Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-06 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Hi Adam: Adam Kuehn wrote: > Rahul Gonsalves wrote: > >> [1] http://www.littleandreid.com/mentaidyn/about >> >> >> Home >> > id="menu_about">About >> [--more links--] >> >> >> Now, I want to assign the class "Active" to have the different >> background. What should I do? This changes from page

Re: [css-d] frameless frames, synchronized scroll, and tableless tables (basically Excel)

2006-01-06 Thread Roger Roelofs
Pete, On Jan 6, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Maziak, Peter ((Tek Systems)) wrote: > http://www.msu.edu/~maziak/umg/dra/quadrantlayout.html > > 1) BOTTOMRIGHT DIV wraps (goes below) BOTTOMLEFT DIV in IE/win. I have > temporarily commented out overflow:hidden in the body tag so that this > is apparent when

Re: [css-d] footer pushing IE XP scroll bar

2006-01-06 Thread videoscott1
Thank you for your input, I didn't realize you couldn't have defined borders on the same div that's 100%. So maybe a wrapper at 100% containing my footer would work? Another for the tool belt;-) On the other hand I didn't have the scroll bar till I added the footer, and when I take it out compl

Re: [css-d] Boxproblem

2006-01-06 Thread francky
Daniel Liljeberg wrote: >I have a box with rounded corners created with divs and background graphics >of the corners, sides and the bottom. > >... Javascript ... > >The problem is that it doesn't scale with the content. > > Hi Daniel, Going to the Wiki, like the others said, is a good idea. In

Re: [css-d] frameless frames, synchronized scroll, and tableless tables (basically Excel)

2006-01-06 Thread Maziak, Peter \(Tek Systems\)
You are correct that tables are good for tabular data. But I have an unusual circumstance where I need to break up the table into four divs, which leads to the challenge of alignment of columsn/rows. If I have a long string in a table cell, it will force/break the alignment columns. So an alterna

Re: [css-d] frameless frames, synchronized scroll, and tableless tables (basically Excel)

2006-01-06 Thread heinrich klassen
hi! don't you think tables are neccessary to provid structure in datasets? you should indeed read: http://www.usability.com.au/resources/tables.cfm seems offtopic, but this is too important for me. tables are not useless. henry. 2006/1/6, Maziak, Peter (Tek Systems) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ht

[css-d] frameless frames, synchronized scroll, and tableless tables (basically Excel)

2006-01-06 Thread Maziak, Peter \(Tek Systems\)
http://www.msu.edu/~maziak/umg/dra/quadrantlayout.html I am using four divs (plus others) to build "frameless frames." It is starting to look good in Firefox, but not in IE/win. Please advise on any of the following issues, higher priority listed first. Any advice appreciated. 1) BOTTOMRIG

Re: [css-d] Button Style

2006-01-06 Thread M. Othman
Hello, Have a look at these two examples. If I am not mistaken, one of them, at least, has the effect you're looking for: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/vertical13.htm http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/vertical15.htm Kind regards, Mohammed

Re: [css-d] Layout Consultation/Analysis

2006-01-06 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Thomas Hall wrote: > Group, > > I have been asked to recode an existing site for seo purposes - > http://www.bestlubrication.com As > you can see in the code it is not properly structured using a > plethora of tables and inline styling. After poking around the s

[css-d] css Failure in IE

2006-01-06 Thread Keith Kaiser
No one laugh I just discovered that the CSS for my web site http://kaiserklan.com/roundtable does not work in I.E. It works great in Safari and in FireFox it just never accrued to me it wouldn't work in IE. Please if you have a minute take a look and show me the error of my way. -- YIS/YIV Kei

Re: [css-d] css & fonts

2006-01-06 Thread Uwe Kaiser
On 06.01.2006 14:43, Felix Miata wrote: > Nick Fitzsimons wrote Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:29:22 - (GMT): > > >>On 05.01.2006 23:54, Duckworth, Nigel wrote: > I myself, wrote: >>>Since MSIE/PC is working internally in points, >>>it's default font size is always 12pt. > >>Actually, all modern

Re: [css-d] clearing a float without clearing another float

2006-01-06 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Arnold, Tim wrote: >Zoe, >It's your own fault for chastising us about not trimming our replies, in >your response to the "Browser Incompatibility" thread ;) > >http://offlead.com/stuff/floattest/index.html > > Ahh, but I *always* leave the URL in question in the thread, because its always rele

Re: [css-d] CSS newbie books

2006-01-06 Thread Matthew Levine
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ghvyghvy > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:31 AM > To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Subject: [css-d] CSS newbie books > > I joined this group and I daily receive messages. I am a newbie to > CSS. >

