Re: [css-d] Background image disappears when not repeated

2007-07-28 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:48:14 +0900, Dave M G wrote: I solved my own issue, though I don't really understand why. For some reason, this doesn't display any image at all: background-image:url(image.png); But this does display the image: background:url(image.png); Do I have the syntax

Re: [css-d] Site check please

2007-07-28 Thread David Laakso
trevor bayliss wrote: */David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: Thanks as ever for the reply David. I have implemented those changes http://216.219.94.105/david1.htm and will change the p´s and h´s to make it look smarter. The AccessibilityCheck box that reads:

[css-d] simple margins question

2007-07-28 Thread Michael Leibson
Hi; I'm trying to position the content area of a p below the top outer edge of its containing div, by giving the p a large margin. The div is horizontally centered within the body, is flush with the top of the page, and has no margins or padding. To my surprise, the resulting p ends up

Re: [css-d] simple margins question

2007-07-28 Thread Arian Hojat
Hey Michael, Give the html element above the p that u want padding:1px; or border:1px; so its children dont 'punch through' their top margins (so more specifically padding-top:1px; in your case). Otherwise the margins collapse and larger of 2 wins. (for a beginning the 1st few examples here

Re: [css-d] simple margins question

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Gresley
Michael Leibson wrote: Hi; I'm trying to position the content area of a p below the top outer edge of its containing div, by giving the p a large margin. The div is horizontally centered within the body, is flush with the top of the page, and has no margins or padding. To my surprise,

[css-d] unwanted whitespace around li tags

2007-07-28 Thread Erin Spangler
http://www.clients.thedogsonline.com/DriscolsBlueGenes/index2.html I've zeroed the margins and padding on every element that I can think of, yet I'm still getting some whitespace between my list items. I left the green background color of the ul so you can see the space I'm referring to. I've

Re: [css-d] unwanted whitespace around li tags

2007-07-28 Thread David Laakso
Erin Spangler wrote: http://www.clients.thedogsonline.com/DriscolsBlueGenes/index2.html I've zeroed the margins and padding on every element that I can think of, yet I'm still getting some whitespace between my list items. I left the green background color of the ul so you can see the space

Re: [css-d] unwanted whitespace around li tags

2007-07-28 Thread Matthew Ohlman
Erin Spangler wrote: http://www.clients.thedogsonline.com/DriscolsBlueGenes/index2.html I've zeroed the margins and padding on every element that I can think of, yet I'm still getting some whitespace between my list items. I left the green background color of the ul so you can see the space

Re: [css-d] simple margins question

2007-07-28 Thread Arian Hojat
I think id prefer padding, but borders are just as good. Here is an example showing you a couple ways of doing same thing. #example2 uses more emphasis on parent doing all the intial padding, #example1 on the child (with 1px padding on parent to preven margins from punching through). Switch

Re: [css-d] multicolumn layouts with text wrapping around cross boundary div's

2007-07-28 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:26:18 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: the best description I have of what I want to do is to take a three column layout and put a post-it straddling two columns. Then the text in the two columns should flow around the post-it on both sides. I can get it to flow

[css-d] collapsing vertical margins

2007-07-28 Thread Michael Leibson
Hi; (With all the workarounds necessary for noncompliant browsers, are you really any further ahead than you were before CSS?) I've found that giving a box element absolute positioning stops its vertical margins from collapsing.* Any good reasons why one shouldn't use absolute positioning

Re: [css-d] simple margins question

2007-07-28 Thread Michael Leibson
Message: 18 Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:30:03 -0700 From: Alan Gresley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [css-d] simple margins question To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Michael Leibson wrote: . . . If this is a case of

Re: [css-d] multicolumn layouts with text wrapping around cross boundary div's

2007-07-28 Thread Eric S. Johansson
David Hucklesby wrote: Something like this for the rightmost two cols? - http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/pullout2.html something very much like that. how does it work? and now I need to find a 3 col model it will work with. -- Speech-recognition in use. It makes mistakes, I correct

Re: [css-d] collapsing vertical margins

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Gresley
Michael Leibson wrote: Hi; (With all the workarounds necessary for noncompliant browsers, are you really any further ahead than you were before CSS?) I've found that giving a box element absolute positioning stops its vertical margins from collapsing.* Any good reasons why one