[WSG] Styling forms inside a horizontal navigation bar

2005-06-20 Thread Anura Samara
I'm trying to get a search form to appear neatly within a horizontal navigation bar. Here's my test page so far == http://www.thesamaras.com/horiz/horiz_form.htm At the moment, the only way I can get this to work is to float the form within the containing div. I've noticed that IE and others seem

Re: [WSG] Length of ALT attribute

2004-12-15 Thread Anura Samara
Thanks for that link, it makes interesting reading. There are two options for passing this requirement The ALT attribute value must be less than 100 characters for English text or the user must confirm that the Alt text is as short as possible. Well, I am trying to describe some complex images,

[WSG] Length of ALT attribute

2004-12-14 Thread Anura Samara
Is there a recommend length for ALT attributes? Or different implementations of ALT attributes between browsers that affect the length? In response to some accessibility testing, I am working on modifying some ALT attributes on images used in our online annual report, and as you can imagine some

Re: [WSG] Length of ALT attribute

2004-12-14 Thread Anura Samara
Thanks for the help everyone. I had heard about 255 characters before but couldn't find any definitive references to it. The issue with characters being cut off may be a concern - we'll need to cram some important words in the first characters of the text. And yes, we have long descriptions for

Re: [WSG] IE misbehaving with a list

2004-10-28 Thread Anura Samara
this problem ... AS On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:52:55 +0800, Kay Smoljak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:43:35 +1000, Anura Samara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, just using the basic version of the CSS rollover lists, I'm finding that MS IE 5 is adding a gap between list items

Re: [WSG] IE misbehaving with a list

2004-10-28 Thread Anura Samara
Next time I should hit Google a lot harder, and also remember who my CSS friends are! I have just found this handy tip on Andy Budd's site == http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2003/12/css_crib_sheet_1_gaps_between_vertical_nav_elements_in_ie5/ Setting the containing LI to display: inline has

[WSG] IE misbehaving with a list

2004-10-27 Thread Anura Samara
Using that great resource, the Listutorial (http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listutorial/roll_master.htm), I thought I would rework some navigation with a CSS-styled list, instead of images and rollovers. However, just using the basic version of the CSS rollover lists, I'm finding that MS IE 5 is

Re: [WSG] Restricted HTML Editor?

2004-08-26 Thread Anura . Samara
Well, something like HTMLArea allows you to customise the toolbar, so that you can remove functionality that you don't want the unwashed to have. The problem is that I recall it doesn't produce 100% standards-compliant code AS ** The

RE: [WSG] Absolute positioning vs floats

2004-08-26 Thread Anura . Samara
Thanks everyone for your thoughts on positioning vs float... except of course that opinion is divided! As usual, its a matter of finding the best fit for what I want to achieve. I think I might do a new version of the site using floats over the weekend, just to see if it makes a difference. My

[WSG] Absolute positioning vs floats

2004-08-25 Thread Anura . Samara
I noticed someone made the comment that the preferred floats to absolute positioning. I have just created a new design using absolute positioning. It 'seems' to work across IE, Mozilla, Opera and latest Netscape (I'm trying to forget about NS4.7). But what is the consensus amongst my esteemed

[WSG] Designing for Opera's zoom functionality

2004-08-23 Thread Anura . Samara
I am well on the way to developing new designs for our site. However, in having the design tested for accessibility, I have run into some problems with the way Opera handles zooming. My design has three columns: from left-to-right there are (1) a fixed width column with a bit of contextual info

[WSG] Aligning the text in list items

2004-08-17 Thread Anura . Samara
I am attempting to replace an image based navigation set in a top banner with a styled list of links. If you have a look at this sample (http://www.thesamaras.com/_newsite2/home1.htm), you can see how I have set a specific height for each of the three list items; this is because the banner will

RE: [WSG] Aligning the text in list items

2004-08-17 Thread Anura . Samara
Thanks for the tip. I applied the line-height property to both the list item and the link and it seems to work across IE, Mozilla and Opera. AS Anura asked: My question is: how do I get the text in each list item to appear vertically in the middle of item? In other words, I want the text to