Re: [css-d] page jumps when an internal page link is clicked

My client's page is losing its top margin when any of the internal links in the green content area are clicked: http://biz82.inmotionhosting.com/~soliss5/faq.html Can someone tell me how to fix this issue? - When you click a link it tries to go to a later part of

Re: [css-d] apply a style to specific table column

-Original Message- Let's say you have a table to 10 columns and 100 rows. With rows you can fairly easily set up a custom style to apply to a row, but what about columns? The first column is a key of sorts, the rest data. Yes I can do something like: trtd class=c1some key/tdtd

Re: [css-d] shorthand elements

Also, does anyone have a mnemonic to remember the order? I remember it by the word TRouBLe (top-right-bottom-left) --- Tranversal Corporation Ltd will be exhibiting at CIPD Annual conference exhibition 2009 in Manchester between 17 - 19 November, stand 510.

Re: [css-d] Okay, what if I'm sold on IE6 support - ripped from: Pragmatic look at our CSS future

On top of what has already been suggested (position is everything is a seriously brilliant resource), I would strongly advise getting the IE web development toolbar. It can help a lot when totally lost with an IE bug. With time it becomes pretty quick to figure out if you have margin doubling,

Re: [css-d] Pragmatic look at our CSS future - ripped from: TheCSSOverlords

I work with major blue-chip companies in the UK, and can say that well over 90% of our clients would not accept an unsupported IE6. IE6 currently has roughly 20% of the market share of the browser market, which is around 4-5 times as much as Safari and Opera combined, and only just shy of

Re: [css-d] Pragmatic look at our CSS future - ripped from: TheCSSOverlords

From: Ingo Chao When clients are comparing the similarity of user experience, they DO look at performance issues in IE too, I assume. So what does it costs to make the page look really equal?

Re: [css-d] Pragmatic look at our CSS future - ripped from: TheCSSOverlords

I'd like to hear from one of these IT people who have held back our entire industry, and wasted everyone's money for so much time now. Exactly how long are you going to leave it before migrating this c...@ppy IE6-only application you've forced on everyone? Another month? A year? A decade? Are you

Re: [css-d] Forms

-Original Message- According to these statistics http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Firefox is used by about 42% of the population with IE7 and IE6 combined making up 51.7% of usage with IE7 just under 27%. I think these stats might only refer to those that

Re: [css-d] Syndication Code Issue

-Original Message- I am trying to use some syndication code on a page but it over rides the background color in Firefox. Any ideas? http://www.junglejims.com/friends/vera-test.html You have a quotation mark after your

Re: [css-d] Syndication Code Issue

-Original Message- I am trying to use some syndication code on a page but it over rides the background color in Firefox. Any ideas? http://www.junglejims.com/friends/vera-test.html Additionally, I would try to move away from using

Re: [css-d] checkbox margins

-Original Message- I'm trying to set it up so that all checkboxes on my site have a margin or padding to the right. In my main css, I thought I could address the element and tried: checkbox {margin-right:40px; padding-right:40px;} It didn't work. If I made it into a class, it then

Re: [css-d] Problem with Fixed Width, Variable Height Tabs

Many Thanks Georg, That has worked perfectly. James -Original Message- http://metafaq.com/clients/jamestesting/tabtest.html If you increase the font-size one notch (in firefox) then the 'radio shows' text wraps around but the others don't. Does anyone know how I can get the other

[css-d] Problem with Fixed Width, Variable Height Tabs

Hi, I am working on a project that requires fixed width tabs for a navigation bar. I figure that seeing as the spec says it cannot scale horizontally, I will have to allow for vertical movement to allow for text resizing. However I am having a problem getting the images to display as required

Re: [css-d] [OT] IE8 Beta released to developers.

