----- Original Message -----
From: "Lesley Binks" <[email protected]>
To: "TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [css-d] help needed
> I'm no CSS expert by any means but in your css file you have
> html, body { color: black; font-size: medium; font-family: Arial,
> Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; margin: 0px; padding: 0px }
> body { color: black; font-size: medium; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
> Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; background-image:
> url(graphics/graytile.gif) }
>
> As far as I can recall, you can shorten the second statement to
> body {background-image: url(graphics graytile.gif)}
>
> because all the other styling will be inherited from the first
> statement. Repeating it might seem easier from a development
> viewpoint but you make a maintenance problem in that you have the font
> stack listed in more than one place so you have to repeat any changes
> you might want to make. That's just extra work.
>
> I would also add the generic sans-serif to the end of your font stack.
>
> I am not sure about later IEs but IE6 almost certainly needed a fudge
> to centre properly
>
> You need
>
> body { text-align:center }
>
> and then correct your text alignment in the container div with :
>
> container { text-align:left}
>
> Hope that helps. Please say if that fixes your problem.
>
> Regards
>
> Lesley
>
Thank you, but I think that is right. The template had text-align: center
and I couldn't figure out why. Don't have time to test it now but will
tomorrow and reply back if it does.
As for the font statement, I thought I remembered from a class I took that
you needed to do that to validate. I will have go back to my books and
review this.
Kris J
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