Re: [css-d] site check: Style Checkboxes Cross-Browser in Windows

I am hoping some people can take a look on their Windows machines and e-mail me privately so I can determine if the one failure was an anomaly or I have one more failed experiment to add to the pile. Style Checkboxes Cross-Browser in Windows:

[css-d] Site Check - http://www.dolphincoveinn.com

If anyone has a spare moment please look at http://www.dolphincoveinn.com http://www.dolphincoveinn.com/ and let me know if I missed anything. Thanks so much Thomas M. Hall __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Site Check - http://www.dolphincoveinn.com

If anyone has a spare moment please look at http://www.dolphincoveinn.com http://www.dolphincoveinn.com/ and let me know if I missed anything. Thanks so much - I miss consistency. It is confusing to have a navigation vanish and move to the left or new parts even moving in the header on some

Re: [css-d] Site Check - http://www.dolphincoveinn.com

Hello Thomas, Wednesday, September 21, 2005, 7:19:37 AM, you wrote: TH If anyone has a spare moment please look at http://www.dolphincoveinn.com TH http://www.dolphincoveinn.com/ and let me know if I missed anything. TH Thanks so much TH TH Thomas M. Hall TH TH

Re: [css-d] *argh* listitis.....!?!?

Eric Shepherd wrote: Also, there's no relationship right now between your top nav bar and the subnav - if the subnav is related to HOME, for example, it should be a nested list (ideally) or less ideally have some sort of heading that identifies it as a subnav. If I look at the page non-styled,

Re: [css-d] Site design

Hi David, Tom and Adam Thanks for all the advice. I was trying to play with the floats but then David came up trumps with his design. Thank you so much, you make it look simple! All the best. Rich On 20 Sep 2005, at 22:40, David Laakso wrote: Rich, this is a little along the lines of what

Re: [css-d] Site Check - http://www.dolphincoveinn.com

Thomas Hall wrote: If anyone has a spare moment please look at http://www.dolphincoveinn.com http://www.dolphincoveinn.com/ and let me know if I missed anything. Thanks so much Thomas M. Hall Same layout. Different hotel. Same problem as last one. Layout destoyed on first zoom click. ~dL

Re: [css-d] site check: Style Checkboxes Cross-Browser in Windows - Results

- Original Message - I am experimenting with a Unicode font, Lucida Sans Unicode, to provide a x-browser way to get around IE's inabilities regarding form checkboxes. The font is supposedly on every Windows machine since Win 98 but I find that one machine with that font (and same

Re: [css-d] Site Check - http://www.dolphincoveinn.com

Thomas Hall wrote: If anyone has a spare moment please look at http://www.dolphincoveinn.com http://www.dolphincoveinn.com/ and let me know if I missed anything. Thanks so much At the first font size increase in FF the line Manzanillo Lodging Vacation Rentals dissapears behind the navigation

Re: [css-d] href's and images

Sam Leathers wrote: I know I can use background: url(/path/to/image.gif), but whats the best way to have a different image for each href? .. URL: http://irc.gentux.org:8000/Contact-pg.html Sam Sam, I always trip on answering good questions. I do not know the best way to solve the

Re: [css-d] site check: Style Checkboxes Cross-Browser in Windows - Results

Brett Merkey wrote: Results for anyone interested: Failure. At least this particular Unicode font cannot be relied upon for glyph mapping in combination with CSS even in systems where the font is installed and the browser and OS claim to support Unicode. Hi Brett. Is there ever a time that

[css-d] submitting forms via Enter

I'm creating a number of forms with styled buttons. I've given up on both input and button elements because of the variable-width padding IE adds to them (as well as the 1px border IE puts around their background images) and am using a tags instead, styled with CSS and with

Re: [css-d] submitting forms via Enter

their background images) and am using a tags instead, styled with CSS and with href=javascript:... attributes. The problem is getting the Enter key to submit the form when the cursor is in one of its fields. In Firefox it's easy: I just add a ... This a bit off-topic from practical CSS use.

