Re: [css-d] Adding captions to photos

2009-10-12 Thread David Laakso
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: > My three images had a common baseline until I framed them in divisions. Now, > they have a common top line which I don't understand. > > And the link "Click here to view Rich Breen's web site." appears to the right > of the images, although it is specified after the

Re: [css-d] How to eliminate drop down menu arrow [SOLVED]

2009-10-12 Thread Dave M G
David, Thank you for replying. > If a scripted solution is acceptable, perhaps this will help - > > Yes, that is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for! Thank you for directing me to

Re: [css-d] Hover Effects

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Henderson
Cody Sickler wrote: > > On the layout I'm currently working on, I've gotten the effect I > needed, but it isn't standards compliant (http://cosi.exofire.net the > bottom and top navigation bars). I can't figure out a better way to > achieve the general effect other than doing what I have done. I'

Re: [css-d] Hover Effects

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Hazelton
What I would do is have two hover properties in your css, I did not look into your html but I am guessing they are lists. Have a background hover property for each that specifies the background color and then a seperate one for the a:hover property that changes the text color. The only thing y

[css-d] Hover Effects

2009-10-12 Thread Cody Sickler
On the layout I'm currently working on, I've gotten the effect I needed, but it isn't standards compliant (http://cosi.exofire.net the bottom and top navigation bars). I can't figure out a better way to achieve the general effect other than doing what I have done. __

Re: [css-d] Adding captions to photos

2009-10-12 Thread bruce . somers
jeffrey morin wrote: i think this is an easy and solid structure caption text caption text just float your divs left so they rest next to each other. - Thanks Jeff. That looks reasonable to me, which of course, may not mean much! My three images had a common

Re: [css-d] Adding captions to photos

2009-10-12 Thread David Laakso
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Re: [css-d] CSS3-style pseudo elements no longer work in pseudo browser

2009-10-12 Thread Alan Gresley
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: > >> >> >> Firefox does follow the specs since the first-letter is floated, thus is >> it display;block. In IE8 though it showing as display:inline. The >> first

Re: [css-d] How to eliminate drop down menu arrow

2009-10-12 Thread David Hucklesby
Dave M G wrote: > > On a element in an HTML page, when it is set to show one option > so that it becomes a drop down menu, there is always a down arrow on the > right hand side. The shape and look of that down arrow is controlled by > the browser. > > I am building a web interface that needs to

Re: [css-d] Adding captions to photos

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Funk
David Laakso wrote: > 3/ 404 not found actually it is... -- Brian __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Adding captions to photos

2009-10-12 Thread E Michael Brandt
This might prove useful to you: http://tjkdesign.com/articles/how_to_style_thumbnail_and_caption.asp E. Michael Brandt www.divahtml.com www.divahtml.com/products/scripts_dreamweaver_extensions.php Standards-compliant scripts and Dreamweaver Extensions www.valleywebdesigns.com/vwd_Vdw.asp Jus

Re: [css-d] Adding captions to photos

2009-10-12 Thread David Laakso
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: > I am displaying two images side-by-side: > > > I want to add captions. Until now, I would have done it quickly employing a > table. Can anyone outline briefly for me, how that can be effected using CSS? > > Many thanks. Bruce > > These are among some methods

Re: [css-d] Adding captions to photos

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Livingston
Could go a number of ways. Progressively enhanced with display: table-cell; to achieve your table-based, first thought... div containers, with a under for caption kinda depends on the page structure, equal heights of images or not... kinda just winging things out there... On Mon, Oct 12,

Re: [css-d] Adding captions to photos

2009-10-12 Thread jeffrey morin
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:18 PM, wrote: > For purposes of relaxation, a terribly simple beginner's question that > surely any of you can answer. I hope for your indulgence. > > I am displaying two images side-by-side: > > > > > I want to add captions. Until now, I would have done it quickl

[css-d] Adding captions to photos

2009-10-12 Thread bruce . somers
For purposes of relaxation, a terribly simple beginner's question that surely any of you can answer. I hope for your indulgence. I am displaying two images side-by-side: I want to add captions. Until now, I would have done it quickly employing a table. Can anyone outline briefly for m

Re: [css-d] Looking for a second opinion on a site's structure

2009-10-12 Thread Climis, Tim
A whole site done virtually all in Javascript??? Yes, Brian, I can certainly confirm that it could have been better done. Do you have the power to rewrite the coding? Val I'm still confused. I just disabled javascript, and the site still worked just fine. Most of the text is images, which is s

