[css-d] IE5.0/Win issue with position:absolute anchor

2006-05-23 Thread jack fredricks
Hi all, I'm sorry, I don't have an external link where I can provide a sample. Here's a html page though (you will need an image with a file name of a.gif for this to work) !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd; html lang=en head

[css-d] adding list style navigation to site from separate page

2006-05-23 Thread GypsiiRose Baptiste
Hello, I tried searching the archives, but maybe I didn't have the right terms. I would like to have the list-style navigation I'm building in a separate page, and import it into all the pages in the site to make management easier. The navigation is going to be a horizontal row of css based

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS popup

2006-05-23 Thread Christine Ce
Hello again list, Well I have had a go at this again and got my popup to work in Firefox, see here: http://wuongean.com/popup/index2.htm. But it's not working in IE! So my next question is: is it possible to make it work in IE? If yes, how? And I realise I gave the wrong link for the css

Re: [css-d] Help with layout.

2006-05-23 Thread Cem Meric
Im new to css and im looking for help in coding a simple layout. Can someone direct me to some resources of generate a simple example page for me? Im wanting to make my site have this layout: http:/2advent.com:81/CSSLayout1.gif I would start reading from here ;)

Re: [css-d] IE5.0/Win issue with position:absolute anchor

2006-05-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On May 23, 2006, at 4:00 PM, jack fredricks wrote: The image is absolutely positioned, but I cannot left-click on it to activate the link. I can right-click and open or open in new window, however. The only styling applied to it is position:absolute, so I imagine some of you might have

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS popup

2006-05-23 Thread Ian Young
Hello again list, And I realise I gave the wrong link for the css *again*, they are in fact here: http://wuongean.com/popup/wr_typo.css http://wuongean.com/popup/wr_layout.css Christine Links still wrong. However, I guess you haven't included the script that enables IE to use the drop

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS popup

2006-05-23 Thread Christine Ce
On 5/23/06, Ian Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Links still wrong. aargh... Ok will post the CSS here then. So that's the CSS for the popup: #kanji a, kanji a:link, kanji a:visited { display: inline; text-decoration: none; border: none; background-color: white; } #kanji

Re: [css-d] Holy grail and left column jumping

2006-05-23 Thread Ingo Chao
Ian Young wrote: Been developing the Holy Grail code from ALA. Added drop down menu to it which I never had any problem with. In IE, the left column jumps into centre on hovering over the menu Stripped out version is at http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/templates/new-dol/dol-test.html I

Re: [css-d] Help with layout.

2006-05-23 Thread David Laakso
Cem Meric wrote: Im new to css and im looking for help in coding a simple layout. Can someone direct me to some resources of generate a simple example page for me? Im wanting to make my site have this layout: http:/2advent.com:81/CSSLayout1.gif In the examples on this

Re: [css-d] Help with layout.

2006-05-23 Thread Dave Goodchild
Cem Meric wrote: Im new to css and im looking for help in coding a simple layout. Can someone direct me to some resources of generate a simple example page for me? Im wanting to make my site have this layout: http:/2advent.com:81/CSSLayout1.gif Float the logo left and the right hand

[css-d] making of a nice login page

2006-05-23 Thread victor NOAGBODJI
Hi everybody, I'm trying to make my login page match this one: http://donvitobiz.campfirenow.com/login I'm experimenting problems : - when I float left labels and inputs (clear that one also so e-mail and password won't be on same line) it doesn't work. So I removed it - I'm also trying to

Re: [css-d] adding list style navigation to site from separate page

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Allsebrook
This *can* be done in CSS using the :after Psuedo-element (http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_pseudo_elements.asp) but the cross browser support for this is very poor and can't be relied upon. This *can* be done with Javascript, but not all your uses will/can have javascript enabled so this

Re: [css-d] floats making rows, not columns.

2006-05-23 Thread Els
nooluyo? wrote: understood, it's working right now. but the problem is: how can i tell the width should be 100%-250px. :) because left column should be 250 px. and right column should be whatever there's left screen space. Don't float the right column, just give it a margin-left of 250px.

