Re: [css-d] IE6/7 (standards-mode) dynamic width divs (using percentages and float:left) seem to spill when = 100%?

2008-11-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Michael Park wrote: Basically, my intention is to create dynamic widths, evenly divided amongst several columns totalling up to 100% of the containing div (yes, this is more or less doable with tables, but I'm trying to determine why this is so troublesome with divs). When trying to make

Re: [css-d] IE6/7 (standards-mode) dynamic width divs (using percentages and float:left) seem to spill when = 100%?

2008-11-13 Thread Michael Park
50% + 50% isn't always exactly 100% ... you can expect 100% +/-1px, Yup, that's why I thought maybe one of the ('overflow', 'margin', 'padding', 'border') css properties would do the trick. I guess not in this case. With line-ups like yours the easiest solution is to pull in the

Re: [css-d] drop-down with active state on main menu

2008-11-13 Thread tedd
At 5:04 PM -0800 11/12/08, Karl Jacobs wrote: Howdy all, I'm doing the standard sons-of-suckerfish menu (and have been using it a while) but with a new site I'm being requested to have an active state where the current section is highlighted in the main nav. Of course, it works fine in Safari,

Re: [css-d] IE6/7 (standards-mode) dynamic width divs (using percentages and float:left) seem to spill when = 100%?

2008-11-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Michael Park wrote: With line-ups like yours the easiest solution is to pull in the backside-margin on the last float, so the actual width becomes less than the visual width... Aha, so that's the trick. Interesting, I wonder why the 'overflow' property doesn't come into play here

Re: [css-d] tiled background in front - can I do it?

2008-11-13 Thread Jody Levinson
Update: Thank you all. It worked! http://biz42.inmotionhosting.com/~thefit5/index.html It doesn't work right in IE6, I know, but it doesn't break the page either. The background at the bottom just gets pushed down below the text. If there's a way to fix that, super. If not, we can live with

[css-d] on firefo, blue line around links

2008-11-13 Thread Wade Smart
20081113 1221 GMT-5 I didnt build this site but I have been asked to fix the problem (as they are friends) but I cant find anything wrong code wise. www.questrealtybartlesville.com If you are viewing from Firefox 3.0.3 (and possibly other versions as well) the header graphic had a blue line

Re: [css-d] tiled background in front - can I do it?

2008-11-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jody Levinson wrote: http://biz42.inmotionhosting.com/~thefit5/index.html It doesn't work right in IE6, I know, but it doesn't break the page either. The background at the bottom just gets pushed down below the text. If there's a way to fix that, super. If not, we can live with it. One

Re: [css-d] on firefo, blue line around links

2008-11-13 Thread Sandy
Wade Smart wrote: 20081113 1221 GMT-5 I didnt build this site but I have been asked to fix the problem (as they are friends) but I cant find anything wrong code wise. www.questrealtybartlesville.com If you are viewing from Firefox 3.0.3 (and possibly other versions as well

[css-d] Will this throw IE8 into quirks?

2008-11-13 Thread bj
Hey folks, I'm working on a template for cubecart. The template has this comment first, in the line before the doctype, and it is required: !-- BEGIN: body -- My question is-- will this throw IE8 into quirks? I know that anything before the doctype does it to IE7. Secondly, what exactly IS

Re: [css-d] on firefo, blue line around links

2008-11-13 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Wade Smart wrote: www.questrealtybartlesville.com If you are viewing from Firefox 3.0.3 (and possibly other versions as well) the header graphic had a blue line around it. That's because it's a link. Its a link back to home from other pages. Admittedly the border looks odd now. But I

[css-d] Lovely Tableless Form (Except in Firefox 2)

2008-11-13 Thread Geoff Hoffman
Can anyone shed some light as to why my form labels on this page: http://www.dvsbluray.com/page/about-blu-ray in Firefox 2 are not observing the following: form.dvsform label { #shared.css (line 182) color:#294C80; text-align:right; } form.dvsform label { #shared.css (line 159)

Re: [css-d] Will this throw IE8 into quirks?

2008-11-13 Thread Bruno Fassino
bj wrote: !-- BEGIN: body -- My question is-- will this throw IE8 into quirks? I know that anything before the doctype does it to IE7. Yes, it seems that a comment before the doctype puts IE 8 beta 2 in quiks mode. Secondly, what exactly IS IE8 quirks? Is it throwing it back to IE5

Re: [css-d] Will this throw IE8 into quirks?

