Re: [css-d] Site Check - IE6

2007-07-13 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 7/13/07, Don Stefani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, I could use a confirmation that this site: www.sunsetmusic.biz is not showing bad floats in IE6. I can confirm on IE6 / Windows 2000 that it looks correct. Brian __

Re: [css-d] prevent drop-downs from sticking?

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 7/12/07, Mary Jo Sinner Savageau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://ecologic.taopowered.net/templates/index1.htm -- to see the problem, click on any of the top menu items except the two at the far right Hi Mary Jo, I am unable to reproduce this effect in either Firefox 2 or IE 6. Can you

Re: [css-d] prevent drop-downs from sticking?

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 7/12/07, Mary Jo Sinner Savageau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, IE7 Hi Mary, I'm not 100% positive; but I believe this is describing a fix for the problem you're experiencing: http://www.builtfromsource.com/2006/10/23/a-fix-for-suckerfish-dropdowns-in-ie-7/

Re: [css-d] CSS Menu not Layering over Flash

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 7/9/07, Ricky Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a side note, the wmode attribute isn't supported in Firefox on Linux at all (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137189). Interesting that you should post that as the next day it was marked as FIXED in Bugzilla

Re: [css-d] double border-style in IE7

2007-07-10 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 7/10/07, Jukka K. Korpela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In your case, it seems that there is a simple way: wrap the element div id=main.../div inside an outer div, and set the outer div's background color to the desired value (white, in this case). An alternative solution (also using nested

[css-d] Changing the tiling starting point?

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Crescimanno
I have a need to change the starting point of a tiled image. See this CSS: #element{ background: url(../images/inside_pg_bg.gif) repeat-y #000; background-position: 0 116px; } The desired effect would be to have the background be #000 until 116px down the page where the background image

Re: [css-d] Best way for text when enlarged

2007-06-21 Thread Brian Crescimanno
That's a lot of great information arguing in favor of allowing for complete user control over text size and I'll be the first to say that I love the concept. However, the difficulty comes in reconciling that desire with the design at hand. Example: I have a fixed width design that is 760px wide

Re: [css-d] Best way for text when enlarged

2007-06-21 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 6/21/07, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's see what you've got. Provide a uri to your example. Best, ~dL Oh, I'm speaking in a purely academic sense here based on my experience of layouts that don't really account for text resizing (as an aside, I am not a designer, I work on an

Re: [css-d] Tricky layout: centred site with bg images stretching to the left

2007-06-20 Thread Brian Crescimanno
Hi Simone, Is something like this what you are trying to achieve? http://pfmoon.com/ This one was tricky for me and I came up with a less than perfect solution (but with the budget this client was working with, I couldn't hammer at it for hours to try to get something proper worked out). If

Re: [css-d] Ideas for handling text with CSS

2007-06-20 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 6/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone has a link or information as how to best handle text with CSS. By text I mean a line of text that may include 3 pieces of information, like name, phone, and email address. I found a site that mentioned

Re: [css-d] expandable menu woes again

2007-06-20 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 6/20/07, Zoe M. Gillenwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (You really should try to get your client to upgrade to IE 6 at least. Try telling them that their browser is several years old and thus vulnerable to lots of virus and spyware attacks. That usually works.) Good technique; and where I go

Re: [css-d] Problem centering div

2007-06-20 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 6/20/07, Lyn Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem centering a menu I have within a div. I have tried using many methods but I get no luck. have you tried: div#buttons ul{ width: XXXpx; margin: 0 auto; } where width is set equal to the menu's width? Brian

Re: [css-d] Netscape problems

2007-06-15 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 6/15/07, trevor bayliss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My page is validated but I am having problems with the ajax divs for some reason they mess up with netscape: Netscape 4.78 (no Flash) Windows 2000 Professional Netscape 6.2.3 (No Flash)Windows XP Netscape 6.2 (no Flash)

Re: [css-d] CSS Framesworks

2007-06-14 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 6/14/07, Dave Goodchild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a serious HTTP issue as the stylesheets will be cached once downloaded. Also, if you're very concerned about minimizing requests, you can always create a script that concatenates your development files into one large file which is then

Re: [css-d] One bug left - Suckerfish Menu hides

2007-06-12 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 6/12/07, Jörn Kretzschmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only as I hover over the link the submenu block is visibel. Why? It appears to be that your links in your first-level drop downs are not set to height and width at 100% and that you are using their hover event to activate the sub-level items.

Re: [css-d] QUESTION: WYSIWYGs and CSS?

2007-06-07 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 6/7/07, Melissa Carraway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is that this site is going to be edited by the client in Contribute. The site looks fine in Mozilla and in IE, but for some reason when I open it in Contribute, it doesn't work at all! The reason is that Contribute's HTML

[css-d] IE6 fails with suckerfish nav with active state

2007-05-30 Thread Brian Crescimanno
Combining several techniques, I've created the top level navigation for this page here: http://demo.kelleninteractive.net/phii/www/test.html The images that are used for the navigation are structured as follows: http://demo.kelleninteractive.net/phii/www/images/nav_subjects.gif top: normal

Re: [css-d] Divitis?

