[css-d] Inheritance Blocking with CSS

This is my first CSS post so apologies on any 'errors' re protocol. I have an unusual situation that I am trying to find a work around on. We use the FCKEditor to allow our users to generate HTML snippets that can be saved in a database, and then later these snippets are stitched together on

[css-d] page check - deader than hell

Hi folks - Could I get a quick page check on http://www.deaderthanhell.com/ Only one page up, but I floated a couple things and need to make sure it works - especially in Mac browsers. Thanks, Keith __ css-discuss [EMAIL

[css-d] Re: Re: Site check [www.petus-bulgaria.org] - especially browsers on Mac

Hi, I work on LCD monitor as well (17, 1280x1024), my preferred browser is Firefox, but I tested also on Opera and IE 6 and I don't see any problems with the 'font-size: small' setting for the website? Do you mean that this is very small size for Tahoma font? But, you can resize font sizes in

[css-d] Advice Please

Hi I am having trouble putting a site together. I am trying to learn a new technique but I don't think I am fully understanding it! I have a simple two-column site. Left, is the nav which I want to run the whole left hand side of the site and stop at the footer. The right hand side, I want to

Re: [css-d] Advice Please

Hi All On 18 May 2005, at 12:41, Richard Brown wrote: css at http://www.lamaison.org.uk/pages.css Sorry it should have been http://www.lamaison.org.uk/pages2.css Thanks Rich __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Tabular tables broke in css div

donstrack wrote: I have hundreds of pages with tabular tables, and now that I have converted from table layout to two-column, header, footer css layout, they are all broke in IEWin. All is okay in Firefox, but the right content box gets split vertically to be below the left menu box when there is

Re: [css-d] Advice Please

Richard Have a look at the changes made below, they get you close to where you are going: body { margin-top: 5px; padding: 0; font-family: georgia, times, times new roman, serif; color: #000; background-color: #ddd; } #container { width: 700px; margin: auto;

Re: [css-d] Advice Please

Hi Rich I think the CSS for your page is actually at: http://www.lamaison.org.uk/pages2.css If you put h1 within the content div, that will do the trick. It looks like you may not need the banner div at all, you could just style h1 directly in your stylesheet. Cheers Paul

Re: [css-d] Advice Please

Hi On 18 May 2005, at 13:05, Schalk Neethling wrote: Richard Have a look at the changes made below, they get you close to where you are going: That fixed it - thanks a lot. Rich __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Advice Please

Some more changes: #banner { background-color: #e0; float:right; width:530px; } #banner h1 { margin: 0; padding: .5em; } #nav { float: left; width: 160px; margin:0; margin-left: 10px; padding:0; padding-top: 1em; } AND #content { padding:

[css-d] Win (2k?) IE 5+ odity

Hi, I posted this issue to another, broader scoped list (Webdesign-L) yesterday to try and get a handle on what my issue is and I believe it may be CSS related, so I thought I would seek help here as well. Overview: I ran a site I'm working on through BrowserCam and noticed that on Widows 2000

Re: [css-d] selectors question

Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: I'm not sure if any browser supports E:empty decently. FF appears to, but for things with literally nothing inside, e.g. p/p. Perhaps also for just whitespace, but I'd need to check that. AFAIK that's what the spec says, which is a shame, because then you can't

[css-d] Image map pop ups with css

Hi I have trawled through the list, and found reference to several css image map questions and solutions, but none of them really meet my needs, and I'm wondering if anyone can cast any light on a good method for producing an image map with rollovers which prompt text in a certain area of a page.

