That is the question I poised in my online college Web Programming HTML
course at the Univ. of Phoenix. I raised some issues with the demo web site
the school uses to teach beginning html to students. It relies solely on
tables and nested tables for its layout. I initiated a discussion thread as
Hi!
I've a problem in the way Internet Explorer 6 displays the header of
this site http://woat2006.ist.utl.pt/ . There is 1px white border at
the right edge.
Anybody as any ideas how to resolve this problem?
Thanks!
Gustavo
Thanks for the help I've solved it and the menu works fine in all
browsers except ie 5.2 on the mac then you don't see the background
color of id navlist2
See : http://www.johnsten.com/test/menu.htm
Regards.
Sander
-Original Message-
From: Roger Roelofs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Tom,
On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:32 PM, Thomas Hall wrote:
What I am hoping to gather from this group are some references I can
provide
as to why tables should be used or limited to tabular data only and not
relied on for a site's entire layout presentation.
Well, it doesn't get much more
5. Floats Not Behaving in IE (Chris Akins)
Page:
http://www.springfieldmogov.org/egov/planning_development/planTest2.html
CSS with the float rules in question:
http://www.springfieldmogov.org/css/plan.css
Additional CSS Page: http://www.springfieldmogov.org/css/pw_oper.css
Problem: Three
On 1/23/06, Jon Ratcliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone point me in the direction of a non scripting work around to
this, if one exists, or perhaps another way to create source ordered
columns/footer without absolute positioning?
Source ordered liquid center with elastic left and right
Holly Bergevin wrote:
From: Tyson Tate [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyways: My rationale for not doing so on the list's wiki is because
the wiki serves as a comprehensive resource whereas what I'm creating
is a much quicker and more concise list. I don't plan on using
outdated techniques or
Hello all,
I'm a newbie on this list and still learning to build css-based sites.
I have a problem on this page:
http://tinyurl.com/9me7n*
*In Firefox it's fine but in IE the left border on the content div is
broken. Can anyone explain why and what I can do to fix it?
In addition could anyone
Joe Blow wrote:
I was trying to research an alternative to using tables for a 3X3 layout grid.
As an example, I've posted this page: http://earthday.ca/temp/index.html. The
middle-center slice (r3_c2.jpg) is where the content would go, and it should
expand vertically to accomodate any height
Jim Nannery wrote:
If your document is in Standard mode browsers will use the modern Box
model. In Quirks mode browsers will render the mark up using the old IE
5x box model.
Just to clarify -- not all browsers will use IE 5's box model when in
Quirks Mode, just IE 6 will. Other
Thanks Roger,
On 1/23/06, Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IE has a known problem with 1px dotted borders. The only fix I know
of is to create a background image and repeat-y it to simulate a
dotted border. Otherwise you could change it to a 2px border.
Only it's not a dotted
Jeff Moyes wrote:
Does anyone know of a reference anywhere that lists the css that
Macromedia's DreamWeaver supports in its internal rendering engine?
No, and such a thing would be extremely difficult to create. Most of
its CSS bugs aren't as simple as doesn't support the property
At 05:37 AM 1/21/2006, Jesse Skinner wrote:
Bill Moseley wrote:
I just looking for a few tips on how to organize CSS files.
Of course there's no one-right-way to do this, but here's what I would
suggest. Have one master CSS file, say style.css, that every page
references. Inside the style.css,
Rahul,
I'm sorry - I can't seem to see the problem on my machine (IE6/
WinXPSP2). Perhaps I am merely unable to see the white border, or
have you fixed the problem?
My PC machine as the same setup as yours...
I've made a screenshot of the problem:
Christine:
christine ce wrote:
Thanks Roger,
On 1/23/06, Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IE has a known problem with 1px dotted borders. The only fix I know
of is to create a background image and repeat-y it to simulate a
dotted border. Otherwise you could change it to a 2px
Below is a link to a rough template that I'm working on for a friend. It
completely falls apart in IE 6, but looks fine in Firefox 1.5, Opera 8.5,
and Netscape 8. I'm in the process of trying to de-bug, but would greatly
appreciate a fresh set of eyes. Thanks for your help.
Thanks Rahul
On 1/23/06, Rahul Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The mystery deepens. If you're on a slow-ish connection (x512k), you'll
notice that the border is present - i.e. - not broken before the images
load.
Screenshot [1].
Yes I had noticed that too, it makes it even weirder...
Gustavo:
Gustavo Pimenta wrote:
My PC machine as the same setup as yours...
I still can't see your problem. I've added a screenshot of my own to the
confusion :-). [1]
It's rather large as I saved it at 12 in PS, so that you can enlarge
it and see that there is, in fact, no 1px shift. Either
Jasper Kuperus wrote:
Recently I've been working on the accessibility of one of my websites
(http://www.overhoorjesuf.nl/). I've been through the whole website with
a blind internet user. Out of accessibility reasons its better to switch
the menu and content in the source from place (#menu and
Keith Kaiser wrote:
I want to put text between two images,
.
div id=wrapper
img src=. width=
Some kind of text herebr
with a a href= too
img src=. width=
/div
I would like it to be fluid so that spacing happens by default and the
entire thing is already in my
C. Sitaram Reddy wrote:
When I print a page (in IE 6.0, FireFox 1.5), text that is far to the right
on the screen is getting chopped off. I have
textarea {height:auto; overflow:visible;}
in my stylesheet for print. Having the same problem with drop down lists,
too.
Please post the URL of
re: http://www.tincat-group.com/mewsings
Dawn Wolthuis wrote:
On 1/20/06, Zoe M. Gillenwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would strongly suggest that you create a print style sheet that
removes the second column entirely.
I considered that. However, the second column has the list of
Strange...
I've tried everything to fix the problem, but it's still there :-(
Thanks anyway, Rahul!
On Jan 23, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Rahul Gonsalves wrote:
Gustavo:
Gustavo Pimenta wrote:
My PC machine as the same setup as yours...
I still can't see your problem. I've added a screenshot of
Thomas Hall wrote:
What I am hoping to gather from this group are some references I can provide
as to why tables should be used or limited to tabular data only and not
relied on for a site's entire layout presentation.
Have you looked at the WIKI?
Here is a start:
Hello all,
I am going to make some example layouts involving liquid and elastic
widths. I am looking for some best practices on making an accessible
layout. Here are some options I am considering:
- a fluid layout with em based max-width
- an elastic layout with max-width 100%
- an elastic
jamie cantrell wrote:
Below is a link to a rough template that I'm working on for a friend. It
completely falls apart in IE 6, but looks fine in Firefox 1.5, Opera 8.5,
and Netscape 8. I'm in the process of trying to de-bug, but would greatly
appreciate a fresh set of eyes. Thanks for your
All,
Also, I should add a big +1 for what Zoe says about No, and such a
thing would be extremely difficult to create. Most of its CSS bugs
aren't as simple as 'doesn't support the property min-width' or
something, but are more dependent on the particular combination of
things that is going on
I am having trouble making the bullets in this list to align outside the
list. Instead, the text in each li is so long, that is wraps around
under the bullet each time.
I am talking about the vertical list on the _left hand side _of the page
http://tct2005.com/inprocess/
I cleaned it up and
Having said that though, I do see some value in knowing
whether a given rendering engine even begins to support
a given feature or not
This is especially true given that your friend is trying to create a
Dreamweaver extension -- viewing the extension in a browser is totally
irrelevant.
If I set a container 600 pixels wide and put three 200 pixel wide container
DIVs inside FF1.5 is happy and so is IE6. As I add left and right padding
and/or left and right borders, stepping up the container width proportionally
keeps both browsers happy. If, however, I step up the margin (with
If I set a container 600 pixels wide and put three 200 pixel wide
container DIVs inside FF1.5 is happy and so is IE6. As I add left and
right padding and/or left and right borders, stepping up the container
width proportionally keeps both browsers happy. If, however, I step up the
margin
-Original Message-
From: Nick Fitzsimons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 10:01 AM
To: Storm, Dan
Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
Subject: Re: [css-d] IE6 Handling of Margins In Floated DIVs
If I set a container 600 pixels wide and put three 200 pixel wide
I changed the name of the wiki page ChangingTheColorScheme to
ConstantsInCSS to better reflect its content and purpose. I cleaned up
some of the text on the page at that time as well, but I didn't touch
the text listed under Option 3, since PHP and other server-side stuff is
not my area of
Hey everyone,
Well, after 3 hours of unsuccessful tries I am coming back to you guys
in hopes that this problem can be solved.
My CSS code is losing all of it's formatting when viewed in a browser. I
am writing the code in Dreamweaver 8 and it is perfectly styled just
like I want it. However,
I went in to DW8 and under the Preferences you can set the
CODE FORMAT
properties.
Hi Cory
This is pretty far off-topic for this list and would probably be better
discussed in a Dreamweaver forum (see
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/index.cfm?forumid=12).
Having said
From: Zoe M. Gillenwater
C. Sitaram Reddy wrote:
When I print a page (in IE 6.0, FireFox 1.5), text that is far to the
right
on the screen is getting chopped off. I have
textarea {height:auto; overflow:visible;}
in my stylesheet for print. Having the same problem with drop down lists,
C. Sitaram Reddy wrote:
When I print a page (in IE 6.0, FireFox 1.5), text that is far to the right
on the screen is getting chopped off. I have
textarea {height:auto; overflow:visible;}
in my stylesheet for print. Having the same problem with drop down lists,
too.
