[css-d] bunch of ie problems

I'm nearing completion on a client website, but i keep running into numerous IE6 problems. The site runs and looks perfect in firefox. It is build off a highly modded wordpress install. Rounded corners: after some scrolling where the top portion of the page is out of view, sometimes IE will

[css-d] Hyperlinks - best practice

Hi all Which of the following two is a better practice of including hyperlinks on pages: Including hyperlinks in the paragraphs: Eg. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Vivamus nisl lorem, ullamcorper vitae, interdum et, venenatis at, pede. Vivamus risus nunc,

[css-d] Hovering Background images in IE

Hi, I want to hover some floated background-images, but IE6 doesn't reset the hover-state back to normal. HTML: div id=header a href=/service/span class=service title=ServiceService/span/a a href=/specials/span class=specials title=SpecialsSpecials/span/a /div CSS: #header { height: 106px; }

[css-d] Skewed Text.....can it be done?

Hey one and all, I was just playing with photoshop to come up with a new layout for a site and I was wondering if it was possible to do skewed text, or divs. I am finding it hard to word this properly so I will just post a link to the image of what I have in mind. And if any of you have any

[css-d] Style with only one bit of content

Occasionally I find that I need a style that's essentially exactly the same as a previously made style (for example, the same BG colour and font-size) but the new style needs something extra like bolding or something small like that. It seems strange to create a whole new style just for adding

Re: [css-d] bunch of ie problems

Brian Cummiskey wrote: Rounded corners: after some scrolling where the top portion of the page is out of view, sometimes IE will display it fine, others it will push the rounded corners out some, leaving a gap. Other times, the corners stay put, but a blue bar fills the top margin area.

Re: [css-d] Skewed Text.....can it be done?

I was just playing with photoshop to come up with a new layout for a site and I was wondering if it was possible to do skewed text, or divs. I am finding it hard to word this properly so I will just post a link to the image of what I have in mind. And if any of you have any comments or

[css-d] Background image being overridden

CSS in a table: I have a table with background images but I get a white background on the last line. I can´t work out why-I have got rid of the background color and tried to have a background transparent which worked for the radio buttons but the text input and the text next to it still have

[css-d] Background image (LINK INCLUDED)

CSS in a table: I have a table with background images but I get a white background on the last line. I can´t work out why-I have got rid of the background color and tried to have a background transparent which worked for the radio buttons but the text input and the text next to it still have

Re: [css-d] Forms

J. Robson wrote: Hi, Which the BEST form of use FORM ELEMENTS (web standards, usability and acessibity) and flexible with CSS? Vertical Form / Column Form / Margin Form and the other layoyut. There's no best form layout. Each situation will call for something different. Just make sure

[css-d] Forms Best Pratices

Hi All, Which the Best Pratices Semantic to HTML FORM (web standards, usability and acessibity) and flexible with CSS? Regards, J. Robson __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d

[css-d] Safari font sizes

Has anyone else come across Safari not rendering font size ? Using following: .caption { margin-left:15px; padding-right: 6px; font-weight: normal; font-size: 0.85em; color: #ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center; } Safari seems to ignore the 0.85 em and render as

Re: [css-d] Forms Best Pratices

At 10:16 -0300 3/8/06, J. Robson wrote: Which the Best Pratices Semantic to HTML FORM (web standards, usability and acessibity) and flexible with CSS? See the answer that Zoe Gillenwater just sent to your previous nearly identical question: At 09:03 -0400 3/8/06, Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote:

Re: [css-d] Safari font sizes

try percent- 85%. (this depends on what you size you have in the body tag. Ross - Original Message - From: Ian Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Css-Discuss. Org css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 2:23 PM Subject: [css-d] Safari font sizes Has

Re: [css-d] Skewed Text.....can it be done?

