Re: [css-d] page check :: ~dL [continued]

2007-01-12 Thread ~davidLaakso
~davidLaakso wrote: > ~davidLaakso wrote: [trimmed] > Whoops. I discovered a horrendous error and took it down. Back to the > drawing board. > ~dL > Oh, my. Such a mess. Better now I hope. A page check of this test page with whatever you're running is appreciated. But when push comes to shove it

Re: [css-d] css popups

2007-01-12 Thread Rafael Holt
On 12/01/07, Andy Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to use some simple CSS-based popups. Of the browsers I've > tested > it in, Firefox 1.5 works great, Opera 9 has trouble if I use a relative > div > with display:inline, and IE 6 doesn't work at all. My test page is at > test.dr

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Diane Ross wrote: > OK, now I have another question... > The majority of the images on the site will be centered while a few > will be wrapped in a paragraph. > I tried a class, but this did not work. > > > .img_center {margin: 0 aut

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-12 Thread Diane Ross
On 1/12/07 3:23 PM, "Gunlaug Sørtun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that text-align: center should not be targeting the image. > Instead: target the container - the div, p or other block-element - and > text and images /inside/ the container will be centered. > > You can also center images dir

Re: [css-d] columns not correct in 3 col and 2 col layout using IE 6

2007-01-12 Thread david
David Roberts wrote: > URL is: http://www.deadred.co.uk/Documents/index.php > > The problem that I am having is that both the 3 column layout on the > home page and the 2 column > layout on the other pages are not rendering correctly in IE 6. > > The second column is not lining up with the fi

Re: [css-d] Something is going horribly wrong here..

2007-01-12 Thread david
yaXay wrote: > could you please check out > http://other.cstrike-scene.de/example/template.html ? > > I have two questions, > a) Why does this look like barely anything in IE and > b) how come that FF and Opera mess up when I replace "" > with ""? It's still valid XML, isn't it? Well, per the

Re: [css-d] Trying to find the best webdesign software

2007-01-12 Thread Wayne Babineau
Hi David I haven't found a single suite I like. I use a combination of HomeSite for html and TopStyle Pro for css, use Apache for local serving/browsing with a range of browsers on a couple of machines, lets me see how stuff like my php renders. Best Wayne _

[css-d] columns not correct in 3 col and 2 col layout using IE 6

2007-01-12 Thread David Roberts
Hi, URL is: http://www.deadred.co.uk/Documents/index.php The problem that I am having is that both the 3 column layout on the home page and the 2 column layout on the other pages are not rendering correctly in IE 6. The second column is not lining up with the first column (i.e. 'News' shoul

[css-d] Something is going horribly wrong here..

2007-01-12 Thread yaXay
Hi, could you please check out http://other.cstrike-scene.de/example/template.html ? I have two questions, a) Why does this look like barely anything in IE and b) how come that FF and Opera mess up when I replace "" with ""? It's still valid XML, isn't it? Thanks! With kind regards Ben _

Re: [css-d] Trying to find the best webdesign software

2007-01-12 Thread Michael Stevens
My text editor is HomeSite and it uses Internet Explorer as it's internal browser. I use it to get a rough idea of where I'm at and periodically view in FireFox to make sure IE isn't screwing things up. If something gets screwy I open it in FF to see if it's REALLY behaving or not. Mike -Ori

Re: [css-d] Trying to find the best webdesign software

2007-01-12 Thread david
The fundamental problem (for me) with editors that offer WYSIWYG views - visitors don't browse websites using web editors. They use browsers. And it is so easy to have a page open in multiple browsers, toggle between them, and reload the page. I don't care what a WYSIWY-really-aren't-going-to-get

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Diane Ross wrote: > When I want to center an image I can only get it to work if I select > > Note that text-align: center should not be targeting the image. Instead: target the container - the div, p or other block-element - and text a

Re: [css-d] Trying to find the best webdesign software

2007-01-12 Thread Marcello Mastroianni
I'm not too picky -- I use whatever code editor happens to be available, which is currently Adobe GoLive, since it was packaged with Adobe CS2. The code view is nice, and the preview pane is pretty good and better than Dreamweaver's, I think. It's still important to test often in multiple browse

