Re: [css-d] Newbie has big CSS AND cross browser issues

2011-07-19 Thread David Laakso
On 7/19/11 4:47 PM, Bobbi Ashley wrote: At http://www.oneafricasafaris.com/index4.html I have a brown, yellow bordered strip that is supposed to contain a menu. BUT: I can't get the menu centered. In Firefox the text in the container beneath the strip is centered (left aligned) but in Chrome

Re: [css-d] Newbie has big CSS AND cross browser issues

2011-07-19 Thread Alex Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Bobbi Ashley wrote: > Let me preface this with I am certainly not knowledgeable with website > writing. > > > > At http://www.oneafricasafaris.com/index4.html I have a brown, yellow > bordered strip that is supposed to contain a menu. BUT: > > I can't get the menu

Re: [css-d] Newbie Building Boxes

2010-06-19 Thread Claude Needham
> This is relatively easy to do /tableless/. Construct a CSS box with a > dark-blue background-color. Nest a light-blue CSS rounded-corner box > inside it. This is one of a zillion ways it might be done: > > Best, > ~d Thanks for posting t

Re: [css-d] Newbie Building Boxes

2010-06-19 Thread Victor Subervi
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:32 PM, David Laakso wrote: > If the rounded corners, and cross-browser compatibility, are client > requirements-- positioning background images using CSS is probably your best > bet [for now, at least]. > This is relatively easy to do /tableless/. Construct a CSS box w

Re: [css-d] Newbie Building Boxes

2010-06-19 Thread David Laakso
Victor Subervi wrote: > Hi; > I'm new to CSS2. I'm trying to build a box of a specific size in which I > can: > > It looks like the lower left box with the Lorem Ipsum text here: > http://creative.vi/clients/crucian-edu-template.jpg > > Victor > If the rounded corners, and cross-browser c

Re: [css-d] Newbie needs help with menu

2009-02-20 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Bobbi Ashley wrote: > > > It works fine in Firefox but IE only displays half of it. IE6, you mean? Looks like your markup is faulty...

Re: [css-d] Newbie question

2009-02-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mark Blondin wrote: > > My question is, would it be easier to start from scratch or convert > the existing site to CSS? Definitely better, although not necessarily easier - especially if it is your first attempt on CSS layouts, to start from scratch. You have what looks like a 2 column solutio

Re: [css-d] Newbie question

2009-02-04 Thread Cristian Palmas
2009/2/5 Mark Blondin > Hello, > I am undertaking a redo of my Website: www.datawisestorage.com . It > currently has a tables base to it and I want to convert to CSS, add a menu, > and expand it generally. My question is, would it be easier to start from > scratch or convert the existing site to

Re: [css-d] Newbie Resolve IE sizes to othe

2008-11-26 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
tony wrote: > Coming new to HTML & CSS in my ignorance I had thought layout and > content was the major concern. Content is important. Layout should carry content without getting in the way ... too much. > With your 'gentle' proddings I now realise that understanding the > limitations of CSS a

Re: [css-d] Newbie Resolve IE sizes to other

2008-11-24 Thread David Laakso
tony wrote: > Hi, > > Sorted a layout in IE7 and passed validation but layout in Gecko fell apart > - width issues. > So resolved layout in Gecko but now IE7 fails to match as can be seen at: > http://www.somersetspiess.co.uk/trialScene2.html > > Can anyone please suggest how I bring IE7 layout ba

Re: [css-d] Newbie Resolve IE sizes to other

2008-11-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
tony wrote: > My starting objective was, beneath a fixed banner (code not > included), to arrange between 2 lines of h2 a bank of images aligned > with 3 boxes of text which would all be visible (before scrolling to > following images), hence initially I set the ContainerBoth height. You mean you

