Re: [css-d] Hope this is the appropriate way to ask this question

2008-04-24 Thread david
Ryan Doherty wrote: Designing with Web Standards - Zeldman Bulletproof Web Design - Cederholm Web Standards Solutions - Cederholm Eric Meyer's books are pretty good too. And he even hangs out on this list when he isn't busy counting the millions of yen he's made from his books. ;-) On

Re: [css-d] Hope this is the appropriate way to ask this question

2008-04-24 Thread Max Daniels
When just getting started, I found Eric Meyer's book _CSS Web Site Design Hands on Training_ to be perfect. --Max On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Ryan Doherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Meyer's books are pretty good too. -Ryan On Apr 23, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Jonathan wrote: I

[css-d] Hover delay

2008-04-24 Thread Alan K Baker
Hi all. I'm looking for a way to delay the action of a 'hover' detection for a photo gallery. What I want to do is to move the mouse pointer across a block of thumbnails and then have an 'auto-enlargement' appear over the entire block, ONLY after the pointer has been stationary for 500mS or

Re: [css-d] Hover delay

2008-04-24 Thread Alan K Baker
A lot of food for thought on that site, thanks. I can't find exactly what I want, but there are a good few ideas which may make me decide to modify my method. Regards, Alan. www.theatreorgans.co.uk www.virtualtheatreorgans.com Admin: ConnArtistes, UKShopsmiths, 2nd Touch A-P groups

[css-d] Does all elements include head etc.?

2008-04-24 Thread Pentasis
If a CSS property is said to apply to *all elements*, does this include head, meta, link, base, style and title? I know, these are not rendered visually so the question is a bit strange perhaps. It is just that I am making a table with all element, attribute and property relationships and I

Re: [css-d] Override CSS Line

2008-04-24 Thread Foundation Flash
Victor, firstly, this is the first time I have ever responded to a query, so bear with me and expect to receive an email from someone else refuting all I say here, but here goes anyway: 1) If it's not a typo, your circular brackets: ( and ) need to be curly : { and } around the width:5em; bit.

Re: [css-d] Does all elements include head etc.?

2008-04-24 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Pentasis wrote: If a CSS property is said to apply to *all elements*, does this include head, meta, link, base, style and title? Yes; no reason why not. I know, these are not rendered visually so the question is a bit strange perhaps. It depends. In terms of CSS, they conceptually have

[css-d] tiling and css sprites

2008-04-24 Thread Aurelie Gaudry
I'm using a css sprite and there's a 1px wide by 35px tall image in it intended to be repeated horizontally as a background. So I'm positioning it like so: #ft .menu{ background-image:url(master_sprite.gif); background-position:-844px -177px; background-repeat:repeat-x;

[css-d] IE 6 is butchering my pages.

2008-04-24 Thread Jess Jacobs
Hi all, A small troubleshooting problem that is driving me CRAZY: http://www.akisma.com/design/carrot/ Renders fine in every other browser I've checked, but in IE6, the home page renders fine, aside from a little bordering around the photo that looks trashy (any suggestions?) but all the other

[css-d] IE6 bug, which one?

2008-04-24 Thread Dmitry Belitsky
Have a good day and night, please help me find which bug in IE6 make my page so different. In 7s version everything looks fine. http://dobrievesti.org/index.html Thank you. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] CSS Layout problems with Safari

2008-04-24 Thread lisa wong
Hi there, I'm having layout issues in Safari ver 3.1.1 on Windows, but not IE 7, FF, or Safari ver 3.04 on a Mac. In simple areas like this: #menu{ margin-top:55px; margin-left:300px; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14pt; color:#FF; width:475px; text-align: left;

[css-d] Positioning- relative or absolute?

2008-04-24 Thread Tawnya
Hi list, I've been lurking like a mad fiend for awhile here and I have to say I have found it to be very rewarding. In fact reading css-d is my coffee break reward! LOL I have almost run to deadline and would like to be a bit more flexible in the placement of the gallery and popup box. I would

[css-d] bodybg

2008-04-24 Thread Vance Lowe
Alright heres my problem. My boss comes in and says hey a lady wants a one page site. shes been and ISP customer of ours for years so we are going to make an exception for her and do it. I give the weird look but say okay anyway since my boss gave me an instruction. which is rare.

Re: [css-d] bodybg

2008-04-24 Thread Vance Lowe
Nevermind. I found it. For anyone who cares, its: Html { Height:100%; } Apparently firefox doesn't recognize percentage based sizes unless its got a parent element to base that off of. let me know if I am way off base. Vance Lowe Web Designer Cybergate, Inc.

