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

2006-05-24 Thread Dejan Kozina
Maybe I'm a little late to the party... Got white, white, grey with Firefox 1.5.0.3 on Win98 SE. Same on Mozilla 1.7.13. djn Mike Botsko wrote: -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

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

2006-05-24 Thread Ingo Chao
Bruno Fassino wrote: What you could try is to /avoid/ layout on the anchor: add a div (or another element) around the anchor, give position:absolute to this new element, and remove it from the anchor (as well as any other layout trigger like height:1% that you have now.) ... The only other

Re: [css-d] Marquee xhtml and css3

2006-05-24 Thread David Dorward
On 24/05/06, Appalaches Web [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to achieve a valid marquee effect with css and xhtml ? Oh boy. Scrolling text. A great distraction when you're trying to focus on another part of the page. This is the web, it isn't a small display with a lot of information and

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

2006-05-24 Thread Christian Heilmann
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 head, I'd do something like this. Since I don't

Re: [css-d] Marquee xhtml and css3

2006-05-24 Thread Kieron McIntyre
I think this is a little unhelpful. The short answer is no. To generate the movement of the text simulating a marquee would currently require client-side scripting, (i.e. Javascript) although css and xhtml would be required to create the box and mask. The reason there are few references

Re: [css-d] Marquee xhtml and css3

2006-05-24 Thread Kieron McIntyre
I think this is a little unhelpful. The short answer is no. To generate the movement of the text simulating a marquee would currently require client-side scripting, (i.e. Javascript) although css and xhtml would be required to create the box and mask. The reason there are few references

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

2006-05-24 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 24/05/06, Christian Heilmann [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

[css-d] 3 col, left nav section not sitting properly

2006-05-24 Thread Eoin Maguire
I have a 3 col layout which works fine in Firefox but the left column of which goes a bit mad in IE. I've attached the CSS and html, it's at an early stage so I'm trying to get it all to work properly across browsers before proceeding. Can anyone have a look at this on IE on the PC and see why

[css-d] Site check: affaire-imprimerie.com

2006-05-24 Thread imprimerie-print
Hello list, I'm a long time listener of this list and I have written my first web site. I've tested it on windows and linux browsers but I would be very thankfull if someone could have a look at it on mac and tell me if something goes wrong. the url:

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

2006-05-24 Thread Bruno Fassino
Ingo Chao wrote: in [1], you have two solutions, but in Jack's case, only 4:onclick handler worked for me, not 3:negative z-index. Maybe another bug is interfering. I've tried a similar approach as with links not working when placed over an absolutely positioned element with a filter [2].

Re: [css-d] Site check: affaire-imprimerie.com

2006-05-24 Thread David Laakso
imprimerie-print wrote: I'm a long time listener of this list and I have written my first web site. I've tested it on windows and linux browsers but I would be very thankfull if someone could have a look at it on mac and tell me if something goes wrong. the url:

Re: [css-d] IE forms create a huge unnessisary gap

2006-05-24 Thread Kieron McIntyre
Chris wrote: The only thing I really want to adjust is why FF and Opera (correctly interprets) the below and IE doesn't. h1headingh1 form/form FF and Opera's output: Heading [form data here] IE's output: Heading

Re: [css-d] Arbitrary footer trouble.

2006-05-24 Thread Rebecca Mazur
Hi again, OK, no one had an aha moment, so I did manage to get the server opened up and I'm going to try again. I'm including below this message the stuff that I sent out before, just in case anyone wants to look at it. Here's the problem again: part of my footer is riding up the page

Re: [css-d] Site check: affaire-imprimerie.com

2006-05-24 Thread imprimerie-print
David Laakso a écrit : elcome, Eric. You have done well with your first site. There 27 screen shots here: http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=254718 From the screen shots it appears to be finel in mac/ie5.2, safari, and win/ie/2000. And I saw no significant rendering issues in

