Re: [css-d] problem with vertical menu list

2008-05-19 Thread Phoebe Taylor
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:41 AM, jasmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using the below vertical menu list but unfortunately when a menu item is clicked to produce an 'active state', it doesn't remain on when the user clicks on other links on the web page. As soon as you click on any

Re: [css-d] (no subject)

2008-05-10 Thread Phoebe Taylor
I've been going made trying to centre my page. I'm trying to avoid using tables for positioning and have created divisions that I've put in place using absolute measurements. With a previous website I've simply used text-align:center in the body part and that seemed to work. With pure

Re: [css-d] Floating Divs of Unequal Height

2008-03-30 Thread Phoebe Taylor
(from the peanut gallery) What will be put into the divs? Another possible solution might be to use one long Div and then use p to stack the contents. You should be able to set width, backgrounds, borders, margins and padding to make those look however you wish. -- Words I have learned to

Re: [css-d] Floating Divs of Unequal Height

2008-03-30 Thread Phoebe Taylor
Started playing with absolute positioning and trying to nudge down each block with that. #content .box1 { position: absolute; margin-left: 0; top: 100px; } #content .box2 { position:

Re: [css-d] Image/Map? sliding doors effect

2008-03-28 Thread Phoebe Taylor
Oh, i think i figured it out... On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Phoebe Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to play around with an idea that I had for a sliding doors type link, but one that i don't want text on. Is it possible to use the sliding doors image .jpg as the moving

Re: [css-d] Image/Map? sliding doors effect

2008-03-28 Thread Phoebe Taylor
or maybe not... the html - which I've tried with .png and .gif images: p class=calendara href=calendar.html class=eventsimg src=graphics/calendar.gif alt=Church Calendar width=166px height=75px border=0/a/p the css: a.events { display: block; width: 166px; height: 75px;

Re: [css-d] Image/Map? sliding doors effect

2008-03-28 Thread Phoebe Taylor
I don't have access to the webspace for the church, so I made a folder on the knife site. I put a dashed blue border around where the sliding doors - transparent gif should be showing. The .html validates -- I do have one parse error in CSS, that I think is due to a hack for IE.

Re: [css-d] Image/Map? sliding doors effect

2008-03-28 Thread Phoebe Taylor
Have you checked that the path is correct for your sliding image? It appears to be the same path as the one that's in the HTML, but that wouldn't be the correct pathway from the CSS file, since you have that in a different spot. ~holly oh, okay.. I see now. My other site had the css

Re: [css-d] Image/Map? sliding doors effect

2008-03-28 Thread Phoebe Taylor
That selector selects an element called active, that is inside an anchor with the class name events the anchor is hovered. I suspect that since there isn't an element type active that your selector isn't going to select anything. Did you mean - a.events:hover, a.events:active {

[css-d] Background color on menu

2008-03-26 Thread Phoebe Taylor
I'm trying to build a vertical menu for a church site simply using borders, changing background and font colors. This is only my second CSS site. my CSS for the menu (so far) is this: /*Menu Navigation*/ ul#menu { list-style-type: none; padding-left: 0; margin-left:0; }

Re: [css-d] Background color on menu

2008-03-26 Thread Phoebe Taylor
bleh yes. sorry. On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:41 PM, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phoebe Taylor wrote: my CSS for the menu (so far) is this: My question. Upon hoover I don't see any change in background or font color. Why? Phoebe Could it be because you

Re: [css-d] Background color on menu

2008-03-26 Thread Phoebe Taylor
To thank all the responders, both here and private, I now have a new signature. Phoebe -- Words I have learned to spell from CSS-Discussion list members - scissors, tortoise, hover (not hoover). __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] Question about 3 column layout with floats

2008-03-23 Thread Phoebe Taylor
to be a percentage of the browser window - say 80% in width, so it will scale up with larger browsers. In doing this, what is the best way to handle the sizing of the columns? Should I float them on percentages or just use pixels? Phoebe Taylor