2007-05-29 Thread Brian Crescimanno
Out of curiosity, why not use an unordered list--it would seem more semantically correct in this situation. You could change your div to a ul and wrap your items in li tags; then you can set the background of the the li tag to the image you want and position it appropriately. Brian

Re: [css-d] USING RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE POSITIONING

2007-05-23 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 5/23/07, Jason Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the one and only thing i learned about these two properties, relative and positioning. are there any other things that you can do with them? Hi Jason, Perhaps the most commonly used feature available when relative or absolute

Re: [css-d] Simple design

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Crescimanno
Do you have URL's you could show us of: 1) What you're trying to replicate (the old tables version) 2) Your current attempt. They would be very helpful for us to get a clearer picture of what's going on. Thanks, Brian __

Re: [css-d] CSS Drop Downs over Flash

2007-05-19 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 5/18/07, Zachary M. Berke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use z-index'ing to make some CSS drop downs ride over a Flash Movie. You will need to make sure the wmode of the movie in flash is set to transparent; that will allow the menus to render above the flash movie. This will work

Re: [css-d] enclosing a div in another one

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 5/18/07, James Gadrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Hague wrote: hi .. in an example like the one below .. how can one enclose the regContainer div inside the mainFrame div irrespective of the content of the regContainer. The clearer div is not doing the trick! a large content of

Re: [css-d] Multiple elements changing on hover

2007-05-18 Thread Brian Crescimanno
Hi Jona, Change: #tracklist .track-desc h3:hover { color: #eb6810; } To: #tracklist a:hover h3 { color: #eb6810; } Tested here in IE6 and FF2/win Brian __ css-discuss [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] bottom image for list

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 5/17/07, coolman coolx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works well with dots showing in Firefox and other browsers but it shows dash in IE based browsers so I created a dot image but am lost as to which style to use as I had already used the background image for the bullets. Is there a way I can

Re: [css-d] help

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 5/16/07, Laurel-Lea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me how to hyperlink a background image? You'd need to hide a text link in there like so: ul lia href=#Link Text/a/li /ul li{ /* set your background and other relevant styling here */ } li a{ display: block; width: 100%;

Re: [css-d] IE7 a la Dean Edwards

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Crescimanno
The main issue with something like this is it will harm; not hurt, your testing environment. Installed on your machine, you will get this more standards compliant version of IE. However, I would imagine you have to work with the assumption that 99% of IE users would not have this addon

Re: [css-d] Padding Issue

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 5/17/07, Steve LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I need to do to make the padding work the same in both Firefox IE 6? .esu_news { padding: 10px 0px 0px 20px; } Ensure that you're using a proper doctype to put IE into standards mode and the box model should behave

Re: [css-d] z-index problem

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 5/17/07, Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that the horizontal menu in the header is partially obscured by the header graphic resulting in a:hover not working in all the menu items. I made the graphic (currently with a temporary border) as narrow as I could with a

Re: [css-d] 3 column layout without absolute positioning

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 5/17/07, Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on a redesign of an existing site, and I wanted to go with CSS for layout instead of the current table layout. The new design consists of a gray body background, a centered DIV with images positioned at the top and a black

Re: [css-d] font-size-adjust

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 5/17/07, Sam Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The example given clearly shows that the browser knows the x-height of Times New Roman to do the calculation. I don't see why a CSS coder should need to code the x-height of the first font, Verdana? Wouldn't it make more sense to simply enable

Re: [css-d] font-size-adjust

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 5/17/07, Susan Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been able to find a reference that lists the perceived size of the variety of system fonts so adjustments can be calculated. Do you know if there is one? I'd like to look further into this. Perceived size was my relatively lame way

Re: [css-d] 100% height problems on Mac

2007-05-16 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 5/16/07, Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Georg Unfortunately that doesn't seem to fix it when I test it in Safari or Firefox on a mac... Any other ideas? From what I understand, this is correct behavior for height: 100%. Setting height to 100% defines it to equal 100% of its

Re: [css-d] I'd like to create a splash page?

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Crescimanno
I'd like to tell you this is impossible as (for many reasons) splash pages are overall a bad idea. A couple of references: http://webdesign.about.com/od/navigation/a/aa020303a.htm http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/splash/ (just happened to come up at the top of Google searches, I'm

Re: [css-d] remove input border via css?

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 5/15/07, Del Wegener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not been able to Google any useful way to eliminate the scrollbar other than to color it the same as the page background. And that seems to work only for IE. How can I eliminate the vertical scrollbar on a textfield.? I'm not sure I'm

Re: [css-d] 2 questions

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Crescimanno
On 5/15/07, Lauri Pantos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. #1 what would be the advantage of defining styles in the head instead of the body? #2 is it normal that the style info looks to be commented out, but still works? http://www.somtndesign.com/contactus2ak.htm Thanks Lauri Pantos Hi

Re: [css-d] firefox display problems - need urgent help

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Crescimanno
Firefox 2.0.3 here; I don't see the problem you're referring to. Can you point to a specific URL URL where you're seeing the bug? __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information