Re: [css-d] Site check: affaire-imprimerie.com

2006-05-24 Thread Christian Heilmann
Hello list, I'm a long time listener of this list and I have written my first web site. I've tested it on windows and linux browsers but I would be very thankfull if someone could have a look at it on mac and tell me if something goes wrong. the url:

[css-d] Site check + block-level elements no coloured backgrounds

2006-05-24 Thread Rachel
Hello list! #1) Site check for http://queen.greysky-morning.com/ please. I'm aware of IE's inability to display the transparent PNG used for my header. Also, the header's position is off in my Firefox (vs 1.5.0.3), but not in my friend's. It looks like

[css-d] OT: Safari can't access A List Apart?

2006-05-24 Thread Marcus Duke
For several days I've been trying to load webpages reference in various CSS Discussion list posts, but my Safari 1.3.2 can't access the server hosting alistapart.com (OS X 10.3.9 on G5 dual 1gHz)--I just keep getting the alert box saying can't access http://www.alistapart.com/path because

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

2006-05-24 Thread Mike Soultanian
A B A C D D Mike, what type of content are you presenting? Ideally your choice of markup ought to be driven by the semantic content of your material. You'll be able to create the presentation you're looking for with tables, definition lists,

[css-d] Three CSS questions re; identifier naming, auto and canceling previous rules

2006-05-24 Thread Kristina Floyd
Hello list I am aware that the W3C states you shouldn't start identifiers with a digit or a hyphen, I am just curious to know why? Can you also explain to me the meaning of the attribute value 'auto', what are its implications? Is there any way to completely cancel all previous rules for a

Re: [css-d] Site check + block-level elements no coloured backgrounds

2006-05-24 Thread Kieron McIntyre
Rachel wrote: #1) Site check for http://queen.greysky-morning.com/ please. I'm aware of IE's inability to display the transparent PNG used for my header. Also, the header's position is off in my Firefox (vs 1.5.0.3), but not in my friend's. It looks like

[css-d] How to float definition list items?

2006-05-24 Thread Paul Annett
Good afternoon! This definition list looks great in Firefox, but the positioning of the definitions is consistently not what I want across all versions of IE. http://www.nice-design.co.uk/dl/ Which browser has it right? Do you have any ideas on how to make IE's presentation look like Firefox's?

Re: [css-d] Three CSS questions re; identifier naming, auto and canceling previous rules

2006-05-24 Thread cj
these aren't going to be the perfect answers, but i'll give them a shot. :) Can you also explain to me the meaning of the attribute value 'auto', what are its implications? the only *real* thing that i know auto does is center an element that's less than 100% width. for example if you have a

[css-d] Div with one absolute and one relative boundary

2006-05-24 Thread richard hall
I would like to create a division for content on a web page, where one side of the division box is always a fixed set of pixels from the left (so it won't cover the menu which is a set number of pixels), and I would like it to cover about 80% of the remainder of the page, so it would be fixed on

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

2006-05-24 Thread Marc Funaro
The content is donor level information. So, it's just blocks of text w/ varied heights arranged as described above. Is it really table data? I'm not quite sure. That's why I wasn't sure if a table is appropriate or not. Watch out - I asked a very

[css-d] 100% height

2006-05-24 Thread richard hall
Is there any trick for getting a division to use 100% height in IE? I tried height:100% and it works in FireFox and Safari, but not in IE. ... Richard -- Richard H. Hall http://www.umr.edu/~rhall Save the internet - Preserve Network Neutrality! http://www.savetheinternet.com

Re: [css-d] Three CSS questions re; identifier naming, auto and canceling previous rules

2006-05-24 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
Kristina Floyd wrote: I am aware that the W3C states you shouldn't start identifiers with a digit or a hyphen, I am just curious to know why? Can you also explain to me the meaning of the attribute value 'auto', what are its implications? Is there any way to completely cancel all previous

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

2006-05-24 Thread Mike Soultanian
That said... I too would like to know what people consider the criteria for table vs. css usage... With some less-obvious examples. To me, if the data is truly blocks of related data that one might see in a spreadsheet, that seems to be a good case for using regular html tables. But a few

Re: [css-d] Div with one absolute and one relative boundary

2006-05-24 Thread cj
have you tried something like: .menu { float: left; width: 100px; /* or whatever */ } .content { margin-left: 100px; } div class=menu /div div class=content /div __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Is it impossible to set margin to h1, h2... el ?