2008-11-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
bj wrote: I'm working on a template for cubecart. The template has this comment first, in the line before the doctype, and it is required: !-- BEGIN: body -- My question is-- will this throw IE8 into quirks? I know that anything before the doctype does it to IE7. The comment throws

[css-d] absolute positioning of an image not working in IE

2008-11-13 Thread Patrik Jansson
(I don't know if this posted at all yesterday... if did, sorry for double posting) Hi, I've been working on a site, which has several small image galleries of different buildings. Bigger image shows when thumbnail is hovered over. In FF and Safari the bigger images show nicely on the right

Re: [css-d] Lovely Tableless Form (Except in Firefox 2)

2008-11-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Nov 14, 2008, at 6:28 AM, Geoff Hoffman wrote: Can anyone shed some light as to why my form labels on this page: http://www.dvsbluray.com/page/about-blu-ray in Firefox 2 are not observing the following: form.dvsform label { #shared.css (line 182) color:#294C80; text-align:right;

Re: [css-d] IE6/7 (standards-mode) dynamic width divs (using percentages and float:left) seem to spill when = 100%?

2008-11-13 Thread colleen sullivan leh
Michael Park wrote: Basically, my intention is to create dynamic widths, evenly divided amongst several columns totalling up to 100% of the containing div (yes, this is more or less doable with tables, but I'm trying to determine why this is so troublesome with divs). Georg wrote: With

[css-d] Site Check Please - Cedar Lake Inn

2008-11-13 Thread Peter Hyde-Smith
11/13/2008 I'd appreciate a check of these four pages, http://www.fatpawdesign.com/CedarLakeInn/CLIbanquet.html, http://www.fatpawdesign.com/CedarLakeInn/CLIbanquetmenu.html, http://www.fatpawdesign.com/CedarLakeInn/CLIbanquetpolicies.html,

Re: [css-d] IE6/7 (standards-mode) dynamic width divs (using percentages and float:left) seem to spill when = 100%?

2008-11-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
colleen sullivan leh wrote: Wouldn't setting each div to a width of 49%, floated left for the first then floated right for the second also be a reliable cross- browser solution? Yes, but that would leave a 2% gap between the floats. In some cases that's fine, in others not. As long as

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please - Cedar Lake Inn

2008-11-13 Thread David Laakso
Peter Hyde-Smith wrote: 11/13/2008 I'd appreciate a check of these four pages, http://www.fatpawdesign.com/CedarLakeInn/CLIbanquetmenu.html, http://www.fatpawdesign.com/CedarLakeInn/CLIbanquetpolicies.html, http://www.fatpawdesign.com/CedarLakeInn/CLIbanquetphotogallery.html. Peter

Re: [css-d] on firefo, blue line around links

2008-11-13 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:16:47 +0200, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: Wade Smart wrote: www.questrealtybartlesville.com If you are viewing from Firefox 3.0.3 (and possibly other versions as well) the header graphic had a blue line around it. That's because it's a link. [...] Admittedly the

Re: [css-d] on firefo, blue line around links

2008-11-13 Thread Wade Smart
Sandy wrote: Wade Smart wrote: 20081113 1221 GMT-5 I didnt build this site but I have been asked to fix the problem (as they are friends) but I cant find anything wrong code wise. www.questrealtybartlesville.com If you are viewing from Firefox 3.0.3 (and possibly other versions

Re: [css-d] Flash swf covers DW sprymenu drop downs

2008-11-13 Thread Mark Wheeler
On Nov 12, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Barbara Oplinger wrote: Hello, This is my first time with an inquiry. On October 2nd members Jimmy and Lourens had an exchange regarding this issue. Lourens suggested using SWFObject and this apparently solved Jimmy's problem. I too have this problem (on all

Re: [css-d] IE6/7 (standards-mode) dynamic width divs (using percentages and float:left) seem to spill when = 100%?

2008-11-13 Thread Michael Park
I've tried to explain this in more depth here... http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_additions_26.html ...and included as many links to examples and relevant internal and external articles as I could think of. Very cool, thanks again for your help with this Georg. --Mike

[css-d] help to idenifie name of images folder

2008-11-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm designing a new web site and my client is wanting to move another site onto the server of his new web site. When he sent me the folder containing the files of his other site, when I try to view his site, nome of the images are linked. The images are in a folder called website images which

[css-d] Page Breaks in IE6

2008-11-13 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Hi, Ref: http://www.commercializingbiotech.com/ On this page, the large text Commercializing Successful Biomedical Technologies, on the black background is apparently broken in IE6. I haven't been able to fix this - does anyone have any suggestions? Please note: I am aware of the fact that