Re: [css-d] Relative and absolute positioning affect z-index in IE7

2008-09-14 Thread Tim Dawson
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Tim Dawson wrote: http://www.holidaymullandiona.co.uk/pages/accn/bb-sw-mullb.php Hover over 'What to do', the stars show through the drop-down (the stars are relatively positioned asterisks). Is there a better way ? Might help to restyle the star-span...

Re: [css-d] Relative and absolute positioning affect z-index in IE7

2008-09-14 Thread Alan Gresley
Tim Dawson wrote: Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Tim Dawson wrote: http://www.holidaymullandiona.co.uk/pages/accn/bb-sw-mullb.php Hover over 'What to do', the stars show through the drop-down (the stars are relatively positioned asterisks). Is there a better way ? Might help to restyle the

Re: [css-d] HT Conditional CSS

2008-09-14 Thread Alan Gresley
Luis Speciale wrote: Hi ; Looking for a way to make Opera behave in a certain manner, I googelised this http://conditional-css.com/ Did you know about that ? Cordially Luis With plenty of off line testing, you can make layouts that do not need to be hacked (excluding IE6

Re: [css-d] Relative and absolute positioning affect z-index in IE7

2008-09-14 Thread Tim Dawson
Alan Gresley wrote: Tim Dawson wrote: Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Tim Dawson wrote: http://www.holidaymullandiona.co.uk/pages/accn/bb-sw-mullb.php Hover over 'What to do', the stars show through the drop-down (the stars are relatively positioned asterisks). Is there a better way ? Might help

Re: [css-d] Relative and absolute positioning affect z-index in IE7

2008-09-14 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tim Dawson wrote: I did try the z-index route, but it didn't seem to make any difference, and I assumed that IE puts all positioned elements on top. You suggestion (above) has both, and I think it's the P:R that's doing the trick ? Note: z-index has no effect non non-positioned elements, so

Re: [css-d] float and blockquote

2008-09-14 Thread David Laakso
Mike Breiding wrote: David Laakso wrote: Mike Breiding - Morgantown WV wrote: Hi David, The only thing I see that looks a bit odd is the background color extends to the border. Peace, -Mike re:

Re: [css-d] float and blockquote

2008-09-14 Thread Mike Breiding
David Laakso wrote: Replacing the current CSS with this should hold the background width to 75% (same width as the primary content): Actually, I tried that our already. The problem then is at 800x600 the blockquote paragraphs are only one or two words wide making it look like a long

Re: [css-d] Relative and absolute positioning affect z-index in IE7

2008-09-14 Thread Alan Gresley
Tim Dawson wrote: Alan Gresley wrote: [...] Another solution is to apply a z-index to the #nav div for IE7. div#nav { z-index: 1; /* ADD, layers nav above other positioned elements */ position: relative; float: left; width: 770px; border-top: 1px solid #FFF; border-bottom: 1px solid

Re: [css-d] float and blockquote

2008-09-14 Thread David Laakso
Mike Breiding wrote: David Laakso wrote: Replacing the current CSS with this should hold the background width to 75% (same width as the primary content): Actually, I tried that our already. The problem then is at 800x600 the blockquote paragraphs are only one or two words wide making

Re: [css-d] float and blockquote

2008-09-14 Thread David Laakso
re: http://epicroadtrips.us/dad/journals/travel/usa/central_states_north_trip_june_2-15_1977/index.php Whatever does it for you. Incidentally, I assume it is working for you local, as the above uri is not clearing the floats in IE/6. Refer back to

Re: [css-d] Border declaration syntax

2008-09-14 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Kim Brooks Wei wrote: When I use a compound border declaration a:hover { border-bottom: 1px dotted #6681aa; } can I leave off the color value, or must I include it? By the syntax, it can be omitted, but this still means setting border-bottom-color to a specific value, namely the value of

Re: [css-d] float and blockquote

2008-09-14 Thread Mike Breiding
David Laakso wrote: re: http://epicroadtrips.us/dad/journals/travel/usa/central_states_north_trip_june_2-15_1977/index.php Whatever does it for you. Incidentally, I assume it is working for you local, as the above uri is not clearing the floats in IE/6. Refer back to

Re: [css-d] float and blockquote

2008-09-14 Thread David Laakso
Mike Breiding wrote: David Laakso wrote: Whatever does it for you. Incidentally, I assume it is working for you local, as the above uri is not clearing the floats in IE/6. Refer back to http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/mike.htm if clarification is needed. Out of

Re: [css-d] float and blockquote

2008-09-14 Thread Mike Breiding
David Laakso wrote: Oh, my. But wait. You may want to put .both {clear: both;} back in? -Done. -Mike re: http://epicroadtrips.us/dad/journals/travel/usa/central_states_north_trip_june_2-15_1977/index.php This is fun, Mike. Now what we'll do to keep the bird cage from