Re: [css-d] IE margin issues

2008-09-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Daniel Hammond wrote: > > When you hover over the photo thumbnails, there should be 15px of > margin space below the highlighted blue background behind the photo > captions. Delete the 'hasLayout' trigger and make it... ...and both IE7 and 6 will

Re: [css-d] Alignment changes with DOCTYPE

2008-09-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rich Wendrock Forums wrote: > Can someone help me understand why images do not align properly after > a DOCTYPE is applied? > > The page looks normal without a DOCTYPE. > http://www.adv-res.com/advanced-resources-international1.asp > > The search input field does not lineup properly after DOCTY

Re: [css-d] Negative margins for image overflow

2008-09-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mike Breiding wrote: > > So, I used a negative margin to "pull" the image into the left > column. It appears as I would like it in Fire Fox, but in IE 6.0 the > image is clipped. > Question: Is

Re: [css-d] Negative margins for image overflow

2008-09-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mike Breiding wrote: > alt=""/> height="130" alt=""/> > > If the long image is wrapped in a paragraph or an empty paragraph > inserted between the two images they then both float left. Yes, floats act as floats, and in order to prevent them from trying to line up alongside preceding floats we

Re: [css-d] Negative margins for image overflow

2008-09-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mike Breiding wrote: > I added 'clear: left' to the rules for the '.leftImg' class. This > does the job in FF, but in IE 6 it forces the first paragraph to the > far right into a very narrow column. That's because you have a 'width' on paragraphs, which to IE/win means 'hasLayout'[1] and non-stan

Re: [css-d] How do you exclude hover from image links

2008-09-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Kamru Miah wrote: > Please advise me how to exclude the 'a:hover' below from image links > (i.e. only add hover on text links). > > a:hover { color: #ff; background: #b0e0e6; } You have to add a class to the links surrounding the images, and apply a more suitable hover styles (for images) t

Re: [css-d] Rounding errors with em units

2008-09-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Bobby Jack wrote: > It turns out that Aem + Bem != (A+B)em - at least, at certain > font-sizes - which is incredibly frustrating. Does anyone have a good > way of working around this and/or an idea of the scope of the > problem? Browsers don't agree on at what point rounding of font-sizes in pe

Re: [css-d] "drop-up" menu issue on ie

2008-09-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The "drop-up" menu should align-left with the nav item it relates to, > but in IE it is too far right. What am I overlooking? That IE has another default for 'left: auto' than other browsers. Proper positions are needed. > http://raydunetz.com/index.php Create a rela

Re: [css-d] form overflow problem in Window IE

2008-09-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jeffrey Huang wrote: > when I view this page in Window IE: > > http://www.duoeurojapanese.com/test/pgcatering.html > > The form is not contained in the outside "container". How do I make > the form "overflow" like the text on right side/ By deleting every single instance of 'position: relative'

Re: [css-d] List items in columns

2008-09-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jim wrote: > Is there any way to lay out list items as follows, without using tables > (won't look right unless you view email as plain text): > > > * CPU: 2 x Xeon 5130 > * RAM: 8 GB > * STORAGE: 330 GB > > The thing that drives me nuts with using tables in this example is tha

Re: [css-d] Footer position problem - IE6

2008-09-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jeff Reid wrote: > I was informed that the text in the footer is not positioned > correctly in IE6 but not having immediate access to IE6, I am unable > to verify this tonight. > http://www.atbcelebrations.com/newsite/ #main-right is dropping in IE6, pushing footer down. It's caused by IE6' "auto

Re: [css-d] separating submenu width from parent width

2008-09-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Richard Johnson wrote: > Im working on the menu at www.eyetonline.com/terrafirma and on the > what we can do for you bit where it pops out I cant for the life of > me get the width to how I want it.. as you will see the text flies > off the end. You can add any width-value you want to the subm

Re: [css-d] ie/6.0 right-side of right col clip <600 window

2008-09-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Laakso wrote: > Now what I'll do? Affected selector is .four. > Cause is auto-expansion of .two. For testing (only), add... * html .primary p {width: 100%; overflow-x: hidden; } Difficult to add the usual fix for bad overflow-handl