[css-d] making of a nice login page

2006-05-23 Thread victor NOAGBODJI
Hi everybody, I'm trying to make my login page match this one: http://donvitobiz.campfirenow.com/login I'm experimenting problems : - when I float left labels and inputs (clear that one also so e-mail and password won't be on same line) it doesn't work. So I removed it - I'm also trying to

Re: [css-d] making of a nice login page

2006-05-23 Thread Roger Roelofs
Hi Victor, On May 23, 2006, at 5:41 AM, victor NOAGBODJI wrote: I'm experimenting problems : - when I float left labels and inputs (clear that one also so e-mail and password won't be on same line) it doesn't work. So I removed it - I'm also trying to bottom align the texts and the input

[css-d] Menu buttons visual glitch

2006-05-23 Thread Ian Piper
I have noticed a slight visual glitch in the menu buttons on my layout. I can't figure out what is causing it, and would appreciate any pointers the list might be able to suggest as to what I've done wrong here. I tried making the right-most button a element slightly narrower: ul#mainNav

Re: [css-d] adding list style navigation to site from separate, page

2006-05-23 Thread bj
I tried searching the archives, but maybe I didn't have the right terms. I would like to have the list-style navigation I'm building in a separate page [snip] You need to search for php include or server side include. But that's unrelated to css, so you won't find it on the css-d wiki. Good

Re: [css-d] Menu buttons visual glitch

2006-05-23 Thread Kieron McIntyre
Hi Ian, Try adding the following rule: * html ul#mainNav { margin-right:-5px; } This will be read only by IE and although an arbitrary value should solve the problem. K __ css-discuss [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] Menu buttons visual glitch

2006-05-23 Thread Kieron McIntyre
Hi Ian, Try adding the following rule: * html ul#mainNav { margin-right:-5px; } This will be read only by IE and although an arbitrary value should solve the problem. K __ css-discuss [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] Drop-down menu Safari wackiness

2006-05-23 Thread benjy rose :: B:COMPLEX Creative
Bingo. Thanks so much! And, for those keeping score at home, the text overflow issue that was brought up (if you increase font size, the nav items wrap, which breaks the nav) is also solved: use em for the height attributes of the 2nd-level nav items and the top margin of the 3rd-level instead

Re: [css-d] Problem with Firefox

2006-05-23 Thread Marcelo Wolfgang
Hi Andrew and Philippe, Thanks for the tips, they solved my problem, and better than that, I've learned what the problem was about About using a table for doing that, well I was trying to develop even futher my ability with css, and it was a simple table. There will be some other people work on

Re: [css-d] Problem with Firefox

2006-05-23 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 22/05/06, Marcelo Wolfgang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I've made a website and I'm having an issue with firefox that I can't solve. The page in questions is this one: http://work.grillo.tk/vilarigno/produtos.html I have a gap at the foot of the table on the left that I don't

[css-d] CSS Form Layout Problem

2006-05-23 Thread Marc Funaro
With regards to: http://nyslittreedata.advantex.net/new/default/sampleForm.htm http://nyslittreedata.advantex.net/new/default/default.css 1. How can I get the two columns for the form to lay out properly? I've floated the labels left, but right now, the labels and their fields just spread out

[css-d] font sizing

2006-05-23 Thread Nick Lehman
I came across this while trolling through someone's css file: body { font: 62.5%/1.6em Lucida Grande, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: #000; background-color: #FFF; } what is the intent of the size calculation 62.5%/1.6em? -nick

Re: [css-d] font sizing

2006-05-23 Thread Shawn Lawler
font-size / line-height http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_font_font.asp Shawn what is the intent of the size calculation 62.5%/1.6em? -nick __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] CSS and Email

2006-05-23 Thread Chad M. Calhoun
I'm having issues with CSS in an email. I have read quite a few articles on it and have done quite a bit of testing with it. My biggest issue right now is with styling a h1. Looking at it in clients that should render it correctly (Thunderbird, Hotmail, and Yahoo), the font-family and the

Re: [css-d] font sizing

2006-05-23 Thread Felix Miata
On 06/05/23 11:15 (GMT-0400) Nick Lehman apparently typed: I came across this while trolling through someone's css file: body { font: 62.5%/1.6em ...} what is the intent of the size calculation 62.5%/1.6em? That 62.5% hocus pocus CSS is for designers who think px are more

Re: [css-d] font sizing

2006-05-23 Thread Tom Livingston
On 5/23/06, Shawn Lawler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is the intent of the size calculation 62.5%/1.6em? Felix? :-) -- Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist Media Logic www.mlinc.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] font sizing

2006-05-23 Thread Nick Lehman
ahh...it's not math it's a separator. Thanks On May 23, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Shawn Lawler wrote: font-size / line-height http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_font_font.asp Shawn what is the intent of the size calculation 62.5%/1.6em?

Re: [css-d] font sizing

2006-05-23 Thread Dave Goodchild
what is the intent of the size calculation 62.5%/1.6em? -nick Basically the general browser default size is 16px so 62.5% gives a text size of 10px. That means 1em = 10 pixels so pixel dimensions can be converted into ems so the layout will scale according to text

Re: [css-d] CSS and Email

2006-05-23 Thread Tom Livingston
reason why this is happening and is there a way to fix it? Without seeing code, I can only offer a tip. We have had great sucess with CSS in HTML emails as long as all styles are inline. i.e: li style=padding:47em;Foo/li HTH -- Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist Media Logic

Re: [css-d] font sizing

2006-05-23 Thread Kieron McIntyre
Just to clarify Nick, the 62.5%/1.6em isn't a calculation as in 62.5% divided by 1.6em. It is shorthand for font-size/line-height. In this case, the 62.5% sets the font-size to a percentage of the browser's default font-size. The 1.6em does something similar but uses the em unit which like

[css-d] Readonly textarea backround color ignored in firefox

2006-05-23 Thread Mike Botsko
I have a textarea that is set to readonly=readonly and no matter what I try, Firefox 1.5.0.3 shows the background as a brownish color. IE shows the background as white which is what I want. If I inspect the element using Firebug, it says the background color of the textarea is white, yet it's

Re: [css-d] Readonly textarea backround color ignored in firefox

2006-05-23 Thread Mike Botsko
Apparently, it's only white that doesn't work. If you set it to any other color it works fine. On 23/05/06, Mike Botsko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a textarea that is set to readonly=readonly and no matter what I try, Firefox 1.5.0.3 shows the background as a brownish color. IE shows

Re: [css-d] CSS and Email

2006-05-23 Thread Nick McNeill
There is a lot of good advice here: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2006/03/ a_guide_to_css_1.html and follow some of the links on that page to more good tips using CSS in email. Nick McNeill Intellistrand On May 23, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: reason why this is

[css-d] How is this done ?

2006-05-23 Thread Mark Fellowes
I've noticed a number of website , where graphics hang below or through various elements. As an example: http://www.missiondata.com/ where the logo is below the header into the content area. Hope this isn't a stupid question but wondering how it's accomplished. My first thought is maybe

Re: [css-d] Readonly textarea backround color ignored in firefox

2006-05-23 Thread Mike Botsko
-Original Message- I have a textarea that is set to readonly=readonly and no matter what I try, Firefox 1.5.0.3 shows the background as a brownish color. IE shows the background as white which is what I want. If I inspect the element using Firebug, it says the background color of

Re: [css-d] Readonly textarea backround color ignored in firefox

2006-05-23 Thread Dave Goodchild
This issue appears to be a Windows only thing... maybe even only Windows XP. I've tested it here and IE/Safari/Firefox Mac are working fine. However, I've verified that on two Windows XP Pro machines, using Firefox 1.5.0.3, textareas cannot be assigned a background-color of white if they're

[css-d] Fluid main column

2006-05-23 Thread Helen
Hello Group, I'm working on a new site at http://picturethis4u.com/mikesoutherland/index.htm. The css is at: http://picturethis4u.com/mikesoutherland/css-mike-southerland.htm. It's coming together pretty well, except...ahhh, I knew you were waiting for the except! In the #main, the text is

Re: [css-d] font sizing

2006-05-23 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
Felix Miata wrote: That 62.5% hocus pocus CSS is for designers who think px are more important than visitor respect and content fluidity. It originated and is explained here: http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/ It's also broken on IE-Win, which ignores the decimal fraction of percentages on

[css-d] Difference between IE6 on different machines???

2006-05-23 Thread MarcLuzietti
http://www.babyandbridalshowerboutique.com/favors1.asp This is a site I did some coding for (but did not design). On my home monitor, as well as on my client's home monitor, no white gap appears in the green body section. Nor does it appear on her lap top. On our machines at our office,

[css-d] Styling the form textarea scrolling-bars

2006-05-23 Thread Igor
Hi everybody, please send me an advice how to colorize the form textarea scrolling-barrs and arrows, with css or without css, within one form? Thanks a lot in advance, sincerely, Igor P.S. What would be the best image gallery for presenting the real-estate pictures?

Re: [css-d] Difference between IE6 on different machines???

