Re: [css-d] @media tv

2009-07-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ingo Chao wrote: > How would a generic media types string look like for the visual media > group in CSS2.1? > > @media screen, projection, handheld > is this correct? 'tv' gets the "fit to width" treatment for medium resolution devices by Opera, and some 'screen' layouts - like mine - simply d

Re: [css-d] clear floats is clearing my right hand column!!

2009-07-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Blake wrote: > A long time ago I found an easy way to clear floats. > [...] > I hope it's a good method because I remember being really pleased > because it's a lot easier than other methods that I'd found. In your case a change from "clear: both" to "clear: left" will work. However, hav

Re: [css-d] Headline Background overlapping floated Div

2009-07-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tony Lush wrote: >> On this page http://tinyurl.com/mo88uz the headlines in the left >> column under "Course Description" go the full width of the >> containing Div and overlap the 30% width, right-floated Div to the >> right. >> >> Is there a way to prevent this? Try something along these lines.

Re: [css-d] IE7 bugs

2009-06-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Joseph Sims wrote: >> And the left sidebar carries white all the way down the page... obscuring >> the >> background that is supposed to create the "faux columns" look - example: >> http://www.titancom.net/dev/hec/JS/about.html. > Can noone give me advice with this? Is it legal to bump a topic

Re: [css-d] negative margin in safari and Opera

2009-06-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
JGardner wrote: > I am looking for information regarding how opera and safari handle > negative margins. Same as Gecko (Firefox etc.) and IE. > I am working on a site - http://www.lauramcguire.com/ which I used a > negative margin to place the navigation at the top right of the web > page. >

Re: [css-d] What's your preference -- fluid, elastic, or fixed?

2009-06-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Glow wrote: > So, just out of curiosity -- what's your particular preference and > why? Screens and UA windows come in all shapes and sizes and on ever more devices. The web is flexible, and so am I - with mediaqueries to catch edge cases for even more flexibility in the most capable User agents.

Re: [css-d] Drop Down Menus

2009-06-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Asha Nair wrote: > www.faithlandchurch.org.au Add... #menu {clear: left;} ...to make IE8 render as intended. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.o

Re: [css-d] site check, particularly on ie6 ?

2009-05-30 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
snak detek+0r wrote: >> Index and all inside pages: Neither Opera or The IEs are capable of >> scaling line-height set in pixels. Try a raw number for >> line-height. > > wow. didn't even know i could do that. the w3 site doesn't even > mention that you can use px, but everyone and their mom s

Re: [css-d] horizontal nav-- camino/seamonkey

2009-05-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Laakso wrote: > > Both browsers collapse the nav vertically and neither honor > border-top on ul li a . Try the combination of... #n ul li a { display: -moz-inline-box; display : inline-block; } regards Georg -- http://www.gunl

Re: [css-d] IE and font size

2009-05-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Maxim Soloviev wrote: > http://ares-pearl-b1.nakea.net/ Could you please help me figure out > why text looks s big in IE6/7/8. Flawed markup in header. A span is not an empty, self-closing, element, and, unlike most other browsers, IE can't treat it as if it was and recover from this flaw. T

Re: [css-d] h3 with layout is clearing a float in IE6

2009-05-21 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
lev rickards wrote: > http://sandbox.hgci2.net/ > Ideal case: 1) all div#comparisons h3's have layout 2) everything > within div#comparisons stays to the right of the navigation list. Total width of h3 with padding and all is to large to fit, and IE6 doesn't handle overflow properly. Easiest so

Re: [css-d] css or javascript hacks for firefox

2009-05-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Alan Gresley wrote: > This part of the hack, > > |*:not(| > > causes a parsing error. Is this fixed in Firefox 3.5b4? I must admit > that your hackery (possibly combining structural pseudo class support > and parsing errors) is hackier than mine. :-) I'm not surprised :-) However, keep in mind

Re: [css-d] positioning images on a background graphic

2009-05-14 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Anthony L wrote: > A question though: I thought the 1px border was just for debugging > ... But if I comment out the #container border, the button images > shift right to the top of the div ... any idea why? Collapsing margins... The easie

Re: [css-d] IE 8

2009-05-14 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Kathy Wheeler wrote: > I've seen 'real' IE6's on two different machines give different > results to each other :-( Change one or more settings in IE6, and get another result... Same goes for all browsers, so if one wants to know the outcome at the user-end one better test with a whole range of o

Re: [css-d] IE 6 layout issues

2009-05-14 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Bailey wrote: > Something I was unaware of was that you can float a div as well as > position it relatively! I notice that relative positioning doesn't > have any position stated - is that because it is floated? Can you > explain what is actually happening (or point me to somewhere that I

Re: [css-d] column without tables or fixed width

2009-05-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jack Bates wrote: > Does CSS support presenting the text in a straight up and down > column? Yes, see... regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no __ css-discuss [cs..

