Re: [css-d] IETester vs. Real IE6: discrepancy

2010-02-18 Thread G. Sørtun
Peter Abramowicz wrote: Why don't you use conditional comments for IE6 and leave italics for all the other browsers. Agree, but a simple old-IE hack in the stylesheet will IMO be better... .italic {font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;} * html .italic {font-style:normal;

Re: [css-d] divs dropping

2010-02-15 Thread G. Sørtun
e...@copywritecolombia.com wrote: Yes if you turn off the css then and just have the simple html as long as you read it then that is correctly formatted? My question is if there any way I can make this html better? We usually don't deal with HTML as such here on css-d. We focus on CSS

Re: [css-d] IETester vs. Real IE6: discrepancy

2010-02-11 Thread G. Sørtun
Brian M. Curran wrote: I tested my page http://www.draftingservices.com/building_survey.html in IETester and it showed my right column pushed down, as if I had an issue with my column widths. Noticed that IE6, IETester and standalone dropped the right column when set to _normal_ or

Re: [css-d] IETester vs. Real IE6: discrepancy

2010-02-11 Thread G. Sørtun
Brian M. Curran wrote: Thank you. However, could you explain a bit more because I Googled auto-expansion bug and didn't find much, and my margins are set to: margin:0; . This is as good an explanation as any for that bug in IE6 and older...

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

2010-01-24 Thread G. Sørtun
Doug Niven wrote: However, I cannot get the middle cell to display 240px wide: http://people.ucsc.edu/~class1/ Subtract the side-padding from the float-width - both side-floats. width: 230px + padding-right: 10px equals float-width = 240px. That will leave 240px between the floats.

Re: [css-d] Div that fixed vertically but floated right

2010-01-18 Thread G. Sørtun
Dave M G wrote: I am trying to create a DIV that floats to the right of some content, but will stay fixed vertically even when the page is scrolled up or down. Is it the behavior of the right float on this page you want... http://www.gunlaug.no/main-en.html ...? If so, that's a

Re: [css-d] Relative paths for images not working

2010-01-17 Thread G. Sørtun
Karl Bedingfield wrote: Having a little problem with image paths. [...] My folder structure is: library folder holds css folder and images folder. Since css folder and image folder are in same folder, try the short and direct... .header h2 a { background:

Re: [css-d] 4 part question about lining up 'boxes' of information

2010-01-15 Thread G. Sørtun
Lisa Frost wrote: The page in question is here: http://www.diabetesflight50.org/test/xhtml/supporters.html I don't want to be emailing you all for every little thing that stumps me. Why not? That's what CSS-D is for. :-) Floats are not well suited for that kind of line-up. Resize text

Re: [css-d] Opera 10 and percentage min-height

2010-01-02 Thread G. Sørtun
Ingo Chao wrote: here is the testcase with the :root:overflow fix http://satzansatz.de/op/minheightrootoverflow.html Great! I arrived late on this thread, and it is good the see a fix has been found for that irritating bug. regards Georg

Re: [css-d] Opera 10 and percentage min-height

2010-01-02 Thread G. Sørtun
Alan Gresley wrote: What bug are you talking about. There were two bugs. I'm only interested in the following... 1. min-height bug with Opera 10.00 as demonstrated by Ingo and fixed with :root { overflow: auto; }. ...and the fact that it appears to be fixed in upcoming Opera versions.

