Re: [css-d] Website Copying was (Hummmmmm :0))

2005-10-21 Thread Akins, Chris
How is any of this related to CSS? On 10/21/05 3:05 PM, "Trevor Boult" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had noticed the source code stuff but wanted to know how much does someone > have to change a site before its become their > property?, hence me asking the comparison. > > He was kind enough to

Re: [css-d] changing the distance between paragraphs

2005-10-17 Thread Akins, Chris
Sure - just make something like either .p1, .p2, etc. classes or #p1, #p2, etc. id's and write your CSS for each class or id that you want to only apply to that rule. Then apply like: some text normal paragraph with no special rules some text with different rules than the other 2 paragraphs As

[css-d] Why is h2 rule needed?

2005-10-14 Thread Akins, Chris
The following two links show the differences I'm trying to understand: www.springfieldmogov.org/elections/details.html www.springfieldmogov.org/elections/details_noh2.html The first page looks the way I want, but I don't understand the WHY behind my CSS. I figured it out by just playing with pad

[css-d] Please Explain CSS Parser Hacks

2005-10-12 Thread Akins, Chris
I'm reading Eric Meyer's article on Tricking Browsers and Hiding Styles. I understand what he's saying and that the extra characters in the rules get parsed in different ways. But for me to really understand what's happening, though, I sure could use an explanation of exactly what is making vario

[css-d] CSS Syntax for ID's

2005-10-12 Thread Akins, Chris
Just curious about differences I've seen in some stylesheets I've downloaded and studied. Sometimes people just write their id's as: #idName {} Other times I see the "div" in front such as: div#idName Since id's are unique anyway what's the difference here? Does the one without the "div" expl

Re: [css-d] Do classes cascade?

2005-07-18 Thread Akins, Chris
In the example of "font-size: 80%/130%" the first number is the actual size of the text. The second number is the line height. I believe this is correct. Someone correct me if I'm incorrect. Christopher Akins Web Development / Graphic Production Public Information Office - City of Springfield,

Re: [css-d] Newbie-Question: Problem with Background Image

2005-06-07 Thread Akins, Chris
I haven't tested this, but I think it's the 10px padding you have declared in the following rule: #contentheader h1 { font-size:14px; padding:10px; height: 190px; background-image: url(../images/top_bg.jpg); margin-bottom: 10px; } My guess is that t

Re: [css-d] Line-Heights

2005-05-13 Thread Akins, Chris
I'm no CSS expert by any stretch, but I think what you're wanting to do is to use margins for these two elements rather than line-height to achieve what you want. Set margin-bottom for the h1 and margin-top for the h2 to something explicit and play with the values until you get the desired effect.