[css-d] top and bottom negative margins not working in ie

2007-10-05 Thread ROHITKUMAR
I am trying to extend an inner div out of its enclosing div by giving negative margins. The left and right edges are working fine, but it causes the outer div to also extend along with the inner div in top and bottom edges.In effect, the inner div is not able to go out of the outer div in top

Re: [css-d] top and bottom negative margins not working in ie

2007-10-05 Thread Bruno Fassino
On 10/5/07, ROHITKUMAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to extend an inner div out of its enclosing div by giving negative margins. The left and right edges are working fine, but it causes the outer div to also extend along with the inner div in top and bottom edges.In effect, the inner

Re: [css-d] top and bottom negative margins not working in ie

2007-10-05 Thread ROHITKUMAR
Hi Bruno, Thanks a lot man. Indeed the problem is solved. Setting zoom=1 to the outer box solved the problem. Rohit Bruno Fassino wrote: On 10/5/07, ROHITKUMAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to extend an inner div out of its enclosing div by giving negative margins. The left and

Re: [css-d] Falling floats in Opera Netscape

2007-10-05 Thread Alan Gresley
Seona Bellamy wrote: Hi guys, I have a footer, which has a background image. Within the footer I have a bunch of links (marked up as a list and floated left) and a copyright notice (marked up as a paragraph floated right). In most browsers, this seems to work just fine. In Opera 9.21 and

Re: [css-d] cursor: url('/path/to/cursor.cur/'); support in 'browser land'

2007-10-05 Thread Ray Leventhal
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Gecko, it is currently only implemented on Windows (and maybe Linux for the nightly builds, not sure). Philippe Thanks, Philippe...much appreciated. ~Ray -- Non scholae sed vitae discimus

Re: [css-d] Falling floats in Opera Netscape

2007-10-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 5, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Seona Bellamy wrote: I have a footer, which has a background image. Within the footer I have a bunch of links (marked up as a list and floated left) and a copyright notice (marked up as a paragraph floated right). In most browsers, this seems to work just

[css-d] Anomaly in FireFox

2007-10-05 Thread Ian Young
Hi guys Unusual one (for me). I have a div that doesn't align properly in FireFox and as a temporary measure have put a couple of extra br / but of course this doesn't render properly in IE6 (and is very clumsy) I have tried a number or different alternatives margin settings to no avail.

Re: [css-d] Query

2007-10-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 5, 2007, at 2:36 PM, JT Neville wrote: div id=tab1h1Foo/h1/div And the css is: #tab1 { ... background-image: url(/images/kraken-head-logo.jpg) no-repeat transparent top; ... } But the image doesn't show. Invalid syntax [1]. You probably

Re: [css-d] Query

2007-10-05 Thread Ian Piper
Should it be background-image: url(../images/kraken-head-logo.jpg) I.e. .. in front to enforce the location of the images folder? Ian. -- On 5 Oct 2007, at 6:36 am, JT Neville wrote: Ok, I've googled my tuckus off on this and I know I'm missing something simple but I can't crack it.

Re: [css-d] Changing Width

2007-10-05 Thread Gabriel Palacios
i would try { #AB a { display:block; width:..; max-width:..; } btw didnt knew about the max-width property, thanks :D __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ --

Re: [css-d] Query

2007-10-05 Thread Ian Piper
On 5 Oct 2007, at 2:11 pm, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: Invalid syntax [1]. You probably want 'background: url() no-repeat transparent top' instead of what you have A quick trip to the CSS validator would have told you that. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ [1]

[css-d] Query

2007-10-05 Thread JT Neville
Ok, I've googled my tuckus off on this and I know I'm missing something simple but I can't crack it. So the code is: div id=tab1h1Foo/h1/div And the css is: #tab1 { border: 1px solid #711515; border-top: none; padding: 10px 5px 6px 5px;

Re: [css-d] three numbers

2007-10-05 Thread Cat Chen
[top] [right] [bottom] [left] means clockwise. Not that confusing. On 10/5/07, Keith DiSarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simple: When listing less than 4 parameters, the CSS 'engine' pulls it from the other side of the element. Sorta makes everything symmetrical. (But it always goes [top]

[css-d] IE z-index problem

2007-10-05 Thread Niels Matthijs
IE6 finally got me. http://users.pandora.be/onderhond/test_IE6_zindex.html I know what the problem is, but can't seem to find a solid fix. This example shows the setup I want to achieve in IE6. It's a theoretical example, but one I can find no solution for, javascript or css. The XHTML/CSS