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-12 Thread david
Diane Ross wrote: > I don't know what I'm doing wrong. When I want to center an image I can only > get it to work if I select . If I use a class > > .txtcenter, .center { text-align: center; } > > Or #test img { text-align: center; } the image does not center. Because an image is not text. To ce

Re: [css-d] Page check for newbite

2007-01-12 Thread Matt Dawson
The short answer is no, that's not possible. Granted, you could do some complex math and set up max and min widths for the containing element, but that's not universally supported and...well, it's just overly complicated. If you want to use percentage margins to separate the columns, consider floa

Re: [css-d] Page check for newbite

2007-01-12 Thread Matt Dawson
Yeah, it applies on that page too. Fixed position can be a bit tricky for that very reason. Floats will push each other out of the way and never overwrite each other, but the same can't be said for positioned elements. Any time you use positioning, you need to test (or at least think through) as m

Re: [css-d] Page check for newbite

2007-01-12 Thread callibeth
Thanks so much. (The specific reason I set it up the way I originally had it was ignorance :) although I don't have that excuse, really, after going through Eric Meyer's really excellent book *CSS Web Site Design*.) I guess that same solution would apply to my wrong-headed layout here?: http://www

Re: [css-d] Trying to find the best webdesign software

2007-01-12 Thread Jim Nannery
Afternoon David You wrote > Hey all. > > I currently use Dreamweaver to design my pages but it seems that support > for css is minimal. Basic designs are fine, but once I have negative > margines and wrappers etc with 2 and 3 columns the page does strange > things. My designs look totally diff

[css-d] Centering images

2007-01-12 Thread Diane Ross
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. When I want to center an image I can only get it to work if I select . If I use a class .txtcenter, .center { text-align: center; } Or #test img { text-align: center; } the image does not center. Here is my example:

Re: [css-d] Page check for newbite

2007-01-12 Thread Matt Dawson
For starters, it's a very attractive first css layout. Congrats! I noticed one thing right away- and I don't think it has anything to do with the Safari problem you mention. Your layout scheme for the three columns (defined in index.css) is a little wonky. If I resize the size of my browser windo

Re: [css-d] Trying to find the best webdesign software

2007-01-12 Thread David Van O
Hey Ed Thanks for the reply. I use Dreamweaver mostly as a text editor, but it would be nice to see the finished design as well without having to render it to a browser all the time. Just wanted to know if there was anything that does the page rendering more consistently than Dreamweaver. Dav

Re: [css-d] Problem with Firefox floating

2007-01-12 Thread David Van O
David Thanks for the links before, that was what I used to change the page and it works fine. Still learning to keep all styling to css and have clean markup but I'm getting there. Thanks for your help. Dave - Original Message - From: "~davidLaakso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Van

[css-d] Trying to find the best webdesign software

2007-01-12 Thread David Van O
Hey all. I currently use Dreamweaver to design my pages but it seems that support for css is minimal. Basic designs are fine, but once I have negative margines and wrappers etc with 2 and 3 columns the page does strange things. My designs look totally different than in the browsers and this mak

[css-d] 1 in 5 page views floats below in FireFox

2007-01-12 Thread John Macpherson
Hi there, I have my site working 100% in IE5/6/7/ Opera but in the latest FireFox - v 2.0.0.1 there is a strange problem. For roughly every 5th time i view my home page the content floats below the nav like this - http://www.mediasurgery.co.uk/mediaSBugImage.jpg It only seems to be the home pa

[css-d] Page check for newbite

2007-01-12 Thread callibeth
My first CSS website. And my first post (hope it's not a duplicate), although I've been trying to follow and learn from the discussions for several weeks. http://www.callibeth.com/index.htm Although this page looks as I want it to in Firefox/PC and IE7/PC, I understand that this page doesn't do we

Re: [css-d] page check :: ~dL

2007-01-12 Thread david
~davidLaakso wrote: > ~davidLaakso wrote: >> A page check with with whatever you are running is appreciated. >> >> (embedded) >> Thanks. >> ~dL >> > Whoops. I discovered a horrendous error and took it down. Back to the > drawing board. What level of

Re: [css-d] page check :: ~dL

2007-01-12 Thread ~davidLaakso
~davidLaakso wrote: > A page check with with whatever you are running is appreciated. > > (embedded) > Thanks. > ~dL > > Whoops. I discovered a horrendous error and took it down. Back to the drawing board. ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ ___

