[css-d] [personal] CSS as placebo?

2008-06-17 Thread Gabriele Romanato
I'm currenlty working offline on my articles, that will be published next fall or something. I'm managing to write at least 10 articles. Maybe some of you is wondering why I've stopped publishing new tests on CSS. The reason is pretty simple to understand. I don't feel any joy in doing this, at lea

[css-d] DIV Background

2008-06-17 Thread Christopher
Anyone know how I can get my background to fit the full screen, I posted a link a few day ago. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Li

Re: [css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 06:03:57PM -0400, David Laakso wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > The test page I've been using to work this out is at > > http://kuno.sherohman.org/~esper/linktree/menutest.html > > > > What do I need to do to get this to render properly in IE6? > > A different menu-- one

Re: [css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread Sandy
Thanks Ingo, placing position: relative only on the "on" state fixed that z-index issue for me. Ingo Chao wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > >> I'm currently in the midst of reinventing the CSS cascading popup menu >> (with just a hint of javascript to do the show/hide, thanks to IE6's >> lack

Re: [css-d] Semantic headlines and image replacement

2008-06-17 Thread David Laakso
Tom Livingston wrote: > What's really the best way to deal > with graphic headlines. Semantics, and all. Got any > resources? > > Thanks! > > You might try these lists: -- "technical, cultural, political, economic and artistic aspects of web development and design

Re: [css-d] Semantic headlines and image replacement

2008-06-17 Thread Jens Nedal
Tom Livingston wrote: > Got any > resources? > > Thanks! > Hi Tom, Here is an interesting artivle by Dave Shea, comparing the current image replacement techniques with their ups and downs. http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/ The article offers alot and you can find the t

Re: [css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread Ingo Chao
Dave Sherohman wrote: > ... > I did not remove the relative positioning, I just moved it from li to > li:hover, but this seems to have been sufficient to cause IE to make it > absolute, even when hovering on the li. > Because li:hover is not supported in IE < 7. Therefore, IE 6 does not acknowle

Re: [css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread David Laakso
Dave Sherohman wrote: > The test page I've been using to work this out is at > http://kuno.sherohman.org/~esper/linktree/menutest.html > > What do I need to do to get this to render properly in IE6? > > A different menu-- one that is known to work cross-browser? Don't know if this will meet yo

Re: [css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:26:37PM +0200, Ingo Chao wrote: > >> The generic approach to fix that problem is to set position:relative on > >> li:hover only. By doing this, the subsequent will not be placed > >> above the hovered in question, because only this li is positioined > >> and gets a h

Re: [css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread Ingo Chao
Dave Sherohman wrote: > ... > >> The generic approach to fix that problem is to set position:relative on >> li:hover only. By doing this, the subsequent will not be placed >> above the hovered in question, because only this li is positioined >> and gets a higher rank in the painting order. >>

Re: [css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
(Sorry about the double copy, Ingo. I accidentally replied to sender the first time instead of to list.) On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:07:57PM +0200, Ingo Chao wrote: > All subsequent will be placed above the submenu, since these > are coming later in the source. Indeed. > The generic approach

Re: [css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread Ingo Chao
Dave Sherohman wrote: > I'm currently in the midst of reinventing the CSS cascading popup menu > (with just a hint of javascript to do the show/hide, thanks to IE6's > lack of li:hover) and have got it pretty well worked out in Firefox and > Safari, but IE6 is killing me with its insistence on hidi

[css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm currently in the midst of reinventing the CSS cascading popup menu (with just a hint of javascript to do the show/hide, thanks to IE6's lack of li:hover) and have got it pretty well worked out in Firefox and Safari, but IE6 is killing me with its insistence on hiding bits of the popup behind th

Re: [css-d] ie6 - long border on two page, not on rest

2008-06-17 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:41:51 -0700, Stuart King wrote: > Style sheets - This is a problem I am struggling with. What do you do when > different > pages have slightly different layouts and positioning? Do you have one style > sheets > that you maintain externally or several? Are there any articles

[css-d] select .ygtvitem elements which do not have a .ygtvchildren ancestor

2008-06-17 Thread Jack Bates
I am trying to apply special style to all .ygtvitem elements which _do not_ have a .ygtvchildren ancestor. In CSS, it is easy enough to select all .ygtvitem elements which _do_ have a .ygtvchildren ancestor: .ygtvchildren .ygtvitem { color: red } However I cannot figure out how to select those

[css-d] msie7 - position: relative on TD makes it invisible

2008-06-17 Thread sbeam
Hi css-d folks. I have a pretty much average, ordinary (used for good, semantic, table-ish purposes) on a site I am updating. For some reason, in msie, when I assign a "position: relative" rule to any of the TD cells, it makes the contents go away - same as if I had put a 'visibility: hidden'

