Re: [css-d] Background images

2005-07-29 Thread Roberto Gorjão
Olá Abyss, Maybe it's this you want?... body { background-image: url(/images/whatever.jpg); background-position:center; background-repeat:no-repeat; } Hth! Adeus, Roberto -- Abyss Information wrote: >Hiya all, > >does anyone know where I can grab

[css-d] absolutely positioned menu vanishes with IE

2005-07-29 Thread rupert
This is driving me a bit nuts so any help appreciated. I'm trying to build my first site using CSS - taking the big leap from table based design. Anyway, I'm wanting a page with a header, footer, a navigation menu, and a two column fluid layout for the contents and I found a design philo

Re: [css-d] Mysterious gaps -first

2005-07-29 Thread Ingo Chao
Mark Holden schrieb: I'm having two display headaches in IE6 http://www.us-risk.com/new/ems.html First, in the section navigation menu under "services" at left, it's putting a gap between the main navigation link (services) and the sub-navigation links. It can't be because of the white space

Re: [css-d] Sidenotes v Footnotes

2005-07-29 Thread Bob Easton
John Gruber has an article at "Daring Fireball" which shows another way of doing footnotes that has very simple markup and includes a return link that is both attractive and convenient. http://daringfireball.net/2005/07/footnotes I took a look at the accessibility of the techinhque here: http:

Re: [css-d] Sidenotes v Footnotes

2005-07-29 Thread Beau Hartshorne
Hi Bob, If the sidenote was inserted like this: Some text11. This is a sidenote. that appears in the middle of a sentence. How would that be presented in a screen reader? What can we do to improve it? Thank you, Beau On 29-Jul-05, at 5:51 AM, Bob Easton wrote: John Gruber has an articl

[css-d] HUGE gap tween DIVS in Firefox, not in IE???

2005-07-29 Thread Thomas Hall
Please help - http://design.tmhdesign.com/szidonia This page looks as it should in IE, but not in Firefox. I validated it and also viewed the block level outlines in Firefox but am clueless as to why the div is not butting up in Firefox as it does in IE. Thanks in advance. Thomas M. Hall

Re: [css-d] Table of Contents with flexible dotted lines

2005-07-29 Thread Michael Cassidy
On Jul 28, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Christian Heilmann wrote: On 7/28/05, Jared Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey all, I've come up with this work-around to deliver a typical book-like table of contents entry appearance (with dashes/dots between toc entry and page number) and while it seems fully

Re: [css-d] HUGE gap tween DIVS in Firefox, not in IE???

2005-07-29 Thread Christian Heilmann
On 7/29/05, Thomas Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please help - http://design.tmhdesign.com/szidonia This page looks as it > should in IE, but not in Firefox. I validated it and also viewed the block > level outlines in Firefox but am clueless as to why the div is not butting > up in Firefox a

Re: [css-d] IE navigation positioning/padding/margins

2005-07-29 Thread Michael Cassidy
I guess you don't realizes IE comes with OSX. If I took your advice about 75% of my users would be ignored; since my corporate intranet people set up their sites for IE MAC and WIN and many of my users use IE MAC as their browser for everything. Something tells that a site for a institute teac

Re: [css-d] IE navigation positioning/padding/margins

2005-07-29 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 29 Jul 2005, at 7:02 am, Virtuallee wrote: Not IE mac - haven't thought about mac yet :( http://www.alisonbranagan.com/new_website/index.htm The 30% or so Mac users who still use IE Mac in my stats will be happy. Your site display identically to Firefox 1.0+ latest nightly build. (excep

[css-d] spacing between bullets and text

2005-07-29 Thread Barbara Dozetos
Hi folks, Our new design uses a graphic for bulleted lists. Looks great in FF, etc, but IE leaves far too little padding between the image and the beginning of the text for each list item. Is there a way to get IE to give it some more space without screwing up real browsers? Example: http:

Re: [css-d] IE navigation positioning/padding/margins

2005-07-29 Thread Virtuallee
Hi Thanks everyone for your feedback as well as advice on mac IE. Quite a debate on the subject! GREAT to hear it (miracle of miracles) actually looks okay in Mac IE (hadn't tested it yet). Thanks, Michael for your advice below on how to fix the positioning. I'm away for the night but will gi

Fwd: [css-d] Mysterious gaps -first

2005-07-29 Thread Mark Holden
That space before the subnav div worked! Thanks a million. Never knew about that part of the bug. Now, does anyone have any idea about the unwanted boxpunching? For reference, here's the relevant CSS: #header { > position: absolute; > top: 7px; left: 0; > margin-left: 180px; } > > #styleswitch

Re: [css-d] spacing between bullets and text

2005-07-29 Thread Christian Heilmann
: > Hi folks, > > Our new design uses a graphic for bulleted lists. Looks great in FF, > etc, but IE leaves far too little padding between the image and the > beginning of the text for each list item. Is there a way to get IE to > give it some more space without screwing up real browsers? > > E

[css-d] SOT: background-image article on A List Apart?

