Re: [css-d] Div's Vs Classes

2005-06-24 Thread Christian Heilmann
> > aside from the obvious reasons (ID's are declared only once, classes > > more than once) I'm interested to hear the lists opinion on the > > potential pitfalls of developing markup with CSS that uses > > only classes > > for layout purposes. > > in practice there is no real difference between

RE: [css-d] Div's Vs Classes

2005-06-24 Thread Rob Agar
Chris Heilmann: > It is a matter of keeping your CSS code clean and maintainable. did I say "go write spaghetti"? The OP is not allowed to use IDs. Whether he writes clean code is between him and his maker. The point is, just using classes will make no difference to the way the website *funct

[css-d] IE 6.0 on Windows very slow to display ul's

2005-06-24 Thread Mark Hitchcock
Hi, Has anyone had any experience with IE 6.0 begin very slow trying to display a very large number of list items? I have a navigation menu made up of nested ul's, there are about 300 li's and then some javascript to hide the menu items which aren't needed. Every browser except IE 6.0 on Windows

[css-d] Form search visualization problem

2005-06-24 Thread Augusto Murri
Hi all, i'm trying to create this search form field without success! Pratically i want to display the SUBMIT button closed to the INPUT field without using ABSOLUTE positioning..! Actually there's a a little space beetwen them .. and i don't want to show this space.. The HTML/CSS is: http://w

Re: [css-d] IE6 floating help

2005-06-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Keith Bloom wrote: ...The text sizes is a difficult one as the designers of the site have specified the pixel sizes. It's a long story. Well, it's not your problem then. No need to make the story any longer. (just another designer that doesn't understand the web) The infoNav fix worked but the

[css-d] What elements can be contained within an anchor tag?

2005-06-24 Thread stu
Does anyone have a definitive list of elements that can be contained within an anchor tag... eg: this could be i think Thanks for your help in advance... Stu. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/m

Re: [css-d] Div's Vs Classes

2005-06-24 Thread Christian Heilmann
> > It is a matter of keeping your CSS code clean and maintainable. > > did I say "go write spaghetti"? The OP is not allowed to use IDs. You did: Quote: in practice there is no real difference between id's and classes :EndQuote This is a wrong statement, to make it even remotely true it shoul

[css-d] commercial site check please

2005-06-24 Thread Paul
Hi I'd appreciate any feedback on this homepage (to be used as a template for further pages) in terms of cross-browser compatibility (not IE/Mac) and accessibility. Text should scale reasonably well (although the high-contrast layout option isn't yet finished) http://www.designate-dev.co.uk/paul/

Re: [css-d] What elements can be contained within an anchor tag?

2005-06-24 Thread David Dorward
On 6/24/05, stu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have a definitive list of elements that can be contained within > an anchor tag... This isn't a CSS question, so you should probably have asked it elsewhere: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=OffTopic However, see: http://www.w3.org/TR/

[css-d] div problems on ie mac

2005-06-24 Thread wayne
Hi I am having trouble with divs again, I cant submit a link to the site as I have signed an ND contract. Basically, I have some divs set-up: The left div is floated left, and the right, right. The widths don't conflict with the containing div and are set, but the right div k

Re: [css-d] commercial site check please

2005-06-24 Thread Arthur Maloney
Hello Paul, Friday, June 24, 2005, 12:12:00 PM, you wrote: P> Hi P> I'd appreciate any feedback on this homepage (to be used as a template P> for further pages) in terms of cross-browser compatibility (not P> IE/Mac) and accessibility. Text should scale reasonably well (although P> the high-cont

[css-d] IE Print Preview Won't Play

2005-06-24 Thread Colin McAllister
Hi, Can someone explain the huge amount of extra space that IE6 is putting in this page... http://colinmac.port5.com/bluegreybox1-1/bluegreybox/index.html It looks fine in Firefox and Opera, and I don't want to break *them* to fix IE, but I need it to work in IE. TIA Colin --

Re: [css-d] div problems on ie mac

2005-06-24 Thread Michael Cassidy
It would help to see the actual CSS. Borders, Margins, Padding??? On Jun 24, 2005, at 7:47 AM, wayne wrote: Hi I am having trouble with divs again, I cant submit a link to the site as I have signed an ND contract. Basically, I have some divs set-up: The left div is flo

