Re: [WSG] Formatting tables

2005-05-11 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Geoff Pack wrote: I find that it often helps to add a border in the html which then limits you to only using HTML 4 or XHTML 1.0 Transitional -- Patrick H. Lauke _ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- +

Re: [WSG] Formatting tables

2005-05-11 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 5/11/05 12:02 AM Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: I find that it often helps to add a border in the html which then limits you to only using HTML 4 or XHTML 1.0 Transitional Would that be bad? If so, why would that be bad? I sure read differing opinions on all this XHTML

Re: [WSG] Formatting tables

2005-05-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 11 May 2005, at 4:02 pm, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Geoff Pack wrote: I find that it often helps to add a border in the html which then limits you to only using HTML 4 or XHTML 1.0 Transitional That is not correct. http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/table_1.php Is perfectly valid application/xhtml+xml --

Re: [WSG] Formatting tables

2005-05-11 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Rick Faaberg wrote: Would that be bad? If so, why would that be bad? Not necessarily bad, no.Just thought it would be worth spelling out the implications of using border and such attributes. Of course, the only true value of XHTML (strict) comes when you're mixing different XML technologies in

Re[2]: [WSG] Flash Satay method article

2005-05-11 Thread Martin Heiden
Simon, Am Dienstag, 10. Mai 2005 um 18:32:05 haben Sie geschrieben: object classid=clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-44455354 codebase=http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0; width=400 height=300 param name=movie

RE: [WSG] Formatting tables

2005-05-11 Thread Patrick Lauke
Philippe Wittenbergh That is not correct. http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/table_1.php Is perfectly valid application/xhtml+xml -- xhtml1.1 table border=0 cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0 Hmmm...interesting. Thanks for the correction. Bizarre, though, that those attributes have been left in the

[WSG] IE not displaying a link as a block level element

2005-05-11 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Hi All I've got an issue that I haven't seen before. I've got a fairly simple vertical nav with nested lists. For some reason, the links are not displaying as block level elements in IE. Here's the CSS #mainnav {background:#29475d; width:182px; list-style- type:none;padding:10px 0 10px 7px;}

Re: [WSG] IE not displaying a link as a block level element

2005-05-11 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Drake, Ted C. wrote: The rest of the styles use body classes to show or hide specific nested menus. Does anyone see a reason why the links would not display as block? It is causing some flashing as you mouse over the links and hit dead air. The hover goes off and on Hi Ted, To fix IE,

Re: [WSG] IE not displaying a link as a block level element

2005-05-11 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Drake, Ted C. wrote: For some reason, the links are not displaying as block level elements in IE. Here's the CSS ... #mainnav li a {display:block; border-top:1px solid #fff; padding-right:5px; padding-left:5px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold!important; color:#fff;

Re: [WSG] IE not displaying a link as a block level element

2005-05-11 Thread kemie guaida
#mainnav li {list-style-type:none; margin:0; padding:0;display:inline;} You can't have a block-level element within an inline one... try changing display:inline to float:left instead cheers kemie ...:| kemie |:... .:| www.monolinea.com |:.

RE: [WSG] IE not displaying a link as a block level element

2005-05-11 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Ding, ding, ding, We have a winner. I used the display:inline/display:block combination from this Andy Budd post: http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2003/12/css_crib_sheet_1_gaps_between_vertical_nav_elements_in_ie5/index.php When I switched it to float:left, the nav elements shrank

Re: [WSG] IE not displaying a link as a block level element

2005-05-11 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Drake, Ted C. wrote: I could probably generalize the holly hacks to the whole site, but for now I am doing it on the individual nav. Are there reasons why I shouldn't just say * html li and * html a ? Did you try to use Conditional Comments instead of CSS filetrs? IMO, that's where this

[WSG] CSS Comments

2005-05-11 Thread Kerri McKenna
Hi everyone, I realize that /* */ are used to add comments to CSS, but I'm not clear on what /* \*/ means, or what the single asterisk is used for. Kerri PS - I've only just joined the list so I do apologize if this is perceived as off topic. --- Excerpt from Ted Drake:

Re: [WSG] CSS Comments

2005-05-11 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Kerri McKenna wrote: Hi everyone, I realize that /* */ are used to add comments to CSS, but I'm not clear on what /* \*/ means, or what the single asterisk is used for. /* */ pairs alone are comments, yes, but they are also used as hacks when they are used in the right sequence. Some browsers

Re: [WSG] CSS Comments

2005-05-11 Thread Horst Gutmann
Kerri McKenna wrote: Hi everyone, I realize that /* */ are used to add comments to CSS, but I'm not clear on what /* \*/ means, or what the single asterisk is used for. Kerri PS - I've only just joined the list so I do apologize if this is perceived as off topic. --- Excerpt

Re: [WSG] CSS Comments

2005-05-11 Thread Jan Brasna
Hi, it's a CSS filter to rule out IE5Mac, see http://www.dithered.com/css_filters/css_only/escaped_comment_end.html -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/

Re: [WSG] CSS Comments

2005-05-11 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Drake, Ted C. wrote: This is a hack to send a style to Internet Explorer on windows and not mac. IMHO, IE CCs are a better alternative to this hack: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomment_ovw.asp Thierry | http://www.TJKDesign.com

Re: [WSG] CSS Comments

2005-05-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 12 May 2005, at 5:15 am, Drake, Ted C. wrote: This is a hack to send a style to Internet Explorer on windows and not mac. /* \*/ hides it from IE Mac, which doesn't understand the escape \ It would be better formulated as: 'A filter to hide the next rule block from IE Mac'. In full: /* hide

[WSG] Minimum browsers/OS tested for?

2005-05-11 Thread Neerav
Hi I havent asked this for a while so it would be interesting to know what the current trend in Browser/Operating system support is for the freelancers/corporates on this list to see if there has been any change in the last 6-12 months Theoretical example 1: we used to design for 5.x browsers

Re: [WSG] Reapplying your CSS when the page length changes

2005-05-11 Thread Stevio
I found a solution for my problem from this page: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alternate/ I use this function: function setActiveStyleSheet(title) { var i, a, main; for(i=0; (a = document.getElementsByTagName(link)[i]); i++) { if(a.getAttribute(rel).indexOf(style) != -1