[css-d] dynamic classes - a better way?

2006-07-31 Thread ross
Hi, Just say I have 4 pages on a website. When I am on a page I want the button on that particular page to be bold and a different colour so the user know what page they are on. Is there a css only way to do this. At present I am setting php variables like this(in this example I am on the

[css-d] japanese characters when site is viewed live

2006-07-31 Thread Carrie Fox
Hi- I've just published a draft of my site to see how it looks live, and I'm suddenly getting a lot of Japanese at the bottom of my page. (when viewed in IE) Anyone ever seen this before? Before I went live, the site looked fine in both Firefox and IE. Here's a link to the site:

[css-d] Firefox and del and ins

2006-07-31 Thread Uwe Kaiser
Hi- Even though the spec[1] allow-- if I understood it right-- the following: li del class='block' p Textueller Inhalt /p /del /li FF 1.5 refuses to do its job. Only if I explicitly declare the del element as block-level, FF will render the code as intended (by me). Could

[css-d] Float being overlapped

2006-07-31 Thread Aaron Scott Hildebrandt
I have a website I've been working on that's supposed to launch on Tuesday. As far as I know everything is working fine, with one exception. I have an image being floated right on the splash page, and when the page is opened in Firefox the text on the page overlaps the floated image. This is only

[css-d] Shortened Padding on Opera LIs

2006-07-31 Thread Cole Kuryakin
Hello All - I've got a vast top and bottom padding difference on an LI nav list in Opera (8.53) that I'm not getting in FF, IE or NN. Each of these LI's have top and bottom borders so it's easy for me to measure the vertical difference in each, which is: FF - 28px NN - 28px IE - 27px - I can

[css-d] ie quirksmode error

2006-07-31 Thread David Laakso
She works as intended in mac/ie5.2 and ie/7.0. But is skewed left in win2000_ie/5, 5.5, and 6.0; and, xp ie/6.0. The file is in quirksmode(intentional). CSS is embedded. Browsercam captures: http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=272802 uri:

Re: [css-d] advantage to using doctype strict over transitional

2006-07-31 Thread Sam Partington
Sorry, sent this to the OP rather than the list by mistake. --- Ed Seehouse said : I think it would be a lot easier. If everyone learned with a strict doctype we'd have faster development and lots of much better pages, I think. Personally I don't think it makes a jot of difference. You can

[css-d] is it okay to center an image this way?

2006-07-31 Thread michelle m
hey, group. i'm trying to center my logo. it looks ok on my computer in ie 6 and firefox, but i was wondering if i am centering it correctly. the css is: #logo { width:430px; height:173px; margin:0 auto; } and the xhtml is: div id=logoimg src=logo.jpg alt=blah blah logo //div will this work

Re: [css-d] Is it possible to write custormized rules for firefox?

2006-07-31 Thread cj
On 7/29/06, old9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like those rules with a -moz- prefix, is is possible to write a custormized rule like -my-rule: myValue; , which would be accessed through JavaScript later? It seem that firefox would chose to drop those unrecogonized rules, rather than ignore and

Re: [css-d] 'japanese' characters when site is viewed live

2006-07-31 Thread SPODICK Edward F
Carrie Fox said: I've just published a draft of my site to see how it looks live, and I'm suddenly getting a lot of Japanese at the bottom of my page. (when viewed in IE) Anyone ever seen this before? Before I went live, the site looked fine in both Firefox and IE. Here's a link to the site:

Re: [css-d] dynamic classes - a better way?

