Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites

From: "Thierry Koblentz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Al Sparber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Michael Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Css-D" ; "Christian Montoya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites Al

Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites

Al Sparber wrote: > This page: > http://www.projectseven.com/csslab/testing/minmax/cssp5.htm FWIW, I see this page just fine on 2 different machines (with and without SP2). But I'd like to know/understand why we're not all experiencing the same thing... Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com _

Re: [css-d] Rounded tabs in IE

Tamara Jackson wrote: > Hi everyone > > I'm working on my first CSS website, and have run into a problem. I'm > trying to create a rounded tab, but it just won't display properly in > IE. I have two different attempts at getting this working: > > First go - > http://www.meetup.developer.graphyx.net

Re: [css-d] border in image link

Thanks Neal a#imagebutton img { border: none;} Sorry, I meant to write a.imagebutton img {border: none;} -Neal geez, i should have noticed that, too!! I'm not "total newbie"; not very far off though! :) but i do know the difference between a class and id. and, yes, it does work now..

Re: [css-d] border in image link

a#imagebutton img { border: none;} Sorry, I meant to write a.imagebutton img {border: none;} -Neal __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.c

[css-d] Rounded tabs in IE

Hi everyone I'm working on my first CSS website, and have run into a problem. I'm trying to create a rounded tab, but it just won't display properly in IE. I have two different attempts at getting this working: First go - http://www.meetup.developer.graphyx.net/blacksmith/test/index.html Display

Re: [css-d] background not strectching and other IE/Firefox differences

From: Schalk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >http://www.volume4.com/oxfordprice/contact/index.html > >In Firefox the white background, which is a small white faux columns >background .gif, does not stretch to fill in the entire area up to the >footer. Try adding your favorite clearing element between the

Re: [css-d] IE Mac Float Trouble

From: Jason Narciso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >creating this page. > >i came across some issues when floating boxes inside of a floated container. >i seemed to have fixed this using the clearfix >method. >

Re: [css-d] border in image link

Alternatively, you could assign that particular image/button an id or class: src="images/decorating-button.jpg" width="86" height="51" alt=""> and use this css: a#imagebutton img { border: none;} -Neal Neal, i tried this and it didn't work. I've loaded the page again if anyone wants t

[css-d] Having problem with nested layers and display problem in IE (of course)

Am relatively new to CSS so forgive me if this is any easy one, but it's driving me crazy. I have it looking just swell in Firefox/WIN, but things get wacky in IE6/WIN The problem is the rollovers on the thumbnails of the people... Box is not showing up in same place as it does in Firefox. I'v

Re: [css-d] border in image link

My sympathies with going nuts :) - I had this same problem before. Here's the solution: Thanks, just when one thinks *maybe* you're making some progress - then Bam! its good to have empathy and sympathy. I can't imagine saying to my client, well, i just spent three hours (not much exaggerati

Re: [css-d] border in image link

Donna Jones said the following: really going nuts here trying to figure out how to get this one pixel border to be gone. its the image/button on the left. she wants it to be a link http://www.westendwebs.net/susan/ My sympathies with going nuts :) - I had this same problem before. Here'

Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites

From: "Christian Montoya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I guess that's proof that most users never resize their windows. That's completely irrelevant. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d L

Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites

On 10/25/05, Al Sparber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > > > > Actually - I'm seeing it too - on two machines here in my office. > > Tanya > > LOL, it's a bloody conspiracy :-) > > This page: > http://www.projectseven.com/csslab/testing/minmax/cssp5.htm > > Impossible u

RE: [css-d] border in image link

>trying to figure out how to get this one pixel border to be gone. >http://www.westendwebs.net/susan/ Change this (in undohtml.css): a img,:link img,:visited img { border:1px solid black; } to this: a img, a:link img, a:visited img {border:0} JohnP _

Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites

- Original Message - Actually - I'm seeing it too - on two machines here in my office. Tanya LOL, it's a bloody conspiracy :-) This page: http://www.projectseven.com/csslab/testing/minmax/cssp5.htm Impossible unless the config is far from standard. This is the only list where an

RE: [css-d] border in image link

> From: Donna Jones > > really going nuts here trying to figure out how to get this one pixel > border to be gone. its the image/button on the left. she > wants it to > be a link seems like i've tried *everything* but i must not be > understanding or else forgetting something. > http://

Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites

Actually - I'm seeing it too - on two machines here in my office. Tanya Al Sparber wrote: From: "Michael Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Al Sparber wrote: I see. So "flubber" tries to be identical to the example I just gave, but it's not scripted right, so it doesn't reload immediately. I'm

Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites

From: "Michael Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Al Sparber wrote: I see. So "flubber" tries to be identical to the example I just gave, but it's not scripted right, so it doesn't reload immediately. I'm sorry. I just don't understand what you are trying to say. The page works precisely as desig

Re: [css-d] width: auto vs 100% and height stuff, too

From: Mike Soultanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I also noticed that they do this: > >.modulecontainer div{border-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin:-2px >-8px;height:1em;} > >html>body .modulecontainer div{height:auto;} > >notice that they override in the height. However, in this case it's 1em >vs

Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites

Al Sparber wrote: I see. So "flubber" tries to be identical to the example I just gave, but it's not scripted right, so it doesn't reload immediately. I'm sorry. I just don't understand what you are trying to say. The page works precisely as designed - to have a min-width of 720px and a max

Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites

On 10/25/05, Al Sparber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Christian Montoya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I thought the layout was "fixed" in IE myself until I reloaded the > > page. > > It seems that, at least in my Win XP, SP2, IE 6 installation, when I > > first load the page all is well regardle

Re: [css-d] aligning select box and submit gif

On 10/22/05, Geoff Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I have a select box set up with a 20px image as > the submit button. I've tried several approaches to > get the select box and the button to line up so that > they're more or less vertically centered (the gif is > taller than the select

[css-d] border in image link

Hi everyone: really going nuts here trying to figure out how to get this one pixel border to be gone. its the image/button on the left. she wants it to be a link seems like i've tried *everything* but i must not be understanding or else forgetting something. have taken out all code fo

Re: [css-d] Paragraph Control

At 03:16 PM 10/25/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any 'correct' way to get paragraphs to remain block level elements but to only act as though there is a break tag between them? I have tried setting the margin-top to one negative em value ( P + P { margin-top: -1em; } ) and that seems t

Re: [css-d] modifying 3-column fluid layout for a fixed layout

Dova Wilson wrote: > Thierry, > > Thank you, I've taken your recommendation to set the width in pixels > on body and remove the width from all other elements. This seems to > have partially fixed the layout. > > However, something else seems to need a modification. Things are > working better, but

Re: [css-d] Paragraph Control

On 10/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any 'correct' way to get paragraphs to remain block level elements > but to only act as though there is a break tag between them? I have tried > setting the margin-top to one negative em value ( P + P { margin-top: -1em; } > )

Re: [css-d] Paragraph Control

Is there any 'correct' way to get paragraphs to remain block level elements but to only act as though there is a break tag between them? I have tried setting the margin-top to one negative em value ( P + P { margin-top: -1em; } ) and that seems to work pretty good but is there any other

[css-d] IE quirk vs standard mode for Auto

Hi all, I just had a question, I was under the impression that IE6 does not like "margin:auto;", in any mode is it true? does this apply to both quirks mode and standards mode? Abyss __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: [css-d] Directory of well designed css sites

Stylegala ( http://www.stylegala.com ) is all dedicated to this. Guillaume. Hi all, I am looking for a directory of well designed css sites. Anyone know of one? Thanks Craig __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-dis

[css-d] Why don't dropdowns change color?

