Re: [css-d] WinIE and Firefox

Thanks Gunlag that fixed it but... On 26 Apr 2006, at 14:45, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: * html body #column-c {margin-right: -200px;} ...in that it will make IE think that floating column is 200px narrower than its actual width - by pulling in its backside margin that amount. You should also

[css-d] Z-index for a background image?

In this layout...is there any way possible to get the filmstrip (a background image) to show up *over* the banner (using a z-index or some other way)? I am trying to get away from a boxy looking layout... http://www.drkdesign.com/parkerpennington/

Re: [css-d] Footer Issues

Hi Zoe, Though it broke in FF I've managed to sort it, many thanks. Tim __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List

Re: [css-d] My Toolbar menu crashes IE6

francky wrote: Ho, just one: the htc-file seems to be called two times: Francy, thanks for your comments. I haven't got round to testing in anything except FF1.5 (default browser) and IE6. If it won't work in IE6 it is (sadly) pointless worrying too much about the rest, although the fact that

Re: [css-d] Browser Issues - berkeley

Kathryn Bader wrote: hi all, see http://admin.berkeley.edu/. there is a division (right below the gold bar) between the main nav bar and the left and right divs in internet explorer for pc (for mac is fine). do you know of a hack that would eliminate this space/white bar? or is there some

Re: [css-d] problem with list elements

wrapping in UL works for ff safari but IE (no suprises) still does not work. Ross I have a problem with LI if you look here http://scottishsocialnetworks.org/events.php list element that have text that is on two line aligns with the li not the text. I can fix this by putting in a few non

Re: [css-d] problem with list elements

sorry my mistake. you are right! Thanks - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pete Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [css-d] problem with list elements wrapping in UL works for ff safari but IE (no

Re: [css-d] Clearing div breaks absolute positioning - IE

http://www.loudjoy.com/styled_div.html Option 2: add... #newest{float: left; display: inline;} If you have time, I'd love a brief explanation of what this is doing. I'm afraid I don't really understand it and I wasn't aware of alternatives to using clearing elements in a situation like

Re: [css-d] Z-index for a background image?

Iorhael wrote: In this layout...is there any way possible to get the filmstrip (a background image) to show up *over* the banner (using a z-index or some other way)? I am trying to get away from a boxy looking layout... http://www.drkdesign.com/parkerpennington/

Re: [css-d] WinIE and Firefox

Richard Brown wrote: Thanks Gunlag that fixed it but... On 26 Apr 2006, at 14:45, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: * html body #column-c {margin-right: -200px;} ...in that it will make IE think that floating column is 200px narrower than its actual width - by pulling in its backside margin

Re: [css-d] WinIE and Firefox

Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Richard Brown wrote: Also does the 'if' statement in the header file work please? How do I test whether it is working? Yes, the min/max expression is working as intended. I was a bit quick there, I think. Yes, it is working :-) To test it: 1: Make sure IE6 is

[css-d] Is css3 going to allow us to use non-system font?

Is this a planned for css3? I am not really that bothered but the two things graphic designers (argggh!!) ask me are... (i) why does IE not render text? (ii) can the text not be in my own chosen font. Just a thought! Ross

Re: [css-d] Is css3 going to allow us to use non-system font?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a planned for css3? I am not really that bothered but the two things graphic designers (argggh!!) ask me are... (i) why does IE not render text? Think that's Microsoft's department actually :-) (ii) can the text not be in my own chosen font. CSS in itself

Re: [css-d] Is css3 going to allow us to use non-system font?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a planned for css3? I am not really that bothered but the two things graphic designers (argggh!!) ask me are... (i) why does IE not render text? Georg had a good answer. (ii) can the text not be in my own chosen font. As a member of the W3C CSS

Re: [css-d] Is css3 going to allow us to use non-system font?

Is this a planned for css3? I am not really that bothered but the two things graphic designers (argggh!!) ask me are... (i) why does IE not render text? Georg had a good answer. (ii) can the text not be in my own chosen font. As a member of the W3C CSS Working Group I can tell you that

[css-d] .swf file in background-image?

Hi all, does anyone know of a well functioning css-method for placing an .swf file in the backround of a div? Regards, Christine __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing

Re: [css-d] .swf file in background-image?

Christine, on Thursday, April 27, 2006 at 13:04 Christine Rainer wrote: does anyone know of a well functioning css-method for placing an .swf file in the backround of a div? You can't use the swf in the css background property. But you could place an object with absolute positioning and

Re: [css-d] Is css3 going to allow us to use non-system font?

On Apr 27, 2006, at 7:08 PM, Christian Heilmann wrote: Is this a planned for css3? I am not really that bothered but the two things graphic designers (argggh!!) ask me are... (i) why does IE not render text? Georg had a good answer. (ii) can the text not be in my own chosen font. As a

Re: [css-d] .swf file in background-image?

You can't use the swf in the css background property. But you could place an object with absolute positioning and z-index under a div. You have to add background transparency to the flash (and pray...). Actually, this will not work. Flash uses a plugin which occupies a z-index outside the

[css-d] Firefox on the Mac

Hi all We have just launched a new site today and I have had report that its not rendering well in Firefox on the Mac, could someone please be so kind as to send me a screen shot or some feedback http://www.journalistaward.stop-discrimination.info/ Thanks Karl

Re: [css-d] IE6 'dotted' border bug

jack fredricks wrote: I have this rule; .myclass { border: 1px dashed #000; } When I scroll down the page, IE doesn't redraw the borders well, and they end up all 'bunched up' (so instead of steady dashes, i get little sections of solid lines randomly dispersed throughout) Is this just

Re: [css-d] Firefox on the Mac

Looks great to me (Firefox 1.5.0.2, MacBook Pro). Let me know if you need a screenshot, and I'll get one for you! -- John Sico On Apr 27, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Karl Camenzuli wrote: Hi all We have just launched a new site today and I have had report that its not rendering well in Firefox

Re: [css-d] Firefox on the Mac

not rendering well in Firefox on the Mac, could someone please be so kind as to send me a screen shot or some feedback http://www.journalistaward.stop-discrimination.info Actually, you can see the problems if you're running Firefox on a PC. (I have it on a Mac, too, and both look

Re: [css-d] Firefox on the Mac

Oops, I also see the first problem (the header disappearing when the window shrinks). However, I don't see the horizontal scrollbar. Would a min-width (with the appropriate IE fixes, of course) help the disappearing header problem? -- John On Apr 27, 2006, at 8:46 AM, Design Groups wrote:

[css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

Hi gang: Please review the following site: http://ancientstones.com Suggestions and comments welcomed. Thank you. tedd -- http://sperling.com/

Re: [css-d] Firefox on the Mac

Wow thanks for all the feedback I really appreciate it. The dropping header yep I know this is a nightmare but the client was ok with this, my problem is the horizontal scrollbar in FF on the Mac. I need to find a way to resolve this Thanks again Karl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] Is css3 going to allow us to use non-system font?

Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Apr 27, 2006, at 7:08 PM, Christian Heilmann wrote: Personally I dread the day when designers can force me to download a 1.4MB ttf in CSS. I also can forsee the day where this will become a massive security vulnerability. +1 on this. It'll be ok... ...as

Re: [css-d] .swf file in background-image?

Shelly, on Thursday, April 27, 2006 at 14:24 Design Groups wrote: You can't use the swf in the css background property. But you could place an object with absolute positioning and z-index under a div. You have to add background transparency to the flash (and pray...). Actually, this will

Re: [css-d] .swf file in background-image?

