Re: [css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-08 Thread Alan Gresley
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Nov 8, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: 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

Re: [css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-08 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Nov 8, 2010, at 9:31 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: zoom triggers haslayout; without it, you inline element wouldn't take a 'width' (width would only trigger haslayout, but would otherwise be ignored, that is the inline element would remain at its intrinsic width -

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] evenly spacing

2010-11-08 Thread David Laakso
On 11/7/10 9:17 PM, David McGlone wrote: this is the site: http://dmcentral.net/simple/ How could I evenly space the links, I've tried using padding, margin, width and not a thing happens for some reason. A contribution to the list noise.:-) Are you trying to do something like this?

Re: [css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On 11/7/10 8:51 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: David McGlone wrote: [...] 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

Re: [css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-08 Thread David McGlone
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 14:01 -0800, David Hucklesby wrote: On 11/7/10 8:51 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: David McGlone wrote: [...] 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

[css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-07 Thread David McGlone
Hello everyone While we were discussing how to check sites in the last topic Quirks compendium I was replying to Michael Geary about browsershots and browswerlabs I had to run myself through browserlabs to accurately describe what I was trying to explain and I came across a couple problems with a

Re: [css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-07 Thread Alan Gresley
David McGlone wrote: Hello everyone While we were discussing how to check sites in the last topic Quirks compendium I was replying to Michael Geary about browsershots and browswerlabs I had to run myself through browserlabs to accurately describe what I was trying to explain and I came across a

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] evenly spacing

2010-11-07 Thread Alan Gresley
Thierry Koblentz wrote: 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

Re: [css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-07 Thread Alan Gresley
Alan Gresley wrote: Thierry Koblentz wrote: Hi Alan, [snip] For a ul or ol, display: inline-block will render the list items vertical in IE7-. There are two options that are cross browser friendly. 1. Setting display: inline on this lis and setting the as to display: block in which a

Re: [css-d] evenly spacing

2010-11-07 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Nov 8, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: 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;}