Drupal 7: Put a loading screen before everything is loaded - drupal-7

My Drupal site takes a while to load, and while it's loading everything looks messed up. So I opted for a simple solution that it's using a loading screen with this kind of solution:
Display a loading bar before the entire page is loaded .
But I have no idea how to implement it in Drupal 7.
Can you please help me with some clues?
Thank you!

.ajax-progress-throbber {
z-index: 1500;
border: 2px solid #C0C0C0;
position: fixed;
background: url('loader.gif') no-repeat center #ccc !important;
opacity:0.6;
padding:20px;
border-radius:10px;
-webkit-border-radius:10px;
-moz-border-radius:10px;
width:100%;
min-width: 100%;
height:100%;
left:0;
top:0;
}
I have done like this by putting this code in my css file and used a loader.gif image which is laso in the same folder where my css file is and use that class . Basically i use loader image every time i trigger ajax. You can use it as you want with according to different class.

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Extension styling breaks after being published [duplicate]

I wrote a Google Chrome extension, which popups a dialog with an autocomplete field and it's own style, but there are some sites where my CSS gets totally broken, which doesn't look very nice.
I know about isolating styles with iFrames, but in Google Chrome extension there is no way to isolate my HTML and CSS in this way. Another method is to wrap all my stuff into a separated div with it's own id and relative styles for that id, and I do so, but it seems that it doesn't work on some sites with "hard" tags style overloading or "!important" directives in the CSS code.
So, I want to know is there any way to really isolate my styles in z convenient way or it's my bad carma to overload every little CSS property to fix one or another style issue for each site?
By the way: I set up my manifest to load all the things at the "document_end", but I see it's not being applied to the stylesheets which is every time loaded whenever the DOM is ready.
At the time of asking the question, your only option was to either use iframes, or stylesheets with a very high specificity and explicitly set all properties that might affect styles. The last method is very cumbersome, because there will always be some property that is overlooked by you. Consequently, the only usable method for isolating stylesheets was to use iframes.
The solution to this problem -isolation of styles without iframes- is Shadow DOM (since Chrome 25). You can find a tutorial at HTML5 Rocks. For a real-world Chrome extension that uses Shadow DOM to isolate styles, see Display #Anchors (source code here).
As I've recently gone through the gauntlet of this issue, I want to share some information I think is valuable.
First, Rob W's answer is correct. Shadow DOM is the correct solution to this problem. However, in my case not only did I need CSS isolation, I also needed JavaScript events. For example, what happens if the user clicks a button that lives within the isolated HTML? This gets really ugly with just Shadow DOM, but we have another Web Components technology, Custom Elements, to the rescue. Except that as of this writing there is a bug in chrome that prevents custom element in chrome extensions. See my questions here and here and the bug here.
So where does that leave us? I believe the best solution today is IFrames, which is what I went with. The article shahalpk linked is great but it only describes part of the process. Here's how I did it:
First, create an html file and js file for your isolated widget. Everything inside these files will run in an isolated environment in an iframe. Be sure to source your js file from the html file.
//iframe.js
var button = document.querySelector('.my-button');
button.addEventListener('click', function() {
// do useful things
});
//iframe.html
<style>
/* css */
</style>
<button class='my-button'>Hi there</button>
<script src='iframe.js'></script>
Next, inside your content script create an iframe element in javascript. You need to do it in javascript because you have to use chrome.extension.getURL in order to grab your iframe html file:
var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
iframe.src = chrome.extension.getURL("iframe.html");
document.body.appendChild(iframe);
And that's it.
One thing to keep in mind: If you need to communicated between the iframe and the rest of the content script, you need to chrome.runtime.sendMessage() to the background page, and then chrome.tabs.sendMessage from the background page back to the tab. They can't communicate directly.
EDIT: I wrote a blog post detailing everything I learned through my process, including a complete example chrome extension and lots of links to different information:
https://apitman.com/3/#chrome-extension-content-script-stylesheet-isolation
In case my blog goes down, here's the sources to the original post:
Blog post
Example source
Either use all
.some-selector {
all: initial;
}
.some-selector * {
all: unset;
}
or use Shadow DOM
Library
function Widget(nodeName, appendTo){
this.outer = document.createElement(nodeName || 'DIV');
this.outer.className = 'extension-widget-' + chrome.runtime.id;
this.inner = this.outer.createShadowRoot();
(appendTo || document.body).appendChild(this.outer);
}
Widget.prototype.show = function(){
this.outer.style.display = 'block';
return this;
};
Widget.prototype.hide = function(){
this.outer.style.display = 'none';
return this;
};
Usage
var myWidget = new Widget();
myWidget.inner.innerHTML = '<h1>myWidget</h1>';
You can access the widget contents via myWidget.inner and the outer via myWidget.outer.
Styles
/*
* Reset Widget Wrapper Element
*/
.extension-widget-__MSG_##extension_id__ {
background: none;
border: none;
bottom: auto;
box-shadow: none;
color: black;
cursor: auto;
display: inline;
float: none;
font-family : "Helvetica Neue", "Helvetica", "Arial", sans-serif;
font-size: inherit;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal;
height: auto;
left: auto;
letter-spacing: 0;
line-height: 100%;
margin: 0;
max-height: none;
max-width: none;
min-height: 0;
min-width: 0;
opacity: 1;
padding: 0;
position: static;
right: auto;
text-align: left;
text-decoration: none;
text-indent: 0;
text-shadow: none;
text-transform: none;
top: auto;
vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: normal;
width: auto;
z-index: 2147483648;
}
/*
* Add your own styles here
* but always prefix them with:
*
* .extension-widget-__MSG_##extension_id__
*
*/
.extension-widget-__MSG_##extension_id__{
position: fixed;
top: 100px;
margin: 0 auto;
left: 0;
right: 0;
width: 500px;
}
.extension-widget-__MSG_##extension_id__::shadow h1 {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 20px;
background-color: yellow;
border: 10px solid green;
font-size: 20px;
text-align: center;
}
I recently created Boundary, a CSS+JS library to solve problems just like this. Boundary creates elements that are completely separate from the existing webpage's CSS.
Take creating a dialog for example. After installing Boundary, you can do this in your content script
var dialog = Boundary.createBox("yourDialogID", "yourDialogClassName");
Boundary.loadBoxCSS("#yourDialogID", "style-for-elems-in-dialog.css");
Boundary.appendToBox(
"#yourDialogID",
"<button id='submit_button'>submit</button>"
);
Boundary.find("#submit_button").click(function() {
// some js after button is clicked.
});
Elements within #yourDialogID will not be affected by the existing webpage. And find() function returns a regular jQuery DOM element so you can do whatever you want with it.
Hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any question.
https://github.com/liviavinci/Boundary
Use iframes. It's a workaround, but works fine.
Maxime has written an article on it.

