Re: [css-d] Why small gap between images?

2006-01-02 Thread Charles Dort
Steve Clason wrote, in part: An image in an in-line element and so there's a little space below the baseline for the descenders on text (the tail of a g, for instance. To remove that extra space, add: #left_box img {display: block} to your style

[css-d] Why small gap between images?

2006-01-02 Thread Charles Dort
I have been collaborating a little with an online colleague on a project some of you may have seen. I tried to make a CSS version of something that had worked well in a table, and it works as I expected except for a very small gap between the "logo goes here" placeholder at the upper left corner a

Re: [css-d] risks of using p.initial:first-letter?

2005-11-23 Thread Charles Dort
David Laakso wrote, in part, ... try Georg's method with a red background-color and a 3px solid border. #BDB76B for the border and the letter will yield something on the order of a goldleaf /initial/ drop-cap. One can never have enough illumunated manu

Re: [css-d] risks of using p.initial:first-letter?

2005-11-23 Thread Charles Dort
Georg wrote, in part, ... there's also some differences in how the latest browsers position 'first letter' drop-caps. Nothing major, just a slight height-difference... So I ended up with something like this: p:first-letter { float: left;

[css-d] risks of using p.initial:first-letter?

2005-11-22 Thread Charles Dort
Funny: just as I was about to send this, I saw someone else posted a question about the same pseudo-class. I'm going to post this anyway, though, because it's a different question that I keep forgetting to ask you experts about: My parish web site deliberately is trying to look "old" because of t

[css-d] CSS validator warnings on color vs. background and "redefinition of padding"

2005-11-21 Thread Charles Dort
I am almost done with a table-based > XHTML/CSS redesign of my parish web site. www.allsaintsofamerica.org/new_site/index.html My CSS validates, but there are tons of warnings. I feel unsettled not correcting them, sort of like getting marks off by a teacher, but I honestly don't see the benef

Re: [css-d] Site check please?

2005-11-10 Thread Charles Dort
MANY thanks to those who replied on the list and privately with very helpful observations and information about my site. I was dismayed to see that in IE5/Mac there are serious problems, and I'm going to think about taking the advice to assume hardly anyone uses that browser. I'll see if I can fi

[css-d] Site check please?

2005-11-10 Thread Charles Dort
st BARELY did not seem to cause float problems. Maybe they do on someone else's system. MANY thanks! Theophan (Charles) Dort __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d L

RE: [css-d] CAN ANYONE HELP ME?: Display of image causes the following div's top margin to disappear in Firefox

2005-10-24 Thread Charles Dort
Dan wrote, in part, This is because you floated your header div - not sure why you wanted to do that, but taking it out should help you. I floated the header div because I was following the original "sliding doors" article on A List Apart, step-by-step, and it said,

RE: [css-d] CAN ANYONE HELP ME?: Display of image causes the following div's top margin to disappear in Firefox

2005-10-24 Thread Charles Dort
I posted a message or two last week, but so far, I still don't know how to solve this problem, and I sure hope that someone can figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'm a CSS beginner trying to re-do my church's web site from its present table-based layout. I have a "rough draft" of an index page, ve

RE: [css-d] quirks mode question

2005-10-21 Thread Charles Dort
Georg wrote, in part, The voice-family hack is extremely unreliable, and should not be used. I'm a CSS beginner, slowly working through Dan Cedarholm's _Bulletproof Web Design_ and applying principles to my site, and he recommended this hack in the design of sites he argues are "bulletp

RE: [css-d] Display of image causes the following div's top margin to disappear in Firefox

2005-10-21 Thread Charles Dort
Michael wrote, in part, It's the float left tag in your #header tag. ... getting rid of it repairs the problem. I deleted most of the page, and most of the CSS for the "temp" files I posted to ask this question, so people wouldn't have to wade through code that doesn't apply. But doing

[css-d] Display of image causes the following div's top margin to disappear in Firefox

2005-10-21 Thread Charles Dort
I am a CSS beginner trying to re-do my church's web site from its present table-based layout. I have a "rough draft" that I'm pleased with so far, with "sliding doors" tabs and a vertical "sliding doors" text box for topical content. But I am puzzled by my inability to put a bit of vertical white

RE: [css-d] Why add an .img class?

2005-10-18 Thread Charles Dort
MANY thanks to all who have so helpfully replied to my question! As a beginner, perhaps I've focused too much on the value of uncluttered markup. So far as I can see, I was able to complete all of the tasks of that chapter (including changing margins, etc.) without "cluttering" the markup with a

[css-d] Why add an .img class?

2005-10-18 Thread Charles Dort
I'm a CSS beginner, slowly working through Dan Cedarholm's _Bulletproof Web Design_, and (on p. 80, if you also have the book) he inserts class="img" into a so he later can reference that class, identifying the s that contains an image, as opposed to other s that contains only text. Here's an exam

RE: [css-d] IE6 no change in text with a:hover

2005-10-14 Thread Charles Dort
etter {color: red}; I'm sure there's a reason you did it with this "universal selector" (the use of which in general I don't understand very well), but I don't know what it is. Can you help me understand the difference and how that might play out? Many than

[css-d] IE6 no change in text with a:hover

2005-10-13 Thread Charles Dort
I am a CSS beginner, starting to work on changing my church's web site from tables to XHTML/CSS. I frankly have been a bit discouraged by reading this list for a week or so, because if people who clearly know vastly more than I are having this much trouble getting the CSS that works so nicely on t