Re: [css-d] clearing a float without clearing another float

2006-01-06 Thread Arnold, Tim
Zoe, It's your own fault for chastising us about not trimming our replies, in your response to the "Browser Incompatibility" thread ;) http://offlead.com/stuff/floattest/index.html Cheers, Tim -Original Message- From: Zoe M. Gillenwater I don't know the page this was in reference to a

[css-d] problem with floats in IE

2006-01-06 Thread KavinskyC
I'm trying to create a website that uses Flash to slideshow some photos with text to the right of it. I'm using the float property to set the Flash movie to the left, allowing the text to run to the right of it. I'm also using sIFR to replace the text to the right of the Flash movie. Everything loo

Re: [css-d] CSS newbie books

2006-01-06 Thread Arnold, Tim
I really enjoyed the new WROX Press book "Professional CSS Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design" (ISBN 0-7645-8833-8) Along with best practices for XHTML and CSS, there were some interesting case studies (Blogger.com, ESPN.com, Fastcompany.com) followed by interviews with the designers responsibl

Re: [css-d] Button Style

2006-01-06 Thread Matthew Levine
On Jan 6, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Conyers, Dwayne, Mr [C] wrote: > I have a style that makes a hyperlink look like a button -- but > have been > using JavaScript onFocus() and onBlur() to affect button like behavior > (i.e., a depressed and raised state). I would like to do this with > CSS and > wo

[css-d] Button Style

2006-01-06 Thread Conyers, Dwayne, Mr [C]
I have a style that makes a hyperlink look like a button -- but have been using JavaScript onFocus() and onBlur() to affect button like behavior (i.e., a depressed and raised state). I would like to do this with CSS and would appreciate advice. The current CSS is: a.button:link, a.button:visited

Re: [css-d] CSS and RSS Feeds

2006-01-06 Thread Christian Heilmann
> 4) When Dave Shea put the Zen garden together, he wanted to put as > many hooks for CSS in as possible to allow maximum style flexibility > with a single HTML file. That's the reason for the extraneous markup, > like the spans inside the divs and the extra divs at the bottom. > These basically ju

Re: [css-d] CSS 3

2006-01-06 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ian Young wrote: > Just read an interesting bit about CSS3 written in 2004!! So when > will it be implemented. seems to me that it is likely to make life so > much easier for drop shadows, rounded corners etc. Parts of CSS3 are already implemented in a number of browsers. The rest might be avail

Re: [css-d] CSS 3

2006-01-06 Thread Ian Young
Just read an interesting bit about CSS3 written in 2004!! So when will it be implemented. seems to me that it is likely to make life so much easier for drop shadows, rounded corners etc. Hope this is not deemed "off-topic" Ian IY e-Solutions

Re: [css-d] move scrollbar to far right

2006-01-06 Thread Matthew Levine
On Jan 6, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Tim Robertson wrote: > Hi, > > I have created a CSS page with 3 main sections a little header, > content, footer with white space around them all. > > I have managed to make it so the header & footer remain static, but > the content scrolls if necessary. (so far it wo

[css-d] move scrollbar to far right

2006-01-06 Thread Tim Robertson
Hi, I have created a CSS page with 3 main sections a little header, content, footer with white space around them all. I have managed to make it so the header & footer remain static, but the content scrolls if necessary. (so far it works on Mac IE 5.2, Firefox 1.0.6 and Safari 2.0.2 The pr

[css-d] ADMIN Re: css & fonts

2006-01-06 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Ian Young wrote: >Duh! enough already. > > > Yes, this thread has gone on long enough, but emailing the entire list with such a comment is not appropriate. No more off-topic theses on how font sizes are calculated by browsers or snippy comments about said theses. The original poster's quest

Re: [css-d] CSS and RSS Feeds

2006-01-06 Thread Matthew Levine
On Jan 6, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Ionize wrote: > I have a couple of questions if you folks out there don't mind > answering. > > 1: Can CSS be used to contain an RSS Feed, what i mean by this is > that if > you create a container and insert the RSS code in there will > it be > bound by the rule

Re: [css-d] CSS and RSS Feeds

2006-01-06 Thread David Dorward
On 06/01/06, Ionize <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1: Can CSS be used to contain an RSS Feed, what i mean by this is that if > you create a container and insert the RSS code in there will it be > bound by the rules placed on it by the style sheet, not so much in a > formatting type of way but in mor

