[css-d] Absolutely positioning an element in a parent with display:table-cell

2007-02-16 Thread Rafael Holt
Hello, Today I discovered a discrepancy between Opera and Firefox regarding display:table-cell. I tried to find some further info on the matter but didn't get much further than something (which I can't find any more) which said that the spec says that it's up to browser vendors whether table

Re: [css-d] Position:fixed - why relative to viewport and not containing block?

2007-02-08 Thread Rafael Holt
Zoe wrote: What you are asking for *is* absolute positioning -- positioning one div relative to another -- so why not just use absolute positioning? That will allow your div to move along with the other div when the browser is scrolled. Switch your fixed div to absolute and it will do what

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

2007-02-08 Thread Rafael Holt
On 08/02/07, Seona Bellamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, Creating a sitemap for a client. However, they also want ti split over two columns so that it doesn't end up just scrolling forever. Fair enough. However, since this is to plug into their CMS, I need to allow for a variable

Re: [css-d] Position:fixed - why relative to viewport and not containing block?

2007-02-08 Thread Rafael Holt
Zoe wrote: Users are used to things moving when you scroll, so I've never needed to change that. On 08/02/07, Barney Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be honest, I do see fixed elements as a bit of a flashy luxury - and something that is often used irresponsibly to create cumbersome

Re: [css-d] Position:fixed - why relative to viewport and not containing block?

2007-02-08 Thread Rafael Holt
Oh dear, I messed up the URL, how embarrassing. http://raffles.awardspace.com/G/melbourne/2/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information --

[css-d] Position:fixed - why relative to viewport and not containing block?

2007-02-07 Thread Rafael Holt
Hello, I currently have a very fluid layout and would like something to have position:fixed but I want it to be 1em from the top of a certain div. The position of this div from the top of the viewport varies depending on what is above it. I realise it is impossible to have something fixed

Re: [css-d] (Argh!) Why does the text in my nested DIV vanish off the bottom of the screen?

2007-01-09 Thread Rafael Holt
On 09/01/07, Christian Kavanagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It annoys me so: http://www.polarissc.com/csstest/directorlevelselling.html It's deadline day! Any help will be gratefully received. Hi, Add this to .core: margin-bottom:150px; That' ll solve your problem. However, the big problem

Re: [css-d] Pitfalls of overflow

2006-12-22 Thread Rafael Holt
On 20/12/06, Barney Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Raf, This site is fantastic - there's loads of fantastic little bits of css here I'd like to pull apart. The overflow selector for the drop-down menu is very, very cool. Sadly this wouldn't work for me because I can't select the

Re: [css-d] Pitfalls of overflow

2006-12-19 Thread Rafael Holt
On 19/12/06, Barney Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this list isn't particularly keen on conceptual problems but I have this notion that I can't conceive of without overflow on a containing element which then comes round to bite me in the face. I have my two columns, navigation and

Re: [css-d] Ordered List Issue

2006-12-19 Thread Rafael Holt
On 19/12/06, Steve LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an unordered list with an image as the bullet and I want to nest an ordered list with decimals inside. The problem is the image is populating both list. How about ol style=list-style-type: decimal; list-style-image:none;? Rafael

[css-d] The clip property - what's the logic behind it?

2006-12-18 Thread Rafael Holt
Hi all, I've been playing with clip recently and it seems to me the spec is a bit counter-intuitive. It is particularly irritating if you are clipping non-fixed width elements because if you don't want it to be clipped on the right, you have to specify its width for that value. Surely it would be

Re: [css-d] problem in floating a div in li tag

2006-12-15 Thread Rafael Holt
On 14/12/06, amir abbas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1- all forums are in li tag and i have div tag in that li tag this div itself is contain two other div tag please see this part of code div ul !-- BEGIN forumrow -- lidiva href={catrow.forumrow.U_VIEWFORUM}{

Re: [css-d] horizontal scrolling

2006-12-03 Thread Rafael Holt
On 04/12/06, Stephen Oravec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any sites that scroll horizontal instead of vertical ? I tried one today just for the heck of it (had nothing better to do) and was wondering where I might find some more info on it . or if its really worth it. my example

