Re: [css-d] CSS replacement for table layouts

2008-12-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:53:34 +0100, Angel Martin Alganza wrote: > > Doesn't something as extremely simple and so fast to code as this example > I've just put > together meet that? > > http://mendel.ugr.es/~ama/tmp/3x3.html > Oops. In my reply, the DOCTYPE should read: Sorry. Cordially, Davi

Re: [css-d] CSS replacement for table layouts

2008-12-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:23:15 +0100, Angel Martin Alganza wrote: > Hi Éric, everybody, > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:53:49AM +0100, Éric Vesque wrote: > >> Your solution seems to work only in Opera, other browsers don't like ids >> begining by >> numbers. >> > It was such a quick thing that I didn

Re: [css-d] fractions in font-size

2008-12-10 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:38:16 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2008/12/10 23:15 (GMT+0200) Jukka K. Korpela composed: > >> There is indeed a lot of variation... >> > That they do: http://fm.no-ip.com/auth/Font/font-rounding.html > >> What's puzzling is that IE seems to _truncate_ e.g. 11.9px to 11px i

Re: [css-d] Simple Horizontal Menu

2008-12-09 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:51:31 -, MEM wrote: [...] > > How can we put the | border line, shorter, without shortening the text? > > Make the line-height property the size you want. It can be one or even less than one. Cordially, David -- __

Re: [css-d] Background tint

2008-12-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:45:46 +, dave marston wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to have a graduated background tint to the whole page using > CSS. > > I know one solution would be a background image but if I can do it with pure > css it > would be much better for obvious reasons. > [...] Not wit

Re: [css-d] Simple Horizontal Menu

2008-12-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:22:52 -, MEM wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to have a horizontal menu like this: > > Item1 | Item2 | Item3 > > Note that, at the beginning and at the end of the list there is no |. So, I > only need > them in the middle. > In addition to the solutions already proffered, che

Re: [css-d] browser rendering problem

2008-11-29 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:13:41 -0600, Tim Wolak wrote: > Afternoon all, > > My first issue is with my header, IE likes to take my logo and throw it > completely to > the bottom of my header and screw up my login. In the other browsers (FF, > Opera and > Safari) the logo displays just fine. My sec

Re: [css-d] Stylesheet retaining bkgrd color that I deleted

2008-11-29 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:09:06 -0700, Kathy Davie wrote: > Somehow, my CSS external stylesheet is hanging on tight to a background color > I put > into my body tag. I've deleted it. I've changed it to white. I've uploaded > it > numerous times and yet, everytime I preview a page, the colored bac

Re: [css-d] Can't put “ in a blockquote?

2008-11-24 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:02:22 +, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > Peter Hyde-Smith wrote: >> Will someone please enlighten me regarding whether different browsers render >> the >> differently. Do some actually add in the quote marks; >> > > No, none do. > > In HTML4 browsers are supposed to add

Re: [css-d] Tabbed Navigation System

2008-11-24 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:14:25 -0800, yahoo wrote: > On Nov 23, 2008, at 6:29 AM, David Laakso wrote: > >> You might try this: >> >> Assign a different body id or class to each page. >> > > Unfortunately, I can't do that. The cart puts together those pages using one > > tag, so every page would h

Re: [css-d] Lists, margins, padding in IE

2008-11-22 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:28:44 -0500, Erik Harris wrote: > On 11/22/2008 12:02 PM, Mustafa Quilon wrote: >> Try making the latter more specific, eg: >> >> #sidebar ul #statistics ul li { >> list-style-position: outside; >> } >> > That did it. Thanks Mustafa! > [...] > > What are you using to determi

Re: [css-d] absolute positioning of an image not working in IE

2008-11-16 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:31:54 +0100, Patrik Jansson wrote: >> On 16.11.2008 15:24, Bruno Fassino wrote: >>> I think they are aligned as desired, but in IE6 your hover is not working. >>> You have >>> used a child selector (like in '.gallery a:hover > img.big') which IE6 >>> doesn't >>> support. I

Re: [css-d] on firefo, blue line around links

2008-11-13 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:16:47 +0200, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > Wade Smart wrote: > >> www.questrealtybartlesville.com >> >> If you are viewing from Firefox 3.0.3 (and possibly other versions as well) >> the >> header graphic had a blue line around it. >> > > That's because it's a link. > [...] > Ad

Re: [css-d] IDs on W3C.org

2008-11-10 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:31:30 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry if this is a little bit out of left field, but I was looking over a > colleague's > work today, and I noted that he should be using IDs instead of classes for > elements > which appear once on a page. > > He told me that he ha

Re: [css-d] Firefox 3 vs IE7 spacing between links

2008-11-09 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:49:18 -0500, Bill Brown wrote: > Keith LaFrenier wrote: [...] > > Looks like your images need to be set to display:block. > [...] > > For a more permanent solution, place this rule in your style sheet: > > --- Copy and paste content below this line --- > #services-subcontaine

Re: [css-d] CSS help - IE problems

2008-11-09 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:21:24 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2008/11/08 13:12 (GMT-0800) David Hucklesby composed: > >> what Richard Rutter recommended a year ago.[1] >> >> [1] <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/howtosizetextincss> >> > That article was a fol

Re: [css-d] font-size and padding

2008-11-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 17:45:21 -0200, Luc wrote: [...] > Do you use most of the time borders for debugging? I recall i've read > somewhere > that's this causes side effects on the rest of a page and therefore not > recommended... but hey, due to my insanity i'm not the smartest kid on the >

Re: [css-d] Site Check for IE layout issues

2008-11-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:18:47 -1000, Alyda Gilmore wrote: >> From: Bill Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] >> >> As I understand it, Internet Explorer doesn't support XHTML, so even if you >> specify >> XHTML in the doctype and even if you made server-side adjustments to >> _ensure_ that >> you were

Re: [css-d] CSS help - IE problems

2008-11-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:28:50 -0500, David Laakso wrote: > Al Kendall wrote: >> 1. In Firefox v3, it looks great. >> 2. In IE v7 all the graphics and text are much larger and take up much more >> space on >> the screen. >> 3. In Opera v9, it close to firefox, but you not in the drop-down menu >

Re: [css-d] unfloated form drops in IE

2008-11-07 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:50:34 -0200, Luc wrote: > > page: > http://www.dzinelabs.com/sandbox/MP/Pages/Contact.php > > The problem: if you set the font-size in IE to largest and resize the > viewport, the > form drops all the way down. What puzzles me is that the form isn't floated > so i can't > pu

Re: [css-d] tiled background in front - can I do it?

2008-11-07 Thread David Hucklesby
> On Nov 6, 2008, at 9:35 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > >> >> On Nov 7, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Jody Levinson wrote: >> >>> I want a horizontally repeated background tile across the very bottom of >>> the window >>> only and I want it to be in front, so that text seems to scroll up from >>> behind

Re: [css-d] control td text

2008-11-07 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 12:04:21 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it possible to control the text in a td field with css? I would like to > make some > entries bold and centered and control this thru css. I do not want to control > the whole > table row, just some of the td entries. This is what I

Re: [css-d] Footerstick variation needed

2008-11-05 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:13:35 -0700, Debbie Campbell wrote: > I'm using one of the footerstick methods (I forget which one I finally > decided to use - > this one is closest to the effect I want) and I'm having a problem in FF, > IE7, Safari > and Opera. This hasn't been checked in IE6 yet. > >> h

Re: [css-d] CSS reset and table cell padding

2008-10-31 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:25:10 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: [...] > > I tried to do a CSS solution to this problem by creating a style like: > > table.cellpadding_4 tr td { > padding: 4px; > } > > and then putting class="cellpadding_4" on the TABLE containing the TDs I > wanted to have > the padding

Re: [css-d] Sliced Images within a question

2008-10-30 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:11:36 -0400, Majestic wrote: > I have a simple question when you slice a image up, photoshop spits out a > html file > with each image slice in format. Is this the best method to use by > just > cutting and pasting the code from the HTML created and pasting it within a >

Re: [css-d] CSS reset and table cell padding

2008-10-30 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:36:40 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > I've found recently that when I use a CSS reset, I can no longer use the > "cellpadding" > attribute on a TABLE tag, but the "cellspacing" attribute works just fine. Is > this > normal? Is there a recommended way to deal with this? > [..

