[css-d] Absolute positioning within a table

I have a relatively-positioned table, and an absolutely-positioned div in a table cell within that table: http://jsbin.com/erasur In Firefox 4 and 5, the div is positioned relative to the document. In Chrome, and IE 7 (and - maybe - later) it's positioned relative to the table. Which is

Re: [css-d] problems with validation

On 5 Jun 2011, at 21:33, Martin mhe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there. I know it's not strictly css, but perhaps some kind person will help me with this small problem. div class=columns a href=training.php h6Training/h6 pblah blah blah./p /a /div I get the error: document type does

Re: [css-d] Why does this outline embrace the div above ?

--- On Mon, 5/23/11, Tim Dawson t...@ramasaig.com wrote: I've applied an outline to a para within a div, and I want to apply the same outline to a para underneath the div. (OUTLINE, not border) See: http://www.holidaymullandiona.com/wrongoutline.html (this is an abbreviated version of the

Re: [css-d] Why does this outline embrace the div above ?

From: Tim Dawson t...@ramasaig.com Now I'm trying to get the outline to wrap just the text of the para. I don't want to set a fixed width (say 'width: 400px;') because the actual text can vary in width. The best way I've found so far is to insert a span round the text, and put the

Re: [css-d] Looking for online reference re optimizing style sheetsyntax

--- On Mon, 4/18/11, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: Keith Purtell wrote: One thing I need to do is clean up the main style sheet. So unless someone can present some real evidence of tangible benefits, don't clean up. Even if some evidence is presented, consider whether it

Re: [css-d] Browser Support: Alternate Style Sheets?

--- On Mon, 3/28/11, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: Well it surely demonstrates a _solution_, which is relatively complicated and requires that client-side scripting and cookies be allowed, so there _is_ a problem. The practical conclusion is that alternate stylesheets are not

Re: [css-d] UL or css table for navigation panel?

--- On Mon, 3/21/11, Joergen W. Lang joergen_l...@gmx.de wrote: Then you *could* use these rules to make you links behave as desired: ul.nav {     margin:     auto; /* center list */     list-style: none; /* remove bullets */     width:      20em; /* give it an explicit width */ }

[css-d] Positioning a float

Hi all, I'm working on a layout that requires text to wrap around a positioned image. In my case, I need an image in the bottom-right of a box, with text inside the box. So I need the in-flow, wrapping properties of a float combined with the positioning properties of an absolutely-positioned

Re: [css-d] Positioning a float

--- On Thu, 1/27/11, Gabriele Romanato gabriele.roman...@gmail.com wrote: You cannot position and float an element at the same time. So: 1. make the container relative     position: relative    Thus you create a context. 2. position the box with the image at the bottom, using    

Re: [css-d] drop down vertical nav?

--- On Wed, 1/19/11, Tim Climis tim.cli...@gmail.com wrote: From: Tim Climis tim.cli...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [css-d] drop down vertical nav? To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 1:14 AM On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:33:03 pm Matthew P. Johnson wrote:

[css-d] Opacity, floats, and stacking order

Can someone explain the behaviour I'm seeing here [1] which is as follows: 1. A block-level element in the normal flow, following 2 floated DIVs (one left, one right) appears behind them. This, I would expect; the floats have a greater stack level. 2. But if an opacity is applied to the normal

Re: [css-d] should this class override my other one?

--- On Wed, 12/15/10, John D xfs...@hotmail.com wrote: Similarly, header styles takes priority over external style sheets Not true. In the case of styles declared in a style element and styles declared in an external stylesheet, *all else being equal*, the latter declaration takes precedence.

[css-d] Block elements in links

Hi all, I'm investigating an issue in Firefox relating to block display of an element within a link. Here's an example: http://www.fiveminuteargument.com/list-display-testing.html In Safari, a link containing a block element simply wraps that element. However, in Firefox, extra space is

Re: [css-d] Block elements in links

--- On Mon, 12/13/10, Chetan Crasta chetancra...@gmail.com wrote: I think Firefox, Opera and IE 8 show the correct behavior. An element with display:block that is within an inline element generates a block box within the context that it is in (the inline box). This can be seen when a span

Re: [css-d] Block elements in links

--- On Mon, 12/13/10, Chetan Crasta chetancra...@gmail.com wrote: 1. div style=background-color: #ccc; display: list-item;a href=#span style=display: block;test/span/a/div Opera shows extra space on 2. but not on 1. Opera puts the extra space only if there is text before or after the

Re: [css-d] Block elements in links

--- On Mon, 12/13/10, Philippe Wittenbergh e...@l-c-n.com wrote: Which version? I get the extra space, in that exact example, in Opera 10.60 Opera 10.63 Linux http://roughtech.com/t/list-display-testing.html Opera is misaligning the list marker, but doesn't put extra space. Of course

Re: [css-d] should this class override my other one?

