Re: [css-d] Design question regarding columns and containers

2011-02-08 Thread Paul Novitski
regardless of window width if you declare a fixed width on the block that contains all the columns. That doesn't strike me as being table emulation, but was that your intention? Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http:/

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS fisheye menu with icons: a demo

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Novitski
nt or is it presentation"? Curiously, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ

Re: [css-d] Bulleted list question

2010-05-18 Thread Paul Novitski
xt to wrap to (say 1.5em), then give each list item a negative text-indent of the same value (e.g. -1.5em) to reset it to where it would have fallen naturally. The text-indent affects only the beginning of the item's text. Regards, Paul _

Re: [css-d] link trickery

2010-05-06 Thread Paul Novitski
much better approach to the problem would be simply to manipulate the markup coming down from the server. Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com __ css-discuss [c

Re: [css-d] height and margin: auto 0

2010-04-28 Thread Paul Novitski
display-prop Also don't forget our beautifully recreated wiki: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/wiki/Centering_Block_Element#Vertical_Centering and I also had this one bookmarked: http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html Regards, Paul ___

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

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Novitski
nitions are not complete sentences, e.g. <http://google.com/search?q=define%3Atechnician>. The OP's semantic content is clearly that of a definition list: terms and descriptions. What constructive goal do we achieve by attempting to constrain the grammar (in any given human languag

Re: [css-d] Re the non-secure login code...

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Novitski
e to login failures. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html [I think this part of the discussion properly belongs over on WSG or Webdesign-L...] Regards, Paul ______ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com

Re: [css-d] Re the non-secure login code...

2010-04-12 Thread Paul Novitski
> > I'd be happy to take a look, I'm always on the lookout for good > > login scripts and I'd be happy to provide any feedback I can. > > > > ONE*** This goes in the head section of the html page: > > > > > > TWO*** Then this form goes in the body section. You decide the > content to include

Re: [css-d] Zero out a style

2010-04-11 Thread Paul Novitski
cificity that they trump all other rules in the parent stylesheets. You could try to bludgeon your way through that using !important but that can wreck a lot of furniture in a roomful of nested elements. Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://junip

Re: [css-d] CSS selector narrowing

2010-04-03 Thread Paul Novitski
ackground: url(bullet.png) left 5px no-repeat; } .container li li { background-image: none; } Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com

Re: [css-d] Basic doubt: align - text - font

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Novitski
or "most semantically appropriate" ways to mark up the content, not the "simplest." - The most practical way to present them side by side is to enclose each head/datum pair in a wrapper or use a table. This eliminates definition lists and leaves

Re: [css-d] Trick for centering menu

2010-02-18 Thread Paul Novitski
t-align: center. If you can't use inline, say because it doesn't give you enough control over margins & padding, you can try table-cell and sacrifice cross-browser support. (It's easy to serve separate stylesheets to various versions of IE using conditional comments.) Regards, P

Re: [css-d] Floating to bottom-right of content : yet possible ?

2010-02-16 Thread Paul Novitski
y the same as I had suggested on February 13th, pushing an image down the page a given amount. If you change your browser zoom to text-only and enlarge the text, the image stays put and the text flows below it, breaking the solution. Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski J

Re: [css-d] Floating to bottom-right of content : yet possible ?

2010-02-13 Thread Paul Novitski
oom in the flow. I hope this gives you some food for thought as you chew this one over... Regards, Paul ______ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.c

Re: [css-d] Train wreck in IE6

2010-02-06 Thread Paul Novitski
nt: .. Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://cs

Re: [css-d] horizontal, variable height nav bar. Doable with display: table?

2010-02-03 Thread Paul Novitski
scripting to adjust all the anchor heights when text size is changed, and fall back to different-height anchors in user agents in which scripting is not running. Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com _

Re: [css-d] Keeping the footer at the bottom

2010-01-19 Thread Paul Novitski
f his longest column. While we digress, however, the sticky footer solution I've found works best is the one published by Cameron Adams a few years ago: http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2005/08/29/ Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper

Re: [css-d] :: page review :

2009-10-06 Thread Paul Novitski
it will present the user with something akin to leaping the >"Great Wall of China" inorder access the primary content. Why not start out with a 'jump to main content' hyperlink, perhaps shifted off-stage but then made visible to handhelds? Regards, Paul ____

Re: [css-d] top nav tabs - distorted on laptop?