Re: [css-d] help: three columns with the same height

2008-10-30 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:41:45 -, MEM wrote: > Hi all... > > This is my first post, any help will be greatly appreciated. > > I'm a CSS total newbie, so please, have patience. > > > Ok. Yes I know this is the old table design déjà vu and we must avoid it > etc... etc... > > I know we maybe have

Re: [css-d] CSS element interferes with image map in FF?

2008-10-22 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:50:24 -0700, Nadine Misiaszek wrote: > Could a CSS-positioned element interfere with an image map? > > I am updating a site re-using some elements. I added In the right-hand > corner, the > small blue text "navigation bar" (Home | Links | Contact us) which is > positioned

Re: [css-d] :: Background Image Problem ::

2008-10-22 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:38:38 +0530, Amrinder wrote: > Hi! > > I am encountering strange bg image problem in IE6. Here at www.rgroup.in the > text box > saying 'Your name' (query form) is overlapped by something which restricts to > select it > and all the four headers. > P.S. To fix it by turnin

Re: [css-d] :: Background Image Problem ::

2008-10-22 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:38:38 +0530, Amrinder wrote: > Hi! > > I am encountering strange bg image problem in IE6. Here at www.rgroup.in the > text box > saying 'Your name' (query form) is overlapped by something which restricts to > select it > and all the four headers. > > Please help! > Not muc

Re: [css-d] padding-left mysteriously vanishes from list object

2008-10-22 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:05:14 -0400, Sandy wrote: [...] > > I am working on a little site that has a 2 row menu which needs to appear as > a box, > with the second row the same width as the first. This is working fine in > everything but > IE, which is not displaying the padding-left on the first

Re: [css-d] A footer that moves to the middle of the screen

2008-10-10 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:02:25 +0200, Juan Diaz-Bustamante wrote: > Hello, > > I'm doing a website where container is 960px width and footer is 100% px > width being > the footer out of the container. > The site is long in some pages so when you scroll down you see the footer at > the bottom > as e

Re: [css-d] :active with display: none

2008-10-10 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:57:31 -0600, Jack Blankenships wrote: > I can click a link that is displayed "off left." On my test page at > http://www.cssprovingground.com/ there is a link relatively positioned with > left: - > 220px as the first element on the page. I can tab to the link and activate >

Re: [css-d] :active with display: none

2008-10-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:39:17 -0600, Jack Blankenships wrote: > How does that "kill the child?" If the link has display: none, why does that > have any > effect whatsoever on the clickability or the link or the resulting action? > Doesn't > display none simply not show it on the page but allow it

Re: [css-d] Pop-Outs on Leftnav Menu Only Happening in IE7

2008-10-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:41:17 -0700, John Biggs wrote: [...] > > I am using a CSS/Javascript-based design for my left-nav menu, incorporating > pop-out > menus for lower level lists. However, the popouts (menu buttons with blue > right > border) are only occurring under IE7. I have done what I co

Re: [css-d] CSS Round Corners

2008-10-03 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:32:05 -0400, Majestic wrote: > Anyone have experience doing CSS round corners ? I need some help as nothing > so far as > been working out for me, including javascripts. If those good suggestions you have so far are not quite what you want, here's a pretty comprehensive lis

Re: [css-d] Mysterious offset in 3-column layout

2008-10-02 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:32:33 -0700, Nadine Misiaszek wrote: > I find a mysterious offset of 10 px in my 3-column layout, my first such > layout. > > I have validated the HTML and the CSS. I used Firebug for another > perspective. My > column 1 header 2 has a mysterious offset of 10. I do not k

Re: [css-d] Positioning a website in the middle

2008-10-02 Thread David Hucklesby
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Christian Heilmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> {table example snipped} >> >> Hi Krystian, you don't need a table for that. Here's a well explained >> solution: >> >> http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html > On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:37:44 +

Re: [css-d] Page width problem with IE6

2008-09-18 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:41:20 +0100, Tim Dawson wrote, re: http://www.holidaymullandiona.co.uk/pages/home3.php > Thank you Martin and David, > > How embarrassing ! I knew I'd been staring at it too long. Hello again Tim, You may like to install the IE Debug Bar - Co

Re: [css-d] Troubleshooting methods for IE?

