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Custom Style Sheets in Safari

I first heard mention of adding a custom style sheet in Safari a couple months back. I honestly can’t remember where I saw it but I was reading something and, in passing, the author mentioned the idea of hiding the right sidebar on Twitter using a custom style sheet in Safari. This thing:

Screenshot of the right sidebar of twitter.com, circa Jan 2021.

It’s funny how you sometimes miss the entire point of someone’s writing and selectively remember what you want, in this case “hey, I can hide that dumb module on Twitter with little effort?” I’d like to say that I have the self-discipline to avoid clicking on anything in that module, but unfortunately I am not that strong of a person. Sometimes I just get bored and something there makes me think “oh, hmm, I wonder...” and then I click it. It’s one of those things where, if it wasn’t there, it wouldn’t be a problem. Like keeping cookies right next to your desk. But it’s frictionless and easy and RIGHT THERE that I succumb. But I digress. My weaknesses are not on trial in this post.

The thought hit me: “hey I should hide that right sidebar on twitter.com using a custom style sheet in Safari!” So I did. And then I moved on with life. I never thought to write a post about it because, you know, custom style sheets in a browser? That’s old news.

But then, I recently found this post published in November of 2020 about customizing your browsing experience using custom style sheets and thought “I guess this isn’t old news just quite yet.” Plus I’m trying to write a lot more this year , so here we are.

Note: it’s worth mentioning that hiding the right sidebar in twitter isn’t a novel idea. Craig Hockenberry created a Safari extension that’ll do it for you called “Fixerrific”. Granted, like my custom style sheet, this removes the entire right sidebar, including the search box which you might actually find useful. That said, you can still access the search functionality on twitter by going to the Explore tab.

How I Did It

First off, Safari lets you specify a custom style sheet.

Screenshot of Safari’s preferences pane where you can select a custom style sheet.

In case you don’t know, a custom style sheet is a bunch of CSS rules that you get to specify and then the browser will apply them to every single web page you visit .

The first thing I needed to do was open twitter.com and find out what type of CSS rule I could write to target that right sidebar. I can tell you, it wasn’t easy. Twitter has a bunch of generated classes names, which I’m assuming are quite dynamic, so finding a rule that would target the right sidebar and not change in the near future seemed like it might be tough. But then I found it: a DOM node which encompassed the entire right sidebar that had a very specific attribute data-testid="sidebarColumn" .

Screenshot of twitter.com in Safari with the developer tools open and targeting a parent DOM node of the right sidebar.

I can’t say for sure, but that looks like one of those attributes the QA team appends to certain elements they want to find with their automated browser tests. The whole purpose of those kinds of attributes is so the engineers won’t touch them and change their names, that way the automated tests can run for a long time without breaking. Again, I can’t make any guarantees, but this selector will probably be around for a while. So I felt pretty confident I could use that selector and not have it break in a short period of time due to twitter refactoring their DOM markup.

Once I had a selector I could use, I opened my text editor and created the following CSS file:

From there, I saved the .css file in my Dropbox folder (for backup purposes, i.e. a lazy man’s version control) then opened Safari’s preferences and selected my newly created file. A restart of Safari and boom! The sidebar was gone.

Feeling emboldened and empowered with my CSS sword of righteousness, I figured I’d go ahead and get rid of the DM/chat widget thing twitter recently introduced. It was merely visual noise to me. And fortunately, it had a similar way to be targeted: [data-testid="DMDrawer"] .

Screenshot of twitter.com in Safari with the developer tools open and targeting a parent DOM node of the right sidebar.

Pretty cool. Now I have a version of twitter custom tailored to me, free of a lot of distractions I don’t want to see.

Screenshot of twitter.com in Safari with a custom style sheet applied that hides the sidebar and the DM widget in the bottom right.

Observations Nobody Asked For

If you write a lot of custom styles for sites across the web, you could start running into naming collisions. It would be neat if you could scope styles to a specific domain. Maybe there’s a way to do it? I couldn’t think of one. Imagine:

JavaScript has access to a page’s URL via window.location but AFAIK that’s not available—at least not in any standardized way—in CSS.

