[css-d] web 2.0 style, 100% browser width backgrounds for header and footer

Hi, http://www.redrunner.co.uk/rr/?q=content/home-page# The design I am trying to recreate can be seen here: http://www.redrunner.co.uk/rr/themes/framework/img/RedRunner.jpg I would like to know how I can have two background images that repeat across the browser and still keep all my content

[css-d] Persistent CSS Only Menus in IE

Hello all, I'm working on a new website and wanted to create a CSS only menu for its navigation. I have been able to get something working fairly well on Firefox but when running it in IE my persistent menus are too persistent. :) If someone could take a look at the link below and offer some a

Re: [css-d] Gap below footer

> Originally I thought that when I was sizing my header tags, using > percentages, that the base size was that of the tag. Umm, no. The percent is the size based off the parent element. Which means that if you want to set a basic font size for a whole page, you do it from the tag. The p st

Re: [css-d] Gap below footer

Brian M. Curran wrote: > > > > > This is interesting. Originally I thought that when I was sizing my header > tags, using percentages, that the base size was that of the tag. However, > when I do the following in my stlyle sheet, the text size changes, but > the header text size doesn't. The n

Re: [css-d] Gap below footer

David Laakso wrote: > HallMarc Websites wrote: >> I personally go by the default 62.5% that is inherited throughout the >> document by declaring it in the body {} and then declare my font size by em. >> This makes it easy to calculate the em size compared to relative px size. ie >> 12px is 1.2em. S

Re: [css-d] sorry - site re-check - haslayout?

MEM wrote: > > Thank you Mark, David, Alan > > It's a tiny little thing, I do agree. So little actually, that I will > tell the designer to give me a no transparent one, for ie6 proposes > because I don't see a big deal not having that little tiny shadow > there. > > Alan, well, at least now we

Re: [css-d] Gap below footer

>> Brian M. Curran wrote: >> >> Thanks again. One question though. In regards to: >> >>> This will keep the NYC Web "Accessibility Police" from shutting you >>> down: >>> body { /*font-size: small; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;*/ >>> font: 100%/1.4 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; >>>

Re: [css-d] Gap below footer

HallMarc Websites wrote: > I personally go by the default 62.5% that is inherited throughout the > document by declaring it in the body {} and then declare my font size by em. > This makes it easy to calculate the em size compared to relative px size. ie > 12px is 1.2em. See? divide the px size by

Re: [css-d] Gap below footer

kind of solution also helps make sure that your fonts will look the same size across the major browsers. This also allows user zoom. Thank you, Marc Hall HallMarc Websites 610.446.3346 __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4437 (20090918

Re: [css-d] floats and clears

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Climis, Tim wrote: > > i was always under the impression that if you floated your elements that > > essentially would clear them also. is that not the case? any help in > > understanding this would be great. > > That is not the case. Floating an element means th

Re: [css-d] Gap below footer

Brian M. Curran wrote: >>> Brian M. Curran wrote: >>> >> >> re: >> >> > > David, > Thank you for all the great feedback. I made all the suggested > changes, and learned in the process. You're welcome-- its looking much better now and makes much more sense...

Re: [css-d] floats and clears

> i was always under the impression that if you floated your elements that > essentially would clear them also. is that not the case? any help in > understanding this would be great. That is not the case. Floating an element means that it will shrink to fit its contents (or shrink to the width y

Re: [css-d] help on understanding navigation issues

For those that could help me on the flickering issue, here are the updated links: http://www.nuvemk.com/rebelate/rebelateinside/inside2.html http://www.nuvemk.com/rebelate/rebelateinside/css/inside2.css Regards, Márcio __ css-d

Re: [css-d] floats and clears

> i was always under the impression that if you floated your elements > that > essentially would clear them also. is that not the case? any help in > understanding this would be great. > I believe not. I've use something like that, for example, when I have a float inside a float for example. I.

Re: [css-d] Gap below footer

>> Brian M. Curran wrote: >> >>> Marc or anyone else, >>> However, I can't get the text for class .columnTitle to center align. If >>> I set padding and margin for h3 to zero and then text-align: center; it >>> works. However when I add the class it doesn't work. I added the class >>> because I

Re: [css-d] help on understanding navigation issues

> 2) > On IE6 I'm unable to get the .current class to work on hover. I have > tried to change to: > From: > #menuVertical li a.current:hover > > To: > #menuVertical li a:link.current:hover, li a:visited.current:hover > > This seems to work, however, I get unexpected visualization issues > after t

[css-d] floats and clears

hey everyone, i have recently started working on debugging a site that has a lot of messy styling. i keep running into the following declarations on many different elements. .example { float:left; clear:both; } i was always under the impression that if you floated your elements that essen

Re: [css-d] help on understanding navigation issues

> > 1) > The point is to have 1px between the vertical items. > On any IE, when we click on any item on the horizontal menu, we get > extra padding (I suppose). Why? > Solved. I was getting, on my vertical menu, padding and margin values that come from the #mainMenu. Why? Because of my #mainMen

Re: [css-d] sorry - site re-check - haslayout?

> MEM wrote: > >> Note the added directory. ../*rebelatehome*/images/hover.png > > > > Well Alan, this is really odd, since, even on other computers, I > still see > > the background. > > However if I change the path to the above > > (../rebelatehome/images/hover.png), *no background image is showe

Re: [css-d] sorry - site re-check - haslayout?

Mark Henderson wrote: > MEM wrote: >> My directory structure is: >> + rebelatehome >> + css >> - home8.css >> + images >> - hover.png >> + js >> >> So, if the css is inside css directory, to go to images directory from the >> css file, we have to, up one level: >> " ../ " enter on

Re: [css-d] sorry - site re-check - haslayout?

MEM wrote: >> Note the added directory. ../*rebelatehome*/images/hover.png > > Well Alan, this is really odd, since, even on other computers, I still see > the background. > However if I change the path to the above > (../rebelatehome/images/hover.png), *no background image is showed*. > > My di