Re: [css-d] Question about 3 column layout with floats

2008-03-23 Thread Phoebe Taylor
Thank you both for the explanations and the links to give me an idea of what to look out for. :) Phoebe __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ --

Re: [css-d] CSS Zengarden Design #202

2008-03-20 Thread Phoebe Taylor
I like the concept, but viewing it in Firefox, the paragraph content in the benefits and requirements divs has some issues with longer words spilling from one paragraph column into the next column or even next div. Also content is spilling from the right paragraph in that section outside of the

Re: [css-d] Site check-- Phoebe Taylor

2008-03-09 Thread Phoebe Taylor
re: http://www.cgraytaylor.net The addition of: html { min-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 1px; } to the CSS file may help the short page shift.(if it even bothers you, or your client-- it drives me nuts but I'm a little whacked anyway) [1] Okay, I like this. I didn't notice the 'short

Re: [css-d] Site check

2008-03-08 Thread Phoebe Taylor
? Phoebe On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 1:50 AM, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phoebe Taylor wrote: I have been fiddling with...] I'm a bit OCD when it comes to how things look, but I guess I need to learn to give up some of that control for the sake of the overall project

Re: [css-d] Site check

2008-03-08 Thread Phoebe Taylor
Wow, learning a lot here. Now things validate. I simplified all the background tags, and I'll go through and attempt the font tags later today. (have to go out this afternoon). Thank you, Mr. Lasko. :) __ css-discuss [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] Site check

2008-03-08 Thread Phoebe Taylor
re: http://www.cgraytaylor.net/ Awesome. Interested in raising the bar another notch? Best, ~dL PS Ain't no mister hereabout. Just another bozo on the back of the bus. -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ Sure, I'd be up for it. :) Just let me know what the next challenge

[css-d] Site check

2008-03-07 Thread Phoebe Taylor
If you guys wouldn't mind, could I get a site check on this? http://www.cgraytaylor.net It seems to check out okay for me in Firefox, IE 7, and Opera. I had to lower the font size in the gallery photo descriptions for Opera to lay out the text correctly which makes it a touch small for my

Re: [css-d] Site check

2008-03-07 Thread Phoebe Taylor
Mark -- I increased the padding a little. Good tip to start combining the padding. I need to think making things more compact in the coding on future projects. I didn't increase it quite as much as you had. I'm thinking about adding a glossary of terms, especially for the folders, ie - what

Re: [css-d] Site check

2008-03-07 Thread Phoebe Taylor
Thank you Dave and Peter for the critiques. I have been fiddling with it and took out the height on the #main css, so the text won't shoot out the bottom now. Also, I darkened the text color a little and went with percent on the font rather than an absolute font size according to the suggestions

Re: [css-d] trying to fix this without using javascript

2008-03-03 Thread Phoebe Taylor
I'm new to CSS myself, but I'd try adding a margin to the top of the footer div and see if that forces it down below the other div. or try br.clear { clear: both; } and put that before the /div on the Visit Campus? My sympathies over the problem of trying to convince others that

[css-d] New to list - space at top of background image?

2008-02-29 Thread Phoebe Taylor
Hello all. I'm trying to redesign a site and use CSS to get some of the old effects that I had with Javascript. Basically, it's a simple brochure site. I bought a book on CSS to get my feet wet and after a few days, below are the pages I've come up with. I've checked them in FF, Opera, and IE

Re: [css-d] New to list - space at top of background image

2008-02-29 Thread Phoebe Taylor
(I think my answer back just went to Lisa instead of everone) Lisa, the new format for the .firstparagraph seems to work in FF as you said. I'll have to find a work around in IE7, as it doesn't work there. (the headache with IE begins) Susan, taking the bottom margin to 0px for the wrapper

Re: [css-d] New to list - space at top of background image?

2008-02-29 Thread Phoebe Taylor
That's a case of collapsing margins[1]. Vertical margins join - collapse into each other. Any method described in the W3C document for not collapse, will work. I suggest you add/correct to... #main { padding-top: 1px;} ...to prevent margins from paragraphs from escaping the #main