Re: [css-d] ie6 killing my l/h nav

2008-09-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Eric Heitz wrote: > IE6 is adding more height to my l/h nav and is showing the rest of my > sliding images. > http://www.kucia.com/bcs/BCS_08B/insights/index.html Strengthen specificity on the individual list-item IDs, like so... ul#insights_container li#audioVideo {...} ...as IE6 doesn't supp

Re: [css-d] border of relatively positioned container div ignores contained absolutely positioned div

2008-09-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Michael Leibson wrote: > It's amazing how much CSS one can forget in a few months! I'm sure > there's a very simple answer to this -- but I've forgotten it! Happens at times. > My containing div has a border. It also contains three other divs: > two that are within the normal flow, and one

Re: [css-d] [Slightly OT] Font sizes

2008-09-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Michael Adams wrote: > I have in this last week come across the idea that the last word on > web site design perhaps should be given to the typographer, not the > graphics designer. This is probably a concept that you CSS Gurus are > familiar with, but it is new to me. Graphic designers can ru

Re: [css-d] Faux column - check on high res please + accessibility problems

2008-09-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Luc wrote: > [1] I'm using the faux column technique to achieve the following: > > avoiding that on high res monitors the borders are stretched all > the way down the viewport regardless the content. In other words, > to avoid e.g. putting a bottom border on the wrapper so users know > it's

Re: [css-d] Styling the element

2008-09-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tim Dawson wrote: > I want to draw a single white horizontal line, 800px wide, 1px high, > between two images. > I'd like to use the element if possible. > Is there a simple cross-browser solution ? Or have I got to edit > those images ? "Simple" may not be the right term, but styling the hr

Re: [css-d] Relative and absolute positioning affect z-index in IE7

2008-09-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tim Dawson wrote: > http://www.holidaymullandiona.co.uk/pages/accn/bb-sw-mullb.php Hover > over 'What to do', the stars show through the drop-down (the stars > are relatively positioned asterisks). > Is there a better way ? Might help to restyle the star-span... span.stars { font-size:

Re: [css-d] Relative and absolute positioning affect z-index in IE7

2008-09-14 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tim Dawson wrote: > I did try the z-index route, but it didn't seem to make any > difference, and I assumed that IE puts all positioned elements on > top. You suggestion (above) has both, and I think it's the P:R that's > doing the trick ? Note: z-index has no effect non non-positioned elements,

Re: [css-d] just using CSS, can I center a sentence both horizontally and vertically in a window (viewport)

2008-09-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Bill Brown wrote: > http://www.webdevelopedia.com/vertical_centering_unknown_height.html I'll only mention the usual weakness with vertically centering an element by offsetting it - as you do in IE7 and older, as tall elements on short windows will end up partly above the screen and out of reach

Re: [css-d] just using CSS, can I center a sentence both horizontally and vertically in a window (viewport)

2008-09-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
tedd wrote: > While people are providing solutions for page centering (not sentence > centering)... Just to make sure nothing gets lost in translation: "full page centering" and "in-page content centering" are two sides of the same thing as far as I'm concerned. I cover both page centering and

Re: [css-d] Lists, Div Rollovers and Validation

2008-09-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Christopher Kip wrote: > On the first attempt that is what I did: http:// > www.stkelectronics.com.vhost.zerolag.com/site/polypropylene-old.php > > Didn't work in Firefox and wouldn't validate. Its the tag I > believe causing the ruckus as you mention. Problem is I need that > whole region

Re: [css-d] can not highlight text in IE

2008-09-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Wen-Chen Hol wrote: > http://cad.auckland.ac.nz/courses/1/publish/1/ > > the text in the page can not be highlighted. This will become a > problem for students that use IE for online studying. Google around, > could not find a solution... > > Anyone know a holy grill solution to this problem?

