Re: [css-d] positioning problems (IE and Opera)

2008-08-28 Thread Ingo Chao
Elle Meredith wrote: > ... > In Opera 9 the main problem is that the logo is positioned too much to > the left. Also my stage on the gallery page is again positioned to the > left instead of right > > The site is at: http://designbyelle.com.au/poinciana/ It is absolutely positioned, but i

Re: [css-d] positioning problems (IE and Opera)

2008-08-28 Thread Ingo Chao
Elle Meredith wrote: > ... > > the round corners in the main navigation -- one > corner does not align. > > The site is at: http://designbyelle.com.au/poinciana/ > > #main-nav ul li a { /*screen.css (Line 68)*/ background: white url(../img/rounded-left.gif) no-repeat left bottom; ... I t

Re: [css-d] Odd ?bug? in IE7

2008-08-14 Thread Ingo Chao
Alan K Baker wrote: > I was using IE7 today, with in excess of 10 tabs open. The last one > happened to be where I was viewing the output from my edited code, on > a dual screen. > > The css definition contains a reference to a 1 pixel png file that is > repeated within a in both x and y directio

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

2008-08-14 Thread Ingo Chao
Manuel Razzari wrote: > So, using conditional comments, I produced a CSS file which targets IE6 only. > Then, due to an extremely bizarre client situation, it turns out I > can't use conditional comments > > ... > > Any ideas? Or must I fall back to prepending * html to all my IE6 rules? Why no

Re: [css-d] Absolute Positioned Div Disappears in IE6

2008-08-08 Thread Ingo Chao
Elli Vizcaino wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have an absolutely positioned div in a relatively positioned div > which is also floated left (see #sn_hdr_wrap and #sn_login-info). I > am working with HTML that I CAN NOT touch but have to be able to > reposition. It's fine in Windows FF, haven't tested IE7

Re: [css-d] Internet Explorer "Open link in new tab" issue

2008-08-05 Thread Ingo Chao
Pirkka Rannikko wrote: > > http://www.fi";> >http://www.fi > > > When you right click the link to open the browser context menu to > choose the option "Open link in new tab" IE6 and IE7 don't recognize > the link and the usual options related to links are not shown in the > menu. Also the cu

Re: [css-d] css positonal issues on site

2008-08-05 Thread Ingo Chao
Lisa Wilcox wrote: > ... > http://www.webgirlwebdesigns.com/testing/Krumm/index.html > > The menu seems to spread out on some pages and the text spacing is screwy > depending on the browser. .. #menu a has a padding on page1.css, but not on page4.css. Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.htm

Re: [css-d] CSS Opacity with tags. Can this be done in CSS?

2008-08-05 Thread Ingo Chao
Bill Brown wrote: > Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: >> No, it is completely true. The 'opacity' property applies to the whole >> box and its descendants. >> >> Using RGBA/HSLA colours is a completely different game. You don't use >> or affect the opacity of the box, only use a semi-transparent colo

Re: [css-d] :: Mac Safari Display Problem ::

2008-08-05 Thread Ingo Chao
Amrinder wrote: > Hi > > Yesterday I opened my portfolio website www.awayback.com using Safari > (Mac) and it showed unexpected line height and font size of sifr > embedded headers. http://www.awayback.com/work/index.html You mean Safari 2.0.4? You'd have to set line-height explicitely, not in

Re: [css-d] Peer Review: Mockup/Template

2008-08-04 Thread Ingo Chao
David Laakso wrote: > ... > Not too freak out, but I prefer your page with images disabled-- > darkness and diagonals always scare me. > > Isak Dinesen > The diagonals are scaring me, too. Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html http://www.dolphinsback.com _

Re: [css-d] IE positioning problem (background in list element)

2008-08-02 Thread Ingo Chao
Jeff Ferrell wrote: > Hi, everyone! > > I'm just having a small but perplexing layout problem in IE (7, at > least...I haven't looked lower) -- As long as nobody on this high school uses IE6, its ok. Those who do probably have to get used to that page. > > The page is here: http://www.rchseag

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

2008-07-24 Thread Ingo Chao
Blake wrote: > ...In IE6, when you > hover over the links all over the images on the page (but not > background images) disappear and they don't reappear under any > circumstances (apart from a refresh of course). ... > > I am really lost as to why this is happening. Any solutions? > > The code f