Re: [css-d] Newbie Resolve IE sizes to other

2008-11-24 Thread tony
starting "In_" is not visible. Tony -Original Message- From: Gunlaug Sørtun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 November 2008 15:20 To: tony Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Newbie Resolve IE sizes to other tony wrote: > Sorted a layout in IE7 and passed v

Re: [css-d] Newbie Resolve IE sizes to other

2008-11-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
tony wrote: > Sorted a layout in IE7 and passed validation but layout in Gecko fell > apart - width issues. So resolved layout in Gecko but now IE7 fails > to match as can be seen at: > http://www.somersetspiess.co.uk/trialScene2.html > > Can anyone please suggest how I bring IE7 layout back

Re: [css-d] Newbie text ghosts and alignment

2008-11-11 Thread David Laakso
tony wrote: > I have run into a number of problems as can been seen: > http://www.somersetspiess.co.uk/xmas.html > > > Tony > > > Might be a good idea to start by validating the markup. Compare your page in IE/7 (and IE/6) to Opera.

Re: [css-d] Newbie question on IE 7 menu bug

2008-10-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
MJ Kewley wrote: > ... I'm wondering if someone could point me to which one of the 170 > or so IE 7 bugs I might be dealing with here: > > http://dev.greatergreenville.com/csstesting/default3column.aspx Stu Nicholl's menu isn't complete for IE7. Add... .globalmenu ul li { position: relative; }

Re: [css-d] Newbie problem with templates

2008-10-06 Thread Edward Collier
Many thanks to Georg and David, who both pointed me in the right direction! Edward __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies

Re: [css-d] Newbie problem with templates

2008-10-03 Thread Edward Collier
Georg wrote: Edward Collier wrote: > http://www.btinternet.com/~edandmill/Shared/default.htm This is the > page based on the template below. As you can see, the text flows > behind the menu, which is ... ahem ... sub-optimal. Element with ID=Content missing in template, so styles not applied.

Re: [css-d] Newbie problem with templates

2008-10-03 Thread David Laakso
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Edward Collier wrote: > > >> http://www.btinternet.com/~edandmill/Shared/default.htm This is the >> page based on the template below. As you can see, the text flows >> behind the menu, which is ... ahem ... sub-optimal. >> > > Element with ID=Content missing in temp

Re: [css-d] Newbie problem with templates

2008-10-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Edward Collier wrote: > That solves the problem of the text flowing UNDER the floating menu, > but when it reaches the bottom of the menu it doesn't "widen out" to > occupy the space "below" the menu Change from absolute positioning to float, and trim the right margin on #Content...

Re: [css-d] Newbie problem with templates

2008-10-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Edward Collier wrote: > http://www.btinternet.com/~edandmill/Shared/default.htm This is the > page based on the template below. As you can see, the text flows > behind the menu, which is ... ahem ... sub-optimal. Element with ID=Content missing in template, so styles not applied. Should be...

Re: [css-d] newbie

2008-03-01 Thread Tamara
Many thanks, Jack, have added this one to my bookmarks. -- Tam ---Original Message--- Greetings both. I recommend the tutorials over at HTMLDog.com . Helped me brush up on CSS way back when I was getting into table-less designs. -Jack Timmons ___

Re: [css-d] newbie

2008-03-01 Thread Jack Timmons
Greetings both. I recommend the tutorials over at HTMLDog.com . Helped me brush up on CSS way back when I was getting into table-less designs. -Jack Timmons On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Hakan K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tam, > > Welcome to this listing group...