It's likely a terrible idea, but we have custom user style sheets, is there such a thing as a custom user scripts? Imagine giving a .js file to the browser and it runs it on every single page, like a custom style sheet. Why? Because I want to specify all my custom styles using JavaScript not CSS.

Just kidding.

But seriously, if there was something like this, I could have a script that runs on every page and sticks an attribute on the root html element with the page’s URL. Imagine:

This would result in every page getting an attribute on the root element with the current page’s href on it.

This would allow me to scope every single one of my custom style sheet selectors to a specific domain:

Honestly, that sounds cool but impractical (not to mention the incredible security implications). It’s fun to think about though.

But hey, if I felt like disabling JavaScript, I could use this theoretical custom script functionality to run the following JavaScript on ever page I visit, just to show who really is in power:

I love old-school browser functionality like this. Can you imagine a feature like custom style sheets being proposed and implemented in today’s world? I feel like this is in Safari as a holdover from a bygone era. Could it ever get the momentum to happen today? I worry Apple might take it out sometime in the future.

All that said, if you want to read more, this post has a perspective on the history of custom style sheets in Safari that you might find interesting.

Update: 2020-01-14

I received an email from John P. Rouillard who read my question about having custom user scripts and said “You mean like greasemonkey or tapermonkey?”

I realized when I wrote that paragraph that I was merely describing what browser extensions are for. What I was trying to get at is that it would be really cool if custom user scripts were a feature of the browser, i.e. adding a custom user script was as simple as adding a custom style sheet: select a .js file on disk and boom, you’re done.

That said, maybe I’ll give one of these user scripts extensions a try. I’ve heard of greasemonkey and used it back in like 2012. But I’ve never heard of tampermonkey. Looks like it’s open source and even available for Safari . Thanks John!

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How to override the font settings in Safari for all pages

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Sometimes web page designers make interesting choices. Why not use tiny, fancy type on a shaded background to make reading a page more…legible? Apple’s built-in Reader View in Safari across all its platforms lets you make short work of hard-to-read type. But you lose most of the formatting, some of the images, and other elements of the page.

Safari for macOS has another trick up its sleeve: custom CSS. Where HTML defines the structure and content of a web page, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is the coding that underlies the appearance and formatting, from type sizes to columns and floating boxes. In Safari > Preferences > Advanced , you can select a custom style sheet from the Style Sheet pop-up menu.

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You can override Web page’s definitions of how things should appear.

You don’t need to know much CSS to have an impact. For example, suppose you like Arial above all other typefaces. A CSS file that contains this single line will change the typeface on all pages to Arial:

html body { font-family: Arial !important }

Decoded, that says “for an HTML page’s body section, the container for all the stuff you see on a page, set the font family to Arial and override everything else.” The cascading part of the CSS name defines a hierarchy about which style characteristics to use when there are overlapping choices. The browser gets top pick and the !important flag says, “I don’t care what any other style sheet says—use my parameter!”

If you prefer another typeface, look through the Fonts pane in any app that shows it (TextEdit is such an app; press Command-T to display it), and enter the name in the style sheet above exactly as it appears. If it contains spaces, put quotation marks around the name, as in font-family: "Cooper Hewitt" !important

You can swap the sheet on and off through the Style Sheet menu in Advanced. Just pick None Selected when you don’t want to use it. You can also modify the text in the style sheet so it’s not applicable, like changing html to nohtml and saving it.

A CSS file is a plain text file with the .css extension. You can create this with TextEdit, built into macOS. Ironically, TextEdit only creates rich text files with formatting by default. Choose TextEdit > Preferences and select the Plain Text option under Format, and then choose File > New to create a plain text file. Save it as any name plus the .css extension. Now in the Style Sheet menu, select Other and choose that file.

You don’t have to go global in your definition, as you can target specific elements on a page or other aspects by diving into the HTML and CSS—it’s not as daunting as you might think. On the easy end, W3schools offers straightforward tutorials and recipes ; on the more technical side, Craig Anthony wrote this look at Safari overrides , which may give you different insight.