Re: [css-d] href's and images

Sam, There is an interesting article at http://alistapart.com/articles/imagemap/that takes the old html image map concept and adapts it to the modern world of CSS. The idea is to use a single image for your menu and place absolutely positioned div's over each menu item. Worth a look. Jim On

Re: [css-d] href's and images

Sam Leathers wrote: I'm working on a website where I have a standard ul list for links in display: block; Currently, the links are img tags, but I'd like to use css to display the image. I know I can use background: url(/path/to/image.gif), but whats the best way to have a different image for

[css-d] active: span in IE6?

The code snippet* validates for css and html, the link works in IE6 and firefox, but in IE6 one can't give focus, the hand cursor isn't there, and one can't change the border-color via css. is there a workaround for any or all of these three issues? adding content to span does not appear to

[css-d] Re: active: span in IE6?

apologies, in IE6 one can give focus, but the dotted outline isn't apparent. On 21 Sep 2005, at 14:39, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: The code snippet* validates for css and html, the link works in IE6 and firefox, but in IE6 one can't give focus, the hand cursor isn't there, and one can't

[css-d] Feasibly Managing Text Size and other stuff

Hello Everyone, This is my first post to any list of any kind so hopefully I did this right. While I have been perusing the list for sometime, I am a relative newby with respect to using CSS. I just developed my first XHMTL/CSS site have run into a couple of seemingly simple issues. I am

Re: [css-d] Re: active: span in IE6?

Hi, what about this? 1. Give the spec to a inside span span a { ...snip... } html: divspana href=where2/a/span/div 2. Add span a:hover { border-color:red; } Regards Lars Olof Berg Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: apologies, in IE6 one can give focus, but the dotted outline isn't apparent. On

[css-d] Designing without tables

While I have taken the plunge in to using CSS for style, I have yet to use it for layout. I'm about to dive in headfirst and design my first site without using tables to lay it out. Here's a short list of the CSS books I have on my shelf- Web Standards Solutions by Friends of Ed The CSS

Re: [css-d] Re: active: span in IE6?

Olaf, that's a solution to a different question. for this purpose the span must be the active area, not it's content. regards ~: On 21 Sep 2005, at 15:09, Oa Berg wrote: Hi, what about this? 1. Give the spec to a inside span span a { ...snip... } html: divspana href=where2/a/span/div 2.

Re: [css-d] submitting forms via Enter

David Feldman wrote: The problem is getting the Enter key to submit the form when the cursor is in one of its fields. In Firefox it's easy: I just add a submit input or button and hide it with CSS. But IE doesn't like that...if the button is hidden the form won't submit. The best I've

Re: [css-d] Feasibly Managing Text Size and other stuff

This is my first post to any list of any kind so hopefully I did this right. While I have been perusing the list for sometime, I am a relative newby with respect to using CSS. I just developed my first XHMTL/CSS site have run into a couple of seemingly simple issues. I am sure I have seen

Re: [css-d] href's and images

Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Sam Leathers wrote: I'm working on a website where I have a standard ul list for links in display: block; Currently, the links are img tags, but I'd like to use css to display the image. I know I can use background: url(/path/to/image.gif), but whats the best way to

RE: [css-d] Designing without tables

Hi there Joanne, Does anyone have any experience with either of these or can you suggest another book/site to learn about designing sites without tables? I'm sure you'll get a good number of replies for this one :) Look out for books by Eric Meyer: Eric Meyer on CSS:

Re: [css-d] IE makes css float layouts useless?

G. I. wrote: ig Hi, nowadays I struggle with floated layouts because the expand container box if content gets wider behavior of IE. If http://www.d2k.hu/ig/floatX.html It looks like you didn't finish this message. Can you tell us what the problem is you are having? Zoe -- Zoe M.

