Re: [css-d] site/form check - caps-web.org

2006-07-20 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Bob Meetin wrote: [...] On my higher resolution linux pc (I think 1280x) , the vertical menu drops (expands) about 25 pixels (in height) or so out of its spot. site: www.caps-web.org Like this? http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/caps.png Not necessarily what you're looking for, but that is

[css-d] White Space

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Brown
Hi Guys Could you please tell me how I might get rid of the white space at the top of this site. http://www.trewithen.org.uk/ http://www.trewithen.org.uk/wp-content/themes/New_classic/style.css The anchor div seems to be the culprit but I don't know how to get it to behave! Many thanks. --

Re: [css-d] White Space

2006-07-20 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Richard Brown wrote: Could you please tell me how I might get rid of the white space at the top of this site. http://www.trewithen.org.uk/ The anchor div seems to be the culprit but I don't know how to get it to behave! The anchor div has nothing to do with it. It's 'collapsing

[css-d] holy grail problems

2006-07-20 Thread Liz
I started building a site with the holy grail 3 column layout http://www.alistapart.com/d/holygrail/example_2.html and noticed the following 2 problems: 1) On IE on the Mac the left column is not where it should be. 2) my anchors don't work correctly in FireFox -- I can click down into the page

[css-d] inherit problems

2006-07-20 Thread ross
I have set the properties of my form fields textarea, input { width: 550px; } I only have one that I want to ignore this class. What is the best way to get the single elements to ignore the class? Can I wrap it in a div and do something that way? R.

Re: [css-d] holy grail problems

2006-07-20 Thread Ingo Chao
Liz wrote: I started building a site with the holy grail 3 column layout http://www.alistapart.com/d/holygrail/example_2.html and noticed the following 2 problems: 1) On IE on the Mac the left column is not where it should be. The author does not support older browsers.

Re: [css-d] CSS beginner seeking help

2006-07-20 Thread Designer
Janet Chang wrote: Hi, I just joined the listserv and am seeking help on a new site I am coding for my organization. I took an intro to CSS class a few months ago so I'm still quite a newbie, but would like to build my experience using CSS. Since this is a brand new site, I was able to

[css-d] Centering divs horizontally, and varying resolutions 1024+

2006-07-20 Thread David O'Neill
Thanks a million for eveyones reponse to my original post I have tried a few methods and both in IE7/win and FF1.5/win it pushes the divs to the right and almost off-screen, only when you scroll to the far right are the images centered horizontally. The only method that seems to work so far is to

Re: [css-d] holy grail problems

2006-07-20 Thread Liz
On 7/20/06 3:23 AM, Ingo Chao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liz wrote: I started building a site with the holy grail 3 column layout http://www.alistapart.com/d/holygrail/example_2.html and noticed the following 2 problems: 1) On IE on the Mac the left column is not where it should be. The

Re: [css-d] holy grail problems

2006-07-20 Thread Ingo Chao
Liz wrote: Thank you for the links. Here is my code. Please note (to the people who will request that I put my text in percentages) that the client specifically requested pixels http://www.liztestsite.com/testsite/test.html This is using the

Re: [css-d] holy grail problems

2006-07-20 Thread Liz
On 7/20/06 4:30 AM, Ingo Chao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liz wrote: Thank you for the links. Here is my code. Please note (to the people who will request that I put my text in percentages) that the client specifically requested pixels http://www.liztestsite.com/testsite/test.html

Re: [css-d] Centering divs horizontally, and varying resolutions 1024+

2006-07-20 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David O'Neill wrote: I have reposted the page on www.amici-noctis.net which has been recoded to make the mouseover stuff work properly, but this centering issues really is bugging me... Details: the divs in question have a permanent and total width of 850px and a permanent and total

Re: [css-d] site/form check - caps-web.org

2006-07-20 Thread Bob Meetin
Thanks - Yes I get the picture - this is the feedback I was looking for. I did some internet reading about fonts last night - sorely needed education. I had misunderstood that definition in pixels actually meant fixed font size - very wrong. For the vertical menu, I figured out how to set

Re: [css-d] Most mysteryous thing happens on IE 6.0!

2006-07-20 Thread Christian Heilmann
http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/?search=yellow+form+fields http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=enq=yellow+form+fields It is the Google toolbar. http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/?search=disappearing+image Probably the peekaboo bug:

Re: [css-d] Most mysteryous thing happens on IE 6.0!

2006-07-20 Thread Michel Bozgounov
Oh, thanks a million! :-) Well, I *have* Google toolbar, but I use IE only when testing pages, so I completely forgot about its existence! So, I switched off the toolbar and! Lo and behold! the yellow fields are now OK:) Thanks! Now remains to understand the second mystery - with the

Re: [css-d] Most mysteryous thing happens on IE 6.0!

2006-07-20 Thread Michel Bozgounov
Thanks, Chrstian! :) 1. Yellow fields - fixed;-) Silly me! 2. Maybe yes, it was the pekaboo, but *what was strange*, it appeared on only ORDER CD page, and not on others, although most of the pages have the same code, only on this page was added a FORM inside a new DIV. Fixed by adding:

Re: [css-d] Firefox auto margin problem

2006-07-20 Thread Janet Chang
At 05:52 PM 7/19/2006, you wrote: On 06/07/19 12:42 (GMT-0500) Janet Chang apparently typed: In the meantime, I'm also working on fixing a display issue for our main school site. I am trying to set the text width in our content div to only go 80% across since at 100% the length per line is

Re: [css-d] Firefox auto margin problem

2006-07-20 Thread Tom Livingston
On 7/20/06, Janet Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried subbing ems for the percentage and it fixed the width problem on the list of link pages. However, it ended up creating problems on pages where we have a blue box on the right side of the page. The box should stay flush with the left

[css-d] Ersatz 3-column using a right float for 3rd column

2006-07-20 Thread Marcus Duke
I'm trying to do a 1-static-1 flexible-1 static 3-column layout (gave up on Holy Grail; was hoping to avoid Jello Mold due to its complexity), and if I get IE to work fine, then of all things, Firefox yields problems. Safari and Opera have not been a problem this time around. As an

Re: [css-d] Firefox auto margin problem

2006-07-20 Thread Janet Chang
At 10:58 AM 7/20/2006, you wrote: On 7/20/06, Janet Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried subbing ems for the percentage and it fixed the width problem on the list of link pages. However, it ended up creating problems on pages where we have a blue box on the right side of the page. The box

Re: [css-d] Ersatz 3-column using a right float for 3rd column

2006-07-20 Thread Christian Montoya
On 7/20/06, Marcus Duke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to do a 1-static-1 flexible-1 static 3-column layout (gave up on Holy Grail; was hoping to avoid Jello Mold due to its complexity), and if I get IE to work fine, then of all things, Firefox yields problems. Safari and Opera have not

[css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Bill Walton
Greetings! Can anybody see why the stylesheet link below wouldn't validate? link href=/stylesheets/emrec_entry.css?1153418233 media=all rel=Stylesheet type=text/css / I'm trying to validate a page's HTML and, with this line in the HTML, am getting an error that says I have a /head tag

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 20/07/06, Bill Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! Can anybody see why the stylesheet link below wouldn't validate? link href=/stylesheets/emrec_entry.css?1153418233 media=all rel=Stylesheet type=text/css / I'm trying to validate a page's HTML and, with this line in the HTML, am

[css-d] Combine Stylesheets Dynamically?