I’ve used some custom CSS for very particular fixes. For instance, the Substack newsletter empire has its text tracking (the overall spacing between letters) set too large for my reading pleasure. (Kerning, by the way, is the space between adjacent  letters, not across a range.) This CSS definition takes care of that for me, while also bumping the type size for my aging eyes:

.post p { letter-spacing: -0.1pt !important; font-size: 17px !important; }

The .post p part means, “For paragraphs [p] tagged with the name ‘post’, apply this style.” This can backfire for any other web page that happens to use “post” as a tagging (or “class”) name, too, as those names can be reused across websites!

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Using a portable stylesheet across the web

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We know that the majority of websites are inaccessible, there are a limited amount of accessibility professionals and a limited amount of companies that care enough to hire one, which results in a web that barely usable for so many. As we cannot control the quality of the code and design aesthetics of companies we do not work for, we can help some users with a portable stylesheet.

Wait, what is a portable stylesheet?

Simply put, it's a CSS file that you can turn on or off at your leisure, you can keep it running on every site or just turn it on when you encounter a particularly bad site.

But I don't know CSS

You don't really need to know it, you can have it provided to you by somebody who does. In this particular guide, we're going to create a portable stylesheet and I'm going to walk you through every step, explaining each line of CSS and how you can change it to suit your own needs. We're primarily going to look at custom focus indicators, but we've added a few extra tips in too.

Getting started

First we are going to install an extension into a supporting browser, this particular one is called Stylus and it is available on Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Opera. So all major modern browsers, with the exception of Safari, but I have another way for Safari users to have a portable stylesheet.

We will need to be on a desktop or laptop for this, as we need to install the extension or add-on if you prefer.

So, just follow these steps:

Visit this GitHub page , which should open at the "Releases" section

Click the link in the list for the browser you are using (please note, if you are using Edge or Brave, you will need to click the Chrome link, as they all use the same underlying technologies)

Install the extension in the usual way, the button will likely say "Add to Firefox/Opera/Chrome" depending on your browser

  • If you are using Edge, Click the Settings or More button
  • Navigate to Extensions , in the newly opened settings menu
  • Locate the Manage extensions option
  • At the time of writing, the Extensions panel is located on the left, at the bottom of that panel, there is a toggle Allow extensions from other stores , this will need to be set to on
  • You will then see a dialog modal, where you will need to confirm your action
  • Now, you're all set, so navigate back to the page we linked to at the beginning and select the Chrome option and install it

You may see a dialog, which informs you the extension or add-on can change data on all websites, that's exactly what we want, so click Add or whatever your browser displays to proceed

So, now we have it installed, we can go ahead and make things accessible, well some things anyway.

Using Stylus

You should see a prompt that informs you it has been added to your extensions bar and the stylus icon button should also be visible (I'm using interchangably moving between Edge and Firefox in this guide, as I wanted to start fresh and I have some stylesheets saved in my usual browser, that I don't want to lose).

The stylus icon button in Edge's extensions bar, there is also a prompt informing a user it has been enabled

At this point, you may need to pin Stylus to your extensions bar (move on if the Stylus button is already there). There is a button called Extensions in the extensions bar, usually represented by a puzzle-piece icon. Navigate to any page on the web, this extension will not work if you're still on the extensions store, but it will work everywhere else. Clicking on the Stylus icon button on a webpage will open up a small popup, which has 2 checkboxes and 2 buttons, we want to click the Manage styles button, which will open in a new tab.

The Stylus interface

Within the Stylus interface, there is an Add style panel, which should be situated on the left, before the code editor, within that panel, there is a Write new style button, click this, but before doing so, ensure the adjacent checkbox asUsercss is unchecked, we don't need to worry about that.

The Stylus interface, with the Write new style button highlighted

The options should have now changed, at the top there should be an empty input, this is where we need to provide a name for our stylesheet, I'm going to call mine "my stylesheet", as later we may add to it.

The filename input in the Stylus Styles panel

Don't worry about any of those other options, they're not important for what we are doing, they just format the code, but ultimately, you're just going to be copy and pasting, so there is no need to worry, keep that open in another tab, browser window or whatever, as we'll be adding some code very soon.

Why do some sites have no focus indicator?

