Re: [css-d] Safari acting up with horizontal menus

2006-09-13 Thread richard n
Ok, I've got the menu working correctly now in Safari, FF and Opera (all on a Mac). I'm using conditional CSS (if that's what it's called) to reveal the relevant sub menus and to highlight the active menus. Can anyone tell me whether this works in any PC browsers? I'm currently trying to get

Re: [css-d] Table vs. CSS when decorative graphic required?

2006-09-13 Thread francky
Anne E. Shroeder wrote: I'm scratching my head over this one. I've got two different versions, one using a table and one using CSS to layout the bars, but in neither case can I achieve a consistent underline across the screen as required. See

Re: [css-d] Safari acting up with horizontal menus

2006-09-13 Thread Robin Fisher
On 9/13/06, richard n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I've got the menu working correctly now in Safari, FF and Opera (all on a Mac). I'm using conditional CSS (if that's what it's called) to reveal the relevant sub menus and to highlight the active menus. Can anyone tell me whether this

Re: [css-d] Safari acting up with horizontal menus

2006-09-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
richard n wrote: Can anyone tell me whether this works in any PC browsers? http://www.richardnicholson.com/testing/menu2/editorial.html Highlighting working alright across browser-land on windows. IE/win needs an additional... #nav a {display: block;} ...to get the dimensions, and thereby the

[css-d] changing backgrounds in list items

2006-09-13 Thread vwf
Hello, I have a list with a backgound that appears when I hover over it: #navlist ul li a:hover { background: url(image1.png); background-repeat: no-repeat; } I have a list of 6 items, and I want to associate a different image with each of the 6 items. Is there a smart/correct way to

Re: [css-d] changing backgrounds in list items

2006-09-13 Thread Professional Web Pages - Information
To be honest you could try and place ID's on each LI item and put backgrounds on them your trying to create a roll over menu correct? Regards PWP - Original Message - From: vwf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 7:58 PM Subject:

Re: [css-d] changing backgrounds in list items

2006-09-13 Thread Bradley Wright
On 13/09/2006 10:58, vwf wrote: I have a list of 6 items, and I want to associate a different image with each of the 6 items. Is there a smart/correct way to do this? Does someone know an example that has this implemented? I'd just add an ID or class (but more probably ID) to each of the list

Re: [css-d] changing backgrounds in list items

2006-09-13 Thread Bradley Wright
Sorry, need to fix my code sample: .nav li a:hover { background-repeat: no-repeat; background-align: 0 0; ... other common styles... } .nav li a#home:hover { background-image: url(images/home.png); }

[css-d] changing backgrounds in list items

2006-09-13 Thread vwf
On 13/09/2006 10:58, vwf wrote: I have a list of 6 items, and I want to associate a different image with each of the 6 items. Is there a smart/correct way to do this? Does someone know an example that has this implemented? Thank you all for the various suggestions. It seems that the

Re: [css-d] changing backgrounds in list items

2006-09-13 Thread Professional Web Pages - Information
Depends if 2 items in your list will have the same background then you would use a class (think of a class as a group) if every item in your list each has seperate then you would use ID (think of an ID and an individual name) use ID if its 1 use CLASS if its greater then 1 to be considered

Re: [css-d] changing backgrounds in list items

2006-09-13 Thread Alex Bienz
Thank you all for the various suggestions. It seems that the straight-forward approach is the way to go: simply add extra classes or id's for each of the elements. I implemented it, and it works perfectly. One question: why would I prefer 'id' over 'class' selectors? ID's should be used to

Re: [css-d] changing backgrounds in list items

2006-09-13 Thread Matt Ludbrook
If I remember correctly CSS3 has a spec for identifying different items in a list in various ways but seeing as noone really implements 3 yet you probably don't have a heuristically clean way of doing this. Matt Ludbrook EMIC associates Engineering, Maintenance, and Inventory Consultancy

[css-d] Blue bars going across menu images

2006-09-13 Thread Christopher Fisher
Thanks for the help yesterday, about to put some fixes into action so i thought id pass along another bug thats bugging me :) Anyway, im using a unordered list for a nav bar, which uses images. It works in all browsers, but in Netscape7, and i believe IE7 it shows a blue bar occassionally

Re: [css-d] Blue bars going across menu images

2006-09-13 Thread Bradley Wright
Have you tried removing underlines from the links with: ul.nav_t2 li a { display: block; text-decoration: none; /* --- add this line */ } ? In my experience, a lot of image replacement techniques do the same thing.

Re: [css-d] Safari acting up with horizontal menus

2006-09-13 Thread richard n
It seems to be working OK in IE6 for PC although the positioning of the sub-menus is a little off. At the moment they are positioned to high up the page and therefore intersect with the main menu. The CSS is working though (if the following is what you intended!). On the main menu, the

Re: [css-d] Safari acting up with horizontal menus

2006-09-13 Thread richard n
Highlighting working alright across browser-land on windows. IE/win needs an additional... #nav a {display: block;} ...to get the dimensions, and thereby the positions, right. regards Georg Thanks Georg I added in: #nav a {display: block;} In IE 5.2.3 Mac this has caused the

Re: [css-d] Safari acting up with horizontal menus

2006-09-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
richard n wrote: I added in: #nav a {display: block;} In IE 5.2.3 Mac this has caused the menus to run vertically (previously they were running horizontally - as they are supposed to - but overlapping). You can hide it from, or redeclare it to, IE/Mac. Only IE/win needs it anyway, and

Re: [css-d] Safari acting up with horizontal menus

2006-09-13 Thread richard n
Another observation: This page also triggers the 'em font-resizing bug' in IE/win... http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_additions_13.html ...but the bug is only acting on the #nav since that's the only element that has font-size declared in 'em'. Font-size keywords on body as a

[css-d] Faking display:block

2006-09-13 Thread Mark Dane
Hi, I have a layout where I am using display:block on some elements. Unfortuatly ASP.NET generates HTML and has applied an inline with display:none to dynamically show/hide portions of the page. This display property is overriding the value in my stylesheet. I don't want to use !important to

Re: [css-d] photo-caption pairs layout problem

2006-09-13 Thread Grant, Melinda
Hi Betsy, It looks like your captions are getting in the way. A 'clear: left' before each row should help. Best wishes, Melinda -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Betsy Garfield Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 5:38 PM Cc: 'CSS List'

Re: [css-d] Why does border change positioning?

2006-09-13 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:44:40PM +0200, francky wrote: Bill Moseley wrote: On this page: http://infopeople.org/search/tools.html In firefox, when I change the ID to not match then the logo div gets bigger and then the h1 text moves relative to the image. Hi Bill, Collapsing margins!

Re: [css-d] Safari acting up with horizontal menus

2006-09-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
richard n wrote: I just read your article (and the accompanying one about Minimum Font Size) Very interesting, but quite complicated for a beginner such as myself. Not just beginners... :-) Going forward, I want to make sure that I'm following best (or at least 'good'!) practice.

Re: [css-d] I'm lost on this IE glitch, help appreciated

2006-09-13 Thread Stuart Swan
Hi Stuart I see your problem hasn't been resolved yet. This should help you out: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/threepxtest.html You have a (left) float on your leftsidebar and a margin on your content div to position it adjacent to the sidebar. This is what triggers the bug.

Re: [css-d] Faking display:block

2006-09-13 Thread Ingo Chao
The relationship between 'display', 'position', and 'float' [1] determines the generated box. If you can't solve it with float (+clear), then position:absolute/fixed would be another alternative, meaning that I think you should better revisit your hide/show method instead. Ingo [1]

[css-d] Background images covered by floated element - fix?

2006-09-13 Thread Todd Sweet
In a prototype I'm working on I have placed a floated div containing a vertical navigation bar inside a primary content area of our page. In that content area are a number of h2 elements which have a background image applied to them via CSS that acts as a custom bullet point. I assumed the

[css-d] Forms in IE and FF, distances between elements when using float

2006-09-13 Thread Mattias Brändström
Hello! I am a bit new to CSS and right now I am having some trouble getting a really simple form to render the same in both IE6 and FF. This is my code: html head style type=text/css div.row { clear: both; } div.row input { display:

Re: [css-d] Background images covered by floated element - fix?

2006-09-13 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Todd Sweet wrote: In a prototype I'm working on I have placed a floated div containing a vertical navigation bar inside a primary content area of our page. In that content area are a number of h2 elements which have a background image applied to them via CSS that acts as a custom bullet

[css-d] IE6: Footer doubling left edge

2006-09-13 Thread Christopher Fisher
Back again, this time i got my footer (and actually the content div) above it doubling in IE. Ive tried the display: inline workaround but it hasnt had any effect. Been doing some searching on google and nothings working (or im doing something wrong). Any thoughts? URL:

[css-d] I want to direct link

2006-09-13 Thread mindy
so, call me crazy but I want to do a direct image link (sending out a newsletter) and the CSS seems to not accept anything other than relative links. Is there a work around that I couldn't find on Google? Thanks! ~Mindy __

Re: [css-d] I want to direct link

2006-09-13 Thread cj
On 9/13/06, mindy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, call me crazy but I want to do a direct image link (sending out a newsletter) and the CSS seems to not accept anything other than relative links. Is there a work around that I couldn't find on Google? background:

[css-d] CSS Block Element Links

2006-09-13 Thread Daniel Klug
Hey all, I'm trying to make an entire 'block' of elements into a link (like a table, but using spans and divs). I laid out the a href=# class=contentPics, spans, text, etc../a then positioned the elements accordingly. I have everything working perfectly in Firefox, but only

[css-d] 4 Column Layout with a Twist

2006-09-13 Thread Ted
Hi all, I'm looking for a 4 column CSS template, but I haven't been able to find quite what I'm after. Here is a crude rendition of what I'd like: +---+++ | 1 || 2 | | |++ | ||| | ||| +---+| 3 | |

[css-d] IE 6 problems? Assistance please?

