Re: [css-d] Relative positioning and widths

2006-06-15 Thread Ingo Chao
Brendan Grossman wrote: Here's sample code I'm using... #left { float: left; width: 15em; } #right { float: left; } div id=left/div div id=right/div !-- drops below left div -- This sample code does not drop in Firefox. Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html

Re: [css-d] Relative positioning and widths

2006-06-15 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jun 15, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Brendan Grossman wrote: Is it possible to have floating divs side-by-side without the width specified or with just one set explicitly? For example I have two columns... Left hand side I want to set explicity, ie. 15em Right hand side, I want it to fill up the

[css-d] Problem with input in Opera

2006-06-15 Thread Mike Davies
Hi all, I have a small problem with a form on my latest site which I can't resolve. The page is www.scottishfreshfoods.com/hamporder.htm The page works correctly in Firefox IE5/IE6. In Opera 8.54 the page looks OK but none of the input boxes in the lefthand column (Order your hamper here) can

[css-d] article on 100PercentHeight not properly listed on css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FrontPage

2006-06-15 Thread Erik Visser
article on 100PercentHeight not properly listed on css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FrontPage propably because of the page strating with a number? __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d

Re: [css-d] Problem with input in Opera

2006-06-15 Thread Ingo Chao
Mike Davies wrote: The page is www.scottishfreshfoods.com/hamporder.htm The page works correctly in Firefox IE5/IE6. In Opera 8.54 the page looks OK but none of the input boxes in the lefthand column (Order your hamper here) can be entered. This works fine in the other browsers. Cannot

[css-d] Centering a CSS positioned design

2006-06-15 Thread css
Having spent ages learning how to position stuff in CSS and getting it meticulously right (using the nice hack that I was pointed at to get IE to behave, too) the client has now said Oh, can you make the content centre in the browser? ARGH! If I was still using tables for layout this would be

Re: [css-d] Centering a CSS positioned design

2006-06-15 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 15/06/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having spent ages learning how to position stuff in CSS and getting it meticulously right (using the nice hack that I was pointed at to get IE to behave, too) the client has now said Oh, can you make the content centre in the browser?

Re: [css-d] Centering a CSS positioned design

2006-06-15 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 15/06/06, Flash Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:01:05AM +0100, Dave Goodchild wrote: To centre in the browser there are two main ways, either use the IE heck (text-align: center then text-align: left etc) but I prefer using relative positioning and

Re: [css-d] Centering a CSS positioned design

2006-06-15 Thread css
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:12:49AM +0100, Dave Goodchild wrote: Can you give me the URL? Course! http://www.wdam.co.uk/clients/dynam/hh/ I didn't post it at first as I didn't want it to look like I'm asking you to do my homework for me; I'd rather grasp the concept than copy parrot fashion.

Re: [css-d] Centering a CSS positioned design

2006-06-15 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 15/06/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:12:49AM +0100, Dave Goodchild wrote: Can you give me the URL? Course! http://www.wdam.co.uk/clients/dynam/hh/ I didn't post it at first as I didn't want it to look like I'm asking you to do my homework

Re: [css-d] Centering a CSS positioned design

2006-06-15 Thread Els
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having spent ages learning how to position stuff in CSS and getting it meticulously right (using the nice hack that I was pointed at to get IE to behave, too) the client has now said Oh, can you make the content centre in the browser? ARGH! If I was still using

Re: [css-d] Centering a CSS positioned design

2006-06-15 Thread Els
Dave Goodchild wrote: To centre in the browser there are two main ways, either use the IE heck (text-align: center then text-align: left etc) but I prefer using relative positioning and negative margins - example: #wrapper { width: 740px; position: relative; left: 50%; margin-left:

Re: [css-d] columns streching

2006-06-15 Thread Erik Visser
Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: Erik Visser wrote: so i'am looking for a place with good explaination of the technique(s) of: columns streching to the bottom of the viewport, regardless of the content length of any of the columns I don't know of a comprehensive article, but we have a wiki page

Re: [css-d] Centering a CSS positioned design

2006-06-15 Thread css
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:21:04PM +0200, Els wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So... My idea is to make a container class for it all, and then to have everything positioned relative rather than absolute. And centre the containing class. Just make a div with id=container to hold all that's

Re: [css-d] no background-color with your color warnings

2006-06-15 Thread Richard Allsebrook
Hi Dale Technically you are supposed to specify a background *every* time you specify a foreground (and vise versa). The problem is that the validator seems to ignore the 'Cascade' part of cascading style sheets (and also, doesn't look at the mark-up) so has no real clue as to which

Re: [css-d] Centering a CSS positioned design

2006-06-15 Thread Scott Reston
I'm wondering - wouldn't it work to simply set the width of the body appropriately, then set it's left and right margins to auto? Same effect without any extra non-semantic cruft. This just off the top of my head, so YMMV. -- s:r { scott reston raleigh, nc http://scott.therestons.com

