Re: [css-d] Weird h2-in-a-dt-element behaviour...

2008-07-25 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Sharon Go wrote: However, after reading this from the validator: This might mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you've forgotten to close a previous element. I just added a wrapper div around the h2: dt divh2/h2/div /dt Apparently you did not revalidate, since

[css-d] Weird h2-in-a-dt-element behaviour...

2008-07-23 Thread Sharon Go
Hello List! I seem to have a knack of finding odd bugs... I have a mandate to add a simple h2 inside the dt of a definitions list. The task seemed so innocent! I know that the dt tag of a definitions list is an inline element, so I figured that I would just add display:block and everything

Re: [css-d] Weird h2-in-a-dt-element behaviour...

2008-07-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jul 23, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Sharon Go wrote: So I added the h2. And for some weird reason, FF dumps the h2 *outside* the dt!! You can see an example here: http://goxsha.googlepages.com/dl-test-file.htm Maybe Firefox isn't _that_ wrong:

Re: [css-d] Weird h2-in-a-dt-element behaviour...

2008-07-23 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Wed, 7/23/08, Sharon Go [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to have a knack of finding odd bugs... This is certainly a new one on me, too. I have a mandate to add a simple h2 inside the dt of a definitions list. So I added the h2. And for some weird reason, FF dumps the h2 *outside*

Re: [css-d] Weird h2-in-a-dt-element behaviour...

2008-07-23 Thread Sharon Go
Hello Philippe! Maybe Firefox isn't _that_ wrong: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fgoxsha.googlepages.com%2Fdl-test-file.htmcharset=%28detect+automatically%29doctype=Inlinegroup=0ss=1 D'ooh! Why didn't I validate my page??! Terribly sorry for that To think that I

Re: [css-d] Weird h2-in-a-dt-element behaviour...

2008-07-23 Thread Bill Brown
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Jul 23, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Sharon Go wrote: So I added the h2. And for some weird reason, FF dumps the h2 *outside* the dt!! You can see an example here: http://goxsha.googlepages.com/dl-test-file.htm Maybe Firefox isn't _that_ wrong:

Re: [css-d] Weird h2-in-a-dt-element behaviour...

2008-07-23 Thread Dennis Bixler
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Brown Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:26 AM To: Philippe Wittenbergh Cc: CSS-D; Sharon Go Subject: Re: [css-d] Weird h2-in-a-dt-element behaviour... Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Jul 23, 2008, at 9

Re: [css-d] Weird h2-in-a-dt-element behaviour...

2008-07-23 Thread Sharon Go
Unfortunately, invalid code is not rendered consistently across browsers because there are no guidelines for how to style things that don't meet the guidelines (how's /that/ for a mouthful?). Hello Bill! Not a mouthful at all... It's like music to my ears after a day like today! I totally

Re: [css-d] Weird h2-in-a-dt-element behaviour...

2008-07-23 Thread Sharon Go
Is it that the higher ups absolutely insist on an H2 tag or they want the styling and font size of the H2? They actually insisted on the h2 tag. And they want the H2 tag to look like a normal link. Oy. In a sense, it's sorta-kinda semantic... I mean, it is a title of a definition... But the

Re: [css-d] Weird h2-in-a-dt-element behaviour...

2008-07-23 Thread Bill Brown
Sharon Go wrote: Hello Bill! Hello Sharon! Not a mouthful at all... It's like music to my ears after a day like today! I totally agree with you! I believe it has become one of our tasks as web professionals to try and influence our entourage on the importance of creating valid code...

Re: [css-d] Weird h2-in-a-dt-element behaviour...

2008-07-23 Thread French, Angela K (MHTG)
: [css-d] Weird h2-in-a-dt-element behaviour... Hello List! I seem to have a knack of finding odd bugs... I have a mandate to add a simple h2 inside the dt of a definitions list. The task seemed so innocent! I know that the dt tag of a definitions list is an inline element, so I figured that I would

Re: [css-d] Weird h2-in-a-dt-element behaviour...

2008-07-23 Thread Bill Brown
French, Angela K (MHTG) wrote: This doesn't seem to make symantic sense to me. Would thisi be confusing to those using assistive technologies? Hi Angela. Sharon acknowledged (portion of original email included below) that this is not semantic (or necessary) and I imagine that it would indeed