Re: [css-d] CSS Sprite Generator

2011-01-07 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I love using CSS Sprites (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites) But I hate making them in Photoshop. I happen to have one of those essential attributes of a programer (I am lazy). http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sprites+generator -- Regards, Thierry @thierrykoblentz www.tjkdesign.com |

Re: [css-d] CSS Sprite Generator

2011-01-07 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Chetan @Thierry, @David I think the way you answered Sarah's question was insulting and condescending. I think the question was a perfectly valid one. Sure, a Google search would partially provide a solution to Sarah's query, but she asked the question on this list to get *recommendations*

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: CSS Sprite Generator

2011-01-07 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Eric, I will reiterate the passage Chetan quoted from the list policies, as well as the text that follows it, because it is always relevant: Above all, if you can't answer with a modicum of respect, or without feeling somehow annoyed by the question, then DO NOT ANSWER AT

Re: [css-d] Hello to the Group

2011-01-06 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Welcome! I am hoping that someone in the group can supply some great tutorials on CSS that will help in my endeavor to become more proficent in CSS markup. http://www.css-101.org /shameless plug -- Regards, Thierry @thierrykoblentz www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | www.css-101.org

Re: [css-d] Browser hacks vs PHP vs JS for browser detection

2011-01-06 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Is it just a case of using the right tool for the job? It would seem logical to me - if you are using PHP anyway of course - to check the user-agent header and add a class to the body tag? I realise people can change the header sent by their browser, but how many people actually do that?

Re: [css-d] stacked nav in IE7

2011-01-06 Thread Thierry Koblentz
This is driving me nuts. IE7 the menu is all bad, IE8 only the home page menu is bad. Site: http://www.fargoparks.com/ css: http://www.fargoparks.com/css/home.css I see these two rules: #p7PMnav li { float:left; } #p7PMnav li { width:100%; clear:both; float:left; } The two

Re: [css-d] stacked nav in IE7

2011-01-06 Thread Thierry Koblentz
This is driving me nuts. IE7 the menu is all bad, IE8 only the home page menu is bad. Site: http://www.fargoparks.com/ css: http://www.fargoparks.com/css/home.css For the second rule I mentioned, don't look in the styles sheet, it's in a conditional comment after the LIs: !--[if IE

Re: [css-d] unable to over ride an li

2011-01-02 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Try this: li id=lasta id=donations href=#DONATIONS/a/li CSS: #container #mainmenu ul li#last {float:right;font-size:1.24em;} Why going through so many elements? It can't be good regarding performance and it increases specificity for no reason. I'd go with a simple: #last {...} --

Re: [css-d] unable to over ride an li

2011-01-02 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Chetan, Why going through so many elements? It can't be good regarding performance and it increases specificity for no reason. I'd go with a simple: #last {...} Point accepted. In general, one should keep selectors as simple as possible, with just as much specificity as one

Re: [css-d] unable to over ride an li

2011-01-02 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Philip, Imho, using element#id to increase the weight of a rule makes sense, but not when it is used as a hint to help us read and understand rules. I'd think /*comments*/ are better suited for that. I'm afraid I can't agree with that, Thierry : comments indicate only the coder's

Re: [css-d] unable to over ride an li

2011-01-02 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Well-written css code means *lean* selectors so a well written styles sheet should need more comments than a badly written one, isn't?. With respect, I disagree : you are choosing to interpret well-written as efficient; I interpret well-written as transparent, immediately clear to the

[css-d] CSS-101

2011-01-01 Thread Thierry Koblentz
http://www.css-101.org Happy New Year! Bonne Année! -- Regards, Thierry @thierrykoblentz www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | www.css-101.org __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] Is it because of my code? [correction]

2010-12-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Felix Miata wrote: I stand firm that px is an inappropriate unit for sizing containers for text content. Not everyone in the universe is thrilled at having to scroll both vertically and horizontally in order to read a scaled web page, either. fwiw, I prefer increasing text-size to

Re: [css-d] The CSS Position Property

2010-12-15 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Chetan, I thought this article could be of interest to this list: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/12/14/the-css-position-property/ That's a nice informative summary of positioning. It would also be worthwhile mentioning that absolutely and fixed positioned inline elements can be

Re: [css-d] The CSS Position Property

2010-12-15 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I thought this article could be of interest to this list: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/12/14/the-css-position- property/ I believe the article says that already. Check the first bullet point in the Things to remember about position:absolute. It says: For *any* 'absolute' or

[css-d] The CSS Position Property

2010-12-14 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I thought this article could be of interest to this list: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/12/14/the-css-position-property/ -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Make text bottom-align?

