[css-d] Newbie has big CSS AND cross browser issues

2011-07-19 Thread Bobbi Ashley
Let me preface this with I am certainly not knowledgeable with website writing. At http://www.oneafricasafaris.com/index4.html I have a brown, yellow bordered strip that is supposed to contain a menu. BUT: I can't get the menu centered. In Firefox the text in the container beneath the

Re: [css-d] Newbie has big CSS AND cross browser issues

2011-07-19 Thread Alex Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Bobbi Ashley roberta.ash...@comcast.netwrote: Let me preface this with I am certainly not knowledgeable with website writing. At http://www.oneafricasafaris.com/index4.html I have a brown, yellow bordered strip that is supposed to contain a menu. BUT: I

Re: [css-d] Newbie has big CSS AND cross browser issues

2011-07-19 Thread David Laakso
On 7/19/11 4:47 PM, Bobbi Ashley wrote: At http://www.oneafricasafaris.com/index4.html I have a brown, yellow bordered strip that is supposed to contain a menu. BUT: I can't get the menu centered. In Firefox the text in the container beneath the strip is centered (left aligned) but in

[css-d] Newbie Building Boxes

2010-06-19 Thread Victor Subervi
Hi; I'm new to CSS2. I'm trying to build a box of a specific size in which I can: 1) Have a border color 2) Have rounded corners on the inside edge of that border 3) Have a background color within the inside edge 4) Place text that could scroll and must wrap within the inside border and

Re: [css-d] Newbie Building Boxes

2010-06-19 Thread David Laakso
Victor Subervi wrote: Hi; I'm new to CSS2. I'm trying to build a box of a specific size in which I can: It looks like the lower left box with the Lorem Ipsum text here: http://creative.vi/clients/crucian-edu-template.jpg Victor If the rounded corners, and cross-browser

Re: [css-d] Newbie Building Boxes

2010-06-19 Thread Victor Subervi
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:32 PM, David Laakso da...@chelseacreekstudio.com wrote: If the rounded corners, and cross-browser compatibility, are client requirements-- positioning background images using CSS is probably your best bet [for now, at least]. This is relatively easy to do

Re: [css-d] Newbie Building Boxes

2010-06-19 Thread Claude Needham
This is relatively easy to do /tableless/. Construct a CSS box with a dark-blue background-color. Nest a light-blue CSS rounded-corner box inside it. This is one of a zillion ways it might be done: http://green-beast.com/experiments/css_smart_corners.php Best, ~d Thanks for posting this

[css-d] Newbie Asks for General Guru Check

2009-07-09 Thread MEM
Hello again list, We always can do better and better, this is my second css layout, so I know it's mediocre, anyway: By having a look, and without changing the structure, here: http://www.cantinho.org/pt/cantinho-site/layout9_ups_6.html Knowing that it will never be perfect, what optimizations

[css-d] Newbie needs help with menu

2009-02-20 Thread Bobbi Ashley
I borrowed this menu from Stu Nickols at http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/final_drop.html It works fine in Firefox but IE only displays half of it. Anyone have any suggestions? My problematic one is at http://www.stillpointtheatrecollective.org/obamadesign/menustunickolsmenubar.html

Re: [css-d] Newbie needs help with menu

2009-02-20 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Bobbi Ashley wrote: http://www.stillpointtheatrecollective.org/obamadesign/menustunickolsmenubar.html It works fine in Firefox but IE only displays half of it. IE6, you mean? Looks like your markup is faulty...

Re: [css-d] Newbie question

2009-02-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mark Blondin wrote: www.datawisestorage.com My question is, would it be easier to start from scratch or convert the existing site to CSS? Definitely better, although not necessarily easier - especially if it is your first attempt on CSS layouts, to start from scratch. You have what looks

[css-d] Newbie question

2009-02-04 Thread Mark Blondin
Hello, I am undertaking a redo of my Website: www.datawisestorage.com . It currently has a tables base to it and I want to convert to CSS, add a menu, and expand it generally. My question is, would it be easier to start from scratch or convert the existing site to CSS? Thanks, Mark

[css-d] Newbie Resolve IE sizes to othe

2008-11-26 Thread tony
Georg/David, Thanks for your responses. My starting out objective was liquid (within limits) width. Each layout conflict resulted in loss of liquid width until this iteration when I gave up on liquid width. Coming new to HTML CSS in my ignorance I had thought layout and content was the major

Re: [css-d] Newbie Resolve IE sizes to othe

2008-11-26 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
tony wrote: Coming new to HTML CSS in my ignorance I had thought layout and content was the major concern. Content is important. Layout should carry content without getting in the way ... too much. With your 'gentle' proddings I now realise that understanding the limitations of CSS and

[css-d] Newbie Resolve IE sizes to other

2008-11-24 Thread tony
Hi, Sorted a layout in IE7 and passed validation but layout in Gecko fell apart - width issues. So resolved layout in Gecko but now IE7 fails to match as can be seen at: http://www.somersetspiess.co.uk/trialScene2.html Can anyone please suggest how I bring IE7 layout back into line. Reconciled

Re: [css-d] Newbie Resolve IE sizes to other

2008-11-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
tony wrote: Sorted a layout in IE7 and passed validation but layout in Gecko fell apart - width issues. So resolved layout in Gecko but now IE7 fails to match as can be seen at: http://www.somersetspiess.co.uk/trialScene2.html Can anyone please suggest how I bring IE7 layout back into

Re: [css-d] Newbie Resolve IE sizes to other

2008-11-24 Thread tony
starting In_ is not visible. Tony -Original Message- From: Gunlaug Sørtun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 November 2008 15:20 To: tony Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Newbie Resolve IE sizes to other tony wrote: Sorted a layout in IE7 and passed validation

Re: [css-d] Newbie Resolve IE sizes to other

2008-11-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
tony wrote: My starting objective was, beneath a fixed banner (code not included), to arrange between 2 lines of h2 a bank of images aligned with 3 boxes of text which would all be visible (before scrolling to following images), hence initially I set the ContainerBoth height. You mean you

Re: [css-d] Newbie Resolve IE sizes to other

2008-11-24 Thread David Laakso
tony wrote: Hi, Sorted a layout in IE7 and passed validation but layout in Gecko fell apart - width issues. So resolved layout in Gecko but now IE7 fails to match as can be seen at: http://www.somersetspiess.co.uk/trialScene2.html Can anyone please suggest how I bring IE7 layout back into

[css-d] Newbie text ghosts and alignment

2008-11-11 Thread tony
Hi, I have run into a number of problems as can been seen: http://www.somersetspiess.co.uk/xmas.html Within a Div are many Div's which each contain an image and comment each in a limited range of sizes. Right at the bottom (in IE7 and around 1971-2 and '69) ghost text -partial comment -and a

Re: [css-d] Newbie text ghosts and alignment

2008-11-11 Thread David Laakso
tony wrote: I have run into a number of problems as can been seen: http://www.somersetspiess.co.uk/xmas.html Tony Might be a good idea to start by validating the markup. Compare your page in IE/7 (and IE/6) to Opera.

[css-d] Newbie question on IE 7 menu bug

2008-10-16 Thread MJ Kewley
I am working on a template for the redesign of my city's website. I'm using Bill Brown's 'The Holier Grail' as the base css for the framework, and have added one of Stu Nicholl's menus. It works beautifully in FF, but not in IE 7 (haven't tested 6 yet). I'm wondering if someone could point me

Re: [css-d] Newbie question on IE 7 menu bug

2008-10-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
MJ Kewley wrote: ... I'm wondering if someone could point me to which one of the 170 or so IE 7 bugs I might be dealing with here: http://dev.greatergreenville.com/csstesting/default3column.aspx Stu Nicholl's menu isn't complete for IE7. Add... .globalmenu ul li { position: relative; }

Re: [css-d] Newbie problem with templates

2008-10-06 Thread Edward Collier
Many thanks to Georg and David, who both pointed me in the right direction! Edward __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List

[css-d] Newbie problem with templates

2008-10-03 Thread Edward Collier
My background is mainly ASP.NET, where I've generally been writing the C#, SQL and VB behind other people's designs. I've recently become more interested in the design side using pure CSS and I'm trying to get a simple version to work. I've borrowed and hacked a style sheet from BlueRobot.

Re: [css-d] Newbie problem with templates

2008-10-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Edward Collier wrote: http://www.btinternet.com/~edandmill/Shared/default.htm This is the page based on the template below. As you can see, the text flows behind the menu, which is ... ahem ... sub-optimal. Element with ID=Content missing in template, so styles not applied. Should be...

