Re: [css-d] IE6 and absolute positioning

2008-08-13 Thread Matt Tibbits
That worked. Thank you. Matt Have you tried adding this to your style sheet for IE/6.0? * html #main {height: 559px;} reference: http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html __ css-discuss [EMAIL

[css-d] IE6 and absolute positioning

2008-08-12 Thread Matt Tibbits
Hello all, The following site: http://www.futurefacesoffredericton.com looks fine in IE7 and FF. It was just brought to my attention that it goes completely to hell in IE6. Can anyone point out if why and if there is a simple fix or not? Thank you, Matt Tibbits

Re: [css-d] overflow bg image

2008-06-11 Thread Matt Tibbits
Yes, it should. In FF though, if the content doesn't go all the way to the bottom of the window, it interprets bottom right as being the bottom right of the content INSTEAD of the bottom right of the browser window... Not sure if I understand what you want. The background-image should always

Re: [css-d] overflow bg image

2008-06-11 Thread Matt Tibbits
Yes, that is exactly it... little tricky but that does the job. Thank you, for your help. Matt If this is more like what you want... http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/mt/test_08_0611.html ...try introducing the style changes / additions I've used...

Re: [css-d] overflow bg image

2008-06-11 Thread Matt Tibbits
If you compare how it looks in IE and FF you should see what I mean. Adding the styles you recommended: html{height:100%;margin:0;padding:0;} ...fixed the problem at the bottom of the screen, but introduced a new behaviour at the top. It's hard to explain but basically if I resize the browser

[css-d] overflow bg image

2008-06-10 Thread Matt Tibbits
this at http://www.tchh.org/new/ Thank you, Matt Tibbits __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org

Re: [css-d] overflow bg image

2008-06-10 Thread Matt Tibbits
Almost, although now the bg image will not stop when it reaches the TOP of the view port in FF. It keeps being pushed up as the window is resized... Matt Hi Matt, This should help: html{height:100%;margin:0;padding:0;}

Re: [css-d] space in horizontal nav

2008-04-04 Thread Matt Tibbits
I also forgot to mention that it only shows when you hover over the link... if that helps any. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/

[css-d] space in horizontal nav

2008-04-03 Thread Matt Tibbits
Hello, I think I've seen a fix for this before but I can't find it right now. I've got a mysterious space between li items in a horizontal nav bar. I don't want to use floats because I would like the list to be centered on the page. If anyone can help it would be appreciated. Thanks,

Re: [css-d] space in horizontal nav

2008-04-03 Thread Matt Tibbits
It is showing up in all browsers... -Original Message- From: Kit Grose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 12:26 AM To: Matt Tibbits Cc: css-d Subject: Re: [css-d] space in horizontal nav Matt, If the issue is only showing up in IE, try removing all

[css-d] problem with margin after float

2007-05-11 Thread Matt Tibbits
remove the clear: left before the div id=”content” then it does appear as it should in IE. Can anyone help? Oh, you can view the page at HYPERLINK http://www.tibbits.ca/test/index.phphttp://www.tibbits.ca/test/index.php Thank you, Matt Tibbits No virus found in this outgoing

Re: [css-d] problem with margin after float

2007-05-11 Thread Matt Tibbits
Thank you for your help. Cheers, Matt Hi Matt, This is a collapsing margin issue. The fix is to assign a border (as you have had noticed) or padding to the #content DIV. #content {border-top:1px solid #(same color as the background);} or #content {padding-top:1px;} Read more about

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

2007-05-04 Thread Matt Tibbits
Tried this and it still exhibits the same behaviour... Thank you, Matt Tibbits -Original Message- From: Mauricio Samy Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a haslayout issue [1] Add the following to your CSS #menu LI { width:100%; } No virus found in this outgoing

