Re: [css-d] Horizontal alignment for Meyer photo gallery/ Win IE irregularity

2006-02-24 Thread Doug Niven
Hi Folks, Have a look at the following link: http://www.tuolsleng.com/photographs.php I'm happy with how this page displays except that on Windows IE 6 often the divs are not aligned horizontally--one will be down 20 pixels or so. Here's a screen grab of the effect I'm talking about: h

Re: [css-d] Color Scheme Assistance

2006-02-24 Thread David Laakso
David A. Ensor wrote: >I've had no success in searching thru the archive for this... > >I'm pretty sure I've just recently run across a really useful site for >getting color schemes. You enter one color and it offers several >different options that it works with on the color wheel. > >Any sugge

Re: [css-d] Legend of the Fieldset

2006-02-24 Thread Cem Meric
> Once upon a time a young HTML monkey was happily > banging out some code. The monkey god came to the > monkey and said, "These fields should be grouped > together, and there should be signs indicating what the > grouping is." > > The young monkey attempted to comply with the monkey > god, and se

Re: [css-d] Legend of the Fieldset

2006-02-24 Thread Michael Hulse
On Feb 24, 2006, at 2:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can you help the young monkey? Lol, nice story. :D This is what I do... Prob best to put the hacks in separate IE-specific style sheets using condtional comments: /* You can use the underscore hack in order to not let this css affect fi

Re: [css-d] Legend of the Fieldset

2006-02-24 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 24/02/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once upon a time a young HTML monkey was happily > banging out some code. The monkey god came to the > monkey and said, "These fields should be grouped > together, and there should be signs indicating what the > grouping is." EEEP! The yo

[css-d] Legend of the Fieldset

2006-02-24 Thread MarcLuzietti
Once upon a time a young HTML monkey was happily banging out some code. The monkey god came to the monkey and said, "These fields should be grouped together, and there should be signs indicating what the grouping is." The young monkey attempted to comply with the monkey god, and set about creatin

Re: [css-d] Making Blog Column Appear Floating Above Background With Shadow

2006-02-24 Thread MarcLuzietti
Niels, Looking more closely, the method used is even simpler than in my previous e-mail. Personally, I'd use the one I wrote, since it allows greater fluidity. He has a background gif for the main column (wrapper): http://www.medrants.com/wp-content/themes/impact/img/wrapbg.gif and a background

Re: [css-d] Making Blog Column Appear Floating Above Background With Shadow

2006-02-24 Thread MarcLuzietti
It looks like a simple background image. Without actually opening the CSS, I'd imagine it's a simple three column layout with a background set to repeat-x and left or right depending on the side. For example: columnLeft { background: url(/images/columnBackLeft.gif) top right repeat-x;

[css-d] Making Blog Column Appear Floating Above Background With Shadow

2006-02-24 Thread Niels Olson
Help! Just a newbie here. How do I make the content of my blog ( http://nielsolson.us/Haversian/) appear to float above the background like this one (http://www.medrants.com/index.php)? I've looked at his style sheet and others but I haven't figured it out yet. Thanks, Niels Olson Tulane School o

Re: [css-d] Opera 8.5 and MacIE positioning problem

2006-02-24 Thread ImageSpinner
> > In case you don't want to hack it into IE/Mac... > > Never mind the height of that column. It'll always be "full height" > the > way your layout works, so you can position from the bottom of the > page. > > You have a 'clearer' div near the very bottom of the source-code, > so you > might

Re: [css-d] Min-Height

2006-02-24 Thread Paul Novitski
At 08:00 AM 2/24/2006, Chris Ovenden wrote: >This area is slightly problematic, because min-height is not yet >supported by IE7 (though we're promised it for the proper release). If >we assume it will be included, the neatest solution that works in all >browsers is: > >#element { min-height:100px }

Re: [css-d] Gmail's CSS for expanding subject lines

2006-02-24 Thread Rob Mientjes
On 24/02/06, Andrew Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/23/06, Carl Youngblood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Success! I needed to use "white-space: nowrap" > > > > Carl, do you have an example that you could show us? > thanks! And while you're at it, try text-overflow:ellipsis; with that. It

Re: [css-d] Gmail's CSS for expanding subject lines

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Close
On 2/23/06, Carl Youngblood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Success! I needed to use "white-space: nowrap" > Carl, do you have an example that you could show us? thanks! __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/ma

[css-d] Sequences of "float clear" divs

2006-02-24 Thread Michal Cizmazia
I want to have a text with floating divs (e.g. images) on both sides. A sequence of "float clear" divs is followed by text (that is a sequence of paragraphs). The example (and screenshots) http://cim.szm.sk/float-clear-seq.html illustrates the problem. (IE reneders it like I want, but FF an Oper

[css-d] ADMIN Re: Color Scheme Assistance

2006-02-24 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
David A. Ensor wrote: > I've had no success in searching thru the archive for this... > Maybe because it's not a CSS topic and thus not discussed on this list? :-) > I'm pretty sure I've just recently run across a really useful site for > getting color schemes. You enter one color and it off