2010-12-11 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Chetan Crasta wrote: I have made an example of the design here: http://roughtech.com/t/testali.html It uses CSS only. I believe what the OP is after is inline-block: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/11/15/inline-boxes-with-bottom-alignment/ As a site note, table-cell would work too,

Re: [css-d] [+] crashing redmond

2010-12-04 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi David, Signature link crashes IETester 6/7/8 on Mac OS X 10.4 running Parallels XP. I find this delightful and rather amusing:-) . Checks on native boxes appreciated. Working fine in ie7/8/9 on Win7 And ie6 on Virtual PC -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org |

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: does anyone know of...

2010-12-03 Thread Thierry Koblentz
A CSS-only lightbox will have many limitations. You cannot have the same functionality as the example you gave, with only CSS2. However, here is one good implementation of a css-only lightbox http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/lightbox-hover.html fwiw, I would not call this solution a good

Re: [css-d] hasLayout triggering best practice

2010-12-03 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Georg, Myself, I use any property/value that gets the job done, whenever I need to trigger hasLayout. Loss of validity because of proprietary IE CSS isn't more problematic than use of some mos-, webkit- or o- proprietary CSS ... IMO. I do not care much about CSS validation, but I see a

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: hasLayout triggering best practice

2010-12-03 Thread Thierry Koblentz
If having valid stylesheets is important, one could simply apply zoom using javascript: object.style.zoom=1; But then your presentational layer is bound to the behavior layer :-( -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz

Re: [css-d] Span Style Inside Div with PHP Code

2010-12-03 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Everything I've research tells me this ought to be valid, but the span style seems to have no effect. div class=registercolright span style=padding-top:20px; ?php // some code that writes an unordered list ? /span /div !-- close registercolright -- vertical padding will

Re: [css-d] Span Style Inside Div with PHP Code

2010-12-03 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Bill, Many thanks, Thierry. Will settle for additional classes. Actually, you should not have a list/list items in that span. So rather than adding a class you'd better replace that span with a div (which will take the padding). As a side note, do you need that additional wrapper? Can't you

Re: [css-d] Span Style Inside Div with PHP Code

2010-12-03 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Not only can you apply multiple classes to elements, you can also select elements with both classes and apply styles to only things with both. For example: .column {width: 48%} .left {float: left} .left.column { border-right: 1px solid #333; padding-right: 1em; } Note

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: hasLayout triggering best practice

2010-12-03 Thread Thierry Koblentz
These don't seem to be huge disadvantages: I can't think of a good reason to surf with Javascript disabled. According to a recent blog post from Nicholas Zakas (Yahoo!) about 2% of users browse the web without JS. As a side note, I don't think it is always their choice. Also, since the

Re: [css-d] IE positioning question

2010-11-21 Thread Thierry Koblentz
CCing the list -Original Message- From: Debbie Campbell [mailto:d...@redkitecreative.com] I understand - the site is a very strange development-only site with some serious issues (not my site). The image isn't in the footer, will changing the footer affect it or did you mean

Re: [css-d] IE positioning question

2010-11-21 Thread Thierry Koblentz
In this page: http://www.redkitecreative.com/projects/billiards/inside_best_billiards .php The image below the menu is a pixel or two off. I've tried correcting this with a conditional comment, with margin or absolute or relative position, with no luck: #sidebar img.rotation-img {

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: [css-d Is this proper use of div tags?

2010-11-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Example D http://www.alistapart.com/d/css-positioning-101/example_d.html shows our new markup. Because of the new coordinate system, the blue block measures its offset 200 pixels from the left of the red block (|#box_1|) instead of the document. Yes, and by placing

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: [css-d Is this proper use of div tags?

2010-11-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Tim, The red box *and* the document have nothing to do with the offset of that box. Not entirely true. Yes, the blue box is offset in relation to where it would be without position. But where the blue box would be depends directly on other elements (previous siblings and parents,

Re: [css-d] [+] OK to insert block-level tag inside div?

