Re: [css-d] Content jumping a couple of pixels in Firefox

2005-11-08 Thread Stuart Homfray
Luke Mackenzie wrote: > > In firefox (1.0.7 on XP), if you click 'home', you should notice that the > positioning of the links at the bottom moves by a pixel or two. > > Can anyone offer a fix or an explanation as to why this is happening? > _

Re: [css-d] Matching column heights in a complexish layout

2005-11-10 Thread Stuart Homfray
Adriano Castro wrote: >>but Mozilla doesn't adjust the height of the "container" div. I'm a bit >>lost here. >> >>I think my problem is the one defined on PIE's "How To Clear Floats >>Without Structural Markup" [2] but having tried the proposed solutions I >>still can't get it to work. >> >>Idea

Re: [css-d] Footer moving into sidebar

2005-12-24 Thread Stuart Homfray
r (or, do as I did and utilise the FF1.5 Javascript console - it shows CSS errors too - check your FF 'Tools' menu!) Merry Christmas - time to wrap the last of the prezzies now! :) - Stuart -- Stuart Homfray http://www.stuarthomfray.co.uk/ ___

Re: [css-d] Accomodation "gallery" in IE

2006-05-17 Thread Stuart Homfray
Erik Gyepes wrote: > > As we all know IE is very very buggy browser, just look to this page: > http://www.pripisa.sk/stranka/ubytovanie/ in FF, then in IE? > How to solve this unlikely mess? > Hi Erik, As you can see, IE6 is 'helping'(!!) you by making sure that it expands the container and c

Re: [css-d] One fieldset shifting place in IE/Win

2006-05-17 Thread Stuart Homfray
Seona Bellamy wrote: > > Just noticed a problem with our sign-up form. When you look at it in IE/Win > (don't know if it happens on Mac too or not) the fieldset "Company Details" > is sitting against the left edge of the content space instead of pushed out > from it like all the others are. I've g

Re: [css-d] Further to earlier message on fieldset

2006-05-21 Thread Stuart Homfray
Ian Piper wrote: > I have racked my brains about why IE positions the input boxes > differently (though presumably it is due to floating) > > http://www.tellura.co.uk/soundsteps/franchise_contact.htm > Hi Ian, You're right - it's a float issue! You can fix it (I've only checked in FF, IE6 an

[css-d] A Gecko page rendering problem with restyled table layout...?

2006-05-29 Thread Stuart Homfray
Hi folks, I don't know whether anyone's come across this one before (I hope they have!) It *might* sound a little confusing, but I have prepared an example page[1]. I've re-styled table rows (it is tabular data, but let's not get into THAT argument!:) as blocks and left-floated them to get som

Re: [css-d] nav bounce

2006-05-30 Thread Stuart Homfray
mindy wrote: > > I'm slowly learning this wonderful css stuff. :oD Recently we decided to > redesign our web comic in css/php though I'm having a problem with the > navigation when you hover it jumps (I guess like the rest of us). > > [LINK: http://pj-chron.com/redesign] http://pj-chron.com/rede

Re: [css-d] Telling a div to do something

2006-05-31 Thread Stuart Homfray
Richard Brown wrote: > I am having problems telling a div to do something! The site is: > > > > The div in question is "Tips" and sits in the sidebar and should be > styling the random tips feature at t

Re: [css-d] A Gecko page rendering problem with restyled table layout...?

2006-05-31 Thread Stuart Homfray
L. David Baron wrote: > On Monday 2006-05-29 21:38 +0100, Stuart Homfray wrote: >> Anyone seen anything like this before? It's not a Gecko bug is it!? > > If a page behaves differently depending on the order things load, the > speed they load, or separation of packets duri

Re: [css-d] Telling a div to do something

2006-05-31 Thread Stuart Homfray
Dave Goodchild wrote: > On 31/05/06, Stuart Homfray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Richard Brown wrote: >>> I am having problems telling a div to do something! The site is: >>> <http://www.weddingcompanycornwall.co.uk/> >>> <http://www.weddingcom

Re: [css-d] W3C CSS validation failed because of an IE bugfix

2006-06-01 Thread Stuart Homfray
Chris C wrote: > I will try to figure out why "hasLayout" isn't kicking in. Is there a > tool you can use where you find out what areas of the page have the > "hasLayout" flag set and which ones don't? I'm using Liquid Columns, so > I don't know what I can play with yet to avoid breaking them. >

Re: [css-d] Float problem

2006-07-25 Thread Stuart Homfray
Hi Christine, Christine Reed wrote: > > http://clairerichco.uk/hypnotherapy.html full css at attached file > Is the url http://www.clairerich.co.uk/whatishypnotherapy.html ?? :) > > Problem: Float leaving a huge gap Scroll down to the picture of the > dog - why doesn't it float just ouside t