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Novitski
ell containing the menu, forcing the menu to wrap. Personally I would strip the table markup out of this page and rely on simpler markup & slightly more complicated styling to arrange things the way you want. Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://

Re: [css-d] Some see the style sheet and some don't.

2009-06-26 Thread Paul Novitski
At 6/26/2009 11:31 AM, tedd wrote: >with my site I have to declare the Content-Type in all my style sheets. Could you explain that? I've never encountered that necessity before. Paul __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] Some see the style sheet and some don't.

2009-06-26 Thread Paul Novitski
At 6/26/2009 10:53 AM, tedd wrote: >http://sperling.com/examples/audio-captcha/ > >Can anyone tell me why the style sheet here is seen in most browsers >but not in *some* versions of Safari and FireFox for the Mac? > >It's interesting that Opera for the Mac and IE6, 7, and 8 doesn't >have any probl

Re: [css-d] Listings ol and li spacing

2009-06-22 Thread Paul Novitski
At 6/22/2009 03:12 AM, Tim Snadden wrote: >On 22/06/2009, at 9:43 PM, Paul Novitski wrote: > > > 3) LI is by default a block-level element, > >It's probably worth mentioning that the default display property of >'li' is list-item, not block. That's not

Re: [css-d] Listings ol and li spacing

2009-06-22 Thread Paul Novitski
i a margin-bottom of 1em or whatever, then counteract that with ul ol li {margin-bottom: 0); Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.

Re: [css-d] Footer doesn't stick to bottom of page

2009-06-19 Thread Paul Novitski
Web page – whichever is visually lowest." Regards, Paul ______ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman

Re: [css-d] "Weak" layout

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Novitski
n achieve. I doubt that there is one, given the variation in vision impairments, but I'll be curious to know what others think. I apologize if this is considered to be off-topic; it's an accessibility point, but in my mind very pertinent to styling. Regards, Paul ___

Re: [css-d] hover technique

2007-05-22 Thread Paul Novitski
can probably be corrected by setting block heights in ems to prevent them from colliding. Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [css-d] hover technique

2007-05-22 Thread Paul Novitski
oler when we can pull this off without scripting. One advantage of scripting it is that the markup would be more intuitively obvious -- the word cloud would be separate from the menu, each phrase in the cloud wrapped in a span linked

Re: [css-d] How do you create this multicolumn dropdown menu?

2007-05-21 Thread Paul Novitski
per Toolbar by Chris Pederick http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/ Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discu

Re: [css-d] Two images side by side

2007-05-21 Thread Paul Novitski
Tested in Firefox 2 & IE 7 (Windows). Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.o

Re: [css-d] Two images side by side

2007-05-21 Thread Paul Novitski
ul suggestions until the designer tells us what the design criteria are. None of the cases I've suggested here mandate any particular markup decisions, tables or otherwise. Regards, Paul __

Re: [css-d] Two images side by side

2007-05-20 Thread Paul Novitski
ires by using inappropriate and presentationally rigid markup? This topic has been discussed so exhaustively over the past few years, I'm frankly surprised you're raising it again here as though it were new terrain to be explored. And here, like the predictable fish, I'

Re: [css-d] Two images side by side

2007-05-19 Thread Paul Novitski
d on how you want it to look when each image is enlarged. Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mail

Re: [css-d] Max amount of # Divs

2007-05-16 Thread Paul Novitski
ol that can mimic the complications and convolutions of HTML markup and CSS styling accurately except for HTML and CSS themselves. Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com ___

Re: [css-d] Document order versus design breakpoint

2007-05-06 Thread Paul Novitski
one should be able to navigate to any page of the site with a single click. Asking the user to click to drill into the site tree isn't really so egregious, and simple menus create a relaxed atmosphere in which the user can visualize all the options at any one time. Regards, Paul _

Re: [css-d] gettting a radiogroup to display horizontally?