Re: [css-d] Elements exploding apart in IE6

2008-07-20 Thread Ingo Chao
James Kline wrote: > > On 20 Jul 2008, at 21:27, Ingo Chao wrote: > >> James Kline wrote: >>> ... I am finding IE fixes a huge learning curve. >> >> you are right. >> >>> HTML at: http://www.jamesklinephotodesign.co

Re: [css-d] Elements exploding apart in IE6

2008-07-20 Thread Ingo Chao
James Kline wrote: > ... I am finding IE fixes a huge learning > curve. you are right. > > HTML at: http://www.jamesklinephotodesign.co.uk/WMBTbarnsiteV2/ > home.html > CSS at: http://www.jamesklinephotodesign.co.uk/WMBTbarnsiteV2/wmbt.css IE6 does not support position:fixed. IN this case

Re: [css-d] Opera sees content and draws a scrollbar, others ok

2008-07-14 Thread Ingo Chao
Rick Lecoat wrote: > On 10 Jul 2008, at 22:42, Ingo Chao wrote: > >>> http://novatest.sharkattack.co.uk/development.php >> >> Did you mean this is typeStyle.css ? >> >> a .extraLinktext { >> position: absolute; >> left: -999em; &

Re: [css-d] transparencies

2008-07-13 Thread Ingo Chao
Marshal Horn wrote: > ... > If no-one has come up with this before, I need to suggest it to the > working draft. (please tell me and link to where it has been > mentioned before if you know of it) I did not fully understand this proposal. I believe you are suggesting something like an uplevel lo

Re: [css-d] Opera sees content and draws a scrollbar, others ok

2008-07-13 Thread Ingo Chao
Rick Lecoat wrote: > > On 12 Jul 2008, at 08:41, Ingo Chao wrote: > >> ok, did you try >> >> a .extraLinktext { >> position: absolute; >> left: -999em; >> top:-999em; >> } >> a:focus .extraLinktext { >> positi

Re: [css-d] li:hover for IE6

2008-07-11 Thread Ingo Chao
Bill Brown wrote: > ... > That file allows IE6 to emulate the *:hover functionality. > > Feel free to download the csshover.htc file from the same directory or > google "whatever:hover" to download it directly from the author. Peter Nederlof http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/csshover.html Give credi

Re: [css-d] centering navigation tabs in a header section

2008-07-10 Thread Ingo Chao
Kelly Moore wrote: > I'm trying to center navigation tabs, within a header section. > Somehow the tabs are still stuck to the left. > > I'm using the following CSS: > > width: 600px; > margin-left:auto; > margin-right:auto; > float:left; > > Any ideas of what i'm doing wrong? A

Re: [css-d] Opera sees content and draws a scrollbar, others ok

2008-07-10 Thread Ingo Chao
Rick Lecoat wrote: > ... > > CSS: > a .onfocustext {position: absolute; left: -px;} > a .onfocustext:focus {position: relative; left: 0;} > ... > > http://novatest.sharkattack.co.uk/development.php Did you mean this is typeStyle.css ? a .extraLinktext { position: absolute; l

Re: [css-d] help with gap in IE6

2008-07-08 Thread Ingo Chao
Webmaster wrote: > URL: http://www.tusculum.edu/adult/ndblue.html > CSS: http://www.tusculum.edu/css/ndblue.css > > I've got a problem with IE6 I cannot solve. There's a gap at the top of the > page that I need to fix, and I don't know if the problem lies in the markup > for the DIV or in the si

Re: [css-d] : Scrollbar for iframe not showing up in Safari/Mac

2008-06-30 Thread Ingo Chao
Yes, there is a problem in Safari 2, not in 3. regards, Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html http://www.dolphinsback.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- htt

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

2008-06-26 Thread Ingo Chao
Webmaster wrote: > URL: http://www.tusculum.edu/giving/nd.html CSS: > http://www.tusculum.edu/css/ndbrown.css > > > ...in IE6, you'll notice that the orange tab which > should be at the top of the page is pushed down the page. That's the > first problem. Another problem is the photo. In IE6, the

Re: [css-d] easy clearing: a new way?

2008-06-23 Thread Ingo Chao
Wellington Fan wrote: > Gabriele Romanato wrote: >> try to change >> >> content: "."; >> >> with >> >> content: "\A"; >> >> does it work? IE8?? let me know. >> >> xxx ^.^ >> >> > > > I have recently tried using the "overflow:auto" trick to clear > floats...seems to work wonders! > > http://w

Re: [css-d] positioning inside table cell?