2010-11-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
This is related to my question yesterday about proper use of div tags... I now get that an ID must be used only once on a page. Within div tags (from code generously provided here) I've been able to format specific bits of content, like text, using classes and span tags. But I'd like to

Re: [css-d] [+] OK to insert block-level tag inside div?

2010-11-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Yes, but paragraphs are block-level elements, so simply give a class to one of the paragraphs to create that border. One thing you'll notice though, is that once you apply a border to a paragraph its margin will not collapse with the margin of its sibling (see margin collapsing). Before

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: OK to insert block-level tag inside div?

2010-11-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
OK..Here's a link to a graphic showing the dotted line and its position which I'm after: http://thinkplan.org/workshop/pix/dottedline.jpg Try this: .myParagraph { margin-top:10px; padding-top:10px; border-top:1px dotted #333; } -- Regards, Thierry

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: OK to insert block-level tag inside div?

2010-11-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
OK..Here's a link to a graphic showing the dotted line and its position which I'm after: http://thinkplan.org/workshop/pix/dottedline.jpg Try this: .myParagraph { margin-top:10px; padding-top:10px; border-top:1px dotted #333; } thanks, Thierry; looks

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: OK to insert block-level tag inside div?

2010-11-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Zounds! I believe that I understand that entire paragraph! but why, then, after I add a margin-top: 8px to my code, does that paragraph go wider? By wider, I mean that it widens to the width of the parent div which contains all that stuff...the small head, the big head and date the dotted

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: [css-d Is this proper use of div tags?

2010-11-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Alan, The article fails to mention about how position:relative can generate a new containing block for descendants elements with a position value of either absolute or fixed. I believe this is true for absolute, but not for fixed as for the latter the reference is the viewport. --

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: Is this proper use of div tags?

2010-11-17 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi David, My goal is to have a container div with a title at the top, an image at the left, inside the container, and text describing the image at the right, inside the container. Absolute positioning is problematic [brittle among other things] for the base layout. Use a float based

Re: [css-d] [css-d Is this proper use of div tags?

2010-11-17 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Felix, http://www.alistapart.com/articles/css-positioning-101/ Seemed interesting, until I got to the 5th reference to an invisible example. Where are they hidden, some offsite adserver/image host? I lost my webdeveloper extension by upgrading my primary browser to a Gecko 2.0b. quote

Re: [css-d] [+] Can this stretch be made to work in IE6?

2010-11-14 Thread Thierry Koblentz
http://www.galaxywebsitedesign.com/temp/test.html The above link works for Firefox 3.6.12, IE8, Safari, and IE7. Is it possible to make this work in IE6? The idea is to stretch the pseudo-background image. Works for me in IE6. But I don't think you need that div. Did you try to style

Re: [css-d] [+] Vertical-Align, IE, line-height, and span don't mix

2010-11-12 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: In IE, the superscript mucks up the borders and margins -- it's as though the element block goes up and never comes back down when I close the superscript. zoom is a CSS fix for the original test case, using sup is a different story. -- Regards, Thierry

Re: [css-d] faux column issue...

2010-11-12 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I am working on a simple site that has columns and lines to divide the columns. Perfect for faux columns as the columns aren't equal depth. Anyway, when I put the background image in my page-wrap div, it shows up fine. When I put it in the background of the content div (because I want the

Re: [css-d] Box Model and Background-image

2010-11-12 Thread Thierry Koblentz
In the CSS box model, are background images understood to occupy the same height and width as the outer edge of the border area? I believe it is the border box (content + padding + border) -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: faux column issue...