Re: [css-d] Centering a CSS positioned design

2006-06-15 Thread Els
Scott Reston wrote: I'm wondering - wouldn't it work to simply set the width of the body appropriately, then set it's left and right margins to auto? And give it position:relative, yes :-) Same effect without any extra non-semantic cruft. This just off the top of my head, so YMMV. Yup,

[css-d] Displaying external page in a div

2006-06-15 Thread John Mandia
Hi all, Is it at all possible to display a page within a page (i.e. not using frames or iframe). i.e. the ability to set the source of a div to an external url. Anyone ever tried or achieved anything like this? Thanks, John

Re: [css-d] Displaying external page in a div

2006-06-15 Thread Els
John Mandia wrote: Is it at all possible to display a page within a page (i.e. not using frames or iframe). i.e. the ability to set the source of a div to an external url. Not with CSS. JavaScript perhaps (no idea) or else, Google for screenscraping (server-side scripting needed). -- Els

Re: [css-d] Displaying external page in a div

2006-06-15 Thread Tom Anthony
On 15 Jun 2006, at 15:11, John Mandia wrote: Hi all, Is it at all possible to display a page within a page (i.e. not using frames or iframe). i.e. the ability to set the source of a div to an external url. Anyone ever tried or achieved anything like this? Thanks, John Depending on

Re: [css-d] fixed background over scrolling text problem

2006-06-15 Thread Tom Anthony
On 15 Jun 2006, at 00:20, Bruce Gilbert wrote: I have a div filled with text that I am creating scrolling functionality using DHTML. I am having a CSS issue because my background image was scrolling along with the text, and I wanted it to remain put (static), so I tried this:

[css-d] List Problem

2006-06-15 Thread Trey Copeland
www.wku.edu/icap is what I'm working on. In firefox the related links line up perfect, but in IE they look horrible. Any suggestions? Thanks. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d

Re: [css-d] fixed background over scrolling text problem

2006-06-15 Thread David Laakso
Tom Anthony wrote: On 15 Jun 2006, at 00:20, Bruce Gilbert wrote: I have a div filled with text that I am creating scrolling functionality using DHTML. I am having a CSS issue because my background image was scrolling along with the text, and I wanted it to remain put (static), so I

Re: [css-d] List Problem

2006-06-15 Thread Els
Trey Copeland wrote: www.wku.edu/icap is what I'm working on. In firefox the related links line up perfect, but in IE they look horrible. Any suggestions? They don't line up in Firefox here, while they do in IE. You're missing an opening li on the second link. -- Els http://locusmeus.com/

Re: [css-d] List Problem

2006-06-15 Thread Els
Els wrote: Trey Copeland wrote: www.wku.edu/icap is what I'm working on. In firefox the related links line up perfect, but in IE they look horrible. Any suggestions? They don't line up in Firefox here, while they do in IE. You're missing an opening li on the second link. Ugh - you're also

Re: [css-d] List Problem

2006-06-15 Thread Els
Trey Copeland wrote: General advice: When you are asking people to help you with a problem, don't alter the example. It's very hard to see a problem in a moving target. Instead, if you want to keep fiddling while waiting for other people's help, use a separate example. One that you post

Re: [css-d] Displaying external page in a div

2006-06-15 Thread John Mandia
Hi Guys, Thanks for the suggestions. Let me clarify the idea a bit: Environment of target page : .Net, IIS, ASP.Net Consuming page: Undetermined (Could be JSP). The idea is that I have an ssl page. I want someone to be able to display this page within their own page not using frames or an

Re: [css-d] columns streching

2006-06-15 Thread Scott Reston
This is a possible solution to making min/max work in IE: http://www.doxdesk.com/software/js/minmax.html Haven't used it personally, though. -- s:r { scott reston http://scott.therestons.com scott at therestons * com } Erik Visser wrote: Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: Erik Visser

Re: [css-d] no background-color with your color warnings

2006-06-15 Thread David Dorward
On 15/06/06, Richard Allsebrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that the validator seems to ignore the 'Cascade' part of cascading style sheets Actually, its the exact opposite. BECAUSE of the cascade, you can end up with your forground colour being displayed against a background

Re: [css-d] fixed background over scrolling text problem

2006-06-15 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Laakso wrote: Fixed may be a problem for IE. Although there is an underground rumor a friend of the list has solved this wicked difficult problem. It depends... :-) There's this workaround for regular fixed backgrounds... http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/fixedBackground.html There's also

Re: [css-d] no background-color with your color warnings

2006-06-15 Thread Dale Lists
Thank you for the reply, David Dorward wrote: On 15/06/06, Richard Allsebrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that the validator seems to ignore the 'Cascade' part of cascading style sheets Actually, its the exact opposite. BECAUSE of the cascade, you can end up with your