Hi All, on: http://www.geocities.com/jimcomx/1021_sub.htm there's a CSS/javascript dropdown on the right nav. I've got the dropdowns working...more or less, but I can't seem to make the subnavs a different color from the main ones. The dropdown code, which may be found in http://www.geocities.com/

RE: [css-d] Delivering a site on a PDA (How does Google do it?)

>>I know that you can use the media 'handheld' in your stylesheets but >are Google using another mechanism/script to achieve this ? The Google script delivers a special PDA page to Pocket IE, but the (much better) NetFront sees the same page as desktop browsers - with the dreaded horizontal scrol

[css-d] Paragraph Control

Is there any 'correct' way to get paragraphs to remain block level elements but to only act as though there is a break tag between them? I have tried setting the margin-top to one negative em value ( P + P { margin-top: -1em; } ) and that seems to work pretty good but is there any other method t

[css-d] modifying 3-column fluid layout for a fixed layout

Thierry, Thank you, I've taken your recommendation to set the width in pixels on body and remove the width from all other elements. This seems to have partially fixed the layout. However, something else seems to need a modification. Things are working better, but I have the following problems:

[css-d] Jello, but only some of it

Hi, I am working on this site: http://www.cree8.dk/oktober/02.shtml What I want to to accomplish is to have to content and sidebar-b to be flexible to a minimum width of 750, but keeping the sidebar-a (with the menu) fixed, so that it still aligns nicely with the header-img. Is this possible? __

Re: [css-d] CSS Validation

At 10:38 PM 25/10/2005, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Nick Fitzsimons wrote: Frankly, it's a pretty useless warning in most cases. It would be better to describe it as a hint: "Make sure you're really doing what you wanted to do, and if you are, ignore this." IMO: the same can be said about all [err

Re: [css-d] Directory of well designed css sites

Craig Have a look at this one:http://www.cssbeauty.com/index.php Craig Main wrote: Hi all, I am looking for a directory of well designed css sites. Anyone know of one? Thanks Craig __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www

Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites

From: "Christian Montoya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I thought the layout was "fixed" in IE myself until I reloaded the page. It seems that, at least in my Win XP, SP2, IE 6 installation, when I first load the page all is well regardless of my browser size. If, however, I resize the browser (especiall

[css-d] Background image problem + width problem firefox/IE

Hi, This thing is driving me nuts, I tried copying from other websites but it doesn't work.. and I dcan't seem to find my problem on the web. What I'm trying is this, I have 1 container on the left, holding the content, but next to it I want to place an image by using css background image propert

[css-d] How to Learn About Cross-Browser Compatibility ?

Hello, Now that my CSS page looks good in Firefox browser, what can I do about getting it to work in other browsers? ... Can someones suggest some tutorials or articles that can teach this subject? Thanks again ... Robin Whitman, Student Intern Youthtopia.Org | Towards A Sustainable Lifestyle h

Re: [css-d] Directory of well designed css sites

http://www.cssbeauty.com http://www.stylegala.com http://www.plasticpilots.com/ http://www.cssdrive.com/ http://www.cssvault.com/ http://www.cssimport.com/ http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/ http://www.nv30.com/mt/blogomania/ http://www.cssdesign.se/ http://www.webstandardsawards.com/ http://www.scr

Re: [css-d] Directory of well designed css sites

On 10/25/05, Craig Main <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for a directory of well designed css sites. Anyone know of one? > > Thanks > Craig > __ Go here: http://www.dontmeetyourheroes.com/ on the right, under

Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites

On 10/25/05, Michael Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Al Sparber wrote: > > Christian Montoya wrote: > >>OK, but when testing this "flubber" layout in IE, I see that it's > >>fixed. > > > LOL, it's not fixed :-) Test it again. Do you have an unfixed > > stanalone IE installation per chance? > >

Re: [css-d] Directory of well designed css sites

> Hi all, > > I am looking for a directory of well designed css sites. Anyone know of one? A lot. The question is what is "well designed"? Pretty in the oldschool print design sense or flexible and bulletproof in the modern web design sense? http://www.cssbeauty.com http://www.stylegala.com http:

Re: [css-d] Directory of well designed css sites

Were there not any on the wiki?: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ On 10/25/05, Craig Main <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for a directory of well designed css sites. Anyone know of one? > > Thanks > Craig > _

Re: [css-d] CSS problem in IE

Matthew Hackett wrote: I took the image out of the tag. For some sites where i create pages upon pages i sometimes use dreamweaver to replicate the pages to save time, this is why the image was within the tag. I removed the image from the tag and have tried removing the position:relative, whi

[css-d] Directory of well designed css sites

Hi all, I am looking for a directory of well designed css sites. Anyone know of one? Thanks Craig __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/

Re: [css-d] What happens to form input

On Tuesday 25 Oct 2005 19:05, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am trying to layout the form in an application that I have built. PS: here is an approximation of what I am trying to achieve. I have the Home Page working, I am now trying to work on the "Edit Page" http://home.chandlerfamily.org.uk/images

[css-d] 3-col problem - won't align at top

I am cleaning up this site done by someone else. The client really likes it and doesn't want to change it...much. I'm going to break the contact info and form onto a different page, and make the site a little more search engine friendly. I have this one area that is causing me no end of trouble. I

[css-d] What happens to form input

I am trying to layout the form in an application that I have built. The basic page layout is (currently - I can change it if I want) http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.

Re: [css-d] Mac Problem (site causes browser crash)

Shane Porter wrote: Following a site check (thanks everyone), it transpires that the site: http://www.freshclickmedia.com/previews/endo/home.htm causes a browser crash on the Apple Mac (reported specifically on IE 5.2.3, but I'm now concerned about other mac browsers.) The CSS is at: http://

[css-d] Floats Problem

Pages in Question: http://www.christyfulmer.com/bio.cfm and http://www.christyfulmer.com/portfolio.cfm Looks almost exactly like they're supposed to in IE. But, in Firefox, the leftmost float wants to pop down to the bottom. I've left *plenty* of lose space in there, so combined widths of the

[css-d] New article on PIE - "In Search of the One True Layout"

Position Is Everything has just published an article by me that should be of interest to people on css-d. It's titled "In Search of the One True Layout" and explains how you can: * display columns (as many as you like) in any order * have equal height columns without having to use faux columns

Re: [css-d] CSS problem in IE

Matthew Hackett wrote: I'm new to the group ... Hi Matthew. ... It involves an image loading and occasionally jumping across the page to the left and covering up the navigation ... http://www.colourgen.com/printers/kodak_1200i_offer.php (keep refreshing the page until it goes wrong) .

Re: [css-d] Positioning in Opera

Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 10:36:39 AM, Denise Hartmann wrote: > It works in IE, Firefox, but it is off a few pixels in Opera. Without too much investigation I'm guessing you're running into Opera's use of padding instead of margin on BODY. Replace: body { background-color: #22; background-i

Re: [css-d] Using of tbody.

* Graham Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] on [24-10-05] wrote: > Your problem cannot be solved without adding a class to the cells you want > to have with the border-top. The basic problem is that IE doesn't recognise > child selectors. Refer my example below. Ffox will show the first td with > red top bord

[css-d] Re: safari unordered lists--margin left

From: "webmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi there Reese, I'm pretty new to CSS AND I don't have a MAC to test this on. I'll just put it out and take my lumps as they come. I put a margin-right on the feature box (the box floated left) and removed the left-margin on the li (margin-left: 0;). Jus

[css-d] Positioning in Opera

Hello, I was trying to be tricky and I created a site with both a border, then an image of a line that faded from the border color to black over it for illusion sake. I absolutely positioned the line over the part of the border I wanted to fade out. It works in IE, Firefox, but it is off a few pix

