Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-21 Thread david
Bill Walton wrote: > I'm really having a hard time understanding 'normal page flow.' I see it > referred to, but I haven't been able to find an understandable explanation > of what it is. If you (or anyone else) could point me to a reference that > could help me get my arms around those funda

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-21 Thread Bill Walton
Ingo Chao > Add > > top:0; to .col3 > > and > > position:relative to each .LinestyleX Thank you very much. At least now the results are the same in IE and FF. > or go the other route without position:absolute. I'm going to try to eliminate the position: absolute this weekend. The pointers yo

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Ingo Chao
Bill Walton wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > Ingo Chao wrote: > >> a static page to work on would be immensely helpful. > > I've put a static page at http://www.emrec-beta1.com/edit.htm and hard-coded > the stylesheet link to the emrec_entry.css file in the same directory. > Please let me know if you hav

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Ingo, Ingo Chao wrote: > a static page to work on would be immensely helpful. I've put a static page at http://www.emrec-beta1.com/edit.htm and hard-coded the stylesheet link to the emrec_entry.css file in the same directory. Please let me know if you have any trouble accessing either. Tha

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Lord Khaos
> I won't embarrass myself by trying to write the stylesheet from memory d'oh, I knew I'd get something a bit off--see below: > --Open another div for the 'other' item.A gain, specify a width, > display:block The example from the wiki demonstrates floating hyperlinks, hence the need for the displa

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Lord Khaos
> The site is at http://www.emrec-beta1.com . > > There's a link at the bottom of the first page that takes you into the app. > On the 'Patient Information' page, enter something in the 'Last name' field. > No additional info is required to proceed. Four clicks takes you to the > 'Medication

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Ingo Chao
Bill Walton wrote: > ... > http://www.emrec-beta1.com . > Each line has a button on it to remove that item from both the database and > the page. after some clicking, I guess you mean this page http://www.emrec-beta1.com/allergy/edit Position: absolute means taking it out of the page flow an

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Bill Walton
Thank you all for your responses! Many wrote: > If you are using XHTML, you need it for self closing tags: > > > > If you are using HTML, you don't want it: > > That was indeed the problem. I had an HTML Doctype. Problem is, the page won't come close to validating with any of the XHTML Doct

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Christian Montoya
On 7/20/06, Bill Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Very helpful! The slash was the problem. File validates without it. > > Fails > > with it in. Thanks! > > Went back to the w3schools site to see what I'd missed and now I'm confused. > Here's the example HTML from that site for stylesheet li

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 20/07/06, Bill Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Very helpful! The slash was the problem. File validates without it. > > Fails > > with it in. Thanks! > > Went back to the w3schools site to see what I'd missed and now I'm > confused. > Here's the example HTML from that site for styleshe

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Bill Walton
> Very helpful! The slash was the problem. File validates without it. > Fails > with it in. Thanks! Went back to the w3schools site to see what I'd missed and now I'm confused. Here's the example HTML from that site for stylesheet links. Looks, from this, like the '/' is _supposed_ to be

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Debi, Debi Orton wrote: > If you are using HTML, the slash at the end of the line is probably > throwing an error. Also, I'm not sure about the ? after the CSS file's > name. Hope this is helpful. Very helpful! The slash was the problem. File validates without it. Fails with it in.

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Dave, Dave Goodchild wrote: > > Why the ? and numbers in the css filename? The app's built using Ruby on Rails and the stylesheet link is autogenerated. The stylesheet definitely works. But I'm working on a styling problem, decided I'd better validate the generated HTML before asking for

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 20/07/06, Bill Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings! > > Can anybody see why the stylesheet link below wouldn't validate? > > rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" /> > > I'm trying to validate a page's HTML and, with this line in the HTML, am > getting an error that says I have a tag wi

[css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Bill Walton
Greetings! Can anybody see why the stylesheet link below wouldn't validate? I'm trying to validate a page's HTML and, with this line in the HTML, am getting an error that says I have a tag without being open. When I take this line out, everything validates. I don't get it. Thanks in ad