[css-d] Jello layout style

Hello list, Someone mentioned the Jello layout style during a thread over on the WSG list (http://positioniseverything.net/articles/jello-expo.html - thank you who ever you are -- very cool!) but I was wondering if anyone has used this and if they ran into any problems with it. It seems to

Re: [css-d] Feasibly Managing Text Size and other stuff

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) If the text size is set on the browser to be larger than medium, it completely breaks the site. Outside of using a fluid design, how do you manage this function? Would using a fixed type size (such as points) fix this? No! Only IE/win would respect 'fixed'

Re: [css-d] submitting forms via Enter

David Feldman wrote: I'm creating a number of forms with styled buttons. I've given up on both input and button elements because of the variable-width padding IE adds to them (as well as the 1px border IE puts around their background images) and am using a tags instead, styled with CSS and

Re: [css-d] Nested ULs as navigation

Geoffrey Alan Colbath wrote: I'm trying to develop a navigation menu using nested ULs, and I'm having quite a bit of trouble. In my CSS (http://www.id.iit.edu/~colbath/Akiba/include/styles2.css), I'm using #nav ul li ul, but the #nav ul li style is overriding everything else I try to develop.

Re: [css-d] href's and images

Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: If you want images to be clickable, then they are content, not decoration, and you should include them in the HTML source of your The other alternative is to use an image replacement technique. The advantage of this over sprites is that there is real text for each

Re: [css-d] submitting forms via Enter

On 9/21/05, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Feldman wrote: I'm creating a number of forms with styled buttons. I've given up on both input and button elements because of the variable-width padding IE adds to them (as well as the 1px border IE puts around their background

[css-d] span as anchor in IE6

The code snippet* validates for css and html, the link works in IE6 and firefox, but neither provide the usual dotted outline but in IE6 the hand cursor isn't there, and one can't change the border-color via css. is there a workaround for any or all of these three issues? adding content to

Re: [css-d] Site Check - http://www.dolphincoveinn.com

Rob Cochrane wrote: Thomas Hall wrote: If anyone has a spare moment please look at http://www.dolphincoveinn.com http://www.dolphincoveinn.com/ and let me know if I missed anything. At the first font size increase in FF the line Manzanillo Lodging Vacation Rentals dissapears behind the

[css-d] Problems displaying with IE5 on the Mac

I have been happily converting a friend's site from tables across to two column xhtml. The original site is at: http://www.asummerhouse.co.uk My test page: http://asummerhouse.tvw.net/test.html So far I have had it tested on various browsers and it seems to check out OK, all except

[css-d] IE Bugs with div alignment

Hello all! I appreciate all the help I received Monday in my quest to take the leap into tableless design but unfortunately have run into another problem that seems to have me baffled to find an answer to. My page looks perfect in Firefox v.1, Navigator v.6-8, Safari v.2, and Mozilla v.1.7 but

[css-d] Re: Dropdowns in inline elements, and CSS validator problems

Hello again After a suggestion that what I was planning wasn't all that intuitive anyway, I've done away with the dropdowns in the h1 and put them on their own line. http://www.luusac.org.uk/calendar.html?new_menu Now I've come across a strange IE glitch, where IE renders one of the months

RE: [css-d] IE Bugs with div alignment

To take a guess, I would imagine you've run into the ie float double-margin bug. Good news is that it's easily fixable. :) http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/doubled-margin.html -Original Message- My page looks perfect in Firefox v.1, Navigator v.6-8, Safari v.2, and Mozilla

[css-d] Weird inheritance issue?

This one has be stumped, so if somebody could point out the obvious for me, I would appreciate it.  I have a set of nested div blocks as shown below. div id=container div class=crWrapper   div class=photoBlock    div class=crWrapper ... /div   /div   div

Re: [css-d] Weird inheritance issue?

