Re: [css-d] [solved] Background shorthand: Quick question

2007-09-06 Thread Rafael
Nick Fitzsimons wrote: Well, you can't combine keywords with anything that isn't, i.e. 'top 5%' or 'top 4px' are invalid (IIRC), and the keywords are correctly interpreted because they are mutually exclusive (except for center, but it doesn't matter in which order center center is

Re: [css-d] [solved] Background shorthand: Quick question

2007-09-06 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
From: Rafael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Nick Fitzsimons wrote: Although top 5% is invalid, that's only because the horizontal position must come first if one of the values is not a keyword; so 5% top or left 23px are valid. However, for clarity, I tend to use either

[css-d] Layers Transparency

2007-09-06 Thread Michael S. Kirkpatrick
I want to display comments on my blog so that the color of the container for each comment is 50% opaque while the content in the box is at 100%. It seems if I set it up where it's nested div's - the comments will appear at 50% opaque too. How do I build this so I can accomplish both the

Re: [css-d] Accessibility + font sizing

2007-09-06 Thread tedd
At 5:18 AM +0200 9/6/07, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: You have provided anyone with interest in this subject - the image-scaling problem under certain conditions - with ways to solve the problem if they experience it in a real-world case. That may be extremely useful for some, so I say *thank you* for

Re: [css-d] RahulGonsalves.Com // Site Check

2007-09-06 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 04-Sep-07, at 7:24 PM, Tigdh Glesain wrote: http://rahulgonsalves.com/ver3-b/ Hallo Rahul, I'm using Safari 2 and it looks grand... Two comments... 1) There is a misspelt word on your 'projects' page - 'resarch' instead of 'research' 2) I wonder if you haven't 'hidden' too much of

Re: [css-d] RahulGonsalves.Com // Site Check

2007-09-06 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 04-Sep-07, at 8:10 PM, David Laakso wrote: Rahul Gonsalves wrote: http://rahulgonsalves.com/ver3-b/ Sorry. Dunno. Don't care. The intentional clipping of your name comes off as an error (personal opinion). Didn't get past that. Best, ~dL David, Thank you for your feedback. Several

[css-d] Are table-based layouts still needed

2007-09-06 Thread Alan K. Gay
I haven't done a new table-based layout in years. That said, we have two key pages that are truly wire-frame in nature, by that I mean that the individual cells of content vary substantially in size at each rendering (based on database contents), and these variances in size need to adjust the

Re: [css-d] Are table-based layouts still needed

2007-09-06 Thread E Michael Brandt
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Divs are semantically neutral, which doesn't necessarily equate to meaningless when used to replicate a table. lol. That does seem a bit of circular logic to me. Nevertheless, I do appreciate your interesting links and discussion of my question. It does seem though

Re: [css-d] Are table-based layouts still needed

2007-09-06 Thread E Michael Brandt
You are not using tables to structure the page, only what can be reasonably considered tabular data on the page. Then the same could be said of a simple definition list. I would like to agree with you, but am not quite comfortable with that argument. -- E. Michael Brandt www.divaHTML.com

Re: [css-d] [solved] Background shorthand: Quick question

2007-09-06 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 3:09 AM -0500 9/6/07, Rafael wrote: Nick Fitzsimons wrote: Although top 5% is invalid, that's only because the horizontal position must come first if one of the values is not a keyword; so 5% top or left 23px are valid. However, for clarity, I tend to use either just keywords or just

Re: [css-d] Are table-based layouts still needed

2007-09-06 Thread Jason Das
After years of css+standards+tables must diepurity I started using tables again for certain specific layout issues. I tend to favor less code. So if I can do something instantly with a table that would take many extra lines of containing blocks and css, (not to mention extra math and

Re: [css-d] Accessibility + font sizing

2007-09-06 Thread Allison Kelly
On 9/5/07, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only font-size quirks you are likely to find in today's browsers, is that 'em' and '%' can give +/- 1px deviation between browsers because they don't use exactly the same tip-over values when they re-calculate to screen-pixels. I am

