On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:11 am, Kathy Wheeler wrote:
On 16/10/2006, at 10:30 AM, michael ensor wrote:
As someone who worked as a proof reader on a morning newspaper in the
hot metal days, I can tell you that the double space after a
period was a
function of the typesetting machines, because
Can someone explain to me why Tidy gives the following warning:
- Warning: img attribute width has invalid value 74px -
Aren't img width and height supposed to be given in px? Could it be
because the image is wrapped in a tags? The other images on my page
don't get the warning.
Thanks,
Lidia-Anain Bjorkquist wrote:
But I am still having trouble figuring out how to correctly place a
search box to line up just right with the graphic. I would also like
to use another graphic as the go button but cannot seem to do that
right either.
www.zenlovejoy.net
You can use
Sorry about the slow reply; I haven't been able to get online all weekend.
I fear you've misinterpreted the problem (or I worded the original post
badly, which is more likely :).
The CSS works fine; there is no problem with the page I'm using.
The example I gave previously was the bare minimum
Hi Tim,
FWIW, you might want to look at one of the sites I maintain,
http://www.beiresources.org. BEI Resources is a not for profit
organization. The site fits within your criteria.
regards,
larry
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Web Analyst
BEI Resources
American Type Culture Collection
I've looked around for a stable solution which doesn't involve putting
nbsp, emsp; etc all over the content (that's presentational :-) ) and
can only come up with using the old s tag (for strikeout):
s{
padding-right: 1em;
text-decoration : none;
}
then, blah blahs./sblah blah. It
Hi,
I'm building a site using frames, and if I use the property border=0
in the frame tag, because it doesn't validate.
I'd like to know how can I achieve the same effect through CSS.
Thanks!
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Hi all on this great list,
http://www.bluelink.net/zaprirodata/test.shtml
See left nav. FF 1.5 is OK. IE 6.0 - some items in the static menu on
the left OVRLAP the second menu (UL) wheh hovered. Also, if you hover
the THIRD FROM THE TOP menu item on the left, you'll see also that the
title
On Oct 13, 2006, at 4:40 PM, Austin, Darrel wrote:
Is there a way in CSS to turn a single space after a
period into a double space - without using nbsp; (the no
break HTML code)? The drawback to using nbsp;, besides
having to type it in, is that if a sentence in the middle of
a
URL: www.objectivedesigns.com
If you go to the photography page and scroll about 2/3 of the way down
through the photo thumbnails, you'll see that in IE6, there's a big gap of
emptiness. Any idea why this is happening?
Thanks in advance.
Daniel Hammond
www.objectivedesigns.com
I work as a web manager for a smallish nonprofit. Though I'm the primary
keeper of the site, there are a number of others in the org that edit it.
Dreamweaver is the program that everyone's familiar with, so that's what we
use.
In my spare time, I've been redesigning the homepage with CSS - I
Pardon me,
I'd just like to step in here to point out that css-discuss is not
for arguments about typographical preferences. It exists to help
people understand how to use CSS to do what they want to do, or else
to understand why it's difficult or impossible to do so. There have
been
I have a test case for Safari 2.0:
http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/keyboard_friendly_dropdown_menu/test_case.asp
Sub-menus stay open and the workaround I found fixes all sub-menu but the
last one.
Note that on the page where I'm using the workaround, trying to reach the
top item at the left of
Good afternoon,
The Government of Canada is rolling out its next iteration of guidelines that
governmental departments must adhere to, and I'm just in the process of writing
up a constructive critique.
One of the things I would like to see is height and width removed from image
tags and
A website I am working on has a glitch and I cannot figure out why it is
happening. http://www.livingwaterhealthsolutions.com
The top navigation in the upper right corner (see code below) is the location
of the problem.
ul class=topMenu
lia href=#contentsSkip to Content/a/li
lia
I'm trying to make a container position absolutely inside a relative
positioned container. This is making the absolute positioned element
disappear in IE 6.
example (3 images should show up bottom right): http://
www.westga.edu/assets/tmp/testCss/
I'm sure this is a well documented bug,
I have not visited css-d for a long time and I see that it is now on a new
message board. Where do I go to view the list messages?
I can see my account settings at
http://lists.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d
The PUBLIC link lists the lasts 40 messages with a date of 2005
Gabriele Romanato wrote:
a little tribute to Tantek and Mark Schenk. enjoy!
