Re: [css-d] Aural Style Sheets

Denise wrote: I would appreciate any advice (and links) from those of you familiar with designing for this audience. I, too, would like to have some of this information as I've only briefly toyed with the idea of learning aural style sheets. So, please either post them to the list (since it's

Re: [css-d] Basic CSS question

Julian Tulip's Licorice wrote: I am trying to learn some of the little things i missed, so sorry if this seems like a silly question. The list is here to answer questions for those of all walks of life so no apology necessary :) But I see this sometimes: form#search {color: #fff;} The

Re: [css-d] Flash banner floating issue [Firefox]

Martin Paton wrote: When this page is resized (in Firefox) the flash banner crops on the left rather than the right. Is there any CSS that I can use to target the embed tag to prevent this from occuring? You could always add an id, class, etc. Also, you might want to read this article as

Re: [css-d] 3 columns not fitting IE

CSS List Account wrote: The page fits in FireFox, but IE 6 always shows a horizonal scroll bar. Is it the image, or ? I'm unable to determine completely since I was unable to see your styles (you're using frames and all I saw was the frame source), however, this is likely because

Re: [css-d] textarea with fixed width, but auto height

Bartłomiej Kozielski wrote: what must I do for the textbox to automatically set its height depending on the number of lines in it? Is there any CSS rule? No rule via number of lines, (well, perhaps if you calculated the height of each line in the textbox and applied it.. but would probably be

Re: [css-d] iframes - who still uses them

Ross wrote: Does anyone still use frames or iframes? Is it a valid development technique? Depending upon what you are doing with them, an iframe may be the only way to achieve a desired effect. Say, you want a webpage with a section of the page that tells you in big, blue letters that you have

Re: [css-d] Thread answered:What is the equivalent of font-size:11px?

This along with other resets makes all your fonts equivalent to 10px. Actually, it makes it equivalent to 62.5% of the user's base font size (usually 16px). But, yes, you can usually safely assume 10px. But also allows you do your entire layout in ems should you choose to do so. I would

Re: [css-d] Menu rollover looping

Nicholas Karnick wrote: How can the problem be fixed? Apply a containing element to the menu item, make it 5px longer to the left than the menu item and apply the hover effect to it instead. (still position the menu item, but since the hover effect is applied to its containing element it

Re: [css-d] ID vs Class

Travis Killen wrote: Why should class be used to define an element vs. id? You use ids for unique page elements. ie: id=contentWrapper id=mainNav id=inbox You use classes for styling similar elements. ie: class=externalLink class=topItem class=message However, you only need an id / class

Re: [css-d] Styling for Fieldsets and Legends

Rick Faircloth wrote: Is there any way to bring consistent styling to fieldsets and legends between IE and FF? You should get used to keeping the word consistent out of your vocab when talking about form styling. ;) How do I keep the rounded corners? You can have rounded corners with

Re: [css-d] Styling for Fieldsets and Legends

Anthony Lieuallen wrote: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/CSS:-moz-border-radius As Anthony wrote, this will create a rounded border as well. However, there are a few known issues: Background images may spill beyond the rounded borders, and it can only be used with the solid border style so

Re: [css-d] where to find info

Fiona wrote: Hello, I have been teaching myself CSS by working through tutorials etc. I have been puttin it into practise by building a couple of dummy (trial ones, not stupid ones)websites, but have been mainly concentrating on the latest browser versions, till I started getting the hang

Re: [css-d] page check in IE7 please

Luc wrote: Good evening Roger, It was foretold that on 19/6/2007 @ 12:38:55 GMT-0400 (which was 13:38:55 where I live) Roger Roelofs would write: snipped a bit One of the beauties of allowing floats to drop is that the content is conveniently viewable at more screen/window

Re: [css-d] Selected LI in navigation (one image)

Matt wrote: I am using one image for the tabs navigation. The tabs have three states: off, over and selected. The off and over states work fine but I can't get the selected class to work. Any suggestions? ul#nav-top-text li a:hover { background-position:0 -42px; } The problem

Re: [css-d] Selectors Confusion

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought this question was so *clearly* phrased and I too am confused about it. I was hoping that someone could attempt an equally concise reply, line by line... a:link = a href=blahLink/a (but NOT aLink/a) a.link = a class=linkLink/a a:hover = aLink/a (while the

Re: [css-d] Selected LI in navigation (one image)

Matt wrote: I know that. I just gave it as an example. ul#nav-top-text li#t1 .selected {background-position:-0px -86px} li id=item1a href=# class=selectedHOME/a/li With class .selected within the a it works fine. However, I am looking for a solution with the least amount of code. Matt

Re: [css-d] Ideas for handling text with CSS

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone has a link or information as how to best handle text with CSS. By text I mean a line of text that may include 3 pieces of information, like name, phone, and email address. In the past, I always used tables for this, but want

Re: [css-d] Selected LI in navigation (one image)

Matt wrote: James, Thanks for the explanation but it doesn't work. This works, but I don't like this solution: CSS *** ul#nav-top li#t1 a {width:56px;padding-left:5px;background-position:0 0;} ul#nav-top li#t1 a:hover

Re: [css-d] relative or absolute urls?

Ross wrote: When linking to images do you use relative or absolute urls? background-image:url(../images/myimage.jpg); or background-image:url(http://.mysite.php/images/myimage.jpg); I have a common header on all pages with different folders and sub folders and the relative urls

Re: [css-d] page check in IE7 please

Luc wrote: Good morning list, At the moment i'm without IE7 on my machine. Could somebody check this page on IE7? http://www.dzinelabs.com/projects/MP/Pages/roger Does it hold together when resizing the viewport? TIA Only problem I see is that the last letter in your

Re: [css-d] page check in IE7 please

Luc wrote: Good morning James, It was foretold that on 19/6/2007 @ 09:16:57 GMT-0400 (which was 10:16:57 where I live) James Gadrow would write: Only problem I see is that the last letter in your header is overlapping your right hand image. Is that some IE7 bug i'm not aware

Re: [css-d] display:inline necessary with float: left/right ???

Jason Chan wrote: hey all, Is it just me or is display:inline necessary when floating with columns bc the double margin bug in IE6. I ask this because i have seen many sites, that do not require the display inline for it to appear properly in IE and yet still float columns: ie.

Re: [css-d] absolutely positioned divs seem to have wrong topposition in IE 7 (or IE 6)

Christian Kirchhoff wrote: P.S.: The body was set to {position: relative}. After I deleted that, the positioning in Firefox became the same that in IE... Though I don't understand why {position: relative} attached to the body element lets absolutely positioned child elemnts shift down a

Re: [css-d] Urgent please Hyperlink help

jo soap wrote: Hi , I'm trying to use a logo as a link to another site opening in a new window. I've searched and tried several solutions and A) They're not working and B) I'm not sure either method will validate. Can anyone please advise best method to ahcieve this. Yours gratefully,

Re: [css-d] min height with ie and ff

Ross wrote: In answer to my own question: min-height:400px; height:400px; height:auto !important; does height:auto !important; validate? It should, !important is recognized by standards compliant browsers. It's only the quirky ones that misunderstand it. -- Thanks, Jim

Re: [css-d] min height with ie and ff

[snip] In any case, you also need to have: html, body { height:100%; min-height:100%; } to make whatever div you're using go to 100% also. :) ~Shelly [/snip] Um, you only need this if the div you're trying to size doesn't have a parent with a height setting. Else this could have some

Re: [css-d] absolutely positioned divs seem to have wrong top position in IE 7 (or IE 6)

Christian Kirchhoff wrote: Hallo, Please take a look at the following page: http://www.digitale-bibliothek.de/Downloads/CSS-Test/blog.htm The left column div (with the menu) and the right one (with the google ads) are positioned absolutely, with em values. In Firefox (or Opera) the top

Re: [css-d] Need some help - single column, 3 rows (divs), last row forced to bottom of page

William Gaffga wrote: Hi All, Don't think this is my first post but don't recall my last. I need some help. I'm working on a site that is deceptively simple, a single centered column, 700px wide, with three divs, acting like rows. The first two rows should each be 300px high, their bottom

Re: [css-d] Navigation

trevor bayliss wrote: Hello everyone I am new! I am having problems with the last tab on a navigation bar. For some reason I can´t make it fit with the light blue line above it and I am stuck as to how to do it. Also the navigation bar doesn´t show up in Netscape 4.78 (no Flash) with

Re: [css-d] Divitis?

Ross Hulford wrote: Yep. That;s the way I approach it. Much neater. R. - Original Message - From: Brian Crescimanno [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] Divitis? Out of curiosity, why not use an unordered

Re: [css-d] Conditional Statement

Ingo Chao wrote: david wrote: James Gadrow wrote: david wrote: Vicki Stebbins wrote: ... !--[if lt IE 7] Hmmm, that's saying If you're IE version LESS THAN 7, pay attention to this style. So IE6, IE5.5, IE5 are all seeing that style

Re: [css-d] Different ways of doing the same thing

Les Mizzell wrote: It's always interesting to look at other folks stuff. I just inherited a site, and in looking at their CSS, the main div is listed thusly: #pageWrapper { width:760px; position:absolute; left:50%; margin-left:-380px; } Where I would have just done:

Re: [css-d] How to center the entire page

jana coyle wrote: I am looking to have my page evenly centered on the screen. It is currently on the left side of the screen. Here is the link to my site http://www.precisemessenger.com/private/help1.html I would like it to have two even spaces on both sides of the page, here is an

Re: [css-d] Conditional Statement

david wrote: Vicki Stebbins wrote: Hi All, I'm wanting to target IE7.0 with a problem it has with 'sticky menus' in the Suckerfish Menus (pop out menu stay stuck out and don't return). The fix is to add this line to the CSS: #nav li:hover, #nav li.over {position: static;} #nav being

Re: [css-d] USING RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE POSITIONING

Jason Chan wrote: When do you use relative, absolute, and/or fix positioning ? I mean I understand the concepts but I am mainly floating div containers to construct a layout for a site. The only time that I see myself using relative or absolute is in this case: HTML: div id=header

