Enough said. So nothing changes. Good.
It would be nice if this could be properly documented in Mr Allsopp's new
project. Bad examples are littered throughout the Web and do nothing to help
novices or the greater good.
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From: Felix Miata
Sent: Wednesday, 21 December
Exactly so.
I have, however, noticed that I also need to apply a 100%
font-size to - td, ul, ol, li, p, form - to stop inheritance problems though.
This seems to be erratic and something I still haven't completely worked
out.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
We have to start somewhere and building for the majority would seem to make
sense, otherwise why would we even bother how our sites looked in IE? :)
That being said, we are also all about making the Web accessible for
'everyone'. In the case of people who change their browser settings, they
have
My greatest discovery was seeing how images could be sized using % at
WebEssentials. :)
My greatest let-down was learning that it wasn't supported in IE. :(
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On Behalf Of Terrence Wood
Sent: Thursday, 22 December 2005
Nice work Georg.
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On Behalf Of Gunlaug Sørtun
Sent: Wednesday, 21 December 2005 3:31 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Setting Up Font Sizes
Samuel Richardson wrote:
What's the best, cross-browser
There's no prize Graham but I'm gonna say, Aww...shucks anyway. :)
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On Behalf Of Kenny Graham
Sent: Thursday, 22 December 2005 9:21 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Best Web Standards thing I learnt in
Subject: Re: [WSG] Dropped DIV dilemma
If you have to have that many fixes in place for a page that is that simple
then your doing something wrong.
Paul Noone wrote:
Cheers all. I know there's a lot to wde through but most of the fixes,
widths and relative positions in place were put in to fix
So setting the font size for the html element to 100.01% and then adjusting
it in the body (or elsewhere) is no longer recommended?
I tried to find fault with Owen Briggs' Text Sizing
http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/font/index.html
article which uses a simple declaration of
size to 100%
and then setting individual elements to ems is how I do all my pages. As
far as I know it is the recommended method so users have control of their
own viewport.
Regards,
Ric
Paul Noone wrote:
So setting the font size for the html element to 100.01% and then
adjusting
I think your negative margins are getting the better of you. Because both
elements directly follow each other there shouldn't be any need to do
anything othet than set H# bottom and UL/LI top margins and padding to 0.
The change below worked for me.
.mainleft ul {
margin-top: 0px;
The client will *always* come back with items they've not considered until
later and they will *always* see them as having enough importance to warrant
being part of the main menu structure.
Navigation is a beach and its elements can become as numerous as the grains
of sand that accumulate in the
I see a pattern forming. ;)
We do love our definitions on this list. FWIW I think a framework is what
we're after, which may just include links to real world solutions that are
standards based.
An awesome under-taking. I'd love to see it happen.
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You'll probably want to archive a copy or two now for testing purposes
Why on earth would I want to do that? :)
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On Behalf Of Dennis Lapcewich
Sent: Tuesday, 20 December 2005 10:51 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Problem:
http://d81314.i50.quadrahosting.com.au/index.php?module=Newsid=cntnt01cntn
t01action=detailcntnt01articleid=8cntnt01returnid=11
The Site Updates div gets pushed way down the page. And I've got no idea
why/ Strangely all is well in IE (with all the hacks in place I'd hope so!).
This
: Tuesday, 20 December 2005 3:49 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Dropped DIV dilemma
Paul Noone wrote:
Problem:
http://d81314.i50.quadrahosting.com.au/index.php?module=Newsid=cntnt0
1cntn
t01action=detailcntnt01articleid=8cntnt01returnid=11
The Site Updates div gets
Got it. It was the clearfix class applied to the content div directly above
which contained no floated items.
I'm sure something else has broken now but that's for another day.
Thanks again.
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On Behalf Of Paul Noone
As one last comment I'd add that pop-ups and new window
targets are very different beasts. An accessible popup is almost but not quite
impossible, although always less desirable than a simple
target="_blank".
--Paul A NooneWebmaster, ASHM[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Love the idea. I don't think it should be a replacement for many things
which are best learnt through hard expereince, but rather a 7 steps to
success guide for building a standards-based website.
