Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-14 Thread Alex Robinson
>> Can anyone please confirm that the real IE7 will show blue, blue, >> green, green and red on all test pages? >> >> > >Confirming. Those colors are what the real IE7 shows. /aol Me too!

Re: [css-d] IE6 dropping floats

2008-03-14 Thread Jim Davis
How about making mid-container-inner a static div rather than floated, then floating one of the ul's left and the other ul floated right. See this demo: http://www.jimdavis.org/test/list_this.html Will re-size gracefully in IE6 win, FF 2.0 and Opera 9.26 Jim On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Ju

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-14 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Alan Gresley wrote: > Can anyone please confirm that the real IE7 will show blue, blue, > green, green and red on all test pages? > > Confirming. Those colors are what the real IE7 shows. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no

Re: [css-d] Why do paragraphs expand to hold floated images in IE 7?

2008-03-14 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Matt Hampel wrote: > I was testing this page in IE 7: > http://www.rc.lsa.umich.edu/forum/urban.htm and instead of the two > paragraphs wrapping around the photo, the first paragraph expanded to > contain it, pushing the second paragraph below the photo. You have... #main p { width : 450px; margi

Re: [css-d] Why do paragraphs expand to hold floated images in IE 7?

2008-03-14 Thread Rob Emenecker
Matt, One of the CSS gurus can provide a detailed explanation as to "WHY", but my off-the-cuff explanation is that your IMG is contained within that first P, as such IE "binds" them together as a block element for layout purposes. (One of the folks here can provide a "real" explanation and corre

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-14 Thread Alan Gresley
Alex Robinson wrote: > Microsoft have said "Developers, you must use conditional comments, > you must use X-UA, these are the only sanctioned ways". > > Consequently it seems self-evident that Microsoft cannot possibly > ship IE8 with conditional comments not honouring the X-UA string > (thou

[css-d] Why do paragraphs expand to hold floated images in IE 7?

2008-03-14 Thread Matt Hampel
I was testing this page in IE 7: http://www.rc.lsa.umich.edu/forum/urban.htm and instead of the two paragraphs wrapping around the photo, the first paragraph expanded to contain it, pushing the second paragraph below the photo. The page works correctly in the latest versions of Firefox and Safari

Re: [css-d] Mystery: The Case of the Missing CSS

2008-03-14 Thread Jeff Gates
Oh, I'm probably the one to be embarrassed. I'm sure you're right. I'm blindly searching for an answer to my sometimes missing CSS. ;-) /// Jeff Gates Life Outtacontext http://life.outtacontext.com On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:52 PM, "Eric A. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [css-d] IE6 dropping floats

2008-03-14 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Julie Wetherill wrote: > http://hul.harvard.edu/oisnew/systems/oasis/upload.html > > In IE6, any squeezing of the viewport causes the entire center column > to drop below the layout. This is not happening for other pages with > unfloated content. The reason is basically "auto-expansion" - IE6

[css-d] hide and show an image in IE?

2008-03-14 Thread Copeland
Speaking of Eric Meyer… I’m following his tutorial on how to create css disjoint rollovers for images. In IE the images remain hidden. Is there now a workaround for that so that as you mouse over your menu items, therefore revealing the image, IE will show it too? This is where it screws up in I

Re: [css-d] Text size issue in IE6 and IE7

2008-03-14 Thread Kepler Gelotte
> If you mean: http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/images/defects_banner.jpg > Hold its height, crop its width? You could also resize the image along with the text. In your CSS you currently have: .head img {margin: .19em 0 .19em 0; } Add width and height where 1em = 16px (on most monitors) at 100%:

Re: [css-d] Mystery: The Case of the Missing CSS

2008-03-14 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 3:03 PM -0500 3/14/08, Jeff Gates wrote: >In troubleshooting this I found an old (1999) article by Eric Meyer >"Help! My CSS Isn't Working!" >(http://meyerweb.com/eric/articles/webrev/199904.html) in which he says >that there should be no space between the property and the variable (i.e. >it s

Re: [css-d] Text size issue in IE6 and IE7

2008-03-14 Thread David Laakso
Nancy Johnson wrote: > > This works. When I go smaller it is still broken but that is due to > the green Banner image across the top. > When I take it out, smaller works as well. Is there anything I can > do about that? > If you mean: http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/images/defects_banner.jpg

