Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-16 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/03/15 10:27 (GMT-0400) Tim Climis composed: It seems that this whole font sizing mess boils down to the fact that pixel is not a standardized unit of measure. one pixel on my monitor is a different size from one pixel on your monitor. Exactly the reason it's best to size nothing

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-16 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/03/16 14:41 (GMT+0900) Philippe Wittenbergh composed: Felix Miata wrote: I haven't figured out where Vrinda came from, other than it's a M$ font NAICT originally from mid-2004. Vrinda is part of a default install of Windows XP (I wouldn't know how it got installed on my VM's

[css-d] Display problems in Firefox

2009-03-16 Thread Ansari Samir
Hi, I am having display problem using Google AdSense on my web page. I have 2 parts on my web page each one in a seperate DIV. Left DIV contains registration form and right DIV contains features I have AdSense placed in my Left DIV, when viewed in IE6 and above the display is proper, but when I

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-16 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/3/13 Michael Stevens bigm...@bigmikes.org: -Original Message- From: Jukka K. Korpela [mailto:jkorp...@cs.tut.fi] Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 12:23 PM To: CSS discuss Subject: Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma Leave aside the font-size, as a CSS property, or as a propery of a font,

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-16 Thread Lesley Binks
2009/3/15 Michael Adams linux_m...@paradise.net.nz: On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:42:06 -1000 Came this utterance formulated by david to my mailbox: Jukka K. Korpela wrote: Michael Stevens wrote: Calibri I have but do not have installed all the time and use it maybe a couple times a month. And

Re: [css-d] Display problems in Firefox

2009-03-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ansari Samir wrote: Please visit the link for the display www.samruz.com/jb/PostJob.html Please view the page in Firefox and IE to see the problem. Replace... #register_main_content {display: inline-table;} ...with... #register_main_content {overflow: hidden;} ...and Gecko will line up

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-16 Thread Cheryl D Wise
-Original Message- From: Felix Miata why not just set the font size to 10pt? 4-IE's text sizer has no effect on pt (or px) sized text. Having used a very high resolution to physical size Windows tablet PC for years I know that if you use points on a Windows computer IE will size any

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-16 Thread Ib Jensen
2009/3/16 Gunlaug Sørtun gunla...@c2i.net: Ib Jensen wrote: Think I got the above about right. Hard to compress a thousand choices into a mail. Thank you very much for the explanation. I must invite my self for a long weekend, for a little chit-chat about developing sites. ;-) --

[css-d] WAS : Size calculations

2009-03-16 Thread Ib Jensen
Following a suggestion to a layout I had this result in : Firefox 3.0 : http://ikjensen.dk/test/capture_ff.jpg IE 6.02 http/ikjensen.dk/test/capture_ie.jpg The interval between the pictures are about 2 min. Changing from FF to IE The HTML and css : http/ikjensen.dk/test/ Where is IE hiding

[css-d] input type=image active area shift

2009-03-16 Thread Ido dekkers
Hi i have a strange problem with this site : http://test3.dekkers.net/marriage.html it's a site i inherited and need to fix. the problem is with the arrow buttons on the bottom: in IE all works fine, but in any standards compliant browser, the active area of the button seems not to be connected

Re: [css-d] WAS : Size calculations

2009-03-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ib Jensen wrote: http:/ikjensen.dk/test/ Where is IE hiding the text ?? Stacked behind the page-background. Add... #menu-frame {position: relative;} ...to bring it up front. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no

Re: [css-d] WAS : Size calculations

2009-03-16 Thread Ib Jensen
2009/3/16 Gunlaug Sørtun gunla...@c2i.net: Ib Jensen wrote: http:/ikjensen.dk/test/ Where is IE hiding the text ?? Stacked behind the page-background. Add... #menu-frame {position: relative;} ...to bring it up front. Thanks. And changing em to % is a good idea ?? -- Regards /

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:19:42 -0400 Came this utterance formulated by Felix Miata to my mailbox: On 2009/03/16 14:41 (GMT+0900) Philippe Wittenbergh composed: Felix Miata wrote: I haven't figured out where Vrinda came from, other than it's a M$ font NAICT originally from mid-2004.

[css-d] inline-block ignored by IE6

2009-03-16 Thread Geoffrey Hoffman
Hi List, I'm trying to code a Photoshop layout given to me where the H1 element has a border-bottom that is only the length of the text. I first tried this: !-- Example 1 -- h1 { font-size:160%; font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif; font-variant:small-caps;

[css-d] Equal heights solutions

2009-03-16 Thread Nancy Johnson
Hi, I just posted this got some wonderful answers, but I'm still looking for an ideal solution to equal heights problem This is an older intereractive site. http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gove/ewr/ I had been using YellowPencil's javascript solution until I discovered it didn't work with IE8. I

Re: [css-d] inline-block ignored by IE6

2009-03-16 Thread Bettina
hi geoffrey, did you try display:inline put it in example 3 and it seems to work everywhere. tina Von: Geoffrey Hoffman geo...@globalmediaminds.com Datum: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:44:47 -0700 An: CSS-Discuss css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Betreff: [css-d] inline-block ignored by IE6 Hi

