Re: [WSG] ordered list for events

2004-01-14 Thread Kristof Neirynck
russ weakley wrote: Many ways to skin a cat. A standard table is acceptable but so is a definition list: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/jobs/css/peterottery.htm You could use negative margins to avoid the 3px bug that occurs when floating the dt's in msiewin.

Re: [WSG] double quoting

2004-02-25 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Justin French wrote: div onmouseover=myFunc('foo','bah').../div will break terribly when converted to div onmouseover='myFunc('foo','bah')' This might actualy not be such a big problem if you HTMLEncodes your inline javascript. This seems to work in IE 6, FF 0.8, OP 6 and NN 4.7 (win) a

Re: [WSG] Purpose of this mailing list

2004-03-10 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Justin French wrote: You can also filter on the [WSG] in the subject, which is fool-proof. I'd rather not. That would filter out offlist messages as well. I filter on the to field. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kristof * The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Making Dreamweaver's Rollover JS accessible

2004-04-18 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Jaime Wong wrote: Dreamweaver' common set of JS for rollover images are using 'onmouseover' i e. MM_swapImage JS. I wanted to make it more accessible by using 'onfocus=' but I do not know how to work around it so that the JS will work. [insert rant about DW's javascript here] DW puts the

Re: [WSG] Making Dreamweaver's Rollover JS accessible

2004-04-18 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Jaime Wong wrote: Hi Kristof I tried doing that in the html but the JS fails to work. I think I need to change the JS itself but I do not know how to. These are the common image JS DW which I have in my JS file. Odd, I just tried it in my copy of DW and it worked. Are you shure you're not

Re: [WSG] CSS calendar

2004-05-14 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Barbara Dozetos wrote: Anyone have examples of calendars created with CSS? I want to create a calendar for our clients to see when we have training scheduled, etc. and I'm curious to see what others have managed. Everyone uses a table for that kind of thing. You can style the table with css.

Re: [WSG] Removing bullets

2004-05-07 Thread Kristof Neirynck
simon wrote: I have contructed this navigation bar -- http://simondodson.com/nav2.html and im having trouble removing the bullet points from the list ... every new browser will be happy with this: #menu ul{ list-style-type: none; } nn4 will need this: #menu ul, #menu li{ list-style-type:

Re: [WSG] my second simple css question

2004-04-30 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Paul Ingraham wrote: the wrapping text seems to accommodate changes in the BOTTOM margin of the sidebar just fine. So why on earth can't the flowing text work with an altered TOP margin? If I can't build what I want, I hope to at least understand why! Forget my previous post. I've gone all the

Re: [WSG] A tip on using multiple CSS classes

2004-04-30 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Lea de Groot wrote: It has to be used carefully, however. If we had foo { border: 1px solid black; } .bar { border: 2px dashed red; } class=foo bar then it is undefined which has greter specifity (sp?) Both have the same specifity. The last one overrides the first one. -- Kristof

Re: [WSG] A tip on using multiple CSS classes

2004-05-02 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Lea de Groot wrote: It has to be used carefully, however. If we had foo { border: 1px solid black; } .bar { border: 2px dashed red; } class=foo bar then it is undefined which has greter specifity (sp?) Both have the same specifity. The last one overrides the first one. -- Kristof

Re: [WSG] my second simple css question

2004-04-29 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Paul Ingraham wrote: Just one problem. The top of the sidebar is always on the same line as the adjacent paragraph. I'd rather have this: main content main content main content main content main content main content main content main sidebar sidebar sidebar sidebar main content main

Re: [WSG] my second simple css question

2004-04-29 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Paul Ingraham wrote: ...but to my knowledge you can't reach your wish without putting the sidebar in the middle of your content. Actually, I can't even reach it by doing that! I haven't figured out ANY way of doing it, acceptable or otherwise. So maybe my questions wasn't so simple question,

Re: [WSG] naming a form so it validates?

2004-05-24 Thread Kristof Neirynck
robert e. lee wrote: I have a name attribute in the form tag, but I need it there due to the javascript validations necessary for client side checking, name=surveyform. 1. change name=surveyform to id=surveyform 2. change document.forms[surveyform] to document.getElementById(surveyform) Easy

Re: [WSG] Browsers Emulator

2004-05-26 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Justin French wrote: What I'd like to see is a program for Mac OS X that will load a URL into all currently running browsers (including those in X11, VirtualPC and MacClassic, so it's truly cross-platform), take a screen shot, and present them back in one tabbed interface as a series of screen

Re: [WSG] CSS Disaster

2004-06-04 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Sean M. Hall AKA Dante wrote: At first I though it was this: @import url('screenstyles.css') screen; I use single quotes so IE5/Mac won't see the stylesheet. But I switched to double quotes and still no luck. Removed the screen; part. Nein. not yet. Removed the conditional comments for IE in the

Re: [WSG] Centering a liquid grid of image thumbs and captions

2004-06-05 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Nick Gleitzman wrote: I've been trying to emulate, with CSS alone, what I've been doing for years with tables: create a grid of thumbnails, each with a caption below, both image and caption linked to an enlargement. We all know how easy that is; center the table, center the cell content

Re: [WSG] Centering a liquid grid of image thumbs and captions

2004-06-06 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Nick Gleitzman wrote: Thanks again, Kristof. I appreciate the time you've put into this; I have to get back to work too. I'm not sure that even nesting tables would give the liquid layout; I meant to reply on this: -- [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] ... - -- [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] ... - --

Re: [WSG] Which *free* editors do you guys recommend?

2004-06-06 Thread Kristof Neirynck
noa wrote: Sean M. Hall AKA Dante wrote: As I said before: syntax highlighting and no automatic insertion. EditPlus http://editplus.com/ isn't free, as such, but it has an unlimited unrestricted trial mode, and better syntax highlighting. Also, it has a built in FTP browser. +1 Worth 36* its

Re: [WSG] Ordered List numbering format

2004-06-10 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Miles Tillinger wrote: Is there an accepted number format for ordered lists? When using ordered lists in a structured document, e.g. a Policy or Standards document, I'm using the following numbering format: So parts of the document can be referenced as 1.2 section a item i, which seems pretty

Re: [WSG] Styling Text...

2004-07-03 Thread Kristof Neirynck
Chris Stratford wrote: Since BUI etc... are all outlawed and now depreciated... How do you style your inner P text? [snip] Actualy, they haven't changed since html 4. Read all about it here: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html A small summary of the important inline elements: Semantic

Re: [WSG] Fake link, All JS, or CSS+Conditional Comments?

2004-09-05 Thread Kristof Neirynck
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 16:24:09 +0200, Mordechai Peller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building an expanding menu and I'm trying to decide the best route to take. The idea is that by clicking on an item it will either be a [snip] If JavaScript isn't available the menus will either default to all

[OFFLIST] Re: [WSG] Letting clients update their site

2004-11-06 Thread Kristof Neirynck
On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 15:10:58 +0100, Erwin Heiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I¹m a one man operation and mostly do smaller sites. A lot of clients these days are requesting to be able to do their own updates on their sites, but haven¹t a clue when it comes to XHTML or CSS. What I¹d

[WSG] oops

2004-11-06 Thread Kristof Neirynck
That last message wasn't meant to be posted to the list. Sorry. -- Kristof ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help