2006-09-13 Thread 4css aka deb
Hi I am working on the following pages that are indicated by the links and information given. I am not seeing these problems, however others are apparently seeing them. If any of you could be of any assistance I would greatly appreciate it. Following are the comments from the pages that were

Re: [css-d] I'm lost on this IE glitch, help appreciated

2006-09-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
http://www.stuartswan.com/v6/index.php I see your problem hasn't been resolved yet. This should help you out: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/threepxtest.html [...] i've had a read of that article and have applied the 1% height but it doesn't seem to have worked, [...] Not

[css-d] BuufDesigns.com CSS Assistance // IE/FF Browser Compatibility Issues

2006-09-13 Thread GANTdesigns
Hello! I am currently fixing some issues with the BuufDesigns.com layout. But I am in need of assistance of some serious bugs I cannot fix in Internet Explorer and Firefox. Ironically, this website is compatible with Safari and Opera. This is a voluntary job, but you will be credited on the

Re: [css-d] I'm lost on this IE glitch, help appreciated

2006-09-13 Thread Stuart Swan
@media screen { * html #leftsidebar {margin-right: -3px;} * html #content {height: 1%; margin-left: 159px;} } ...and the 3px jog bug will disappear behind leftsidebar. This hack will only be seen/applied by IE6 and IE5+ on win, which are the versions that have this bug. regards

[css-d] postion:absolute not following a position:relative

2006-09-13 Thread Marcelo Wolfgang
Hi all, I'm trying to add an overlay badge to some photos in a site I'm developing, so I thought that adding positon:relative and position:absolute for them should do the trick, but I don't know what is the problem, but this ain't working. you can checkout the page at

[css-d] page review :: ~dL

2006-09-13 Thread ~davidLaakso
A quick check of this simple page http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/frost/ with what you are running is appreciated. Just trying to pull out any problems or issues that I may have overlooked, or that I am not aware of. Thanks. ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/

Re: [css-d] postion:absolute not following a position:relative

2006-09-13 Thread david
Marcelo Wolfgang wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to add an overlay badge to some photos in a site I'm developing, so I thought that adding positon:relative and position:absolute for them should do the trick, but I don't know what is the problem, but this ain't working. you can checkout the

Re: [css-d] page review :: ~dL

2006-09-13 Thread ~davidLaakso
david wrote: ~davidLaakso wrote: A quick check of this simple page http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/frost/ with what you are running is appreciated. Just trying to pull out any problems or issues that I may have overlooked, or that I am not aware of. The column for the second poem

Re: [css-d] page review :: ~dL

2006-09-13 Thread david
~davidLaakso wrote: david wrote: ~davidLaakso wrote: A quick check of this simple page http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/frost/ with what you are running is appreciated. Just trying to pull out any problems or issues that I may have overlooked, or that I am not aware of. The column

Re: [css-d] page review :: ~dL

2006-09-13 Thread ~davidLaakso
david wrote: ~davidLaakso wrote: david wrote: ~davidLaakso wrote: A quick check of this simple page http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/frost/ with what you are running is appreciated. Just trying to pull out any problems or issues that I may have overlooked, or that

[css-d] Need some testing and fixes for a blog skin

2006-09-13 Thread Andy Mosmiller
Sorry for the delay in my responding to your questions and answers regarding my blog skin. I'm on a new medicine that is making things interesting at the moment. A refresher first... I designed/coded a b2evo blog skin for my friend. It's up, and there are a few relatively minor issues. Site

Re: [css-d] page review :: ~dL

2006-09-13 Thread ~davidLaakso
Don Miller wrote: Would it look better if the GIF white area were transparent? The white box doesn't really look right with the rest of the page. Otherwise, a good elastic design. Don | A quick check of this simple page | http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/frost/ with what you are

Re: [css-d] page review :: ~dL

2006-09-13 Thread Jono
~davidLaakso wrote: A quick check of this simple page http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/frost/ with what you are running... The page is verry long in IE 5 Mac - I suspect the one True Layout for equal height columns is to blame; I didn't look in depth though. Whether that