Re: [css-d] Odd div spacing in FF Opera, but not IE?

2006-01-15 Thread John Bishop - alternative it
The problem is visible in Firefox Opera, but not IE (on Windows). Page is here: http://www2.petrescue.com.au/newindex.htm The spacing that shouldn't be visible is just below the subnav with the blue background. Hi John, Add these 2: #navcontainer {padding-bottom:1px}

Re: [css-d] Odd div spacing in FF Opera, but not IE? liquid-corners

2006-01-15 Thread francky
Hi John, Not on-topic, but as well about good css-showing of the page: I saw the text of the #subnav coming out of the green background-box. It happens because I've (clientside) enlarged the font-size: in IE already at the first enlarging step, in FF after 2 steps. Reason behind is that the

[css-d] whats your favorite way to test your stylesheets?

2006-01-15 Thread Jochen Kächelin
I mostly work on my Tecra Notebook running Ubuntu/Linux and I develop my sites with Quanta, BLuefish, Kate, Smarty, PHP, MySQL. I started to use CSS more extensive as I got a book (http://css-praxis.de) and read what is possible with css. I read a lot of browser specific problems and

Re: [css-d] Button text off-center in IE easy css-webdeveloper-tools

2006-01-15 Thread francky
Iorhael wrote: 3. The short and easy use way: magic on screen! Francky, this is amazing!! Thank you for telling me about this :):) ... Yes, I was quite surprised when I saw it working! I see I've forgotten to add two warnings: 1. The changing in the sidebar is just real time - it does not

Re: [css-d] Button text off-center in IE easy css-webdeveloper-tools

2006-01-15 Thread Iorhael
1. The changing in the sidebar is just real time - it does not change the real stylesheet. So when you turn it out or give a refresh of the page, all the changes are gone! But as you have discovered an improvement in the sidebar, you can copy and paste it immediately in the real stylesheet

Re: [css-d] whats your favorite way to test your stylesheets?

2006-01-15 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jochen Kächelin wrote: I started to use CSS more extensive as I got a book (http://css-praxis.de) and read what is possible with css. I started by reading the W3C CSS specs. I still do. I decide what's possible with CSS (can't leave that to books or specs). I read a lot of browser specific

Re: [css-d] IE/FF Spacing Problem

2006-01-15 Thread Julian Voelcker
Hi Francky, Hope you can use some, Many thanks for those I will take another look at it later to see how I get on. -- Cheers, Julian Voelcker Cirencester, United Kingdom __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Very odd IE issue on one machine!

2006-01-15 Thread Tony Crockford
Julian Voelcker wrote: One of the guys I work with has endless problems with IE on his laptop in that any design involving floats or % widths gets thrown out completely - it is as if the browser is reading the screen width as one thing, but in reality it is slightly narrower so layouts with

Re: [css-d] img tag, css and xhtml

2006-01-15 Thread Christian Montoya
On 1/14/06, tochiromifune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you think I should put my img tags inside p tags and apply my css styles to the p tags instead? You can just put all the images inside divs, and since block level elements like p and div are, well, block level, you can just style keep

[css-d] Any suggestions

2006-01-15 Thread Earth Repair Restoration
New to CSS and have two boxes on the front page of my site that are currently on top of each other and wanted them to be side by side, any ideas, Ive been searching for days, hoping its something simple I have just missed out on. Website http://www.earthrepair.com.au css

[css-d] Maintaining proportions of a div when resizing (A solution)

2006-01-15 Thread Leszek Swirski
I recently needed a div banner on a liquid width site to keep its height proportional to its width - however a quick google search didn't find anything on the subject. So, I developed my own technique, based on paddings and absolute positioning. The full write-up is available here:

Re: [css-d] Maintaining proportions of a div when resizing (A solution)

2006-01-15 Thread Ingo Chao
Leszek Swirski wrote: I recently needed a div banner on a liquid width site to keep its height proportional to its width ... http://leszek.swirski.co.uk/proportionaldiv.htm It's quite a long write-up (my first!), but in summary you have two divs, #outer and #inner, which are styled as

Re: [css-d] target attribute of anchor

2006-01-15 Thread Matthew Levine
On Jan 15, 2006, at 1:19 PM, Francesco wrote: Has the target attribute of the anchor tag been deprecated? If so, how are we now supposed to specify a target window? Francesco, There are two primary uses for targets: frames and popups. Many people (myself included) are of the opinion that

[css-d] CSS Standards/Guidelines and making your site ADA friendly

2006-01-15 Thread Mike Soultanian
Hi Everyone, I just sent the following email to my web mailing list on campus and I thought that some of the beginner CSS coders on this list might find this helpful. There was an email on this list (I don't know the original author, but thank you!) that sparked this whole email and I doubt

Re: [css-d] target attribute of anchor

2006-01-15 Thread David Dorward
On 15/01/06, Francesco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has the target attribute of the anchor tag been deprecated? No, but it doesn't exist in strict DTDs or in the specs presently being developed by the W3C. If so, how are we now supposed to specify a target window? You don't. User's can open new

Re: [css-d] Maintaining proportions of a div when resizing (A solution)

2006-01-15 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ingo Chao wrote: Leszek Swirski wrote: #inner { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 100%; height: 200%; } /*\*/ * html #inner {height: 200%;} /**/ And the crazy reason IE/win needs that height in the first place, is that IE/win can't handle AP for opposite edges of an element.