Hi, It is not a standalone, it will write over IE7 but has a button on it to emulate IE7. I don't know if it is possible to uninstall it Hope that helps James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 March 2008 15:58

Re: [css-d] CSS directed at Firefox Mac or just FIrefox PC

You should be able to send different stylesheets using a combination of JavaScript OS detection and the methods on here: http://24ways.org/2007/conditional-love HTH James __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Style tag AFTER body tag?

Can I put the style tag below the body tag instead of in the head? I am using CSS in an HTML email (not spam by the way) and have heard you want to do this for web based clients that chop off the head section. I just wanted to make sure this was ok. It seems to work ok for Thunderbird on my

Re: [css-d] Footer CSS Coding

I've designed a site that works: www.themeridiangrp.com In creating the footer though I needed to set each page separately... -- Hi Rick, The site may work for you, but try resizing your text up a couple of

Re: [css-d] February 12th, 2008 - a Glorious day for web designers / developers

Microsoft is pushing an update on February 12th, 2008 that will force-upgrade Internet Explorer to IE7. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946202 has the details. --- Forgive my ignorance on server matters, but does this mean that all machines running

Re: [css-d] Revisit our navigation layout semantic.

Firstly, I feel that the attack on David is wholly unjustified, and the general tone of the mail is unlikely to endear your views to the mindless majority (of which I appear to be one), however I do not wish to be in any way involved in a flaming war, and do have a couple of questions about your

Re: [css-d] IE Flicker on hover problem

It is the problem of IE6 reloading background images in links every time they are hovered on. I am using a sliding doors style technique for a few tabs as shown at http://jamestesting.metafaq.com/clients/jamestesting/debug.html (CSS in head) whenever they are hovered over in IE6 the

[css-d] IE Flicker on hover problem

it to be a CSS fix. At the moment the only thing I can think of is to try to position another image directly behind it so that the under-image is shown when the top one disappears but this will add superfluous code I would prefer to avoid. Thanks in advance James James Leslie Web Designer

Re: [css-d] IE Flicker on hover problem FIXED

I am using a sliding doors style technique for a few tabs as shown at http://jamestesting.metafaq.com/clients/jamestesting/debug.html (CSS in head) whenever they are hovered over in IE6 the image is reloaded causing a flicker. Try this: script type=text/javascript !-- try {

Re: [css-d] Absolute position problem in IE

I have an absolutely positioned div #button iside a relative container. div id=container div id=inside-container div id=top_curve/div div id=buttona href=http://www.mysite.com;Our Website/a/div This is fine in FF and ie7 but in ie6 it disapears. Anyone hazzard a guess why this happens. It

Re: [css-d] * in css

I am wondering if anyone knows what the asterisks in the following CSS do: #mainNav, #secondaryContent { padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; } #mainNav *, #secondaryContent * { padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; } #mainNav * *, #secondaryContent * * { padding-left: 0;

Re: [css-d] One Bullet Missing in IE

I'm having a bit of a problem here. For some reason the red square bullet before About won't show up in IE, however the bullet for Career and Education shows up fine. Any suggestions? Below is the markup and the css: http://www.liquidscience.net/andrew/testercopy.html

Re: [css-d] Repost: CSS Spacing

I'm having what I think might be a well known problem with IE, but have tried all the usual solution to no avail. My CSS menu at www.henryfelton.net/ca has mysterious white space between the lis. FF shows exactly what is wanted in terms of spacing, with a dividing bar 1px high (anyone think of a

Re: [css-d] Selectors Confusion

Can someone please explain how to tell when the following should be used: a:link or a.link a:hover or a.hover a:visited or a.visited a:active or a.active --- You should be using the first option in each of those choices as they use the link related pseudo-classes, the

Re: [css-d] Two Questions?

