Re: [css-d] forcing an entire to be a link

2008-03-11 Thread Alan Gresley
linojon wrote: > Here's a demo of my problem http://www.parkerhill.com/hover-test.html > > When this page is viewed in Firefox or Safari, and you hover over any > of the list items, you can link to the 'overlaid' link. But in IE7, > you must only hover over whitespace to have a link; if you h

Re: [css-d] forcing an entire to be a link

2008-03-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
linojon wrote: > Here's a demo of my problem http://www.parkerhill.com/hover-test.html > Is there a way to force IE to make the entire a link? or a > better way to accomplish this that works in all browsers? (and > preferably without using javascript) With a few additional properties/values in t

Re: [css-d] forcing an entire to be a link

2008-03-11 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > discuss.org] On Behalf Of linojon > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 9:27 PM > To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Subject: [css-d] forcing an entire to be a link > > Here's a demo of my problem http://www.parkerhill.co

Re: [css-d] forcing an entire to be a link

2008-03-11 Thread Jim Davis
Take a look at this article and demo: http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000230.php Jim On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:27 PM, linojon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a demo of my problem http://www.parkerhill.com/hover-test.html > > When this page is viewed in Firefox or Safari, and you hove

[css-d] forcing an entire to be a link

2008-03-11 Thread linojon
Here's a demo of my problem http://www.parkerhill.com/hover-test.html When this page is viewed in Firefox or Safari, and you hover over any of the list items, you can link to the 'overlaid' link. But in IE7, you must only hover over whitespace to have a link; if you hover over text it wants

Re: [css-d] IE6 z-index position element stacking problem

2008-03-11 Thread Ingo Chao
Sandy wrote: > or so i think. > > http://accuray.com/ > > my flash menu is in an absolutely position div. in ie6 ONLY, when you > roll over "products" or "patients", the menu is cut off at the bottom of > the drop down. > I tried fooling around with the other positioned elements or removing >

Re: [css-d] buttons elements that are kickass in IE6

2008-03-11 Thread corey deep
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Rob Emenecker < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using a negative text indent to "hide" the button label, is not what I > would > label as a "best practice" -- IMO. Are the button values dynamically > changing? If not, why even have text for the value attribute? There's

[css-d] how to make this DIV lay over a Flash animation?

2008-03-11 Thread Francesco (Sin City Creative)
http://edu.olyortho.com/ Please tell me there is some way to fix this! Go to the above page, type a letter into the search box, and an autocomplete DIV will appear. Problem is, the Flash animation below it seems to take priority and cover the DIV. Is there any way to fix this, maybe using z-ind

Re: [css-d] buttons elements that are kickass in IE6

2008-03-11 Thread Lisa Onizuka
Hi Corey, I would simplify your button code to something like this: .some_btn { background:transparent url(../images/some_btn.gif) no-repeat center center; border:none; cursor:pointer; height:26px; line-height:26px; text-align:center; margin:0; overflow:hidden; padding:0; width:99px; } Then use

Re: [css-d] Targeting IE8 (was: IE8 is better but stillslightly broken)

2008-03-11 Thread Bruno Fassino
Thierry Koblentz wrote: > I shared the "position:relative" fix for links, but that one is not > my finding. I'm pretty sure this ie8 filter is called the Bruno hack > ;) I guess (and hope) this will be a very short-lived filter, so it can remain unnamed :-) (Btw, it was Ingo that mentioned here

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - Discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 resolved

2008-03-11 Thread Bruno Fassino
Alex Robinson wrote: > Now, as an aside and not being particularly expert on quirks mode > rendering, are there any specific differences (other than the ones > just discussed) that anyone is aware of between IE6 quirks mode and > IE7 quirks mode? (I'm fully aware of their being many standards mode

Re: [css-d] buttons elements that are kickass in IE6

2008-03-11 Thread Rob Emenecker
Using a negative text indent to "hide" the button label, is not what I would label as a "best practice" -- IMO. Are the button values dynamically changing? If not, why even have text for the value attribute? There's no reason -- scripting-wise that it makes sense to do it. Why? Simple. In most all

[css-d] buttons elements that are kickass in IE6

2008-03-11 Thread corey deep
Hello all, I have been trying to accommodate a design spec involving intricately styled buttons w/ rounded corners I have been sourcing out best of practices and after trial and error, am leaning towards the use of image as form button element ... however the techniques I have tested use t

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please

2008-03-11 Thread David Laakso
Matthew Stoneback wrote: > I have never seen this site on a Mac, can someone out > there hook me up with any issues. > > > http://www.eddysound.com/rrc/index_help.html > > > Matt Stoneback > > In Mac OS X 10.4.11 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201

[css-d] Site Check Please

2008-03-11 Thread Matthew Stoneback
Hello everyone - I have had some help through this list in getting this site to where it is, now I need some help debugging it. My main areas of concern are IE 6 and 7, but any other browser checks would be great. My specific concerns: In IE 6 - The right column gets pushed down and under the l

Re: [css-d] Targeting IE8

2008-03-11 Thread Alan Gresley
> > Thierry, come on, share what you discovered. :-) > > Hi Alan, > > I shared the "position:relative" fix for links, but that one is not my > finding. > I'm pretty sure this ie8 filter is called the Bruno hack ;) > -- > Regards, > Thierry | http://www.TJKDesign.com I have notice a few passing

Re: [css-d] how big is a space in ems?

