Re: [css-d] Specificity & Multiple classes

2009-03-23 Thread Alex James
On Mar 23, 2009, at 8:49 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > .hide and .paging have the same specificity. The last one in the > source .css file then wins. Yep see it now! Sorry couldn't see the wood for the trees. Thanks, Alex __

Re: [css-d] Specificity & Multiple classes

2009-03-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 23, 2009, at 8:49 PM, Alex James wrote: > > Probably missing something obvious but why doesn't the hide class > override? > > > > > > > CSS > --- > .hide { display: none;} > .paging { background-color: #d6d6d6; display: block; padding: > .5em 1em; width: 100%;} > > My only

[css-d] Specificity & Multiple classes

2009-03-23 Thread Alex James
Probably missing something obvious but why doesn't the hide class override? CSS --- .hide { display: none;} .paging { background-color: #d6d6d6; display: block; padding: .5em 1em; width: 100%;} My only thought is the display block, but can't explain why? Currently only using IE6

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2008-12-24 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
JR Heard wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Dan Gayle > wrote: >> The full example can be found here: http://dangayle.com/test.html > > Firebug isn't picking up any of the div.extra-info styles you've > defined in the head section. Solve that, and I'd bet you'll solve your > problem. > (I

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2008-12-24 Thread Jonny Stephens
On 24 Dec 2008, at 17:44, Dan Gayle wrote: > I am having a specificity problem that I need help with. I am trying > to create an info box that floats to the right within my main content > div that uses the cascade to supply the styling. The content of that > info box needs to be marked up using pl

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2008-12-24 Thread JR Heard
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Dan Gayle wrote: > The full example can be found here: http://dangayle.com/test.html Firebug isn't picking up any of the div.extra-info styles you've defined in the head section. Solve that, and I'd bet you'll solve your problem. (I'd start by validating the CSS.

[css-d] Specificity Problem

2008-12-24 Thread Dan Gayle
I am having a specificity problem that I need help with. I am trying to create an info box that floats to the right within my main content div that uses the cascade to supply the styling. The content of that info box needs to be marked up using plain html elements, because the content write

Re: [css-d] Specificity?

2008-05-16 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Rick Lecoat wrote: >I've just solved a problem on a page, but I don't understand why the >solution works, and that bugs me, so I wonder if someone kind could >fill in the blanks for me? > >Page in question: http://www.sandbox.sharkattack.co.uk/tempo/index.php >Parse error - Unrecognized */

Re: [css-d] Specificity?

2008-05-16 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 16 May 2008, at 15:00, Rick Lecoat wrote: > I've just solved a problem on a page, but I don't understand why the > solution works, and that bugs me, so I wonder if someone kind could > fill in the blanks for me? Hold up, I just found the culprit: a left over comment-closer (*/). Dang, and I he

[css-d] Specificity?

2008-05-16 Thread Rick Lecoat
I've just solved a problem on a page, but I don't understand why the solution works, and that bugs me, so I wonder if someone kind could fill in the blanks for me? Page in question: http://www.sandbox.sharkattack.co.uk/tempo/index.php In the CSS, starting around line 331, I had the following:

Re: [css-d] specificity problem only in IE7??

2007-07-12 Thread Luc
Good afternoon Martin, It was foretold that on 12/7/2007 @ 17:55:52 GMT+0200 (which was 12:55:52 where I live) Martin Heiden would write: > If you want to style the links in the footer way different from the > rest, use: > #footer a:link { .. } > #footer a:visted { ... } > #footer a:hover

Re: [css-d] specificity problem only in IE7??

2007-07-12 Thread Martin Heiden
Olá Luc, on Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 17:22 Luc wrote: > Good afternoon list, > In my footer i have links that in the hover state are underlined. > Works in Opera, FF, Moz but not in IE7. For IE6 i had to add an > aditional rule to make always show underlined (i can live with that), > but

Re: [css-d] specificity problem only in IE7??

2007-07-12 Thread Luc
Good afternoon Alex, It was foretold that on 12/7/2007 @ 16:32:51 GMT+0100 (which was 12:32:51 where I live) Alex Robinson would write: > I can't see which links you mean. Could you be a bit more specific > about ones you're on about? The ones inside the footer: empresa, missão, clientes,

Re: [css-d] specificity problem only in IE7??

2007-07-12 Thread Alex Robinson
> In my footer i have links that in the hover state are underlined. I can't see which links you mean. Could you be a bit more specific about ones you're on about? It's possible that you have been bitten by what I call fuzzy specificity http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/hacks/fuzzyspecificity _

[css-d] specificity problem only in IE7??

