[css-d] Need help with a float inside a DIV

the ugliness of the CSS and the simplicity of this problem, but I appreciate any help. Thanks. ------ Travis Crabtree Webmaster Tusculum College phone: 423.636.7300 ext. 5132 fax: 423.636.7492 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ css-disc

Re: [css-d] Need help with IMG inside a DIV

Viewing it with Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Windows Vista Business. From: vincent pollard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:21 AM To: Webmaster Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Need help with IMG inside a DIV it looks fine on my machine. what are you

[css-d] Need help with IMG inside a DIV

hat didn't work either. How do I make the DIV expand to contain the image? I always seem to have problems with images. Can someone show me where I went wrong? I greatly appreciate your help. -- Travis Crabtree Webmaster Tusculum College phone: 423.636.7300 ext. 5132 fax: 423.636.749

[css-d] Help resolving spacing in IE6

nt block, and I don't know how to get rid of it, so there is no gap. Both the CSS and the HTML files are large, and I apologize for that. Once I get the page displaying properly, I plan to break out the javascript and the drop-down lists. I greatly appreciate any help you can provide. Th

Re: [css-d] Help resolving spacing in IE6

have played around with the sizes, but I fear the problem goes deeper than that. I simply don't know enough about IE6 to know how to fix the problem. I would be very grateful for any help. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Webm

[css-d] help with gap in IE6

I'm in over my head :) I appreciate any help anyone can provide. Thanks. -- Travis Crabtree Webmaster Tusculum College phone: 423.636.7300 ext. 5132 fax: 423.636.7492 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___

Re: [css-d] white gap between two divs in IE6 Win

Hi there, You posted 10 hrs ago so maybe you've fixed this? I don't see any gap on IE6 win xp. Cheers, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Gates Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 2:25 PM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css

Re: [css-d] Another try: Flickering in Firefox

Thanks for your response, Roger. The class you sited (.dateline) was an orphaned rule - I wrote it (incorrectly, as you pointed out) at some phase of the design and then changed; it wasn't called anywhere in the html so wasn't effecting the page; I've removed it now :). I played with the background

Re: [css-d] Another try: Flickering in Firefox

er 08, 2005 10:42 AM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Cc: webmaster Subject: Re: [css-d] Another try: Flickering in Firefox > At any rate, since you aren't seeing the flickering, it's probably > difficult > to know what I'm referring to. > I'm seeing it and what happens

Re: [css-d] Another try: Flickering in Firefox

Thanks Georg. And I will re-test as you suggest. Cheers, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gunlaug Sørtun Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 12:06 AM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Another try: Flickering in Firefo

[css-d] Need help with a few quirks

Hello, I am currently working on a layout for a friend, which can be found at http://www.exillon.com/test/ and the css is http://www.exillon.com/test/main.css Rather than making the stretched/melted part of the background one huge image, I made a basic tiled version for the straight lines and a

Re: [css-d] Need help with a few quirks

Hi webmaster D, > Your link appeared to lead to a frame page, so we have to go to the > source code of the frame page to get the URL of the real page, if we > want to see the source code of the page itself in order to analyse > what is happening. - Think it is easier for us to giv

[css-d] Site check request please

Hello, I just finished working on all the front-end scripting and such for a redesign of my site which can be found temporarily at http://www.deselectdesign.com/test/ I was hoping some of you may take the time to check it out to test for any cross-platform glitches or the like. I have tested it

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

>OK! It's done. I've checked it in Safari (developed on OSX), on >FireFox and in Linux, but not on Win IE, so please be kind if you find >a problem. This is a 100% CSS site with just enough .PHP to switch >pages, a complete rewrite from a very table oriented web page. >This is a completely voluntee

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

s myself, but if you cannot wait, google is the way. ;) >I'm so confused. > > I am here to help. It's okay. :) Email me again if you need any further assistance. Cheers, D. >On 3/23/06, Webmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>OK! It's done. I

[css-d] Position text inside DIV

I am having trouble positioning the text inside the div. Maybe I have the wrong markup? HTML - http://oit.sfasu.edu/test/frame2.html CSS - http://oit.sfasu.edu/test/template.css Thanks - Travis Killen __ css-discuss [EMAIL P

[css-d] Odd bug in IE with DL, DT and DD backgrounds?