Sure, you could include best practice code samples, particularly for
off-page techniques etc. But I
Hi Stephen,
Another point worth mentioning, which was raised by my all-seeing manager,
is that even though people's default screen resolution generally falls in
the 1024x768 mark, they often browse in a smaller window.
This kind of throws a spanner in the works for those wanting to boost the
2005 8:51 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Justify this
On 15/12/05 4:27 PM, Paul Noone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Kevin,
That's just another limitation of the parameter. Justified text
actually comes in several flavours - left, right and both.
Actually, that's quite
The fact that the text-only version fails basic checkpoints is very
disappointing however. I don't know about the rest of you but I certaily let
them know my feelings via email.
Strength in numbers and all that.
There's been a lot of MM propaganda around of late with regards to
high-profile
Hopefully a quick question, I hoope, as the W3C specs are no help on this
one.
I want to centre align text and justify it at the same time. I've applied
the following mark-up which, surprisingly, does the trick. But can justify
be applied as an optional extra parameter, or does this just work
] Justify this
what are you applying it to? a heading or a paragraph of text?
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From: Paul Noone
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: 15/12/05 14:18
Subject: [WSG] Justify this
Hopefully a quick question, I hoope, as the W3C specs are no help on this
one.
I want to centre
]
On Behalf Of Lachlan Hunt
Sent: Thursday, 15 December 2005 2:35 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Justify this
Paul Noone wrote:
Hopefully a quick question, I hoope, as the W3C specs are no help on
this one.
No, they are usually always helpful but you need to know what you're
, Lisa
Sent: Thursday, 15 December 2005 2:59 PM
To: 'wsg@webstandardsgroup.org '
Subject: RE: [WSG] Justify this
Justified text really isn't a good idea in terms of usability/readability.
Maybe there was a conscious effort not to support it :)
-Original Message-
From: Paul Noone
] Justify this
no, I'm a comedian every day, it's just that I don't post every day :P
but seriously, are you adding paragraphs of justified text to the page...?
(irrespective of which element you're using to mark up).
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From: Paul Noone
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent
Webmaster, ASHM
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On Behalf Of Kevin Futter
Sent: Thursday, 15 December 2005 3:48 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Justify this
On 15/12/05 2:49 PM, Paul Noone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Justify this
Paul Noone wrote:
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Paul Noone wrote:
I want to centre align text and justify it at the same time. I've
applied the following mark-up which, surprisingly, does the trick.
text-align:center justify;
p { width: 50%; margin: 0 auto
Hi Kat, you've actually got your definitions in the wrong order.
An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAG.
It can be pronounced as 'wag' OR 'W.A.G', depending on your fancy.
An abbreviation is just that, the abreviation of a common word for the
purpose of
At the end of the day what are we trying to achieve by using these tags?
Does semantically correct code take precedence over usability?
IMO, provided you are somehow offering a visible definition of the acronym
or abbreviation - be it by use of a specific tag, or the ill-fated title
attribute -
Makes good sense to me. Otherwise why stop at acronym? Next
thing you'd have tags for slang, idiom, abstract, outline, summary...the list
goes on. What we're trying to do is display a descriptive
meaning.
All this should be achived by way ofa
singleattribute to a tag. I still don't see why
Looks good, Paula.
Again, I think a table is fine for this type of data.
I don't understand your problem with the caption. It serves the same purpose
as your Week by Week h3 but IMO does it better.
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On Behalf Of Paula
Thanks for that, Russ. I hadn't come across that neat chart before. Handy
reference.
But now I find myself confused by a couple of the elements listed as
optional (O); namely the HEAD and BODY tags. Optional?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf
, Paul Noone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for that, Russ. I hadn't come across that neat chart before.
Handy reference.
But now I find myself confused by a couple of the elements listed as
optional (O); namely the HEAD and BODY tags. Optional?
Yep. Few people know this. try it out
That just sounds like ignorance to me but perhaps they'd be more comfortable
with Table of Contents, given that most site maps are nothing more than this
anyway?
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On Behalf Of Gerardo Chairez [Addictive Media]
Sent:
Not so. It depends on Apache and how it's configured.
You can check how PHP is set up by creating a new PHP page and just inlcude
the following:
?php phpinfo() ?
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On Behalf Of Stephen Stagg
Sent: Friday, 9 December 2005
I find it hard to believe but it looks like it's using an image file to draw
the button?!?!
I'v enever noticed this before. Perhaps I've never had buttons that long.
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On Behalf Of Tim Burgan
Sent: Thursday, 8 December
So, given that the W3C buttons enforce compliancy by returning errors if the
page isn't valid, what's wrong with them again?
I actually sport mine with some pride and have had several visitors comment
on the fact. Sure, some of their comments have been along the lines of what
are they for? and
Instead of trying to float the columns next to each other, you could avoid
much pain to the brain by wrapping the fixed image column inside the content
column.
--
| |||
| |||
|
If you have any problems the clear div being applied after the column divs
(as I did) you can try applying the following to the contentwrap div, and
any other container that holds floats.
/* *** Float containers fix:
http://www.csscreator.com/attributes/containedfloat.php *** */
Except that they still insist on membership before you can view such pages.
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On Behalf Of Ted Drake
Sent: Friday, 2 December 2005 4:15 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Mambo Accessibility
You can also directly compare hundreds of CMSs and choose them based on
selection criteria from this helpful site: http://cmsmatrix.org
However, if you're after a simplt, straight-forward no-nonsense, accessible
and XHTML compliant CMS I'm going to recommend CMS Made Simple again. It's
in it's
Michael Donnermeyer deftly quothed:
...if you take the time to look.
Ahem. Yes. Thank you, Michael. :*
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Seconded. You're likely to get a more targetted response to your queries as
well.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 2 December 2005 9:23 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Noise (was) Mambo
Cheers, Gene. After reading the exhaustive W3C tutorial on encoding I wound
up not delcaring it in the CSS after all.
I'm also using Source Edit (a free Windows hex/text editor) to delete the
invisible single character entity that Notebook and other editors like to
insert at the start of file.
Cheers, Gene. After reading the exhaustive W3C tutorial on encoding I wound
up not delcaring it in the CSS after all.
I'm also using Source Edit (a free Windows hex/text editor) to delete the
invisible single character entity that Notebook and other editors like to
insert at the start of file.
I wouldn't be too surprised to discover that a little javascript could
manipulate the numbering.
Also, and I'll probably get lynched for this but the following should also
work in a transiational doctype.
ol
li value=40/li
...
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I hazard to mention that Dreamweaver has built-in validation for CSS acrosse
various browsers.
StyleMaster is probably worth checking out, too. Although there are others
on this list far better equipped to dicuss its merits than I. ;)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sunny, what Jon and I meant was to put the span at the end of the link like
this:
a class=externalThe linkspan class=extimage/span/a
This will force the image to appear at the nend of the link.
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On Behalf Of SunUp
Sent:
Amazing site. Nice use of pictograms.
Categorising all that data must have been one hell of a job.
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On Behalf Of Jon Tan
Sent: Thursday, 24 November 2005 1:18 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] starting
Who uses an encoding declaration at the head of their external CSS style
sheets?
And how do you get around the UTF-8 signature or byte order mark (BOM) that
some editors add to the document?
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On Behalf Of russ -
Set a width or padding on your exit class that is sufficient to display the
image.
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On Behalf Of SunUp
Sent: Thursday, 24 November 2005 1:59 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] :after, IE, and link text
Your greatest problem may be deciding which encoding to use. If your English
language text will be inlcined to use a broad spectrum of characters then it
may be prudent to use images for the Hebrew words and put the definition in
the alt tag.
Who are your users?? This will help you decide which
Of Andrew Cunningham
Sent: Friday, 18 November 2005 11:14 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Bi-directional text
Umm
Paul Noone wrote:
Your greatest problem may be deciding which encoding to use. If your
English language text will be inlcined to use a broad spectrum
Hey, we're all here to be entertained.
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On Behalf Of Tom Livingston
Sent: Thursday, 17 November 2005 7:22 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] snug a border around diff sized pix
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005
I'm possibly missing something huge here but couldn't you save yourself
massive amounts of pain by going back to a single DIV that has a 2px grey
border on it? Drop your text in there. Then just absolutely position your
guitar pic in another layer.
