Re: [css-d] Perplexing positioning in IE6

Tom Keenan wrote: > > The thing I'm most perplexed about is that the client gets results > that I can't duplicate. Any ideas there? You should definitely change the positioning-method, preferably for the entire layout. Your 2. alternative looks like a good sol

Re: [css-d] justified horizontal list

vwf wrote: > Is it possible to make a horizontal list that spreads to a set width > in CSS? The examples found on PMOB[1] might not fit all of your requirements, but maybe they will give you some good ideas and/or be a good starting point. *See: "Inline centred lists" heading, two directly belo

Re: [css-d] width: 776px not the same as 7.76em (body 65.2%) in IE?

Thank for the info. I didn't know IE an Opera change the default font size when the DPI is different. .. So basically setting the font size to 62.5% is not a good thing since IE rounds percanteges to the decimal. On 9/3/06, David Hucklesby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 19:51:03 +

Re: [css-d] width: 776px not the same as 7.76em (body 65.2%) in IE?

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 19:51:03 +0300, Martin Petrov wrote: > I need an elastic container that is 776px wide. > > The body has a font-size of 62.5em (which equals to 10px) ... > Did you mean 62.5% ? Be aware that, on my laptop, 62.5% would be 12 or 13 pixels in IE. In common with many screens running

Re: [css-d] centering link gifs in a horiz. nav bar

Ooops, I forgot to mention the URL in my previous post (which I don't see in my mailbox yet, strangely enough...) http://www.sfscottishrite.com/Test/index.html --Jay Kinney __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discus

Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query / Font embedding

Chris Williams wrote: >I have CSS that specifies fonts: ("Lucida >SANS,Tahoma,Arial,Sans-serif;"). > >I have various tool bars that tell me this when I hover over various >pieces of text. That is, they tell me that string. But I can't tell >which font was actually used. > >I have cases where the

Re: [css-d] CSS 3 column layout: elastic/fluid

Stefan Nagtegaal wrote: > > Op 2-sep-2006, om 19:02 heeft Aaron Gray het volgende geschreven: > >> This has 3 column layout with strechable center column with minimum and >> maximum widths. >> >> Without the maximum width a spacer div to give minimum width >> behaviour this >> would be full cros

Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query / Font embedding

Thank you very much for this very considered and thoughtful reply. Unfortunately, like others, you made the assumption that I wanted to force fonts down my users throats, and wanted to know the best way to do that. That is/was not my purpose at all. My purpose was being able to install a tool/too

Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query / Font embedding

Chris Williams wrote: >Thank you very much for this very considered and thoughtful reply. > > Itching brains, learned a lot! ;-) >Unfortunately, like others, you made the assumption that I wanted to force >fonts down my users throats, and wanted to know the best way to do that. >That is/was not

[css-d] Site check

I'd be grateful to anyone willing to take a look at this site: www.theheetproject.org.uk I've checked it on IE 6, FF 1.5, and Opera 8.5 where it seems to be ok. I am particularly interested in IE 5.5 and mac. This is the second website I've made so I'd also appreciate any other feedback on th

Re: [css-d] centering link gifs in a horiz. nav bar

To David, Zoe, Chris, Paul, and anyone else who has been following my headbanging: Well, the site is beginning to take shape a little better. At least 3 pages up, though I'm continuing to work on them and posting changes often. The experimental.html is no longer where I'm trying things out, an

Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query / Font embedding

For the first time, someone is getting closer to what I want! This FontMatch tool is the closest thing yet. Thank you. However, it seems really silly that Windows and/or Mac OS/X can't be simply asked, "if I gave you this font spec, on this computer (with all it's installed fonts), what actual f

Re: [css-d] CSS 3 column layout: elastic/fluid

Stefan Nagtegaal wrote: > as one of a lot of people I'm trying to find the best way on how to > accomplish a 3 column layout. > The idea is to have an #left-sidebar, #right-sidebar both fixed width > at 200px and have a #content in between them which would be fluid. > (offcourse we'll also n

[css-d] Print CSS problem with textareas in Firefox

Hi I'm creating a print CSS file for an e-forms website. The print css is being aimed at giving the user the ability to print out their form as they are completing it. Everything is fine apart from textareas. All the text will not print if the textarea has enough text to make it scroll. I've m

Re: [css-d] Wrapping text around images with CSS and XHTML

On Sep 2, 2006, at 8:54 AM, Nick Urbanik wrote: > Well, let's see, I select the header and text, then from my Firefox > context menu, I choose, "View Selection Source" > > and see this: > > Intel iMac for consumers, not Pros > > [ stuff to display the image ] > > >

Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query / Font embedding

Chris Williams wrote: >For the first time, someone is getting closer to what I want! > >This FontMatch tool is the closest thing yet. Thank you. > >However, it seems really silly that Windows and/or Mac OS/X can't be simply >asked, "if I gave you this font spec, on this computer (with all it's >i

Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query / Font embedding

Chris Williams wrote: > It would be cool if someone would write such a tool. But it doesn't exist > from everything I can tell. It's a tall order indeed. when I wanted to choose widely available fonts to suggest I use this site: http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/index.shtml and pick fr

Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query / Font embedding

- Original Message - From: "Chris Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 4:49 AM Subject: Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query / Font embedding I want! | | This FontMatch tool is the closest thing yet. Thank you. | | Thanks again for your wor

Re: [css-d] Print CSS problem with textareas in Firefox

Why not set the width and height to larger values for the print style sheet? Unless you have no limit on the amount of text you will allow you should be able to find suitable values. Of course if your user types in very little, you will have the same size block of white space on the form.

[css-d] IE problem with dropdown menu

Can somebody please help. I created a dropdown menu with css layout that works fine in firefox but not in IE can somebody please tell me the problem with http://www.access2id.co.uk . Regards, Lyn Williams _

[css-d] How JavaScript can make "pure CSS solutions" a lot better

As "pure CSS solutions" to replace JavaScripts are a theme that crops up here a lot lately, one of the admins asked if there was a good resource on all the pros and cons of CSS only solutions and why JavaScript might be a better idea. I did some research and put together a whole long post about it:

Re: [css-d] How JavaScript can make "pure CSS solutions" a lot better

> As "pure CSS solutions" to replace JavaScripts are a theme that > crops > up here a lot lately, one of the admins asked if there was a good > resource on all the pros and cons of CSS only solutions and why > JavaScript might be a better idea. I did some research and put > together a whole long p

Re: [css-d] IE problem with dropdown menu

Hi Lyn, Try these styles: .mainlink{ display:block; width:128px; background: #98cb00; font-weight:bold; font-size: 90%; color:#FF; text-decoration:none; padding: 6px; margin: 3px 0 0 0; } #submenu_1 /* 1-4 */{ width: 140px; padding: 0; margin: 3px 0 0 0; background: #E6FFCC; list-style:none;

Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query/Font embedding

Chris Williams wrote: > I have CSS that specifies fonts: ("Lucida > SANS,Tahoma,Arial,Sans-serif;"). > > I have various tool bars that tell me this when I hover over various > pieces of text. That is, they tell me that string. But I can't tell > which font was actually used. > > I have cases whe

Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query/Font embedding

Hey! Now there's an idea... Thanks! -Original Message- From: Dean Champeau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query/Font embedding I'm not sure about Winders, but on my Mac I simply select a snippet of text in a web page and copy it. Then I paste it into anot

Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query / Font embedding

Right, I've been using the CSS viewer in the FF dev toolbar forever to see what my cascade resolves to. But it only lists the style I spec'ed. I want the font the OS actually chose. But some of these other ideas help a lot. The one about using cut/paste from the browser into a word processor pro

Re: [css-d] Site check

I tested your site on IE 5.2.3 on my G4 ibook. It looks great to me, except for the missing logo on the right. I can send a screen shot to you, but basically the bottom of the house and the HEET logo are cut off by the menu bar. In Opera 9.0 and Safari 1.3.2, I fully see the HEET logo and also

[css-d] highlighting the current selection

I want the link for the currently displayed page to be quite different from the other links and static to clearly indicate the page the reader is on. I have read in Eric Myer on CSS, how to do this for one page - give the link an id and add a style for the a#id. I can't see how to get this to w

[css-d] Specificity problem with and text-decoration

By default, my links within a certain are not underlined. div.column-content a {color: #ff0080; text-decoration: none;} However, I want some of those links to be underlined. So for those, I defined a style: a.force-link-decoration {text-decoration: underline; } To apply this

Re: [css-d] highlighting the current selection

> I want the link for the currently displayed page to be quite different > from the other links and static to clearly indicate the page the reader > is on. I have read in Eric Myer on CSS, how to do this for one page - > give the link an id and add a style for the a#id. I can't see how to get > thi

[css-d] divs boxes looks different in IE6/7 from Firefox 1.5

Dears, I have laid down three div boxes on top of each other but they look different in IE as the distance between them is bigger in IE http://codg.bjaili.com/12/ HTML CODE http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> MyCo