Hello, I was wondering if anyone would happen to know of any fix as to why my sites DL, DT and DD's backgrounds seem to cause such problems in IE6/Wintel? I have tested in Mozilla Firefox and Opera 7 and 8 and the issue if fine. I then tried to apply a !important only for the call for background co

Re: [css-d] Odd bug in IE with DL, DT and DD backgrounds?

Thank you for the speedy reply, Terry. Pardon my ignorance, but I am unsure as to how exactly this would correct the issue mentioned? I'm not having an issue with the DT, DD layout in heights or positioning, merely the background colour. And even more oddly is when I try to specify an !important so

Re: [css-d] Odd bug in IE with DL, DT and DD backgrounds?

Ah, thank you, I misunderstood the purpose of that. Any other time I've dealt with lists involving IE its always worked, but I have never used a DL before so I was unsure wot exactly was causing the issue. Thank you for the link, when I get back home I shall try to apply that. Cheers, D > [EMAIL

RE: [css-d] Website check. How does it look?

John, As you might expect on a page that is all images, when I turn the images off in my browser, the only thing visible is the copyright notice and a link to the Flash site. In FF, when I request the style sheet, I get it but ... did you forget to link or import it in your page? I didn't see any

RE: [css-d] CSS for shadows around thumbnails (tight wrap of DIVaround image)

Hi there, Steve, I followed this link, http://www.brunildo.org/test/#cen . Some interesting examples there. Can someone explain one of the examples to me, though? On this page -- http://www.brunildo.org/test/ImgHoverTest.html -- in the example labeled

RE: [css-d] Site Check

Hi Jenny, I like the way your site looks. Clean looking and easy to navigate. Since you were asking about conformance to web standards, you'll want to run it by the w3c validator: http://validator.w3.org/ Your home page -- the only one I ran -- throws 5 errors and a heap of warnings relatig to c

RE: [css-d] safari unordered lists--margin left

Hi there Reese, I'm pretty new to CSS AND I don't have a MAC to test this on. I'll just put it out and take my lumps as they come. I put a margin-right on the feature box (the box floated left) and removed the left-margin on the li (margin-left: 0;). It still worked on all the windows browsers I

[css-d] Happy New Year.

Even though this is wayyy off topic, and is probably going to stopped by the admins... Happy New Year everyone, may your year be free of crashed drives, viruses and have lots of good times :) WIth any luck the admins will say Happy New Year and let this topic end when it does. And a big Happy

Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

- Original Message - From: "4css" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training I agree with Mr. Sparber on this one. CSS is not a fast learn. Its a fun learn though, if you approach it that way. Its also not something that you learn on the fly just to ac

[css-d] Image float

Whats an easy way to align an image in the centre of a 150px div? Just a quick question. Reply offlist. Cameron W. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-dis

Re: [css-d] IE Developer tool bar

matthijs abeelen wrote: Why would anyone - certainly on this list - be interested in a toolbar for IE? Cuz IE isn't Netscape and unlike Netscape, IE is the lesser of two evils. Which in case makes Moz/FF good, so without IE, Moz/FF wouldn't what it is? So in the end, what would you hate

Re: [css-d] css print help

Greg Morphis wrote: > I removed all padding off of hours and added a height/fontsize to all > container divs and have come up with > http://home.alltel.net/omen/schedule.htm > It still has the row pushed down.. Can you suggest something else to try? Now I've got my thesis out of the house, and has