2008-06-19 Thread Ingo Chao
Wellington Fan wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a small that I'd like to position in the upper right corner > of a table cell, regardless of any align/valign attributes. See this page: > > http://www.illuminoid.com/tables/cellposition.php > > I thought that adding 'position:relative' to the and

Re: [css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread Ingo Chao
Dave Sherohman wrote: > ... > I did not remove the relative positioning, I just moved it from li to > li:hover, but this seems to have been sufficient to cause IE to make it > absolute, even when hovering on the li. > Because li:hover is not supported in IE < 7. Therefore, IE 6 does not acknowle

Re: [css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread Ingo Chao
Dave Sherohman wrote: > ... > >> The generic approach to fix that problem is to set position:relative on >> li:hover only. By doing this, the subsequent will not be placed >> above the hovered in question, because only this li is positioined >> and gets a higher rank in the painting order. >>

Re: [css-d] Getting past the IE6 z-index bug

2008-06-17 Thread Ingo Chao
Dave Sherohman wrote: > I'm currently in the midst of reinventing the CSS cascading popup menu > (with just a hint of javascript to do the show/hide, thanks to IE6's > lack of li:hover) and have got it pretty well worked out in Firefox and > Safari, but IE6 is killing me with its insistence on hidi

Re: [css-d] Anyone have a clue? IE body-padding bug?

2008-06-16 Thread Ingo Chao
Pete Holzmann wrote: > ... > Reduced to the minimum at http://www.ds.org/test/iepieoverlay/ > > * On FF, you see a pink overlay across the whole page, with some text in > the middle. > * On IE6, the overlay is limited to part of the left side. > > Clearly, IE6 pays attention to the body{} paddin

Re: [css-d] Firefox problem with flyout menus

2008-06-05 Thread Ingo Chao
Tom McNeer wrote: > Ingo, > > Thanks very, very much for your explanation. I didn't actually see anything > happen in Firebug when I selected #twocolumn and moved my mouse near the > borderline. What should I have seen? It was just a debugging note. When hovering over the submenu, the mouse loos

Re: [css-d] Firefox problem with flyout menus

2008-06-05 Thread Ingo Chao
Tom McNeer wrote: > Hi folks, > > Before I ask for help, let me warn everyone that the code I'm about to point > you to does not validate. And I do not (at the moment) have > access/permission to make it so. > > But if you're willing to take a look, I'd appreciate any opinions on the > problem. >

Re: [css-d] does anyone have any experience with the behavioir property?

2008-05-28 Thread Ingo Chao
vincent pollard wrote: > ... it seems that the .htc file only works if in the same folder as the HTML > file and the path is relative to that, not relative to the stylesheet as > expected. > > can anyone shed some light on this? Yes, the path is relative to the html file. You can use an absolute

Re: [css-d] The "CSS Filter:Opacity() property & co." question > Carrying coals to Newcastle

2008-05-28 Thread Ingo Chao
Fichot Sébastien wrote: > Hello CSS-D Members ! > I'm looking for a trully working way to use transparency on image and > RGB backgrounds, with superposed links and stuff. Actually, I'm using > a PNG Transparency plugin which brokes hyperlinks... I'm not able to > find a blog post which indic

Re: [css-d] a:hover element in ie6

2008-05-28 Thread Ingo Chao
Phillip Cavaco wrote: ... > - simple "a" element with a "span" element in side of it. > - "a" with class "save" > > My CSS: > .save:hover span{ > color:#f00; > cursor:pointer; > } > > I thought in IE6 using a:hover element would work. It does. regarding the bug: a:hover {background-posi

Re: [css-d] IE6 ruins Holy Grail Layout with innocuous javascript

2008-05-23 Thread Ingo Chao
Chris Hardie wrote: > I've seen a lot, but this is a new one and a doozy: > > http://142.177.155.236/test.asp > > ... > Now, click on the "Change alt text of right-hand image" button. The > left-hand column is now thrown over 375 pixels, and the alert now > indicates an x-position of 380px! ...

