[css-d] Grid Based Layout

2010-06-09 Thread Nick Leaton
I'm trying to do some layout of some html. The basic idea is to get six divs laid out into a grid pattern of two columns and three rows. Each div has a separate id and I want the CSS to determine the layout and which column and row is used to display the data. The data can be of varying lengths,

[css-d] Grid based CSS layout

2010-06-09 Thread Nick Leaton
I'm trying to do some layout of some html. The basic idea is to get six divs laid out into a grid pattern of two columns and three rows. Each div has a separate id and I want the CSS to determine the layout and which column and row is used to display the data. The data can be of varying lengths,

Re: [css-d] Grid Based Layout

2010-06-09 Thread David Laakso
Nick Leaton wrote: I'm trying to do some layout of some html. The basic idea is to get six divs laid out into a grid pattern of two columns and three rows. Each div has a separate id and I want the CSS to determine the layout and which column and row is used to display the data. The data

Re: [css-d] character encoding?

2010-06-09 Thread David Hucklesby
On 6/8/10 6:15 PM, Jay Carlson wrote: On 6/8/10 8:50 AM, r...@catjuggling.com wrote: I apologize if this is considered off-topic, but it's here that I find people talking most about validating pages. I am trying to find out why my documents are validated as Tentatively checked as HTML 4.01

[css-d] Mobile Safari ghost border bug?

2010-06-09 Thread Ellen Herzfeld
I just noticed something funny while checking out a design on my iPhone and iPad. You can see it in the test page here: http://ansible.xlii.org/web_design/mobilesafari/ghostborder.html As you can see (in Mobile Safari only), although the sections have no margin, no padding, no borders, there

[css-d] Questions about fonts

2010-06-09 Thread Andy B.
I have a container that I am making from css. I have a few questions about fonts: 1. I put in the style for the container title font-size: 18M; What exactly does M do? The font size was REALLY HUGE. I would say around 160pt. 2. When making font sizes, what is the best guideline for sizes?

[css-d] help needed

2010-06-09 Thread TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson
I have been trying to improve my CSS. Several times I have downloaded layouts from layout Gala to jumpstart my web pages but then I have to take time to go through the layout and identify the div's and change them accordingly. So this time I tried to create my own CSS stylesheet. I am trying to

Re: [css-d] help needed

2010-06-09 Thread Bill Braun
TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson wrote: I have been trying to improve my CSS. Several times I have downloaded layouts from layout Gala to jumpstart my web pages but then I have to take time to go through the layout and identify the div's and change them accordingly. So this time I tried to

[css-d] Going from tables to divs...help!

2010-06-09 Thread Ellen Heitman
I'm trying to get this page (new way, am converting to divs and semantic markup): http://www.pottersignal.com/default_tableless.html to look like this page (old way, using table structure): http://www.pottersignal.com/ I cannot for the life of me get the menu to center and lengthen itself to

Re: [css-d] Going from tables to divs...help!

2010-06-09 Thread Peter Coates
I think you want to have padding-left:10px;width:760; specified for #divisions. I do not understand why you need to state the width for the ul, but it makes the page work. Peter -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On

Re: [css-d] Questions about fonts

2010-06-09 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/06/09 12:17 (GMT-0400) Andy B. composed: I have a container that I am making from css. I have a few questions about fonts: 1. I put in the style for the container title font-size: 18M; What exactly does M do? The font size was REALLY HUGE. I would say around 160pt. Simplest version:

[css-d] IE button issues

2010-06-09 Thread Eric Heitz
Well the button looks okay in Firefox and Safari, work in progress. IE does not seem to like the background shift. http://heitzdesign.com/testButton.html If there is an easy reason for this would like to know. Anyone suggest a tutorial, would be great. - Thanks Eric

Re: [css-d] Questions about fonts

2010-06-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Andy B. wrote: 1. I put in the style for the container title font-size: 18M; What exactly does M do? The font size was REALLY HUGE. I would say around 160pt. I'm curious: what browser behaves like that? Any browser that works according to CSS recommendations ignores the declaration

Re: [css-d] IE button issues

2010-06-09 Thread Gabriele Romanato
IE has notorious problems with pseudo-classes attached to classes. If you want to achieve this effect: function emulateActive() { var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input'); for(var i=0; i inputs.length; i++) { var input = inputs[i]; if(input.className ==

Re: [css-d] help needed

2010-06-09 Thread Lesley Binks
I'm no CSS expert by any means but in your css file you have html, body { color: black; font-size: medium; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; margin: 0px; padding: 0px } body { color: black; font-size: medium; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss,

