Re: [css-d] page check in IE7 please

2007-06-19 Thread Roger Roelofs
Luc, On Jun 19, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Luc wrote: > Good afternoon Roger, > It was foretold that on 19/6/2007 @ 10:14:22 GMT-0400 (which was > 11:14:22 where I live) Roger Roelofs would write: > > > >> This design assumes users will browse at full screen and have large &g

Re: [css-d] page check in IE7 please

2007-06-19 Thread Roger Roelofs
unless I make a point to scroll horizontally. Roger, -- Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incut

Re: [css-d] Click on thumbnail to show larger image on the side

2007-06-13 Thread Roger Roelofs
that paradigm, but it's _so_ handy. Roger, -- Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?pag

Re: [css-d] Firefox and Opera bug

2007-06-10 Thread Roger Roelofs
n-height: 190px;} -- Roger Roelofs __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.co

Re: [css-d] Clearing absolutely positioned elements

2007-06-09 Thread Roger Roelofs
rflow hidden to keep things from overlapping. But that means text is lost/hidden if it can't fit (try increasing your tet size to see what I mean). It may look like clearing, but it isn't. -- Roger Roelofs __

Re: [css-d] unwanted padding-top & padding-bottom

2007-06-08 Thread Roger Roelofs
ut >> to suit. >> >> Joanne >> > > > There probably is a simple solution, and I am blocking on it. Perhaps > someone else can assist. You want to keep the paragraphs margins from escaping their container div. To do that you must prevent them from

Re: [css-d] My list looks crap. Will altering display help?

2007-05-31 Thread Roger Roelofs
ft: 10px; float: left; } .arrowlinks a{ width: 22%; margin: 0; padding: 0; padding-left: 18px; float: left; clear: left; font-size:12px; background: url(../images/small-blue-arrow.gif) no-repeat; } -- Roger Roelofs __

Re: [css-d] Adding bg images to list items

2007-05-30 Thread Roger Roelofs
s only behind the text as > well) I'm sorry for being incomplete. You will also have to use the background-position rule to put the image where you want it. Is there any way to see this page, or a mockup? I have a feeling something else is going on, but I'm not sure what

Re: [css-d] Adding bg images to list items

2007-05-29 Thread Roger Roelofs
fil D-- You can use padding on inline elements to get the spacing you need. Something like .affils li { padding-top: 35px } firebug ( for firefox as you would guess ) is great for seeing where rules override one another. -- Roger Roelofs

Re: [css-d] Different ways of doing the same thing

2007-05-26 Thread Roger Roelofs
less than 760px wide, content will flow off the left edge of the window and become inaccessible. It the page has to be in quirks mode, or you need to support ie5/win, you can get the same result with body { text-align: center; } #pageWrapper { width: 760

Re: [css-d] Backgound highlight for wrapped text

2007-05-21 Thread Roger Roelofs
ith window and font resizing would be a nightmare. -- Roger Roelofs __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/

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

2007-05-20 Thread Roger Roelofs
that fits the content makes future maintenance easier. I can't begin to tell you the number of times I've had to alter code I wrote a year or two ago and have spent more time figuring out what the original code was d

Re: [css-d] horizontal menu quirk

2007-05-19 Thread Roger Roelofs
e but still remove the spaces by writing it something like this ClientsContractors -- Roger Roelofs __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?pa

Re: [css-d] Extra vertical space

2007-05-05 Thread Roger Roelofs
the div. You can stop this effect by adding 1px padding or border to the div. #content { padding: 1px 10px; } hth -- Roger Roelofs __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 inform

Re: [css-d] Span tags set to not display make containing div not display

2007-04-24 Thread Roger Roelofs
st ul span { /* all spans inside #test ul: reset the default */ display: inline; } Since the second rule has a higher specificity, it will override the first rule. -- Roger Roelofs __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [css-d] Span tags set to not display make containing div not display

2007-04-23 Thread Roger Roelofs
r the list to show, but not the text inside the > tags. > > But instead what happens is that everything inside the does not > display. > > Shouldn't the CSS apply to within the tag, and leave the > tag, which comes after the closing , alone? Yes. I'm betting so

Re: [css-d] Scrollbar In Firefox adjusting layout.

2007-04-09 Thread Roger Roelofs
John, On Apr 5, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Johnny G's wrote: > Is there a way to have no scrollbar when not needed yet the layout > not be > adjusted when Firefox adds one? Only if you are willing to use a layout that is left aligned. Roger, -- Roger Roelofs [E

Re: [css-d] AltText using CSS ?

