Re: [css-d] SPAN obsolete?

2006-09-07 Thread Donna Casey
Wes Gamble wrote: I saw a comment on the list recently that the SPAN tag was obsolete. Can anyone explain how that is? It isn't. Using a span is a great way to hang a class or contextual style on an inline element inside a paragraph or list item, for example. p class=foosome text here is

Re: [css-d] Coping with Overflow

2006-08-18 Thread Donna Casey
values for a rule. some useful links about ie cc: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomment_ovw.asp http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/conditional.html HTH Donna Casey __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [css-d] IE adding spaces between li nav tags

2006-06-15 Thread Donna Casey
Tanya Fader wrote: I've created a roll-over CSS navigation (using a little .js). This is an example for navigation code I found somewhere else. I've added background images to each of the li nav elements so that they work more like rollovers (just a note that I haven't finished so the

Re: [css-d] Is it impossible to set margin to h1, h2... el ?

2006-05-26 Thread Donna Casey
them) Donna Casey __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported

[css-d] dithered.com domain expired?

2006-05-21 Thread Donna Casey
Does anyone know where the CSS filters page at dithered.com went to? I get a this domain expired notice going to my bookmark for it. thanks Donna __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d

Re: [css-d] Universal reset of margins and padding: Which techniquedo you prefer?

2006-05-11 Thread Donna Casey
Shawn Lawler wrote: Using the * selector removes that functionality, and when you then click a button, it'll not look as if you're pushing it in. which isn't as easily fixed as one might think, as some browsers manage this differently than others. Better to not break this functionality for

Re: [css-d] Disabling wrapping elements within a div

2006-04-17 Thread Donna Casey
Mike Botsko wrote: http://www.botsko.net/test.html However, I don't want the link text itself to wrap, so that a link is broken between two lines. I just want the entire link to be pushed to the next line if the first line is too long, I don't want it to wrap the link itself otherwise the gray

Re: [css-d] layout - not centered, not left aligned

2006-04-11 Thread Donna Casey
Trey wrote: say you have a page/design that's 900px wide, but you want anyone with a view portal of say 800px to see the _rightmost_ 800px. so the design is neither centered nor left aligned. What's wrong with placing everything in a wrapper div that is absolutely positioned right?

Re: [css-d] class on body

2006-04-10 Thread Donna Casey
. Class might be used over ID (on the body tag) where an ID is already specified for that tag (to trigger other properties that maybe are shared by more than one page layout). Since you can only have on ID on the element, a class might be used to trigger the menu properties. HTH Donna Casey

Re: [css-d] Left floated div causes 2 or 3 pix shift of text in IE

2006-02-20 Thread Donna Casey
Admin at AK wrote: Can aomeone point me at the page, or a page, where the way round this is dealt with. http://positioniseverything.net/explorer/threepxtest.html HTH __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Is there a CSS hack png transparency?

2006-02-02 Thread Donna Casey
Abyss Information wrote: [...] PNG transparency and its problems with ie [...] my question is when you want to use it with a CSS via a style sheet [...] it falls over and doesn't work; is there a CSS hack for this? AFAIK, png transparency hacks (rather, scripting) only works on foreground

Re: [css-d] Really small fonts on IE

2005-12-20 Thread Donna Casey
Scott Haneda wrote: Are there any known issues I can be made aware of that would make fonts on IE Windows unreadably small? I have a site that gets a good deal of traffic, 2 users have reported this, and I can not replicate it. Setting the font size to anything other than default in IE does

Re: [css-d] Background image

2005-12-19 Thread Donna Casey
Stephen Kortz wrote: If you had a rule: div imagecaption { background: #036 url(gradient.gif) repeat-X 0 100%; } And the background image is going to be a gradient that is 1px in height, how does the gradient know how tall to be? If your gradient is oriented vertically (taller than

Re: [css-d] Background Gradient

2005-12-18 Thread Donna Casey
Stephen Kortz wrote: When you are using a gradient as a background element repeating along the X axis. Is the gradient only as tall as you make it? yes, but you can artfully fade that gradient into a solid background color on the body's rule. If you make the image (jpg) only 1px wide, you

Re: [css-d] class vs. id

2005-12-14 Thread Donna Casey
Christian Heilmann wrote: However, as sexy as highlighting with CSS only is, it does not make sense from a usability/accessibility point of view, as the current page _should not be a link_. Personally I highlight the current page with a strong - as this also makes sense without CSS and use

Re: [css-d] Text decoration help

2005-11-26 Thread Donna Casey
Angus at InfoForce Services wrote: Donna Sorry. My screen reader is not seeing the underline, well, it's there (lots of it) - for example Position in the Adaptive Technology field is underlined in both Firefox 1.0.7 and IE6 windows What's your screen reader and are you sure you haven't

Re: [css-d] Text decoration help

2005-11-26 Thread Donna Casey
Angus at InfoForce Services wrote: Donna I do not know what is wrong with my JAWS. I am tryingt to figure out why underlineing is not being spoken. I am not all that familiar with JAWS, but would it speak underlined if the text isn't a link? Donna

Re: [css-d] Text decoration help

2005-11-25 Thread Donna Casey
Using em as a class or id name is probably a bad idea. the person isn't using as a class name, but rather, redefining the em appearance so that when they use emmy text here/em, it uses the properties given. em { font-weight: 900; text-decoration: underline; } but that says nothing

Re: [css-d] Question from a beginner

2005-11-15 Thread Donna Casey
Stephen Kortz wrote: Hi all, Is there a preferred way to get a project started. What I mean to say is, do you type of all the HTML first, mark it up and then write the CSS or do you do it piece meal? I think most folks *start* by doing it piece meal, as you say --a trial and error

Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - In Search of the One True Layout

2005-10-26 Thread Donna Casey
Duckworth, Nigel wrote: Yep, exactly as Donna described. But...I can also make everything disappear by clicking on the little square box in the top right with the [x] in it. ;) Seriously though, who does this (besides us)? And is this problem unique to this method? I suppose someone wanting to

Re: [css-d] New article on PIE - In Search of the One True Layout

2005-10-26 Thread Donna Casey
windows xp pro sp2, not osx Tom Livingston wrote: Wow. How'd you do that!?!?!? OS X FF 1.0.7 Don't see it in Safari or Opera 9pr1 Mac - under Tiger __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] download font

2005-10-03 Thread Donna Casey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may sound like a stupid q but why? I mean, fonts take up virtually no space and AFAIK cant be used in a malicious way? Can they? Is this some old ruling from the old school or is there a valid reason fonts declared in CSS cant be retrieved upon request? fonts

Re: [css-d] Vertically aligning image and text

2005-09-30 Thread Donna Casey
JJ wrote: What is best way to display the image (26px tall) and then the text (about 12px tall) on the same line, with the text vertically aligned at the middle of each image? .listbox li { clear: both; padding-top: .5em; list-style-type: none; line-height:

Re: [css-d] Flash, Video, CSS -- Can they live together?

2005-09-29 Thread Donna Casey
Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: Isn't the video/Flash content, not display gunk? Thus, it *should* be added into the XHTML markup of your page, using the element that was made for it: object. Then, just use CSS to style or position the object as you like. but isn't there an issue with swfs,

[css-d] The definitive truth about Internet Explorer default text size settings

2005-09-28 Thread Donna Casey
can someone point me to a page that is 1) true, 2) reliable, and recognizably authorative, and 3) that says what the default settings are for Internet Explorer browsers - as in ViewText SizeLargest, Larger, Medium, Smaller, Small? I'm in a heated debate with a company for whom I do a lot of

Re: [css-d] The definitive truth about Internet Explorer default text size settings

2005-09-28 Thread Donna Casey
Felix Miata wrote: Medium on IE is always 12pt BTW. **yes, roughly 16px if you calculate the difference between windows and macintosh (default 16px) Exactly why is it you need to gauge size in pixel amounts? Then sizing can be calculated easier. 1.2em in a container that inherits the

Re: [css-d] The definitive truth about Internet Explorer default text size settings

2005-09-28 Thread Donna Casey
Rick Faircloth wrote: I looked into that by simply installing IE fresh to see what it set up by default for text size, because I new most users would never change it and wanted to match my default font size to look its best with that setting. It defaulted to Medium... yes, the guy has since

Re: [css-d] The definitive truth about Internet Explorer default text size settings

2005-09-28 Thread Donna Casey
Dejan Kozina wrote: I've used Eudora Light (3.0.6) for ca. 6 years both at home and work without any such effect on IE 4/5/5.5/6/6SP1... Eudora4x bug __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Pre-Launch Site check

2005-09-15 Thread Donna Casey
Rob Cochrane wrote: Tanya Renne wrote: Unveiling tonight - launching tomorrow ... http://www.orchidsuites.net/asq509/ Hello Tanya, Opera v8 the whole top navigation degrades to lists. When resizing smaller the faux column behind side navigation moves left off the page IE6 and FF Top

Re: [css-d] to container/wrapper or not to container/wrapper

2005-08-22 Thread Donna Casey
4css wrote: This just came up today on a forum I visit, question was in regards to using a container/wrapper when doing your designs, if so, what would the reasons be, if not why not, is this just for certain layouts, fixed and fluid, just fixed, just floats etc.. well, I'd say it's kind

Re: [css-d] UL Navigation: background image problems in FireFox :(

2005-08-18 Thread Donna Casey
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Re: [css-d] UL Navigation: background image problems in FireFox :(

2005-08-18 Thread Donna Casey
No, I see what you are saying now...the line to the RIGHT of the last tab doesn't display the same. That line displays fine to the LEFT of the Admin tab but not to the right. It might be useful to see how it works when the other tabs take you to pages using the same interface - they seem to go