Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
John Latter wrote: You've just started? Crikey - I must have the IQ odf a banana then! :) (see? I can't even spell off!) No apparent IQ problems at your end ;-) (must be the keyboard's fault...) Call me a slow starter... :-) ...as I've been handling bits and bytes and code since before they

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-18 Thread John Latter
Thanks Georg - not least for the idea of blaming my keyboard! It's only the code that is for Google, the content is for humans but I'm interested in such an unpopular are of evolution that getting the css/html code right is quite important (cos I need all the help I can get). I'm offline in

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-18 Thread Steve Olive
On 18/02/2006, at 4:09 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:Just a question: is it "xhtml 1.0 which may be served as xhtml and/orhtml" or "html with an xhtml DTD, lowercase and slashes, and served ashtml" you are recommending?I have no problems with the former since I use it all the time, but thelatter is

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Steve Olive wrote: :-) pony below I guess it's just a matter of trying to keep up the good ideals and getting more designers on board with XHTML served as XHTML HTML. I'm actually surprised how many tutorials I see that use HTML 4.01 in computer magazines in 2006. If we can't convince

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread Drew Trusz
On 2/16/06, John Latter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://evomech2.blogspot.com/2006/02/re-evomech-re-peer-review-and-genetic.html Its a 2 column layout and I think the relevant css code is: div#mainClm{float:right;width:66%;padding:30px 7% 10px 3%;border-left:dotted 1px #E0AD12;}

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
John Latter wrote: http://evomech2.blogspot.com/2006/02/re-evomech-re-peer-review-and-genetic.html The first problem (which occurs on Firefox but not IE6) can be seen at the bottom of the above page where the sidebar text overflows into main content area. I have tried to fix it myself but with

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread John Latter
Thank you Gunlaug, I'm quite new to css and had to read your comments several times before they even began to sink in! I chose the current Doctype largely out of ignorance but also because I believed that browsers would be more tolerant of bad/incorrent css coding - the word 'strict' made me

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread Steve Olive
I would recommend using the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD instead of HTML 4.01 - for the simple reason that there is a bit more tolerance for user-friendly options but you are following the XML standards of lower case tags and attributes, all tags being closed, preferably CSS for positioning but

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Steve Olive wrote: I would recommend using the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD instead of HTML 4.01 - for the simple reason that there is a bit more tolerance for user-friendly options but you are following the XML standards of lower case tags and attributes, all tags being closed, preferably CSS

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/17/06, Steve Olive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would recommend using the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD instead of HTML 4.01 - for the simple reason that there is a bit more tolerance for user-friendly options but you are following the XML standards of lower case tags and attributes, all tags

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread John Latter
On 18/02/2006 Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: John Latter wrote: Thank you Gunlaug, I'm quite new to css and had to read your comments several times before they even began to sink in! :-) ...and I've just started ;-) Just take your time and get the basics right from the beginning. Much easier

Re: [WSG] Overflow and inheritance problems with a 2-column layout

2006-02-17 Thread John Latter
Thanks Steve! The Firefox extensions will be useful (providing I understand what they do) - I also have HTML-Kit which I haven't used for ages. I recently downloaded a new version but have yet to find out how to put HTML Tidy into it again. Could I have a link to your template please? John