Re: [css-d] Auto-Sizing a div or span tag

2008-01-09 Thread david
Bruno Fassino wrote: On Jan 8, 2008 10:53 AM wrote: Bruno Fassino wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, I always thought that auto kind of carried the idea of shrink-to-fit? width:auto has much different meanings, depending on the value of other properties. So, basically, 'auto' means

Re: [css-d] IE Conditional comments - IE import hack

2008-01-09 Thread Alan Gresley
Michael Adams wrote I have been lurking here for the last month and have a question about the right way to handle IE using CSS. I use a master CSS file with the format as follows. To me, the master file method as well as solving the 'old browser' issue, is easier for another designer to

[css-d] IE6/7 and Firefox CSS issue driving me mad

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Blake
Greetings community, Please can someone help me with this, its been bugging me for ages and now I`ve found this list where I can hope to get it fixed with someones help. Please visit this page : http://www.pixcel.co.za/ard/index.php There is a main div called content which is not giving me a

Re: [css-d] Auto-Sizing a div or span tag

2008-01-09 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Jan 9, 2008 10:43 AM, david wrote: Bruno Fassino wrote: How does the available width take part in that computation beyond functioning as the maximum width? It takes part acting as a maximum for the computation, as you say :-) I think they are simply cases where a different behavior has

[css-d] A simple 2 column, but with ability to expand horizontally

2008-01-09 Thread Kim Jordan
Hi all, I have a requirement that I'm having some difficulty getting a solution to - yet I didn't think at the outset it would be that difficult. The application involves dynamically generated pages, and on some of those there is a table that can sometimes easily fit within the 'content'

Re: [css-d] Div's not lining up in IE (any :P)

2008-01-09 Thread Alan Gresley
Sent by Gunlaug_Sørtun on 29 December 2007 13:01 Mark Henderson wrote: Alan Gresley wrote: Adding padding-top to the #content div will actually accentuate the gap though this will even things out across browser-land. [...] ...but that wasn't an intended solution. I'm pretty sure that

Re: [css-d] styling for two monitors

2008-01-09 Thread Sandy
a sample page is here http://bradtrent.com/gallery3/gallery312.html I hope that's not your client. :-0 thank goodness, no, or I would be scared to tell him what I think I need to tell him - which is that it's his problem, and he should just shrink his browser window. He's here, sitting next

[css-d] Ie6 and 7 *still* giving me fits when I try to make something flush - please help if you can

2008-01-09 Thread Scott Thigpen
Okay, so after many attempts I decided to nix the fluid look because I could NOT get it to work right, so I decided with just a fixed with. All works well now, but when I try to insert a nav bar, I can't get it to push down just my logo. It works in Firefox (of course) but I can't get it to work

Re: [css-d] styling for two monitors

2008-01-09 Thread Sandy
So you're client is maximizing (or manually sizing) their browser window to span multiple monitors. First, your site is not the ONLY one that they are going to have this complaint about. Second, if the client is doing this, then they are already used to the visual break from

Re: [css-d] styling for two monitors

2008-01-09 Thread Sandy
On Jan 9, 2008, at 3:21 AM, Sandy wrote: I have a site that is set up to center in the middle of a screen. The content is 880px wide, and it has a negative left margin margin-left: -440px; http://bradtrent.com/bradtrent.css This was all hunky dory but my client has now has two

Re: [css-d] styling for two monitors

2008-01-09 Thread Don Miller
You might want to check what happens if you resize the browser window in the vertical direction. I had the same problem on a site and had to remove the centering css so it could be viewed on monitors or hand held devices that have short screens in the vertical direction. Don - Original

Re: [css-d] styling for two monitors

2008-01-09 Thread Sandy
You might want to check what happens if you resize the browser window in the vertical direction. I had the same problem on a site and had to remove the centering css so it could be viewed on monitors or hand held devices that have short screens in the vertical direction. hey Don,

Re: [css-d] styling for two monitors

2008-01-09 Thread Sandy
Anyone who doesn't have a minimum 1024 x 768 monitor is going to need to scroll like crazy to see the site. You might want to google for vertical centering with a shim div. Nice article which keeps the top part of your site from being cut off if the visitor has resized their browser

[css-d] Need advices for IE/Firefox/Safari website compliant (didli)

2008-01-09 Thread didli
Hi everyone ! I'm going into a lot of trouble as I'm trying to make a website that must look the same in IE/Firefox/Safari. Could you please have a look to http://mediaklan.homelinux.com/work/web and give me some pieces of advice and knowledge ? I will be very pleased ;). Now you can go and see

Re: [css-d] styling for two monitors

2008-01-09 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
On 09-Jan-08, at 10:19 PM, Sandy wrote: Anyone who doesn't have a minimum 1024 x 768 monitor is going to need to scroll like crazy to see the site. You might want to google for vertical centering with a shim div. Nice article which keeps the top part of your site from being cut off if

Re: [css-d] Ie6 and 7 *still* giving me fits when I try to make something flush - please help if you can

2008-01-09 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hi, Scott... I guess you got everything straightened out? Everything looks the same in IE6, IE7, and FF. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Thigpen Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:15 AM To: css-d Subject: [css-d] Ie6

Re: [css-d] styling for two monitors

2008-01-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Sandy wrote: The next version of this site will probably have images that are sized to 90% of the browser window height, so that it gets really BIG for the really big monitors. I'm pretty sure I'll be in touch with you guys for help with that! OK, I'm going to write and ask what he's

Re: [css-d] Ie6 and 7 *still* giving me fits when I try to make something flush - please help if you can

2008-01-09 Thread Rick Faircloth
I hear you. Now, I'm a pragmatist, not an idealist, when it comes to designing for various browsers and since 98% of my site visitors use IE6, IE7, or FF that's all I check when I'm designing. That being said, I've taken what I consider to be the easiest route to cross-browsers issues.

[css-d] standard minimum font

2008-01-09 Thread Bob Meetin
html, body { font-size: 100%;} body{ font-size: .85em; } !--[if IE] style type=text/css body { font-size: .75em; } } /style ![endif]-- Hi, been using the above CSS to set up standard font for my sites. Seemed fine but then I messed with my Firefox minimum font in my Firefox properties. I

Re: [css-d] standard minimum font

2008-01-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Bob Meetin wrote: html, body { font-size: 100%;} body{ font-size: .85em; } Is there any general assumption regarding browser minimum default font size or should I change the base CSS to something like: body{ font-size: 1.0em; } Or undefined? -Bob You already have 'html, body {

Re: [css-d] IE6/7 and Firefox CSS issue driving me mad

2008-01-09 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi Chris, Try this: #content { background-color:#FF; bottom:0px; color:#003366; font-size:0.7em; margin:0 50px; position:relative; } By defining #content as position: absolute; you were taking the div out of the normal flow. Read Andy Budd's CSS Mastery for an excellent description of

Re: [css-d] styling for two monitors

2008-01-09 Thread Rob Emenecker
Anyway, when you maximize IE on a Windows setup with dual monitors, it only fills one screen, so I think they had to manually size and position their browser to go across both screens. I concur. I run dual 20 monitors at 1600x1200 for Windows XP Pro (SP2) and Mac OS X. On Windows the

Re: [css-d] IE Conditional comments - IE import hack

2008-01-09 Thread Nancy Johnson
I have a question related to the same issue. I am converting a very poorly constructed table based site to CSS. It is a tight fixed width site. Since it is a child of a larger site, I don't feel I can convert to a more fluid site or change the look and feel. I have used /*** IE Fix ***/ * html

[css-d] managing long options

2008-01-09 Thread Derrick Knight
Hi, I am working on a site with extremely long options and would like to wrap the text of each option to fit within the width of the parent container (a div for now) or within the width specified for the option. I can truncate to a fixed width without any problem. Is anyone familiar with any

Re: [css-d] standard minimum font

2008-01-09 Thread David Laakso
Bob Meetin wrote: html, body { font-size: 100%;} body{ font-size: .85em; } !--[if IE] style type=text/css body { font-size: .75em; } } /style ![endif]-- Hi, been using the above CSS to set up standard font for my sites. Seemed fine but then I messed with my Firefox minimum font in

Re: [css-d] IE Conditional comments - IE import hack

2008-01-09 Thread Alan Gresley
Nancy Johnson wrote: I have a question related to the same issue. I am converting a very poorly constructed table based site to CSS. It is a tight fixed width site. Since it is a child of a larger site, I don't feel I can convert to a more fluid site or change the look and feel. I have used

Re: [css-d] IE Conditional comments - IE import hack

2008-01-09 Thread Alan Gresley
Please let me apologize for my last message, my webmail time out. Nancy Johnson wrote: I have a question related to the same issue. I am converting a very poorly constructed table based site to CSS. It is a tight fixed width site. Since it is a child of a larger site, I don't feel I can

[css-d] still more issues

2008-01-09 Thread Lisa G. Wilcox
I’m having the following issues with HYPERLINK http://www.familyfirstdocs.comwww.familyfirstdocs.com Top Navbar does not auto-align itself on browser window size changes in IE7 Unknown property behavior on line 76 in screen.css Top Navbar color changes on hover randomly fail, and do so fairly

[css-d] Background inheritance

2008-01-09 Thread jasonite
Hello, all. I'm having an issue with the wrapper div inheriting the background color of the body, but that isn't what I want, as you can see below. I am new to web design, so if I'm missing something obvious I apologize, but I can't figure out what is wrong here. Thank you in advance. ===

Re: [css-d] Background inheritance

2008-01-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all. I'm having an issue with the wrapper div inheriting the background color of the body, but that isn't what I want, as you can see below. Normally, it is best to post the URL of a demo page to illustrate the problem (and to mention the browser(s) used for

Re: [css-d] Background inheritance

2008-01-09 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all. I'm having an issue with the wrapper div inheriting the background color of the body, but that isn't what I want, as you can see below. I am new to web design, so if I'm missing something obvious I apologize, but I can't figure out what is wrong here.

Re: [css-d] Ie6 and 7 *still* giving me fits when I try to make something flush - please help if you can

2008-01-09 Thread Highpowered
Scott Thigpen wrote: Okay, so after many attempts I decided to nix the fluid look because I could NOT get it to work right, so I decided with just a fixed with. All works well now, but when I try to insert a nav bar, I can't get it to push down just my logo. It works in Firefox (of course)

Re: [css-d] still more issues

2008-01-09 Thread Highpowered
Lisa G. Wilcox wrote: I’m having the following issues with HYPERLINK http://www.familyfirstdocs.comwww.familyfirstdocs.com Top Navbar does not auto-align itself on browser window size changes in IE7 Unknown property behavior on line 76 in screen.css Top Navbar color changes on hover

Re: [css-d] Background inheritance

2008-01-09 Thread David Dorward
On 09/01/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all. I'm having an issue with the wrapper div inheriting the background color of the body, but that isn't what I want, as you can see below. URLs are much easier to debug then fragments of CSS, but I'll take a shot in the dark.

[css-d] css tooltip doesn't work in Opera

2008-01-09 Thread Giuseppe Craparotta
Hello there, if you go to this page: http://www.giuseppecraparottacv.co.uk/TRY2.html and hover on Let me tell you something more about it, you'll see a pure css tooltip. It works fine in all browsers, apart from Opera. It is a real pity, 'cause I think that the tooltip is a very good

Re: [css-d] page is broken AGAIN in IE6, please, please help!

2008-01-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Scott Thigpen wrote: http://www.sthig.com/photo/contact.php The picture of the rooster is knocked down. Can someone PLEASE tell me what's going on here? IE6 is 1px off at both sides of the rooster image container, and you're running a tight fit with no room for errors. IE6 has numerous

Re: [css-d] display CSS graph inline

2008-01-09 Thread Duncan Hill
I tried but it doesn't seem like the percent filled in the bar graph changes. This markup is generated dynamically so want to be able to set a percentage and display the graph filled in by that percentage. div class=graph div class=bar style=width: 22%;

Re: [css-d] page is broken AGAIN in IE6, please, please help!

2008-01-09 Thread Kepler Gelotte
This webpage has just caused me all sorts of grief all things IE. It works fine in IE7, FF and Safari but not in IE6. Hi Scott, Try setting the default padding/margins by adding this to the top of your CSS: * { padding: 0; margin: 0; } Not all browsers start with all elements having no

Re: [css-d] display CSS graph inline

2008-01-09 Thread Stephan Wehner
On Jan 5, 2008 6:40 AM, Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a css generated simple bar graph below. How can I make it display inline, for example, placed in the middle of a paragraph of text and have it flow with the text? I tried adding a display: inline wrapper, but no luck.

Re: [css-d] Ie6 and 7 *still* giving me fits when I try to make something flush - please help if you can

2008-01-09 Thread Rick Faircloth
My users run about 95% IE, 3% FF, and 2% Other. With that user base, I'd target IE7 first if it weren't for the fact that conditional stylesheet code only works for IE. So I'm forced to code for FF first, not because it adheres to standards, but because I can't code alternate stylesheet

[css-d] IE 5, 6, dropdown display issue

2008-01-09 Thread Rebecca Richter
Hi! I've got these dropdown menus working pretty slick at http://www.makemyhousegreen.com/index1.html (roll over projects, services, or publications); however, in IE 5 and 6, there is much more top and bottom padding than there should be. What do do about this? Also, I haven't been able to

Re: [css-d] IE Conditional comments - IE import hack

2008-01-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:32:39 -0500 Nancy Johnson wrote: [snip] Is @import? or !--[if IE.xx] link rel=stylesheet type=text/css media=screen href=/css/IEstylesheet.css / ![endif]-- a better way? Conditional comments are by far the safer and generally more preferred method.

Re: [css-d] IE Conditional comments - IE import hack

2008-01-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:50:22 -0700 Alan Gresley wrote: Michael Adams wrote I have been lurking here for the last month and have a question about the right way to handle IE using CSS. I use a master CSS file with the format as follows. To me, the master file method as well as solving

Re: [css-d] IE 5, 6, dropdown display issue

2008-01-09 Thread David Laakso
Rebecca Richter wrote: I've got these dropdown menus working pretty slick at http://www.makemyhousegreen.com/index1.html (roll over projects, services, or publications); however, in IE 5 and 6, there is much more top and bottom padding than there should be. What do do about this? Becca

Re: [css-d] css tooltip doesn't work in Opera

2008-01-09 Thread Luc
Hello Giuseppe, It was foretold that on 09/01/2008 @ 22:28:55 GMT+ (which was 20:28:55 where I live) Giuseppe Craparotta would write: snipped a bit if you go to this page: http://www.giuseppecraparottacv.co.uk/TRY2.html and hover on Let me tell you something more about it, you'll

Re: [css-d] IE6/7 and Firefox CSS issue driving me mad

2008-01-09 Thread David Laakso
Chris Blake wrote: Please can someone help me with this, its been bugging me for ages and now I`ve found this list where I can hope to get it fixed with someones help. Please visit this page : http://www.pixcel.co.za/ard/index.php How about taking the time to see if one of the 57 markup

[css-d] disappearing menu div

2008-01-09 Thread Tom Bond
Hi there folks, This is not completely easy to describe so forgive me if it's longish. I'm trying to get a menu to sit up in the head of the page. The site will eventually be dynamic with the client able to add/subtract pages, which will dynamically alter the menu. The design is by the

[css-d] probably a common IE6 issue

2008-01-09 Thread Julian Tulip's Licorice
Hello, http://johnkehm.com/hana If you look at this page on IE6, the top nav bar has a pretty tall bottom margin. I put a green border around it (border may not show in IE7 or Firefox). It may be a error on my part, but in any case can someone point me to a good solution? Any help would be

[css-d] italics and fixed width

2008-01-09 Thread Julian Tulip's Licorice
Hello, I have another question about the nav bar on this site: http://johnkehm.com/hana when I make the link text italic, the width of the containing boxes vary on Firefox and IE, making my fixed width bar break apart. I thought I read about this somewhere but I am not sure. I tried a few