Computed font size in pixels can also be found by clicking on elements using the selector found in Information Display Element Information in the web developer toolbar for firefox. Hope that helps and I don't have the wrong end of the stick :-) James

Re: [css-d] CSS sprites / Tabs

What's the most efficient way of doing image based tabs? First thing that comes to my mind are CSS sprites: http://alistapart.com/articles/sprites However, there are two approaches and I am not sure which one is best: 1. using one image for all the tab states 2. using one image per

[css-d] Konqueror only css 'hack'

Hi, I seem to be having a couple of problems with a site in konqueror (it works pretty much fine on every other browser on mac/pc/linux) and came across the following hack through google. I was wondering if anyone had any experience of using it and how 'safe' it might be in the future?

Re: [css-d] fieldset bg flooding legend in IE7

http://www.top25web.com/contact.html Looks fine in FF, but the fieldset background color is flooding the legend tag...any ideas around this without changing my design? This should help with the problems

Re: [css-d] Intermittent IE6 bug -- disappearing text

In IE6 (winXP SP2), I get bits of the paragraph about the book missing at browser widths above about 970px. Refreshing seems to cause the fault to display intermittently. It almost looks like a float is going over the text, but selecting the text makes it visible. It also smacks slightly of the

Re: [css-d] IE6 really is dead to me. Here is why.

Hi Dave, I think it is important to note that the statistics you use do carry a disclaimer beneath them stating W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to

Re: [css-d] Content truncation in IE6 (re-post)

I have two columns side by side, and under some circumstances the left column is being cut off level with the bottom of the right column - it only seems to manifest when the left column is longer, so I never see this truncation in the right column. It only happens in IE6. It occasionally happens

Re: [css-d] Form and fieldset problems

The site is at: http://theriveryouth.info/ http://theriveryouth.info/wp-content/themes/riveryouth/style.css In the navcontainer the Go bit should be alongside the search box but I can't get it to go there. Because you are floating the form, if you float the fieldset and inputs

Re: [css-d] br / tag

Anyway to set the {height} element on the br / tag? I've tried the following: .form html br{--} .form br {--} The line-height of the containing element (p for example) will be the thing you are wanting to adjust to change that spacing. The br just causes the text to break to the next line

Re: [css-d] br / tag

The line-height of the containing element (p for example) will be the thing you are wanting to adjust to change that spacing. Or maybe padding or margin, as suggested in another reply. Setting line-height for a paragraph affects _all_ lines, so it would be somewhat problematic here. Anyway,

Re: [css-d] Inline paragraph with headers

I would like to be able to use a Header and a paragraph on the same line in Where there is an H5 such as: h5Jeff Altemus - Director/h5 I would like to add a paragraph such as pFirst and Second Week/p The result would be h5Jeff Altemus - Director/h5 pFirst and Second Weeek/h5

Re: [css-d] Margin Padding: Best Practices

I was just wondering what the best practice is for handling default user-agent margin and padding? For more control over my layout I suppose I could set a universal selector to eliminate the default stuff (* {margin: 0; padding: 0;))and then override it where I need to further on in the document,

Re: [css-d] Margin Padding: Best Practices

For some reason that post went very funny with the colons and semi-colons, but I hope the point came across :-) __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information --

Re: [css-d] trying to override css form elements

I have all the input tags in a site but want to set a different value for all the checkboxes. I have tried checkbox { } can checkboxes be isolated for css changes in this way or do I need to apply a class or id? -- Hi Ross, A checkbox is a type of input so to

Re: [css-d] universal selector to set defaults

Hi Garth, One thing to be aware of is that you will be removing borders from Form items such as input boxes, you will also be removing the padding on these items which will need to be reapplied or the input will look pretty bad (IMHO). I used to use the universal selector to do what you are

Re: [css-d] Trying to find the best webdesign software

I too use Homesite/Top Style pro and check in firefox as I code. Sporadically I check everything is fine in Opera/Safari and then tidy up IE with conditional commented stylesheets. I haven't even opened Dreamweaver or any other WYSIWYG for over a year. James

Re: [css-d] icons in the address bar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon should have all the info and links you need. James Can someone point me in the right direction I would like to put my own icon in the address bar but dont know what size to create the graphic or what the code is, thanks in advance