2006-05-24 Thread cj
this makes me sound really dumb, but are you sure you're setting the bottom margin on the right element? #cotedroit p {margin-bottom:10px} this is going to set a bottom margin on your paragraph tags, not your header tags.

Re: [css-d] 100% height

2006-05-24 Thread cj
giving a link to your current page would greatly help. otherwise my guess would be your doctype isn't getting making ie behave the way you want. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d

Re: [css-d] Site check + block-level elements no coloured backgrounds

2006-05-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rachel wrote: http://queen.greysky-morning.com/ I'm aware of IE's inability to display the transparent PNG used for my header. Well, a 32bit png isn't necessary in this case, IMO, and IE/win displays 8bits png just fine. Example ( your page in IE ): http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/pib.png

[css-d] Best way to work in CSS and XHTML ?

2006-05-24 Thread Michel Sabatino
Hi. Which is the easiest and more efficient way to work in CSS and XHTML to get at once a view on how it will look on IE 6 and firefox? How to handle external css files during the same process described before? In one word, which are the best tools (more efficient) to work with in CSS and

[css-d] ie/win width problem

2006-05-24 Thread skye estes
hi guys! thanks for the help so far. i'm almost there. this page: http://heli.cx/clients/pacifictao/dvds.html looks great in firefox, but the width of the li items seems to be throwing ie for a loop. the css is at heli.cx/clients/pacifictao/DVD/main.css it's doing a similar but different thing

[css-d] After positioning relative, IE places everything far below

2006-05-24 Thread Chris W. Parker
Hello, I'm just now experimenting with 'position: relative;' and I've come to find out that even when I place an element outside a div (with relatively positioned elements inside it) it is still pushed below the point where the positioned elements WOULD have been (had they not been positioned).

Re: [css-d] Is it impossible to set margin to h1, h2... el ?

2006-05-24 Thread Scott Sauyet
victor NOAGBODJI wrote: In my CSS I have h1,h2,h3 {margin:0;padding:0} So that I can set margin bottom; the problem is that it isn't working. You're running into a problem with collapsing margins. Adjacent vertical margins are combined into one, and placed at the top:

Re: [css-d] Is it impossible to set margin to h1, h2... el ?

2006-05-24 Thread David Laakso
victor NOAGBODJI wrote: In my CSS I have h1,h2,h3 {margin:0;padding:0} So that I can set margin bottom; the problem is that it isn't working. Am I doing something wrong? I don't know as I am not sure I understand the question. CSS snip : form,p,h1,h2,h3 {margin:0;padding:0} #cotedroit

Re: [css-d] Div with one absolute and one relative boundary

2006-05-24 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 24/05/06, richard hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to create a division for content on a web page, where one side of the division box is always a fixed set of pixels from the left (so it won't cover the menu which is a set number of pixels), and I would like it to cover about

[css-d] hide image from non-enabled css

2006-05-24 Thread Courtney Burge
On this page: http://www.cofc.edu/~hml/index2.html I have a header image that is set to display:none on the regular stylesheet and will print with the use of a print stylesheet. Is there a way to also hide this header when toggling OFF the CSS on the page? I can't make the header image a

Re: [css-d] Div with one absolute and one relative boundary

2006-05-24 Thread richard hall
This worked, Thanks very much. The interesting thing, though, is that it worked without the float. When I put in the float it worked fine in safari and mozilla (mac pc), but in IE it wanted to make the margin-left so many pixels from the menu division, rather than from the side of the page.

Re: [css-d] Best way to work in CSS and XHTML ?

