Re: [css-d] Companion columns obscured in IE6

Barney Carroll wrote: http://hangnail.textmatters.com I can't work out why the #contentarea div is blotting out the excess padding on the #backgrounds children divs, which IE acknowledges being tall enough. It might not even be that – maybe the companions are being clipped for some

Re: [css-d] Companion columns obscured in IE6

Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: IE6 can't properly escape the trap provided by its own 'hasLayout' bug. Delete 'width: 100%;' on #backgrounds so it becomes... #backgrounds { clear:both; position:relative; z-index:1; } Georg, this worked a treat. Just goes to show I'm still miles away from

[css-d] Five Column Form Layout

Hi all, I've read several tutorials from sitepoint and bought a video about forms without css but I'm still not able to produce a five columns form :-( Could someone provide me a raw example such as.: label1 label2 label3 label4 label5 TextBox1 TextBox2

Re: [css-d] IE6 Non-Existant Class Bug

Bob Rosenberg wrote: Yes. Embed the correct version of the rule on the page. ID has to be unique on the page so IE6 is correct in stopping on the mismatch since when it finds the ID'ed tag with the wrong class on it since there can not be another tag with that ID to match. While it is

[css-d] Floated elements have unwanted padding-bottom in FF

I'm only seeing this issue in FireFox (Mac PC)... I have the following markup: div class=tableTabs ul lia href=...Tab 1/a/li lia href=...Tab 2/a/li lia href=...Tab 3/a/li /ul /div And the following related CSS: * {

Re: [css-d] Previous Layout Issues

J Hodge wrote: David, I always appreciate your input when I approach the CSS list for ideas / hints / helps, even when we don't necessarily agree on approach. That said, I've spent the last few days re-coding the site on which I am working, with a specific aim towards making it function

Re: [css-d] Floated elements have unwanted padding-bottom in FF

Brian Campbell wrote: Can someone tell me why there's an extra 3px or so of padding at the bottom of the parent DIV...and only in FF? Same in all Gecko on windows. Looks like the non-floated ul is given a margin-bottom. I'm at a loss. Is this a rendering bug possibly??

Re: [css-d] Floated elements have unwanted padding-bottom in FF

On Oct 1, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Brian Campbell wrote: Can someone tell me why there's an extra 3px or so of padding at the bottom of the parent DIV...and only in FF? Same in all Gecko on windows. Looks like the non-floated ul is given a margin-bottom. I'm at a loss. Is

[css-d] Site Check

http://www.extravaganzadesign.com/work/mbn/test2.html After years of dabbling in CSS and (pretty much) silently reading this list I have put together a site that relies about 90% on CSS for positioning. (I used tables for some forms.) This is my first hardcore attempt at a page like this ...

Re: [css-d] Site Check

It looks ok on IE7 Firefox 2.0.0.7 Thanks Hakan http://dominor.com On 10/1/07, Jenn K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.extravaganzadesign.com/work/mbn/test2.html After years of dabbling in CSS and (pretty much) silently reading this list I have put together a site that relies about 90%

Re: [css-d] Site Check

Hallo Jenn, It looks magic! Well done. Mac Safari and Firefox Just a note though, it explodes after only a minimal 150% font enlargement, i.e. My grandmother has way poor sight and enlarges it to 250%, but by then it is almost illegible to her. The white text on the green background

Re: [css-d] Site Check

Hi Jenn,the page looks good in IE 6,no problem with the white text on the green background. You might consider using em or % to size the font instead of px. Pixels ignore any preferences users may have,and this could be a serious accessibility problem for those viewers who need to make

Re: [css-d] Site Check

Jenn K wrote: http://www.extravaganzadesign.com/work/mbn/test2.html Advice: don't rely on, or use, fixed font-sizes (in pixel). 1: all browsers have font-resizing options, so it doesn't work too well. 2: it is making things unnecessary complicated for some of the visitors who can't read

[css-d] refining text-align: justify

Hello; Is there any way to refine the use of {text-align: justify;} so that one can, for example, prevent the last word of the last line from appearing on its own line - like this? Thanks, in advance, for any tips. - Michael Get news delivered with the All new Yahoo! Mail. Enjoy

[css-d] Centering help

Hi, Working on a Perl script that puts out a page. I have the script working, except in IE my footer isn't centered. Seems to work in Firefox, so I must be missing something stupid, but haven't figured this out in a couple of hours. Anyway, here's the page:

Re: [css-d] refining text-align: justify

On Oct 2, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Michael Leibson wrote: Is there any way to refine the use of {text-align: justify;} so that one can, for example, prevent the last word of the last line from appearing on its own line - like this? Thanks, in advance, for any tips. No. Not with CSS 2.1,

Re: [css-d] Centering help

Ken Weise wrote: Working on a Perl script that puts out a page. I have the script working, except in IE my footer isn't centered. http://www.econocaribe.com/cgi-bin/agt1.pl Browsers have different defaults and need complete commands, and relations must be established between elements before

Re: [css-d] Centering help

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 18:39:57 -0400, Ken Weise wrote: Hi, Working on a Perl script that puts out a page. I have the script working, except in IE my footer isn't centered. Seems to work in Firefox, so I must be missing something stupid, but haven't figured this out in a couple of hours.

Re: [css-d] Site Check

Thanks to everyone who responded. This was really helpful! To save list some hits I will only reply to Georg who covered most of the main points people had. (Tigdh had a really good point though about what happens when white text breaks out of a background - I didn't think of that.) Advice: