Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 23, 2010, at 12:27 AM, Bruno Fassino wrote: The behavior of 'block formatting context roots' in presence of float is not exactly defined in the spec, however all modern browsers usually display them beside the float, making them narrower. I've recently noticed a s

Re: [css-d] div not floating in FF

2010-03-22 Thread Nancy
Dennis wrote: > if you want to have the two floating divs side-by-side, > I do believe you need to give them a width value And apparently he is correct. Thank you. Nancy __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.cs

Re: [css-d] Styling forms with CSS

2010-03-22 Thread Skip Knox
Same here. The form looks fine, although the Comments field protrudes a bit on the right. WRT the tabbing, I did eventually get to the radio buttons -- after tabbing past Submit, up to the navigation and by way of the email. Tab order! Skip Knox Boise State University On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1

Re: [css-d] Styling forms with CSS

2010-03-22 Thread David Hucklesby
On 3/22/10 5:48 AM, Chad Chelius wrote: > I've created a form page for a web site and have styled it using > CSS. I've noticed that in Safari it looks as I would expect it to > however when viewed in Firefox or IE it breaks, meaning that all of > the fields I've formatted shift and even cover up so

Re: [css-d] div not floating in FF

2010-03-22 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> > Other than that, if you want to have the two floating divs side-by- > side, I do believe you need to give them a width value - otherwise they > will assume 100% width. Floats do not assume 100% width, if there is no width specified they "shrink wrap". -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com |

Re: [css-d] div not floating in FF

2010-03-22 Thread Claude Needham
> -Original Message- > Other than that, if you want to have the two floating divs side-by-side, I do > believe you need to give them a width value - otherwise they will assume 100% > width. > Dennis The width value of the two inner div is indeed the direction to look. If you replace the

Re: [css-d] div not floating in FF

2010-03-22 Thread Dennis Bixler
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of nancy Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 1:11 PM To: 'Climis, Tim'; css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] div not floating in FF Was using the tag attribute clear, n

Re: [css-d] div not floating in FF

2010-03-22 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> Was using the tag attribute clear, not the style attribute. > But I tried changing it to the style clear:both to no avail. > Thanks anyway. You should clear the floats while still inside the parent container, your is *after* that container. Anyway, rather than using a , try overflow:hidden on t

Re: [css-d] div not floating in FF

2010-03-22 Thread nancy
Was using the tag attribute clear, not the style attribute. But I tried changing it to the style clear:both to no avail. Thanks anyway. -Original Message- From: Climis, Tim [mailto:tcli...@indiana.edu] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 12:05 PM To: 'nancy'; 'css-d@lists.css-discuss.org' Subjec

Re: [css-d] div not floating in FF

2010-03-22 Thread Climis, Tim
> I have a break with a clear equals all below the outer div. Clear: all is not a valid value. Are you looking for clear: both? ---Tim __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-

[css-d] div not floating in FF

2010-03-22 Thread nancy
I have a div containing 2 other divs, one is floated left, the other is floated right. I have a break with a clear equals all below the outer div. In Firefox and most browsers, the content of the right floated div is appearing below the outer div. In DreamWeaver and IE8 it is displaying "correctly

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> I see indeed that Firefox ignores a negative margin on the same side > of the float as well. > > > The spec deliberately not very precise about these cases. At > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#bfc-next-to-float > there is > "CSS2 does not define when a UA may put said element next to

Re: [css-d] Jquery Dropdown menu showing behind listboxes in IE6

2010-03-22 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> The z-index doesn't seem to be working unfortunately. Do you know of > a good tutorial on Iframes? Yes, this issue has nothing to do with z-index, it is because selects are windowed elements. Check any lightbox example, you'll see how an iframe is used to disable these elements in IE6. PS: pl

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: > Hi Bruno, >> >> I've recently noticed a strange behavior, both in Firefox 3+ and IE8, >> occurring with boxes having overflow different from visible. Assume >> there is a right float and then an overflow box with a negative left >> margin.

Re: [css-d] Jquery Dropdown menu showing behind listboxes in IE6

2010-03-22 Thread Nancy Johnson
The z-index doesn't seem to be working unfortunately. Do you know of a good tutorial on Iframes? Thanks Nancy On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: >> I may have posted this question before, but couldn't find it when I >> searched the archives. >> >> I have a jquery drop-do

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Bruno Fassino
Hi Alan and Thierry, On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: > Hi Alan, > >> > The behavior of 'block formatting context roots' in presence of float >> > is not exactly defined in the spec, however all modern browsers >> > usually display them beside the float, making them narrow

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Alan, > > The behavior of 'block formatting context roots' in presence of float > > is not exactly defined in the spec, however all modern browsers > > usually display them beside the float, making them narrower. > > > > I've recently noticed a strange behavior, both in Firefox 3+ and IE8, > >

Re: [css-d] Jquery Dropdown menu showing behind listboxes in IE6

2010-03-22 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> I may have posted this question before, but couldn't find it when I > searched the archives. > > I have a jquery drop-down menu, and on a few of the pages, there is > listbox showing up in front of the drop down. I could only replicate > it in IE6 although a coleague was able to replicate it in

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Bruno, > The behavior of 'block formatting context roots' in presence of float > is not exactly defined in the spec, however all modern browsers > usually display them beside the float, making them narrower. > > I've recently noticed a strange behavior, both in Firefox 3+ and IE8, > occurring

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Alan Gresley
Bruno Fassino wrote: > The behavior of 'block formatting context roots' in presence of float > is not exactly defined in the spec, however all modern browsers > usually display them beside the float, making them narrower. > > I've recently noticed a strange behavior, both in Firefox 3+ and IE8, >

[css-d] Jquery Dropdown menu showing behind listboxes in IE6

2010-03-22 Thread Nancy Johnson
Hi I may have posted this question before, but couldn't find it when I searched the archives. I have a jquery drop-down menu, and on a few of the pages, there is listbox showing up in front of the drop down. I could only replicate it in IE6 although a coleague was able to replicate it in Firefox

[css-d] Styling forms with CSS

2010-03-22 Thread Chad Chelius
I've created a form page for a web site and have styled it using CSS. I've noticed that in Safari it looks as I would expect it to however when viewed in Firefox or IE it breaks, meaning that all of the fields I've formatted shift and even cover up some of the text in the form. I'd appreciate an

[css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-22 Thread Bruno Fassino
The behavior of 'block formatting context roots' in presence of float is not exactly defined in the spec, however all modern browsers usually display them beside the float, making them narrower. I've recently noticed a strange behavior, both in Firefox 3+ and IE8, occurring with boxes having overf