2007-04-29 Thread Paul Novitski
display horizontally unless styled elsewise. If you enclose each radio button in div, p, li, or another block-level element, you can override the default by applying {display: inline} to the container. Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebc

Re: [css-d] Vertically Aligning Text in Division - IE 6 Problem

2007-04-27 Thread Paul Novitski
text-align: center; } #child { /* center child in compliant browsers */ margin: 0 auto; /* don't center child's contents (correction for IE hack) */ text-align: left; } Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft

Re: [css-d] Vertically Aligning Text in Division - IE 6 Problem

2007-04-27 Thread Paul Novitski
enter; } You might also be able to diagnose the problem more clearly if you apply a background-color to the paragraph. Does that show that the first line is centered and the others are flush-left? [1] CSS 2.1 Specification : 16 Text : 16.2 Alignment: the 'text-align' property http://www.

Re: [css-d] shadow over gradient

2007-04-26 Thread Paul Novitski
rs no longer need to support earlier versions of IE? Or maybe they've moved them someplace their own search engine can't find them? [1] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms532969.aspx [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/filter/reference/filters/alphaimageloa

Re: [css-d] better CSS option to group image/content

2007-04-17 Thread Paul Novitski
n each list item of an unordered list. In any case you ought to be able to float the images right or left of the captions with CSS rather than with inline presentational attributes in the markup. Regards, Paul _

Re: [css-d] lists in blocks

2007-04-17 Thread Paul Novitski
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/ and as discussed here: Introducing the CSS3 Multi-Column Module by Cédric Savarese http://www.alistapart.com/articles/css3multicolumn/ Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com _

Re: [css-d] CSS-based image map - IE7 is driving me insane...

2007-04-11 Thread Paul Novitski
ight of the entire floor plan instead of a fixed distance from the hovered-over list item. Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [css-d] IE Transparent PNG Background (that repeats)

2007-03-27 Thread Paul Novitski
ces is to create one very tall PNG for use in IE<7 -- non-repeating but long enough to support vertical expansion for anticipated text-size enlargements. Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniper

Re: [css-d] Perfect font sizes across all browser - solved?

2007-03-25 Thread Paul Novitski
o modern browsers with scripting turned off, whether by user preference, corporate mandate, or other reasons. I mention this merely to indicate that the population your technique excludes is probably larger than you imagine. Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Web

Re: [css-d] setting width of

2007-03-19 Thread Paul Novitski
At 3/19/2007 06:59 AM, Sandy wrote: >Another related question - is there a good way, once your link is nicely >tucked into a of getting the background of the container to >change colour on mouse over, instead of just the A background colour? No -- that would require the ability to affect the par

Re: [css-d] align link in a paragraph

2007-03-15 Thread Paul Novitski
At 3/15/2007 02:33 PM, jeffrey morin wrote: > > > > When you set a link to display: block, it becomes a block element. Block > > elements by default take on the full width of their containing element. So > > now, > > the text within the link is free to slide across to the right. > > >bu

Re: [css-d] align link in a paragraph

2007-03-15 Thread Paul Novitski
At 3/15/2007 02:00 PM, Paul Novitski wrote: >For example, if the link is the sole contents of the paragraph, you >could apply {display: block} to the link itself and have it center. At 3/15/2007 02:13 PM, jeffrey morin wrote: > > so here is a test page. the display block worked but l

Re: [css-d] align link in a paragraph

2007-03-15 Thread Paul Novitski
At 3/15/2007 01:46 PM, jeffrey morin wrote: >so it sounds like there is no way around adding a class to that paragraph >then? Depends on your markup. Please post the contents of the div so we can see what you're dealing with. For example, if the link is the sole contents of the paragraph, you

Re: [css-d] align link in a paragraph

2007-03-15 Thread Paul Novitski
tserves such as this if you'll include the actual markup your styling will apply to -- preferably by linking to an HTML page on a server somewhere. A test page works fine if you can't link to your live material. Regards, Paul ___

Re: [css-d] setting width of

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Novitski
& UL and both P & LI are naturally block-level elements. The advantage of doing so will be to make the content of your page just that much more structured. Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com _

Re: [css-d] Language switching

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Novitski
>>>>From: Paul Novitski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>Every bilingual page on the site contains both languages, with >>>>only one of them displayed at a time. >>>> >>>>In the absence of javascript, the Japanese/English toggle