--- On Mon, 12/13/10, Angela French afre...@sbctc.edu wrote: From: Angela French afre...@sbctc.edu Subject: [css-d] should this class override my other one? To: 'css-d (css-d@lists.css-discuss.org)' css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Date: Monday, December 13, 2010, 4:50 PM ... I made a class

Re: [css-d] How to 'unvisited' links?

--- On Tue, 12/7/10, David Laakso da...@chelseacreekstudio.com wrote: As T. A. has suggested, ditch the visited link style in the CSS... I think that would be a shame. There are often usability benefits associated with being able to tell if you've already visited a specific URL. aside

Re: [css-d] Outlook 2007 and DL/DD tag

--- On Wed, 12/1/10, Albert van der Veen albert.lijs...@xs4all.nl wrote: I'm setting up an HTML newsletter and come across a problem in Outlook 2007 on Windows. This is an excellent resource for information on cross-email-client support for HTML: http://www.email-standards.org/ In fact,

[css-d] Aligning elements in a 'grid'

Hi all, I have a series of elements (marked up as a UL) that I'd like to display in rows. Each LI has the same width, but a variable height. I'd like a solution for the case in which there are a fixed number of 'columns', and when the number of columns is variable; for the latter, each LI is a

Re: [css-d] ANN: hcss/0.1

--- On Sat, 11/20/10, Jonas Galvez jonasgal...@gmail.com wrote: hcss is markup for css. Runs on Python 2.2+. https://github.com/galvez/hcss It's an interesting approach but I think, until it can fully express all CSS selectors, it's flawed. How, for example, can you use hcss to generate

Re: [css-d] which tag do i target with css for the hover effect i want

--- On Mon, 11/8/10, Philippe Wittenbergh e...@l-c-n.com wrote: On Nov 8, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Lisa Frost wrote: I've tried every combination of padding and margin i can think of, on the li or the a tag and can not work out which tag i should be targeting to get a hover effect where the

Re: [css-d] which tag do i target with css for the hover effect i want

--- On Mon, 11/8/10, Lisa Frost birdiefr...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Bobby and Philippe, Both ways work perfectly in the way that i was wishing for. I tried both to learn something. Now i just need to decide which one! I suppose it boils down to personal preference. I would automatically only

Re: [css-d] Background bullet for paragraphs

--- On Mon, 10/18/10, Linda Miller, DVM anm...@bellsouth.net wrote: p class=imageBulletsimg border=0 width=10 height=10 src=Image_files/image003.gifnbsp;nbsp;And the info for the paragraph/p Is there a way to shorten the above and use CSS? Something like using the image as a background

Re: [css-d] Behind the CSS Scenery of My New Nested List

--- On Wed, 10/6/10, Brian M. Curran br...@draftingservices.com wrote: If you built this nested list, would your site architecture that supports it look like 1 or 2, for subitem1: 1. wwwdotdomain.com/subitem1.html 2. wwwdotdomain.com/item2/subitem1.html If this really is a question

Re: [css-d] the other list

--- On Tue, 9/28/10, Chris Blake ch...@3pointdesign.com wrote: what's the name/link to the other list that some members use for all question regarding web-devm not solely CSS? http://webdesign-l.com/ __ css-discuss

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

--- On Thu, 8/26/10, Lineberger, Scott sline...@coastalind.com wrote: http://www.coastalind.com/ciordersample.html Does anyone have any suggested CSS coding that would streamline this page? Not really, no. CSS cannot be used to reduce *content*, only to style it. Your issue is one of

Re: [css-d] Floating images - understanding the details

--- On Fri, 8/20/10, Gail Issen gis...@sbcglobal.net wrote: The way I remember the order is that they sound like TROUBLE ... TRBL ... Top Right Bottom Left. I just remember it as clockwise, starting from the top. This works completely obviously for 4 values, and pretty obviously for 2

