Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-15 Thread Tim Climis
I would imagine setting a browser minimum font size to bring (say) cnn.com back to 100% font size equivalent would have no effect on a site set to 100% font size; very little effect on one set to say 85%; but running the browser in some zoom mode to get cnn to 100% equiv would blow our

Re: [css-d] Layout still broken, new problems

2009-03-16 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:23:43 am Kim Brooks Wei wrote: Hi there People, I got my site to look the way I wish it to on my own Mac in Safari and FF but the layout seems broken in other environments. A friend using IE and another using FF told me that my type sits on top of the tiger and

Re: [css-d] unremovable img margin?

2009-03-20 Thread Tim Climis
When the answer was to delete space between the tags, I was shocked...but loading the source code and removing the spaces worked as advertised. Why does that white space count? It's because images are inline elements. Essentially, HTML treats an image as if it were a letter (that's what

Re: [css-d] 3 columns of text, but MINIMAL wrapping, possible?

2009-03-22 Thread Tim Climis
On Sunday, March 22, 2009 7:38:22 pm Scott Mueller wrote: I would think this is fairly common, but I can neither find a solution or figure one out :(. I just want 3 columns in my header like this (texts are just examples): Login/SignupWe are the bestLanguages |

Re: [css-d] Margins and Shorthand

2009-04-06 Thread Tim Climis
On Monday, April 6, 2009 7:08:13 pm Christopher R wrote: I used FireBugs layout method to adjust the margin on a div As most of us know margins work by top, right, buttom, left. Now using firebox I enter in 24 for the right margin, then I wrote the short hand for the div which I have in

Re: [css-d] :first-word?

2009-04-11 Thread Tim Climis
On Saturday, April 11, 2009 8:11:32 am you wrote: I would use a span - OR - it's a bit of a stretch for a definition list, but how about: dl dtQuestion or name(s) here:/dt ddAnswer or reply here/dd dtQuestion or name(s) here:/dt ddAnswer or reply here/dd /dl I'm actually

Re: [css-d] Taming definition lists

2009-05-25 Thread Tim Climis
On Monday, May 25, 2009 12:20:06 pm Benct Philip Jonsson wrote: I'm looking for a way to style definition list so that the terms run into the definition block like in a dictionary, floating or displaying your dt's inline would do it. so dl.dictionary dt { float: left; margin-right:

Re: [css-d] Image and border issues (in IE)

2009-05-29 Thread Tim Climis
On Friday, May 29, 2009 7:14:37 am Ester Muñoz wrote: Hello all. Long time reader, first time poster here. I'm developing a web course for a university, and I'm having a issue with the images in the pages. The course is behind password so I can't post the address. In Firefox, the images get

Re: [css-d] Is this CSS pop up possible?

2009-06-04 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, June 4, 2009 8:39:40 pm David Laakso wrote: John Fitzgerald wrote: Here is a visual aid. http://www.fitzio.com/alliedUrology/generalHealth.php Anything is possible. Even with the editor of your choice. But as of this writing, CSS copes primarily with the way stuff looks,and

Re: [css-d] Centering floated elements ?

2009-06-24 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:11:38 pm MEM wrote: Hello, I have three wrappers that I've put side by side by declaring the property float:left; The problem is that I'm unable to center them. Here: http://www.cantinho.org/pt/cantinho-site/rounded_gradient_boxes_v4.html Any help? I live my

Re: [css-d] text align problem

2009-07-03 Thread Tim Climis
On Friday, July 3, 2009 11:05:26 pm Linda Quinn wrote: Any suggestions on where I can look? The firebug extension for Firefox is great for this. It'll show you exactly which rules are being applied, what's being over ruled from other selectors that also apply, and which files they're in.

Re: [css-d] Nav bar not showing up in Firefox - PART 2

2009-08-01 Thread Tim Climis
However, I am still wondering, could it be a compatibility issue between CSS and Firefox? Validation issues aside, probably not. Firefox's CSS support is MUCH better than IE7's support. It's far more likely that you've written your page to make use of IE7's bugs than it is that you've some

Re: [css-d] Background not showing correctely in IE 6.0

2009-08-13 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:47:53 am DreamWeb wrote: Hi there, When I browse with *Firefox version 3.0.12* to this linkhttp://casa-annonces.info/scrollable/slideshow.php, who shows the scrollable tool as you will see in this link image too

Re: [css-d] Element Positioning

2009-09-09 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, September 8, 2009 10:37:19 pm Christopher Barth wrote: I appreciate that suggestion about inline styles, I was using them for testing; I'll eventually get rid of them. The problem I had with background styles is that then if there is only a little body text the entire gradient

Re: [css-d] Amazing CSS

2009-09-15 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:00:50 pm Chris Blake wrote: Using Just CSS, but maybe not as good. What do you think? I would agree with not as good. The problem is that it's not lit like the text is embossed. It's lit like a white shadow. It's particularly evident on the P. The inside

Re: [css-d] width issue

2009-09-26 Thread Tim Climis
On Saturday, September 26, 2009 10:25:11 am MOHAMMED NASEER wrote: thanks 4 ur reply but if u could explain to me why in (A) it's applied to a 'span' just like in (B), yet it works - the only difference is that in (B) I've replaced the 'p' tag with a 'fieldset'. That's not the only

Re: [css-d] Margin only in Firefox

2009-10-05 Thread Tim Climis
On Monday, October 5, 2009 7:01:48 am Andzia wrote: Hello, I added a photo background to my header and I noticed a margin between this header and the top menu, which doesn't appear in Opera, IE or Safari, only in Firefox. I found that there is an issue with Firefox creating margins and I

Re: [css-d] rendering fonts from psd to css

2009-10-14 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:41:26 pm Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Oct 14, 2009, at 6:45 AM, Theresa Newman wrote: I have a design in a psd that uses Arial Bold as the font but also uses Strong as the anti-aliasing method. I know I can use Arial as the font-family and bold as the

Re: [css-d] Background-color Modifying Element Sizes?

2009-10-22 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, October 22, 2009 6:17:15 am Hugh Guiney wrote: Hi all, new to the list. I recently started a complete redesign of my Web site, and because cross-browser support for CSS3 is finally on the rise, decided to throw in some goodies in the form of rounded corners and RGBA

Re: [css-d] replace submit button with image, entirely with css?

2009-11-02 Thread Tim Climis
On Monday, November 2, 2009 7:04:13 pm Jack Bates wrote: I have a web application that I hope to style entirely with CSS, if possible The application includes a submit button, input type=submit value=Search / I want to replace this button with an image, so I tried the following CSS,

Re: [css-d] Black spanning across screen

2009-12-05 Thread Tim Climis
On Saturday, December 5, 2009 6:43:10 pm Brian M. Curran wrote: Brian M. Curran wrote: Hello, Can someone tell me the technique this site used to get the black of the header to span perfectly across my entire screen, without any left-to-right scroll bar?

Re: [css-d] containing margins

2009-12-10 Thread Tim Climis
Hi Tim, I don't think you've given us enough information to come up with an exact solution... I wanna see da code! :) Okay. You asked for it. But as a warning, it's all kinds of fun. http://www.indiana.edu/~intlcent/ois/org_chart.php user: oistest password: fhall306 And since

Re: [css-d] Weird display in Safari

2009-12-15 Thread Tim Climis
pa href=?=node/1div id=hoologo/div/a/p Hmm - maybe it's because I did not give #hoologo any css (especially display: block;) Is that right or am I way off the mark. It's way off the mark. you can't put a div in an a tag (or a p tag for that matter) The HTML doctype doesn't allow

Re: [css-d] How to explain div v. table

2010-01-03 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, December 29, 2009 1:01:13 pm nancy wrote: Aside from screen readers for the visually impaired, are there any other reasons I can give? there's always my favorite: HTML is a language for describing data. Therefore, since the data (a column of text) is not tabular, it does not

Re: [css-d] u/u - why did it have to die?