Re: [css-d] background image positioning problem

2006-08-06 Thread Stuart Homfray
chris wrote: > I'm trying to position a background image vertically - I want it to > start tiling on the y-axis at 520px from the top. > > http://www.mosshead.com/tests/backgroundissue.html Chris, This is the correct behaviour for CSS 2.1 [1] There's an example on that page that illustrates th

Re: [css-d] IE - navigation jumping around

2006-08-11 Thread Stuart Homfray
Rosemary Probert wrote: > > But in IE the left navigation column jumps up and down as the window > is enlarged or reduced in size. > > I used Ryan Brill's "Creating Liquid Layouts with Negative Margins" > from "A List Apart" as my base, but I don't know enough to work out > where I've gone wro

[css-d] Safari, table cells, and overflow:hidden

2005-09-02 Thread Stuart Homfray
xtra markup to achieve the same effect in Safari? Many thanks - I hope that someone's come across this one before!! :) cheers, Stuart Homfray __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d

Re: [css-d] Safari, table cells, and overflow:hidden

2005-09-04 Thread Stuart Homfray
Stuart Homfray wrote: I'm having a spot of trouble with the Safari browser and the overflow:hidden declaration when applied to table cells. Oh, and before anyone thinks this might be an opportunity for a 'Tables vs Divs' war, this *is* tabular data (see under 'Why we s

Re: [css-d] Safari, table cells, and overflow:hidden

2005-09-04 Thread Stuart Homfray
Christian Heilmann wrote: On 9/3/05, Stuart Homfray wrote: I'm having a spot of trouble with the Safari browser and the overflow:hidden declaration when applied to table cells. ... have you tried setting the TDs as block? Thanks for the response Chris, but if you do that, the cells

Re: [css-d] Safari, table cells, and overflow:hidden

2005-09-05 Thread Stuart Homfray
Michael Landis wrote: I didn't find any reference to the correct syntax, though. Thank goodness for Google on the W3! [2] Unfortunately, it appears that it defines what indicators should appear if text should overflow its container, versus dictating how the text itself overflows. It hasn't yet

Re: [css-d] Safari, table cells, and overflow:hidden

2005-09-06 Thread Stuart Homfray
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: It is a known weakness in Safari; there is currently no way to apply the overflow-property to table elements. And changing the display value of the table-cell won't work, because then it is not a table-cell anymore ! Thanks Philippe! Yes, it's a real shame th

Re: [css-d] Search box like in browsers toolbar

2005-09-06 Thread Stuart Homfray
Martin Petrov wrote: I don't want to position the image but to indent the text. I tried with padding, but it just widens the box. Here is the example page: http://home.comcast.net/~martinpetrov/example/ Martin, Add the extra left padding to the #Box element and subtract that same v

Re: [css-d] Variation on "off-site" links - need help

2005-09-12 Thread Stuart Homfray
John Huetz wrote: We're developing a site content management process which separates the content from the presentation, what a novel idea. The designers want to be able to indicate within a list of links which link may be "new" by displaying a "NEW" graphic after the link text. What I'm try

Re: [css-d] Variation on "off-site" links - need help

2005-09-12 Thread Stuart Homfray
Alun Rowe wrote: Otherwise indent the link by 10px and add a 10px background image no-repeat align left. Yes, makes sense, actually - stick the image on the LEFT... Probably 'reads' better on the web page too: when you do a quick scan down the list, you see the new items straight away. D

Re: [css-d] IE doesn't like my fixed layout much (retry)

2005-09-25 Thread Stuart Homfray
Rob Mientjes wrote: Working on something right now and it displays perfectly in Safari, performs like it should in Firefox and leaves me flabbergasted in IE. I'm aware of IE's limitations, but I know it can work. Question is, who can help me make it work? http://zooibaai.nl/sandbox/basant/ Ro

Re: [css-d] Help center a horiz. nav bar.

2005-10-24 Thread Stuart Homfray
Patrick Roane wrote: I'm trying to center (right now it is float:left;) my horizontal menu bar at: www.cpcconstruction.net/1/index.html ...I've tried several various techniques ie. margin: 0px auto; and this should work And it will, Patrick - you need to set a width to that container

Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites

2005-10-26 Thread Stuart Homfray
Al Sparber wrote: FWIW, I see this page just fine on 2 different machines (with and without SP2). But I'd like to know/understand why we're not all experiencing the same thing... I'll be honest - I've been following this thread with increasing interest! I don't why the emails from CSS-D are

Re: [css-d] Good looking fluid-width sites

2005-10-26 Thread Stuart Homfray
Christian Montoya wrote: This message *may* be viewed as a pointless addition to this argument, but, I don't like to see a guy on his lonesome in a fight!! :D I'd like to request that everyone on CSS-D stop making this into a fight. Christian, I have emailed you privately on this. The pro