Fun! Hehe. I like it.
Maybe for your next version you could add some colors?
These links may help inspire you to create more:
http://cssplay.co.uk/menu/cssart.html
http://www.tanfa.co.uk/css/borders/
(
About tanfa: a
Hi folks!
I have a simple question about the link, visited, hover, active and
focus pseduoclasses. Everything works fine up until I get to the active
tag. If a visitor is on (say) the Home page, I want the Home link to be
high-lited. Since the w3schools page describes the active pseudoclass
Dear Holly,
I have just come back to Australia from Hong Kong, and implemented
your solution.
On 08/10/06 20:18 -0500, Holly Bergevin wrote:
From: Nick Urbanik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The menus here: http://camwest.pps.com.au/ jump about in IE5
Hi Nick,
If you'll ammend one of the selectors in
Sorry guys but I think I got this one licked. I changed things like
body#infoSidebar p {
padding: 10px;
}
to
*#infoSidebar p {
padding: 10px;
}
I'm very pleased that it works now but now I'm confused as to why it
worked while the first instance didn't. Could anyone shed some light?
Thanks,
j wrote:
Header div 150px high containing two pictures each 150px high that need to be
aligned with the background top and bottom. The background image is a .png
gradient that sizes itself. Looks fine MSIE7, Firefox.
On older MSIE6 and older a strip of background is visible under the pictures
I have a page (id=home)
inside that page is a header div, inside that is a #menu_holder which holds
the version of the suckerfish which I have given all the buttons id's
eg.
li id=fouumFORUM
ul
li class=suba href=#Menu Item 1/a/li
li class=suba href=#Menu Item 2/a/li
Hi,
I have a few pages set up with id's on the body- #home, #about us, the usual
stuff, but I want to change body properties for each one. I have tried a few.
body {
// This just seems to override everything
}
body #home {
//no joy here either
}
Can someone tell me the correct way to
I want individual body properties depending on the page id.
and this is my css
#home body {
background-image:url(/images/home_bg.jpg);
background-position: 0px 200px;
background-color:#0033CC;
background-repeat:repeat-x;
margin:0;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
nothing appears
Hello everyone.
Please check this site for me: http://kusile.cojjoconnect.co.za
I have a little problem in IE...
The dark green header bar (h1 with background color applied) should
touch the menu bar, there is a small little annoying gap.
Seems like padding is applied to the heading although I
Hi Joan,
You've run across, in my opinion, one of the most intractable and frustrating
bugs in IE - congrats! While I can't exactly explain why IE does what it's
doing (I doubt anyone can...), I can tell you it probably has to do with the
background color hover effect that's being applied to
On 16/10/2006 09:50, Patti Evans wrote:
Aren't img width and height supposed to be given in px? Could it be
because the image is wrapped in a tags? The other images on my page
don't get the warning.
It's because you're using 74_px_. The correct value for the attribute
is 74. If you want
Patti Evans wrote:
Can someone explain to me why Tidy gives the following warning:
- Warning: img attribute width has invalid value 74px -
Aren't img width and height supposed to be given in px? Could it be
because the image is wrapped in a tags? The other images on my page
don't
Height and width for image should be simply numbers as far as I can
remember.
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HTML sizing attributes tag have to be plain numbers, with no units; in
the case of width and height for images, it is assumed that the value
is in pixels.
That is, this HTML::
img width=74 ...
is equivalent to this CSS version:
img style=width: 74px ...
Of course, it would be better still
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Sent: 16 October 2006 11:36
To: CSS Discuss
Subject: Re: [css-d] IE Rendering Bug?
Sorry about the slow reply; I haven't been able to get online all weekend.
I fear you've
Subject: [css-d] validation
Can someone explain to me why Tidy gives the following warning:
- Warning: img attribute width has invalid value 74px -
Aren't img width and height supposed to be given in px? Could it be
because the image is wrapped in a tags? The other images on my
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Designer wrote:
I've looked around for a stable solution which doesn't involve putting
nbsp, emsp; etc all over the content (that's presentational :-) ) and
can only come up with using the old s tag (for strikeout):
What about just a span with a
Subject: [css-d] Self Clearing Floats Problem?
Hi All,
I'm just about to finish creating the layout for our Christmas site here
at work but (as always) I'm having problems in IE 6 and 7 with one of my
divs.
