Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-26 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I am basically using EMW8 as the company name. I'd rather do away with the 8, but some sod is just sitting on the domain. to make it be less important I want to make it superscript throughout the website whenever name dropping. So in this instance should I make a span, setting lower

Re: [css-d] Capitalize

2010-09-26 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, i am not too fussed about the title transforming because I can just enter that manually as UC. However I dropped it in so that the question had something to do with CSS. From people's answers about the URL being UC it seems that it's just a bad idea - so I'll just have to go normal.

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-26 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Chris, I have to be honest, I do not know what question(s) you are asking, IF you are asking how should I enter EMW8 throughout my site so that it comes out consistently and with the 8 raised (and perhaps grey) without affecting anything else ?, I would propose something along the lines of the

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-26 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Sep 26, 2010, at 7:13 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; bottom: some factorex; I've used that for quite a while and it works fine across the board. At least it never blew up in my face :-) One nitpick: I'd use 'em' instead of 'ex'.

Re: [css-d] Capitalize

2010-09-26 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 10:07:58 +0100, Chris Blake ch...@3pointdesign.com wrote: Hi, i am not too fussed about the title transforming because I can just enter that manually as UC. However I dropped it in so that the question had something to do with CSS. From people's answers about the

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-26 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: One nitpick: I'd use 'em' instead of 'ex'. Some browsers have poor support for 'ex' (treating 1ex= 0.5em, whatever the font in use, no questions asked) - IE running on XP, Opera. Some browsers have half broken support - with very different computation of what

Re: [css-d] Capitalize

2010-09-26 Thread David Laakso
On 9/25/10 8:17 AM, Chris Blake wrote: 2. And what I really want to know, sneaky, is can I make it so the my URL always appears in caps? I have emw8.com and I just think it looks stupid with the 8 sticking up, when really it's the part of the URL I don't like. I'd much prefer

Re: [css-d] Capitalize

2010-09-26 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Duncan Hill wrote: Off-Topic but for clarification RFC 4343 states that URL's are case-insensitive. I hate to be picky, but I really do not think that that can be the case. For a case-sensitive web server, the following two URLs are completely different :

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-26 Thread tedd
At 1:08 AM +0300 9/26/10, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: and the phase of the moon, Ah-ha, that's what I was missing. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com/ __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-26 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Sep 26, 2010, at 7:13 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; bottom: some factorex; I've used that for quite a while and it works fine across the board. It seems that it wasn't completely new to me either...

Re: [css-d] Using ems for image size

2010-09-26 Thread tedd
At 1:05 PM -0500 9/25/10, Keith Purtell wrote: Hope this doesn't veer off topic... I'm experimenting with making my site more accessible for vision-impaired people by using ems in my CSS style sheet for image sizes as described at http://sperling.com/examples/zoom/ The problem is calculating

[css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

2010-09-26 Thread debussy007
Hi, I have a DIV element inside a TD element, and I try to get the DIV's height equal to the TD height. Below is the test code, I would like that the red square has the same height as blue square. Tried to add height:100% and min-height:100% to the DIV element, but that has no effect here.

Re: [css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

2010-09-26 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
debussy007 wrote: Hi, I have a DIV element inside a TD element, and I try to get the DIV's height equal to the TD height. I'm not convinced that you can. Unless my brain is going screwy, there would be an infinite causal loop if you could, since the height of the containing TR, from which

Re: [css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

2010-09-26 Thread David Laakso
On 9/26/10 1:30 PM, debussy007 wrote: Hi, I have a DIV element inside a TD element, and I try to get the DIV's height equal to the TD height. Thank you for any help! Lie! Cheat! Steal :-) ! http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/td.html Best, ~d PS I know from nothing about tables. --

Re: [css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

2010-09-26 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
David Laakso wrote: Lie! Cheat! Steal :-) ! http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/td.html And if the second TD doesn't contain the same contents as the first ? http://web-consultants.org.uk/Sites/tests/Laakso.html Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

2010-09-26 Thread David Laakso
On 9/26/10 3:03 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: David Laakso wrote: Lie! Cheat! Steal :-) ! http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/td.html And if the second TD doesn't contain the same contents as the first ? http://web-consultants.org.uk/Sites/tests/Laakso.html Philip

Re: [css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

2010-09-26 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
David Laakso wrote: Don't be silly, Philip.. http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/tdtd.html The essence of my question was : what if the contents of the second div do not have the same natural height as the contents of the first ?

Re: [css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

2010-09-26 Thread debussy007
I am not supposed to know about the content and thus neither about the content's height. And in your example, both have same number of text lines, you added some br's in your second post to make it look like the second was empty :-) cheater So I guess Philip is right. Thanks for your help --

Re: [css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

2010-09-26 Thread David Laakso
On 9/26/10 3:57 PM, debussy007 wrote: I am not supposed to know about the content and thus neither about the content's height. And in your example, both have same number of text lines, you added somebr's in your second post to make it look like the second was empty :-) cheater So I guess

Re: [css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

2010-09-26 Thread Tim Climis
On Sunday, September 26, 2010 3:54:07 pm Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: David Laakso wrote: Don't be silly, Philip.. http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/tdtd.html The essence of my question was : what if the contents of the second div do not have the same natural height as

[css-d] Tricky website layout

2010-09-26 Thread Donald Fruy
Hello, I'm currently working on a tricky website layout. http://helpnote.net/static/hoet-hoet The tricky part is that the bottom of the logo (transparent png) has to take the color of the background (color changing). It works good in Chrome and Safari but not in Firefox and IE... Do you have any

[css-d] Tricky website layout

2010-09-26 Thread Donald Fruy
Hello, I'm currently working on a tricky website layout. http://helpnote.net/static/hoet-hoet The tricky part is that the bottom of the logo (transparent png) has to take the color of the background (color changing). It works good in Chrome and Safari but not in Firefox and IE... Do you have any

Re: [css-d] Tricky website layout

2010-09-26 Thread John D
It works fine in IE8 and FF 3.6.10. what is your version of IE and FF? I can see color changing all the time in your both sites if this is going to help you. hth Hello, I'm currently working on a tricky website layout. http://helpnote.net/static/hoet-hoet The tricky

Re: [css-d] Tricky website layout

2010-09-26 Thread Donald Fruy
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:55 AM, John D xfs...@hotmail.com wrote: It works fine in IE8 and FF 3.6.10.  what is your version of IE and FF? I can see color changing all the time in your both sites if this is going to help you. hth Hi John, Thanks for your help. The problem wasn't the