2007-03-10 Thread Roger Roelofs
container, which means you can only put inline elements inside of the popup such as spans and images. If your popup needs a heading and a paragraph of text, you can make it look the way you want using spans, but people without css will see it as a part of the link text, all run together. hth

Re: [css-d] Wierd IE 6 position: relative with ghosting

2007-03-09 Thread Roger Roelofs
space that would have been occupied by the r.p. box and show the content of the box offset as appropriate. The browser should not shift following content due to the offset unless clearing floats would dictate otherwise. hth -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re head

Re: [css-d] Safari not loading stylesheet?

2007-02-12 Thread Roger Roelofs
d Safari will likely be fine. Safari is more likely than other browsers to drop a bad css file than try to work around it (which I prefer). It would be nice if Safari made debugging easier tho... -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction,

Re: [css-d] mac/ie5.2 issue

2007-01-30 Thread Roger Roelofs
ing the css to #hnav #right { float: left; width: 29%; margin-left: -30%; } Made it work down below 600px width, and much less 'twitchy'. This didn't seem to bother ff2, but I didn't do any other browser checks :-). -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wro

Re: [css-d] ie7 not centered; mozilla & netscape don't show vertical border

2007-01-27 Thread Roger Roelofs
quirks mode you have to use text-align instead. In short, if you fix the html and the doctype, styling will be more consistent. Also, you could achieve this layout with _many_ fewer tables. In fact, this page doesn't need any. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed

Re: [css-d] Layout flow-error

2007-01-19 Thread Roger Roelofs
bar if necessary. If you want the bottom border to move to after the text, you will have to attach it a different way. If I guessed wrong, try again. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-

Re: [css-d] Bottom 3 divs are displaced in Firefox 1.5

2007-01-17 Thread Roger Roelofs
: none; width: auto; margin: 0 5px; padding-top: 10px; background-color: white; border: 1px solid black; border-top: none; height: 150px; } #hotBoxContainer a img { border: 0 none;} -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you

Re: [css-d] Clear: both Problem?

2007-01-17 Thread Roger Roelofs
float: left; width: 100px; text-align: center; background-color: #FBFBF1; } I don't think there is a robust way to do it without floating. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wron

Re: [css-d] Another cleanup tip needed

2007-01-17 Thread Roger Roelofs
ou want it. I typically use floats for layout because they adapt well to changes in text and window size from one browser to another. Unfortunately you have to add ie/win specific instructions to get around its flawed float rendering. hth -- Roger Roelofs Datacomp Appraisal Services -- Ro

Re: [css-d] Content Overflow in Firefox 1.5.0.9

2007-01-17 Thread Roger Roelofs
need to conditionally send min-height to good browsers and height to ie6 and 5. Roger, -- Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 in

Re: [css-d] ie spacing on list

2007-01-04 Thread Roger Roelofs
li a { display: block; padding: 5px 14px 0 24px; background-image: url(/images/arrowLn.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center left; } -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong directio

Re: [css-d] list

2006-12-28 Thread Roger Roelofs
nctiescholing gevolgd (Pro Education en Bureau Jeugdzorg) en met positief resultaat afgerond. December 2006 -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke ___

Re: [css-d] font family : Mozilla issue

2006-12-21 Thread Roger Roelofs
Thomas, On Dec 21, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Thomas Thomas wrote: > I am trying to change the default font to = Lucida Sans Unicode > > I put this line of code in the root div container : > > font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode", "Arial"; > > this works for IE but not for Mozilla, A url to a page would hel

Re: [css-d] Opera - missing div

2006-12-17 Thread Roger Roelofs
ical in ff2 and op9. My only suggestion is that the 'buy' button needs to be more pronounced. I didn't even see it the first two time I looked at the page. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allo

Re: [css-d] Form layout

2006-12-15 Thread Roger Roelofs
has a setting that will let you tab to selects and type the first few letters of the item you want. IE win will let you tab into select elements by default. Once activated, you can type the first letter of the item you want and down arrow if there are multiple items with the same fir

Re: [css-d] site check (IE7 please!)