As you can see between the FF and IE views, my 'pNav' div isn't fully
displaying
Subject: [css-d] Remove frame borders through CSS
Hi,
I'm building a site using frames, and if I use the property border=0
in the frame tag, because it doesn't validate.
I'd like to know how can I achieve the same effect through CSS.
Thanks!
Subject: [css-d] Using Dreamweaver with standards-based websites?
I downloaded the trial version of Dreamweaver 8 and.no dice. The page
is every bit as fractured in design mode in 8 as it was in MX.
Is all hope lost? I won't be able to get approval for reworking
our website
with a
I downloaded the trial version of Dreamweaver 8 and.no dice. The page
is every bit as fractured in design mode in 8 as it was in MX.
Matt, I've found that complex layouts, involving nested floats and
positioned elements, work just fine in Dreamweaver if I get them to
work in older Operas
5:55
To: CSS Discuss
Subject: [css-d] Large gap
URL: www.objectivedesigns.com
If you go to the photography page and scroll about 2/3 of the way down
through the photo thumbnails, you'll see that in IE6, there's a big gap of
emptiness. Any idea why this is happening?
Thanks in advance.
Greetings,
i'm trying to put a form up on a website i'm working on.
In FF it looks fine, but IE is being a b* again.
http://www.scoutsheverlee.be/takken/jin/
http://www.scoutsheverlee.be/takken/jin/
IE adds about 10-20 pixels of extra background to the top of the fieldset,
and for the life of me
| URL: www.objectivedesigns.com
|
| If you go to the photography page and scroll about 2/3 of the way
| down through the photo thumbnails, you'll see that in IE6,
| there's a
| big gap of emptiness. Any idea why this is happening?
|
| Woks fine for me on IE6/7, Opera, FF.
| 42 pics all
* Raymond Rodriguez wrote:
It's supposed to look like this in the end but I've not been
successful in my attempt at assigning selectors to the body. There is
a container on the right-hand side that I named #infoSidebar (line
73 in the CSS file) and I attempted to assign it universally to the
I know what you mean, but this time I have no choice, I'm working on a
system that already uses frames, and I can't avoid them. I'm trying to
validate the code, and frameset border=0 is not valid.
On 10/17/06, Ian Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Subject: [css-d] Remove frame borders through CSS
2006/10/16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
Good afternoon,
The Government of Canada is rolling out its next iteration of guidelines that
governmental departments must adhere to, and I'm just in the process of
writing up a
constructive critique.
One of the things I would like to see is height and
Patti Evans wrote:
Aren't img width and height supposed to be given in px? Could it be
because the image is wrapped in a tags? The other images on my
page don't get the warning.
The (X)HTML width-attribute for the img-element is 'px' by default, so
we don't write 'width=74px', just
I've looked around for a stable solution which doesn't
involve putting nbsp, emsp; etc all over the content
(that's presentational :-) ) and can only come up with using
the old s tag (for strikeout):
s{
padding-right: 1em;
text-decoration : none;
}
Strikeout implies
Subject: Re: Bottoms Up
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:15:57 -0400
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To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Joan,
You've run across, in my opinion, one of the most intractable and frustrating
bugs in IE -
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want individual body properties depending on the page id.
and this is my css
#home body {
This matches
... id='home'body
You probably want to match
body id='home'
which is
body#home { ... }
or just
#home { ... }
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Matt Dawson wrote:
snip
I downloaded the trial version of Dreamweaver 8 and.no dice. The page
is every bit as fractured in design mode in 8 as it was in MX.
Is all hope lost? I won't be able to get approval for reworking our website
with a CSS layout unless there's some program out
Sure it is, you have the id before the body, it should be body #home.
Otherwise the rule is ignored and you get the default styles.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 5:31 AM
I want individual body properties depending on the page id.
and this is my css
#home body {
background-image:url(/images/home_bg.jpg);
background-position: 0px 200px;
background-color:#0033CC;
background-repeat:repeat-x;
Thank you for your concern, but I have a solution, it takes into account all
the issues that Arlen brings up (handles question marks, and other
characters, as well as quoted strings -- single or double, etc.), and gets
the effect I want. I presented it a couple of days ago.
The original
All the height/width really does is set up a block of space that browser
knows is being used by the image, for the most part it can stay or go. I
couldn't find the page @ w3c.org but 23schools.com has height and width
both listed as optional attributes, with the only required ones being
src and
I wanted to post this sample page so that I can get some valuable feedback.