Christian Heilmann wrote: I was just playing with photoshop to come up with a new layout for a site and I was wondering if it was possible to do skewed text, or divs. I am finding it hard to word this properly so I will just post a link to the image of what I have in mind. And if any of you

[css-d] CSS dummy needs advice - list of albums

I'm playing with CSS trying to learn more but right now I don't know what to do (or even search Google for). I want a part of a page to contain a list of different photo albums, I want it to look something like this -- |

Re: [css-d] CSS dummy needs advice - list of albums

Get the sample code for Bulletproof CSS by Dan Cederholm at http://www.simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof/code/ Chapter 4 has an example that is exactly what you need. The main problem with your CSS was that you floated the different images to the left but you never cleared the floating. A

Re: [css-d] CSS dummy needs advice - list of albums

Try adding div.swedishpict img { clear: left } and see if that helps. Good luck, -- Scott __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub --

Re: [css-d] CSS dummy needs advice - list of albums

Reply to Christian Heilmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06-08-03 15:00: Get the sample code for Bulletproof CSS by Dan Cederholm at http://www.simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof/code/ Chapter 4 has an example that is exactly what you need. Thanks (even the sweden part of the css code matches ;-)

Re: [css-d] Style with only one bit of content

On 8/3/06, Eoin Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems strange to create a whole new style just for adding bold text but then I can't think of any other way of doing it. I've ended up creating styles named things like 'makeBold' with nothing more than font-weight: bold inside them. Is

Re: [css-d] bunch of ie problems

Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: #page {position: relative;} regards Georg Thanks Georg. This seems to have helped out greatly. Its not perfect, but its much better than it was. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Style with only one bit of content

Dear Eoin: It is important not to get too carried away with CSS and divitis. For instance, using the strong element isn't necessarily bad in certain contexts such as a book title or something that should contextually be bold. Another example is if you want section headers to be twice as big as

Re: [css-d] Style with only one bit of content

Christian Montoya wrote: On 8/3/06, Eoin Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems strange to create a whole new style just for adding bold text but then I can't think of any other way of doing it. I've ended up creating styles named things like 'makeBold' with nothing more than

[css-d] White space in IE

Been all through this one and cannot find where IE6 is adding some white space at bottom of page. Can anyone see the problem? http://www.venachar-lochside.com http://www.venachar-lochside.com/templates/css/styles2.css Thanks in anticipation Ian

Re: [css-d] Style with only one bit of content

On 03/08/06, Robert O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: On 8/3/06, Eoin Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems strange to create a whole new style just for adding bold text but then I can't think of any other way of doing it. I've ended up creating styles

Re: [css-d] bunch of ie problems

Brian, First thing I always do is to try to validate the (x)html and css. Your xhtml validated but your css generated the following errors: Errors URI : http://www.mtcues.com/beta/wp-content/themes/mtcuestheme/style.css * Line: 569 Context : #catnav Invalid number : display

[css-d] weird IE display problem

Hello everyone, I noticed a weird effect on this page http://www.robbirobb.com/new/products/dailyfoods/baby_and_me.html with these css files http://www.robbirobb.com/new/styles.css http://www.robbirobb.com/new/products/products.css when I visit the site with the Internet Explorer 6/Win XP.

Re: [css-d] Background image (LINK INCLUDED)

Am Donnerstag, 3. August 2006 15:00 schrieb ed gooddy: CSS in a table: I have a table with background images but I get a white background on the last line. I can´t work out why-I have got rid of the background color and tried to have a background transparent which worked for the radio

Re: [css-d] Style with only one bit of content

Dave Goodchild wrote: On 03/08/06, *Robert O'Rourke* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: On 8/3/06, Eoin Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems strange to create a whole new style just for

Re: [css-d] White space in IE

Ian Young wrote: Been all through this one and cannot find where IE6 is adding some white space at bottom of page. http://www.venachar-lochside.com This creates/is the whitespace: div class=clearingnbsp;/div Change it to: div class=clearing!-- --/div ...and the whitespace is gone.

