Re: [css-d] FOUND: Acceptable content for content property – return?

2007-09-10 Thread Barney Carroll
Barney Carroll wrote: What is the system behind generated content? What are my resources? Sorry for wasting time: The resources /are/, as ever, on the W3 spec – to whom it may concern: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/generate.html#quotes Regards, Barney

[css-d] :active problem...

2007-09-10 Thread Mark Finney
Dear list, I was very pleased with myself for completing a CSS only styled redesign of a site that what was previously a horrible concoction of tables and java script. As I sat back to admire my handiwork, to my horror, I realised that :active and :focus are handled as temporary states in Opera

Re: [css-d] ulli Problems

2007-09-10 Thread Mark Finney
Hi, I may be missing the point, but surely you can just set ul id=whatever and then style #whatever {color: red; font-size: 1.4em} blah blah? Thanks, Mark On 10/09/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm struggling at present, having to use ulli for menu and other

Re: [css-d] FOUND: Acceptable content for content property – return?

2007-09-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Barney Carroll wrote: Barney Carroll wrote: What is the system behind generated content? What are my resources? Sorry for wasting time: The resources /are/, as ever, on the W3 spec ? to whom it may concern: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/generate.html#quotes I'm afraid there

[css-d] Site check

2007-09-10 Thread Michael Forker
Think the site I am working on is more or less navigation and design wise is more or less completed, I would like to add a submit form page on the site...but haven't done this before ( not hinting at anything ) if anyone could check the site and give me some honest feedback I would appreciate it a

Re: [css-d] MAC Browser Issue

2007-09-10 Thread Jason Pruim
On Sep 10, 2007, at 9:03 AM, Steve LaBadie wrote: I have a new site and have an image that moves only on a MAC using Firefox, Netscape, and Safari. The image actually goes behind the page and a little piece sticks at the top behind Support ESU link. Is there anything I can do to make it

Re: [css-d] MAC Browser Issue

2007-09-10 Thread David Laakso
Steve LaBadie wrote: I have a new site and have an image that moves only on a MAC using Firefox, Netscape, and Safari. The image actually goes behind the page and a little piece sticks at the top behind Support ESU link. Is there anything I can do to make it stationary? The image that

Re: [css-d] Site check

2007-09-10 Thread David Laakso
Michael Forker wrote: Think the site I am working on is more or less navigation and design wise is more or less completed, I would like to add a submit form page on the site...but haven't done this before ( not hinting at anything ) if anyone could check the site and give me some honest

Re: [css-d] drop down nav- thank you, Alan!

2007-09-10 Thread Ellen Pham
Hi Alan! Thank you so much for your generous help with my drop down nav. I especially appreciate you taking the time to show me what the removing floats technique does. I am going to have to study your reply to fully understand the changes you made to the css and why it works (I hate being a

[css-d] CSS for a Cemetery?

2007-09-10 Thread Suzie Henderson
I have recently inherited responsibility for maintaining an all volunteer genealogy site managed by the same person for over 10 years. She did an amazing job of collecting and posting genealogy information but taught herself HTML as she went along. There are over 18000 items in ONE folder and not

Re: [css-d] CSS for a Cemetery?

2007-09-10 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 10/9/07 (07:54) Suzie said: I would LOVE to have a way to make the line read: FRIENDLY, Fred 7 Jan 1856- 25 Nov 1934 Beloved Father FRIENDLY, Freida 18 Feb 1872- 22 Dec 1947 Beloved Mother ...but I think that could only happen in a table. Actually Suzie, I think that

Re: [css-d] CSS for a Cemetery?

2007-09-10 Thread Mark Finney
Yes... Tables are for tabular data... this is! Go with the table. Regards, Mark On 11/09/2007, Rick Lecoat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/9/07 (07:54) Suzie said: I would LOVE to have a way to make the line read: FRIENDLY, Fred 7 Jan 1856- 25 Nov 1934 Beloved Father

[css-d] tiling png ie6

2007-09-10 Thread jeffrey morin
Hi All, so everywhere i read it tells me that you cannot having tiling background .png images in IE6. i messed around with this for a while and i ended up getting it to work and was wondering if this is really possible or if it's just a fluke. here is a link to the page

Re: [css-d] tiling png ie6

2007-09-10 Thread Schuyler Towne
jeffrey morin wrote: it's working on my machine for IE6 and wanted to know if it would work on other people's machines. please check it out if you have a minute. http://beartrapmfg.com/screen.jpg There's a quick screenshot for you. The background looks fine, but whatever you've got going

[css-d] tiling png ie6 followup

2007-09-10 Thread jeffrey morin
I just realized that what is causing the appearance of tiling is the scale property of the ie filter. so, sorry for the pointless question before Jeff __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] CSS for a Cemetery?