Re: [css-d] block box alignment

2008-09-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
ray wrote: > If I set a width for a block box within a containing block, for > example 30%, the block box will be aligned with the left edge of the > containing block. Is it possible to align it with the right edge of > the containing block, without the use of float? The addition of... margin

Re: [css-d] IE7 renders web pages incorrectly

2008-09-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Dinh wrote: > http://www.wvbresearch.com/ > > In IE7, some div get overlapped as if they belonged to different > layers. Change height-value on your .clear class, or delete the 'height' altogether. .clear { clear: both; padding-bottom: 1px; margin-bottom: -1px; height: 1% /*<-- this will work.

Re: [css-d] Script disabling inline property in FF?

2008-09-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Daniel Hammond wrote: > URL: http://www.studentremix.org/ms/blog.htm > The column on the right is supposed to say "Log in", but in FF3, the > div for that column is moved down below the left column. Can not tell you exactly what's bugging FF3, but it looks like another strange thing surrounding

Re: [css-d] Relative and absolute positioning affect z-index in IE7

2008-09-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tim Dawson wrote: > Point taken. But it seems here that R:P applied to the menu is > sufficient, without also resorting to the z-index. It's working OK > now. Good. According to CSS specs 'position: relative' without a 'z-index: (some value)' should default to 'z-index: auto' and not affect sta

Re: [css-d] IE8 and rendering bands with Zoom

2008-09-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Alan Gresley wrote: > IE8b2 still has the bug of slow reflow when zoom is used. > > http://css-class.com/test/bugs/ie/renderingbands.htm > > Some IE bugs just never die. You're right about that, but at least old bugs like that are controllable. Found any entirely new IE8 bugs lately? I have on

Re: [css-d] css beginner in search of great books and courses

2008-09-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Josh Orlean wrote: > Would appreciate any recommendations. On-line resources: regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

Re: [css-d] fixed in IE

2008-09-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Leandro Coutinho wrote: > the following code works in FF and Chrome, but not in IE: > > #copy { > position:fixed; > bottom:0px; > margin-bottom:5px; > margin-right:5px; > margin-left:5px; > text-align:center; > width:98%; > background-color:#F0F0F0; > color:#D2

Re: [css-d] CSS stylesheet broken with IE6, 7 and 8 but not Firefox

2008-09-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Andy Borka wrote: > Would anybody have any ideas on how to make all browsers show this > layout like firefox does? You mean something like this...? Not very useful for anything, but I think it looks the same around the board. regards

Re: [css-d] Flash object has extra bottom margin in FF3, but not in IE

2008-09-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tim Dawson wrote: > http://www.holidaymullandiona.co.uk/pages/accn/bb-sw-mulle.php > (Adobe) > It's unusual for something to work 'better' in IE than FF. Anyone > able to help, please ? Add... div#banner object {display: block;} ...and Firefox should behave as intended. regards Georg -

Re: [css-d] IE Clearing Bug

2008-09-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
James Alvies wrote: > http://techsoup-global.org/node/1132 Looks like a tough one, and a bit too much style to comb through. If nothing else works out, IE still has respect for the old clearing-method... HTML: CSS: br.clear {clear: both;} regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.

Re: [css-d] IE Clearing Bug

2008-09-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Bill Brown wrote: >> http://techsoup-global.org/node/1132 > You need a hasLayout fix on your #container element. #container > {zoom:1} should do the trick. > > You can test this by visiting your page and entering this into the > URL: > javascript:(document.getElementById('container').style.cs

Re: [css-d] Flash object has extra bottom margin in FF3, but not in IE

2008-09-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tim Dawson wrote: > No cure for old age, I'm afraid. Pity. Not much hope for me then - with or without CSS. Georg;-) -- http://www.gunlaug.no __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/l

Re: [css-d] fixed in IE

2008-09-20 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Leandro Coutinho wrote: > I use IE6, and I'm not using any doctype definition. > > what I have to do to work in IE7? No DTD means IE7 and IE6 (and IE8 and probably all future versions) fall back to a 'quirks mode' rendering pretty similar to that found in IE5.5. 'Quirks mode' means all progress i

