Re: [css-d] Making a pull-quote

2006-04-15 Thread Ian Piper
Hi all, I have applied the suggestions one or two of you made a while back about making a pull quote work on my site. At first glance it all looked very nice in Safari, Firefox and IE. I just had another look and realised there are a couple of weirdnesses with IE (Safari and Mac/PC Firefox

Re: [css-d] Making a pull-quote

2006-04-10 Thread Ian Piper
Thanks to all of you who responded - I'll try these out and I'm sure they will solve the problem. Regards, Ian. -- Dr Ian M Piper [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: ianmpiper -- Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? On 10 Apr 2006, at 3:02 a

Re: [css-d] Making a pull-quote

2006-04-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ian Piper wrote: > I wonder whether someone could advise. I want to put pull-quotes in > various parts of a site. I thought I would do it with two styles, and > attach a background image (of open and close quotes) to each style. > Then I would use one at the beginning and the other at the end of

Re: [css-d] Making a pull-quote

2006-04-09 Thread Christian Montoya
On 4/9/06, Christy Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A lot of sites seem to solve this problem by including the closing > quote in the text and only making a graphic for the opening quote. > Visually, it seems to work. Semantically, it might bother some. > > -C Some of those sites might get ar

Re: [css-d] Making a pull-quote

2006-04-09 Thread Christy Collins
A lot of sites seem to solve this problem by including the closing quote in the text and only making a graphic for the opening quote. Visually, it seems to work. Semantically, it might bother some. -C On Apr 9, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Ian Piper wrote: > Hi all, > > I wonder whether someone coul

Re: [css-d] Making a pull-quote

2006-04-09 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 10/04/06, Ian Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /* p is used for the attribution */ > > #quotation1 p { > background-image: url(../images/closequote.gif); > background-position: bottom right; > background-repeat: no-repeat; > font: 14px "Trebuchet MS", Times, s

[css-d] Making a pull-quote

2006-04-09 Thread Ian Piper
Hi all, I wonder whether someone could advise. I want to put pull-quotes in various parts of a site. I thought I would do it with two styles, and attach a background image (of open and close quotes) to each style. Then I would use one at the beginning and the other at the end of the quote.