Re: [css-d] Getting absolutely positioned divs with bottom: auto to end together

2009-05-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Michael Leibson wrote: >>> www.thinkingmusic.ca/analyses > You guys aren't 'mere web developers' -- you're mathematicians! :-) When dealing with browsers that's definitely an advantage. Apart from that; when one has created and modified a few thousand layouts, the only problem is which solution

Re: [css-d] Getting absolutely positioned divs with bottom: auto to end together

2009-05-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Michael Leibson wrote: > www.thinkingmusic.ca/analyses I have used a copy of this page to exemplify one approach to solving your problems... > Are these differences the re

Re: [css-d] percentage bug IE6

2009-05-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Luc wrote: > http://www.dzinelabs.com/sandbox/New_site_layout/percentagebug.html You're attacking the wrong IE6 bugs - this has nothing whatsoever to do with the "percentage bug". Thus, all fixes are misplaced. It is the "automatic box-expansion caused by too wide content" you're dealing with, a

Re: [css-d] weird white block appears in bg

2009-05-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Todd Bingham wrote: > I put the content in a container div i the center. ... But as you can > see from the sample url, a strange white box appears under the > container div at the bottom leftargghh!! > http://www.design-conquer.net/GoodNewsEtc/stories/jackson.html# Delete the fixed height on

Re: [css-d] hovering action

2009-05-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Oszkar Ambrus wrote: > The problem is, that when my cursor is above the second navigation > level, the main link (e.g. "Our Fellowship") goes back to normal > state on my website. > [2] http://covenantfellowshipgalway.uuuq.com Add :hover to the li containing the anchor and sub-levels, like so..

Re: [css-d] Stretching in IE7, even worse in IE6.

2009-05-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Paul ODonovan wrote: > Hi, my name is Paul :) this is my first post - Welcome. > www.blueprintdesign.ie > In IE7 there is unwanted space occuring in the place where my images > originally were before I positioned them. The negative effect of 'hasLayout'[1] in old IE: the paragraph expands to c

Re: [css-d] IE 6 layout issues

2009-05-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Bailey wrote: > http://www.widemannviolins.com/index.php Suggestion:

Re: [css-d] Fluid Page + Centered 80% Div + Thumbnails

2009-05-06 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Court Kizer wrote: > http://courtkizer.com/screenshots/Untitled.png > At this point I'm not even sure it's possible. Suggest you start here... regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ___

Re: [css-d] html html

2009-05-06 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Vincent Pollard wrote: > html #IDNameofIFrame html { overflow-y: auto !important; } > It is legal in css2.1 to write html html like this? Legal, yes, but such a selector chain doesn't point to any element since there's no 'html' element inside 'html'. Selector chains can only express parent -->

Re: [css-d] Centered text positioned incorrectly in IE7

2009-05-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Hanks wrote: > Alright, I took care of the markup problems, so everything validates. > It's been put up in its updated form: > > http://www.selfsoothingsoftware.com Good. Makes it much easier to work with. > I was trying to keep the main text column at a consistent width, and > deal wit

Re: [css-d] Centered text positioned incorrectly in IE7

2009-05-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Hanks wrote: > Hmm, alright. Can you or anyone else on the list suggest a better way > of making this work? I'm not sure where to begin... For cross-browser appearance in all somewhat standard-aware browsers - including IE6/7 in Strict mode, the following approach will work. - Add left and

Re: [css-d] Centered text positioned incorrectly in IE7

2009-05-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Hanks wrote: > http://www.selfsoothingsoftware.com > The second, and more pressing problem, is that my main content (the > text column and floated boxes) appears completely out of whack in IE. > The boxes are approximately in the right place, but IE7 is trying to > center the paragraphs

