[wdvltalk] RE: xhtml and css (again!)

2002-09-09 Thread Gerenday, Perry (P.)
-Original Message- From: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace The red bar on the index page (http://www.interactwiththe.net/) _should_ be the same size as the one on http://www.interactwiththe.net/index.old.php Hey Matt, The problem isn't related to CSS at all, just good old fashion

[wdvltalk] RE: xhtml and css (again!) - SOLVED!

2002-09-09 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: xhtml and css (again!) Thanks perry, I've now set the rowspan to 3 (the correct value!) but it still doesn't seem to want to work. At the same time, I don't want to go to transitional, as I want this to work accross the browsers... Any ideas anyone? TIA

[wdvltalk] Re: xhtml and CSS

2002-09-07 Thread Ross Clutterbuck
You haven't attached the CSS to your page, which is what the error is. Either use the link tag to bolt it in, or (if you're going the full XHTML+CSS route I'd advise this) use @import to hide the sheet from non-compliant browsers. Otherwise post up the CSS and I'll have a look. MOU

[wdvltalk] RE: xhtml and CSS

2002-09-07 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Clutterbuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 September 2002 22:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: xhtml and CSS Your CSS will validate as CSS level 2 with only two warnings (and these are only warnings hence not necessary). The warnings are that you haven't specified a text

[wdvltalk] RE: xhtml and CSS

2002-09-07 Thread Cheryl D. Wise
By the time I looked at your css you'd already followed MOU's advice about putting in background color. FWIW, I usually ignore those warning since I've already set a background color in the body definition and I don't know of any user agent that won't use that as the default for descenders.

[wdvltalk] RE: xhtml and CSS

2002-09-07 Thread Cheryl D. Wise
Matt, If you don't have TopStyle I'd suggest getting the free version TopStyle Lite at least while you are learning CSS. I found it so useful I bought the full paid version. The checker and auto complete alone are worth the price. I'm working on a redesign of my site that was postponed after