Re: [css-d] what does !important mean?

2012-04-20 Thread David Thorp
Thanks everyone for the responses, (including a couple of private ones) particularly those pointing me to useful articles etc. I'm now enlightened. ;) Much appreciated. Cheers, David. __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] what does !important mean?

2012-04-19 Thread David Thorp
Really? No one knows? I tried googling it and seeking it out on w3schools, but can't seem to find the !important thing specifically. Just finds lots of (unhelpful) instances of the word important. (Search engines ignore punctuation supposedly). David On 18/04/2012, at 6:03 AM, David Thorp

[css-d] what does !important mean?

2012-04-18 Thread David Thorp
Greetings all... Every now and then, when I'm reading other peoples'/companies' css code, i see this !important thing added to the end of some of the lines in css. What does it do/change? Thanks! David. __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-03-11 Thread David Thorp
: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 8:09 AM, David Thorp mailingli...@allaboutabundance.com wrote: Just to clarify, what I mean is, as soon as I add resize:horizontal; to the div.sidebar {}, it breaks. -- It is a little difficult to help because you seem a little confused about CSS [look and feel

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-03-10 Thread David Thorp
of you to help. So thanks, yet again... David. On 10/03/2012, at 11:45 PM, Ghodmode wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:55 AM, David Thorp mailingli...@allaboutabundance.com wrote: Hi again Vince, Ok, well as recommended by you in the other thread, I've started over, and in this case I'm

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-03-10 Thread David Thorp
Just to clarify, what I mean is, as soon as I add resize:horizontal; to the div.sidebar {}, it breaks. On 11/03/2012, at 12:05 AM, David Thorp wrote: Duh. Brilliant. Now that you present that, it's pretty obvious. Haha. Thanks. But now we have another challenge. How do we make

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-09 Thread David Thorp
put that together soon and let you have a look and you can tell me if I'm on the right track. ;) On 09/03/2012, at 7:05 PM, Ghodmode wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:47 AM, David Thorp mailingli...@allaboutabundance.com wrote: Brilliant on both counts. Thanks! Except... Now

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-09 Thread David Thorp
Interesting idea David. What would you say are the pros and cons of this method? On 09/03/2012, at 8:23 PM, David Laakso wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:36 AM, David Thorp mailingli...@allaboutabundance.com wrote What you describe (starting over) is exactly what I've just started

[css-d] classes...?

2012-03-09 Thread David Thorp
Greetings all... again... ;) I'm familiar with some concepts from object oriented programming. In particular something which i think is called encapsulation. In languages like C++ you build classes which are portable mini programs that do stuff. You can pick them up and plug them into any

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-03-09 Thread David Thorp
, at 1:54 PM, Ghodmode wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 3:58 PM, David Thorp mailingli...@allaboutabundance.com.au wrote: Greetings all... I'm relatively new to both CSS, and this list, but I've had some very positive experiences on other lists for other programming tools, so I'm hoping

Re: [css-d] classes...?

2012-03-09 Thread David Thorp
to people on this list) that it's best not to use tables for layout. On 09/03/2012, at 9:17 PM, David Thorp wrote: Greetings all... again... ;) I'm familiar with some concepts from object oriented programming. In particular something which i think is called encapsulation. In languages

Re: [css-d] classes...?

2012-03-09 Thread David Thorp
chimed in on this. I'll do some more research and look into the suggestions that were made. Cheers, David. On 10/03/2012, at 4:33 AM, David Thorp wrote: I've had a couple of private replies saying that this question is off-topic because it's nothing to do with css. If that's really

Re: [css-d] classes...?

2012-03-09 Thread David Thorp
Frank M Taylor http://frankmtaylor.com @paceaux /signature On Mar 9, 2012, at 3:17 AM, David Thorp wrote: Greetings all... again... ;) I'm familiar with some concepts from object oriented programming. In particular something which i think is called encapsulation

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
(...) at the end of a row of text that's been cut short, that would be even more awesome. ie. a really really rea…) ;) Thanks! David. On 08/03/2012, at 7:41 PM, Ghodmode wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:53 PM, David Thorp mailingli...@allaboutabundance.com wrote: Greetings all, Thanks again

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
Correction: http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-0b.html http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/css/browser-0b.css On 08/03/2012, at 8:54 PM, David Thorp wrote: Hi Vince, Thanks for another helpful reply. That all makes sense. One small problem

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
, Ghodmode wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:54 PM, David Thorp mailingli...@allaboutabundance.com wrote: Hi Vince, Thanks for another helpful reply. That all makes sense. One small problem with the nowrap... See this: http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-0b.html http

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
And in Firefox I'm getting some other nasty inconsistencies too. Haven't dared try Chrome or Opera yet, although again, I don't need any of these. Only IE9 and Safari. But still... why are they all so wildly inconsistent?? On 09/03/2012, at 12:47 PM, David Thorp wrote: Brilliant on both

Re: [css-d] extra blank rows in table to fill window.

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
Brilliant, that's hit the nail on the head, at least in Safari (both Mac and Win). It doesn't seem to be working in IE9 though. Did I miss something? I can see you've specifically put code in there for -ms-... (That's for IE, right?), so how come not working? :( On 09/03/2012, at 1:36 AM,

[css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-07 Thread David Thorp
Greetings all, Thanks again to those who helped me last week. A couple of new problems now. First, here's the code: http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-tables-2.html http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/css/browser-tables-2.css My confusion lies with the display

[css-d] extra blank rows in table to fill window.

2012-03-07 Thread David Thorp
Hi all, Another question on my current project... Again, first, here's the code: http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-tables-2.html http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/css/browser-tables-2.css Also look at this image for reference:

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-03-01 Thread David Thorp
now and will get back to this next week. So I'll try this out then and let you know if I have any problems. David. On 01/03/2012, at 1:54 PM, Ghodmode wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 3:58 PM, David Thorp mailingli...@allaboutabundance.com.au wrote: Greetings all... I'm relatively new

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-02-29 Thread David Thorp
the question again where you can all see what's going on. That'll be a couple of days probably. Thanks again! David (T). On 27/02/2012, at 3:49 PM, David Laakso wrote: On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 2:58 AM, David Thorp mailingli...@allaboutabundance.com.au wrote: Greetings all... I'm relatively

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-02-29 Thread David Thorp
). On 27/02/2012, at 9:43 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: On 2/25/12 11:58 PM, David Thorp wrote: [...] I have a number ofdiv objects arranged in various positions: 1. A toolbar across the top that is the full width of the window (width:100%) and 30px in height. 2. A sidebar down the left hand

[css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-02-25 Thread David Thorp
Greetings all... I'm relatively new to both CSS, and this list, but I've had some very positive experiences on other lists for other programming tools, so I'm hoping this list will be similar :) I've been learning css from the w3schools website, which seems to be pretty good as a crash