Re: [css-d] Can't figure this out - Center a div with variable width

2006-11-04 Thread Grey Area
On 10/31/06, Mark Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to css) - Can you have a div (content) centered inside another div (container) BUT, the content div's width may be different because of content (thus you can't set the width) AND the div width must collapse around the content (so if a border

[css-d] Unexplained selector effect

2006-11-04 Thread Barney Carroll
Hi all, Very strange thing just happened to me. The following description was picked up by IE but not Firefox: HTML BODY .homebanner .top .right,HTML BODY .homebanner .bottom .right { left: 8px !important; height: 8px !important; } It is not a question of specificity or importance - the FF DOM

Re: [css-d] Can't figure this out - Center a div with variable width

2006-11-04 Thread Barney Carroll
A left margin of -50% *kind-of* works. IE has a bizarre way of calculating things though, especially with percentages. If the child div has a fixed specific width, then you can hard code that, but if the contents are variable you may be in trouble... I am currently dealing with almost exactly

[css-d] one div's margin-top affecting neighbour

2006-11-04 Thread Adam
Hi there, I have a page that's misbehaving in firefox 2. I am trying to apply a graphical look to my main content divs using a set of images giving them rounded corners and shading. My approach is to use background images on divs absolutely positioned into the corners of the containing div,

[css-d] Scrolling horizontal image list

2006-11-04 Thread Michiel van der Blonk
Hi, I am in need of a scrolling horizontal image list, similar to the one in the WordPress admin. Only, wp uses an IFRAME and I need to use a div. The images have captions beneath them. Here is my current HTML |div id=container div id=imageList div class=imageCard label

[css-d] IE Conditional comments

2006-11-04 Thread Hardie.CA
Does anyone else have an issue with Microsoft's conditional comments solution? I really don't want to sound like I'm bashing here, I'm really happy that we're getting a more compliant browser from IE, but I'm about to embark on hours of work to fix up sites for which I or previous developers

[css-d] Heading tag Sizing

2006-11-04 Thread Steve LaBadie
What do I need to do to have the heading tag render the same size cross browsers? Steve LaBadie, Web Manager East Stroudsburg University 200 Prospect St. East Stroudsburg, Pa 18301 570-422-3999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.esu.edu http://www3.esu.edu

Re: [css-d] Scrolling horizontal image list

2006-11-04 Thread Michiel van der Blonk
I am in need of a scrolling horizontal image list, similar to the one in the WordPress admin. Only, wp uses an IFRAME and I need to use a div. The images have captions beneath them. Here is my current HTML I solved the problem already. I just disabled all style sheets and started over again.

[css-d] Vertical alignment of text and input

2006-11-04 Thread George L Smyth
I am wondering about the best way to vertically align text and an input element. For instance: input type='checkbox' / Check this This results in the checkbox vertically higher than the accompanying text. What is the best way to put the bottom of each on the same vertical level? Cheers -

[css-d] the mystery of collapsing margins

2006-11-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
francky you wrote - But while margins don't have an own background or other recognizable thing, you cannot say if some part of the combined collapsed margin is belonging to the bottom-part of the first one, or to the top-part of the second one ... ...not sure i get this, seems to me one of the

[css-d] CSS and png-24 for IE 5.5+

2006-11-04 Thread Graham Anderson
is there a 'broadly' accepted method for dealing with CSS and PNG-24 files in IE 5.5+ ? I googled for the information and a whole slew of possible solutions emerged. Rather than going through all of them, is there an accepted cross- browser way to handle PNGs? Basically, what method do you

[css-d] h2 tag won't budge

2006-11-04 Thread PBC Web Design
Hi, Need some more help on this template: http://www.digitalmousedesigns.com/new/ In the first column I'm using PVII's Tab Bar Magic ... CSS here: http://www.digitalmousedesigns.com/new/css/TabBar.css I want the page title which is an h2 tag to move over to be left aligned w/the content and I

[css-d] help w/content links not behaving please

2006-11-04 Thread PBC Web Design
Hi there, I have this template almost ready to break down into includes and continue w/site development but am having trouble getting the text content links to *not* take on the css style of other links in the page. Page: http://www.digitalmousedesigns.com/new/ CSS:

[css-d] Bizarre img margin behavior in IE7

2006-11-04 Thread Thomas Hall
Could someone peek at this page - www.atrachapter.com http://www.atrachapter.com/ in IE7. When the page loads look at the margin on the main image of the page. When I move my mouse over the left hand navigation (ul) the margin on the image disappears. I put a border on the ul and li's and there

