[css-d] Alternative Menu suggestions to the Suckerfish

2007-09-22 Thread Richard Brown
Hi David On 21/09/2007, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please check the following menu in IE6 and 7? I am told the menu is not behaving correctly. http://theriverchurch.info/ http://theriverchurch.info/wp-content/themes/RiverChurch/style.css The Lord works in mysterious

Re: [css-d] Em vs ex

2007-09-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: Georg wrote: Have a look at this page across browser-land... http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/moa_17.html ...especially in Moz/Fx, and do some font-resizing. What do you consider 'wrong' in Gecko's behaviour ? (Safari/WebKit and Konqueror have exactly the same

Re: [css-d] Em vs ex - correction

2007-09-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
The following does of course *not* make sense... As it stands now I wouldn't consider 'ex' to be a practical alternative to 'ex' for element-sizing - in any browser under any circumstances. Corrected to... As it stands now I wouldn't consider 'ex' to be a practical alternative to 'em' for

Re: [css-d] Alternative Menu suggestions to the Suckerfish

2007-09-22 Thread David Laakso
Richard Brown wrote: Hi David On 21/09/2007, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please check the following menu in IE6 and 7? I am told the menu is not behaving correctly. http://theriverchurch.info/ http://theriverchurch.info/wp-content/themes/RiverChurch/style.css

Re: [css-d] UL displaying as flowing multi columns

2007-09-22 Thread Rowan @ Jetboy
If there's any chance of the list items wrapping, as one does in your example, then you're asking the impossible. Even if you could calculate which items were going to wrap server-side, it'd fall apart on text resize. Maybe with CSS 3 multi-column support, but not with the current crop of

[css-d] Include Remote JavaScript File

2007-09-22 Thread grovesdavid
Hello, I have a problem here: http://www.linkhomes2000.co.uk/index.php At present there is a lot of JS in the header, this is surrounded by: //![CDATA[ //]]. It validates and works fine. My problem is when I try to includes it like so: script src=filename.js type=text/javascript

Re: [css-d] Em vs ex

2007-09-22 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Sep 22, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: I'm observing, amongst other things, that 20ex Georgia can be either the same, slightly larger, or slightly smaller than 10em Georgia, depending on degree of resizing. To me this indicates that 'ex' isn't calculated reliably in that

Re: [css-d] Website check please!!

2007-09-22 Thread keno2
Hi List, Could I please have help with this website!! Seems to functions ok in Firefox But the dreaded IE is giving me trouble with the horizontal menu. I would appreciate some help in overcoming the following problems: second level menu alignment and font size. second level hidden

Re: [css-d] Alternative Menu suggestions to the Suckerfish

2007-09-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow - I guess I'm the only one on the planet who doesn't have issues with this menu - I love it and use it all the time. The sticky issue can be read up on here, with a solution: http://www.builtfromsource.com/2006/10/23/a-fix-for-suckerfish-dropdowns-in-ie-7/ ~Shelly

Re: [css-d] Website check please!!

2007-09-22 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Test-site is: url: http://www.sun-safe.com.au/ css: http://www.sun-safe.com.au/default-stylesheet.css css: http://www.sun-safe.com.au/IE-stylesheet22.css Check your host/server-- connection reset (unable to

Re: [css-d] Alternative Menu suggestions to the Suckerfish

2007-09-22 Thread Alan Gresley
Richard Brown wrote: Hi David On 21/09/2007, David Laakso wrote: Could you please check the following menu in IE6 and 7? I am told the menu is not behaving correctly. http://theriverchurch.info/ The drop-down /drops down/ in 6 and 7. In 7 they stick, that is to say, when

Re: [css-d] Include Remote JavaScript File

2007-09-22 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a problem here: http://www.linkhomes2000.co.uk/index.php At present there is a lot of JS in the header, this is surrounded by: //![CDATA[ //]]. It validates and works fine. My problem is when I try to includes it like so: script src=filename.js

Re: [css-d] menu test

2007-09-22 Thread Alan Gresley
Jennifer Gardner wrote in reply to Georg Sorten Thank you so much!! Other than a slight positioning problem it seems to all be working now. Is there a specific place (or book) that will explain how you knew what to do? I did it and it worked but I don't know why it worked or more

[css-d] Font shorthand broken

2007-09-22 Thread Erik Harris
I'm working on a site for my wife's burgeoning business, and while I'm running into a bunch of snags, this one has me puzzled. The following works: #top-nav { background: #28629E; color: #FFF; width: 100%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;

