[css-d] IE8 breaks layout

2008-03-18 Thread Tony Crockford
http://www.hyperhappen.com/ is the site, can anyone see what the issue might be? I wrote the css a long time ago and IE7 was quite happy with it, but IE8 is cutting elements and backgrounds off. it seems to be not wrapping floated elements properly, but I can't be sure. is it worth trying to

Re: [css-d] anyone have access to change css-discuss Frontpage? i am seeing lotsa p_rn links on there. hacked?

2006-09-19 Thread Tony Crockford
Arian Hojat wrote: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FrontPage anyone else see LOTS of p0rn links at the bottom lol? can anyone get rid of it, I tried editing it out but it didnt accept my css-discuss password what password did you use? (read the edit page again) cleared them out

Re: [css-d] Netscape 4 screenshots

2006-09-15 Thread Tony Crockford
Ingo wrote: for Netscape 4 (now that I don't hide style.css from it). Browsershots.org unfortunately offers no Netscape 4 option. Is there any else way to get a sceenshot? http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=284499 hth

Re: [css-d] Probably a simple fix.....

2006-09-14 Thread Tony Crockford
Matthew Stoneback wrote: Is it possible for image on the left side to repeat to the bottom keeping my design in tact? If so, what am I missing? I hope my explanation is clear enough, if not let me know and I will try and clear up anything I have completely blurred. put the background image

Re: [css-d] My Last (I Think) IE7 Bug

2006-09-12 Thread Tony Crockford
Tony Crockford wrote: Chris Williams wrote: Thanks for the reply. Funny, the convoluted use of negative margins is all over the place, and I got it from a couple of different references, both books and example sites. And it works in every browser on the planet... Except IE7?? I've never

Re: [css-d] My Last (I Think) IE7 Bug

2006-09-12 Thread Tony Crockford
Chris Williams wrote: The reason why I do it is because then I'd have to have the .box (with no padding) and then some bogus internal container (.inbox??) that has some margin on it. And it would have to be everywhere there is a box (like all over the site), as every box has this padding.

Re: [css-d] Print header/footer

2006-09-12 Thread Tony Crockford
Adrienne Latimer wrote: Does anyone know of a way to surpress the header and footer info that browsers place on a printed page. I am referring to the page numbering and the date/url information that the browser places on the page that is outside of the canvas area of the web page itself.

Re: [css-d] Why does border change positioning?

2006-09-12 Thread Tony Crockford
Bill Moseley wrote: Can someone explain that behavior (or point me where I can read about it)? Margin-collapse. http://www.complexspiral.com/publications/uncollapsing-margins/ Uncollapsing Margins (Complex Spiral Consulting) -- Join me: http://wiki.workalone.co.uk/ Thank me:

Re: [css-d] Problem with margins and IE

2006-09-12 Thread Tony Crockford
Bernat Lleonart wrote: Hello, I'm stuck with what seems a simple problem, but I can't find the solution. I have a container and two div's inside it, one is floated left (and it has a left margin), and the other is floated right (and it has a right margin). While FF renders everything

Re: [css-d] My Last (I Think) IE7 Bug

2006-09-11 Thread Tony Crockford
Chris Williams wrote: I'm sure it's obvious, and I'm sure it's somewhere in the Wiki pages on IE7, but I can't find it. It's related to your convoluted use of negative margins to overcome padding on the box. the fix is to remove padding from the .box and add margin to the elements inside

Re: [css-d] My Last (I Think) IE7 Bug

2006-09-11 Thread Tony Crockford
Chris Williams wrote: Thanks for the reply. Funny, the convoluted use of negative margins is all over the place, and I got it from a couple of different references, both books and example sites. And it works in every browser on the planet... Except IE7?? I've never seen it used in that way

Re: [css-d] side-scrolling portfolio website - best technique?