Re: [css-d] page check :: ~dL

2007-01-12 Thread david
~davidLaakso wrote: > A page check with with whatever you are running is appreciated. > Gives me a Forbidden message! :-( -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty, community _

Re: [css-d] page check :: ~dL

2007-01-12 Thread Christopher Blake
Hi david safari 2.0.4 running off powerbook G4 - panther res 1440 x 900. Looks good. menu bar under banner has different weights to typefaces. - maybe cos links not in place. top 3 menu items on banner are a little unclear. especially my garge - the red is lost against background. email th

[css-d] page check :: ~dL

2007-01-12 Thread ~davidLaakso
A page check with with whatever you are running is appreciated. (embedded) Thanks. ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/ma

[css-d] What is the best method of linking to different style sheets - e.g. type bigger for accessibility?

2007-01-12 Thread Christopher Blake
http://www.neilp.newwavemedia.co.uk/index.html (url) http://www.neilp.newwavemedia.co.uk/stylefile/style1.css (css) Hi all, In my simple little head I was going to duplicate the site, changing the pages from e.g. index1.html to index2.html and so on. Having done this link site2 to style2.

Re: [css-d] height of a div in a table cell

2007-01-12 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - The first is of the general kind: Can anyone explain why when I'm > specifying a height of 100% for the div without any content in a TD that > has a height > 0, why then the height of the div becomes 0. I was under > the impression that it should have the height of its

Re: [css-d] Horizontal Tabbed Navigation Newspaper Websites

2007-01-12 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Ruairi Doyle wrote: > Hello list. > > This is my first post, but I have been subscribed and enjoying this list for > quite sometime. > Welcome Ruairi! > I work in online newspaper publishing. I'd like to gage some wise opinion > from anyone who's interested > on tabbed horizontal navigation

Re: [css-d] disappearing content on text resize

2007-01-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Vicki Smith wrote: > I added some padding to the bottom of the #header, and that seemed to > do it. Any thought on how to make the menu item borders grow as the > text sizes increase? Something like... #contentright .wireframemenu {width: 10em; overflow: hidden;} ...will do. Set width-value to t

[css-d] disappearing content on text resize

2007-01-12 Thread Vicki Smith
I added some padding to the bottom of the #header, and that seemed to do it. Any thought on how to make the menu item borders grow as the text sizes increase? vicki = When I make the text size larger in IE7 and FF 2.x (the only browsers I have at the moment), the content of the divisions be

Re: [css-d] IE6 browser error is there a fix?

2007-01-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Carol F. Swinehart wrote: > http://www.ckfswebservices.com/mcbtest/ > Only problem is AOL 9.0 and explorer 6 in windows 2000 and explorer 6 > on windows XP where the picture in the right hand column drops to > the bottom of the column. Other browsers work. You can fix that problem in IE6 by ad

[css-d] ADMIN Re: OT - List digest

2007-01-12 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Jeralyn Merideth wrote: > I'm sorry to send this to everyone, but I changed my list options to digest > instead of individual because the list is SO active...but I am still getting > individual mailings. How do I stop this? I don't want to unsub, just want to > read mail from the site. > Nor

[css-d] OT - List digest

2007-01-12 Thread Jeralyn Merideth
I'm sorry to send this to everyone, but I changed my list options to digest instead of individual because the list is SO active...but I am still getting individual mailings. How do I stop this? I don't want to unsub, just want to read mail from the site. Thanks, Jeralyn ___

Re: [css-d] irregular float drop in IE7

2007-01-12 Thread ~davidLaakso
Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: > Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > >> Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: >> >>> http://www.hsrc.unc.edu/index.cfm >>> > I've added width: 100%, and I can no longer get the drop to happen in > IE7 or IE6. Can anyone else confirm? > > Thanks as always Georg! > > Zoe > > OK

[css-d] IE6 browser error is there a fix?