2010-01-14 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:36:50 pm Rick Duley wrote: I am using HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS 2.1. u/u has been exiled and I cannot understand why. I use APA document referencing style and I am frequently required (yes, required, ... by the style) to underline fields in a bibliographic

Re: [css-d] Fixed three-column with padding: newbie question

2010-01-24 Thread Tim Climis
On Sunday, January 24, 2010 1:03:10 pm Doug Niven wrote: Hi Folks, I'm definitely a newbie, trying to wean myself off tables. What I need is a 720px wide box with three 240px cells inside it, with 10px padding-right for each cell. You need a box-model refresher. padding, borders, and

[css-d] -moz-box-shadow

2010-01-24 Thread Tim Climis
Hi all, I've got a question about box-shadow. If you have a shadow on an element with 100% width (an unfloated div, say), and give it a box-shadow, in firefox (with -moz-box-shadow) you get horizontal scroll, while in Safari/Chrome (with - webkit-box-shadow) you do not. Has anyone discovered a

Re: [css-d] 2 Problems; float and link placement

2010-01-26 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:34:18 pm Rick wrote: Why doesn't the division extend to the bottom of the images? The images are floated, which means that they are out of the flow. Basically that means that they don't take up any space in their parent container. As a result, the link goes

Re: [css-d] synamic div

2010-01-28 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, January 28, 2010 4:54:56 am Casadio Pablito wrote: If numbers of li is height my div is too height so I want that it scroll verically without scrollbars you can't have something that scrolls without having scrollbars. There would be nothing to scroll with, and no one would be

Re: [css-d] FW: bemstrongi tags

2010-03-06 Thread Tim Climis
I use use EM when I want italic and STRONG when I want bold, therefore I consider them presentational tags. That's like saying I use CODE when I want a monospace font and LI when I want bullets next to text, therefore I consider them presentational tags. I hope you see how both of those are

Re: [css-d] block elements in p

2010-03-27 Thread Tim Climis
On Saturday, March 27, 2010 7:33:15 pm Brendan Miller wrote: Mozilla's reference seems to indicate that block elements may not be contained in a p element. A simple test in firefox shows that I can embed an img with display: block set in a p. Is this a bug or correct behavior? Setting an

Re: [css-d] New to css

2010-03-29 Thread Tim Climis
On Monday, March 29, 2010 5:02:01 pm you wrote: Thanks, Tim, that did the trick and put me on the right track. Now, if I could only decide is tables are really all that evil! I don't know that they're all _that_ evil, but I don't like them much, for what it's worth. On the other hand,

Re: [css-d] teaching float v. absolute positioning

2010-03-30 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, March 30, 2010 7:27:36 am CEO, Raynham Villas wrote: Alan Gresley wrote: So absolutely positioned elements are offset (left, right, top and bottom) from this initial containing block (viewport) unless it has an ancestor with position relative, absolute or fixed [1]. If it

Re: [css-d] Divitus?

2010-04-01 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:06:52 pm T. R. Valentine wrote: Is this a case of divitus? http://home.comcast.net/~t.r.valentine/testing/ There are six divss for the overall background image plus one for the bookmark image (which I foresee using for a menu). Too much? Is there a simpler way

Re: [css-d] Making a simple form look identical across the main browsers

2010-04-25 Thread Tim Climis
On Sunday, April 25, 2010 5:12:37 pm Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, John Franks wrote: I have put together a simple finished web page below to help show my problem and what I am trying to achieve. The page shows a pink background box which needs to be 62 pixels high.

Re: [css-d] Making a simple form look identical across the main browsers

2010-04-26 Thread Tim Climis
It's incredible really that something so common as this cannot be simplified or standardized in some way. Forms are impossible to get identical, because each browser/operating system combination has it's own way of rendering form elements. This is because most browsers leave the form

Re: [css-d] Anchor offset ?

2010-05-08 Thread Tim Climis
On Saturday, May 08, 2010 8:05:52 pm Thierry Koblentz wrote: I have not been able to find a solution to my problem. I have added blank anchor tags like the one seen in the snip of code below. /ul a id=10 class=space/a You cannot use 10 here, check the last paragraph of section 6.2:

Re: [css-d] Anchor offset ?