2006-09-05 Thread Tony Crockford
1. Is this the best way to do it (using an unordered list)? I tried another way (floating divs left, inside a container div), but that required me to specify a total width for the container div, or otherwise the images would wrap to the browser window. I rejected the method as it was

Re: [css-d] side-scrolling portfolio website - best technique?

2006-09-05 Thread Tony Crockford
richard n wrote: Thanks for the example Tony. It looks good, and by reading the code I can just about work out what's going on. Unfortunately, PHP is beyond me, and without PHP it is just too tricky to position everything correctly. I only used PHP to dynamically create the gallery.

Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query / Font embedding

2006-09-04 Thread Tony Crockford
Chris Williams wrote: It would be cool if someone would write such a tool. But it doesn't exist from everything I can tell. It's a tall order indeed. when I wanted to choose widely available fonts to suggest I use this site: http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/index.shtml and pick

Re: [css-d] [ADMIN] Re: CSS best practice?

2006-08-31 Thread Tony Crockford
Eric A. Meyer wrote: So if people want to revive the thread, that would be great. Cool! I was about to reference the sectioned CSS that Andy Budd uses in CSS Mastery (which you can find in the books downloads - Chapter one - prototype.css) here: http://www.cssmastery.com/ CSS Mastery:

[css-d] IE7 and div width

2006-08-30 Thread Tony Crockford
I'm hoping someone on this list will tell me the correct behaviour for this situation. I have a div inside a floated div, neither of which have widths set. they are both inside a container div centered on the page which does have a set width. in IE7 the undimensioned div inside the floated

Re: [css-d] Best way to work in CSS and XHTML ?

2006-05-25 Thread Tony Crockford
Michel Sabatino wrote: Hi. Which is the easiest and more efficient way to work in CSS and XHTML to get at once a view on how it will look on IE 6 and firefox? How to handle external css files during the same process described before? In one word, which are the best tools (more efficient)

Re: [css-d] asterisk in front of font property

2006-05-16 Thread Tony Crockford
Demers, Scott wrote: This is interesting. As I mentioned, this is code released as part of the Yahoo User Interface Library ( http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ ). If it is in fact invalid, I'll mention it on the bug list. The question came up on the YDN-javascript list (may 12th) and the

Re: [css-d] Wiki Admin

2006-05-16 Thread Tony Crockford
Felix Miata wrote: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=WordsSmashedTogether is apparently messed up, which I discovered after doing various edits/updates to include SeaMonkey and Firefox. Now all these places I've added SeaMonkey have ? appended to the word, because the Wiki thinks the proper

Re: [css-d] Wiki Admin

2006-05-16 Thread Tony Crockford
Felix Miata wrote: To stop a WikiWord from being turned into a hyperlink, insert ! immediately before the WikiWord. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=WikiWord I read that, and it seems like nonsense to say to prevent it from being turned into a hyperlink when it isn't being

Re: [css-d] IE7 Beta goes Public

2006-01-31 Thread Tony Crockford
Eric A. Meyer wrote: But please let's not start a round of hacks are breaking! hacks are necessary! hacks are evil! on the list, especially not now. Let's find out what we have first, and let the dust settle a bit before we worry about which way to jump. And always remember that this is

Re: [css-d] Very odd IE issue on one machine!

2006-01-15 Thread Tony Crockford
Julian Voelcker wrote: One of the guys I work with has endless problems with IE on his laptop in that any design involving floats or % widths gets thrown out completely - it is as if the browser is reading the screen width as one thing, but in reality it is slightly narrower so layouts with

Re: [css-d] CSS help for WordPress theme?

