Re: [WSG] when i turn css off

2007-02-20 Thread Dwain Alford
lol. sometimes i love sarcasm. dwain On 2/20/07, Tee G. Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 19, 2007, at 11:18 PM, Dwain Alford wrote: when i tiurn css off on a page i have done everything reverts to default (i.e. h1, h2, etc.) and lines up down the left side of the page. without

Re: [WSG] Opera 9.10 Margin

2007-02-20 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Thanks David - look forward to the new release. I've put in a dreaded span to solve the problem for now. Much appreciated Sarah :) You could possibly use a dotted border instead of an image for the vertical pipe, but the one pixel issue is a Opera bug as it works correctly in our public

re: [WSG] Article: creating drop cap on the fly

2007-02-20 Thread Kevin McMonagle
I'd appreciate any comment that would help me improve this article: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/the_perfect_drop_cap.asp Looks good, if you decrease the font size by one or two than the drop cap indent goes way in. Is there a way to fix that. -best kvnmcwbn

Re: [WSG] Article: creating drop cap on the fly

2007-02-20 Thread Rob O'Rourke
Kevin McMonagle wrote: I'd appreciate any comment that would help me improve this article: http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/the_perfect_drop_cap.asp Looks good, if you decrease the font size by one or two than the drop cap indent goes way in. Is there a way to fix that. -best

Re: [WSG] Opera 9.10 Margin

2007-02-20 Thread Ben Buchanan
However I already have a background image on the li elements (the vertical pipe separating each link), and I have not found a way to add this extra image as a background the the first element. Have you tried adding it to the a instead? Just use a contextual selector after that... li.first a {

RE: [WSG] Site Issue - opinions please

2007-02-20 Thread Patrick Bruno
I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the standards use of the map and area tags (like I'm doing here on the 2007 image of the left column: http://www.heliosdg.com/mgcaf/)? I did some testing by turning images off in IE7 and Firefox but the alt tag data doesn't appear. Does that mean

Re: [WSG] Site Issue - opinions please

2007-02-20 Thread David Dorward
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:32:15 -, Patrick Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the standards use of the map and area tags (like I'm doing here on the 2007 image of the left column: http://www.heliosdg.com/mgcaf/)? I did some testing by turning

Re: [WSG] Site Issue - opinions please

2007-02-20 Thread Charles Eaton
W3C says: try to avoid server-side image maps [xhtml] a better setup (IMHO), is to use a definition list, drop your image in the background of the dl, giving it the image size, use dt and 3 dd's in a two row setup to overlay the image. add text [no display] and links, ... your in business.

Re: [WSG] Site Issue - opinions please

2007-02-20 Thread David Dorward
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:36:18 -, Charles Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the standards use of the map and area tags (like I'm doing here on the 2007 image of the left column: W3C says: try to avoid server-side image maps [xhtml] If it is

Re: [WSG] hr won't turn black

2007-02-20 Thread Mordechai Peller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a comparison, try removing all of your P tags, and see if the white space they give you is purely presentational! Paragraph elements only give white space because they are told to by CSS. Instead of paragraphs, I could use almost any other element (depending on the

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (21/2/07)

2007-02-20 Thread russ - maxdesign
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[WSG] Float Hell, or...?

2007-02-20 Thread Lisa Benham
Pretty plase, see: http://tinyurl.com/2gd54w http://www.webmasterworld.com/re4.cgi?f=83d=3258173url=http://tinyurl.com/2gd54w and the css... http://tinyurl.com/ynwq9d http://www.webmasterworld.com/re4.cgi?f=83d=3258173url=http://tinyurl.com/ynwq9d Float hell, or... collapsed