Re: [css-d] Floating images - understanding the details

--- On Wed, 8/18/10, Wesley Acheson wesley.ache...@gmail.com wrote: No-one spotted the deliberate mistake? ;) 4 values: are Top, bottom, left and right. should be 4 values: are top, right, bottom, left - Bobby __

Re: [css-d] Floating images - understanding the details

--- On Wed, 8/18/10, Keith Purtell keithpurt...@keithpurtell.com wrote: First, I don't understand width. Second, I especially don't understand how he has illustrated margin. Third, the padding. Why is it necessary and how is it affecting the the flow of text around my images? I don't

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

--- On Tue, 8/3/10, Duncan Hill dun...@gmail.com wrote: to add a little to MB's method, and maybe confound the SSI doubters a  little bit. The 'active' page can easily have its link disabled with no more than CSS  by changing the cursor to a standard arrow so that the user does not 

Re: [css-d] new website - critics welcome

--- On Thu, 7/22/10, tomo jacobson tomojacob...@gmail.com wrote: hi, i'm an amateur. i haven't done any website since early high-school... anyway this is what i achieved (can't post the link, sorry...): tomojacobson.art.pl/strona/ I think there are three interweaving factors that

Re: [css-d] id and class selectors

--- On Wed, 7/21/10, Gabriele Romanato gabriele.roman...@gmail.com wrote: Kris, you should basically use cascade. For example, if you have a  structure like this: div id=test ul li/li !--more-- /ul div And you /probably/ shouldn't have a structure like that, since: ul id=test li/li

Re: [css-d] images are misaligned

--- On Tue, 6/15/10, Thijs Hakkenberg th...@hakkenberg.com wrote: I've got an an extension generating images in the CMS typo3, but the images won't align and I have no clue why. http://kunstomhetlijf.nl/index.php?id=181 Hi Thijs, Your images are too wide for their container. The container

Re: [css-d] img element or sprites for icons?

--- On Wed, 5/12/10, jeffrey morin rufus2...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Thierry Koblentz thierry.koble...@gmail.com wrote: Why not using the links or list items to hold the background images rather than adding extra elements (spans or else? Sorry I should

Re: [css-d] thoughts on img alt tag verbage

--- On Thu, 5/6/10, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: Another CSS-related issue is that many people have used alt attributes to create tooltips, like annotations on the images. This tends to interfere with the proper use of such attributes. Moreover, the tooltips are rendered

Re: [css-d] validation with no warnings

--- On Mon, 4/12/10, Chris Blake ch...@3pointdesign.com wrote: http://wch.redrunner.co.uk/ The index page just has one warning, the others have 3. I'd love it if someone could tell me what doctype and UTF  setting suits my style so that I can just strike that from my list.  Hi Chris,

Re: [css-d] Reset CSS

From: Chris Blake ch...@3pointdesign.com Anyone know of a standard and simple reset.css file to use. This is a good, recent article from our very own Thierry: http://carsonified.com/blog/design/setting-rather-than-resetting-default-styling/ I think the general point to take from the

Re: [css-d] Question about how to handle div height with floating children

--- On Fri, 3/19/10, Claude Needham gxx...@gmail.com wrote: The issue is when an image is set to float, the height of the graphic is not taken into account for the calculation of the div height. But I would like to understand why this is happening Here's my explanation:

Re: [css-d] multiple IDs and classes to one div - which one speaks loudest?

--- On Mon, 3/15/10, Chris Blake ch...@3pointdesign.com wrote: Here is the HTML: div id=yoo-toppanel-1 class=yoo-toppanelcontent/div And it reads this CSS first: #yoo-toppanel-1 div.yoo-toppanel div.panel-container { But because of this it is disregarding 'mine' and choosing

Re: [css-d] help with single level drop down menu

--- On Thu, 3/4/10, Angela French afre...@sbctc.edu wrote: Hello, I am trying to create drop down menus (one level, dropping down from horizontal list items in a top nav bar).  My issue is that that, while the drop down menu appears when hovering over top level list item, when the user moves

Re: [css-d] help with single level drop down menu

--- On Thu, 3/4/10, Angela French afre...@sbctc.edu wrote: Bobby, You solution works, but it means that the sub menu would always have to be attached to the top menu item.  That's why I provided that example link which does have a gap between the top item and the submenu, but still works.

