Re: [css-d] Float issues in IE7

2008-08-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Peter Ankelein wrote: > http://www.mdsol.com/mug/mug-helsinki/agenda.htm > [...] In IE, however, the text on the left is vertically shifting so > that it loses all association with the content it's related to. Maybe this is close enough for comfort...

Re: [css-d] Float issues in IE7

2008-08-29 Thread Shinya Koizumi
I would set up like this Shinya - Original Message - From: "Peter Ankelein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 9:22 PM Subject: [css-d] Float issues in IE7 > > Hi folks, > > I'm in a bit of a quandary with a nested float and vertically shifting > text i

Re: [css-d] Sizing backgrounds to page width rather than viewport width

2008-08-29 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Aug 30, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Now for the bonus question... *Why* did that work? Was the original > problem due to requirements of the relevant spec or is it just a (IMO > bad) decision by the major browser vendors that "full width", by > default, means only the width of

[css-d] Text positioning

2008-08-29 Thread Kim Brooks Wei
Hi people, I haven't been able to get a couple of my type elements to behave as they ought to. http://blackboxnyc.com/soulsearching/ The h1 in topper I couldn't get to vertically center to my logo on its left, and I can't get the list items in colrightthin in the first copy block to behave li

Re: [css-d] Sizing backgrounds to page width rather than viewport width

2008-08-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:53:11AM +0900, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > Step 1: wrap all the content of the page in a div > Step 2: style that div as follows > div {float:left;} > > don't specify a width on that div. OK, that worked. Thanks! Now for the bonus question... *Why* did that work?

[css-d] Float issues in IE7

2008-08-29 Thread Peter Ankelein
Hi folks, I'm in a bit of a quandary with a nested float and vertically shifting text in IE. Here's the page (valid xhtml strict) in question and CSS (also valid). http://www.mdsol.com/mug/mug-helsinki/agenda.htm (site) http://www.mdsol.com/mug/mug-helsinki/mug.css (CSS) In the #main content ar

Re: [css-d] Sizing backgrounds to page width rather than viewport width

2008-08-29 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Aug 30, 2008, at 2:24 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: > However, there are a few tables which don't compress so well and force > the page to scroll horizontally. On these pages, the banner and the > colored background cut off at the width of the window rather than > extending the full width of the

Re: [css-d] IE/6 & IE/7 nav line-height

2008-08-29 Thread David Laakso
>>> >>> >>> >> > > would it be possible to get the exact small-caps face that the client > wants and use that name as the first one in the font-face list? would > something like > > font-face { > "Fontin Sans small-

[css-d] Too Smart for My Float

2008-08-29 Thread Duane Nelson
Not really...I think my float has outsmart me :-\ Here's the situation: I thought I had controlled the margin/padding issues between browsers by using a double technique. However while on vacation and tinkering on the problematic website/float, I only viewed the website in FF and IE7. Now m

Re: [css-d] IE/6 & IE/7 nav line-height

2008-08-29 Thread Sandy
David Laakso wrote: > Bruno Fassino wrote: > >>On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:45 PM, David Laakso wrote: >> >> >> >> >>> >>>Interesting? Nah. More like my sister: twisted. I have no control over the >>>markup (or use of small-ca

Re: [css-d] Lining up photos and text

2008-08-29 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Linda H wrote: > Sorry, I sent this without a subject line. > > I want to make a page that has a series of photos with text next to > them (photos on the left, text on the right). I want the text that > goes with each photo centered vertically to the photo and I wa

Re: [css-d] IE/6 & IE/7 nav line-height

2008-08-29 Thread David Laakso
Bruno Fassino wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:45 PM, David Laakso wrote: > > > >> Interesting? Nah. More like my sister: twisted. I have no control over the >> markup (or use of small-caps). >> >> > > So you cannot

Re: [css-d] padding in list in ie6 and ie7

2008-08-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Sandy wrote: > http://katebaggott.com/fiction.html > in most browsers the menu text is centred under the image. In ie6 and > ie7 the text moves to the right so that the furthest left bit of the > centred text is lined up with the horizontal centre of the image. > I can't figure out where this

Re: [css-d] IE6 Stacking Issue or Something Else?

