[css-d] Firefox Misbehaves on Table Length

2006-12-09 Thread Marc Funaro
In reference to the following page: http://nyslittree-org.advantex.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/DB.ListNYSAuthors.cf m The list of authors in the main content area is long - Opera/Win and IE/Win have no problem with this, but in Firefox/Win the left menu is pushed down below the content area. It's n

[css-d] A Fairly Complex Design Complete, wishing to implement using all CSS

2006-05-17 Thread Marc Funaro
Hi Everyone, We just received a final design for a new website, in Photoshop format. It looks good and meets the need... And it is fully approved by the client. Now, I could do what I've always done -- slice it up using Adobe ImageReady and output it as HTML/Tables. But I recently did an output

Re: [css-d] A Fairly Complex Design Complete, wishing to implement using all CSS

2006-05-18 Thread Marc Funaro
, Ian. -- Dr Ian M Piper [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: ianmpiper -- Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? On 17 May 2006, at 10:35 pm, Marc Funaro wrote: Hi Everyone, We just received a final design for a new website, in Photo

Re: [css-d] A Fairly Complex Design Complete, wishing to implement using all CSS

2006-05-18 Thread Marc Funaro
ite: www.netring.co.uk > telephone: 01239 711 471 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Marc Funaro > Sent: 18 May 2006 11:12 > To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Subje

Re: [css-d] A Fairly Complex Design Complete, wishing to implement using all CSS

2006-05-18 Thread Marc Funaro
Thank you Rakesh, My specific question revolves around dynamic-height columns, I believe, but starts with "should I start over with the slicing, and if so, what should I do different?" Firefox is a definite here. =) > Hi Marc, > > Your's is a pretty simple layout to achieve us

Re: [css-d] A Fairly Complex Design Complete, wishing to implement using all CSS

2006-05-18 Thread Marc Funaro
> That's a pretty ordinary 'fixed-width 2-column layout > with header and footer', well suited for floats and > negative margins... > > No need for that exact layout-method, but it is one of > the most robu

[css-d] Started over - new questions

2006-05-18 Thread Marc Funaro
Hi Everyone, I've started over with my design, and have a pretty good idea of what I want to do now. I've managed to get my top area to look very much like the actual PSD design, and now I am stuck... Here are my new, (hopefully) more intelligent questions. =) To compare: Here is the desired la

Re: [css-d] Started over - new questions

2006-05-18 Thread Marc Funaro
> Hi, I can answer your question number 4: Internet > Explorer don't support transparent PNG's. So I have to recreate all my images yet again, and this time get the backgrounds to be the same color as what they will be sitting on top of... Meaning that they can only be used when sitt

Re: [css-d] Started over - new questions

2006-05-18 Thread Marc Funaro
Hi Georg (and everyone!), Using your suggestions as a reset-point, I have come up with the following: http://nyslittreedata.advantex.net/new/default/default.htm To be compared to the "static/broken" version: http://nyslittreedata.advantex.net/new/base/base.htm I have renamed my div/ids and cle

Re: [css-d] Started over - new questions

2006-05-18 Thread Marc Funaro
Regarding my last post, I just found a fix that "seems" to work... I added min-height and tweaked the two containers to remain the right height to fill the bottom gap... But I don't know if this is "acceptable" or not. I have updated my online versions to use this new setting, but (anyone) let me

Re: [css-d] Started over - new questions

2006-05-19 Thread Marc Funaro
> [2]http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_06_03.xhtml Having read this, I think it might be wise for me to declare my document as simply HTML. I ignorantly used XHTML only because that's what was output originally by Photoshop on my very first foray into an all-CSS layout. HOWEVER, the cont

Re: [css-d] Started over - new questions

2006-05-19 Thread Marc Funaro
> If you can manage to get some kind of "control" over > those CMS users, then a complete 'HTML 4.01 Strict' > would be the right choice. > > More info... > >

Re: [css-d] Positioning a list bullet image

2006-05-21 Thread Marc Funaro
> Thanks all. I have gone for background-image. I wish I > could have used list-style-image though - it feels like > it should be the right way to do it. Related question... Still working on my design at http://nyslittreedata.advantex.net/new/default/default.htm. The list "he

Re: [css-d] Started over - new questions

2006-05-21 Thread Marc Funaro
> Wrong nesting of lists. > > Each subsequent ul should be wrapped in a li, like so... > > > > Writers > > > NY

[css-d] List test

2006-05-21 Thread Marc Funaro
Send some messages today and haven't seen them... Testing list. = Marc Funaro, President Macromedia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer A D V A N T E XL L C Technical Consulting Services P.O. Box 428 Norwich, NY

Re: [css-d] Started over - new questions

2006-05-21 Thread Marc Funaro
> Add this "nonsense" styles... > > #leftNav {display: inline;} > #mainContent {display: inline;} This worked great, thanks. I notice that my left nav in opera is not condensed the way it is in firefox or ie... Not a big deal - I don't mind the look too much, but just cur

Re: [css-d] Started over - new questions

2006-05-21 Thread Marc Funaro
Disregard my horizontal list question - it was a stupid typo. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http:/

[css-d] Almost done!

2006-05-21 Thread Marc Funaro
http://nyslittreedata.advantex.net/new/default/default.htm http://nyslittreedata.advantex.net/new/default/default.css I am almost done with this layout, in 100% css, and it is all very exciting... Members of this list have been VERY helpful -- thank you all! I have the following remaining issu

[css-d] Layout Done... Now what about content?

2006-05-22 Thread Marc Funaro
I seem to have successfully built my first CSS-only layout, and it's working very well... The page loads are faster and the markup is clean and quite maintainable! I have the list to thank for this. I now have some questions about actual content that will be going into my layouts: 1. I'm still

[css-d] CSS Form Layout Problem

2006-05-23 Thread Marc Funaro
With regards to: http://nyslittreedata.advantex.net/new/default/sampleForm.htm http://nyslittreedata.advantex.net/new/default/default.css 1. How can I get the two columns for the form to lay out properly? I've floated the labels left, but right now, the labels and their fields just "spread out

Re: [css-d] making rows line up - tables or css?

2006-05-24 Thread Marc Funaro
> > The content is donor level information. So, it's just > blocks of text w/ varied heights arranged as described > above. Is it really table "data"? > I'm not quite sure. That's why I wasn't sure if a > table is appropriate or not. Watch out - I asked

Re: [css-d] CSS Form Layout Problem

2006-05-26 Thread Marc Funaro
Niklas, Thanks so much - yes, you've reminded me to be more careful when trying new statements, to remove them or review them after I have something workable! It was messy for sure ;) The prop/clear seems to be working now, and looks just like the old "1px transparent gif spacer image" hack w

[css-d] CSS Validator Warnings

2006-05-26 Thread Marc Funaro
Can warnings like these be safely ignored when validating a CSS file? * Line : 9 (Level : 1) You have no color with your background-color : BODY * Line : 14 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : A * Line : 35 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color

Re: [css-d] CSS Validator Warnings

2006-05-26 Thread Marc Funaro
Sorry to waste your bandwidth... I found my own answer after digging just a little further: "If you don't specify color and background-color at the same level of specifity, your style sheet might clash with user style sheets. To avoid this, specify always both of them, see Section 9.1 "Color Cont

[css-d] "Default" font sizes

2006-07-13 Thread Marc Funaro
Still pretty new at all-CSS layouts, but loving it. I have a question related to decisions that are made when "first starting a new project". I am aware that using em as a font size unit is a "Best Practice". We want people to be able to resize their text, and ems allow us to give them that abil

[css-d] IE Disappearing Text

2006-07-13 Thread Marc Funaro
I have a page that, when viewed in IE on first load, shows some text. If I click away from IE and back again, the text ends up being the same color as the background (I can see it if I click-drag over the area), and only a shift-refresh causes it to appear again. Is this a specific bug with IE?