[css-d] floats, fieldsets, and margins

2006-10-19 Thread Matt Tibbits
Hello again, Still working on forms and running into a bit of a problem… I have a fieldset within a fieldset, I cannot put a top margin on the nested fieldset. Here’s a silly little example: HYPERLINK http://www.tibbits.ca/webdev/test.phphttp://www.tibbits.ca/webdev/test.php It

[css-d] margin problem

2006-10-17 Thread Matt Tibbits
Hi all, I am working on a fully css based form and for some reason IE is removing 5px (approx.) from the left margin on a fieldset tag… You can see this here: HYPERLINK http://www.tibbits.ca/webdev/form.phphttp://www.tibbits.ca/webdev/form.php It is the first “Select One” box that

Re: [css-d] margin problem

2006-10-17 Thread Matt Tibbits
I seem to have found a solution...if I put display: inline; on the my fieldset tag then it lines up properly... Matt I am working on a fully css based form and for some reason IE is removing 5px (approx.) from the left margin on a fieldset tag… You can see this here: HYPERLINK

Re: [css-d] float clearing problem

2006-10-12 Thread Matt Tibbits
Thanks for your help and your explanation. It all makes sense to me, but why is it that on this page: http://easterseals.nb.ca/about_contact.php when I use the br / tag to clear the floated form elements they do NOT clear down below the left floated menu? Shouldn't the same behaviour be exhibited

Re: [css-d] float clearing problem

2006-10-12 Thread Matt Tibbits
Thank you very much for your help and your detailed explanations. Very much appreciated. Matt -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.2/471 - Release Date: 10/10/2006

[css-d] float clearing problem

2006-10-03 Thread Matt Tibbits
Hello all, I have a page with a left floated menu and a main content area. In the content area I have a series of images that are left floated. Since the text around the images is in some cases very short, I clear the end of the paragraph so that the next paragraph is lined up with the next

[css-d] funny space on div in FF

2006-05-17 Thread Matt Tibbits
Hello, I have a situation where I have a div id=content that follows a div id=navbar. FF shows a small space between the 2 div's, that is until I put a border around the div id=content. When I do, the div is pulled up flush with the top div with only the border in between. I've seen this

[css-d] clearing floats problem

2006-03-31 Thread Matt Tibbits
Hello, I'm using a horizontal navbar that is made up of a ul and floats. After the div that contains the navbar I have a left floated column and a content section. I'm trying to use a margin at the top of my content section and this looks fine in IE. Firefox, however won't put the margin

[css-d] wrapping text around a floated image

2006-02-28 Thread Matt Tibbits
Hello again, I've floated an image to the left and I would like the subsequent paragraphs to wrap around the image. However the last paragraph does not lengthen it's lines when it reaches the bottom of the image to create the wrapping effect. I also tried placing the image just inside the

[css-d] dropdown and spacing problems

2006-02-13 Thread Matt Tibbits
Hello, I am just starting out with CSS dropdowns using the Sons of Suckerfish method. The problem I am having is with spacing of the first level elements. This only seems to happen in Firefox. IE6 keeps the elements spaced properly. If I place a right and left border, and then add some

[css-d] clear:float is causing layout problem

2005-06-27 Thread Matt Tibbits
This problem only happens in Firefox. It seems to work fine in Explorer. Basically, I have a 2 column layout with the left column being a float. In the right column, I am using floats on various elements, such as images. If I don't do a clear:both after my images, everything gets messy in

RE: [css-d] font-size and unordered-list menu

2005-06-07 Thread Matt Tibbits
Dwain, I tried putting my li without any new lines separating them and it hasn't made any difference... If I put the font-size : .8em on the div.menu item the space goes away...the problem here, though, is that then the font-size of everything within that div is affected... I created a

[css-d] mysterious space between float and static element

2005-06-06 Thread Matt Tibbits
Hello, Just looking for some info on a particular problem I am having. I'm floating a left column for a menu followed by a static element that will be for content. I have a #leftcol element and a #content element. The #leftcol is the float. IE keeps putting a space between #leftcol