Re: [css-d] newbie

2008-03-01 Thread Tamara
ul. I need to learn more about coding the html file and css together. -- Tam ---Original Message--- From: Hakan K Date: 2/03/2008 9:10:34 AM To: Tamara Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] newbie Tam, Welcome to this listing group... Do you use an

Re: [css-d] newbie

2008-03-01 Thread Hakan K
Tam, Welcome to this listing group... Do you use any tutorial ? Hakan http://dominor.com On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Tamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, my name's Tamara (Tam for short), and I'm new here...and new to css.. > well, aside from the simple stuff you can do in

Re: [css-d] Newbie with img "jump"/"shift" problem in IE7 (and more)

2008-02-28 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
~Deanna wrote: > [...] > > I hope someone here has some idea of what is causing these images to > jump left (not all the images on the page do this, ie: the rotating > image above the thumbnails stays put). I hope someone knows how to > fix the affe

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS questions

2008-02-14 Thread AJ Putnam
ah ha! that was my problem - I realize now the alignments/placements re in relation to each other where before they were in relation to the outer edges of the table. thank you! I've done them all but still have one tiny problem that i cannot figure out. the pages all look fine in Dreamweaver, b

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS questions

2008-02-14 Thread AJ Putnam
Thanks, Georg! So, I did what you indicated. I went and removed all a:p from the style sheet. Really messed with my layout. i added your short bit of code to the top and it helped marginally. so, i am still at a loss. Demo page: http://ajputnam.com.sky/discography and one of the original pa

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS questions

2008-02-14 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
AJ Putnam wrote: > I've done them all but still have one tiny problem that i cannot > figure out. the pages all look fine in Dreamweaver, but in FF and > safari for mac, the center background graphic has dropped about 1 > pixel. example: > > http://ajputnam.com/sky/bio/ Collapsing margins[1]

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS questions

2008-02-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
AJ Putnam wrote: > So, I did what you indicated. I went and removed all a:p from the > style sheet. Really messed with my layout. i added your short bit > of code to the top and it helped marginally. so, i am still at a > loss. Delete that "short bit of code" now, as it was only for demo/de

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS questions

2008-02-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
AJ Putnam wrote: > http://ajputnam.com/sky/ontour > > as you can see, the content table just sort of hangs over the lower > edge. 1: delete _all_ instances of 'position: absolute', or else you'll get nowhere. Absolute positioned elements are treated as if they do not take up any space, so the ex

Re: [css-d] newbie question | css drop down

2007-12-28 Thread dg
this works on mac, might need some checking for win and a little editing to fit in right http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> Untitled #menuh-container { width: 121px; } #menuh { font-size: 12px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; width: 127px; float:left; margin:

Re: [css-d] Newbie overlapping graphics

2007-11-07 Thread Eystein Alnaes
> > http://www.yourwebdna.com/runyan/ > > The background graphic should be at the top and centered about 10pixels > down. > > I don't understand why the whole thing gets pushed down the page just to > overlap the front div. > In the html you'd want to get rid of your #headingbackground div, and

Re: [css-d] Newbie

2007-10-22 Thread Phil Tobias
On Oct 22, 2007, at 5:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dreamweaver, like other GUI web development environments, lies to you > about how your page looks - visitors don't browse the web with > Dreamweaver. Also, you will eventually find yourself in a situation > where there's a problem in your sit

Re: [css-d] Newbie

2007-10-21 Thread david
Phil Tobias wrote: > On Oct 20, 2007, at 11:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> is Dreamweaver acceptable or am I better off (as a beginner) going >> down >> a different route ? and finally, the most asked question in the >> world ... what resource to use to learn ? > > Dreamweaver is a fine a

Re: [css-d] Newbie

2007-10-21 Thread Phil Tobias
On Oct 20, 2007, at 11:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is Dreamweaver acceptable or am I better off (as a beginner) going > down > a different route ? and finally, the most asked question in the > world ... what resource to use to learn ? Dreamweaver is a fine authoring environment. It lets

Re: [css-d] Newbie

2007-10-20 Thread Rick Faircloth
I'll tell you what gave me enough understanding to finally begin to build sites using CSS... free CSS templates from http://www.templateworld.com/free_templates.html. I simply selected a template I liked and took the HTML and CSS and copied and pasted the template back together one line at a time

Re: [css-d] Newbie

2007-10-20 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: > ROGER BURTON wrote: >> Hi ... I am getting really confused now so maybe the knowledge here >> can give me some much needed guidance. ..trimmed]. >> Regards Roger >> >> > > Opinions abound and in the end I suppose we go with what works best for us in any given situation.

Re: [css-d] newbie help please

2007-10-12 Thread Steve Olive
On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:58:26 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello people > I am very new to this forum or indeed any forum so forgive any protocol > errors, I did read the list but unsure about some things. > I am fairly new to css, relied on Dreamweaver usually but after reading > lots of articles

Re: [css-d] newbie help please

2007-10-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://fruvenu.com.au/index.htm > I have no idea how it looks on a Mac or a larger screen. Looks pretty interesting on 1280, 1600, 2400 and 3800 wide screens/browser-windows :-) It spreads out in bits and pieces, since so many dimensions are relative to window-width.

Re: [css-d] newbie help please

2007-10-12 Thread Peter Hyde-Smith
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 6:58 PM Subject: [css-d] newbie help please > I want to convert! I re-wrote a table based site and > although both the html and css validates in w3 and despite it looking as > it should on my computer, on

Re: [css-d] newbie help please

2007-10-12 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello people > I am very new to this forum or indeed any forum so forgive any protocol > errors, I did read the list but unsure about some things. > I am fairly new to css, relied on Dreamweaver usually but after reading > lots of articles and visiting some great css site

Re: [css-d] newbie questions

2007-10-10 Thread Walt F. Schaefer
1. On this page http://adswebsite.net/yahoo-search-versus-google-adwords.html, on the right column where it says "More AdsWebsite Guides" and below that, the colored cells/rows are taller than I want. How can I keep them about the same height as the text for each cell? On this page: html http://a

Re: [css-d] Newbie Help - Header will not show up

2007-04-12 Thread Glenn E. Lanier, II
> From: Rebecca Wilczenski > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:29 AM > Hi there. This is my first post, so please bear with me. I've been > "forced" to re-design my company's website. I thought everything was > looking ok (they don't care about how it validates, they > wanted it NOW) so I > launch

Re: [css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-25 Thread Beth Lee
On 2/25/07, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Beth Lee wrote: > > >>> > > Myself: I tend to reduce support for older versions after a few years, > *when* there are at least a couple of later (and hopefully improved) > versions of that particular

Re: [css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Beth Lee wrote: > [...] And now, thanks to you and the various articles I've read on > the Internet about the subject, I have a better idea about doctypes > and the serving of those doctypes. That's good. Keep on studying. >>> > [...] But there's extr

Re: [css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-24 Thread Beth Lee
On 2/19/07, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Beth Lee wrote: > > > What would be a more suitable doctype? A link to a good explanation > > would be helpful. (This is a web certification project, and the > > course instructs us to use this doctype, so I'm not sure I can change > > it o

Re: [css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Beth Lee wrote: > What would be a more suitable doctype? A link to a good explanation > would be helpful. (This is a web certification project, and the > course instructs us to use this doctype, so I'm not sure I can change > it on this website, but I'd like to know the pros and cons for the >

Re: [css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-19 Thread ~davidLaakso
Beth Lee wrote: > Thanks for the reply. It works beautifully. I wish I knew why. I looked at > margin-collapsing, but I couldn't figure which margins could be collapsing. > I thought the applicable divs all had 0 top and bottom margins. > > What would be a more suitable doctype? A link to a good ex

Re: [css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-19 Thread Beth Lee
On 2/18/07, ~davidLaakso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Beth Lee wrote: > > This test site page is here: http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/index.htm > > and the css is here: http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/css/main.css > > > > In FF2, I'd like a little more room above the text in the quote div, but > if

Re: [css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-19 Thread francky
Beth Lee wrote: > [...] > This test site page is here: http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/index.htm > and the css is here: http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/css/main.css > [...] > > 3. The three main boxes are not centered. Don't know why. What's the best > way to address that? > And help with these problem

Re: [css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-18 Thread ~davidLaakso
Beth Lee wrote: > This test site page is here: http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/index.htm > and the css is here: http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/css/main.css > > In FF2, I'd like a little more room above the text in the quote div, but if > I add even 1px of top padding, the quote div height expands from

Re: [css-d] newbie

2007-01-04 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 1/4/07, Mandy Covington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm also fairly new to it all so welcome - nice to know other newbies. For > inspiration and learning the finer arts of css visit www.csszengarden.com. > For free browser checking I found http://browsershots.org brilliant which > I >

Re: [css-d] newbie

2007-01-04 Thread Mandy Covington
Hi, I'm also fairly new to it all so welcome - nice to know other newbies. For inspiration and learning the finer arts of css visit www.csszengarden.com. For free browser checking I found http://browsershots.org brilliant which I discovered through this wonderful list. Mandy - Original Me

Re: [css-d] Newbie question

2006-12-06 Thread Devon Miller
On 12/4/06, Suzanne Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I've just started teaching myself CSS over the last month or so. I've also > recently put up the website for the New York Cactus & Succulent Society, > and I'm completely baffled by something. All the pages have a with > the class "n

Re: [css-d] Newbie question

2006-12-04 Thread Devon Miller
On 12/4/06, Suzanne Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I've just started teaching myself CSS over the last month or so. I've also > recently put up the website for the New York Cactus & Succulent Society, > and I'm completely baffled by something. All the pages have a with > the class "n

Re: [css-d] Newbie to CSS in need of some general advice

2006-11-15 Thread Lee Bettridge
There are some good browsers in the market now which run on IPTV boxes, along with Microsoft's webTV browser. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of david Sent: 14 November 2006 20:11 To: css-d Subject: Re: [css-d] Newbie to CSS in need of

Re: [css-d] Newbie to CSS in need of some general advice

2006-11-15 Thread david
David Hucklesby wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:57:40 -, Lee Bettridge wrote: >> I am writing a small web app (for webTV) which will display a >> crosshair image, which the user can move around the screen using the >> remote control. >> [...] [snips] > Hi Lee, > Speaking for myself, I would

Re: [css-d] Newbie to CSS in need of some general advice

2006-11-14 Thread Bradley Wright
On 14/11/2006 17:43, David Hucklesby wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:57:40 -, Lee Bettridge wrote: >> I am writing a small web app (for webTV) which will display a >> crosshair image, which the user can move around the screen using the >> remote control. >> [...] >> Does TV support: {

Re: [css-d] Newbie to CSS in need of some general advice

2006-11-14 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:57:40 -, Lee Bettridge wrote: > > I am writing a small web app (for webTV) which will display a > crosshair image, which the user can move around the screen using the > remote control. > [...] > > My usual approach would be to simply write the table in html with an > im

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-26 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 9/26/06, Roger Roelofs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've emailed you a sample file off-list Looks great. Thanks! -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-26 Thread Roger Roelofs
Mark, On Sep 26, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On 9/26/06, Roger Roelofs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Somehow I missed the first message in this thread. If I missed the >> point, let me know and I'll try again. > > Thanks for your reply. Take a look at the sample page, which I linked

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-26 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 9/26/06, Roger Roelofs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somehow I missed the first message in this thread. If I missed the > point, let me know and I'll try again. Thanks for your reply. Take a look at the sample page, which I linked in that message you missed: http://www.thereeds.org/css/test.h

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-26 Thread Roger Roelofs
Mark, On Sep 25, 2006, at 11:19 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On 9/25/06, bill scheider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've modified and used the form found on Stu Nichols site with >> good results. >> It can be found here: >> http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/form.html > > What I do need is two rectang

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-25 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 9/25/06, bill scheider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've modified and used the form found on Stu Nichols site with good results. > It can be found here: > http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/form.html Thanks for the link! My question isn't really about styling forms, though. I don't mind using a ta