Re: [css-d] Looking for a second opinion on a site's structure

2009-10-12 Thread Val Dobson
A whole site done virtually all in Javascript??? Yes, Brian, I can certainly confirm that it could have been better done. Do you have the power to rewrite the coding? Val 2009/10/12 Brian M. Curran : > Hi, > I was just given access to a site to make updates, and when I logged in to > look at the

Re: [css-d] Looking for a second opinion on a site's structure

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Livingston
Wow. I need more coffee I didn't even notice this was almost all JS Val is right. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Val Dobson wrote: > Yes, may "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".  But to me, this site IS > 'broken' - the coding is offensiely ugly.  I'd certainly want to redo > it if I

Re: [css-d] Looking for a second opinion on a site's structure

2009-10-12 Thread Climis, Tim
> Can someone take a look at it and confirm that it would have been much better > to have done this site using more HTML and CSS? As opposed to what? When I view the source, it's HTML. Rather a lot of it, probably most of which is useless, and there's inline styles instead of an external styl

Re: [css-d] Looking for a second opinion on a site's structure

2009-10-12 Thread Val Dobson
Yes, may "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". But to me, this site IS 'broken' - the coding is offensiely ugly. I'd certainly want to redo it if I had the chance, if only to ensure a little more beautiful coding in the world. Besides which, good coding simply works better - it loads faster and rank

Re: [css-d] Looking for a second opinion on a site's structure

2009-10-12 Thread Brian M. Curran
Val, Thanks for the reply. When I logged into the file manager there were many image files, which I wasn't expecting, so I gave the designer the benefit in writing this email to find if maybe it was done according to some acceptable practice that I'm not familiar with. The text seemed to be in t

Re: [css-d] Looking for a second opinion on a site's structure

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Livingston
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Brian M. Curran wrote: > Hi, > I was just given access to a site to make updates, and when I logged in to > look at the files, I saw something completely different than what I was > expecting. Can someone take a look at it and confirm that it would have been > m

Re: [css-d] Transparency in IE6 (WAS: Site Check)

2009-10-12 Thread Tom Livingston
> > IE/6.0 correction reference: > > > Correction of h1 and the tag line from being un-readable with heavy-hand > font scalling or high user min-font size discretion is more than up for > at the moment (is more than either of us is up for at the m

[css-d] Looking for a second opinion on a site's structure

2009-10-12 Thread Brian M. Curran
Hi, I was just given access to a site to make updates, and when I logged in to look at the files, I saw something completely different than what I was expecting. Can someone take a look at it and confirm that it would have been much better to have done this site using more HTML and CSS? http://

Re: [css-d] CSS3-style pseudo elements no longer work in pseudo browser

2009-10-12 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 12, 2009, at 9:10 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: >> The difference you see with Gecko (but not with e.g. WebKit) is >> caused by the line-height. In the case of a floated :first-letter, >> Gecko follows this part of the spec [1]: > > > Not correct. There is no change in the line-height in Gec

[css-d] How to eliminate drop down menu arrow

2009-10-12 Thread Dave M G
CSS-d, After much web surfing, it seems that this is an issue that comes up a lot, but there doesn't seem to be a wealth of solutions. On a element in an HTML page, when it is set to show one option so that it becomes a drop down menu, there is always a down arrow on the right hand side. The sha

Re: [css-d] CSS3-style pseudo elements no longer work in pseudo browser

2009-10-12 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: > > > Firefox does follow the specs since the first-letter is floated, > thus is > it display;block. In IE8 though it showing as display:inline. The > first-letter overlaps the following bloc

Re: [css-d] CSS3-style pseudo elements no longer work in pseudo browser

2009-10-12 Thread Alan Gresley
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > On the subject of IE 8 and :first-letter: I was fighting with a little > bug the other day. [...] > Philippe > --- > Philippe Wittenbergh > http://l-c-n.com/ Regarding, Firefox does follow the specs since the

Re: [css-d] CSS3-style pseudo elements no longer work in pseudo browser

2009-10-12 Thread Alan Gresley
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > On the subject of IE 8 and :first-letter: I was fighting with a little > bug the other day. IE 8 (at least on Vista and Win 7 rc) incorrectly > computes the em-based values for margin/padding/border on :first- > letter. It bases its calculations on the font-size o