[css-d] need to get rid of scroll ar in FF/mozilla, but have div extend to footer

2005-09-27 Thread Bruce Gilbert
Hello, on a new site I am woking on (http://www.fortuneinteractive.com/) in Mozilla/FF. you get the horizontal and vertical scroll bar and I know the reason why. It is because I am overflow:auto on my content div. I added this after googling and finding this was a float clearing solver. the

Re: [css-d] What's this hack for?

2005-09-27 Thread Craig Cook
/* \*/ * html #tlc, * html #trc {height: 1%;} /* */ It's actually three hacks combined with the ultimate purpose of delivering a minimal height exclusively to IE/Win. /* \*/ = commented backslash hack hides rules from IE/Mac, which doesn't recognize the end of the comment because of a bug

[css-d] Mac Check Please

2005-09-27 Thread Hershel Robinson
http://scarabbooks.com/us/contact.php http://scarabbooks.com/main.css I'm told it doesn't look right on a Mac. IE I think. Thanks, Hershel Robinson __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] Bullets/ Centering in tables

2005-09-27 Thread Peter Frederiksen
Hi I'd like to have a standard box for framework and 'quicklinks'. Generally the information in the boxes is going to be tabular, so not surprisingly I'm using tables. In order to separate the rows in an orderly fashion I want to use bullets - which in other words means inserting them into

Re: [css-d] Mac Check Please

2005-09-27 Thread Christian Heilmann
http://scarabbooks.com/us/contact.php http://scarabbooks.com/main.css I'm told it doesn't look right on a Mac. IE I think. On Safari and Omniweb 5 it looks OK. There is an image missing top right and the columns could need some spacing - the emails butt up next to another. Don't have ie

Re: [css-d] Bullets/ Centering in tables

2005-09-27 Thread Christian Heilmann
Hi I'd like to have a standard box for framework and 'quicklinks'. Generally the information in the boxes is going to be tabular, so not surprisingly I'm using tables. In order to separate the rows in an orderly fashion I want to use bullets - which in other ords means inserting them

Re: [css-d] Mac Check Please

2005-09-27 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 27 Sep 2005, at 3:38 pm, Hershel Robinson wrote: http://scarabbooks.com/us/contact.php http://scarabbooks.com/main.css I'm told it doesn't look right on a Mac. IE I think. IE Mac has a problem with that form at the bottom. More exactly with the *floated* label in a table. IE mac

Re: [css-d] Mac Check Please

2005-09-27 Thread Hershel Robinson
http://scarabbooks.com/us/contact.php http://scarabbooks.com/main.css IE Mac has a problem with that form at the bottom. More exactly with the *floated* label in a table. IE mac collapses the width of the first cell, not entirely incorrect. The form inputs then cover the label partly. I

Re: [css-d] Bullets/ Centering in tables

2005-09-27 Thread Christian Montoya
On 9/27/05, Peter Frederiksen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'd like to have a standard box for framework and 'quicklinks'. Generally the information in the boxes is going to be tabular, so not surprisingly I'm using tables. In order to separate the rows in an orderly fashion I want to use

Re: [css-d] DIV margins

2005-09-27 Thread Edith Karnitsch @ Terranetwork
Just to check - did you already solve the problem? Looks exactly the same on my Win/Firefox and Win/IE, plus the div#csflogo does not have margin in the CSS. If problem still persists, please let me know I'll take another look! PS: good chance to test my Italian again and very much like the site

[css-d] floated image and background color

2005-09-27 Thread Read, Ian
In Firefox and Opera the background color does not extend to include the image. The code in question is in the div class=content the webpage is http://www.mslive.stockton.gov.uk/other1/ http://www.mslive.stockton.gov.uk/other1/. I know the code is not brilliant but people have to start

[css-d] Make a disabled image gray.

2005-09-27 Thread Gilad Fitoussi
I need to have images to be gray when the image is disabled. The way to it was by setting filter:gray(). The problem is that in any way I try doing it (for IE) it doesn’t work: 1. Using expression: styleimg { filter:expression( eval(this.disabled? 'gray':'') ); }/style img id=gray1 disabled

Re: [css-d] Writing maintainable CSS

2005-09-27 Thread Guillaume
Hi Simon, here is my very little contribution to your question. When working on large stylesheeets I usually split data over three stylesheets: structure.css, fonts.css, colors.css... Working first on a single stylesheet, I split then data over this stylesheets when debugging process

[css-d] RE: Site Check: Completed Lice_control.com

2005-09-27 Thread Joh
Hi Adam, ul.facts li a ul.facts li a:visited { color:#000; text-decoration:none; } should be a komma: ul.facts li a, ul.facts li a:visited .backtotop {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;} No need to redeclare font-family if same one already has been declared

RE: [css-d] Make a disabled image gray.

