Re: [css-d] z-index doesn't work with relative items in FF?

On 10 Nov 2005, at 4:07 pm, Graham Reeds wrote: I just wish I could figure out if a) FF is sticking to the letter of the W3C description (which is illogical) or b) FF is actually incorrect and IE is correct for once. Bet for the usual thing: IE is wrong (on z-index). Opera, Safari,

[css-d] Flickering in Firefox: The End(?)

Thanks to all who helped me solve this glitch. Nick got me going by suggesting a few possibilities to address, seconded by Big John. It seems that the problem was caused - at least in this case - because the images in my thumbnail div didn't have height and width attributes called in either the

[css-d] Odd size change on hover in MSIE

I am experiencing a weird issue with hovers on MSIE. If you go to: http://icant.co.uk/works/wickstead/extensions.php or http://icant.co.uk/works/wickstead/ and you hover over the links on the right or the bottom respectively, MSIE does increase the height of the main container. Does anybody

Re: [css-d] Flickering in Firefox: the saga continues

OK. Now I've resized all of the images in the right scrolling div as suggested by Nick and called the now uniform img size (#thumbnails img) in the style sheet. As I said earlier, after I placed the sizes of the images in my html a la 1996, the flickering stopped on my end. Big John said he

Re: [css-d] Aligning List Of Name:Value Pairs On Colon

How about using a table, as this does look like tabular data to me? Then you could easily align the TH to the right and the TD to the left. In the new world of CSS, aren't we supposed to avoid tables? Same applies to your span solution - give the first span a fixed width, display it

Re: [css-d] Aligning List Of Name:Value Pairs On Colon

Here's a case for a definition list. Following code is very basic, but you can build on it however you like. A definition list is certainly better semantic markup than the span solution. Your example CSS looked good in IE and Opera. However, in Firefox the dd is displayed below the dt.

Re: [css-d] Aligning List Of Name:Value Pairs On Colon

How about using a table, as this does look like tabular data to me? Then you could easily align the TH to the right and the TD to the left. In the new world of CSS, aren't we supposed to avoid tables? No, we're supposed to avoid the misuse of tables to achieve presentational goals. Table

Re: [css-d] Aligning List Of Name:Value Pairs On Colon

On 10/11/05, Curious [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about using a table, as this does look like tabular data to me? In the new world of CSS, aren't we supposed to avoid tables? No, just the abuse of them (or any other element) for layout. -- David Dorward

Re: [css-d] Aligning List Of Name:Value Pairs On Colon

Here's a case for a definition list. Following code is very basic, but you can build on it however you like. A definition list is certainly better semantic markup than the span solution. Ok, this might be getting very hypothetic, but I disagree. The definition description describes the

Re: [css-d] fluid layout fixed...sort of

Shelley Simpson wrote: Hi all I ended up using a table inside my content div...that allowed the content to grow and the footer to clear the two divs (side menu and content). When I was trying to use just divs to arrange content, the footer would not clear. So back to the strange old days of

Re: [css-d] IE Print Margins

Rutgers wrote: Is there a way to set the print margins in Internet Explorer (6+)? I don't like the preset margins ... like FireFox better but have to make it work in IE. Printer page margins are set by the device driver, and are not accessible to browsers. That is, each printer has a native

[css-d] Highlighting text

I'm trying to add highlighting features to a pre tag. I want it to look like GMail higlight and spell-checking feature, but I don't want to break the pre tag text into small span tags. Instead, I want to position a span with a background color over a specific text, so the text will look

[css-d] Background image problem

There was a problem with my email earlier so apologies is this is the second time you've received this. I've set up a free web site to show this to you rather than try and explain it, it would be difficult to explain exactly what I'm talking about. Please ignore the banner ad on the

[css-d] Firefox padding issue

Hi all Why, in quirks mode, does Firefox decide to add the amount of padding-top to the specified height of the element I'm adding padding to? Will switching modes help me in this case? #small_div { margin-left: 0; width: 120px; height: 120px; padding-top: 40px; }

Re: [css-d] Site check please?

Charles Dort wrote: If you'd be willing to glance at this index page http://www.allsaintsofamerica.org/new_site/index.html http://www.allsaintsofamerica.org/new_site/css/allsaints.css Theophan (Charles) Dort xp_sp2 ie/ff/opera Looks good to me, Charles. Some suggestions: body { /* deleting

Re: [css-d] Firefox padding issue

Zak McGregor wrote: Why, in quirks mode, does Firefox decide to add the amount of padding-top to the specified height of the element I'm adding padding to? Will switching modes help me in this case? #small_div { margin-left: 0; width: 120px; height: 120px;

Re: [css-d] ids for XHTML radio buttons

I think it works in IE6, Firefox, and Safari (at least recent versions). I was surprised as well, but came across it working and was curious. --Dave On Oct 26, 2005, at 10:40 , David Dorward wrote: On 26/10/05, David Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be off-topic, for which I

Re: [css-d] Odd size change on hover in MSIE

Christian Heilmann wrote: I am experiencing a weird issue with hovers on MSIE. If you go to: http://icant.co.uk/works/wickstead/extensions.php or http://icant.co.uk/works/wickstead/ and you hover over the links on the right or the bottom respectively, MSIE does increase the height of

[css-d] stuck on IE scrolling/positioning/background/form bug

I'm working on a Web app for a client, and have a sort of interdependent collection of IE bugs. I think I have a workaround for the worst two, but the whole thing is weird enough that I thought I'd find out if anyone had experience with these. (I'd love to post a link but of course the

Re: [css-d] Odd size change on hover in MSIE

I am experiencing a weird issue with hovers on MSIE. If you go to: http://icant.co.uk/works/wickstead/extensions.php http://icant.co.uk/works/wickstead/ and you hover over the links on the right or the bottom respectively, MSIE does increase the height of the main container. Looks like

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

At 8:32 PM -0500 11/9/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the only way to bold and center all the text in every cell of a particular column is to add those rules to every cell? (Sounds like bad coding to me.) Or to pretend that they are header cells when they aren't? (Sounds like bad coding to me.)

[css-d] 100% Height Problem

Hello All, On my site, http://www.blueplasmarecordings.com/ I tried to achieve 100% height. It works in Safari/Mozilla, but shocker, not in IE. Anyone see why this wouldn¹t be working? Sincerely, Jordan WOLLMAN // __

[css-d] Table Centering IE...argggg!!

I would greatly appreciate any help here...I've got a page set up and all looks like it should in Firefox IE/Mac, Safari, IE 5 Mac, etc. It looks totally wrong in IE Windows. How can i get this page to look right?? I think it's an IE table centering problem and i cannot for the life of me figure

Re: [css-d] stuck on IE scrolling/positioning/background/form bug

One way around the confidentiality issue would be to take all text or revealing names out of the code and post a simple test page with only your layout elements in it (including form fields, since those are where you issues lie). Without seeing the problem, I'll try to magically pull answers out

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 10:01:21 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: .myclass {text-align: center} td:first-child+td+td {text-align: center} /* the 3rd column */ ***But***, and here IE is buggy again, you *cannot* group those selector, else IE doesn't recognise the .myclass selector. I

Re: [css-d] Table Centering IE...argggg!!

I would greatly appreciate any help here...I've got a page set up and all looks like it should in Firefox IE/Mac, Safari, IE 5 Mac, etc. It looks totally wrong in IE Windows. How can i get this page to look right?? I think it's an IE table centering problem and i cannot for the life of me

Re: [css-d] Table Centering IE...argggg!!

Adriano Castro wrote: I'm viewing it in Mozilla/Win and IE/Win and they look very similar. There are just some alignment problems with the main image and the right column navlinks. Are these the issues you're talking about? If so take a look at the following page: +

Re: [css-d] sitecheck / lists equal in ie+ff

Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga wrote: http://www.museoarqueologico.com It's not 100% valid since it uses Flash. We have this issue with subnavigation lists (click in Culturas Precolombinas) because they don't show up the same in IE6 and Firefox 1.0.7 and we had to cram them up so that IE wouldnt

Re: [css-d] Site check please?

It's good, the only thing is if you are trying to avoid a horizontal scrollbar at 800x600, you need to make it about 2 pixels more narrow. -- -- C Montoya rdpdesign.com ... liquid.rdpdesign.com ... montoya.rdpdesign.com __

[css-d] problem with absolute positioning/floating

Hello all. I have already looked on WIKI, and haven't found exactly what I am looking for. Having said that, I'm sure I'm not the first to have this issue, and I am very curious to know if any of you have experienced the same thing. What I am getting at is the following:

Re: [css-d] test page check - especially mac

http://www.virtuallee.co.uk/Azule/index_test.html I'm still battling to figure out why the middle blue area (with Experts in Project Finance text) is about 3px higher in Safari, Firefox (IE is fine). I had to set that blue area as a negative (margin-top: -8px;) so I'm definitely doing

[css-d] Looking for a UI Designer ...