Re: [css-d] off-left technique and width

2008-05-22 Thread Ingo Chao
Rainer Wagener wrote: > Ingo Chao schrieb: >> The off-left technique [1] often comes with a width set. >> Does anyone remember the reason for this width? IE5-Mac? > Because otherwise the hidden element could possibly extend into the > viewport. 'overflow:hidden'

Re: [css-d] floated anchors not wrapping/returning

2008-05-22 Thread Ingo Chao
Brian Cummiskey wrote: > Hi guys, > > Having an IE7 problem. > > please see: > http://imageupload.com/out.php/i120625_float.jpg > > Basically, ie7 in the screen shot is not wrapping/CR to the next line > like it does in firefox, thus having all the extra of the last block > hang down at the en

[css-d] off-left technique and width

2008-05-22 Thread Ingo Chao
Hi The off-left technique [1] often comes with a width set. Does anyone remember the reason for this width? IE5-Mac? .off-left { position: absolute; left: -999px; width: 990px; /**/ } or .hide{ position:absolute; top:0; left:-4000px; width:1px; /**/ } .show{ position:relative; top:0; lef

Re: [css-d] i'm having a nightmare with z-index and links

2008-05-14 Thread Ingo Chao
vincent pollard wrote: > i have a 'dropdown' that when visible has a z-index of 2 that overlaps a DIV > with no z-index set but is appearing above the 'dropdowns' (in IE anyway). > easy to fix by putting a z-index of -1 on the offending DIV. the trouble > with that is that our print function runat

Re: [css-d] Absolute positioning, off-screen positioning and scrollbars

2008-05-14 Thread Ingo Chao
Chris Hardie wrote: > And I presume because when the left attribute is assigned a negative > value, the calculation of the canvas's width is not increased, so scroll > bars are not added? >> Though it is taken out of the normal flow, it is still painted on the >> "canvas" (CSS 2.1: 2.3.1: "the s

Re: [css-d] Absolute positioning, off-screen positioning and scrollbars

2008-05-14 Thread Ingo Chao
Chris Hardie wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering if someone could point out where in the spec the following > behaviour is defined. If I use absolute positioning to position an > element off the left-hand side of the screen, I don't get any scroll bars: > > > > No scrollbars to see here! C

Re: [css-d] problems with links shifting in ie7

2008-05-08 Thread Ingo Chao
Rob freeman wrote: > ... > http://www.robertfreeman.co.uk/ > > and goto: > master12.html Debugging inside a frame is no fun. I think list-style-position should be outside, not inside. Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html http://www.dolphinsback.com ___

Re: [css-d] Overflow Hidden Headache

2008-05-08 Thread Ingo Chao
Chris Akins wrote: >>From my not-so-advanced vantage point, it appears that the overflow:hidden > is not being used so much to contain floats as there isn't but float in the > #container div. > > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Ingo Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [css-d] Overflow Hidden Headache

2008-05-06 Thread Ingo Chao
Chris Akins wrote: > If I take out the overflow:hidden from the #container rule, then the top > looks fine, but the bottom of the page goes haywire. Did not look into it, but if overflow:hidden is meant to contain floats in these layouts (instead of literally cutting what is overflowing), then

Re: [css-d] Safari nested UL that is position: absolute invisible.

2008-04-29 Thread Ingo Chao
Sandy wrote: > I have this site which has a js nav. It's pretty simple, when you roll > over an LI, the nested UL is supposed to display. And in all browsers > except Safari, it does. > This isn't a JS problem because removing the JS and saying display: > block on the UL does not help, its s

Re: [css-d] Negative margins versus Positioning

2008-04-26 Thread Ingo Chao
Ingo Chao wrote: > ... Negative margins move the outer edge of an > element "inwards", this can make an element move, since the surrounding > still touches the outer edge [1]. ... [1] http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/companions.html sorry. -- http://www.satzansa

Re: [css-d] Negative margins versus Positioning

2008-04-26 Thread Ingo Chao
Arian Hojat wrote: > I was getting reaquanted with 'A List Apart's tutorial on css shadows. > and i noticed they used negative margins for pulling out the image. > I first asked myself, Why not use negative relative positioning? Is it > a matter of choice? ... Offsetting an element (via top right

Re: [css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css than w3c compliant browsers?

