Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-19 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Donna Casey wrote: > Alex Foley wrote: > >> I'd sure like a confirmation from someone that overflow: auto is the way >> to go... I've been clearfix-ing up until about 12:03 pm today. >> > > Zoe's excellent (free) article explains much of this: > > http://communitymx.com/content/article.cfm

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting - overflow for clearing floats

2006-07-17 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jul 18, 2006, at 8:17 AM, Robert O'Rourke wrote: >> So, the overflow-property is a useful solution for containing >> floats in >> some cases, but not in others. >> >> regards >> Georg >> > > Good to know, > > Does a floated element within a container that has overflow : hidden ; > appli

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting - overflow for clearing floats

2006-07-17 Thread Robert O'Rourke
> So, the overflow-property is a useful solution for containing floats in > some cases, but not in others. > > regards > Georg > Good to know, Does a floated element within a container that has overflow : hidden ; applied respect the padding of the container? In particular the bottom

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
L. Robinson wrote: > If overflow: auto or hidden is used merely to clear an element, what > prevents the occasional chopping off of needed data (hidden) or the > addition of nasty little scroll bars everywhere (auto) where one > might not want them? > > K. What is it I don't understand? :) Pr

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Axthelm
On 2006-07-16, Yehuda Katz wrote: > Essentially, I created a set of CSS Formatting guidelines designed to > get designers to create readable CSS that other designers could > quickly get up to speed on. > > The "spec" is available in PDF form at > http://www.yehudakatz.com/CSSf-1-5-1-Spec.pdf. R

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread MarcLuzietti
K. What is it I don't understand? :) lr You understand it correctly, actually. -- Marc Luzietti Flagship Project Bayview Financial, L.P. (305) 341-5624 __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/m

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread L. Robinson
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Yehuda Katz wrote: >> Since overflow: hidden or overflow: auto does >> the trick, the whole issue of clearing floats becomes essentially a >> non-issue, and saves extra markup. > I use such design-methods quite > often, and the overflow-property doesn't cut it across brow

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Tom Livingston
> > i personally would rather not have scrollbars appear or things > disappear on elements with width or height. I prefer using option #2 > in the wiki (http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ClearingSpace), > which doesn't add additional markup, either > I'm with CJ on this one, though I don't ca

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Yehuda Katz wrote: > Sure it is. Adding clearing elements, and the ensuing additional CSS > (or extra clearing markup), makes code less readable for, in most > cases, no good reason. Since overflow: hidden or overflow: auto does > the trick, the whole issue of clearing floats becomes essentially

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread cj
On 7/17/06, Yehuda Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure it is. Adding clearing elements, and the ensuing additional CSS (or > extra clearing markup), makes code less readable for, in most cases, no good > reason. Since overflow: hidden or overflow: auto does the trick, the whole > issue of cleari

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Alex Foley wrote: > I'd sure like a confirmation from someone that overflow: auto is the way > to go... I've been clearfix-ing up until about 12:03 pm today. > > > Here we go: http://dev.l-c-n.com/IEW/containing-float-overflow.php It's not as consistent as clear-fixing but in general using o

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Donna Casey
Alex Foley wrote: > I'd sure like a confirmation from someone that overflow: auto is the way > to go... I've been clearfix-ing up until about 12:03 pm today. Zoe's excellent (free) article explains much of this: http://communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=6BC9D A great read! thanks, Zoe!

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Alex Foley
I'd sure like a confirmation from someone that overflow: auto is the way to go... I've been clearfix-ing up until about 12:03 pm today. Alex Foley Robert O'Rourke wrote: > Tom Livingston wrote: > >> Hold on. >> >> Adding overflow:auto; on a container will clear any and all floats >> inside sa

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Tom Livingston wrote: >> Sure it is. Adding clearing elements, and the ensuing additional CSS (or >> extra clearing markup), makes code less readable for, in most cases, no good >> reason. Since overflow: hidden or overflow: auto does the trick, the whole >> issue of clearing floats becomes essenti

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Tom Livingston
> Sure it is. Adding clearing elements, and the ensuing additional CSS (or > extra clearing markup), makes code less readable for, in most cases, no good > reason. Since overflow: hidden or overflow: auto does the trick, the whole > issue of clearing floats becomes essentially a non-issue, and save

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Yehuda Katz
Sure it is. Adding clearing elements, and the ensuing additional CSS (or extra clearing markup), makes code less readable for, in most cases, no good reason. Since overflow: hidden or overflow: auto does the trick, the whole issue of clearing floats becomes essentially a non-issue, and saves extra

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Ingo Chao
Yehuda Katz wrote: > Essentially, I created a set of CSS Formatting guidelines designed to get > designers to create readable CSS that other designers could quickly get up > to speed on. > > The "spec" is available in PDF form at > http://www.yehudakatz.com/CSSf-1-5-1-Spec.pdf. > "The purpose of

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting Revisited:

2006-01-23 Thread Lori Hylan-Cho
> I went in to DW8 and under the Preferences you can set the > CODE FORMAT > properties. Hi Cory This is pretty far off-topic for this list and would probably be better discussed in a Dreamweaver forum (see http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/index.cfm?forumid=12). Having said th

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting Issues:

2006-01-22 Thread francky
Jim Nannery wrote: >>Cory wrote: >>I'm sorry, I think you guys are misunderstanding what I am saying. I am >>not talking about how the layout looks in the browser, I am talking >>about when you right click and view the source code, THAT is what is all >>messed up. In particular the CSS. In DW8, th

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting Issues:

2006-01-21 Thread Jim Nannery
Cory You wrote > I'm sorry, I think you guys are misunderstanding what I am saying. I am > not talking about how the layout looks in the browser, I am talking > about when you right click and view the source code, THAT is what is all > messed up. In particular the CSS. In DW8, the CSS is all nice

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting Issues:

2006-01-21 Thread Cory Perry
david wrote: >No, the problem is that DW (and it's WYSI-not-really-what-you-get >competitors) is lying to you. The only way to really test and make sure >your pages are working right is checking it in a browser. Remember, >people don't browse websites using Dreamweaver! ;-) > > > I'm sorry,

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting Issues:

2006-01-20 Thread david
Cory Perry wrote: > Hey everyone, I having a problem with my CSS formatting when viewed in a > browser compared to how I have it layed out in Dreamweaver 8. In DW8, it > is layed out perfectly and I can read everything just fine. When you > view the CSS code in the browser however, it is all ove

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting Issues:

2006-01-20 Thread D Ross
It's probably not the browser. Dreamweaver often times doesn't show css layouts correctly. If you have a link to your site that would probably help. On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:33 PM, Cory Perry wrote: > Hey everyone, I having a problem with my CSS formatting when viewed > in a > browser compared