Re: [css-d] Image map pop ups with css

Hi Vicky, Try this ... http://www.alistapart.com/articles/imagemap/ Mike Vicky Etherington wrote: Hi I have trawled through the list, and found reference to several css image map questions and solutions, but none of them really meet my needs, and I'm wondering if anyone can cast any light on a

Re: [css-d] Win (2k?) IE 5+ odity

in fact, I think I would be better off it it is a Windows + IE problem rather than a Windows 2K + IE problem. I would appreciate any feedback, screen shots, or information on a known bug or error in my CSS [02] that might be causing this problem. I don't currently have Windows 2K installed,

Re: [practices] Re: [css-d] unreadable source

I use the scrap book extension in FF for saving webpages to inspect their code each day. You are right, though I don't know what you mean by the scrapbook extension. The choices I had for saving in FF were 'web page complete', web page HTML only', and 'text.' When I saved it as html in FF I

[css-d] Re: Mac site check

Hi, Rhett! First, let me thank you for the site check of www.petus-bulgaria.org on your Apple Mac! :-))) I am glad that I managed somehow to bring the design to be decent on Mac browsers, too ( I am not sure, how, but... ;-) As to the slow loading times in specific browsers - maybe this is due

Re: [css-d] Inheritance Blocking with CSS

David Boccabella wrote: This is my first CSS post so apologies on any 'errors' re protocol. Didn't see any, but our list policies and wiki are always there to guide you should you have questions about using the list. Or you can always email [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you want to make sure

[css-d] aligning li items

Greetings. We've got a requirement to align some li items. The list items are basically expaining acronyms. ABC- Alpha Beta Charlie DFQG - Delta Fox Quarrel Gamma However the alignment requirement is such that the acronym explanations are all lined up at the dashes. I've thought of

[css-d] IE won't float

Hi list, I'm having a problem in IE, on a page I'm developing. You can check the page here : http://work.grillo.tk/elementn/009/media-centre.html In the main content area, the content should be on the right (floated) and the menu on the left. It works 100% in firefox, but not in IE, and I can't

Re: [css-d] aligning li items

Keith Give this a try: ul lispan class=acronymABC/spanspan class=acr-explain- Alpha Beta Charlie/span/li lispan class=acronymABC/spanspan class=acr-explain- Alpha Beta Charlie/span/li /ul Then your styles: .acronym { width:200px; } .acr-explain { width:400px; text-align:left; }

Re: [css-d] Inheritance Blocking with CSS

Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: The Editors Style sheet is different from our main templates one and anything that is displayed with the DIV is subject to interaction from the page in general Is there a way to set a style sheet in the DIV and have the DIV process anything that is within it using this

Re: [css-d] aligning li items

Thanks to everyone who has replied so far. I tried Schalk's suggestion and it didn't work, the Acronyms and definitions didn't separate. We are using the transitional 4.01 HTML - would this affect the browser's styling? thanks, On 5/18/05, Schalk Neethling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith

[css-d] float with negative margin

I have a 3-col layout with the left and right columns floated. What I'm trying to do is to float-right an item that's in the center column so that it actually displays in the right-floated column. This works using negative right margin on the floated item except that the size of the negative right

Re: [css-d] IE won't float

Marcelo Wolfgang wrote: http://work.grillo.tk/elementn/009/media-centre.html In the main content area, the content should be on the right (floated) and the menu on the left. It works 100% in firefox, but not in IE, and I can't figure out why. Can anyone share some light on the problem, pretty

[css-d] Re: Re: Site check [www.petus-bulgaria.org] - especially browsers on Mac

On Wed, 18 May 2005 04:01:52 -0400, Mikhail Bozgounov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work on LCD monitor as well (17, 1280x1024), Then this addition may help the page shift: html {min-height: 100%;margin-bottom: 1px;} my preferred browser is Firefox, but I tested also on Opera and IE 6 and I don't

Re: [css-d] float with negative margin

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:37:40PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: I have a 3-col layout with the left and right columns floated. What I'm trying to do is to float-right an item that's in the center column so that it actually displays in the right-floated column. This works using negative right

Re: [css-d] aligning li items

Keith If Justin's does not do the trick try to float the acronym div left and the other right. Then your styles: .acronym { float:left; width:200px; } .acr-explain { float:right; width:400px; text-align:left; } Justin Reid wrote: Keith: li span { width: 200px; } but this doesn't