2007-09-10 Thread Alan Gresley
Suzie Henderson wrote: snip There are over 240 cemeteries transcribed on the site ranging from one grave to over 5000 burials in one cemetery. Some are currently posted as tables and others as plain text. The formatting is all over the map. Many of them have links to photos of the

[css-d] DT, DD, in CSS

2007-09-10 Thread Paul Hanson
Does anyone on this list define DT and DD tags in their CSS? I am trying to make this work and I'm having a tough go at it. Basically, I want my DT to look exactly like my H3 style and I want my DD tag to look exactly like my Body-Text style *EXCEPT* I want a hanging indent. If you have these

Re: [css-d] DT, DD, in CSS

2007-09-10 Thread john saylor
hi On 9/10/07, Paul Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone on this list define DT and DD tags in their CSS? I am trying to make this work and I'm having a tough go at it. you might try using a more complete selector. instead of something like this: dt { color: green; } try this: dl dt {

Re: [css-d] DT, DD, in CSS

2007-09-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Paul Hanson wrote: Basically, I want my DT to look exactly like my H3 style and I want my DD tag to look exactly like my Body-Text style *EXCEPT* I want a hanging indent. You might find it easier to use h3 and div class=something, because then you would not need to worry

[css-d] hack for IE6

2007-09-10 Thread Daniel Petre
hello, i have the following : #menu ul li[id]:after { margin: 0 0 0 -5px; padding: 0; content: url(./images/menugroup-end.png); } which puts a nice background like on my #menu div. however internet explorer 6 seems not to see it.

[css-d] IE6 - failure to clear

2007-09-10 Thread Richard Grevers
On http://www.wildcatcoffee.co.nz/index.php/coffee-guide/storage Why is #footer failing to clear the left column in IE6? It works elsewhere. Also, is there an IE6-proof way (without resorting to a table) to get both the copyright and design credit on the same vertical alignment in IE6? I've tried

Re: [css-d] Introduction site ridicule

2007-09-10 Thread Jim
Kevin Stevens wrote: The site is http://www.ratking.co.uk and the default style sheet is http://www.ratking.co.uk/circuits.css I am also interested in any things you would change/add to give a better impression. TIA Purely as a viewer, no way as an expert... I really detest horizontal

[css-d] basic explanations of css layout

2007-09-10 Thread Raumin \Ray\ Dehghan
Colleagues, does anybody have any recommendations of books and/or websites that explain css layout in very simple, straightforward language? For example, i'm trying to understand why pixels seem to be easier to work with than percentages, etc. Thanks very much. -Raumin Ray Dehghan West Chicago

[css-d] Site Check Please

2007-09-10 Thread Omitade Adediran
Hello: I have been reading and reading until my brain just feels like mush. I feel like this has been asked before and yet I cannot get it. As usual, I have made things more difficult than they need to be. Anyway I have two pages for a site check, I will send them one at a time. The one that I am

[css-d] CSS for a Cemetery?

2007-09-10 Thread Suzie Henderson
When is a cemetery not a cemetery? When it's a table. Thanks to Rick Lecoat, Mark Finney, Fulko van Westrenen, and Chris Johnson who all responded so quickly to my request for advice. [And thanks for the pat on the back, Chris. I needed that today.] I agree with Fulko that a database is probably

Re: [css-d] CSS for a Cemetery?

2007-09-10 Thread Red Rooster
Exposing himself to off topicness he removes his sunglasses... (a, the light is so bright!!!) I would think that you might need a few (or more) regular expressions to parse all that stuff. Looking for patterns in the data/markup mixture that can allow you to grab the data with out the markup

Re: [css-d] MAC Browser Issue

2007-09-10 Thread Red Rooster
First thing... why did you disable right click? I had to disable javascript to see what I thought I'd see, a background image that is a fixed width. It's been a long day and I'm not sure how to explain it, but it seems that you'll have to find a different way of getting that banner on the right

Re: [css-d] trying css gradients to work in firefox

2007-09-10 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Sep 10, 2007, at 7:31 PM, Rey Mendoza,Jr wrote: Hello, I working on css gradients because I want the gradient to automatically scale according to content. I used IE filters to make it work in IE browsers (no problems in IE) and a separate css declarations (class) to make it work in

Re: [css-d] hack for IE6

2007-09-10 Thread Richard Grevers
On 9/11/07, Daniel Petre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i have the following : #menu ul li[id]:after { margin: 0 0 0 -5px; padding: 0; content: url(./images/menugroup-end.png); } which puts a nice background like on my

Re: [css-d] tiling png ie6

2007-09-10 Thread WEZ!
As far as I'm aware there are no limitation to tiling (repeating) a png image in any browser. What you are most likely finding is if you want a Transluscent png you can't tile them in IE(win) less than 7.0. The reason behind this is that IE(win) can't render the transparency in a Png file at

[css-d] P7 menu drops behind div in IE 6

2007-09-10 Thread Peggy Coats
I think the menu in this draft page is working in all but IE 6, where it wants to drop behind the #content div -- any idea how to fix? Page: http://ambientglow.com/garage/floorguy/Cweb/index.html site css: http://ambientglow.com/garage/floorguy/Cweb/_css/concreteguy.css p7 css:

[css-d] problem in ie, peekaboo problem ?

2007-09-10 Thread WenChen
Hi The following page use prototype accordion effect, it look fine in ff, but in ie it shows big space between each accordion header http://newped2.auckland.ac.nz/coursebuilder/11/publish/1/3.html Is it a peekaboo problem? Any help you could offer would be really appreciated. Thanks in