2005-09-27 Thread Oliver Hodgson
-Original Message- From: Gilad Fitoussi Subject: [css-d] Make a disabled image gray. 1. Using expression: styleimg { filter:expression( eval(this.disabled? 'gray':'') ); }/style img id=gray1 disabled src='../icons/folder.gif' img id=b src='../icons/folder.gif' 2. Using

Re: [css-d] floated image and background color

2005-09-27 Thread David Dorward
On 27/09/05, Read, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Firefox and Opera the background color does not extend to include the image. http://www.complexspiral.com/publications/containing-floats/ -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk

Re: [css-d] Writing maintainable CSS

2005-09-27 Thread tedd
Hi all, I'm interested in gathering advice on keeping large stylesheets maintainable, particularly ones that have more than one person working on them. I think that this is an area of CSS that has not been adequately discussed in the past. I've written more about this on my blog:

Re: [css-d] Validator Woes

2005-09-27 Thread Adam Kuehn
BJ wrote: I just this morning got caught by similar. How many of us have used this? .clearA { overflow: hidden; clear:both; height:0; margin:0; font-size: 1px; line-height: 0; } It no longer validates and is probably used in every dang

RE: [css-d] Site Check: Completed Lice_control.com

2005-09-27 Thread Joh
Adam, About the floated img on the index page ... the HTML a href=store.htm target=_blank img src=images/store_bage2.jpg alt=Visit Our Store width=240 height=190 border=0 class=store_badge /a Some explanation: This floated image pushes its bottom boundary down over the next paragraph, this

Re: [css-d] Bullets/ Centering in tables

2005-09-27 Thread Alan Stevens
Peter Frederiksen wrote: Hi I'd like to have a standard box for framework and 'quicklinks'. Generally the information in the boxes is going to be tabular, so not surprisingly I'm using tables. In order to separate the rows in an orderly fashion I want to use bullets - which in other words

[css-d] Browser and platform compatibility

2005-09-27 Thread Tony Balazs
Hi, I am new to the list and new to CSS. I am writing a small website for a school for autistic children I am starting up in London. I am trying to do it myself to keep costs to a minimum. If you look at it online you'll see the general style I want the pages to have (3 col, left and

Re: [css-d] Writing maintainable CSS

2005-09-27 Thread Mike Stenhouse
Hi all I favour breaking the CSS down into manageable pieces. When I've worked in teams before that's enabled people to start with the same base and work on their own parts of the project without overlapping. By that I mean a set of common stylesheets @imported with page/section specific sheet(s)

Re: [css-d] Positioning

2005-09-27 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Angus at InfoForce Services wrote: Now to try to get all my buttons to align on the left margin. HTML: http://infoforce-services.com/guidedog/index.php If I've understand you correctly, then try adding: .linkblock a {clear: left;} Next step is to add 'class=linkblock' to the element

Re: [css-d] Writing maintainable CSS

2005-09-27 Thread Alan Stevens
I wrote something about this a while back, although it was aimed at the other end of the market - high turnover, small projects. Some of the suggestions may still apply though. http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/Articles/12/modular-css/

[css-d] Site Check

2005-09-27 Thread Tim Zappe
Could some people please take a quick look in different browsers on different platforms and let me know how the following page looks? Most of my concern in in the search box. Any feedback would be a lifesaver. Thanks http://www.western.edu/%21front%5Fsection/ Tim -- Tim Zappe www.tzappe.com

[css-d] Stepped Header Seemed a Simple Idea

2005-09-27 Thread Keith Fjellman
Hello all, I'm beginning the process of simplifying our corporate web site structure and I ran into a problem right off the bat. HTML: http://www.geolearning.com/main/testcss/ CSS: http://www.geolearning.com/main/CSS/mastersheetTableless.css I would like this header to have the appearance of

Re: [css-d] Positioning

2005-09-27 Thread Angus at InfoForce Services
Gunlaug Thank you. It seems that Firefox 1.07 and IE6 are not clearing the cache properly. The section 2 heading is right of the buttons and not centered underneath. It does not matter what I do, I get no change in what is displayed. Thanks for the heads up on CSS syntax. I guess I should re

[css-d] Safari - Layer appears sometimes, not others

2005-09-27 Thread Travis Nep Smith
I've got an odd behavior in Safari that has me stumped. http://www.unsoundtracks.com/classical.html In Firefox, when you click on a link that says Play, a layer is displayed that has a description of the file, and a little QuickTime widget that plays an MP3. In Safari, however... o