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-25 Thread bill scheider
This is a really dumb question, but so far the solutions I've come up with have felt more hackish than the original. I have this form which I'm trying to clean up. Here's a minimal version of the basic idea: http://www.thereeds.org/css/test.html The look is fine, if minimalist, but I dislike u

Re: [css-d] newbie float mystery: not lining up correctly

2006-08-31 Thread Glenn E. Lanier, II
> From: JC > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:28 AM > I'm trying to get 3 vertical boxes floating horizontally, > and something in my code is not working right. > The nav box on the left works fine. The highlights box on the > right works fine. The box in the middle sinks to the bottom-- > not

Re: [css-d] Newbie seeking layout examples to study

2006-08-29 Thread Mark Henderson
>>I would like to know if someone can point me to >> some sites that have a basic 3 column layout with header and footers where I >> can study the code? Thank you! I missed the earlier part of this thread, but try the layout gala: http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/ If you want a better explana

Re: [css-d] Newbie seeking layout examples to study

2006-08-29 Thread Donna Jones
>> I've been working for about 2 days straight trying to get a fairly >> straightforward alignment set up >> (left navigation >> top header that runs the width of the page starting after left nav >> middle part of page (under header) >> right side of page (narrow margin) >> and footer) Hi

Re: [css-d] Newbie seeking layout examples to study

2006-08-23 Thread Tim Gossett
Anne E. Shroeder wrote: > I've been working for about 2 days straight trying to get a fairly > straightforward alignment set up > (left navigation > top header that runs the width of the page starting after left nav > middle part of page (under header) > right side of page (narrow margin) > and foo

Re: [css-d] Newbie seeking layout examples to study

2006-08-23 Thread david
Anne E. Shroeder wrote: > I've been working for about 2 days straight trying to get a fairly > straightforward alignment set up > (left navigation > top header that runs the width of the page starting after left nav > middle part of page (under header) > right side of page (narrow margin) > and fo

Re: [css-d] Newbie Question about Vertical Positioning

2006-08-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robert Tilley wrote: > My page has a horizontal menu bar at the top of the window. There is a > maximum depth to which the menus drop. I would like to have my id="content"> section positioned vertically below that depth, so that the > text is not covered when the menus drop. Its a helpful p

Re: [css-d] Newbie Question about Vertical Positioning

2006-08-23 Thread Wes Gamble
Bob, I think that you need to absolutely position your content DIV to get this behavior. So if the content DIV is contained within the menu DIV (unlikely), then you could set "position: relative" on the menu div and set "position: absolute; top: " on the content DIV. If the menu and content D

Re: [css-d] newbie question re: having two different link colors

2006-07-06 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Scott Swabey wrote: > Shirley Harshenin wrote: > >> I am working on a page that has both light and dark backgrounds >> therefore need two different colors for links (dark color link for >> light bg, light color link for dark bg). HOW do I code that? I've >> tried creating a new style (in CSS) bu

Re: [css-d] newbie question re: having two different link colors

2006-07-05 Thread Joe Huggins
What you need to do here is make your CSS more specific. You can do this by making a couple of new classes for each of these links. Something like: a .darkLink {color:some dark color;} a .lightLink {color:some light color;} Then in your HTML code: dark link light link This could be made more

Re: [css-d] newbie question re: having two different link colors

2006-07-05 Thread Scott Swabey
Shirley Harshenin wrote: > Hi! > > I am working on a page that has both light and dark backgrounds > therefore need two different colors for links (dark color link for > light bg, light color link for dark bg). HOW do I code that? I've > tried creating a new style (in CSS) but the main content sty

Re: [css-d] Newbie layout question

2006-04-17 Thread Mark Fellowes
Francky, Thank you for that page and comments! Very helpful. And yes I have seen the WIKI and glad you pointed me back to it.  I've been digging around on various css sites, there is so much out on the web. Seems like there is a bit of a learning curve ;). I've been at this page layout for a we

Re: [css-d] Newbie layout question

2006-04-17 Thread francky
Mark Fellowes wrote: >This relates to the sideNav tag [see code below] >While it's in the right position, just typing into it extends it passed the >width that's set. >Do I need a rule for the to control that or could it be done with the box >alone ? > >html: [...] >css: [...] > >TIA >Stuart >

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS on Firefox problem

2006-04-05 Thread Kenny Graham
Since you specified text colors, it's just suggesting that you specify background colors too, just incase the user sets their default background color to the same as your specified text color, etc. CSS validator warnings usually aren't big deals, but be sure there aren't any errors. __

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS on Firefox problem

2006-04-05 Thread Ed Seehouse
On 4/5/06, Bill Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to bother you guys again, but I pasted the stylesheet in the W3C > css-validator and got the results below, which I totally do not understand. > a.. Line : 2 (Level : 1) You have no color with your background-color : This is a warning, n

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS on Firefox problem

2006-04-05 Thread Bill Walton
b.. .Listline1 { a.. background-color : #fcc; } - Original Message - From: "cj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bill Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: 2006-04-05 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] newbie CSS on Firefox problem > On 4/5/06, Bill Walton <[EMAIL

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS on Firefox problem

2006-04-05 Thread Bill Walton
sage - From: "francky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bill Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: 2006-04-05 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] newbie CSS on Firefox problem > Bill Walton wrote: > > >[...] > >The W3C CSS validator requires a URL. > &

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS on Firefox problem

2006-04-05 Thread L. David Baron
On Wednesday 2006-04-05 15:15 -0500, Bill Walton wrote: > Thank you very very much. That was driving me crazy. The W3C CSS validator > requires a URL. Is there one for the desktop you'd recommend? I'd sure > like to avoid this in the future, if possible. In addition to the file-upload mechanis

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS on Firefox problem

2006-04-05 Thread francky
Bill Walton wrote: >[...] >The W3C CSS validator requires a URL. >Is there one for the desktop you'd recommend? >[...] > Hi Bill, The w3c css-validator has also the possibility to upload a stylesheet , or, in a text-box, to upload partial

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS on Firefox problem

2006-04-05 Thread cj
On 4/5/06, Bill Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ron, > > Thank you very very much. That was driving me crazy. The W3C CSS validator > requires a URL. Is there one for the desktop you'd recommend? I'd sure > like to avoid this in the future, if possible. you're in luck! they don't requi

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS on Firefox problem

2006-04-05 Thread Bill Walton
- Original Message - From: "Pringle, Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bill Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: 2006-04-05 2:52 PM Subject: RE: [css-d] newbie CSS on Firefox problem Bill wrote: > Greetings from a CSS newbie; > > I apologize in advance for v

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS on Firefox problem

2006-04-05 Thread Pringle, Ron
Bill wrote: > Greetings from a CSS newbie; > > I apologize in advance for violating the prohibition on > posting code but 1) I have no where to put this yet, and 2) > it's so trivial I'm hoping you'll allow it. > > Here's my problem. I cannot get even a trivial piece of CSS > working on Fire

Re: [css-d] Newbie with CSS layout

2006-04-05 Thread Roger Roelofs
Reynier, On Apr 5, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Reynier Perez Mira wrote: Hola a todos: I found some CSS layout in this site: http://blog.html.it/ layoutgala/. Now I have my CSS layout but this have many problems. The sample is at this adress: http://www.valencia.ch/simpro/sample4.html http://www.v

Re: [css-d] newbie: navigation to a division

2006-03-23 Thread Alex Robinson
>I would like to have all of links from both of the navigations link >to a which is central and large in the page, between the two >navigation bars 'alpha' and 'beta'. The following page here from the css-d wiki will get you started on the road to recreating the look of frames with CSS. h

Re: [css-d] newbie - table problem within div

2006-03-14 Thread David Dorward
On 14/03/06, Kristi Kessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My table runs out of the div in firefox but looks ok > in IE IE has a bug in which it increases the width of elements with overflow: visible when their content is too wide to fit. > any ideas? Make the div wide enough in the first place.

