RE: [WSG] IE mystery whitespace

2004-04-30 Thread James Silva
I'd say its something to do with this bug... http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/threepxtest.html Cheers, James Silva Web Production Gruden Pty Ltd Tel: 02 9299 9462 Fax: 02 9299 9463 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.gruden.com

RE: [WSG] IE mystery whitespace

2004-04-30 Thread James Silva
One other thing... You may want to try a doctype that doesn't trigger quirks mode. For HTML 4.01 Transitional... !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd; Cheers, James Silva Web Production Gruden Pty

Re: [WSG] border problem with IE

2004-04-30 Thread Jackie Reid
I'm out of ideas - anyone got any? Hi Kay... I fiddled around with this and found that if you put the ul into a div like this #container{padding-bottom: 5px;} the bottom border seems to show up for some reason or other BUT then of course you lose the 1px white border to the right ...but that

Re: [WSG] border problem with IE

2004-04-30 Thread Ben Smith
Hey Kay, add a float: left to your li class. B Kay Smoljak wrote: I'm trying to convert an image and table based navigation to a styled text list. I have it looking exactly the way I want in Firefox, but IE6 is refusing to display the bottom-border on the list item and the anchor within it (I'm

Re: [WSG] border problem with IE

2004-04-30 Thread Ben Smith
dammit - sorry kay, I just saw the rest of your message. B * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help

RE: [WSG] IE mystery whitespace

2004-04-30 Thread James Silva
Miles, Replace your existing #content selector with the following: #content { margin-left: 0; float : left; padding: 0; border: 1px dashed #090; } Slightly different way of achieving the result you're after. Cheers, James Silva Web

Re: [WSG] Custom DTD's to allow target attribute? Yuck

2004-04-30 Thread Mordechai Peller
Nelson Ford wrote: The reason I brought this up was...this is a really interesting and pertinent topic at this point as XHTML and CSS start to become the rule rather than the exception. I wasn't even sure if browsers actually read the DTD to allow this to work. The only thing that

RE: [WSG] IE mystery whitespace

2004-04-30 Thread Trusz, Andrew
James wrote: Miles, Replace your existing #content selector with the following: #content { margin-left: 0; float : left; padding: 0; border: 1px dashed #090; } Slightly different way of achieving the result you're after. If it

RE: [WSG] Pre-Site Launch Input

2004-04-30 Thread Chatham, Will
I appreciate everyone's input. I think I will definitely remove the 'ahem' statement. Will Chatham Webmaster Ingles Markets ooOo-o 828.669.2941 - ext.534 www.ingles-markets.com -- I personally wouldn't include this kind of message, but if I were going

[WSG] dont laugh

2004-04-30 Thread Kevin McMonagle
Hi all, I tried to build a portfolio site using web standards code, more or less. The site consists of a main page for primary navigation and logo with two inline frames for content/subnav pages. I didnt use tables on the main page, only css positioning and i had to use different style sheets

RE: [WSG] dont laugh

2004-04-30 Thread Mike Pepper
Here you go, Kevin http://www.insert-title.com/web_design/?page=articles/dev/multi_IE I've use IE 5.1 5.5 and they quite happily coexist with IE6 and my other browser connections. Mike Pepper http://www.seowebsitepromotion.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[WSG] positioning 101

2004-04-30 Thread Barbara Dozetos
You have all been so patient and immensely helpful as I've waded through the creation of the new section of our site. Here I go again -- This is probably only going to reveal my total lack of understanding the basics of CSS positioning, but you're such generous teachers, I'm going to just go

Re: [WSG] positioning 101

2004-04-30 Thread russ - maxdesign
Barb, Try this: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/jobs/css/ppc.htm It is rough as hell and there are many other ways you could do it but it meets your basic needs. Keep in mind that the recent IE's do not support min-width. Russ You have all been so patient and immensely helpful as I've waded