Re: [css-d] Closest thing to Conditional Comments Safari / Firefox

2009-05-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Court Kizer wrote: > I know that putting -webkit in front of css will make it safari only. > Could I do the same thing -moz-margin-top, or is does mozilla only > allow this for CSS 3? Such prefixes are reserved for vendor specific extensions to CSS, and the extension names and effects are not n

Re: [css-d] position issue in ie6/7

2009-05-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Göldi wrote: > http://allesneumachtdermai.wallisellerlauf.ch/ > Is the order of the tags relevant when positioning some of them > "absolute"? In IE6/7, yes. Old IE is buggy :-) You can fix IE6/7 by adding a between top_menu and breadcrumb... ...with the following br styling... br {line-

Re: [css-d] IE problems - karst

2009-05-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Blake wrote: > 1. The mainphoto clears the side content in IE. > 2. The padding (or margin) I have put on the menu is making the > container stretch in IE. > http://www.pendulum8.com/karst.test/ To solve those IE6 problems, add... * html .twoColFixRtHdr #container {overflow-x: hidden;} *

Re: [css-d] css or javascript hacks for firefox

2009-05-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ido dekkers wrote: > the is the problem > > what i don't understand is why not use the fix? I see no problem with the fix in your case, because of the way it is built up and used. The simplified selector for Gecko 1.9.1 + suggested by Philippe, will actually

Re: [css-d] css or javascript hacks for firefox

2009-05-02 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Alan Gresley wrote: > If this is this bug > Although dealing with vertical alignment of floats, our test case isn't revealing just one bug. Reordering the markup is the old solution, and it'll still work - if that's an o

Re: [css-d] css or javascript hacks for firefox

2009-05-02 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
>> BTW: which known bug? Just in case there are better options. > namely bug 50630: float should be as high as previous line box > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50630 That bug is indeed old and well known, and has caused problems all along. Don't know of any option but to hack bac

Re: [css-d] css or javascript hacks for firefox

2009-05-01 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ido dekkers wrote: > is there a css hack for ver 3 and below or something using > javascript? i need to to fix a known bug only in FF without effecting > other standard complaint browsers? If you really want/need to hack Gecko versions, yes...

Re: [css-d] Creating your own stylesheet for a website

2009-05-01 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Atkinson, Sarah wrote: > I go to a website fairly regularly and their styles are horrible. > It's just too painful for me to look at anymore. Is there away for me > to create a Stylesheet for it and have my browser automatically > override there styles? Yes, but how "automatically" it is activa

Re: [css-d] menu issue

2009-04-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ian Young wrote: > http://db-studio.venus.titaninternet.co.uk/index.php > > Although there is no change to the html, I have had to add an extra > style code in the contact and portfolio pages as the menu sits a few > pixels higher than does than it does on the other pages. Some pages have a Tr

Re: [css-d] Old IE6 Problem again

2009-04-21 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Nic Pulford wrote: > Here is the page http://www.leadersmith.org.uk/tnbda/about.htm the > thing that does wrong is the Case Studies list in the bottom of the > left column. IE6' broken 'overflow' handling. Add... #seperator {overflow: visible;} ...to make sure IE6 keeps that container's over

Re: [css-d] Guidance on positioning please.

2009-04-20 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Karl Bedingfield wrote: > What I want is to do is position a paragraph (company phone number > and email) above the navigation to the top right corner. Absolute position the paragraph, somewhat like the following... #header-alt {position: relative;} #contact {position: absolute; top: 0; right: 3

Re: [css-d] Display problem with IE7

2009-04-20 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ansari Samir wrote: > And David, we are not using Image there, it is an anchor tag and we > have given background image to that anchor tag. Nonsense. There's an element inside that anchor, and its src attribute is addressing this image... That

Re: [css-d] popup image, a element, href, Safari and IE7

2009-04-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Brian Funk wrote: >>> > The hasLayout trigger doesn't seem to work. Ok, I overlooked that I had a double-fix in there, and contributed IE7's positive response to the wrong fix. Here's another "dirty trick" to make IE7 behave...

Re: [css-d] popup image, a element, href, Safari and IE7

2009-04-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Brian Funk wrote: > > > It works in Firefox 3.0.8, IE8 and Opera9 but IE7 chokes when the > href attribute is not present and Safari for Windows works not at > all. Missing closing bracket on 'a:hover img' throws Safari off. This error is rep

Re: [css-d] Sticky footer - double decker possible?