Re: [css-d] IE won't float

Hi Georg, Thank you very much that almost made it work 100%, now the menu corretcly floats, but it is bottom-aligned you can see it at the same adress: http://work.grillo.tk/elementn/009/media-centre.html Any clues ? Grillo On 5/18/05, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcelo Wolfgang

[css-d] Tab style horizontal menu for Mac IE5

Hi all, I¹m looking for a menu like the one in this ³alistapart² article: http://www.alistapart.com/d/hybrid/hybrid-4.html ,but one that¹ll work in Mac IE5. I know it's becoming fashionable to drop support for this browser but the client demands it. The only one I've found so far that gives

RE: [css-d] Inheritance Blocking with CSS

Is there a way to set a style sheet in the DIV and have the DIV process anything that is within it using this style sheet REGARDLESS of what the Main page style sheet is set to. So as style sheets go - the DIV is totally separate from the page style. The problem here is that if such a

[css-d] testing NS

Just seeing if I can post to the list. Last 2 post have not shone up. Sarah __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org

[css-d] CSS to format table for printing

I have a table that is 5 rows by 7 columns. I want a user to be able to print it off so it fills up a 8.5x11(horizontal) sheet of paper. how exactly do I do this? do I have the table set in a div and then set the div width and height? and what would I set it at? can you use inches or would it

Re: [css-d] Site check [www.petus-bulgaria.org] - Mac-- captures

On Tue, 17 May 2005 11:15:13 -0400, Mikhail Bozgounov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to everyone on this great list!:) I just launched new website. It has versions in two languages (incl. English - link is at the top right). The link: http://www.petus-bulgaria.org These Mac captures look good.

[css-d] parse error

Does anyone have a clue about why I am getting a parse error on this page? http://www.addison-homes.com/error.php It appears to work fine is if I put this on top: ?php echo ?xml version=\1.0\ encoding=\iso-8859-1\?.; ? instead of: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1? Here is what the page is

RE: [css-d] aligning li items

Keith, Do you have to use li? It makes more sense to use dl, something like this: style dl { width: 440px; } dt { float: left; width: 100px; text-align: right; clear: both; } dd { float: right; width: 300px } /style dl dtterm 1 -/dt ddTerm 1 is the very first term in the list.

Re: [OT] [css-d] parse error

Judy Benedict wrote: Does anyone have a clue about why I am getting a parse error on this page? http://www.addison-homes.com/error.php It appears to work fine is if I put this on top: ?php echo ?xml version=\1.0\ encoding=\iso-8859-1\?.; ? instead of: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1? This is

[css-d] Getting footer at the bottom

Hi all, I am getting a little clueless here, been online too long today :) Why won't my footer sit at the bottom of my page? It happens when main content is shorter than sidebar content. Here is my site: http://www.elyonline.co.uk/ and here is the css: http://phpfi.com/62394 Any suggestions? I

[css-d] Specifying a width for list items

I'm working on a new project and the horizontal navigation is a pretty strict size - each item should be about 88px wide so that the navigation fills the width of the page. I thought using a list would work but I can't figure out how to specify the width for list items and I'm hoping

[css-d] Help with a menu

Hi All Could anybody, please explain to me why I have a box to the left of the menu on the following site: http://www.swmug.co.uk/ http://www.swmug.co.uk/styles/pages.css Thanks Rich __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] float with negative margin

Rick Pasotto wrote: http://niof.net/tmnc/lawards.php Near the bottom of the page is what I'm talking about. Using -13em works perfectly on mozilla but shoves it off the screen on IE. Using -6.5em works perfectly in IE but is too far left in mozilla. (Hmmm. 2*6.5=13 -- is that a clue?) How do I

Re: [css-d] IE won't float

Hmmm, The menu it's at it's right place now, I think that was a cache problem or something like that with IE When I went to another page and come back the menu was at the correct place. Thanks Gunlaug for catching the error; []´s GriLLo On 5/18/05, Marcelo Wolfgang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [css-d] Help with a menu

