[WSG] Styling [Forms]

2007-11-04 Thread James Jeffery
Hi all I have a select box that has a greater width and hight then the standard size. I am trying to center the default option that displays in the select box. I have tried padding: xem 0; and it centers the options when the list is displayed, but the default option does not change. Basically i w

Re: [WSG] Styling [Forms]

2007-11-04 Thread Chris Knowles
James Jeffery wrote: > > I have a select box that has a greater width and hight then the > standard size. I am trying to center the default option that displays > in the select box. I have tried padding: xem 0; and it centers the > options when the list is displayed, but the default option does no

Re: [WSG] Styling [Forms]

2007-11-04 Thread akella
Hi James May be you'd better start thinking about one of those replacement techniques. This for instance http://easy-designs.net/articles/replaceSelect/ On 11/5/07, Chris Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Jeffery wrote: > > > > I have a select box that has a greater width and hight then

Re: [WSG] multilingual website advice

2007-11-04 Thread Andrew Cunningham
A lot of Richard's material and material by other members of the W3C Core I18N WG are quite useful. Have a look at http://www.w3.org/International/ Some additional thoughts. You're approach really depends on the number of languages you need to support and the diversity of languages and writin

Re: [WSG] multilingual website advice

2007-11-04 Thread Andrew Cunningham
One other thing I forgot to emotion, if you are supporting East or West African languages, or Vietnamese then Unicode normalisation support will be critical. Andrew -- Andrew Cunningham Research and Development Coordinator (Vicnet) State Library of Victoria 328 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 30

Re: [WSG] Styling [Forms]

2007-11-04 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Nov 4, 2007, at 5:27 AM, James Jeffery wrote: Hi all I have a select box that has a greater width and hight then the standard size. I am trying to center the default option that displays in the select box. I have tried padding: xem 0; and it centers the options when the list is displayed, b

[WSG] z-index problem with dropdown menu

2007-11-04 Thread John Faulds
http://www.tyssendesign.com.au/sites/evolved/sax/ I can't figure out why the dropdowns fall behind the content below them. Can anybody see what I'm obviously missing? :? Cheers John -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590 *

Re: [WSG] z-index problem with dropdown menu

2007-11-04 Thread Chris Knowles
John Faulds wrote: > http://www.tyssendesign.com.au/sites/evolved/sax/ > > I can't figure out why the dropdowns fall behind the content below them. seems to me like the dropdowns need a firm hand - try: http://www.saxleather.com.au/index.php?page=home&subrange=crops > Can anybody see what I'm ob

Re: [WSG] z-index problem with dropdown menu

2007-11-04 Thread Chris Knowles
John Faulds wrote: > http://www.tyssendesign.com.au/sites/evolved/sax/ > > I can't figure out why the dropdowns fall behind the content below them. > Can anybody see what I'm obviously missing? :? > Hi John, I'd have a look at setting a z-index on #sidebar2 (I don't think you have one). Because

Re: [WSG] z-index problem with dropdown menu

2007-11-04 Thread John Faulds
I'm not responsible for the site - just doing the HTML/CSS work for someone else. The links to the site have been removed. On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:29:05 +1000, Chris Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Faulds wrote: http://www.tyssendesign.com.au/sites/evolved/sax/ I can't figure out why

Re: [WSG] z-index problem with dropdown menu

2007-11-04 Thread John Faulds
I've z-indexed just about everything on the page to no avail so far. On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:35:31 +1000, Chris Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Faulds wrote: http://www.tyssendesign.com.au/sites/evolved/sax/ I can't figure out why the dropdowns fall behind the content below them. Can a

Re: [WSG] z-index problem with dropdown menu

2007-11-04 Thread Al Sparber
From: "John Faulds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've z-indexed just about everything on the page to no avail so far. #header { position: relative; z-index: 999; } -- Al Sparber - PVII http://www.projectseven.com Extending Dreamweaver - Nav Systems | Galleries | Widgets Authors: "42nd Street: Masterin

RE: [WSG] z-index problem with dropdown menu

2007-11-04 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> John Faulds wrote: >> http://www.tyssendesign.com.au/sites/evolved/sax/ >> >> I can't figure out why the dropdowns fall behind the content below them. >> Can anybody see what I'm obviously missing? :? Hi John, It's a "stacking context" issue [1], so increasing the z-index value of the dropdown w

Re: [WSG] z-index problem with dropdown menu

2007-11-04 Thread John Faulds
#header { position: relative; z-index: 999; } I've z-indexed just about everything on the page to no avail so far. Right, well obviously I hadn't. I could've sworn I'd done that for #header as well. Oh well, thanks for the extra sets of eyes guys! :) -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.