Well, you learn something new every day.  I knew an id had preference over a class, I just assumed since I specified the class which was nested inside, that I would be good.  Makes the style sheet a bit uglier, but that works. Thanks -- Jeff From: Tom

[css-d] CSS / Javascript Hierarchy

I am working on a page that uses CSS to draw a box. That box has an onClick and onMouseOver in the div that creates it. Within that box, there are text links, that also have onClick and OnMouseOver attributes in the HREF. What (we thought) should happen is that clicking anywhere in

[css-d] Negative Margin FireFox Mac Issue

I've been playing with the following file: http://yazminmedia.com/playground/tabs.htm The problem I've encountered is with lining up the tabs (.tab) on top of the content div (.panelx). Anyhow, in Firefox/IE on Windows and Safari/IE on Mac, the page displays as intended, but on Firefox Mac, the

Re: [css-d] Negative Margin FireFox Mac Issue

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 13:52 -0400, Yazmin Media wrote: I've been playing with the following file: http://yazminmedia.com/playground/tabs.htm The problem I've encountered is with lining up the tabs (.tab) on top of the content div (.panelx). Anyhow, in Firefox/IE on Windows and Safari/IE on

Re: [css-d] Weird inheritance issue?

Jeff Chastain wrote: div id=container div class=crWrapper div class=photoBlock div class=crWrapper ... /div /div div class=photoBlock div class=crWrapper ... /div /div /div /div #container .crWrapper { border:

[css-d] How to get a good monospaced font for IE6

Ok.. I'm finding IE6 somewhat annoying with regards to monospaced fonts.. I've got some reports that I generate that are tabular in nature and look fine in Firefox for both PC/Mac as well as Safari on Tiger (OSX). In reviewing how the output looks for IE6 on PC's I find that the font being used

Re: [css-d] How to get a good monospaced font for IE6

On 21/09/05, Rick F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got some reports that I generate that are tabular in nature and look fine in Firefox for both PC/Mac as well as Safari on Tiger (OSX). In reviewing how the output looks for IE6 on PC's I find that the font being used by that browser is

[css-d] maxlength attribute in css

Hi, I have been googling without success around for a way to set maxlength for form inputs in CSS -- is this possible as far as anyone knows? If not, and if I have to use Javascript to achieve this task, can someone point me to a Javascript discussion list that is equivalent to this CSS list?

RE: [css-d] maxlength attribute in css

What they *might* be asking is - A designer wants to format text boxes to be the same horizontal size even though their inputs are set at different maximums. For example, a phone number field takes 11 digits, give or take, and a name field takes 30 let's say, but the designer might want them both

Re: [css-d] How to get a good monospaced font for IE6

Rick F. wrote: Ok.. I'm finding IE6 somewhat annoying with regards to monospaced fonts.. I've got some reports that I generate that are tabular in nature and look fine in Firefox for both PC/Mac as well as Safari on Tiger (OSX). In reviewing how the output looks for IE6 on PC's I find that

Re: [css-d] How to get a good monospaced font for IE6

Rick F. wrote: Ok.. I'm finding IE6 somewhat annoying with regards to monospaced fonts.. Any ideas on a nice easy way to get a monospaced font behavior on IE6 and still work for Firefox Safari? -- Rick Try: code { font: 1em 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', Courier,

Re: [css-d] maxlength attribute in css

Christian Heilmann wrote: What is wrong with input maxlengh=20 ... ? A maximum length is not a visual attribute, it is a data restriction, and therefore not the job of css. there's nothing wrong with it, but it won't validate xhtml strict... sorry, i don't have a solution either.

Re: [css-d] How to get a good monospaced font for IE6

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:16:47 -0400, Rick F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was originally using #4 which works great on Firefox and Safari but doesn't for IE6. The only one that looks quasi monospaced for IE6 is #2.. FWIW, my reply to Rick OL... I guess if all else fails, you could use a

Re: [css-d] maxlength attribute in css

That makes perfect sense. Thanks for helping me realize that I really only want to eliminate *presentation* attributes from my xhtml template, not *all* attributes. - Chaz On 9/21/05, Christian Heilmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been googling without success around for a way to

Re: [css-d] How to get a good monospaced font for IE6

Wednesday, September 21, 2005, 2:16:47 PM, Rick F. wrote: all of my tabular data ...should be in a table element. The font isn't the problem, it's the markup. is all over the place horizontally speaking. Right, without the right element, your data is nothing but a blob of text that a few

Re: [css-d] maxlength attribute in css

Brian Cummiskey wrote: there's nothing wrong with it, but it won't validate xhtml strict... Yes, it will, if you spell it correctly (maxlength). XHTML 1.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstract_modules.html#s_extformsmodule XHTML 1.0 (defined by HTML 4.01):

Re: [css-d] *argh* listitis.....!?!?