Re: [css-d] containing floats

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Novitski
At 3/6/2007 10:55 AM, ron zisman wrote: >http://www.ricochet.org/adv_buyer/new_tue.html > >can't seem to get clear on how to contain floats. One way to contain a floated element is to float its parent. Paul __ css-discuss [EMA

Re: [css-d] Language switching

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Novitski
>>From: Paul Novitski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Here's an example of one technique that I >>produced using English & Japanese text: >>http://laurietobyedison.com/WOJwords.asp?lang=EN >> >>Every bilingual page on the site contains both >>lang

Re: [css-d] Language switching

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Novitski
er with the requested language selected (by specifying it in the body class). With javascript enabled, the language toggle simply switches the body class and the displayed language changes immediately. Regards, Paul ______ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft L

Re: [css-d] Splitting a list into two columns

2007-02-08 Thread Paul Novitski
7;t strand a section title at the bottom of column1 or the last item of a section at the top of column 2. Regards, Paul __ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: [css-d] why won't my class change the font?

2007-02-01 Thread Paul Novitski
other >version such as ".article p .smallcaption", your problem will be solved. Michael, here's where you can read up on selector specificity: CSS 2.1 Specification 6 Assigning property values, Cascading, and Inheritance http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html Regards, Paul _

Re: [css-d] Rounded corners

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Novitski
At 1/30/2007 06:32 PM, Jonathan Carter wrote: >I have to implement rounded corners throughout an entire site which >includes many different size containers and elements. I'm looking to >find the best/cleanest/easiest solution that I can easily implement >site wide. I've looked at numerous exampl

Re: [css-d] Can I move a TD vertically in relation to another TD?

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Novitski
At 1/30/2007 04:20 PM, Rob Stevenson wrote: >So, generically, the question is: can you use CSS positioning to have >two TDs in the same TR aligned vertically at different heights? If so, >how? Like all other html elements, table components have default styling that makes them render as they do.

Re: [css-d] Is this a semantic use of the definition list?

2007-01-24 Thread Paul Novitski
At 1/24/2007 01:31 PM, Garth Jantzen wrote: >I'm looking for a way to create a 'teaser box' you might call it, which >would contain an image say, 80 x 80 floated to the left with a description >floated to the right, both of which are wrapped in a box. The box is a link >to my portfolio page. I want

Re: [css-d] mousing over an unordered list and child list item broken

2007-01-18 Thread Paul Novitski
At 1/18/2007 12:44 PM, Ben Liu wrote: >http://dev.gelatincube.com/jindo/ >The problem: >When you mouse over the left-most tab "home", the tab should rise >slowly and only return to its original position when you mouse out of >the entire tab. Instead, the browser (tested on Safari, Firefox, IE6) >de

Re: [css-d] how to hyperlink a background image?

2007-01-18 Thread Paul Novitski
At 1/18/2007 09:39 AM, Peggy Coats wrote: >I was actually referring to the background image. I have the client >logo as a bg in the header div. What I wound up doing was putting a >transparent .gif there and linking that back to the home page. Many >people will click on a page logo to return to th

Re: [css-d] area:hover - why does this not work

2007-01-16 Thread Paul Novitski
At 1/15/2007 04:17 PM, Mark Finney wrote: >Ok so I use a:hover and just assumed that it should work with an image >map... am i wrong? FYI it is possible to create a pure CSS image map, as Stu Nichols has demonstrated: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/articles/imagemap/ http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/old

Re: [css-d] Weird Occurrence

2007-01-15 Thread Paul Novitski
At 1/15/2007 09:59 AM, Steve LaBadie wrote: >One of our programmers is creating forms with PHP as backend. Most of >the input fields (input type=text) have a background color of yellow and >there are no styles applied. It happens in both IE7 and FF. All of the >drop-downs are not affected. Any id

Re: [css-d] Loading Graphics

2007-01-03 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12/31/2006 09:46 AM, Donna [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business Connection wrote: >For the life of me I can't find the code that you add so that all >graphics will load first? I know there is such a thing. > >I want the background to load first when open a webpage. How can I do >that? If you can ensure

Re: [css-d] floating divs

2006-12-31 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12/29/2006 10:56 PM, Andrew Wallace wrote: >I'm trying to get a couple of div's to float within a div. The outer >div does one of the rounded corner tricks that I have discovered. The >inner div's are supposed to contain a navigation column, and an >informational column: > > http://pcg.d

Re: [css-d] Making an anchor not clickable?

