Re: [css-d] Problems with DIVs lining up

2007-03-20 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2007/3/20, Marty Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello everyone, I have worked on this until I'm cross-eyed. The page here- http://commonwealthentpc.com/ is using DIVs to separate the header, middle and footer content. They're the same width, etc. but are not lining up evenly. They seem to be

Re: [css-d] can't figure out why this won't validate

2007-03-19 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2007/3/19, david [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael Venables wrote: Ran into an interesting something. Not sure if it's a problem, really, but it's confusing. This does not validate in CSS3: .colset01 { column-width: 15em } Unless you have a typo in your email, you're missing a

Re: [css-d] Width and border issues-simple, I think

2007-01-08 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
Under the strictest rules, all negative number values for measurement are illegal. False. However, even the most ruthless standardistas make use of them. Negative percentages in complex positioning occasionally causes problems for IE, but no more than anything else! Most ruthless

Re: [css-d] Horizontal list problem... among other things...

2006-12-14 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
I've inherited this website and it is an incredible mess. You can see the current version at the root but the HTML is nothing short of horrendous: It's old school HTML using tables for layout, not a /tr to found anywhere since it's optional as well as all the non-quoted attributes. Well,

Re: [css-d] Tabs are not positioning correctly in FF

2006-11-17 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
Hi, I have two divs one contains tab navigation and the other contains the content. I want the content div to display directly under the tabs. In IE6 it's displaying how I want it to...but for some reason in FF the tabs are showing up at the top inside the content div..Here's my html markup

Re: [css-d] No DOC TypE

2006-10-25 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
The doctype clarification has to be completely at the top. There can't even be an empty line there. Anything above doctype declaration will throw IE into quirks mode, but this does not mean everything is forbidden here. You may have empty lines, comments, or xml declaration here... Regards,

Re: [css-d] CSS: one band-aid on top of another?

2006-10-24 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
... What do YOU (plural) do? Do you say, I'm sticking ot standards, piss on your browser if it doesn't look good!? Your clients will like that. Do you make your pages simple so that there's flexability in the design, so that browsers don't notice the difference? (Think Google) Do you go

Re: [css-d] centering elements in IE

2006-10-23 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
Hi all, In most browsers, I can do things like img.logo { margin: 0 auto; } which results in the element centred within its parent container. Of course, this does not work with IE. Short of adding a text-align:center to the parent (which is *not* what I want), how can one get the same

Re: [css-d] Universal selector

2006-10-12 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
Is there any difference at all between * #leftcol {font-family:arial,sans-serif;} and #leftcol * {font-family:arial,sans-serif;} Yes, there is. The first rule will apply to the element with the id=leftcol regardless of it's position in DOM. The second rule will apply to _all elements_ which

Re: [css-d] Pocket Reference

2006-10-08 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
I am looking for a current CSS pocket reference guide that I can carry with me everywhere I go. I just need it to look up definitions that my aging brain sometimes forgets. Eric Meyer's last edition is the only one I could find but it's been a while since it was published. Is there a more

Re: [css-d] Are CSS Drop-down Menus Searchable

2006-10-05 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
Thanks! Also let's not forget that with JavaScript, you can pull in subsequent menu items via Ajax and you don't need to add a lot of links for the user to have in the markup just to hide them afterwards. AJAX is a good way to hide those links from search engines too... Regards, Rimantas --

Re: [css-d] Are CSS Drop-down Menus Searchable

2006-10-05 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
And your point is? Do you create web sites for visitors or search engines? Guess why Google offers the creation of sitemaps for your page... What is the point of website created for visitor if he cannot find it? What is the point of AJAXed menu, if user with JS off or text browser, or not JS

Re: [css-d] can someone tell me why I am getting theses warnings?

