Re: [css-d] font-size and padding

2008-11-08 Thread David Laakso
Luc wrote: http://www.dzinelabs.com/sandbox/MP/Pages/Contact_success.php .but upon bumping the font-size up (not page-zoom) in IE, Firefox and Mozilla, the vertical distance between the footer and the nav menu get's smaller. Do stay awake nights thinking up weird

Re: [css-d] font-size and padding

2008-11-08 Thread David Laakso
Luc wrote #sidebar1 { border:1px solid #fff; :: 4 position only :: Do you use most of the time borders for debugging? I recall i've read somewhere that's this causes side effects on the rest of a page and therefore not recommended... If the use of a

Re: [css-d] font-size and padding

2008-11-08 Thread Luc
Good evening David, It was foretold that on 08/11/2008 @ 16:14:46 GMT-0500 (which was 19:14:46 where I live) David Laakso would write: If the use of a border causes a problem when de-bugging, such as causing a float drop, in a too tight width situation-- use a background-color on the

Re: [css-d] font-size and padding

2008-11-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Luc wrote: Do you use most of the time borders for debugging? I recall i've read somewhere that's this causes side effects on the rest of a page and therefore not recommended... Of course it does ... borders take up space and may break tightly organized layouts. To me that's an

Re: [css-d] font-size and padding

2008-11-08 Thread David Laakso
Luc wrote: Good evening David, It was foretold that on 08/11/2008 @ 16:14:46 GMT-0500 (which was 19:14:46 where I live) David Laakso would write: If the use of a border causes a problem when de-bugging, such as causing a float drop, in a too tight width situation-- use a

Re: [css-d] font-size and padding

2008-11-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 17:45:21 -0200, Luc wrote: [...] Do you use most of the time borders for debugging? I recall i've read somewhere that's this causes side effects on the rest of a page and therefore not recommended... but hey, due to my insanity i'm not the smartest kid on the

Re: [css-d] font-size and padding

2008-11-08 Thread Luc
Good evening Gunlaug, It was foretold that on 08/11/2008 @ 22:21:37 GMT+0100 (which was 19:21:37 where I live) Gunlaug would write: snipped a bit Of course it does ... borders take up space and may break tightly organized layouts. To me that's an excellent reason for using borders while

Re: [css-d] font-size and padding

2008-11-08 Thread Luc
Good evening David, It was foretold that on 08/11/2008 @ 14:29:06 GMT-0800 (which was 20:29:06 where I live) David Hucklesby would write: snipped a bit Otherwise I add background-color (usually as extra DEBUG rules at the bottom of my style sheet. Funny you mention that ... i'm just

Re: [css-d] font-size and padding

2008-11-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Luc wrote: [...] Believe me, i do try to understand how everything works ... :-) I know :-) Stay on course and you will. Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]