2010-05-10 Thread Tim Climis
On Sunday, May 09, 2010 4:31:46 pm genericmailli...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Thierry Koblentz n...@tjkdesign.com wrote: I believe what the OP is after is to achieve the same behavior as if the banner/header was a top frame. -- Regards, Thierry

Re: [css-d] Top Menus and Positioning Bookmarks

2010-05-14 Thread Tim Climis
When checking that thread, it may be good to know that something does *not* make sense in there. If I dropped the ball after your _nice_ suggestion it is because I finally realized that the OP was not going for a cross-browser solution. He says in the thread everything's working as I want

Re: [css-d] Text input height and CSS font size/family

2010-06-10 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:19:42 am Gabriele Romanato wrote: So your tests highlight the input box adapts to font size and family? Nope. As the title of the tests say, only their _height_. I too am confused. When I take the width: 150px off your test cases, the widths of every one of

Re: [css-d] Print Stylesheets: Two-column, newspaper/book style - How?

2010-06-16 Thread Tim Climis
On Wednesday, June 16, 2010 7:26:19 am Jeff Zeitlin wrote: I 'edit' (for loose values of the word 'edit') a monthly PDF magazine. When a new issue is released, the articles from the previous issue become viewable on the magazine's website. Currently, I have separate screen and print

Re: [css-d] Font treatment suggestion?

2010-06-19 Thread Tim Climis
On Saturday, June 19, 2010 11:01:37 am David Laakso wrote: Brian M. Curran wrote: Hiya, Can anyone suggest a CSS font treatment to my home page quotes, that would jazz them up and make them more appealing? www.draftingservices.com Sincerely, Brian blockquote {color : fuchsia;

Re: [css-d] Font treatment suggestion?

2010-06-20 Thread Tim Climis
On Sunday, June 20, 2010 5:30:10 pm Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Brian M. Curran wrote: Hiya, Can anyone suggest a CSS font treatment to my home page quotes, that would jazz them up and make them more appealing? www.draftingservices.com The biggest problem I have

Re: [css-d] centering 3 float: left boxes

2010-06-22 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, June 22, 2010 8:06:27 pm martin wrote: Hi all I'm trying to center 3 float:left boxes in the middle of the main container. This might be pretty simple, actually... Untested, but give: #container { float: left; margin: 0 auto; } a try. Theory: once you float the

Re: [css-d] background layering, transparency help

2010-06-22 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, June 22, 2010 2:24:00 pm Stuart King wrote: Hi : I need to logo to be on top. 2. I need the yellow background to be at 75% opacity 3. I need the text and image in the .mc_50 and .mc_50r classes to be at 100% opacity I tried background: rgba(255,247,200,.75) ... but it

Re: [css-d] Fw: Re: centering 3 float: left boxes

2010-06-22 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, June 22, 2010 9:36:10 pm Jay Tanna wrote: This message was sent to the list but got lost in the system!!! Gremlin again? --- On Wed, 23/6/10, Jay Tanna jta...@rocketmail.com wrote: No you can't center the three boxes of size 25% because the total width is only 75% So I

Re: [css-d] background layering, transparency help

2010-06-22 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, June 22, 2010 9:53:06 pm Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: It won't -of course- affect the image. rgba(255,247,200,.75) is a _color_ value. As you say, if the image needs a bleached-out look, edit it in a dedicated app. I didn't think it was quite that obvious... I'll admit, i didn't

Re: [css-d] centered nav over an image /?

2010-06-24 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, June 24, 2010 3:09:30 am Matthew P. Johnson wrote: I will play with that idea. I did try to use nested div's with the background-color set and did not see a result. This is where having a link helps. It sounds like you're perhaps using floats to create your navigation (which

Re: [css-d] Chasing a fantasy??