Re: [css-d] three numbers

2007-10-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{margin:0 10px 10px;} I'm sorry - it was always my understanding that using this method was incorrect. When I was learning CSS, in the beginning, it was always impressed upon me that using margin:0 was appropriate because it would cover all sides. Using margin:2px 3px; was appropriate,

Re: [css-d] three numbers

2007-10-05 Thread Christian Kirchhoff
Hello, take a look here, three values are perfectly valid: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/box.html#margin-properties Best regards, Christian Kirchhoff Directmedia Publishing GmbH · Möckernstraße 68 · 10965 Berlin www.digitale-bibliothek.de AG Berlin-Charlottenburg · HR B 58002 ·

Re: [css-d] Query

2007-10-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 5, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Ian Piper wrote: What is wrong with that syntax? I thought it looked OK: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/colors.html#propdef-background-image Yours is missing a trailing ; BTW. :-) The original in http://release.the-kraken.com/common/kraken.css has

Re: [css-d] three numbers

2007-10-05 Thread Ian Young
To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] three numbers According to the specifications, giving three values for margin: is perfectly legal and valid. The sequence of messages here illustrate pretty well, that it's a poor idea! How so? It is a recognised and neat way writing

Re: [css-d] three numbers

2007-10-05 Thread bruce . somers
According to the specifications, giving three values for margin: is perfectly legal and valid. The sequence of messages here illustrate pretty well, that it's a poor idea! __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] From Georg

2007-10-05 Thread Elias Abunassar
David, Quoting Georg: Here's a working version: http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/dt-3/test_07_1005.html ...with the same markup as what Tidy gave you, but this time with the pop-up ul's nested in the right li's. Doesn't work in IE6 though, as that and older IE-versions supports :hover only on

Re: [css-d] three numbers

2007-10-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Christian! And all these years, I've been making extra work for myself. (Okay, a few extra characters, really - but still. Every little shortcut helps!) ~Shelly __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS Pop-Up Menu IE 6 png Transparency Problem

2007-10-05 Thread Alan Gresley
David Terrell wrote: Hello, I'm trying to create a pure css pop-up menu as per http://moronicbajebus.com/wordpress/wp-content/cssplay/pop-up-menus/ and it just isn't working out. The sub-list elements are now hidden, but I can't seem to make them appear on the mouseover. I am also have

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS Pop-Up Menu IE 6 png Transparency Problem

2007-10-05 Thread Elias Abunassar
David, No worries, it's my pleasure. That's why this list was created, to 'help' each other. If you're not worried about Accessibility [which is what I think you meant?], try using either the 'Son of Suckerfish Menu' via HTML Dog, Patrick Griffiths:

[css-d] three numbers

2007-10-05 Thread Complex
Using three values to set four margins is a little confusing. IMO its appropriateness depends on who's going to be working with your code. If you might be replaced by a lower-level web developer, you might want to spend several more characters to make your meaning obvious. Legal and valid only

Re: [css-d] three numbers

2007-10-05 Thread bruce . somers
According to the specifications, giving three values for margin: is perfectly legal and valid. The sequence of messages here illustrate pretty well, that it's a poor idea! How so? It is a recognised and neat way writing margin and padding rules. If it is recommended by the

Re: [css-d] three numbers

2007-10-05 Thread Ian Young
Subject: Re: [css-d] three numbers According to the specifications, giving three values for margin: is perfectly legal and valid. The sequence of messages here illustrate pretty well, that it's a poor idea! How so? It is a recognised and neat way writing margin and

[css-d] Page Check

2007-10-05 Thread Jim Nannery
Morning List I'd appreciate it if some of you would look at www.sylvesterneal.com/index2.html especially with Mac / Safari browsers. I have (and test in) Safari Win 3.0 and all seems fine but I don't have enough faith in it for final production. Should be good to go in all other major

Re: [css-d] Page Check

2007-10-05 Thread Kimberly Batteau
OS X 10.4.10; Safari 3.0.3; Camino 1.5: Just basic poking around on the site … everything looks good with 1 exception: On the home page in Safari, there is no white space between the portrait and the body of text, i.e. This web site is designed serve the Districts … is flush left against the

Re: [css-d] Page Check

2007-10-05 Thread Rob Stevenson
On 5 Oct 2007, at 14:17, Jim Nannery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd appreciate it if some of you would look at www.sylvesterneal.com/index2.html Hi Jim, Mac OS X v10.4.10 Safari beta 3 - the main text is tight against the gold edge of the picture Firefox 2.0.0.7 - text is okay but picture

Re: [css-d] Query

2007-10-05 Thread Ben Clarke
Exactly, Phillipe is correct: background: transparent url(images/kraken-head-logo.jpg) no-repeat top; or: background-color: transparent; background-image: url(images/kraken-head-logo.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: top; Ben On 10/5/07, Philippe Wittenbergh [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] Problems with printing in Firefox