Re: [css-d] Background color

--- On Tue, 2/23/10, Jason Arnold jaon.arn...@gmail.com wrote: What is the reasons for using: background: #fff; instead of: background-color: #fff; I'm surprised no-one's pointed out the obvious: that using background will override all other background-* properties (to their

Re: [css-d] Deprecations in recent versions of HTML cause C SS problems‏

--- On Wed, 2/10/10, fred dagg rickdu...@hotmail.co.nz wrote: For example: given an in-line citation such as (McConnell, 2002) in an academic/scientific paper, the bibliographic reference might be: McConnell, S. (July, 2002) The Business of Software Improvement. IEEE Software pp. 5-7

Re: [css-d] :: form ::

--- On Mon, 2/8/10, David Laakso da...@chelseacreekstudio.com wrote: I have had my little problems styling my little contact form but /thimk/ I may have most of my little problems resolved? http://chelseacreekstudio.com/site/contact/index.php Hi David, Not sure if you're taking general

Re: [css-d] Float not working in IE 7

--- On Mon, 2/8/10, Climis, Tim tcli...@indiana.edu wrote: The h3s (for Date, Time, etc) are floated left, but the following paragraphs aren't floating up. http://www.indiana.edu/~intlserv/ic/weekly_news.php Hmmm... not sure I've come up against this specific problem before, but a 'clear'

Re: [css-d] positioning text in a table cell

--- On Fri, 2/5/10, Cyril Motsch cyril.mot...@laposte.net wrote: Have you tried absolute positioning? I have tried that, with position: absolute; bottom: 0pt, (Don't forget that, strictly speaking, 0pt is invalid because a value of 0 doesn't need a unit) but both Safari 4.0.4 and Firefox

Re: [css-d] Picture spacing problem if padding is used for frame what is used for space from text

From: Carol Swinehart c...@ckfswebservices.com http://www.habitatfairfield.org/test/index2.php  page address left image near bottom in order to get the padding and the border for the frame effect I used this style=float: left; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #015395; I  also wanted

Re: [css-d] comment and request for feedback on a site at test

--- On Wed, 1/27/10, Stack Robert r...@stack212.com wrote: Also, I would like to have the captions below images set up so that the title is flush left and bold, and the caption (both are P elements) is flush right and on the same line as the title. Any thoughts on how to get them on the same

Re: [css-d] How to space out menu items evenly across menu bar?

--- On Tue, 1/26/10, shumdesign shumdes...@gmail.com wrote: I want to have the main menu items space out evenly across the 620px menu bar, how do you mark that up and keep the submenus in the right spot? Can I use percentages to do this? .sf-menu { width: 100%; } .sf-menu li { width: 20%; }

Re: [css-d] Div that fixed vertically but floated right

--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Dave M G mar...@autotelic.com wrote: I am trying to create a DIV that floats to the right of some content, but will stay fixed vertically even when the page is scrolled up or down. Just a quick idea for one possible approach: if the 'floated' div has a known width, you

Re: [css-d] font differences

--- On Sun, 1/10/10, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: I googled but couldn't actually find an clear straightforward explanation. The CSS validator is your friend: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ - Bobby __

Re: [css-d] fixed width horizontal list

--- On Tue, 11/17/09, Jack Bates ms...@freezone.co.uk wrote: I want to style an ol so it looks similar to the main links on this page, http://artefactual.com/ - horizontal - right justified - fixed width Hi Jack, The key to this one is floating the list to the right (to align the entire

Re: [css-d] styling linked headings

--- On Thu, 11/12/09, Angela French afre...@sbctc.edu wrote:   I want a consistent site-wide style for the headings, but then they are not readily identifiable as links.  I am looking for ideas/examples of others who have come up with a successful styling solution. The suggestions you've

Re: [css-d] Timetable without table

--- On Fri, 10/16/09, Emanuele Venezia emanuele.vene...@polito.it wrote: Can anyone explain why the two columns are not vertically aligned in each row? The top margin of the floated paragraph is not collapsing with the bottom margin of the paragraph above it, unlike the non-floating paragraph

Re: [css-d] Universal selector vs. body selector

--- On Tue, 10/6/09, Ezequiel Garzón m...@ezequielgarzon.net wrote: Greetings. As you will be able to tell, I'm a CSS rookie. My doubt is, if the body contains all the other containers, why does body { ... } behave different from * { ... }? Aren't properties supposed to cascade?