Re: [css-d] position:absolute and 3 column layout using float:left and negative margins

Andrew Gaffney wrote: It appears both the one that matches what I want from the first set and the 2nd link use float and negative margins, which is already what I'm using for layout of the 3 columns inside of CenterBox. The problem I'm having is that if I make CenterBox use anything

Re: [css-d] Empty Inline elements and backgrounds

Aaron Cohen wrote: Hi, I've seen this discussed in the archives once, but couldn't quite follow the solution. Apparently IE doesn't render the background of empty inline elements. I need to display an empty span with a background image. I can't just use an img tag in its place because of

Re: [css-d] position:absolute and 3 column layout using float:left and negative margins

Andrew Gaffney wrote: James Gadrow wrote: Andrew Gaffney wrote: Yeah, that's what happens when I type the URL by hand :) Now that the biggest problems are out of the way, there's a rendering oddity with the page in IE6 (and 5, but I don't really care about that). The content DIV

Re: [css-d] Empty Inline elements and backgrounds

Aaron Cohen wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. Unforunately adding a nbsp is not possible, due to the fact that I sometimes use that span to contain text instead of a bg image, depending on certain conditions. so, I would still like to know if it's possible to somehow make the empty span

Re: [css-d] fluid div height

AG wrote: Forgot to mention that inside the container div I have 2 content divs [not one as described below]. Both are float: left; When there's only one content div... no problem, but with 2, or even 1 float: left; the container div collapses in FF. Thanks, and sorry about the double post.

Re: [css-d] enclosing a div in another one

James Hague wrote: hi .. in an example like the one below .. how can one enclose the regContainer div inside the mainFrame div irrespective of the content of the regContainer. The clearer div is not doing the trick! a large content of 'regContainer' pushes its lower edge below the main

Re: [css-d] Multiple elements changing on hover

J. Decker wrote: The block level items I'm working on...where you see extra styling are styles I didn't bother to copy into the test doc, because they didn't impact the hover issue. Thanks again for your help! Jona You may be styling some more on that link, but as the h3 is the only item

Re: [css-d] z-index and transparent .png probs.

Christopher Blake wrote: HI, http://www.3pointdesign.com/index3.html http://www.3pointdesign.com/styles/three.css I have a background image that repeats. I want to put a gradient tint over the top part of the background so have placed a #topgradient div over the background with a

Re: [css-d] Overflow:scroll and position:relative in IE6 - Bug?

Alan K. Gay wrote: Ta-da. You are correct. Is there something I didn't understand about the standards, or is this just an IE local knowledge thing? Thanks a bunch. For me I know that if you're using positioning you're essentially telling the browser: Yes, I know this doesn't normally go

Re: [css-d] 2 questions

Lauri Pantos wrote: Hi. #1 what would be the advantage of defining styles in the head instead of the body? #2 is it normal that the style info looks to be commented out, but still works? http://www.somtndesign.com/contactus2ak.htm Thanks Lauri Pantos A1 - Defining styles in the

Re: [css-d] select/option tags

Is there a work around to this inconsistency? --Kenoli Unfortunately, when styling form elements you're either going to have to accept a bit of browser variance or start using javascript to style them. This is because the browsers are so flighty with how they style their form elements. And

Re: [css-d] 3 col layout

Martin Paton wrote: Hello Is it possible to contain a 3 column layout within another container? For clarity I've uploaded a screenshot of what I want to achieve. I've tried about a zillion combinations of 3-col layouts, but just can't get it to work (except in firefox)

Re: [css-d] Question about multipule stylesheets

Juanita wrote: Hi - I'm starting a site (fairly new to css) where one section (not just a page but many pages that are related) must look COMPLETELY DIFFERENT (colors, background, logo etc.) than the rest of the site, but the basic structure of both sections are exactly the same. Is what

Re: [css-d] problem with vertical nav list

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Maybe someone can help me out here. I've been working with a vertical list to create a menu using this: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic2/vertical02.htm# http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic2/vertical02.htm as my example. That particular

Re: [css-d] DIVs height is wrong in IE

Christian Kirchhoff wrote: Hallo, please take a look at the following example: http://www.digitale-bibliothek.de/downloads/test/test.htm The basic layout is: - one top DIVused as a header and one main DIV - both DIVs have a three column layout, left column float:left, right column

Re: [css-d] is it possible to get A:focus working in IE?

Sandy wrote: Hello All, Is it possible to get A:focus working in IE? I have done a little research, and found lots of people saying that IE doesn't support focus. Is there some kind of work around? thanks! Sandy __

Re: [css-d] page loading in 2 visible steps

I didn't see any problem at all when viewing the page... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with my pages loading at my new ISP (BlueHost). They tell me the problem is not on their end, that it is a coding problem. I've checked at home and at work and I'm seeing the problem both

[css-d] % Height attribute not applying to Flash

Does anyone know how to apply a height to a flash object? For some reason when you set the height as a percentage, it is not applied to the flash object, but if I set the height using any other units (px, em, etc.) it is applied correctly. I've looked around for answers but all I've been able