[css-d] Fwd: @media print height units

2008-04-10 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
I am sure Neil intended to reply to the list. Begin forwarded message: From: Neil Pharazyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: April 10, 2008 12:56:29 PM JST To: Philippe Wittenbergh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [css-d] @media print height units X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1914

Re: [css-d] @media print height units

2008-04-10 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Neil Pharazyn wrote: However, if you run this HTML page you'll see that it still doesn't achieve what I want, which is to limit the number of pages of content printed out. In this case there are two A4 pages of content. It prints both pages despite my body.A4 saying not print anything

[css-d] safari specific stylesheets

2008-04-10 Thread Publicstyle
Ok I have spent the last few hours lurking google and the archives of this list hard, but with no luck yet. Does anyone know of a way to make safari ignore my main stylesheet and read a seperate one -- something like conditional comments for IE. (I can sense some groans already, judging by google

Re: [css-d] safari specific stylesheets

2008-04-10 Thread David Laakso
Publicstyle wrote: Does anyone know of a way to make safari ignore my main stylesheet and read a seperate one -- something like conditional comments for IE. (I can sense some groans already, judging by google i'm not the only person who has been looking) The site is here:

Re: [css-d] Building a Print CSS

2008-04-10 Thread Jeff Gates
Christian, thanks. That helped. But now I see that my first printed page's margins are quite wide, while the second page is just as it should be. I have the width set to auto for that #center div. Jeff I once had similar problems and found out that overflow: hidden; set on one of the

[css-d] Centering image h/v in *smaller* div

2008-04-10 Thread Martin Sammtleben
Hi, I use a div class=imgbox to display thumbnails in a square box. These thumbnails are of various sizes and aspect ratios (auto-generated by a CMS), but they all exceed the dimensions of the box. Here's the css: div.imagebox { text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;

Re: [css-d] Centering image h/v in *smaller* div

2008-04-10 Thread Martin Sammtleben
At 15:56 +0200 10/4/08, ilduca69 wrote: well, the name of the classes must match: div class=imgbox snip Sorry, that was just a typo in the mail - they actually do match, but no effect. Martin __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] Breaking out of a div

2008-04-10 Thread Paul Jinks
Hi First the back story: I'm working at a university using a piece of web authoring software called Course Genie. Teaching staff write their materials in Word, hit generate and out pops the web page. Fine. My job is to write templates so this looks pretty, however, the html leaves few hooks work

Re: [css-d] Horrible Lag time in CS3 Design/WYSIWYG View

2008-04-10 Thread Mark Story
Craig Givens wrote: I'm in need of an expert Dreamweaver CS3 engineer or guru to take a look at why my CSS layout is experiencing such a horrendous 1-2 minute delay/refresh time in the WYSIWYG. A sample page and its css files can be downloaded here:

Re: [css-d] Breaking out of a div

2008-04-10 Thread Christian Kirchhoff
Hello, adding position: relative; to the h1 style could do the trick. Best regards, Christian Kirchhoff *Directmedia Publishing GmbH* · Möckernstraße 68 · 10965 Berlin www.digitale-bibliothek.de AG Berlin-Charlottenburg · HR B 58002 · USt.Id. DE173211737 Geschäftsführer: Ralf Szymanski · Erwin

Re: [css-d] Breaking out of a div

2008-04-10 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Apr 11, 2008, at 12:05 AM, Paul Jinks wrote: Hi First the back story: I'm working at a university using a piece of web authoring software called Course Genie. Teaching staff write their materials in Word, hit generate and out pops the web page. Fine. My job is to write templates so this

Re: [css-d] Breaking out of a div

2008-04-10 Thread David Laakso
Paul Jinks wrote: I've set a background image to the h1 element, and using negative margins and padding etc. I'm trying to get it to 'pop' out of the containing div. In Firefox2 for win this works more or less as I want it to, but in IE6 the part of the image outside the containing div cannot

Re: [css-d] Centering image h/v in *smaller* div

2008-04-10 Thread Lisa Onizuka
Martin, I'm not sure if you want to bother with any inline css, but you could achieve it this way: div class=imagebox style=background:url('dynamically-generated-path.jpg') center center no-repeat nbsp; /div div.imagebox { width: 80px; height: 80px; overflow: hidden; }

Re: [css-d] Beginner CSS Having Absolution Pos Issue in IE7 WIN

2008-04-10 Thread David Laakso
Rhiannon Cunag wrote: www.scotty-valentine.com, is viewed perfectly fine in Safari and Firefox, but in IE 7WIN (works fine on IE MAC), there are some issues with elements that are absolutely positioned. Rhiannon It is cute and charming and I am not so sure I agree about Safari and

Re: [css-d] safari specific stylesheets

2008-04-10 Thread Alan Gresley
Publicstyle wrote: Ok I have spent the last few hours lurking google and the archives of this list hard, but with no luck yet. Does anyone know of a way to make safari ignore my main stylesheet and read a seperate one -- something like conditional comments for IE. Yes there is a way. [..]

