Re: [css-d] Make IE text clickable?

2006-12-04 Thread ~davidLaakso
Jon Hughes wrote: http://www.phazm.net/newphazm/ The Skip to Content link isn't clickable in IE. I remember reading a hack for this, but I can't seem to find it. Thanks, - Jon Adding position: relative; to selector #down brings it up in ie on a local file for me. Regards, ~dL

Re: [css-d] need help with several positioning problems

2006-12-04 Thread Roger Roelofs
Robin, On Dec 3, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Wonderbaby Designs wrote: I now have 2 layouts I'm working with - there's the one you posted above which is based on the negative margins article on ALA, and I have the one based on Skidoo with backgrounds added in now here

Re: [css-d] IE 6 pixel shift

2006-12-04 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Dec 1, 2006, at 3:14 PM, David Gonzales wrote: In IE 6 the header which contains the logo pushes down the yellow nav bar beneath it by about three pixels. I can't seem to figure it out. http://www.accd.edu/spc/spcmain/applet/120106/default.htm IE

Re: [css-d] need help with several positioning problems

2006-12-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Wonderbaby Designs wrote: I now have 2 layouts I'm working with - there's the one you posted above which is based on the negative margins article on ALA, and I have the one based on Skidoo with backgrounds added in now here http://www.wonderbabydesigns.com/testing/final_test.htm I like

Re: [css-d] Make IE text clickable?

2006-12-04 Thread Rainer Wagener
Jon wrote: http://www.phazm.net/newphazm/ The Skip to Content link isn't clickable in IE. I remember reading a hack for this, but I can't seem to find it. No hack required. There is an empty div#header following the Skip to Content with margin-top set to '-30px'. So this one simply

Re: [css-d] Fieldset rendering in IE

2006-12-04 Thread Silk-Works
Subject: [css-d] Fieldset rendering in IE http://www.fatboyjim.com/wedding/contact/contact.html And my CSS is here; http://www.fatboyjim.com/wedding/ http://www.fatboyjim.com/wedding/styles/master.css styles/master.css All is well when viewed in most browsers, however - you guessed -

[css-d] How to get the height value of a dynamically sized element

2006-12-04 Thread Lee Bettridge
Is there a way find out the height of an element that the browser has sized dynamically to accommodate a chunk of text ? __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information --

Re: [css-d] Make IE text clickable?

2006-12-04 Thread Dave Goodchild
Or you could add an anchor with id content to appease IE? __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ --

[css-d] Anybody familiar with Tanfa's drop-down menu

2006-12-04 Thread daniela froehlich
Dear All Many times I have been using Tanfa's drop-down menu that is using an HTC file for the hover part in IE. Now the webhost did something on the server and now it is not working anymore. The site concerned is: http://www.grenadasailingfestival.com as you can see some links do not work

[css-d] text as background

2006-12-04 Thread Bob Meetin
i don't normally add text as background, but i have a situation where this might come in handy. i thought i saw this in a book or online, but can't remember where. how do i set up a style to display text defined in the stylesheet? .whatever { some_descriptor: string of text; height: 1em;

Re: [css-d] Anybody familiar with Tanfa's drop-down menu

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Young
Sent: 04 December 2006 14:07 To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] Anybody familiar with Tanfa's drop-down menu Dear All Many times I have been using Tanfa's drop-down menu that is using an HTC file for the hover part in IE. Now the webhost did something on the server and now

Re: [css-d] horizontal scrolling

2006-12-04 Thread tedd
At 5:55 PM -0500 12/3/06, Stephen Oravec wrote: Is there any sites that scroll horizontal instead of vertical ? I tried one today just for the heck of it (had nothing better to do) and was wondering where I might find some more info on it . or if its really worth it. my example

[css-d] one final error in IE6

2006-12-04 Thread Erwin Heiser
Hi all, could someone please have a look at: http://www.advocaat-decolvenaer.be/ It displays correctly in IE7 and Firefox and safari but in IE6 the #main div is cut off instead of pulling out of the container. I've tried several things but I'm banging my head against the wall right now :) Any

Re: [css-d] one final error in IE6

2006-12-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Erwin Heiser wrote: http://www.advocaat-decolvenaer.be/ It displays correctly in IE7 and Firefox and safari but in IE6 the #main div is cut off instead of pulling out of the container. Adding... #main {position: relative;} ...seems to do the trick. IE6 has problems when it comes to

[css-d] Form display:inline CSS directives seem to fail when viewing via back button in Firefox

2006-12-04 Thread Wes Gamble
I have a page with two forms on it. I want the respective submit buttons of each form to appear next to each other, inline, so I set style=display: inline; on each form. When I first view the page in Firefox, it displays as expected, with the two buttons next to each other. However, if I

[css-d] Two versions of the same page -two different renditions

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Young
http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/templates/lvsc/index4.html http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/templates/lvsc/index4a.html As I hope you will see, first works - second all content falls outside of wrapper. Funny thing is, they are identical pages in html and css, so I can only think that the first is

Re: [css-d] Two versions of the same page -two different renditions

2006-12-04 Thread Chris Williams
Ahh, but they aren't the same. You have an extra /div in the 4a version. -Original Message- From: Ian Young Subject: [css-d] Two versions of the same page -two different renditions http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/templates/lvsc/index4.html

Re: [css-d] Two versions of the same page -two different renditions

2006-12-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ian Young wrote: http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/templates/lvsc/index4.html http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/templates/lvsc/index4a.html As I hope you will see, first works - second all content falls outside of wrapper. Funny thing is, they are identical pages in html and css, so I can only

[css-d] IE7 - no bold text in unordered list

2006-12-04 Thread Mark Wheeler
Hi, I have a navigation menu that looks as it should in IE6, FF, and Safari, but IE7 does not bold the text on non hover. I can't figure it out. Anyone have an idea? Here are the links. Site: http://ncp.tonedeafstudios.com/ CSS: http://ncp.tonedeafstudios.com/css/global.css Thanks, Mark

Re: [css-d] Two versions of the same page -two different renditions

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Young
http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/templates/lvsc/index4.html http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/templates/lvsc/index4a.html As I hope you will see, first works - second all content falls outside of wrapper. Funny thing is, they are identical pages in html and css, so I can only think that the

Re: [css-d] How to get the height value of a dynamically sized element

2006-12-04 Thread Devon Miller
On 12/4/06, Lee Bettridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way find out the height of an element that the browser has sized dynamically to accommodate a chunk of text ? In JavaScript, yes, but to my knowledge, not in CSS. In JavaScript you can access the dynamic height, width, top, and

Re: [css-d] IE7 - no bold text in unordered list

2006-12-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mark Wheeler wrote: I have a navigation menu that looks as it should in IE6, FF, and Safari, but IE7 does not bold the text on non hover. I can't figure it out. Anyone have an idea? Here are the links. Site: http://ncp.tonedeafstudios.com/ CSS:

[css-d] IE7 rendering problem (OK in 5/6)

2006-12-04 Thread Office @ GraphicsPlus
My first nonplus with CSS (so far :) The page seems to render OK in IE 5/6 but not in IE7. I have tried a few clearing methods without luck. http://www.vigilant-security.co.uk/temp/news --- I don't have IE7 to test in, I can only go by browsershots.org:

Re: [css-d] img size

2006-12-04 Thread Chris Williams
OK, smart-a%*, what is the question, then? I have an image. I don't know its size Sure sounded like you wanted to know what the size of this image was... Maybe what you meant was: I want to put a random image in a div and maximize its size. I don't know what the image will be in advance,

Re: [css-d] horizontal scrolling

2006-12-04 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 17:55:12 -0500, Stephen Oravec wrote: my example http://home.comcast.net/%7Es.oravec/index.html __ Hi Stephen, My first reaction to a similar layout was total confusion. Not a usual reaction from someone

Re: [css-d] IE7 rendering problem (OK in 5/6)

2006-12-04 Thread Ingo Chao
Office @ GraphicsPlus wrote: My first nonplus with CSS (so far :) The page seems to render OK in IE 5/6 but not in IE7. I have tried a few clearing methods without luck. http://www.vigilant-security.co.uk/temp/news Your clearfix variant breaks in IE7. See

[css-d] expanding divs - FF

2006-12-04 Thread Ross Hulford
On the link below the inside containers (pink bordered divs) should push the main #container (green border) down when the inside contents expands http://www.blue-fly.co.uk/nss/about_us/whoweare.php I have tried ems, which works however it makes the #container too big every time cntrl+ is

Re: [css-d] need help with several positioning problems

2006-12-04 Thread Wonderbaby Designs
-Original Message- From: Gunlaug Sørtun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I like the negative-margins based layout better, but I guess that's just me :-) I did prefer the negative margins layout (much simpler code) but I was having an easier time getting the background images into the Skidoo

Re: [css-d] IE7 - no bold text in unordered list

2006-12-04 Thread Mark Wheeler
On Dec 4, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Just a guess, since I don't have IE7 installed... I think 'a:link' trumps '#nav_container ul li a', the way IE7 works. If so, then changing the last one to '#nav_container ul li a:link' should work. Hi Greg, Tried that. Didn't work. I even

[css-d] Headers and Footers

2006-12-04 Thread George L Smyth
I have put together a table to display information and my co-worker wants to be able to print it out. No problem, I've used print style sheets to take care of that. Now he wants each page to have a header and footer and I can't think of any way to do it. Is this possible? Cheers - george

Re: [css-d] IE 6 pixel shift - Avoiding The Hack

2006-12-04 Thread Steven Tchorzewski
Werd up, I don't think you need a hack. You may be able to avoid it with one of these two suggestions : Problem Nav Bar In The HTML: http://www.accd.edu/spc/spcmain/applet/120106/default.htm div id=topnav ul li: Prospective Students amp; Parents :/li li:

Re: [css-d] text as background

2006-12-04 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:15:01 -0700, Bob Meetin wrote: i don't normally add text as background, but i have a situation where this might come in handy. i thought i saw this in a book or online, but can't remember where. how do i set up a style to display text defined in the stylesheet? Hi

Re: [css-d] Form display:inline CSS directives seem to fail when viewing via back button in Firefox

2006-12-04 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:04:44 -0600, Wes Gamble wrote: I have a page with two forms on it. I want the respective submit buttons of each form to appear next to each other, inline, so I set style=display: inline; on each form. May we take a look, pretty please? Cordially, David --

[css-d] Dropdown menus can swing both ways

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Young
After a bit of tweaking managed to get end menus to slide right. Not difficult for the decent browsers but IE has been awkward and I have had to put in a workaround. Now not sure if this is only on my local machine as IE6 is standalone and is not working as it should. If anyone has time could

Re: [css-d] IE 6 pixel shift - Avoiding The Hack

2006-12-04 Thread david
Steven Tchorzewski wrote: I don't think you need a hack. You may be able to avoid it with one of these two suggestions : Problem Nav Bar In The HTML: http://www.accd.edu/spc/spcmain/applet/120106/default.htm div id=topnav ul li: Prospective Students amp; Parents :/li

Re: [css-d] Form display:inline CSS directives seem to fail when viewing via back button in Firefox

2006-12-04 Thread Wes Gamble
I've already come up with a workaround, thanks though. David Hucklesby wrote: On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:04:44 -0600, Wes Gamble wrote: I have a page with two forms on it. I want the respective submit buttons of each form to appear next to each other, inline, so I set style=display: inline;

Re: [css-d] Two versions of the same page -two different renditions

2006-12-04 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 17:17:55 -, Ian Young wrote: http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/templates/lvsc/index4.html http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/templates/lvsc/index4a.html As I hope you will see, first works - second all content falls outside of wrapper. Funny thing is, they are identical pages

Re: [css-d] Two versions of the same page -two different renditions

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Young
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 17:17:55 -, Ian Young wrote: http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/templates/lvsc/index4.html http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/templates/lvsc/index4a.html As I hope you will see, first works - second all content falls outside of wrapper. Funny thing is, they are

Re: [css-d] IE7 - no bold text in unordered list

2006-12-04 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 09:43:19 -0800, Mark Wheeler wrote: Hi, I have a navigation menu that looks as it should in IE6, FF, and Safari, but IE7 does not bold the text on non hover. I can't figure it out. Anyone have an idea? Here are the links. Site: http://ncp.tonedeafstudios.com/ CSS:

Re: [css-d] CSS Frames + Graphic-Less Hypertext Tabs - Browser Check

2006-12-04 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 13:47:20 -0800, Steven Tchorzewski wrote: Hello friends... This CSS information website of mine is WAY past due for a round of rigours browser compatibility tests. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, thanks in advance. The site features two slick tricks that I am

[css-d] Browser Check: Sliding CSS/JS Hybrid Drop Down Menu

2006-12-04 Thread Steven Tchorzewski
Howdy Y'all, This sliding CSS/JS hybrid drop down menu that I have been working with various incarnations of for years now. After much fuss I have it working in IE6+, FireFox, Opera, and NS6+ - I finally feel like it has the real potential (in my mind) to become my go to menu for all client sites

[css-d] form doesn't show well on Linux platform

2006-12-04 Thread Henk Cortier
Hi, I created a simple form with the labels with fixed width: form label.fixedwidth { clear: both display: block; width: 140px; float: left; } it shows ok in Safari and PC/IE but on Linux it's a nightmare, any idease? thanks Henk

Re: [css-d] IE7 - no bold text in unordered list

2006-12-04 Thread Mark Wheeler
On Dec 4, 2006, at 2:53 PM, David Hucklesby wrote: Hi Mark, Did you fix this? The menu text looks bold in IE 7 here. But it's hard to tell with the text size even smaller than the browser's own menu. Cordially, David -- www.hucklesby.com Hi David, No I didn't. I see it in IE6 and

[css-d] Dropdown menu not showing in IE (6)

2006-12-04 Thread trystano
Hi all, I have developed a dropdown menu (the one from the 'More Eric Meyer on CSS') and have got it to work in Mozilla Firefox, but in IE the second level menu doesn't show when the first level list item containing the menu is hovered. Hope you can help me on this, as I really cant see

[css-d] IE margin bugs

2006-12-04 Thread Mei Gwilym
Hi all, I'm finishing ogg site, and came accross a IE bug. I've checked PIE but I'm not sure which one it is. I have a two column site, with a footer div with clear:both. The footer has a large amount of top padding so I can display a background image. Everything looks fine in Firefox on WinXP,

Re: [css-d] horizontal scrolling

2006-12-04 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12/3/2006 02:55 PM, Stephen Oravec wrote: Is there any sites that scroll horizontal instead of vertical ? A common objection to horizontal layout is that it's not possible with today's browsers to jump to a local anchor to the left or right of the current cursor position (only above or

Re: [css-d] CSS Frames + Graphic-Less Hypertext Tabs - Browser Check

2006-12-04 Thread Steven Tchorzewski
David, I honestly appreciate your candor. I have receive similar observations from co-workers and friends I had surf that site and tell me what they think. The point of having two navigation structures on the subcategory pages is simple really: I want each subcategory page to display the links to

[css-d] IE7 rendering problem (OK in 5/6)

2006-12-04 Thread Steven Tchorzewski
William, The only difference I see in IE7 is that the footer dose not extend all the way to the bottom and like it dose in the other browsers. IE7 is sticking to a spot about 100px above the bottom of the page, instead of all the way down like FireFox, Opera, and, NetScape6. Regards, Steve

Re: [css-d] Headers and Footers

2006-12-04 Thread Brett Merkey
George L Smyth wrote: | I have put together a table to display information and my co-worker wants | to be able to print it out. No problem, I've used print style sheets to | take care of that. | | Now he wants each page to have a header and footer and I can't think of | any way to do it. Is this

Re: [css-d] IE7 - no bold text in unordered list

2006-12-04 Thread Steven Tchorzewski
Mark, I think I may know your problem have your solution: You set: font-weight: normal; and IE7 must be getting stuck on that. a:hover, a:active { color: #006595; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal; } You do use the ID #active in an LI of your left navigation

[css-d] Impossible CSS layout? 3 Columns: Fixed center, Fluid left/right

2006-12-04 Thread Karl Jancar
Hello, my first post here :-) I am interested to find out if it is possible to create a particular layout using CSS The layout I'm after is: 3 Columns: a Fixed center with Fluid left and right columns I was pointed to this list, being told that if there is anyone who would know, they'd be

Re: [css-d] Newbie question

2006-12-04 Thread Devon Miller
On 12/4/06, Suzanne Bernard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just started teaching myself CSS over the last month or so. I've also recently put up the website for the New York Cactus Succulent Society, and I'm completely baffled by something. All the pages have a div with the class