Re: [css-d] Space before p

--- On Wed, 9/30/09, Lalena lal...@lalenafisher.com wrote: Now I am wondering how to remove the extra space before/after a  paragraph. I tried setting margins, and margin-top and margin-bottom  and padding to 0, but it didn't work. Anyone know? Hi Lalena, Do you have a URL you can post?

Re: [css-d] shorthand elements

--- On Mon, 9/28/09, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote: opinion I find reading other code (as well as mine later) much easier if longhand elements are used. After 40+ years of programming I can say the less cryptic the code, the better it is. This is because of self-documentation -- in

Re: [css-d] My fixed object is missing altogether

--- On Mon, 9/28/09, Theresa Mesa trixiesirishe...@gmail.com wrote: Why is my image not showing up? I've triple-checked the file name. http://mdh-test.com/PV_web/cornerart.png gives a 404 - you want to be using url('images/cornerart.png') in your CSS, not just 'cornerart.png'. - Bobby

Re: [css-d] mysterious bullets that will not go away! (cross browser)

--- On Mon, 8/31/09, Cathy Tibbles ca...@tibbles.net wrote: I've tried all the tools up my sleave ... still have NO idea where these bullets are coming from! Hi Cathy, You mean the at the beginning of each list item in the right-hand sidebar? They're from this rule: .entry ul li:before,

Re: [css-d] external link indicators

--- On Wed, 8/26/09, David Robertson funpackeds...@googlemail.com wrote: On 27/08/2009, at 9:02 AM, tommy_til...@arwb.uscourts.gov wrote: Can you or has anyone ever used CSS to indicate that a link would take you outside the current web site? Trying to come up with some way to

Re: [css-d] embed CSS styles right within HTML page?

--- On Tue, 8/18/09, Ce Ce ceceli...@gmail.com wrote: How do you determine if it might be best to embed some styles right within the html page. Only if: a) The style is a completely unique, 'one-shot' affair with no potential for re-use b) Content is dynamically generated from a single

Re: [css-d] Can't get rid of blue links

--- On Wed, 8/12/09, Kim Brooks Wei kimi@kimbwei.com wrote: I have some links here that are blue, but I can't figure out why they are this color. Do you mean the links in your footer? They're not your specified colour because you're applying that colour to links in .narrowcolumn, which is

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

--- On Tue, 8/11/09, Sam Brown freejack_in...@yahoo.com wrote: I understand the argument from a purist perspective, usability should be first and foremost in any design and/or layout, but realistically, I don't see this as a practical issue given the more common usage of page zooming over

Re: [css-d] nested lists in ie7

--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Dermot Ward dermotw...@eircom.net wrote: Hi Dermot, .class {     font-weight: bold; } Do you REALLY mean this? That selector will only match HTML elements with a class of 'class' - e.g. li class=class - is that really what you intended? ul     li class=oneOne/li    

Re: [css-d] An easier way?

--- On Sun, 7/26/09, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: I know everyone here prefers that when a question is asked, that the poster upload an example on the web. Well is there any other way this could be accomplished? In order for me to put the work i've done on the internet would

Re: [css-d] fix and contain: static sidebar fluid content - layout floats

--- On Mon, 7/20/09, Don Spark freedonsp...@gmail.com wrote: 1st: How do I contain the two floats in the red #container Try overflow: hidden on the #container 2nd: How do I get these two floats functional (and containing what I insert into them): Try the following (which will need some

Re: [css-d] Fixed or float?

--- On Thu, 7/16/09, David Dorward dorw...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/15 Ellen Heitman ellen.heit...@gmail.com: I have a table centered at the top of the page that I want to remain visible even when the page scrolls. However, I don't want to be able to see the text scrolling behind it. How

Re: [css-d] Fixed or float?

--- On Thu, 7/16/09, Alan Gresley a...@css-class.com wrote: Bobby Jack wrote: ... and an appropriate z-index :) None is required for position: fixed. You're positioning, not layering (altering the paint order). Not if there's a relatively-positioned element on the page, in my

Re: [css-d] css image reveal rollover problem

--- On Fri, 7/10/09, Sara Ullman sa...@speakeasy.net wrote: Unfortunately, in my case the image is disappearing entirely rather than showing the lower part of it on mouseover. An easy one, for a change :) Your :hover images are referenced in an 'images' directory; looks like this should be

