h2, h3, h5, h5, h6{font-weight:bold}

/*
-----------------------------------------
LAYOUT
----------------------------------------- 
*/
.aligncenter{display:block; margin:0 auto}
.alignleft{float:left}
.alignright{float:right}
.floatLeft{float:left}
.floatRight{float:right}
.clear{clear:both}

/*
-----------------------------------------
STRUCTURE
----------------------------------------- 
*/
html, body{height:100%}

body{font-size:62.5%; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:#222; margin:0 auto -80px; text-align:center}

#page-wrap{width:960px; min-height:100%; height:auto !important; height:100%; margin:0 auto -80px; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px; text-align:left; border: 5px solid #212121; padding-bottom: 10px;}

.content{width:680px; float:left}

/*
-----------------------------------------
TYPOGRAPHY
----------------------------------------- 
*/
p{color:#222; font-size:1.2em; line-height:1.5; margin-top:1.5em; margin-bottom:1.5em; text-align:justify}

p a, p a:visited{border-bottom:1px solid #c9c9c9; color:#0B96D0; text-decoration:none}

p a:hover{border-bottom:1px solid #c9c9c9; color:#000; text-decoration:none}

h1, strong{font-size:1.4em; font-weight:bold}

.post h2{text-transform:none; padding-bottom:0; border-bottom:0; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0}

h4, h2{font-size:1.8em; color:#222; text-transform:uppercase; padding-bottom:4px; border-bottom:4px solid #c9c9c9; margin-top:28px; margin-bottom:28px; font-weight:bold}

h3{border-bottom:4px solid #C9C9C9; color:#222; font-size:2.2em; font-weight:bold; margin-top:23.3px; padding-bottom:4px}

h3 a{text-decoration:none; color:#222}

.post ul li, 
.post ol li{font-size:1.2em; list-style-type:square; margin:5px 0 5px 15px}

#reply{border-bottom:4px solid #C9C9C9; color:#222; font-size:1.8em; margin-top:28px; margin-bottom:16px; padding-bottom:4px}

/*
-----------------------------------------
TOP
----------------------------------------- 
*/
#top{margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom:50px}

h1.logo a{float:left; font-size:2.6em; font-weight:bold; color:#000; text-transform:uppercase; text-decoration:none; margin-top: 5px}

#nav{float:right; margin-top:1.2em}

#nav ul{list-style-type:none; width:100%}

#nav li{display:block; display:inline}

#nav a:link, 
#nav a:visited{padding:5px; display:block; color:#353434; margin-right:10px; float:left; text-decoration:none; font-size:1.2em; font-weight:bold; text-transform:uppercase}

#nav a:hover{color:#ccc; background:#fff}

ul#nav li.current_page_item a:link, 
ul#nav li.current_page_item a:visited, 
ul#nav li.current_page_item a:hover, 
ul#nav li.current_page_item a:active{color:#333; text-decoration:none; background:#ccc}

/*
-----------------------------------------
FEATURED
----------------------------------------- 
*/
.front-post{width:303px; margin-right:25px; float:left}

.front-post-last{width:303px; float:left}

.featured-content{position:relative; width:303px}

.featured-content p{margin-top:1em}

.featured-post{position:relative; width:303px; height:231px; margin-bottom:1.2em}

.featured-title h2{margin:8px 10px 7px; line-height:1.4em; font-size:1.1em; text-transform:none; padding-bottom:0; border-bottom:0}

.featured-title h2 a{font-size:1.2em; display:block; color:#0B96D0; text-decoration:none; border-bottom:0}

.featured-title h2 a:hover{color:#fff}

.featured-title{background:#000; display:block; z-index:101; width:100%; bottom:0; filter:alpha(opacity=80); -moz-opacity:.80; opacity:.80; position:absolute; z-index:2}

.featured-image{position:absolute; z-index:1}

.featured-content h2{margin-top:15px}
.featured-content h2 a{color:#0b96d0; text-decoration:none}
.featured-content h2 a:hover{color:#000}

/*
-----------------------------------------
SIDEBAR
----------------------------------------- 
*/
#sidebar{float:right; width:260px; padding-left:20px; overflow:hidden}