I know that many users rely on a good visual focus indicator so they can see where they have tabbed to on a webpage, I also know that many sites completely remove them, as the developers, designers or other stakeholders think they look unsightly or don't match the site's design. This is hostile towards many users that rely upon them, as without them navigation is pretty much impossible.

Not all designers and developers do this, there are some good folks out there, some I have worked with, who would never do this, but, sadly they're a minority.

How do developers remove the browser's default focus indicator?

The following code example shows how they do it, but this should never be done, so I am only showing it for illustrative purposes:

This 1 little style declaration can do so much harm and make websites unusable, that's literally all it takes. I'll break that down, if you're interested:

  • The asterisk * symbol, is the CSS universal selector, it means apply the following style to absolutely everything
  • The :focus pseudo selector, which follows the asterisk, without a space, means apply the following style only when an element (the selector) receives focus, by combining the asterisk and :focus we're saying when anything on this page receives focus, apply the style that is between the curly brackets
  • The outline: property is what browsers use to add a focus ring or dotted lines around the elements we can tab to
  • The none value, does exactly what it says on the tin, it removes that indicator completely
  • Finally, the !important keyword, adds to what's called specificity in CSS, it gives the preceding rule more importance and it will override most other declarations, so in essence, it's a brute force trick
  • So, in just three lines of CSS, we're essentially saying "I don't care who uses my site, if they use a keyboard etc and focus on absolutely anything, don't show them where there focus is, no matter what" and that awful practice is typically why you may struggle to track focus across a website

Can we override it?

You bet we can, but sadly it takes third party extensions (unless using Safari), but, even though the developers have used !important , that's no match for what we are going to add, as we have more specificity by using a portable stylesheet.

Creating our custom focus style

Much the same I did with the anti-user CSS above, I'm just going to write the style and then explain what it is doing in text afterwards.

So let's break that down, notice that each line except the last is separated by a comma, that allows us to list many selectors and apply whatever we put in the curly brackets to all of them, it'll break if you miss a comma though, also don't put a comma on the very last item, as again, it will break as it is expecting some other selector to follow.

Setting a:focus will apply a focus style to links, which use the <a> or anchor element

Setting button:focus will apply a focus style to buttons, which use the <button> element

Setting select:focus will apply a focus style to the dropdown inputs you often encounter, which use the <select> element

Setting input:focus will apply a focus style to text inputs, checkboxes, radios etc, which use the <input> element

Setting [tabindex]:focus, for custom elements that can receive keyboard focus, as developers should be making these elements keyboard accessible and adding in tabindex="0" to the element as an attribute, we target attributes in CSS with the square brackets[], so we can target that with CSS, we're going a little brute force and just using [tabindex] here, as there could be other values

Setting [contenteditable]:focus , for when we encounter inputs that do not use the default HTML inputs, which is fine if done correctly, but awful when they're not, to make an element that is not an input editable, we would add the contenteditable attribute, so we can target that in CSS, by using the square brackets

Setting iframe:focus , you may see Twitter or YouTube embeds on a website or indeed many others, an iFrame receives focus, as it is technically a part of another website embedded into another, we can apply focus indicators to iframes, which use the <iframe> element

Setting details:focus for the native HTML accordion-type element, called <details> which is paired with a <summary> element, the details being the trigger and the <summary> being the panel that will display the additional information when that trigger is clicked, we can apply a focus to details which use the <details> element

The style declaration, so we want something that we can see, so I have done the following:

  • outline: 3px solid rebeccapurple; that gives us a 3 pixel solid purple line around all of those elements
  • outline-offset: 2px; , that gives us a little space between the element that is focused and the focus indicator we created above, this is often useful, as it won't obscure the text within the element, it may overlay other surrounding text though
  • Also, I added !important; to each, just to make sure our style beats theirs, always. It should always win due to the browser's and CSS's rules, but it doesn't hurt to add it

Why so many selectors?

It was easy to completely remove the focus outline, we just used one (the universal) selector and focus was completely gone, but to add it back we have to add all the individual selectors, couldn't we have just added it back with the universal selector? Yes and No. It would work just fine if you were exclusively using a keyboard or other non-pointing device, but if you were using a combination on mouse and keyboard, everytime you clicked on anything, it would add a focus indicator around it, this would make the focus indicator less useful for some people.

