Re: [css-d] Margins and Shorthand

2009-04-06 Thread Michael Grosch
The syntax is incorrect. It should be xyz { margin: 0% 24% 0% 0%; } No commas between the values in the shorthand syntax. And you could also leave out the percent symbol when the value is 0. 0px = 0% = 0em = 0 ;-) Michael Am 07.04.2009 um 01:08 schrieb Christopher R: > I used Fir

Re: [css-d] Margins and Shorthand

2009-04-06 Thread Tim Climis
On Monday, April 6, 2009 7:08:13 pm Christopher R wrote: > I used FireBugs layout method to adjust the margin on a As most of us > know margins work by top, right, buttom, left. Now using firebox I enter > in 24 for the right margin, then I wrote the short hand for the which > I have in absolute

Re: [css-d] Safari 3.x: background image on an anchor tag bug

2009-04-06 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Apr 7, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Stephen Tang wrote: > The actual bug appears here: > http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/shopping-storing/beverages/best-coffee-008163/index.html > > In the right column, there is a link called "See All Galleries." > There is a green arrow underneath this

Re: [css-d] Safari 3.x: background image on an anchor tag bug

2009-04-06 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi Phillipe, The actual bug appears here: http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/shopping-storing/beverages/best-coffee-008163/index.html In the right column, there is a link called "See All Galleries." There is a green arrow underneath this text, but the overlap only happens in Safari 3.x

Re: [css-d] Safari 3.x: background image on an anchor tag

2009-04-06 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:48 AM, Stephen Tang wrote: > The CSS looks like this: > .viewAllLink a {padding: 4px 20px 0 0; background: > url(../i/green-arrows.gif) center right no-repeat; font:normal 13px > "Tahoma", verdana;} > > This works in IE6, IE7, IE8, and FF3, but not Safari 3.x. In Safari, > t

Re: [css-d] Acronyms

2009-04-06 Thread David Laakso
Brian Hazelton wrote: > I was wondering, if you use an acronym more than once on a page, do you > define it every time or just the first occurrence on a page? > > First only as I recall. See the University of Chicago Manual of Style. Online version:

Re: [css-d] Background Images clickable links

2009-04-06 Thread Jack Timmons
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Christopher R wrote: > HTML: > > /* coka cola > is just a test URL */ > You shouldn't be bothering with positioning. Move your spans inside your anchors, not outside. Throw in some text, and use spans to hide it. Place background on the anchor. Position block to

[css-d] Margins and Shorthand

2009-04-06 Thread Christopher R
I used FireBugs layout method to adjust the margin on a As most of us know margins work by top, right, buttom, left. Now using firebox I enter in 24 for the right margin, then I wrote the short hand for the which I have in absolute positioning inwhich I wrote, {0%, 24%, 0%, 0%;} when I previe

Re: [css-d] Background Images clickable links

2009-04-06 Thread Krystian - Sunlust
I don't get what's the point of doing that , why not just use an image as a link? On 4/6/09, Christopher R wrote: > I was reading up on how to create links from background images, so I came > across this page > which mentions the following: > http://www.attackr.com/css-trick-turning-a-backgroun

Re: [css-d] Background Images clickable links

2009-04-06 Thread Christopher R
Well the concept they mention is pretty easy, but I can't get it to work. On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:19 PM "Krystian - Sunlust" wrote: >I don't get what's the point of doing that , why not just use an image > as a link? > > > > On 4/6/09, Christopher R wrote: > > I was reading up on how to cre

[css-d] Background Images clickable links

2009-04-06 Thread Christopher R
I was reading up on how to create links from background images, so I came across this page which mentions the following: http://www.attackr.com/css-trick-turning-a-background-image-into-a-clickable-link/ Simple enough one thought, I applied it like so to my code: HTML: /* coka cola is just a t

Re: [css-d] Acronyms

2009-04-06 Thread Bill Brown
JWN wrote: > CSS > CSS > acronym{ color: navy; more styles;} > You can give different acronyms (NATO, RADAR, CSS) different styles if you > want, but that, I think, is a topic for another post. Just for the record, CSS is an abbreviation , not an acronym. Acronym's are pronounce

Re: [css-d] Acronyms

2009-04-06 Thread JWN
Afternoon Brian You wrote >I was wondering, if you use an acronym more than once on a page, do you > define it every time or just the first occurrence on a page? > I'm not really clear about your question. If you are asking about the acronym *element* in html, you can style it once and the sty

Re: [css-d] webtool: IE6 CSS Fixer

2009-04-06 Thread Stefan
Good find thanks for the url, I'll have a play, not sure if I would use it in production until there has been some feedback as to how effective it is. Has anyone used it? cheers Stefan On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Niels Matthijs wrote: > Hi all, > > dunno if it belongs here, but since this