2006-05-24 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 24/05/06, Michel Sabatino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Which is the easiest and more efficient way to work in CSS and XHTML to get at once a view on how it will look on IE 6 and firefox? How to handle external css files during the same process described before? In one word, which are the

[css-d] Tooltip hiding under a relatively positionned box (in IE)

2006-05-24 Thread Go sha
Hello all! This is my first post, so I'm a bit nervous! Please let me know (and forgive me) if I break any of the lists' rules... Most of the times, I've been able to get myself out of sticky situations, but this time I'm stumped! I have a list that displays information of certain items. Because

Re: [css-d] 100% height

2006-05-24 Thread richard hall
http://www.inspirationcenter.net/midamericadharma/100.aspx Actually, I'm not sure what I did differently from the last time I tried, but it doesn't seem to work in any of the browsers I tested. The yellow background on the menu on the left is supposed to go to the bottom of the page. ... Any

[css-d] How to set table rows to a fixed height ?

2006-05-24 Thread victor NOAGBODJI
Hi again I want to set my table rows to the same height (15px) : (html) http://www.surprises.tg/newsletter/administration2.html (css) http://www.surprises.tg/newsletter/default.css I've placed a table tr {height:15px} which happens to only work on the thead. My little pictures are 16px high;

Re: [css-d] Best way to work in CSS and XHTML ?

2006-05-24 Thread Jim Nannery
Afternoon Michel You wrote Hi. Which is the easiest and more efficient way to work in CSS and XHTML to get at once a view on how it will look on IE 6 and firefox? How to handle external css files during the same process described before? In one word, which are the best tools (more

Re: [css-d] How to set table rows to a fixed height ?

2006-05-24 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 24/05/06, victor NOAGBODJI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again I want to set my table rows to the same height (15px) : (html) http://www.surprises.tg/newsletter/administration2.html (css) http://www.surprises.tg/newsletter/default.css I've placed a table tr {height:15px} which happens

Re: [css-d] Div with one absolute and one relative boundary

2006-05-24 Thread cj
The interesting thing, though, is that it worked without the float. that's because you absolutely positioned it when it shouldn't be. :) change your content to be: #content { margin-left: 220px; height:800px; font-family: Papyrus; background-color:#FF;

Re: [css-d] After positioning relative, IE places everything far below

2006-05-24 Thread Ingo Chao
Chris W. Parker wrote: Hello, I'm just now experimenting with 'position: relative;' and I've come to find out that even when I place an element outside a div (with relatively positioned elements inside it) it is still pushed below the point where the positioned elements WOULD have been (had

Re: [css-d] Best way to work in CSS and XHTML ?

2006-05-24 Thread Laura Frederick
I use Dreamweaver for simultaneous CSS Xhtml editing. But I don't know if I prefer it to any other because I have used DW for years and years. I have open the css file and the html file at the same time, the HTML is usually always in code view. Change, save, hit F12 to view in browser, repeat.

Re: [css-d] 100% height

2006-05-24 Thread Sebastian Dammark
Hi Richard Try this html, body { height: 100%; } // Sebastian www.dammark.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of richard hall Sent: 24. maj 2006 21:02 To: cj Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] 100% height

[css-d] sitecheck - best practices

2006-05-24 Thread steff eiter
hello all, this is my first post, so please go easy :) i am building a few all css sites and was wondering if anyone would take a look specifically at my code and see if there is anything that seems out of place, uneccessary or repetitive. the sites seem to work fine in all browsers on both

Re: [css-d] After positioning relative, IE places everything far below

2006-05-24 Thread Chris W. Parker
Ingo Chao mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 1:15 PM said: This does not sound wrong. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#choose-position When a box B is relatively positioned, the position of the following box is calculated as though B were not offset. Hmm... then I

[css-d] Flexible box with image in the background

2006-05-24 Thread Erik Gyepes
Hi all! I would like to make an flexible box with image in the background. Look to this screenshot as an example: http://trash.depi.sk/irisoft.png. There is the box, with the image. I designed that this box will be divided to 3 parts: top, middle and bottom. Top for the top part - to under the