I don't have time to write about this menu now, and I barely remember making it, but you can check out www.creeksidebanquet.com, and my article on A List Apart, at www.alistapart.com/articles/hybrid/, though it has an extra layer of complexity you don't need. Write me privately if you have

Re: [css-d] How to get a good monospaced font for IE6

* Steve Clay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-09-21 15:44:30 -0400]: Wednesday, September 21, 2005, 2:16:47 PM, Rick F. wrote: all of my tabular data ...should be in a table element. The font isn't the problem, it's the markup. is all over the place horizontally speaking. Right, without the

OT Event bubbling Re: [css-d] CSS / Javascript Hierarchy

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, jleonard wrote: Right now, when you click the text link in the box, both onClicks are triggered. Any help, advice, etc would be greatly appreciated. This is actually more of an event model question than anything to do with CSS; both the Web Developer docs at Mozilla

[css-d] Box Problem

Hi All Once again my thanks to all who helped me yesterday. I have run into an additional snag. http://www.abistudios.co.uk/ When you look at the above page, the content box doesn't complete there is a white line towards the bottom. Could anybody tell me what is going wrong here please?

RE: [css-d] Box Problem

Unless I'm missing something it looks like you might have 5 opening divs: div id=wrapper div id=container div id=content div class=square div class=boxcontent but only four closing /divs __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] ideas for controlling form display with CSS

My CSS approach is here: http://www.kintera.org/site/lookup.asp?c=geIMLPOpGjFb=1064623 I am trying to minimize structural markup by placing all labels in one div and all inputs in another. Pros: a) lots of presentation flexibility -- I can justify either all labels, all inputs, or both, to

[css-d] Re: Negative Margin FireFox Mac Issue

I was able to avoid this situation by approaching my original problem differently, but I never found out why the negative margin was off in Firefox Max/Linux. I'll post my new problem in a different email. -- Yazmin Wickham Contractor - Internet Development http://www.yazmin.net

Re: [css-d] Designing without tables

Joanne- My experience with Sitepoint is that I bought and read DHTML Utopia. I don't recomend that book because it did not focus on XHTML, but rather HTML 4.0which is something I'd rather not write in. I recomend that you focus on learning XHTML in conjugction with CSS. I don't know how HTML

[css-d] Float in IE Mac expands design

I have the following files: http://yazminmedia.com/playground/test.htm http://yazminmedia.com/playground/description.css http://yazminmedia.com/playground/metal2.css In the description.css file, if I float the .panel class, it forces IE/Mac users to have to scroll horizontally to view the whole

Re: [css-d] Designing without tables

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:54:21PM -0600, Tim Zappe wrote: My experience with Sitepoint is that I bought and read DHTML Utopia. I don't recomend that book because it did not focus on XHTML, but rather HTML 4.0which is something I'd rather not write in. Um ... the two are virtually identical.

[css-d] How big is too big?

How big is too big? - What is a good rule of thumb for a CSS file size? - How big should all of the images used by your stylesheet be? -- Total - What is a good size for a typical web page? -- I remember hearing 60-80k, but that seems like we should be able to go bigger by nowI

[css-d] Newcomer to CSS

I did my first CSS site, and I am ready to go back to tables Please look at my site and tell me what I did wrong. I feel like such a looser - all that work and it the CSS doesn't work. http://www.wminc.biz Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[css-d] Centering a CSS List

I'm having some problems with a CSS styled list. I am using the css list as a navigation menu, and I've picked the code up from Listamatic [http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/horizontal26.htm]. You can see what I've got so far here: http://www.vauxhallbaseball.com/index-1.html 1) How do I