2008-09-18 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:14:13 -0400, Annesta wrote: [...] > > What tools and methods do you guys use to troubleshoot in IE? > [...] I find the IE Debug Bar quite useful. It has some issues, but it is better than Microsoft's version (IMHO). Cordially, David --

Re: [css-d] Page width problem with IE6

2008-09-17 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:10:14 +0100, Tim Dawson wrote: [...] > > Works OK in FF3 and IE7, but in IE6 the menu persists in being about 30px too > wide, as > does the div#inner (grey background), although both are set to 770px in the > CSS. > > http://www.holidaymullandiona.co.uk/pages/home3.php (CS

Re: [css-d] HT Conditional CSS

2008-09-12 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:01:31 +0200, Luis Speciale wrote: > Hi ; > > Looking for a way to make Opera behave in a certain manner, I googelised this > > http://conditional-css.com/ > > Did you know about that ? > With new browsers coming out, and older browsers continually updated to behave better, w

Re: [css-d] my tests on the SVN of the CSS Working Group

2008-09-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:26:22 +0200, Gabriele Romanato wrote: > http://test.csswg.org/svn/CSS2.1-test-suite/incoming/gabriele/ > > you can see directly the various changes to my latest tests. keep in mind > that actually > 70% of my old test won't be filed here. only the latest and good ones. > Hi

css-d@lists.css-discuss.org

2008-09-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:03:40 +0100, Aaron Gray wrote: > I have written the beginnings of a tree control widget. It works on all > modern browsers > bar IE. I was trying to get what I had written to work on IE then I tried it > on FF and > friends and it worked fine, only to find out the IE, even

Re: [css-d] Div problem with Firefox

2008-09-06 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:41:20 -0500, Rich Wendrock Forums wrote: > I am having a terrible time trying to determine how to get this page to > display > correctly in Firefox. > > The page displays and dehaves the way it should when viewed with Internet > Explorer. > > The background color and text co

Re: [css-d] CSS Resources

2008-08-20 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:24:31 -1000, david ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Alan Gresley wrote: > >> Best: >> >> a. Avoiding complicating your CSS and HTML with non necessary code. Less is >> better. >> > > Make your HTML present the page information in a readable, usable (to a basic > extent) > brows

Re: [css-d] Redesigned my website - IE6 huge problems, png fix?

2008-08-19 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:59:01 +0100, Krystian - Sunlust wrote: > Hi, > > I just recently redesigned my website: http://sunlust.net it's the default > wordpress > template redesigned by me. > Now, it's fine in IE7, and in FF etc, the problems come out in IE6, > everything is > messed up, I used a

Re: [css-d] Preventing Image Resizing

2008-08-17 Thread David Hucklesby
> Del Wegener wrote: >> 1)Is there any way to prevent the images from resizing when the user does >> any of the >> zoom actions (ctrl++, etc)? On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:13:04 -0400, Bill Brown replied with some good advice. ~~ To my way of thinking, that's l

Re: [css-d] Pass full css file to IE6 but not IE7 - with CSS only

2008-08-17 Thread David Hucklesby
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 07:09:07PM -0300, Manuel Razzari wrote: > >> Extremely appreciated link, this seems to be EXACTLY what I need. >> On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:40:54 -0700, Bill Moseley responded: > > I have not looked into the details, but we have been avoiding @import: > > http://developer.

Re: [css-d] Hover bug with IE6/IE7 and forms?

