[css-d] Couple of newbie CSS questions....

2011-02-16 Thread Doug Niven
Hi Folks, As mentioned in the subject line, these are newbie questions, in reference to the following: http://www.douglasniven.com/test.html Question One: there is a tiny gap (perhaps only two pixels tall) at the top of the row (highlighted in red at link above). What is the best/preferred way

[css-d] Bulleted list question

2010-05-18 Thread Doug Niven
Hi Folks, I'm working on the following page: http://dev.franslanting.com/index.php?module=companypId=100start=0 The bulleted list under Pricing is where I'm having trouble. I'd like the bullets to be in the flush left position they are in now, but I'd like the text --when it goes to a second

Re: [css-d] Bulleted list question

2010-05-18 Thread Doug Niven
Thierry, Thanks! Perfect solution, though I needed to adjust the margin. Doug This is tricky because the list is next to a float. So try this: On the UL: {overflow:hidden;zoom:1;} On the LIs: {list-style-position:outside;margin-left:15px;} Note that you should avoid styling things via

[css-d] Fixed three-column with padding: newbie question

2010-01-24 Thread Doug Niven
Hi Folks, I'm definitely a newbie, trying to wean myself off tables. What I need is a 720px wide box with three 240px cells inside it, with 10px padding-right for each cell. It cannot be flexible or stretchable. I found what I **thought** might be the recipe for such a design:

[css-d] Solved: Fixed three-column with padding: newbie question

2010-01-24 Thread Doug Niven
Hi Folks, Thanks to Thierry and Georg, this now makes sense. Thanks for the help. Doug +++ Hi Doug, I'm definitely a newbie, trying to wean myself off tables. What I need is a 720px wide box with three 240px cells inside it, with 10px padding-right for each cell. It cannot be flexible or

[css-d] IMG with inline PADDING not working in IE8

2010-01-13 Thread Doug Niven
Hi Folks, I'm no CSS expert and sometimes I need to nudge a photograph one direction or another a few pixels, and add inline CSS to do so, such as: pimg style=padding-top: 5px; src=super_girl.jpg/p However, I've noticed this additional padding is not displayed in Internet Explorer (I

[css-d] Bullet placement in unordered lists: IE alignment problem

2008-03-24 Thread Doug Niven
Hi Folks, I am using unordered lists styled with CSS and have discovered how IE aligns our bullets differently than all the other browsers: http://www.montanamasterchefs.com/schedule.php Using IE the gold bullets above are top aligned while in other browsers they are bottom aligned. Any

[css-d] Image within DIV alignment problem

2008-02-10 Thread Doug Niven
Hi Folks, I've got a frustrating problem center-aligning images within a DIV, which can be seen here: http://niven.gotodon.net/slideshow7.html Though this does display correctly on some Windows browsers, it breaks in Firefox (Mac) and Safari (Mac). Here's a screen capture of what we're seeing:

[css-d] CSS borders

2007-03-30 Thread Doug Niven
Hi Folks, I hate to ask such a seemingly simple question but I've spent a few hours trying to make this work and have run out of ideas. I'm trying to create table borders inside and out 1px thick, like the following: http://stinkyrat.com/css_borders.html The above is a graphic done in

[css-d] Pseudo-classes to style links | HELP please!!!

2006-07-05 Thread Doug Niven
Hi Folks, I am using the following styles to style links on a page: a:link, a:visited { text-decoration: underline; color:#937840; } a:hover { color: orange; text-decoration: none } However, at the bottom of my document in a footer I need to style the links differently and am completely

[css-d] Pseudo class links

2006-05-19 Thread Doug Niven
Hi Folks, I admit I'm no CSS wizard but I'm very perplexed why some very basic CSS to style my links is not working: http://www.douglasniven.com/books.php I have the following embedded directly onto the page above: style type=text/css!-- a:link {color: red} /* unvisited link */ a:visited

[css-d] Eric Meyer thumbnail gallery

2005-06-28 Thread Doug Niven
Hello folks, There is a very nice thumbnail gallery in the More Eric Meyer on CSS book, which I have temporarily posted here for easy reference: http://stinkyrat.com/proj02/ch0207.html My question: Is there any way to align the thumbnails along one baseline? I think it's a great layout