Re: [css-d] IE7 problem with dropdowns

2008-03-24 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 07:14 AM 25/03/2008, Chris Kavinsky wrote: I having a very bizarre problem with suckerfish dropdowns and IE7. I have two versions of a page referencing the same CSS file -- one is a static page on the same server as the CSS file, the other generated by a CMS program on a different server. The

Re: [css-d] Styling Dialog Box HELP!

2008-03-21 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 08:31 AM 22/03/2008, Holly Hopper wrote: I'm trying to make a comic-like dialog box that has to be styled completely in css. The text inside is going to be a variable and edited by the client, so the box needs to change according to the width of the text inside it, otherwise I'd just make the

Re: [css-d] CSS Templates

2008-03-20 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 05:51 AM 18/03/2008, Laura wrote: Hello Thank you again for all your help on my last question. Now I'm struggling with this I want the site to have the top margin and left side as the constant and the rest to be variable. I really don't want to clone this page for the rest of the

[css-d] Strange things

2008-03-16 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi everyone, We've been working on this website and Georg kindly helped with a problem in the early part of it. Just as it's nearing completion I'm having problems, so far I've spent literally days trying to work out the why's... First: This div (#ufwus) is the main 'content' div on the site

Re: [css-d] Strange things

2008-03-16 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 02:55 PM 17/03/2008, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Vicki Stebbins wrote: [...] http://www.keenstreet-dev.com/index.php to site correctly. Q. It was all working fine and then for no reason that I can figure out when I go to the homepage the text is down the page or there's a big gap in between

[css-d] Layout issues

2007-11-19 Thread Vicki Stebbins
HI All, I've looked at so many layouts trying to get my concept design (approved by client and can't change it) to work and I just keep ending up in a mess. What I'm trying to do is have the left navigation float left and the right navigation float right and the centre div remain as a fixed

[css-d] IE 6.0 Float problem

2007-11-08 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi Everyone, This began as a firefox problem (and IE which I neglected to say in the original post) Firefox is now fixed. But IE 6.0 is still having a problem, the floated box (Map heading) with the text should sit on the right side with the text wrapping and currently it's left, and pushed

Re: [css-d] Float problem

2007-11-08 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 09:55 AM 9/11/2007, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Vicki Stebbins wrote: I'm almost there with this page http://www.keenstreet-dev.com/trying.html but the floated box on the right keeps going to the bottom of the 'ufwus div' instead of the top and then having the text wrap. The floated box

[css-d] Float problem

2007-11-08 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi Everyone, I'm almost there with this page http://www.keenstreet-dev.com/trying.html but the floated box on the right keeps going to the bottom of the 'ufwus div' instead of the top and then having the text wrap. I've placed it in quite a few different places, validated the html and CSS

Re: [css-d] IE 6.0 Float problem

2007-11-08 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 01:28 PM 9/11/2007, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Vicki Stebbins wrote: But IE 6.0 is still having a problem, the floated box (Map heading) with the text should sit on the right side with the text wrapping and currently it's left, and pushed the text down? Page: http://www.keenstreet-dev.com

Re: [css-d] Image Placement in CSS

2007-10-23 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi Elli, Someone may know a more eloquent way but I'd write up an individual class for each and then do the placement in the style sheet. Regards Vicki At 05:08 AM 23/10/2007, Elli Vizcaino wrote: Hello, I'm working on a design that's visually rich and uses a few background images as well as

Re: [css-d] Site Check

2007-10-17 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi David and Elle, I've made some changes and it's behaving much better, can I impose upon you again to re-look and let me know how it looks to you? URL http://www.abilityincorporated.org.au/index.php Also David you said: seems a bit peculiar that the navigation and copyright seem to be more

[css-d] Site Check

2007-10-16 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi everyone, Well more a page check. After lots of spinning my wheels, I think I've got this working??? I've looked on PC Win2k Firefox, Opera 9.0, IE 6.0. URL http://www.abilityincorporated.org.au/index.php Everything validates and I'm hoping it's a fairly okay (not perfect) accessible page