Add -30px to the fourth line in this class: #navlist { width: 7em; /* to display the list horizontaly */ font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0 0 0 -30px; padding: 0; border-top: 1px #000 solid; border-left: 1px #000 solid; border-right: 1px #000 solid; } Richard Brown wrote: Hi All Could anybody,

[css-d] new to list- Newbie needs advice

Hello- I'm new to the list and very much a newbie to the fab world of CSS. I am currently on working on a blog for a client who desires an upside down L-shaped pane as the main content area. The web designer has been unable to do this with Tables ( i KNOW-ugh), and I'm aware that by using

[css-d] Line space

Some members have frowned on my use of the BR tag to create the desirable line spaces Sometimes one, sometimes two, or possibly three line spaces are desired. Simple question: What is a better way to accomplish this other than, br /br /,br / Thanks for your input. Arnie Shafer Please

Re: [css-d] Line space

Arnie Shafer wrote: Some members have frowned on my use of the BR tag to create the desirable line spaces Sometimes one, sometimes two, or possibly three line spaces are desired. Simple question: What is a better way to accomplish this other than, br /br /,br / Thanks for your input. I

Re: [css-d] Specifying a width for list items

you can't give a width to an inline element like an a. Turn your as into block elements using a { display:block; width:auto; } li { width:88px } that should do the trick On 5/19/05, Mike Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on a new project and the horizontal navigation

RE: [css-d] CSS to format table for printing

I have successfully used inches to size printed output in my print style sheet. If the requirement is as simple as it sounds, you can size the table itself: style table {border: 1px solid black; width: 7.5in; height: 10in; margin: .5in; } td {border: 1px solid black;} /style I have successfully

[css-d] Position:relative jump

On my site, http://leszek.swirski.co.uk/, I made a page to tabularise linear equations and perform the simplex algorithm upon them (hopefully there's at a few mathematicians here who understood that). Anyway, my problem is that I need to use subscripts for the header row. I tried the sub tag,

Re: [css-d] Site Check: especially Macs please

Hi Justin, I took a quick look at your page on FF, IE and Safari on Mac 10.4. The footer is consistent in all three so I guess it's not supposed to be centered. The copyright is on the right, the links are on the left. The only thing I noticed was the hover nav isn't working in IE. As far as

Re: [css-d] Line space

Thanks to both Jacks. Good idea. Will do! Arnie - Original Message - From: Jack Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] Line space Arnie Shafer wrote: Some members have frowned on my use of the BR tag to

[css-d] fine tuning help

Hi, I have this site that I've got working. I have two little niggling details that perhaps you can help me solve. My template page is http://corp.webmachineinc.sytes.net/index2.html. The first is that using the menu I found on alistapart.com, I cant seem to get images to work on the li

RE: [css-d] aligning li items

-Original Message- From: Keith Sader We've got a requirement to align some li items. The list items are basically expaining acronyms. ABC- Alpha Beta Charlie DFQG - Delta Fox Quarrel Gamma Surely this is the job of the Definition List [dl] It uses two components, the

Re: [css-d] Specifying a width for list items

Maybe I'm not fully understanding the comment but I'm not using images for the menu, just boxes of text. I'll probably go the float route until I have more time to fool around with different methods. On May 18, 2005, at 6:23 PM, Lorin Rivers wrote: On May 18, 2005, at 5:36 PM, Mike Stickel

Re: [css-d] aligning li items

Thanks to everyone on the list for your help, turns out the biz didn't want that at all. We wound up doing something else - go figure :-\ thanks again! On 5/18/05, Peter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Keith Sader We've got a requirement to align some

Re: [css-d] Help with a menu

From: Richard Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any ideas anyone? Could anybody, please explain to me why I have a box to the left of the menu on the following site: http://www.swmug.co.uk/ http://www.swmug.co.uk/styles/pages.css start with #navcontainer - float: left; #navlist gets - margin: 0