Re: [css-d] Mystery: The Case of the Missing CSS

2008-03-14 Thread Jeff Gates
BTW, could this problem have anything to do with the fact that I have created a rule in my .htaccess file to resolve to this domain from a directory in my main domain (ex http://domain_one.com/my_dir -->http://inourpath.com)? > I (and a few others) are encountering an intermittent CSS problem o

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-14 Thread Alan Gresley
I wrote: > You are correct Ingo, the emulate IE=7 toggle mode should overrule X-UA > "IE=8". What we need is a valid IE8 filter hack and indeed I have found one. > > > > Toggling the modes in IE8 will show a big difference. > > The last one can be

[css-d] Mystery: The Case of the Missing CSS

2008-03-14 Thread Jeff Gates
I (and a few others) are encountering an intermittent CSS problem on my site, where, seemingly all of a sudden, all styles disappear on a displayed page. My css validates (http://inourpath.com/iop.css, web site: http://inourpath.com/intro.html as an example page, but can happen across the site).

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-14 Thread Alex Robinson
At 11:24 -0700 14/3/08, Alan Gresley wrote: >This is real problem if an author decides that IE8 should to go into >IE7 mode and render like the true IE7. No conditional comments meant >for IE7 are used. Microsoft have said "Developers, you must use conditional comments, you must use X-UA, thes

Re: [css-d] Text size issue in IE6 and IE7

2008-03-14 Thread Nancy Johnson
Thank you David, This works. When I go smaller it is still broken but that is due to the green Banner image across the top. When I take it out, smaller works as well. Is there anything I can do about that? If you were referring the to small fixed width size, with white space left and right, th

Re: [css-d] Text size issue in IE6 and IE7

2008-03-14 Thread David Laakso
Nancy Johnson wrote: > When I go to largest size in > IE6/IE7 or smaller and smallest. The page breaks. > > http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ewr/faq.cfm > > > Nancy > It is an IE bug. When using em for font-size, you need to declare percent on the body or html. You now have 1em specified on t

[css-d] IE6 dropping floats

2008-03-14 Thread Julie Wetherill
I have a 3 col layout, with left/right columns floated. Inside the center column, I have nested a container div within which are 2 float more divs floated left. Within these I have vertical lists. The goal is 2 vertical lists sidebyside. Here is the page: http://hul.harvard.edu/oisnew/systems/o

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-14 Thread Alan Gresley
Ingo Chao wrote: >> Alex Robinson wrote: >>> http://www.satzansatz.de/ie8/xua7.html >>> does not show the generated content, but the Conditional Comment for >>> _IE8_ >>> Is this expected? Even if the X-UA-Compatible is set to "IE=7", the >>> conditional comment acts as if this is IE8? >> >> >>

[css-d] Text size issue in IE6 and IE7

2008-03-14 Thread Nancy Johnson
I have a fixed width layout that I am in the process of converting from a nested table layout to a css layout. There is currently only one section that went live with this new css only stylesheet. I also am using ems as the sizing. When I go to largest size in IE6/IE7 or smaller and smallest.

Re: [css-d] Color between scrollbars

2008-03-14 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ray Costanzo wrote: > I was asked if we can control the color of the small square area > between the vertical and horizontal scrollbars. Can it be done? No. That area is an integrated part of browsers scrollbars, and as such can only be affected in browsers that support non-standard styling of s

[css-d] Color between scrollbars

2008-03-14 Thread Ray Costanzo
Hi list, I was asked if we can control the color of the small square area between the vertical and horizontal scrollbars. Can it be done? I played with surrounding divs and background colors but this are remained unaffected. Also, does this area have a name? Here's a visual description of what

Re: [css-d] Building a Print CSS

2008-03-14 Thread Christian Kirchhoff
I once had similar problems and found out that "overflow: hidden;" set on one of the parents of the text container that is cropped caused them. Set #center { overflow: visible; } for print. That should help. Regards, Christian *Directmedia Publishing GmbH* · Möckernstraße 68 · 10965 Berli

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-14 Thread Ingo Chao
Alex Robinson wrote: >> http://www.satzansatz.de/ie8/xua7.html >> does not show the generated content, but the Conditional Comment for >> _IE8_ >> Is this expected? Even if the X-UA-Compatible is set to "IE=7", the >> conditional comment acts as if this is IE8? > > > I noticed this when I added