[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2008-08-07 Thread Jade Knight
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Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Ok here it is-Im just putting this up here as a last ditch effort. http://67.199.64.89/newtable3.html Can anyone offer advice on fixing/locking table cell/row height across browsers? The main problem is making the two adjacent tables appear to be one continuous table. Getting the cell

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread Joseph Taylor
If the markup has to stay as it is now, your problems are probably coming from images for one thing. IE7 adds the 3 pixel padding to the bottom of the images so getting equal heights will be tough. You should be able to get the cells to behave somewhat with this classic: td { min-height:

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread EBS
Could you not do this with div's and use an unordered list? Mathew O'Connor Essential eBiz Solutions Original message From: kevin mcmonagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell Ok here it is-Im just putting this up

Re: [WSG] form from hell - difficult redesign

2008-08-07 Thread Wilbur Pereira
Joe, I am not good with estimates, how about playing with the application which is basically a questionnaire designer and is targeted at market research,employee feedback,quizzes,polls etc. and coming up with the estimates. Regards, Wilbur On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Joseph Ortenzi [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
no this is tabular data, but could do with some organising though, and reduce the visual info, much too intense... On Aug 07, 2008, at 17:02, EBS wrote: Could you not do this with div's and use an unordered list? Mathew O'Connor Essential eBiz Solutions Original message From:

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread kevin mcmonagle
yes if i was doing the asp i would have looked at that for a solution. But still its very tabular as well. EBS wrote: Could you not do this with div's and use an unordered list? Mathew O'Connor Essential eBiz Solutions \**

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread kevin mcmonagle
cheers joseph, its two different tables because of some show hide function that requires that. I pushed for one table but apparently that cant be done. Thanks for the tip on the images, that was causing a problem, im going to clear them and use text. Regarding this: td { min-height: 50px;

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread kevin mcmonagle
yes for some reason programmer needs two tables which was the big issue for me. I have the height alignments just about worked out now though. Regarding the color, there isnt much color in the table layout, unless you counting black which is a shade like white. The input boxes have to be

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread kevin mcmonagle
joseph what browser is that screen shot from? i wasnt getting the left hand text overflowing like that in any of my browsers. -best kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
are you certain the show hide is both necessary and cannot be resolved in another way? If you need show/hide you could nest the content in a div in the table cells maybe? Joe On Aug 07, 2008, at 17:07, kevin mcmonagle wrote: cheers joseph, its two different tables because of some show hide

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
FireFox2 On Aug 07, 2008, at 17:15, kevin mcmonagle wrote: joseph what browser is that screen shot from? i wasnt getting the left hand text overflowing like that in any of my browsers. -best kevin *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread Michael Horowitz
Question couldn't you just set the padding to 0px to take care of IE adding the padding? Is there a reason this would not work? Michael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomputerconsultant.com 561-394-9079 Joseph Taylor wrote: If the markup has to stay as it is now, your

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
I'd challenge the developer to create something that allows the data to remain tabular and logical. If he can't do it I'd say he's not up to the task. My dev's could! On Aug 07, 2008, at 17:12, kevin mcmonagle wrote: yes for some reason programmer needs two tables which was the big

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread Joseph Taylor
Kevin, If I may make a recommendation, adjust the background color of your cells to match the bottom color of your background gradients so when text gets enlarged it still looks smooth inside the cell rather than having the graphic cut off. Joseph R. B. Taylor /Designer / Developer/

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread kevin mcmonagle
joseph i keep my brightness at 0, and thought it matched. thanks for the tip Joseph Taylor wrote: Kevin, If I may make a recommendation, adjust the background color of your cells to match the bottom color of your background gradients so when text gets enlarged it still looks smooth inside

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread Mike Brown
kevin mcmonagle wrote: joseph i keep my brightness at 0, and thought it matched. thanks for the tip Joseph Taylor wrote: Kevin, If I may make a recommendation, adjust the background color of your cells to match the bottom color of your background gradients so when text gets enlarged it

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread Tony McNulty
That could have been off list too :-D --Original Message-- From: Mike Brown Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org ReplyTo: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: 7 Aug 2008 20:56 Subject: Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell kevin mcmonagle wrote: joseph i keep my

Re: [WSG] resetting input boxes

2008-08-07 Thread Christian Montoya
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 10:40 PM, kevin mcmonagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can they be set for consistency across browsers? if so what are all the attributes that need to be reset, i missing something. -best kevin The short answer is, no, not really. Some browsers have very limited support

RE: [WSG] Appropriate postings

2008-08-07 Thread Rachel Radford
I like the newbie questions personally! This list was a HUGE help to me when I was learning CSS (it still is a huge help when I come across a problem) and I would like to think that it hasn't lost that community. Recently a member of this list hugely helped one of my colleagues with a layout

[WSG] Correct markup of fieldset

2008-08-07 Thread Paul Collins
Hi all, This is one I've never been sure of; should the submit button be in a seperate fieldset, or should it even be in a fieldset at all because it is not a group of fields; it's a button on it's own. I usually put groups of fields in a fieldset, then have the submit button on it's own

Re: [WSG] resetting input boxes

2008-08-07 Thread John Unsworth
Was just walking back from work when it occurred to me I should of specified that I was referring to Safari 2.1, sadly I'm stuck on a Hackintosh so no opportunity to run Safari 3. John Unsworth *** List Guidelines:

[WSG] clearing position:absolute

2008-08-07 Thread Robin Gorry
Hi all, I have a problem that I have been banging my head against for hours and I just can't seem to solve it. I have a site with a navigation that when I resize the page in ie the navigation stays in the same place as a result is out of place when resized. To get over this I can set

Re: [WSG] resetting input boxes

2008-08-07 Thread John Unsworth
Paul Bennett wrote: Hi Kevin, It's not clear what you're trying to achieve. Can you give us some more information? Paul Christian Snodgrass wrote: I think he's essentially talking about a CSS reset file, specific to input, to neutralize all of the browser differences. I'm

RE: [WSG] clearing position:absolute

2008-08-07 Thread Kepler Gelotte
I have a site with a navigation that when I resize the page in ie the navigation stays in the same place as a result is out of place when resized. To get over this I can set the #nav to be position absolute but this causes the element below to move up behind the navigation. Hi Robin,