Re: [css-d] Problem with Suckerfish Vertical Dropdowns

If I intrepret your question right with this quotation: Philip Lindsay wrote: >>

Re: [css-d] border images

Linda Miller, DVM wrote: > Perhaps I am misreading this? > > http://www.css3.info/preview/border-image/ > > It mentions in the list "border-top-image" Personally speaking, I wouldn't recommend trusting any web page concerning W3C recommendations unless it comes from a W3C server. There are, un

Re: [css-d] Problem with menu bar

To save your visitors from having to horizontal-scroll (which most of them will hate), why not stack the last two images vertically instead of horizontally ? Philip Taylor John wrote: > http://www.coffeeonmars.com/dez.html _

Re: [css-d] Problem with menu bar

David Laakso wrote: > Verdana was ditched because it is pug ugly -- particularly at default or > greater than default. How do you feel about Tahoma ? I prefer it to Verdana, and normally work at greater-than-default sizes. Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] windows display problems with drop downs

Liz Butler wrote: >> http://newsite.herb-pharm.com/shopping/shopping/19/online-store.html >> >> http://newsite.herb-pharm.com/products/products/18/our-products.html >> >> - there seems to be a display problem with the main menu with firefox on >> windows It looks to me (without looking into

Re: [css-d] Mystery space

Tom Livingston wrote: > Having an issue with Safari 4 Mac and a mystery space above the text > "Footer" on this page: > > http://proof.mlinc.com/mlinc.com/testpages/6-10/index.html I see no text footer at all : here is a screen capture, [suppressed for list] from Seamonkey 2.0.4 under Window

Re: [css-d] Print Stylesheets: Two-column, newspaper/book style - How?

Jeff Zeitlin wrote: > I 'edit' (for loose values of the word 'edit') a monthly PDF magazine. > When a new issue is released, the articles from the previous issue > become viewable on the magazine's website. [snip] > I'm reluctant to do major hacking on the HTML; I'd prefer to stick to > ju

Re: [css-d] Re : IE8, CSS 2.1 & page-break-inside: avoid problem

Stéphane Carnot wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Sorry, i was on holidays :-) > > First, thanks for your help. > But it doesn't help much. > I'm trying to use the 'page-break-inside : avoid'. The page-break-after is > not what i'm looking for. OK, you have test files, but we (or at least, I) still do not

Re: [css-d] CSS Not Validating

Duane Nelson wrote: > I'm of the validation persuasion, because I lack the "theory" behind CSS > and HTML. By validating my code, which I learned I need to do from this > list, I have a foundation to fix the display behavior. This PNG fix > only affected IE browsers below version 6. I tried a

Re: [css-d] Sliding Portfolio

Hoyd Breton wrote: > Matthew + Chris: Thank you for the quick replies. Yeap, I agree that in most > cases animations tend to be on the annoying/ pointless side of things; > however, I feel like slideshows have become a bit commonplace on portfolio > sites, going to give it a try and nix if it's

Re: [css-d] Sliding Portfolio

Hoyd Breton wrote: > Thanks for all the pennies, nickels and dimes. Cashing it all in. = ] > > I wanted to avoid the SWF route, not because all the hoopla but more as an > exercise to learn the javascript ropes a bit. Good man : "Flash ? Just say 'NO !'" :-) > http://starkshumble.com/test/ I

Re: [css-d] Layout help needed, almost right

David Laakso wrote: > This: > html { > font-family : "Trebuchet MS", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; > font-size: 80%; > } > > Becomes this [user friendly and shorter]: > html { > font : 100%/1.4 Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; > } With the greatest respect, your dislike for the fonts which M

[css-d] list-style-value

With list-style-type: decimal, and within an unordered list, I would like to be able to specify the list-style-value, but no such property seems to exist. Is there a well- known solution to this problem, please ? Philip Taylor __

Re: [css-d] list-style-value

Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > generated content ? > Someone sent me this example page a few days ago: > > > Or else: html5 has a start attribute, last I checked. >

Re: [css-d] learning html5

I really think that before anyone gets too enthusiastic about jumping on the HTML 5 bandwagon, they should take a step back and consider some of the problems that are emerging. I would recommend taking a considered read of the following : http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20008935-264.htm

Re: [css-d] Why no image overflow error?

