Re: [css-d] Reliable Opera-only filter?

2007-10-06 Thread David Laakso
Micky Hulse wrote: 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

Re: [css-d] width problem cross browser - repost

2007-10-08 Thread David Laakso
Luc wrote: Good evening list, It seems i have a width problem cross browser: resizing the viewport gets following effects: [1] #masthead disappears while #masthead div and #masthead h1 keeps being visible in opera, FF, moz, IE6 7. Desired effect: #masthead needs to be kept

Re: [css-d] width problem cross browser - repost

2007-10-09 Thread David Laakso
Luc wrote: Hello David, It was foretold that on 9/10/2007 @ 23:31:24 GMT-0400 (which was 00:31:24 where I live) David Laakso would write: snipped a bit It seems I don't really get what you're after but I am crazy nuts about that mad cow and hope at least in a small way this may

Re: [css-d] Unable to position container

2007-10-09 Thread David Laakso
Marlene Yogerst wrote: I have been working on my website since spring. http://www.roughandreadydesigns.com/test_site/talitha/index.html http://www.roughandreadydesigns.com/test_site/talitha/main.css marlene Marlene, It can be, and often is, frustrating. But that's the name of the

Re: [css-d] width problem cross browser - repost

2007-10-09 Thread David Laakso
Luc wrote: Good evening list, It seems i have a width problem cross browser: resizing the viewport gets following effects: [1] #masthead disappears while #masthead div and #masthead h1 keeps being visible in opera, FF, moz, IE6 7. Desired effect: #masthead needs to be kept

Re: [css-d] Unable to position container

2007-10-09 Thread David Laakso
Marlene Yogerst wrote: It will go better if you only use floats. There is no need for any absolute positioning (ap) in such a simple structure; but, if there were such a need, it is best not to use ap for the structure proper. I understand the readability, accessibility, cross browser

Re: [css-d] width problem cross browser - repost

2007-10-10 Thread David Laakso
Luc wrote: Good morning David, It was foretold that on 10/10/2007 @ 23:15:45 GMT-0400 (which was 00:15:45 where I live) David Laakso would write: There may be more than one way to milk a cow. Or is there? http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/madcow01.html Note that no font

Re: [css-d] Unable to position container

2007-10-10 Thread David Laakso
Marlene Yogerst wrote: It will go better if you only use floats. There is no need for any absolute positioning (ap) in such a simple structure; but, if there were such a need, it is best not to use ap for the structure proper. I understand the readability, accessibility, cross browser

Re: [css-d] widening center content - margin property

2007-10-10 Thread David Laakso
Raumin Ray Dehghan wrote: Colleagues: I am sending a modified form of a message I recently sent. I am frankly confused about how margins are working, especially in regard to center content in my site. In the css file among listed below, I am trying to get the center material,

Re: [css-d] Wierd, Wierd Rendering Problems

2007-10-11 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ya gotta try this just for fun even if you don't answer my question. Go here in BOTH your IE browser AND your FF browser: http://lafontainerealestate.com/lafontainerealestate.com/1280/s/c/x/en-us/index.pt (This is set for a screen resolution of 1280, forgive me.)

Re: [css-d] Mystery of the disappearing content

2007-10-11 Thread David Laakso
Jenn Mears wrote: Hi All, First time poster, long time reader here. I am working on a site for the company I work at part time and am having an issue with the main-body content disappearing in IE6. I changed the z-index this morning for the side-nav div to be 2 and the main-body to be

Re: [css-d] Images are not shown inside my rounded box in firefox

2007-10-11 Thread David Laakso
Farid Jamea wrote: Please take a look at this page: http://www.georgiaautohouse.com on firefox2. As you can see, the pictures of vehicles are crossing my rounded box. They look perfect on IE7 though. I tried modifying my css in several ways, but no luck so far. Can anybody give me any

Re: [css-d] Wierd, Wierd Problem NOT Quirks

2007-10-12 Thread David Laakso
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ya gotta try this just for fun even if you don't answer my question. Go here in BOTH your IE browser AND your FF browser: http://lafontainerealestate.com/lafontainerealestate.com/1280/s/c/x/en-us/test (This is set for a screen resolution of 1280, forgive me.)

