[css-d] IE floating divs to the right; sorry - can't figure out solution

2009-06-06 Thread Bruce MacKay
Hello folks, My apologies in advance as I know this is a FAQ in the true sense of the phrase, but there's just so much info available about IE6/7 problems with right floats that I'm totally overwhelmed and can't see the solution. I have a fixed width parent div within which I am floating

Re: [css-d] media=print/css problems with IE7 - fixed

2007-03-06 Thread Bruce MacKay
The solution to this problem was the removal of width: auto; from the css #wrap,#content { width: auto; margin: 0 5%; padding: 0; border: 0; float: none !important; color: black; background: transparent none; font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif; } I'm afraid

[css-d] media=print/css problems with IE7

2007-03-01 Thread Bruce MacKay
Hi folks, IE7 users on one of my sites are having a problem in printing out a long (html) document. In all browsers except IE7, three pages appear in the print preview and three pages are printed. For IE7 users, the print preview shows 3 pages, but only the first one contains content. When

[css-d] re. media=print/css problems with IE7

2007-03-01 Thread Bruce MacKay
The page that is not printing properly in IE7 is here: http://107writing.massey.ac.nz/lessons.htm Cheers, Bruce __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information --

[css-d] Do this here but not there...

2007-02-23 Thread Bruce MacKay
Hello folks, My apologies for the title, but I couldn't think of another way to signal my question. I have a div within which can appear table, p, or li elements. I want these elements to have a left hand margin of 10px so... #myDiv p, #myDiv table, #myDiv li { margin-left: 10px; }

[css-d] Overlapping div/content problem

2006-09-15 Thread Bruce MacKay
Hi folks, I have a problem with the content of divs overlapping each other - in Firefox but not IE6 The example page is at: http://horticulture127.massey.ac.nz/virtualflowers_v1.asp If numbers are entered into the first practice tool and submitted, model answers that are returned (through an

[css-d] Fwd: Re: Overlapping div/content problem

2006-09-15 Thread Bruce MacKay
Hi Robin, The main CSS is at http://horticulture127.massey.ac.nz/scripts/master.css Cheers, Bruce On 9/15/06, Bruce MacKay mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I have a problem with the content of divs overlapping each other - in Firefox but not IE6 The example page

[css-d] left - center - right

2006-06-24 Thread Bruce MacKay
Hi folks, I want to arrange a previous page, table of contents, and next page set of icons on the left, center and right hand side of the page, in the same row. I can easily achieve the left and right through floats, but I cannot get the centered image to stay in vertical alignment with the

[css-d] Clearing in IE6

2006-03-09 Thread Bruce MacKay
Hi folks, Some IE 6 users of one of my sites are experiencing problems with the following page http://107writing.massey.ac.nz/test.htm Specifically, the yellow column is extending past the bottom of their browser and they cannot scroll to read the missing material. I cannot replicate the

[css-d] Out damned dots!

2006-02-16 Thread Bruce MacKay
Hi folks, I have a border-bottom: 1px dotted #bbb; style applied to my links. I only want the style applied to text links, not image links. My problem is: How do I get it turned off image links? The test page http://ramosus.massey.ac.nz/default.asp shows underlining on the stylesheet

[css-d] Relative positioning/collapsing margins (?) and 100% height

2006-02-06 Thread Bruce MacKay
Hello all, I'm seeking help on two problems: positioning of material within a wrapper and achieving 100% height in pages with short content. The following pages (with embedded css) differ only in the presence of a sub-navigation element. In both, I'm having problems in positioning the

[css-d] Default font size frustration in IE 6

2006-01-24 Thread Bruce MacKay
Hi folks, I've been teaching myself CSS - most recently via Dan Cederholm's book Bulletproof Web Design - and I'm having a strange problem with font sizing in IE6. My test page (http://temporarius.massey.ac.nz/test6.asp) looks fine when I view it through FF, NS, Opera and IE6 on my