RE: [css-d] Newcomer to CSS

I did my first CSS site, and I am ready to go back to tables Please look at my site and tell me what I did wrong. I feel like such a looser - all that work and it the CSS doesn't work. http://www.wminc.biz Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I think we can all sympathize

[css-d] Explosion in IE

Here is my page: http://www.western.edu/%21front%5Fsection/admissions/ The background image of the containg element is shifted in the back in IE, but not in Firefox. Can someone please look at it and help me figure out what I did wrong? Thanks a bunch. Also, the content in the #content div does

Re: [css-d] ideas for controlling form display with CSS

Thanks, very interesting use of padding and percentage -- I am going for cross-browser compliance though, and I think that data-wise, only IE understands this label-input implied relationship, so even if I could get the display right -- and yourtechnique is very interesting -- I couldn't use this

[css-d] Pure Dom Navigation List trouble in IE6

Hi all, I'm afraid I've not been able to grab time to read most my lists messages during the lasts months, nor to answer any, pardon me please, but I'm getting kind of desperate on this new challenge, so I'm turning on to you :): I'm designing a site for a graphic company, still in the process

Re: [css-d] Explosion in IE

Tim Zappe wrote: http://www.western.edu/%21front%5Fsection/admissions/ The background image of the containg element is shifted in the back in IE, but not in Firefox. Buggy IE/win. Add a 'hasLayout'[1] trigger to the container. Try adding: #page { _height: 0; } ...including the leading

OT Re: [css-d] How big is too big?

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Tim Zappe wrote: How big is too big? - What is a good rule of thumb for a CSS file size? snip Can anyone point me to some literature on these topics? Thanks. Apart from the bits about the volume of CSS (which is more about personal style and what browsers are

Re: [css-d] Designing without tables

Tim Zappe wrote: Joanne- My experience with Sitepoint is that I bought and read DHTML Utopia. I don't recomend that book because it did not focus on XHTML, but rather HTML 4.0which is something I'd rather not write in. I recomend that you focus on learning XHTML in conjugction with CSS. What

[css-d] Site Check Please - Voices of CSM

Hi - If anyone has a moment and can check out my site (this is my first all CSS site) - it seems to be okay in IE6, FF, Opera NN7, but I'm not sure about other browsers or Mac. I imported the stylesheet so as not to break in NN4, but haven't done a more basic stylesheet for it yet. The site

RE: [css-d] Newcomer to CSS

Hi there, I just did a cursory glance at your style sheet. First thing I noticed was your id 'button' is listed in the style sheet only as button rather than #button. When I'm working on this stuff, I sometimes look at it so much, I can no longer see it. Most of us have probably learned the hard

[css-d] Stylinzing drop lists

Using CSS, I have stylized my droplist to with a red/green color scheme at http://webmarksonline.com/temp/styledroplist.html The problem is that I am unable to stylize the actively selected option. Right now the active option as well as the option as the user mouse over them is the default

Re: [css-d] Box Problem

Hi Tim I have looked at the code and I thought the wrapper div was meant to stay open until the end of the document. Could folks have a look again please? The site url is http://www.abistudios.co.uk with the css embeded. The problem is a white band towards the botttom of the content div.

Re: [css-d] submitting forms via Enter

Don't forget that your form will have to meet the conditions under which forms can be submitted via enter: Only one submit/bitton, and no textarea elements. -- Richard Grevers New Plymouth, New Zealand Orphan Gmail invites free to good homes.

Re: [css-d] Box Problem

Richard Brown wrote: Hi Tim I have looked at the code and I thought the wrapper div was meant to stay open until the end of the document. Could folks have a look again please? The site url is http://www.abistudios.co.uk with the css embeded. The problem is a white band towards the botttom

RE: [css-d] Box Problem

From: Richard Brown Could folks have a look again please? The site url is http://www.abistudios.co.uk with the css embeded. The problem is a white band towards the botttom of the content div. Richard, Add height: 100%; to the rules for boxcontent, as in: .square .boxcontent