2008-08-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Akins wrote: > http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newSite/negMargin.html >>> The only thing that's not to my liking is the bottom shadow of >>> the bluish content box in IE6. It gaps as some wide widths and >>> sticks out on the right on narrow widths. With a complete and well-trimmed min/max

Re: [css-d] IE/6 & IE/7 nav line-height

2008-08-29 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:45 PM, David Laakso wrote: > > > Interesting? Nah. More like my sister: twisted. I have no control over the > markup (or use of small-caps). > So you cannot reset small-caps (for IE only) and use something li

Re: [css-d] Sizing backgrounds to page width rather than viewport width

2008-08-29 Thread roxanne sutton
Other than the advice already given, here is a resource of several sites that scroll horizontally-intentionally-althought this isn't optimum for most sites it may help in your case http://www.thehorizontalway.com/ Roxanne Sutton www.roxstyle.com ___

Re: [css-d] IE/6 & IE/7 nav line-height

2008-08-29 Thread David Laakso
Bruno Fassino wrote: > Bill Brown wrote: > >> David Laakso wrote: >> >> >>> In this test page, the only way I've been able the keep the last two >>> links from gaining height is to assign a line-height /in pixels/ to #nav >>> ul for the IEs (and they still look a little whacked (taller) to

[css-d] padding in list in ie6 and ie7

2008-08-29 Thread Sandy
hey all, I have a problem I hope you can help me with. There is a menu on this site that has a list of center aligned text. There is an image on the top and bottom of the list http://katebaggott.com/fiction.html http://katebaggott.com/kate2008.css in most browsers the menu text is centred unde

Re: [css-d] IE/6 & IE/7 nav line-height

2008-08-29 Thread Bruno Fassino
Bill Brown wrote: > David Laakso wrote: > >> In this test page, the only way I've been able the keep the last two >> links from gaining height is to assign a line-height /in pixels/ to #nav >> ul for the IEs (and they still look a little whacked (taller) to me. [...] >>

Re: [css-d] IE6 Stacking Issue or Something Else?

2008-08-29 Thread Chris Akins
Well - drat. :-( I thought I had finally gotten a handle on the nitpicky things. Guess not. :-) I added the rules below to try and get maroon breadcrumbs bar to scale with large text. After upscaling the text about 3 sizes, the crumbs start to disappear into the tan content area. I was so fo

Re: [css-d] IE6 Stacking Issue or Something Else?

2008-08-29 Thread David Laakso
Chris Akins wrote: > Oops - sorry. I took for granted that the whole thread would be > showing up, so I trimmed. Over-trimmed I guess. :-) > > http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newSite/negMargin.html > http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newSite/negMargin.css > > >> Chris Akins wrote: >> >>> The onl

Re: [css-d] IE6 Stacking Issue or Something Else?

2008-08-29 Thread Chris Akins
Oops - sorry. I took for granted that the whole thread would be showing up, so I trimmed. Over-trimmed I guess. :-) http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newSite/negMargin.html http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newSite/negMargin.css On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:16 PM, David Laakso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [css-d] Lining up photos and text

2008-08-29 Thread Larry Tait
Linda, are you looking for something like this ? http://wardcreations.com/dev/photo.htm On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Linda H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, I sent this without a subject line. > > I want to make a page that has a series of photos with text next to > them (photos on the l

Re: [css-d] Lining up photos and text

2008-08-29 Thread Estelle Weyl
I wrote a tutorial a while back: http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/05/vertical-centering-with-css/ that may help. until browsers support all display values, that hack is a fallback. -Estelle CSS, JavaScript and XHTML Explained http://evotech.net/blog/ --- On Fri, 8/29/08, Linda H <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [css-d] IE6 Stacking Issue or Something Else?

2008-08-29 Thread Chris Akins
Ok - I put the IE-expressions in conditional comments in the HTML. Everything validates on this file! Thanks for the help once again, list and Georg. The only thing that's not to my liking is the bottom shadow of the bluish content box in IE6. It gaps as some wide widths and sticks out on the ri

[css-d] Lining up photos and text

2008-08-29 Thread Linda H
Sorry, I sent this without a subject line. I want to make a page that has a series of photos with text next to them (photos on the left, text on the right). I want the text that goes with each photo centered vertically to the photo and I want space between the photo and the text which should li

[css-d] (no subject)

2008-08-29 Thread Linda H
I want to make a page that has a series of photos with text next to them (photos on the left, text on the right). I want the text that goes with each photo centered vertically to the photo and I want space between the photo and the text which should line up with the horizontal center of the pag

Re: [css-d] Sizing backgrounds to page width rather than viewport width

2008-08-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 01:41:15PM -0400, Larry Tait wrote: > I would sugguest getting rid of tables and using proper css styling, Tables are proper when used to display tabular data, such as game schedules or team standings. When there are 20 columns (say, if you're showing the game times on 20

[css-d] Any IE8 news?