Re: [css-d] IE button issues

2010-06-09 Thread David Laakso
Eric Heitz wrote: Well the button looks okay in Firefox and Safari, work in progress. IE does not seem to like the background shift. http://heitzdesign.com/testButton.html If there is an easy reason for this would like to know. Anyone suggest a tutorial, would be great. -

Re: [css-d] Grid Based Layout

2010-06-09 Thread David Hucklesby
On 6/9/10 5:09 AM, Nick Leaton wrote: I'm trying to do some layout of some html. The basic idea is to get six divs laid out into a grid pattern of two columns and three rows. Each div has a separate id and I want the CSS to determine the layout and which column and row is used to display

Re: [css-d] Questions about fonts

2010-06-09 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Andy B. wrote: I have a container that I am making from css. I have a few questions about fonts: 1. I put in the style for the container title font-size: 18M; What exactly does M do? The font size was REALLY HUGE. I would say around 160pt. There is no unit M. Your

Re: [css-d] Questions about fonts

2010-06-09 Thread David Laakso
Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Andy B. wrote: 3. What is the best font to use for readability? and is there a list of easily readable fonts out there somewhere? Let the user decide; use the user's preferred font (i.e., don't specify a font). The

[css-d] re-need help

2010-06-09 Thread TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson
Message: 18 TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson wrote: I have been trying to improve my CSS. Several times I have downloaded layouts from layout Gala to jumpstart my web pages but then I have to take time to go through the layout and identify the div's and change them accordingly. So this

Re: [css-d] help needed

2010-06-09 Thread TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson
- Original Message - From: Lesley Binks lesley.bi...@gmail.com To: TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson k...@tristateadvantage.com Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 1:02 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] help needed I'm no CSS expert by any means but in your css file

Re: [css-d] re-need help

2010-06-09 Thread Bill Braun
TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson wrote: Message: 18 TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson wrote: I have been trying to improve my CSS. Several times I have downloaded layouts from layout Gala to jumpstart my web pages but then I have to take time to go through the layout and identify the

Re: [css-d] IE button issues

2010-06-09 Thread Michael Geary
From: David Laakso da...@chelseacreekstudio.com: Not sure what you mean unless are taking about IE/6.0? If so, see: http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/ Eric's page uses the :active pseudo-class on an INPUT element. IE7 doesn't support this. I'm not sure about IE8. So, in IE7 at least,

Re: [css-d] help needed

2010-06-09 Thread Lesley Binks
On 9 June 2010 20:52, TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson k...@tristateadvantage.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Lesley Binks lesley.bi...@gmail.com To: TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson k...@tristateadvantage.com Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 1:02

Re: [css-d] help needed

2010-06-09 Thread Jay Tanna
Yes the page is not centered in IE8. You need to change the CSS as follows: body { color: black; font-size: medium; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; background-image: url(graphics/graytile.gif); text-align: center; }

Re: [css-d] help needed

2010-06-09 Thread TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson
- Original Message - From: Lesley Binks lesley.bi...@gmail.com To: TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson k...@tristateadvantage.com Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 1:02 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] help needed I'm no CSS expert by any means but in your css file

Re: [css-d] IE button issues

2010-06-09 Thread Michael Geary
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Michael Geary m...@geary.com wrote: Unfortunately, that script has multiple problems... Ah, Gabriele, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound so negative. You were definitely on the right track! Just had a few things to fix up to turn your idea into a working

Re: [css-d] IE button issues

2010-06-09 Thread Michael Geary
As long as we're at it, here is a *much* better version of the jQuery script from my earlier message. Instead of this: script type=text/javascript $(function() { $('input.button') .mousedown( function() { $(this).addClass( 'buttonActive' ); })

Re: [css-d] Questions about fonts

2010-06-09 Thread David Hucklesby
On 6/9/10 12:50 PM, David Laakso wrote: Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Andy B. wrote: 3. What is the best font to use for readability? and is there a list of easily readable fonts out there somewhere? Let the user decide; use the user's preferred font (i.e., don't specify a

Re: [css-d] IE button issues

2010-06-09 Thread David Hucklesby
On 6/9/10 11:14 AM, Eric Heitz wrote: Well the button looks okay in Firefox and Safari, work in progress. IE does not seem to like the background shift. http://heitzdesign.com/testButton.html If there is an easy reason for this would like to know. Anyone suggest a tutorial, would be great.

[css-d] nav placement issue - ff and chrome great, ie not so great

2010-06-09 Thread Matthew P. Johnson
http://applegateelements.com/test.html the nav displays correctly in chrome and ff but ie. line 33 margin-top : 10px; as well as line 171 margin-top : -15px; Is there a fix for this? Also, if I adjust Line 122 left :