Re: [css-d] relative positioning inside absolute positioned element - why not percentage for top?

2007-08-29 Thread Mike Wilson
Just to close this issue off, I can now report that the latest working draft of the CSS 2.1 spec has actually solved the problem I mentioned. Compliant browsers should now support percentages on relative positioning of an element even when the parent's size is dependent on the element's size.

Re: [css-d] relative positioning inside absolute positioned element - why not percentage for top?

2007-08-29 Thread Mike Wilson
Oops, the phrasing should of course be: Compliant browsers should now support percentages on relative positioning of an element even when the *containing block's* size is dependent on the element's size. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

[css-d] Browsercam group purchase

2007-08-29 Thread Kathryn Maxwell
Dear Moderators, This post has been approved after a correspondence with Alex, I asked him if it was appropriate to post and he sent me the relevant guidelines. Many thanks K Maxwell To CSS List members, I am sure a lot of you will be aware of browsercam and that it allows viewing of

Re: [css-d] css navigation

2007-08-29 Thread Rafael
Maybe looking for css dropdown menu in Google (without the quotes would be more effective). When you're at it, check ALA's Suckerfish Dropdowns. JGardner wrote: Hello all, I am wanting to learn how to do a css horizontal menu which has a 2nd level nav bar. I have tried to do a Google

Re: [css-d] Browsercam group purchase

2007-08-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All, apologies, the url on the email was incorrect, here is the right one K Maxwell http://www.fundable.org/groupactions/groupaction.2007-08-23.6855155267 Dear Moderators, This post has been approved after a correspondence with Alex, I asked him if it was appropriate to post and he sent me

Re: [css-d] css-d Digest, Vol 57, Issue 29

2007-08-29 Thread CSSHelp
Hello All, I have create a layout in CSS but the drop down menu doesn't stay open long enough for a person to select a submenu option. It works in Mozilla, IE7 and Opera, but it does not work in IE6. Can you help me fix it so it works in IE6 as well? Below is the link to the development

Re: [css-d] css-d Digest, Vol 57, Issue 31

2007-08-29 Thread terriphillips
I will be away on vacation until September 4th. I will reply to requests on my return. Best regards, Terri Phillips __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information --

[css-d] does fieldset break a containing p?

2007-08-29 Thread Emanuele Venezia
Hi, I'm composing a declaration form, in which each statement is a paragraph containing a checkbox or some radio button. I've tried to group the radio buttons in a fieldset, which is, thus, encapsulated in a p. But the text following the tag /fieldset loses the class style of the paragraph.

[css-d] img and the suckerfish IE6

2007-08-29 Thread Ross Hulford
Hi, As you can see from this I am having problems with the stacking order with IMG tags over the sucker fish. http://vps.aztechost.co.uk/~wallace/sd/reducing_energy.php I have tried a z-index but this does not work. This is the first time I have encountered this as I always use background

Re: [css-d] does fieldset break a containing p?

2007-08-29 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Emanuele Venezia wrote: I'm composing a declaration form, in which each statement is a paragraph containing a checkbox or some radio button. I've tried to group the radio buttons in a fieldset, which is, thus, encapsulated in a p. But the text following the tag /fieldset

[css-d] IE nested div bug

2007-08-29 Thread Livia Dobai
Hi! Here is my site (under development) , powewrd by Joomla. http://www.twowayblog.com/slojoom1/ I have a strange IE bug, that makes me crazy ... (under FF all works fine): modules on right column not show background images Please take a look and help ti find me the problem

Re: [css-d] space under logo and left column height

2007-08-29 Thread Kevin Evans
Hello Cynthia, Your height 100px seems right.I think the problem is being caused by the text blocks to the right of the logothe orange and the grey on the rightso they are pushing the container to a higher height. try setting some line-height on those text blocks...like...

Re: [css-d] space under logo and left column height

2007-08-29 Thread David Laakso
Cynthia Page wrote: It looks almost like it should on a mac with ff, the only problem being a space under the logo in the top banner. In IE on a PC one see the same space and the left column is a few pixels above the two columns to the right. The left column is absolutely positioned so

Re: [css-d] space under logo and left column height

2007-08-29 Thread Kevin Evans
Yes, David, I just noticed that too.try removing that top padding from the topbanner container. So this... #topbanner { background-image:url(images/left100.gif); background-repeat:no-repeat; border:thin solid #99; height:100px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; position:relative; width:99%;

[css-d] understanding javascript

2007-08-29 Thread Raumin \Ray\ Dehghan
Colleagues, I really am trying to understand javascript. I would appreciate links to any websites that explain javascript well, especially for a beginner in javascript. Thanks Raumin Ray Dehghan __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] space under logo and left column height

2007-08-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Cynthia Page wrote: I am working on a page and have been going round and round with the layout to get it browser compliant http://hoengerlab.colorado.edu/b3d/indexe.html This is one of those cases where I'd rather see standard compliant source-code first...

