Re: [css-d] Is it kosher...

2005-05-09 Thread Chris Ovenden
On 5/6/05, Peter O. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... to add a style block to the html body? I've read that it isn't, but it seems to work. Is there any standards-related or logical reason why this is not a good idea? IMO it's a bit of a hack, but preferable to a whole load of inline styles.

[css-d] width problem

2005-05-09 Thread newslist2005
hi, i got a width problem. have a look on this one (firefox/ie) http://www.e-dotz.de/test/widthpb.html the green background should span 100% which it does. i have a navigation above the background. as soon as i make the browser smaller the background fills not out the whole width. i know it is

Re: [css-d] General Question On Floats

2005-05-09 Thread Virtuallee
Hi, I'm having various problems with floats, and wondered if anyone could point me to some good resources to read up on them. Specifically, i've tried a few times to float two elements to give me two columns but the way Firefox and IE6 seem to judge widths, in percentage terms, always seems

Re: [css-d] General Question On Floats

2005-05-09 Thread Bob Easton
Lee McIvor wrote: I'm having various problems with floats, and wondered if anyone could point me to some good resources to read up on them. Specifically, i've tried a few times to float two elements to give me two columns but the way Firefox and IE6 seem to judge widths, in percentage terms,

Re: [css-d] Is it kosher...

2005-05-09 Thread Christian Heilmann
Personally I hope they change the standard and allow us to include inline styles inside the body. I have not found efficient methods of creating sites using a host of technologies without using css in the body. I'm glad the Browser makers are ignoring this and for once making our lives

[css-d] Menu problem in IE

2005-05-09 Thread Peter
http://www.captainclassfrigates.co.uk/ie7/miranda.html http://www.captainclassfrigates.co.uk/ie7/miranda.css on the selected item when hovering on a menu item the background colour shod change (and it does) but in IE the change does not go accross the entire width of the menu (works fine in

Re: [css-d] Is it kosher...

2005-05-09 Thread Bryce Fields
On 5/9/05, Christian Heilmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I hope they change the standard and allow us to include inline styles inside the body. I have not found efficient methods of creating sites using a host of technologies without using css in the body. I'm glad the Browser

[css-d] Re: Menu problem in IE

2005-05-09 Thread Peter
Thank you, that has done the job. On 5/9/05, Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Padding problem. Change your styles as shown #gallery a, #gallery a:visited { color:Navy; text-decoration:none; display:block; padding:5px 5px 5px

[css-d] Trouble with columns in IE...

2005-05-09 Thread David Dickerson
Hello, I'm having trouble finding the exact source of this problem; On my website (www.rosecreekvillage.com), I've got three columns, set by floats, and the center column (recent articles) is being bumped below everything else in IE only. Displays fine in Mozilla, Opera and Firefox. I'm

[css-d] safari showing a background image

2005-05-09 Thread Kevin Coyner
I'm in the final stages of putting together a new site that is working well in most browsers except Safari (v1.3). The problem lies with a background image that I use. In all browsers BUT Safari, the background image shows up properly. But in Safari, part of the background image bleeds through

[css-d] Disappearing text in IE6

2005-05-09 Thread Judith Taylor
Greets all, I'm puzzled by the behavior of my page in IE6. I have validated both the HTML and CSS with no problems. The puzzlement occurs with the first paragraph on the page. It doesn't show up, but if you either highlight the location it will show up, or if you scroll the page or even give

Re: [css-d] Disappearing text in IE6

2005-05-09 Thread Justin Reid
Hey All, this is my first entry onto this list, so hope it helps... Judith, try setting the paragraph tag to have position: relative;. IE sometimes sees a floated element and tries to reserve space for it which ends up making text which is in the same container as the floated element disappear.

[css-d] Problem with lists in IE

2005-05-09 Thread Schalk Neethling
Hey there everyone Can someone please have a look at the following page: http://www.modelcup.co.za/mc/profiles/index.jsp?mem_number=1017 In Firefox everything looks right but in IE the lists are completely jumbled up. Any ideas why this is happening? You can view the CSS at:

Re: [css-d] Disappearing text in IE6

2005-05-09 Thread Judith Taylor
Thanks Justin. The solution I ended up using was the line-height fix by Matthew Somerville http://www.dracos.co.uk/web/css/ie6floatbug/ Thakns again for the resourceful list. Judith -- Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shoot me for being an idiot. -= Prof. Felix Einstein That Darn Squid

Re: [css-d] Web Accessibilty

2005-05-09 Thread Christian Heilmann
Well, I suppose it's the delimiter issue - to have the page accessible (I mean - by the relevant guidelines that state that), you should have these items separated by some printable character. It makes the inline or linearized reading more clear. BTW these characters can be hidden via CSS for

[css-d] -999em safe?

2005-05-09 Thread Jan Brasna
Hi all, I'm just curious about using -999em for some text hiding or off-screen positioning -- isn't it a bit rought for the browser to count similar distances from the viewport? Especially on some old and slow machines? Thanks for opinions, I don't see much into the browser implementation...

RE: [css-d] Table will not collaspe borders

2005-05-09 Thread Pringle, Ron
Please go to the Family website below. Select Veterans. You will see the double borders around the interior cells of the tables. I would rather have single borders. I have the following in my css file but it has no effect. what am I doing wrong? .table1 td{ border: 3px solid

SV: [css-d] Table renders differently between Firefox 1.03 and IE 6 SP2

2005-05-09 Thread Arnt O. Kvannefoss
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: It's an *exclusive Internet Explorer feature* aimed at relieving us from having to line up anything. IE does it for us by expanding cells until they line up, and use vertical=middle as default for extra improvements. Pity it missed by 1px because of an undefined border.

RE: [css-d] Reduce Space Between Bullet and Text in UL

2005-05-09 Thread Sebastian Bell
On Monday, May 09, 2005 2:06 PM Justin Reid wrote: Is it showing up outside of IE? If it's only in IE and you've removed any margin and padding, then you should also comment out any white space between list elements. liFirst/li!-- --liSecond/li Thanks for the response Justin, I wasn't clear

Re: [css-d] Reduce Space Between Bullet and Text in UL

2005-05-09 Thread Justin Reid
Sebastian Bell: What I'm seeing: O--10px of space--The text... What I want: O--5px of space--The text... O = the bullet Oh, I understand. One possible solution could come through negative margins on a nested span tag: /* xhtml */ lispantext here/span/li /* css */ li span {

[css-d] glued footer

2005-05-09 Thread Scott Haneda
I have a basic div that is a page footer div class=footer company name, address, city, state, zip /div it just just before the /body I want to glue this to the bottom of the browser, so no matter how the browser is set, at least too tall, it will be at the bottom. --

Re: [css-d] safari showing a background image

2005-05-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 10 May 2005, at 12:36 am, Kevin Coyner wrote: The problem lies with a background image that I use. In all browsers BUT Safari, the background image shows up properly. But in Safari, part of the background image bleeds through where it should not. See http://bikeacrossamerica.us/ The actual

Re: [css-d] Site Check [pc users]

2005-05-09 Thread David Laakso
On Mon, 09 May 2005 23:36:39 -0400, Jack Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been working on somewhat a faux company, the content is a work in progress so just be amused if you feel like it, but I am concerned on the nav and where I could clean up my css a tad possibly. site: