[css-d] Background color for 3 column layout

2012-03-08 Thread J.C. Berry
Hi all, I have a three-column layout, all three of which have a white background. The page background is black and I need the div containing the three columns to expand with its white background down the page. I need the longest of the three columns (2 or 3) to determine how high the containing

Re: [css-d] Background color for 3 column layout

2012-03-08 Thread John D
I have a three-column layout, all three of which have a white background. The page background is black and I need the div containing the three columns to expand with its white background down the page. I need the longest of the three columns (2 or 3) to determine how high the containing

Re: [css-d] Background color for 3 column layout

2012-03-08 Thread David Laakso
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:57 AM, J.C. Berry jcharlesbe...@gmail.com wrote: I need the longest of the three columns (2 or 3) to determine how high the containing div is. J.C. Berry, M.A. --- There are a number of ways to do that. One is a CSS Table [looks like a table but its not]. Please

[css-d] background color changes with comment on blog

2011-12-08 Thread Eva Moon
I can't track this down! My blog is here: http://evamoon.net/blog/ It's fine except that when someone leaves a comment on a post, the background of the whole post area goes white. I can't figure out where this is coming from! Here's an example: http://evamoon.net/blog/2011/09/04/clamhenge/

Re: [css-d] background color changes with comment on blog

2011-12-08 Thread Eva Moon
I tracked it down to a plug in. Thanks anyway! Eva On Dec 8, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Eva Moon wrote: I can't track this down! My blog is here: http://evamoon.net/blog/ It's fine except that when someone leaves a comment on a post, the background of the whole post area goes white. I can't

[css-d] Background color won't over-ride

2011-03-28 Thread Dave M G
CSS-d, I am trying to use Firefox's userContent.css to over ride some CSS on a particular page. Here is the original CSS: input.superbigbutton { background-color: pink; height: 14em !important; width: 100% !important; } Here is what I want to over write it with:

Re: [css-d] Background color won't over-ride

2011-03-28 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 28, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Dave M G wrote: input.superbigbutton { color: green; border: green 1px solid; background-color: #63D46D !important; height: 2em !important; width: 33% !important; } Here's the problem: everything works *except* background-color, and border.

Re: [css-d] Background color won't over-ride [SOLVED]

2011-03-28 Thread Dave M G
Philippe, Thank you for responding. -moz-appearance: none !important; Yep, that did the trick. It seems like an odd, tricky sort of thing, but it's not as if it's the first or last bizarre quirky exception on the internet... Thank you for providing the answer. -- Dave M G

Re: [css-d] background color of a with class

2010-07-21 Thread Thijs Hakkenberg
: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d- boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Tim Arnold Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:51 AM To: Thijs Hakkenberg Cc:css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] background color of a with class On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Thijs

Re: [css-d] background color of a with class

2010-07-21 Thread Tim Arnold
Hakkenberg Cc:css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] background color of a with class On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Thijs Hakkenberg th...@hakkenberg.com wrote: Dear List, I made an menu based on ul's and li's (http://winkel.varkensinnood.nl) with an a:hover turning

Re: [css-d] background color of a with class

2010-07-21 Thread Thijs Hakkenberg
, 2010 8:51 AM To: Thijs Hakkenberg Cc:css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] background color of a with class On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Thijs Hakkenberg th...@hakkenberg.com wrote: Dear List, I made an menu based on ul's and li's (http://winkel.varkensinnood.nl

Re: [css-d] background color of a with class

2010-07-21 Thread Tim Arnold
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Thijs Hakkenberg th...@hakkenberg.comwrote: True, I was double mistaken. The class is .active: http://winkel.varkensinnood.nl/catalog/2 so it should be .active after all. However, both #block-uc_catalog-0 a .active { background-color:#69F; } as

Re: [css-d] background color of a with class

2010-07-21 Thread Thijs Hakkenberg
#block-uc_catalog-0 a.active { background-color:#69F; } won't change a thing. #block-uc_catalog-0 li a.active { background-color:#69F; } did the trick! Thanks everyone. On 21-7-2010 17:32, Tim Arnold wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Thijs

[css-d] background color of a with class

2010-07-15 Thread Thijs Hakkenberg
Dear List, I made an menu based on ul's and li's (http://winkel.varkensinnood.nl) with an a:hover turning the a element white. However, when clicked the a element turns into a class=active. I want to change the background color and should work with the following css: #block-uc_catalog-0 a