[css-d] CSS and RSS Feeds

2006-01-06 Thread Ionize
Hey one and all, Firstly I would like to wish you all the very happiest new year, and lets just hope this year is better than the last one heehee (",) Anyway back to business. I have a couple of questions if you folks out there don't mind answering. 1: Can CSS be used to contain an RSS Feed

Re: [css-d] footer pushing IE XP scroll bar

2006-01-06 Thread CJ Larson
> http://videointegrations.com/serenity/procedure_relax_pleasure.html > http://videointegrations.com/serenity/layout.css > Look at the bottom for #footer > > The Horizontal scroll bar only in IE6 is apparently caused by the footer. I > can't figure out how to get rid of it without causing the prob

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-06 Thread Adam Kuehn
Rahul Gonsalves wrote: >[1] http://www.littleandreid.com/mentaidyn/about > > >Home >id="menu_about">About >[--more links--] > > >Now, I want to assign the class "Active" to have the different >background. What should I do? This changes from page to page, >dynamically, so I can't use the ID property

Re: [css-d] Menu Lists in Firefox and IE

2006-01-06 Thread francky
Paul Boutin wrote (abbreviated): >... >Here is the problem page http://design.artisticoffee.com/testing >The issue is with spacing between the list items in IE. ... >Thanks for any help. > >Paul. > Hi Paul, Guess it has something to do with the small #LeftMenu ul li a { width:130px; }, see screen

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem [SOLVED]

2006-01-06 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Diego: diego nunes wrote: >On 06/01/06, Rahul Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Now, I want to assign the class "Active" to have the different >>background. >> >> >Have you tried "!important"? >.active { text-decoration: none !important; >background-color: #

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-06 Thread Martin Heiden
Rahul, on Friday, January 6, 2006 at 16:03 Rahul Gonsalves wrote: > > Home > >About > [--more links--] > .mainnav li a:link { text-decoration: none; color: #FFF; padding: 1em; background-color: #000; line-height: 3em;} .mainnav li a:hover { background-color: #FC0; color: #000; } .mainnav li a

Re: [css-d] Menu Lists in Firefox and IE

2006-01-06 Thread Martin Heiden
Paul, on Friday, January 6, 2006 at 15:26 Paul Boutin wrote: > I'm having a problem with my CSS rendering properly in IE (Go Figure). Try to adjust the line-height for IE. regards Martin __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED

[css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-06 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Dear All: My first time using a CMS (TxtPattern), and I'm struggling a bit. I'm trying to set the active link on this page [1], to a different color from the rest. Home About [--more links--] Now, I want to assign the class "Active" to have the different background. What should I do? This c

Re: [css-d] Menu Lists in Firefox and IE

2006-01-06 Thread Ian Young
>>I'm having a problem with my CSS rendering properly in IE (Go Figure). Nothing new there then! Actually, I see that the background image doesn't appear in FF in either of your sites. May be best to write as background-image:, background:repeat; background-position etc. This seems to be a commo

Re: [css-d] IE positioning problem with menu

2006-01-06 Thread Ingo Chao
shawn herrin wrote: > Thank you so much for the reply. Unfortunately, i'm not sure I understand > what you are suggesting. If it's not too much trouble, could you elaborate > a bit? > > Thanks again, > Shawn > > On 1/5/06, Ingo Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> shawn herrin wrote: >>> Hi there

Re: [css-d] css & fonts

2006-01-06 Thread Ian Young
Duh! enough already. Ian IY e-Solutions -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.14/222 - Release Date: 05/01/2006 __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: [css-d] double border wrap around image

2006-01-06 Thread francky
oo00oo wrote: >Hello, I'm new to css >I try do to this with css : > >http://oo00oo.free.fr/css1.htm > >I try to do that witout : bouble border ( 2 colors ) that >automatically wrap around the image. With adjsut on each image size. >Is it possible ? > >Thanks > There are several ways to do that i

[css-d] Menu Lists in Firefox and IE

2006-01-06 Thread Paul Boutin
Hi Guys, I'm having a problem with my CSS rendering properly in IE (Go Figure). Here is the problem page http://design.artisticoffee.com/testing Here is the problem css http://design.artisticoffee.com/include/testingsite.css The issue is with spacing between the list items. Now I know I had th

Re: [css-d] css & fonts

2006-01-06 Thread Duckworth, Nigel
Nic said: > I think what was meant is that the creator of the site has specified 1em to be equivalent to 10px. Exactly, the 1em is *relative* to 10px. -Nigel __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailm

[css-d] [Opera CSS Bug] Overflow:auto

2006-01-06 Thread p . ledroit
Hello, Here is a simplified sample of a web page that bugs opera (with a simple overflow:auto in a "%" positionned table) : http://rafb.net/paste/results/pgmNkz38.nln.html Thank you for your help in resolving the problem. See you, P.Ledroit

Re: [css-d] css & fonts

2006-01-06 Thread Felix Miata
Nick Fitzsimons wrote Fri, 6 Jan 2006 10:29:22 - (GMT): > On 05.01.2006 23:54, Duckworth, Nigel wrote: > > Since MSIE/PC is working internally in points, > > it's default font size is always 12pt. > Actually, all modern browsers (Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari, Konqueror) > start with a "facto

Re: [css-d] File upload button styling

2006-01-06 Thread Christian Heilmann
> Does anyone know of a way of using CSS to customise the appearance of the > default "browse" button that browsers display when using the following html > element? > > > > I can (at my clients insistence, I must stress) control the appearance of > elements and etc, I can't see a way of doing >

Re: [css-d] IE6 not centering div w/equal margin percentages?

2006-01-06 Thread videoscott1
Thanks allot Rahul, your wrapper was the trick and keeping my margins still worked out fine! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Thanks, for the speedy reply. The reason I have the margins set almost >equally is so that I keep it centered over the watermark img. Here's the >wiki that recommends this: >

Re: [css-d] Elastic design / height 100% / background images

2006-01-06 Thread francky
Johan Sjostrand wrote: >I'm building this elastic site ... >The problem is ... >Other suggestions? > Yes: show us the link to this site / this testpage! ;-) francky __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailm

[css-d] File upload button styling

2006-01-06 Thread James McQuarrie
Does anyone know of a way of using CSS to customise the appearance of the default "browse" button that browsers display when using the following html element? I can (at my clients insistence, I must stress) control the appearance of elements and etc, I can't see a way of doing the same for the

Re: [css-d] Website CSS

2006-01-06 Thread Martin Heiden
Erica, on Friday, January 6, 2006 at 11:10 Earth Repair & Restoration wrote: > Am re-doing my site http://www.earthrepair.com.au and was after a little > advice, I am currently using DWT and CSS sheet but still have a few > remaining tables in place, I have redone the top navigation buttons in CS

Re: [css-d] css & fonts

2006-01-06 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
> On 05.01.2006 23:54, Duckworth, Nigel wrote: >> Ian said: >> >>>But why does 1em Verdana look so small? > > I don't know. If you really want to know it, you need to ask the author > of the site. > >> >> The 1em is relative to 10px. >> > > This is widely misunderstood. > The em unit isn't relative

[css-d] Website CSS

2006-01-06 Thread Earth Repair & Restoration
Hi All, New to the group :-) Am re-doing my site http://www.earthrepair.com.au and was after a little advice, I am currently using DWT and CSS sheet but still have a few remaining tables in place, I have redone the top navigation buttons in CSS but not the side ones yet, is there anywhere you c

[css-d] Elastic design / height 100% / background images

2006-01-06 Thread Johan Sjostrand
Hello. I'm building this elastic site which has a 100% height hack applied to the main container. On this main container I've applied a background image (dropshadow left) that has repeat-y so it repeat itself the entire viewport. The problem now is that I want the same for the right dropshadow.

Re: [css-d] css & fonts

2006-01-06 Thread Uwe Kaiser
On 05.01.2006 23:54, Duckworth, Nigel wrote: > Ian said: > >>But why does 1em Verdana look so small? I don't know. If you really want to know it, you need to ask the author of the site. > > The 1em is relative to 10px. > This is widely misunderstood. The em unit isn't relative to pixels at

[css-d] double border wrap around image

2006-01-06 Thread oo00oo
Hello, I'm new to css I try do to this with css : http://oo00oo.free.fr/css1.htm // I try to do that witout : bouble border ( 2 colors ) that automatically wrap around the image. With adjsut on each image size. Is it possible ? Thanks

[css-d] auto-complete form layout problems

2006-01-06 Thread grahamcox
Hi all, I’ve got a few layout problems that I’m having trouble fixing and would appreciate any help you could provide. The webpage in question is http://www.golfbettingguide.com/statistics/golf-stats2.php and the css http://www.golfbettingguide.com/styles/styles123.css It’s a test page for a f

Re: [css-d] Layout Consultation/Analysis

2006-01-06 Thread Matthew Levine
On Jan 6, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Thomas Hall wrote: > Group, > > I have been asked to recode an existing site for seo purposes - > http://www.bestlubrication.com > As you > can see in the code it is not properly structured using a plethora > of tables > and inli