2007-10-05 Thread Editors
On 4 Oct 2007, at 21:08, Alan K. Gay wrote: I have found that, while both the IE and FF print engines can be buggy and produce different results than the screen, the FF engine is by far the worst, and quite unpredictable. It's been a year or so since I've had to regression-test

Re: [css-d] Query

2007-10-05 Thread JT Neville
Hi Philippe (sorry about the direct reply), I had that tag assigned originally and it doesn't work either. I've gone through more than a few iterations of code. I did find a few comments on other css boards regarding how improperly coded tags impacted image display so your validator

[css-d] repeating a header style

2007-10-05 Thread Donna Watch
Hi, Is there a way so that I can easily have all headlines (H1 tags) in my site looking the same. I am trying to achieve: the html has the text for, say, H1 and then using css, to obtain the result of image left, H1 as defined in html text, image right followed by an image underneath

Re: [css-d] three numbers

2007-10-05 Thread Rafael
I don't quite get why this thread degenerated on this. This is just syntax, there are alternatives, and it's already a standard (i.e. it won't change), so what's the point? If you ask me, I don't know the reasoning behind this order, they could as well use the common (x, y) way, but

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS Pop-Up Menu IE 6 png Transparency Problem

2007-10-05 Thread Ann Randall
David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/4/2007 2:48 PM . . . . . I'm trying to create a pure css pop-up menu as per http://moronicbajebus.com/wordpress/wp-content/cssplay/pop-up-menus/ and it just isn't working out. The sub-list elements are now hidden, but I can't seem to make them appear on the

[css-d] Safari Overflow:Auto Issue?

2007-10-05 Thread Chris Davis
On a newly developed site I recently got an email saying that the content on one page of the site only took up 10% of the screen: far too little to see! The page makes use of overflow:auto and the user is browsing with Safari on a Mac. Can anyone else see the problem and suggest fixes? The

[css-d] Page Check

2007-10-05 Thread Jim
At 6:13 PM -0500 10/5/07, Jim Nannery wrote: I'd appreciate it if some of you would look at http://www.sylvesterneal.com/index2.html especially with Mac / Safari browsers. I have (and test in) Safari Win 3.0 and all seems fine but I don't have enough faith in it for final production. CHOP If

[css-d] Validation problems

2007-10-05 Thread Tim Offenstein
I am reviewing a page for a client (www.physics.uiuc.edu) that uses a hover class and some events. On lines 178, 194, and 202 in the HTML a call for onmouseover, onfocus, onmouseout, and onblur events occurs. TIDY and W3C are both flagging this as use of proprietary code but I think that's

Re: [css-d] Safari Overflow:Auto Issue?

2007-10-05 Thread David Laakso
Chris Davis wrote: On a newly developed site I recently got an email saying that the content on one page of the site only took up 10% of the screen: far too little to see! The page makes use of overflow:auto and the user is browsing with Safari on a Mac. Can anyone else see the problem and

Re: [css-d] Query

2007-10-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 6, 2007, at 1:07 AM, JT Neville wrote: Hi Philippe (sorry about the direct reply), I had that tag assigned originally and it doesn't work either. with the correct syntax: background: url(/images/kraken-head-logo.jpg) no-repeat transparent top; in /common/kraken.css It works

Re: [css-d] Safari Overflow:Auto Issue?

2007-10-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 6, 2007, at 8:22 AM, Chris Davis wrote: On a newly developed site I recently got an email saying that the content on one page of the site only took up 10% of the screen: far too little to see! The page makes use of overflow:auto and the user is browsing with Safari on a Mac.

[css-d] Reliable Opera-only filter?

2007-10-05 Thread Micky Hulse
I would prefer to use a filter for the latest version of Opera that will be a good long-term fix. Basically, Opera gives a few extra pixels of top-padding, on a form input, that I would like to compensate for... I can live with how it is now, but thought I would ask ya'll before I scratch it

[css-d] blog: centering multiple line content with css

2007-10-05 Thread Roger Keays
Hi All, I've just finished a blog on centering multiline content (horizontally and vertically): http://www.sunburnt.com.au/publications/design/center-multiple-lines-with-css The method used is display: table/table-cell for standards browsers, and a javascript expression to position the

Re: [css-d] blog: centering multiple line content with css

2007-10-05 Thread Roger Keays
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Roger Keays wrote: http://www.sunburnt.com.au/publications/design/center-multiple-lines-with-css The method used is display: table/table-cell for standards browsers, and a javascript expression to position the content for IE. Gosh! ... you must have stolen my