2008-04-16 Thread Ingo Chao
Nicholas Wilson wrote: > ... > > We have to start with: > > > > Now IE has started a comment, and think > they are not in a comment. In theory, yes. In fact IE erroneously believes that > ...seen by everything except IE... > This is not correct. It is seen by everything, including IE

Re: [css-d] CSS background image not showing up

2008-04-15 Thread Ingo Chao
Carol Huddleston wrote: > ..., > http://home.comcast.net/~prairiedream/beginning/faux.html > ... > My problem right now is that the background image isn't showing at > all. I have faux.gif in a folder titled "images" like this: > > /beginning/images/faux.gif > > I also tried it like this: /ima

Re: [css-d] Clear a width wider than viewport

2008-04-08 Thread Ingo Chao
Mark Finney wrote: > Dear List, > > Not sure how I can force a container div to enclose the full width of its > child. > > Can't explain the problem clearly, so visit the link to see an example of > the issue. > > http://cathaytrade.co.uk/widercontent/ You could float the wrapper or apply disp

Re: [css-d] Help with the "C" in "CSS"

2008-04-07 Thread Ingo Chao
Michael Adams wrote: > ... > Then you have four factors involved which should be taken into account > in the following order: weight, origin, specificity, sort order. But you > didn't ask about them > > CSS 2.1:6.4.1 -4 says: "if two declarations have the same weight, origin and specificity, th

Re: [css-d] IE bug with background images on multi-line inline links

2008-04-06 Thread Ingo Chao
Adi Palazova wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I think that many of us have seen the IE bug with background images > on multi-line inline links. I’ve described three possible CSS > workarounds here: > > http://adipalaz.awardspace.com/linksbg-en.html > > These fixes are really simple and I hope they c

Re: [css-d] Should we start using inline-block?

2008-04-06 Thread Ingo Chao
Pentasis wrote: > Soon FF3 will be out. As far as I know it will support the > display:inline-block property. > Opera and Safari already support it, and IE6 and IE7 support it partially > with a relatively simply workaround. > So, should we abandon the "search" for the holy grail for multi-column

Re: [css-d] IE doesn't load css

2008-03-25 Thread Ingo Chao
Matt wrote: > One of my sites in IE (6,7) sometimes doesn't load CSS - it seems it loads > just portions of it but not all. Refresh with SHIFT usually helps but not > always. > > Whenever we update css we create a new path (version) in the URL for example > http://domain.com/css/version1234/sty

Re: [css-d] make link non-clickable

2008-03-18 Thread Ingo Chao
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > this exists in content > > link > > > if there any way to make that link non-clickable only with css You could replace the entire page by a large PNG. Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html http://www.dolphinsback.com

Re: [css-d] IE8 breaks layout

2008-03-18 Thread Ingo Chao
Tony Crockford wrote: > http://www.hyperhappen.com/ > > is the site, can anyone see what the issue might be? > > I wrote the css a long time ago and IE7 was quite happy with it, but > IE8 is cutting elements and backgrounds off. it seems to be not > wrapping floated elements properly, but I can'

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-14 Thread Ingo Chao
Alex Robinson wrote: >> http://www.satzansatz.de/ie8/xua7.html >> does not show the generated content, but the Conditional Comment for >> _IE8_ >> Is this expected? Even if the X-UA-Compatible is set to "IE=7", the >> conditional comment acts as if this is IE8? > > > I noticed this when I added

[css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-13 Thread Ingo Chao
I don't know if it has been reported before. Both files just differ in the X-UA and the headline, see below http://www.satzansatz.de/ie8/xua8.html shows the generated content and the Conditional Comment for IE8 Correct http://www.satzansatz.de/ie8/xua7.html does not show the generated content,

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Ingo Chao
Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: > I don't know what you mean by complex alpha, but I have a 32-bit png (it's > just black fading to transparent, a 25x25px png, eg yes it is a a nice soft > 8-bit alpha) that acts as a shadow on both sides of a site that has a table > floated in the center and the png tiles

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Ingo Chao
Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: > For anyone reading this post in the future, I thought I'd reply to my own > post. > > For those of you who say it can't be done, at least in IE6, I have a > solution working... I haven't checked it in IE 5.5 or below. > > What I discovered is that background-repeat:repea

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Ingo Chao
Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: > Can someone point me to a solution for PNG transparency in IE 6 that works > on tiling background images? (If such as solution exists...) > There are solutions for PNG background-images, they none of them can tile or position this image, for example http://www.twinhelix

Re: [css-d] IE6 z-index position element stacking problem

2008-03-11 Thread Ingo Chao
Sandy wrote: > or so i think. > > http://accuray.com/ > > my flash menu is in an absolutely position div. in ie6 ONLY, when you > roll over "products" or "patients", the menu is cut off at the bottom of > the drop down. > I tried fooling around with the other positioned elements or removing >