Re: [css-d] multiple-level dropdown menu - exquisit implementation using purely CSS

Works on all versions of all browsers on all platforms: http://www.grc.com/menu2/invitro.htm Courtesy of Steve Gibson, a consummate perfectionist ;) Not working with keyboard access (ok, also not forcing users to tab through all links either) and not allowing the menu to stay on the

Re: [css-d] multiple-level dropdown menu - exquisit implementation using purely CSS

Not working with keyboard access (ok, also not forcing users to tab through all links either) and not allowing the menu to stay on the screen without causing scrollbars when there is not enough screen estate. You wouldn't want the menu to disappear, would you? No, I expect it to pop up

Re: [css-d] CSS External Links

On 01/08/06, David Dorward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I add background images of a globe. See http://dorward.me.uk/ The CSS can be found at http://dorward.me.uk/css/easter-2005.css , grep it for 'a[href ^=http:]'. Note that IE doesn't support a CSS way to recognise external links. You may

[css-d] Centering an inline list?

I am using ul and li to create a horizontal navigation menu in the header area and would like the links to appear in the center of the enclosing div. Currently they align to the left. Relevant markup is as follows: #mdmenu { width:800px; height:30px; margin:5px auto 20px

Re: [css-d] bunch of ie problems

Hi Tom, * Line: 569 Context : #catnav Invalid number : display inline-block is not a display value : inline-block * Line: 576 Context : #pagenav These were the hacks Holly suggested to fix the HASLAYOUT IE bug on the nav bars. Invalid number : display

Re: [css-d] Site check review please - advice on ice/jello andcss format requested

Well, if the validator were any good, it would tell you to use a valid doctype... http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#summary ...when serving pages as 'text/html'. Validator I used was off Dreamweaver 8 and also off Firefox Web Developer Tools. The latter is HTML Tidy; I

Re: [css-d] target

On 01/08/06, Ed Seehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The solution is to use a doctype that allows _blank. Or not to create new windows, which is favoured from a useability point of view. A lot of people these days have popup blockers installed and their browsers won't open your new window.

Re: [css-d] Centering an inline list?

the reason it's not centering with the (correct for what you're trying to do) margins you have is because the ul is 100% width. if firefox actually had inline-block, you could set the display to that and be done, but alas... :'( to be cross-browser, try something like #mdmenu ul

Re: [css-d] Centering an inline list?

Excellent! That did the trick. Thank you. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of cj Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:13 PM To: Denise Cc: css-d Subject: Re: [css-d] Centering an inline list? the reason it's not centering with the (correct for

Re: [css-d] bunch of ie problems

From: Brian Cummiskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tom * Line: 569 Context : #catnav Invalid number : display inline-block is not a display value : inline-block * Line: 576 Context : #pagenav These were the hacks Holly suggested to fix the HASLAYOUT IE bug on the nav bars.

[css-d] Background image dropping in div when borders commented out

In this draft of site for client, put background image inside a div in order to control for different resolutions. Two odd things. Despite having same position as when defined in body - 50% 30%, the image has dropped lower in page. More bizarrely in the div where the image is located, if the

Re: [css-d] Site check review please - advice on ice/jello andcss format requested

Peach Lynda L CTR USAF 96 CG/SCWOE wrote: I'm gathering the problem is this: meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 / What should it be? Never mind the meta-element. It doesn't matter out on the web. This is what W3C states: - The doctype you've used: XHTML

Re: [css-d] Background image dropping in div when borders commented out

- Original Message - From: Ian Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Css-Discuss. Org css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:41 AM Subject: [css-d] Background image dropping in div when borders commented out | | Two odd things. | | Despite having same

Re: [css-d] Site check review please - advice on ice/jello andcss format requested

Others can join Georg I in this discussion ... :-) Never mind the meta-element. It doesn't matter out on the web. This is what W3C states: - The doctype you've used: XHTML 1.1, *should not* be used for a document served as 'text/html'. - You're left with (HTML compatible) XHTML 1.0 or

[css-d] Various Display Oddities

Hello everyone, I'm back, with another pair of somewhat-vexing phenomena. For reference, here is the page and CSS I'm talking about: http://support.knowlton.ohio-state.edu/ksa06jello/ I've run this page through the XHTML and CSS validators, and they're reporting that everything is valid.