Re: [css-d] Override CSS Line

2008-04-24 Thread Victor Subervi
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Foundation Flash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Victor, firstly, this is the first time I have ever responded to a query, so bear with me and expect to receive an email from someone else refuting all I say here, but here goes anyway: 1) If it's not a typo, your

Re: [css-d] CSS Layout problems with Safari

2008-04-24 Thread David Laakso
lisa wong wrote: Does anyone have any ideas on what may be going on here? Or how to call a style-sheet for Safari only? I now how to call one for IE and its different versions, but not finding anything on safari. ~Lisa Put the page in question on a public server and point to it in

[css-d] Hope this is the appropriate way to ask this question

2008-04-24 Thread Daniel Kessler
I had these recommended to me recently: - Web Design in a Nutshell - CSS Mastery, Advanced Web Standards Solutions - The CSS Anthology, 101 essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks - Designing with Web Standard ed. 2 - Web Standards Creativity - Transcending CSS -- Daniel Kessler University of

[css-d] CSS Layout problems

2008-04-24 Thread bookpage
My first time to post and I hope I am asking in the correct way. I am have trouble trying to debug my CSS when there is an error between IE and FF. I have tried to use Firebug, but just can't seem to understand how to use it. There are several differences between IE and FF on this page

[css-d] IE6 and 5.5 issue with sidebar

2008-04-24 Thread Cory Shubert
Hi all, My website, http://www.pixelagogo.com is not acting correct in IE6 or 5.5 yet fine in all others tested. When I did a browser check, these are the two that are giving me fits. The issue is that the sidebar div doesn't align at the top as it does in all the other sections of the site.

Re: [css-d] Hope this is the appropriate way to ask this question

2008-04-24 Thread john
On my bookshelf are the following (among others): CSS Web Site Design - Eric Meyer CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions - Andy Budd Web Standard Solutions - Dan Cedarholm Bulletproof Web Design - Dan Cedarholm My 2¢, John Garison

Re: [css-d] IE6 and 5.5 issue with sidebar

2008-04-24 Thread Valerie Wininger
Cory, It looks like you've got a case of the doubled-margin bug: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/doubled-margin.html You've got a margin-right:15px applied to your sidebar div. This is doubling in IE6 which doesn't leave enough room for the sidebar up next to the content where it

Re: [css-d] IE 6 is butchering my pages.

2008-04-24 Thread Mark Wheeler
Hi Jess, It looks like you have a float clearing problem. Here is a link that gives some good info on how to resolve these issues. http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html In your case there are a couple of things you can do. On your #main div add an overflow: hidden and a width of 100%

[css-d] ie6 trouble: div inhalt dont begins in the right place

2008-04-24 Thread R . Späni
here is the html: http://www.r-forrer.de/boamo/referenzen.html and here the css: http://www.r-forrer.de/boamo/boamo.css i would be thankful for any help! :) __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] CSS Layout problems with Safari

2008-04-24 Thread lisa wong
Resubmitting with actual website with problems: http://www.mattcolagiuri.com/home.html Most of the pages show the menu on two lines (should be one line) and the copyright and other text off a little bit. Thanks for looking at this! ~Lisa On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:22 PM, lisa wong [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] Beyond CC's, targeting Mozilla, Safari and Opera

2008-04-24 Thread Manfred Staudinger
Hi all, I suppose my question was too general to get useful answers. This time its more concrete, you can try it: http://documenta.rudolphina.org/cond-css-demo.xml Any questions? Manfred __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] CSS Layout problems with Safari

2008-04-24 Thread David Laakso
lisa wong wrote: Resubmitting with actual website with problems: http://www.mattcolagiuri.com/home.html Most of the pages show the menu on two lines (should be one line) and the copyright and other text off a little bit. Thanks for looking at this! ~Lisa I'm having layout issues in

[css-d] IE 7 6 not behaving

2008-04-24 Thread Terri Chicko
Hi I finally have my template layout sort of working on this page correctly for FF and safari. but it falls apart in IE's. the content box drops to the bottom of the page and so does the body text. The Image needs to stick to the left nav. Could someone every so kindly take a look?

Re: [css-d] bodybg

2008-04-24 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Apr 25, 2008, at 12:47 AM, Vance Lowe wrote: Apparently firefox doesn't recognize percentage based sizes unless its got a parent element to base that off of. let me know if I am way off base That is the correct and expected behaviour. Gecko, WebKit and Opera all behave the same.

[css-d] Need Text To Wrap Underneath Images

2008-04-24 Thread Elli Vizcaino
Hello, How do I get the text to wrap underneath the images in this table: http://e7flux.com/placead/placead2.html - they wrap fine in FF Safari but not in IE 6 or 7. All suggestions welcomed! TIA, Elli

Re: [css-d] Need Text To Wrap Underneath Images

2008-04-24 Thread Alan K Baker
I hope no-one will mind an off-topic reply, as I think you are genuinely looking for an answer in CSS, but the answer's really in HTML. I think the simplest answer to your question is to use a br / after each image and before each span like this example (first line of your td code: tda href=#

Re: [css-d] Need Text To Wrap Underneath Images

2008-04-24 Thread Elli Vizcaino
I did a Googling and found this: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/how_to_style_thumbnail_and_caption.asp from one of our very own on the list. I had started out with a UL of images and links and it wasn't working especially to achieve the alignment the designers were looking for, so my boss