[WSG] Two CSS Problems

2007-03-28 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hi all, Can anyone please help with the following problems (in WIN IE6 7): 1. How to get a link background image (used as an underline) to continue over two or more lines? Example http://geofeat.com/ - RHS Latest News links 2. Why the footer at the bottom of this page jumps when hovering over

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-28 Thread David Dorward
Donna Jones wrote: hi everyone: i have some pop-ups that are part of a fairly old design and have been working on updating the code as i go. i've used onblur=window.close(); (in the body tag) to have the pop-up close after it loses focus, but Tidy says, onblur is proprietary and doesn't

Re: [WSG] Two CSS Problems

2007-03-28 Thread Ross Bruniges
In response to question 1 this is something that can't really be fixed in IE6/7 due to how they measure the bounding box of a link. The best description I could find for this is at http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/wrappinglinkbg.html Ways I have got around this problem is buy using an image

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-28 Thread Donna Jones
i've used onblur=window.close(); (in the body tag) to have the pop-up close after it loses focus, but Tidy says, onblur is proprietary and doesn't like it. is there something i can use instead? I'd suggest avoiding closing the window when it looses the focus altogether. Last time I

[WSG] Trouble with H3 float

2007-03-28 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
One more question please... When I resize http://geofeat.com/ to 800x600 the H3 heading *Featured Advertisers* (third heading on page content) floats right. I have tried all sorts of css to fix this but end up with more problems (specifically to do with excess top/bottom margins in the heading

Re: [WSG] Two CSS Problems

2007-03-28 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hey Ross In response to question 1 this is something that can't really be fixed in IE6/7 due to how they measure the bounding box of a link. Thanks for your reply - I thought this may be the case - bummer! Oh well, the joys of IE! Thanks Sarah -- XERT Communications email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] Trouble with H3 float

2007-03-28 Thread Ian Pouncey
Sarah Peeke wrote: When I resize http://geofeat.com/ to 800x600 the H3 heading *Featured Advertisers* (third heading on page content) floats right. There is a nice, easy fix to this Sarah. It looks like the problem you are having is that the 3 three divs above it are floated. When you float

Re: [WSG] Trouble with H3 float

2007-03-28 Thread Christian Fagan
I haven't looked at the code of the site properly so forgive me if this doesn't work... You can apply the CSS property { clear: both } to the H3 heading. Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: One more question please... When I resize http://geofeat.com/ to 800x600 the H3 heading *Featured Advertisers*

Re: [WSG] Trouble with H3 float

2007-03-28 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hi Christian Ian, I haven't looked at the code of the site properly so forgive me if this doesn't work... You can apply the CSS property { clear: both } to the H3 heading. I have tried the clear: both; and clear: left; options. But I get a margin problem which differs across

Re: [WSG] Trouble with H3 float

2007-03-28 Thread Ian Pouncey
Sarah Peeke wrote: I have tried the clear: both; and clear: left; options. But I get a margin problem which differs across browsers (IE versus FF). Placing a margin: 0; doesn't appear to help. Hi Sarah, Your email doesn't say what the specific margin problem you are having is, but I am

Re: [WSG] Trouble with H3 float

2007-03-28 Thread ~davidLaakso
Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: One more question please... When I resize http://geofeat.com/ to 800x600 the H3 heading *Featured Advertisers* (third heading on page content) floats right. I have tried all sorts of css to fix this but end up with more problems (specifically to do with excess

Re: [WSG] New Yorker Redesign

2007-03-28 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Does this site use some kind of image replacement/substitution technique for the headers? *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help:

Re: [WSG] Trouble with H3 float

2007-03-28 Thread Christian Fagan
The problem is that in Firefox (and other similar browsers), when elements are floated (in your case the div class=bl last), the containing div has a height of 0. In IE, the height is always adjusted to fit in the floated divs. What you need to do is set the height of the divs so that, at

Re: [WSG] How to mark up a flowchart?

2007-03-28 Thread Mordechai Peller
Nick Gleitzman wrote: I have to incorporate a couple of simple flowcharts into the content of a site I'm building, I'm scratching my head about the best way to mark up this info in a semantically meaningful way. A generic example can be seen here: http://www.omnivision.com.au/test/flowchart/

Re: [WSG] Trouble with H3 float

2007-03-28 Thread akella
u can solve the problem with different margins in IE and FF, one of the solutions: 1. wrap those 3 floated divs(.bl) before h3 (additional wrapper div) let it be class=suppa-wrapper it would look like this div class=suppa-wrapper div class=bl /div /div 2. Set this CSS on it

RE: [WSG] New Yorker Redesign

2007-03-28 Thread Ricci Angela
I believe siFr lists them as one of their users... It's a technique to replace headers by swf text using javascript. It's quite cool if used under certain strict conditions. http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/ Cheers, Angela -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-28 Thread David Dorward
Donna Jones wrote: Hi David: thanks for your response. I don't think I have the same circumstances you describe but not sure, would you mind looking at this page: http://www.mainehumanities.org/programs/litandmed/synapse/sym-temp/feature_s07.html# its the bio link. It is the same

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-28 Thread Donna Jones
Hi David: thanks for your response. I don't think I have the same circumstances you describe but not sure, would you mind looking at this page: http://www.mainehumanities.org/programs/litandmed/synapse/sym-temp/feature_s07.html# Thanks again David: It is the same circumstances as I described

Re: [WSG] Trouble with H3 float

2007-03-28 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote: When I resize http://geofeat.com/ to 800x600 the H3 heading *Featured Advertisers* (third heading on page content) floats right. If you don't want to run into more serious problems, the addition of... h3 {clear: both; } ...is a must. All differences that may occur

[WSG] sIFR : Rich Accessible Typography

2007-03-28 Thread Brad Pollard
sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in the typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. Read more about how it works here: http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/ I ran the sIRF webpage

[WSG] namespace attribute and validation

2007-03-28 Thread James Ellis
Hi group a question about namespace attributes in html/xhtml. I'm looking at methods of conveying information to client side scripts in a neat manner within an HTML document and trying to be valid at the same time. My methods works but the validator complains about namespaced attributes. Method

Re: [WSG] sIFR : Rich Accessible Typography

2007-03-28 Thread Michael MD
sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in the typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. Read more about how it works here: http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/ When I first saw this my

Re: [WSG] namespace attribute and validation

2007-03-28 Thread Lachlan Hunt
James Ellis wrote: a question about namespace attributes in html/xhtml. I'm looking at methods of conveying information to client side scripts in a neat manner within an HTML document and trying to be valid at the same time. My methods works but the validator complains about namespaced

[WSG] vertically aligning objects of unknown height

2007-03-28 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Hi guys, Is there any way to vertically align objects in CSS next to each other if the height of them is not set? This is what I am trying to achieve: http://www.prototype.net.au/boxes.html I want to create a box with an undefined amount of text inside of it and next to the box I want a

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-28 Thread David Dorward
Donna Jones wrote: It is the same circumstances as I described previously, although my browser seems to have become smarter since I last ran across anyone doing something like that and doesn't automatically give the window a focus to lose when it opens now (of course, if I want to copy/paste