RE: [WSG] positioning 101

2004-04-30 Thread Chatham, Will
Hi Barbara, For starters, you might remove the min-width from your #id's. Those will keep the page from being as liquid as possible, which you said you want. I realize you don't want images in your #rh-col to overlap or be crunched somehow, but if you target your whole layout to fit a minimum

Re: [WSG] positioning 101

2004-04-30 Thread Barbara Dozetos
wow, thanks! This teaches me so much! -- Barbara Dozetos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physician's Computer CompanyMarketing Team 1 Main St., Ste 7 802-846-5532 Winooski, VT 05404 * The discussion list for

[WSG] A tip on using multiple CSS classes

2004-04-30 Thread SomeNewKid
If this is a well known tip, then I apologise for adding a unnecessarymail to thisWSG list. However, in all my research on CSS, I have never before seen this tip on applying multiple CSS classes to an object. Please see: http://weblogs.asp.net/asmith/archive/2004/02/02/66360.aspx

RE: [WSG] positioning 101

2004-04-30 Thread Trusz, Andrew
-Original Message- Barbara wrote: www.pcc.com/benchmark/ The challenge (s): 1) keep the page as 'liquid' as possible 2) make the #navcontainer and #rh-col line up at the top edges, regardless of how deep the #hdr div gets when someone decides to increase font-size. 3) maintain a

Re: [WSG] Custom DTD's to allow target attribute? Yuck

2004-04-30 Thread Nelson Ford
The only thing that makes XHTML something slightly different from XML is it's DTD. Kind of like saying: The only thing that makes females something slightly different from humans is their anatomical differences. The whole point of XHTML is that besides being HTML, it's also well formed XML. I

[WSG] Lists in Paragraphs (was Custom DTD's to allow target attribute? Yuck)

2004-04-30 Thread Patrick Griffiths
Take the following sentence: Mark went to the store and bought eggs, milk, bread, chicken, rice, and corn. Doesn't that sentence contain a unordered list? Good point. I'm still not in agreement that ul/ol's should be nested in p's though. Maybe someone can clarify in the discussion how

Re: [WSG] my second simple css question

2004-04-30 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Paul Ingraham wrote: the wrapping text seems to accommodate changes in the BOTTOM margin of the sidebar just fine. So why on earth can't the flowing text work with an altered TOP margin? If I can't build what I want, I hope to at least understand why! Forget my previous post. I've gone all the

Re: [WSG] A tip on using multiple CSS classes

2004-04-30 Thread Lea de Groot
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:03:52 +0800, SomeNewKid wrote: http://weblogs.asp.net/asmith/archive/2004/02/02/66360.aspx It has to be used carefully, however. If we had foo { border: 1px solid black; } .bar { border: 2px dashed red; } class=foo bar then it is undefined which has greter specifity

Re: [WSG] XML Includes?

2004-04-30 Thread wsg
Mark Stanton wrote: Could you convert: window titlebarmycontent/titlebar contentmycontent/content /window into: div class="window" div class="titlebar"mycontent/div div class="content"mycontent/div /div using XSL? Mark (and Scott), not having noticed the original post I'm a

Re: [WSG] XML Includes?

2004-04-30 Thread Benjamin
wouldnt you need to use the xml doctype if your using xml ? or the xml prologue as its called.? Heyas, Still finding my feet with XHTML / CSS. I noticed that in Mozilla (well through Eric Meyers new book) you can introduce your own tags (ie XML) and basically in many ways can attach CSS

Re: [WSG] A tip on using multiple CSS classes

2004-04-30 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Lea de Groot wrote: It has to be used carefully, however. If we had foo { border: 1px solid black; } .bar { border: 2px dashed red; } class=foo bar then it is undefined which has greter specifity (sp?) Both have the same specifity. The last one overrides the first one. -- Kristof

Re: [WSG] A tip on using multiple CSS classes

2004-04-30 Thread russ - maxdesign
It is spelled 'specificity' (I can spell it but cannot say it to save my life). In your example, they both have the same specificity so it comes down to the order in which they were specified in your css file. In your example '.bar' would be used as it is specified later in the css file. If we