2007-07-12 Thread Luc
Good afternoon list, In my footer i have links that in the hover state are underlined. Works in Opera, FF, Moz but not in IE7. For IE6 i had to add an aditional rule to make always show underlined (i can live with that), but i was wondering if it's a specific IE7 problem? http://www.dzinelab

Re: [css-d] Specificity

2007-02-01 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Chris wrote: > I have obviously failed to understand a crucial aspect of CSS which deems > that the table row style declaration does not overwrite the previous style > for a specific cell within that row. Please enlighten me! > Not all CSS properties are inherited. Background color is one of

Re: [css-d] Specificity

2007-01-19 Thread Jesse Skinner
Chris wrote: > Hi, apologies for another post but I think a simpler example below is what is > needed. > I have obviously failed to understand a crucial aspect of CSS which deems > that the table row style declaration does not overwrite the previous style > for a specific cell within that row. P

[css-d] Specificity

2007-01-19 Thread Chris
Hi, apologies for another post but I think a simpler example below is what is needed. I have obviously failed to understand a crucial aspect of CSS which deems that the table row style declaration does not overwrite the previous style for a specific cell within that row. Please enlighten me!

[css-d] Specificity

2007-01-19 Thread Chris
Hi, >I have a problem with the following style declarations with regard to >specificity: >li:hover table #one{background: red;} /* 0,1,0,2 */ >li li:hover #all{background: blue;} /* 0,1,0,2 */ >The comments at the end of the declarations are my understanding of the >specificity. The first styl

Re: [css-d] Specificity

2007-01-19 Thread Bradley Wright
On 19/01/2007 17:50, Chris wrote: > Hi, I have a problem with the following style declarations with > regard to specificity: > > li:hover table #one{background: red;} /* 0,1,0,2 */ li li:hover > #all{background: blue;} /* 0,1,0,2 */ > > The comments at the end of the declarations are my understan

[css-d] Specificity

2007-01-19 Thread Chris
Hi, I have a problem with the following style declarations with regard to specificity: li:hover table #one{background: red;} /* 0,1,0,2 */ li li:hover #all{background: blue;} /* 0,1,0,2 */ The comments at the end of the declarations are my understanding of the specificity. The first style appli

Re: [css-d] Specificity problem with and text-decoration

2006-09-05 Thread Jim Ratliff
Thanks very much! I used your solution #1 (removing the "div" from "div.column- content). (#2 wasn't general enough for all the contexts I want to use it.) And that worked: it underlined what I needed to have underlined. Thanks, too, for the two additional resources. The "Calculating a sel

Re: [css-d] Specificity problem with and text-decoration

2006-09-05 Thread francky
Jim Ratliff wrote: >By default, my links within a certain are not underlined. > > div.column-content a {color: #ff0080; text-decoration: none;} > >However, I want some of those links to be underlined. So for those, I >defined a style: > > a.force-link-decoration {text-decoration: u

[css-d] Specificity problem with and text-decoration

2006-09-04 Thread Jim Ratliff
By default, my links within a certain are not underlined. div.column-content a {color: #ff0080; text-decoration: none;} However, I want some of those links to be underlined. So for those, I defined a style: a.force-link-decoration {text-decoration: underline; } To apply this

Re: [css-d] Specificity, siblings, descendants

2006-03-08 Thread Lorin Rivers
I have a tendency to over-complicate my css rules... On 3/8/06, Els <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lorin Rivers wrote: > > tap... tap... tap... Is this thing on? > > Nope - that's a fake one. har. so here's how I solved it, based on y'alls hints. #content .nested li { font-weight: bold; list-style

Re: [css-d] Specificity, siblings, descendants

2006-03-08 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10:31 AM 3/8/2006, Lorin Rivers wrote: >I want to style an unordered list so that the "top-level" elements are >bold with no bullets, while the items inside these have the bullets, >etc... > >#content li >{ > list-style-image: url(/images/bullet3.gif); > list-style-type: none; >

Re: [css-d] Specificity, siblings, descendants

2006-03-08 Thread Els
Lorin Rivers wrote: > tap... tap... tap... Is this thing on? Nope - that's a fake one. > I want to style an unordered list so that the "top-level" > elements are bold with no bullets, while the items inside > these have the bullets, etc... [snip code] > I couldn't figure out a way to do this wi

[css-d] Specificity, siblings, descendants

2006-03-08 Thread Lorin Rivers
tap... tap... tap... Is this thing on? I want to style an unordered list so that the "top-level" elements are bold with no bullets, while the items inside these have the bullets, etc... #content li { list-style-image: url(/images/bullet3.gif); list-style-type: none; line-h

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-10 Thread Adam Kuehn
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: >On 10 Jan 2006, at 3:21 am, Adam Kuehn wrote: > > >>> [1] http://www.littleandreid.com/mentaidyn/about > >>> > >>> > >>> Home > >>> >>> id="menu_about">About > >>> [--more links--] > >>> > >But in this case, the CMS (textpattern) and the plugin used for >generating

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-10 Thread L. David Baron
On Monday 2006-01-09 15:07 -0500, Adam Kuehn wrote: > Darn it. I hit "send" by mistake, before I verified this > claim. That is, of course, not correct. Only one ID per element is > allowed. I hate having to print retractions, but that's what I get > for doing this stuff while I'm busy with

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-10 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
And now I see your retraction (sigh). Ah well, maybe having the links in the archive will be of value if this discussion ever comes up again :-) Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ __ css-discuss [EMAI

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-10 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
> At 02:11 PM 1/9/2006, CJ Larson wrote: >> > > > id="menu_about">About >> > >> > Note we have just changed the class="active" to id="active". Your >> > global CSS file would then include something like this: >> > >> > ul li a#active {background-color: foo;} >> >>One note about this: now he has t

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 10 Jan 2006, at 3:21 am, Adam Kuehn wrote: >>> [1] http://www.littleandreid.com/mentaidyn/about >>> >>> >>> Home >>> >> id="menu_about">About >>> [--more links--] >>> > id="menu_about">About > > The class="active" part is generated by your CMS, and you presumably > had something in your g

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-09 Thread Adam Kuehn
At 02:56 PM 1/9/2006, Adam Kuehn wrote: >At 02:11 PM 1/9/2006, CJ Larson wrote: >> > > > id="menu_about">About >> > >> > Note we have just changed the class="active" to id="active". Your >> > global CSS file would then include something like this: >> > >> > ul li a#active {background-color: foo;}

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-09 Thread Adam Kuehn
At 02:11 PM 1/9/2006, CJ Larson wrote: > > > id="menu_about">About > > > > Note we have just changed the class="active" to id="active". Your > > global CSS file would then include something like this: > > > > ul li a#active {background-color: foo;} > >One note about this: now he has two IDs inst

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-09 Thread CJ Larson
> Your original problem was that this selector was not sufficiently > specific to override your other declarations for the anchor. I am > suggesting that your content management system should generate > something like this, instead: > > id="menu_about">About > > Note we have just changed the cl

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-09 Thread Adam Kuehn
At 01:11 AM 1/7/2006, Rahul Gonsalves wrote: >>>[1] http://www.littleandreid.com/mentaidyn/about >>> >>> >>>Home >id="menu_about">About >>>[--more links--] >>> >>> >>>Now, I want to assign the class "Active" to have the different >>>background. What should I do? This changes from page to page,

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-06 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Hi Adam: Adam Kuehn wrote: > Rahul Gonsalves wrote: > >> [1] http://www.littleandreid.com/mentaidyn/about >> >> >> Home >> > id="menu_about">About >> [--more links--] >> >> >> Now, I want to assign the class "Active" to have the different >> background. What should I do? This changes from page

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-06 Thread Adam Kuehn
Rahul Gonsalves wrote: >[1] http://www.littleandreid.com/mentaidyn/about > > >Home >id="menu_about">About >[--more links--] > > >Now, I want to assign the class "Active" to have the different >background. What should I do? This changes from page to page, >dynamically, so I can't use the ID property

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem [SOLVED]

2006-01-06 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Diego: diego nunes wrote: >On 06/01/06, Rahul Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Now, I want to assign the class "Active" to have the different >>background. >> >> >Have you tried "!important"? >.active { text-decoration: none !important; >background-color: #

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-06 Thread Martin Heiden
Rahul, on Friday, January 6, 2006 at 16:03 Rahul Gonsalves wrote: > > Home > >About > [--more links--] > .mainnav li a:link { text-decoration: none; color: #FFF; padding: 1em; background-color: #000; line-height: 3em;} .mainnav li a:hover { background-color: #FC0; color: #000; } .mainnav li a

[css-d] Specificity Problem

2006-01-06 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Dear All: My first time using a CMS (TxtPattern), and I'm struggling a bit. I'm trying to set the active link on this page [1], to a different color from the rest. Home About [--more links--] Now, I want to assign the class "Active" to have the different background. What should I do? This c

Re: [css-d] Specificity question

2005-07-12 Thread Adam Kuehn
Reese wrote: I'm having trouble with a moderately extensive site which has only a rudimentary implementation of CSS. This is the CSS coding relevant to my question: 4. 5. a { 6. color: #99; 7. text-decoration: underline; 8. font: bold 10px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

Re: [css-d] Specificity question - FIXED

2005-07-12 Thread Reese
At 14:44 12-07-05, Smith, Sarah wrote: >If I understand what he's saying, if you throw in font size and family, >such as >font: italic 900 100% verdana; >it works (for me). You probably don't want to specify that every time, >so maybe "shorthand" isn't the solution in this case. A ha. Thank you

Re: [css-d] Specificity question

2005-07-12 Thread Smith, Sarah
The O'Reilly CSS Pocket Reference by Eric Meyer states: "This is a shorthand property used to set two or more aspects of an element's font all at once. It can also be used to set the element's font to match an aspect of the user's computing environment using keywords such as icon. Note that if the

Re: [css-d] Specificity question

2005-07-12 Thread Reese
At 12:40 12-07-05, Sebastian Redl wrote: >You can check your style sheet carefully for syntax errors that would >make the UA ignore your styles, because as you have them now, they're >correct and should override the earlier styles. That's what I thought. Rebooting seemed to help, now I can make

Re: [css-d] Specificity question

2005-07-12 Thread Jon Trelfa
On 7/12/05, Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: a { color: #99; text-decoration: underline; font: bold 10px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } a:hover { color: 99; text-decoration: none; font: bold 10px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } >

Re: [css-d] Specificity question

2005-07-12 Thread Sebastian Redl
Reese wrote: > What can I do? > > Reese You can check your style sheet carefully for syntax errors that would make the UA ignore your styles, because as you have them now, they're correct and should override the earlier styles. Sebastian Redl _

[css-d] Specificity question

2005-07-12 Thread Reese
I'm having trouble with a moderately extensive site which has only a rudimentary implementation of CSS. This is the CSS coding relevant to my question: 4. 5. a { 6. color: #99; 7. text-decoration: underline; 8. font: bold 10px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 9. } 10.

Re: [css-d] Specificity problem

2005-06-05 Thread David Laakso
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 18:51:21 -0400, Linda Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.seafoodlab.cmast.ncsu.edu/index.html [xhtml] http://www.seafoodlab.cmast.ncsu.edu/styles/sflabstyles.css [css] I have a specificity problem. [...] So, why are the default a: styles overriding these? ld I have

Re: [css-d] Specificity problem

2005-06-05 Thread D Ross
Try background: transparent or background: none on the li link navs http://www.seafoodlab.cmast.ncsu.edu/index.html [xhtml] http://www.seafoodlab.cmast.ncsu.edu/styles/sflabstyles.css [css] I have a specificity problem. The last thing I added were the default link styles at the very botto

Re: [css-d] Specificity problem

2005-06-05 Thread Anthony
what was the original link (you removed it from the thread). I'll take a look. --- Linda Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anthony wrote: > > try putting your global style at the top, instead > of > > the bottom. It's a top-down processing. > > I already tried that, it doesn't make a diff

Re: [css-d] Specificity problem

2005-06-05 Thread Linda Dunn
Anthony wrote: try putting your global style at the top, instead of the bottom. It's a top-down processing. I already tried that, it doesn't make a difference. This is my point, specificity should not be contingent on order in this case. I'm not selecting via the cascade. ld -- Linda Dunn

Re: [css-d] Specificity problem

2005-06-05 Thread Anthony
try putting your global style at the top, instead of the bottom. It's a top-down processing. --- Linda Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > In my test site here: > > http://www.seafoodlab.cmast.ncsu.edu/index.html > [xhtml] > http://www.seafoodlab.cmast.ncsu.edu/styles/sflabstyles.css

[css-d] Specificity problem

2005-06-05 Thread Linda Dunn
Hi all, In my test site here: http://www.seafoodlab.cmast.ncsu.edu/index.html [xhtml] http://www.seafoodlab.cmast.ncsu.edu/styles/sflabstyles.css [css] I have a specificity problem. The last thing I added were the default link styles at the very bottom of the page. However, adding this messes