[css-d] Creating a forum

2008-06-22 Thread Patrick James
Hi I'm just about to start trying to create a forum for inclusion in a web-site I've been creating. I've never done this before and I'm wondering if anyone could offer any suggestions. The first 'forum solution' I've been looking at is phpBB: http://www.phpbb.com/ The web-site is wish to

Re: [css-d] Anchor hover in IE 6 'absorbs' margin of above element

2008-06-10 Thread Patrick James
Hi Jonny and David This was the fault and I discovered it a day or two after posting :) The margin is now on the 'li' and all is fine in all browsers I've tried. Patrick On 10 Jun 2008, at 14:35, David Laakso wrote: And if a margin is required, apply it to #nav001 li rather than #nav001

Re: [css-d] How would you approach an organization chart in CSS?

2008-06-10 Thread Patrick James
Hi I think it could be done with a lot of absolute positioning but personally I would just rework it as another graphic in a vector drawing program, then export that as a .png and use that. When you need to edit it, do it in the vector drawing program and export again as .png for use on

Re: [css-d] XHTML 1.0 Strict and absolute positioning

2008-06-08 Thread Patrick James
Hi You need to specify the units. 5px or 5em, but just '5' won't do it :) Patrick On 8 Jun 2008, at 16:16, Thane Sherrington wrote: I noticed that if I use the following code: style #RightGraphic{ position: absolute; top: 5; right: 5; } /style img

[css-d] Anchor hover in IE 6 'absorbs' margin of above element

2008-06-03 Thread Patrick James
Hi If you look here: http://www.patrickjames.me.uk/test.html you'll see a web-page which is not very exciting :) However I put it together to illustrate a problem I'm having. In Internet Explorer 6 when the mouse cursor hovers over the anchor elements they turn red, as they should, but

[css-d] Curious Kink

2007-03-14 Thread Patrick James
Hello I've created this web-site: http://www.inventoryworks.co.uk However in IE6 there is a lack of alignment (or if you like, a kink) on the left side of the text just below the image of the clipboard. If you don't see it at first resizing the browser window of IE6 might well make it

Re: [css-d] Elementary questioning about positioning a div

2006-11-26 Thread Patrick James
Jazzcreation wrote: I'd like to position a div of a certain height (say 30px) so that it starts 20px from the left hand edge, and runs up to the right edge of the screen. I normally try to figure out a way of doing this in css, then give up and use a table, which provides a pretty

Re: [css-d] Shadows without images

2006-11-19 Thread Patrick James
On Nov 19, 2006, Martin Davis wrote: Hey guys, Thought you might want to check this out. This guy has made shadows without using images. It uses a pretty good number of divs, but it still looks pretty good. I wonder, would this method be faster or slower than using images? I mean after

Re: [css-d] automatic margins

2006-11-13 Thread Patrick James
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:23:11 +, Santiago Restrepo wrote (in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]): This site ( http://www.utp.edu.co/pruebacrie)http://www.utp.edu.co/crieprueba works beautifully in firefox and safari, but it's a total mess in IE. I want to ask, why the automatic margins don't

Re: [css-d] IE6 vs IE7

2006-11-07 Thread Patrick James
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:50:06 +, Ross Hulford wrote (in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi Ian, Have been deleloping using ie7 for a few weeks now and will have to say it is much better. Really frustrating things like png alpha transparency are now working whcih although not stricly a css