RE: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change color?

2008-04-11 Thread michael.brockington
Do I understand this right: you want the background to change, as the mouse passes over one of these diagonal lines - or just when the user mouses over any part of the background? Mike From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change color?

2008-04-11 Thread Martin Heiden
Kane, on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 03:03 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: If I HAD to do something like this, I would create a Gif image that had a transparency where you wanted the colour change. Yes, but you should use a PNG with alpha-transparency. The lines are diagonal, so you need some

Re: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change color?

2008-04-11 Thread Ben Dodson
Completely unrelated but a minor bugbear from me - If you disable images, then you can't read your links as they are white and the usual browser background color default is white. This can be remedied by adding a background color of black to your body so that the links will now become visible

Re: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change color?

2008-04-11 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Hi, From a usability and accessibility point of view doing this is a very bad idea, so is way OT for Web Standards Group. On Thu, April 10, 2008 11:54 pm, Laert Jansen wrote: Hello everyone. Well there´s something I want to do but I have no idea if it´s possible to be done and how would I

RE: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change color?

2008-04-11 Thread michael.brockington
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Foulstone Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 9:40 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change colour? Hi, From a usability and accessibility point of view doing

Re: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change color?

2008-04-11 Thread Laert Jansen
Hey Mike, there´s a black line and a grey line when the mouse passes over one grey line it becomes blackwhen the mouse passes over one black line it becomes grey..only the line that the mouse passes over would change its color..not the whole bg or the other

RE: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change color?

2008-04-11 Thread michael.brockington
@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change color? Hey Mike, there´s a black line and a grey line when the mouse passes over one grey line it becomes blackwhen the mouse passes over one black line it becomes grey..only the line

Re: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change color?

2008-04-11 Thread Andrew Freedman
Sounds more like a web design issue rather than a web standards issue. Maybe it should be taken to a web design list. Try - http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/adobe-dreamweaver/?v=1t=directorych=webpub=groupssec=dirslk=1 Andrew. Laert Jansen provided the following information on

Re: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change color?

2008-04-10 Thread Svip
Well, you could simply change the background image to create the illusion of it changing colour. However, I think technically it is way too confusing for it to change colour when you browse the site. A different note, your page claims to be in Portuguese, when the only Portuguese text appearing

RE: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change color?

2008-04-10 Thread Paul Bennett
warning: untested! You could try this* (won't people almost _always_ be mousing over the page body though?) body{background: #000 url(/path/to/image.gif) repeat;} body:hover{background: #000 url(/path/to/somotherimage.gif) repeat;} * won't work in IE 6 though HTH? Paul

Re: [WSG] How to make diagonal lines change color?

2008-04-10 Thread Kane Tapping
Hi , If I HAD to do something like this, I would create a Gif image that had a transparency where you wanted the colour change. Then use the GIF as a background image on a item and specify a background colour that changed on hover. div#name {background: #f00 url(image-name.gif) repeat;}