I apologize ahead of time if this is not the right forum for this message. I am looking for someone to help with UI and graphic design for several projects. Currently, this work is being offered on a contract basis, per project. Depending on work quality and re-location abilities, this could

[css-d] Floats, etc.

Is there any way of making sure that a div doesn't float itself down below a div set to float to its left when it gets too big? I have a three column layout I am using as a template in Dreamweaver. When I insert something like an image into the third column div that causes it to expand

Re: [css-d] Problems with DIV and ubication in page

Well, after I read and read the pages you leave me and probe the code, I obtain the same error. You can take a look at http://www.jovenclub.cu/grm/index.php The DIV for images still appear over other DIV elements. How can I fix them? They really look ugly. Cheers

Re: [css-d] Matching column heights in a complexish layout

Adriano Castro wrote: Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: Your problem then becomes the fact that you've positioned the child divs absolutely, which means they are removed from the flow of the page. Thus, the container has no content in it to determine its height, and shrinks up. To fix this,

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFFTOPIC] Re: Looking for a UI Designer ...

At 10:34 -0600 10/11/05, Jeff D. Chastain wrote: I apologize ahead of time if this is not the right forum for this message. It is very definitely not the right forum for this message. From the list policies (http://www.css-discuss.org/policies.html) No solicitations of employment or requests

Re: [css-d] Site check please?

MANY thanks to those who replied on the list and privately with very helpful observations and information about my site. I was dismayed to see that in IE5/Mac there are serious problems, and I'm going to think about taking the advice to assume hardly anyone uses that browser. I'll see if I can

Re: [css-d] Floats, etc.

stayed where it is. Otherwise, I have to critically size each image or keep going back into the template and shaving off pixels from the divs to the left. First off, you're obviously having problems with IE. Right? Because all the more modern browsers do the right thing and just have any

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

Thanks, Eric. It was just so nice when I had stripped away a ton of code and had all these cells with no classes assigned or inline styling or anything (literally just: tdX/td, whereas the old version that somebody else coded looked like td align=center valign=middle bgcolor=E1E4E4span

Re: [css-d] problem with absolute positioning/floating

John Guchemand wrote: Hello all. I have already looked on WIKI, and haven't found exactly what I am looking for. Having said that, I'm sure I'm not the first to have this issue, and I am very curious to know if any of you have experienced the same thing. What I am getting at is the

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

Thanks, Eric. It was just so nice when I had stripped away a ton of code and had all these cells with no classes assigned or inline styling or anything (literally just: tdX/td, whereas the old version that somebody else coded looked like td align=center valign=middle bgcolor=E1E4E4span

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

The extra classes have relevant names, so you shouldn't feel that they are obstructing your quest for purity. I think the problem posed is that *every* td has the same thing, the same thing, the same thing, so why should a class have to specified 40 times (number pulled from a hat) to style

Re: [css-d] problem with absolute positioning/floating

Hello AD, Hi John, I'm not too sure I understand what your problem is. You say the #content attaches itself to the bottom of the screen but I don't see that happening here. Really? That is odd. On every system I have tested it appears like I said - with the content div extending all

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

Thursday, November 10, 2005, 1:27:55 PM, CJ Larson wrote: Making a colgroup for this city *one* time and being done with it is the intuitive thing to do, but since it doesn't work... problem. Have you tried it? http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StylingColumns (Combination method) table

[css-d] Project Timeline

Hi, Again, I know this is off topic (although I will use CSS to display the timeline...) - but has anyone used a website project timeline for any of their clients? I've been trying to find an example of one on the Net, but just can't find anything relevant. I'm looking for something I can

Re: [css-d] problem with absolute positioning/floating

I'm not too sure I understand what your problem is. You say the #content attaches itself to the bottom of the screen but I don't see that happening here. Really? That is odd. On every system I have tested it appears like I said - with the content div extending all the way to the bottom of

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

Drawback is colgroup is only supported by IE and limited to width, border, background and visibility styles. (I know the original poster was designing for IE, but still...) I think Eric Meyer had the right idea. I wouldn't advise using adjacent sibling selectors. It's not very efficient.