[css-d] Site Check

2007-10-16 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi everyone, Well more a page check. After lots of spinning my wheels, I think I've got this working??? I've looked on PC Win2k Firefox, Opera 9.0, IE 6.0. URL http://www.abilityincorporated.org.au/index.php Everything validates and I'm hoping it's a fairly okay (not perfect) accessible page

Re: [css-d] Site Check

2007-10-16 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Many thanks David, I'm looking at it all now, will put it up again for a check when I've made the changes. Kind regards Vicki PS Didn't think we needed the original post and reply in this one ;-) __ css-discuss [EMAIL

[css-d] Accessibility + font sizing

2007-09-04 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi Everyone, I'm looking to begin a site in a couple of weeks for a disability organisation and am trying to get it as accessible as possible, so I'm really thinking about my CSS. Although I've done a few sites now with CSS (could never go back to table design) the penny just hasn't dropped

[css-d] Conditional Statement

2007-05-24 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi All, I'm wanting to target IE7.0 with a problem it has with 'sticky menus' in the Suckerfish Menus (pop out menu stay stuck out and don't return). The fix is to add this line to the CSS: #nav li:hover, #nav li.over {position: static;} #nav being the nav div that the menu is contained in.

Re: [css-d] Conditional Statement

2007-05-24 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 02:28 AM 25/05/2007, James Gadrow wrote: david wrote: Vicki Stebbins wrote: Hi All, I'm wanting to target IE7.0 with a problem it has with 'sticky menus' in the Suckerfish Menus (pop out menu stay stuck out and don't return). The fix is to add this line to the CSS: #nav

Re: [css-d] IE Navigation problem

2007-04-07 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 05:25 PM 7/04/2007, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Vicki Stebbins wrote: After my Safari woes I changed the top level li to image mouseovers to ensure they stay within the boundaries... All seemed to work fine until IE6.0. http://www.seco.com.au/index.php A better image-swap method... http

Re: [css-d] IE Navigation problem

2007-04-07 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 05:26 PM 7/04/2007, Bruno Fassino wrote: Vicki Stebbins wrote: [...] All seemed to work fine until IE6.0. On mouseover the main image disappears and the hover image takes yonks to appear if at all. I'm on a modem and figured it could be a preload/cache thing. [...] The page

[css-d] Weird Firefox/mozilla refreshing and jumping issue

2007-04-07 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi Everyone, A fellow who joined the list but hasn't heard back asked if I'd send this on... the page validates if using the address http://bellsouthpwp2.net/m/_/m_rafi/ to validate it. His email is below: == Hello - I'm running into

[css-d] IE Navigation problem

2007-04-06 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi Everyone, After my Safari woes I changed the top level li to image mouseovers to ensure they stay within the boundaries... not my favoured way of doing things but I just have to get this sorted out and working. All seemed to work fine until IE6.0. On mouseover the main image disappears and

Re: [css-d] Safari navigation problem

2007-04-03 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 03:08 PM 3/04/2007, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Vicki Stebbins wrote: What she sees is here:http://www.seco.com.au/safari.html Here's the page: http://www.seco.com.au/index.php Here's what I see in Firefox on win2K... http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/seco-firefox.png ...so I would worry more about

[css-d] Safari navigation problem

2007-04-02 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi everyone, I've been working with a graphic designer on the redevelopment of a website and she's using Safari on a Mac. When she views the navigation menu, the spacing of the li aren't the same as in Firefox and IE on the PC (win2k) and the opacity filter isn't working. Can anyone give me

[css-d] Div sizing problem

2007-01-22 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi all, We've almost completed this website (redesign) and I've got a problem with a div in a shopping page. I've got the navigation floating and then small divs with classes within a main div (#ufwus) to display product. The problem is that the first div sizes itself to the length of the

Re: [css-d] Div sizing problem

2007-01-22 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 02:07 PM 23/01/2007, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Vicki Stebbins wrote: The problem is that the first div sizes itself to the length of the navigation, which will dynamically be built by the client so may end up longer than you would want the first product div to be. http://www.schygiene.com.au