2006-12-13 Thread Roger Roelofs
ou don't have a background color specified for the body element. That means the browser default/user choice appears all around the edges of your layout. In my case it is kind of a blue-green color. I'm betting you were envisioning white :-) All in al

Re: [css-d] bug with cursor in textarea in FF

2006-12-13 Thread Roger Roelofs
r is not visible when on top of a div with position: fixed. That sure looks like a browser bug. I filed a bug for this . Unfortunately, I haven't been able to come up with a workaround. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!&q

Re: [css-d] forms FF2.0 vs. IE7

2006-12-11 Thread Roger Roelofs
kground of the fields up in the header, and a bright green on > the page. Do you have the google toolbar installed in ie? It marks fields with colors to indicate which ones can be auto-filled. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows

Re: [css-d] image has border running over it

2006-12-11 Thread Roger Roelofs
you will want to double-check across browserland. -- Roger Roelofs __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http

Re: [css-d] Why does this table shift right? -- Live page

2006-12-09 Thread Roger Roelofs
ical position values are 'absolute' or 'relative', or occasionally 'fixed' or 'static'. Valid float values are 'left' or 'right' An invaluable tool for web development is firefox with its dom inspector and the web d

Re: [css-d] Firefox Misbehaves on Table Length

2006-12-09 Thread Roger Roelofs
display: table; and add something else to contain the floats. I tried both float: left; and overflow: hidden; and they both looked fine to me. You will have to asses how this affects other pages on the site. This was tested in current versions of firefox, opera and safari. hth -- Roger Ro

Re: [css-d] Space under image link in Mozilla

2006-12-08 Thread Roger Roelofs
Add something like this .learnmore img { display: block; } -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke __ css-discuss [EMAIL P

Re: [css-d] need help with several positioning problems

2006-12-04 Thread Roger Roelofs
ol you have in print onto the web is a recipe for insanity :-) > design image > http://www.wonderbabydesigns.com/testing/design.jpg > neg.margin layout > http://www.wonderbabydesigns.com/testing/ALA_3col.htm > skidoo layout > http://www.wonderbabydesigns.com/testing/final_

Re: [css-d] IE 6 pixel shift

2006-12-03 Thread Roger Roelofs
ing should do what you need. * html #topnav { margin-top: -3px; } hth -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke __ css-discus

Re: [css-d] Help with a few minor nitpicks please...

2006-12-03 Thread Roger Roelofs
a element inside of them. You could force the cursor using the cursor: pointer; css property, but that will confuse your users to no end. hth -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke

Re: [css-d] help with bottom positioning & column floats

2006-12-01 Thread Roger Roelofs
r column in the source and absolutely position them bottom: 0; or add a footer element and position them from there. Hopefully this will get you started. This layout would be a lot more straight forward if you didn't have to work around ie6'

Re: [css-d] Menu floats down in IE6

2006-11-30 Thread Roger Roelofs
s up part of the navigation list. Unless the client demands it, I'd get rid of the flash object and the scrolling window title. All that movement makes it hard to actually read the page. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-tur

Re: [css-d] Not sure how to do this in CSS.

2006-11-30 Thread Roger Roelofs
but I think that's unavoidable. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discu

Re: [css-d] Not sure how to do this in CSS.

2006-11-30 Thread Roger Roelofs
this kind of a grid layout is an invitation to insanity. hth -- Roger Roelofs Datacomp Appraisal Services -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke __

Re: [css-d] Menu floats down in IE6

2006-11-29 Thread Roger Roelofs
tml markup has 73 errors, some of them fairly serious.I would suggest fixing the html first. Styling structurally invalid markup is a recipe for frustration because each browser tries to recover from markup errors in different ways. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed

Re: [css-d] Positioning Question

2006-11-28 Thread Roger Roelofs
David, On Nov 28, 2006, at 5:23 PM, David Hucklesby wrote: >> On Nov 27, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Michelle Tarby wrote: >> >>> http://wwwdev.lemoyne.edu/campaign/index.html >> > On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:10:27 -0500, Roger Roelofs replied: >> A couple of minor items

Re: [css-d] Positioning Question

2006-11-28 Thread Roger Roelofs
s. There's nothing authoritative about that, it just makes sense to me, and communicates better to users without css than a series of anchors that happen to be next to each other in the source. Give yourself a pat on the back. You've made a lot of progress. -- Roger Roelofs "R

Re: [css-d] Extra space in IE on css dropdown navigation

2006-11-26 Thread Roger Roelofs
I'm curious what this code accomplishes. Her current code hides the sub-menus off-left rather than using visibility: hidden. Why is it better to hide them 'in place'? It seems like there is more to undo on hover with this method. What am I missing? -- Roger Roelofs "Re