Brian M. Curran wrote: > My question is: So, why does the image with the box that it sits in seem to > be within the div? Shouldn't my CSS or HTML fail to validate, because of an > overflow problem? No. Validation is concerned with syntax, not with semantics. Philip Taylor __

Re: [css-d] browser reports please

Chris Blake wrote: > Yes, I am sure it's not w3c compliant at the moment but I > will look into that if I can get things working. It might be a bit > backwards but 6 errors isn't too many, Dear Chris -- With the greatest respect, one error is too many, not for reasons of pedantry but simply bec

Re: [css-d] ie7 and Safari 5 issues.

Oh, that is /desperately/ slow, Márcio : 23 seconds to complete loading. I am afraid I wouldn't be willing to wait that long in the real world. I really think you need to reduce the complexity and increase the efficiency. Philip Taylor MEM wrote: > I would like to request your help, fo

Re: [css-d] ie7 and Safari 5 issues.

OK, again not an answer to your real problem, Márcio, but as a visitor I would expect to be able to click on the "+" sign, not on the text, in order to expand the view. Philip Taylor MEM wrote: > Yes. :( I'm thinking about ajax, and image size reduction. > Maybe that will do it. > > But

Re: [css-d] Use of empty DIVs?

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > Why XHTML? > > If a DIV isn't closed, it's not valid [X]HTML; it should get a > failing grade. > > The classes and IDs can be used later when the CSS is modified. I have to say, I'm more-or-less with Chris on this one. An unclosed DIV is no better a

Re: [css-d] ie7 and Safari 5 issues.

MEM wrote: > Thanks for point out some issues here and there, they are more then > welcome. :) I have a life to learn about this. :D OK, then another one :-) When I click on the first "+", it expands (reveals) that region; when I click on the second "+", it expands (reveals) that region; but w

Re: [css-d] ie7 and Safari 5 issues.

MEM wrote: > Yes. :) The reason why we cannot have all expanded it's because, if we > have all expanded the "portfolio 100% height cool effect" is lost. OK, but will your visitors think it "cool" ? Or would they prefer to have control over what is concealed and what is revealed. As one potent

Re: [css-d] ie7 and Safari 5 issues.

MEM wrote: > Well, here I would say, that I will be very angry as well, but on one > condition, if, for some reason, it was important to have (for > cross-data proposes or something else), access to both information at > the same time. > I cannot see a reason for doing so on this context. (that

[css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

If I have a page such as the following : http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> Armenian test BODY {font-family : "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif} Եւ երկիր էր աներևոյթ և անպատրաստ. և խա

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

Chris Blake wrote: > Hi, > > What about using CSS3 web fonts > http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator ? > Upload the font you want, it will generate all the different types, link > to them using the @fontface thing and bingo - they don't need that font > on their system. > > or am I dread

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

Michael Adams wrote: > Would it help to create a page with all the Unicode chars in the range you are > using and ask who can see how many based on font selections on a per > paragraph basis. For *my* Linux "Nimbus Roman No9 L" may be a well populated > serif font and "Nimbus Sans L" as sans ser

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

Chris Blake wrote: > > On 13/07/2010, at 6:38 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: >> [T]he CSS fallback mechanism was formulated at a time when Unicode >> was not yet prevalent, and does not seem to have evolved to >> cope with the need to have greater cont

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

Michael Adams wrote: > On Tuesday 13 July 2010 23:02, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > >> I think that there is a great deal of unintentional racism in >> the US-English-centric web that we use today, but the last time >> a group of us tried to raise this

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > A modern OS / browser will do the job for you. [snip] Thank you, Phillipe : a very interesting summary. It is certainly useful to know what the behaviour of most current rendering engines is, but of course unless it is actually enshrined in the specification, one

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > What I describe is actually the expected behaviour per CSS 2.1 /3-fonts… OK, even better news :-) Very many thanks. ** Phil. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org