Re: [css-d] Newbie problem with templates

2008-10-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Edward Collier wrote: That solves the problem of the text flowing UNDER the floating menu, but when it reaches the bottom of the menu it doesn't widen out to occupy the space below the menu Change from absolute positioning to float, and trim the right margin on #Content...

Re: [css-d] Newbie problem with templates

2008-10-03 Thread David Laakso
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Edward Collier wrote: http://www.btinternet.com/~edandmill/Shared/default.htm This is the page based on the template below. As you can see, the text flows behind the menu, which is ... ahem ... sub-optimal. Element with ID=Content missing in template, so

Re: [css-d] Newbie problem with templates

2008-10-03 Thread Edward Collier
Georg wrote: quote Edward Collier wrote: http://www.btinternet.com/~edandmill/Shared/default.htm This is the page based on the template below. As you can see, the text flows behind the menu, which is ... ahem ... sub-optimal. Element with ID=Content missing in template, so styles not

[css-d] newbie

2008-03-01 Thread Tamara
Hi, my name's Tamara (Tam for short), and I'm new here...and new to css.. well, aside from the simple stuff you can do in Dreamweaver, that is. I look forward to learning a lot from this group, it was recommended to me by Dawn. -- Tam

Re: [css-d] newbie

2008-03-01 Thread Hakan K
Tam, Welcome to this listing group... Do you use any tutorial ? Hakan http://dominor.com On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Tamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, my name's Tamara (Tam for short), and I'm new here...and new to css.. well, aside from the simple stuff you can do in

Re: [css-d] newbie

2008-03-01 Thread Tamara
to learn more about coding the html file and css together. -- Tam ---Original Message--- From: Hakan K Date: 2/03/2008 9:10:34 AM To: Tamara Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] newbie Tam, Welcome to this listing group... Do you use any tutorial

Re: [css-d] newbie

2008-03-01 Thread Jack Timmons
Greetings both. I recommend the tutorials over at HTMLDog.com http://www.htmldog.com. Helped me brush up on CSS way back when I was getting into table-less designs. -Jack Timmons On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Hakan K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tam, Welcome to this listing group...

Re: [css-d] newbie

2008-03-01 Thread Tamara
Many thanks, Jack, have added this one to my bookmarks. -- Tam ---Original Message--- Greetings both. I recommend the tutorials over at HTMLDog.com http://www.htmldog.com. Helped me brush up on CSS way back when I was getting into table-less designs. -Jack Timmons

[css-d] Newbie with img jump/shift problem in IE7 (and more)

2008-02-28 Thread ~Deanna
Thank you for allowing me to join your list today. I am a novice when it comes to CSS, and am thankful that this list exists for people like me who don't have a great deal of experience. My knowledge of CSS is limited, especially if trying to code by hand, so I have the best luck modifying

Re: [css-d] Newbie with img jump/shift problem in IE7 (and more)

2008-02-28 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
~Deanna wrote: [...] http://rscott259.home.mchsi.com/test.html I hope someone here has some idea of what is causing these images to jump left (not all the images on the page do this, ie: the rotating image above the thumbnails stays put). I hope someone knows how to fix the affected

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS questions

2008-02-14 Thread AJ Putnam
Thanks, Georg! So, I did what you indicated. I went and removed all a:p from the style sheet. Really messed with my layout. i added your short bit of code to the top and it helped marginally. so, i am still at a loss. Demo page: http://ajputnam.com.sky/discography and one of the original

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS questions

2008-02-14 Thread AJ Putnam
ah ha! that was my problem - I realize now the alignments/placements re in relation to each other where before they were in relation to the outer edges of the table. thank you! I've done them all but still have one tiny problem that i cannot figure out. the pages all look fine in Dreamweaver,

[css-d] newbie CSS questions

2008-02-13 Thread AJ Putnam
Greetings, Have just joined this list and am looking for insight into a couple of problems I am having. I have been building websites for years, but this is my first attempt to use CSS heavily as a design/layout tool. Mostly, I have been able to figure it out but have two problems that are just

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS questions

2008-02-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
AJ Putnam wrote: http://ajputnam.com/sky/ontour as you can see, the content table just sort of hangs over the lower edge. 1: delete _all_ instances of 'position: absolute', or else you'll get nowhere. Absolute positioned elements are treated as if they do not take up any space, so the

Re: [css-d] newbie CSS questions

2008-02-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
AJ Putnam wrote: So, I did what you indicated. I went and removed all a:p from the style sheet. Really messed with my layout. i added your short bit of code to the top and it helped marginally. so, i am still at a loss. Delete that short bit of code now, as it was only for

[css-d] newbie question | css drop down

2007-12-28 Thread conner huff
Hello all, I am in search of someone who knows more about this stuff than me. I have one CSS button that I want to just simply copy and paste inside this table with image buttons. But I am not having much luck. Here's the code: html titleconner huff/title style #menuh-container {

Re: [css-d] newbie question | css drop down

2007-12-28 Thread dg
this works on mac, might need some checking for win and a little editing to fit in right !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd; html head titleUntitled/title meta name=generator content=BBEdit 8.7 style

Re: [css-d] Newbie overlapping graphics

2007-11-07 Thread Eystein Alnaes
http://www.yourwebdna.com/runyan/ The background graphic should be at the top and centered about 10pixels down. I don't understand why the whole thing gets pushed down the page just to overlap the front div. In the html you'd want to get rid of your #headingbackground div, and set the

[css-d] Newbie overlapping graphics

2007-11-07 Thread David Ellsworth
Greetings, What I'd like to do is have a div that eventually is on a front layer that displays a flash graphic transition. What's there now is a simple headhsot graphic. http://www.yourwebdna.com/runyan/ The background graphic should be at the top and centered about 10pixels down. I don't

[css-d] Newbie overlapping graphics

2007-11-07 Thread David Ellsworth
Greetings, What I'd like to do is have a div that eventually is on a front layer that displays a flash graphic transition. What's there now is a simple headhsot graphic. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Newbie

2007-10-22 Thread Phil Tobias
On Oct 22, 2007, at 5:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dreamweaver, like other GUI web development environments, lies to you about how your page looks - visitors don't browse the web with Dreamweaver. Also, you will eventually find yourself in a situation where there's a problem in your site

Re: [css-d] Newbie

2007-10-21 Thread Phil Tobias
On Oct 20, 2007, at 11:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is Dreamweaver acceptable or am I better off (as a beginner) going down a different route ? and finally, the most asked question in the world ... what resource to use to learn ? Dreamweaver is a fine authoring environment. It lets you

Re: [css-d] Newbie

2007-10-21 Thread david
Phil Tobias wrote: On Oct 20, 2007, at 11:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is Dreamweaver acceptable or am I better off (as a beginner) going down a different route ? and finally, the most asked question in the world ... what resource to use to learn ? Dreamweaver is a fine authoring

[css-d] Newbie

2007-10-20 Thread ROGER BURTON
Hi ... I am getting really confused now so maybe the knowledge here can give me some much needed guidance. I am a broadcast designer After effects /Photoshop etc and after recent redundancy feel that web design is the way to go. I got an excellent training dvd from Total Training and have

Re: [css-d] Newbie

2007-10-20 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: ROGER BURTON wrote: Hi ... I am getting really confused now so maybe the knowledge here can give me some much needed guidance. ..trimmed]. Regards Roger Opinions abound and in the end I suppose we go with what works best for us in any given situation. Since I

Re: [css-d] Newbie

2007-10-20 Thread Rick Faircloth
-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] Newbie Hi ... I am getting really confused now so maybe the knowledge here can give me some much needed guidance. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d

[css-d] newbie help please

2007-10-12 Thread joyfulevents
Hello people I am very new to this forum or indeed any forum so forgive any protocol errors, I did read the list but unsure about some things. I am fairly new to css, relied on Dreamweaver usually but after reading lots of articles and visiting some great css sites (in particular css/edge and

Re: [css-d] newbie help please

2007-10-12 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello people I am very new to this forum or indeed any forum so forgive any protocol errors, I did read the list but unsure about some things. I am fairly new to css, relied on Dreamweaver usually but after reading lots of articles and visiting some great css sites

Re: [css-d] newbie help please

2007-10-12 Thread Peter Hyde-Smith
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 6:58 PM Subject: [css-d] newbie help please I want to convert! I re-wrote a table based site and although both the html and css validates in w3 and despite it looking

Re: [css-d] newbie help please

2007-10-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://fruvenu.com.au/index.htm I have no idea how it looks on a Mac or a larger screen. Looks pretty interesting on 1280, 1600, 2400 and 3800 wide screens/browser-windows :-) It spreads out in bits and pieces, since so many dimensions are relative to window-width.

Re: [css-d] newbie help please

2007-10-12 Thread Steve Olive
On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:58:26 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello people I am very new to this forum or indeed any forum so forgive any protocol errors, I did read the list but unsure about some things. I am fairly new to css, relied on Dreamweaver usually but after reading lots of articles and

[css-d] newbie questions

2007-10-10 Thread Ross
Hey everyone. I'm new to the css-discuss community. Thanks for helping me with these two super-simple newbie questions. I use DW8. 1. On this page http://adswebsite.net/yahoo-search-versus-google-adwords, on the right column where it says More AdsWebsite Guides and below that, the colored

Re: [css-d] newbie questions

2007-10-10 Thread Walt F. Schaefer
1. On this page http://adswebsite.net/yahoo-search-versus-google-adwords.html, on the right column where it says More AdsWebsite Guides and below that, the colored cells/rows are taller than I want. How can I keep them about the same height as the text for each cell? On this page: html

[css-d] Newbie Help - Header will not show up

2007-04-12 Thread Rebecca Wilczenski
Hi there. This is my first post, so please bear with me. I've been forced to re-design my company's website. I thought everything was looking ok (they don't care about how it validates, they wanted it NOW) so I launched the site. I just love this place... Could someone please be so kind to

Re: [css-d] Newbie Help - Header will not show up

2007-04-12 Thread Glenn E. Lanier, II
From: Rebecca Wilczenski Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:29 AM Hi there. This is my first post, so please bear with me. I've been forced to re-design my company's website. I thought everything was looking ok (they don't care about how it validates, they wanted it NOW) so I launched the

Re: [css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-25 Thread Beth Lee
On 2/25/07, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beth Lee wrote: http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/index.htm Myself: I tend to reduce support for older versions after a few years, *when* there are at least a couple of later (and hopefully improved) versions of that particular browser

Re: [css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Beth Lee wrote: [...] And now, thanks to you and the various articles I've read on the Internet about the subject, I have a better idea about doctypes and the serving of those doctypes. That's good. Keep on studying. http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/index.htm [...] But there's extra space

Re: [css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-19 Thread francky
Beth Lee wrote: [...] This test site page is here: http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/index.htm and the css is here: http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/css/main.css [...] 3. The three main boxes are not centered. Don't know why. What's the best way to address that? And help with these problems, or

Re: [css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-19 Thread Beth Lee
On 2/18/07, ~davidLaakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beth Lee wrote: This test site page is here: http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/index.htm and the css is here: http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/css/main.css In FF2, I'd like a little more room above the text in the quote div, but if I add even

Re: [css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-19 Thread ~davidLaakso
Beth Lee wrote: Thanks for the reply. It works beautifully. I wish I knew why. I looked at margin-collapsing, but I couldn't figure which margins could be collapsing. I thought the applicable divs all had 0 top and bottom margins. What would be a more suitable doctype? A link to a good

Re: [css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Beth Lee wrote: What would be a more suitable doctype? A link to a good explanation would be helpful. (This is a web certification project, and the course instructs us to use this doctype, so I'm not sure I can change it on this website, but I'd like to know the pros and cons for the

[css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-18 Thread Beth Lee
Hi, I'm still working on my first CSS website, and struggling with some very simple CSS problems on a very simple web page ... I think. This test site page is here: http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/index.htm and the css is here: http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/css/main.css In FF2, I'd like a little

Re: [css-d] Newbie CSS callibeth website questions

2007-02-18 Thread ~davidLaakso
Beth Lee wrote: This test site page is here: http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/index.htm and the css is here: http://www.callibeth.com/dev2/css/main.css In FF2, I'd like a little more room above the text in the quote div, but if I add even 1px of top padding, the quote div height expands from

[css-d] newbie

2007-01-04 Thread Substance Digital Media
Hi Everyone, I a new to this CSS learning thing so any tips to start would be great! I was just wondering if you might be able to advise on best methods of checking across all browsers - as i am on a PC with latest version of IE. Cheers everyone and Happy New Year! Andy -- This message has

Re: [css-d] newbie

2007-01-04 Thread Mandy Covington
Message - From: Substance Digital Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: css list css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:18 PM Subject: [css-d] newbie Hi Everyone, I a new to this CSS learning thing so any tips to start would be great! I was just wondering if you might

Re: [css-d] newbie

2007-01-04 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 1/4/07, Mandy Covington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm also fairly new to it all so welcome - nice to know other newbies. For inspiration and learning the finer arts of css visit www.csszengarden.com. For free browser checking I found http://browsershots.org brilliant which I

Re: [css-d] Newbie question

2006-12-06 Thread Devon Miller
On 12/4/06, Suzanne Bernard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just started teaching myself CSS over the last month or so. I've also recently put up the website for the New York Cactus Succulent Society, and I'm completely baffled by something. All the pages have a div with the class

Re: [css-d] Newbie question

2006-12-04 Thread Devon Miller
On 12/4/06, Suzanne Bernard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just started teaching myself CSS over the last month or so. I've also recently put up the website for the New York Cactus Succulent Society, and I'm completely baffled by something. All the pages have a div with the class

Re: [css-d] Newbie to CSS in need of some general advice

2006-11-15 Thread david
David Hucklesby wrote: On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:57:40 -, Lee Bettridge wrote: I am writing a small web app (for webTV) which will display a crosshair image, which the user can move around the screen using the remote control. [...] [snips] Hi Lee, Speaking for myself, I would say I am

Re: [css-d] Newbie to CSS in need of some general advice

2006-11-15 Thread Lee Bettridge
There are some good browsers in the market now which run on IPTV boxes, along with Microsoft's webTV browser. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of david Sent: 14 November 2006 20:11 To: css-d Subject: Re: [css-d] Newbie to CSS in need of some

[css-d] Newbie to CSS in need of some general advice

2006-11-14 Thread Lee Bettridge
Hi, I am writing a small web app (for webTV) which will display a crosshair image, which the user can move around the screen using the remote control. My question is one of the general approach to the css design. I need a table of fixed size to hold the crosshair image, movement being

Re: [css-d] Newbie to CSS in need of some general advice

2006-11-14 Thread David Hucklesby
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:57:40 -, Lee Bettridge wrote: I am writing a small web app (for webTV) which will display a crosshair image, which the user can move around the screen using the remote control. [...] My usual approach would be to simply write the table in html with an image tag

Re: [css-d] Newbie to CSS in need of some general advice

2006-11-14 Thread Bradley Wright
On 14/11/2006 17:43, David Hucklesby wrote: On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:57:40 -, Lee Bettridge wrote: I am writing a small web app (for webTV) which will display a crosshair image, which the user can move around the screen using the remote control. [...] Does TV support: selector for

[css-d] Newbie question re: viewing css-d messages

2006-10-17 Thread j
I have not visited css-d for a long time and I see that it is now on a new message board. Where do I go to view the list messages? I can see my account settings at http://lists.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d The PUBLIC link lists the lasts 40 messages with a date of 2005

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-26 Thread Roger Roelofs
Mark, On Sep 25, 2006, at 11:19 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: On 9/25/06, bill scheider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've modified and used the form found on Stu Nichols site with good results. It can be found here: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/form.html What I do need is two rectangles with

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-26 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 9/26/06, Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow I missed the first message in this thread. If I missed the point, let me know and I'll try again. Thanks for your reply. Take a look at the sample page, which I linked in that message you missed: http://www.thereeds.org/css/test.html

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-26 Thread Roger Roelofs
Mark, On Sep 26, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote: On 9/26/06, Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow I missed the first message in this thread. If I missed the point, let me know and I'll try again. Thanks for your reply. Take a look at the sample page, which I linked in

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-26 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 9/26/06, Roger Roelofs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've emailed you a sample file off-list Looks great. Thanks! -- Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-25 Thread Mark J. Reed
This is a really dumb question, but so far the solutions I've come up with have felt more hackish than the original. I have this form which I'm trying to clean up. Here's a minimal version of the basic idea: http://www.thereeds.org/css/test.html The look is fine, if minimalist, but I dislike

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-25 Thread bill scheider
This is a really dumb question, but so far the solutions I've come up with have felt more hackish than the original. I have this form which I'm trying to clean up. Here's a minimal version of the basic idea: http://www.thereeds.org/css/test.html The look is fine, if minimalist, but I dislike

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-25 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 9/25/06, bill scheider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've modified and used the form found on Stu Nichols site with good results. It can be found here: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/form.html Thanks for the link! My question isn't really about styling forms, though. I don't mind using a table

[css-d] newbie float mystery: not lining up correctly

2006-08-31 Thread JC
Sorry if this problem is perfectly obvious to most, but it's a mystery to me. I'm trying to get 3 vertical boxes floating horizontally, and something in my code is not working right. Looks fine in Dreamweaver (mostly hand-css, some DW edited from other sources, not entirely cleaned up or sources

Re: [css-d] newbie float mystery: not lining up correctly

2006-08-31 Thread Glenn E. Lanier, II
From: JC Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:28 AM I'm trying to get 3 vertical boxes floating horizontally, and something in my code is not working right. The nav box on the left works fine. The highlights box on the right works fine. The box in the middle sinks to the bottom-- not where

Re: [css-d] Newbie seeking layout examples to study

2006-08-29 Thread Donna Jones
I've been working for about 2 days straight trying to get a fairly straightforward alignment set up (left navigation top header that runs the width of the page starting after left nav middle part of page (under header) right side of page (narrow margin) and footer) Hi Anne: Are

Re: [css-d] Newbie seeking layout examples to study

2006-08-29 Thread Mark Henderson
I would like to know if someone can point me to some sites that have a basic 3 column layout with header and footers where I can study the code? Thank you! I missed the earlier part of this thread, but try the layout gala: http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/ If you want a better explanation

Re: [css-d] Newbie Question about Vertical Positioning

2006-08-23 Thread Wes Gamble
Bob, I think that you need to absolutely position your content DIV to get this behavior. So if the content DIV is contained within the menu DIV (unlikely), then you could set position: relative on the menu div and set position: absolute; top: your offset value on the content DIV. If the menu

Re: [css-d] Newbie Question about Vertical Positioning

2006-08-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robert Tilley wrote: My page has a horizontal menu bar at the top of the window. There is a maximum depth to which the menus drop. I would like to have my div id=content section positioned vertically below that depth, so that the text is not covered when the menus drop. Its a helpful

[css-d] Newbie seeking layout examples to study

2006-08-23 Thread Anne E. Shroeder
I've been working for about 2 days straight trying to get a fairly straightforward alignment set up (left navigation top header that runs the width of the page starting after left nav middle part of page (under header) right side of page (narrow margin) and footer) I've learned a great deal and

Re: [css-d] Newbie seeking layout examples to study

2006-08-23 Thread david
Anne E. Shroeder wrote: I've been working for about 2 days straight trying to get a fairly straightforward alignment set up (left navigation top header that runs the width of the page starting after left nav middle part of page (under header) right side of page (narrow margin) and footer)

Re: [css-d] newbie question re: having two different link colors

2006-07-06 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Scott Swabey wrote: Shirley Harshenin wrote: I am working on a page that has both light and dark backgrounds therefore need two different colors for links (dark color link for light bg, light color link for dark bg). HOW do I code that? I've tried creating a new style (in CSS) but the

[css-d] newbie question re: having two different link colors

2006-07-05 Thread Shirley Harshenin
Hi! I am working on a page that has both light and dark backgrounds therefore need two different colors for links (dark color link for light bg, light color link for dark bg). HOW do I code that? I've tried creating a new style (in CSS) but the main content style over-rides it. :( I'm using

Re: [css-d] newbie question re: having two different link colors

2006-07-05 Thread Scott Swabey
Shirley Harshenin wrote: Hi! I am working on a page that has both light and dark backgrounds therefore need two different colors for links (dark color link for light bg, light color link for dark bg). HOW do I code that? I've tried creating a new style (in CSS) but the main content style

Re: [css-d] newbie question re: having two different link colors

2006-07-05 Thread Joe Huggins
What you need to do here is make your CSS more specific. You can do this by making a couple of new classes for each of these links. Something like: a .darkLink {color:some dark color;} a .lightLink {color:some light color;} Then in your HTML code: a href=someplace.htm class=darkLinkdark

[css-d] Newbie layout question

2006-04-17 Thread Mark Fellowes
This relates to the sideNav tag [see code below]   While it's in the right position, just typing into it extends it passed the width that's set. Do I need a rule for the p to control that or could it be done with the box alone ? html: body div id=page div id=mastheadContent for  id fd Goes

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