Can I apply a style to all elements of a type?

rhowes · Jan 2, 2002

Hi

Can I apply a style to all elements of a type, for example an INPUT text box? At the moment I type

<input type="text" style="...

for every input box which is a major headache and maintenance nightmare.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Regards
Richard

MrGrey · Jan 2, 2002

range;}
</style>

Simple as that.

Cheers,

Tom

Boomerang · Jan 2, 2002

Hi Richard,

You can make a cascading style sheet (CSS)

1)Write this code in a "notepad"-file
INPUT.textbox
{
BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow
}

and save the file as "yourfilename.css" :

2)put this in your <head></head>:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="yourfilename.css" type="text/css">

3)write this in your <body></body>
<input type="text" class="textbox">

Hope this helps,
Erik

Trevman · Jan 2, 2002

You can apply a style to only input text boxes without having to use any of that class stuff....using CSS2 selectors

input[type="text"] {

/*style here*/

}

only works in Netscape 6.x/ Mozilla and maybe Konqeror (spelling) tho....its CSS2 so MAYBE IE will support it in there next version. (Why the heck wasn't it in IE6 is waht I am wondering.)

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rhowes · Jan 2, 2002

Hi All

Thank you very much for all your help. I have been developing a site using PHP, and my HTML (including style sheets) is very shaky.

Thanks again for all your help.
Cheers

Richard

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