Martin Heiden wrote: No, it works with enabled background transparency. You've got to add: param name=wmode value=transparent / inside the object. In this mode the flash will not render on top of all other content, but it doesn't work with all plugin-versions on all browsers. But it will

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

On 06/04/27 08:55 (GMT-0400) tedd apparently typed: Please review the following site: http://ancientstones.com Suggestions and comments welcomed. Nice. But, those using sidebars are likely not to appreciate it so much. It requires a lot of viewport width or a smallish default text size to

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

tedd wrote: Hi gang: Please review the following site: http://ancientstones.com Suggestions and comments welcomed. Thank you. tedd Sweet! Has David Laakso seen this site? Nothing constructive to add, however, some of your images seem to need the background changed to match the

[css-d] test html pages on an handheld or smartphone browser

Hi, one of the advantages of using CSS is creating a wide readable HTML content. I don't know about you, but I've alway accessed it via computer browsers :-) Now I would like to test my html with an handheld or smartphone browser, I don't actually have one of thoose devices so I was wondering

Re: [css-d] Browser Issues

On 4/26/06, Kathryn Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is a division (right below the gold bar) between the main nav bar and the left and right divs in internet explorer for pc (for mac is fine). do you know of a hack that would eliminate this space/white bar? or is there some other fix?

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

At 8:20 PM +0530 4/27/06, Rahul Gonsalves wrote: tedd wrote: Hi gang: Please review the following site: http://ancientstones.com Suggestions and comments welcomed. Thank you. tedd Sweet! Has David Laakso seen this site? Interesting that you should ask -- he's provided much design

Re: [css-d] test html pages on an handheld or smartphone browser

Opera has an emulation mode for small screen devices, you press Shift-F11. IIts not perfect, but it gives you a pretty good idea. Sam On 27/04/06, cj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: msdn had a web series dealing with mobile devices a while ago, and their web casts are saved and available to replay

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

At 9:54 AM -0400 4/27/06, Felix Miata wrote: On 06/04/27 08:55 (GMT-0400) tedd apparently typed: Please review the following site: http://ancientstones.com Suggestions and comments welcomed. Nice. But, those using sidebars are likely not to appreciate it so much. It requires a lot of

Re: [css-d] test html pages on an handheld or smartphone browser

* Openwave Phone Simulator http://developer.openwave.com/dvl/ * Microsoft Mobile Explorer http://www.devhood.com/tools/tool_details.aspx?tool_id=52 (though the site seems to be down at present) * Nokia has an emulator but I've never gotten it to work. * Latest Opera browsers has emulators

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

At 1:23 PM -0400 4/27/06, David Laakso wrote: On 06/04/27 08:55 (GMT-0400) tedd apparently typed: Okay, what would be a good maximum width measurement (in pixels)? Thanks. tedd I prefer 780 min with 1200 max feeding same to the 'evil one' with 'ie expressions. Felix will, I hope, provide the

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

The main page title bar says Ancient Title. Think you mean Tile :) On 4/27/06 5:55 AM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang: Please review the following site: http://ancientstones.com Suggestions and comments welcomed. Thank you. tedd

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

Okay, what would be a good maximum width measurement (in pixels)? Some may disagree with this, but I try to aim at using WebTV's (MSN TV) browser's usable screen area as a max measurement: 544 for the width (I haven't succeeded with all my pages yet). As we all know, it is hard, really, to

[css-d] How do I make this div its text start at the top?

Hi, I have this page at www.artbrush.net/dp/. It works fine In Firefox on Windows, great on Firefox Safari on the mac. However, IE on Windows is another story. The middle column (div id=main) of the page which contains all of the body text starts way down on the page. What would set

Re: [css-d] test html pages on an handheld or smartphone browser

My apologies, the link for Klondike WAP Browser should've been http://www.apachesoftware.com/download.html HTH, TTFN, David Merchant -- Director of Integrated Technology CATALyST Louisiana Tech University catalyst.latech.edu __

Re: [css-d] How do I make this div its text start at the top?

this isn't this is the solution per se, but more of this is part of the problem. if you'll notice in ie, a horizontal scroll bar appears on narrower screens as well as the div getting pushed down. usually ie will shove stuff below other stuff when it's too wide to fit the screen, so going

[css-d] JavaScript and CSS

I am trying to create multiple css layouts for an application. For one of the skins, I'm using a JavaScript to affect the design. Is there a way for it to only affect one design and not others? -- Marc Luzietti Flagship Project Bayview Financial, L.P. (305) 341-5624

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

On 4/27/06, David Merchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip a max measurement: 544 for the width TTFN, David /snip 8^O 544!? Max!? Wow! What's that look like at a 1600x1200+ resolution? -- Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist Media Logic www.mlinc.com

[css-d] Short CSS course - what should I teach?

Hi all. I am creating a course on how to design web sites using CSS. (That's a very loose title: it could easily be How to make your website better... etc.) It will be a 3-hour short course for people with some experience of web design, aimed at individuals and small businesses, and does not

[css-d] Generated Menu Cap Not Budging (FF MacOS X)

For the first time in my career of CSS-based design, I've run in to a problem whereby Firefox differs in its rendering from that of Safari in MacOS X. Here's the relevant XHTML: div class=menu h2Menu Title/h2 ul lia href=#Menu Link/a/li lia

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

On 06/04/27 12:32 (GMT-0400) tedd apparently typed: At 9:54 AM -0400 4/27/06, Felix Miata wrote: On 06/04/27 08:55 (GMT-0400) tedd apparently typed: Please review the following site: http://ancientstones.com Suggestions and comments welcomed. Nice. But, those using sidebars are likely

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

I suspect the large font size must be due to selecting Georgia as the first choice? Just a question, as a newbie ( still! ), what does the lge class do; as in ...span class=lge nbsp;|nbsp; /span... I didn't see it defined in either style sheet? Really liked the clean design, especially after

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

8^O 544!? Max!? Wow! What's that look like at a 1600x1200+ resolution? Well, I actually try to make them fluid, so for larger resolutions the sites don't look bad, but 'tis hard to make sites completely fluid (at least for me) and so at some point when reducing window down, the page isn't

[css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

At 16:08 -0400 27/4/06, Felix Miata wrote: ... an incredibly fulsome post on users, viewports and widths. This thread has long since strayed far from the discussion of the practical use of css and on to the practicalities of web design. So can it end now please. Alex Robinson css-d moderator

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

-Original Message- From: tedd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 7:55 AM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com Hi gang: Please review the following site: http://ancientstones.com Suggestions and

Re: [css-d] test html pages on an handheld or smartphone browser

Opera Mini Browser emulator: http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/demo.dml HTH, TTFN, David Merchant -- Director of Integrated Technology CATALyST Louisiana Tech University catalyst.latech.edu __ css-discuss [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] Short CSS course - what should I teach?

Hi Paul, I would approach it this way: I. Separation of style and content II. Where to put CSS: style sheets, between head tags, inline III. Block vs. Inline Elements IV. Margins, Padding, Border I think that is about all you can reasonably cover in 3 hours considering your other curriculum

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

At 3:59 PM -0400 4/27/06, Tom Livingston wrote: On 4/27/06, David Merchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip a max measurement: 544 for the width TTFN, David /snip 8^O 544!? Max!? Wow! What's that look like at a 1600x1200+ resolution? I personally think that in trying to accommodate the

Re: [css-d] Short CSS course - what should I teach?

1) Text structure, use of semantics (refer to the bare CSS Zen Garden site) While the garden is great for showing that CSS is capable of attractive designs, I'm not so sure it's good for learning from the code. It was designed to be very easy for hundreds of people to author stylesheets for it

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

Felix hath said: Okay, what would be a good maximum width measurement (in pixels)? None. Let it be whatever size it needs to be. -snip (good stuff) -- Those adjustments may very well including permitting a reduced width, in order to allow a squeeze in place of a scroll for viewers with

Re: [css-d] How do I make this div its text start at the top?

Thanks a ton, I'm glad you liked the site. Ok, so after tearing my hair for the last couple of hours, I have managed to fix the problem. The clue came from an online resource that said that because of IE's buggy implementation of the box-model, it's best not to use margins or borders

Re: [css-d] How do I make this div its text start at the top?

On Apr 27, 2006, at 3:55 PM, cj wrote: if you'll notice in ie, a horizontal scroll bar appears on narrower screens as well as the div getting pushed down. usually ie will shove stuff below other stuff when it's too wide to fit the screen, so going through your code and checking for box

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

On 4/27/06, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: only 20 percent of the viewing audience has a screen size of 800 x 600 and that figure is dropping at a rate of 5 percent per six months (10 percent per year). As such, in two years, the narrow-screen user number will drop below a detectable amount.