2006-05-23 Thread Don Miller
First check for extra spaces and then for an extra ./div tag. Don - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:11 AM Subject: [css-d] Difference between IE6 on different machines??? |

Re: [css-d] Readonly textarea backround color ignored in firefox

2006-05-23 Thread cj
ff 1.5 winxp pro i see white, white, grey. i'm not sure what other info to include since i seem to be one of the rare winxp people who see it white, but if you want to know something else, just ask. __ css-discuss [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] Menu buttons visual glitch

2006-05-23 Thread Ian Piper
On 23 May 2006, at 2:12 pm, Kieron McIntyre wrote: Hi Ian, Try adding the following rule: * html ul#mainNav { margin-right:-5px; } This will be read only by IE and although an arbitrary value should solve the problem. Thanks for that - worked beautifully. I've had a huge

Re: [css-d] Readonly textarea backround color ignored in firefox

2006-05-23 Thread Jim Nannery
Morning Mike You wrote http://www.botsko.net/Test/readonly_textarea.html Ron Wrote Mike, it shows up white in both IE6 and Firefox 1.5.0.3 running on Win2K here. This issue appears to be a Windows only thing... maybe even only Windows XP. I've tested it here and IE/Safari/Firefox Mac are

Re: [css-d] font sizing

2006-05-23 Thread David Laakso
Nick Lehman wrote: I came across this while trolling through someone's css file: body { font: 62.5%/1.6em Lucida Grande, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: #000; background-color: #FFF; } what is the intent of the size calculation 62.5%/1.6em? -nick It is the

Re: [css-d] Difference between IE6 on different machines???

2006-05-23 Thread Michael Geary
http://www.babyandbridalshowerboutique.com/favors1.asp This is a site I did some coding for (but did not design). On my home monitor, as well as on my client's home monitor, no white gap appears in the green body section. Nor does it appear on her lap top. On our machines at our office,

Re: [css-d] Readonly textarea backround color ignored in firefox

2006-05-23 Thread cj
On 5/23/06, Jim Nannery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Win Xp Pro SP2 and in Firefox 1.5.0.3 I see the first and second test textarea boxes with white backgrounds and the third box with a light gray IE 6.0 is the same.. This sounds like a Google tool bar auto-fill type issue..

Re: [css-d] Readonly textarea backround color ignored in firefox

2006-05-23 Thread Ingo Chao
XP Home SP2: -Fx1.5.0.3 The first and second box are not white. -Netscape8 -Mozilla1.76 The first and second box are not white. No toolbar or whatever installed. Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Fluid main column

2006-05-23 Thread Helen
Fixed it myself after reading a recent post and figuring out what to do with it! =) Thanks, anyway. Helen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone:360-275-9433 Fax: 360-275-9433 Website: http://www.picturethis4u.com/ Keep your business at the world's fingertips 365 days of the year!

Re: [css-d] Readonly textarea backround color ignored in firefox

2006-05-23 Thread Mike Botsko
-Original Message- http://www.botsko.net/Test/readonly_textarea.html FYI - Many of you confirm that this tends to happen on Win XP. I have no idea why this happens and there did not appear to be a bug filed for it yet. I have filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339016.

Re: [css-d] font sizing

2006-05-23 Thread Felix Miata
On 06/05/23 13:07 (GMT-0400) Nick Fitzsimons apparently typed: It's also broken on IE-Win, which ignores the decimal fraction of percentages on the font-size. Thus it treats [62.5%] as font-size: 62%; giving a font-size of 9.92px. If you then try to specify the dimensions of

[css-d] print stylesheet--can't see image

2006-05-23 Thread Courtney Burge
On this page http://www.cofc.edu/~hml/index2.html I am trying to set up my print stylesheet http://www.cofc.edu/~hml/style/print.css so that there is an image http://www.cofc.edu/~hml/images/printheader.jpg at the top. On the print preview, there is sufficient space for the image, but nothing is

[css-d] which one do i position?

2006-05-23 Thread William Lawrence
good morning list! i want to position:absolute an img that's inside an a that's inside a li that's inside a ul that's inside a . . . here is the markup: ul lia href=img src=/li lia href=img src=/li lia href=img src=/li /ul which one do i position: absolute the img, a, or the li?

[css-d] 100% Viewport Height

2006-05-23 Thread Frank Manno
Hey all, I've been working on a layout for a web app for the past few days, and am running into some major cross-browser issues. What I'm trying to achieve is a 100%-height layout (similar to the new Yahoo Mail Beta), which allows the application to expand to 100% of the browser height, with no

Re: [css-d] which one do i position?

