Re: [WSG] header alignment working in everything but safari

2004-10-14 Thread Ian Main
Thanks Hugh, I didn't think to try resizing the browser window. As you mentioned it did jump back 1 pixel. I have to resort to the method you mentioned instead. Thanks for helping me understand the problem. Ian http://www.e-lusion.com Ian, You seem to be up against a rendering issue that

Re: [WSG] Transparent Background on a list item

2004-10-14 Thread Jackie Reid
:) Right that makes sense now ... thanks... Hugh Todd wrote: Jackie, The height didn't change the transparency. It revealed more of your #nav1's background image. Remember, a float (unless cleared) will happily extend beyond the borders of its container. Except in IE PC, but that is a bug.

Re: [WSG] Form option selected is posible?

2004-10-14 Thread Diego Diaz
Thanks Bert and Natalie :) Bert wrote: G'day I try validate option selected but the validator says: the name and VI delimiter can be omitted from an attribute specification only if SHORTTAG YES is specified This form is posible to validate ? http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.5 XML does not

Re: [WSG] Legal numbering with li

2004-10-14 Thread scott parsons
there is provision for this in css 2 but I don't know if it is supported anywhere, except maybe opera http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/generate.html s Amit Karmakar wrote: People, any good pointers on legal numbering using li's in xhtml I am looking for 3 levels of nesting as in: 1.0 1.1 1.1.1

Re: [WSG] Form option selected is posible?

2004-10-14 Thread Neerav
Diego You may find that using OPTGROUP eg: optgroup label=Option name is better still as: The optgroup tag groups options in a select box. It requires a label attribute, the value of which is displayed as a non-selectable pseudo-heading preceding that group in the drop-down list of visual

Re: [WSG] Short way to change background colors on CSS sheet?

2004-10-14 Thread Lyn Patterson
Russ Thank you very much - that makes it all very clear - have printed it out ! Lyn Lyn, Regarding id's and body elements... Here is a quick (and very rough) demo page showing how an id within the body element to affect various presentational aspects on three individual pages (click on the page

Re: [WSG] help with fixed positioning in IE

2004-10-14 Thread john
Thanks, Grant. I'll give it a try. You mentioned that for you, it went almost to the top. For me, it doesn't budge an inch. I guess that means that the javascript-disabled won't be able to go to the top at all. I suppose I could always use a a name= tag, although I'd rather not. Thanks.

Re: [WSG] Print styles for IE - Document too wide

2004-10-14 Thread Mark Stanton
Sorry again... every column is as skinny as it can get. I've got about 80 columns in the table :( -- Mark Stanton Gruden Pty Ltd http://www.gruden.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Print styles for IE - Document too wide

2004-10-14 Thread Neerav
I guess you've already set cellspacing, cellpadding, margin, padding etc to 0? Considering each column has a minimum of 1 character+padding+margins I cant see any possibility of all 80 columns fitting on 1 A4 page Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au Web Development IT consultancy

Re: [SPAM] Re: [WSG] A few problems with IE

2004-10-14 Thread John Wells
Kim-- I believe it may be in your styling of your 'li's padding: .tabs li { float:left; background:url(tab_left.gif) no-repeat left top; margin:0; padding:0 0 0 6px; border-bottom:1px solid #666; white-space: nowrap;} You're assigning it a left

[WSG] CSS TAB MENU - A new version with problems

2004-10-14 Thread Genau Junior
Hello everybody, I developed a kind of tab menu navigation using li, that changes when mouse over occours. Im rebuilding this site using xhtml. (under construction), and i having some problems with this menu. http://www.meucarronovo.com.br/xhtml Note that IE browser, freezes when

[WSG] Positioning Quandry

2004-10-14 Thread Chris Kennon
In the following snippet, my thought on absolute positioning is div#disco is positioned absolutely with regards to div#containingbox. However my little experiment places this div in relation to the viewport. So absolute positioning takes a block level element out of its normal flow? What am