Brand Image resizing/ Webflow

I’m trying to make my brand image larger at the top of the page, but Webflow is not allowing me. Anyone know how to fix this? Also does anyone know how to change the gradient colors in this template?
https://preview.webflow.com/preview/dan-the-baking-man-upgraded?utm_medium=preview_link&utm_source=designer&utm_content=dan-the-baking-man-upgraded&preview=d77107e0ddecb4c38fc4f9487940ab48&workflow=preview
To increase the size of your logo to say 100x100px, try
.brand-image {
height: 100px;
max-height: 100px;
width: 100px;
}
If this doesn't work, test if you need to add !important; to each of the properties.
For the colours, it looks to me that they are set in 2 places
body {
background-color: var(--swatch_879f80bc);
}
and
.background-primary-image{
background-image: url(https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/6144c33b7975b17710abbbef/6144c33b7975b10e34abbc4e_Background%20Gradient.png);
}

How to prevent webpage styling getting affected by inject chrome extension's styling [duplicate]

I wrote a Google Chrome extension, which popups a dialog with an autocomplete field and it's own style, but there are some sites where my CSS gets totally broken, which doesn't look very nice.
I know about isolating styles with iFrames, but in Google Chrome extension there is no way to isolate my HTML and CSS in this way. Another method is to wrap all my stuff into a separated div with it's own id and relative styles for that id, and I do so, but it seems that it doesn't work on some sites with "hard" tags style overloading or "!important" directives in the CSS code.
So, I want to know is there any way to really isolate my styles in z convenient way or it's my bad carma to overload every little CSS property to fix one or another style issue for each site?
By the way: I set up my manifest to load all the things at the "document_end", but I see it's not being applied to the stylesheets which is every time loaded whenever the DOM is ready.
At the time of asking the question, your only option was to either use iframes, or stylesheets with a very high specificity and explicitly set all properties that might affect styles. The last method is very cumbersome, because there will always be some property that is overlooked by you. Consequently, the only usable method for isolating stylesheets was to use iframes.
The solution to this problem -isolation of styles without iframes- is Shadow DOM (since Chrome 25). You can find a tutorial at HTML5 Rocks. For a real-world Chrome extension that uses Shadow DOM to isolate styles, see Display #Anchors (source code here).
As I've recently gone through the gauntlet of this issue, I want to share some information I think is valuable.
First, Rob W's answer is correct. Shadow DOM is the correct solution to this problem. However, in my case not only did I need CSS isolation, I also needed JavaScript events. For example, what happens if the user clicks a button that lives within the isolated HTML? This gets really ugly with just Shadow DOM, but we have another Web Components technology, Custom Elements, to the rescue. Except that as of this writing there is a bug in chrome that prevents custom element in chrome extensions. See my questions here and here and the bug here.
So where does that leave us? I believe the best solution today is IFrames, which is what I went with. The article shahalpk linked is great but it only describes part of the process. Here's how I did it:
First, create an html file and js file for your isolated widget. Everything inside these files will run in an isolated environment in an iframe. Be sure to source your js file from the html file.
//iframe.js
var button = document.querySelector('.my-button');
button.addEventListener('click', function() {
// do useful things
});
//iframe.html
<style>
/* css */
</style>
<button class='my-button'>Hi there</button>