Re: [css-d] Font shorthand broken

2007-09-22 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/09/22 19:20 (GMT-0400) Erik Harris apparently typed: However, the following does NOT work: #top-nav { background: #28629E; color: #FFF; width: 100%; font: italic bold 0.9em; text-align: center; } Why does the font shorthand not work? I suppose one

Re: [css-d] Font shorthand broken

2007-09-22 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Erik Harris wrote: font: italic bold 0.9em; Why does the font shorthand not work? I suppose one is as good as the other (i.e. the one that works), but it seems that, according to the spec, both should be equivalent. Given that it fails to work in both Firefox and IE7, I'm sure _I'm_

[css-d] 2 questions about the effects of changing text size

2007-09-22 Thread Don Hinshaw
Hi there, My questions begin here: http://dime77.dizinc.com/~somedom/geothermex/about-us.html CSS here: http://dime77.dizinc.com/~somedom/geothermex/geothermex_styles.css The navigation in the header of the page is png images, yet when I increase the type size in the browser, the spacing

Re: [css-d] Website check please!!

2007-09-22 Thread Ernie Finlay
In IE6 the footer is located on the bottom- right and runs off the page Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:13:25 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Website check please!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Test-site is: url:

Re: [css-d] Font shorthand broken

2007-09-22 Thread Erik Harris
At 07:35 PM 9/22/2007, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: both should be equivalent. Given that it fails to work in both Firefox and IE7, I'm sure _I'm_ doing something wrong; I just don't know what. The specification http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#font-shorthand actually says that you have to

Re: [css-d] Website check please!!

2007-09-22 Thread Alan Gresley
Keno wrote: Hi List, Could I please have help with this website!! Seems to functions ok in Firefox But the dreaded IE is giving me trouble with the horizontal menu. I would appreciate some help in overcoming the following problems: second level menu alignment and font size.

Re: [css-d] 2 questions about the effects of changing text size

2007-09-22 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Sep 23, 2007, at 9:49 AM, Don Hinshaw wrote: http://dime77.dizinc.com/~somedom/geothermex/about-us.html CSS here: http://dime77.dizinc.com/~somedom/geothermex/ geothermex_styles.css The navigation in the header of the page is png images, yet when I increase the type size in the

Re: [css-d] 2 questions about the effects of changing text size

2007-09-22 Thread Rafael
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: ps - don't ask me to read the text of your navigation, it is sooo small. Yep, it's tiny AND it gets red over blue (I really suggest you to change colors, maybe yellowish over blue) --assuming you're using a bigger text, otherwise, it wouldn't matter much

Re: [css-d] 2 questions about the effects of changing text size

2007-09-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Don Hinshaw wrote: http://dime77.dizinc.com/~somedom/geothermex/about-us.html Question 2: I would actually prefer to use html type instead of images there, but I could not think of a clever way to keep the words from disappearing when they got larger and pushed down over the white page

Re: [css-d] 2 questions about the effects of changing text size

2007-09-22 Thread Don Hinshaw
Rafael wrote: Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: ps - don't ask me to read the text of your navigation, it is sooo small. Yep, it's tiny AND it gets red over blue (I really suggest you to change colors, maybe yellowish over blue) --assuming you're using a bigger text, otherwise, it

Re: [css-d] Website check please!!

2007-09-22 Thread Mark Senff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: second level menu alignment and font size. second level hidden behind images second level disappears with cursor to run over also bottom navigation alignment.I'm sure you have a reason for it, but I don't see the absolute necessity of giving Z-indexes to the top

Re: [css-d] Alternative Menu suggestions to the Suckerfish

2007-09-22 Thread Walt F. Schaefer
On 21/09/2007, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please check the following menu in IE6 and 7? I am told the menu is not behaving correctly. http://theriverchurch.info/ http://theriverchurch.info/wp-content/themes/RiverChurch/style.css The Lord works in mysterious ways:

Re: [css-d] 2 questions about the effects of changing text size

2007-09-22 Thread Mauricio Samy Silva
Hi Don, Try the following: Get rid of the images and the javascript rollover for the navigation on the header. Mark up that navigation as HTML type as you want. Set the height for the #header in ems instead px. As you define the base font 62.5% you get 10px = 1em. So the header height must be

Re: [css-d] Alternative Menu suggestions to the Suckerfish

2007-09-22 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On Behalf Of Richard Brown Many thanks for the reply. I have changed the subject to reflect the next question. What do folks do if they don't use the suckerfish option please? Any suggestions? http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/keyboard_friendly_dropdown_menu/EK.asp HTH -- Regards, Thierry