[css-d] combining selectors

2007-09-06 Thread Peter Weil
Recently I've seen some stylesheets where the ID and class of the same element is combined into a single selector; e.g., body#about-us.level2 #banner {background: #900 url(../images/ bnr_sec01.jpg) no-repeat 0 15px;} body#ask.level2 #banner {background: #900 url(../images/ bnr_sec02.jpg)

Re: [css-d] Are table-based layouts still needed

2007-09-06 Thread bj
It does seem though that non-table solutions to my specific problem use so much code, and add so much complexity, that I still lean towards the more straightforward table. It may appear that non table solutions use so much code, but that's just not the case when you consider that external

Re: [css-d] Are table-based layouts still needed

2007-09-06 Thread Ray Leventhal
snip Yes, there's a steep learning curve with css layouts (and it seems you're considering avoiding that climb) but once you've gotten over the hump you'll never look back. CSS is a different way of thinking. Once the language is learned it's actually, in most ways, less complex than table

[css-d] Site Review Please

2007-09-06 Thread Tigdh Glesain
Hi Folks, This my first review request. Would those of you with the time and inclination please have a look at this 'test' site, and offer your professional opinion. I am yet to be supplied with some of the 'artwork' (images, header images, etc..) I've run the XHTML and CSS through the

Re: [css-d] Are table-based layouts still needed

2007-09-06 Thread Ian Young
To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Are table-based layouts still needed Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Divs are semantically neutral, which doesn't necessarily equate to meaningless when used to replicate a table. lol. That does seem a bit of circular logic to me.

Re: [css-d] Are table-based layouts still needed

2007-09-06 Thread E Michael Brandt
bj Thanks for your comments, but it might have been more useful had they not been generic. Eric was soliciting specific table challenges and their css alternatives. I asked about a particular situation on one page on one site. There is no caching issue, there is no nesting of tables, there

Re: [css-d] Site Review Please

2007-09-06 Thread Ian Young
Hi Folks, This my first review request. Would those of you with the time and inclination please have a look at this 'test' site, and offer your professional opinion. I am yet to be supplied with some of the 'artwork' (images, header images, etc..) I've run the XHTML and CSS through the

Re: [css-d] Are table-based layouts still needed

2007-09-06 Thread Ian Young
To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Are table-based layouts still needed the issue was a 5 col layout that had equal lengths. Actually, Ian - I *think( that might have been me. I believe the original question was just a question. I was one of the early responders to

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Are table-based layouts still needed

2007-09-06 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 12:06 PM -0400 9/6/07, E Michael Brandt wrote: Rather I asked a question and now find that to suggest a table might be an acceptable alternative to css for my particular problem seems to have prompted personal attack. Why I do not know. It's the nature of the topic. This thread has

Re: [css-d] Accessibility + font sizing

2007-09-06 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Allison Kelly wrote: I am wondering if anyone can help me with this font-size quirk. I have body {font-size: small;} and I use percentages for my h1, h2, h3 sizes, which is working everywhere I need it to (Firefox, IE7, IE6) except for one instance. When my IE6 browser is not maximized to

Re: [css-d] combining selectors

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Geary
From: Peter Weil Does the selector: body#about-us.level2 combine the body ID about-us and and the body class level2? From: Michael Geary Yes. It matches the body element if that element has both the specified ID and class. If so, where is this technique documented?

Re: [css-d] css-d Digest, Vol 58, Issue 7

2007-09-06 Thread christianz
Then the same could be said of a simple definition list. I would like to agree with you, but am not quite comfortable with that argument. You're saying you're uncomfortable using tables to present tabular data even though that is what tables are for? I ask this becouse I still see many famous

Re: [css-d] combining selectors

2007-09-06 Thread Jens Brueckmann
Even if I'm interpreting this correctly, it leaves open the question of which browsers do or don't support it, which is all that really matters in the end. Testing this Style sheet: p#blue {color: blue;} p.red {color: red;} p#blue.red {color: green;} p.red#blue {color: yellow;} with this

[css-d] AOL Spry Menu Issue

2007-09-06 Thread Meaghen Lewis
Thank you for your assistance. I¹m using the Spry drop horizontal drop down menu feature in Dreamweaver CS. It works fine in Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, Opera, Safari and AOL on the PC. On the Mac in AOL and Explorer there are issues. In AOL, the drop down menus will appear for only one top