2006-12-13 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12/13/2006 02:31 PM, Michael Stevens wrote: >I'm not scared of JavaScript like a lot of people seem to be... :) I haven't >yet figured out why anyone would want to stop javascript, flash, etc. from >working when viewing the web... it's akin to wearing a ballcap, sunglasses, >blinders, and lookin

Re: [css-d] Making an anchor not clickable?

2006-12-13 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12/13/2006 11:10 AM, ~davidLaakso wrote: >re: Making an anchor not clickable? >I may not understand...but, home is still clickable in >the sense that the page will flash when clicked. Personally, I think it >should be dead in the water. In browsers I'm familiar with, href="#" will jump/scroll

Re: [css-d] "margin: 0 auto" and "float" dont work together

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12/6/2006 03:27 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: >OK, so say I have a block element containing some floated items (say a >ul containing li's which are floated so the whole thing will be >horizontal instead of vertical). > > I want that ul to be centered within its parent element. But, in >order for it

Re: [css-d] Moving stuff to the right ?

2006-12-05 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12/5/2006 01:13 AM, Jan Erik Moström wrote: >I'm trying to create a page header that should look like this > >-- >| Page Header| Main | About | Blog | >... | >

Re: [css-d] horizontal scrolling

2006-12-04 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12/3/2006 02:55 PM, Stephen Oravec wrote: >Is there any sites that scroll horizontal instead of vertical ? A common objection to horizontal layout is that it's not possible with today's browsers to jump to a local anchor to the left or right of the current cursor position (only above or belo

Re: [css-d] Properly toggling the positioning of elements in a DD

2006-11-22 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/22/2006 11:40 AM, Austin, Darrel wrote: >I'm using this very nice bit of javascript and CSS to create a >expandable/collapsible DL: > >http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/toggle_elements.asp > >The specific CSS that is used to toggle the positioning of the DD is >this: > >#TJK_DL .showDD {posit

Re: [css-d] CSS popups - how to display in a different div to the anchor

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/16/2006 11:18 AM, James Ward wrote: >I'm wanting to use a technique similar to Eric Meyer's: > >http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html > >My problem is that I want the popup text to be positioned in a >different div to the anchor to which it is linked. Not using CSS alone. But

Re: [css-d] Can CSS Help With This Design?

2006-11-15 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11/15/2006 04:33 PM, Robert Tilley wrote: >I wish to produce a page with Header, Left, Center, Right, and Footer divs. >There are templates aplenty that display these properties. > >My addition would be a Description div within the Center column. A >hover menu >would be in the Left div, with e

Re: [css-d] 100% height minus 2em

2006-10-24 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/24/2006 12:22 PM, David Merwin wrote: >Couldn't you use padding and negative margins? > >div1 {height:100%; padding:2em 0 0 0;} >div2 {height:2em; margin:-2em 0 0 0;} > > > > On Oct 24, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Paul Novitski wrote: >><http://juniperwebcraf

[css-d] 100% height minus 2em

2006-10-24 Thread Paul Novitski
This is likely one of those Gordian knots of CSS: how to combine percentages and ems in the same layout. I want to style a block that fills the vertical space of the viewport, minus the 2ems taken up by the header. How to express 100% - 2em in CSS? Before I fall back on JavaScript (or *gasp*

Re: [css-d] css list

2006-10-22 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/22/2006 09:20 PM, Brian Jones wrote: >I have a 16px x 16px image that I want to set as the background image >of a how would i go about setting my css to accomplish this The simple answer is: li#example { width: 16px; height: 16px; background: url("something.jpg"

Re: [css-d] positioning

2006-09-22 Thread Paul Novitski
At 9/21/2006 10:36 PM, raumin dehghan wrote: >with regards to positioning, when you put numerical values for top, bottom, >left, etc., what do these numerical values signify? Please begin by reading the CSS 2.1 Specification: 9 Visual formatting model 9.3 Positioning schemes http://www.w3.org/TR

Re: [css-d] Vertically Center

2006-09-21 Thread Paul Novitski
At 9/21/2006 11:17 AM, Steve Craig wrote: >What do I need to add to this to get the pic to be vertically >centered in the div as nothing I have tried seems to work properly? At 9/21/2006 11:23 AM, Kelley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >.centerdiv >{ > text-align:center; >} The poster wants VER

Re: [css-d] Examples of true pure semantic XHTML web sites using css?