Re: [css-d] newbie help please

2007-10-12 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello people I am very new to this forum or indeed any forum so forgive any protocol errors, I did read the list but unsure about some things. I am fairly new to css, relied on Dreamweaver usually but after reading lots of articles and visiting some great css sites

Re: [css-d] Converting to EMs

2007-10-13 Thread David Laakso
Pete Harrison wrote: OK, I'm getting more savvy with CSS and feeling a lot more confident with many thing I try. However, I've been looking at using EM as the scaling factor for all my fonts and pictures for accessibility reasons. I must admit, it all seems a little difficult, especially when

Re: [css-d] CSS Slide Show

2007-10-13 Thread David Laakso
Andrew Doades wrote: I am working on a site, where I need a set up small images to one side, or bottom, and when the views slick on the small images there is a larger image with text about the image, I have read that this can be done in CSS, but I can't find anywhere that I can get help for

Re: [css-d] CSS Slide Show

2007-10-13 Thread David Laakso
Andrew Doades wrote: This is the kind of thing I am looking for, but I need some help with the coding, that is the main problem! David Laakso wrote: Andrew Doades wrote: I am working on a site, where I need a set up small images to one side, or bottom, and when the views slick

Re: [css-d] Converting to EMs

2007-10-13 Thread David Laakso
Pete Harrison wrote: I'm sorry David, I do not understand what you are saying here. Is the use of ems just a gimmick? What has the margin size got to do with my question. I was asking about nested elements Regards Pete Pete Harrison wrote: OK, I'm getting more savvy with CSS and

Re: [css-d] pure CSS drop-down menu

2007-10-13 Thread David Laakso
Jay Rabe wrote: Hi all, Anyway, I'm rebuilding a site that I inherited, and right now I'm stuck on the menu bar. I want a full-width bar with buttons that change background color on hover, with drop-downs on some of the buttons, and I'd rather do it with pure CSS (which I know

[css-d] :: ie 6 7 :: collapse on click bounce on scroll ::

2007-10-15 Thread David Laakso
In this photoshop nightmare [1] the slideshow (top right col) collapses in IE 6 7 when any horizontal nav link is clicked (in compliant browsers clicking 'home' does it). And IE 6 7 the left col is exhibiting vertical bounce on a full scroll. What to do? [1]

Re: [css-d] should I worry about the warnings?

2007-10-15 Thread David Laakso
Ross Hulford wrote: Hi, My CSS validates, however I get loads of warning http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwallacewhittle.comwarning=1profile=css21usermedium=all Generally they are Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts Should I be

Re: [css-d] em or %, pros and cons?

2007-10-15 Thread David Laakso
Magnus Fahlström wrote: 1. Could you please explain why you choose one over the other? 2. Only for font-size or for the complete layout? Thanks Magnus Fahlström There are, in my twisted little mind, no hard and fast rules about much of anything including either or both of your points.

Re: [css-d] :: ie 6 7 :: collapse on click bounce on scroll ::

2007-10-15 Thread David Laakso
Bruno Fassino wrote: On 10/15/07, David Laakso wrote: In this photoshop nightmare [1] the slideshow (top right col) collapses in IE 6 7 when any horizontal nav link is clicked (in compliant browsers clicking 'home' does it). O.K. I understand the js fix you provided

Re: [css-d] :: ie 6 7 :: collapse on click bounce on scroll ::

2007-10-15 Thread David Laakso
Bruno Fassino wrote: On 10/15/07, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno, in my versions of IE 6 and 7 (parallels/os x 10.4.10) when using either the scroll bar /or/ mouse wheel to vertically scroll to the very bottom of the footer, that the background images bounce (like striking

Re: [css-d] em or %, pros and cons?