2007-01-12 Thread Carol F. Swinehart
http://www.ckfswebservices.com/mcbtest/ Looked at my test site in all the flash browsers at browser cam Only problem is AOL 9.0 and explorer 6 in windows 2000 and explorer 6 on windows XP where the picture in the right hand column drops to the bottom of the column. Other browsers work. Client

Re: [css-d] irregular float drop in IE7

2007-01-12 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: >> It happens to the white box labeled "HSRC Project Areas" here: >> http://www.hsrc.unc.edu/index.cfm >> >> It occurs in both IE6 and IE7, but in IE6 when it drops it >> immediately jumps back up, but in IE7 it stays dropped until you >> refresh

[css-d] css 2.1 computed value question

2007-01-12 Thread info
Hi, In the CSS 2.1 Working Draft, individual margin properties have computed value is stated as: "the percentage as specified or the absolute length" (margin property is an example, other properties have similar computed value) The specification also states that pixel lengths are relative l

Re: [css-d] Webpage check please!!

2007-01-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
ken organ wrote: > I would appreciate a Cross browser check and help with overcoming > left column, navigation, alignment and possible padding margin > problems. > > Ideally I would like the menu to be sitting more to the left ... BUT > still have the tabs overlapping the green box. > > http:/

Re: [css-d] Problem with Firefox floating

2007-01-12 Thread Dave Goodchild
To validate the xhtml make these changes: 1. remove these attributes and move into css: body {margin:0;} 2. Place the links inside mainNav into an unordered list (not necessary to validate but semantically more useful and provides the ability to style the links inside later) 3. ...try not to

Re: [css-d] Problem with Firefox floating

2007-01-12 Thread ~davidLaakso
David Van O wrote: > I've been using the book 'css mastery' to learn the floating method for fluid > 3 column sites but cannot workout why this site works well in ie7 but not in > firefox. Not sure whether it's in my styles or otherwise. > RE: David, the page looks a lot better this morning t

Re: [css-d] collapsing div and margin problems in safari +ie 6-

2007-01-12 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Ingo Chao wrote: > Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >> Noah Learner wrote: >>> http://www.learnerdesign.com/acufamily/test5.html > >> Safari's collapsing seems to be a tougher nut to crack. My version >> (2.0.4) doesn't like the 'overflow: hidden' on #main_body, but it >> doesn't do well without it either.

Re: [css-d] Webpage check please!!

2007-01-12 Thread Andy Harrison
Hi Ken. You have several errors in your CSS that may be causing problems and should be corrected before troubleshooting further. 1) Run it through the CSS validator at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/and correct the problems found (note that the warning about the dropcap class refers to "times

[css-d] Block Anchor Scrollbar

2007-01-12 Thread Michal Cizmazia
Test case: http://cim.szm.sk/blockAnchor.html Dragging a scrollbar of a block anchor is not possible as expected in FireFox 2, because link's drag-and-drop operation is started. It works fine in IE6, IE7 or Opera 9. Any ideas or solutions? Thank you! -- >{U}(")> Michal Cizmazia _

[css-d] IE7 layout issue

2007-01-12 Thread Dave Goodchild
Hi all - I built the following site to render in FF and tested in IE6/Opera/Safari, all good, but have just downloaded IE7 and am experiencing further IE woes. Anyone have any idea of new IE7 bugs that are causing the header to spill down into the nav? http://www.dontjustsitthere.co.uk/ many than

[css-d] height of a div in a table cell

2007-01-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I have two questions about a div in a table cell. - The first is of the general kind: Can anyone explain why when I'm specifying a height of 100% for the div without any content in a TD that has a height > 0, why then the height of the div becomes 0. I was under the impression that it should

[css-d] Horizontal Tabbed Navigation Newspaper Websites

2007-01-12 Thread Ruairi Doyle
Hello list. This is my first post, but I have been subscribed and enjoying this list for quite sometime. I work in online newspaper publishing. I'd like to gage some wise opinion from anyone who's interested on tabbed horizontal navigation systems for large publishing sites? Reasons I ask is

[css-d] Webpage check please!!

2007-01-12 Thread ken organ
Hi list, I would appreciate a Cross browser check and help with overcoming left column, navigation, alignment and possible padding margin problems. Ideally I would like the menu to be sitting more to the left ... BUT still have the tabs overlapping the green box. Files can be accessed atht

Re: [css-d] Browser Check - Problems with I.E. 6.0 and below ?? help!

2007-01-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However what I am still getting is in IE 7.0 under the user log in > box on the left hand side, there is a picture and sign up text, > however this does not show up in IE 6.0 ?? Try adding a 'hasLayout'[1] trigger... #sign_in_div {width: 96%;} > Finally when I tested