I'm sure I've missed something.
-Original
Christian Montoya sagely expounded:
99% of users have no idea...
Nuff said. ;)
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Title: Can't select text on IE
Why do you want to select the text? This might go some way
towards providing an adequate solution that doesn't involve totally overhauling
your stylsheet.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CHAUDHRY,
BhuvneshSent: Wednesday, 16
Title: Message
Then sadly you'll need to dispense with any absolute divs
thatobstruct the flow of the content you're trying to
select.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CHAUDHRY,
BhuvneshSent: Wednesday, 16 November 2005 3:48 PMTo:
Title: Message
Or...View Source and copy. Assuming that's an
option.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CHAUDHRY,
BhuvneshSent: Wednesday, 16 November 2005 3:48 PMTo:
wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: RE: [WSG] Can't select text on
IE
Paul,
It a
simplecopy
Add a 1px border to either a or img tags
within the DIV's #class.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
csslistSent: Wednesday, 16 November 2005 4:45 PMTo:
wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: [WSG] snug a border around diff
sized pix
I have a div that shows phots
I managed to convince mine by suggesting our organsiation's website as an
example site during the screen reading element of an accessibility
conference. She was present...and far less amused than I. ;)
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On Behalf Of
Using a PNG you could achieve a similar effect.
This was actually demoed at WE05. You should be able to find the
presentation and podcast on the WE05 website.
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On Behalf Of Jad Madi
Sent: Wednesday, 9 November 2005 6:17
I'm going with 'no' here. I've seen some cool stuff with % in layered divs
but no bg images.
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On Behalf Of Jared Smith
Sent: Wednesday, 9 November 2005 8:34 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Scalable
Damn these infernal acronyms. ;)
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On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke
Sent: Wednesday, 9 November 2005 9:10 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] css instead of JS(ajax)
Paul Noone wrote:
Using a PNG you could
You must Focas. Sorry, couldn't resist.
:P
Thanks for the heads-up.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Focas,
GrantSent: Monday, 7 November 2005 12:12 PMTo:
wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: [WSG] Firefox onblur and onfocus
event bubbling bug
Hi
Title: Message
Play around with your margin and padding on the a
elements - padding: 0.2em 1em;. It's probably pushing the borders
out.
I've got a list for horizontal navigation where the first
list item wouldn't show it's right border (separator) in IE no matter what I did
in the
Hi Julián,
H1 should
only be used once, generally as your page title. In the detail view of an
article the article's titleshould be an H1,unless your article pages
always carry the parent title of e.g. News, in which case you would use H2 or
lower.
H2 headings and
lower can be used
Tia,
Can u be more specific? Apart from the interminable load
time the page and form both look good. Very pretty
layout.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
csslistSent: Thursday, 3 November 2005 9:50 AMTo:
wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: [WSG] color
] color overflow in pc ie
fieldset
thanks :)Yeah the load time sux but even
if i cut it it doesnt save enough to make it go faster.heres what it
looks like on my pc with
ie6http://www.jamwerx.com/form1.jpg
From: "Paul Noone" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent:
Wednesday, November 02, 2005 6:57
.png (on ff mac)where as
this one, there is some grey extending up over border towards the top (on ie6
pc)http://www.jamwerx.com/form1.jpgthe form works just there is
now some color overflow outside of the fieldsetdave
From: "Paul Noone" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent:
Wednesday, November 02,
The programmers dont want me to do any coding or as
little as possible-so as not to step on thier toes.
Don't just step, STOMP! If they're not going to do their job right then let
it be known there is someone who can...and provide the reasons why. At the
end of the day, if it can save time and
Did you have your Out Of Office Assistants on?
This will automatically get you bounced to the digest, or even off the list.
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On Behalf Of Tom Livingston
Sent: Wednesday, 2 November 2005 1:20 AM
To:
That and clean XHTML is easier to hand-code than tables...
Without wanting to open a can of worms here; how so? Do you mean in
conjunction with CSS, or just that XHTML markup is cleaner than that of
HTML?
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Thanks guys. Patrick is right. I'd already validated the code and it came up
fine.
