Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-19 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Donna Casey wrote: Alex Foley wrote: I'd sure like a confirmation from someone that overflow: auto is the way to go... I've been clearfix-ing up until about 12:03 pm today. Zoe's excellent (free) article explains much of this: http://communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=6BC9D

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Ingo Chao
Yehuda Katz wrote: Essentially, I created a set of CSS Formatting guidelines designed to get designers to create readable CSS that other designers could quickly get up to speed on. The spec is available in PDF form at http://www.yehudakatz.com/CSSf-1-5-1-Spec.pdf. The purpose of the CSSf

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Tom Livingston
Sure it is. Adding clearing elements, and the ensuing additional CSS (or extra clearing markup), makes code less readable for, in most cases, no good reason. Since overflow: hidden or overflow: auto does the trick, the whole issue of clearing floats becomes essentially a non-issue, and saves

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Tom Livingston wrote: Sure it is. Adding clearing elements, and the ensuing additional CSS (or extra clearing markup), makes code less readable for, in most cases, no good reason. Since overflow: hidden or overflow: auto does the trick, the whole issue of clearing floats becomes essentially a

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Alex Foley
I'd sure like a confirmation from someone that overflow: auto is the way to go... I've been clearfix-ing up until about 12:03 pm today. Alex Foley Robert O'Rourke wrote: Tom Livingston wrote: Hold on. Adding overflow:auto; on a container will clear any and all floats inside said

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Alex Foley wrote: I'd sure like a confirmation from someone that overflow: auto is the way to go... I've been clearfix-ing up until about 12:03 pm today. Here we go: http://dev.l-c-n.com/IEW/containing-float-overflow.php It's not as consistent as clear-fixing but in general using

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread cj
On 7/17/06, Yehuda Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure it is. Adding clearing elements, and the ensuing additional CSS (or extra clearing markup), makes code less readable for, in most cases, no good reason. Since overflow: hidden or overflow: auto does the trick, the whole issue of clearing

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Tom Livingston
snip i personally would rather not have scrollbars appear or things disappear on elements with width or height. I prefer using option #2 in the wiki (http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ClearingSpace), which doesn't add additional markup, either snip I'm with CJ on this one, though I don't

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread L. Robinson
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Yehuda Katz wrote: Since overflow: hidden or overflow: auto does the trick, the whole issue of clearing floats becomes essentially a non-issue, and saves extra markup. I use such design-methods quite often, and the overflow-property doesn't cut it across

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread MarcLuzietti
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Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Axthelm
On 2006-07-16, Yehuda Katz wrote: Essentially, I created a set of CSS Formatting guidelines designed to get designers to create readable CSS that other designers could quickly get up to speed on. The spec is available in PDF form at http://www.yehudakatz.com/CSSf-1-5-1-Spec.pdf.

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting - overflow for clearing floats

2006-07-17 Thread Robert O'Rourke
So, the overflow-property is a useful solution for containing floats in some cases, but not in others. regards Georg Good to know, Does a floated element within a container that has overflow : hidden ; applied respect the padding of the container? In particular the bottom

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting - overflow for clearing floats

2006-07-17 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jul 18, 2006, at 8:17 AM, Robert O'Rourke wrote: So, the overflow-property is a useful solution for containing floats in some cases, but not in others. regards Georg Good to know, Does a floated element within a container that has overflow : hidden ; applied respect the

[css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-16 Thread Yehuda Katz
Hi guys, Michael Geary of the jQuery list suggested I continue a discussion I started there on this list related to CSS. Essentially, I created a set of CSS Formatting guidelines designed to get designers to create readable CSS that other designers could quickly get up to speed on. The spec is

[css-d] CSS Formatting Revisited:

2006-01-23 Thread Cory Perry
Hey everyone, Well, after 3 hours of unsuccessful tries I am coming back to you guys in hopes that this problem can be solved. My CSS code is losing all of it's formatting when viewed in a browser. I am writing the code in Dreamweaver 8 and it is perfectly styled just like I want it. However,

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting Revisited:

2006-01-23 Thread Lori Hylan-Cho
I went in to DW8 and under the Preferences you can set the CODE FORMAT properties. Hi Cory This is pretty far off-topic for this list and would probably be better discussed in a Dreamweaver forum (see http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/index.cfm?forumid=12). Having said

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting Issues:

2006-01-22 Thread francky
Jim Nannery wrote: Cory wrote: I'm sorry, I think you guys are misunderstanding what I am saying. I am not talking about how the layout looks in the browser, I am talking about when you right click and view the source code, THAT is what is all messed up. In particular the CSS. In DW8, the CSS is

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting Issues:

2006-01-21 Thread Cory Perry
david wrote: No, the problem is that DW (and it's WYSI-not-really-what-you-get competitors) is lying to you. The only way to really test and make sure your pages are working right is checking it in a browser. Remember, people don't browse websites using Dreamweaver! ;-) I'm sorry, I

[css-d] CSS Formatting Issues:

2006-01-20 Thread Cory Perry
Hey everyone, I having a problem with my CSS formatting when viewed in a browser compared to how I have it layed out in Dreamweaver 8. In DW8, it is layed out perfectly and I can read everything just fine. When you view the CSS code in the browser however, it is all over the place and it loses

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting Issues:

2006-01-20 Thread D Ross
It's probably not the browser. Dreamweaver often times doesn't show css layouts correctly. If you have a link to your site that would probably help. On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:33 PM, Cory Perry wrote: Hey everyone, I having a problem with my CSS formatting when viewed in a browser compared

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting Issues:

2006-01-20 Thread david
Cory Perry wrote: Hey everyone, I having a problem with my CSS formatting when viewed in a browser compared to how I have it layed out in Dreamweaver 8. In DW8, it is layed out perfectly and I can read everything just fine. When you view the CSS code in the browser however, it is all over