We could have used :focus-visible instead of :focus , which won't show on mouse/finger presses, but if some of us are using an older browser, it may not work at all, so I've used an approach that should work fine for all use cases.

Can I change any of this?

Of course you can, I'm going to show you how, right now.

I have chosen to use the outline: property as it doesn't take up any space, it surrounds an element, but won't move it to accommodate a border.

If you want a thinner or thicker outline (the outline width), just change the 3px value to something that works for you, ensure there are no spaces though.

I have provided a solid outline (the outline style), you can change value to other styles, some examples being: dotted , double , ridge , groove or dashed . it's important that the value is spelled correctly, as otherwise it won't work and don't delete the spaces between the width, style and colour

The colour can be set to anything that you want as long as it is valid value, CSS has many inbuilt named colours, it can also use hex codes, RGB and many others, to select a colour that works for you, this MDN resource is great, the colour I have chosen rebeccapurple is a special colour in CSS, you can read why here.

Finally, the outline-offset , this isn't necessary at all, I added that in to give you more control, if you don't want it, you can delete the whole line, alternatively, you can adjust the value to your liking, it can take negative and positive numbers. If you add a negative number, do so like this -2px that will inset the focus ring, it will appear inside the element and if you want more space, you just change the number to something of your choosing, remember, no space between the number and px .

Also, remember that the position of the colon and semi-colon are important. In my example, note the colon is immediately after the property like so outline: and at the end of the value we have a semi-colon, like so: rebeccapurple; .

Adding our custom focus style to Stylus

You can add this to your Stylus stylesheet, by following these steps:

When we created a new stylesheet, I called mine My stylesheet , you may have named yours differently, locate that

From the code I provided (definitely not the first bit of code that removed all styles, the bit in the preceding section), copy that code and paste it into the big Code panel in Stylus

If you want to make any changes to the values, go ahead, taking note of the advice I provided if you aren't comfortable with CSS.

Now click the Save button in the Add style panel, it's important you save it.

The stylus interface with our CSS style pasted in to the code editor

That's it, we now have a basic stylesheet we can use across the web, there are a couple of considerations though. If an element has not been coded in such a way that it can receive keyboard focus, our style won't apply. Also, it may be useful for you to have more than one, simply create another and give it a different name. I say this as if you visit some sites that are dark and some that are light, your focus indicator may not be great on one of them. So perhaps create a My focus dark and a My focus light , where you adjust the colours accordingly.

Turning our stylesheet on or off

Some sites will have a nice focus indicator and you may not to run your stylesheet on those, the Stylus button icon in the extensions bar will have a tiny little notification icon on it, showing you that a stylesheet is active. If you click the Stylus button, there will be a checked input that you can toggle to turn your stylesheet on or off.

Using a portable stylesheet with Safari

We don't need a browser extension for Safari, as we can use any stylesheet stored on our Mac, which is a relatively straightforward process. Note: I just updated my Mac to Ventura a couple of days ago, so if you haven't done so yet or can't, my instructions may be slightly different, but hopefully noting too drastic has changed.

  • Download this stylesheet and save to somewhere safe on your Mac (rename if you wish, but don't delete the .css file extension, that's super important)
  • Open Safari
  • In the Menu bar Click Safari > Settings (previously called Preferences ) and then locate and open the Advanced tab
  • Locate the drop down for Stylesheet , click it and select Other
  • Locate the stylesheet you downloaded, in step 1, and open that so it becomes our selected option

Screenshot of the Settings menu (previously called Preferences) in Safari, on MacOS, the Advanced tab is highlighted and there is an arrow pointing to the Stylesheet drop down, which has our custom stylesheet added and is also highlighted

That's essentially it, I don't think this is as user-friendly as the Stylus extension, in that you have to go through all the options to change stylesheets and it appears you can only have one running at any given time, whereas Stylus you could in theory have many running, which would give you more granular control over how webpages look, but if you were just looking to style a focus indicator so you had a consistent visual indicator across the web, this may be useful.

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How to use your own style sheets in safari for os x.