This is just a sample page- a template in its beginning stages.
As far as this page is concerned, I wanted to know:
1) I have space between the third column on the right and the picture
that will be in the
Matt Dawson wrote:
Is all hope lost? I won't be able to get approval for reworking our
website with a CSS layout unless there's some program out there that
would let people make simple WYSIWYG edits. Is there another editor
out there that might work? Is there a setting in Dreamweaver that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want individual body properties depending on the page id.
If you mean a unique look for individual pages in a site, then you'll
probably want to use a body id.
This article explains how to do this:
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/page-id/
Regards,
~dL
--
I want to create a menu similar to the one that appears when you hover
over the Services link that appears in the left navigation of this page
(www.dukehealth.org). I know it is being done by styles, but I have no
clue of how.
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One of the things I would like to see is height and width removed
from image tags and instead be defined in the CSS. I have a number of
recurring icons throughout my sites, and in the past I have been
able to change the icons by simply overwriting the old version
Hi all,
I am working on a fully css based form and for some reason IE is removing
5px (approx.) from the left margin on a fieldset tag…
You can see this here: HYPERLINK
http://www.tibbits.ca/webdev/form.phphttp://www.tibbits.ca/webdev/form.php
It is the first “Select One” box that
or in browsers that support it:
body [id=home]
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
This matches
... id='home'body
You probably want to match
body id='home'
which is
body#home { ... }
or just
#home { ... }
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2006/10/17, Mark J. Reed:
The reason it has long been recommended to include width and
height attributes in image elements is to assist the browser in
rendering the page.
(...)
Modern browsers are quite adept at shuffling things around on the page
after the initial rendering, so my vote
* Eric A. Meyer wrote:
p {white-space: pre-wrap;}
As for browser support, here's a test page:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/tests/white-space.html
The verdict: pretty much nobody supports it, so it's a great idea but
is currently of no practical value. So we're left with the
Hi guys,
I've been given a template to build a contact/poll form with.
Without giving out too much info, I made a quick mock up on my personal
file server:
http://hondaswap.com/files/template.jpg
The curvy line will be even (i just can't draw), so I'm probably going
to take the top 100px or
On 10/17/06, Bernat Lleonart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know what you mean, but this time I have no choice, I'm working on a
system that already uses frames, and I can't avoid them. I'm trying to
validate the code, and frameset border=0 is not valid.
If you want to do it in the HTML, you
I seem to have found a solution...if I put display: inline; on the my
fieldset tag then it lines up properly...
Matt
I am working on a fully css based form and for some reason IE is removing
5px (approx.) from the left margin on a fieldset tag…
You can see this here: HYPERLINK
Joan Justifiably Jotted...
A website I am working on has a glitch and I cannot figure out why
it is happening. http://www.livingwaterhealthsolutions.com
The top navigation in the upper right corner (see code below) is
the location of the problem.
(snip, slash)
In Internet Explorer
Bob asked, Baffled:
I have a request to create a horizontal drop-down menu with tooltips
over some of the menu items.
(cut, snip, slash)
The menu button links all point to the # index file. The test page is
at www.dottedi.biz/codesamples/hmenu/ . If there is too much going
on, I
can
Thanks Lea. I'll remove the px from the HTML and no longer go crazy!
Lea de Groot wrote:
Patti Evans wrote:
Can someone explain to me why Tidy gives the following warning:
- Warning: img attribute width has invalid value 74px -
Aren't img width and height supposed to be given in px?
On 10/17/06, Raymond Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry guys but I think I got this one licked. I changed things like
body#infoSidebar p {
padding: 10px;
}
to
*#infoSidebar p {
padding: 10px;
}
I'm very pleased that it works now but now I'm confused as to why it
worked while
Good Afternoon,
I am new to the list so I apologize in advance if I what I need help with is
redundant. I searched the archive for my problem, but had no luck.
The site that I am working on has css drop down menus in it and I just put
in an swf file that is beneath the menus on the page. In
It still doesn't work in IE/Win.:(
Following the direction on this site:
http://www.anekostudios.com/2006/08/03/son-of-suckerfish-and-flash/
I did this:
div id=bethediffscript type=text/javascript
AC_FL_RunContent(
'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.