2006-07-31 Thread Christian Heilmann
Hi, Just say I have 4 pages on a website. When I am on a page I want the button on that particular page to be bold and a different colour so the user know what page they are on. This has been discussed here to death over the last few weeks on the list:

Re: [css-d] Firefox and del and ins

2006-07-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An inline element cannot contain a block element. So, my guess is that ff is treating del element as inline in its default style sheet. -- Joel Goldstick www.columbuswebmakers.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] japanese characters when site is viewed live

2006-07-31 Thread tg-php
I'm not getting any funny characters at the bottom in FF or IE, but I do see that your web host seems to be adding someth ing to the bottom of your code (view source after it loads). Maybe they had some issues and were serving out some garbage at one point. I see reference to a

Re: [css-d] ie quirksmode error

2006-07-31 Thread Martin Heiden
David, on Monday, July 31, 2006 at 04:14 David Laakso wrote: She works as intended in mac/ie5.2 and ie/7.0. But is skewed left in win2000_ie/5, 5.5, and 6.0; and, xp ie/6.0. The file is in quirksmode(intentional). CSS is embedded. Browsercam captures:

Re: [css-d] is it okay to center an image this way?

2006-07-31 Thread cj
that's certainly how i do my horizontal centering. :) side note: if you give your image a class/id, you can do away with the div tag and just style the image tag. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] ie quirksmode error

2006-07-31 Thread David Laakso
Martin Heiden wrote: David, on Monday, July 31, 2006 at 04:14 David Laakso wrote: he works as intended in mac/ie5.2 and ie/7.0. But is skewed left in win2000_ie/5, 5.5, and 6.0; and, xp ie/6.0. uri: http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/ccs/law/index.html div#page-minor { border-right:

Re: [css-d] Please have a look: cssliquid.com

2006-07-31 Thread Christian Montoya
On 7/24/06, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/07/24 00:04 (GMT+0200) Christian Montoya apparently typed: Hello list. Site-check please for http://www.cssliquid.com Epiphany 1.8.0 looks more like Konq than FF. Epip crashed when I attempted to use the back button from your page.

[css-d] TD Overflow:Hidden?

2006-07-31 Thread Shlomi Asaf
Hi All can i get overflow:hidden on a td, without use of div/span nested inside that TD? Thanks NeoSwf -- visit my blog: http://www.webcssdesign.34sp.com/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] TD Overflow:Hidden?

2006-07-31 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 31/07/06, Shlomi Asaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All can i get overflow:hidden on a td, without use of div/span nested inside that TD? Thanks NeoSwf Have you tried it? -- http://www.web-buddha.co.uk http://www.projectkarma.co.uk

Re: [css-d] background pos x/y repeat-x/y

2006-07-31 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Michael Landis wrote: Eric A. Meyer wrote: There are no values such as 'repeat-down' or 'repeat-right', which is what I assume you're seeking. On 7/29/06, Robert O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there going to be a feature like this in future at all? I can see it being useful, at

Re: [css-d] advantage to using doctype strict over transitional

2006-07-31 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Michael Landis wrote: I'm guessing the list admins are doing other things, so I'd imagine they haven't had a chance to make this statement, but I'd imagine they would look at the purpose of this list[1], compare it to this discussion on which doctype to validate against, and deem it

[css-d] Opera Bug? (Table-displayed, left-floated, min-width content)

2006-07-31 Thread Joe D'Andrea
Greetings! Here's a puzzler. A bug? A feature? Animal? Vegetable? (Nevermind.) It has been filed with Opera as well. Minimal Test Case: http://test.joesapt.net/opera Includes links to BrowserCam shots and a few more variations for good measure. Markup: pa href=#1/a a href=#2/a ... a

Re: [css-d] Sons of Suckerfish help

2006-07-31 Thread iris
Rahul Gonsalves wrote: 1. The suckerfish menus require one to set a width on each li element. This leads to a very nastily spaced out top menu. Any suggestions? style each item separately. or use only words with the same amount of letters ;) (don't forget to test what it looks like if

Re: [css-d] Website design bugs

2006-07-31 Thread Michael Landis
On 7/28/06, Amy Ostrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about http://www.jocohistory.net: Known problems: *extra code is necessary to keep navigation and content sitting side by side in gecko and Microsoft browsers As long as were talking about a few extra divs, versus dozens, that should be fine.