[css-d] div's not reflowing correctly as window gets smaller (IE win)

I am using AListAparts liquid layout method with negative margins. I have a two column layout with the navigation on the right hand side. All was working fine until I tried to add some index blocks. Each block is a div and consists of a thumbnail picture and some text. I was hoping the

[css-d] suckerfish AND Real Player movies

hello - I deployed the wonderful suckerfish dropdown and if it goes in front of a flash file setting the parameter to trans allows the drop to go over the Flash - - however if the flash is serving a real player video the drop down goes under it - - anyone come across this ? any solutions? thanks

Re: [css-d] suckerfish AND Real Player movies

wmode=opaque Not a 100% fix... but is usable and works better (imho) than transparent (depending on circumstance.) You might gander at: Flash, DHTML Menus and Accessibility: http://snipurl.com/m08r This article has shown you reasons you may want to use opaque mode in your Flash movies.

Re: [css-d] Background image dropping in div when borders commented out

Here are a couple of things to get you started in the right direction. 1. body {margin:0; padding:0;} 2. As far as I can tell (by viewing the full background image), the background image on www.directors-online.net is positioned from its left and bottom edges (so that the top most portion of

[css-d] Identify the IE Bug

Can someone help me identify the IE bug that causes the content to be cut off at this page: http://www1.pba.edu/undergraduate/music-arts/art/majors-minors.cfm?degre e=SARTMN06 The page looks fine in Firefox, Opera, and others but messes up in IE 6 and IE 7. I've looked at all the bugs and I

Re: [css-d] Background image dropping in div when borders commented out

Both html and css validate. So what's going on? | | http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/templates/new-dol/home-test.html | http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/templates/new-dol/includes/style-home.css | | Original | http://www.directors-online.net | | Got me stumped. Ian: Looks fine in IE6 Win98 except the

[css-d] Gap along right side (from header to footer) in IE5.5 6

I thought it might be the header pushing everything to the right so I tried re-working it using width: 100%, margin-right: 0, margin: 0,all combinations I can think of and nothing is closing the gap. I am missing something but cannot find it. I would appreciate some fresh eyes on this

Re: [css-d] Identify the IE Bug

I use tables so rarely, and not for layout so I don't have the experience to know exactly what is going on with IE. I would recode as follows: h2Elective Art Courses (6 Credit Hours)/h2 h3Two 2000 Level Art Courses/h3 pNote: Following the completion of the above required courses; the

[css-d] A quick Hello and a question

Hello all, I'm Wade, a new designer. I've a problem, and unfortunately, I don't an url for the troublesome code. Can I post the code? Wade __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Site check review please - advice on ice/jello andcss format requested

Peach Lynda L CTR USAF 96 CG/SCWOE wrote: Others can join Georg I in this discussion ... :-) Yes, please do :-) Nothing like a creative discussion in the midst of all the IE-bugs we have to kill. Never mind the meta-element. It doesn't matter out on the web. Okay -- I'll remove that line

Re: [css-d] Gap along right side (from header to footer) in IE5.5 6

#wrapper {padding: 0;} Not sure, but this might work. IE and FF have different defaults; -- Joel Goldstick www.columbuswebmakers.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2

[css-d] p:first-letter

I tried for the first time p:first-letter. When I used it it, every first letter of every p on the site got changed. I only put in a slightly larger increase in font size and bold it. What I also got in ie6 was an at least 1em if not more space between the first letter and the second. I reduced

Re: [css-d] Identify the IE Bug

PETER SHEATS wrote: Can someone help me identify the IE bug that causes the content to be cut off at this page: http://www1.pba.edu/undergraduate/music-arts/art/majors-minors.cfm?degre e=SARTMN06 Sorry, but that is one of the buggiest source-codes I have seen in a long time... (X)HTML: 51

Re: [css-d] p:first-letter

Ooo..one I can finally answer! .classname p:first-letter should be: p.classname:first-letter Hope that helps :) ~Shelly __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub --

[css-d] Trouble with putting a background-image in container

When I try to create a background by using a jpeg file for container {}, I get nothing. container { width: 703px; position: absolute; background-image: url(Images/Paper.jpg); } Wade

