[css-d] float help in IE6/7

2008-10-07 Thread Dan Katz
Hi folks, Please take a look at the header of this site: http://ecosphere-services.com Looks fine in firefox, but in IE6 and 7 the locations/phone numbers spread out. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Dan Katz http://www.linkedin.com/in/mtndan

Re: [css-d] float help in IE6/7

2008-10-07 Thread Serge Krul
Hi, I would try to set a width on div#locations (218px or so). Serge Krul __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies

[css-d] Site check please - DAC

2008-10-07 Thread Peter Hyde-Smith
10/06/2008 Would appreciate a general site check, please, especially in IE6. No breakage issues in OS and browsers noted below. I am also interested to know if the Gilder/Levin image replacement in the header is working. If it isn't, you'll see plain text *The Drug Affected Children Website* (it

Re: [css-d] float help in IE6/7

2008-10-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Dan Katz wrote: Please take a look at the header of this site: http://ecosphere-services.com IE can't shrink width to content on floats when the content is floats. Thus, IE needs a declared width on #locations. That width must be in 'em' to accommodate font-resizing, but because you have

Re: [css-d] Site check please - DAC

2008-10-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Peter Hyde-Smith wrote: Would appreciate a general site check, please, especially in IE6. No breakage issues in OS and browsers noted below. I am also interested to know if the Gilder/Levin image replacement in the header is working. Ok in IE6.

[css-d] IE position problem

2008-10-07 Thread JGardner
Hello, I posted this last week but did not receive any replies. I have since tried to work on it some more but I have not found the solution, so I thought I would try again. I am trying to convert this site from tables to a CSS layout and am having problems with the positioning of the

Re: [css-d] IE position problem

2008-10-07 Thread Serge Krul
Hi, for the left search box you need to reset the top margin of the form (IE has different defaults than FF): #topNavContainer form { margin-top:0; } (you can also drop the non-semantic br after the preceding span, form is a block level element) for the left navigation: on my screen i see

Re: [css-d] Site check please - DAC

2008-10-07 Thread David Laakso
Peter Hyde-Smith wrote: 10/06/2008 Would appreciate a general site check, please, especially in IE6. No breakage issues in OS and browsers noted below. I am also interested to know if the Gilder/Levin image replacement in the header is working. Peter O.K. Mac OS X 10.4.11 Opera,

Re: [css-d] IE position problem

2008-10-07 Thread Serge Krul
Hi, In CSS there are properties that are inherited (such as the font-family property) and some that are not. Padding is not inherited [ http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html#padding-properties]http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html#padding-properties To zero padding on all elements you could use the

Re: [css-d] IE position problem

2008-10-07 Thread JGardner
Thank you! I do have a question though. I thought by setting the padding and margin to 0 in the body that it removed all margins through out the document. I am surmising from the fix you sent below that is not true. Can someone clear this up for me? Thank you, Jennifer JGardner Designs

Re: [css-d] IE position problem

2008-10-07 Thread Alan K Baker
Jennifer. Setting padding and margin to 0 in 'body' will globally remove all padding and margins until you change the situation. That is, if you do nothing else to padding or margins, they will never appear. As soon as you define a class or id and change its padding and/or margin, that

[css-d] Overflow and no

2008-10-07 Thread Jack Blankenships
Any ideas on how to have an element's overflow property apply to some children but not to others? For example, I have a div that contains a table/grid that I want to have set to overflow: auto on a specific height. This way the results stay within a specific set of dimensions and do not push

[css-d] validating css to account for accessibilty

2008-10-07 Thread Jen Strickland
Hello! I've validated my code, and wanted to be tidy and validate my css, so I tried using http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ ... and it validates, but has warnings. I understand why, but it's so confusing how all the background-colors need to be accounted for. Is there some handy-dandy

[css-d] Questions regarding how to make selected li red with css

2008-10-07 Thread Laura
Hi Everyone... I have two questions and I'm hoping someone here might know the answers... I'm not that experienced with css, and am very curious if anyone out here would know how I can achieve the effect of highlighting the selected item on my list in red instead of blue. The page is at

Re: [css-d] Questions regarding how to make selected li red with css

2008-10-07 Thread David Laakso
Laura wrote: I'm not that experienced with css, and am very curious if anyone out here would know how I can achieve the effect of highlighting the selected item on my list in red instead of blue. The page is at http://www.octos.org/ooth/2new.htm This should do that-- #navcontainer

Re: [css-d] validating css to account for accessibilty

2008-10-07 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Jen Strickland wrote: Hello! I've validated my code, and wanted to be tidy and validate my css, so I tried using http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ ... and it validates, but has warnings. I understand why, but it's so confusing how all the background-colors need to be accounted for.

Re: [css-d] Questions regarding how to make selected li red with css

2008-10-07 Thread David Laakso
Laura wrote: hi David, That did change the color, but when the page changes on the other side the red goes away. Perhaps I did not explain it right, but when they look at the document, they can't really tell where there are since the querystring doesn't change to reflect the page... Do you

Re: [css-d] IE position problem

2008-10-07 Thread Alyda Gilmore
I think it's a bit more complicated than that. I found this statement online: There are some cases where the inner selector does not inherit the surrounding selector's values, but these should stand out logically. For example, the margin-top property is not inherited; intuitively, a paragraph

Re: [css-d] Questions regarding how to make selected li red with css

2008-10-07 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Laura wrote: Are there any hints for having the script tag elements validate or will they always give errors? Short answer: put the script in question in an external script imported with the src attribute rather than inline. Longer answer, read: * XHTML 1.0 specification on Script and Style

Re: [css-d] Overflow and no

2008-10-07 Thread Ingo Chao
Jack Blankenships wrote: Any ideas on how to have an element's overflow property apply to some children but not to others? For example, I have a div that contains a table/grid that I want to have set to overflow: auto on a specific height. This way the results stay within a specific set

[css-d] Website Browser issues and Coder??

2008-10-07 Thread EDWARD F KELLEY
Hello, I am new to this ground and fully understanding the coding world. I hired coders through rentacoder.com, and they have been very difficult with me. Several months ago I mentioned that my site looked different on my friends computer. They told me that it was her computer settings and

Re: [css-d] Website Browser issues and Coder??

2008-10-07 Thread Alexandru Dinulescu
Hello. There are many people who are scammers and poor coders on RentACoder and people may be difficult with you HOWEVER Lets take it point it by point. 1) Yes your site may look different on your friends computer, also it may be because of her settings/ Operating System/Browser. Normally this

Re: [css-d] Website Browser issues and Coder??

2008-10-07 Thread Chris Akins
How does any of this have anything to do with this list's reason for existence? On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Alexandru Dinulescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. There are many people who are scammers and poor coders on RentACoder and people may be difficult with you HOWEVER Lets take it

Re: [css-d] Website Browser issues and Coder??

2008-10-07 Thread David Laakso
EDWARD F KELLEY wrote: Hello, I am new to this ground and fully understanding the coding world. Please provide me with a link to your site(send it to me off-list) and I will take a look at it and see if there is anything I can do.

Re: [css-d] Website Browser issues and Coder??

2008-10-07 Thread Chike Loney
Dude, who cares? This has nothing to do with this list vent your grouses elsewhere Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device available from bmobile. -Original Message- From: Alexandru Dinulescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 01:24:06 To: EDWARD F KELLEY[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: [css-d] Site check please - DAC *round 2*

2008-10-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Peter Hyde-Smith wrote: http://www.fatpawdesign.com/DAC/DACproducts.html All: Thanks for the look-see and feed-back. Georg: I think I have the transparent borders issue fixed. Would you please make another quick check? Borders ok. IE6 need a little bit more help though. 1: There's the

[css-d] x-tra padding and squished graphic

2008-10-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi! In IE7, this page: http://www.blackfootchallenge.org/rebeccatest/test3.html shows about an extra 10 px padding to the right of the Accomplishments sidebar on the right of the page. Also, the icon of the blue wave in the box where it says SUBSCRIBE Stay Informed on the left is squished

Re: [css-d] x-tra padding and squished graphic

2008-10-07 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In IE7, this page: http://www.blackfootchallenge.org/rebeccatest/test3.html shows about an extra 10 px padding to the right of the Accomplishments sidebar on the right of the page. Will look much better if you delete this... #righttable { padding-left: 0;

Re: [css-d] Overflow and no

2008-10-07 Thread Bob Rosenberg
At 11:14 AM -0600 on 10/7/08, Jack Blankenships wrote about [css-d] Overflow and no: Any ideas on how to have an element's overflow property apply to some children but not to others? For example, I have a div that contains a table/grid that I want to have set to overflow: auto on a specific