Re: [css-d] slight layout change: center numbers in circles.

2011-01-11 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Chetan Crasta wrote: I'm not sure of the meaning of those characters, though. Do they have the same meaning as regular numbers? Technically, the circled numbers are defined as numbers (digits), i.e. their general category is Number, and they also have numeric values defined for them in

Re: [css-d] slight layout change: center numbers in circles.

2011-01-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Bob Rosenberg wrote: You can also just use the numbers in the U+2776-U+2793 range which will give you 1-10 as Serif numbers in black or white circles as well as Sans-Serif 1-10 in black circles. Why fool around when the characters exist in your fonts? On the theoretical side: because these

Re: [css-d] Font-face, alignment issue similar to images

2011-01-08 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Nancy Seeger wrote: The beta text area is located here - navbar area Contact with a web font phone: http://nina.artsassistance.com/ I'd first like to draw your attention to a styling issue that you may not have noticed because it depends on browsing environment: the text looks somewhat odd

Re: [css-d] should this class override my other one?

2010-12-14 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
John D wrote: The priority order of styles is as follows: 1.Browser default 2.External style sheet 3.Internal styles via style /style 4.Inline styles table style=border:3px; text-align:center/table There is no such priority order. The cascading order is much more complex and almost always

Re: [css-d] should this class override my other one?

2010-12-13 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Angela French wrote: .center { display: block; text-align: center; margin: 0 auto; } My question is this. It appears in FF that .center was being applied to my td in addition to my td.center. But not so in IE. How did you draw the conclusion whether .center was or was not applied? In a

Re: [css-d] Make text bottom-align?

2010-12-11 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Chetan Crasta wrote: I have made an example of the design here: http://roughtech.com/t/testali.html It uses CSS only. It seems to use the positioning technique I outlined and demonstrated, but it contains lots of features quite independent of the issue at hand, such as odd line heights. In

Re: [css-d] plain table rendering

2010-12-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Angela French wrote: I usually style all my tables with nice colors and never have any rendering issues. I usually have several issues, and I don't even consider colors, as a rule. But the issues depend on the table, its context, and its intended use. Today I'm in a hurry, and just want a

Re: [css-d] Make text bottom-align?

2010-12-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
John wrote: This link shows graphically what my goal is: http://thinkplan.org/ workshop/botAlign.jpg You mean http://thinkplan.org/workshop/botAlign.jpg (A URL should not contain a linebreak.) Exactly what there is the matter? this link is of the actual, live-code page:

Re: [css-d] Make text bottom-align?

2010-12-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
John wrote: On Dec 10, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: The HTML code and the CSS code have syntax errors that are detectable using available checkers. They should be fixed, but more importantly, we need a description of the problem (what is expected, and a URL demonstrating

Re: [css-d] Make text bottom-align?

2010-12-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: But the obvious approach is to use a single-cell table with valign=bottom. You won't need any CSS for that, though CSS helps you to remove the default margins for heading elements, for example (it is natural to use heading elements for the head/subhead stuff). If you

Re: [css-d] H tags and style

2010-11-22 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Tim Arnold wrote: The beauty of CSS is that you can style your H2s to be larger than your H1s. There's even more beauty: you can style some text as prominently as you like without even making it a heading at all. It often happens that people want to highlight e.g. a company name or a

Re: [css-d] [+] Vertical-Align, IE, line-height, and span don't mix

2010-11-12 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Thierry Koblentz wrote: http://datagnostics.com/test/vertical.html I've got superscript text that needs to be all over the page -- it's part of the company name. At this point I'd raise the question whether the superscript text could be written using superscript characters such as ². If it

Re: [css-d] h2 flush left 'tbnt

2010-10-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
G.Sørtun wrote: On 09.10.2010 06:41, David Laakso wrote: This is a first-pass at tight but not touch [ing] on h2 http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ Visually there is a vertical imbalance, because the bottom of first letter is in perfect balance with next letter. First letter down a pixel or so,

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-26 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Sep 26, 2010, at 7:13 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; bottom: some factorex; I've used that for quite a while and it works fine across the board. It seems that it wasn't completely new to me either...

Re: [css-d] Capitalize

2010-09-25 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
david wrote: I seem to recall that URLs are not case sensitive? URLs are case-sensitive, but some parts of them, including the server part, are defined to be case-insensitive. Whether people know about this is a different matter. For usability, it is good policy to announce your server

[css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-25 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Under Subject: Re: [css-d] Capitalize Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Chris Blake wrote: P.S. I need to be using sub-script and super-script a fair bit on this site, any warnings or words of wisdom about doing this? In my experience, sub- and superscripts only too easily destroy the

Re: [css-d] CSS Font Size Equivalent

2010-09-03 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Sep 4, 2010, at 1:08 PM, John D wrote: Does any one know the CSS equivalent of html font size=x? [...] here you go: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#propdef-font-size The text there says that the table provides user agents guidelines, and the notes

Re: [css-d] Hide current page link

2010-08-16 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Val Dobson wrote: Is there a CSS method to hide the current page link in a navigation list? ie: if you're on the widgets page, you don't get the See our crazy widgets! link in the menu. You can do this only if you have some way of distinguishing the current page link from other elements in

Re: [css-d] Hide current page link

2010-08-16 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Sandy wrote: #links a[href~=yourcurrentpage.html] { This means that you would need a different style sheet, with a different URL there, for each and every page. I don't see how this could be any easier or otherwise better than simply having, say, a href=... class=current.../a for each

Re: [css-d] Hide current page link

2010-08-16 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Chris Blake wrote: What about a:active and/or a:current? The latter is a mere proposal, though an interesting one. You might find experimental implementations, but hardly anything useful in practice now or in the near future. The :active pseudo-class is an old invention (in the www

Re: [css-d] Hide current page link

2010-08-16 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
David Hucklesby wrote: Without adding a class to each BODY or HTML element to identify the page, I don't know of any CSS solution. How would such class attributes help the least (in this issue)? They cannot be used to distinguish between different links on the page. But you mention includes

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs Unicode

2010-07-16 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: Yeah, and the user who uses Lynx on Windows 95, I know I know… No you don't. Those who use Lynx will not be affected by font fall-back issues. In trying to ridicule my concern for the majority, you seem to fall back to strawman arguments from the 1990s. I

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs Unicode

2010-07-15 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: A modern OS / browser will do the job for you. But most users, or (to be cautious) at least a non-negligible share like 40% of users, seem to be using an OS / browser that in non-modern by your implicit definition. p { font-family: font-a, font-b, font-c, serif;}

Re: [css-d] textarea css

2010-07-14 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
luby wrote: I have a problem for the style font-famliy of textarea . As usual, a URL would have been most useful. It would have let us access the page as it is, as opposite to e.g. GB2312 encoded copy of a snippet thereof. (My e-mail program shows straight Ascii quotation marks as curly when

Re: [css-d] Use of empty DIVs?

2010-07-12 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Tim Offenstein wrote: I'm seeing a number of students mark up their XHTML with descriptively named DIVs that have no counterpart in the CSS. This is a general design issue and about markup, not CSS. From the CSS perspective, there are some risks, whether you mean classes or ids (or both) by

Re: [css-d] My active and visited links not working

2010-07-03 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Susan Grossman wrote: Why aren't my active and visited link CSS commands working on my portfolio page? I want people to know that they've already clicked on an image. (I think the OP meant clicked on a link to see an image, as the links are text links, as far as I can see, though it is not

Re: [css-d] Is this even possible with blockquote?

2010-06-28 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Claude Needham wrote: On the following page I have a div floating to the left with a blockquote wrapping it on the right. http://www.imag3.com/test/ I don't see anything in your CSS code that would affect the blockquote; you have blockquote { } Is there a way to style the blockquote

Re: [css-d] Sizing bullets in IE6/IE7

2010-06-20 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Thierry Koblentz wrote: div class=itemspan class=bullbull;/span list item text/div [...] [...] using meaningless glyphs for presentational purposes is bad for accessibility, The character denoted by bull; is not a meaningless glyph but the BULLET character, which has the meaning of being a

Re: [css-d] Font treatment suggestion?

2010-06-20 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Brian M. Curran wrote: Can anyone suggest a CSS font treatment to my home page quotes, that would jazz them up and make them more appealing? www.draftingservices.com I think there are at least three problems with the rendering of blockquote elements on that page: 1) Their font size is

Re: [css-d] Sizing bullets in IE6/IE7

2010-06-16 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Peter Coates wrote: Why not use ul { list-style-image URL(bullet.gif); } I believe that is supported by IE. Yes it is, but the placement (especially vertical) placement of the bullet images varies by browser and there's nothing you can do about it. Moreover, the images don't scale if

Re: [css-d] :: focus ring ::

2010-06-14 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
David Laakso wrote: On this page http://chelseacreekstudio.com/site/resources/ there are a set of 12 underlined links in the right column. The left side of the focus-ring box is missing. I think it's more commonly called focus rectangle, and in CSS terms, it's outline, rendered by default

Re: [css-d] Table cell padding

2010-06-13 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
bho...@aol.com wrote: I'm waving the white flag here. I'm trying to create an html table using css attributes, and regardless of what I'm trying, I can't get rid of the cellpadding. Did you try setting the padding of cells to zero? Shouldn't this work? table{ padding:0px; } No, it

Re: [css-d] Text input height and CSS font size/family

2010-06-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Thierry Koblentz wrote: It seems that font-size and font-family are not inherited by these input fields, hence why she suggests to always specify a font size and family for those. Browsers indeed generally have specific font-size and font-family defaults for text input fields. Conceptually,

Re: [css-d] Questions about fonts

2010-06-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Andy B. wrote: 1. I put in the style for the container title font-size: 18M; What exactly does M do? The font size was REALLY HUGE. I would say around 160pt. I'm curious: what browser behaves like that? Any browser that works according to CSS recommendations ignores the declaration

Re: [css-d] How do I create a + style box ?

2010-05-31 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Karl Bedingfield wrote: Sorry about the subject title but essentially, I am trying to create a cross (4 quarters that are divided by a cross +). Your description just does not tell what you really want. If you want something resembling a plus sign + (which you call a cross), why don't you

Re: [css-d] thoughts on img alt tag verbage

2010-05-06 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Ed Seedhouse wrote: The alt tag should contain a description of the image. No, in general it should contain a replacement for the image. But this is off-topic in the list, so I will comment on the _styling_ related issues of alt attributes. If you were viewing your page without images,

Re: [css-d] Alternative format for definitions?

2010-04-26 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Freelance Traveller wrote: I have found that many of the documents that I am converting from Word to web contain definitions, but in a format that doesn't work well with the default format for a DL. I'd like to be able to format these as DLs anyway, because that's what they are,

Re: [css-d] odd behavior with list-style-image in IE8

2010-04-14 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Angela French wrote: I am trying to implement list-style-image. URL? IE8 is exhibiting odd behavior. Some of the images show in the list, others do not. Refresh the browser and which ones show or don't show can change. You may have markup errors or CSS syntax errors. Or it might be

Re: [css-d] Zero out a style

2010-04-11 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Shanna Cramer wrote: I frequently work on child themes and build custom style sheets in addition to the parent style sheet. Is there a way to zero out a style? Just remove any parent styling that was applied to some element. No, you cannot zero out style settings, only override them. For

Re: [css-d] IE won't display my background images

2010-04-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Angela French wrote: I am trying to figure out why IE (tested in IE 8) won't show my background images. Maybe the images don't exist at the URLs you specify. My style is: ul#menu li li a:visited /* sub list links */ { color:#0096b7; background:url('/images/checkmark.gif')

Re: [css-d] IE won't display my background images

2010-04-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Krupa Anna Katalin wrote: solution is: It's impossible to tell what the correct solution is without knowing the problem (read: the URL). first if you use background:, then you can't use background-color, background-image, or any other definition, what you used in background: definition.

Re: [css-d] help with custom bullet in nested list

2010-04-07 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Angela French wrote: I am using a graphic as a background image on all lists in my site. The problem is that on nested lists, the graphic appears twice on the li that is the first item for the nested list. This would be easier if you specified the URL, so that we can see the markup and all

Re: [css-d] hidden input fields causing an empty space in IE browsers

2010-04-05 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Nancy Johnson wrote: I have a form with hidden input fields and a submit button. It's inline with elements that are not in the form. In IE browsers there is an empty space where the hidden fields are. Is there a way using CSS to get rid of the space? I've seen such things happen on some

Re: [css-d] Which selector to use?

2010-03-30 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Linda Miller, DVM wrote: Sorry. I should have checked this first. Checked what? It must have been the browser that I was using Safari 4.0.4 on the Mac. No, I think it's on line 42 of your code. A wild guess, but it _might_ be true, whereas your guess is most probably wrong, as you

Re: [css-d] IE7 bug with inheritance

2010-03-07 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Gabriele Romanato wrote: Please read the latest two posts on IE7 on my blog and tell me if I stumbled on something that's well-documented or not. Can you please provide a URL that demonstrates the issue in the simplest possible context? Can you make up a static test? It depends on what

Re: [css-d] apply a style to specific table column

2010-03-01 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Eric A. Meyer wrote: There is one non-class approach that's fairly cross-browser friendly, and that's to use a combination of :first-child and adjacent-sibling combinators: td:first-child + td + td {...styles for third column...} That works in every current browser. It will fail in

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Bobby Jack wrote: I'm surprised no-one's pointed out the obvious: that using background will override all other background-* properties (to their default values), in addition to setting background-color. It's very obvious if you look at CSS specifications, but they aren't everyone's

Re: [css-d] Ideal line length for different text sizes

2010-02-07 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Brian M. Curran wrote: I'm styling my website, and noticed that at my given text size that the line lengths are too long, because they hurt my eyes. Is there a rule of thumb for number of characters per line that will yield the best readability? There are lots of rules of thumbs... just pick

Re: [css-d] Exponents SOLVED

2010-02-07 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Eduardo Varela wrote: For an educational site aimed at mathematics I want to say (4^3) ^ 2 the way maths books do it. but I want the second exponent (the number 2), to be in a higher position that the first (the number 3). How could it be done? - - You do not need css to accomplish your

Re: [css-d] Fraction bar

2010-01-21 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: I'm afraid you misunderstood the question, or the OP misunderstood what fraction bar means. It means a character resembling / but with different angle and properties, used to construct fractional numbers in a particular rendering, similar to that of ½. It was pointed

Re: [css-d] Fraction bar

2010-01-20 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Del Wegener wrote: I have been fighting these same issues for a several years and I am convinced that the best method is to use images. Hardly. Using images for such purposes are the last resort and always come with problems, even if you define them with CSS settings that make them scale

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

2010-01-13 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Thierry Koblentz wrote: I think you'd have better result across browsers if you were using margin instead of padding. Yes, it's an old problem that browsers haven't implemented padding properly for img elements. However, IE 8 implements it, but only in standards mode. If your document is

Re: [css-d] strict vs. transitional doctype and renderingdifferences

2010-01-04 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Bill Braun wrote: For starters...http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp. That particular page does not discuss the rendering differences at all, just the document type declarations (in a misleading way, typical of w3schools pages). The question was: can someone point me to a

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

2009-12-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
G. Sørtun wrote: 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

Re: [css-d] Text Kerning and Other Oddities on MAC but not Windows

2009-12-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Maslowski, Eric wrote: The site I've been working on (at link below) works as expected on FF, IE, and Safari on a Windows system. (Vista XP) However, when the same pages are viewed on a Mac (FF Safari) the alignments are off, there seems to be additional kerning on the text, etc. In

Re: [css-d] How to optimize the work with HTML-entities

2009-10-13 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
pr...@itransition.com wrote: In case of publishing any text online as a HTML page - I face the problem of the correct reflection of symbols of several languages which require extended Latin character encoding. In this case I'm searching the Entity (hex) from the list on this site

Re: [css-d] Space before p

2009-09-30 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Lalena wrote: Now I am wondering how to remove the extra space before/after a paragraph. I tried setting margins, and margin-top and margin-bottom and padding to 0, but it didn't work. Anyone know? URL? Your style sheet might contain a syntax error, causing some rule(s) to be ignored.

Re: [css-d] Issues with iframes in IE 7

2009-09-28 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Ellen Heitman wrote: Anyone have an idea as to what's going on here? http://www.williamtobrien.com/airraids.html http://www.williamtobrien.com/letters_leaving.html If you view these pages in Safari and Firefox, you'll see what they should look like. However, the iframes are all wrong in IE.

Re: [css-d] Hello! background-position RTL

2009-09-28 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
David Dorward wrote: 2009/9/27 Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi: Theoretically, you could use selectors like [dir=rtl], but I don’t think that’s practical. (For one thing, such a selector matches an element that has the dir property explicitly set to rtl, as opposite to inherited

Re: [css-d] Hello! background-position RTL

2009-09-27 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
דניאל דנון wrote: I've been working on some project of transforming LTR design into a RTL(Right-To-Left) design. It seems like even when I set the direction to rtl, background-position: Xpx Ypx seems to count X pixels from the left-top corner and not from the right-top corner. As far as I

Re: [css-d] width issue

2009-09-26 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
MOHAMMED NASEER wrote: can someone tell me, a newbie, why in code (A) the 'width' works, but in code (B) it doesn't : It would be much easier to study the issue if you had posted URLs instead of code fragments. For one thing, nasty things may happen to HTML markup when posted to Usenet

Re: [css-d] ins, kbd, samp tags

2009-09-16 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Nancy Johnson wrote: I got a css style sheet from a client that we are going to develop and the following tags were included. I had never seen them before ins kbd samp Can anyone tell me what they are used for and the best time to use The defined meaning and best usage of HTML tags are

Re: [css-d] Runaway input text box

2009-09-14 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Duane Nelson wrote: I'm cleaning up my css and xhtml for a new design and having problems with a text box. It's generally more productive to design new pages well than to clean up existing pages. URL: http://rapicom.net/site-2009/quotes.html CSS: http://rapicom.net/site-2009/css/rc.css

Re: [css-d] img border

2009-09-12 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Victor Subervi wrote: I have this that works well: img { border:10px solid #7B2E91 } I would like to do one on top of another, something like this: img { border:10px solid #7B2E91 } img { border:20px solid #00 } It won't work, since the latter rule just overrides the former. You

Re: [css-d] Can I apply :last-child to a class?

2009-09-06 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Chang Huang wrote: I've forgotten to mention that the list is dynamically generated, sorry, so it's not possible to predict the last 'special' item. Then the generating process should be modified so that it becomes possible to mark the last 'special' item. Typically it would just have to

Re: [css-d] List numbers disappearing in IE 7

2009-08-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Matt Hampel wrote: On my site, the number of an ordered list item will disappear when the list begins with a blockquote. This problem occurs in IE 7, but not Firefox or Safari. Here's an example: http://arborupdate.com/article/1843/primary-results-coming-in#c025109 I suppose you are

Re: [css-d] default value text -- two different styles?

2009-08-08 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Ce Ce wrote: Can default value text be two different styles within the same textbox? No, because the text needs to be plain text - no way to insert markup there, thus no inner elements. For example -- in one input text box I'd like to put: Location (city or zip) Can Location be large and

Re: [css-d] Styling a definition list

2009-07-30 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Andy Stevens wrote: I have a page with an existing unordered list I would keep it that way. (more or less) that I reckon, from a semantic viewpoint, ought really to be a definition list. I tend to agree, but what you really benefit from changing the markup, presentationally or otherwise?

Re: [css-d] A simple question - h1 before p

2009-07-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
MEM wrote: All h1 that are followed by a p will have a padding-bottom of X. Is this possible? As the discussion has shown, the practical way is to use a class. On the other hand, normally a page should have one h1 element (one highest-level heading) only, so I don't quite see why you can't

Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating handwritten fonts on notebook paper

2009-05-18 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Stephen Tang wrote: I encountered a peculiar use case. The business desires to display a small amount of text as a handwritten font. They want the handwritten font sitting on blue lines. This would simulate the effect of writing in a notebook. You could do something like this: Markup: p

Re: [css-d] Large amounts of text with CSS

2009-05-05 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Ellen Heitman wrote: My site has large amounts of text (basically you will be able to read the contents of a book on my site, divided into chapters). I found the best way to manage the amount of text (we're talking 50+ pages of a PDF document) was to put all the text into an iframe, and

Re: [css-d] Condensing BORDER-xxx-STYLE

2009-04-12 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
trevor bayliss wrote: How do I do the same for border-top-width border-bottom-width You can't. would it be: border-width: Top Right Bottom Left? This would always set all four border widths to some value, so it would not be equivalent to the two declarations you mentioned. Is there some

Re: [css-d] Condensing BORDER-xxx-STYLE

2009-04-12 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
David Laakso wrote: trevor bayliss wrote: How can I condense this CSS? Is it possible? thank you BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none; Looks like CSS generated by Interner Explorer when saving a page.