Re: [css-d] Site Check

2005-09-27 Thread John Guchemand
It looks very good in IE6 and Firefox. Good job! But, there is one little thing. If you increase the text size in both browsers, the text boxes go buttons get distorted (positioning-wise). I realize that most people will not change this, and I don't have the stats handy, but it is something

Re: [css-d] Browser and platform compatibility

2005-09-27 Thread Christian Montoya
I have seen advice as follows: forget CSS and just use tables for something as simple as this; use Javascript (x.js) to get x-browser compatibility; write it quick and dirty in MS Powerpoint (! that has to be a bad idea, no?); use browser detection and write several versions. That is the

Re: [css-d] Site Check west...edu

2005-09-27 Thread Felix Miata
Tim Zappe wrote: http://www.western.edu/%21front%5Fsection/ Could some people please take a quick look in different browsers on different platforms and let me know how the following page looks? Most of my concern in in the search box. Any feedback would be a lifesaver. It took a while

[css-d] Positioning question

2005-09-27 Thread Jon Stephenson
I am trying to move content around on my page using absolute positioning and I seem to be having a problem. I have one div with absolute positioning and have it at the bottom of the screen then I have the other div with no style on the position and let it just flow at the top of the page. This

[css-d] None

2005-09-27 Thread jleonard
Which is better for wide spread use; a frameset with a scrollbar or the CSS overflow: scroll? Would like to use the CSS but don't know if I can trust that. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Browser and platform compatibility

2005-09-27 Thread Tony Balazs
On 27 Sep 2005, at 18:45, Christian Montoya wrote: ul li a href = /a /li li ... /li /ul Then, do this. ul class=navigation ... /ul and in CSS: .class li { margin-bottom:1em } or margin-bottom:2em, if you like. Thanks, Christian! Do I just change the ul.../ul above

[css-d] IE problem with css and javascript

2005-09-27 Thread chad henderson
I am having a weird problem in IE on this page. http://www.intlpantry.com/recipes.html I have a small box that appears on within each recipe to allow visitors to print the recipe out or email it to a friend. It shows up fine in firefox and opera but IE does not display it. Any ideas why?

Re: [css-d] Writing maintainable CSS for the newbies

2005-09-27 Thread Rich Points
http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/Articles/12/modular-css/ http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/Articles/17/a-css-framework/ Thanks Mike for the above articles. I've been designing with CSS for about three years and my style sheets have been evolving to modular CSS. I've never came across

Re: [css-d] Validator Encoding Note

2005-09-27 Thread Steve Clason
On 9/27/2005 12:40 PM Tom Livingston wrote: The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (utf-8) is different from the value in the meta element (iso-8859-1). I will use the value from the HTTP header (utf-8) for this validation. Most likely your host is serving this: Content-Type:

Re: [css-d] Validator Encoding Note

2005-09-27 Thread Tom Livingston
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:42:59 -0400, Steve Clason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most likely your host is serving this: Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 So if the host is serving this, this isn't something I can change when making a page, right? Obviously, I can change the meta but should

Re: [css-d] Validator Encoding Note

2005-09-27 Thread Steve Clason
On 9/27/2005 2:30 PM Tom Livingston wrote: Most likely your host is serving this: Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 So if the host is serving this, this isn't something I can change when making a page, right? Obviously, I can change the meta but should I? I know so little about

[css-d] Re: overflow:auto/scroll

2005-09-27 Thread Steve Clay
Tuesday, September 27, 2005, 2:44:58 PM, jleonard wrote: Which is better for wide spread use; a frameset with a scrollbar or the CSS overflow: scroll? CSS overflow can give you the look of a frameset, but not the behavior; when the user hits the next page, all the CSS scrolling sections will

[css-d] Small IE problem with OL

2005-09-27 Thread Scott Haneda
Hello, I have a small issue with this page in IE on Windows http://www.advantagebenefitsprogram.com/advantages/ The ol seems to get chopped off since I added in the ol style=margin-left: 0; padding-left: 1em; In order to put the numbers to the same left as the copy, any suggestions? --

[css-d] help with disappearing borders in IE6/Win

2005-09-27 Thread Linda Quinn
Hello to everyone. I am new to this list - just found out about it today while doing some research on css problems. Thought I would give asking for help here a try. I am building a site and on several pages I am using top and bottom borders to highlight section headings. All is well on

[css-d] Tabular data, align columns

2005-09-27 Thread Dan Kletter
I sent a post yesterday about aligning table columns differently in a semantic way. I think I have figured out what the solution should be. Using colgroup is perhaps the answer. I need to have the Item col align left, Qty col align center and the Amount col align right. Will this work? table

Re: [css-d] Positioning

2005-09-27 Thread Angus at InfoForce Services
I fixed the positioning problem with the Section 2 header; now i need to learn to type correctly. However, I am at aloss why Firefox will display the Return to the previous page corectly on one line and IE6 will nock the page to a new line? Any ideas? HTML:

Re: [css-d] Browser and platform compatibility

2005-09-27 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tony Balazs wrote: http://www.snowflakeschool.org.uk I have seen advice as follows: forget CSS and just use tables for something as simple as this; use Javascript (x.js) to get x-browser compatibility; write it quick and dirty in MS Powerpoint (! that has to be a bad idea, no?); use browser

[css-d] Issue with tables and CSS

2005-09-27 Thread fokuss
I am doing a corporate email newsletter. I have had to use tables for the positioning. This is something I read around that its currently much better to use tables for positioning and CSS for the styling. I am having issues in IE (Im on a Mac here) getting the right items to go down as they

Re: [css-d] What's this hack for?

2005-09-27 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Gavin Jackson wrote: /* \*/ * html #tlc, * html #trc {height: 1%;} /* */ Thanks to all of those that replied to my question about the hacks. I'm amazed at the hoops one must jump through to get something to display the same in all browsers. I can see that this isn't something can be

[css-d] Two column layout and IE float bug

2005-09-27 Thread Scott Goldstein
I'm modeling a page based on the two column liquid layout in the float tutorial from Max Designs (http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/tutorial0816.htm). I've discovered a bug in IE that causes problem with my page and the code in this tutorial. If the width of the browser window is

[css-d] unsticky background

2005-09-27 Thread Colin
Hello all, I've been struggling through glitch after quirk for hours in an attempt to stay away from a table, and I just ran full steam into a wall. ( that I built several hours ago ) One background image, ( bg-content.jpg ) seems to be stuck. (works in ie, not in ff and opera - so it's

Re: [css-d] unsticky background

2005-09-27 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 28 Sep 2005, at 11:18 am, Colin wrote: I applied an artificial height to the div(main) that it's in that also contains two div's(mainNav,mainCol) which are floated. I applied before I inserted in any content. It now looks like a crappy design, because I'm not going to be able to guess

Re: [css-d] help with disappearing borders in IE6/Win

2005-09-27 Thread Christian Montoya
I think text-indent:-0.9em; is the problem. I've never even heard of text-indent before. Does it work if you take this out? __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ --

RE: [css-d] unsticky background

2005-09-27 Thread Colin
Delete that height. It works in IE because, you know, IE... ('haslayout' [1]). You want to clear those two divs. Good method is the 'easy clearing' technique [2]. [1] http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html [2] http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html Philippe ---

Re: [css-d] Validator Encoding Note

2005-09-27 Thread Christian Montoya
The question is, do you need to use ISO-8859-1 ??? If not, don't put it in the page. Just use UTF-8. On 9/27/05, Tom Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:42:59 -0400, Steve Clason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most likely your host is serving this: Content-Type:

Re: [css-d] Positioning question

2005-09-27 Thread Christian Montoya
Sorry, position:absolute doesn't work that way. If you use absolute positioning, it doesn't get affected by other elements. So, you can't use it for footers. I mean, what you are trying to do is put the footer at the bottom of the page always? There's a method for that but it doesn't work in some

RE: [css-d] help with disappearing borders in IE6/Win

2005-09-27 Thread Peter Williams
From: Christian Montoya I think text-indent:-0.9em; is the problem. I've never even heard of text-indent before. Christian, http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_text_text-indent.asp -- Peter Williams __ css-discuss [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] Two column layout and IE float bug

2005-09-27 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Scott Goldstein wrote: If the width of the browser window is reduced until a point smaller than the content within the float container, the content within the float container will shift below the float. That's the old 'auto-expand containers to give space for content'. It is part of the MSIE

[css-d] Check my site, please

2005-09-27 Thread Martin Petrov
http://mobile.dougkirby.com/martin I'm developing this site for my teacher and his web design class that I attended recently. I would really appreciate it if you spend a minute on it and just share you critical thoughts. The major concerns I have are: - the window is not resizable - breaks the

Re: [css-d] help with disappearing borders in IE6/Win

2005-09-27 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Linda Quinn wrote: All is well on Netscape FF (Win) and Safari, FF, Netscape Opera (Mac). However, in IE6/Win the borders do not appear. http://www.housecallcs.com/newWeb/pages/services.htm Several ways to avoid and/or fix that IE/win bug. Almost too many to mention, so I'll just give