2006-07-20 Thread Alex Foley
Here's the question... I've got one static stylesheet that should be the same for every page of my site, but then I have specific stylesheets that only apply to specific sections or subsections. My solution now is to have a single dynamic stylesheet that assembles these on the fly, but I

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Dave, Dave Goodchild wrote: Why the ? and numbers in the css filename? The app's built using Ruby on Rails and the stylesheet link is autogenerated. The stylesheet definitely works. But I'm working on a styling problem, decided I'd better validate the generated HTML before asking for

Re: [css-d] Firefox auto margin problem

2006-07-20 Thread Tom Livingston
On 7/20/06, Janet Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:58 AM 7/20/2006, you wrote: On 7/20/06, Janet Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, this thing is driving my brain so crazy I'm getting left and right mixed up. What I meant to say was that the blue box is supposed to stay flush with the

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Debi, Debi Orton wrote: If you are using HTML, the slash at the end of the line is probably throwing an error. Also, I'm not sure about the ? after the CSS file's name. Hope this is helpful. Very helpful! The slash was the problem. File validates without it. Fails with it in.

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Bill Walton
Very helpful! The slash was the problem. File validates without it. Fails with it in. Thanks! Went back to the w3schools site to see what I'd missed and now I'm confused. Here's the example HTML from that site for stylesheet links. head link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=mystyle.css

Re: [css-d] One True Layout problems (was Re: holy grail problems)

2006-07-20 Thread Liz
On 7/20/06 7:48 AM, Alex Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liz wrote: ... It seems wierd that someone would make a design that anchors don't work in since anchors are so widely used. ... It was an oversight missed by myself and the 20 or so people who looked over the technique during

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 20/07/06, Bill Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very helpful! The slash was the problem. File validates without it. Fails with it in. Thanks! Went back to the w3schools site to see what I'd missed and now I'm confused. Here's the example HTML from that site for stylesheet links.

Re: [css-d] Firefox auto margin problem

2006-07-20 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Janet Chang wrote: I also noticed that when using ems, if I open up my Bookmarks column, the blue box shifts outside of the entire page. But I just realized it's probably because the blue box div is separate from the content div and there's no container div around this whole section.

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Christian Montoya
On 7/20/06, Bill Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very helpful! The slash was the problem. File validates without it. Fails with it in. Thanks! Went back to the w3schools site to see what I'd missed and now I'm confused. Here's the example HTML from that site for stylesheet links.

Re: [css-d] One True Layout problems (was Re: holy grail problems)

2006-07-20 Thread Alex Robinson
Thank you for your reply. The one true layout is really a beautiful solution Thank you. Of course it's really three separate solutions for three separate problems. And there is no Keyser Soze and there is no One True Layout ;) I can see how the anchor was overlooked. I showed you a

Re: [css-d] inherit problems

2006-07-20 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have set the properties of my form fields textarea, input { width: 550px; } I only have one that I want to ignore this class. What is the best way to get the single elements to ignore the class? Can I wrap it in a div and do something that way? Set a

Re: [css-d] clear problems in Firefox/Opera

2006-07-20 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: Magenta Placenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.matthickerson.com/ http://www.matthickerson.com/stylesheet.css Explorer: appears fine I believe this to be a clearing problem, but I'm not really understanding WHAT and WHERE the clearing needs to be to make the page appear like Explorer.

Re: [css-d] Combine Stylesheets Dynamically?

2006-07-20 Thread Alex Foley
The problem is my main page is the heaviest of the pages...it carries a large Flash graphic (although that would soon go away...). One thing I've decided on is that the user downloading a separate stylesheet for each page is no good... I have always maintained individual CSS files to avoid

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Bill Walton
Thank you all for your responses! Many wrote: If you are using XHTML, you need it for self closing tags: tag / If you are using HTML, you don't want it: tag That was indeed the problem. I had an HTML Doctype. Problem is, the page won't come close to validating with any of the XHTML

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Ingo Chao
Bill Walton wrote: ... http://www.emrec-beta1.com . Each line has a button on it to remove that item from both the database and the page. after some clicking, I guess you mean this page http://www.emrec-beta1.com/allergy/edit Position: absolute means taking it out of the page flow and