2008-08-15 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:25:30 -0400, Richmond wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I have an issue with a form on an HTML page. My best guess is that it's a > variant of > the Guillotine bug, or that the form is somehow inheriting margin or padding > properties > from an ancestor element... but I can't be su

Re: [css-d] 1 pixel shift in Firefox

2008-08-08 Thread David Hucklesby
> On Aug 8, 2008, at 4:39 AM, Annesta wrote: > >> In FF3, my layout is shifted to the right by one pixel and I'm not sure why. >> It seems to look OK in IE7 and Safari, but it's still driving me crazy as I >> use FF. >> I've tried everything... >> >> Here is a screenshot of what it's doing in FF

Re: [css-d] footer and multiple background images

2008-08-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:13:41 +1000, Elle Meredith wrote: > > On 08/08/2008, at 10:05 AM, David Laakso wrote: > >> Re: >> Are you asking the list? >> > > Yes David :) I was asking the list. > Just a quick disclaimer: haven't checked my page in IE just yet. > Y

Re: [css-d] Msg from Stephen Carrell re Dynamic navigation link aid

2008-08-06 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:03:56 -0400, Jim Swanson wrote: > Another brief tutorial on this topic is at > http://www.search-this.com/2007/06/13/css-current-page-indicator/. It is very > straightforward -- you can add pages to your nav menu as long as you give the > body of > your new page a class, and

Re: [css-d] Designing for Screen Resolution

2008-08-06 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 08:22:43 -0400, Stephen Carrell wrote: [...] > > For a long time, I've been designing pages/sites for 800x600 resolution > (width of > 780px), unless the client specifies differently. I know that different book > authors say > that that's the lowest common denominator of users,

Re: [css-d] Dynamic Navigation Link Aid

2008-08-05 Thread David Hucklesby
> - Original Message - > From: Stephen Carrell [...] > > I'm trying to find a way to style the navigation links in a document that will > highlight the page that the user is on, and do it in such a way that I don't > have tour > hand-code every page. Thus far, I've used: > > > Link 1 > Li

Re: [css-d] a:hover vs images with alpha chanel

2008-08-05 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:11:51 -0400, snak detek+0r wrote: > >>> does anyone have a good way of universally disabling >>> >>> a:hover{background-color} >>> >>> for images? i always have this problem, and i'm never satisfied with the >>> solution. >>> it seems that you could fix it by styling >>> >>>

Re: [css-d] a:hover vs images with alpha chanel

2008-08-05 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:27:38 -0400, snak detek+0r wrote: > hi there, > > does anyone have a good way of universally disabling > > a:hover{background-color} > > for images? i always have this problem, and i'm never satisfied with the > solution. it > seems that you could fix it by styling > > a img

Re: [css-d] Generic table styling (possibly using multi-class attributes)?

2008-07-28 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:02:52 -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: > When I generate a table, occasionally I'd like to style it in column, row > and/or cell > specific ways. Rather than emit application specific style information on a > case-by- > case basis, can someone recommend a method or best practi

Re: [css-d] a:hover with images and IE6

2008-07-28 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:33:22 +0200, Juan Diaz-Bustamante wrote: > Hello everybody and thank you for your time, > > I have created a small gallery that works under IE7, Firefox, Opera & Safari > but not > under IE6. > [code snipped] > > The problem here is the a:hover that doesn't work under IE6 an

Re: [css-d] IE6 a:hover issue - all images disappear!! - UPDATE

2008-07-27 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:46:01 +1000, Blake wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 7:25 AM, French, Angela K (MHTG) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Do you have a url? >> > No, and I haven't been able to put together a test case. > > I have, however, discovered that the bug continues to occur when conten

Re: [css-d] positioning & PNG trouble at IE 5.5 and 6

2008-07-26 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:25:24 +0700, Shin wrote: > Hi all... I am new here.. my name is Shin. > > This is my first shot at implementing web standards... used to be a > table-criminal :P > I've been working on a site and I have a problem with IE 5.5 and IE 6... > (another one, > yeah) > > The site

Re: [css-d] Firefox 3 bug or template issue?