Re: [WSG] Positioning Quandry

2004-10-14 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Thanks, I get it now. Disco, Chris On Thursday, October 14, 2004, at 11:21 AM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Relative positioning is relative to the next positioned parent. In the absent of a positioned parent, the default origin is the viewport. To get it to work the way you intend it, you need to

Re: [WSG] Positioning Quandry

2004-10-14 Thread Joseph Lindsay
Hi Chris, Absolute positioning places an element absolutely, with regard to its containing box. Also, when positioning within a container even though it is implicit, its good to also specify position: relative; to the container's selector. I'm not sure if this is in the spec or not, but

Re: [WSG] Positioning Quandry

2004-10-14 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Joseph Lindsay wrote: Also, when positioning within a container even though it is implicit, its good to also specify position: relative; to the container's selector. I'm not sure if this is in the spec or not Section 9.8.4. of the CSS2.1 spec http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#q28 The

Re: [WSG] Positioning Quandry

2004-10-14 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Thanks, the replies have been a little less clinical than the specification, proving more digestible. On Thursday, October 14, 2004, at 11:59 AM, Joseph Lindsay wrote: Hi Chris, Absolute positioning places an element absolutely, with regard to its containing box. Also, when positioning

[WSG] Accessibility : Turing/CAPTCHA test

2004-10-14 Thread Nick Lo
A while ago I brought up the topic of the Turing/CAPTCHA test on forms and whether it restricted accessibility on forms. The general opinion was of course that it does. I just found this article: My article about Turing Protection generated lots of comments about how using image CAPTCHAs

Re: [WSG] Print styles for IE - Document too wide

2004-10-14 Thread Mark Stanton
Yeah everything is as low as it can go. Considering each column has a minimum of 1 character+padding+margins I cant see any possibility of all 80 columns fitting on 1 A4 page I don't expect it to, but it would be nice if IE would allow stuff that slips off the page horizontally to come out on

Re: [WSG] Print styles for IE - Document too wide

2004-10-14 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 15 Oct 2004, at 9:31 AM, Mark Stanton wrote: Yeah everything is as low as it can go. Considering each column has a minimum of 1 character+padding+margins I cant see any possibility of all 80 columns fitting on 1 A4 page I don't expect it to, but it would be nice if IE would allow stuff that

Re: [WSG] How do I find the document width in ie and mozilla?

2004-10-14 Thread Terrence Wood
x = self.innerWidth; y = self.innerHeight; I need to find the document width.. ie.. if the viewing screen is too small I need to know the document size.. not the viewing size. Document.body.clientWidth seems to work for internet explorer.. giving me the correct sizes.. But

Re: [WSG] web photo album

2004-10-14 Thread Richard Czeiger
Umm, Don't know if this is what you guys are after, but you can check out and use the code here: http://www.grafx.com.au/dik All done in XHTML, CSS and JavaScript. No database, no PHP. All you need is to use Photoshop's Automate feature and do a bulk rename in Windows for the images and

RE: [WSG] web photo album [ADMIN]

2004-10-14 Thread Peter Firminger
Hi folks, This isn't on topic at all. We don't talk about specific web applications on this list, just the concepts surrounding the output of any system. Please continue this discussion on the CMS list as that is far more appropriate (the content being the images in this case). See the resources

Re: [WSG] Text Escaping from Floats

2004-10-14 Thread Todd Baker
to quote from Pulp Fiction.. example...? On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:35:14 +1000, Natalie Buxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I'm wrestling with a float that just wont behave. I'm trying to stop the content from escaping from the float itself. The floats are a fluid % width and a fluid

Re: [WSG] Text Escaping from Floats

2004-10-14 Thread Natalie Buxton
I forget to mention: example is at http://www.pixelkitty.net/devel/wsg/broken_float.php On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:40:09 +1000, Todd Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to quote from Pulp Fiction.. example...? On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:35:14 +1000, Natalie Buxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All