Re: [css-d] background color of a with class

2010-07-15 Thread Tim Arnold
On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Thijs Hakkenberg th...@hakkenberg.com wrote: Dear List, I made an menu based on ul's and li's (http://winkel.varkensinnood.nl) with an a:hover turning the a element white. However, when clicked the a element turns into a class=active. I want to change the

Re: [css-d] background color of a with class

2010-07-15 Thread Climis, Tim
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d- boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Tim Arnold Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:51 AM To: Thijs Hakkenberg Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] background color of a with class

Re: [css-d] background-color not working in IE7

2010-06-27 Thread John Franks
A strange thanks for your reply David. You have indirectly fixed my problem. In the process of stripping everything out to enable you to take a look, I realised that I had not applied a width to the div which was producing my IE7 background problem. Of course, give it a width and IE7

[css-d] background-color not working in IE7

2010-06-26 Thread John Franks
Got a strange one here my friends. Go to the following page to view my problem. http://www.mrskibbles.co.uk/virtuemart/sweet-categories/chews/black-jacks-chews/ My problem is with the order table that sits half way down the page in the main donut, where the user adds a sweet to their

Re: [css-d] background-color not working in IE7

2010-06-26 Thread David Laakso
John Franks wrote: Got a strange one here my friends. Go to the following page to view my problem. http://www.mrskibbles.co.uk/virtuemart/sweet-categories/chews/black-jacks-chews/ Thanks, John. Not exactly up for looking for a needle in a

[css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Livingston
List, What is the reasons for using: background: #fff; instead of: background-color: #fff; I've seen this lately, and wonder why the preference for the first one. I've only used 'background' as shorthand for something like: background: #fff url(images/image.png) left top no-repeat;

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Bill Braun
Tom Livingston wrote: List, What is the reasons for using: background: #fff; instead of: background-color: #fff; I've seen this lately, and wonder why the preference for the first one. I've only used 'background' as shorthand for something like: background: #fff

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Livingston
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Bill Braun bbr...@hlthsys.com wrote: Tom Livingston wrote: List, What is the reasons for using: background: #fff; instead of: background-color: #fff; I've seen this lately, and wonder why the preference for the first one. I've only used

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Troy Harshman
No, using... background: #fff; ...instead of... background-color: #fff; ...is fine. You would just be using the shorthand method. The advantage in this case would just be less typing. __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Livingston
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:38 AM, David Laakso da...@chelseacreekstudio.com wrote: In CSS this background: #fff; is more lean and mean than this background-color: #fff; Both are valid CSS. ~d Thanks David. That says it all. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Bill Braun
Tom Livingston wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Bill Braun bbr...@hlthsys.com wrote: Tom Livingston wrote: List, What is the reasons for using: background: #fff; instead of: background-color: #fff; I've seen this lately, and wonder why the preference for the

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Jason Arnold
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Tom Livingston tom...@gmail.com wrote: List, What is the reasons for using: background: #fff; instead of: background-color: #fff; I've seen this lately, and wonder why the preference for the first one. I've only used 'background' as shorthand for

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Livingston
Thank you everyone. I was aware of background shorthand, but was not aware I could use it for just ONE property. Looks like I am gonna save me some bytes! :-) -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Bill Braun
Tom Livingston wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:38 AM, David Laakso da...@chelseacreekstudio.com wrote: In CSS this background: #fff; is more lean and mean than this background-color: #fff; Both are valid CSS. ~d Thanks David. That says it all. I see I

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Tue, 2/23/10, Jason Arnold jaon.arn...@gmail.com wrote: What is the reasons for using: background: #fff; instead of: background-color: #fff; I'm surprised no-one's pointed out the obvious: that using background will override all other background-* properties (to their

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Bill Braun
Tom Livingston wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:38 AM, David Laakso da...@chelseacreekstudio.com wrote: In CSS this background: #fff; is more lean and mean than this background-color: #fff; Both are valid CSS. ~d Thanks David. That says it all. I see I

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread David Laakso
Tom Livingston wrote: List, What is the reasons for using: background: #fff; instead of: background-color: #fff; I've seen this lately, and wonder why the preference for the first one. I've only used 'background' as shorthand for something like: background: #fff

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Bobby Jack wrote: I'm surprised no-one's pointed out the obvious: that using background will override all other background-* properties (to their default values), in addition to setting background-color. It's very obvious if you look at CSS specifications, but they aren't everyone's

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Dear Jukka -- When you say : When you set background-color: #fff, you do not affect other background properties in any way. Whether they are inherited or not depends on other factors. The main factor is that according to CSS specifications, none of the background properties is inherited in

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 8:10 PM + 2/23/10, Philip TAYLOR wrote: I am confused. If you take the example below, which may be seen online at http://web-consultants.org.uk/sites/development/test-inheritance.html both the first outer div and the first inner (nested) div shew the same background colour.