2010-11-12 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi David, I think that Michael is talking about the background-image on div#content. It does not show because the three columns it contains are floats. Any containing floats method on div#content will make the background-image show up: Your post made me take a closer look at that page and it

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: Box Model and Background-image

2010-11-12 Thread Thierry Koblentz
In the CSS box model, are background images understood to occupy the same height and width as the outer edge of the border area? I believe it is the border box (content + padding + border) No, the default is the padding-box: Thanks Philippe, In my mind we're talking background, not

Re: [css-d] Positioning and spies

2010-11-11 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I have been agonizing over this spry for a week... It worked like a charm! At http://138.26.120.126/CAMAC/Trial21.html: (1) I cannot tell why the submenu in the vertical navigation bar doesn't show all of a sudden. (2) I am still having problems understanding the

Re: [css-d] Positioning and spies

2010-11-11 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Any idea what I could do about the highlighted problem 2 below? Change this: .LastUpdated { color:#2B; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10px; font-style:italic; } To this: .LastUpdated { color:#2B; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10px;

Re: [css-d] [+] Vertical-Align, IE, line-height, and span don't mix

2010-11-11 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Here's my current nightmare: http://datagnostics.com/test/vertical.html I've got superscript text that needs to be all over the page -- it's part of the company name. I set a line-height in BODY. I'm doing the superscript via a span class, with attribute vertical-align: super. In IE, the

Re: [css-d] Spries

2010-11-10 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Your css file is here: http://138.26.120.126/CAMAC/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css But you link to: http://138.26.120.126/SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css via link href=../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarVertical.css rel=stylesheet type=text/css / Try: link

Re: [css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-08 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Alan, Hello Theirry, It seems that zoom does something in IE7- which I do not understand. Can anyone explain? This would mean using something like this. li {display: -moz-inline-block; display: inline-block; width:100px;} *+html li {display: inline; zoom: 1;} /* IE7 */ * html li

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: evenly spacing

2010-11-08 Thread Thierry Koblentz
li { display: inline-block; width:100px;} *+html li { display: inline;} /* IE7 */ * html li { display: inline;} /* IE6 */ Yeah, I'm aware of that page, and it _should_ always work - display: inline-block sets the 'hasLayout' flag, and that flag is not / cannot be reset by the subsequent

Re: [css-d] right column to extend all the way (and funny video)

2010-11-08 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I have a 2 column layout. I want the right column (with funny video) to extend all the way down to the footer regardless of content. Does anyone see what I am doing wrong? http://www.successseriesllc.com/new.php This should help:

Re: [css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-07 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Alan, problems with a layout I was working on. I have a horizontal menu that I was using an UL list, this worked in firefox, but not completly in IE 7/8 and various others. they kept going into a vertical list despite using things like display: inline-block, so I decided to remove the

Re: [css-d] Aligning a floated image with the top of following text

2010-11-07 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Part of the way into revising my little site, I noticed that the top edge each floated image was about four pixels above the top of the capital letter(s) of the text that immediately followed. I found a solution; using padding to push the image down a bit. But I never understood why that

Re: [css-d] [+] css with js disabled

2010-11-06 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi David, uri: http://chelseacreekstudio.com/fa/ css: http://chelseacreekstudio.com/fa/css/sisu.css In this rough layout -- when viewed with javascript disabled -- digits 2 through 8 ought to be stacked vertically and flush left to the red rule. What to do? What about using a list for

Re: [css-d] css with js disabled

2010-11-06 Thread Thierry Koblentz
David Laakso wrote: uri: http://chelseacreekstudio.com/fa/ css: http://chelseacreekstudio.com/fa/css/sisu.css In this rough layout -- when viewed with javascript disabled -- digits 2 through 8 ought to be stacked vertically and flush left to the red rule. What to do? if I

Re: [css-d] Spry problems

2010-11-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
filter:alpha(opacity:0.1); filter:alpha... is proprietary Internet Explorer syntax/functionality. If it serves a purpose - makes IE behave as it should - it should be kept in the stylesheet no matter what the CSS validator says. fwiw, I totally agree (my only issue with filter is

Re: [css-d] Image placement issue in IE

2010-11-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hello everyone, i'm trying out yet another idea for my new website! The accordion menu works fine on all browsers but i'm having a problem with the images not floating correctly, for example on the About link, on the right and text not sitting side by side to it on the left in Internet

Re: [css-d] z-index issue in IE7

2010-11-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
http://www.redkitecreative.com/projects/performance/contact-us/ if you hover on Browse Our Inventory, in IE7 the hovered menu is hidden behind the #maincontent div. I tried this: !--[if IE 7] style type=text/css #maincontent {z-index: 10;} ul.menu li:hover ul, ul.menu ul