2005-07-29 Thread Robyn
Hi all, A while back I stumbled across an article somewhere that detailed how to apply a background image to just the bottom of the page and have a background color for the rest. The article used a gradient for the bottom image. I thought the article was at A List Apart, but I can't seem t

RE: [css-d] spacing between bullets and text

2005-07-29 Thread Conyers, Dwayne
Barbara Dozetos ink wired: > Is there a way to get IE to give it some more > space without screwing up real browsers? Would it be practical to modify the bullet graphic with transparency on the right that would create padding? Just a thought... --- I made magic once. Now, the sofa is gone. w

Re: [css-d] HUGE gap tween DIVS in Firefox, not in IE???

2005-07-29 Thread David Laakso
Thomas Hall wrote: Please help - http://design.tmhdesign.com/szidonia This page looks as it should in IE, but not in Firefox. I validated it and also viewed the block level outlines in Firefox but am clueless as to why the div is not butting up in Firefox as it does in IE. Thanks in advance. T

[css-d] Fieldset woes

2005-07-29 Thread Vincent Hide
Hi All, I have been experimenting with creating forms without tables. I like it. I have however noticed some issues in IE with fieldset. The form is here and as you can see if you look in IE, the background color of the fielset is overlapping outside of it's area (at the top edge). Also the mar

Re: [css-d] CSS background images and Macromedia

2005-07-29 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
KavinskyC wrote: Anyone familiar with the WYSIWYG view in Dreamweaver and Contribute not rendering background images imported via CSS properly? They render fine in the browser. I haven't had any luck finding anything on the web on it. The problem I'm having is we have content editors using Contr

Re: [css-d] Strange CSS Error in IE

2005-07-29 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Jim Jeffers wrote: http://www.jltmobilecomputers.com/notyet/ If you browse through the site but then click the back button in IE the top half of the page does not load. Also, if you goto a page in IE and then hit the refresh button the top half of the page does not load as well. Awkwardly enou

Re: [css-d] Inline image not appearing in IE/Win

2005-07-29 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
H Shaw wrote: I'm having a problem in IE/Win where the background color of the main "content" div in the page linked below, is covering up the embedded divs (a photo/caption div and the footer div) that reside within the "content" div. It looks perfect in FireFox, so you can reference what it's

Re: [css-d] Collapsible DIVs with nested floated elements

2005-07-29 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
sonicDivx wrote: Am I correct to assume that to have collapsible DIVS (display:block) that the nested DIVs with (style: float) that they also should have the property (display:block) set? I'm not sure I understand your question. Do you mean, is it necessary to set "display: block" on the

Re: [css-d] Extraneous lines on screen

2005-07-29 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Joseph Polanik wrote: I have a table inside of a 'viewport' composed of elements in fixed positions on the screen. The table expands or contracts in length as the user toggles +/- symbols (javascript and the display: property do the work.) The problem occurs when the user expands the table e

Re: [css-d] HUGE gap tween DIVS in Firefox, not in IE???

2005-07-29 Thread Michael Cassidy
On Jul 29, 2005, at 10:20 AM, David Laakso wrote: and coding to FF instead of IE? It might make things go easier for you (if not everyone else). Wondering about this: how do people tackle the problem of browsers working differently. Since 90+% of users use IE Win wouldn't it be better for

Re: [css-d] Win Firefox extra space first time loaded

2005-07-29 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
i lagos wrote: weired problem: the first time http://www.ilagos.com/marco/published-work is loaded in Win Firefox there is extra space between the bottom of the box and the that has the caption. when i reload the page, the extra spacing goes away. once page is cached you can't see extra space

Re: [css-d] broken UL/LI element

2005-07-29 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
William Cox wrote: I'm having a problem with my website, www.gorobotics.net. You can see a picture of what I'm talking about here: http://www.gorobotics.net/broken_website_image.jpg Anyways, I have a series of "tabs" at hte top of my page. They are made with a UL/LI element. The HTML code is

[css-d] Floats crashing IE6/Win?

2005-07-29 Thread ugo pozo
Hello everyone, This homepage is giving me more headaches than I expected. Take a look at the following link in Firefox (and Firefox only, for now): http://www.cityofdis.org/flash/?irpara=contato (relevant css: http://www.cityofdis.org/flash/default/contato.css) I have styled a form using ba

[css-d] indenting the text in a textbox?

2005-07-29 Thread Robyn
Anyone know how to indent the place where the cursor begins in a text box? I'm having a hard time getting it to work without affecting other things in IE... I have a text box with a background image (for a google search) and the textbox contains a 15 px image to the far left with the google '

Re: [css-d] faux columns need a border and curved look

2005-07-29 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Scot Schlinger wrote: I am trying to use faux columns so that my columns will have the same height in the body section of the page. I have part of it working, but now I wish to get a border and curved appearance to the bottom of each division (box). I was wondering if someone could shed some l

RE: [css-d] Refresh needed and Jumping Div's (IE6/Win)

2005-07-29 Thread Glenn E. Lanier, II
> From: > Glenn E. Lanier, II > Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 4:28 PM > http://bellsouthpwp.net/S/p/Speedy7/transcript.html (CSS inline > for ease in troubleshooting)) that displays a section of a > form on page load. > The problem is that when additional fields are displayed, the > bottom bor

Re: [css-d] Table of Contents with flexible dotted lines

2005-07-29 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Jared Stein wrote: Hey all, I've come up with this work-around to deliver a typical book-like table of contents entry appearance (with dashes/dots between toc entry and page number) and while it seems fully flexible, pretty reliable, and not too trashy in terms of coding, I'd still welcome an

Re: [css-d] HUGE gap tween DIVS in Firefox, not in IE???

2005-07-29 Thread Christian Heilmann
> > and coding to FF instead of IE? It might make things go easier for > > you (if not everyone else). > > Wondering about this: how do people tackle the problem of browsers > working differently. > Since 90+% of users use IE Win wouldn't it be better for most sites to > get their pages to work

Re: [css-d] absolute div growth problem

2005-07-29 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Michael Landis wrote: For more information on 2-column layouts, feel free to check out the Wiki: http://www.westga.edu/~www/projects/library/index2.html I think the wrong link got pasted there. :-) Michael meant this: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=TwoColumnLayouts Zoe -- Zoe M. G

Re: [css-d] help please

2005-07-29 Thread Michael Landis
On 7/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > please have a look here: http://www.haroldauto.com/edit:1:43t243 please tell > me what I must change for the image buttons that are visible in ie to show > up in opera and ff. After running your page through HTML Tidy I was able to read i

[css-d] float help

2005-07-29 Thread Ben Alpert
I am trying to make a series of floated boxes with different heights that look something like this: http://onetwoseven.zapto.org/floattestgood.htm. I would like my HTML to look like this: http://onetwoseven.zapto.org/floattest.htm. Am I not understanding floats correctly? Thank you for your ti

Re: [css-d] HUGE gap tween DIVS in Firefox, not in IE???

2005-07-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Michael Cassidy wrote: and coding to FF instead of IE? It might make things go easier for you (if not everyone else). Wondering about this: how do people tackle the problem of browsers working differently. Since 90+% of users use IE Win IE win is the one browser that's easiest to iso

Re: [css-d] HUGE gap tween DIVS in Firefox, not in IE???

2005-07-29 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 29/07/05, Michael Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wondering about this: how do people tackle the problem of browsers > working differently. > Since 90+% of users use IE Win wouldn't it be better for most sites to > get their pages to work in IE Win then modify them for other browser? > Or

Re: [css-d] Floats crashing IE6/Win?

2005-07-29 Thread Ingo Chao
ugo pozo schrieb: http://www.cityofdis.org/flash/?irpara=contato Is this a problem of my IE only? And, if it's not, what should I do? No, it crashes mine too, thanks. On a local copy, it crashed when I was playing with the text-zoom. This can happen in tight fittings. In div#content form#

[css-d] UAs which allow user to select alternate style sheets?