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

2006-11-26 Thread Roger Roelofs
quot; The answer to that question will influence the method you choose to get the page to look the way you want. Web pages are amazingly flexible, and the user is ultimately in charge. If we fight against the nature of the web, we pull our hair out, and our users go away u

Re: [css-d] Help with some minor browser compatibility issues

2006-11-25 Thread Roger Roelofs
unstyled, which is fine except that both logos are showing up which looks odd. The page still works and that browser is fading into the mists of time, so maybe you don't need to care. Also, you might want to specify a background-color on your body element. Not everyone has white set as t

Re: [css-d] hanging indent

2006-11-25 Thread Roger Roelofs
ips content at box edges, so you will want padding- left to be >= text-indent. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke __ c

Re: [css-d] div doesn't expand with content

2006-11-25 Thread Roger Roelofs
omething simple > though... The three columns in #main are all floated and so taken out of the normal document 'flow'. IE is displaying a convenient bug here. You can either float #main also, add a clearer inside #main at the bottom, or use the 'clearfix' method from p.

Re: [css-d] Padding in Firefox - Horizontal navigation menu sits too far to left

2006-11-25 Thread Roger Roelofs
space will go away, but it will reveal other problems. Understanding how css works and how browsers implement it has a definite learning curve. If it would help, I could code up a sample of your page. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction,

Re: [css-d] Unwanted underlines in image links (Firefox)

2006-11-13 Thread Roger Roelofs
> with no luck. Nothing seems to turn off the rather unsightly > underline in > Firefox. The image is display: inline; by default, so it is part of the text. Set the image to display: block; and it will not be underlined. If you choose to keep the element, you will want to s

Re: [css-d] Safari Layout Problems

2006-10-30 Thread Roger Roelofs
tml http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F% 2Fwww.toolcrib.com%2Findex.aspx css http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator? profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.toolcrib.com%2Findex.aspx -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong directio

Re: [css-d] css-d Navigation menu inconsistencies between IE & everything else

2006-10-30 Thread Roger Roelofs
ges. Welcome to the list. I'm behind on answering mail as usual, but I didn't see any other replies to your post. You may have fixed the page already as it only looked about 5px off from firefox to me. You are already hacking for ie anyway, so why not * html #navigation li

Re: [css-d] Nested divs, constrain one within the other.

2006-10-30 Thread Roger Roelofs
n all its floated contents, so let us know if you need more help with this. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke __ css-discu

Re: [css-d] Mac IE5 positioning problem

2006-10-24 Thread Roger Roelofs
k in all browsers and has the added benefit of having the content stop at the left edge and add a horizontal scroll bar for narrow viewports. #contentwrapper { margin: 0 auto; background-color: #FF; width: 760px; position: relative; } Roger, --

Re: [css-d] Partial percentage heights

2006-10-24 Thread Roger Roelofs
he time you add all the content to the page, so I'd be tempted to save this problem to the end and see if it needs to be addressed at all. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke __

Re: [css-d] Strange Navigation Menu Problems

2006-10-22 Thread Roger Roelofs
nsider a min-height for the sub list elements to they are of equal height whether the link takes 1 line or two. hth -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke _

Re: [css-d] h2 tags with padding don't hover properly

2006-10-19 Thread Roger Roelofs
n a elements, and only triggers the hover when the mouse touches a bit of the text. Any chance you could clarify what you are trying to accomplish? -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke _

Re: [css-d] margin ok, but "bouncing" menu

2006-10-19 Thread Roger Roelofs
border and > avoid the noisy effect? You are getting a 1px shift on hover because you are adding a bottom border. You will have to remove 1px extra bottom padding on hover. Add padding-bottom: 3px; to ul li a:hover Roger, --

Re: [css-d] Inline or block display for div question

2006-10-18 Thread Roger Roelofs
which retains the block properties but 'shrinks to fit' Incidentally, display: table; also shrinks to fit, but is not supported in ie/win. hth -- Roger Roelofs __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-dis

Re: [css-d] link in FF

2006-10-18 Thread Roger Roelofs
e entire box. Also, I would avoid overflow: hidden on your body element. You can make it a fixed width so your kiosk won't have scroll bars, but allow the site to work on the web for those of us with smaller windows. No sense having to write it twice :-) Hope that gets you started. -

Re: [css-d] Problem with Scrolling Div

2006-10-12 Thread Roger Roelofs
ader and giving the other 90% to the data table. This is only a 'sort of' solution because it will cause double scroll bars at short window heights and a gap at the bottom for tall ones. BTW, it would be more semantic html to use thead and tbody rather than two separate tables.