Try setting the wmode param to opaque or transparent ...
// Sebastian
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To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
Subject: [css-d] swf priorities over css drop down menus
A cooperative, hope it helps:
http://www.e2design.com.ar/Dev/CELP/
Regards;
Eugenio.
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I've volunteered to put together a community calendar web page for my
housing community. I could easily put something decent-looking together
with tables, but I'd much rather use a more informational layout, where I
could use CSS to display the calendar as a list or as a traditional
On 10/17/06, Felix Brill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bernat Lleonart wrote:
Hi,
I'm building a site using frames, and if I use the property border=0
in the frame tag, because it doesn't validate.
I'd like to know how can I achieve the same effect through CSS.
Simply do:
frame {
I got it to work in IE/Win and FF/Mac. The menus act funny in Safari/mac
though. If anyone has any ideas as to why I would appreciate suggestions,
but I am grateful for help I received so far!
http://www2test.ku.edu/~kueafin/index.shtml
Melissa
Hi list,
i made myself a new and shiny theme for my personal site, but am
having problems with it in IE 6.
It looks like, when hovering a hyperlink in the main content area or
the right sidebar, the background in the (floated) sidebars, are ...
well... not displayed right.
Can any of you
Melissa Meyer a écrit :
It does not work in Safari. Safari thinks that the swf is allways on
top, no matter which Z index you give to your menus. I'ts a Safari
limitation or bug.
I had the same problem and the only solution I found is to place my
menus under the swf.
If you find a solution,
tefan Nagtegaal wrote:
It looks like, when hovering a hyperlink in the main
content area or
the right sidebar, the background in the (floated)
sidebars, are ...
well... not displayed right.
Looks like a HasLayout problem.
adding: * html #wrapper { height:0; } fixed it for me.
For
Thanks so much for all the responses to my TIDY validation question (and
to those who politely reminded me that my question was HTML- rather than
CSS-related).
However, some of the responses have lead to something I've wondered
about which *is* CSS-related. Does setting image dimensions in a
In classic GUIs it is quite easy to do what I aim for, but I don't recall
ever figuring out how to do it in css.
div id=container
div id=text
lots of text paragraphs
/div
div id=right
fixed width column of icons and indicators
/div
/div
I wish container to get 100% width,
div id=container
div id=text
lots of text paragraphs
/div
div id=right
fixed width column of icons and indicators
/div
/div
I wish container to get 100% width, right to get say 10em width and text
to get 100% - 10em width.
How about doing something like your container
Is there a particular reason your looking to do it without tables?
I've had a couple people ask me this question in private (I got basically
the same type of question from a few people who feel that tables are
totally appropriate for a calendar).
My reason for wanting to do this in CSS
Found the answer (guess I had forgotten some float basics)
put right column before text, and define right with float right and text
with no float or width but with a 10em margin.
In classic GUIs it is quite easy to do what I aim for, but I don't recall
ever figuring out how to do it in css.
Is it the 3px monster that shifts the scrollbar under the outer edge?
I have a fairly simple two floated column layout in a div wrapper. I tried
removing the margins from the wrapper div, but that made no difference.
Henrik
~davidLaakso wrote:
Daniel Hammond wrote:
URL: www.objectivedesigns.com
If you go to the photography page and scroll about 2/3 of the way down
through the photo thumbnails, you'll see that in IE6, there's a big gap of
emptiness. Any idea why this is happening?
Unless I am really
Brian Cummiskey wrote:
http://hondaswap.com/files/template.jpg
*What's throwing me off are the stars.*
They have randomly placed stars/flowers around the questions as in
the example I've linked above in random sizes (images, not shapes)
What's the best way to get these in there? I'm
Erik Harris wrote:
Is anyone aware of any examples on the web
of something of this nature already being put into
use?
Have you looked into Google Calendar? You can create
a layer just for your housing community, and show that
calendar on your web page. Hopefully you'll be able
to view this
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:
http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_chaos_25.html
Ahhh relative (percent) absolute positioning. Why didn't i think of
that? That's a perfect example, Gunlaug.
Thanks! I'll get crackin' on that and let you know what I come up with.
Erik Harris wrote:
Is there a particular reason your looking to do it without tables?
I've had a couple people ask me this question in private (I got basically
the same type of question from a few people who feel that tables are
totally appropriate for a calendar).
My reason for wanting
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