[css-d] IE6 - Rendering bug - repeated content

2006-11-04 Thread James Condliffe
Hi all, I have intermittently experienced a weird rendering bug with IE over the last few years as I've been learning CSS. The bug tends to manifest itself in particularly complicated sections of floated layouts. I have taken some example screenshots and posted them at the following URLs:

[css-d] CSS validation

2006-11-04 Thread Bob Meetin
I'm trying to get a slideshow (uses microsoft fade) to pass CSS validation. The validator says: * Line: 190 attempt to find a semi-colon before the property name. add it * Line: 190 Property progid doesn't exist : DXImageTransform The code: a id=ss_img_link

Re: [css-d] the mystery of collapsing margins

2006-11-04 Thread francky
(adding the off-list mails in between) francky wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay - and once again you've provided an absolutely precise and detailed explanation of the question at hand. i get it too - in document flow, margins collapse (with the larger margin winning out, correct ?

Re: [css-d] Three Columns

2006-11-04 Thread ~davidLaakso
Richard Brown wrote: http://efe-gbnets.com//index.html http://efe-gbnets.com//style.css [trimmed] The question is quite simple! How do I place a gap between the centre column and the two outside ones please? I was thinking of putting another div inside content and padding that.

Re: [css-d] IE7 container woes

2006-11-04 Thread Al Sparber
I'm struggling to correct a layout issue in IE7 and not making much progress, I'm hoping y'all could at least nudge me in the right direction. css: http://sinope.capitol-college.edu/styles/main.css example page: http://sinope.capitol-college.edu/newsevents/index.shtml Remove the height

Re: [css-d] div inside a div, can't give exlusive top margin to the inside div.

2006-11-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
itay Malin wrote: I try to give the inside div a margin, what realy happens that the outside div gets it. I can solve it by giving the outside div a padding, but I don't think this is the right solution: It is _one_ of the right solutions for 'collapsing margins'[1], but there are a few

Re: [css-d] handheld css

2006-11-04 Thread Rob O'Rourke
Cem Meric wrote: Would people mind sharing their experiences? Have they found handheld css useful? Is it just not implemented enough among phones for it to be worth any time? I use Opera Mini on my mobile and show customers how their web sites look on a handheld device after our design.

[css-d] png background not showing in firefox

2006-11-04 Thread Ross Hulford
works fine in IE7. #right { background-image:url(../images/middle.png); width: 510px; position:absolute; height:350px; top:160px; left:436px; border:#006699 1px solid; } __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] design goes vertical in IE

2006-11-04 Thread PBC Web Design
At 02:27 AM 10/29/2006, you wrote: http://www.rioartpack.com some times when clicking the about or contact page ( try clicking the link a few times ), all the elements go vertical instead of floating left. is there a way to fix this problem ? and any idea why it is happening ? I've clicked the

[css-d] Validation error + border glitch

2006-11-04 Thread Kim Brooks Wei
Page is http://www.njlada.com/plus/events/ I'm getting an error message which doesn't match with my code. Please take a look and see if you can find what the validator is choking on

Re: [css-d] CSS validation

2006-11-04 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Bob Meetin wrote: I'm trying to get a slideshow (uses microsoft fade) to pass CSS validation. That's not possible, if you use the Microsoft 'filter' property, your style sheet is not valid per any CSS specification. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de

Re: [css-d] IE6 - Rendering bug - repeated content

2006-11-04 Thread Mike A
James Condliffe wrote: Hi all, I have intermittently experienced a weird rendering bug with IE over the last few years as I've been learning CSS. The bug tends to manifest itself in particularly complicated sections of floated layouts. I have taken some example screenshots and posted

Re: [css-d] Validation error + border glitch

2006-11-04 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Kim Brooks Wei wrote: I'm getting an error message which doesn't match with my code. Please take a look and see if you can find what the validator is choking on http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fnjlada.com%2Fplus%2Feventswarning=1profile=css2usermedium=all You have

[css-d] IE Bug - but which?

2006-11-04 Thread Jørgen Farum Jensen
Test page: http://www.webdesign101.dk/x/usenet/cssmenu2.html This pages suffers from a curious effect, which is, when viewed in IE6, all of the content shifts to the left when hovering over the menu the first time. --- Jørgen Farum Jensen http://www.webdesign101.dk

[css-d] relative vs floats in Opera9

2006-11-04 Thread mean dspt
Hello, please take a look at http://pmplus.org/model.html. It has two divs, relatively positioned inside a container to overlap each other. In FF and IE everything works fine. In Opera9 they can't overlap, and the lower element is shifted. it looks like floats of the child elements cause this, as

[css-d] Tailor's dummy accessible menu

2006-11-04 Thread Mike A
http://www.uk-web-pros.co.uk/left-menu-bordered-example-1/left-menu-tailorsdummy.html. I've set out this no-hack menu for trainees here who have difficulty understanding box models for accessibility standards compliance. Before writing a detailed article it makes sense to have experts check it.