Re: [css-d] vertical space in text

2006-10-12 Thread Roger Roelofs
ts. Assuming they are paragraph elements, something like the following should do. p { margin: 2em 0; } hth -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke __

Re: [css-d] extra space after in IE

2006-10-12 Thread Roger Roelofs
the original message, and the page looks the same to me in ff1.5 and ie6. Could you tell us again what you would like to see on this page? -- Roger Roelofs __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/li

Re: [css-d] form fieldset legend in Safari

2006-10-12 Thread Roger Roelofs
ou can avoid the problem by adding #MainForm { overflow: hidden; } which creates a new positioning context. What has me curious is why it _isn't_ happening in other browsers. hth -- Roger Roelofs __ css-discuss [EMAI

Re: [css-d] Unwanted space above horizontal list

2006-10-05 Thread Roger Roelofs
hth Roger, -- Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss

Re: [css-d] z-index

2006-10-01 Thread Roger Roelofs
concept better than I can <http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Understanding_CSS_z-index> -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke ___

Re: [css-d] Adding a top border makes DIV snap to the top. Why?

2006-10-01 Thread Roger Roelofs
n outside of #header and this will force the #header to grow to contain the h1 margin. Clear as mud, right? Here's a good article. <http://www.complexspiral.com/publications/uncollapsing-margins/> hth -- Roger Roelofs ___

Re: [css-d] Best wawy to overlay images on a background

2006-10-01 Thread Roger Roelofs
resort, however. Is there a url to a test page available? hth -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke __ css-discuss [EMAIL P

Re: [css-d] 3 column, stumped, can not get alignment

2006-10-01 Thread Roger Roelofs
ut trying to get pixel perfect line-up. It will work better if you make an image that combines left and right and add it to .wrap with a repeat-y. I'm sending you a copy of your page off-list with some other changes. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction

Re: [css-d] Styling the br element?

2006-09-27 Thread Roger Roelofs
/Cow.php > > It's the tag! WHOOO!!! It is an interesting concept, but that document is technically invalid because xhtml has no 'cow' element. It would need to be served with an appropriate xml doctype (or no doctype at all) to be technically correct.

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-26 Thread Roger Roelofs
Mark, On Sep 26, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On 9/26/06, Roger Roelofs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Somehow I missed the first message in this thread. If I missed the >> point, let me know and I'll try again. > > Thanks for your reply. Take a

Re: [css-d] background image not showing up

2006-09-26 Thread Roger Roelofs
olutions should get you where you want to go. Also, See this article by Eric Meyer to understand float containment in general. <http://www.complexspiral.com/publications/containing-floats/> Roger, -- Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-26 Thread Roger Roelofs
irst message in this thread. If I missed the point, let me know and I'll try again. Roger, -- Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 te

Re: [css-d] [w/website]page border doesn't border page

2006-09-22 Thread Roger Roelofs
auto 0 14em; } Roger, -- Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://

Re: [css-d] URGENT... Client's requirement changed... Rip and tear at an entire CSS now??

2006-09-21 Thread Roger Roelofs
box. I'm guessing from the look of the page that you have your solution. Is that true? -- Roger Roelofs __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css

Re: [css-d] Menu gone awry in IE6 - SORTED?

2006-09-21 Thread Roger Roelofs
> code and nada. I even tried hard coding the width in pixels. > > http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/menu-test.html > css at http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/includes/nav.css This is a known ie bug that i've learned to live with. Hopefully ie7 will be be

Re: [css-d] a:link in inline style, how?

2006-09-15 Thread Roger Roelofs
a lot of styles on the global div to cancel out user styles, for example the stylesheet for the document could include div { text-transform: lowercase; }, and to counteract it you would need to set text-transform: none; in the wrapper div to counteract it. The image solution is a lot ea

Re: [css-d] Link not working in Firefox

2006-09-14 Thread Roger Roelofs
t; me why it won't work in Firefox, I would be most grateful. > > http://www.starqualitydesigns.com/BestHealth #bodypart is covering up the links. It has a relative position top of -110px and a margin-top of -120px This pulls it way up over the header. hth -- Roger Roelofs "

Re: [css-d] Table vs. CSS when decorative graphic required?