Re: [css-d] inline-block ignored by IE6

2009-03-16 Thread Bill Brown
Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: I've already had a look at trying to force hasLayout, using zoom: 1 [1], and other IE6/7 inline-block posts[2] but none seem to work in my case. Any suggestions? The display:inline must be in a separate rule for IE. This should do it: ~~~ h1 { border-bottom:

Re: [css-d] inline-block ignored by IE6

2009-03-16 Thread Geoffrey Hoffman
Thanks Bill, Bettina. It works perfectly now. ...if you trigger hasLayout on a block element, and then set it to display:inline, it magically becomes an inline-block in IE! [1] I wonder if we will ever regain all of the time we've wasted trying to get IE6 to behave. [1]

Re: [css-d] inline-block ignored by IE6

2009-03-16 Thread Milano
Can't you use h1uTitle/uh1? Rodrigo Ribeiro de Abreu On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Geoffrey Hoffman geo...@globalmediaminds.com wrote: Thanks Bill, Bettina. It works perfectly now. ...if you trigger hasLayout on a block element, and then set it to display:inline, it magically becomes

Re: [css-d] inline-block ignored by IE6

2009-03-16 Thread Bill Brown
Milano wrote: Can't you use h1uTitle/uh1? The u tag is depracated [1] and is in many ways an inelegant solution. [^1] http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_u.asp -- !-- ! Bill Brown macnim...@gmail.com ! Web Developologist, WebDevelopedia.com --

Re: [css-d] Equal heights solutions

2009-03-16 Thread Al Sparber
I just posted this got some wonderful answers, but I'm still looking for an ideal solution to equal heights problem I finally chose to use another javascript: script type=text/javascript src=/includes/p7_eqCols2_10.js/script body onLoad=P7_equalCols2(0,'left','p','main','p') which I

[css-d] IE 6 display issues

2009-03-16 Thread Kym Costanzo
Hi all, I thought I had my site working correctly in IE 6 and IE 7 but now that I'm all done and went back I see that there are issues in IE6 still. Site works fine in IE7 and Firefox. The content in my main div is dropping down below the bottom of my sidebar. So I thought maybe it was either

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-16 Thread Richard Mason
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Cheryl D Wise wrote However, Firefox does not recognize the 120dpi or whatever other settings you choose in your OS and will continue to display it as the browser's default point size. Firefox's default font size is in pixels, not points, so conversion from points to

Re: [css-d] IE 6 display issues

2009-03-16 Thread David Laakso
Kym Costanzo wrote: Anyone who enjoys dealing with the IE6 bug fixing (ha), please take a look at my site and let me know where I've gone so astray. Yes, I'm new to CSS so I apologize if it's stupid errors. J http://www.kymcostanzo.com Kym The star HTML hack can be used

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-16 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/03/17 11:19 (GMT+1300) Richard Mason composed: On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Cheryl D Wise wrote However, Firefox does not recognize the 120dpi or whatever other settings you choose in your OS and will continue to display it as the browser's default point size. Firefox's default font size is

[css-d] Clear: Both DIV misbehaving in IE7

2009-03-16 Thread Chris Knowles
Hello, I have a page structure which contains a left and right floated div side-by-side with a third div that spans them both below using the clear: both property. All three divs contain separate background images and were displaying correctly in FF3 and IE7. However, when I have attempted to

Re: [css-d] Clear: Both DIV misbehaving in IE7

2009-03-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Knowles wrote: This problem is only occurring in IE7, the page displays as I would expect in both FF3, Safari and Chrome. Will need live example in order to debug. IE7 has too many clear related bugs. You can look for something similar to your problem, and possible solutions to it,

Re: [css-d] Clear: Both DIV misbehaving in IE7

2009-03-16 Thread David Laakso
Chris Knowles wrote: Hello, I have a page structure which contains a left and right floated div side-by-side with a third div that spans them both below using the clear: both property. However, when I have attempted to nest two new divs inside the third div (the one with the clear: both

Re: [css-d] inline-block ignored by IE6

2009-03-16 Thread Ingo Chao
2009/3/16 Geoffrey Hoffman geo...@globalmediaminds.com: ... I've already had a look at trying to force hasLayout, using zoom: 1 [1], and other IE6/7 inline-block posts[2] but none seem to work in my case. [1] http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html [2]

[css-d] Strange lack of hover effect on BOTH IE6 and IE7

2009-03-16 Thread Phil Matt
De-lurking here. I've been working on a site that's my usual mostly-CSS thing. For some strange reason, I can't seem to get this simple hover effect to work in EITHER IE6 or IE7 - works as expected in Firefox. Maybe it's been too long a day, but I can't seem to figure it out. In IE, NOTHING

Re: [css-d] Strange lack of hover effect on BOTH IE6 and IE7

2009-03-16 Thread Atkinson, Sarah
I think you can't do that in ie. You can only use hover to effect the a and not the img tags. Try taking out the img tag in the Css. The style should cascade down to the img anyway. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 16, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Phil Matt p...@philmatt.com wrote: De-lurking here. I've

Re: [css-d] Layout still broken, new problems

2009-03-16 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:23:43 am Kim Brooks Wei wrote: Hi there People, I got my site to look the way I wish it to on my own Mac in Safari and FF but the layout seems broken in other environments. A friend using IE and another using FF told me that my type sits on top of the tiger and