Re: [css-d] Testing css in browsers

2008-09-21 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Andy Borka wrote: > When testing CSS in browsers, what ones should be tested and in what > order? Your list is as good as any, and generally speaking you can run your creations through the latest versions of the good ones in any order, and finish with the relevant IE/win versions. However, if yo

Re: [css-d] Float not all the way to the right in FF3/Safari 3.1.2

2008-09-21 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tina G. wrote: > div#siteTools (site map, contact, etc) should appear right-aligned > under the nav on each page. div#crumbs (the breadcrumbs, which > display on pretty much every page but the homepage) should appear > left-aligned on that same line. > w/o breadcrumbs: http://www.co-opinsurance.c

Re: [css-d] floats and divs

2008-09-21 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Luther Baker wrote: > Here is the look I'm after. Notice the border: > FLOATING ELEMENTS on top > -- > Normal elements in the bottom Make div.TOP expand to contain its floating children, for instance by adding... div.TOP { overflow: hidden;} ...and

Re: [css-d] Curious why link not working in IE6 & IE7

2008-09-21 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mark Wheeler wrote: > I have a question that I can't seem to find an answer for. I've > solved the problem, but to be honest, it doesn't seem like a smooth > and logical solution. Agree, but bugs rarely ever adhere to logic. Humans involved, I guess. FWIW: you'll find the same non-working link

Re: [css-d] multiple stylesheets in a single site

2008-09-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Andy Borka wrote: > How many stylesheets can be linked to a single page at a time? IE/win can handle up to 31 stylesheet links / @imports. Other browsers can handle at least a few thousand. Proof:

Re: [css-d] Testing css in browsers

2008-09-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Nancy Johnson wrote: > Doesn't it also somewhat depend on your user base? If you have a > general user base than this is fine. Technical testing across the board of major browsers/OSes is always safest, since one can pretty much cover all bases this way. Specializing in user bases or whatever, h

Re: [css-d] content drop in IE6

2008-09-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Dan Katz wrote: > I'm trying to figure out why the main content of this page: > > http://graceburkecrc.org > > drops down to the middle of the page in IE6. #mainContent becomes too wide with the 'width', 'margin' and 'padding' given. IE6 miscalculates when adding them up, mostly because there ar

Re: [css-d] Horizontal Alignment

2008-09-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The link below will show a file, on which there are some lines of > text and numbers inside a . > > My problem is that in order to create the spacing I've used many >   is there any other tidier way of doing this? > > http://www.linkhomes2000.co.uk/main/mortgages/mortg

Re: [css-d] Pixel-perfect vertical alignment of horizontal

2008-09-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Dave Sherohman wrote: > http://kuno.sherohman.org/~esper/nomadnetinc.com/ > The navigation menu is, however, proving problematic. > Is it possible to get that to line up properly in all major browsers/ > versions/operating systems and, if so, how? Actual "background position" is handled fairly

Re: [css-d] background-color: transparent;

2008-09-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Andy Borka wrote: > What does the background-color: transparent; actually do? Turns "off" background color on an element "to make the underlying colors shine through". regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no _

Re: [css-d] Height issue.

2008-09-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Thane Sherrington wrote: > On this site: http://www.stuffbythane.com/Ronald/ > > I set the banner to be 225px high, which in IE looks fine, but in > Firefox is 10 px too long (and the top menu ends up overlapping.) > Clearly I'm misunderstanding something, but shouldn't setting a > height in PX

Re: [css-d] Pixel-perfect vertical alignment of horizontal

2008-09-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Dave Sherohman wrote: > I changed the style from > > div.nav a:hover { color: #e4923f; background-image: > url(imgs/nav_over.gif); } > > to > > div.nav a:hover { color: #e4923f; background-image: > url(imgs/nav_over.gif); background-position : 0 0; } > > and saw no apparent effect, even afte

Re: [css-d] Textbox width affect by its value length

2008-09-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ray Costanzo wrote: > http://www.lane34.com/css-discuss/textboxie.htm The addition of... table {table-layout: fixed;} ...should fix IE. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww

Re: [css-d] [css tabs] Stuck on Browser Issue

2008-09-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tech U-nique wrote: > http://newiws.iwsdev.com > basically I'm looking for any help or hints on how I can get that tab > to line up in all three browsers (or is it 4 now ff2/3). Only one safe way, basically, and that is to declare a width, in pixels since it's a fixed-width layout, on every sing

Re: [css-d] Italicized text increasing width of parent element

2008-09-25 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I have noticed that in my layout, which is a modded version of >> ALA's Holy Grail, that sometimes when I have text in a list item >> that butts up to the outer edge of its containing div, and that >> text is italicized, I believe it increases the width of that >> c

Re: [css-d] CSS and Yahoo Maps

2008-09-25 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Scott Povlot wrote: > http://www.piedmont-div.org/pilgrimage/tour_date20081101.html > > The page looks good in Firefox. In IE7, the mapcontainer shifts > around when you resize the browser. On IE6, the map moves out of the > containing box and almost off the page. IE needs a 'hasLayout' trigg

Re: [css-d] IE6 Problems

2008-09-26 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having problems with IE6 and have no idea why. As such am unable > to take any corrective action. All is fine until I add the CSS sheet > listed below, then the main menu (left side top) falls down . > http://www.linkhomes2000.co.uk/main/mortgages/mortgages_types_

Re: [css-d] Horizontal Nav at bottom of page in IE

2008-09-26 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Carol Huddleston wrote: > I have a horizontal nav bar at the bottom of this page that I'm > trying to get below the white area in the background image. I've got > it to look okay on browsers on the Mac, but all of the Windows > browsers show the bar either too high or too low: > > http://www.pr

Re: [css-d] and xhtml strict

2008-09-26 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Akins wrote: > I can't tell you why the clear:both and height:0 needs to be in > there. I haven't tested it without those things. Perhaps someone > here can shed some light on those details. Maybe this answers some of your questions...

Re: [css-d] IE7 - h1 breaking a table a bit

2008-09-26 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Krystian - Sunlust wrote: > http://sunlust.net/test6/ > Anyway, all I'm asking is to someone to have a quick look and let me > know where the break comes from if possible, I know it's not a CSS > issue itself, but it's to do with layout and maybe some CSS can fix > it. IE sees "white-space" in

Re: [css-d] issue with background images

2008-09-26 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Kavinsky wrote: > [...] I added overflow:hidden to the ul, and that got the background > image displaying, but then hid the container background in Firefox > (v. 2 and 3 on both Mac and Windows). IE 7, however, still displays > the background for the container, but not the list. > http://

Re: [css-d] OL list items repeating bullet when hasLayout is triggered.

2008-09-27 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > li{ overflow:visible; display:inline-block; /*Triggers hasLayout, > causes issue*/ } > > all ordered list items use the same bullet. > Zoom:1 also triggers this issue. The dark side of 'hasLayout' - it resets the counter. See:

Re: [css-d] my first post about box model and div appearing outside

2008-09-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Gavan Bright wrote: > I have this site http://gavanbright.com/survey/ which I am trying to > work out why the left hand div tag is overlapping the container and > does not sit inside the container. Nothing to do with box model. Absolute positioned elements "live their own life" in that they do

Re: [css-d] CSS-based drop-shadow images - troubleshooting help?

2008-09-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Erik Harris wrote: > I'm in the process of slowly migrating my static website to a > CMS-based site, and have begun working in earnest on the theme. > > Right now, I'm stuck on a drop shadow issue. You can see it at: > http://www.kungfu-silat.com/wp/ You have floating content, which has to be

Re: [css-d] DOM-scripted content doesn't link toCSS in IE

2008-09-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tim Dawson wrote: > The effect can be seen at > http://www.holidaymullandiona.co.uk/attr/carsaigarches.php but I've > had to cheat and put a CSS positioned paragraph into the regular > content. That way IE7 'sees' the CSS, and shows that there's nothing > wrong with the CSS per se. (Though there