Re: [css-d] z-index issue in IE7

2010-11-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Oops - I spoke too soon. I fixed the Flash-overlapping-the-menu issue, but I have one last problem in IE7 only. The image scroller (#mainscroll) is also overlapping the menu. I tried a z-index but not working, it's this page: http://www.redkitecreative.com/projects/performance/ We

Re: [css-d] [+] Question about auto

2010-11-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
given this snip of code: div#container { margin: 15px auto; } is auto enough to make the contents of that div remain centered from left to right as the end user scales their browser window larger and smaller? No. You'd need to set a width too. This is the excerpt of a presentation I

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: How-to prevent a float drop in ie6

2010-10-30 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On 10/29/10 1:42 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: This article shows how to make IE6 behave (almost) like modern browsers: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/10/28/css-quick-tip-how-to-prevent- a-float- drop-in-ie6/ Thanks! As always, most helpful. Nevertheless, there comes a time when

[css-d] How-to prevent a float drop in ie6

2010-10-28 Thread Thierry Koblentz
This article shows how to make IE6 behave (almost) like modern browsers: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/10/28/css-quick-tip-how-to-prevent-a-float- drop-in-ie6/ HTH -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: how can I align input and select elements

2010-10-27 Thread Thierry Koblentz
How can I align the input and select form elements in my test case, so that their horizontal borders are aligned and all text including labels is aligned to the baseline? What exactly do you want to do? Do you want the fields stacked on top of each other? Then put each in ap (or

Re: [css-d] layout problem? maybe a float problem?

2010-10-25 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I have a layout problem here: http://www.glitterlemonade.com/fundraiser/detail/monsters_magnetic_figu res On other pages on the site, the footer behaves and shows up under the rest of the content, but not on this page. Here it is OK: http://www.glitterlemonade.com/get_involved In

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: sprite menu

2010-10-23 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I have: a) corrected the markup. b) contain the floats with overflow property applied on the ul. c) give a explicit width to the ul so that, the out of the flow element could not go more upper then what it should. Seems to be ok now.

Re: [css-d] [+] Sprite technique question

2010-10-22 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On a sprite technique we often see something like this: #menu li a { background:url('image/menu.png') no-repeat; width:100%; height:100%; display:block; } Why, when we set the display to block, the width and height properties seem to realise the background image

Re: [css-d] [+] nav link states

2010-10-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
What is the state called when I click on one of a number of links on a navbar and while I am visiting that page, the link stays lit so that if I forget where I am, I need simply glance up at the navbar to see where I am? And the million dollar question is: How do I style such? You could

Re: [css-d] menu text/image buttons not working in IE7

2010-10-12 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On this page (this VirtueMart cart, actually), the menu buttons are screwy in IE7: http://beverlylanzetta.net/retablos.html If you check in a modern browser you'll see they're wide-ish image backgrounds. Can someone tell me how to fix them? I'd not float the UL (nor the LIs), I'd not

Re: [css-d] [+] Possible webkit bug with overflow and width

2010-10-12 Thread Thierry Koblentz
This markup shows my problem: Webkit browsers seem to create an erroneous width on overflow:hidden elements inside of overflow:hidden elements, when their width is set to 0. Interesting bug. But I see it differently. Webkit creates an erroneous width for the parent, not for the element with a

Re: [css-d] address element with classes

2010-10-09 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I'm trying to address an LI which has two classes (it's part of the nav): li class=page-item-7 current_page_item Is there any way to address the li ONLY when it has both these classes? On other pages, it has a different combination of classes. Yes, you can use the selector below, but note

Re: [css-d] Clearing a float

2010-10-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Thanks Thierry - I'll give that a shot. Do I have to remove the float from the #leftSidebar nav then? No, you'd leave the float in. The idea is to create two block formatting contexts. The float declaration does this for the left column, the rule I sent you does this for the right column.

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: Clearing a float

2010-10-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Philippe, I don't think inherit is a proper value for clear. it is: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#flow-control I had checked CSS pocket reference (Eric Meyer/O'Reilly) and it says in there that inherit is not. I have a more recent version of this great little book, but for

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: Clearing a float

2010-10-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I don't think inherit is a proper value for clear. it is: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#flow-control It's interesting though. This new value came in now that authors use clear even less than before as they now contain floats more than they clear them. Does it do

Re: [css-d] Two nested list problems

2010-10-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Re: http://www.draftingservices.com/autocad_tutorials.html I'm trying to accomplish two things, and have been failing. 1. Stop my nested list from inheriting the text decoration and cursor styling. (I got this to partially work, but removed the code because it didn't work completely.)