[css-d] Acronyms

2009-04-06 Thread Brian Hazelton
I was wondering, if you use an acronym more than once on a page, do you define it every time or just the first occurrence on a page? __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d L

Re: [css-d] IE6 peculiarity - Also IE8

2009-04-06 Thread David Laakso
Peter Hammarling wrote: >> > > thanks again folks - I didn't know it was finally final, I thought > they'd got to Release Candidate. That'll be yet another browser to > check with, then. > > Peter H. > Trivial Pursuits. re: Some folks ar

Re: [css-d] IE6 peculiarity - Also IE8

2009-04-06 Thread Climis, Tim
> I haven't had time to check - I'll have to > download the latest beta first. I'm not sure if I should worry yet > seeing as IE8 is beta. IE8 is final now isn't it? Final release was March 19, I thought. ---Tim __ css-disc

Re: [css-d] IE6 peculiarity - Also IE8

2009-04-06 Thread JWN
Afternoon Peter You wrote thanks for the warning. I haven't had time to check - I'll have to download the latest beta first. I'm not sure if I should worry yet seeing as IE8 is beta. Do you know what causes the problem and if it's hack/fixable? Just to make it clear, IE 8 is out of beta. [1]

Re: [css-d] IE6 peculiarity - Also IE8

2009-04-06 Thread Peter Hammarling
> Just to make it clear, IE 8 is out of beta. [1] It was released for > public consumption on March 19th 09. > > You can download it from the MS site [2] of google for IE 8. > thanks again folks - I didn't know it was finally final, I thought they'd got to Release Candidate. That'll be yet a

Re: [css-d] IE6 peculiarity - Also IE8

2009-04-06 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Alan Gresley wrote: > IE8 beta 2 (8.0.6001) is showing it's missing content bug quite > consistently on this page. > > Problems with missing content seem to have been solved in IE8 final - at least I haven't been able to provoke those bugs through

Re: [css-d] IE6 peculiarity - Also IE8

2009-04-06 Thread Peter Hammarling
> IE8 beta 2 (8.0.6001) is showing it's missing content bug quite > consistently on this page. > > > > The thumbnails images that are rendered causes typical IE re-flow when > hovered over. Someone may want to check this is a later version of > IE8.

Re: [css-d] IE6 peculiarity - Also IE8

2009-04-06 Thread Peter Hammarling
>> IE8 beta 2 (8.0.6001) is showing it's missing content bug quite >> consistently on this page. >> > > Problems with missing content seem to have been solved in IE8 final > - at > least I haven't been able to provoke those bugs through pretty

[css-d] Safari 3.x: background image on an anchor tag

2009-04-06 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi, I am trying to place a background image of an right-facing arrow on an anchor tag. The HTML markup looks like this: See All Galleries The CSS looks like this: .viewAllLink a {padding: 4px 20px 0 0; background: url(../i/green-arrows.gif) center right no-repeat; font:normal 13px "Tahoma", verda

Re: [css-d] IE6 peculiarity - Also IE8

2009-04-06 Thread Alan Gresley
Peter Hammarling wrote: >> In all likelihood it is the IE "duplicate character bug." >> If you're lucky, removing comments in the markup may fix it-- >> otherwise it can get a little more difficult. >> Please see this page for explanation and fix: >>

[css-d] Problem with links on IE 7 and link on IE 6

2009-04-06 Thread Christopher R
Alright, so far what I still have plaging me is the links links that is are not working in Internet Explorer version 6 and Internet Explorer version 7 and I'm at a loss at how to fix ! http://www.thecreativesheep.ca/site/indexpage9.html _

[css-d] webtool: IE6 CSS Fixer

2009-04-06 Thread Niels Matthijs
Hi all, dunno if it belongs here, but since this mailing list is all about css and possible bugs, I think some people will benefit from this. A new tool was released today, automating the ie6 css debug work (at least, to some extent). It takes a main css file, to which it applies a series of sele

Re: [css-d] footer xhtml and css valid

2009-04-06 Thread Bobby Jack
> On Sun, 4/5/09, David Laakso wrote: >> Brian Hazelton wrote: >> I have a web design company and was wondering if it is still common >> practice to put the links to w3c in the footer if the pages validate >> for xhtml and css > I think their inclusion is a matter of opinion. Personally, > I t

Re: [css-d] IE6 peculiarity - need help to sort it

2009-04-06 Thread Peter Hammarling
> In all likelihood it is the IE "duplicate character bug." > If you're lucky, removing comments in the markup may fix it-- > otherwise it can get a little more difficult. > Please see this page for explanation and fix: > David