Re: [css-d] It won't work in IE6

2007-09-06 Thread Richard Brown
Hi David On 05/09/07, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why won't this site work in IE6 please? http://www.apbassettsolicitors.co.uk/ http://www.apbassettsolicitors.co.uk/wp-content/themes/bassetts/style.css I see now you did include the javascript for IE6 and down. However, the

[css-d] Rounded Corner is producing vertical sidebars

2007-09-06 Thread Richard Brown
Hi All I am trying to take a table based layout into a full css layout. Having problems with the rounded corner effect. You can see the issue here: http://devoncyclehire.cregy.co.uk/wordpress/ http://devoncyclehire.cregy.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/themes/devon/style.css Just in case it is not

Re: [css-d] Layers Transparency

2007-09-06 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 07:47:27 -0400, Michael S. Kirkpatrick wrote: I want to display comments on my blog so that the color of the container for each comment is 50% opaque while the content in the box is at 100%. It seems if I set it up where it's nested div's - the comments will appear at 50%

Re: [css-d] IE6 to IE7 to IE6 design

2007-09-06 Thread Nancy E. Sosna Bohm
...a project which we started designing for IE6, then proceeded to demo on IE7 compatability, which broke most of the IE6 compatabilities. Now, I have to make the design cross browser (IE6, IE7 and Firefox)... I recently went through this. What helped me was realizing that if color:#00

[css-d] One Bullet Missing in IE

2007-09-06 Thread patrick mattison
I'm having a bit of a problem here. For some reason the red square bullet before About won't show up in IE, however the bullet for Career and Education shows up fine. Any suggestions? Below is the markup and the css: http://www.liquidscience.net/andrew/testercopy.html

[css-d] 3px IE6 gap

2007-09-06 Thread Anne E. Shroeder
Got an IE 6 problem -- it's putting a 3px gap between my two divs - left one is floated, right one is set at a left margin to equal the photo plus border. http://www.language-works.com/CSS_Stuff/specialreport.htm Have tried a variety of things to close the gap but nothing works. Any ideas on

Re: [css-d] 3px IE6 gap

2007-09-06 Thread David Laakso
Anne E. Shroeder wrote: Got an IE 6 problem -- it's putting a 3px gap between my two divs - left one is floated, right one is set at a left margin to equal the photo plus border. http://www.language-works.com/CSS_Stuff/specialreport.htm Have tried a variety of things to close the gap but

Re: [css-d] [solved] Background shorthand: Quick question

2007-09-06 Thread Micky Hulse
Eric A. Meyer wrote: Actually, Nick's right and the horizontal value has to come first ...snip... center' (and 'center left'). Wow! Great info. :) Thanks Eric, I really appreciate the clarification. Very interesting read. :: saving thread to archives :: Have a great day/night all!

Re: [css-d] 3px IE6 gap

2007-09-06 Thread Mark Henderson
From: Anne E. Shroeder Sent: Friday, 7 September 2007 2:31 p.m. To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] 3px IE6 gap Got an IE 6 problem -- it's putting a 3px gap between my two divs - left one is floated, right one is set at a left margin to equal the photo plus border.

[css-d] Fwd: What the X is going on? Link corrected...

2007-09-06 Thread Tigdh Glesain
Hallo Folks, link corrected... http://www.webdevout.net/articles/beware-of-xhtml#what_is_xhtml Ta! -- TAG [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] What the X is going on?

2007-09-06 Thread Tigdh Glesain
Hallo Folks, I am just a little foncused. This may seem like an 'off-topic' subject, but I think I'm correct in saying it effects the way in which we code our CSS to a degree. If this topic has been covered before, then I apologise and would ask for a pointer towards the resource. This

[css-d] Snug Divs

2007-09-06 Thread Spellacy, Michael
Hi All, Quick question about wrapping parent divs around a child div. I know, by default, that the parent div will extend the width of the viewport, but is there any way to change that so that it only span the width of the child div within? Thanks in advance! Regards, Spell