Re: [css-d] thumbnail gallery with captions

2007-01-22 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 11:23 AM 23/01/2007, David Sharp wrote: I have a bunch of image thumbnails - all the images are the same size, but some are portrait, some are landscape. I currently have them displayed inline, text-align : center; vertical-align : middle; so they fill each row from the center of the screen,

Re: [css-d] Opera - missing div

2006-12-17 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 12:03 AM 18/12/2006, francky wrote: ... and Opera 9.01 on Linux too! http://browsershots.org/screenshots/fdd18cdfb41e601525c89ab951206bc8/ francky Hi Francky and Charles, I seem to be having a delay problem getting some of my mail through to the list. This was the first posting, which

[css-d] Opera - missing div

2006-12-16 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi everyone, I sent this through yesterday and it didn't arrive so here's hoping. I've been plodding along, I think improving with my CSS (I thought not good enough to be of much help to anyone but I answered a question... very excited) anyway as always have come across something weird.

Re: [css-d] CSS menu drops behind content div -- how to fix?

2006-12-12 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 03:07 PM 12/12/2006, you wrote: I'm using a CSS P7 menu on this draft page and it is dropping down behind the content div. Peg ambientglow.com __ Hi Peggy, Try changing this in your main.css: #nav { z-index: 16;

[css-d] Opera - continuing woes

2006-12-12 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi everyone, I sent this through yesterday and this morning and it didn't arrive so here's hoping this time. Now have an additional Opera problem: First problem: The footer div with an image doesn't show in Opera, have tried everything to no avail. Second: The page is a shopping cart and

Re: [css-d] Navigation woes

2006-08-20 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi all, I looked at http://www.ryanbrill.com/floats.htm which was related to the subject: Is this possible at all... and noticed that the layout was exactly what I was trying to achieve, so I took Georg's advice and modified as required. I've ended up solving my navigation woes... this layout

[css-d] Navigation woes

2006-08-19 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi all, I've just begun a redesign of a site (a love job) and am having trouble with my navigation div. In IE the popout menu appears but you can only select the top menu item, in other words if it shows: * cats * dogs only cats can be selected and the menu disappears for dogs. In

Re: [css-d] Bullets in IE

2006-02-13 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 05:18 PM 13/02/2006, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Vicki Stebbins wrote: I've going in circles trying to figure why IE is putting bullets in the li on this page http://www.4wdnsw-act.org.au/test_gallery.php Hope someone can see a really quick thing that I'm obviously doing wrong. One solution

[css-d] Bullets in IE

2006-02-12 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi All, As usual I'm going 'ten to the dozen' trying to complete a site... it's got a fairly chunky backend (php person doing that but I need the html and css working exactly before he gets it). I've going in circles trying to figure why IE is putting bullets in the li on this page

[css-d] Form field colours

2006-01-21 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi, I'm working on a site with quite a few forms. I set the background colour via the CSS to reflect a grey colour for the background in the text boxes, which works fine in FF and Opera but in IE6.0 it randomly shows some of the text boxes 'yellow'??? I've tried everything I can think of, it

Re: [css-d] Form field colours

2006-01-21 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 09:56 AM 22/01/2006, Christian Heilmann wrote: I set the background colour via the CSS to reflect a grey colour for the background in the text boxes, which works fine in FF and Opera but in IE6.0 it randomly shows some of the text boxes 'yellow'??? It is the google toolbar indicating

Re: [css-d] Attributes of classes

2005-12-09 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 08:44 AM 4/12/2005, Vicki Stebbins wrote: Hi all, I've got myself going in circles with this, I initially had the same div ID in these pages which could be multiple times. It got a validation error. I realise now that it's a no no and have made these divs CLASSES. That works but now some

[css-d] Attributes of classes

2005-12-03 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi all, I've got myself going in circles with this, I initially had the same div ID in these pages which could be multiple times. It got a validation error. I realise now that it's a no no and have made these divs CLASSES. That works but now some of my classes on li class=title for instance

