[css-d] Site Check

2007-10-16 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi everyone, Well more a page check. After lots of spinning my wheels, I think I've got this working??? I've looked on PC Win2k Firefox, Opera 9.0, IE 6.0. URL http://www.abilityincorporated.org.au/index.php Everything validates and I'm hoping it's a fairly okay (not perfect) accessible page

Re: [css-d] layout issue with background image

2007-10-16 Thread Rafael
I forgot to mention: the text is a copy / paste from your sample, meaning that Buttercuup isn't something I made up, but a typo on your version :) Regards Kathryn Crutcher wrote: I recently asked about how to resolve having both a gradient background and a background image. It is now

Re: [css-d] php

2007-10-16 Thread Ibrahim Y
you can start from w3schools here : http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp I also liked book called *Practical PHP and MySQL(R): Building Eight Dynamic Web Applications * http://www.amazon.com/Practical-PHP-MySQL-Building-Applications/dp/0132239973 * * Ibrahim

Re: [css-d] Site Check

2007-10-16 Thread David Laakso
Vicki Stebbins wrote: Hi everyone, Well more a page check. After lots of spinning my wheels, I think I've got this working??? I've looked on PC Win2k Firefox, Opera 9.0, IE 6.0. URL http://www.abilityincorporated.org.au/index.php Everything validates and I'm hoping it's a fairly okay

Re: [css-d] php

2007-10-16 Thread Eileen
On 10/16/07, Raumin Ray Dehghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colleagues: Does anybody have recommendations for a good book and/or websites for beginning php? http://hudzilla.org/phpwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page __

Re: [css-d] Site Check

2007-10-16 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: Vicki Stebbins wrote: Hi everyone, Well more a page check. After lots of spinning my wheels, I think I've got this working??? I've looked on PC Win2k Firefox, Opera 9.0, IE 6.0. URL http://www.abilityincorporated.org.au/index.php Everything validates and I'm hoping

[css-d] CSS specifictity conundrum

2007-10-16 Thread Alex Dunae
Hello all - I'm writing a CSS parser and have come up against a bit of confusion regarding CSS specificity. In my style sheet I have #head a { color: white; } In my HTML document I have div id=heada href=# style=color: red;.../a/div Firefox and IE both render the link as red but the CSS

Re: [css-d] CSS specifictity conundrum

2007-10-16 Thread Rafael
What you're looking for is http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#specificity You can see that in 2.1 they included the 'style' attribute and give it a specificity of 1000 (highest) Alex Dunae wrote: Hello all - I'm writing a CSS parser and have come up against a bit of confusion

Re: [css-d] CSS specifictity conundrum

2007-10-16 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 16 Oct 2007, at 05:21, Alex Dunae wrote: Hello all - I'm writing a CSS parser and have come up against a bit of confusion regarding CSS specificity. In my style sheet I have #head a { color: white; } In my HTML document I have div id=heada href=# style=color: red;.../a/div

[css-d] Site Check

2007-10-16 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi everyone, Well more a page check. After lots of spinning my wheels, I think I've got this working??? I've looked on PC Win2k Firefox, Opera 9.0, IE 6.0. URL http://www.abilityincorporated.org.au/index.php Everything validates and I'm hoping it's a fairly okay (not perfect) accessible page

[css-d] Table Cells and min-/max-width

2007-10-16 Thread Chris Ovenden
Hi Folks, I am trying to specify min- and max-widths for table cells in a table of unspecified size, but although the cells will receive width, they take no notice of the min and max in either Firefox or IE7 (obviously it won't work in IE6, I was going to just give that a median value). I'm

[css-d] (no subject)

2007-10-16 Thread Tracy Shorrock
Hi, Okay, here goes! I want to achieve this layout freelancealot.co.uk/test/Retreat_Wellness_Centre.jpg Which would be easy if I were going for a fixed-width layout, however I want the layout to be full-width (100%), also easy enough, but then I want the left-col and right-col to be liquid

[css-d] 3-col layout but with FIXED width centre col

2007-10-16 Thread Tracy Shorrock
Sorry... sent it off before I put the subject line in. Sincere apologies, Tracy Begin forwarded message: Hi, Okay, here goes! I want to achieve this layout freelancealot.co.uk/test/Retreat_Wellness_Centre.jpg Which would be easy if I were going for a fixed-width layout, however I want

[css-d] CSS Sprites and Image Replacement Technique

2007-10-16 Thread Thierry Koblentz
This is a variation of the technique to minimise HTTP requests: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/how-to_use_sprites_with_my_image_replaceme nt_technique.asp -- Regards, Thierry | http://www.TJKDesign.com __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS drop-down menus aren't *good*

2007-10-16 Thread JT Neville
-Original Message- David wrote: Javascript is a security threat to visitors' computers. CSS is not. Not a religious issue but a well documented fact. Actually JS isn't the problem, its abuse and exploitation is. Could it be made more secure? Surely, but it isn't in itself the problem.

[css-d] CSS thumbnails placement

2007-10-16 Thread ScriptInstallation . in
Hi, I need to show thumbnail images and description of image below it. I made a page at http://www.webcash.in/fp/image_problem.html It works fine if image description is all same size. If one of the image description is lengthy, the image placement will not work. Just mouse over the link

Re: [css-d] CSS thumbnails placement

2007-10-16 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I need to show thumbnail images and description of image below it. I made a page at http://www.webcash.in/fp/image_problem.html It works fine if image description is all same size. If one of the image description is lengthy, the image placement will not work. Just mouse over the link

Re: [css-d] CSS thumbnails placement

2007-10-16 Thread Rafael
I recall something like this was mentioned not long ago, check the archives... http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/?search=image+caption first (actually, last) entry: http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/84117?highlight=image+caption ScriptInstallation.in

[css-d] Named Anchors and Fixed Headers?