Re: [css-d] Bizarre img margin behavior in IE7

2006-11-04 Thread Bob Easton
Thomas Hall wrote: Could someone peek at this page - www.atrachapter.com http://www.atrachapter.com/ in IE7. When the page loads look at the margin on the main image of the page. When I move my mouse over the left hand navigation (ul) the margin on the image disappears. ... The CSS validator

Re: [css-d] help w/content links not behaving please

2006-11-04 Thread PBC Web Design
I have this template almost ready to break down into includes and continue w/site development but am having trouble getting the text content links to *not* take on the css style of other links in the page. You can disregard this one as well. Again, it showed up as a post long after the

Re: [css-d] Tailor's dummy accessible menu

2006-11-04 Thread Bob Easton
Mike A wrote: http://www.uk-web-pros.co.uk/left-menu-bordered-example-1/left-menu-tailorsdummy.html. I've set out this no-hack menu for trainees here who have difficulty understanding box models for accessibility standards compliance. Before writing a detailed article it makes sense to have

Re: [css-d] Heading tag Sizing

2006-11-04 Thread Bob Easton
Steve LaBadie wrote: What do I need to do to have the heading tag render the same size cross browsers? The absence of an answer is because there can be many, many, many reasons and you asked a very general question. A more specific question, supported by a test case or code we can examine,

Re: [css-d] IE Conditional comments

2006-11-04 Thread Bob Easton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone else have an issue with Microsoft's conditional comments solution? I really don't want to sound like I'm bashing here, I'm really happy that we're getting a more compliant browser from IE, but I'm about to embark on hours of work to fix up sites for

Re: [css-d] Tailor's dummy accessible menu

2006-11-04 Thread Mike A
Bob Easton wrote: Mention of Zoom left me looking for an alternate zoom style sheet. After I realized you simply meant normal text scaling, I tried in a few browsers. Works in everything I have on my WinXP system, including IE7. Thanks Bob! Took a look at the CSS and left very quickly.

Re: [css-d] Heading tag Sizing

2006-11-04 Thread Christian Heilmann
What do I need to do to have the heading tag render the same size cross browsers? You need to reset any of the browser default sizes before you can safely define a font size. The YUI provides two style sheets that do this for you and have been tested in all the major browsers:

Re: [css-d] IE Bug - but which?

2006-11-04 Thread francky
Jørgen Farum Jensen wrote: Test page: http://www.webdesign101.dk/x/usenet/cssmenu2.html This pages suffers from a curious effect, which is, when viewed in IE6, all of the content shifts to the left when hovering over the menu the first time. Hi Jørgen, First I thought it would be a Peekabo,

Re: [css-d] Can't figure this out - Center a div with variable width

2006-11-04 Thread Ben Liu
Hi Mark, I ran into a similar problem about a year ago. I needed to build a horizontal nav bar that was variable in width depending on the number of menu options. Some users with admin privilege had more menu options than regular users so their menu bar would be wider. Since I did not know

Re: [css-d] IE Conditional comments

2006-11-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't it be a more elegant solution to put conditional comments in the CSS document itself? Styles for specific browsers could be kept in a central location, with the added bonus of being cached on the client's machine instead of having to push these comments

[css-d] Is my explaination right?

2006-11-04 Thread ray
?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd; html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; body a href=a href/a a button style=display:block;a button/button /a /body /html According to

[css-d] How do you controll the vertical alignment of text in an li

2006-11-04 Thread Dave Rathnow
New to css so I'm just cutting my teeth on this... I'm trying to create a list of links that look like buttons. I don't want to create individual image buttons for each text link element so I thought I would create a list and then set the background of each list element to my image button. I

Re: [css-d] How do you controll the vertical alignment of text in an li

2006-11-04 Thread Jorge Rumoroso
New to css so I'm just cutting my teeth on this... I'm trying to create a list of links that look like buttons. I don't want to create individual image buttons for each text link element so I thought I would create a list and then set the background of each list element to my image

Re: [css-d] How do you controll the vertical alignment of text inan li

2006-11-04 Thread Dave Rathnow
YES!! Thanks, that did it! Dave - Original Message - From: Jorge Rumoroso [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [css-d] How do you controll the vertical alignment of text inan li New to css so I'm just cutting my