Re: [css-d] selecting all divs

2006-11-26 Thread Rafael Holt
On 27/11/06, Ross Hulford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the selector for all divs? What do you mean? If you simply want to select all divs, do this: div {border:1px solid red;} It will give all divs a red border. The same goes for any element. The selector for an element is the element's

Re: [css-d] building css buttons

2006-11-23 Thread Rafael Holt
On 24/11/06, Mario Merino (gmail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I want to include several CSS buttons on a site Im building. I have looked at the following article http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/css/rollover-buttons.sh tml but I would have to build the same amount of

Re: [css-d] Floats for Form Labels -- vertical alignment

2006-11-23 Thread Rafael Holt
On 24/11/06, Stephan Wehner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at the example for floating form labels at http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/css/css-forms.shtml and I find the labels get shifted up by a tiny amount. In the The original form section the Name label is

[css-d] line-height issue with floated elements

2006-11-23 Thread Rafael Holt
Hi, I have a div whose children (some spans and another div) are floated left inside it. This is the site: http://raffles.awardspace.com/G/misc/ I am currently testing this in Firefox 1.5 only. It won't work in IE (probably will in Opera and Safari). Please select custom in the dropdown, enter

Re: [css-d] Fixing images in place when using image substitution and text-indent

2006-11-22 Thread Rafael Holt
On 23/11/06, Graham Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a menu where all the menu button text is being replaced with images. For some reason, when the browser text is resized, the menu bar text images begin to move tooshifting to the right with each resize div id=header div

Re: [css-d] Problems dynamically styling DOM nodes in IE using Javascript

2006-11-15 Thread Rafael Holt
On 16/11/06, Wes Gamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Does Element.setAttribute() work in IE? Do I need to address the attributes differently perhaps? newDiv = popup.document.createElement('div'); newDiv.setAttribute ('id', 'pdf');

Re: [css-d] Beginner needs help

2006-11-13 Thread Rafael Holt
On 09/11/06, Christopher Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I want my page to sit centrally in the browser no matter whether the browser expands or contacts. Maybe some type of container that can contain my other elements? I have played around with % positioning but when 2 elements are next

Re: [css-d] Spotlight On CSS - Search Engine

2006-11-13 Thread Rafael Holt
On 08/11/06, Ben Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spotlight On CSS - http://www.spotlightoncss.com I've just created a CSS search engine which looks through a couple of hundred quality CSS sites at the moment - I want to keep developing it of course but would like to hear any feedback. Hi,

Re: [css-d] tricky position

2006-11-13 Thread Rafael Holt
On 09/11/06, Adam Helweh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have only one snafu with this homepage design I have been working on. http://carlpritchard.secretsushi.com//homepage_template_dllist.html The upcoming events list needs to be designed so that the date and the associated event

Re: [css-d] Can't figure this out - Center a div with variable width

2006-11-03 Thread Rafael Holt
On 01/11/06, Mark Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is this even possible? (I'm sure it is, but I still feel pretty new to css) - Can you have a div (content) centered inside another div (container) BUT, the content div's width may be different because of content (thus you can't set

Re: [css-d] Alternating row colors in table?

2006-10-30 Thread Rafael Holt
On 28/10/06, Fred Janon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to get alternating row colors in a table or a list? I know of solutions with Javascript but I am looking for something that would be done with CSS only, I don't want to have to have a class for the even rows (or odd). Now that we have CSS

Re: [css-d] declarations and embedded items

2006-10-27 Thread Rafael Holt
On 27/10/06, Ross Hulford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this. div id=header div id=holder ul id=mylist li item 1/li li item2/li ul /div /div what is the correct way to change the ul properties without effecting other

[css-d] center nostalgia

2006-10-26 Thread Rafael Holt
Hello, Please look at this page, where the area of focus is the blocks of thumbnails: http://raffles.awardspace.com/G/g3.php?album=misc The CSS is in this file: http://raffles.awardspace.com/G/g.css As you can see, they are all floated left so that they appear next to each other and should the

[css-d] Small issue with dynamic displaying of box

2006-10-04 Thread Rafael Holt
Hi, I'm using some simple javascript to hide and then show a box using document.getElementById('box').style.display. In Firefox it works perfectly, but in IE the box appears in the main content area until you hover over it. I'm pretty sure this isn't a javascript issue but more of an IE is