2007-10-15 Thread David Laakso
Stan Baptista wrote: Fixed with layouts are appropriate in some instances. How have you decided between fixed and fluid? On 10/15/07, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Magnus Fahlström wrote: 1. Could you please explain why you choose one over the other? 2. Only

Re: [css-d] BG Image not displaying

2007-10-15 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have this: #masthead { height:105px; width:100%; background: #f5f3dc url(bg/header-new-11-rev.gif); } and div id=mastheadnbsp;/div, The bg image will not display, is there a reason for this? Kind Regards Dave Dunno. The image is not on the

Re: [css-d] Site Check

2007-10-15 Thread David Laakso
Tom Lancaster wrote: Dead Css-D, I would appreciate any comments from people who have time to take a look at http://tnhtest.grubbyconsulting.com especially in browsers other than FF/Ubuntu. TIA, Tom Safari 3.0.3 Opera/mac ver 9.23 XP ie 6 7 on parallels desktop The content

Re: [css-d] Site Check

2007-10-16 Thread David Laakso
Vicki Stebbins wrote: Hi everyone, Well more a page check. After lots of spinning my wheels, I think I've got this working??? I've looked on PC Win2k Firefox, Opera 9.0, IE 6.0. URL http://www.abilityincorporated.org.au/index.php Everything validates and I'm hoping it's a fairly okay

Re: [css-d] Site Check

2007-10-16 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: Vicki Stebbins wrote: Hi everyone, Well more a page check. After lots of spinning my wheels, I think I've got this working??? I've looked on PC Win2k Firefox, Opera 9.0, IE 6.0. URL http://www.abilityincorporated.org.au/index.php Everything validates and I'm hoping

Re: [css-d] Site Check-- vicki stebbins

2007-10-17 Thread David Laakso
Vicki Stebbins wrote: I've made some changes and it's behaving much better, can I impose upon you again to re-look and let me know how it looks to you? URL http://www.abilityincorporated.org.au/index.php Vicki It is behaving much better and no longer dropping the float in IE6.0

Re: [css-d] How to think about designing for resizing?

2007-10-17 Thread David Laakso
Gernot Hassenpflug wrote: What I am worried about is the following: how can one design CSS styles that resize the block elements when the user decided to increase the font (of the inline text)? At some point, all the fine examples I've found (e.g.,

Re: [css-d] Odd Safari display problem...

2007-10-17 Thread David Laakso
Matt wrote: Check out the navigation and RSS link on the top right part of this page: http://www.scienceprogress.org/ Everything lines up fine in Firefox and IE-Win, but in Safari, the RSS icon drops below the navigation stuff and floats to the left... Any idea why? Mac OS X 10.4.10

Re: [css-d] footer disapears in ie 6

2007-10-18 Thread David Laakso
Ross Hulford wrote: Hi, My footer disapears in IE6. It seems to happen when my #container is reduced to 800px. Any ideas why? Thanks, R. http://vps.aztechost.co.uk/~suruch1/test/ http://vps.aztechost.co.uk/~suruch1/test/css/ The footer is not clearing. You can see this

Re: [css-d] opinions: horizontal vs vertical menus

2007-10-18 Thread David Laakso
Roger Keays wrote: Hi all, Here are some thoughts from my blog @ http://www.sunburnt.com.au/publications/design/horizontal-vs-vertical-menus Just yesterday I had a request from a customer to build a vertical menu down the side of the page in their design. I've always had a strong

Re: [css-d] Newbie

2007-10-20 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: ROGER BURTON wrote: Hi ... I am getting really confused now so maybe the knowledge here can give me some much needed guidance. ..trimmed]. Regards Roger Opinions abound and in the end I suppose we go with what works best for us in any given situation. Since I

[css-d] :: target a selector ::

2007-10-20 Thread David Laakso
Stuck. In the top right column of this page [1] there is a slideshow. In a javascript /disabled/ browser, the slides breaks right. What to do? [1] http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/un/ Thank you. ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/

Re: [css-d] :: target a selector ::

2007-10-20 Thread David Laakso
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Oct 21, 2007, at 9:12 AM, David Laakso wrote: In the top right column of this page [1] there is a slideshow. In a javascript /disabled/ browser, the slides breaks right. What to do? [1] http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/un/ #slideshow {list

Re: [css-d] Site test?