Re: [css-d] problem with caption box

Trish Meyer wrote: I've spent all afternoon studying how to do a box with a caption in it, following the advice at http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/tutorial0208.htm [...] Trish Trish. You might take a look at these methods for setting images and captions(note the file is 4.01 cons

Re: [css-d] Mac Problem (site causes browser crash)

On 25 Oct 2005, at 4:40 pm, Shane Porter wrote: Following a site check (thanks everyone), it transpires that the site: http://www.freshclickmedia.com/previews/endo/home.htm causes a browser crash on the Apple Mac (reported specifically on IE 5.2.3, but I'm now concerned about other mac br

[css-d] CSS problem in IE

Hi, I'm new to the group and have recently started on CSS positioned sites. I have stumbled across a problem with floating an image and wondered if anyone here can help because i haven't had much luck anywhere else. The problem only happens some of the time and ONLY in Internet Explorer. It in

Re: [css-d] CSS Validation

Nick Fitzsimons wrote: Frankly, it's a pretty useless warning in most cases. It would be better to describe it as a hint: "Make sure you're really doing what you wanted to do, and if you are, ignore this." IMO: the same can be said about all [error] and [warning] messages. If you know what you

Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites

Al Sparber wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: OK, but when testing this "flubber" layout in IE, I see that it's fixed. LOL, it's not fixed :-) Test it again. Do you have an unfixed stanalone IE installation per chance? Hi, I thought the layout was "fixed" in IE myself until I reloaded the pag

Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites

Christian Montoya wrote: No, really, I swear this "flubber" layout is fixed on IE 6, 1600px resolution. Did you do something wrong? I mean, I see the Javascript in the source that should make it fluid, but it's really not doing anything! Max-width: #pagewrapper { margin: 0 auto; width: auto; m

Re: [css-d] CSS Validation

> The answer to put a background color into everything doesn't quite work > for > me, when I get the error: > 'You have no background-color with your color : p ' Note that it isn't an error: it's just a warning. Try introducing some non-valid CSS into a stylesheet, then validate it: the invalid b

FF display problems was: Re: [css-d] Why oh why :(

Abyss Abyss Information wrote: > what the problem is if i place a "padding:10px" in the "CntBodyText" then it forces the box out in firefox..causing it too be outside the background image (image images are the > same width as described) > > it displays beautifully in IE (which is scarey..) can

Re: [css-d] Why oh why :(

what the problem is if i place a "padding:10px" in the "CntBodyText" then it forces the box out in firefox..causing it too be outside the background image (image images are the same width as described) I did not test your code, but it seems obvious to me that you are not taking into cons

[css-d] Mac Problem (site causes browser crash)

Hi all, Following a site check (thanks everyone), it transpires that the site: http://www.freshclickmedia.com/previews/endo/home.htm causes a browser crash on the Apple Mac (reported specifically on IE 5.2.3, but I'm now concerned about other mac browsers.) The CSS is at: http:

[css-d] Why oh why :(

hi all... i have struggled to figure out what this is displaying wrong :( arg it just wont work could someone please send me a life line please css #CntBody { Margin:0px; Padding:0px; Width:760px; border:1px solid #000; } #CntBodyText { Background-Image: URL(../../

SV: [css-d] Delivering a site on a PDA (How does Google do it?)

Hi, You could perhaps do with some Javascript like navigator.userAgent combined with navigator.appVersion to find out what OS and browser your visitors are using, and then redirect accordingly. var useragent = navigator.userAgent; var browser = navigator.appName; var vers

Re: [css-d] problem with caption box

Hi all, I've spent all afternoon studying how to do a box with a caption in it, following the advice at http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/tutorial0208.htm However, I'm running into a few problems/questions. So I must be missing something... First off, because you have to specify the

Re: [css-d] CSS Validation

Many thanks Christian, It's certainly off-putting when the pages showed without the warnings and then suddenly, boom! David sent a link to a previous post which I hadn't received explaining the warnings. Now I've gone through them and yes you are quite right, about the warnings and my CSS