2006-10-03 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blue-fly.co.uk%2Fjunction%2Fcounselling.php I have a background colour in my body Yes, you do. But read carefully: validator wants COLOR, not background-color for body: Line : 4 (Level : 1) You have no color with your

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

2006-09-06 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
... Well, divs have no semantic meaning, so *any* div that you add to a page is for the purpose of design, really. There's no such thing as a semantic div, in the strict sense. But, I doubt you are looking for examples of sites that use neither tables nor divs, as that would be a pretty plain

Re: [css-d] highlighting the current selection

2006-09-05 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
... However, basic usability tells you that the current page just should not be a link - why should it link to itself? ... As an another method to refresh the page. I got quite used to that :/ Regards, Rimantas -- http://rimantas.com/

Re: [css-d] CSS Calendar

2006-08-27 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
And even if some may think that a calendar should not be done in CSS, why not try? I agree that there are times when tables are the right answer, but I think that part of what we do as advocates of CSS design is to push the limits of our craft. Besides, you gotta admit, it pretty frikin

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

2006-08-04 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
... Here's a fact: Not all clients will have CSS enabled or not have your CSS or even enough screen space to accommodate for a menu like this. ... Please, provide numbers and sources. Don't forget to provide numbers for JavaScript - for comparison. ... For a multi level menu CSS is just not

Re: [css-d] google shok horror

2006-07-28 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
Google -- either collectively or one individual in a very powerful position -- hates CSS and XHTML. Maybe that's too strong to say. Maybe they just don't care. Sigh :( They seem to consider web standards, separting presentation from content, or making HTML conform to the rules of XML not

Re: [css-d] What are these weird classifiers?

2006-04-20 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
From the W3C CSS 2 spec [0]: In CSS2, identifiers (including element names, classes, and IDs in selectors) can contain only the characters [A-Za-z0-9] and ISO 10646 characters 161 and higher, plus the hyphen (-); they cannot start with a hyphen or a digit. They can also contain escaped

Re: [css-d] Why does IE hate A:HOVER SPAN?

2006-04-14 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
... Mozilla, etc. likes this just fine, and displays the SPAN when we roll over LI.mapspot. IE displays nothing. We've piddled and poked and cajoled the stylesheet in an effort to get IE to honor this, all to no avail. What gives? And more importantly, how do we fix it? ... Check out this:

Re: [css-d] Taking lowercase rule and running with it

2006-03-23 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
I know that XHTML tags and attributes are supposed to be written in lowercase ... but it seems to me the following is perfectly acceptable in a style sheet declaration: IMG { border: none; } ... Or is there really some official prohibition against uppercase in CSS declarations that I just

Re: [css-d] display: table-cell --- why?

2005-12-07 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
... Could someone please explain the use of display:table-cell? I can never seem to get my brain around the how's and why's Like, why wouldn't you use a table instead of using divs that act like tables and table cells? ... Because when you change your mind and don't want that table behaviour

Re: [css-d] Absolute image path in CSS

2005-12-02 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2005/12/2, Jacky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1. use server-side script to generate CSS files, so that the image path can be stored in one variable. 2. move also the CSS files to the image location, so the css files can still use relative reference. The only change is the import location in the HTML.

Re: [css-d] Centering problem

2005-11-25 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2005/11/25, Maarten Reynders [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I used the horizontal align code I found in previous posts of this list. My site now is perfectly centered in Mozilla Firefox, but in Internet Explorer it sticks to the left. ... Can anyone help me out? margin: auto forks in IE6 only if

Re: [css-d] css problems with text size

2005-11-22 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2005/11/22, Christian Heilmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it possible to make css behave like tables?? What, make it hard to maintain, heavy weight and unpredictable in modern browsers? What is so hard to maintain, heavy weight, or unpredictable in display: table-row and display: table-cell ?

Re: [css-d] display: inline-block

2005-11-19 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2005/11/20, Erwin Heiser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all: a short question: is there a way to use a {display: inline-block;} and still have your CSS validate? the validator gives this as an error although I believe it's a valid CSS2 value for display. Any alternatives to this? display:

Re: [css-d] an absolute bug in ie???