Re: [css-d] How do I make this div its text start at the top?

On 4/27/06, Anjali Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a ton, I'm glad you liked the site. Ok, so after tearing my hair for the last couple of hours, I have managed to fix the problem. The clue came from an online resource that said that because of IE's buggy implementation of the

Re: [css-d] pure css tooltips and IE

I'm using IE 6 and I see tool tips well. Liked the page content as well. If you were doing this site in Florida, our agency Florida Division of Blind Services would be one of your parnters and you agency ours. ( 23 percent of cases we serve each year are due to diabetic retinopathy.)

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please -- ancientstones.com

Ted, Nice job on this site. Here is what I like and what I suggest IMHO What I like (strengths): 1. Color choices and blending is easy on the eyes. 2. Clean design, not a lot of clutter and overload of useless content. 3. Catalog form is concise and clear. What I suggest: 1. older 12 Laptop

[css-d] Wierd Padding issue in Mozilla

I am having a padding issue in Mozilla. Seems to show up here only and I have NO idea how to fix it. The issue is in the blog section in the middle of the page. The page in question is: http://www.agiprodj.com/?cat=191 The css in questions is: http://www.agiprodj.com/wp-content/themes/

[css-d] Layout Troubles

Hello all, I'm having a hell of a time over here trying to get this (seemingly simple) layout work cross browser and was wondering if anyone could point me into the right direction. Basically it's a centered three column layout (51px wide/410px wide/445px wide), without a footer or header. Can

[css-d] Absolute positioning hidden

Hi List, I'm having a hard time trying to figure this one out, the below link takes you to the problem: URL: http://www.nailzone.co.uk/dev/training.php CSS: http://www.nailzone.co.uk/dev/css/styles.css I am trying to position a header image at the top lefthand corner of the pink box but it

Re: [css-d] Absolute positioning hidden

On 4/28/06, Bill Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Stuart, Adding z-index: 1000 to the #headingFloat style block fixed it for me on Firefox/WinXp and IE/WinXP. What OS are you using? Bill Brown Webmaster, MacNimble.com Hi Bill, Just put the z-index to 1000 and it worked a treat, many

Re: [css-d] How do I make this div its text start at the top?

That's interesting, can you expand on that? Would you use a specific DTD for IE6 always, or would it be 'it depends on ___'. In the latter case, what factors determine the DTD to assign to a document. Thanks. -Anjali Actually IE6 will do the box model reasonably well if you give it the

[css-d] IE drops center and right column content below left column again

Hello All, This is a liquid 3 column layout centered and utilizes faux columns. http://www.availcompany.com/webdev/webcode/css_test10.htm# The right column width is 1px so it looks like a 2 column design. It also uses things I learned here: CSS for photo gallery, see /* CSS for Horiz Gallery

Re: [css-d] pure css tooltips and IE

From: Schalk [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.epda.cc/joomla/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=32Itemid=26, it does not work in IE. My css is located here:http://www.epda.cc/joomla/templates/epda/css/template_css.css It's working in IE6 for me, not that that is a help to you at the

[css-d] Remove inherited background image?

I have a multi-level list in which the top level list item has a background image applied. The background image is being inherited by all of the list items as expected, but I am trying to disable it for all of the sub levels. I tried a 'background-image: none' which seems to work for FireFox, but

[css-d] Browser Issues - berkeley

Kathryn wrote: see http://admin.berkeley.edu/. [...] there is a division (right below the gold bar) between the main nav bar and the left and right divs in internet explorer for pc (for mac is fine). do you know of a hack that would eliminate this space/white bar? or is there some other fix?

Re: [css-d] Remove inherited background image?

Jeff Chastain wrote: I have a multi-level list in which the top level list item has a background image applied. The background image is being inherited by all of the list items as expected, but I am trying to disable it for all of the sub levels. I tried a 'background-image: none' which seems to

Re: [css-d] Remove inherited background image?

IE is processing the sublevel rule, it just does not clear the background image that is inherited. I have tried both background: none; and background-image: none;. The transparent image has been suggested and while it sounds awful, that may be the only solution. Thanks. -Original