2009-04-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Anne E. Shroeder wrote: > http://www.language-works.com/swim/comp.jpg > http://www.language-works.com/swim/stickyfooter.htm > > Is it possible to code this? Think so... Me

Re: [css-d] ie8 bug? The container div is inexplicably jumping around. Please help!

2009-04-14 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Noah Learner wrote: > Is this an ie8 bug? No, it is intentional. The vertical scrollbar is removed when pages are shorter than the browser-window, making the available window wider. Auto-centering (in your stylesheet) then makes pages jump half the scrollbar-width left or right depending on how t

Re: [css-d] IE Fix For Floated Netflix-Style Links?

2009-04-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
The Ferrett wrote: > I did this by wrapping the elements in a (with an assigned > width) and then by assigning a left margin calculated to push the div > out into the center of the column. This works in every browser but, > you guessed it, IE. Problem is, in IE 7 that margin appears to be not >

Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
>> does IE support display:table or display:table cell though? I could >> have sworn it didn't. - IE7 and older does not support CSS table. - IE8 does support CSS table as well as any other browser - when in full "standards mode". Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no __

Re: [css-d] What can I do to improve this CSS?

2009-04-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
trevor bayliss wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/clg668 > > I would be very greatful if someone could have a look and advise me > what to do, Thank you, Regards, Trev Apply some shorthand and combined selectors, maybe, to reduce the amount of redundant styling. For instance... .nav { padding-right :

Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?

2009-04-10 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Michael Leibson wrote: > [...] Related questions: why, if using an without an ordered > or unordered list is not allowed, does it work on my site? What are > the negative consequences of using it that way? 1: you're relying on browsers' error correction, which may or may not give the same

Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?

2009-04-10 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Michael Leibson wrote: > I used Firefox to view my website on a friend's zillion-pixel-wide > new Mac, yesterday, and I was astonished to find that all elements on > all pages had a significantly increased width, so that the design > was effectively spread, horizontally, to fit the (maximized)

Re: [css-d] AP's and IE

2009-04-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Alan King wrote: > Is there a fix for making IE impose my absolute positioned divs? > > http://www.helixdesign.ca Yes. IE6' "disappearing A:P element next to a float" bug can be problematic, and not easy to fix in the stylesheet other than by abandoning either the A:P or the float styling. Separ

Re: [css-d] Intermittent IE 7 problem

2009-04-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rebecca Mazur wrote: > Have you had experience with browsers breaking on those particular > validation errors? No. Old IE will "eat, ignore or correct" such minor errors, same as other browsers. I have seen IE do many strange things when served compacted source-code though, and your markup is pr

Re: [css-d] Intermittent IE 7 problem

2009-04-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rebecca Mazur wrote: > If someone could just recognize and name the bug for me, that would > be a help, as then I could go searching for solutions. > http://www.kenyon.edu/x12305.xml The bug is clear enough, but finding a fix isn't. I found it easier to reproduce the problem in IE6 - multiple t

Re: [css-d] Problem with a header image in Opera 9.64

2009-04-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Krystian - Sunlust wrote: > http://maleconcept.com/test/ > > Has the header image centered right, but on opera it slides a bit to > the left. Something strange about that '.gif', but only Opera (all versions - at least back to Op7.20) seems to react on it. If I send the image through PhotoShop

Re: [css-d] Stuck in Quirks Mode

2009-04-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Josiah Sprague wrote: > The system which we are forced to use generates pages that declare > the doctype in quirksmode. > The problem is that quirksmode in IE breaks my CSS. > Any ideas on how to work around in this situation? > http://www.uakron.edu/groups/asg/asgtemplate_copy.php When stuck

Re: [css-d] shifting divs in ie6 and ie7

2009-04-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tony Zanella wrote: > http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=2005_Q4_3/uvaBook/tei/z00175.xml > In ie6, the is far lower down on the page > than in Firefox, and in ie7, the same div "jumps" over to the right. Problematic to diagnose and correct a layout that is based on tables, multipl

Re: [css-d] IE6 peculiarity - Also IE8

2009-04-06 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Alan Gresley wrote: > IE8 beta 2 (8.0.6001) is showing it's missing content bug quite > consistently on this page. > > Problems with missing content seem to have been solved in IE8 final - at least I haven't been able to provoke those bugs through

