[css-d] Question about standards compliant mode in IE

2010-03-19 Thread Claude Needham
Rumor has it that by using the proper doctype it is possible to force IE to operate in a standards compliant mode -- and thus avoid (in that one situation at least) the quirks that one might otherwise confront. I have two standard-ish header templates I'm working with. (i.e. flailing in the dark).

Re: [css-d] 2 more problems (div width issues)

2010-03-19 Thread David Laakso
Rory Bernstein wrote: > >> >>> On this page: >>> http://rorybernstein.com/francesca_proto/book1.html >>> >>> > Now I have to get the layout working in ie7! The book images are pushed down > way too low on the page. Any suggestions? > > Rory > > > The correction for IE 7.0 is: *

Re: [css-d] 2 more problems (div width issues)

2010-03-19 Thread Rory Bernstein
On Mar 19, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Peter Abramowicz wrote: > On 19/03/2010 9:14 AM, Rory Bernstein wrote: >> >> Peter, thank you for this solution. It works perfectly. Now I just have to >> ask: How are the photos in #book_images being aligned to the bottom of the >> div? I don't understand what mak

Re: [css-d] 2 more problems (div width issues)

2010-03-19 Thread Peter Abramowicz
On 19/03/2010 9:14 AM, Rory Bernstein wrote: > Peter, thank you for this solution. It works perfectly. Now I just > have to ask: How are the photos in #book_images being aligned to the > bottom of the div? I don't understand what makes that happen. There > doesn't seem to be any rule for that. I

Re: [css-d] IE problem

2010-03-19 Thread Atkinson, Sarah
I think I got the giant white box fixed... I added display: block and position: relative; to a few divs then I had to change the z-index on a couple of other items to compensate. This caused a couple of other problems to develop in safari but I think I have got it. On 3/19/10 1:22 PM, "Claude

Re: [css-d] IE problem

2010-03-19 Thread Atkinson, Sarah
They arn't there they are put in there on the server before it serves the file. They are called and the header html is compiled with the get_header() function. This looks at all the loaded plugins and installs the necessary files. As well as the header info I put into the header.php file. I coul

Re: [css-d] IE problem

2010-03-19 Thread Claude Needham
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Atkinson, Sarah wrote: > I have been working on this yesterday and today And I simply can't figure it > out. > It is a wordpress site. And it just is giving me some very weird giant white > box display problems win IE6 and 7. > >  http://test.grantstinn.com/ Hel

Re: [css-d] IE problem

2010-03-19 Thread Bill Braun
Atkinson, Sarah wrote: > I'll tread very lightly here, Sarah. There seems to be a lot of styles > that are either redundant or conflicting. I did not examine them with > any rigor, it is a first impression. Also, it looks like you are linked > to five different external style sheets. Are they all

Re: [css-d] IE problem

2010-03-19 Thread Atkinson, Sarah
I'll tread very lightly here, Sarah. There seems to be a lot of styles that are either redundant or conflicting. I did not examine them with any rigor, it is a first impression. Also, it looks like you are linked to five different external style sheets. Are they all necessary? There may be conflic

Re: [css-d] Question about how to handle div height with floating children

2010-03-19 Thread Claude Needham
> Bobby: http://www.fiveminuteargument.com/float-container > Thierry: > http://tjkdesign.com/articles/clearing-floats_and_block-formatting_context.asp Thank you both for the explanations. I think I have a much better idea why this behavior is necessary as the default. And I have a better idea on

Re: [css-d] IE problem

2010-03-19 Thread Bill Braun
Atkinson, Sarah wrote: > I have been working on this yesterday and today And I simply can't figure it > out. > It is a wordpress site. And it just is giving me some very weird giant white > box display problems win IE6 and 7. > > http://test.grantstinn.com/ >

Re: [css-d] IE problem

2010-03-19 Thread David Postill
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:28:11 -0400, Atkinson, Sarah wrote: | I have been working on this yesterday and today And I simply can't figure it out. | It is a wordpress site. And it just is giving me some very weird giant white box display problems win IE6 and 7. | | http://test.grantstinn.com/ You

Re: [css-d] IE problem

2010-03-19 Thread Bill Braun
CSS validation is pointing to a style sheet that cannot be found. Also, there are some HTML validation errors. About half refer to how the phrase "b & b" is being treated, but there are some related errors. Bill B Atkinson, Sarah wrote: > I have been working on this yesterday and today And I s

Re: [css-d] IE problem

2010-03-19 Thread James White
I was able to get it to display with IE dev tools by adding zoom: 1 to the contentWrapper id to trigger haslayout. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Atkinson, Sarah wrote: > I have been working on this yesterday and today And I simply can't figure it > out. > It is a wordpress site. And it just

[css-d] IE problem

2010-03-19 Thread Atkinson, Sarah
I have been working on this yesterday and today And I simply can't figure it out. It is a wordpress site. And it just is giving me some very weird giant white box display problems win IE6 and 7. http://test.grantstinn.com/ __ c

Re: [css-d] 2 more problems (div width issues)

2010-03-19 Thread Rory Bernstein
On Mar 19, 2010, at 2:37 AM, Peter Abramowicz wrote: > On 18/03/2010 2:40 PM, Rory Bernstein wrote: >> >> Hi All, me again. >> >> http://rorybernstein.com/francesca_proto/book1.html >> >> So, I now have a new page. On the URL above, I have 2 problems: >> >> 1. I want the div called #book_ima

Re: [css-d] Question about how to handle div height with floating children

2010-03-19 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> The issue is when an image is set to float, the height of the graphic > is not taken into account for the calculation of the div height. > > This is illustrated on page: > http://www.xxaxxsoft.com/cssdiscuss/test.html > > I can hack my way around this by setting the height of the div > explicit

Re: [css-d] Question about how to handle div height with floating children

2010-03-19 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Fri, 3/19/10, Claude Needham wrote: > The issue is when an image is set to > float, the height of the graphic > is not taken into account for the calculation of the div > height. > > But I would like to understand why this is happening Here's my explanation: http://www.fiveminuteargumen

[css-d] Question about how to handle div height with floating children

2010-03-19 Thread Claude Needham
The issue is when an image is set to float, the height of the graphic is not taken into account for the calculation of the div height. This is illustrated on page: http://www.xxaxxsoft.com/cssdiscuss/test.html I can hack my way around this by setting the height of the div explicitly. Or, I can a