[css-d] IE adding spaces between li nav tags

2006-06-15 Thread Tanya Fader
Ok, I hope that this is a simple fix that my frazzled brain just hasn't recognized. This page is a bit of a mess and I'm just in the process of trying to clean things up. I've created a roll-over CSS navigation (using a little .js). This is an example for navigation code I found somewhere

Re: [css-d] IE adding spaces between li nav tags

2006-06-15 Thread Venditelli, Daniel - Web Development Administrator
Why are you using the additional span tag around Corporations LLCs? Not that I think it has anything to do with your problem, but it just seems unnecessary to me and I'd like to know if I'm missing something. Also, I've had better luck explicitly defining the margins for top left right and

Re: [css-d] Relative positioning and widths

2006-06-15 Thread Ed Seehouse
On 6/14/06, Brendan Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone Is it possible to have floating divs side-by-side without the width specified or with just one set explicitly? Yes. For example I have two columns... Left hand side I want to set explicity, ie. 15em Right hand side, I want

Re: [css-d] IE adding spaces between li nav tags

2006-06-15 Thread Donna Casey
Tanya Fader wrote: I've created a roll-over CSS navigation (using a little .js). This is an example for navigation code I found somewhere else. I've added background images to each of the li nav elements so that they work more like rollovers (just a note that I haven't finished so the

[css-d] Print Woes

2006-06-15 Thread Tom Livingston
Hello list, I am banging my head against my desk on this one. IE6 is always printing a second blank page for a couple of Intranet reports here. Are there any typical things that would cause this? I have a print style sheet, but nothing seems to be fixing it. Any thoughts? I can't post the page

Re: [css-d] Print Woes

2006-06-15 Thread Tom Livingston
URH! I got it. I have some wrappers at 100% height. I was countering it in the print sheet with height:auto; but it wasn't doing anything - in IE at least. When I changed it to height:auto!important; my extra prined sheet went away. One for the books... -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multimedia

Re: [css-d] Print Woes

2006-06-15 Thread Kate Shorey - Comcast
Hi Tom, Outside the web world this is caused by one too many blank lines more often than not. Does the extra page print when you resize the view to it's smallest? Perhaps there are some breaks or extra text, or lengthy footers that you can adjust? Can you copy your print css and some source

Re: [css-d] 2 equal-height columns and onetruelayout (OTL)

2006-06-15 Thread e lohroff
Hmmm - guess I should have been more explicit in asking a question - What have I done wrong in my css and html? TIA, E. e lohroff wrote: snip my page is still broken in IE 6, Opera 7.11 and Netscape 8.1. snip I'm trying to teach myself css instead of tables and am trying to replicate

Re: [css-d] 2 equal-height columns and onetruelayout (OTL)

2006-06-15 Thread David Laakso
e lohroff wrote: I *think* I followed the guidelines and code explicitly in OTL(positioniseverything.net) but my page is still broken in IE 6, Opera 7.11 and Netscape 8.1. I don't know what OTL is and I did not try to find out. Most of us Opera fanatics use Opera9.0b2. I think the latest

Re: [css-d] 2 equal-height columns and onetruelayout (OTL)

2006-06-15 Thread Ed Seehouse
It represents a starting point, not a solution. The xml declation above the doctype puts IE in quirksmode (I don't exactly know what that means, other than it's easier to cope with the 'evil one' that way). I find it the exact opposite. IE 6 in quirks mode renders any block element with

Re: [css-d] fixed background over scrolling text problem

2006-06-15 Thread Bruce Gilbert
I am getting this to work fine in Mozilla and Safari, but in IE the background is nowhere to be found. I did also notice in the browsers where it does show up is when you resize the browser window, the background is static and doesn't reposition along with the rest. I am thinking this may be due

Re: [css-d] 2 equal-height columns and onetruelayout (OTL)

2006-06-15 Thread David Laakso
Ed Seehouse wrote: It represents a starting point, not a solution. The xml declation above the doctype puts IE in quirksmode (I don't exactly know what that means, other than it's easier to cope with the 'evil one' that way). I find it the exact opposite. IE 6 in quirks mode renders

Re: [css-d] fixed background over scrolling text problem

2006-06-15 Thread David Laakso
Bruce Gilbert wrote: I am getting this to work fine in Mozilla and Safari, but in IE the background is nowhere to be found. [mega monster trim job] Georg Sortun answered the question, and pointed you, at 12:02p this afternoon. Perhaps you did not see his reply. Georg wrote in reference to IE:

Re: [css-d] no background-color with your color warnings

2006-06-15 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:52:42 -0500, Dale Lists wrote: So it would seem that I now need to define a:link, a:hover, etc for each place where there may be a different background color for each div I may use a link in. That both kind of makes sense, but also would seem to make things far more