2008-07-26 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:05:32 +0200, Thijs Hakkenberg wrote: > Dear List, > > I've got a template which I intent to use for our intranet, but in Firefox 3 > there's a > strange whitespace on top of the template: > http://ebrius.nl/fileadmin/template/mem_don/3/ > And I can't seem to fix it. Iexplore

Re: [css-d] Body background image shifting in Firefox 3.01

2008-07-26 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:30:59 -0500, RePost wrote: > David Hucklesby wrote: >> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:30:57 -0500, RePost wrote: >> >>> 1. Is there any way I can get the outer wrapper background to load before >>> the >>> content? The background im

Re: [css-d] Body background image shifting in Firefox 3.01

2008-07-24 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:30:57 -0500, RePost wrote: > > 1. Is there any way I can get the outer wrapper background to load before the > content? > The background image in the outer wrapper does not multiply vertically > (repeat-y) until > all the content has loaded. This happens in Firefox and not

Re: [css-d] Body background image shifting in Firefox 3.01

2008-07-23 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:48:08 -0500, RePost wrote: >> Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: >> >>> A quick fix that works with some test pages here: >>> wrap all of your contents in a and attach the background-image to >>> that div. >>> > The problem with that is, I designed the body background image to dis

Re: [css-d] Background gap on {body} v2

2008-07-23 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:37:51 -0400, Christopher wrote: > I still have that gap on at the bottom of the page (the dark blue) and my > page now > validates no errors in HTML and CSS. > So does anyone please have any solution so I can get rid of that gap, please? > Link? Cordially, David -- __

Re: [css-d] Styling Unordered Lists question

2008-07-21 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:17:12 +0100, Karl Bedingfield wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been reading with interest this page > (http://www.cssnewbie.com/example/style-unordered-lists/#five) and would love > to > achieve example 5 (it uses :hover pseudo-class) to work with IE6. Does anyone > know of a >

Re: [css-d] Background graphic on {body}

2008-07-21 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:17:54 -0400, Christopher wrote: > Could someone tell me why my background graphic as you see on this page > http://www.walkfar.ca/test/productionsite6.html > > does not hug the base of the browser instead it's above it (it's t

Re: [css-d] IE, Nifty and backgrounds.

2008-07-16 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:23:08 -0400, Sohail Aboobaker wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks to help from many on this list, I was able to get most of the corners > done > except some last issues with IE. Please have a look at > http://www.newwavecell.com/15jul08/Index.html. > > Why do I see extra white borders o

Re: [css-d] IE, Nifty and backgrounds.

2008-07-15 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:23:08 -0400, Sohail Aboobaker wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks to help from many on this list, I was able to get most of the corners > done > except some last issues with IE. Please have a look at > http://www.newwavecell.com/15jul08/Index.html. > > Why do I see extra white borders o

Re: [css-d] browser difference with pt measurements in print stylesheet

2008-07-15 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:42:44 +0200, Loek Hilgersom wrote: > Hi, > > In a print stylesheet I followed the book and use font-sizes in pt's. > However, printing > from different browsers I find considerable size differences: in IE7 and > Safari/Win the > characters are only about 60% the size of wha

Re: [css-d] Sidebar1 & Sidebar2 Disappear in IE

2008-07-13 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:03:08 -0400, Copeland wrote: > This one's stumping me, any suggestions? #sidebar1 and #sidebar2 totally > disappear in > IE but you can see 'em in the code. The parent divs don't have background > colors so it > doesn't look like the peekaboo bug. any help is appreciated! >

Re: [css-d] green squigglies in Komodo

2008-07-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:37:35 -0700, Kelly Moore wrote: > Hi all, > > i'm getting the green squigglies in Komodo. For example, on this line: > > media="screen" /> > > Does anything look amiss with the above markup? Are you using an HTML DOCTYPE, rather than XHTML? Cordially, David -- __

Re: [css-d] EM based layout issue between Firefox and Safari on Mac

2008-07-09 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:13:40 -0400, Jason Campbell wrote: > I am trying to establish a foundation for an em based layout and I am seeing > some > discrepancies between Firefox 2 and Safari 3.1.2 on the mac that I had not > noticed > before. > My example file I am referencing is available at > ht

Re: [css-d] 100% Height problem

2008-07-02 Thread David Hucklesby
> It was foretold that on 01/07/2008 @ 17:00:39 GMT-0400 (which was 18:00:39 > where I > live) David Laakso would write: > > >> Maybe Paul O'Brien's method might help? >> >> On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 23:53:36 -0300, Luc responded: > Good evening David, >