2006-09-06 Thread Paul Novitski
At 9/6/2006 03:13 AM, David Dorward wrote: >One of the major critisms of CSS Zen Garden is >that it is laden down with vast numbers of divs and spans which are >there solely to hook CSS onto. I find it hard to take seriously criticism that the Zen Garden page has too many tags! That would be li

Re: [css-d] [OT] Javascript: getElementsByTagName() getElementsById(): How getElementsByClass()?

2006-08-20 Thread Paul Novitski
At 8/20/2006 01:29 PM, Nick Urbanik wrote: >This is tangentially related to this list But not closely enough. Here's a great JavaScript list for future scripting questions: https://lists.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript >Now I can see that Javascript provides getElementsByTagName(), >get

Re: [css-d] Trouble with putting a background-image in container

2006-08-03 Thread Paul Novitski
At 04:30 PM 8/3/2006, Wade Markham wrote: >When I try to create a background by using a jpeg file for container {}, I >get nothing. > > container { > width: 703px; > position: absolute; > background-image: url(Images/Paper.jpg); > } Try giving you

Re: [css-d] Styling Lists

2006-07-24 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12:22 AM 7/24/2006, Richard Brown wrote: >I am styling a two column list here: > > > >I am using a technique explained here: > > >However, I am having two

Re: [css-d] Counting Pixels

2006-07-23 Thread Paul Novitski
At 02:48 PM 7/23/2006, Jennifer Knowles wrote: >What method can be used to count pixels? I often take a screenshot and paste it into Photoshop [just one of many image-manipulation programs], where I can zoom way in and measure small details more easily. Paul _

Re: [css-d] Varying text parameters on same line

2006-07-18 Thread Paul Novitski
At 04:04 PM 7/18/2006, Ian Young wrote: >Using a list and want to specify the tab, text color of both texts. If I use > it will clearly drop a line. > >Tried using span but it doesn't work at all. > >Here is what I mean: > > >test area > > > >.members{margin-left:25px;color:navy;} >li {font-weight:

Re: [css-d] CSS mouseover to look like buttons

2006-07-18 Thread Paul Novitski
At 09:37 AM 7/18/2006, Portman wrote: >I am changing a JavaScript menu to CSS for the mouseover and wanted to >make it look like it was still a button that depresses on mouseover. I >tried fiddling with adding a border on mouseover (the same color as the >background) but it moves all the links, no

Re: [css-d] joining classes

2006-07-18 Thread Paul Novitski
At 02:19 AM 7/18/2006, Micky Hulse wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ... > >This page might help: > >*CSS-Discuss: Multiple Classes* > Also, go to the source: W3C CSS 2.1 Specification 5 Selectors 5.8.3 Class selectors http://www.w3.org/TR

Re: [css-d] Three column div

2006-07-17 Thread Paul Novitski
Aaron Gray wrote: > >>> Is it possible to have a three column layout with fixed width left and > >>> right columns , and variable width center column, WITH a minimum width, > >>> using div's ? At 06:02 AM 7/17/2006, Zoe M. Gillenwater replied: >- Float one div left >- Float one div right >- Give m

Re: [css-d] images in a grid using DIV's...

2006-07-14 Thread Paul Novitski
At 02:36 PM 7/13/2006, moises wrote: >I'm attempting to layout a bunch of images in a grid >using DIV's >instead of a table. I currently have a 3x6 table that >I need to convert >to css. I've seen various example of a 3 to 4 column >layout. Is this >the only way to accomplish this? To see the table

Re: [css-d] How do you adjust the indent on UL LI elements?

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Novitski
>Paul Novitski wrote: > > Every browser comes with a default stylesheet; these differ slightly > > from one browser to the next. Many people "zero out" many of these > > default styles, making it easier to get the same predictable effects > > cross-bro

Re: [css-d] How do you adjust the indent on UL LI elements?