2007-10-21 Thread David Laakso
Virginia Bruce wrote: Please take a look at the site and let me know if there's anything odd. This is just a staging site, the final one will sit on its own domain. http://teamweb.com/daswani vb Virginia Bruce XP IE6.0/Parallels desktop You are relatively close to compliant

Re: [css-d] Same old Hat (new)

2007-10-21 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand all the accessibility concerns surrounding splash pages, but my question is, were I to want to design a site that had a large photo as it's main intro page, is there any way I can do this as ok for standards-based design methods? Daniel Since your

Re: [css-d] Image forcing div down (+ text question)

2007-10-21 Thread David Laakso
Kevin Stevens wrote: I am doing a site that uses faux columns, which looks good, except on this page http://www.ratking.co.uk/bensons/map.htm where the image seems to push the container div down and I have no idea why. Try in ruleset #main_map img changing position: relative; to

Re: [css-d] Wrapper is not wrapping...footer is at the top

2007-10-22 Thread David Laakso
Jeralyn Merideth wrote: I'm looking at my own code from other projects and am doing the same thing...it's just not working out this time. Could someone take a look at my code (I've updated it on my server) and see what is going on? Maybe I'm just missing something.

Re: [css-d] Image forcing div down (+ text question)

2007-10-22 Thread David Laakso
Kevin Stevens wrote: Also, while I have your attention, on the right hand side of http://www.ratking.co.uk/bensons/testimonials.htm there is a huge gap between the line Business Cards and the text below, again I have tried lots of things but can't manage to solve this problem. Try h5

Re: [css-d] Wrapper is not wrapping...footer is at the top

2007-10-22 Thread David Laakso
Jeralyn Merideth wrote: Thanks to everyone who answered. I took the absolute positioning correction advice and worked it out. I kept working on it and so anyone who answered this later may not have seen the correct code :-) Anyway, all is lined out and looking good in FF and IE7...I don't

Re: [css-d] forced to set width and related problems

2007-10-23 Thread David Laakso
Luc wrote: Somehow i'm forced to set a width on my contentwrapper: no width or a width of 100% cuts off the #contentright and the background image i had on my header when resizing to smaller screen resolution. I'm wondering if this is normal behaviour? trimmed

Re: [css-d] forced to set width and related problems-repost

2007-10-23 Thread David Laakso
Luc wrote: Good afternoon David, It was foretold that on 23/10/2007 @ 11:39:07 GMT-0400 (which was 12:39:07 where I live) David Laakso would write: snipped a bit That cow is going to send all of us to the psych ward: how's she feel about this? Lol yeah i alreday

Re: [css-d] slight navigation problem

2007-10-23 Thread David Laakso
Kevin Evans wrote: I am having trouble with the navigation at the top on http:// www.websconsult.com/hopper/site/home.html in Explorer. In Explorer 7, the background color does not show up at al, get a whitespace, but the link hover correctly. In Explorer 6, the background shows up but

Re: [css-d] spry experiences

2007-10-24 Thread David Laakso
Raumin Ray Dehghan wrote: Colleagues: I am inquiring as to any experiences any of you have with using Spry, the Adobe tool that allows for the development of Ajax-powered web pages. Ray Dehghan Colleague, I have no clue. Since it has nothing to do with CSS, you might try

Re: [css-d] To set or reset?

2007-10-25 Thread David Laakso
cFA wrote: I've been thinking about this alot lately and am wondering what the css community thinks about it. Yesterday I was researching the various reset css files, yahoo's, eric meyers, tantek's. The different extent each one goes to, yahoo's by far being the most extensive, tanteks the

Re: [css-d] Background centering issue with IE

2007-10-25 Thread David Laakso
David Boddie wrote: I believe I'm having a background centering issue with IE on my new design, and I was wondering if someone could give me some pointers. IE7 shows a 1 pixel shift to the right of my drop shadow background on my container div (#containerwrapper), which makes it look like

Re: [css-d] Missing width and height for img: why IE doesn't show theimage when I'm using CSS?

2007-10-26 Thread David Laakso
Hello everyone, I'm sorry to bother with such a stupid issue but I couldn't find a way to explain (first to myself and then to my boss) why if I don't put the height and width attribute to any image of my page IE doesn't show it I'm always using CSS to style the page, ASP or PHP. I know the

Re: [css-d] Problem with css styling of drupal list

2007-10-27 Thread David Laakso
Mark Finney wrote: Anyway I have been fiddling around for a couple of hours and cannot fathom the navigation list. I am sure it is obvious but I cannot make the bullet points disappear in IE. FF looks exactly as i want but dispite my filling the css wit list-style-type:none; and list-style:

Re: [css-d] Menu/navigation problem

2007-10-30 Thread David Laakso
Riva Portman wrote: I am working on a redesign for a client of mine and have run into a problem. The client wants a row of colored blocks across the top of the website and wants the navigation to fit inside each block. Riva http://www.littleracquets.com/new_site_test/

Re: [css-d] Menu/navigation problem

2007-10-30 Thread David Laakso
Portman wrote: Thank you for the reply and suggestion, David. I did think of that but my client wants all the blocks the same height and width. Riva David Laakso wrote: Trying to cram all those long word menu links into narrow width/height spaces /may/ require some re-thinking

Re: [css-d] Site Review, IE Problems // World Disability Day.com

2007-10-30 Thread David Laakso
Rahul Gonsalves wrote: Hello. The following site is behaving rather badly in Internet Explorer. I wonder whether anybody has any suggestions as to how to get the 'splash' text correctly, or whether my current method of positioning things is a bad one, etc.

Re: [css-d] Why a space in IE7 and not in FF?

2007-10-31 Thread David Laakso
Marje Cannon wrote: ORIGINAL QUESTION: Does anyone know why there is a space at the bottom of the orange box (right-hand column) in IE7 but not in FF. I can't seem to correct this problem. http://www.bgcofmanatee.org/index-future.php Thanks! Marje I did not look at the CSS--

Re: [css-d] Fixed, fluid width and sidebars

2007-10-31 Thread David Laakso
Richard Brown wrote: Basically I want to ask the pros and cons of using fixed width sidebars with fluid centre column. Is it a big no no or can I do it anyway. Are there reasons not to mix pixel width with fluid centres please? In terms of code what would be the best solution with the

Re: [css-d] Load order and minimum width -- help!

2007-10-31 Thread David Laakso
Cancilla, Dominick wrote: I'm working on my first CSS/PHP Web site, a redesign of our company Web site. Ideally, the site should have no JavaScript. You can see the first inklings of my design here: http://www.calwater.com/dac_test/index.php I have two issues I could use some assistance

Re: [css-d] Fixed, fluid width and sidebars

2007-11-01 Thread David Laakso
Richard Brown wrote: Dear David and Gunlaug and All Many thanks for the input and links. I decided on sticking with a pure flexible width 3 column layout which you can see here: http://weada.cregy.net/ http://weada.cregy.net/wp-content/themes/weada2/style.css As you can see I have

Re: [css-d] Horizontal list is vertical in IE? :: Ooops!

2007-11-01 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: I have a simple test file, which tries to make a horizontal list, with images and text, full code below. In FF, the choices display horizontally, but not in IE. What am I missing? [trimmed] Ooops! In the CSS this selector got mangled: ul.setsli

Re: [css-d] Horizontal list is vertical in IE?

2007-11-01 Thread David Laakso
Ray Leventhal wrote: I have a simple test file, which tries to make a horizontal list, with images and text, full code below. In FF, the choices display horizontally, but not in IE. What am I missing? [trimmed] As Ray noted, you'll need a doctype; and, the corrections and

Re: [css-d] Fixed, fluid width and sidebars

2007-11-02 Thread David Laakso
Richard Brown wrote: Hi On 01/11/2007, Richard Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many thanks for the input and links. I decided on sticking with a pure flexible width 3 column layout which you can see here: http://weada.cregy.net/ http://weada.cregy.net/wp-content/themes/weada2/style.css

Re: [css-d] decimals in widths?

2007-11-02 Thread David Laakso
Brian Cummiskey wrote: Hi all, I have a dynamic list of items that displays inline in floated div's. I was doing some math on how many, and out of the available space, to split it evenly (as they are aligned center) ie, wrapper is 500px 2 items each gets 250px of space/margin width. i

Re: [css-d] Stumped on Safari Float

2007-11-02 Thread David Laakso
Matt wrote: For some reason, Safari and me don't get along... at least with this project! Take a look at this: http://www.scienceprogress.org/ Look at the items under Science Progress Blog Under Firefox and IE-Win, the thumbnails float to the right as defined in the CSS, but in Safari,

Re: [css-d] IE7 vertical list element consistent width problem

2007-11-04 Thread David Laakso
Gernot Hassenpflug wrote: However, if I choose the largest font in IE7, the text in the li links starts to protrude from the fixed width containing elements (phrases do break correctly, but long words protrude). I thought I could fix this by the method of width:auto and min-width:my current