2008-03-11 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Jason Crosse wrote: > I've got a pretty basic question. How wide is a typographical space > in relative units? It's an interesting question, though not a CSS question as such. It may be relevant in CSS authoring, though, since you can turn a space into an element and then try to set its width.

Re: [css-d] how big is a space in ems?

2008-03-11 Thread Jason Pruim
On Mar 11, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Rob Emenecker wrote: > The width of a word space will vary depending upon the font you are > working > with. In most cases it falls somewhere between a thin (1/3 em) and > an en > (1/2 em) space. For web page treatments I usually just use 0.4em or > 0.5em > for

Re: [css-d] how big is a space in ems?

2008-03-11 Thread Rob Emenecker
The width of a word space will vary depending upon the font you are working with. In most cases it falls somewhere between a thin (1/3 em) and an en (1/2 em) space. For web page treatments I usually just use 0.4em or 0.5em for a standard width word space. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PR

Re: [css-d] how big is a space in ems?

2008-03-11 Thread Rob Emenecker
> but harking back to my days of letterpress printing And you've got the lead burn scars to prove it, right? __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss

Re: [css-d] how big is a space in ems?

2008-03-11 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On Tue, March 11, 2008 4:58 pm, Jason Crosse wrote: > I've got a pretty basic question. How wide is a typographical space > in relative units? I want to pad a one-line element's left side so > it looks like a space has been inserted. > > Is there a reliable way of doing this (e.g 0.5ex;), or does i

[css-d] how big is a space in ems?

2008-03-11 Thread Jason Crosse
I've got a pretty basic question. How wide is a typographical space in relative units? I want to pad a one-line element's left side so it looks like a space has been inserted. Is there a reliable way of doing this (e.g 0.5ex;), or does is just depend on how big a given font's space is? If it's

Re: [css-d] New CSS/html tools?..

2008-03-11 Thread Cynthia M. Brumbaugh
On 3/10/08 10:46 PM, "Karl Hardisty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/03/2008, at 3:38 PM, Kathy Wheeler wrote: > > On 11/03/2008, at 12:34 PM, Michael Stevens wrote: >> WeBuilder from Bluementals >> http://www.blumentals.net/webuilder/ > > WeBuilder is windows only. > >> -Original Messag

Re: [css-d] Targeting IE8 (was: IE8 is better but still slightly broken)

2008-03-11 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > discuss.org] On Behalf Of Alan Gresley > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 7:50 AM > To: Mark Richards > Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Subject: Re: [css-d] Targeting IE8 (was: IE8 is better but still slightly > broken

[css-d] Missed the obvious Re: IE7 spacing blowout problem on Stu Nicholls' "Snazzy Borders" code

2008-03-11 Thread Eriol Hiragizawa
Hi Susan, Thanks for pointing that out. I completely missed something that obvious. Ugh. Thank you again. --Stephen On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Susan Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You need to remove padding/margin from the form itself: > > form { > margin:0; > padding:

Re: [css-d] Diff between display:none and visibility:hidden

2008-03-11 Thread Jeff Gates
Last night I replaced visability:hidden with display:none in my implementation of Lightbox's slideshow. It works fine (and just as described, the extra space that the visibility property put on my page has now been eliminated with the display property). It's not necessary for accessibility for

Re: [css-d] Curious question inspired by the X-UA compatible thread

2008-03-11 Thread david
Alex Robinson wrote: > At 22:36 -1000 9/3/08, david wrote: >> If you have an HTML document that happens to contain another HTML >> document in an iframe - and one of the two documents triggers quirks >> mode when rendered by itself - is each one rendered in the same mode or >> does the browser some

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: New CSS/html tools?..

2008-03-11 Thread Alex Robinson
>Aren't Mac people always bragging about how their machines can run Windows >better than a PC can? Shouldn't be a problem then... :) This is all completely off topic. It would have been ruled so earlier but evidently us moderators were either sleeping or dead. This list has 8500+ members and a

Re: [css-d] css validation error

2008-03-11 Thread Ingo Chao
The html validator indicates a BOM in addition -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html http://www.dolphinsback.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-disc