<script src='iframe.js'></script>
Next, inside your content script create an iframe element in javascript. You need to do it in javascript because you have to use chrome.extension.getURL in order to grab your iframe html file:
var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
iframe.src = chrome.extension.getURL("iframe.html");
document.body.appendChild(iframe);
And that's it.
One thing to keep in mind: If you need to communicated between the iframe and the rest of the content script, you need to chrome.runtime.sendMessage() to the background page, and then chrome.tabs.sendMessage from the background page back to the tab. They can't communicate directly.
EDIT: I wrote a blog post detailing everything I learned through my process, including a complete example chrome extension and lots of links to different information:
https://apitman.com/3/#chrome-extension-content-script-stylesheet-isolation
In case my blog goes down, here's the sources to the original post:
Blog post
Example source
Either use all
.some-selector {
all: initial;
}
.some-selector * {
all: unset;
}
or use Shadow DOM
Library
function Widget(nodeName, appendTo){
this.outer = document.createElement(nodeName || 'DIV');
this.outer.className = 'extension-widget-' + chrome.runtime.id;
this.inner = this.outer.createShadowRoot();
(appendTo || document.body).appendChild(this.outer);
}
Widget.prototype.show = function(){
this.outer.style.display = 'block';
return this;
};
Widget.prototype.hide = function(){
this.outer.style.display = 'none';
return this;
};
Usage
var myWidget = new Widget();
myWidget.inner.innerHTML = '<h1>myWidget</h1>';
You can access the widget contents via myWidget.inner and the outer via myWidget.outer.
Styles
/*
* Reset Widget Wrapper Element
*/
.extension-widget-__MSG_##extension_id__ {
background: none;
border: none;
bottom: auto;
box-shadow: none;
color: black;
cursor: auto;
display: inline;
float: none;
font-family : "Helvetica Neue", "Helvetica", "Arial", sans-serif;
font-size: inherit;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal;
height: auto;
left: auto;
letter-spacing: 0;
line-height: 100%;
margin: 0;
max-height: none;
max-width: none;
min-height: 0;
min-width: 0;
opacity: 1;
padding: 0;
position: static;
right: auto;
text-align: left;
text-decoration: none;
text-indent: 0;
text-shadow: none;
text-transform: none;
top: auto;
vertical-align: baseline;
white-space: normal;
width: auto;
z-index: 2147483648;
}
/*
* Add your own styles here
* but always prefix them with:
*
* .extension-widget-__MSG_##extension_id__
*
*/
.extension-widget-__MSG_##extension_id__{
position: fixed;
top: 100px;
margin: 0 auto;
left: 0;
right: 0;
width: 500px;
}
.extension-widget-__MSG_##extension_id__::shadow h1 {
display: block;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 20px;
background-color: yellow;
border: 10px solid green;
font-size: 20px;
text-align: center;
}
I recently created Boundary, a CSS+JS library to solve problems just like this. Boundary creates elements that are completely separate from the existing webpage's CSS.
Take creating a dialog for example. After installing Boundary, you can do this in your content script
var dialog = Boundary.createBox("yourDialogID", "yourDialogClassName");
Boundary.loadBoxCSS("#yourDialogID", "style-for-elems-in-dialog.css");
Boundary.appendToBox(
"#yourDialogID",
"<button id='submit_button'>submit</button>"
);
Boundary.find("#submit_button").click(function() {
// some js after button is clicked.
});
Elements within #yourDialogID will not be affected by the existing webpage. And find() function returns a regular jQuery DOM element so you can do whatever you want with it.
Hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any question.
https://github.com/liviavinci/Boundary
Use iframes. It's a workaround, but works fine.
Maxime has written an article on it.