Re: [css-d] p:first-letter

On Aug 4, 2006, at 7:17 AM, jaklitsch maya wrote: I tried for the first time p:first-letter. When I used it it, every first letter of every p on the site got changed. I only put in a slightly larger increase in font size and bold it. What I also got in ie6 was an at least 1em if not more

Re: [css-d] Identify the IE Bug

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [css-d] Identify the IE Bug Date: August 3, 2006 3:22:15 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Well, first try validating. When I tried to validate your xhtml at

Re: [css-d] A quick Hello and a question

Wade Markham wrote: Hello all, I'm Wade, a new designer. Hi Wade. I've a problem, and unfortunately, I don't an url for the troublesome code. Can I post the code? You can post the code but you are less likely to get help than if you supply a URL. -- Steve Clason Web Design

Re: [css-d] Trouble with putting a background-image in container

Wade Markham wrote: When I try to create a background by using a jpeg file for container {}, I get nothing. container { width: 703px; position: absolute; background-image: url(Images/Paper.jpg); } Hard to say without a URL, but if your

[css-d] need help with placement of boxes in CSS

I have my site nearly completed. You can look at it here: http://www.juliannwheeler.com/phyve/Phyve_Final/index_final.html It looks great in Firefox, but in Internet Explorer many of the boxes are placed in the wrong place. If you clock on who on the left nav you can see 4 different pages:

Re: [css-d] Various Display Oddities

Matthew Bernhardt wrote: http://support.knowlton.ohio-state.edu/ksa06jello/ 1) also on IE6/Win, the #ksamasthead div doesn't land on the #ksasubmasthead div below it. I believe this is due to the logo image being floated, and so passing outside the #ksamasthead div. I looked at the Wiki

Re: [css-d] need help with placement of boxes in CSS

juliann wheeler wrote: http://www.juliannwheeler.com/phyve/Phyve_Final/index_final.html It looks great in Firefox, but in Internet Explorer many of the boxes are placed in the wrong place. Looks great :-) but not very usable. You should try to use those pages in Lynx - especially the front

Re: [css-d] Trouble with putting a background-image in container

Steve Clason wrote: background-image: url(/Images/Paper.jpg); I don't believe you need the quotes but I think they look pretty. Pretty they may be, but it is my understanding they don't play nicely with IE Mac... regards, D#

Re: [css-d] Gap along right side (from header to footer) in IE5.5 6

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #wrapper {padding: 0;} Not sure, but this might work. IE and FF have different defaults; -- Joel Goldstick www.columbuswebmakers.com ~ Thanks Joelbut it didn't fix it. after trying your suggestion, I used the

Re: [css-d] multiple-level dropdown menu - exquisit implementationusing purely CSS

From: Robert Byrnes The whole point of this menu project was to avoid using JavaScript. Sorry Christian. Given that Internet Explorer is broken, one is then left with no choice but to mix presentation and structure, and create code that won't validate. Not a bad trade off considering what

[css-d] Site check please

Hello list, Another day another template, I'd appreciate some testing on http://ipg.sanchothefat.com Its the development copy of a simple website I've put together to try and improve their search engine rankings. I'm not really a designer so I didn't spend long on the design (its a lot

Re: [css-d] Gap along right side (from header to footer) in IE5.5 6

Jeralyn Merideth wrote: I thought it might be the header pushing everything to the right so I tried re-working it using width: 100%, margin-right: 0, margin: 0,all combinations I can think of and nothing is closing the gap. I am missing something but cannot find it. I would appreciate

Re: [css-d] Site check please

Robert O'Rourke wrote: Another day another template, I'd appreciate some testing on http://ipg.sanchothefat.com Its the development copy of a simple website...} Rob Your simple site is really not so simple. Working well in xp ie, ff, and opera. 18 captures(I did not wait for them to

Re: [css-d] Site check please

David Laakso wrote: Robert O'Rourke wrote: Another day another template, I'd appreciate some testing on http://ipg.sanchothefat.com Its the development copy of a simple website...} Rob ... Subjective: The pale yellow is too pale; and, while the fonts scale fine, the start