[css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread mbishop
I've been a hard core Web developer since 1992. It has only been in the last 3 years that I've attempted to scatter CSS here and there to make a few declarations or styles. In the last 6 months, it seems that CSS has been practically rammed down my throat and I'm tired of spending tons of time

RE: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread Tim Laureska
Hi Melissa. I have had the same experience, but quite honestly I don't think a training course would teach you all the anomalies of CSS... I have reverted to tables for many sites now and breath much easier and get very similar results as using CSS... although I still use stylesheets for many a

Re: [css-d] commercial site check please

2005-06-24 Thread Jan Brasna
http://www.designate-dev.co.uk/paul/ It looks cool (I was in that area a week ago :D), but I don't fancy the logotype and there's also some issue with the shadow in the bottom right corner. -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com __

Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread Al Sparber
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm looking for a 3-5 day INTENSE CSS course that takes me from the bare bones to the elaborate so I can once and for all know why my CSS is broken and how to fix it. > Can anyone offer suggestions/recommendations. Does SUNY have any web development courses? Shor

[css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread Paul
> Web Developers need to be more worried about > content than tweaking CSS code > A web developer's JOB is to worry about the code! A content editor's job is to worry about content. Paul. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: [css-d] Floated blocks inside list items

2005-06-24 Thread Mike
On 6/23/05, Philip Wills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > The following appears to work at least for the small test case: > > li {clear: both; border: 1px solid white;} > .question { margin-right: 200px; } > .button { width: 15%; float:right; } Phil, That border did the trick. I don't

Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread 4css!!!!
I agree with Mr. Sparber on this one. CSS is not a fast learn. Its a fun learn though, if you approach it that way. Its also not something that you learn on the fly just to accomplish a site that you need to get into css. It takes work and dedication to learn this, but its totally worth it. 4CSS

Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread Christian Heilmann
> Does SUNY have any web development courses? Short of that, my very > personal opinion is that CSS is a lot like medicine in that you can > memorize all the properties - but success is based more on your > diagnostic skills, which is a learned art. The best advice you'll > likely get is to step ba

Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread t94xr.net.nz webmaster
- Original Message - From: "4css" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training I agree with Mr. Sparber on this one. CSS is not a fast learn. Its a fun learn though, if you approach it that way. Its also not something that you learn on the fly just to ac

Re: [css-d] Opera problems: background images, pure CSS menu

2005-06-24 Thread Bruno Fassino
T. R. Valentine wrote: > HTML: http://www.plano.lib.il.us/testing/work.html (includes a link to the CSS) > CSS: http://www.plano.lib.il.us/testing/test.css ... > BACKGROUND IMAGES > > In Opera/WIn (8.01 and 7.54), most of the background images do not > display (see Firefox for intended appearance)

Re: [css-d] commercial site check please

2005-06-24 Thread dwain
Paul wrote: The one thing I can't get my head around is why the footer dividing line isn't centered in FF (its fine in IE). If anyone has any ideas on that then it'd be greatly appreciated. could it be the display:inherit in the .footline property? dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

RE: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread Shane Porter
> In addition to the aforementioned, I had quite a big success getting > our junior developers up to speed with proper resources, one of them > being the Dan Cederholm's Web Standards Solutions book: > http://www.simplebits.com/publications/solutions/ > > It is a wonderful hands-on book which allo

Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread Christian Heilmann
On 6/24/05, Shane Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In addition to the aforementioned, I had quite a big success getting > > our junior developers up to speed with proper resources, one of them > > being the Dan Cederholm's Web Standards Solutions book: > > http://www.simplebits.com/publication

Re: [css-d] Opera problems: background images, pure CSS menu

2005-06-24 Thread Jan Brasna
BACKGROUND IMAGES In Opera/WIn (8.01 and 7.54), most of the background images do not display (see Firefox for intended appearance) as intended. In Opera 7.54, the problem is only with the images on the left, but in Opera 8.01 even the right side does not display. Any ideas why? I only had a qui

Re: [css-d] Action like On-click text-decoration:underline

2005-06-24 Thread Bruno Fassino
Ingo Chao wrote: > but what is that bug? Never seen it. Looks like as if /*1,2,3,4*/ and > the nesting divs are required, hmm. > > In this minimal case, a position:relative would fix it too. The doubling > of the green line when the link gets the focus is only visible next to > the float. ... > A

RE: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread mbishop
OK, so far I've been verbally attacked by a snotty 20YO and given a host of sites, book titles and email lists. My apologies for even asking. I have TONS of books. SUNY is not the answer, I'm not sitting through 16 weeks of classes with 18 yo's. Reading the list and visiting the sites are all v

Re: [css-d] commercial site check please

2005-06-24 Thread Paul
Thanks for the feedback so far. The page now validates but I'm still haveing problems with the footer line. I've cleaned up the method for it so that you can see what probs are happening now - its not centered in FF (even though its containing element has text-align: center;) and its centered but

Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread Richard York
Christian Heilmann wrote: On 6/24/05, Shane Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In addition to the aforementioned, I had quite a big success getting our junior developers up to speed with proper resources, one of them being the Dan Cederholm's Web Standards Solutions book: http://www.simplebits.c

Re: [css-d] Odd bug in IE with DL, DT and DD backgrounds?

2005-06-24 Thread webmaster
Thank you for the speedy reply, Terry. Pardon my ignorance, but I am unsure as to how exactly this would correct the issue mentioned? I'm not having an issue with the DT, DD layout in heights or positioning, merely the background colour. And even more oddly is when I try to specify an !important so

Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread dwain
t94xr.net.nz webmaster wrote: - Original Message - From: "4css" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training I strongly recommend Topstyle (Lite or Pro) if you want to learn CSS coding. www.bradsoft.com I know a few of you have it and use it and live by i

Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread Maximillian Schwanekamp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My apologies for even asking. I have TONS of books. > I was looking to immerse myself in a 3-5 day course, AWAY from work and > interruptions. I totally hear you on the interruptions front. What I did was set everything aside for a few days, left the office on a mini

RE: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread Pringle, Ron
> OK, so far I've been verbally attacked by a snotty 20YO and > given a host > of sites, book titles and email lists. > I was looking to immerse myself in a 3-5 day course, AWAY > from work and > interruptions. > > Thanks > Melissa Bishop Melissa- You might try: http://www.dvinci.com/tr

Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 10:43:31AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote.. > I was looking to immerse myself in a 3-5 day course, AWAY from work and > interruptions. Well, this still isn't a 3-5 day course, but perhaps you could get some useful help from a SUNY colleague - Jeanine Meyer at SUNY

Re: [css-d] div problems on ie mac

2005-06-24 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 24 Jun 2005, at 8:47 pm, wayne wrote: I am having trouble with divs again, I cant submit a link to the site as I have signed an ND contract. Basically, I have some divs set-up: The left div is floated left, and the right, right. The widths don't conflict with the conta

Re: [css-d] ALA Switcher error and wierd IE problem

2005-06-24 Thread Chad Henderson
Sorry but it still works only with the blue and black stylesheets and not with the brown one. And only on IE/WIN.. Mozilla switches fine. any other thoughts? Riddle wrote: Whoops, I forget to give link.. sorry.: riddle.jogger.pl On 6/24/05, Riddle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ALA Style Swi

Re: [css-d] Odd bug in IE with DL, DT and DD backgrounds?

2005-06-24 Thread Ingo Chao
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Pardon my ignorance, but I am unsure as to how exactly this would correct the issue mentioned? I'm not having an issue with the DT, DD layout in heights or positioning, merely the background colour. Its not an height or positioning issue with your layout, but any d

[css-d] A note on Firefox, flashing / flickering content when using overflow auto

2005-06-24 Thread Roland Swingler
This is a very odd bug in Firefox, which has been fixed in the development version, but not in the current distribution version (1.0.4). If you have a div with the property "overflow: auto" inside a floated div, then when you resize the screen or cause Firefox to repaint the screen the overfl

Re: [css-d] Opera problems: background images, pure CSS menu

2005-06-24 Thread Bruno Fassino
Jan Brasna wrote: > >>BACKGROUND IMAGES [...] > I've been experiencing this problem since downloading Opera8 - every > layout we made had this issue, and it was not connected with > positioning/stretching, even background under visible/displayed text > wasn't applied. The background (dis)appeared

Re: [css-d] Div's Vs Classes

2005-06-24 Thread Adam Kuehn
Christian Heilmann wrote: this is off-topic though and better suited for the evolt list Indeed, most of this discussion was very much off-topic. Please confine crusades to the off-list community. Thanks. To respond to the concerns of the original post, the one pitfall I can see in develop

Re: [css-d] ALA Switcher error and wierd IE problem

2005-06-24 Thread Chad Henderson
OK I got the switcher working. thanks for your help. -- Chad Henderson Dreamchasers Web Services 4240 NW 28th Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73107 (405) 819-7940 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dreamchasers.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PRO

Re: [css-d] Action like On-click text-decoration:underline

2005-06-24 Thread Ingo Chao
Bruno Fassino schrieb: A Magik Creeping Border? Anyone an idea? I haven't any idea of what exactly this bug is... With a slightly modified version of your code, the problem is there since the beginning (no need to have a link and to click it), and moving another window over the "extra" border,

[css-d] Re: Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread Mark D Hiatt
http://www.geekcruises.com/top/ww01_top.htm Mark D Hiatt "Better Documentation Through Science" __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ S

Re: [css-d] A note on Firefox, flashing / flickering content when using overflow auto

2005-06-24 Thread Ingo Chao
Roland Swingler schrieb: This is a very odd bug in Firefox, which has been fixed in the development version, but not in the current distribution version (1.0.4). If you have a div with the property "overflow: auto" inside a floated div, then when you resize the screen or cause Firefox to repa

[css-d] IE6 shows extra space below menu item

2005-06-24 Thread metasilk
Site (draft): http://www.greenmountainaccess.net/~ktalmage/vyc/ This site displays as I want it in Firefox 1.0.4/Win: header text is the right size, the menu displays compactly on the left. I'm using suckerfish dropdowns, basically. In IE6/Win, the issues are: * menu borders double up between ite

[css-d] Support for vertical-align: bottom

2005-06-24 Thread jdlist
Hello list, I have searched the Wiki and Google, but have not found an answer to what would seem to be a common design issue. I have a div with a fixed height/width, and I would like to align text to the bottom. I tried "vertical-align: bottom" and "vertical-align: text-bottom" with no success.

RE: [css-d] A note on Firefox, flashing / flickering content when using overflow auto

2005-06-24 Thread Nate Cavanaugh
Yeah, this is the problem I had on http://www.alterform.com It seems that it is a somewhat common bug that happens on gamespot.com and anandtech.com. It also happens when a block is taken out of, or put back into the flow, such as if you are toggling the display of a block item. It's fixed in Dee

Re: [css-d] Odd bug in IE with DL, DT and DD backgrounds?

2005-06-24 Thread webmaster
Ah, thank you, I misunderstood the purpose of that. Any other time I've dealt with lists involving IE its always worked, but I have never used a DL before so I was unsure wot exactly was causing the issue. Thank you for the link, when I get back home I shall try to apply that. Cheers, D > [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] Div's Vs Classes

2005-06-24 Thread Adam Kuehn
Some idiot (namely, me) wrote: #content a.external {color: blue;} p.first a {color: green;} If the first rule uses a class instead of an ID, however, and the rules still appear in that order, the second rule will override the first, and your external link in the first paragraph will now be m

Re: [css-d] Support for vertical-align: bottom

2005-06-24 Thread Jan Brasna
Vertical-align is for table-cell elements, you can use absolute positioning and bottom: 0 for this effect. -- Jan Brasna aka JohnyB :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discu

Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread dwain
I was looking to immerse myself in a 3-5 day course, AWAY from work and interruptions. the best suggestion i've read was the one to get the eric meyer books and work the lessons in them and ask the list for help when you have a problem. thanks v. dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread Adam Kuehn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so far I've been verbally attacked by a snotty 20YO and given a host of sites, book titles and email lists. My apologies for even asking. On behalf of the list, I apologize for any verbal attack you may have endured. Please, folks, respect your fellow list member

Re: [css-d] Odd bug in IE with DL, DT and DD backgrounds?

