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