The reason I've run into this little problem is because, unlike HTML, XHTML
seems to require that the a tag surrounds some text. Perhaps an nbsp;
would do it?
The named anchor is picking up the color of the a:link
to a:link don't effect anchors.
See example http://www.damienhill.com/tests/links/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Paul Noone
Sent: Tuesday, 1 November 2005 7:52 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Unstyling named anchors
Thanks
You could just try hex encoding the address. There are
several utilities available that will convert an email (or any other address) to
its hexadecimal value. It's not bulletproof but, then, what is. And it
validates.
FYI, Smarty (PHP template system) has this
built-in.
From: [EMAIL
Thanks, Sam. That was useful. I've been looking for official-looking
third-party confitmation of this description. It's now being printed out and
will be framed and mounted by end of day. :)
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On Behalf Of Samuel
You know, you CAN be semantic to a point. Usability is
directly related to accessibility. If a site's unusable, ot difficult to
navigate, then it is inaccessible. Nuff said, peeps. Let's get back to some real
work.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard
Hiya,
When using XHTML strict named anchors need to surround some link text, yes?
Does anyone have a standard approach to unstyling named anchors I this case
which will work cross-browser?
I'd tinkered with a[name]:hover but I'm loathe to create a style for this. I
don't think hiding them is th
Hi Kenny,
Yes, that makes perfect sense. So, for example, if I want to put a single
word into a table cell - e.g. THCategory/TH - for it to be semantically
correct, should it be wrapped in P tags? It's hardly a paragraph and
contains no other inline elements.
But if I were to use - e.g. THSelect
They're just there for emphasis. Trust me. ;)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Kenny Graham
Sent: Friday, 28 October 2005 4:27 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Text within tables
THCategory/TH - for it to be
Title: Message
white-space: nowrap;
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CHAUDHRY,
BhuvneshSent: Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:30 PMTo:
wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: [WSG] nowrap:
nowrapImportance: High
Hi,
Is there any way to specify a"nowrap"for content
Hi Bruce,
Have you considered using to main divs with a background
pic applied left and right, respectively, to achieve color and then adding your
columns over that with fixed width? This is the only way I managed to get it to
work without scripting and seems a common enough technique.
Thanks awesomely for all those who helped point me in the right direction.
After attempting innumerable hacks I finally found the one I wanted.
For those who are interested the problem was, naturally, an IE bug. The less
famous 'italic' bug to be precise.
Usually this bug only manifests itself
If you're using PHP/mySQL then you could always write a simple function like
below, or use PHP's built-in nl2br() function.
//Clean-up function to remove BRs and whitespace from data wihtout
hurting the HTML
function nl2br_skip_html($string) {
// remove any carriage
Am I the only one getting blank replies from Joshua?
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On Behalf Of Joshua Street
Sent: Tuesday, 25 October 2005 3:06 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] specifying width of pre
Hi guys,
I know this isn't an easy one to crack. I've applied all the latest
bleeding-edge clearing techniques but my center column's content still drops
away at various widths when you resize the browser window.
I'd always thought that it occurred when the 3rd column's content was higher
but
Yeah, I tried that first. I've now applied it to all nested containers that
contain a floated DIV but the center still drops. I just can't seem to
figure this out.
It only occurs on some pages but I haven't been able to determine exactly
what is causing it. Maybe it's HRs, or long URLs. I just
I won't blush too hard if you mention my name. ;)
If you let me know when it's up that'd be great too.
Really, though, I didn't create anything new, I just applied it.
The current test URL is here - http://d81314.i50.quadrahosting.com.au/ - but
please don't check the site for validation. I've
It seems to work from IE 5.x up. Not in the Mac version but what does? ;)
I've just added the line to the page container style in my primary
stylesheet.
Works like a treat and doesn't appear to affect Mozilla/Firefox. Haven't
checked other browsers but am eager for feedback.
-Original
So we're very close here then?
Would something like this be appropriate and still validate?
!--[if IE]
style type=text/css@import IE-override.css;/style
![endif]--
-Original Message-
From: Lachlan Hardy
G'day Christian,
The expression code that Paul used (and which I often use
92 matches
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