Re: [css-d] browser reports please [blakeys]

Tim Climis wrote: > http://www.uselessgeography.com/ The masthead graphic (and perhaps other elements) doesn't/don't scale with Ctrl +/-, so unfortunately horizontal scrolling is forced above a fairly modest degree of zoom. Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

fantasai wrote: > Was there something else you wanted? Dear Fantasai : many thanks for demonstrating that I was incorrect in my belief that the font-fallback mechanism has not evolved over time; I am extremely pleased that this is the case. As to whether there is anything else in this area tha

Re: [css-d] I need a good scripted font

Felix Miata wrote: > For ideas on what people have: > http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-CombinedResultsFull.shtml This is a very useful resource, Felix, but a comment and a question : 1) The "Platform" icon completely passed my notice. I am not a native speaker of Iconish, and w

Re: [css-d] I need a good scripted font

Ah, please forgive me : I thought it was your work. Philip Taylor Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/07/15 09:25 (GMT+0100) Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) composed: > >> Felix Miata wrote: > >>> For ideas on what people have: >>> http://www

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > Usually you don't even know if the user has the font activated or not... :-). This is a little off-topic for CSS-D, but still pertinent, so I hope the question will be acceptable to most : is it possible, using JavaScript or otherwise, to interrogate the DOM to fin

Re: [css-d] id and class selectors

TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson wrote: > Thank you for this article, I found it a good reinforcement of using id's and > class's. > I have a questions on styling lists and links in a div. > I have been styling lists using id's > example > #div ul > #div li > #div li a > #div li a:hover > I fo

Re: [css-d] Inline Style

John Dick wrote: > How do you style the following using inline style: > > p:first-letter > { > color:#ff; > font-size:xx-large; > } > HTML is as follows: > > > You can use the :first-letter pseudo-element to add a special effect to the > first character of a text!

Re: [css-d] Inline Style

John D wrote: >> Well, you can, but not using a pseudoelement and inline CSS. Why would you >> be restricted to inline CSS? > > Because Google Websites (http://sites.google.com) does not allow editing of > headers to introduce external style sheets or header styles. That is the > problem. It i

Re: [css-d] navigation link a different colour when page is active

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > Why do you want a link to the current page? > > Remove the tags and style it differently. Whilst I cannot answer for the original enquirer, the most common reasons for wanting to link to the current page are : For consistency (all pages have a consistent

Re: [css-d] navigation link a different colour when page is active

Intrigued :-) What handles the #IF/#ELSE/#ENDIFs ? ** Phil. David Hucklesby wrote: > David Laakso has given an excellent solution. But I respectfully > disagree that SSI cannot be used. Here is a demo I made for a student > who wants to do that very thing. I hope it helps: > > http://web

Re: [css-d] navigation link a different colour when page is active

Ah : I see the article is entitled "Apache Tutorial: Introduction to Server Side Includes" -- is the same functionality available in all SSI processors, do you know (for example, in IIS) ? ** Phil. David Hucklesby wrote: > On 8/2/10 12:26 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster,

Re: [css-d] 3D Color prism - 216 colors (Windows safe colors)

Fascinated that there is "Lime" but not "Green", Alan; is this intentional ? Philip Taylor Alan Gresley wrote: > Hello List, > > Initially being an exploration into mathematics and sacred geometry, > what I have discovered (like many others) is that hexadecimal colors > can be represented

Re: [css-d] How do you identify a capable UI designer?

Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > My colleagues suggested that perhaps front end people only use tools? > I.e. nobody actually writes HTML by hand anymore? Speaking as a former webmaster, I would not consider employing anyone who could not write HTML & CSS using Notepad (or the platform equiv

Re: [css-d] 0pt is wrong, right? And IE9 is doom, right?