2010-06-26 Thread Tim Climis
Thanks Tim, however it looks pretty wacky in Explorer. ...I'll have to give this some thought. I'm still new to CSS, so off the top of my head I'm seeing a work around how to format the curly quotes for all the different browsers. Brian i meant to say: *not* seeing My guess

Re: [css-d] Drop Shadow for a div with rounded corners

2010-06-29 Thread Tim Climis
On Monday, June 28, 2010 11:17:28 pm Rebecca Gessler wrote: Hi everyone, I am trying to add a drop shadow to my container div that has rounded corners on the top and bottom. I am using the 960 grid system: http://sasmg.org/sasmg/ Basically the entire thing should be in a drop shadow (from the

Re: [css-d] css possibilities on a described layout - scrolling one given div

2010-06-30 Thread Tim Climis
Probably a fixed position on the left side, and then, the scroll will seem to affect only the right side? That's the way i would do it. It won't work in IE6, since that browser doesn't support position: fixed. so if you need it in that browser too, I think you'll have to go with a

Re: [css-d] OT: Webkit Browsers

2010-07-03 Thread Tim Climis
On Saturday, July 03, 2010 7:35:47 pm Gail Issen wrote: I hate to show my ignorance. But, I'm not familiar with the tern webkit browser. I've done a Google search and the results still leave me confused. Would someone please explain the term? As Felix explained, there are many browsers

Re: [css-d] OT: Webkit Browsers

2010-07-03 Thread Tim Climis
On Saturday, July 03, 2010 9:56:25 pm david wrote: Tim Climis wrote: On Saturday, July 03, 2010 7:35:47 pm Gail Issen wrote: I hate to show my ignorance. But, I'm not familiar with the tern webkit browser. I've done a Google search and the results still leave me confused. Would someone

Re: [css-d] Tool to tell me where a rule is used

2010-07-09 Thread Tim Climis
On Friday, July 09, 2010 2:20:21 am r...@catjuggling.com wrote: So, are you wanting a tool that will look through the CSS and report which of the classes or ids do, or don't, show up in the HTML? No. She's trying to find a tool that will look through the CSS and report which *rules* show up

Re: [css-d] Safari 5 / Win XP crashing ?

2010-07-13 Thread Tim Climis
On Monday, July 12, 2010 11:59:34 pm Al Sparber wrote: From: Philippe Wittenbergh e...@l-c-n.com Does this test case crashes Safari 5 on Win XP for anyone, or is it just me ? http://dev.l-c-n.com/webkit/c.html This combination causes the issue: p, dt, dd, li {text-rendering:

Re: [css-d] background image - repeat, flip horizontal and vertically

2010-07-13 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 7:24:41 am Chris Blake wrote: Hi, Since that took a while I have done some research. Flipping it seems impossible so I went for the 100% width, maintain aspect ratio idea. The answer isn't great here too but there is some hope in the way of CSS3 background-size:

Re: [css-d] browser reports please [blakeys]

2010-07-13 Thread Tim Climis
Could css-d give me some examples of what you think are the best kind of declarations for items such as menu links (horizontal, 1 line) using ratios and whatever else so that I do not run into problems with min font sizes. It'll just give me a starting point and then I can play about with it

Re: [css-d] anchor color help

2010-07-17 Thread Tim Climis
On Friday, July 16, 2010 11:29:55 pm Ian Dutton wrote: how do i get my anchors in the header and footers to be white and the anchors in the body to be blue? a {color: blue;} /* not really needed, since blue is the default */ #header a, #footer a { color: white; } You'll need to change

Re: [css-d] lost background

2010-07-17 Thread Tim Climis
On Friday, July 16, 2010 6:40:11 pm TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson wrote: Thank you, this worked but I don't understand why. I went back to my references and they said the overflow property is for when the content is larger then the settings on the space allows. But I had the settings of

Re: [css-d] Centering a row of images

2010-07-22 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, July 22, 2010 8:21:40 pm Steve Caramia wrote: I think this is a simple one: Across the bottom of this page I want a row of logos on a background that extends 100%. I was able to do it with a table. Is there a way to do it in CSS? this should result in the exact same thing...