2006-05-23 Thread Shawn Lawler
Off the top of my head -- Assuming: 1. There are other lists on your page. [we'll identify the list you want postioned elements in] 2. You want your images positioned relative to your links. [we apply position:relative; to your image's parent element] 3. You want your images positioned in the

Re: [css-d] which one do i position?

2006-05-23 Thread william lawrence
[i think i'm having a heck of a time figureing out which email client to use with this list. nevertheless...] Thanks Shawn. So 1. Yes. There are other lists. 2. I want the links positioned relative to the lists container. 3. Irregardless, I think. So, what you're saying is to position: absolute

Re: [css-d] How is this done ?

2006-05-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mark Fellowes wrote: I've noticed a number of website , where graphics hang below or through various elements. It's achieved through 'layering' or overlapping. One can use floating images with or without negative margins applied, or absolute positioning of the images and/or surrounding

[css-d] firefox display problem

2006-05-23 Thread Miriam Battersby
I am using a shading image in a div under each box element. I looks fine in IE, but in Firefox and Netscape there is a gap between the box and the shade bar. Can someone please tell me, what do I need to do to get the proper display in Firefox and Netscape? http://www.mimbee.net/test/index.htm

Re: [css-d] IE5.0/Win issue with position:absolute anchor

2006-05-23 Thread jack fredricks
On 5/23/06, Philippe Wittenbergh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 23, 2006, at 4:00 PM, jack fredricks wrote: The image is absolutely positioned, but I cannot left-click on it to activate the link. I can right-click and open or open in new window, however. The only styling applied to

Re: [css-d] print stylesheet--can't see image

2006-05-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Courtney Burge wrote: http://www.cofc.edu/~hml/index2.html On the print preview, there is sufficient space for the image, but nothing is showing up. Any suggestions? I can see it because I have 'print page background' turned on. Since printing/not-printing of background is up to each user,

Re: [css-d] font-stretch / CSS2

2006-05-23 Thread francky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this as an example on one of the font specification pages referenced via the font thread email. This would be useful, but appears to be only implemented in CSS2. As a designer or user how do you access/force CSS2? Is it even viable at this time? h2 {

[css-d] making rows line up - tables or css?

2006-05-23 Thread Mike Soultanian
I love CSS, and I try do to everything with CSS, but I'm wondering if tables are a better way to achieve my goal. I am trying to create a page that isn't going to have the same height content in each row, but needs to line up like this: A B A C D D E

Re: [css-d] How is this done ?

2006-05-23 Thread francky
Mark Fellowes wrote: I've noticed a number of website , where graphics hang below or through various elements. As an example: http://www.missiondata.com/ where the logo is below the header into the content area. Hope this isn't a stupid question but wondering how it's accomplished. My first

Re: [css-d] table to flow layout conversion

2006-05-23 Thread Roger Roelofs
skye, On May 20, 2006, at 3:12 PM, skye estes wrote: right now, i'm working on the dvd page: http://www.pacifictao.com/index.php:and i have this so far: http://heli.cx/clients/pacifictao/dvds.html with the css at http://heli.cx/clients/pacifictao/main.css if the text-align: justify

Re: [css-d] making rows line up - tables or css?

2006-05-23 Thread Ed Seehouse
On 5/23/06, Mike Soultanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to create a page that isn't going to have the same height content in each row, but needs to line up like this: A B A C D D E F G H G H Is there a

Re: [css-d] making rows line up - tables or css?

2006-05-23 Thread Roger Roelofs
Mike, On May 23, 2006, at 9:00 PM, Mike Soultanian wrote: I am trying to create a page that isn't going to have the same height content in each row, but needs to line up like this: A B A C D D E F G H G H Off the top of my

[css-d] Marquee xhtml and css3

2006-05-23 Thread Appalaches Web
Hi, Is there a way to achieve a valid marquee effect with css and xhtml ? I tried a marquee tag in xhtml page and css rules. It is working fine in most browsers but not validate in xhtml validator. I reed the Bert Bos article at W3C Working Draft http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-box/#marquee

Re: [css-d] IE5.0/Win issue with position:absolute anchor

2006-05-23 Thread Bruno Fassino
jack fredricks wrote: The image is absolutely positioned, but I cannot left-click on it to activate the link. [...] I'd already tried to give it layout. But after your email I tried again...with no luck. As Phillipe mentioned, the problem in IE5.0 is caused by the fact that the anchor