Re: [css-d] page-break-inside:avoid; not working

2009-04-11 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Yvan Daneault wrote: I have include the following rule in my stylesheet: p {page-break-inside:avoid;} but it does not seem to work in most browsers, except Opera. Yes, that's summarized http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support-css#css2propsprint as well as

Re: [css-d] :first-word?

2009-04-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Divya Manian wrote: You can try using :first-line [1]. Probably use a br/ to separate the lines? Not sure if it will work though (Certainly not semantic!). It would work technically well (:first-line has been in CSS since CSS 1.0 and is widely supported), but introducing an extra line break

Re: [css-d] Wrap text in li

2009-04-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Chike Loney wrote: I ddint use a parent ul An li element without a parent ul or ol is a syntax error. All bets are off, CSS-wise and otherwise, then. but even though the text in the li is not wrapping, You're not explaining what text is not wrapping in which sense. You need to provide a

Re: [css-d] How to wrap a long text at a given character

2009-03-31 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
ray wrote: Look at this page http://soundbowl.com/views/test.html. What I expect is to make the long text separated by '/' character wrap at the '/' or white space character. Also, FF and IE seems have the different layout. Can somebody give me some advice? Thanks in advance. It would be

Re: [css-d] Stylizing a tag within a tag, situation!

2009-03-29 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Christopher R wrote: I'm trying to stylize the text which is an a tag within the id videogallery as seen on this page http://www.thecreativesheep.ca/site/animationpage2.html so that I can move the text here but all that seems to be moving is the flash icon here is my style that I have

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-14 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Michael Stevens wrote: Calibri I have but do not have installed all the time and use it maybe a couple times a month. And I've never heard of Vrinda. I picked up Vrinda after considering the material at http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-WindowsResults.shtml and noticing that

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-13 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Kathy Wheeler wrote: Rather than blindly (bad term, I know) accepting the 100% font size, wouldn't a better approach be to settle on a font-size that doesn't make a client's site look like a kindergarten reader I'm not sure why one's page should not be better than the crowd in legibility.

Re: [css-d] IE7 and whitespace.

2009-03-13 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Ian Young wrote: http://www.dbadvertising.co.uk/dev/home-test3.html The address image has extra space between it and the nav2 div above. The page looks completely blank on my IE 7. No idea why. No fancy browser settings right now, and other pages work normally. On Firefox, I see the warning

Re: [css-d] changing languages for a phrase

2009-02-27 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Sandy wrote: I am working on a French/English site and each side has words in the other language. I want to make sure that screen readers switch languages for those isolated phrases. That's a noble goal, but it's a matter of HTML markup (using the lang or xml:lang attribute or both). There's

Re: [css-d] other alphabets

2009-02-25 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Nicky McCatty wrote: I want the Greek to appear on a web page. As others have commented, this is not a CSS question. Moreover, a URL would be needed for any constructive discussion. Even with Symbol, I have unpredictable results. This suggests that your entire approach might be completely

Re: [css-d] Is there a way to get lists to use decimal points?

2009-02-07 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Sandy wrote: Is there a way to get lists to use decimal points? No, not in CSS in a manner that would work in most browsing situations. Maybe you can use server-side generated content, so that the numbering appears as part of the list items (in which case you would make the best effort of

Re: [css-d] Setting font-size on body element

2009-01-31 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Bernat Lleonart wrote: I usually specify font-size on the body as 1em, Due to browser bugs, 100% is somewhat safer. and then, as the main text of the page has to be 12px, If it has to be 12px, CSS is not sufficient, since you cannot force anything in CSS. For example, a browser may have

Re: [css-d] Image on submit button

2009-01-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Del Wegener wrote: The Submit button (to the right of the search field) displays correctly with a green arrow (a background image) in FF. Where? However, in IE 7 the button is the wrong size and the background image does not show. Submit button sizes vary (and might be immune to CSS

Re: [css-d] Can't resize Courier font in IE

2009-01-04 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Felix Miata wrote: On 2009/01/04 00:54 (GMT) Thom Brown composed: I've applied the following to a paragraph and notice that while it correctly applies in Firefox, it won't apply any size changes in IE7/8. My observations are different. This may depend on the platform. (I'm using Vista.)