Re: [css-d] my first post about box model and div appearing outside

2008-09-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Gavan Bright wrote: > I did a search on your first solution and this is what I have done to > fix problem. You're "overstyling" a bit. Browsers do fine, and even better, with less than that. > I didn't work out how what you meant about "contain floats" methods > to make their parent-element ex

Re: [css-d] ol list in IE problem

2008-09-30 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The address below list the file and css, if you view the file in FF > then IE the differences will be clear. > http://www.linkhomes2000.co.uk/main/mortgages/mortgages_types_1.php Make it... ol.lin { font-family:"Trebuchet MS", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-weight:b

Re: [css-d] Property Group Compression

2008-09-30 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Bobby Jack wrote: > It's a shame that there's no concept of 'inheritance' in CSS that > would allow grouping of, for example, headings (h1-h6) or lists (ul, > ol, dl). AFAIK, the W3C CSS WG is open for suggestions. If enough people suggest something along the same lines, and can back it up, they

Re: [css-d] IE6 issue

2008-09-30 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Shanna Korby wrote: > http://weddingelegancend.com/ > This is giving me trouble in IE6. Does anyone know what the issue > might be? The main content is being pushed below the sidebars. Delete this... ...and IE6 will do fine. Such 'hasLayout' triggers on elements create "hard margins" that'll

Re: [css-d] footer doesn't occupy width in IE6

2008-09-30 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Luc wrote: > I have a footer that sticks to the bottom of the page but in IE6 i > encounter a problem: the footer doesn't occupy the width of the > container, i.o.w. it stops about 8px before reaching the left side of > the container. Short on the right side at my end. > http://www.dzinelabs.

Re: [css-d] vertical expansion of fixed layout

2008-10-01 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Keith LaFrenier wrote: > [...] > I cleared both #maincontent and #sidebar containers with the #footer, > but If I don't specifiy a height for the #sidebar then #maincontent > gets knocked out of the flow of the document. I've tried using > %height and no height specified without any luck. Fo

Re: [css-d] fluid layout within a div with title and controls

2008-10-01 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mansour wrote: > however, when I float .title and .controls the .window-bar resize and > disapear as they go out of this container. I tried many things but > nothing worked. Can someone please suggest something? You probably need an "expand to contain floats" styling on .window-bar, but I'm uns

Re: [css-d] Why is the background of the selected text not black?

2008-10-01 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Fred Janon wrote: > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/mars/ > > When I select the text: "The Mars Project is an XML-friendly > representation for PDF documents called PDFXML. PDF, an ISO standard > format, is the global standard...". The color of the text changes > from black to blue but the bac

Re: [css-d] Mysterious offset in 3-column layout

2008-10-02 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Nadine Misiaszek wrote: > http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~nmisiasz/test/page1.html > > The header tags of column 1 and column 2 line up in IE 6 but not in > Firefox 3. I tried some negative numbers for margin-top. Then > things work in FF but not in IE. You're experiencing "collapsing margins"...

Re: [css-d] CSS Round Corners

2008-10-02 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Majestic wrote: > Anyone have experience doing CSS round corners ? I need some help as > nothing so far as been working out for me, including javascripts. Not sure. What, which layouts, is it supposed to be used on or fit into? If you want round corners as defined in CSS3...

Re: [css-d] Need images centered vertically

2008-10-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Carol Huddleston wrote: > Would it be best for me to just scrap my design and start over with a > list? The way you're presenting images I would suggest you use a table. Tables and lists are pretty interchangeable for uses like that, and tables support horizontal and vertical centering natively

Re: [css-d] Newbie problem with templates

2008-10-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Edward Collier wrote: > http://www.btinternet.com/~edandmill/Shared/default.htm This is the > page based on the template below. As you can see, the text flows > behind the menu, which is ... ahem ... sub-optimal. Element with ID=Content missing in template, so styles not applied. Should be...