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Eric A. Meyer wrote: Yes, it's that.[plus full explanation] Many thanks, Eric : much appreciated. ** Phil. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ --

Re: [css-d] Background color

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Livingston
default background colour is transparent, and therefore no inheritance is taking place but rather the colour is simply shewing through ?    Yes, it's that.  The easiest test to see if a background is being inherited by a child element is something like this:    div#outer {background: silver

[css-d] Background Color

2009-11-13 Thread Victor Subervi
Hi; I have a css menu with the following code: #menu a { color: #fff; background: #00; text-decoration: none; } Now, I've put an image in the background of this menu. I would like to get rid of the background color completely; however, if I simply delete the appropriate line, it defaults to

Re: [css-d] Background Color

2009-11-13 Thread Jack Timmons
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; I have a css menu with the following code: #menu a { color: #fff; background: #00; text-decoration: none; } Now, I've put an image in the background of this menu. I would like to get rid of the

Re: [css-d] Background Color

2009-11-13 Thread Victor Subervi
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Jack Timmons jorac...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; I have a css menu with the following code: #menu a { color: #fff; background: #00; text-decoration: none; } Now,

Re: [css-d] Background Color

2009-11-13 Thread Climis, Tim
I would recommend taking a look at the parent elements and making sure their backgrounds aren't set, either. Couldn't see any. It's in the header of the html. #menu { width: 12em; background: #eee; } ---Tim __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Background Color

2009-11-13 Thread Victor Subervi
That color code threw me! Thanks, V On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Climis, Tim tcli...@indiana.edu wrote: I would recommend taking a look at the parent elements and making sure their backgrounds aren't set, either. Couldn't see any. It's in the header of the html. #menu { width:

[css-d] Background-color Modifying Element Sizes?

2009-10-22 Thread Hugh Guiney
Hi all, new to the list. I recently started a complete redesign of my Web site, and because cross-browser support for CSS3 is finally on the rise, decided to throw in some goodies in the form of rounded corners and RGBA backgrounds. But while working on my navigation list I discovered something

Re: [css-d] Background-color Modifying Element Sizes?

2009-10-22 Thread G. Sørtun
Hugh Guiney wrote: http://www.nospoon.tv/test/bgcolor.html. I have tried this in Firefox 3.5.3 and Chrome 3.0.195.27 on Windows XP and the result is the same. Oddly enough, IE7 renders them exactly the opposite. So, barring that, how do I get the first example to render the same as the

Re: [css-d] Background-color Modifying Element Sizes?

2009-10-22 Thread Hugh Guiney
Thanks Georg. I actually tried throwing in extra decimal places but as mentioned I couldn't even get the *same* browser to agree on how to render it at different font sizes. And I would rather avoid ruling in pixels for anything (aside from raster images) because I am going for

Re: [css-d] Background-color Modifying Element Sizes?

2009-10-22 Thread Climis, Tim
And I would rather avoid ruling in pixels for anything (aside from raster images) because I am going for resolution-independence here, and although I know most browsers these days zoom everything by default, I wouldn't want the layout to break for someone with a large font size and an older

Re: [css-d] Background-color Modifying Element Sizes?

2009-10-22 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, October 22, 2009 6:17:15 am Hugh Guiney wrote: Hi all, new to the list. I recently started a complete redesign of my Web site, and because cross-browser support for CSS3 is finally on the rise, decided to throw in some goodies in the form of rounded corners and RGBA

Re: [css-d] Background-color Modifying Element Sizes?

2009-10-22 Thread David Hucklesby
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Oct 22, 2009, at 8:33 PM, G. Sørtun wrote: Hugh Guiney wrote: http://www.nospoon.tv/test/bgcolor.html. I have tried this in Firefox 3.5.3 and Chrome 3.0.195.27 on Windows XP and the result is the same. Oddly enough, IE7 renders them exactly the opposite.