2005-07-29 Thread T. R. Valentine
I know that Firefox/Win, Mozilla/Win, and Opera 7/Win&Linux & 8/Win&Linux permit a user to select an alternate style sheet from a menu. I've looked for a 'comprehensive' list of UAs that give users this ability, but have been unable to find one. At this point, I'd settle for any kind of listing th

Re: [css-d] Sidenotes v Footnotes

2005-07-29 Thread Paul Novitski
At 02:51 AM 7/29/2005, Bob Easton wrote: John Gruber has an article at "Daring Fireball" which shows another way of doing footnotes that has very simple markup and includes a return link that is both attractive and convenient. http://daringfireball.net/2005/07/footnotes I took a look at the a

RE: [css-d] float help

2005-07-29 Thread Scot Schlinger
Am I not understanding floats correctly? Ben, I am not the greatest at this either, as I am learning, but Jim Davis passed this url (http://www.projectseven.com/csslab/testing/lists/grid.htm) along to me and it help out with a project I am currently working on. I hope it helps, Scot

Re: [css-d] float help

2005-07-29 Thread Jim Davis
Ben, I'm not sure what your are trying to achieve, but take a look at this Al Sparber demo: http://www.projectseven.com/csslab/testing/lists/grid.htm Jim On 7/29/05, Ben Alpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to make a series of floated boxes with different heights that > look somethin

Re: [css-d] help please

2005-07-29 Thread Michael Landis
> > > On 7/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > please have a look here: http://www.haroldauto.com/edit:1:43t243 please > > > tell me what I must change for the image buttons that are visible in ie to > > > show up in opera and ff. > > > > After running your page through HTML

RE: [css-d] HUGE gap tween DIVS in Firefox, not in IE???

2005-07-29 Thread Ian Skinner
I also do the latter. A bit counter intuitive, but I have actually found that getting the site to work properly and as desired in FF and then tweaking what is necessary for IE is easier and quicker then the other way around. I think it is because it separates the problems of whether the error i

Re: [css-d] HUGE gap tween DIVS in Firefox, not in IE???

2005-07-29 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: Thomas Hall wrote: Please help - http://design.tmhdesign.com/szidonia This page looks as it should in IE, but not in Firefox. [...] Thomas, In retrospect, I realize that what I wrote might be be confusing, if not downright overwhelming. If that is the case, and if y

Re: [css-d] float help

2005-07-29 Thread Michael Landis
On 7/29/05, Ben Alpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to make a series of floated boxes with different heights that > look something like this: http://onetwoseven.zapto.org/floattestgood.htm. I > would like my HTML to look like this: > http://onetwoseven.zapto.org/floattest.htm. Am I not

Re: [css-d] Floats crashing IE6/Win?

2005-07-29 Thread Michael Landis
On 7/29/05, ugo pozo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (about http://www.cityofdis.org/flash/?irpara=contato): > I haven't tried to reproduce this effect in other computers, but it > seems to me that IE6 crashes everytime it tries to load this page, with > a "pure virtual function call" run-time error. If

[css-d] CSS Image Map Popup Dysfunctional with Netscape/Firefox

2005-07-29 Thread Mark A. Ebel
The following HTML is a simple example of a CSS image map. The mapped image in this case is yahoo.gif which is the large red yahoo! at the top of the www.yahoo.com homepage. For this example the 'h' in yahoo has been mapped. When the mouse cursor is moved over the 'h' in yahoo, a border is di

[css-d] IE form problem

2005-07-29 Thread Schalk Neethling
Greetings All! Would you please have a look at the following page: www.volume4.com/dmp/lead_buyer/update_registration.html I have got this form to work completely except, in IE, the fourth group last field of the 'Additional Contacts' field set. For some reason IE drop this field down to the n

Re: [css-d] CSS Image Map Popup Dysfunctional with Netscape/Firefox

2005-07-29 Thread Steve Clay
Friday, July 29, 2005, 6:00:08 PM, Mark wrote: > This example works correctly using IE6. The background of the popup > cellspacing="0" > border="0">Popuptext! You can't have a TABLE in an A. Invalid markup = unreliable results. You probably want to use something like http://www.alistapart.com/

[css-d] Site Check Please - sagefish.com

2005-07-29 Thread Jade True
Hello all! I've just finished redesigning my website. Wow, it really needed it. I'm ashamed of my old coding. It's just atrocious. I designed it really quickly in Front Page and really didn't take the time to optimize or have decent coding. It was slow to load, had way too many images, and was jus