Re: [css-d] ie6 - long border on two page, not on rest

2008-06-17 Thread Jens Nedal
Stuart King wrote: > Style sheets - This is a problem I am struggling with. What do you do when > different pages have slightly different layouts and positioning? Do you have > one style sheets that you maintain externally or several? Are there any > articles on this or do you have some insight? >

Re: [css-d] ie6 - long border on two page, not on rest

2008-06-17 Thread Holly Bergevin
>On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Holly Bergevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >> The reason you're seeing the problem on some pages and not others is that >> you have style sheets on each page, and there are different values for some >> things, depending on the page being viewed. >> Do you really

[css-d] Semantic headlines and image replacement

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Livingston
Hi list! Here's one I have been pondering lately... What's the consensus on handling graphic headlines? Designers here love their custom font headlines, so I am always dealing with how to handle them. Usually, it's just the graphic in a div with a proper alt/title but I have been wondering about

Re: [css-d] ie6 - long border on two page, not on rest

2008-06-17 Thread Stuart King
Style sheets - This is a problem I am struggling with. What do you do when different pages have slightly different layouts and positioning? Do you have one style sheets that you maintain externally or several? Are there any articles on this or do you have some insight? thank you. --s On Tue, Jun

Re: [css-d] ie6 - long border on two page, not on rest

2008-06-17 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: "Stuart King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >http://www.phiferpavittwine.com > >On the index.htm and wine>>tasting notes pages the line that separates the >about and wine column with the mailing list and contact column is much >longer that it should be. It is fine on all the other pages, hm. The

Re: [css-d] ie6 - long border on two page, not on rest

2008-06-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Stuart King wrote: >>> http://www.phiferpavittwine.com Add a 'hasLayout' trigger to the relevant elements... #left_corner ul li, #right_corner ul li, #left_corner ul li a, #right_corner ul li a { height: 1%;} ...and IE6 will render as intended. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no _

Re: [css-d] ie6 - long border on two page, not on rest

2008-06-17 Thread Stuart King
Thank you . . . I tried that and this did not work, the graphic on the hover was on top of the text and the spacing on #right_corner fluxuated. This is frustrating because all the other pages are fine. --s On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:05 AM, David Laakso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stuart King wro

Re: [css-d] Email Virus

2008-06-17 Thread jdreid
What this sounds like to me is that a spammer harvested your email address and has spoofed it and sent out his or her spam emails. You are probably getting the bounce back/undeliverable notices. But yes, it is off-topic and I am as guilty. -- Thanks! Jeff Christopher Douris <[EMAIL P

Re: [css-d] Email Virus

2008-06-17 Thread Jason Pruim
I have been a member of this list for quite awhile (over 2 years I think) and I can say that I am not getting any virus e-mail's from this list. My mail is not pre-filtered for virus's, would it be possible to have one of these attachments forwarded directly to me? I'm not worried about vir

Re: [css-d] Email Virus

2008-06-17 Thread Nancy Johnson
I have a special email set up for web development through Gmail and have been on several lists for a number of years. I have not received any virus laden emails that I know of. Nancy On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Melbeach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is kinda off topic, but very import

Re: [css-d] Email Virus

2008-06-17 Thread Melbeach
> This is kinda off topic, but very important. I'm getting email viruses, and I think it's from this forum. An attachment is with every email I get. Of course, I haven't opened any of them. Anyone else with this problem. Anyone know how to stop this? Please do not remove this email, everyone

Re: [css-d] Email Virus

2008-06-17 Thread Terri Houston
yes, sounds very similar. I had this virus 2 weeks ago, and had over 100 emails in a short period of time, not 800 though. every email has an attachment. I was also getting lots of blank emails, blank in both "subject" and "from" lines, and blank "bodies". I just contracted this virus again

Re: [css-d] ie6 - long border on two page, not on rest

2008-06-17 Thread David Laakso
Stuart King wrote: > > http://www.phiferpavittwine.com > > On the index.htm and wine>>tasting notes pages the line that separates the > about and wine column with the mailing list and contact column is much > longer that it should be. It is fine on all the other pages, hm. I am > confused. > >

Re: [css-d] Email Virus

2008-06-17 Thread Alan K Baker
It's not for me to say on this forum what's right and wrong, but IMO it's very much off-topic and should be dealt with privately. If you really feel that this forum's at fault, may I suggest taking it up with the List Administrator. However, it's almost certain that the forum itself is not gene

Re: [css-d] Email Virus

2008-06-17 Thread Christopher Douris
I checked (and deleted) my e-mail after work and went to bed at 9:30 am Monday morning. When I got up at 3:30 pm I had more than 800 undeliverable or returned mail messages that had accumulated in my inbox--most with attachments in the original. Up until this, the most I would see is 30 or so me