Re: [css-d] Centering a row of images

2010-07-22 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, July 22, 2010 9:05:29 pm Tim Climis wrote: Oops. Just one little edit. #logo a img { display: block; border: 0 none transparent; margin: 0 auto; } __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css

Re: [css-d] place a div at the bottom of another div

2010-07-23 Thread Tim Climis
On Friday, July 23, 2010 7:27:04 pm Marcin Herda wrote: I want to place a vertical bar across the page (at the bottom of the header div. Just 3 little changes: #header { position: relative; width: 100%; height: 154px; color: #ff; } #bar { position:

Re: [css-d] :hover :schmover

2010-08-02 Thread Tim Climis
On Monday, August 02, 2010 10:18:22 pm Chip Meyer wrote: What I'm Trying to Do Have a list within which each item consists of a thumbnail image and some descriptive text wrapping around it. When a user hovers the thumbnail, a larger image pops up. What's Not Working The larger image pops

Re: [css-d] IE8

2010-08-06 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, August 05, 2010 8:06:55 am bruce.som...@web.de wrote: I test new webpages with several browsers, including IE6 and IE7 (on separate machines). Windows Live is now suddenly touting The new Windows Live Internet Explorer 8 Browser in a newsletter. I don't know that I'd call IE8

Re: [css-d] 0pt is wrong, right? And IE9 is doom, right?

2010-08-14 Thread Tim Climis
2. IE9 is rumored to arrive in 2011. IE9 will only run with Vista and later Windows OSs. Over 68% of Windows users are using XP (see: http://socialmediaseo.net/tag/internet-explorer-9/ ), myself included, because I don't see why I should toss a perfectly fine scanner for which there are no

Re: [css-d] Floating images - understanding the details

2010-08-19 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, August 19, 2010 6:51:28 am Bobby Jack wrote: --- On Wed, 8/18/10, Keith Purtell keithpurt...@keithpurtell.com wrote: First, I don't understand width. Second, I especially don't understand how he has illustrated margin. Third, the padding. Why is it necessary and how is

Re: [css-d] Playing with CSS3 transitions

2010-08-23 Thread Tim Climis
On Monday, August 23, 2010 5:27:35 pm David Laakso wrote: min-height? Well, that resulted in something interesting... Here's the code I used. li.parent ul { /* irrelavant code snipped */ height: 0; -webkit-transition: all .3s ease-in; } li.parent:hover ul {

Re: [css-d] Playing with CSS3 transitions

2010-08-23 Thread Tim Climis
On Monday, August 23, 2010 6:51:34 pm Tim Climis wrote: I'm going to play a little more, but then I'll put up some demos. Okay, so I wrote up what I had at 7:00 this evening. But what I've gotten since then is pretty nifty. Unfortunately, it's almost 1:00am, so it'll have to wait a couple

Re: [css-d] Need help with width please

2010-08-30 Thread Tim Climis
I want it to load quickly and if I drop the resolution down it loses the crispness. Being an artist, he's not pleased with that. I've tried using % and em in the css file to get the image a bit smaller, but it gets all messed up when I do. The main image is 1024 wide and it probably needs to

[css-d] Google Doodle

2010-09-07 Thread Tim Climis
I was just taking a look at the source for today's Google Doodle, and noticed that the circles were CSS. Does that mean that in IE, they were squares? (Sorry, I can't check with my Linux box, or my girlfriend's Mac) Or did they do some image replacement with browser sniffing? ---Tim

Re: [css-d] two equally high divs, with not equally high content

2010-09-17 Thread Tim Climis
On Friday, September 17, 2010 5:24:29 am Olli Salmu wrote: How can i make two divs, that are next to each other, equally high. When they have different content? So I want the other div to match the height of the other one, even when the other div had 100 lines of content, and the other had 0.

Re: [css-d] Errors

2010-09-18 Thread Tim Climis
On Saturday, September 18, 2010 1:03:37 pm David Laakso wrote: The CSS *below* is now valid. Validate the markup, too. http://validator.w3.org/ If it is not working as intended with valid CSS and valid markup, provide a clickable link to your URL. Btw, I know from nothing about the so

Re: [css-d] Image scaling

2010-09-21 Thread Tim Climis
On Saturday, September 11, 2010 6:49:33 pm Cheryl Smith wrote: You do know that you can use server-side processing to scale images, yes? Cordially, David - Server-side processing?? Using a server side language (eg php, perl, asp, etc) to shrink images, and save them to

Re: [css-d] property for aligning vertical text in a div

2010-09-22 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:39:40 pm Lisa Frost wrote: This works much better than fiddling with the top padding on the p tag. However i don't understand positioning very well apart from floats. So just to clarify for me: Position relative on the footer div - what's it relative too?