Re: [css-d] Background-color Modifying Element Sizes?

2009-10-22 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:17 PM, Hugh Guiney wrote: http://www.nospoon.tv/test/bgcolor.html. An additional note: if the intent is to have the border the same color as the background, in order to use the 'border-radius' property, then there is absolutely no need for the border.

Re: [css-d] Background-color Modifying Element Sizes?

2009-10-22 Thread Hugh Guiney
Since I only want one color behind the text, I tried Philippe's method of just dropping the border declarations altogether and it worked without a hitch in Firefox, Chrome, and IE. I didn't realize that border-radius didn't pertain solely to borders. (It really *should* be renamed...) I did go

Re: [css-d] background-color : transparent; showing up as white in ie6 7 and AOL 9.1

2009-07-26 Thread Chris Blake
Hello, What's this about? Hex code for transparency? I like the sound of this but it's the first I have heard I notice you have put 'rgba' is that for alpha? Can I have opaque colours too? On 26/07/2009, at 9:52 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Jul 26, 2009, at 3:09 AM, Sandy

Re: [css-d] background-color : transparent; showing up as white in ie6 7 and AOL 9.1

2009-07-26 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jul 26, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Chris Blake wrote: What's this about? Hex code for transparency? I like the sound of this but it's the first I have heard I notice you have put 'rgba' is that for alpha? Can I have opaque colours too? of course: p {background: rgba(0,0,0,.8); color:

Re: [css-d] background-color : transparent; showing up as white in ie6 7 and AOL 9.1

2009-07-26 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jul 26, 2009, at 6:13 PM, lodewijk andré de la porte wrote: What's this about? Hex code for transparency? I like the sound of this but it's the first I have heard I notice you have put 'rgba' is that for alpha? Can I have opaque colours too? of course: p {background:

Re: [css-d] background-color : transparent; showing up as white in ie6 7 and AOL 9.1

2009-07-25 Thread Sandy
http://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/test/index.shtml http://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/test/css/mcb2009.css http://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/test/css/ie6-hacks.css http://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/test/css/ie7-hacks.css One problem remains, as far as I can see - that's the white border on the #globalnav. I think that is

Re: [css-d] background-color : transparent; showing up as white in ie6 7 and AOL 9.1

2009-07-25 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jul 26, 2009, at 3:09 AM, Sandy wrote: I didn't realize that there is a colour code for transparent! Do you happen to know the hex? http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#transparent It cannot be translated to hex (hex cannot express transparency). As the spec mentions, it is functionally

Re: [css-d] background-color : transparent; showing up as white in ie6 7 and AOL 9.1

2009-07-24 Thread Sandy
Sandy wrote: Sandy wrote: [...] http://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/test/contact.shtml and there are a couple of divs with a transparent background .headerleft #globalnav the search should be transparent, too. instead that whole area is showing up with a white background in AOL 9.1, ie6 and ie7. ie8

Re: [css-d] background-color : transparent; showing up as white in ie6 7 and AOL 9.1

2009-07-24 Thread David Hucklesby
Sandy wrote re: http://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/test/contact.shtml instead that whole area is showing up with a white background in AOL 9.1, ie6 and ie7. ie8 is ok. the styles are here http://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/test/css/mcb2009.css [...] Now - your advice did get that white background

[css-d] background-color : transparent; showing up as white in ie6 7 and AOL 9.1

2009-07-23 Thread Sandy
hey all, I hope someone can help me out with this. I am starting on a site (it's still very rough) http://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/test/contact.shtml and there are a couple of divs with a transparent background .headerleft #globalnav the search should be transparent, too. instead that whole area is

Re: [css-d] background-color : transparent; showing up as white in ie6 7 and AOL 9.1

2009-07-23 Thread David Hucklesby
Sandy wrote: [...] http://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/test/contact.shtml and there are a couple of divs with a transparent background .headerleft #globalnav the search should be transparent, too. instead that whole area is showing up with a white background in AOL 9.1, ie6 and ie7. ie8 is ok.