Re: [css-d] sidebar box does not line up correctly in ie7

2009-04-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Scott Brasted wrote: > The text blurb does not line up o the left in ie7. > http://www.adriennesgardenworks.com/test.php Float gets hooked up on element above - the menu - in IE. Add... div.sb_left_box {clear: left;} ...to make it line up in IE7, and an additional... div.sb_left_box {display:

Re: [css-d] accessible background images

2009-04-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Brian Hazelton wrote: > [...] when i disable background images, the body text disappears > because i use a white font color because the background image is > almost black...how would i keep it white but make sure people with > images disabled can see the text? Normal procedure is to use a dark

Re: [css-d] Weird nav menu problem in IE6

2009-04-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Luc wrote: > http://www.dzinelabs.com/sandbox/New_site_layout/liquidnav1.html > When hovering over the nav, sometimes the logo image disappears, the > text on the page shifts, the nav tabs shift,... - "text on the page shift" is caused only on window-width wide enough to trigger max-width in th

Re: [css-d] center float:left

2009-04-02 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
AG wrote: > Bill, thanks for your reply. In your suggestion, it appears to me > that if you don't float the li, all links will stack up in the center > of the container. Not so. Inline-block lines up inline - in line, and the whole menu can then be centered within body or whatever element you wa

Re: [css-d] Putting IE6 out to pasture

2009-04-02 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Martyn Merrett wrote: > Eric sent a message out earlier not to discuss/debate this further on > this list. Apologies for any inconvenience and lets keep our IE6 > thoughts to ourselves, eh? We're not discussing/debating the article that initiated this thread. At least I am discussing how to hand

Re: [css-d] Putting IE6 out to pasture

2009-04-02 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Virgilio Quilario wrote: > working on css to deal with ie6 is really time consuming. not to > mention the troubles of getting ie6 browser for testing. Both TredoSoft "multiple versions of IE"... ...and IETester...

Re: [css-d] Putting IE6 out to pasture

2009-04-02 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Martyn Merrett wrote: > Thought you'd be interested in this. Could this *finally* be the end > of IE6 and our CSS woes? Yes, in time IE6 will disappear - the sooner the better, but the suggested 'options for "not supporting" ie6' are time-consuming and don't provide quick relief for designers/de

Re: [css-d] Floating/Layering a .SWF video over an image.

2009-04-01 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
RHYAN TAYLOR wrote: > I have a beta-site, *www.freestyle-la.net*, and I need help getting > the .swf file to position properly within the "main content" area > with Internet Explorer. You will have more luck if you replace the non-standard with , and modify the CSS accordingly. regards

Re: [css-d] Splitting the Center Column Into Two Columns?

2009-03-31 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
The Ferrett wrote: > http://www.starcitygames.com/SCG_6/test.html > The problem: my boss wants the capability to occasionally "split" a > given row in half, so we have two news items sitting next to each > other on a single row, just as you'd split a table cell in two. Somewhat like this, I gu

Re: [css-d] Positioning images and wrapping text...

2009-03-31 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Michael Beaudoin wrote: > http://www.mhinonline.org/dev. You mean like... ...or did you have something else in mind? regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no __ css-d

Re: [css-d] Positioning images and wrapping text...

2009-03-30 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Michael Beaudoin wrote: > Is there a way to precisely position an image and have the wrap > follow? "Precisely" can be a problem since hardly anything can be relied upon as "precise" in something as fluid as a web design. But, yes, you can get the effects _I think_ you're after, if you let go of

Re: [css-d] Is this possible with CSS?

2009-03-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > I mark up for XHTML served as 'application/xhtml+xml', and then serve it > as 'text/html' since IE doesn't support it otherwise. "Close tabs" mistake :-) For XML capable browsers: <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_06_03

Re: [css-d] Is this possible with CSS?

2009-03-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: > Unrelated question... what is the purpose of: > > /*

Re: [css-d] ie/7 image issue

2009-03-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Laakso wrote: > Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >> Oh, and IE6 stretches all images to perfect squares at first load >> on slow connections, and the min/max script makes it freeze and die >> under certain conditions. The latter is usually not a problem, but >> the former

Re: [css-d] Is this possible with CSS?