Here it is:
C. Sitaram Reddy Wrote:
From: Zoe M. Gillenwater
C. Sitaram Reddy wrote:
When I print a page (in IE 6.0, FireFox 1.5), text that is
far to the
right
on the screen is getting chopped off. I have
textarea {height:auto; overflow:visible;}
in my stylesheet for print. Having
I mistakenly wrote:
The problem is the overflow:visible declaration. This is causing the
content to overflow the container, no matter what the container
dimensions are. So even though the browser can scale the
container since
you've not defined its dimensions, the actual content is
still
On the following site I have a two column layout with the left and right
hand columns using the following, respectively:
#nav {
width: 175px;
float: left;
padding: 55px 17px 100px 17px;
}
#content {
margin-left: 175px;
width: 540px;
padding: 25px 15px;
vertical-align: top;
JJ wrote:
---
http://fortcollinsincubator.org
The problem is that in Firefox the first few items within the page are
pushed right, as if they have added padding. This effect goes away down
the page, seemingly at a random point, like in the middle of a
paragraph,
then the rest of the page is
Is it possilble to do something like this:
.clsBold {font-weight: bold;}
.clsItalic {font-style: italic;}
.clsRed {color: #F00;}
.clsTitleDiv {clsBold; clsItalic; clsRed;}
In other words, can I call a previously defined class inside another class,
in some fashion, thus saving me time and code?
On Jan 23, 2006, at 4:37 PM, Paul Kahl wrote:
Is it possilble to do something like this:
.clsBold {font-weight: bold;}
.clsItalic {font-style: italic;}
.clsRed {color: #F00;}
.clsTitleDiv {clsBold; clsItalic; clsRed;}
In other words, can I call a previously defined class inside
I am having trouble making the bullets in this list to align
outside the
list.
list-style-position: outside;
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/generate.html#propdef-list-style-position
--
Joel Goldstick
www.columbuswebmakers.com
I have a simple div which contains another div filled with lists.
When the outer div is smaller than the larger div, i'd like it to hide
the text -- not wrap. The code below works fine in IE, can anyone
suggest what I'm doing wrong for firefox?
div id=testdiv style=border:1px solid blue;
Well Damn wrote:
When the outer div is smaller than the larger div, i'd like it to hide
the text -- not wrap. The code below works fine in IE, can anyone
suggest what I'm doing wrong for firefox?
div id=testdiv style=border:1px solid blue; width:200px; overflow:hidden
div width=100%
At 03:12 PM 1/23/2006, Paul Kahl wrote:
I'm constantly freaking out about reusability. I'm
writing my first ASP.Net aps, and .Net code is heavy enough without having
to load a 50k stylesheet on top of it.
Hmm, if your stylesheet is 50K that could indicate a problem in
itself. I would try to
That's the complete page (minus html/body and doctype tags). What I
deleted by accident prior to posting is placing nowrap within the
inner div -- that changes the behavior between the two browsers. My
intent here is to have a div that doens't wrap content based on the
width of the div.
I
On 24 Jan 2006, at 11:01 am, Well Damn wrote:
That's the complete page (minus html/body and doctype tags). What I
deleted by accident prior to posting is placing nowrap within the
inner div -- that changes the behavior between the two browsers. My
intent here is to have a div that doens't
Ok I am learning xhtml and CSS. I am not at all new to web development but
relying heavily on CSS is new to me. Is align=center deprecated for XHTML?
Also how do I align content center with div tags. I am trying not to use any
tables. All I want is my navBar to align center on the page.
It
From: Brian Ogden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ok I am learning xhtml and CSS. I am not at all new to web
development but relying heavily on CSS is new to me. Is
align=center deprecated for XHTML?
Yes.
Also how do I align content center with div tags. I am trying not to
use any tables. All I want
Hi Christian,
You said:
... Here are some options I am considering:
- a fluid layout with em based max-width
- an elastic layout with max-width 100%
- an elastic layout without max-width
Another layout I'd suggest is Mike Purvis's Jello layout[1]. My screen is
1440 pixels wide - wide
Or do one of the other windows browsers approximate it?
I ask this of this list, only because there seem to be so many knowledgeable
people here using Safari. The issue that I am specifically having is
related to JS and not CSS in this case, but I _would_ like to be able to
ensure that pages I
{tonyFelice} wrote:
Or do one of the other windows browsers approximate it?
Hey Tony,
So far for me, firefox and safari have been pretty neck and neck, except
for form boxes. I think that there are issues when trying to format
form input boxes with safari because the OS likes to control it
_/ On Tue 24 Jan 2006 06:14:36 GMT, [{tonyFelice}] wrote : \_
Or do one of the other windows browsers approximate it?
I ask this of this list, only because there seem to be so many knowledgeable
people here using Safari. The issue that I am specifically having is
related to JS and
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