Re: [css-d] div element inside td : can't get height to 100%

2010-09-26 Thread Tim Climis
On Sunday, September 26, 2010 3:54:07 pm Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: David Laakso wrote: Don't be silly, Philip.. http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/tdtd.html The essence of my question was : what if the contents of the second div do not have the same natural height as

Re: [css-d] Hello to the Group

2011-01-06 Thread Tim Climis
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d- boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Charles Miller Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 10:24 AM To: css discuss discuss Subject: Re: [css-d] Hello to the Group 2. the method when you quote is to put

Re: [css-d] Hello to the Group

2011-01-06 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, January 06, 2011 04:00:03 pm I wrote: Laakso occasionally complains, but less often now than he used to. David did not take this in the tongue-in-cheek way in which it was intended, and so I would like to publicly apologize for that comment. I'm sorry. There was no offense

[css-d] Overriding styles

2011-01-15 Thread Tim Climis
I ran into an interesting application of CSS yesterday, that, while not useful for most people, might be in the fun to know category for others. I write software that interfaces with a government website through an embedded browser, and we're working on a UI overhaul. Unfortunately for us,

Re: [css-d] Overriding styles

2011-01-16 Thread Tim Climis
On Sunday, January 16, 2011 03:52:39 am Alan Gresley wrote: I did a few test and found that you can use just simple type selectors also. This CSS, body { background: lime; } will override this. body bgcolor=#CC Nice to know. I'd been assuming that bgcolor was similar to

Re: [css-d] drop down vertical nav?

2011-01-18 Thread Tim Climis
On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:33:03 pm Matthew P. Johnson wrote: -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Matthew P. Johnson Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:31 PM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject:

Re: [css-d] Graphic background issue

2011-01-24 Thread Tim Climis
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d- boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of G.Sørtun Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 5:05 PM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Graphic background issue I created a graphic in

Re: [css-d] Drop-down navigation without javascript

2011-01-28 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:14:07 pm Alan Gresley wrote: On 28/01/2011 9:16 AM, Jess Hardy wrote: Hello everyone, I am currently looking for a solution for creating a single level drop-down that can be activated by the keyboard but does not use the standard suckerfish approach.

Re: [css-d] Positioning images within a table cell

2011-02-09 Thread Tim Climis
Maybe this will do... http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/pb/Map%20Test.htm --- My initial reaction was, Wow! Many thanks for that! It seems so simple yet seems to work in FF, IE, Chrome, and Opera. Yet when I tried something similar the images in the right-hand column were all over the

Re: [css-d] How to replace tables?

2011-02-18 Thread Tim Climis
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d- boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Lane Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 1:26 PM To: CSS Discussion Subject: [css-d] How to replace tables? Hi All, I'm at my wit's end. I've started

Re: [css-d] Reflection effect

2011-04-15 Thread Tim Climis
Yeah... I was about to point out the same thing. A 180 degree rotation is not the same as a vertical reflection. The e should be below the e, not the s. Really, to get the desired effect, you'd want transform: scaley(-1); It works in webkit. Haven't tried anything else. ---Tim -Original

Re: [css-d] Styling Submenus on a Dropdown Menu

2011-04-28 Thread Tim Climis
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d- boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Gates, Jeff Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 11:19 AM To: Chetan Crasta Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Styling Submenus on a Dropdown Menu

Re: [css-d] [WD]: Sticky footer help wanted

2011-05-12 Thread Tim Climis
Oooops. It would help if I gave you the URL, would it not? Indeed. valdobson.co.uk/test On 8 May 2011 15:22, Val Dobson valdob...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to develop a simple header/ 2 col / footer layout using the template from stickyfooter.com But I cannot seem to get

Re: [css-d] CSS stylesheet with Google fonts doesn't validate?