2006-01-05 Thread Tony Crockford
Charles Wiltgen wrote: I'm using the current beta release at http://playbacktime.com/. at that site in particular I can get IE to behave by changing .primary to: .primary { width: 500px; _width: 500px; /* IE Hack */ float: left; padding: 20px 0 10px;

Re: [css-d] Header, 2 cols, fixed footer

2006-01-05 Thread Tony Crockford
Julian Voelcker wrote: We need to retain the footer in the fixed position since it acts as a status bar for the application. naively stupid question, but couldn't you show status in the fixed header instead? simplifies the problem to non-existent... ;o) -- Join me:

Re: [css-d] css fonts

2006-01-05 Thread Tony Crockford
jeremy wrote: Hey -- a while ago I found (and I thought I Furled) some site that showed like paragraphs of type in different web-safe fonts -- you could change the size, font, spacing, line-height, everything. There were three columns so you could compare... Does this ring a bell? anyone? I

Re: [css-d] strange div issue in IE

2006-01-04 Thread Tony Crockford
jp bouyer wrote: I'm really stuck here, anyone seeing what the problem could be ? is this any help: http://nemesis1.f2o.org/aarchive?id=11 ;o) -- Join me: http://wiki.workalone.co.uk/ Thank me: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/registry/1VK42TQL7VD2F Engage me: http://www.boldfish.co.uk/portfolio/

Re: [css-d] Color for Three-Column Layout - drk-writing

2006-01-01 Thread Tony Crockford
looks like Felix wrote to Debbie offlist : Browser makers provide users with a preference adjustment etc major rant snipped Seems like any request to this list (or Evolt) regarding any web site with a url is an excuse for Felix to send an off-list[1] reply ranting about font-size.

Re: [css-d] Color for Three-Column Layout - drk-writing

2006-01-01 Thread Tony Crockford
Richard Brown wrote: Hi On 1 Jan 2006, at 08:42, Tony Crockford wrote: Seems like any request to this list (or Evolt) regarding any web site with a url is an excuse for Felix to send an off-list[1] reply ranting about font-size. I feel obliged to write in on behalf of Felix. Firstly

Re: [css-d] Color for Three-Column Layout - drk-writing

2006-01-01 Thread Tony Crockford
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: We don't get rants. We get opinions, comments and information - often based on valuable personal experience - from a lot of people. No need to try to choke them off. I'm not trying to choke them off. I'm just suggesting that an off-list message in a strong and

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS Image Map Tooltips

2005-12-31 Thread Tony Crockford
Yazmin Media wrote: I like this solution, but I do need self-styled tooltips. I tried this with what I needed (a long section of text) and it chopped off the majority of the text. It looks like the display of the title attribute has a limit on the number of characters it can display. You

Re: [css-d] Color for three-column layout

2005-12-31 Thread Tony Crockford
Iorhael wrote: Hi, I working on a three-column layout but having trouble setting the color for the left and right columns. I have been looking at several online tutorials and it appears that I'm doing the CSS right, but the images aren't coming in for the column backgrounds. When I put the

[css-d] IE7 support for min-height.

2005-12-22 Thread Tony Crockford
does anyone know the current position regarding min-height support in IE7? or more specifically, what will happen to CSS rules written thus: div.headline{ height: 40px; min-height: 40px; padding: 1px 0 0 0; } htmlbody div.headline{ height: auto; } where height set to 40px in the

Re: [css-d] Forms: Fluid layout: Best technique?

2005-12-05 Thread Tony Crockford
Michael Hulse wrote: What would you suggest as the best technique for laying-out forms in a fluid-width site? Any fluid-width form examples available? I plan to use fieldsets/labels... I would prefer to have the label to the left of the input, not above. Any links, tips, suggestions

Re: [css-d] Negative margins and rounded corners

2005-12-05 Thread Tony Crockford
Bill Moseley wrote: Should have started this way. Here's a one-stop example of the problem. http://hank.org/demos/corner.html I suspect you're suffering from margin-collapse (cured by top padding or a border) http://www.complexspiral.com/publications/uncollapsing-margins/ Uncollapsing