[css-d] problem with floats

2006-12-04 Thread Marty Martin
If you look at http://www.urologicsurgeryonline.com/ you'll notice the content left and content right aren't floating right, the right content is wrapping under. Here's my CSS-- .main-navigation {display:inline /*Fix IE floating margin bug*/; float:left; width:195px; overflow:visible !important

[css-d] display problem with IE 5.5

2006-12-04 Thread Bojana Lalic
Hi all I've got a three column layout (navigation + main content + right column). The navigation and the right column are fixed and the main content (middle) is liquid. It all looks fine in firefox, IE 6 and most all other browsers except for IE 5.5. And I really need to get it to display

Re: [css-d] IE7 - [SOLVED] no bold text in unordered list

2006-12-04 Thread Mark Wheeler
On Dec 4, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Steven Tchorzewski wrote: Mark, I think I may know your problem have your solution: You set: font-weight: normal; and IE7 must be getting stuck on that. a:hover, a:active { color: #006595; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal; }

[css-d] menu li id bg images disappear in firefox / different li id width in browsers

2006-12-04 Thread Beate De Nijs
Hello, I do encounter some strange probs with my navigation... testpage URL http://www.fabian-helmich.de/seiten/portrait_1/ p1_1_sun_angelika_1.html css URLs:http://www.fabian-helmich.de/css/fabian_base.css plus for each subsection I needed an further tiny one for just the subsection li

[css-d] alignment

2006-12-04 Thread Visually Insane Genetically Modified Organism
Can someone tell me why all versions of Firefox will display my header the way I wish and IE 6 will not? By the way, how does it look in IE 7? HTML: http://www.infoforce-services.com/ifs_header.php CSS: http://www.infoforce-services.com/css/layout.css -- Love Hayden (Super Duper Guide

Re: [css-d] IE7 - [SOLVED] no bold text in unordered list

2006-12-04 Thread Michael Stevens
As a few of us talked about in a past thread typically fonts usually only have two weights: normal bold. Some will have more than that but in those instances you can't bbbcontent/b/b/b to make it bolder. If a font has multiple weights, like Futura, you'll have Futura and Futura, Bold. If you want

Re: [css-d] IE7 - [SOLVED] no bold text in unordered list

2006-12-04 Thread Mark Wheeler
On Dec 4, 2006, at 8:32 PM, Michael Stevens wrote: As a few of us talked about in a past thread typically fonts usually only have two weights: normal bold. Some will have more than that but in those instances you can't bbbcontent/b/b/b to make it bolder. If a font has multiple

Re: [css-d] IE7 - [SOLVED] no bold text in unordered list

2006-12-04 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Mark Wheeler wrote: Makes sense, but why is it then on my page that in FF (PC) and IE6 it looks bolder/heaver than in IE7? It is a bit more complicated. Most browsers on Windows will attempt to find a bold face for the specified font. If not available, they

Re: [css-d] IE7 - [SOLVED] no bold text in unordered list

2006-12-04 Thread Mark Wheeler
On Dec 4, 2006, at 9:46 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: It is a bit more complicated. Most browsers on Windows will attempt to find a bold face for the specified font. If not available, they will using some algorithms to artificially bold the specified font. On Mac Safari, and in the future

Re: [css-d] Browser Check: Sliding CSS/JS Hybrid Drop Down Menu

2006-12-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Steven Tchorzewski wrote: So here's my baby: http://www.plattdaddy.com/rollovers/seo-friendly-drop.htm Nice baby :-) Would be even nicer if you could iron out the overlapping/lost text problems that occur when some amount of font-resizing is applied in any browser. regards Georg --

Re: [css-d] Impossible CSS layout? 3 Columns: Fixed center, Fluid left/right

2006-12-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Karl Jancar wrote: The layout I'm after is: 3 Columns: a Fixed center with Fluid left and right columns So you would end up with something like this: http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/center1.html BUT if you can imagine that instead of white/blank/empty/unusable space on either side of

Re: [css-d] problem with floats

2006-12-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Marty Martin wrote: If you look at http://www.urologicsurgeryonline.com/ you'll notice the content left and content right aren't floating right, the right content is wrapping under. Don't try to push a float with its backside margin. Such a margin gets in the way - makes the float appear