[css-d] Width of absolutely-positioned div

2008-04-10 Thread Mary Ellen Curtin
Here is a test page: http://datagnostics.com/test/testbasic.html Is there a way to make the pink absolutely-positioned box as wide as the yellow regular box -- that is, just wide enough to fill up the width of the screen, whatever that may be? They are both moved over to the right to make way

[css-d] equal height columns in css

2008-04-10 Thread vincent pollard
how do i create these? i want 3 columns with variable content but i want the middle column to have a border so it needs to be 100% of its parent div. the examples i've found online either use faux columns which is no use or don't work in IE, which is no use (and kind of shocking that supposed

Re: [css-d] Width of absolutely-positioned div

2008-04-10 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mary Ellen Curtin wrote: http://datagnostics.com/test/testbasic.html Is there a way to make the pink absolutely-positioned box as wide as the yellow regular box -- that is, just wide enough to fill up the width of the screen, whatever that may be? Add... #absbox {right: 0;} ...and a

Re: [css-d] Width of absolutely-positioned div

2008-04-10 Thread David Laakso
Mary Ellen Curtin wrote: Here is a test page: http://datagnostics.com/test/testbasic.html Is there a way to make the pink absolutely-positioned box as wide as the yellow regular box -- pink box: {position:absolute;top: 7em;left: 210px;text-align:center;} yellow box: {margin: 0 0 0 210px;

Re: [css-d] equal height columns in css

2008-04-10 Thread David Laakso
vincent pollard wrote: how do i create these? i want 3 columns with variable content but i want the middle column to have a border so it needs to be 100% of its parent div. the examples i've found online either use faux columns which is no use or don't work in IE, which is no use (and kind

Re: [css-d] equal height columns in css

2008-04-10 Thread David Laakso
vincent pollard wrote: how do i create these? i want 3 columns with variable content but i want the middle column to have a border so it needs to be 100% of its parent div. See also: http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/companions.html and

Re: [css-d] equal height columns in css

2008-04-10 Thread vincent pollard
thanks David! that One True Layout example works beuatifully (in IE6, IE7 and FF on PC at least). On 10/04/2008, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vincent pollard wrote: how do i create these? i want 3 columns with variable content but i want the middle column to have a border so

Re: [css-d] Centering image h/v in *smaller* div

2008-04-10 Thread Martin Sammtleben
At 10:35 -0600 10/4/08, Lisa Onizuka wrote: Martin, I'm not sure if you want to bother with any inline css, but you could achieve it this way: div class=imagebox style=background:url('dynamically-generated-path.jpg') center center no-repeat nbsp; /div Thanks Lisa, I had actually thought of this

[css-d] when are 2 external css called for?

2008-04-10 Thread John
I have 2 pages ( so far) in a site which share the same structure or design grid but have differences with some of the visual elements, such as differing background colors, or different link treatments... can I combine the 2 sheets and have the documents know which link treatments and

Re: [css-d] when are 2 external css called for?

2008-04-10 Thread Benjamin White
On 4/10/08, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 2 pages ( so far) in a site which share the same structure or design grid but have differences with some of the visual elements, such as differing background colors, or different link treatments... can I combine the 2 sheets and have the

Re: [css-d] Width of absolutely-positioned div

2008-04-10 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mary Ellen Curtin wrote: What kind of IE6 workaround would you suggest? I am not at all happy with the suggestion, because my site stats show that I've still got a *lot* of IE6-using visitors. The whole issue, including workaround for IE6, is described here...

Re: [css-d] equal height columns in css

2008-04-10 Thread vincent pollard
thanks man. i'll take another look at that. as far as IE8 goes, it's great to hear the improvements coming but i'm more excited by the death of IE6. i don't think IE7 is that bad in comparison. On 10/04/2008, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vincent pollard wrote: looked at this:

Re: [css-d] when are 2 external css called for?

2008-04-10 Thread Kepler Gelotte
I have 2 pages ( so far) in a site which share the same structure or design grid but have differences with some of the visual elements, such as differing background colors, or different link treatments... Hi John, A trick I use to use different CSS rules in a page is to add an

Re: [css-d] Width of absolutely-positioned div

2008-04-10 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mary Ellen Curtin wrote: http://datagnostics.com/test/testbasic4.html I have to remove the border on the latter or else I get a 2-pixel horizontal scrollbar. You can keep the border if you subtract its width, on both sides, in the expression... !--[if lt IE 7] style type=text/css #absbox {

[css-d] Special how-to request

2008-04-10 Thread Keith Kaiser
For the last several years I've been running a Code Amber Alert ticker on my Boy Scout related web site at; http://bsaroundtable.com the problem is I really need to move the ticker. I took a poll of my readers they want me to keep the ticker, the best place for it would be under the menu in

Re: [css-d] Special how-to request

2008-04-10 Thread David Laakso
Keith Kaiser wrote: The div id is topMenu the css is at http://bsaroundtable.com/css/rtstyle.css please if you have a few minutes would you help me figure this out. -- Keith #topMenu { width: 100%; background: #C5DFA4; float: left; min-height: 7em; add } for IE/6