[css-d] IE7 and div width

2006-08-30 Thread Tony Crockford
I'm hoping someone on this list will tell me the correct behaviour for this situation. I have a div inside a floated div, neither of which have widths set. they are both inside a container div centered on the page which does have a set width. in IE7 the undimensioned div inside the floated

[css-d] why does width style doest not work with opera?

2006-08-30 Thread rami doqa
Hello , please can anybody help me why when i put a width style on the li element is not work with opera, firefox browsers? regards, Dakka, Rami. - How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates.

Re: [css-d] why does width style doest not work with opera?

2006-08-30 Thread Bradley Wright
Hi, In my (isolated) test case, Opera 9 and Firefox 1.5 both behave themselves as expected. If I had to guess, I'd say that you've set the li items to be { display: inline; } and so the width won't take. Inline elements don't (and shouldn't) obey explicit width settings. If you can provide a

[css-d] ul issues

2006-08-30 Thread Daniel Hammond
Can someone tell me why on www.lyteenterprises.com/services.htm, the lists of services are moved down an extra line in FF and Opera, and they are moved over to the right in IE? Daniel Hammond www.objectivedesigns.com __

Re: [css-d] ul issues

2006-08-30 Thread Bradley Wright
On 30/08/2006 14:25, Daniel Hammond wrote: Can someone tell me why on www.lyteenterprises.com/services.htm, the lists of services are moved down an extra line in FF and Opera, and they are moved over to the right in IE? It's the margin of the ul. Try this: .multicolumn { float:

Re: [css-d] ul issues

2006-08-30 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Daniel Hammond wrote: Can someone tell me why on www.lyteenterprises.com/services.htm, the lists of services are moved down an extra line in FF and Opera, and they are moved over to the right in IE? Defaults are different and used differently across browser-land. Looks like you've only

Re: [css-d] ul issues

2006-08-30 Thread Daniel Hammond
Very good. Thank you, sir. Daniel Hammond www.objectivedesigns.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bradley Wright Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:39 AM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] ul issues

Re: [css-d] IE7 and div width

2006-08-30 Thread Manuel Razzari
I'm hoping someone on this list will tell me the correct behaviour for this situation. in IE7 the undimensioned div inside the floated div is only as wide as its content. AIUI an undimensioned div would be as wide as its container. I haven't checked the spec, but every other browser (from

[css-d] Table squirting out of DIV

2006-08-30 Thread rollandburn
Hi everyone, I wonder if someone could slap me with some knowledge and tell if there is a way to keep a table from squirting outside its containing div when the browser window is resized smaller. Or, How do you get a div to only shrink to the size of its contents (upon window

Re: [css-d] Table squirting out of DIV

2006-08-30 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
rollandburn wrote: I wonder if someone could slap me with some knowledge and tell if there is a way to keep a table from squirting Eww... please use the word overflow, as that's the CSS term for it and way less gross than the word squirt. I shiver just thinking about it... :-) outside

[css-d] CSS review

2006-08-30 Thread KE Bracken
I would appreciate a review of the following: http://www.kebzweb.com/VegasVegas Stylesheet: http://www.kebzweb.com/VegasVegas/css/lvvhome_1.css The client asked for a layout that emulated the Google Newshttp://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=entab=wnq=page. The layout I've provided is a liquid 3 col

[css-d] (no subject)

2006-08-30 Thread Poyner, Matt
I have a problem that I'm not sure how to solve. I am attempting to create tabs with a small corner cutout. I know hot to place the small corner image and get the rollover colors to work, etc. The problem I'm having is that the 1px border I need on the top, left, and right of each tab is

Re: [css-d] (no subject)

2006-08-30 Thread Bradley Wright
There's always Doug Bowman's Sliding Doors: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/ It'll help you create expanding, EM width dependent tabs. On 30/08/2006 16:03, Ross C wrote: I saw a site a while back that had this (I'll try to find it). I believe they had a background image for

[css-d] Safari Issue

2006-08-30 Thread Tom Livingston
Hello list, Please take a peek at this page in FF and Safari. Why isn't Safari putting all the main nav links in a nice line like FF (and even IE6!)? Code validates. http://66.155.251.18/joinmvp.com/ Thanks for your time. -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multimedia Artist | Media Logic | ph:

Re: [css-d] CSS review

2006-08-30 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
KE Bracken wrote: I would appreciate a review of the following: http://www.kebzweb.com/VegasVegas Not quite there, it seems... http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.kebzweb.com/VegasVegas/ http://www.kebzweb.com/VegasVegas/css/lvvhome_1.css Looks alright... only one error, and the

[css-d] Flabergasted with float: left;

2006-08-30 Thread Robert Reed
I've been working on a project for a client that involves using percentages for column widths and the like, since the target audience is people whom may not be computer savvy. I initially started doing the design with absolute positioning and had it looking perfect, but after attempting to

[css-d] Fwd: Safari Issue

2006-08-30 Thread Tom Livingston
Hello list, Please take a peek at this page in FF and Safari. Why isn't Safari putting all the main nav links in a nice line like FF (and even IE6!)? Ok. Shame on me for even thinking I needed a table in there in the first place. I'm set now. If you looked, thanks!

Re: [css-d] (no subject)

2006-08-30 Thread Poyner, Matt
Thanks, Ross. The expandable bg image did the trick. Exactly what I needed to get it working. I love this list! :-) -Original Message- From: Ross C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:04 AM To: Poyner, Matt; css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: RE: [css-d] (no

[css-d] Font Mapping Query

2006-08-30 Thread Chris Williams
I have CSS that specifies fonts: (Lucida SANS,Tahoma,Arial,Sans-serif;). I have various tool bars that tell me this when I hover over various pieces of text. That is, they tell me that string. But I can't tell which font was actually used. I have cases where the text appears much better

[css-d] IE margins do not alter position of (solid 1px) border?

2006-08-30 Thread Cliff Pruitt
Hey everyone, I'm really hoping someone can help me out. I've been beating my head against the wall so long on this my head is starting to crack open... I've got most of IE's goofiness worked out on this page: http://www.ccpasco.org/home/home_02.php but there are a few things I cant nail

Re: [css-d] IE7 and div width

2006-08-30 Thread Bruno Fassino
Tony Crockford wrote: I have a div inside a floated div, neither of which have widths set. they are both inside a container div centered on the page which does have a set width. in IE7 the undimensioned div inside the floated div is only as wide as its content. AIUI an undimensioned div

Re: [css-d] IE margins do not alter position of (solid 1px) border?

2006-08-30 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Cliff Pruitt wrote: http://www.ccpasco.org/home/home_02.php (I'm not really trying to use valid xhtml at the moment, just trying to get IE to jump into standards mode.) You should use an HTML doctype then, like... !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN

Re: [css-d] CSS review

2006-08-30 Thread ~davidLaakso
KE Bracken wrote: I would appreciate a review of the following: http://www.kebzweb.com/VegasVegas http://www.kebzweb.com/VegasVegas/css/lvvhome_1.css [...] KE Bracken xp::ff, ie, opera Looks good and forgiving the google ad at the top it holds a font-zoom in FF. Although, if it is a concern,

Re: [css-d] Flabergasted with float: left;

2006-08-30 Thread ~davidLaakso
Robert Reed wrote: I've been working on a project for a client that involves using percentages for column widths and the like, since the target audience is people whom may not be computer savvy. Not sure what you mean? I initially started doing the design with absolute positioning and had

Re: [css-d] Catawampus shadows!