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Lord Khaos
The site is at http://www.emrec-beta1.com . There's a link at the bottom of the first page that takes you into the app. On the 'Patient Information' page, enter something in the 'Last name' field. No additional info is required to proceed. Four clicks takes you to the 'Medication

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Lord Khaos
I won't embarrass myself by trying to write the stylesheet from memory d'oh, I knew I'd get something a bit off--see below: --Open another div for the 'other' item.A gain, specify a width, display:block The example from the wiki demonstrates floating hyperlinks, hence the need for the display

Re: [css-d] Ersatz 3-column using a right float for 3rd column

2006-07-20 Thread David Laakso
Marcus Duke wrote: I'm trying to do a 1-static-1 flexible-1 static 3-column layout...] http://fish.washington.edu/people/template/index_first.html Also,is there a way to make the float 100% window height? [...] The 3 column tutorial on this page

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Bill Walton
Hi Ingo, Ingo Chao wrote: a static page to work on would be immensely helpful. I've put a static page at http://www.emrec-beta1.com/edit.htm and hard-coded the stylesheet link to the emrec_entry.css file in the same directory. Please let me know if you have any trouble accessing either.

Re: [css-d] stylesheet link causing validation to fail

2006-07-20 Thread Ingo Chao
Bill Walton wrote: Hi Ingo, Ingo Chao wrote: a static page to work on would be immensely helpful. I've put a static page at http://www.emrec-beta1.com/edit.htm and hard-coded the stylesheet link to the emrec_entry.css file in the same directory. Please let me know if you have any

Re: [css-d] Ersatz 3-column using a right float for 3rd column

2006-07-20 Thread Marcus Duke
Thanks, David. Are you familiar with the skidoo layouts suggested by Christian? They are the most robust 3-column layouts I've tested so far and I wondered how you viewed them compared with the negativemargins method. I had checked out the ALA negative margin layout previously but didn't know

Re: [css-d] Ersatz 3-column using a right float for 3rd column

2006-07-20 Thread David Laakso
Marcus Duke wrote: Thanks, David. On the other hand, skidoo (not the lean, which exhibits the same problems as Holy Grail and negative margins; the full version--skidoo_too) did not exhibit any of the same problems that negativemargins had with the 7 browsers I tested. Go with the

Re: [css-d] One True Layout problems (was Re: holy grail problems)

2006-07-20 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jul 20, 2006, at 11:48 PM, Alex Robinson wrote: The solution is based on using XBL attached via the -moz-binding property http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xbl/xbl.html http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/CSS:-moz-binding Essentially the equal height stuff is overridden in

[css-d] css layout for college student paper

2006-07-20 Thread jaklitsch maya
Hi, this is my first request. I just found you a few days ago. I am enjoying the digest, some of which I understand and some of which is straight over my head. I put my community college student newspaper on the web, and have for several years. It has been a great experience as I am a web design

Re: [css-d] css layout for college student paper

2006-07-20 Thread Christian Montoya
On 7/21/06, jaklitsch maya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess my question boils down is there a limit of the number of divs in the main content area. From my research I have seen samples that seem to contain only 2 or 3. Is there another way to organize the content. There's no limit to how

[css-d] Best navigational scheme?

2006-07-20 Thread phidlerwerf
[This is likely the wrong venue for this question, so I'd welcome redirection to sites/groups/fora that focus on design philosophy in lieu of answers if that's the case.] What's your opinion on the best navigational scheme for a site with several (4 or more) pages in each of several (5 or

[css-d] Dinamic css change

2006-07-20 Thread Kike Estellés
Hello, Can anybody tell me how can I change the css file associated to a page just pushing a link (for example). Thanks ,Kike __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub

Re: [css-d] CSS beginner seeking help

2006-07-20 Thread David Sharp
I actually originally had the background image on the header, but when I did that, it created a white space between the header and the subheader that I couldn't figure out how to get rid of. When I moved the background image to the wrapper, that's when the white space disappeared.