[css-d] Partial percentage heights

2006-10-24 Thread Moe Aboulkheir
I'm sure this question gets asked fairly often, though I tried searching the archive but could find anything - probably because it's difficult to compress into a short summary. If I have something like: body div class=navigation.../div div class=content.../div /body How can I have content

Re: [css-d] Div positioning

2006-10-24 Thread francky
Just for safety: Hi readers of my last message about the right link. * http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/81019 Maybe I didn't compose the mail clear enough. Did you scroll down over the original message to see the rest - my suggestions on the questions? And I forgot to

Re: [css-d] Partial percentage heights

2006-10-24 Thread Roger Roelofs
Mike, On Oct 24, 2006, at 3:23 AM, Moe Aboulkheir wrote: I'm sure this question gets asked fairly often, though I tried searching the archive but could find anything - probably because it's difficult to compress into a short summary. If I have something like: body div

[css-d] Mac IE5 positioning problem

2006-10-24 Thread Simon Gough
Hi I have a layout which works in Firefox, Safari, IE6 PC but totally breaks in Mac IE5. I've seen this before and can't remember what the problem is. The URL is: http://www.redfront.co.uk The URL of the stylesheet is: http://redfrontprojects.com/redfront/index.php?css=redfronthome/site_css

Re: [css-d] @import or link href=css/buttons.css /

2006-10-24 Thread Erik Visser
Christian Heilmann wrote: I like @import, as it allows for modularization of CSS much more than LINKs do. Can you explain a little more on modularization? __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] @import or link href=css/buttons.css /

2006-10-24 Thread Dave Goodchild
As an example, here is how I link to a stylesheet on one site in the header template: link rel=stylesheet type=text/css href=main.css / where main.css contains the following: @import url(/css/global.css); @import url(/css/typography.css); @import url(/css/colours.css); @import

Re: [css-d] Div positioning

2006-10-24 Thread Pete Home
Thanks Francky, I saw the first error and didn't look down the email for the fix! There is no missing DIV, I ran it through the validator and got the same error, but I do not understand why. I move the fieldset in the form and validate down to 1 error. If I add an extra div at the end, I get

Re: [css-d] Famous CSS/Javascript menuins system

2006-10-24 Thread Ricky Zhou
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wes Gamble wrote: I've been lurking on this list for a while and there is almost always mention of some well known, currently fairly popular CSS (and Javascript I think) dropdown menuing scheme. It has a very catchy name, but it escapes me.

[css-d] centering block elements in IE 6.0 fails

2006-10-24 Thread Daniel Kabs
Hello there, I've read in Eric Meyer's book that one can center nested block elements *horizontally* inside a parent block element by setting left and right margins of the nested element to auto (p. 316, 2nd. ed.). I also found postings in this list saying so. I take it, this should work in IE

Re: [css-d] Mac IE5 positioning problem

2006-10-24 Thread Roger Roelofs
Simon, On Oct 24, 2006, at 5:49 AM, Simon Gough wrote: I have a layout which works in Firefox, Safari, IE6 PC but totally breaks in Mac IE5. I've seen this before and can't remember what the problem is. The URL is: http://www.redfront.co.uk The centering technique for

[css-d] Changing z-index with :hover - screen starts flickering

2006-10-24 Thread dimpie
I need some help with the following problem. I have a div#main - with color lightblue - which should is and should be on top when the webpage loads. When I hover over it I want the div#menu - with color gold - to be on top. At first div#main has z-index 100. When I hover over div#main

Re: [css-d] centering block elements in IE 6.0 fails

2006-10-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Daniel Kabs wrote: I tried to apply the Centering with auto-margins technique according to http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CenteringBlockElement Please see the test page at http://www.mobotixserver.de/~daniel/css_center_horizontally.html The page works on Firefox and Konqueror

Re: [css-d] IE and Safari issues (UPDATE) / IE7 horizontal scrollbar

2006-10-24 Thread Tom Livingston
On 10/24/06, Tom Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This gives a huge scrollbar. Disappointing. Ingo Indeed. Now I have to figure out how else to get those links with the icons to work right w/o the text-indent... -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multimedia Artist | Media Logic |

[css-d] suckerfish IE problem

2006-10-24 Thread Matt Plummer
Hello everyone, I am using the Suckerfish dropdowns as detailed in ALA, but I am having a bit of a problem. Although the hover works and the drop downs show up in both Firefox and IE6, there is a problem in IE6 with the dropdown menu being overlapped by elements on the static page. For instance

Re: [css-d] How to define a section on a page where CSS has ZERO effect?

2006-10-24 Thread cj
[i assume this was for the list, so i'm replying back on-list for the archives.] On 10/23/06, Les Mizzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cj wrote: if i'm reading you right, you're asking how do i reset all styling for this p so the customer has a clean slate?. I have a CSS file I use for every

[css-d] Yet another IE positioning problem

2006-10-24 Thread John Lee
Hello I'm also having a layout problem related to IE. My page works on all browsers but IE. Does anything here seem familiar to anyone? dangerousmuse.blogspot.com stylesheet url is: http://www.cordlessstreet.com/temp_DM/temp_blog/css/stylesheet.css I'm pretty new at this stuff so I'm sure my

[css-d] Custom Font Families

2006-10-24 Thread Tom Livingston
Listers, I am being asked for ammunition against pushing custom font families to visitors of a Web site. Anyone have any references on this? I know it has been discussed, but google has been fruitless as of yet. Thanks -- Tom Livingston | Senior Multimedia Artist | Media Logic | ph:

[css-d] Safari Layout Problems

2006-10-24 Thread Alex Foley - OnWired
I'm having problems aligning a form search box in the header of this page: http://www.toolcrib.com/index.aspx The box looks fine in Firefox and IE, but not in Safari. Am I ignoring a common Safari bug with alignment? I'm using NiftyCorners to simulate the Javascript Corners, which is why it

Re: [css-d] Famous CSS/Javascript menuins system

2006-10-24 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Wes Gamble wrote: I've been lurking on this list for a while and there is almost always mention of some well known, currently fairly popular CSS (and Javascript I think) dropdown menuing scheme. It has a very catchy name, but it escapes me. Can anyone help me remember it? This is not the

Re: [css-d] Custom Font Families

2006-10-24 Thread Gareth Rodger
Tom, I've never had a problem using 'custom' font-families. I usually try to tick the following boxes; * Make sure the family contains an OS default ( http:// www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html ) e.g. Verdana, Arial * Make sure you depreciate to a generic family e.g. monospace or

[css-d] multiple menu strife

2006-10-24 Thread Ian Young
Been working on Tedd Sperling's excellent drop down menu which was difficult to catch in IE7. As part of the exercise made submenus different colours etc. However, now IE6 has added some margin to the UL or UL hover and I cannot for the life of me where I have made the error - especially as I had

[css-d] Grouped ID and class selectors in IE

2006-10-24 Thread J. Biechele
Hi, first the link to the sample page with inline styles: http://www.cadutamassi.com/test/test.html Could anybody explain me please why in IE the background image of Option2 does not show up, means the styles for option 2 aren't recoginzed at all in IE? With FF this works fine. I know the HTML

Re: [css-d] Grouped ID and class selectors in IE

2006-10-24 Thread Lars Huring
Just do: .option1 { background-color: #d7e8f3; background-image: url(bg_option1.jpg); } .option2 { background-color: #c4d4e8; background-image: url(bg_option2.jpg); } (or div.option1) and it works fine in IE. // L J. Biechele wrote: Hi, first the link to

[css-d] Background image not showing

2006-10-24 Thread ed gooddy
With the following browsers and OSs the background image in the navbar div doesn´t show-why oh why?! Thanks for any pointers: Firefox 1.5.0 (no Flash) + Linux Fedora Core 4 Firefox 2.0b1 (no Flash) +Linux Fedora Core 4 Konqueror 3.4.0-5 (no Flash) + Linux Fedora Core 4 Mozilla

Re: [css-d] Div positioning

2006-10-24 Thread francky
Pete Home wrote: Thanks Francky, I saw the first error and didn't look down the email for the fix! Hi Pete, Glad I've send the safety message! There is no missing DIV, I ran it through the validator and got the same error, but I do not understand why. I move the fieldset in the form and

Re: [css-d] Background image not showing

2006-10-24 Thread David Merwin
How abotu some links to your CSS? And maybe the file itself? David Merwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 541-335-1832 http://www.davemerwin.com http://www.purebluedesign.com http://www.betachurch.org http://www.agiprofessional.com On Oct 24, 2006, at 9:25 AM, ed gooddy wrote: With the following browsers

Re: [css-d] Grouped ID and class selectors in IE

2006-10-24 Thread cj
i think you're running into some ie fun (aka bugs, bugs, bugs). here are some links to multiple class/id bugs. http://www.quirksmode.org/bugreports/archives/2004/12/IE_CSS_rendering_bug_with_multiple_classnames.html

[css-d] Single Column Table, Reduce Vertical Gap between Content

2006-10-24 Thread Michael Terry
Hi, I've got a table with one column and 3 cells. Each cell has one character in it. I want to reduce the vertical spacing between the characters. I thought changing the line-height would do it, but as it's reduced, the character rides up out of the top of the cell. How can I do this?

Re: [css-d] multiple menu strife

2006-10-24 Thread tedd
At 3:43 PM +0100 10/24/06, Ian Young wrote: Been working on Tedd Sperling's excellent drop down menu which was difficult to catch in IE7. As part of the exercise made submenus different colours etc. However, now IE6 has added some margin to the UL or UL hover and I cannot for the life of me where

[css-d] IE 6 and 7 on same box

2006-10-24 Thread AG
Did anybody succesfully install both of these on the same box? How? Thanks Ara G. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

[css-d] 100% height minus 2em

2006-10-24 Thread Paul Novitski
This is likely one of those Gordian knots of CSS: how to combine percentages and ems in the same layout. I want to style a block that fills the vertical space of the viewport, minus the 2ems taken up by the header. How to express 100% - 2em in CSS? Before I fall back on JavaScript (or

Re: [css-d] 100% height minus 2em

2006-10-24 Thread David Merwin
Couldn't you use padding and negative margins? div1 {height:100%; padding:2em 0 0 0;} div2 {height:2em; margin:-2em 0 0 0;} div id=div1 div id=div2/div /div David Merwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 541-335-1832 http://www.davemerwin.com http://www.purebluedesign.com http://www.betachurch.org

Re: [css-d] Grouped ID and class selectors in IE

2006-10-24 Thread J. Biechele
Thank you for the great info links! And fine to know ie7 will handle that in an expected manner ;-) i think you're running into some ie fun (aka bugs, bugs, bugs). here are some links to multiple class/id bugs.

Re: [css-d] Partial percentage heights

2006-10-24 Thread Moe Aboulkheir
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:12:12 -0400, Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't as easy as it seems like it should be, and the answer is very dependent on what exactly you are trying to do. If you are trying to get a footer to stick to the bottom of the viewport, check out this page

Re: [css-d] 100% height minus 2em

2006-10-24 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10/24/2006 12:22 PM, David Merwin wrote: Couldn't you use padding and negative margins? div1 {height:100%; padding:2em 0 0 0;} div2 {height:2em; margin:-2em 0 0 0;} div id=div1 div id=div2/div /div On Oct 24, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Paul Novitski wrote:

Re: [css-d] 100% height minus 2em

2006-10-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Paul Novitski wrote: This is likely one of those Gordian knots of CSS: how to combine percentages and ems in the same layout. It can't be done, but that doesn't mean your _problem_ can't be solved with regular CSS. Some browsers may be a bit weak though - IE6 being one of them. I want to

Re: [css-d] multiple menu strife

2006-10-24 Thread Ian Young
Ian: Thanks for the compliment. As a habit of practice for me, when trying to get someone else's code to work, I find that it's usually best to set it up as is to see if everything works before I alter the code to my liking. A quick look at your code shows that you have made some

Re: [css-d] 100% height minus 2em

2006-10-24 Thread David Merwin
I am not getting it then. Sorry bout that. The flash object would be controlled by the padding of the parent div. In this case the padding then leaves room for the header div that is using negative top margin. SOrry about that. David Merwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 541-335-1832

[css-d] Interior wrapper not functioning/behaving itself

2006-10-24 Thread Dan Clarkson
Hi [While I have been a subscriber for a while to this list, this is my first post - I hope it isn't too dumb!] This has almost reduced me to tears, but I'm sure there is an easy explanation out there. Im simply trying to position a main content div and a sidebar div in an interior

[css-d] Bulleting problem in IE

2006-10-24 Thread Portman
Hi, I am finishing up a website for someone and find that some of the bullets are missing in IE. The page is here: http://www.starqualitydesigns.com/1stchoice/services.htm. Can anyone tell me why one bullet in the middle is missing in the first list and the first bullets are missing in the

[css-d] Help with a CSS bug specific to dreamweaver...

2006-10-24 Thread Matt Dawson
Hi all - I've already gotten so much great help from the list on this project - so thanks to everyone. My problem is I have this css-based layout: http://www.southernenvironment.org/test/index2.html that works in all browsers but IE5 and IEMac (I'm working on separate hacks for those), but has

[css-d] email this page feature

2006-10-24 Thread Melissa Meyer
Everyone, I am setting up an email this page feature on the site I am working on and I would like to know everyone's opinion on their favorites methods of doing this. I found this example: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sendtofriend/ But, I don't have Access to a server with ASP and

Re: [css-d] Struggling with IE6 compatibility for Holy Grail

2006-10-24 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 23 October 2006 22:16, Alan Chandler wrote: I have tried to use a modified version of AListApart's Holy Grail article to line up the columns on my site (URL in my signature). The modification is that a) I have put columns in the header and footer, b) Mostly I only have two columns

Re: [css-d] multiple menu strife sorted

2006-10-24 Thread Ian Young
Been working on Tedd Sperling's excellent drop down menu which was difficult to catch in IE7. As part of the exercise made submenus different colours etc. However, now IE6 has added some margin to the UL or UL hover and I cannot for the life of me where I have made the error - especially

[css-d] CSS: one band-aid on top of another?

2006-10-24 Thread Css Discuss
Hello, I am a PHP programmer who used to do only front end stuff in the time before managers accepted CSS as a valid way to mark up web pages. Now I'd really like to get up to speed on CSS but everytime I start to get into it, it seems like, oh to make that work in that browser I'll need this

Re: [css-d] email this page feature

2006-10-24 Thread Cem Meric
From the code: lia href=/mailfriend/30/15414/c211e708ba/ class=emailE-mail story/a/li The question I have with this is did the developer have to manually enter the a href=/mailfriend/30/15414/c211e708ba/ ?? That would mean a lot of extra work and attention. Melissa, I don't think this is CSS

Re: [css-d] CSS: one band-aid on top of another?

2006-10-24 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
... What do YOU (plural) do? Do you say, I'm sticking ot standards, piss on your browser if it doesn't look good!? Your clients will like that. Do you make your pages simple so that there's flexability in the design, so that browsers don't notice the difference? (Think Google) Do you go

Re: [css-d] Interior wrapper not functioning/behaving itself

2006-10-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Dan Clarkson wrote: The problem is I that I EITHER get the content and sidebar to align correctly but without the interior wrapper enclosing the elements as follows: http://www.funkate.co.uk/NEW/inner_page.html OR I get the inner wrapper to correctly wrap around the two elements, but then

Re: [css-d] CSS: one band-aid on top of another?

2006-10-24 Thread Css Discuss
I'm a Mac user now, was Linux full time for quite a while. I keep a laptop handy to check windows browsers. I use FF for everyday life and doing my HTML and CSS. It's interesting coming back to front end stuff, I wonder how many here use Vim as their HTML/CSS editor? I'm so hooked! I find this

Re: [css-d] Struggling with IE6 compatibility for Holy Grail

2006-10-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Alan Chandler wrote: http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/testing/col.html 1) The picture used as the background for the #logo div is 164 x 123 pixels. The #header div has a left margin of 164px, and whilst it sits close to the picture on both Firefox and Konqueror, IE/6 seems to show white

[css-d] missing margin on link image

2006-10-24 Thread Linda Quinn
Please help me understand what is happening. I have a column of images (actually the logos of an organization's sponsors) and each one will link to the sponsors' web sites. To make is obvious that they are links, I thought I would have a border appear on hover. Works in FF, but not in

Re: [css-d] How to define a section on a page where CSS has ZERO effect?

2006-10-24 Thread francky
cj wrote: [...] i can think of a couple ways, neither of them pretty. css is meant to cascade (hence the name!), so resetting an area of the page isn't built in. 1. [...] 2. [...] Hi Les, And ... maybe, maybe ... I was thinking ... escaping the cascade ... you need a kinda hole in the

Re: [css-d] Changing z-index with :hover - screen starts flickering

2006-10-24 Thread francky
dimpie wrote: [...] This is the webpage. [...] Hi Dimpie, I looked everywhere, but couldn't find it. Maybe you send it with an attachment, but the list is dropping that. Can you send a link to the page on a site? Greetings, francky

[css-d] Horizontal List Menu Aligned right

2006-10-24 Thread Micky Hulse
Hello, Just curious if you folks can explain to me what it takes to get a horizontal menu to align right without setting widths of the list items... I do not see to many list menus on the net that are aligned right where the width of the menu items is dependent upon the text/link and

Re: [css-d] Bulleting problem in IE

2006-10-24 Thread francky
Portman wrote: Hi, I am finishing up a website for someone and find that some of the bullets are missing in IE. The page is here: http://www.starqualitydesigns.com/1stchoice/services.htm. Can anyone tell me why one bullet in the middle is missing in the first list and the first bullets are

Re: [css-d] Bulleting problem in IE

2006-10-24 Thread Portman
Thanks Francky. Riva francky wrote: Hi Riva, In IE there are no missing bullets, but all squares are displayed on the bottom line of the list-item. If there is only 1 line, it doesn't strike! ;-) How to solve? Maybe it has to do with IE's error handling of the html: validating learns

Re: [css-d] Need some help with MIR image replacement and missing list-style-type:disc.

2006-10-24 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 25, 2006, at 12:48 AM, David Merwin wrote: I am trying to use MIR image replacement. Works great in Fireworks, but in IE (PC) and Safari it shows the first letters of the text that is being replaced. Making me crazy, can't figure out what is going on. What is wrong with using img

Re: [css-d] Horizontal List Menu Aligned right

2006-10-24 Thread Micky Hulse
Micky Hulse wrote: Am I dreaming? :) Hmm, I guess I was over-thinking this... Text-align right on the parent UL seems to work just fine... Phantom links happen in IE 5.2/Mac, but I do not need to worry about that browser for this project. Is it really that simple? -- Wishlist:

Re: [css-d] Horizontal List Menu Aligned right

2006-10-24 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Micky Hulse wrote: Just curious if you folks can explain to me what it takes to get a horizontal menu to align right without setting widths of the list items... I do not see to many list menus on the net that are aligned right where the width of the menu items

Re: [css-d] Horizontal List Menu Aligned right

2006-10-24 Thread Micky Hulse
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: Just a bit float:left, float:right. http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/inline-list2.php Ahh, great! You do exceptional work Philippe! This will be a great learning resource for me, thanks for sharing. :) I may be back with questions... In the end, I am hoping I can code a

Re: [css-d] Help with a CSS bug specific to dreamweaver...

2006-10-24 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 25, 2006, at 6:38 AM, Matt Dawson wrote: And here's where the problem is: I've applied a tiled background image to #main_body to make the blue main content column stretch to the footer, even if the right sidebar is longer. Works fine in all browsers. BUT in dreamweaver, adding

[css-d] No DOC TypE

2006-10-24 Thread Visually Insane Genetically Modified Organism
I know this is been covered before, however, I did not think it was important in the past. The W3C HTML validator is telling me there is no DOC TYPE when at the top of the file I have: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd; Can