Leaking click event

I'm having this problem related to click events in angular.
My application is a tic-tac-toe app.
My application uses angular materials.
The problem: when a user clicks a button on the board, the click event seems to be leaking into a nearby button on the board. The following image demonstrates what I'm talking about.
Image of problem. As you can see, the button in col 1 row 2 was activated even though that button was not clicked. Below is a blitz of my application.
https://stackblitz.com/github/flashato9/tic-tac-toe
It would be great if I can get some help on this problem. Thanks!
really nice question =)
So the problem seems to be, that the mat button somehow responds to the change of the text cursor position.
if you change your square.component.html like so:
<div class="grid-button"><span>{{value}}</span></button>
and change the square.component.scss like so:
.grid-button{
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-color: rgb(91, 158, 91);
font-size: 10rem;
border-radius: 4px;
text-align: center;
padding: 50px;
color: white;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
cursor: pointer;
user-select: none;
}
.grid-button:hover {
background-color: green;
}
when you now click a "button" you clearly see, that the cursor jumps to the next Field. But a simple div does not seem to react with :hover to that.
You can additionaly to the above CSS add user-select: none; to the .grid-button to not show the cursor or maybe a plain button (not Material) would also work.
Long story short: I would recommend not to use a Material Component if you change most of it's apperance, because there will probably allways be sideeffects.
Problem Solved
Here is the link posted by Vimal Patel in the comments.

Drupal 7 how to display $user_picture in node

the Theme I am using (Plasma) has an option in the settings to display the users profile picture, but when I select it, it only shows the picture in the comments.
When I looked at the node.tpl.php in the theme it does not output the $user_picture variable.
So I tried adding this variable myself just below the <header> tag as it is in the comment.tpl.php but the image is displayed above the post, rather than inline with left alignment.
I tried wrapping the $user_picture in <align=left> </align> but this did not work.
So how do I show the picture as left aligned with the header and text of the post wrapped around the user profile picture.
Thanks
Simon
Here is the solution if you are using the the Plasma Theme, but it will probably work on most themes.
In the Theme folder edit the CSS file and add the following code
.node .user-picture{
float: left;
padding: 4px;
border: 1px solid #d9d9d9;
margin-right: 7px;
margin-bottom: 7px;
}
.content .user-picture{
float: left;
padding: 4px;
border: 1px solid #d9d9d9;
margin-right: 7px;
margin-bottom: 7px;
}
Then in your node.tpl.php add the following just above print render($content);
print $user_picture;
This will put the user picture at the top left of the content for every node and teaser. You can still turn off the user profile picture in the theme settings.

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