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Project Timeline

At 6:34 PM + 11/10/05, Tracy Shorrock wrote: Please contact me off list, so I don't irritate the Admins. Too late, although people should indeed contact you off list if they're going to insist on encouraging that sort of behavior. If you post an off-topic message, that's irritating

Re: [css-d] Matching column heights in a complexish layout

Found a very good tutorial online [1]. Managed to get it working for IE but Mozilla doesn't adjust the height of the container div. I'm a bit lost here. I think my problem is the one defined on PIE's How To Clear Floats Without Structural Markup [2] but having tried the proposed

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

CJ Larson wrote: I think the problem posed is that *every* td has the same thing, the same thing, the same thing, so why should a class have to specified 40 times (number pulled from a hat) to style this one type of td? Now, if only one city td needed to be special, a class there would be

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

Have you tried it? http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StylingColumns (Combination method) (Sorry you get this twice Steve; I sent it off list accidentally the first time.) I was referring to colgroup as specified in the original post, not work-around methods (that consequently don't work

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

Thursday, November 10, 2005, 1:59:25 PM, Dan Kletter wrote: Drawback is colgroup is only supported by IE and limited to width, border, background and visibility styles. Thanks to it's non-standard layout engine IE doesn't have these limitations on styling via COL. Nor do CSS2 browsers styling

[css-d] dropdowns appear on top of div

so I am having a problem and I can't post an example right now cause i am behind a firewall. I have a very simple hide/show javascript popup. the popup is suposed to appear payed over on top of a form. however in ie 6 for pc the dropdowns appear on top of the poup, the input fields do not. here

[css-d] Problems with tables

I have a problem with table. The thing is when I have a long text the table is redimensioned and deform all my siet. Exists a way to fix this using CSS ? Something like TD maxwith? Cheers __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] External CSS for large, design-heavy Web apps

I'm looking for some best practices information on setting up external style sheet(s) for a large web site that has highly variable design elements from section to section. Specifically, I am thinking about separating the CSS aspects controlling layout (DIV margins, padding, etc) and display

Re: [css-d] layout does not work the same in NS and IE

Thomas French wrote: A lesser question is: Is there any way to get some similar to work in NS 4.7? http://pws.cablespeed.com/~tom.french/example1.html Sure, but you need to decide what degree of support you want to include for NN 4.7. Does the site need to look the same, or does it need

[css-d] Picture disappears in IE - take a look, what do I need to reset

http://www.goldkeyhomeinspections.com/test/ What should I set differently so my picture changer works in IE - the picture is there it is just not showing up. I am sure it is some small thing that I am forgetting. Thanks, Carol F. Swinehart

[css-d] Way to select last child?

I'm using XHTML 1.1 and I'd really like to have a construct like this: #info *:last-child {margin-bottom: 0px; } to set the bottom margin of the last element in the #info container to 0. I seem to recall that lastChild is a valid entity in the W3C DOM, but I'm having a devil of a time

Re: [css-d] Styling COL and COLGROUP

It's possible, and pretty simple. You just use the solution from the wiki, where you style the COL and IE picks it up, and use adjacent siblings for standards-complient browsers. This is what I'm trying to avoid, since I would rather not style for individual browsers, which means it would be

Re: [css-d] Picture disappears in IE - take a look, what do I need to reset

Carol F. Swinehart wrote: http://www.goldkeyhomeinspections.com/test/ What should I set differently so my picture changer works in IE - the picture is there it is just not showing up. It's an IE/win bug :-) Try adding 'position: relative;' to the image in question, to force IE/win to

Re: [css-d] is this a valid hack for safari only??