Nancy wrote: > Two unrelated questions. > 1. > I am working on a website that can be edited by a variety of users using a > web-based CMS. > > The CMS is rewriting inline style property values of zero. > > For example, if the inline style is entered as: > whatever text > > LiveWhale rewrites it a

Re: [css-d] Controlling image placement with CSS

Why not try the alternative : Philip Taylor Keith Purtell wrote: > Well, the validator was a huge help. Two problems I ran into: > > 1- It did not like the way I imported my style sheet. I thought my tag >

Re: [css-d] Controlling image placement with CSS

Well, I'm not sure if their recommendation was grounded in fact, but it does look as though the memory of what they actually proposed must have faded with the years, because :

Re: [css-d] Assorted CSS questions

Averill Ring at Irisweb wrote: >> Fwiw, it is usually best to use a strict doctype for a new site. > > > Why? Because it will help you (the page author) identify out-of-date and/or deprecated practices (if you validate the page, but not otherwise, unless your authoring tool is DOCTYPE sensitive

Re: [css-d] iPad font rendering in both orientations...

tedd wrote: I have one suggestion, however, if you want iPad owners to review a page, how about giving us something easier to type? The url "vze26m98.net/css-discuss/test-ipad.html" is a lot to type. Somewhat confused (not being an i- owner/user); if you read your e-mail on an I-pad (as I kn

Re: [css-d] Normalizing CSS inline breadcrumbs menus

Furthermore, I see no "mysterious gaps", Gabriele : http://web-consultants.org.uk/sites/tests/Inline-lists.html Tested using Seamonkey 2.0.6 under Windows/XP;SP3. Philip Taylor Gabriele Romanato wrote: > A simple solution: > > http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2010/08/jquery-normalizin

Re: [css-d] Normalizing CSS inline breadcrumbs menus

OK, then I suppose that Gabriele and I differ over the meaning of "mysterious" in "mysterious gaps". I was expecting a single space-of-the-line, but thought that Gabriele must be experiencing more in order for them to qualify as "mysterious". Presumably "white-space-collapse: discard" will remove

Re: [css-d] Out of the stone age

Lineberger, Scott wrote: Any and all suggestions are welcome. Well, before the list-police step in, this probably isn't the best place to ask (since it has nothing to do with CSS per se), but perhaps your server technology will allow you to dynamically add records, so the initial form can be

Re: [css-d] Can CSS get me out of the stone age?

Chris Blake wrote: I disagree. There are ways to style forms, so why not!? Streamlined makes me think that you're talking about speed so maybe adding images and things isn't such a good idea in that sense but would make it look better. Ermm, google it - there's lots out there. 'styling forms w

Re: [css-d] Using efficient selectors?

Ville Viklund wrote: Is there a good reason to use this kind of selector "#header ul li a {...", instead of just "#header li a"? Is it considered best practice, or why this is so commonly used? I would venture a guess that it is commonly used because of a fairly widespread misunderstanding o

Re: [css-d] Slideshow images: How'd he do that!?

Brian M. Curran wrote: Hello, I'm going to be submitting an article to a site, and I'd like to be technologically on par with it. This may be stretching the limits of this css list, but I looked at the site's css for images that the site is using that are working in a slideshow fashion, but I

Re: [css-d] Slideshow images: How'd he do that!?

Sorry, wrong line :-( Philip Taylor __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org

Re: [css-d] Slideshow images: How'd he do that!?

Brian M. Curran wrote: Hello Duncan. That's what I was talking about, that is, the gifs that are animated. I likened them to a slideshow effect, but I didn't mean slideshow literally. I've never seen something like that before, hence my post. The other responder to my post seemed to say that

Re: [css-d] IE7 and IE6 Problem with Background-Image property using .png

Timariane Thornewig wrote: Here's how you can see the problem I'm experiencing in IE7: enter http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/index.php (this site is particularly helpful for me because I'm on a mac) at that site in IE8, Render: http://www.ashelighting.com/architectural3.html I'm going to pas

Re: [css-d] Type sizes?