Re: [css-d] IE7 vertical list element consistent width problem

2007-11-04 Thread David Laakso
Gernot Hassenpflug wrote: On Nov 5, 2007 1:15 AM, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gernot Hassenpflug wrote: However, if I choose the largest font in IE7, the text in the li links starts to protrude from the fixed width containing elements (phrases do break correctly, but long

Re: [css-d] 3 Col layout problem

2007-11-04 Thread David Laakso
Mike A wrote: Sent this to the list some hours ago but I notice from the site it didn't get through... I have a problem at http://www.webdev-academy.com/test-layout/. The page validates. The main problem is that IE6 throws the layout on browser resize. It also has what looks like FOUC.

Re: [css-d] Layout stability

2007-11-06 Thread David Laakso
DAVOUD TOHIDY wrote: Hi there, I would like to invite coders and designers to consider coding for layout stability to increase the readability and usability of web content. Please visit my portfolio at http://cssfreelancer.awardspace.com . I am wondering what your opinion is

Re: [css-d] Internet Explorer, Table Cells, and Ems

2007-11-06 Thread David Laakso
Bryce Fields wrote: Greetings everyone. One of our clients at Kentucky.gov is having an issue w/ the way IE inherits font sizes that I hope someone can help with. Take a look at this page here: http://technology.ky.gov/epmo/epmo_team.htm So? Any ideas? Not really, but this will

Re: [css-d] Site Review, IE Problems // World Disability Day.com

2007-11-08 Thread David Laakso
Rahul Gonsalves wrote: On 31-Oct-07, at 3:04 AM, David Laakso wrote: Rahul Gonsalves wrote: http://rahulgonsalves.com/WDD/ Stress test it and the problems may become more apparent: font- scaling at +3 in a compliant browser; and, text-size largest in the IE's

Re: [css-d] Layout problem in Mac/Safari

2007-11-08 Thread David Laakso
Jim Davis wrote: My site will render properly in Mac/Firefox, however it breaks in Mac/Safari. Live web site can be viewed here: http://www.dsignerclumber.com Jim Add a wrapper (#stuff)-- first id to open and last id to close. #stuff { width: 930px; margin: 0 auto; } And amend this

Re: [css-d] Newb alert - balancing columns...

2007-11-12 Thread David Laakso
Michael Beaudoin wrote: I have received a few replies to go to the following: http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/companions.html http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/ I checked them out, plus a lot of other links from these, and I'm still confused. I tried many of the techniques and

Re: [css-d] Technique check please.

2007-11-13 Thread David Laakso
tedd wrote: Hi gang: Anyone have any problems with: http://webbytedd.com/bbb/map/ Cheers, tedd In addition to what Georg Sortun wrote, the State name does not appear on hover in Opera 9.24/OS X 10.4.10. ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/

Re: [css-d] Technique check please. Works now.

2007-11-13 Thread David Laakso
tedd wrote: At 5:10 PM -0500 11/13/07, Elias Abunassar wrote: On 11/13/07 11:52 AM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any problems with: http://webbytedd.com/bbb/map/ Viewed with Flock 0.7.14, Mac w/Leopard; it looks and works great. In Safari 3.0.4, the :hover

Re: [css-d] Simple layout positioning

2007-11-14 Thread David Laakso
Nouhad A wrote: I was wondering if anyone could help me with the layout problem I'm having. I am trying to get my layout to look like this imagehttp://img104.imageshack.us/img104/7340/testzp4.gif . This is none way it might be done: http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/boxes.html HTH,

Re: [css-d] Simple layout positioning

2007-11-14 Thread David Laakso
Nouhad A wrote: Could you provide me with some assistance on how I may change each boxes size? I am hoping to include text and tiny images wrapped around the text in each box, while trying to maintain the same heights for all the boxes. Basically box 1 will speak of one feature of the

Re: [css-d] Simple layout positioning

2007-11-14 Thread David Laakso
Rick Faircloth wrote: @David... Hi, David... I took a quick glance at the css you recommended for Nouhad, and I have a question. I noticed that you specified a float:left for all three boxes (#box-1, #box-2, #box-3), then you gave #box-2 the attribute, position:absolute, and then #box-3,