Re: [css-d] css validation error

2008-03-11 Thread Ingo Chao
The html validator indicates a BOM in addition -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html http://www.dolphinsback.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-disc

Re: [css-d] IE8 is better but ... X-UA-Compatible response header

2008-03-07 Thread Ingo Chao
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Ingo Chao wrote: >> - content="IE=5" or content="IE=6" throws IE8b1 in quirksmode, even if >> the document has a standards Doctype. > > The real IE5 and IE6 have many differences in their support and > interpretation o

Re: [css-d] IE8 is better but ... X-UA-Compatible response header

2008-03-07 Thread Ingo Chao
Setting the X-UA-Compatible response header has some aspects I find remarkable. or ... - content="IE=5" or content="IE=6" throws IE8b1 in quirksmode, even if the document has a standards Doctype. while - content="IE=8" or content="IE=9" ... throws IE8 in Standards-IE8-Mode, even if there

Re: [css-d] IE8 developer tools and toggling

2008-03-06 Thread Ingo Chao
Alan Gresley wrote: > Ingo Chao wrote: > >>> So if I download the developer tools the below issue is re-solved? >> The developer tool is already included. Its the last button to the >> right, an blue . It opens a window behind the actual IE8 window, >> so you

Re: [css-d] IE8 developer tools and toggling was (IE8 is better but still slightly broken)

2008-03-06 Thread Ingo Chao
> So if I download the developer tools the below issue is re-solved? The developer tool is already included. Its the last button to the right, an blue . It opens a window behind the actual IE8 window, so you have to make room to see it. Then click on view|change compatibility mode. (Quirks IE5

Re: [css-d] IE8 is better but still slightly broken

2008-03-06 Thread Ingo Chao
Its cool to have the option to see a page live in one of the three compatibility modes you choose (Quirks, Strict IE7, and Standards IE8) when the developer tools are opened. Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html http://www.dolphinsback.com

Re: [css-d] IE8 beta1 parses IE5 mac band pass filter

2008-03-06 Thread Ingo Chao
Bruno Fassino wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Ingo Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> This is red in IE8 >> >> /*\*//*/ body {background:red !important} /**/ >> >> http://www.stopdesign.com/examples/ie5mac-bpf/ >> >> IE8 is

[css-d] IE8 beta1 parses IE5 mac band pass filter

2008-03-06 Thread Ingo Chao
This is red in IE8 /*\*//*/ body {background:red !important} /**/ http://www.stopdesign.com/examples/ie5mac-bpf/ IE8 is reading styles that were meant to be served to IE-mac. tested with IE8 VPC image on XP 2 could someone please confirm? Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html http://ww

Re: [css-d] position:absolute bottom:0 not at the bottom

2008-02-24 Thread Ingo Chao
Hi, thanks for taking the time. Georg and Bruno, thanks for the analysis. This is an odd bug. Bruno, your test case is great, thanks for the expression! Usamah: Removing the font-size declaration did not fix the issue when testing with different fonts and Browser-text-zoom settings. It depends

[css-d] position:absolute bottom:0 not at the bottom

2008-02-24 Thread Ingo Chao
Here's a little bug in IE6 that is annoying me for a while now. See http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/tmp/aposwrong.html and http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/tmp/aposwrong.png There is a 1px gap below the red block that is absolutely positioned (bottom:0) inside its containing black block. (In cas

Re: [css-d] Problem with floated links at right of page in FF

2008-02-09 Thread Ingo Chao
Janie Hadsel wrote: > ... > http://www.hadseldesign.com/projects.html . > > Here's my problem, when you click on a link in either the main navigation or > the sidebar links FF places a faint dotted line around the link that extends > all the way across the page to the left side. It is intended as

Re: [css-d] Suckerfish Drop-Down breaks on IE6

2008-02-08 Thread Ingo Chao
John Gribben wrote: >> John Gribben wrote: >>> http://windows.pedrera.com/clients/greenbaum/nav.asp >> There is a conceptual problem and a bug. >> >> z-index does apply to positioned elements only. ... >> From the inside: >> The second level has z-index+position, but it is nested inside >> positio

Re: [css-d] start an ordered list at a number > 1

2008-02-07 Thread Ingo Chao
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > Is there a way to start an ordered list at anything > other than 1? > > I'm having a problem with Q&A type of page that > numbers the questions, but it also needs some blubs > between the questions. Kind of like below: > > > blahblah? > > > need to ins