2005-11-16 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2005/11/16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there an absoulte positioning bug that effects ie. Have searched but cannot find anything. Strange. http://www.positioniseverything.net/posbugs.html http://www.positioniseverything.net/abs_relbugs.html Regards, Rimantas --

Re: [css-d] Why add an .img class?

2005-10-18 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2005/10/18, Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... That being said, class img is a poor naming convention. Something like imgleft would have made more sense. And I would strongly discourage naming a class just like an element... I mean, imagine if you made a little typo and put img instead

Re: [css-d] Why don't my images appear on site?

2005-09-22 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2005/9/23, Nancy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am doing my first CSS site and it is a killer. First, it doesn't look right in Foxfire or Monzilla, Hi, some interesting browsers you have got ;) but only IE on the PC and Mac. Very frustrating. Second, none of my jpegs show up on the site. As

Re: [css-d] Now possible: CSS Constants

2005-09-01 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2005/9/1, Tom Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps I am just not as worldly as others (of of limited brain capacity), but I am having trouble seeing how the above would differ from this: html, body{color:#ABCDEF; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;}/*or just body*/

Re: [css-d] Hacks, to use them, or not

2005-08-24 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On 23/08/05, Haoshiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... This is generally regarded as a *bad* thing because tables are for tabular data only but the fact of the matter remains that they do *work* and are generally rendered close to the same way across browsers common browsers. ... With one

Re: [css-d] Opera issues semi-reolved; HUGE IE6 issues

2005-08-08 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On 8/8/05, Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... 1. Conflicting instructions: combining display: inline; and float: left; - these are mutually exclusive. I believe float takes priority and all floats are block level so it ignores the display: inline. ... display:inline on floats cures

Re: [css-d] Firefox: little b ug with text-transform and ß

2005-08-05 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On 8/5/05, Klaus Hartl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use text-transform: uppercase; on an element holding text which contains ß, that letter transforms to SS (correct), but than, under certain circumstances (has to be one word or the second of two), the last letter is missing. I.e.:

Re: [css-d] Music Files and CSS

2005-07-21 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On 7/21/05, T Shorrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm.. in your opinion anyway. The web is a multi-media platform... I would hate my TV, DVD's etc to be silent. Websites are often an advert for people's business, and they use sound on their TV ads and, probably, in their presentations, promotion

Re: [css-d] can't get images to align correctly within td's using CSS

2005-07-10 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On 7/11/05, Bruce Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, on my graphics page, I want the images to be centered within their table cells using CSS , but what I have tried isn't working. I can't seem to find the selector for the images. ... any assisatnce is greatly appreciative! This is

Re: [css-d] Background Won't Repeat to Bottom

2005-07-09 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On 7/10/05, Jeff Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Firefox (on Mac and PC) and Camino, the background-image sometimes doesn't go all the way to the bottom. Haven't run into the problem just yet in IE. Any ideas? ... Hi, first of all make your code valid. That makes debugging (if there will

Re: [css-d] Firefox strangeness with link and title attribute

2005-06-28 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On 6/28/05, Viascape List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I noticed a strange problem this morning with firefox regarding how it loads external stylesheets that are specified using the html link element when the title attribute is given a value. I like to use the title attribute to give descriptive

Re: [css-d] Sitecheck please: Firefox bug?

2005-06-01 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On 6/1/05, Albert van der Veen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On http://www.vakdagdirectmail.nl/ the footer isn't showing in Firefox. ... I'd suggest to add different color borders for your html, body, footer and achtergrond_ -- you will see the effect of height in percents. Then you may try to

Re: [css-d] OT When is the next version of CSS?

2005-06-01 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On 6/1/05, Rudolf Vavruch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IE7 will support a bunch of CSS3 stuff, more than Firefox currently supports (although at the moment as far as I can see CSS3 is not yet finalised so stuff is due to change). ... http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/compatibility/ Dean's script

Re: [css-d] Classes and Ids

2005-05-21 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
On 5/21/05, Richard Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... At the bottom of the page there is two lines in the footer. The top line (a search box) is meant to be centred, the bottom line is meant to be aligned to the right. I have entered the following code in the html: div id=footer