Re: [css-d] sanity check

2007-11-14 Thread David Laakso
Richard Tolpin wrote: http://www.wildstufftogo.com/reference6.htm If you notice problems in this example that will cause me grief later on, please let me know. Dick Tolpin If you really bang font-scaling (try +3 or +4) the right float does not clear the headline (#pusher) beneath

Re: [css-d] Help, Please - Issue Positioning a UL Source-Ordered Between Two Content Areas

2007-11-15 Thread David Laakso
J Hodge wrote: The example page is: http://www.lostinxlation.net/sandbox3/portfolio/cybernomics3.php The CSS is: http://www.lostinxlation.net/sandbox3/css/alternate.css How it should display: The 1 2 3 links should display right-aligned (lined up with the right-side of the images),

Re: [css-d] Margin/padding problems, or maybe not...

2007-11-16 Thread David Laakso
Erland Flaten wrote: I want the align the top of the menu with the top of the Headline in the content area. Looks ok in safari/FF but as usual IE makes problem as it always has since the dawn of webdesign... ok. I have 15px padding on top og the menu and 15px padding in top of the

Re: [css-d] Problem in Firefox--addendum

2007-11-16 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: Kathryn Maxwell wrote: http://dev.carfreewalks.org/walks/114/twickenham_to_putney This does not happen in IE. Unfortunately I do not have access to the site and can only feed back any ideas. I realise it is not laid out with pure css and uses tables

Re: [css-d] Problem in Firefox

2007-11-16 Thread David Laakso
Kathryn Maxwell wrote: http://dev.carfreewalks.org/walks/114/twickenham_to_putney This does not happen in IE. Unfortunately I do not have access to the site and can only feed back any ideas. I realise it is not laid out with pure css and uses tables, but they are trying to do something

Re: [css-d] CSS dropdown in Safari

2007-11-18 Thread David Laakso
Jørgen Farum Jensen wrote: I have created a CSS-driven dropdown navbar, sample page: http://webdesign101.dk/cssmenu/dropdown.html Jorgen Farum Jensen Sun, Nov18, 10:11a, EST Where did it go? Switched browsers and got a different page with a heading title Sidehoved. Best, ~dL --

Re: [css-d] firefox css problem

2007-11-19 Thread David Laakso
jaklitsch maya wrote: I have run into a problem with firefox that I just do not know how to solve. IE6 displays it just fine. http://www.necwa.org/new_site/index.html http://www.necwa.org/new_site/necwa.css Maya Jaklitsch /No offense intended/, but even a touch of font-scaling

Re: [css-d] Div Problems

2007-11-20 Thread David Laakso
Alan_Akhlah wrote: I am having problems with a new page that I am designing. http://www.valdostatourism.com/newsitetest.html Two things are going wrong with it. 1) The navigation drop down section should be flush with the top of the masthead image - in FF and IE there is a big gap 2) The

Re: [css-d] Div Problems *whoops*

2007-11-20 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: Alan_Akhlah wrote: I am having problems with a new page that I am designing. http://www.valdostatourism.com/newsitetest.html Al Dunbar #menu { border: 1px solid fuchsia; float: left; !--- :: add :: margin:/*50px*/0 0 100px 15px; --- :: amend :: } #footer

Re: [css-d] Div Problems *whoops*

2007-11-22 Thread David Laakso
Hakan K wrote: I am not able to see any header, and menu css function on IE 6 #header { background:#fff url(images/valtour_top.png) no-repeat; height:250px; RE: http://www.valdostatourism.com/newsitetest.html Good points. The image is not on the server. Scripting is needed to make the

Re: [css-d] site check please..

2007-11-25 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: Rob freeman wrote: Hello everyone, I have been working on a little site for some friends which I have just uploaded. Could anyone please check the site in older browsers For any problems (its not complete). I have workied in OSX running firefox and safari. http

Re: [css-d] css not working with iphone

2007-11-26 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using css menus and submenus at www.kepcopower.com, and it has been working fine for quite some time, however I discovered it does not work at all with the iphone browser. CSS file is www.kepcopower.com/menu04-pic.css Anyone have a clue? Any help would be

Re: [css-d] IE7 zoom breaking the Holy Grail layout

2007-11-26 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I notice that the Holy Grail layout on A List Apart (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail) breaks in IE7 when the zoom feature is used. The columns appear to shift horizontally as the zoom is increased or decreased. This is a popular layout, has anyone

Re: [css-d] css not working with iphone

2007-11-26 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the dropdowns are the problem. I don't remember what I used as a template to develop the dropdown menus, but it looks similar to Tedd Sperling. Spent a lot of time tweaking (trial and error) to get it to work right,but never (obviously) tested it with iphone.