Re: [css-d] background-color : transparent; showing up as white in ie6 7 and AOL 9.1

2009-07-23 Thread Sandy
Sandy wrote: [...] http://www.uoguelph.ca/mcb/test/contact.shtml and there are a couple of divs with a transparent background .headerleft #globalnav the search should be transparent, too. instead that whole area is showing up with a white background in AOL 9.1, ie6 and ie7. ie8 is

[css-d] background-color: transparent;

2008-09-23 Thread Andy Borka
What does the background-color: transparent; actually do? __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies --

Re: [css-d] background-color: transparent;

2008-09-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Andy Borka wrote: What does the background-color: transparent; actually do? Turns off background color on an element to make the underlying colors shine through. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/colors.html#background-properties regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no

Re: [css-d] Background color and Font size

2008-07-26 Thread David Laakso
Hayden's Harness Attachment wrote: David At http://www.choroideremia.org/new/crf_header.php can you tell me why the Orange background is not filling the background for Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc. in the h1 header and not obstructing the curve graphic? And why 26 point font in

[css-d] Background Color doesn't show up

2008-04-22 Thread Carol Huddleston
Once again, I apologize for these extremely simplistic questions. Here is my page: http://home.comcast.net/~prairiedream/beginning/masthead.html http://home.comcast.net/~prairiedream/beginning/masthead.css How do I get the background color to show up in Sidebar A One? Why doesn't the content

Re: [css-d] Background Color doesn't show up

2008-04-22 Thread STiplady | Mailing Lists
How do I get the background color to show up in Sidebar A One? Your id is set incorrectly, in the css it is sidebar_a and in the html it is set as sidedbar_a (theres an extra d before bar) Why doesn't the content div show up at the proper width? What is the proper width?

Re: [css-d] Background Color doesn't show up

2008-04-22 Thread STiplady | Mailing Lists
Why doesn't the content div show up at the proper width? What is the proper width? The width of masthead.gif is supposed to be 760px, though it shows up I think as 750 px, I don't know why. So the total width of sidebar_a and content should be 760px. The content is not wrapped by anything

[css-d] Background color on menu

2008-03-26 Thread Phoebe Taylor
I'm trying to build a vertical menu for a church site simply using borders, changing background and font colors. This is only my second CSS site. my CSS for the menu (so far) is this: /*Menu Navigation*/ ul#menu { list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0; margin-left:0; }

Re: [css-d] Background color on menu

2008-03-26 Thread David Laakso
Phoebe Taylor wrote: my CSS for the menu (so far) is this: My question. Upon hoover I don't see any change in background or font color. Why? Phoebe Could it be because you misspelled hover in the selector? -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/

Re: [css-d] Background color on menu

2008-03-26 Thread Christian Kirchhoff
You wrote: #menu a:hoover { background-color: #F4D455; color: #000; } Shouldn't it be hover, and not hoover? Kind regards, Christian *Directmedia Publishing GmbH* · Möckernstraße 68 · 10965 Berlin www.digitale-bibliothek.de AG Berlin-Charlottenburg · HR B 58002 · USt.Id.

Re: [css-d] Background color on menu

2008-03-26 Thread Phoebe Taylor
bleh yes. sorry. On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:41 PM, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phoebe Taylor wrote: my CSS for the menu (so far) is this: My question. Upon hoover I don't see any change in background or font color. Why? Phoebe Could it be because you

Re: [css-d] Background color on menu

2008-03-26 Thread Jason Ogle
this email or I'll dispatch Treebeard on you. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phoebe Taylor Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 1:34 PM To: css mailing list Subject: [css-d] Background color on menu I'm trying to build a vertical menu for a church

Re: [css-d] Background color on menu

2008-03-26 Thread David Laakso
Phoebe Taylor wrote: bleh.. yes.. My question. Upon hoover I don't see any change in background or font color. Why? Phoebe Could it be because you misspelled hover in the selector? Think of the w3c validation services as your best friends. css

Re: [css-d] Background color on menu

2008-03-26 Thread Jack Timmons
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Phoebe Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to build a vertical menu for a church site simply using borders, changing background and font colors. This is only my second CSS site. my CSS for the menu (so far) is this: /*Menu Navigation*/ ul#menu {

Re: [css-d] Background color on menu

2008-03-26 Thread Phoebe Taylor
To thank all the responders, both here and private, I now have a new signature. Phoebe -- Words I have learned to spell from CSS-Discussion list members - scissors, tortoise, hover (not hoover). __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Background color

