[css-d] link trickery

Hi, I have a Joomla module installed that feeds articles into a small block. The module lets me choose show or hide the 'read more' link, which I have hidden. For now I do not want people to click on the title or read more link to go the article, it is simply for show. However the title

Re: [css-d] link trickery

At 5/5/2010 11:32 PM, Chris Blake wrote: I have a Joomla module installed that feeds articles into a small block. The module lets me choose show or hide the 'read more' link, which I have hidden. For now I do not want people to click on the title or read more link to go the article, it is simply

Re: [css-d] link trickery

At 2:32 PM +0800 5/6/10, Chris Blake wrote: However the title is still clickable and I don't want it to be. Is there anyway to disable a link via CSS? I want to display it, just not have it working as a link. No, CSS cannot stop a link from being a link. I have thought that an option

[css-d] IE6 footer and top nav positioning issues

Hi, I'm finishing up a template for a website and am at the stage where I'm testing across various browsers. At the moment I'm trying to get the footer to work properly in IE6. The page is here: http://achad.net/pyramid/template.php There are two issues; first, I'd like for the footer to only

Re: [css-d] thoughts on img alt tag verbage

Ed Seedhouse wrote: The alt tag should contain a description of the image. No, in general it should contain a replacement for the image. But this is off-topic in the list, so I will comment on the _styling_ related issues of alt attributes. If you were viewing your page without images,

Re: [css-d] thoughts on img alt tag verbage

--- On Thu, 5/6/10, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: Another CSS-related issue is that many people have used alt attributes to create tooltips, like annotations on the images. This tends to interfere with the proper use of such attributes. Moreover, the tooltips are rendered

Re: [css-d] thoughts on img alt tag verbage

If your image can't be so described then it is decoration and should be brought in via CSS, not your html. While this sounds theoretically correct, there is a practical problem. Decorative images in CSS means (at least for now) using _background_ images. When a page is printed,

Re: [css-d] thoughts on img alt tag verbage

Therefore, if you want to show tooltips, it's better to do that with CSS (or CSS + JavaScript), e.g. including explanatory text in document content, hiding it with CSS, and making it visible in a particular position. It's useful then to add title= (i.e., title attribute with empty

Re: [css-d] IE6 footer and top nav positioning issues

Sacha Moufarrege wrote: Hi, I'm finishing up a template for a website and am at the stage where I'm testing across various browsers. At the moment I'm trying to get the footer to work properly in IE6. The page is here: http://achad.net/pyramid/template.php There are two issues; first, I'd

Re: [css-d] IE6 footer and top nav positioning issues

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:26 PM, David Laakso da...@chelseacreekstudio.comwrote: Fwiw, if you seek a personal opinion, mine would be to abandon the sticky footer concept entirely, simplify the CSS/markup, and allow the content and the software to determine the height of the page [s]. I think