Re: [css-d] IE7 zoom breaking the Holy Grail layout

2007-11-26 Thread David Laakso
Ann Randall wrote Oh, gosh, that's a disaster. Any good alternatives to ALA's Holy Grail? I completed a prototype in that format at http://izann.com/studentservices/ and can't even see the left-side navigation links in IE7. Ann Ann Randall Unfortuately you're not doing well in IE6, either.

Re: [css-d] Quick flash of header background problem (IE6, IE7)

2007-11-27 Thread David Laakso
Michel Bozgounov wrote: Well, 1) I removed the link to print.css, still the same, so it's not this, and 2) ...anyway, print.css is requestd only when printing/doing print preview (by default). I spent 8 hours today trying to understand why header bg flashes on this test case:(((

Re: [css-d] Site check for CSS IE6 display issue

2007-11-27 Thread David Laakso
Jim Haslam wrote: http://www.stonetreemd.com that displays wellin FF and IE7, but breaks in IE6. Thank you for any help you might offer. Jim Haslam Have you corrected this, as I see no float drop in xp ie/6.0 on mac os x 10.4.11. Best, ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/

Re: [css-d] problem w/ table-less horizontal nav bar

2007-11-27 Thread David Laakso
Rob Emenecker wrote: First, the page... http://rob.emenecker.com/eclasses/H152/posts/wk3-new/wk3new.htm Now, the problems... #1 Excess whitespace between aimg/a elements in Horizontal Nav Bar When the li's are stacked in the markup, floating will close the gaps and contain the

Re: [css-d] IE6 ALAP Holy Grail Woes

2007-11-28 Thread David Laakso
Bob Cohen wrote: TE isn't helping with the IE6 problem. When first opening the link with an IE6 browser, the left column is missing. Resizing the browser window causes the column to appear. Refreshing causes it to disappear. Matthew Levine suggested using this IE6 hack:

Re: [css-d] IE6 ALAP Holy Grail Woes

2007-11-28 Thread David Laakso
Bob Cohen wrote: On Nov 28, 2007, at 10:23 AM, David Laakso wrote: The issue you have with ALA Holy Grail layout came up on the list a few days ago. I know nothing about Levine's fix for Levine's layout. Go to the CSS-D list archives-- search subject line: Holy Grail. You'll pull up 7 or 8

Re: [css-d] Fix One Issue, Develop Two More! (WAS: Help, Please - Issue Positioning a UL Source-Ordered Between Two Content Areas)

2007-11-28 Thread David Laakso
J Hodge wrote: David, Thank you for the response. My apologies for not replying sooner. An IE7 bug??? The links worked fine prior to changing the XHTML and CSS, and are working as functional links XHTML testbed: http://www.lostinxlation.net/sandbox3/portfolio/cybernomics3.php Thank

Re: [css-d] FW: vertical-align middle NOT in tables (was: problem w/ table-less horizontal nav bar)

2007-11-28 Thread David Laakso
Rob Emenecker wrote: Okay, David and Jim provided some great info on table-less navbars. (David, you really do above and beyond with the visuals! Don't stop!) How about I stop. And you try? Now here's my next *newb* question... If I have a horizontal nav bar comprised of LI elements,

Re: [css-d] Site check / CSS feedback please

2007-11-28 Thread David Laakso
Mike A wrote: Mike A wrote: http://www.webdev-academy.com/test-layout/index.html Anyone: is the page capable of further improvement? Mike A. Well, I suppose if you want to move it to another list, we could always talk about color. Or the weather. ~dL --

Re: [css-d] Missing Background Image in Firefox

2007-11-30 Thread David Laakso
Jim Davis wrote: To #Wrapper add the rule display: table; -- this will cause the wrapper to expand vertically to the height of the content of the div. Jim http://www.forsythcomputertraining.org/default.aspx Adding a doctype and not setting the fonts in points will also be a

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