Re: [css-d] Problem with css popup info box

2006-07-31 Thread Michael Landis
On 7/28/06, Appalaches Web [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about http://connaissances.org/site2: In the hidden part the link anchor text in the middle of the first paragraph is missing in IE6 but all texts after this link are in italic. Other links in hidden paragraph 2 and 3 are visible but in italic

Re: [css-d] Sons of Suckerfish help

2006-07-31 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: Rahul Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cfl.in/alpha/sfish/index.html Problems are: 1. The suckerfish menus require one to set a width on each li element. This leads to a very nastily spaced out top menu. Any suggestions? Have you tried using a percentage width on the LIs instead of

[css-d] List Menus - Again

2006-07-31 Thread Tom Keenan
I am having two issues with a list menu that I'm trying to write: 1. The menu works fine in Firefox and Safari. In IE6 for Windows, the menu works fine at the root level, but once a user goes to pages in other directories it only partially functions. The first level of the menu has an

[css-d] SiteCheckPlease

2006-07-31 Thread Madison Bryan
I thought it would be a good idea to have some external people check the CSS to this redesign, so I looked at SiteCheckPlease page on the wiki... http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=SiteCheckPlease It wasn't quite clear, but I tried it anyway and got an: Error executing database

Re: [css-d] SiteCheckPlease

2006-07-31 Thread Tom Livingston
http://www.westga.edu/~webgroup/design/code/ Scaling text down in FF (Mac) wreaks havoc. Secondary page loses it after 2 clicks up in size... -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multimedia Artist | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com

Re: [css-d] AbsoluteInRelative, usual remedies don't work

2006-07-31 Thread Michael Boudreau
On Jul 31, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Michael Landis wrote: On 7/28/06, Michael Boudreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote http://mss.uchicago.edu/MRB/citation_example.html: I've got a layout with an absolutely positioned span inside a relatively positioned p that works perfectly in every browser except IE

Re: [css-d] SiteCheckPlease

2006-07-31 Thread Madison Bryan
Thanks Tom. Do people often scale text down like that? -- Madison On Jul 31, 2006, at 1:46 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: http://www.westga.edu/~webgroup/design/code/ Scaling text down in FF (Mac) wreaks havoc. Secondary page loses it after 2 clicks up in size... -- Tom Livingston |

Re: [css-d] Link text jumps to single line in IE

2006-07-31 Thread Michael Landis
On 7/28/06, Admin at AK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about http://www.annerykiln.co.uk/newak/datamanagement.html: Load it in IE Locate the line that contains the link that says: See one at Cwmcroiddur here... and set browser width so that the link text is split over two lines (end of one to

Re: [css-d] Sons of Suckerfish help

2006-07-31 Thread Al Sparber
From: Rahul Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cfl.in/alpha/sfish/index.html Problems are: 1. The suckerfish menus require one to set a width on each li element. This leads to a very nastily spaced out top menu. Any suggestions? You can try integrating the CSS from our CSS Express menu,

Re: [css-d] Float being overlapped

2006-07-31 Thread Aaron Scott Hildebrandt
I have an image being floated right on the splash page, and when the page is opened in Firefox the text on the page overlaps the floated image. This is only a problem the first time you open the page in Firefox -- as soon as the page is in memory, if you go back to it or refresh, the text is

Re: [css-d] Float being overlapped

2006-07-31 Thread cj
I haven't heard any responses regarding this -- could someone confirm that it's a problem? Perhaps it's a problem with my test system. it's a problem on first load for me (latest ff version) as you've explained. unfortunately i don't know how to fix it. :( sorry.

[css-d] Annoying bug: select control causing column wrap only on Firefox

2006-07-31 Thread Carl Youngblood
Please take a look at these two URLs: http://youngbloods.org/examples/test2.html http://youngbloods.org/examples/test3.html The only difference between the two is that the second one doesn't have the US state select control. For some reason putting that select control in there is causing the

Re: [css-d] SiteCheckPlease

2006-07-31 Thread David Laakso
Madison Bryan wrote: I thought it would be a good idea to have some external people Gosh, I never thought of my self as an 'external person,' although I've been called a lot worse :-) ... check the CSS to this redesign, so I looked at SiteCheckPlease page on the wiki...

[css-d] Form highlighting with javascript

2006-07-31 Thread Carl Youngblood
I got the style from these form controls from wufoo.com (a pretty impressive piece of software by the way). Here is a sample form: http://youngbloods.org/examples/test.html You'll notice that if you click on the space around a form control, that portion of the form gets highlighted. I'm using

Re: [css-d] AbsoluteInRelative, usual remedies don't work

2006-07-31 Thread Michael Landis
On 7/31/06, I wrote about http://mss.uchicago.edu/MRB/citation_example.html: It looks like IE is having issues with trying to juggle the text-indent along with the positioning and the margin. I found that replacing the margin-left: 3em with padding-left: 3em, setting the label's left position

Re: [css-d] Float being overlapped

2006-07-31 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Aaron Scott Hildebrandt wrote: http://www.demotorize.org/sandbox I haven't heard any responses regarding this -- could someone confirm that it's a problem? Perhaps it's a problem with my test system. It looks like something similar to what I have here...

Re: [css-d] SiteCheckPlease

2006-07-31 Thread Scott Sauyet
Madison Bryan wrote: Do people often scale text down like that? I often do, and not just for site check reasons. If the text is large enough that I'm comfortable reading more per line than is shown, I'll hit the trusty CTRL-minus, and if I'm having trouble reading small text, I'll hit

Re: [css-d] dynamic classes - a better way?

2006-07-31 Thread Stan Baptista
Is there a css only way to do this. One way... COMMON CSS FILE: /* One per HTML page... */ body.details input { background: white; color: blue; } body.location input { background: white; color: red; } /* etc... */ EACH HTML FILE: body class=details input type=submit id=submit1

Re: [css-d] Float being overlapped

2006-07-31 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
Aaron Scott Hildebrandt wrote: I have a website I've been working on that's supposed to launch on Tuesday. As far as I know everything is working fine, with one exception. I have an image being floated right on the splash page, and when the page is opened in Firefox the text on the page

Re: [css-d] IE5.5 menu and general layout weirdness

2006-07-31 Thread Michael Landis
On 7/28/06, Jeralyn Merideth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about http://www.msbanet.org/conference/2006_annual_conference.htm: Today I downloaded and installed stand-alone versions of IE (5.5 and 6 - I upgraded to 7 and it overwrote my 6 haha). I was curious, so I decided to look at some web stuff

Re: [css-d] Float being overlapped

2006-07-31 Thread Aaron Scott Hildebrandt
If you don't need that header, just take it out of the page :-) I can't remember my reasoning behind hiding it and not removing it -- I'm sure it made sense at the time. I'll remove it from the page and see if the problem fixes itself (it'll have to wait until this evening, though). Thanks for

[css-d] Navigation list items too far to the right in IE

2006-07-31 Thread Justin Myers
Hello, all. I'm coding a site for a webcomic my brother's starting--he already gave me the design, and he just wants me to code it since he doesn't know HTML. I've been using table-based layouts in HTML for a few years now, but this is my first time using CSS for layout instead. My main problem

[css-d] Browser incompatibilities.

2006-07-31 Thread Melissa Carraway
Hello all! Thanks again for all the help I got on the last project :) This list is a lifesaver. I took everyone's advice and tried to do my layout with almost no absolutely positioned elements. This layout only has one, and if someone can tell me how to better place the logo element without

Re: [css-d] TD Overflow:Hidden?