2007-10-16 Thread Dragoness
Hello! This is my first post. =) What a wonderful resource this list it, I’m so glad to have found it. I browsed the archives some but only found a lot of stuff that tangentially applies to my problem, at least as far as my relatively newb-ish mind can tell. Hopefully I’m not being to repetitive.

Re: [css-d] CSS thumbnails placement

2007-10-16 Thread ScriptInstallation . in
On 10/17/07, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may help: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/thumbnail_and_caption/gallery_of_thumbnail s.asp It is the bottom margin of the DTs that creates room for the caption I tried that, but it also have the same problem You can see the

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS drop-down menus aren't *good*

2007-10-16 Thread Christian Heilmann
I changed my mind. I just read this article and I don't find it useful. I think it lacks in-depth knowledge or he simply didn't took the best approach for this topic. As you obviously know the better approach, why not write a better article? Actually,simply naming the approach would be

Re: [css-d] CSS thumbnails placement

2007-10-16 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On 10/17/07, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may help: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/thumbnail_and_caption/gallery_of_thumbnail s.asp It is the bottom margin of the DTs that creates room for the caption I tried that, but it also have the same problem You can see

Re: [css-d] pure CSS drop-down menu

2007-10-16 Thread Roger Keays
Here's my version: http://www.sunburnt.com.au/publications/design/css-menus Jay Rabe wrote: Hi all, I'm still very low on the learning curve, so thank you in advance for your patience. First let me thank eveyone who responded to my earlier (and first) post to the list. I

[css-d] Is this possible?

2007-10-16 Thread Kevin Stevens
Hi Gang I have been handed this job by a designer and I am wracking my brains trying to work out if it is possible using CSS. Have a look at http://www.ratking.co.uk/testim.jpg for the layout. What I need to know is... 1. Is this layout possible? I can see 6 divs, which looks like a

[css-d] Generated content and non‐compliant bro wsers

2007-10-16 Thread Daniel Aleksandersen
Hi list, I am inserting much content into elements using the ‘content’ property and the ‘::before’ and ‘::after’ pseudo‐elements. The inserted content is mostly punctuation and other content important to the document presentation. But how to deal with non‐compliant software—such as the

[css-d] Drop down menus bunching

2007-10-16 Thread Miles Skorpen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A site I've designed (daily.swarthmore.edu) uses drop-down menus as its primary means for navigation, since it has an enormous number of categories (I'm up to 57 now) which aren't really set for display in any other format. In Safari and newer

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS drop-down menus aren't *good* [medium]

2007-10-16 Thread Rafael
I'm sorry to say I'll start with a note and my own questions: a) Why do you send to the list something that looks like a private matter? b) Why do you say us when you mean me? c) Why do you bother writing and article if you don't accept critics? d) Why do you force me to re-read your article?

Re: [css-d] Site Check

2007-10-16 Thread Waz Elle Meredith
Well more a page check. After lots of spinning my wheels, I think I've got this working??? I've looked on PC Win2k Firefox, Opera 9.0, IE 6.0. URL http://www.abilityincorporated.org.au/index.php Everything validates and I'm hoping it's a fairly okay (not perfect) accessible page which

Re: [css-d] Site Check

2007-10-16 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Many thanks David, I'm looking at it all now, will put it up again for a check when I've made the changes. Kind regards Vicki PS Didn't think we needed the original post and reply in this one ;-) __ css-discuss [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] Drop down menus bunching

2007-10-16 Thread Waz Elle Meredith
A site I've designed (daily.swarthmore.edu) uses drop-down menus as its primary means for navigation, since it has an enormous number of categories (I'm up to 57 now) which aren't really set for display in any other format. In Safari and newer versions of IE, the site displays properly all

Re: [css-d] Is this possible?

2007-10-16 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I have been handed this job by a designer and I am wracking my brains trying to work out if it is possible using CSS. Have a look at http://www.ratking.co.uk/testim.jpg for the layout. What I need to know is... 1. Is this layout possible? I can see 6 divs, which looks like a nightmare to

Re: [css-d] Generated content and non ‐compliant browsers

2007-10-16 Thread Kenny Graham
I am inserting much content into elements using the 'content' property and the '::before' and '::after' pseudo‐elements. The inserted content is mostly punctuation and other content important to the document presentation. If it's important for understanding the content, then it should be in

Re: [css-d] Is this possible?

2007-10-16 Thread Kit Grose
Simply put: yes it is. Set the pale yellow as the background image of the body (create a 1px- high sliver of yellow and position it with background: #fff url(../ images/myyellowsliver.gif) 140px 0 repeat-y; assuming you want 140px of white sidebar to the left (it's a guess)) Make a DIV for

[css-d] Pure CSS drop-down menus aren't *good*

2007-10-16 Thread Alan Gresley
Christian Heilmann wrote: Here is the assumption this article made: a drop down menu should work regardless of input device and stay on the screen when completely expanded without causing scrollbars and thus becoming impossible to reach the last items. Anything wrong with that? Let's see an