Re: [WSG] BIIIIIIIG white space in Firefox not IE6

2005-04-29 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day http://atalkingdog.com/goArticle.cfm?pid=11 Can't quite see all causes of the problem but your clearing of h1 is a contributing factor - it clears the menu div on left, so it drops down to the next line. You may have other issues that are contributing but I haven't got time to

RE: [WSG] BIIIIIIIG white space in Firefox not IE6

2005-04-29 Thread Mike Kear
Thanks Bert - you pointed me at the problem . I have 'clear:left' in lots of places. So that's solved that problem. Now I have another http://atalkingdog.com/goarticle.cfm?pid=716354 shows a series of paragraphs with pointers to other pages. But now they're indenting and not clearing.

Re: [WSG] IE extra space; background not showing up; odd links

2005-04-29 Thread Ingo Chao
White Ash schrieb: Hello! I don't know why, but I'm having a time with my design in IE. Firefox and Netscape have no problem. The idea is that the content area would be flush top with the bottom of the background. There is a big space in IE. td {padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0;} Also, in IE,

Re: [WSG] BIIIIIIIG white space in Firefox not IE6

2005-04-29 Thread Rowan Lewis
Mike, Use : overflow : hidden; on div.teaserpara and they will fill to the correct size, and you shouldn't have to clear anything either. On 4/29/05, Mike Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bert - you pointed me at the problem . I have 'clear:left' in lots of places. So that's solved

Re: [WSG] best practice?

2005-04-29 Thread designer
As my old Dad used to say: Well, blow me down! A stunner! An absolute revelation! So how emcan/em I have missed that? Geesh - thank you. Get yourself a beer, on me :-) (and thanks to all who responded, too) Lawdy - I've got work to do now, removing all those conditional comments and adding

Re: [WSG] best practice?

2005-04-29 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day designer wrote: Lawdy - I've got work to do now, removing all those conditional comments and adding text-align : center to my generic *{margin : 0; padding : 0} on my CSS ! I wouldn't do that, unless you want everything centered... Text in every paragraph, content of any and every div,

Re: [WSG] best practice?

2005-04-29 Thread Stuart Homfray
Mike wrote: I guess you can't center a fluid width element. Does anyone know of a way? I suppose you could go: #container { margin: 0 20px; } or #container { margin: 0 5%; } Stuart ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] best practice?

2005-04-29 Thread designer
- Original Message - From: Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 11:17 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] best practice? I wouldn't do that, unless you want everything centered... Text in every paragraph, content of any and every div, list item

[WSG] IE extra space; background not showing up; odd links

2005-04-29 Thread White Ash
Ingo ~ Thanks a million for your fabulous advice which worked! I'm so happy. You said: p.s. cited: We all need to listen to the messages the universe has to send us: This page is not Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional :) I am new to Web Standards. Two basic questions ~ could you share with me

Re: [WSG] IE extra space; background not showing up; odd links

2005-04-29 Thread Michael Wilson
White Ash wrote: p.s. cited: We all need to listen to the messages the universe has to send us: This page is not Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional :) I am new to Web Standards. Two basic questions ~ could you share with me _how_ you know it is not valid, and also, _what_ I can do to make it valid?

RE: [WSG] site check please - Rowing History

2005-04-29 Thread Drake, Ted C.
The top nav does bizarre things when you get off the index page. On one page, the tabs were replaced with underlined text, yet the dropdowns continued to work. When I went deeper, the navigation was missing entirely. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [WSG] IE extra space; background not showing up; odd links

2005-04-29 Thread Chris Knowles
For validation I suggest download the web developer extension for Firefox from... https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/showlist.php?application=firefoxcategory=Developer%20Toolsnumpg=10pageid=3 It's a toolbar you can validate the current page with, disable style sheets and javascript

[WSG] ie bug - content disappears on hover

2005-04-29 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Hi All I've been having a problem that I can't figure out. Naturally, everything looks good in firefox/opera/safari, but IE is freaking out. I can't send you to the page, it is in an intranet. However, I hope I can describe the problem and maybe you've seen it before. The page has three columns

[WSG] update - ie bug - content disappears on hover

2005-04-29 Thread Drake, Ted C.
I keep finding a solution in adding height:1% to various elements. This seems like a temporary fix. Can someone explain to me why the height:1% is needed and why it could sometimes cause background images to not display? Thanks Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] ie bug - content disappears on hover

2005-04-29 Thread Ingo Chao
Drake, Ted C. schrieb: When you mouse over some of these divs, the content disappears and the background color appears. It's like you are erasing it in blocks. http://positioniseverything.net/explorer/guillotine.html In case it is not the guillotine, you could provide an URL to a simplified test

[WSG] another update - ie bug - content disappears on hover

2005-04-29 Thread Drake, Ted C.
The Guillotine is an interesting approach. I tried the clearing divs, but that didn't solve the problem. I wish I could set up a generic example, but it would take me too long to do the entire page. I'll see if I can duplicate the issue with just the highlighted section. Here's an update. When I