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

--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Chris Blake ch...@3pointdesign.com wrote: Anyway, I have just dropped it into the page I am having a small issue with and it has gone crazy! It's clearing the right column! I haven't looked at your CSS/markup in detail, but it sounds very much like you're running into

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

--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Chris Blake ch...@3pointdesign.com wrote: Anyway, I have just dropped it into the page I am having a small issue with and it has gone crazy! It's clearing the right column! I'm not sure I'm even seeing the problem (in Firefox) - can you be specific as to which element is

Re: [css-d] progress bar

--- On Wed, 7/1/09, Noel Taylor noelta...@gmail.com wrote: What is the difference then, philosophically I guess, between a span and a div, since their default block/inline stylings do not determine their fundamental nature? Their fundamental nature is, very broadly speaking: div: this is a

Re: [css-d] flashing text

--- On Wed, 7/1/09, Tri-State AdVantage k...@tristateadvantage.com wrote: The main problem is that the text is flashing. You have 'text-decoration: blink' on your .region and your .h3 Also, the paragraph headings are suppose to have colored bars across the page and it does not work either.

Re: [css-d] adjusting overall size in css?

--- On Mon, 6/22/09, David Hucklesby huckle...@gmail.com wrote: I think 1200px a bit ambitious Seconded. Although the following stats are site-specific and, therefore, should only be taken as a very rough guide, they represent a wide audience so should be representative of the general web

Re: [css-d] adjusting overall size in css?

--- On Tue, 6/23/09, Rob Emenecker list-s...@hairydogdigital.com wrote: So a whopping 4 out of 10 users will have to scroll your design horizontally to use it. Another thing to bear in mind here, if it was not already mentioned, screen stats ONLY tell you how large the users monitor

Re: [css-d] Chrome vs floated tables

--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Richard Grevers richard.grev...@gmail.com wrote: Google chrome (2.0.172.31) appears to minimise the width of floated tables which have no explicit width, while most other browsers assume 100%. Is this actually a bug or just one of those undefined behaviours that serve

Re: [css-d] Absolute Positioning

--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Scott Wilcox sc...@tig.gr wrote: I get the position of the containing element (called 'photoContainer') and add that to the x,y points to give me my final absolute position. My problem seems to come in when I'm setting the values for the absolutely positioned elements.

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

--- On Fri, 6/5/09, Glow glowvirt...@gmail.com wrote: I hear what you're saying regarding fixed widths and wide screens (like a postage stamp on a coffee table), but that said, one thing I wonder about long-term with fluid layouts and increasing screen size is how to scale content when

Re: [css-d] CSS statements for horizontal rule

I am trying to use horizontal rules of specific width and position in an xhtml strict 1.0 web page.  The width and align attributes work, but do not pass the strict 1.0 validation test (as you probably know). I have tried using both class and id statements in a CSS file (with

Re: [css-d] CSS statements for horizontal rule

--- On Tue, 5/19/09, Bobby Jack bobbykj...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: ... in your CSS and: hr class=test ... Sorry, Alan's point about closing the element is obviously an important one; I rarely work with XHTML nowadays! - Bobby

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

--- On Fri, 5/1/09, Atkinson, Sarah sarah.atkin...@cookmedical.com wrote: Hi Sarah, Is there away for me to create a Stylesheet for it and have my browser automatically override there styles? Yes, but it depends on your browser. Firefox, for example, makes it very easy to do and a search

Re: [css-d] Vertical Align Theory

--- On Thu, 4/23/09, Jack Blankenships learningcssindet...@gmail.com wrote: The idea that using display: table-cell does not seem to be any more semantically correct than simply placing the element in a table cell ... By definition, CSS declarations are NOT semantic but simply describe the

Re: [css-d] page review

--- On Sun, 4/19/09, David Laakso da...@chelseacreekstudio.com wrote: Comments and suggestions appreciated. http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/op8/index.html Time for some pedantry? :-) * web–site should be written with a standard hyphen, not an en-dash * Asides, such as the one after

Re: [css-d] page review

--- On Mon, 4/20/09, Felix Miata mrma...@ij.net wrote: Excess line-height is the main problem I found on it. Its main paragraph line length is good, not too long, not too short, and thus there's no good reason for non-standard line-height there. OTOH, the side paragraph line length is quite

Re: [css-d] simple margins not collapsing

--- On Thu, 4/16/09, Trevor Nicholls tre...@castingthevoid.com wrote: Can somebody please explain why the lower margin of my first para and the upper margin of my fragment div are not collapsing? You fragment div is floated left. From the spec.