Re: [css-d] Different body backgrounds

2008-07-01 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 02:06:12 -0400, Kim Brooks Wei wrote: > Hi People, > > What might be a good way to get the body bg on this page white. The default > body for > the site's home page is yellowish. > > http://thewei.com/culture/princeton04july08.php > Can you put a class name on the BODY tag? Tha

Re: [css-d] Site Check please (IE6 ideally)

2008-06-30 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:39:46 +0800, WEZ! wrote: > Heya all, > > Just done some footer work on this page and want to know if the page is > rendering > without flaws in most peoples browsers. http://cedd.raez.net/cedd.html > > I've ran it through all the modern browsers on my work Mac and if anyone

Re: [css-d] FF3 FOUC

2008-06-30 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:13:46 +0100, Francois Jordaan wrote: > Hi, > > On some sites, including one I'm working on, I've noticed a Flash of Unstyled > Content > (FOUC) in FF3, which doesn't occur in any other browser. (This is where the > page > content displays unstyled for a split second before

Re: [css-d] 3 row liquid layout

2008-06-28 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:10:06 -0700, Pall Musaev wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This is my first post to this mailing list. I am trying to create a specific > layout > that works across most common browsers nicely and with minimal hacks. The > layout is to > be three (3) rows. > [...] Hi Pal, Have you

Re: [css-d] Help resolving spacing in IE6

2008-06-27 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:04:10 -0400, Webmaster wrote: [...] > The only remaining problem I have with IE6 is the ~20px gap between the head > and the > main content block. I cannot determine which DIV is the culprit and is > causing the > space problem. From a local copy of your page, there seem

[css-d] General request of css-d members

2008-06-22 Thread David Hucklesby
May I please request that members send messages as text/plain? I am getting a significant number of messages that I am unable to read. Cordially, David -- __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [css-d] Multisite/language css

2008-06-20 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:12:05 +0100, Ant Tyler wrote: > I'm starting to rework a number of sites for a client with an overly complex > set of css > sheets, does anyone have any resource or pointers to correct practice for > this? I don't think there's a "correct practice" as such. Like any desig

Re: [css-d] CSS Roll Over Effect - CONT'D

2008-06-20 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:36:48 -0400, Christopher wrote: > Hi, I have my called navigation then I have navigation:hover but this > does not > work ? I know I'm missing a step could it be a link cause the graphic needs > to be one > big graphic BUT specific areas on the graphic will have links to o

Re: [css-d] extra right padding/margin in IE6

2008-06-19 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:37:41 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > I've got a weird issue with a site that I'm working on. > > URL: http://www.fathertime.com/dev/ > CSS: http://www.fathertime.com/dev/StyleSheet.css > [...] > > In IE6, it's a different story. The boxes extend 10px or so farther to the > r

Re: [css-d] ie6 - long border on two page, not on rest

2008-06-17 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:41:51 -0700, Stuart King wrote: > Style sheets - This is a problem I am struggling with. What do you do when > different > pages have slightly different layouts and positioning? Do you have one style > sheets > that you maintain externally or several? Are there any articles

Re: [css-d] Site check - cristi

2008-06-13 Thread David Hucklesby
> Bill Brown wrote: > >> 3. What do YOU say to a client who asks you to make the default font size >> smaller? >> Georg Sørtun replied: > > You can say: "OK, but it may not work as you want at the visitor's end, no > matter > what". If the client insists; just do it. > From a design standpoint

Re: [css-d] CSS popup not popping in IE

2008-06-10 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:36:45 -0500, Nancy E. Sosna Bohm wrote: > This pure-css popup works in FireFox, but not IE. > http://tinyurl.com/6xkooa > > [code snipped] > > When you mouse over the word "roughly," the footnote-ish text pops up. Why > doesn't it > work in IE? > I *think* that IE needs an

Re: [css-d] Background Auto Size

2008-06-07 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:00:55 -0400, Christopher wrote: > I would like to know if CSS is capable of this if you create a background > image that is > a fixed size and want it to resize based on the browser window resizing is > this > possible ? > Nope. Not at the moment. If you show us a page an

Re: [css-d] html comments causing ghost text to appear in ie6 ???