2006-08-30 Thread francky
Amy Ostrom wrote: Dear All: We are using an image repository, and I thought it would be pretty to add shadows to the thumbnails (the shadows also stop the images from bleeding onto the page). However, sometimes the text to the right is taller than the image itself and seems to be affecting the

[css-d] FW: Font Mapping Query

2006-08-30 Thread Chris Williams
Thanks for the reply, clearly I got that far -- I wrote the CSS after all. What I want to see, is what font is actually being used. I have several test machines, I have several users with different machines. It doesn't seem to have any rhyme or reason. There are a million questions: does

[css-d] Disappearing Content in IE [Urgent]

2006-08-30 Thread Matt Harris
I recently developed the HTML/CSS for a new website and all was working fine until part of the navigation started disappearing. I assumed it was the peekaboo bug and applied the holly hack, but it hasn't solved the problem, so I'd love some help. The site went live last week and we have been

[css-d] centering link gifs in a horiz. nav bar

2006-08-30 Thread Jay Kinney
Folks, I searched the archive for postings related to this, but didn't find quite the right info. I suspect there's some easy fix for this, so perhaps someone can help. The problem: I have a horizontal nav bar into which I put a ul of gifs for the links. I floated them left and they all line

Re: [css-d] FW: Font Mapping Query

2006-08-30 Thread Don Miller
From what little experimentation I have done, capitals are discounted just like they are when you type in an URL address. Besides, it depends if the user has that font on his/her computer or if they have a default set that overrides your font preferences. If the look depends heavily on the font

Re: [css-d] FW: Font Mapping Query

2006-08-30 Thread Chris Williams
The look isn't vital, readability is. And I value accessibility too much to use graphics (especially for the body text...). The point is that I find the fonts that are showing up on some systems/browsers to be vastly more readable than others. I was hoping to find a good way to discover what

[css-d] Page is messy on Mac Safari - any ideas?!

2006-08-30 Thread Tony Burke
Hi there, Have managed to test a current template design: HYPERLINK http://www.thevillagespain.com/index-new.htmhttp://www.thevillagespain.com /index-new.htm On the majority of the main browsers, it looks good and works as it should do on all of them bar Safari 1.3 and 2.0 on the Mac.

[css-d] div blocks in forms don't clear in Firefox 1.5.x

2006-08-30 Thread Burleigh, Frank
Our site's forms are composed more or less like this: form fieldset div class=formrow pinput /br /label / pinput /br /label / /div div class=formrow /div /form P's inside of formrow's float left, then we start a new row

Re: [css-d] centering link gifs in a horiz. nav bar

2006-08-30 Thread ~davidLaakso
Jay Kinney wrote: I have a horizontal nav bar into which I put a ul of gifs for the links. I floated them left and they all line up next to each other, but they (of course) are all lined-up on the left side of the nav bar. I want to have them centered in a row in the nav bar. That way, if I

Re: [css-d] Disappearing Content in IE [Urgent]

2006-08-30 Thread francky
Matt Harris wrote: I recently developed the HTML/CSS for a new website and all was working fine until part of the navigation started disappearing. I assumed it was the peekaboo bug and applied the holly hack, but it hasn't solved the problem, so I'd love some help. The site went live last week

Re: [css-d] div blocks in forms don't clear in Firefox 1.5.x

2006-08-30 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Aug 31, 2006, at 8:30 AM, Burleigh, Frank wrote: P's inside of formrow's float left, then we start a new row by closing the div and following with a new one. So the markup is a little laborious but it does give nice control for style hints. I've recently found that the divs in this

Re: [css-d] Disappearing Content in IE [Urgent]

2006-08-30 Thread Matt Harris
Thanks for the response and for pointing out some obvious errors, franky. I have change the page to transitional, resolved the errors and closed the a tag; however, the issue is still occuring. Any additional ideas? -- Best Regards, Matt www.focusontheclouds.com

Re: [css-d] Page is messy on Mac Safari - any ideas?!

2006-08-30 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Aug 31, 2006, at 7:27 AM, Tony Burke wrote: http://www.thevillagespain.com/index-new.htm; On the majority of the main browsers, it looks good and works as it should do on all of them bar Safari 1.3 and 2.0 on the Mac. In div class=bannerholder_homepage you have inserted a

Re: [css-d] Page is messy on Mac Safari - any ideas?!