Re: [css-d] Gmail's CSS for expanding subject lines

2006-02-24 Thread Carl Youngblood
One caveat with this solution: it doesn't work in IE. On 2/23/06, Carl Youngblood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Success! I needed to use "white-space: nowrap" > > On 2/23/06, Carl Youngblood <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > Nice try, but that still seems to wrap. > > > > On 2/23/06, cj <[EMAI

Re: [css-d] Min-Height

2006-02-24 Thread Chris Ovenden
This area is slightly problematic, because min-height is not yet supported by IE7 (though we're promised it for the proper release). If we assume it will be included, the neatest solution that works in all browsers is: #element { min-height:100px } * html #element { height:100px } Some people are

[css-d] update on horzontal menu failing for Safari

2006-02-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using http://snugtech.com/en/safaritest the dropdown menu looks good now. If someone wants to doublesheck with Safari, much appreciated. The Eric Meyer menu works perfectly. The site: http://www.longmontleaders.com What happened - the following line in CSS was getting mussed by an invalid

Re: [css-d] Color Scheme Assistance

2006-02-24 Thread Brett Leber
David A. Ensor wrote: > I've had no success in searching thru the archive for this... > > I'm pretty sure I've just recently run across a really useful site for > getting color schemes. You enter one color and it offers several > different options that it works with on the color wheel. > > Any

Re: [css-d] Color Scheme Assistance

2006-02-24 Thread Christy Collins
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html http://www.morecrayons.com/ http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/ And there's probably more -C On Feb 24, 2006, at 10:45 AM, David A. Ensor wrote: > I've had no success in searching thru the

[css-d] Color Scheme Assistance

2006-02-24 Thread David A. Ensor
I've had no success in searching thru the archive for this... I'm pretty sure I've just recently run across a really useful site for getting color schemes. You enter one color and it offers several different options that it works with on the color wheel. Any suggestions for best sites for this

Re: [css-d] Header, Footer and 3 Columns

2006-02-24 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
death2all wrote: > I have the following layout: > http://www.d2all.org/css_test/1.html and I am trying > to convert it to use only css for the layout and > remove tables completelly. Up to now I have this: > http://www.d2all.org/css_test/2.html but the footer > gets mixed up with any of the left or

Re: [css-d] Opera 8.5 and MacIE positioning problem

2006-02-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Philippe wrote: > Without a height declared, it is very hard to do (and in your case, > you can't declare a height). You might want to try: * html>body #logo {top: 100%; bottom:auto} > > that serves it only to IE mac. In case you don't want to hack it into IE/Mac... Never mind the height of t

Re: [css-d] Opera 8.5 and MacIE positioning problem

2006-02-24 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Feb 24, 2006, at 6:26 PM, ImageSpinner wrote: >>> with some various other divs mixed in, including a logo div: >>> >>> #logo { >>> position: absolute; >>> left: -2px; >>> bottom: 45px; >>> } >>> >>> >>> Mac IE 5.2 (yeah, I know...) -- the navigation appears fine, but, >>> the logo

Re: [css-d] Interesting Firefox bug? (first-letter pseudo selector)

2006-02-24 Thread david
Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: > If there are multiple characters before the first letter, > all of them should go along for the ride. For instance: > > "'I can't believe it's not butter' is what Zoe said," said the man. > > In this case, "'I would be the drop cap. > > Again, doesn't solve your pr

Re: [css-d] Opera 8.5 and MacIE positioning problem

2006-02-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
ImageSpinner wrote: > One down, one to go... Well, maybe your font-sizing strategy should also get some attention, before you put some real text in there. What font-size in 'px' does in IE/win should be well known, and is not much of an issue since it can be 'ignored'[1] by that browser. Line-he

Re: [css-d] Opera 8.5 and MacIE positioning problem

2006-02-24 Thread ImageSpinner
Thanks for the help! One down, one to go... On Feb 24, 2006, at 1:18 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > On Feb 24, 2006, at 5:38 PM, ImageSpinner wrote: > >> #navigation { >> position: absolute; >> width: 145px; >> top: 77; >> left: 0; >> } > > that 'top' is missing a u

Re: [css-d] Opera 8.5 and MacIE positioning problem

2006-02-24 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Feb 24, 2006, at 5:38 PM, ImageSpinner wrote: > #navigation { > position: absolute; > width: 145px; > top: 77; > left: 0; > } that 'top' is missing a unit: 77 what ? Cows, elephants ? > with some various other divs mixed in, including a logo div: > > #logo { >

[css-d] Opera 8.5 and MacIE positioning problem

2006-02-24 Thread ImageSpinner
Howdy, Just ran across a strange bug, at least it appears to be one... I have a left-nav div: #navigation { position: absolute; width: 145px; top: 77; left: 0; } that is within a body-container div: #bodycontainer { position: relative; co

Re: [css-d] Need help with this [EMAIL PROTECTED] AP div problem I think

2006-02-24 Thread Ingo Chao
Kim Kruse wrote: > If you go to this page > http://www.mouseriders.dk/til_michael/index_white.php (I'm not done with > the stylesheet for this page yet) and in the selectbox please choose > "Hvid/blå kontrast" and click the submit (skift). You should now see a > white page with the "A a" in the