Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-08 Thread Ghodmode
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:53 PM, David Thorp mailingli...@allaboutabundance.com wrote: Greetings all, Thanks again to those who helped me last week.  A couple of new problems now. First, here's the code:        http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-tables-2.html        

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
Hi Vince, Thanks for another helpful reply. That all makes sense. One small problem with the nowrap... See this: http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-0b.html http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-0b.css I've created a couple of really long values in the

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
Correction: http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-0b.html http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/css/browser-0b.css On 08/03/2012, at 8:54 PM, David Thorp wrote: Hi Vince, Thanks for another helpful reply. That all makes sense. One small problem with the

Re: [css-d] extra blank rows in table to fill window.

2012-03-08 Thread Ghodmode
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:22 PM, David Thorp mailingli...@allaboutabundance.com wrote: Hi all, Another question on my current project... Again, first, here's the code:        http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-tables-2.html        

Re: [css-d] extra blank rows in table to fill window.

2012-03-08 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 08.03.2012 06:22 schrieb David Thorp: Hi all, Another question on my current project... Again, first, here's the code: http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-tables-2.html http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/css/browser-tables-2.css Also look at this image for

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-08 Thread Ghodmode
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:54 PM, David Thorp mailingli...@allaboutabundance.com wrote: Hi Vince, Thanks for another helpful reply.  That all makes sense. One small problem with the nowrap... See this:        http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-0b.html        

Re: [css-d] extra blank rows in table to fill window.

2012-03-08 Thread Ghodmode
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 6:36 PM, David Thorp mailingli...@allaboutabundance.com wrote: I agree, the nested tables are not great, but I hit all sorts of problems trying to do it with divs and floats, and while I had a couple of helpful tips from people on this list about that I haven't got my

Re: [css-d] extra blank rows in table to fill window.

2012-03-08 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:36:34 -, David Thorp mailingli...@allaboutabundance.com wrote: I agree, the nested tables are not great, but I hit all sorts of problems trying to do it with divs and floats, and while I had a couple of helpful tips from people on this list about that I haven't

Re: [css-d] extra blank rows in table to fill window.

2012-03-08 Thread Ghodmode
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Ghodmode ghodm...@ghodmode.com wrote: ...  Look again: http://www.ghodmode.com/testing/dthorp/zstripes/ Here's version 2, which should work everywhere necessary, but would require you to change the image if you changed the row height:

[css-d] Background color for 3 column layout

2012-03-08 Thread J.C. Berry
Hi all, I have a three-column layout, all three of which have a white background. The page background is black and I need the div containing the three columns to expand with its white background down the page. I need the longest of the three columns (2 or 3) to determine how high the containing

Re: [css-d] Background color for 3 column layout

2012-03-08 Thread John D
I have a three-column layout, all three of which have a white background. The page background is black and I need the div containing the three columns to expand with its white background down the page. I need the longest of the three columns (2 or 3) to determine how high the containing

Re: [css-d] Background color for 3 column layout

2012-03-08 Thread David Laakso
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:57 AM, J.C. Berry jcharlesbe...@gmail.com wrote: I need the longest of the three columns (2 or 3) to determine how high the containing div is. J.C. Berry, M.A. --- There are a number of ways to do that. One is a CSS Table [looks like a table but its not]. Please

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
Brilliant on both counts. Thanks! Except... Now (in Safari both mac and windows) I'm getting little resize boxes on each cell in the list. I also notice these on the on the grey side bar and at the bottom of the list as well. They seem to show up anywhere i've set overflow, although i

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
And in Firefox I'm getting some other nasty inconsistencies too. Haven't dared try Chrome or Opera yet, although again, I don't need any of these. Only IE9 and Safari. But still... why are they all so wildly inconsistent?? On 09/03/2012, at 12:47 PM, David Thorp wrote: Brilliant on both

Re: [css-d] extra blank rows in table to fill window.

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
Brilliant, that's hit the nail on the head, at least in Safari (both Mac and Win). It doesn't seem to be working in IE9 though. Did I miss something? I can see you've specifically put code in there for -ms-... (That's for IE, right?), so how come not working? :( On 09/03/2012, at 1:36 AM,