2008-06-05 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:47:05 -0400, snak detek+0r wrote: > I can barely even describe what's happening, but it's easy to look at. > > see here -> http://tinyurl.com/3ezwej > > the top and bottom sections each have a line of html comment. In these > sections, the > last letter in the div is REPEATE

Re: [css-d] Site Check please

2008-05-30 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 29 May 2008 12:10:39 -0400, David Laakso wrote: >> > re: > > > One way of doing some of that stuff is to set min/max width and shove the > menu to the > left. A work around for min/max for IE/6 is needed (6 does not support > min/max). [...] > >

Re: [css-d] how to select an element that does not contain an attrbite

2008-05-28 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 28 May 2008 20:17:32 -0300, Mansour wrote: > I am wondering if there's a way to select an element that does not have the > specified > attribute set? > For example, let's say I need to format all the H1 elements except one that > has style > attribute set. How do I do this ? > Not direct

Re: [css-d] box model difference between IE and Mozilla

2008-05-16 Thread David Hucklesby
> On 16 May 2008, at 16:08, Lee Bettridge wrote: > >> Hello all, >> I have an issue with the box model difference between IE and Mozilla. On >> Mozilla the >> padding is added to the width and in IE it is not, as the >> included example shows. With Mozilla the two boxes meet to make a flush >> co

Re: [css-d] star hack /tan hack or what ? a question...

2008-05-15 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 15 May 2008 16:32:54 -0700, corey deep wrote: > Hello, > > I have used hack for ie6 : > > div.someclass { > width: 300px; > * width: 320px; > } > > which is it is different than the standard star selector hack, i.e. > > * html div.someclass { > width: 320px; > } > > > what is the first exam

Re: [css-d] negative absolute positioning bad for SEO?

2008-05-14 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 14 May 2008 14:51:05 -0600, Brian Campbell wrote: > i've been using negative absolute positioning on text that i want hidden, but > need to > be accessible to alternate devices. someone has suggested that the text won't > be seen > by bots (like google) so it won't be processed and can't

Re: [css-d] FW: Map remote css directory to local directory

2008-05-13 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:22:55 +0100, Oliver Secluna wrote: > Hi, > > > I am trying to find the quickest way for externally css contractors to work > with a > website built on a content management system that was created by the company > I work for. > > > The html of the site can't be edited by the

Re: [css-d] IE6 & 7 extra space in menu

2008-05-13 Thread David Hucklesby
ox. You >>> can see >>> the problem at: http://suzie.ninawooster.com/books/growUp/index.html >>> >>> [...] > David Hucklesby asked: >> It looks like you fixed it, Nina. Gaps in vertical lists is a common problem >> for IE. >> Would you like to share your soluti

Re: [css-d] IE6 & 7 extra space in menu

2008-05-12 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 10 May 2008 12:37:28 -0700, Nina Wooster wrote: [...] > > I am running into a problem with my left side menu in IE6 and 7. There is > extra space > above my border lines. The menu displays as intended in Firefox. You can see > the > problem at: http://suzie.ninawooster.com/books/growUp/in

Re: [css-d] IE6 & 7 extra space in menu

2008-05-12 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 10 May 2008 12:37:28 -0700, Nina Wooster wrote: > Hello all, > This is my first posting but I've been a reader for awhile and very > appreciative of > this list. I previously worked in a shop where I was required to use tables, > pixel > specification, and classes rather than contextual s

Re: [css-d] Floated element and parent height

2008-05-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 7 May 2008 13:41:51 -0400, Steve Wilson wrote: > I could fix this with javascript, but I'd like to do a pure css solution if > possible. > > > text > > > The height of div.outer includes the height of div.inner (16px in firefox), as > expected. However, if I float div.inner: > > > text

Re: [css-d] Best Practice for Browser Differences ?

2008-05-07 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 07 May 2008 20:27:38 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[...] What is the > professional or commercial way of dealing with browser differences in CSS? > For > instance in the following: > > .thing { > position:absolute; > left:100px; > top:100px; > width:100px; > height:100px; > border:1px

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