Re: [css-d] Academic Question: When a CSS rule is too long on oneline...

2008-12-24 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Stephen Tang wrote: I was recently taking a CSS online exam, and I ran into a question I have never encountered before. This list is devoted to discussions on practical use of CSS, but let's imagine that long lines become a practical issue. Rare, but possible. A very long URL, used for

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2008-12-24 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
JR Heard wrote: On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Dan Gayle danga...@gmail.com wrote: The full example can be found here: http://dangayle.com/test.html Firebug isn't picking up any of the div.extra-info styles you've defined in the head section. Solve that, and I'd bet you'll solve your

Re: [css-d] How to Apply CSS to Title Tag

2008-12-18 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Vladislav Vladimirov wrote: Is the HTML title tag not capable of receiving CSS styles? - - The title tag is not meant to be visualised, therefore should not be able to accept css styles. No tags are meant to be visualized. They are part of markup, and CSS is applied to elements, not to tags

Re: [css-d] Roll over highlight

2008-12-16 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Tony Kay wrote: I am trying to set up a style that puts a 2 pixel border around a set of images. Then when the image is rolled over, I want the border to be 5 pixels. How is this done? Please explain the idea more concretely. As usual, a URL would help. Do you want a single border around a

Re: [css-d] fractions in font-size

2008-12-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Angela French wrote: Is there no way to get in between sizes? Not on today's screens where a pixel is a screen-pixel. Modern technology often makes subpixels available. It is unclear how they should relate to the pixel concept of CSS, which is rather vague - it's not

Re: [css-d] Problem with form in IE6 and IE7

2008-11-30 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Peter Bradley wrote: I have a form that I can't get to format properly in IE (6 or 7). It looks like you are using a definition list for the form fields. In addition to being illogical, it also causes trouble in styling. The dl element may have idiosyncratic rendering features in browsers,

Re: [css-d] Too much empty space in IE and one lost picture, please help

2008-11-23 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Paul Jung wrote: Please look at http://www.poet.sk/hidveghyova/go.php/component/id/12/ Did anybody have some experience? I got to know only yesterday when a friend called me that he, with his IE browser, can not see this page. I opened it in IE, and found out that the main content is after

Re: [css-d] http://validator.w3.org can not validate a page

2008-11-23 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Paul Jung wrote: I used http://validator.w3.org to check a page: http://www.europeeurope.net/index.php but it returned with such erroe: Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 454 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 This has nothing to do

Re: [css-d] on firefo, blue line around links

2008-11-13 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Wade Smart wrote: www.questrealtybartlesville.com If you are viewing from Firefox 3.0.3 (and possibly other versions as well) the header graphic had a blue line around it. That's because it's a link. Its a link back to home from other pages. Admittedly the border looks odd now. But I

Re: [css-d] tr, td, th, and caption

2008-11-11 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Doug Jolley wrote: The XHTML 1.0 DTD makes clear that the table element is a block element. Not really. Both in HTML 4.01 and in XHTML 1.0, the concept of block element is obscure or at least vague, and it cannot be defined by the DTD, which is purely a formal description of some features of

Re: [css-d] control td text

2008-11-08 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your reply. But when I use the suggestion for the css of {display: block: text-align: center; display: bold;}, That's not what I suggested. Why don't you post a URL so that we could see what your real text page is? I'm using td.boldcenter for the

Re: [css-d] Separate an underline from the text underlined

2008-11-06 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
MEM wrote: Is there a way to separate and underline from his text using CSS? If I understand you correctly, you would like to put the underline that you get with text-decoration: underline (either explicitly or via the use of default rendering for links or u or ins) at a lower position than

Re: [css-d] control td text

2008-11-06 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to control the text in a td field with css? Surely, with the usual CSS Caveats. However, as usual you need some handle to the element, i.e. a selector that refers to the element(s) that should be styled in a particular way and not to any other element.

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