Re: [css-d] to center a fixed width website

2008-02-07 Thread Ingo Chao
Arlen Walker wrote: > On Feb 7, 2008, at 3:50 AM, Lee Bettridge wrote: > >> Is their a better way of doing it than this ? > > Oh great googily-moogily yes. > > CSS > html { text-align: center; } > body { width: 800px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; text- > align: left; } > > (Why use a

Re: [css-d] Suckerfish Drop-Down breaks on IE6

2008-02-07 Thread Ingo Chao
John Gribben wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to make a sucker-fish-style drop-down menu (a hybrid that also > uses sprites for the top level items), but it's not working on IE6. > > There seems to be a problem with the content div that sits immediately below > the menu. If I isolate the menu f

Re: [css-d] css menu text misplaced

2008-02-03 Thread Ingo Chao
Shanna Korby wrote: > The text in each link is at the top of the 'box'. How do I move the text > down without moving the a:focus background? > > http://korbyimagery.com/ab/ Did not test it in IE, but setting a line-height of 30px on or should "move the text down", at least in Firefox. Ingo

Re: [css-d] multiple dropdowns on same page

2008-02-03 Thread Ingo Chao
Cheryl Amato wrote: > I have a page that needs to use the son of suckerfish dropdowns in 2 > locations. I am also implementing the javascript that makes them > keyboard accessible. In FF and IE7, the 2nd set of drop downs work > although not from the keyboard. In IE6, they don't work at all. Can >

Re: [css-d] help! with IE7 BG not at full height, and no footer colour..

2008-01-31 Thread Ingo Chao
Rob freeman wrote: > Hi everyone, Im having a few problems in IE displaying a repeated > background (faux columns). also at the bottom of the page I have a > footer which doesnt display the background colour but has the working > links?? > ... > http://www.twistedjunkie.eclipse.co.uk/index009.html

Re: [css-d] Safari reading IE comments

2008-01-31 Thread Ingo Chao
jeffrey morin wrote: > Hi everyone, > Has anyone ever come across a case where Safari will actually read what is > in your IE conditional comments? i have never seen this before but am > getting that now. IE conditionals are being used to deliver certain jsp > files to certain versions but safari i

Re: [css-d] IE7 needs both width and min-width

2008-01-31 Thread Ingo Chao
Jason Crosse wrote: > After a day of plenty of swearing, I seem to have found something > out that I think I should have known about before. I'm posting in > the hope it will help out some other hapless web developer and > prevent some nasty monitor-forehead interfacing. > > For some reason, I

Re: [css-d] Positioning within a table cell?

2008-01-31 Thread Ingo Chao
If the height is known, then establishing a line-box with the same line-height=height should allow for vertical-aligning a descendant at the bottom of the cell. http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/tmp/tablebottom.html In theory. Practically, IE7 and lower would need a display:inline-block hackery,

[css-d] homogeneous horizontal arrangement of images

2008-01-21 Thread Ingo Chao
I'd like to know how to get a homogeneous horizontal arrangement of images. The number of images is sometimes 3, sometimes 4. First I thought of display:table-cell, but that would require a inline-block-solution for IE lte 7 anyway. And it would force a table-row, a one-liner. Here, I'm tryi

Re: [css-d] items in ul-lists give z-index problems in ie

2008-01-15 Thread Ingo Chao
Martin Möller wrote: > Dear List, > i have a markup like this: > > > > img > img + text > > > img > img + text > >and so on > > > On mouse hover on the link in the preview div -> i display the big-image div > The big-

Re: [css-d] suckerfish dropdowns hiding behind graphics

2008-01-15 Thread Ingo Chao
Chris Kavinsky wrote: > I'm running into a problem using a combination of suckerfish dropdown > menus and background image replacement w/ suckerfish dropdown menus. > In a nutshell, I have 2 sets of horizontal navigations using > suckerfish. The top is all text, the second is using image > replacem

Re: [css-d] Alignment Problem

2008-01-11 Thread Ingo Chao
Brian Simmons wrote: > Can you all tell me why in Firefox this page is dropping the content down. > This is not happening in IE. > > http://208.106.151.24/turner/ Collapsing margins (CSS2.1:8.3.1). The margin-top:87px of #menu collapses with the adjoining vertical margins of h1, #header, #wrapp