Re: [css-d] #idname.classname - IE Support

2005-12-02 Thread Tony Crockford
Eric A. Meyer wrote: At 2:23 PM + 12/1/05, Tony Crockford wrote: this sounds a bit strange but why are you doing #tabs.ski which means id=tabs.ski That's not quite right. To select the following: div id=tabs.ski.../div Yeah, I spotted my idiocy within seconds of pressing

Re: [css-d] #idname.classname - IE Support

2005-12-02 Thread Tony Crockford
Christian Montoya wrote: Isn't ID more specific than class? So if #footer has font-size:1em; and then in .fancyfooter you try to override that with font-size:1.1em; it won't be overridden, because #footer has precedence? good point, bad example on my part. I'm more likely to add a class to

Re: [css-d] #idname.classname - IE Support

2005-12-01 Thread Tony Crockford
Kevin Cannon wrote: Hi, Is it possible ot use a rule with an ID and a class name in IE. e.g. like so: div id=tabs class=ski.../div #tabs.ski { background-color: green; } this sounds a bit strange but why are you doing #tabs.ski which means

Re: [css-d] #idname.classname - IE Support

2005-12-01 Thread Tony Crockford
Kevin Cannon wrote: Hi, Is it possible ot use a rule with an ID and a class name in IE. e.g. like so: div id=tabs class=ski.../div #tabs.ski { background-color: green; } That works fine in Firefox, but in IE the first rule works, but subsequent ones

Re: [css-d] #idname.classname - IE Support

2005-12-01 Thread Tony Crockford
Kevin Cannon wrote: I'm at a bit of a loss, and so are the oher CSS afficiando's in here. Any ideas? missed a useful url on my last post: http://sonspring.com/index.php?id=102 ;o) __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Help my design team move away from nested tables

2005-11-29 Thread Tony Crockford
Paul Menard wrote: Greeting all. When engaging a client my design team will for provide still image created via Photoshop to the client. Once the client accepts the design the design person will use Adobe ImageReady to produce HTML cut-ups. As you can guess the content of the pages is

Re: [css-d] Bridging the gap in IE

2005-11-07 Thread Tony Crockford
Tim Burgan wrote: Hi, I'm using image replacement on a H1 element. The problem I'm having is that the content under the H1 is fine in Firefox, but is pushed much further down the page in IE6. An example shows it clearly: HTML: http://timburgan.com/css-test/index.htm CSS:

Re: [css-d] I want to scream

2005-11-04 Thread Tony Crockford
Angela Trigg wrote: can someone give me a reason to stick it out given all the hacks you have to do, etc? eventually you'll discover the power of CSS - to take semantic (x)html and lay it out one way or another in minutes, to make a minor change across the whole site in seconds, to get

[css-d] CSS background added by javascript not showing in IE

2005-11-02 Thread Tony Crockford
hi all, anyone know why this works in Firefox, but not IE: http://www.boldfishclient.co.uk/test/test.htm ( what's supposed to happen is that a background image gets appended to the link. the javascript is working (maybe a bit clumsy) in Firefox and works in IE according to the DOM inspector -

Re: [css-d] FIXED CSS background added by javascript not showing in IE

2005-11-02 Thread Tony Crockford
Tony Crockford wrote: so has anyone seen anything about not being able to set background images on elements with Javascript in IE? it's to do with me using setAttribute (class,classname); IE doesn't like it. This is the *proper* way to assign a class to an element with Javascript (AFAICT

Re: [css-d] image replacement techniques

2005-10-31 Thread Tony Crockford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a series of background images.for example http://www.blue-fly.co.uk/test/who_we_are_03.jpg As you can see, the images contain some headings (who we are, what we do) that are part of the background image(not HTML) . I would like to insert text that

[css-d] Netscape 6 issues expert guidance needed.

2005-10-14 Thread Tony Crockford
Hi all, it's been a long time since I posted, but this one has me stumped. I've been building some complicated pages for an interesting (random layout CMS driven) design and all is good in most modern browsers. Netscape 6 makes a real mess of the layout... just sticking a whole load of