2008-08-29 Thread David Alfaro
Take a look a this post: "How to make my web pages Internet Explorer 8 compatible" http://www.aggiorno.com/blog/post/How-to-make-my-web-pages-Internet-Explorer- 8-compatible.aspx __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-dis

Re: [css-d] Sizing backgrounds to page width rather than viewport width

2008-08-29 Thread Larry Tait
Dave, I would sugguest getting rid of tables and using proper css styling, however, if you want to use tables, you need to take out the width:5000px and change it to width:100% That should fix the problem. - Larry Tait On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PR

Re: [css-d] IE/6 & IE/7 nav line-height

2008-08-29 Thread David Laakso
Bill Brown wrote: > David Laakso wrote: > >> In this test page, the only way I've been able the keep the last two >> links from gaining height is to assign a line-height /in pixels/ to #nav >> ul for the IEs (and they still look a little whacked (taller) to me. >> Anyone up for an explanation

Re: [css-d] ie 6 differences

2008-08-29 Thread David Laakso
Daniel Kessler wrote: > I have some differences when my page views in ie6 than it does in the > other browsers I checked. I'm not well-versed in ie6 yet. The page is: > http://sph.umd.edu/events/wellness2/template.html > > 1 - there was a gap between the top picture (on the right) and the > g

Re: [css-d] ie 6 differences

2008-08-29 Thread Daniel Kessler
On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Arn Gregory wrote: > >> 2 - the nav is spaced out vertically. > Known problem with ie6. Try adding display: inline on the > elements. > > > Arnold Gregory > IT Web Services > Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University > 386-323-8696

[css-d] Sizing backgrounds to page width rather than viewport width

2008-08-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
I am working on a (partial) CSS conversion of an existing site and have run into an issue with pages where the content is wider than the window in which it is viewed. The page is set up with a banner graphic, which is defined as a div background (so it will cut itself off based on page width), and

Re: [css-d] IE/6 & IE/7 nav line-height

2008-08-29 Thread Bill Brown
David Laakso wrote: > In this test page, the only way I've been able the keep the last two > links from gaining height is to assign a line-height /in pixels/ to #nav > ul for the IEs (and they still look a little whacked (taller) to me. > Anyone up for an explanation and/or better fix for this l

[css-d] IE/6 & IE/7 nav line-height

2008-08-29 Thread David Laakso
In this test page, the only way I've been able the keep the last two links from gaining height is to assign a line-height /in pixels/ to #nav ul for the IEs (and they still look a little whacked (taller) to me. Anyone up for an explanation and/or better fix for this little mystery? uri (css emb

[css-d] ie 6 differences

2008-08-29 Thread Daniel Kessler
I have some differences when my page views in ie6 than it does in the other browsers I checked. I'm not well-versed in ie6 yet. The page is: http://sph.umd.edu/events/wellness2/template.html 1 - there was a gap between the top picture (on the right) and the gold bar below it. I fixed it by

Re: [css-d] IE8b2 missing content bug with list item

2008-08-29 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Alan Gresley wrote: > > All this missing content that I have noticed all happens when content > are in at least unordered list. Another page. > > > > The second gallery will not render all the images. Refreshing o

Re: [css-d] positioning problems (IE and Opera)

2008-08-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Elle Meredith wrote: > The logo is appearing behind the main image on the home page -- even > though it has higher z-index Absolute positioned elements that are children of absolute or relative positioned elements, can't escape their parents' stacking level, no matter how high z-index is given to

Re: [css-d] Bizarre validation messages

2008-08-29 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Aug 29, 2008, at 3:50 PM, Kim Brooks Wei wrote: > Hi People, > > I'm getting bizarre message from the validator when I try to validate > my css for > http://blackboxnyc.com/soulsearching/ and > http://blackboxnyc.com > > I get error message that I have many errors and wrong values entered > -