2006-07-31 Thread Shlomi Asaf
yes, i did, and it doesnt work. and all the suggestions over the internet suggest inserting div/span inside the TD On 7/31/06, Dave Goodchild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31/07/06, Shlomi Asaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All can i get overflow:hidden on a td, without use of div/span

[css-d] dynamic classes

2006-07-31 Thread ross
Hi, Just say I have 4 pages on a website. When I am on a page I want the button on that particular page to be bold and a different colour so the user know what page they are on. Is there a css only way to do this, or a better way?. At present I am setting php variables like this(in this

Re: [css-d] dynamic classes

2006-07-31 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just say I have 4 pages on a website. When I am on a page I want the button on that particular page to be bold and a different colour so the user know what page they are on. Is there a css only way to do this, or a better way?. At present I am setting php

Re: [css-d] Float being overlapped

2006-07-31 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: Aaron Scott Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd still love to know why exactly it's happening, but it seems like that has us pretty stumped. Well, perhaps you had not received the reply from Georg before you wrote this reply, but the reason it's happening is that you don't have any

[css-d] Tableless CSS Layout - Too Long?

2006-07-31 Thread R. Alan Payne
Am somewhat of a CSS novice and am trying to layout a webpage in CSS, without using tables. Why? Had designed (redesigned actually) with tables (www.dvmvac.com/REDESIGN) and some CSS. It looked ok, but the content was basically only links and it seemed that the 'accepted' method is to use

Re: [css-d] Tableless CSS Layout - Too Long?

2006-07-31 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 31/07/06, R. Alan Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am somewhat of a CSS novice and am trying to layout a webpage in CSS, without using tables. Why? Had designed (redesigned actually) with tables ( www.dvmvac.com/REDESIGN) and some CSS. It looked ok, but the content was basically only

Re: [css-d] TD Overflow:Hidden?

2006-07-31 Thread Michael Landis
On 7/31/06, Shlomi Asaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All can i get overflow:hidden on a td, without use of div/span nested inside that TD? According to the specs, it should work. :-) According to the manufacturers, it doesn't. :-( I couldn't say why for certain, but I'd imagine that because

[css-d] Can;t make the list work

2006-07-31 Thread xhu1
Hi, I tried to make a list that indented on left and have a small dot. When I directly put style in li tag it works fine. but when i move the style to the css class. there is no effect at all. this works: ul class=smalltext li style=list-style-type: none; margin:-3px 0 0 35px;•nbsp;The first

Re: [css-d] Can;t make the list work

2006-07-31 Thread Justin Myers
In your first example, you're applying the style to the li tags. In your second example, you're applying it to the ul tag. Try this: ul class=smalltext li class=leftindentlist•The first line./li li class=leftindentlist•The second line./li li class=leftindentlist•The third line./li li

Re: [css-d] Can;t make the list work

2006-07-31 Thread Amy M Ostrom
Dear Xhu1: I would not repeat the class four times as suggested. Instead I would specify using your class: ul class=smalltext li•nbsp;The first line./li li•nbsp;The second line./li li•nbsp;The third line./li li•nbsp;The fourth line./li /ul .smalltext li {list-style-type: none; margin: -3px 0 0

Re: [css-d] Browser incompatibilities.

2006-07-31 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Melissa Carraway wrote: http://www.decisiveelement.com/clients/mothermartin/home/index02.htm You're telling every browser on earth to run in 'quirks mode', and that is partly why you're getting these variations. A proper doctype that'll trigger 'standard mode'[1] would be a good start, but it

Re: [css-d] Tableless CSS Layout - Too Long?

2006-07-31 Thread David Laakso
R. Alan Payne wrote: Am somewhat of a CSS novice and am trying to layout a webpage in CSS, without using tables. Anyway, I've changed the layout to all CSS, but it's long (and not straight forward). The CSS version is: www.dvmvac.com/woTbl . The CSS file is quite long and I don't want to

Re: [css-d] Can;t make the list work

2006-07-31 Thread xhu1
That failed too. It has a little disc. Thanks --- Justin Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In your first example, you're applying the style to the li tags. In your second example, you're applying it to the ul tag. Try this: ul class=smalltext li class=leftindentlist•The first line./li li