#sidebar li a{display:block; width:260px; margin:0; padding:4px 2px; list-style:none; border-bottom:1px solid #c9c9c9; font-size:1.2em; list-style-type:none; text-decoration:none; color:#222; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold}

#sidebar a{color:#e6e6e6; text-decoration:none}

#sidebar a:hover{color:#fff; background-color:#282828}

#sidebar h2{font-size:1.8em; color:#222; text-align:right; text-transform:uppercase; border-bottom:4px solid #c9c9c9; margin-top:28px; margin-bottom:0}


/*
-----------------------------------------
LATEST
----------------------------------------- 
*/
#front-bottom{margin-top:36px}

#latest-wrap{float:left; width:680px}

.latest-post-wrap{float:left; width:162px; margin-right:8px}

.latest-post{position:relative; width:162px; height:118px}

.latest-image{position:absolute; z-index:1}

.latest-title h2{margin:8px 10px 7px; line-height:1.4em; font-size:1em; text-transform:none; padding-bottom:0; border-bottom:0}

.latest-title h2 a{display:block; color:#0B96D0; text-decoration:none}

.latest-title h2 a:hover{color:#fff}

.latest-title{background:#000; display:block; z-index:101; width:100%; bottom:0; filter:alpha(opacity=80); -moz-opacity:.80; opacity:.80; position:absolute; z-index:2}

.latest-content{position:relative; width:162px; height:200px; margin-bottom:20px}

.latest-content h2{margin-top:15px}
.latest-content h2 a{color:#0b96d0; text-decoration:none}
.latest-content h2 a:hover{color:#000}

.latest-content p{color:#222; font-size:1.2em; line-height:1.5; margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:1.5em; text-align:left}

/*
-----------------------------------------
FOOTER
----------------------------------------- 
*/
#push{height:80px}

#footer{padding-top:10px; border-top:1px solid #ccc; width:960px; margin:150px auto 0; height:80px; color:#333}

#footer p{font-size:1.2em; color:#4d4d4d; line-height:1.5em; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:0.6em}

#footer p a{border-bottom:1px solid #c9c9c9; color:#4d4d4d; text-decoration:none}

#footer p a:hover{border-bottom:1px solid #c9c9c9; color:#0b96d0; text-decoration:none}

/*
-----------------------------------------
POSTMETA
----------------------------------------- 
*/
.postMeta{font-size:1.2em; margin-bottom:18px; margin-top:8px; padding-bottom:24px; border-bottom:1px solid #c9c9c9}

.postMeta-featured{margin-top:8px; font-size:1.2em; width:303px}

.postMeta-front{margin-top:8px; font-size:1.2em}

.postMeta-post{font-size:1.2em; margin-bottom:18px; margin-top:8px; border-bottom:1px solid #c9c9c9; padding-bottom:10px}

.postMeta span.date, 
.postMeta-post span.date, 
.postMeta-featured span.date, 
.postMeta-front span.date{color:#8a8a8a; float:left}

.postMeta span.comments a, 
.postMeta span.date a, 
.postMeta-post span.comments a, 
.postMeta-post span.date a, 
.postMeta-featured span.comments a, 
.postMeta-featured span.date a, 
.postMeta-front span.comments a, 
.postMeta-front span.date a{float:left; color:#8a8a8a; text-decoration:none}

.postMeta span.comments, 
.postMeta-featured span.comments, 
.postMeta-post span.comments, 
.postMeta-front span.comments{float:right; background:#FFF url(images/comment.gif) no-repeat left center; padding-left:15px; margin-left:2px}

/*
-----------------------------------------
POSTS
----------------------------------------- 
*/
.post-category{color:#8a8a8a; float:left; margin-bottom:8px}

.post-tags{color:#8a8a8a; float:right}

.post-category p, 
.post-tags p{color:#8A8A8A; font-size:1em; line-height:1.5em; margin-bottom:0em; margin-top:0em; text-align:none}
.post img{margin:0.5em 1em;}
.post blockquote p{margin:0 2.6em; font-style:italic}

/*
-----------------------------------------
COMMENTS
----------------------------------------- 
*/
.comment-heading{margin-bottom:26px; text-transform:none; border:none}

.commentwrap{border-top:3px solid #C9C9C9; padding-bottom:15px; padding-top:15px}