Re: [css-d] background images

--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Brian Hazelton bdh_2...@comcast.net wrote: When should I use an image and when should i use it as a background image. Semantically (and generally) speaking, it's recommended that you use an img element if the image is actually part of the content (e.g. you're displaying

Re: [css-d] Float and Width

--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Del Wegener d...@delweg.com wrote: ... I get warnings when validating css. http://www.drdelmath.com/playpen/test1_float.htm Which validator are you using? W3C's gave no errors when I tried it. - Bobby __

Re: [css-d] 3 column expanding center column CSS

--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Yazmin Media ywick...@gmail.com wrote: I need to setup a 3-column, fixed width layout that allows the center column to expand in width when necessary. That's a bit of an oxymoron, but if you want the middle column to be no smaller than a certain width, you can use

Re: [css-d] Wrap text in li

--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Chike Loney chikelo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, can anuyone tell me how to wrap text in a list item please? Sure: litext/li :-) Of course, you're /probably/ not asking for that, but it would be useful to have a BIT more detail. Do you mean 'dynamically'? If so, you

Re: [css-d] footer xhtml and css valid

On Sun, 4/5/09, David Laakso da...@chelseacreekstudio.com wrote: Brian Hazelton wrote: I have a web design company and was wondering if it is still common practice to put the links to w3c in the footer if the pages validate for xhtml and css I think their inclusion is a matter of

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

--- On Mon, 3/30/09, Michael Beaudoin mich...@ba-doyn.com wrote: Is there a way to precisely position an image and have the wrap follow? Hi Michael, You can achieve what I think you're after simply by wrapping the image in an absolutely positioned container. Demo here:

Re: [css-d] Float problem in Firefox

--- On Sat, 3/28/09, Gaurav Sharma sharmal...@gmail.com wrote: I have a small problem with float in Mozilla. http://gauravsharma.uuuq.com the background image does not render right. Hi Gaurav, With only a cursory glance, I have a feeling that the structure is slightly more complicated

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

Hi Geoffrey, Have you tried something like the following? ul { list-style-type: none; color: #fff; } li:hover { list-style-type: disc; color: #f7c30e; } li:hover a { color: #f7c30e; } a { text-decoration: none; color: #fff } (The li:hover a and a { color: ... }

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

--- On Sun, 3/29/09, Geoffrey Hoffman geo...@globalmediaminds.com wrote: I just can't make the bullet change on hover. I think it's due to how selectors work. The CSS I supplied should do just that - turns off the bullets on the whole list by default, turns them back on for each li, much as

Re: [css-d] IE list problem

--- On Fri, 3/27/09, Peter Hammarling pe...@artworkers.net wrote: It gives a negative left margin to ul's and ol's. I couldn't find another way to make list items line up with the rest of the text although I'd tried all combinations of margin 0 and padding 0. I use the 'position:

Re: [css-d] Margin Collapsing down to the html element itself

--- On Mon, 3/23/09, Robert O'Rourke r...@sanchothefat.com wrote: The page is at http://www.sanchothefat.com/dev/tc/ and the unwanted space is at the bottom of the page in the latest Firefox and Opera but not in Safari or Chrome. As ever, Firebug is your friend. The extra space is not a

Re: [css-d] Margin Collapsing down to the html element itself

--- On Mon, 3/23/09, Els el...@tiscali.nl wrote: That's what I thought at first too, but it's actually the letter 'l'. (lowercase L). Good call! I guess that proves: a) Firebug's default font is poorly chosen b) Using lowercase ELL as an ID (or a name, or a variable, ...) is a pretty

Re: [css-d] [OT] EMs vs. PERCENTs

--- On Thu, 3/19/09, Rob Emenecker list-s...@hairydogdigital.com wrote: I am looking for a few good web locations that explain and clarify the differences between EMs and PERCENTS Rob, do you mean: a) For font sizing b) For layout c) In general (i.e. including both the above) There are a

Re: [css-d] [OT] EMs vs. PERCENTs

--- On Thu, 3/19/09, Michael Stevens bigm...@bigmikes.org wrote: So, is it uncommon, or bad practice, to use both in this situation? {height: 7.2em; width: 20%;} More and more, I find myself using the two in various combinations. It gets particularly interesting if you throw pixels into

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