2009-03-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > [...] Using generated content has a lot to go, if you want a simple > type of bullet. More decorative list markers are unfortunately still > a graphics thing (unless SVG can be used ! Hmm, inline SVG, yumyum). Should also be possible to resize images inserted throu

Re: [css-d] Float problem in Firefox

2009-03-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Gaurav Sharma wrote: > http://gauravsharma.uuuq.com First: your example keeps all IE/win versions in a rendering mode equivalent to that of IE5.5 - Quirks Mode, and doesn't allow for any improvements made in IE6, IE7 and IE8. Not very wise to block all progress made to IE, so I hope you don't do

Re: [css-d] Is this possible with CSS?

2009-03-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: >> > Works as well in Fx 3. You could improve it: set the generated > content to display:inline-block and give it a small margin-right. This will improve bullet positioning in much older Geckos too, when the right -mos- replace

Re: [css-d] Is this possible with CSS?

2009-03-28 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: > Specifically, I want the bullet to turn a color when I hover on > the inside it. With CSS only, yes, but browser support is a bit weak. As an example: we can play with generated content... ...and get the effect you want - in su

Re: [css-d] Page Check

2009-03-28 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
JWN wrote: > I'd appreciate it if some of you with IE 8 would have a look at > www.nannery.net and let me know if there are any problems. Looks a bit strange on narrow windows, but the same in all browsers - including IE8. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no

Re: [css-d] ie/7 image issue

2009-03-28 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Laakso wrote: > Mac os x 10.4.11 parallels xp ie/7 (only). Confirmed in IE7(XP) *and* IE8(Vista). Think it's a flaw in how Trident apply 'max-width' - as 'width' before checking if 'max-width' should take effect or not. > > > What to do?

Re: [css-d] IE list problem

2009-03-27 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Climis, Tim wrote: > I just noticed this today, and I can't figure out what's going on. It > looks right in FF and IE8. But in IE7, all the menu text is indented > from the graphic. > > http://www.indiana.edu/~intlserv/ Can't analyze it in depth because scripts don't survive download, but for IE

Re: [css-d] Horizontal Navigation Bar Problem

2009-03-26 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Scott Gruber wrote: > > On the top navigation bar the tabs fit nice an flush on pc browsers > (IE 7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome) but on Mac there there is spacing on the > right of the About Us tab that doesn't stretch to fill the bar on > the right side in Safari

Re: [css-d] Top half of image map button not active in IE

2009-03-26 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ian Piper wrote: > http://www.tellura.co.uk/ruberyowen/contact-us.php > On this page, if you look at the Rozone button (top right) it shows > an orange dotted border on hover, as it should. However in IE 6 under > Windows 2000 and IE7 under Vista the top half of this button is not > clickable.

Re: [css-d] forcing IE6 to respect div width

2009-03-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Giuseppe Craparotta wrote: > http://www.giuseppecraparottacv.co.uk/doubts/about.html > Is it any way to force IE6 to consider the image as going out of the > div's width instead of widening the div accordingly to it. Yes. Declare overflow: hidden on container and position: relative on overflowin

Re: [css-d] max-width in Safari/IE

2009-03-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jack Blankenships wrote: > It seems to be that the table within the div or body element is > pushing the content out beyond the specified widths in Internet > Explorer. [...] If you have problems: link to the case, page, you have problems with. Bits of CSS don't make much sense without it. rega

Re: [css-d] max-width in Safari/IE

2009-03-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jack Blankenships wrote: > Apparently there was a table there as well, and max-width does not > apply to a table very nicely in Safari or Internet Explorer. Can > anyone offer some more explanation on this? Have only tested for CSS table a year or so back, and it's a known behavior in Safari 3.

Re: [css-d] 3 columns of text, but MINIMAL wrapping, possible?

2009-03-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Scott Mueller wrote: > The difficult part is that I want these columns to NOT wrap as much > as possible, spread across the width of the browser window and have > equal amounts of whitespace between. > I know there's a display: table declaration, but I understand no IE > browsers pay attention

Re: [css-d] just center

2009-03-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
MEM wrote: > Thanks for the IE8 info. I didn't know about that. IE8 still supports IE-expressions in its two "backwards compatibility modes" - emulating IE7 standard mode and IE5.5/6 quirks mode. No need to hide them from IE8 in "super-standard mode" though, since it simply ignores them then. Most

Re: [css-d] just center

2009-03-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
MEM wrote: > I'm confused, what's going on on this code? Simple logic, coded in jscript and expanded/explained here... ...and there's a link to Microsoft's information on the subject in my page...