[css-d] Opacity filter backgrounds

2005-11-08 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi everyone, I've successfully got the opacity filter working okay for a background that displays an image. The problem is the image is also made transparent, see http://www.explorerexperience.com.au/gallery.shtml CSS: here http://www.explorerexperience.com.au/styles/image.css Anyone know

Re: [css-d] Opacity filter backgrounds

2005-11-08 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 09:55 AM 9/11/2005, Derek de Jong wrote: Hi everyone, I've successfully got the opacity filter working okay for a background that displays an image. The problem is the image is also made transparent, see http://www.explorerexperience.com.au/gallery.shtml CSS: here

Re: [css-d] I want to scream

2005-11-05 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi Angela, Thought it best I write off list. I know exactly how you feel... My first table less website (all CSS) nearly gave me a nervous breakdown, thank god the client was overseas and not pushing... it took an age and cost us far more to build than quoted and I ended up getting a CSS

Re: [css-d] site check

2005-10-31 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 03:46 AM 31/10/2005, Bala Clark wrote: hi, Earlier I asked for help with getting drop shows on my blog, I've solved that problem now and would appreciate some feedback on the design. I've simply modified one of the defaut blogger.com stylesheets with my own css. Right now it seems a little too

Re: [css-d] Suckerfish blues (again)

2005-10-31 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 11:26 AM 31/10/2005, Graham Reeds wrote: I have implemented a suckerfish menu for a redesign of a game site. However every implementation I come up with works fine in FF and Opera8, but fails in IE6 (only tested on Windows). I also used the block image code which I was having trouble with

Re: [css-d] background color warnings

2005-10-29 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi Trish, I posted the same last week, it seems to have recently started doing this. Here's the replies I got: http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/?search=CSS+Validation subject CSS Validation. I took the advice that it was only a 'hint' to check your code and if it's okay then

Re: [css-d] CSS Validation

2005-10-26 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 07:56 PM 26/10/2005, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Vicki Stebbins wrote: For me, I'll now include in my written estimate of a job, a clause which says something about 'warnings' in validation services just to cover all avenues. If you come up with a good text then let me know - off list, I guess

Re: [css-d] CSS Validation

2005-10-25 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Many thanks Christian, It's certainly off-putting when the pages showed without the warnings and then suddenly, boom! David sent a link to a previous post which I hadn't received explaining the warnings. Now I've gone through them and yes you are quite right, about the warnings and my CSS

Re: [css-d] CSS Validation

2005-10-25 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 10:38 PM 25/10/2005, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Nick Fitzsimons wrote: Frankly, it's a pretty useless warning in most cases. It would be better to describe it as a hint: Make sure you're really doing what you wanted to do, and if you are, ignore this. IMO: the same can be said about all

[css-d] CSS Validation

2005-10-24 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi all, I've just gone to http://jigsaw.w3.org to validate the CSS for the latest site I'm doing and I got a heap of warnings, so I then went to previous domains that hadn't had the warnings to find they now do as well. Mainly it's to do with the background-color: which I have as part of

Re: [css-d] CSS Validation

2005-10-24 Thread Vicki Stebbins
At 11:37 AM 25/10/2005, David Laakso wrote: Vicki Stebbins wrote: Can someone tell me have they changed the validator? Vicki Vicki, There have been numerous posts and replies regarding the questions you've asked over the past 14days. Presumptuous of me, I know, but check this months

RE: [css-d] Horizontal navigation menu

2005-08-24 Thread Vicki Stebbins (Skinner)
At 11:25 AM 25/08/2005, Peter Williams wrote: From: Vicki Stebbins (Skinner) The drop down navigation menu at http://www.rosellaorchids.com.au/about.php is quirky! CSS is at http://www.rosellaorchids.com.au/styles/rosella.css I want the home link to be in line with the other links when

Re: [css-d] Horizontal navigation menu

2005-08-24 Thread Vicki Stebbins (Skinner)
At 02:12 PM 25/08/2005, Al Sparber wrote: From: Vicki Stebbins (Skinner) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Al, Many thanks. I changed the ems to pixels (I understand pixels better) and so now have: width: 80px; padding: 4px 2px 4px 2px; But now FF is cutting off the word catalogues halfway through