Re: [WSG] Tutorial on styling forms anywhere?

2004-02-17 Thread Hugh Todd
Michael, Yesterday I posted this link. It's a good start. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/practicalcss/ There's a bit of useful forms code lower down the page. -Hugh Todd Now I'm experimenting with styling forms - layout of labels and input etc. Is there a good tutorial anywhere

Re: [WSG] Unordered list with id

2004-02-16 Thread Hugh Todd
of the site, which triggers a background inside the appropriate a tag (by calling on the appropriate a#mnu style for that page). http://www.wasabicube.com/ http://www.wasabicube.com/s/wc.css Hope this helps. -Hugh Todd Now i want to highlight the current page using a different CSS style. I have

Re: [WSG] CSS and IE / Mac

2004-02-11 Thread Hugh Todd
://members.ozemail.com.au/~hughtodd/allegro/ -Hugh Todd I just finished a XHTML / CSS redesign (http://allegro-ems.com/), and tested it out in several browsers. It seems to cut it for all except IE / Mac. The footer gets smashed against the right side. I've been trying to figure out why

[WSG] Font weight weirdness in Safari 1.2?

2004-02-10 Thread Hugh Todd
://members.ozemail.com.au/~hughtodd/lsp/playvan/playvan.css Very disconcerting. Am I alone here? -Hugh Todd * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] Traitor unmasked! (Pete's layout fixed)

2004-02-07 Thread Hugh Todd
leave someone else to sort that out. Otherwise it looks mighty fine in Safari, Mozilla 1.6, IE5 Mac and Opera 6.3 Mac. Took me quite a lot longer than your half an hour, probably because I was having to go backwards through your code, but it's satisfying to have it done! -Hugh Todd Here's

Re: [WSG] Right column longer = error

2004-02-05 Thread Hugh Todd
, perhaps as DIV, inside your last closing /DIV, with clear: left. Which is, of course, changing the HTML. Sigh. HTH. -Hugh Todd I am having an issue with using fauxcolumns. Everything is fine if the left column content is longer than the right, but if the right column content is longer the image

Re: [WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-03 Thread Hugh Todd
web kits concurrently. (Might even be able to do it from the same UI, as you suggest.) -Hugh Todd * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] Definition lists -- mid-weekly challenge

2004-01-28 Thread Hugh Todd
Sent this message before 10am today, and it seems to have disappeared. Will try again. This and following message. Cameron, Can't be bothered trying it Boy, that sure puts this newbie upstart in his place. :) but you could float the image left, leave the other elements non-floated, block, with

Re: [WSG] Calendar Day Highlighting

2004-01-28 Thread Hugh Todd
on IE5 Mac, and mouseover doesn't work. Nor does it work in Opera 6 Mac. Guess they don't support mouseovers on elements other than DIVs? All the best! -Hugh Todd * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] list-style-types

2004-01-27 Thread Hugh Todd
and the background, both for their initial and :hover states. -Hugh Todd (Basis for this code found on stopdesign.com) * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

[WSG] Definition lists -- mid-weekly challenge

2004-01-27 Thread Hugh Todd
the second (non-img) dt into a dd and modify it with a span, but then I lose the semantic significance of the dt. -Hugh Todd * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] more usable forms

2004-01-23 Thread Hugh Todd
Mark, Russ, I didn't write the article, but sitepoint does have a facility to provide feedback (http://www.sitepoint.com/feedback/1273) and I know the author responsible is listening. Done. Thanks. -Hugh * The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] CD Navigation

2004-01-22 Thread Hugh Todd
Gavin, I realise that users will have to download acrobat. The pages cannot be in HTML because they are student hand-writing samples. They also need to be fully-printable. Yes, I thought graphics may be an issue here. But just to clarify, PDF files do not display in Mac browsers these days,

[WSG] Absolute positioned DIVs IE bug?

2004-01-22 Thread Hugh Todd
control this better? 2) Opera breaks a couple of things. The ul li a:hover on the right of the horizontal navigation bar loses the changed background file. And the graphic link at the top right of the page vanishes. Any insights would be appreciated! -Hugh Todd

Re: [WSG] ems for font sizes? (was Absolute positioned DIVs IE bug?)

2004-01-22 Thread Hugh Todd
Peter, you asked, Do you feel the the pro's of using em's (for font sizes) outweigh the cons? I'm sure there'll be some much more knowledgeable people than I on this subject, but I'll just make a couple of remarks. 1) Only IE on the PC (and I only learnt this recently, from John Allsopp)

Re: [WSG] CD Navigation

2004-01-21 Thread Hugh Todd
drift left off the left hand border of the browser. Looks as though you may want to go to browsercam right away. -Hugh Todd :) * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] close to pixel perfect ...

2004-01-20 Thread Hugh Todd
Pete, Would someone mind checking this out for me: http://universalhead.com/ataglance/work_test.html CSS athttp://universalhead.com/ataglance/c/aag.css No matter what I do, the left column of info (div id=workmaincolumn) persists in being 3px from the right column instead of 5px in Safari

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