This page explains how to make Safari use colour and font styles you have created in your own style sheet

Note: Mac key convention: ' Ctrl ' is used for 'Control' , ' Apple ' is used for 'Command' and ' Alt ' is used for the 'Option' key.

Note: For keyboard access make sure ' Full keyboard access ' is turned on - you can turn it on or off; by pressing ' Ctrl ' + ' F1 ' at any time.

Instructions

Please note: This page assumes you have already created your own style sheet.

Click on the ' Safari ' menu and then click on ' Preferences... ' as shown in Fig 1 or press ' Apple ' + ',' (comma).

The Safari menu in the menu bar.

Click on the ' Advanced ' icon or press ' Ctrl ' + ' F5 ' to highlight the ' General ' icon and then press the right arrow key until the ' Advanced ' icon is highlighted then press the ' Spacebar '. See Fig 2 below.

The Safari preference window showing the Advanced icon, first from the right, in the top row.

Click on the button ( ' None Selected ' ) next to ' Style Sheet: ' or press ' Tab ' once to highlight the button and then press the ' Spacebar ' .

From the pop-up menu select ' Other ' by clicking on it or pressing the down arrow and pressing the ' Spacebar ' this will bring up a file dialog box as shown in Fig 3 .

The file picker dialogue box.

Navigate to where you have put your style sheet, in the example in Fig 3 they are in a folder called 'stylesheets' .

Select the style sheet you want by clicking on it or using the arrows keys to highlight it and then click on the ' Choose ' button or press ' Enter '.

Click on the ' Advanced ' window close button or press ' Esc ' to return to Safari.

Note: If this does not work it could be because your computer settings cannot be changed due to local IT policies - contact your local IT support for further help.

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This CSS file is a style sheets that you can use with Safari on your Mac.

When you apply this file, Apple System UI Font, the default font for macOS, can apply the entire web page.

Installation

  • Install the uploaded CSS file.
  • Open Safari and press ⌘ and , together.
  • Click the Advanced tab, and select a list of stylesheets.

You may not apply it immediately, so exit Safari and run it again.

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Hi, I’d like to create a user style sheet for Safari to target distinctly websites.

E.g. I’d like to change font-size on the website1.com and background on website2.com, etc.

I know how to create one style sheet in Safari but It doesn’t target any URL.

Is it possible to do something close to

as it is done for Firefox in **Safari**.

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Do you want to target a specific **browser** for all pages or a specific browser based on the website being served?

I’m having trouble working out what you are trying to do…and why!

I’d like to **surf** with some properties saved.

E.g. when I surf on wikipedia.com I’d like a bigger font size AND when I surf on amazon.com I’d like font color silver….

There are browser extensions that will let you **override** styles on pages (and will remember them) but you would have to do each domain separately.

I’m just looking for these extensions…

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=safari+extension+css+override&oq=safari+exten&aqs=chrome.0.59j0j57j5j62l2.10904j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Thanks Paulie_D, I finally found what I was looking for with what you sent me.

BTW, why are my posts solved automatically?

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Luke Bryan 's Nashville bar is alleged to have overserved a Missouri college student who went missing last week -- and now a state agency has launched an investigation into it.

The Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission -- the licensing authority for manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of booze beverages in the state -- tells TMZ ... while there's no specific rule that dictates a business escorting out intoxicated patrons, let alone providing assistance to said patrons, there are laws about providing too much alcohol to someone.

We're told Tennessee law prohibits serving alcoholic beverages to someone who is visibly intoxicated -- and any violation of this is considered a class A misdemeanor.

As it pertains to claims that Riley Strain , who's still missing, was overserved ... we're told the TABC has opened an investigation to see if any violations have occurred in this matter.

Remember, it was cops who suggested Riley might've been overserved Friday when he and some friends hit the town and ended up at Luke's 32 Bridge -- where the 22-year-old was reportedly kicked out ... and where he got separated from his party and went off on his own.

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Riley's family has said they're living through a nightmare as they continue to look for him. Riley had apparently FaceTimed his mom earlier in the evening, and she said nothing seemed amiss then, even though they knew he was bar hopping.

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