2006-07-12 Thread Paul Novitski
At 03:43 PM 7/12/2006, Robert Lane wrote: >My page is at: >http://www.careercounselingservices.com/test2/outplacement.htm > >If you scroll down in the lower half of the page (yes it is long!) >there are some nested unordered lists. > >I want to reduce the indents. ... >How would I write a style to

Re: [css-d] List Style - how would you change to get a "-"

2006-07-12 Thread Paul Novitski
>Robert Lane wrote: > > Trying to do a nested nested nested type list and want to use just a "-" > > in front of the list item At 02:49 PM 7/12/2006, L. Robinson wrote: >li:before { content: " - "; } The :before pseudo-element isn't going to work cross-browser (i.e., IE), so you might alternat

[css-d] fluid left & right hugging a fixed-width center

2006-07-06 Thread Paul Novitski
I've got a centered fixed-width block inside a resizable container. I'd like to auto-fill the left & right margins with repeating background images. Here's an illustration of the problem: http://juniperwebcraft.com/test/test_stretch.html One catch is that the blocks can't be allowed to overlap

Re: [css-d] One-Image "Rollovers?"

2006-03-31 Thread Paul Novitski
At 07:58 AM 3/31/2006, Mark D Hiatt wrote: >I have a link with an image to click on to send you to another page. I >know how to create a rollover image and have that thrown up in CSS so that >it looks like the black and white image lights up when you hover over it. >Kewl. > >But I was thinking abou

Re: [css-d] The captions! The captions! AUGH!!!!!

2006-03-30 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12:12 PM 3/30/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The code below generates a header on the top-left of the table. The text >in the element, however, rolls up into a ball on the other end of the >table. >It should start right under the heading. ... > caption h2 { > float:left

Re: [css-d] Getting rid of the line under a hyperlinked image

2006-03-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 11:45 PM 3/29/2006, Joanne wrote: >I have image and a text hyperlinked together. In IE only the text is >underlined, but in Firefox & Opera, the image is too. > >How do I get rid of it? Try img { border: none; } Paul __ css

Re: [css-d] CSS to format as tabbed pane

2006-03-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 04:56 PM 3/29/2006, Paul Novitski wrote: >If either JavaScript or CSS is disabled, the markup will render as a >(vertical) sequence of DT-DD pairs. PS: The model I described works in the absence of JavaScript with a server-side script supplying the necessary clas

Re: [css-d] CSS to format as tabbed pane

2006-03-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 04:08 PM 3/29/2006, Peter Michaux wrote: >I'd like to learn how to use CSS to display a definition list as a >tabbed pane. I think this would be a nice way to relate the tab and >the content in case the browser is not CSS or the document is being >presented aurally. Any tips on how to do this mi

Re: [css-d] Question about ">" and targeting IE/Mac

2006-03-24 Thread Paul Novitski
At 02:13 PM 3/24/2006, Michael Hulse wrote: >* html>body #hNav>dl>dd > >The goal is to target IE/Mac only. Michael, you might find this useful -- a table that lists which browsers are targeted by which CSS selectors, rules, and hacks: "Will the browser apply the rule(s)?" http://centricle.com/r

Re: [css-d] Menu

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Novitski
At 03:22 PM 3/9/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Okay, I have a Sliding Door (of CSS) menu for in-page >links. I'd like to highlight the currently selected section >of the page. How? Marc, It's difficult to know exactly what you have in mind without a link to an online demo page, however I'll as

Re: [css-d] Screen readers, tabbed index, and display:none issues

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12:25 PM 3/9/2006, Paul Novitski wrote: >If you can somehow be sure you're not running in a visual browser, >javascript could change this to #tabbed_content so the tabs appear at >the top of the viewport: > >http://mediamatters.org/?default_tab=clips#tabbed_content I mea

Re: [css-d] Screen readers, tabbed index, and display:none issues

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10:12 AM 3/9/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >We are looking to implement a three column layout, with the center section >containing a tabbed index, similar to the one found at >www.mediamatters.org, towards the bottom of the page. Lets use that as the >example. > >The problem, being that since

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