Re: [css-d] Flexible parent container height?

How can I get the height of a parent container to re-size according to any nested container(s) content similar to the way tables work? Here's a sample page that demonstrates the issue: http://www.mdsol.com/conferences/mug2/amug.html For your example you don't need "table behavior". Declarin

Re: [css-d] Flexible parent container height?

Georg is right, but overflow:hidden can be overkill — wrapping the contents is an incidental property of setting overflow, the intended function of which is to clip all content beyond it: any relative, fixed or absolutely positioned elements nested within the block that may want to render outside o

[css-d] Test on thead, tbody, tfoot and background images

Results are pretty frustrating: http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2011/02/css-thead-tbody-tfoot-and-background.html have you ever tested something similar? find anything better? a better fix? let me know :-) HTH. http://www.css-zibaldone.com http://www.css-zibaldone.com/test/ (English) http://

Re: [css-d] styling table to have blank rows?

If only I could stay on this page long enough to inspect it, before being redirected to lynneheller.com >     > -- Tom Livingston | Senior Interactive Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com

Re: [css-d] styling table to have blank rows?

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Tom Livingston wrote: If only I could stay on this page long enough to inspect it, before being redirected to lynneheller.com     Oops! I put the refresh on the wrong page. Now fixed. -- Chris F.A. Johnson,

[css-d] font-size html

Hello, I've always used body {font-size: .625em;} as a way to manage more easily the font-size and I was wondering if using: html{ font-size: .625em; } body{ font-size: 1.4em; } will be a better solution, are there any known quirks for defining font-size on the html element? Germán

Re: [css-d] font-size html

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Germán Martínez wrote: Hello, I've always used body {font-size: .625em;} as a way to manage more easily the font-size and I was wondering if using: html{ font-size: .625em; } body{ font-size: 1.4em; } will be a better solution, are there any known quirks for def

Re: [css-d] font-size html

I'm giving the body a 1.4em so it will be like 14px. I'm doing this because my markup has nested sections and I can't use section {font-size: 1.4em;} or can I? On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Germán Martínez wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I've always us

Re: [css-d] font-size html

[...] are there any known quirks for defining font-size on the html element? A small start-size may cause blown-up text-size throughout the page in some browsers when subjected to 'minimum font size', and IE7 and older IE-versions are buggy when starting with 'em'. Other than that it doesn'

Re: [css-d] font-size html

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Germán Martínez wrote: I'm giving the body a 1.4em so it will be like 14px. Why? That's too small for me (and many other people) to read. I'm doing this because my markup has nested sections and I can't use section {font-size: 1.4em;} or can I? Why would you wa

Re: [css-d] font-size html

On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Germán Martínez wrote: > >> I'm giving the body a 1.4em so it will be like 14px. > >Why? That's too small for me (and many other people) to read. I know 14px is not an optimal font-size, but we're not dis

Re: [css-d] font-size html

Germán Martínez wrote: I'm giving the body a 1.4em so it will be like 14px. It will be whatever follows from the browser settings. I know 14px is not an optimal font-size, but we're not discussing readability here. Maybe you aren't, but it's still relevant that your setting will often cre

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: font-size html

Folks, I have to break this up because it's about to become the classic "should the fonts be resized to something different than user default" flame war, and we've gone years without having that here so I'm not about to start. There is some discussion on the wiki (http://css-discuss.incut

Re: [css-d] font-size html

Just as a note, I ('and many other people') like small fonts in some cases. Anything between 10px and 25px can be appropriate for main copy depending on it's usage. You can't accommodate all users. And although maximum readability is important, small compromises to meet design needs is acceptable a

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: font-size html

Sorry about that, perhaps I should've started asking about differences between styling and elements. Thanks for all the interesting input :) Best, Germán On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Eric A. Meyer wrote: > Folks, > > I have to break this up because it's about to become the classic "should

Re: [css-d] font-size html

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Kevin A. Cameron wrote: ... PS - list mod: can you change the list options so the 'from' field is the mailing list instead of the recent poster? Or change Reply-to: to the list. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scri

[css-d] ADMIN: Reply setting (was Re: font-size html)

At 5:10 PM -0500 2/22/11, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Kevin A. Cameron wrote: ... PS - list mod: can you change the list options so the 'from' field is the mailing list instead of the recent poster? Or change Reply-to: to the list. The answer to both is "sorry, bu

Re: [css-d] Flexible parent container height?

Georg/Barney, Thanks. It looks like I missed clearing the parent blocks for some of the sections. The site's working the way it should now though I think I need to create some simple CSS tests for myself to get a firmer grasp on block level elements, clearing floats (clearfix), overflow, etc. when