[css-d] Printing issues, 2-column, in both IE FF

2006-01-15 Thread Dawn Wolthuis
I have been trying to figure out the printing problems with my two-column layout in FireFox and IE. IE has problems printing the call-outs (they print on top of other text) and FireFox has problems dropping lines of the text in the printout. I'm most concerned about the FireFox problem right now

Re: [css-d] Maintaining proportions of a div when resizing (A solution)

2006-01-15 Thread Ingo Chao
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Ingo Chao wrote: Leszek Swirski wrote: #inner { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 100%; height: 200%; } /*\*/ * html #inner {height: 200%;} /**/ And the crazy reason IE/win needs that height in the first place, is that IE/win can't handle AP for

Re: [css-d] Maintaining proportions of a div when resizing (A solution)

2006-01-15 Thread Leszek Swirski
#inner { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; width: 100%; height: 200%; } /*\*/ * html #inner {height: 200%;} /**/ And the crazy reason IE/win needs that height in the first place, is that IE/win can't handle AP for opposite edges of an element. IE/win can't make inner fill outer in

Re: [css-d] Maintaining proportions of a div when resizing (A solution)

2006-01-15 Thread Ingo Chao
Leszek Swirski wrote: Like I said with the height though, you don't technically need to hide it since it'll just calculate 200% of 0, which is still 0. Nevertheless, I suppose it doesn't hurt to hide it for reasons of clarity. Your test case actually covers a lot of my screen when I don't

Re: [css-d] Maintaining proportions of a div when resizing (A solution)

2006-01-15 Thread Leszek Swirski
Your test case actually covers a lot of my screen when I don't hide the 200% from the others. Ingo And that just goes to prove that IE is a cross-platform pain in the arse. Thanks for the testing, I've updated (again): http://leszek.swirski.co.uk/proportionaldiv.htm - Leszek

Re: [css-d] Any suggestions

2006-01-15 Thread Christian Heilmann
First suggestion: use a real subject explaining your problem, this will make people answer. We are helpful, but busy and nobody commits to ANY SUGGESTION I don't see any issue on the page in Safari, can you tell us where the issue occurs?

Re: [css-d] Maintaining proportions of a div when resizing (A solution)

2006-01-15 Thread Ingo Chao
Leszek Swirski wrote: Your test case actually covers a lot of my screen when I don't hide the 200% from the others. Ingo And that just goes to prove that IE is a cross-platform pain in the arse. Thanks for the testing, I've updated (again):

Re: [css-d] Odd div spacing in FF Opera, but not IE? liquid-corners

2006-01-15 Thread John Bishop - alternative it
Thanks for this Francky! I'll go through your article in more detail today (Monday here, so back to work time :) If I can use your liquid-corners technique to resolve the subnav problem, that'd be great - not sure how it'll go with the gradient background of the row though? I'll give it a shot

Re: [css-d] Very odd IE issue on one machine!

2006-01-15 Thread Julian Voelcker
Hi Tony, Check the windowsXP font-size options, on some weird laptop resolutions with large fonts selected I've seen layouts break because pixel sizing seems to go off... Thanks, that had occurred to me and as far as I can remember I did check that one, but will check again on Tuesday. --

Re: [css-d] img tag, css and xhtml

2006-01-15 Thread francky
tochiromifune wrote: ... styles directly applied to the img tag. The problem is that my page fails the w3c validation test because my img tags are not contained in other parent tags (as far as I understand the problem that is). ... Hi Chris, I made a testpage

[css-d] Hello people + IE bug

2006-01-15 Thread Martin Granger
Hello everybody, I'm Martin from France (which could explain some oddities in my english) and this is my first message on css-discuss. Currently working on this webpage, http://minilien.com/?nODqAKMmYi I'm facing what could look like a classic Internet Explorer bug : the header is

Re: [css-d] Hello people + IE bug

2006-01-15 Thread Ricky Zhou
the header is few-pixels-shifted when compared with the rest of the page (unless the page itself is shifted and the header is OK :-) For me, removing the background-positions on #conteneur and #top in martin.css seemed to fixed the problem. To run IE in Linux, you might consider running

Re: [css-d] Hello people + IE bug

2006-01-15 Thread Martin Granger
Ricky Zhou wrote: For me, removing the background-positions on #conteneur and #top in martin.css seemed to fixed the problem. I removed them and it makes no difference on my firefox. So I guess they weren't that useful :-) I hope this will fix the bug for IE (but I can't check now cause all my

Re: [css-d] new to list, issues with IE

2006-01-15 Thread alexkillough
Rowan- Many thanks, this solved my issue. Will also be working on fixing issues with absolute widths and the br / problem you mention, which I am assuming might be fixed by forcing my p tags within content to display as inline? A bit confused on this part, when I was using the p element

Re: [css-d] Hello people + IE bug

2006-01-15 Thread francky
Martin Granger wrote: I removed them and it makes no difference on my firefox. So I guess they weren't that useful :-) I hope this will fix the bug for IE (but I can't check now cause all my friends running IE are sleeping now : it's 3AM here). Anyway thanks for your help ! Voila: IE under

Re: [css-d] stuck on the last bits of validation.

2006-01-15 Thread Tina Clarke
Hi Tina, I fooddled also somewhat around your codes, and found the page rightmenu.htm http://frontpage-tips.com/rightmenu.htm. See: = = = = = td style=background: #eee; p style=margin-top: 3px align=center input type=text name=user2 value=email address size=13 style=border-style:

Re: [css-d] new to list, issues with IE

2006-01-15 Thread Jesper Brunholm
alexkillough wrote: Many thanks, this solved my issue. Will also be working on fixing issues with absolute widths and the br / problem you mention, which I am assuming might be fixed by forcing my p tags within content to display as inline? That doesn't sound right at all, but perhaps