Re: [css-d] Auto-Sizing a div or span tag

2008-01-04 Thread Ingo Chao
Bruno Fassino wrote: > ... Unfortunately this "shrink-to-fit" effect can only be > obtained as a side effect of other properties ... Interesting aspect. Is there a need for properties that transport such a concept like shrink-to-fit more directly, without these implications that properties like

Re: [css-d] Use of !ie and !important

2008-01-04 Thread Ingo Chao
Alan Gresley wrote: > ... >> >> Can someone let me in what is meant with "!ie" hack and point me to a >> reference? >> >> Ingo > > It's an invalid hack [1] used to target IE7. Almost any word can be used > after "!" in the important identifier. > > [1]

Re: [css-d] Use of !ie and !important

2008-01-03 Thread Ingo Chao
Nancy E. Sosna Bohm wrote: > Often I find a pixel or two difference between FireFox and IE7, mostly due > to my use of borders and padding. I have been extensively using !ie at the > end of a style declaration to correct this in IE7. This is similar to the > !important used to target both FF and IE

Re: [css-d] IE7 & Opacity - Why don't it work?

2007-12-23 Thread Ingo Chao
Karl Bedingfield wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a little confused as to why the following style does not give me > opacity in IE7. Is there anything you can see I have done wrong? All I > get is solid black! > > li.thumbBlock h3 span { > padding:3px; > color:#BBB; > background-color:

Re: [css-d] Layout & Overflow issue

2007-12-21 Thread Ingo Chao
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > ... > You can safely drop the '-moz-opacity'. Gecko browsers support the > 'opacity' property since at least Firefox 1.0, if not earlier. > Nice side note. Is it common consent to drop workarounds for Fx pre 0.9? :) http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/

Re: [css-d] Position cities on map -- css only

2007-12-21 Thread Ingo Chao
Jesper Rønn-Jensen wrote: > I made two maps using CSS to position cities on a map > http://justaddwater.dk/2007/12/21/map-with-positions-in-css/ > > There is an IE6 bug in the lower example. Do you have any idea on > what's going on? Isn't this a guillotine? http://www.positioniseverything.net/ex

Re: [css-d] IE6 Vanishing Link on Position

2007-12-14 Thread Ingo Chao
Joshua Kappers wrote: > ... > I have a fieldset with a div inside it. The div is relative positioned. I > have a link inside the div that I want to absolute position to the top right > of the div. However, when I add position relative to the link, it vanishes > in IE6. There are NO other styles on

Re: [css-d] Suckerfish menu is funky in IE7

2007-12-11 Thread Ingo Chao
Ben Fider wrote: > ... > http://fiderweb.com/z/ looks like a sticky hover bug in IE7 http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/pseudocss.html#stickyhover Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www

Re: [css-d] problems with CSS and floats

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Chao
Rick Faircloth wrote: > > I consider philosophical questions about CSS design that > impact daily work just as legitimate as "How do I make a font red?", > if not more so... > Does your "philosophical" attempt include to allege that some on this list have a "'Taliban' mentality"? Ingo -- ht

Re: [css-d] How will firefox 3 affect web developers?

2007-12-03 Thread Ingo Chao
Rick Faircloth wrote: > ... > > Some developers are idealists who want to live in the world *they* develop as > far > as what browsers deserve attention and development time. The rest of us live > in > the real world. > I challenge any developer to ... You can't expect them to explore IE only.

Re: [css-d] Problem with values in form fields

2007-12-01 Thread Ingo Chao
Marje Cannon wrote: > For some reason, the values within the form fields are too high in FF, but > not IE... does anyone have a clue why this is happening. > > http://www.webdesignsarasota.com/contact.php > > The stylesheet is located here > > http://www.webdesignsarasota.com/styles-webdesignsar

Re: [css-d] Dropdown menu not working in IE + Site test

2007-11-27 Thread Ingo Chao
Keno Multimedia wrote: > ... >> Could I please have a cross browser check and help with a horizontal >> menu that won't drop down in IE !! >> >> http://www.sun-safe.com.au/ >> >> http://www.sun-safe.com.au/default-stylesheet.css >> >> http://www.sun-safe.com.au/IE.css >> >> http://www.sun-saf

Re: [css-d] IE7 zoom breaking the Holy Grail layout

2007-11-26 Thread Ingo Chao
Ingo Chao wrote: > David Laakso wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I notice that the Holy Grail layout on A List Apart >>> (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail) breaks in IE7 when the >>> zoom feature is used. The co

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