2008-02-17 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Hayden's Harness Attachment wrote: I had the following doing what what I wanted. Now the background in the curve is not a dark blue (#191970) I wish to have. I would like to keep the white and change the grey background choroideremia Research Foundation Inc. br / (CRF) sits on to a dark blue

[css-d] Background color

2008-02-17 Thread Hayden's Harness Attachment
Can someone see why IE7 and Firefox 2.x running on Vista Home Premium puts a Plump 4 background color for Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc. br / (CRF) and Decrease Font Size By 10% in a midnight blue background color? I should have a midnight blue background a white curve and then a

[css-d] Background color

2008-02-16 Thread Hayden's Harness Attachment
I had the following doing what what I wanted. Now the background in the curve is not a dark blue (#191970) I wish to have. I would like to keep the white and change the grey background choroideremia Research Foundation Inc. br / (CRF) sits on to a dark blue (#191970). Can some one see the

[css-d] Background-color not showing extra padding/margin

2007-11-28 Thread Joanne
http://server.npserver1.com/~netper/ph/ * This page looks the way I want it to in IE7. * In IE6 there seems to be an extra padding/margin on the right hand side. * In Firefox Safari, the background-color in the #main div isn't showing. The extra padding problem may be there, but I can't tell

[css-d] Background color not showing

2007-09-09 Thread Joanne
http://www.melbournecostumehire.com.au/test/ In IE6 7, the background of this navigation is black. In Firefox Safari, only the hyperlinks are black background and when they finish, the background color of the rest of the #navigation div is showing as white. How do I fix this? Joanne

Re: [css-d] Background color not showing

2007-09-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Joanne wrote: http://www.melbournecostumehire.com.au/test/ In IE6 7, the background of this navigation is black. In Firefox Safari, only the hyperlinks are black background and when they finish, the background color of the rest of the #navigation div is showing as white. IE/win is

[css-d] background-color of an absolutely positioned block element

2007-07-05 Thread Michael Leibson
Thanks to Philippe Wittenbergh's help, I now realize that - with the exception of the root element - the background-color of any block element will normally apply only to its content-area, and that area, of course, is defined by either its actual content, or a specified width. However, in

Re: [css-d] Background color on form w/ fieldset

2007-02-27 Thread francky
Ingo Chao wrote: Unicorn Design wrote: http://www.excellenterprisesllc.com/contact.php The problem is demoized here [1]. I think a fix could be to pull the legend with a negative margin, apply position:relative to fix the clipping, and to apply position:relative to the fieldset

[css-d] Background color on form w/ fieldset

2007-02-26 Thread Unicorn Design
I am finishing up a site and having a small problem with how IE is displaying the contact form. The fields for the form are within one fieldset. I've applied a background color to the fieldset. The problem occurs with the legend, as IE displays the background color outside the bounds of the

Re: [css-d] Background color on form w/ fieldset

2007-02-26 Thread Ingo Chao
Unicorn Design wrote: I am finishing up a site and having a small problem with how IE is displaying the contact form. The fields for the form are within one fieldset. I've applied a background color to the fieldset. The problem occurs with the legend, as IE displays the background color

Re: [css-d] Background color not showing up in IE6?

2007-01-21 Thread Ingo Chao
Matthew Bernhardt wrote: Hello, I've been trying to figure out why the content block in the following site doesn't always get the background color in IE 6. Any help would be much appreciated. This page works correctly in all the browsers I've checked:

[css-d] Background color not showing up in IE6?

2007-01-20 Thread Matthew Bernhardt
Hello, I've been trying to figure out why the content block in the following site doesn't always get the background color in IE 6. Any help would be much appreciated. This page works correctly in all the browsers I've checked: http://benedikt.knowlton.ohio-state.edu/default.asp?content=1

[css-d] background color issues

2006-09-08 Thread RKN Studio
problem child - www.magnoliapr.com (/magpr.css) IE 6+ gets the bg color happening in the wrap div, but to my surprise FF, NN and Opera does not. Also, you can see in IE that there is a slight space added after the banner/logo area. The home page is validating XHTML and CSS (save for bgcolor

Re: [css-d] background color issues

2006-09-08 Thread cj
the good browsers have no idea that you want #wrap to contain the floats inside, so they give #wrap a 0 height. you have already triggered haslayout in ie6, which is why it's expanding to contain the floats and the background is showing up. i'd suggest sticking in the easy clearing method to get