On Nov 9, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Allison Bloodworth wrote: What is the hack for the safari oversized background-repeat bug? I seem to be having this problem right now. I found this URL referred to on another page (http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2003/01/09/2152), but apparently he

[css-d] Faux Column Method Question

Hi, I have read the article on Alistapart.com by Dan, and understand how his method works. I wanted advice on the best way to create the background image, including getting the measurements right when using percentages.(I don't presently have photoshop!). I am developing my personal page with a

Re: [css-d] Faux Column Method Question

Is it better to have a fixed width of say 760px or to use percentages to set the margin to say 10% on the left and right. I would appreciate any tips and advice. Thanks in advance! -Zach Byrd Faux columns are ideal for fixed width layouts, such as 760

Re: [css-d] External CSS for large, design-heavy Web apps

Afternoon Troy You wrote I'm looking for some best practices information on setting up external style sheet(s) for a large web site that has highly variable design elements from section to section. snipped If anyone can recommend a good article, or site devoted to this topic, I would

Re: [css-d] layout does not work the same in NS and IE

Thomas French wrote: I am new to CSS and am having trouble getting css to work consistently in different browsers. A lesser question is: Is there any way to get some similar to work in NS 4.7? Hi Thomas, This may help you address specific browsers issues while keeping your stylesheets plain

Re: [css-d] Matching column heights in a complexish layout

Adriano Castro wrote: but Mozilla doesn't adjust the height of the container div. I'm a bit lost here. I think my problem is the one defined on PIE's How To Clear Floats Without Structural Markup [2] but having tried the proposed solutions I still can't get it to work. Ideas? 2.

Re: [css-d] layout does not work the same in NS and IE

Jim, Inline solves the problem of a gap occurring when reducing the width but now when the width is reduced, the right div goes below the left div. I would like the right div to stay to the right of the left div, not below. The right div can scrunch up or go off the right side of the screen and

Re: [css-d] Disappearing nav image - FIXED

Ok so this didn't turn out to be an CSS problem after all, but I've already posted the problem here, and it certainly _looked_ like a CSS problem at first, so here's what it was: Norton Ad Blocker on the client's machine (and perhaps some other Net Nanny type progs do the same) was removing

[css-d] Doesn't Opera like nested floats?

Hi, I've Googled around and searched the CSS-d archive and can't find an answer to this-thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide me. I am having problems with some spans that are floated left in a container div that is floated right in Opera 8.5:

Re: [css-d] Doesn't Opera like nested floats?

Allison Bloodworth wrote: I am having problems with some spans that are floated left in a container div that is floated right in Opera 8.5: http://eberkeley-dev.vcbf.berkeley.edu/ver10ajb/. Opera had a problem that was related to width on floats, or rather _lack of_ width. The nesting in

Re: [css-d] layout does not work the same in NS and IE

Thomas French wrote: I would like the right div to stay to the right of the left div, not below. The right div can scrunch up or go off the right side of the screen and not be displayed if the browser window is not wide enough. We usually apply a 'min-width' hack to IE/win to fix that

[css-d] Absolute Positioning or Float?

Hi, I am working on a personal page that will serve as a portfolio page and contact website. It will be in two-column format. I have read advantages for both, but was seeking advice on should I use absolute positioning or floating? (or does it matter?) I appreciate any insight on this topic!

Re: [css-d] Aligning List Of Name:Value Pairs On Colon

Hi Curious, Firstly, correction to dd style, add margin-left:10.25em; Secondly, the semantics dtMarge/dt ddHomer's wife/dd Your example would define the other way around, wouldn't it? I believe your original requirement of name: value fits the example by Chris above, and does not swap the

Re: [css-d] Highlighting text

I tried setting the z-index style of the span to -1, but on Firefox, this completely hides the span behind the pre. I tried setting the span opacity's to 0.5,, but that makes both the text and the span blurred. Can someone suggest a way to accomplish that on all browsers? Change

Re: [css-d] Doesn't Opera like nested floats?

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:17:47 +0800, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allison Bloodworth wrote: I am having problems with some spans that are floated left in a container div that is floated right in Opera 8.5: http://eberkeley-dev.vcbf.berkeley.edu/ver10ajb/. Opera had a problem

Re: [css-d] Absolute Positioning or Float?

Hi, I am working on a personal page that will serve as a portfolio page and contact website. It will be in two-column format. I have read advantages for both, but was seeking advice on should I use absolute positioning or floating? (or does it matter?) I appreciate any insight on this

Re: [css-d] Doesn't Opera like nested floats?

Andrew Gregory wrote: That's a bug in the later version 7 Operas. It was fixed in v8 - and the page in question looks fine in my Opera 8.5/win ... just checked in 8.0/win - that's good too. Perhaps the 8.5 was a typo for 7.5, in which case specifying widths on the floats would fix the problem.