Claude Needham wrote: I have developed a practice of using 100% in the body and then using em elsewhere to set sizes. I have vague memories of doing this because the percentage handled a glitch in one browser or another. Can't recall the details now. Is this a case of age invented memories,

Re: [css-d] Managing import rules

Gabriele, I don't understand : In a past project I used the following approach: @import "base.css"; @import "layout.css"; @import "typography.css"; @import "colors.css"; The server-side developer (who used Ruby) encountered several problems when trying to merge these files properly and in the

Re: [css-d] Multiple select dropdown on a single line

Tod, could you draw a picture of what you are attempting to achieve ? Philip Taylor Tod wrote: I have the requirement to allow users to make multiple selections from a dropdown menu. However I need to accomplish this on a single line. - A traditional dropdown satisfies the single line r

Re: [css-d] suckerfish "sticky" highlight (hover) on nested LI/A

Resource Centre/PMO (which is the only 2nd-level item that appears to have children) remains highlit for me when selecting a child. Seamonkey 2.0.8+EMET, Win/XP;SP3. Philip Taylor Rob Emenecker wrote: > I have a suckerfish menu that I am trying to get the second-level element to > rem

Re: [css-d] Multiple select dropdown on a single line

effect, but not how you envisage it looking to the intending user. Philip Taylor Tod wrote: On 9/15/2010 3:44 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Tod, could you draw a picture of what you are attempting to achieve ? Philip Taylor Attached are two files, single.gif

Re: [css-d] Image scaling

Tim Climis wrote: Using a server side language (eg php, perl, asp, etc) to shrink images, and save them to the server. That way you shrink the image once and use it over and over again, rather than sending everyone who visits your site a big image (slowing page load) and then making their com

Re: [css-d] Capitalize

Chris Blake wrote: P.S. I need to be using sub-script and super-script a fair bit on this site, any warnings or words of wisdom about doing this? In my experience, sub- and superscripts only too easily destroy the regularity of the underlying text grid; in order to re-instate this regularity

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

Jukka K. Korpela wrote: vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; bottom: ex; That looks really cool and simple and seems to fix things nicely. How come I never thought of that? Don't know. What I /do/ know is that the problem drove me crazy until I hit on that idea. Are there any h

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

Chris, I have to be honest, I do not know what question(s) you are asking, IF you are asking "how should I enter EMW8 throughout my site so that it comes out consistently and with the 8 raised (and perhaps grey) without affecting anything else ?", I would propose something along the lines of the

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: One nitpick: I'd use 'em' instead of 'ex'. Some browsers have poor support for 'ex' (treating 1ex= 0.5em, whatever the font in use, no questions asked) - IE running on XP, Opera. Some browsers have half broken support - with very different computation of what it

Re: [css-d] Capitalize

Duncan Hill wrote: Off-Topic but for clarification RFC 4343 states that URL's are case-insensitive. I hate to be picky, but I really do not think that that can be the case. For a case-sensitive web server, the following two URLs are completely different : http://www.example.org/my-f

Re: [css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

debussy007 wrote: Hi, I have a DIV element inside a TD element, and I try to get the DIV's height equal to the TD height. I'm not convinced that you can. Unless my brain is going screwy, there would be an infinite causal loop if you could, since the height of the containing TR, from which

Re: [css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

David Laakso wrote: Lie! Cheat! Steal :-) ! And if the second TD doesn't contain the same contents as the first ? http://web-consultants.org.uk/Sites/tests/Laakso.html Philip Taylor

Re: [css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

David Laakso wrote: > > Don't be silly, Philip.. > The essence of my question was : what if the contents of the second div do not have the same natural height as the contents of the first ? http://web-consultants.org.uk/Sites/tests/Laakso-

Re: [css-d] How to link global.css to html page?

Ilham Firdaus wrote: I found a weirdness. I put the css file into separated file but located in the same directory as where the html page call the css file. But looks like there's no change in my browser displayed. Anybody would be so nice to tell me where my mistake? Thank you very much in

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