Re: [css-d] Browser Support: Alternate Style Sheets?

2011-03-27 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
"G.Sørtun" wrote: Support for alternate stylesheets isn't a problem. It certainly is, when native support is so limited and unknown to users - what good does it do that Firefox lets you select among them when most users know nothing about this feature and the browser does not indicate in any

Re: [css-d] Column overflow problem in IE8...

2011-03-27 Thread Coleen Holley
Thank you for your response. The issue seems to be related more to the image in the body section: (which is currently remmed out for testing purposes) body { background-position: right; height: 100%; /*background-image: url('../Images/whiteroseborder.jpg'); background-repeat: repeat

Re: [css-d] Browser Support: Alternate Style Sheets?

2011-03-27 Thread HallMarc Websites
Small correction, I left the wrong URL in there the snippet below reflects the corrected call. @import url("css/style800.css") media;

Re: [css-d] My media redirect is not kicking in

2011-03-27 Thread HallMarc Websites
OK Thank you for the details. I spent an hour looking over what you have and the issue seems to be IE 7 & 8. I don't have nor do I worry about IE 6 anymore. I would suggest using the link I posted in the beginning of this thread if you want to test IE 6. If you use that test page you will see tha

Re: [css-d] Browser Support: Alternate Style Sheets?

2011-03-27 Thread G.Sørtun
Support for alternate stylesheets isn't a problem. See, and test on... http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/userStyle.html How useful alternate stylesheets are varies from site to site, and from visitor to visitor. regards Georg

Re: [css-d] My media redirect is not kicking in

2011-03-27 Thread Keith Purtell
On 3/27/2011 7:39 AM, HallMarc Websites wrote: >> I fixed the path to my style sheet for 800x600 screens but when I test it > at >> that screen setting, I still get the style sheet for bigger screens. >> The validator says "unrecognized media screen and (max-device-width: >> 800px)" >> I'm steeling

Re: [css-d] new IE display question

2011-03-27 Thread Chetan Crasta
What you need are tabs that will expand or shrink with the containing text. Try the Sliding Doors technique: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/ Regards, Chetan Crasta On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Rory Bernstein wrote: > http://motherloadshow.com/ > > I'm back with another ques

Re: [css-d] new IE display question

2011-03-27 Thread Rory Bernstein
> Rory Bernstein wrote: >> http://motherloadshow.com/ >> >> I'm back with another question about this same page. The main nav bar: I am >> just using a single BG image to create the look of the blue/green/red tabs, >> and the links are a list of items. >> >> But in IE, the text gets spaced out

Re: [css-d] new IE display question

2011-03-27 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Doesn't just happen in IE. In Seamonkey at my preferred settings, only the first seven fit. Ctrl + and Ctrl - wreak further havoc. Philip Taylor Rory Bernstein wrote: http://motherloadshow.com/ I'm back with another question about this same page. The main nav bar: I am just using a

[css-d] new IE display question

2011-03-27 Thread Rory Bernstein
http://motherloadshow.com/ I'm back with another question about this same page. The main nav bar: I am just using a single BG image to create the look of the blue/green/red tabs, and the links are a list of items. But in IE, the text gets spaced out further, and the text goes out to the right

[css-d] Browser Support: Alternate Style Sheets?

2011-03-27 Thread Freelance Traveller
While I haven't checked recently, I do remember that Opera, several versions back, had support for selecting among several stylesheets, if the web page had several stylesheets, some of whose REL attribute was "alternate stylesheet". Do any browsers support that today? If so, which ones - and whic

Re: [css-d] My media redirect is not kicking in

2011-03-27 Thread David Laakso
On 3/27/11 1:20 AM, Keith Purtell wrote: I fixed the path to my style sheet for 800x600 screens but when I test it at that screen setting, I still get the style sheet for bigger screens. The validator says "unrecognized media screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" I'm steeling myself for the disco

Re: [css-d] My media redirect is not kicking in

2011-03-27 Thread HallMarc Websites
And now for the rest of the story; Why are you using this * width: 940px; in some of your CSS declarations? I have never heard of or seen until now, using the universal selector inside. I state it this way because I do not know everything and this would not be the first time I learn something new.

Re: [css-d] My media redirect is not kicking in

2011-03-27 Thread Alan Gresley
On 28/03/2011 1:13 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Mar 27, 2011, at 10:39 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: I don't see that working. Any the HTML specs [1] has this. Are you saying that (max-device-width: 799px) is part of a descriptor? Hmm, Alan: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/ ch

Re: [css-d] How to centre a DIV?

2011-03-27 Thread Geoff Lane
On Sunday, March 27, 2011, 2:23:42 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: > What bothers me with this is that the true IE7 centered blocks by adding > text-align; center to the parent. What version of IE are you checking in > Geoff? IE8. I've also got a Win2k virtual machine with IE6, but the lack of respect f

Re: [css-d] My media redirect is not kicking in

2011-03-27 Thread HallMarc Websites
After a bit more inspecting I see two things: 1) your opening tag is missing 2) your mainstyle.css is ALWAYS being called And when I change my settings to 800x600 your style800 sheet is called which means your link ref is working as intended. Can you please provide more detailed steps as to wha

Re: [css-d] My media redirect is not kicking in

2011-03-27 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 27, 2011, at 10:39 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: > > I don't see that working. Any the HTML specs [1] has this. > > >-- single or comma-separated list of media descriptors > --> > > > Are you saying that (max-device-width: 799px) is part of a descriptor? Hmm, Alan: http://www.

Re: [css-d] My media redirect is not kicking in

2011-03-27 Thread Alan Gresley
On 27/03/2011 11:39 PM, HallMarc Websites wrote: I fixed the path to my style sheet for 800x600 screens but when I test it at that screen setting, I still get the style sheet for bigger screens. The validator says "unrecognized media screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" I'm steeling myself for

Re: [css-d] How to centre a DIV?

2011-03-27 Thread Alan Gresley
On 27/03/2011 6:48 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: HallMarc Websites wrote: Well, I believe Quirks mode is in control here as stated before. In this case try this: -- The running text goes here -- Yes, it's a hack and in Quirks mode Hacking is the way to go unfortunately. This will center the

Re: [css-d] My media redirect is not kicking in

2011-03-27 Thread HallMarc Websites
> I fixed the path to my style sheet for 800x600 screens but when I test it at > that screen setting, I still get the style sheet for bigger screens. > The validator says "unrecognized media screen and (max-device-width: > 800px)" > I'm steeling myself for the discovery of another dopey error. > >

Re: [css-d] How to centre a DIV?

2011-03-27 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
HallMarc Websites wrote: Well, I believe Quirks mode is in control here as stated before. In this case try this: -- The running text goes here -- Yes, it's a hack and in Quirks mode Hacking is the way to go unfortunately. This will center the p element in quirks mode. The mystic