2011-05-26 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, May 26, 2011 7:31:25 pm Steve Caramia wrote: Line 3, of course, is font: 65%/1.4 PT Sans Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; Again, if I delete PT Sans, if validates just fine.One step forward. 3/5ths of a step back. There should be a comma between PT

Re: [css-d] Making A Link Disappear When Revisited By A Reader

2011-06-10 Thread Tim Climis
On Friday, June 10, 2011 2:37:38 pm Brian Kardell wrote: Could you not use visited? a:visited{ display:none; } No. that would be the exact opposite of what the OP wants. that would make the ending the reader chose inaccessible (and after choosing both endings, *all* endings

Re: [css-d] Overriding ID styles with a class?

2011-06-16 Thread Tim Climis
Thanks for any help that can be provided! I am obviously overlooking something. If you use numbers as the first chracter of a class, they have to be escaped, (.\32 col) so it might be easier to rename your class to .twoCol instead. If browsers are doing the right thing, they are ignoring

Re: [css-d] Issue with background images on small devices

2011-06-20 Thread Tim Climis
I reangearred my site http://www.goeldi.eu/abusart without absolute positioning, and I have the same problem with my background-image: it's cut off on the right side when the browser window is too small and I scroll to the right. I do not understand why this happens. So still something

Re: [css-d] Jump effect on icons

2011-06-25 Thread Tim Climis
On Saturday, June 25, 2011 4:43:04 pm Gabriele Romanato wrote: For experienced developers: what happens with CSS3 transitions? Is it possible to create a smooth jump effect using transitions? Yes - with just one more line (and the appropriate vendor prefix, of course). #social a {

Re: [css-d] Why are color: lime hr's white ?

2011-07-09 Thread Tim Climis
On Saturday, July 9, 2011 5:47:09 pm Aaron Gray wrote: Why are hr's white ? http://www.aarongray.org/CSS-Discuss/hr.html ~~~ hr.html ~~~ !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd; html head style body, hr {

[css-d] Z-index trouble

2011-07-11 Thread Tim Climis
I have a z-index issue (this is for a site in development, so I've only tested in Chrome -- I'm guessing it's the same everywhere, and that the problem is me). i don't have a public server, so I've cut the code down to a minimum, and pasted it at the bottom. As you can see, the green #header

Re: [css-d] Z-index trouble

2011-07-11 Thread Tim Climis
To put them behind 'category', give them a negative z-index (-1). If you want them behind the green box, omit the z-index on the green box. Thanks Philippe, that worked nicely for my example case. However, all my troubles are not solved, because it appears that I made my example page too

Re: [css-d] 100% height issue, and graphic placement q's

2011-07-19 Thread Tim Climis
would you please clarify what you have below as body:after This is what's known as CSS Generated Content. A Google search will turn up details and other examples Is this a different tag I'd be applying? Not exactly. Basically, it's a way to add stuff to a page with CSS (and without adding

Re: [css-d] [OT] Why no HTML

2011-07-19 Thread Tim Climis
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 7:59:45 am Ghodmode wrote: There aren't any contemporary email applications that can't handle HTML. Is anyone using one? This obviously isn't true, as we've heard from at least two people. I work for a major American university, and the email system all our

Re: [css-d] [OT] Why no HTML

2011-07-20 Thread Tim Climis
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 12:12:26 pm Ghodmode wrote: Ya I shouldn't have said there aren't any, but I was hoping someone would comment with the name of one that doesn't. No one has yet... Not even you. What's TA-ships? Teaching assistantships. Any grad student teaching a class, which is

Re: [css-d] FW: Multi column layout

2011-07-28 Thread Tim Climis
Is there some way to make the width of those columns predictable without adding a non-auto width to the div? It depends on how predictable you'd like. From my experimenting, it created columns with a min-width of 380px, and a max-width of (presumably) 759px. (How many 380px columns fit in

Re: [css-d] safari

2011-07-28 Thread Tim Climis
Thoughts? Chrome 14.0.825 shows it uppercase too. And I've figured it out... It's the text-transform: capitalize rule around line 45. It's capitalizing the M because a soft hyphen is (at least in Webkit, presumably) a word-break character. Seems a bit off, imo. And then your

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