Re: [css-d] Newbie problem with templates

2008-10-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Edward Collier wrote: > That solves the problem of the text flowing UNDER the floating menu, > but when it reaches the bottom of the menu it doesn't "widen out" to > occupy the space "below" the menu Change from absolute positioning to float, and trim the right margin on #Content...

Re: [css-d] CSS Round Corners

2008-10-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Majestic wrote: > Gunlang the one I am after is the one you have experience on using my > own images as round corners out of the three you pointed out to me > which was this one. I hope you could help me get the round corners > on my page which is just a using my own images. > http://www.gunl

Re: [css-d] use of title attribute on image

2008-10-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ron Zisman wrote: > http://www.musiccityyo.org/gallery.html > i preparing a photo galley for a small site for kids. the images > don't have captions, but i want interested people to be able to > identify the images to be able to order prints from the photographer. > i know i could just put the

Re: [css-d] [off-topic] about me

2008-10-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Alexandru Dinulescu wrote: > WTF!? Mind you language, please. If you ain't got anything useful to say, don't say anything and let this [off-topic] post pass. regards Georg PS: *not* admin. -- http://www.gunlaug.no __ c

Re: [css-d] use of title attribute on image

2008-10-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ron Zisman wrote: >> Demo: >> >> First row show captions in hover. > this certainly comes up strong and quick on mouseover. but it also > demonstrates a small problem. as people run their mouse across the > images to click to larger images

Re: [css-d] Why do they do the things they do?

2008-10-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mary Ellen Curtin wrote: > Only two of these big sites don't even have a doctype: Google and > Amazon. In Google's case I'm guessing it's because they place the > highest priority on fast-loading pages, and they don't want > *anything* in there they don't have to. In Amazon's case I'm inclined

Re: [css-d] float help in IE6/7

2008-10-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Dan Katz wrote: > Please take a look at the header of this site: > > http://ecosphere-services.com IE can't "shrink width to content" on floats when the content is floats. Thus, IE needs a declared width on #locations. That width must be in 'em' to accommodate font-resizing, but because you have

Re: [css-d] Site check please - DAC

2008-10-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Peter Hyde-Smith wrote: > Would appreciate a general site check, please, especially in IE6. No > breakage issues in OS and browsers noted below. I am also interested to know > if the Gilder/Levin image replacement in the header is working. Ok in IE6. > http://www.fatpawdesign.com/DAC/DACproducts

Re: [css-d] Site check please - DAC *round 2*

2008-10-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Peter Hyde-Smith wrote: >>> http://www.fatpawdesign.com/DAC/DACproducts.html > All: Thanks for the look-see and feed-back. > Georg: I think I have the transparent borders issue fixed. Would you > please make another quick check? Borders ok. IE6 need a little bit more help though. 1: There's t

Re: [css-d] x-tra padding and squished graphic

2008-10-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In IE7, this page: > http://www.blackfootchallenge.org/rebeccatest/test3.html shows about > an extra 10 px padding to the right of the "Accomplishments" sidebar > on the right of the page. Will look much better if you delete this... #righttable { padding-left:

Re: [css-d] :active with display: none

2008-10-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jack Blankenships wrote: > I want to make it so that an active link makes the parent element > disappear. The element does disappear when I place an :active > pseudo-class on the parent element to change the display to none, > however the link ceases to function (i.e. - clicking on it does > n

Re: [css-d] :active with display: none

2008-10-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jack Blankenships wrote: > How does that "kill the child?" If the link has display: none, why > does that have any effect whatsoever on the clickability or the link > or the resulting action? Doesn't display none simply not show it on > the page but allow it to exist in the DOM? You can no long

Re: [css-d] Explorer 6 issue with body size

2008-10-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
t vaughan wrote: > The body section, including the footer are not the proper width in > IE6. They should appear at 800 pixels and seem to be stuck at 600. > It only appears wrong in IE6. > http://www.livehorns.com The addition of "full width" on the relevant element, with higher specificity tha

Re: [css-d] print

2008-10-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Vincent Pollard wrote: > Does anyone have some good links or advice for print styling? A good starting-point... ...with links to other relevant resources. > I'm finding it confusing. For e.g. can you effect the margins (

