Re: [css-d] falling back if a font doesn't exist

2008-04-23 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: In a perfect world, 'Arial Black' shouldn't get bolded, as it already is a bold face with weight=900. That would be the natural interpretation, but then Arial Black should not be a font-family value at all, just a particular font with font-family: Arial and

Re: [css-d] falling back if a font doesn't exist

2008-04-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Apr 23, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: In a perfect world, 'Arial Black' shouldn't get bolded, as it already is a bold face with weight=900. That would be the natural interpretation, but then Arial Black should not be a font-family value at all, just a particular font with

Re: [css-d] falling back if a font doesn't exist

2008-04-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
I wrote On Apr 23, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: In a perfect world, 'Arial Black' shouldn't get bolded, as it already is a bold face with weight=900. That would be the natural interpretation, but then Arial Black should not be a font-family value at all, just a particular

[css-d] CSS color editor directly to/from stylesheet files without needing HTML?

2008-04-23 Thread Hugo Byrne
Hi there, Im a newbie to css and am wondering if the experts on this list can help. Im looking for a versatile color tool which allows me to quickly change the color scheme in CMS themes (e.g Wordpress or Drupal etc). Ideally a tool that has the following features :- 1. Loads a set of colors

Re: [css-d] CSS color editor directly to/from stylesheet files without needing HTML?

2008-04-23 Thread Christian Kirchhoff
Hello, on the off topic page on the website of this list (http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=OffTopic) there is a link to CssEditors. Which I am afraid is telling me that yopur question is OffTopic. But I hope you get lucky and find your answer on that page:

Re: [css-d] browser window size and scrolling ---- thx !!!

2008-04-23 Thread fomede asaah
thx guys, it was really a help. this link worked exactly the way i wanted it to thx again @ David Laakso Gunlaug Sortun. http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/b.html -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ _ Die aktuelle

[css-d] Divs Of Equal Height Is It Possible?

2008-04-23 Thread Elli Vizcaino
Hello, I need to code the divs to be of equal height as shown in designer's comp: e7flux.com/placead/placead.jpg - even when one has more content than the other. Here are the links to HTML/CSS: http://e7flux.com/placead/placead.html http://e7flux.com/placead/css/placead.css Is there a way to

Re: [css-d] Divs Of Equal Height Is It Possible?

2008-04-23 Thread Copeland
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/pvii_columns/index.htm Hope this helps! --copeland casati No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.3/1393 - Release Date: 4/23/2008 8:12 AM

Re: [css-d] Divs Of Equal Height Is It Possible?

2008-04-23 Thread Elli Vizcaino
I also found a pure CSS solution by one of our very own guru's here on the list: http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/moa_11f.html after doing a Google search. You do have to use rules to target older versions of IE but it's all CSS. I think I will give that a try before resorting to Javascript. But thanks

Re: [css-d] Divs Of Equal Height Is It Possible?

2008-04-23 Thread vincent pollard
i used this recently and it works well: http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/onetruelayout/example/interactive On 23/04/2008, Copeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/pvii_columns/index.htm Hope this helps! --copeland casati No virus found in this outgoing

Re: [css-d] Divs Of Equal Height Is It Possible?

2008-04-23 Thread Elli Vizcaino
--- Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note: IE-expressions _depend_ on script-support in IE/win. Oh - so what exactly does that mean? Elli Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all

[css-d] Hope this is the appropriate way to ask this question

2008-04-23 Thread Jonathan
I have looked at and read several CSS books. Do you have any recommendations as I have not found one that I liked __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ --

[css-d] Centering a variable width float ...

2008-04-23 Thread corey deep
I am having great difficulty centering a floated element ( e.g. an image w/ dropshadow ). The primary reason is the dimensions of this floated element are variable ( a maximum of 400px height and/or 400px width ) Is there is a css way to center a variable width element which contains a float

Re: [css-d] Hope this is the appropriate way to ask this question

2008-04-23 Thread David Laakso
Jonathan wrote: I have looked at and read several CSS books. Do you have any recommendations as I have not found one that I liked See the list wiki (uri below) for a list. Most are out of date by the time they hit the street. Online resources tend to be more helpful (for me). Again,

Re: [css-d] Hope this is the appropriate way to ask this question

2008-04-23 Thread vincent pollard
this one is excellent: http://meyerweb.com/eric/books/css-tdg/ very clear and a good place to start. On 23/04/2008, Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have looked at and read several CSS books. Do you have any recommendations as I have not found one that I liked

Re: [css-d] Divs Of Equal Height Is It Possible?

2008-04-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Elli Vizcaino wrote: --- Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note: IE-expressions _depend_ on script-support in IE/win. Oh - so what exactly does that mean? IE-expressions (that I use) are minimal script in stylesheet, which means if there's no script-support in IE7 and older

Re: [css-d] Hope this is the appropriate way to ask this question

2008-04-23 Thread Alan K Baker
Hi Jonathan. I have found the following book to be excellent and I use it as a 'bible': CSS The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland. Pogue Press/O'Reilly. ISBN-10: 0-596-52687-3 and ISBN-13: 978-0-596-52687-0 Also Eric A Meyer's CSS Pocket Reference is a helpful, easy to carry volume.

Re: [css-d] Hope this is the appropriate way to ask this question

2008-04-23 Thread Ryan Doherty
Designing with Web Standards - Zeldman Bulletproof Web Design - Cederholm Web Standards Solutions - Cederholm Eric Meyer's books are pretty good too. -Ryan On Apr 23, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Jonathan wrote: I have looked at and read several CSS books. Do you have any recommendations as I have not

[css-d] Styling a submit button

2008-04-23 Thread Geoffrey Hoffman
So far I've tested this only on Windows XP Pro. It looks to me like Firefox does not observe padding-left:6px; padding-right:6px; to make a submit button wider than normal, nor does Safari. IE7 applies padding to the left and right of the button text correctly. I guess I can use

Re: [css-d] Styling a submit button

2008-04-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Apr 24, 2008, at 2:44 AM, Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: t looks to me like Firefox does not observe padding-left:6px; padding-right:6px; to make a submit button wider than normal, nor does Safari. IE7 applies padding to the left and right of the button text correctly. I guess I can use

Re: [css-d] Styling a submit button

2008-04-23 Thread David Laakso
Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: So far I've tested this only on Windows XP Pro. It looks to me like Firefox does not observe padding-left:6px; padding-right:6px; to make a submit button wider than normal, nor does Safari. IE7 applies padding to the left and right of the button text correctly. I

Re: [css-d] Styling a submit button

2008-04-23 Thread cFA
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:21 PM, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: So far I've tested this only on Windows XP Pro. It looks to me like Firefox does not observe padding-left:6px; padding-right:6px; to make a submit button wider than normal, nor does Safari.

[css-d] browser rendering?

2008-04-23 Thread Erin Spangler
Hello All, I'm having trouble getting my web page to view accurately across the different browsers. It appears accurate in Firefox in both my Mac and XP, but looking at this link to browser cam, you can see how the border to the flash slideshow gets drug all the way down the page. I also