Re: [css-d] iewin/5-7 mac/ie5.2 issue

Hi David, div#secondary form { margin-top: 0px; } Sorts it out locally for me in IE7, I seem to remember hitting a similar wall myself recently and discovering IE puts top margin on the form. I haven't got any lower versions to hand at the moment but hopefully that will sort it out. James

Re: [css-d] first posting

try what you suggested about been specific didnt work but I will try the suggestion from James Leslie I only wish I understood the difference between specifying the way you said and I did and this other one. ul#something{ Attributes in here } ul#something li{ Attributes in here } Thanks

Re: [css-d] Firefox Win vs Firefox Mac

Does anyone know of any major (of course in the proper sense there are none, but relatively speaking...) differences between the two? I have been finding some peculiarities too, also with firefox on Linux compared to Mac and win I am working on an app which is here -

Re: [css-d] first posting

Hi Ana, Instead of having: div id=something ul li./li /ul /div You can use ul id=something li/li /ul And then you can control the lists individually using css such as ul#something{ Attributes in here } ul#something li{ Attributes in here } That way you can put different

[css-d] Opera 9 bug (?) shunting up by 8px

Hi, On the site below when I first load the page in Opera 9.02 the input and select box at the top of the page are positioned around 8px higher than they should be. When you refresh or click any links (i.e. go elsewhere in the site) it sorts itself out and displays correctly as in all other

Re: [css-d] Opera 9 bug (?) shunting up by 8px

that was threatening my hairline! James -Original Message- From: Ingo Chao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 November 2006 17:31 To: James Leslie Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Opera 9 bug (?) shunting up by 8px James Leslie wrote: Hi, On the site below when I

Re: [css-d] IE pampering

Surely as website designers we can put links on our sites recommending which browsers to use and start steering people away from IE instead of pampering to their needs like spoilt children, it seems everyone else is moving quicker than microsoft - it would save a lot of time too - I would

[css-d] Visibility vs Display

I'm running our sites through Cynthia WAI validation and need to put some characters other than whitespace between adjacent links to pass a checkpoint. From various bits of reading I have elected to use a pipe symbol hidden with CSS as a separator. My question comes from nearly all of the

[css-d] Lines appearing under edges of linked images on hover

On the page below, in IE6 and 7 if you hover over the pager images (previous/next) underneath the list of questions there is a small underline which appears just to the bottom right of the image. It almost looks like the edge of text-decoration. It doesn't happen in Netscape or Firefox and even

Re: [css-d] Lines appearing under edges of linked images on hover

Thanks Ian, thats fixed it... Can't believe I missed that! James The default a: code in global.css is text-decoration:underline. I would try .pager a{text-decoration:none} Ian __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Layout differences in IE/FireFox (Win) gasp WRTFieldset

I believe that the doctype has to be in capitals as below: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd; James Thanks to ~dL, it's up and running. I removed the two [seemingly minor] validation issues (type not specified on

Re: [css-d] taming the tabs that follow a table! Really desperate!

Hi Tee, Sorry I don't have time to properly look at your code, but I have a similar thing here that I managed to get to work after a bit of tweaking, apologies for putting the full code up but you should be able to find the bits you need easily enough. This uses lists for the tabs. (The links

Re: [css-d] Opera collapsing contentbox on input hover

-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Opera collapsing contentbox on input hover James Leslie wrote: That works a treat in opera 7.54, but it still has the same fault in opera 9.02 and I know that some of our clients are using the latest opera browser. I thought I had the latest versions covered since I

[css-d] Opera collapsing contentbox on input hover

Hi, First post, after a fair amount of lurking/learning and i think it is a tricky one (sorry!) I have a problem in (seemingly) all versions of Opera (windows) where my contentboxes collapse to a certain extent when an input on my menu is hovered over. The page has an outer box and inner box