2005-06-24 Thread Terry Melanson
> Pardon my ignorance, but I am unsure as to how > exactly this would correct > the issue mentioned? It does though. You haven't even tried it. I downloaded your page. The style you had was this: dd, dt { padding: 0 10px; } I changed it to this: dd, dt { padding: 0 10px; height: 1%; } And it wor

[css-d] Nested lists

2005-06-24 Thread jeremy
Hi there. I am having trouble making this simple nested list work. here is where i got the list from: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic2/horizontal02.htm It works great like this, but it is not completed. I want to add a whole sublist to "Item Two." seems like it would be easy - just copy

Re: [css-d] Window IE flow problem

2005-06-24 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: saul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:53:44 -0400 > the center content area is not flowing properly in IE Windows >(at least from the screen shots some friends have sent me). It appears >to bump down to below the left column content. >http://www.inventionshow.com/developmen

Re: [css-d] Nested lists

2005-06-24 Thread David Dorward
On 6/24/05, jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It works great like this, but it is not completed. I want to add a whole > sublist to "Item Two." > seems like it would be easy - just copy the sublist from "Item One" and > paste into the of "Item Two." right? > http://tct2005.com/wp/ http://vali

Re: [css-d] Partial dissapearing borders in IE

2005-06-24 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: Geoffrey Alan Colbath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It seems like the search form (which, unfortunately, is >still a table) isn't clearing the floated div sidebar, unless I try and >mess with the width of the sidebar, in which case the border of the >containing div dissapears--but only around the flo

Re: [css-d] Form search visualization problem

2005-06-24 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: "Augusto Murri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pratically i want to display the SUBMIT button >closed to the INPUT field without using ABSOLUTE positioning..! > >Actually there's a a little space beetwen them .. and i don't want to show >this space.. The space occurs in IE/Win, not in Gecko or Opera

Re: [css-d] IE Print Preview Won't Play

2005-06-24 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: "Colin McAllister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Can someone explain the huge amount of extra space that IE6 is putting in this >page... > >http://colinmac.port5.com/bluegreybox1-1/bluegreybox/index.html Well, I don't know if you'll consider it "breaking" the other browsers, but if you can get rid

[css-d] Script within a nested div

2005-06-24 Thread Vicki Skinner (Stebbins)
Hi all, I'm stumped again... and I thought I was starting to get a little bit of an idea...;-) I'm trying to have a php script of a calendar in a div (#calendar) nested within another div (#edit) display on the right of the text and the text to wrap around the div#calendar. But for some reas

Re: [css-d] Script within a nested div

2005-06-24 Thread Larry Israel
> The page I'm working with is here: >http://www.organicgrowers.org.au/index3.php > The CSS here: http://www.organicgrowers.org.au/styles/organic.css > I got it to work in a page with only the div#edit and nothing else here: > http://www.organicgrowers.org.au/cal.php > > div#calendar{ I'm not sure

Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training - the abyss response

2005-06-24 Thread Abyss
G'Day Melly :) I used to be like youwell I still am in many respect.. Im a hard core web developer..and its my passion that flow through my veins every day.. I have been coding web since i was 14. and im now 23... I lived off tables like a ravenous beast and only built for IE and NS... A

Re: [css-d] Script within a nested div

2005-06-24 Thread Vicki Skinner (Stebbins)
At 11:31 AM 25/06/2005, Larry Israel wrote: > The page I'm working with is here: >http://www.organicgrowers.org.au/index3.php > The CSS here: http://www.organicgrowers.org.au/styles/organic.css > I got it to work in a page with only the div#edit and nothing else here: > http://www.organicgrowers.

Re: [css-d] Script within a nested div

2005-06-24 Thread david
Vicki Skinner (Stebbins) wrote: At 11:31 AM 25/06/2005, Larry Israel wrote: I'm not sure, but it might be because the end quotation mark is missing on the calendar id: Yep, that was it... thank you so much! It's always some simple thing that seems to give the most grief. HTML validators a

[css-d] Opera problem with links in div

2005-06-24 Thread Vicki Skinner (Stebbins)
Hi all again, I've just about got this page working how I want it but am having trouble in Opera 8.0. The calendar div is acting very strange... On this page: http://www.organicgrowers.org.au/cal_test.php I've put the word 'Events' at the bottom of the div and the navigation links for the c