Re: [css-d] Two nested list problems

2010-10-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
2. Get my nested list indented. Wrote: Thierry Try this: #navlist #subnavlist li a { padding-left:20px; text-decoration:none; cursor:default; width:auto; } Thanks Theirry. I'm one step closer though, and learning, but not there yet. I'm trying to get

Re: [css-d] nav help

2010-10-04 Thread Thierry Koblentz
how do I give this to each link? so that the last one does not have the white boarder on the right? thanks a bunch Do as I suggested in my previous email (see my edits of your #navcontainer ul li a {} rule). Then add a class to the last link and use that class to create a rule that resets the

Re: [css-d] Clearing a float

2010-10-04 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I have a float that is giving me problems. You can see a test page here: http://test.magnoliasonline.com/public/gallery/before_after This particular page is simply groups of thumbnail images. My plan was to have a hr in between the groups to show that they are separate. However,

Re: [css-d] Clearing a float

2010-10-04 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Di you by any chance used any one of the following to fix this: clear: both; clear: left; clear: none: clear: right; clear: inherit; I don't think inherit is a proper value for clear. -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz

Re: [css-d] Trouble with overflow:hidden and absolute hover elements

2010-10-02 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On 9/26/10 9:25 AM, mrebenti...@comparat.de wrote: Hi, I have some container for column and formular design. The div container need the overflow:hidden attribute. Alabel has a CSS hover definition and shows a hidden help information. This bubble help was cut by the parent containers with

Re: [css-d] nav help

2010-10-02 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Can anybody please let me know how to make the purple horizontal navigation to go all the way to the right. So that there is no empty space after the Mercantile link. http://www.moscowfood.coop/design_new/index.php?nmx=2_0 css is here: http://www.moscowfood.coop/design_new/coop.css Many

Re: [css-d] IE9 beta check - floats with inline content bug

2010-10-02 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Alan, I was wondering I can please get a check up in IE9 beta to see if it has the following bug that I can see in IE9 preview. http://css-class.com/test/bugs/ie/9-beta/floats-with-inline- content.htm I looked a the page side by side in ie9 and FF and things seem to look the same. --

Re: [css-d] nav help

2010-10-02 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Can anybody please let me know how to make the purple horizontal navigation to go all the way to the right. So that there is no empty space after the Mercantile link. http://www.moscowfood.coop/design_new/index.php?nmx=2_0 css is here: http://www.moscowfood.coop/design_new/coop.css Many

[css-d] clearfix without collapsing margins

2010-09-27 Thread Thierry Koblentz
This may interest those who rely on clearfix to contain floats: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/09/27/clearfix-reloaded-overflowhidden-dem ystified/ -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz __

Re: [css-d] [+] Ghost space between DIVs

2010-09-27 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi ! I can't figure out why their is a white space between the two last block of my webpage, they are not on the same master div and they act like ghosts !! If the block at right Derniers messages du forum grows, the block Comprendre dotnetnuke rapidement at left is pushed down. ... does

Re: [css-d] Legal format lists

2010-09-24 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Thanks for that. I had (mistakenly) assumed that it wasn't necessary to refer to the DTD explicitly and that each flavour of HTML was fully defined. BTW, switching my doctype declaration to 4.01 strict and then running the page through W3C's validator jogged my memory as to why I've stayed

Re: [css-d] Legal format lists

2010-09-23 Thread Thierry Koblentz
lispan class=num2.1.1.2/span It shall be construed a crime against humanity to recover an ancient musical instrument from a secluded cave and subsequently play it in front of others./li ...and then float or position the classed 'span' next to the list item. I'd probably try

Re: [css-d] Styling form elements

2010-09-21 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Gabriele, Hope this might be useful for beginners: http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2010/09/css-styling-form-elements.html I don't think using a UL for this makes sense. If you want to wrap every label/input pair then why not using DIVs? Isn't what they are for? -- Regards, Thierry

[css-d] New IE7 filter?