Re: [css-d] David Laakso's site in Firefox 2.x/Firefox 3.x

2009-03-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
david wrote: > I did with a Ctrl-click on the Reload button. Should do the trick -- and does at my end. I don't know what prevented expected functionality at your end. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no __ css-discu

Re: [css-d] just center

2009-03-21 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
MEM wrote: > Ok. I have comment this two lines: Now it seems to work in FF. > > /*height: 20em; */ /*width: 30em; */ > > If this is OK, I will try to understand the IE part now. Height isn't needed but you'll need the width on #centered. Otherwise you just get a container as wide as the viewpor

Re: [css-d] just center

2009-03-21 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
MEM wrote: > The hard part on this is that, when I look the source code on this > last link, I get a lot of code that I don't get. Ignore it, and use your own visual styling. > Is this the reason why this link http://nuvemk.com/index4.html > doesn't show thinks centered on firefox? Yes, since

Re: [css-d] New Member: wild card question

2009-03-21 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Dave Miers wrote: > I often use a * {margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; } as a starting > point and for the most part saves me lots of extra css code, > headaches, and time for layout with great cross browser/platform > support. However sometimes when entering content in what is > basically a

Re: [css-d] Site Check: Can this DIV be vertically centered in the viewport?

2009-03-21 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Stephen Tang wrote: > Will this work on a DIV with a declared height? I'll see what > happens to my site when I remove my declared height on the DIV. Check the demos (links on top of side column in my article), and, yes, it'll work literally "no matter what" - when done right. The advantage is

Re: [css-d] David Laakso's site in Firefox 2.x/Firefox 3.x

2009-03-21 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
david wrote: > Looked at it in FF 3.0.4 on Linux with JS on. The first time I went > (with JS turned off) the About section was expanded. After I turned > JS on, the About section was collapsed, and clicking on About did > NOTHING beyond put a dotted horizontal line above and below it. After ch

Re: [css-d] Site Check: Can this DIV be vertically centered in the viewport?

2009-03-21 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Laakso wrote: >> I built this site, http://www.isadoratang.com/index.php, but I've >> been trying to determine if I can center the >> vertically in the viewport. > Yes, I think it is possible with CSS (I seem to recall a method Georg > Sortun created but can't find it at the moment) or

Re: [css-d] Text breaking out in IE7

2009-03-20 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Del Wegener wrote: > http://www.edi-cp.com/newweb/sandbox.php > > In FF the text wraps nicely. In IE7 it does not. Padding on the left > is ignored and wrapping is sometimes one word to late. > What is needed to make IE7 play nicely? IE7 does play nicely, but you have hacked in a failure :-)

Re: [css-d] David Laakso's site in Firefox 2.x/Firefox 3.x

2009-03-20 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Laakso wrote: > Stephen Tang wrote: >>> > Did you click the last list item "about?" If you did click it and > nothing happened, do you have javascript enabled? FWIW, your menu works just fine with links, expansion / collapsing and all, in

Re: [css-d] text wrapping problem

2009-03-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Bilgehan Maras, wrote: > http://www.film.com.tr/listtest.html > On firefox and safari everything is fine but as usual there is a > problem with IE 6 and IE7. IE wraps the text strangely. Try adding... li a {white-space : nowrap;} Of course: your example doesn't look anything like your screensh

Re: [css-d] 2 css interfering using conditional comments

2009-03-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
rose red wrote: > I tried them every possible ( or did I forgot one ? ) way around the > last 10 days: [...] doesn't work ;-( It does when done right. However, looking at your stylesheets it becomes clear that you are trying to serve IE6 "complete styles" instead of just "corrections", so you ar

Re: [css-d] 2 css interfering using conditional comments

2009-03-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
rose red wrote: > http://www.melusinedesign.nl/test/test.html has 2 css , one for IE6 > and one for IE7( and of course for FF, opera and some more...) it > looks fine in IE7, but not in IE6, it seems the 2 css are interfering > ?! In a sense, yes. IE6 sees all styles, so interference is gua

Re: [css-d] Equal heights solutions

2009-03-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: > " to suit the constraints of CSS implementations" > > What is to be the successor to CSS that will actually solve the open > problems and enable web designers? None, since this is about implementation. CSS may need another level, or five, and will probably get them

Re: [css-d] WAS : Size calculations

2009-03-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ib Jensen wrote: > And changing em to % is a good idea ?? A safer idea. Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http

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, her

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