2006-08-30 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Aug 31, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: http://www.thevillagespain.com/index-new.htm; On the majority of the main browsers, it looks good and works as it should do on all of them bar Safari 1.3 and 2.0 on the Mac. In div class=bannerholder_homepage you have inserted a

[css-d] Div 'box' Aligns Differently in FF IE6

2006-08-30 Thread R. Alan Payne
Web Page: http://www.dvmvac.com/REDESIGN/CProtRsk.shtml CSS: http://www.dvmvac.com/REDESIGN/DVMcss.css Defined #apply { ... text-align: center; ...} then coded div id=applyApplies to most dogs/div but the text is not centered in FF 1.5 and IS centered in IE 6. (Knew it was too easy.) Have

Re: [css-d] Div 'box' Aligns Differently in FF IE6

2006-08-30 Thread Scott Swabey
R. Alan Payne wrote: Web Page: http://www.dvmvac.com/REDESIGN/CProtRsk.shtml CSS: http://www.dvmvac.com/REDESIGN/DVMcss.css Defined #apply { ... text-align: center; ...} then coded div id=applyApplies to most dogs/div but the text is not centered in FF 1.5 and IS centered in IE 6.

Re: [css-d] centering link gifs in a horiz. nav bar

2006-08-30 Thread Jay Kinney
At 9:08 PM -0400 8/30/06, ~davidLaakso wrote: Jay Kinney wrote: I have a horizontal nav bar into which I put a ul of gifs for the links. I floated them left and they all line up next to each other, but they (of course) are all lined-up on the left side of the nav bar. I want to have them

Re: [css-d] Disappearing Content in IE [Urgent]

2006-08-30 Thread Steve Clason
Matt Harris wrote: I recently developed the HTML/CSS for a new website and all was working fine until part of the navigation started disappearing. I assumed it was the peekaboo bug and applied the holly hack, but it hasn't solved the problem, so I'd love some help. The site went live last

Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query

2006-08-30 Thread Felix Miata
On 06/08/30 09:20 (GMT-0700) Chris Williams apparently typed: I have CSS that specifies fonts: (Lucida SANS,Tahoma,Arial,Sans-serif;). You shouldn't do that, though it's hard to be sure from the above typing exactly what you really requested. Tahoma really isn't a very good content font. It's

Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query

2006-08-30 Thread Chris Williams
Thank you for your input. I don't know of any such tool would've been sufficient. The balance is opinion, conjecture (all incorrect), and not the point of my question. From: Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query I suspect what brought up your query is this

Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query

2006-08-30 Thread Felix Miata
On 06/08/30 21:16 (GMT-0700) Chris Williams apparently typed: Thank you for your input. I don't know of any such tool would've been sufficient. The balance is opinion, conjecture (all incorrect), and not the point of my question. I wouldn't have answered but for this that you wrote a while

[css-d] Rounded tabs - top line not working?

2006-08-30 Thread Anne E. Shroeder
http://www.language-works.com/swimdesign/tabs.htm I'm trying to get a straight line to appear over the tabs (but not over the rounded part) -- in Mozilla the line is overlapping the graphic, but in IE it's not appearing at all. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Anne

[css-d] Site revision/check

2006-08-30 Thread Kim Brooks Wei
Please check this site for me. http://carolisol.com I've checked Mac browsers - Safari, iCab and Firefox and would like other browser checks I was having trouble with two issues in IE which I've attempted to correct. I'd like to know if I was successful: 1) the logo showed with a border and

Re: [css-d] centering link gifs in a horiz. nav bar

2006-08-30 Thread ~davidLaakso
Jay Kinney wrote: I have a horizontal nav bar into which I put a ul of gifs for the links. I floated them left and they all line up next to each other, but they (of course) are all lined-up on the left side of the nav bar. I want to have them centered in a row in the nav bar. That way, if

Re: [css-d] Font Mapping Query

2006-08-30 Thread Chris Williams
Rather than try to divine my intent, I'll simply repeat my query, does anyone know of a tool that allows one to inquire of a browser, what exactly is that font, right ... there? If the answer is no, fine, I'll play the trial-and-error game. Thank you. From: Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Site revision/check

2006-08-30 Thread ~davidLaakso
Kim Brooks Wei wrote: http://carolisol.com 1) the logo showed with a border I see no border in xp. 24 screen captures: http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=281028 2) the table at the top of the page on http://carolisol.com/book.html was hitting the left margin instead of being