RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

change the layout and appearance of the whole site. The key word here is 'driven', in that the site presentation is controlled by the CSS, much the same as a database driven sites content is controlled and easily changed by making changes to the database records. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy

RE: [WSG] talking points for standards

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RE: [WSG] talking points for standards

, sceptics. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote: The day WILL come when there is a governing body over the net. There WAS a day when housing codes DID NOT exist and were being worked on and accepted. Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Call me a cynic

RE: [WSG] My Turn for a Site Critique

going they want to know about. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com Samuel Richardson wrote If you read the month of december as being summer its true for the southern hemisphere but not the northen, to do it properly you would have to detect the hemisphere then choose

RE: [WSG] page break up

Hi Lori Your issue with the tabs can be quickly fixed by switching the order in your css of the #menu a:visited and #menu a:hover, so the hover is 'above' the visited declaration. The page break up looks like a guillotine bug. Need to dig more to find the cause for that! Regards Scott Swabey

RE: [WSG] menu suggestions and problems

To make the site truly fluid you'll need to use relative size units (em, %) in place of pixels. This will ensure that container elements change size in proportion to the font contained therein. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [WSG] position fixed on the thead

requirements, though I haven't investigated/played with it myself. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

RE: [WSG] a: class border width problem

Hi The problem would appear to be that you have applied the border to the li using the #drNav, and are trying to override that assignement by reseting the border on the nested a element. Try changing the .corner class to apply to the nested a: /* css */ #drNav a { margin: 0px; float:left;

RE: [WSG] two column

Hi JoAn, and welcome to the list Have a read of some of the articles over at A List Apart (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins/) which should give you a good grounding for a source ordered 2 column layout. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com -Original

RE: [WSG] Style a parent element based on an id selector of the child element

As Matthew said, the selectors step down, so you could apply the active_menu id to the td, then use descendence(!) on the contained elements. td id=active_menuasnip/a/td #active_menu { styles } #active_menu a { styles } Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com

RE: [WSG] Site Check [BushidoDeep]

Have you run it through the validators you link to? You are showing errors in the XHTML validator, which stops validation in the CSS validator. You are also showing warnings when run through Tidy. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com -Original Message- On Behalf

RE: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

. This is my 0.005c (times are hard!) Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

RE: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

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RE: [WSG] Text Size Statistics

/products/methods. Backwards compatibility can only extend so far, and relaxation of a standard dilutes the purpose and impact of the standard. Why have a standard if there is no effect in not applying or adhering to it? Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com

RE: [WSG] Text Size Statistics

it redundant. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** 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] tabbed content within content pages

as they have separate URI's, they are all a template, and the template content is derived from the querystring passed through the URL. In this case the URL is rewritten to make it more readable, but behind the scenes it is still in the format of ?a=1amp;b=2. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions

RE: [WSG] Text Size Statistics

of the need to worry about 90% of the hacks we currently use. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

RE: [WSG] Designing for printing

specific knowledge that that is the size your users _will_ be printing at then I see no need to prepare for anything other than the _standard_ A4/letter sheet sizes. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list

RE: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem

words 'bump' ;)) I haven't had need (so far) to use the 100% height rule, but would surmise that if it is applied in the same manner as the margin/padding reset rule, i.e. to clear the slate and create a level playing field, then it _should_ be part of the default declaration. Regards Scott Swabey

RE: [WSG] Semantic Calendar

a table for apparently non-tabular data. After a bit more thought I have decided to present the calendar in a table, which, combined with some additional functionality of the calendar, now seems to be the _right_ way to do it. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com

RE: [WSG] Spec box and leaders

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[WSG] Semantic Calendar

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RE: [WSG] Spacing Issue

are always going to be required. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

RE: [WSG] Align text vertically in a division

%; } div class=outer div class=inner spansome test text herespan /div /div Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rachel Radford Sent: Wednesday, 10 August

RE: [WSG] Resource on using rel attribute to open new window

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RE: [WSG] Browser hijacking for usability

Title: Message Jamie Mason I've been thinking about whether it would help to automatically fix these problems by using registry keys, for example. Ask the question of yourself - if you were instructed by a website to run a file that changed registry settings on your pc, would you do it?

RE: [WSG] textarea: why rows and cols?

The rows and cols attributes - mandatory for any textarea element - defines the *VISIBLE* height and width of the element. So why are they in the mark-up? I've googled long and hard and haven't found anything to the contrary. Surely these attributes should be defined in the CSS. Any

RE: [WSG] Exporting inline CSS

Quick question, I have a client with lots of HTML file that have inline CSS. (Over 300 docs) I am looking for some software, or way, that will export this inline css into a external css file. Or even just move it into a embedded style sheet. Am not aware on any package that would do this

RE: [WSG] Can you style Alt text?

The ALT text displayed when an image is not available will inherit the properties of the containing element. To unify your ALT text you can add a font style to your img: img { font: 1em arial #000 } Regards Scott Swabey General Manager Lafinboy Productions

RE: [WSG] link one style sheet from another

Very often helpful, it saves duplication of style declarations for reusable elements. Take for example a screen and print style guide. In general the typographic and colour styles remain unchanged, and layout changes for print styles. If each is placed in it's own file then you only need to create

RE: [WSG] A form within a form

Hi Charla AFAIK you are not permitted to nest forms. Regards Scott Swabey General Manager Lafinboy Productions :: website design :: website development :: graphic design e [EMAIL PROTECTED] t +61 (0)415 193 126 w www.lafinboy.com -Original

RE: [WSG] Opinions about contact form please

On Firefox 1.0.2, WinXP, 1024x768 the sample article divs push the footer div down at normal font size. 2 sizes down and alignment is good but readability is gone. Regards Scott Swabey General Manager Lafinboy Productions :: website design :: website

RE: [WSG] email client css suport

I can't say as I've ever come across any problems with embedding style directives in emails, even with quite extensive style guides. The main consideration seems to be the overall size of the email, and obviously the larger your style declaration is, the larger the email will be. That said, the