Re: [css-d] Flexible box with image in the background

2006-05-24 Thread Tom Livingston
.ako-pokracovat-box-middle div { float: left; width: 500px; background: url(../images/ako-pokracovat-box-middle.gif) repeat-y; } change to this maybe? .ako-pokracovat-box-middle{/*took out 'div' here */ float: left; width: 500px; background:

Re: [css-d] After positioning relative, IE places everything far below

2006-05-24 Thread Ingo Chao
Chris W. Parker wrote: www.swatgear.com/impacst.php Failure is not an option, uh, so my next proposal is better more correct. #box_with_button { ... overflow: hidden;} would prevent IE7 from expanding the height of #box_with_button. (IE6 treats height similar to min-height.) Further

Re: [css-d] sitecheck - best practices

2006-05-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
steff eiter wrote: this is my first post, so please go easy :) Sorry... can't promise that, but you'll survive ;-) Welcome to css-d. the sites seem to work fine in all browsers on both platforms and it validates. Validity is the easy part, and no; the site doesn't work fine in any of my

Re: [css-d] dithered.com domain expired?

2006-05-24 Thread mat
You can see the full information here: http://www.communis.co.uk/dithered/css_filters/index.html On 5/22/06, Philippe Wittenbergh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 22, 2006, at 2:40 AM, liorean wrote: Does anyone know where the CSS filters page at dithered.com went to? I get a this

[css-d] CSS horizonal main menu with dropdown horizontal menu (*not* vertical)

2006-05-24 Thread Tim Ware
Can someone point me to best pure-css dropdown menu. It has to be one where the top nav items are horizontal and the dropdown is spawned below them and can be wider than the spawning list item. I suspect this is a bit more complicated because of the width difference between the main and

Re: [css-d] font-stretch / CSS2 which standards?

2006-05-24 Thread francky
francky wrote: [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

Re: [css-d] Site check: affaire-imprimerie.com

2006-05-24 Thread Felix Miata
On 06/05/24 09:12 (GMT-0400) imprimerie-print apparently typed: David Laakso a écrit : http://www.affaire-imprimerie.com/index.html A few suggestions; --The visited link states(vertical and horizontal menus) could use a bit more contrast. And since you do have a horiz nav, I did not

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

2006-05-24 Thread Mark Fellowes
 Just wanted to thank everyone who responded explaining how the graphic was used. I'm still learning CSS and think that I am still sort of more easily taken in with graphics and using graphics to spiff up a site. However, I'm working to control that jones and create sites that have a wider

Re: [css-d] Fluid main column - mikesou

2006-05-24 Thread Felix Miata
On 06/05/23 12:58 (GMT-0400) Helen apparently typed: 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. Your fixed height #header is creating a problem at high resolution:

[css-d] mouseover nav - sliding doors, etc

2006-05-24 Thread Stephen Karsch
hi everyone, i am working on a site where i want a pretty simple mouseover on the nav, and i'm using the technique outlined here: http://www.tyssendesign.com.au/examples/IR-navbar.html so far, so good. but i also want the ability to indicate current page, so there's 4 possible states for each

Re: [css-d] Elastic layouts: want to confirm

2006-05-24 Thread Felix Miata
On 06/05/19 09:32 (GMT+0100) Alastair Campbell apparently typed: Intending for layout's to scale based on font size isn't such a good idea for accessibility, it often leads to lots of horizontal scrolling for those who need it most. See this for more explanation:

Re: [css-d] Best way to work in CSS and XHTML ?

2006-05-24 Thread Tim Gossett
I recommend PHP Designer 2006 Beta. It's not a WYSIWYG, and it doesn't manage sites like Dreamweaver; but it does have some great syntax highlighting. Dreamweaver is a little more user-friendly for creating CSS, but it doesn't let you get as sophisticated as some of your fellow list members would