Re: [WSG] update - ie bug - content disappears on hover

2005-04-29 Thread Ingo Chao
Drake, Ted C. schrieb: I keep finding a solution in adding height:1% to various elements. This seems like a temporary fix. Can someone explain to me why the height:1% is needed and why it could sometimes cause background images to not display? height:1% will affect other browser too, say IEMac. So

Re: [WSG] another update - ie bug - content disappears on hover

2005-04-29 Thread Ingo Chao
Drake, Ted C. schrieb: ... I wish I could set up a generic example, but it would take me too long to do the entire page. I'll see if I can duplicate the issue with just the highlighted section. That would be a good approach. Here's an update. When I put height:1% on the hovers, the problem

[WSG] Firefox bug?

2005-04-29 Thread designer
Ladies and gentlemen, I have been trying to produce a gallery thing without using a table, and my test file has four images in a vertical column. It all seems fine, except in FF1.0, where the second and fourth images display several dashed lines across the image. (on the face of it, they are all

Re: [WSG] Firefox bug?

2005-04-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
designer wrote: I have been trying to produce a gallery thing without using a table, and my test file has four images in a vertical column. It all seems fine, except in FF1.0, where the second and fourth images display several dashed lines across the image.

[WSG] what ie bug is this?

2005-04-29 Thread Kvnmcwebn
hello, What ie windows 6 bug creates relics like the ones at the bottom of the boxes in the central column of this page? http://mcmonagle.biz/OTI/INDEX3.HTM The relics dissapear after scrolling the page over them. I dont think its the peekaboo bug because the boxes have a fixed width. I built

Re: [WSG] Firefox bug?

2005-04-29 Thread Peter J. Farrell
designer wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, I have been trying to produce a gallery thing without using a table, and my test file has four images in a vertical column. It all seems fine, except in FF1.0, where the second and fourth images display several dashed lines across the image. (on the face of

RE: [WSG] another update - ie bug - content disappears on hover

2005-04-29 Thread Drake, Ted C.
Hi Ingo, Thank you for the help so far. I have been trying more theories. The Holly hack for the guillotine or peekaboo bug, which seemed to be the closest, are not helping. I've been able to create a generic version of the site and placed it on my personal server:

RE: [WSG] what ie bug is this?

2005-04-29 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Kvnmcwebn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 29 April 2005 7:50 PM To: wsg Subject: [WSG] what ie bug is this? hello, What ie windows 6 bug creates relics like the ones at the bottom of the boxes in the central column of this page?

Re: [WSG] Firefox bug?

2005-04-29 Thread dszady
It looks fine on a Pentiun II 333 box with Firefox 1.03 running on Mandrake 10.0. On 4/29/05, designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ladies and gentlemen, [...] Thank you, Bob McClelland, Cornwall (U.K.) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk -- °¿°

RE: [WSG] what ie bug is this?

2005-04-29 Thread Jason Turnbull
Kvnmcwebn wrote: What ie windows 6 bug creates relics like the ones at the bottom of the boxes in the central column of this page? http://mcmonagle.biz/OTI/INDEX3.HTM I built these ad boxes ( the ones with the radisson logo in the central column) using the ala custom corners method.

[WSG] A tag confirmation

2005-04-29 Thread The Man With His Guide Dog At The Tent Store
I do not know if this is off topic. One web site I maintain uses: !--webbot bot=Include U-Include=includes/heading.htm TAG=BODY startspan -- And the other site I maintain uses: ?PHP Include heading.php; ? Which of these lines are the best to use? Angus MacKinnon MacKinnon Crest Saying Latin

Re: [WSG] A tag confirmation

2005-04-29 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
The Man With His Guide Dog At The Tent Store wrote: I do not know if this is off topic. One web site I maintain uses: !--webbot bot=Include U-Include=includes/heading.htm TAG=BODY startspan -- And the other site I maintain uses: ?PHP Include heading.php; ? Which of these lines are the best to

Re: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: [WSG] A tag confirmation

2005-04-29 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: the first is a server-side include that you can use on Windows servers with ASP slight correction: it may be a Frontpage extension, rather than ASP. So, it can also work on non Windows servers, if they have Frontpage extensions enabled *shudder* -- Patrick H. Lauke

Closed, off topic Re: [WSG] A tag confirmation

2005-04-29 Thread James Ellis
Hi Angus Yes, this is off topic for this list. While there are a lot of people who could help, we need to keep this list on topic. That said, anyone on the list whp is willing to help should mail you off list. Some links that may help: http://php.net/include I'm not sure about the other one (see

Re: [WSG] Sane CSS Sizes by Owen Briggs

2005-04-29 Thread Felix Miata
Neerav wrote: Does the main idea in the article Sane CSS Sizes by Owen Briggs: Anyhow, I played about and found you can make a nice ems stylesheet with P text at 1.0 em, and then downsize the whole thing by selecting size in BODY with %, like 76%. It's simple, easy to change, and works