Re: [css-d] background color issues

2006-09-08 Thread RKN Studio
Actually - CSS validation states in such warning that I have no background-color assigned for my div#wrap, but if you scroll down to (or otherwise read) the css, I do...?... WTF?!? Thanks, Ron Quoting RKN Studio [EMAIL PROTECTED]: problem child - www.magnoliapr.com (/magpr.css) IE 6+

Re: [css-d] background color issues

2006-09-08 Thread cj
On 9/8/06, RKN Studio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks cj - this seems to work. Can I assume then that I 'always' use such clear practices after using floats? I didn't know to do this. Thanks, Ron this method is the one i most prefer to both contain floats and to clear them as well. if

Re: [css-d] background color issues

2006-09-08 Thread francky
RKN Studio wrote: Actually - CSS validation states in such warning that I have no background-color assigned for my div#wrap, but if you scroll down to (or otherwise read) the css, I do...?... WTF?!? Thanks, Ron Quoting RKN Studio [EMAIL PROTECTED]: problem child - www.magnoliapr.com

Re: [css-d] background-color and color / IE solution

2006-08-05 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:07:18 -0500, Rayne Bair wrote:  hi, I'm Rayne and I've just joined the list. [...] Welcome, Rayne. Re: http://testing.wifetalks.com/ You said:  I'm getting warning that no color is specified on  elements where I've defined a background-color. It's just a  warning, but

[css-d] background-color and color / IE solution

2006-08-04 Thread Rayne Bair
hi, I'm Rayne and I've just joined the list. I'm working on a redesign of my new site and I've got several questions. 1) I'm checking that my CSS validates and I've fixed the errors (didn't realize that background properties had to be in a certain order). But I'm getting warning that no color is

Re: [css-d] background-color/color; IE styling

2006-08-04 Thread Rayne Bair
1) I'm checking that my CSS validates and I've fixed the errors (didn't realize that background properties had to be in a certain order). But I'm getting warning that no color is specified on elements where I've defined a background-color. It's just a warning, but should I explicitly define all my

[css-d] background color not working in div

2006-07-31 Thread Marlene T. Yogerst
I would appreciate it if someone would take the time to check out my page and tell me why the background color is not working in the div called main_content. I know the positioning is slightly off in Netscape and way off in IE and I don't know why. It looks fine locally on my computer. I

Re: [css-d] background color not working in div

2006-07-31 Thread Chris Williams
, thereby enclosing the former? -Original Message- From: Marlene T. Yogerst Subject: [css-d] background color not working in div I would appreciate it if someone would take the time to check out my page and tell me why the background color is not working in the div called main_content

Re: [css-d] background color not working in div

2006-07-31 Thread Nick morgan
I would appreciate it if someone would take the time to check out my page and tell me why the background color is not working in the div called main_content. I know the positioning is slightly off in Netscape and way off in IE and I don't know why. It looks fine locally on my computer. I

[css-d] Background color looks right in IE, nothing else.

2006-06-14 Thread mindy
Morning! Okay so the site looks right in IE and I know that IE makes some guesses as to what you want to see so...how do I make [LINK: http://pj-chron.com/redesign/] http://pj-chron.com/redesign/ look right in Netscape, Firefox ect. In other words, how it does in IE. The code is compliant :

Re: [css-d] Background color looks right in IE, nothing else.

2006-06-14 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
mindy wrote: http://pj-chron.com/redesign/ Here is the relevant css code:#container{ width: 760px; } The above width keeps IE/win happy, as it acts as a 'hasLayout'[1] trigger. Other browsers need a proper 'Block formatting contexts'[2], so adding... #container {overflow: hidden;} ...will

Re: [css-d] background color with div

2006-01-20 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Marty Martin wrote: I have a graphic (inside a div) that is 100px high and is positioned absolute at left:0; top:0;. I am wanting to put a div beside the div with graphic with a background color to stretch to the far right of the screen so it appears to be one long banner no matter the size of

[css-d] background color problems in IE and other issues

2006-01-20 Thread ben scott
I seem to not to get the top navigation to come up with the background properties e.g. color set in CSS for this site http://www.chineseculturalcentre.org.uk/joomla/ have had a look at this bug and put in the fix http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/ie-listbug.html still not working

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