.commentpost{float:right; width:510px}

.commentpost p{margin-top:0}

.commentmetadata{float:left; width:20%; color:#2F2B23; line-height:1.5em; padding-right:20px; color:#999; font-size:1.1em}

.commentmetadata li{list-style-type:none; padding:.3em; margin:0 .5em 0 0}

.commentmetadata li a{border-bottom:1px solid #c9c9c9; color:#0B96D0; text-decoration:none}

.warning{padding:10px; background:#282828; border:1px solid #323232; ; margin-bottom:10px}

#comments label input{border:1px solid #E5E5E5; padding:5px 4px; margin-bottom:10px; width:160px}

#comments label span{line-height:27px}

#comments label{font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"; font-size:1.1em}

#comment_author{margin:20px 20px 20px 0px; padding:0px; width:150px; float:left}

#comments-content{display:block; border-bottom:1px solid #C9C9C9; margin:10px 0px 10px 0px; padding:0px}

#comments textarea{margin-top:10px; padding:4px 0px; width:100%; border:1px solid #E5E5E5}

/* other scheme! */
#other{
font-size:.8em;
margin-left:.3em;
width:60em;
margin-bottom:3em;
float:left;
}
div#other.domtab div{
clear:both;
width:54em;
background:#669;
color:#fff;
padding:1em 3em;
}

#other ul.domtabs a:hover{
background:#669;
}
div#other ul.domtabs li.active a:link,
div#other ul.domtabs li.active a:visited,
div#other ul.domtabs li.active a:active,
div#other ul.domtabs li.active a:hover{
background:#669;
color:#fff;
}
#other div{
float:left;
}
ul.prevnext{
float:left;
width:100%;
}
ul.prevnext li{
float:left;
width:49%;
}
ul.prevnext li.next{
float:right;
text-align:right;
}








.button{border:1px solid #E5E5E5; font-size:1.1em; font-weight:bold; height:25px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding:0 8px; text-transform:uppercase}

.children {margin-left: 50px}

.children div {border:none}

.children .commentwrap {border-top: 1px solid #C9C9C9;}

.children .commentmetadata {padding-right:0px}

.children .commentpost {text-align:left; float:right; width:78%}


/*
-----------------------------------------
SEARCH
----------------------------------------- 
*/
#searchform{float:left; margin-top:1em; height:2.3em}

#searchsubmit{border:1px solid #E5E5E5; font-size:1.1em; font-weight:bold; height:2.1em; padding:2px 8px; text-transform:uppercase; float:right; background-color:#F0F0F0}

#s{float:left; width:204px; margin-right:6px; padding-top:4px; padding-bottom:4px; padding-left:2px; padding-right:2px; border:1px solid #E5E5E5; font-size:1.1em}

/*
----------------------------------------
Other
----------------------------------------
*/

::selection			{ background:#ccc; color:#000; /* Safari and Opera */ }
::-moz-selection  { background:#ccc; color:#000; /* Firefox */ }

If you have read this far please help, Have tried alot of things and nothing seems to work. Please let me know if I did not explain clear or if you need any other information. Thanks

haku · December 17, 2009

Stylesheets apply to a whole page. You cannot prevent a part of your page from using the styles from a stylesheet, but what you can do is override the CSS selectors that you don't want.

Wrap the element you want to have separate styles into a div with an ID. For example, you could have <div id="tabber">

Then, lets say you have a css selector in the main stylesheet that you don't want, like this:

.tab
{
  float:left;
}

But in your tabber, you don't want elements that are .tab to be floated left. In this case, you can do this:

#tabber .tab
{
  float:none;
}

Since the second selector has a higher specificity (google it) than the original selector, it will take precedence.

s_ff_da_b_ff · December 18, 2009

That makes sense. However, if you look at my code I thought I was already doing that.

for example I have

ul.domtabs a:hover
       {
         background:#ccc ;
       }

Isnt that telling any URL's within the <ul> tag in the domtabs div to be a certain color when hovered? Even though it is taking my other style and making the hover on my tabber black / listed improperly.

haku · December 20, 2009

Nope. That's telling any URLs within a <ul> tag that has a class of .domtabs (ie. <ul class="domtabs">) to be a certain color when hovered.

For what you said, you need:

.domtabs ul a:hover

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