2006-09-12 Thread Roger Roelofs
e having trouble with is as easy as .tabnavbar { border-bottom: 1px solid; } If you choose to use this markup and have difficulty applying your other styles to it, let me know and I'll see if I can help. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction,

Re: [css-d] Permanent change of state??

2006-09-12 Thread Roger Roelofs
after the cursor moves off ? Nope. You are wanting to control behavior, which puts you squarely in javascript land. It's really not a bad place to be :-) (as long as you're not asking 'on-list'). Roger, -- Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [css-d] how to prevent two divs to break line?

2006-09-11 Thread Roger Roelofs
Patrick, On Sep 11, 2006, at 6:00 PM, Patrick Aljord wrote: > On 9/11/06, Roger Roelofs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Without a test page, I can't be sure.  The first thing I would try is >> to add width: 24%; to #regions.  If that doesn't work, put up a test >

Re: [css-d] application/xhtml+xml: background-color disappears!

2006-09-10 Thread Roger Roelofs
fix things right up. Keep in mind that in xml there is no forgiveness for errors. The parser just stops and puts up an error message rather than trying to display the page anyway. hth -- Roger Roelofs __ css-discuss [EMAIL PR

Re: [css-d] Need some testing and bug fixes for a blog skin

2006-09-10 Thread Roger Roelofs
nds headings to replace. If you disable javascript, the caption is the size you would expect. hth -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns!" ~Allison Gappa Bottke _

Re: [css-d] how to prevent two divs to break line?

2006-09-10 Thread Roger Roelofs
oat:right; > font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; > font-size: 15px; > } Without a test page, I can't be sure. The first thing I would try is to add width: 24%; to #regions. If that doesn't work, put

Re: [css-d] Mac assistance please?

2006-09-09 Thread Roger Roelofs
acter counts, including spaces. That alone will fix 80% of your problems. You also missed a bit from point 2. Remove the width from div#leftcolumnartist ul and everything else should snap into place. -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God

Re: [css-d] Mac assistance please?

2006-09-08 Thread Roger Roelofs
an .1% of visitors, so I've been ignoring it lately. If you don't get specifics from others on the list, I'll see what I can do. In terms of the navigation, the sub-categories need to be indented more, maybe in a smaller font-size to make it clearer that th

Re: [css-d] konqueror/safary image problem

2006-09-08 Thread Roger Roelofs
s that mainwindow is stacking 'above' the left side images in safari while it is 'below' them in the other browsers. Using margin instead of padding should fix this. Try something like this... #mainwindow { padding: 45px 0px 0px 0; margin: 0 0 0 170px; ... R

Re: [css-d] layout problems

2006-07-05 Thread Roger Roelofs
margin: 0; display: block; width: 5em; min-width: 100px; background: url(../images/nav.gif) no-repeat center; } #nav a.active, #nav a:hover { background: url(../images/nav_over.gif) no-repeat center; } hth -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the

Re: [css-d] (no subject)

2006-07-03 Thread Roger Roelofs
of Safari are you testing with? Roger, -- Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page

Re: [css-d] Wide Table and CSS Based Layout?

2006-06-28 Thread Roger Roelofs
bar, but that depends on how the page is structured, and will require ie hackery. If you want a horizontal scroll bar for the table, then set a width and overflow: auto; on #maincontent. hth -- Roger Roelofs "Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God al

Re: [css-d] Problem with Safari Mac

2006-06-28 Thread Roger Roelofs
te your html and css before posting to the list. It is helpful if you tell us which browser is not displaying as you wish. I currently have 10 installed, and I had to try 4 of them before I saw the problem. Thank you for posting a url to the problem. It makes debugging much easier. --

Re: [css-d] Strange serif font in Firefox??

2006-06-25 Thread Roger Roelofs
Or maybe it is just some error in my win-pc? On my mac, ff 1.07 and 1.5.0.4 render similarly to each other and not like your ff screen shot. What happens if you create a new profile so you can be sure all settings are at their defa

Re: [css-d] CSS/JS dropdowns and IE 6 (so close...)

2006-06-11 Thread Roger Roelofs
I vaguely recall that you have to export the flash in 'windowless' mode, but I'm not a flash expert so you'll want to double-check that. Since javascript questions are off-topic for this list, if you want more detailed help, you can contact me directly.

Re: [css-d] styling SELECT OPTION

2006-06-02 Thread Roger Roelofs
yled in very limited ways. hth -- Roger Roelofs __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://cs

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