[css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-08-29 Thread Dermot Ward
Hi, What a great place this is for helping to demystify css. I've been grappling with this particular problem now for a couple of weeks so here goes with my first post. Is it possible to have a semi - transparent box within a div, that allows the containing div's content to partially show

[css-d] I give up! Can someone please tell me how to fix this?

2007-08-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hi, all. If you'll take a look at http://www.rickfaircloth.com/cfm/calendar_add.cfm in FF, you'll see the form sticking out at the bottom. IE 6 7 are perfect. I've tried every trick I can think of and fine to fix this, but nothing's worked. - overflow: hidden; height: 1% -

Re: [css-d] I give up! Can someone please tell me how to fix this?

2007-08-29 Thread Dan Dorman
On 8/29/07, Rick Faircloth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone provide a solution Here's what I did to get it looking decent in FF: #page_wrapper: ditched overflow:auto #body_wrapper: ditched height: 100% #menu_wrapper: ditched height: 100% #right_wrapper: ditched float: left and height: 100%

Re: [css-d] I give up! Can someone please tell me how to fix this?

2007-08-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for the reply, Dan... Your changes did fix the problem in FF. Now, I've just got some alignment issues in IE 6 7. I'll work on those and see what I can do. What is the key to the correction? Or was it a combination of all the changes that made it work? Rick -Original Message-

[css-d] centre website

2007-08-29 Thread Steve Rendoulis
Hi all, this is my first post; I'd like the following website to centre on any sized monitor-how do I best accomplish this? www.rendoulis.com thanks Steve __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] centre website

2007-08-29 Thread Kevin Evans
Hey, The best way is to use margin: 0 auto; on the element you want to center. But explorer has problems with that so will have to add text- align: center to the container that the element you want to center is in. So if you have a div container called, wrapper, you do something like

Re: [css-d] centre website

2007-08-29 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 29/8/07 (23:29) Kevin said: The best way is to use margin: 0 auto; on the element you want to center. But explorer has problems with that so will have to add text- align: center to the container that the element you want to center is in. So if you have a div container called, wrapper,

Re: [css-d] centre website

2007-08-29 Thread Kevin Evans
Yea I forgot to mention thatyou have to reset all elements within to keep them from inheriting the rule. Kevin On Aug 29, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Rick Lecoat wrote: On 29/8/07 (23:29) Kevin said: The best way is to use margin: 0 auto; on the element you want to center. But explorer has

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-08-29 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:50:00 +0100, Dermot Ward wrote: [...]I've been grappling with this particular problem now for a couple of weeks so here goes with my first post. Is it possible to have a semi - transparent box within a div, that allows the containing div's content to partially show

Re: [css-d] I give up! Can someone please tell me how to fix this?

2007-08-29 Thread Dan Dorman
On 8/29/07, Rick Faircloth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the key to the correction? Or was it a combination of all the changes that made it work? The main thing seemed to be getting rid of the float on the right-hand content. The other changes were all made to supplement that; for example,

[css-d] CSS Drop down menu IE6 woes...

2007-08-29 Thread CSSHelp
Hello All, I have create a layout in CSS but the drop down menu doesn't stay open long enough for a person to select a submenu option. It works in Mozilla, IE7 and Opera, but it does not work in IE6. Can you help me fix it so it works in IE6 as well? Below is the link to the development

Re: [css-d] I give up! Can someone please tell me how to fix this?

2007-08-29 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for the insight... Rick -Original Message- From: Dan Dorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:10 PM To: Rick Faircloth Cc: CSS Discuss Subject: Re: [css-d] I give up! Can someone please tell me how to fix this? On 8/29/07, Rick Faircloth [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-08-29 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
David Hucklesby wrote: One way to do this might be to use two DIVs, one superimposed over the other. If one DIV has a background color and a fractional opacity, while the overlaid DIV has the text and (default) transparent background, I think that may work: HTML div