Re: [css-d] ie6 - image based menu not scrolling with content - when using a fixed position bottom element

2008-10-10 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
corey deep wrote: > It works fine everywhere except, in ie6 when i applied i to my mockup > the topmenu is not scrolling with the other content. > http://thevenusflytrap.org/ie6/fixed-position-mockup-2.html All 'absolute' and 'relative' positioned elements will be fixed to the window in IE6 wit

Re: [css-d] IE6 and margin problem

2008-10-10 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Karlo Lozovina wrote: > http://mosor.net/iebljuv/ > > In FF, Opera and Konqueror the height of the blue box is exactly the > same as the height of the gray DIV. In IE6 the gray DIV is a fex > pixels bigger than it should be, so they don't fit perfectly. Any > ideas what is the problem, and how

Re: [css-d] Layout problems with bkgrd color, footer position, left nav, etc.

2008-10-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Kathy Davie wrote: > I am having myriad issues with this css, > http://kddidit.com/CSS/stylesAMTF.css > http://kddidit.com/AMTF/audioList.html. Do you really mean "font-size : 16em;" on all those elements? That value blows the entire page across a few dozen screens all by itself since it gets mu

Re: [css-d] Site Check

2008-10-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.golfteesgalore.com/ IE6 could do with some kind of "compensation" for its lack of opacity. Maybe some different backgrounds for that browser..? The script at the bottom should be above the end-tag for body. The HTML validator calls what you have an error. T

Re: [css-d] IE Layout Centering and Negative Margins (with example)

2008-10-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Gawain Reifsnyder wrote: > I'm new to the list and I've got a layout question that I haven't > been able to track down elsewhere. I'm just starting to work with > negative margins. My problem may indeed have a simple fix, but it's > got me stumped. No wonder. Negative margins can be tricky, and

Re: [css-d] Rounded corners + shaded background. What was I thinking?

2008-10-14 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jody Levinson wrote: > I've been tearing my hair over this one and it's my own fault for > coming up with the design: > http://www.ishrgroup.com/ > > The rounded corners and flexible width body work fine in FF. In IE 7, > the flexible width works ok, but the rounded corners on the main > conte

Re: [css-d] drop down menus/flash

2008-10-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ed Pybus wrote: > ... could some check if the menus are coming down in front of the > flash player on other operating systems? > > http://www.slrecords.net/test_videos.php Seems to be working as intended in all browsers on windows 2000/XP/Vista and on Mac OSX - dropdown gets in front of flash.

Re: [css-d] Newbie question on IE 7 menu bug

2008-10-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
MJ Kewley wrote: > ... I'm wondering if someone could point me to which one of the 170 > or so IE 7 bugs I might be dealing with here: > > http://dev.greatergreenville.com/csstesting/default3column.aspx Stu Nicholl's menu isn't complete for IE7. Add... .globalmenu ul li { position: relative; }

Re: [css-d] DocType on page question.

2008-10-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Majestic wrote: > I have come across some pages that do not used a DocType so does that > mean you don't need a Doctype on a page Only IE (and the validator) needs a doctype... ...although most web designers need a doctype to assure some consi

Re: [css-d] not aligning in MSIE6

2008-10-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Goss Ito wrote: > while in other browsers it seems to work perfectly, in IE6 the id > container of the rating system is pushed under the span > Delete... .post-ratings { width:100%;} ...since IE6 fails to see what to calculate 100

Re: [css-d] Problem with Firefox and images as links

2008-10-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Karlo Lozovina wrote: > If I set IMG property "display" to "block", in Firefox the link area > seems much bigger than the image itself. > http://www.mosor.net/ff Solution depends on scenario. If, as it seems, you want a default or declared block-element inside an anchor to line up inline, with

Re: [css-d] DocType on page question.

2008-10-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Dorward wrote: > 2008/10/16 Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Only IE (and the validator) needs a doctype... >> <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_additions_34.html> > > """ IE is the only browser I'm avare of that makes a clear

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