[css-d] target

2006-07-31 Thread jaklitsch maya
My present website has a couple of href that need to open in their own window. When I had the xhtml validated it said that target=_blank was invalid, my only error. Why and is there a css solution for this dilemma? I would like to keep my xhtml strict error free. Also why is a blank space in a

Re: [css-d] target

2006-07-31 Thread Ed Seehouse
On 7/31/06, jaklitsch maya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My present website has a couple of href that need to open in their own window. When I had the xhtml validated it said that target=_blank was invalid, my only error. If you use a strice doctype then target=_blank is illegal. There's a reason

Re: [css-d] CSS-driven dropdowns with JS imageswapping rollover

2006-07-31 Thread metasilk
Mmm. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I can make the Suckerfish menus do what I need in terms of styling text just fine, but the client is rather attached to having a specific typeface, so I need to use images in the dropdown lists (at least for the GUI browsers). These images are supposed to look

Re: [css-d] target

2006-07-31 Thread Nick morgan
My present website has a couple of href that need to open in their own window. When I had the xhtml validated it said that target=_blank was invalid, my only error. Why and is there a css solution for this dilemma? I would like to keep my xhtml strict error free. Also why is a blank

[css-d] floats and lists

2006-07-31 Thread Nick morgan
I was wondering if some of the veterans here have a good solution for the float next to the list problem. The floated left block next to the unfloated unordered list in particular. I know that the way it is rendered with background-image and list-style-image is to the standard and I know

Re: [css-d] Can;t make the list work

2006-07-31 Thread Nick morgan
In your first example, you're applying the style to the li tags. In your second example, you're applying it to the ul tag. Try this: ul class=smalltext li class=leftindentlist•The first line./li li class=leftindentlist•The second line./li li class=leftindentlist•The third line./li li

[css-d] Portlet Inspiration

2006-07-31 Thread Matthew Nuzum
I'm hitting a mental block... I'm going to be working on a site soon that makes heavy use of portlets in both a two and three column layout. These portlets are little boxes of information kind of like those things you see on portals like php nuke. But I'm having trouble coming up with good

Re: [css-d] Shortened Padding on Opera LIs

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Grevers
On 7/31/06, Cole Kuryakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All - I've got a vast top and bottom padding difference on an LI nav list in Opera (8.53) that I'm not getting in FF, IE or NN. Each of these LI's have top and bottom borders so it's easy for me to measure the vertical difference in

Re: [css-d] CSS-driven dropdowns with JS imageswapping rollover

2006-07-31 Thread metasilk
I found the problem! I had copied the rollover code from button to button. This meant the submenu images had the same name; they need to have unique names. (I suppose I need to make those IDs, anyway.) --Kir On 7/31/06, metasilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mmm. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I

Re: [css-d] Problem with css popup info box

2006-07-31 Thread Appalaches Web
Hi Michael, I made some corrections to validate. But I still have problems. The validation failed before because the hidden text where separated with p nested with the rest of the code. Now I use br / instead. I try to use a demo created by Stu Nicholls of CSSPLAY. The demo is show me some

[css-d] background color not working in div

2006-07-31 Thread Marlene T. Yogerst
I would appreciate it if someone would take the time to check out my page and tell me why the background color is not working in the div called main_content. I know the positioning is slightly off in Netscape and way off in IE and I don't know why. It looks fine locally on my computer. I

Re: [css-d] background color not working in div

2006-07-31 Thread Chris Williams
Because your div with the background-color defined is called main_content, and it is empty (div/div), and the div with all the text in it is called main_content_text and it has no background. Perhaps you meant the /div for the main_content div to be at the bottom of the main_content_text div,

Re: [css-d] background color not working in div

2006-07-31 Thread Nick morgan
I would appreciate it if someone would take the time to check out my page and tell me why the background color is not working in the div called main_content. I know the positioning is slightly off in Netscape and way off in IE and I don't know why. It looks fine locally on my computer. I