2010-09-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I think I found a new hack for IE7. Instead of this: *:first-child + html .left, *:first-child + html .right, *:first-child + html .maincontent {} We could use this: .left,.right,.maincontent,x:-ie7 {} Because of x:-ie7 other browsers should drop the entire rule. Note that this is a variation

Re: [css-d] [+] New IE7 filter?

2010-09-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
We could use this: .left,.right,.maincontent,x:-ie7 {} Actually, it is the colon that dos the magic. For example: selector,ie:7 {...} or: selector,:7 {...} /* even shorter to target ie7 :) */ -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz

Re: [css-d] [+] New IE7 filter?

2010-09-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Please see sig link IE 6/7/8. #main p,:7 {color: lime; } Thanks David :) -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] Hack to target IE9 beta

2010-09-17 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Alan, Ok, thank you, you gave me that extra clue. Here is a revived test. http://css-class.com/test/css/colors/declaration-string-character- exscapes2.htm http://css-class.com/test/css/selectors/str-pseudo-class.htm IE9 now supports all structural pseudo-classes along with Gecko,

Re: [css-d] Hack to target IE9 beta

2010-09-16 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Alan, Mmm, ok, these are the same results that I see when IE9 preview is in IE7 document mode or when IE8 is in IE7 compatibility mode. For IE7, /9, /a, /b, /c and /d works. For IE8, /0, /9, /a, /b, /c and /d works. For IE9 preview, /0 works. Are you sure that you have IE9 beta in

Re: [css-d] Hack to target IE9 beta

2010-09-16 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Alan, Mmm, ok, these are the same results that I see when IE9 preview is in IE7 document mode or when IE8 is in IE7 compatibility mode. For IE7, /9, /a, /b, /c and /d works. For IE8, /0, /9, /a, /b, /c and /d works. For IE9 preview, /0 works. Interesting... It looks like if you

Re: [css-d] Can i vertically centre a UL?

2010-09-15 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Alan, poor old IE 7 and older? I think there'd have to be a third element in there to set as display: table-row. ---Tim Not quite true. If display: table-row is not given then, an anonymous table-row is generated [1]. | If the parent P of a 'table-cell' box T is not a

[css-d] Hack to target IE9 beta

2010-09-15 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I just downloaded IE9 and I think I found a way to target it. Syntax: :root selector {property: value\9;} Example: :root #ie9 {color: teal\9;} -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz __

Re: [css-d] Hack to target IE9 beta

2010-09-15 Thread Thierry Koblentz
How does IE9 beta show these test? http://css-class.com/test/css-testsuite/css2.1/declaration-string- character-exscapes.htm http://css-class.com/test/css-testsuite/css2.1/declaration-string- character-exscapes-000.htm These are the ones that work: 9, a, b, c, d Ie9 version:

Re: [css-d] Can i vertically centre a UL?

2010-09-14 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I have a unordered list sitting in a div. I'd like it to sit right in the middle both vertically and horizontally without using padding or anything like that because it's dynamically fed. is there such a way using CSS? If you can set height/line-height on the parent, then you can try this:

Re: [css-d] Can i vertically centre a UL?

2010-09-14 Thread Thierry Koblentz
whizz-bang-blammo align centered vertically. Brilliant!!! But sadly not. If there is no height set for your DIV, then line-height should be enough If there is a height then the line-height must match that value -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz

Re: [css-d] How opposite floats work

2010-09-12 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Gabriele, Hi. I think that's something often underinvestigated: http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2010/09/css-how-opposite-floats-work.html As you can see, in some cases result differs from what we did expect (the only noticeable change is in the 4th row) What do you expect the 4th row to

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: browser treatments of :focus

2010-09-06 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Alan, http://css-class.com/test/css/selectors/pseudo-class-active- focus.htm This test shows the problem that WebKit has with :focus when selecting a link with the mouse. Tabbing works. I believe if you're using real links instead of # we would see a slightly different behavior. For

Re: [css-d] [+] IE6/7

2010-09-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I am getting angry with IE. I have elements wrapped in contentLeft div with width:700px and 3 other elements which supposed to float to the left, but third, goes to the right instead and exceeds with of 700px. It shoul be restricted to such width and put under second element. Am I right or

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