Re: [css-d] :: makeready ::

2009-12-22 Thread G. Sørtun
David Laakso wrote: I'd appreciate your comments and suggestions on this site. http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ Question: do you mean STRONG or *BOLD* when you code... pstrongBelow are/strong thumbnail images.. ...? (You know what I mean ;-) ) Also, IMO the horizontal line should be

Re: [css-d] Table-like design with numbered rows

2009-12-09 Thread G. Sørtun
Magnus Fahlström wrote: I don't know how to achieve this without using a table: http://www.magstorm.se/table.htm A table-like design with four columns, with every row numbered, wrapped in a float:left div. For content that fits the tabular data definition, use HTML tables. Your example

Re: [css-d] Rounded Corners

2009-12-02 Thread G. Sørtun
Chick Newman wrote: I would like to know what people are doing to create rounded corners on div borders in non-mozilla , non-safari browsers. Still rely on shaped corners in all browsers, with javascript or editor generated source-code... http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/wd_demo_shapes_03.html

Re: [css-d] aligning elements

2009-11-25 Thread G. Sørtun
Lisa Frost wrote: How do I go about vertically aligning the name of the villa in my header div with the menu. Page is here: http://www.villaphuket.com/dev/ Better to do it backwards :-) Style the ul to... #header ul { margin : 15px 0 6px 0; padding: 0; float: right; } ...and

Re: [css-d] FireFox/CSS Question

2009-11-18 Thread G. Sørtun
tedd wrote: ... Please review the following using FireFox: http://php1.net/a-menus/simple-drop-down/ Can't see any problems in Firefox 3.0 / 3.5 on windows or Linux. Appears and works the same as in other browsers. regards Georg

Re: [css-d] conditional css for Opera?

2009-11-16 Thread G. Sørtun
Angela French wrote: I have some foreign language text on my page (Cambodian) which I have rendered in html. Opera, IE, and FF all render the text in different sizes. I have tried em, pt, px, %. I can do a conditional style sheet to target IE, but I don't have a way to target Opera.

Re: [css-d] why does Firefox add padding?

2009-11-12 Thread G. Sørtun
r...@catjuggling.com wrote: I have tried this page in Chrome, Safari, IE6, and Firefox. In the first three browsers I get the result I expect, but Firefox is doing its own thing. http://www.mcmullincreative.com/crows/ I guess you want it to appear like this...

Re: [css-d] Vertical padding weirdness

2009-11-08 Thread G. Sørtun
Benct Philip Jonsson wrote: Will setting any small amount of padding on the innermost containing box do the trick, like 1px or even 0px as opposed to not declaring any padding at all? Has to result in a real vertical padding - minimum 1px - to work reliable, so 0px, or a value so small

Re: [css-d] What defines a ture holy grail layout?

2009-11-07 Thread G. Sørtun
Jay Tanna wrote: So is Lassko our resident expert on all things CSS here? Mmmm, *Laakso* is _good_ - especially at tearing our dream-designs apart. I quite often let him have a go at mine ;-) It is useful to know so that we can fire quick questions towards him to his direct email.

Re: [css-d] Vertical padding weirdness

2009-11-05 Thread G. Sørtun
Benct Philip Jonsson wrote: So that's the margins of the h1 and the p interfering? Outside the boxes of the divs which contain them? I *really* don't understand how margins are calculated! You're encountering collapsing margins... http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html#collapsing-margins

Re: [css-d] Background-color Modifying Element Sizes?

2009-10-22 Thread G. Sørtun
Hugh Guiney wrote: http://www.nospoon.tv/test/bgcolor.html. I have tried this in Firefox 3.5.3 and Chrome 3.0.195.27 on Windows XP and the result is the same. Oddly enough, IE7 renders them exactly the opposite. So, barring that, how do I get the first example to render the same as the

Re: [css-d] Nav element is dropped in IE

2009-10-19 Thread G. Sørtun
Wade Smart wrote: My friend called about her web site having an issue. She said a button has dropped. http://www.bartlesvillehomefinder.net/ Zero out default margins and paddings on the ul... ul {padding: 0; margin: 0;} regards Georg

Re: [css-d] corresponding paragraphs

2009-10-16 Thread G. Sørtun
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: On the page at http://www.maireadnesbitt.com/press/press8a.html there is an article in French with a translation. It was a simple matter to place the two texts side by side and at the same time, assure that corresponding paragraphs begin on the same line, by