Re: [css-d] newbie - table problem within div

2006-03-14 Thread Sander van Surksum
Can you post an url where we can see what the problem is ? Regards, Sander -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristi Kessler Sent: dinsdag 14 maart 2006 15:31 To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] newbie - table problem within div

Re: [css-d] newbie - table problem within div

2006-03-14 Thread Oliver Hodgson
> -Original Message- > From: Kristi Kessler > Subject: [css-d] newbie - table problem within div > > My table runs out of the div in firefox but looks ok > in IE - any ideas? Without seeing the code it's hard to know. Do you have some sample code or a page we could look at? That said, i

Re: [css-d] Newbie question re: Link Target

2006-02-10 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Bryan White wrote: > 1. How does one duplicate the behavior of the "target" attribute for > hyperlinks using CSS? Specifically, opening links in a new window? Simply put, you don't. CSS is NOT a behavior. This method is the most common way, but it requires JS. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/s

Re: [css-d] Newbie to CSS, Need Help!

2006-01-10 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Hi Donna: Donna wrote: >Hello Everyone! > >Can someone help me out here? I am having a problem with my 'Right' column >for this web page. I am VERY new to this, so please bear with me...I know >my questions/problems are very basic. > > From one newbie to another ;-). I assume you want the

Re: [css-d] Newbie - Looking for information on containers.....

2005-12-18 Thread David Laakso
Ionize wrote: >I am back once more having done some reading on html and CSS and I am >looking for more information on containers and exactly what they are. Are >they comparable to layers, and when positioning text or images are they >placed within that container or are they on their own seperate >

Re: [css-d] Newbie - Looking for information on containers.....

2005-12-18 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/18/05, Ionize <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey All, > > I am back once more having done some reading on html and CSS and I am > looking for more information on containers and exactly what they are. Are > they comparable to layers, A container is anything with a default display of "block." Th

Re: [css-d] Newbie - Looking for information on containers.....

2005-12-18 Thread Roger Roelofs
Dave, On Dec 18, 2005, at 7:50 AM, Ionize wrote: > I am back once more having done some reading on html and CSS and I am > looking for more information on containers and exactly what they are. > Are > they comparable to layers, and when positioning text or images are they > placed within that co

Re: [css-d] Newbie - Looking for information on containers.....

2005-12-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ionize wrote: > I am back once more having done some reading on html and CSS and I am > looking for more information on containers and exactly what they > are. Are they comparable to layers, and when positioning text or > images are they placed within that container or are they on their own > s

Re: [css-d] Newbie - Looking for information on containers.....

2005-12-18 Thread Jesper Brunholm
> I am back once more having done some reading on html and CSS and I am > looking for more information on containers and exactly what they are. Containers are mostly elements used to position content of some kind. > Are > they comparable to layers, Yup, you could actually say that layers are co

Re: [css-d] Newbie Looking for a tutor.....

2005-12-18 Thread Jesper Brunholm
Hey Dave Use the Wiki as your tutor, and the list as your professor ("what the tutor can't handle, you take it to the prof") - AND all the other pages out there, you can use as your classmates. There are a lot of very neat solutions, and practically nobody is dumb enough to try and hide the so

Re: [css-d] Newbie Looking for a tutor.....

2005-12-17 Thread David Laakso
Ionize wrote: >Needless to say I am a newbie to this whole web design stuff and I want to >get stuck in at the deep end and I am planning on teaching myself XHTML and >CSS > > Upload a page to a public server and post to the list stating any issues that need be resolved. Provide a link to the

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