Woops...a colleague pointed out that I didn't set margin/padding to
zero on the body.
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I can't quite identify where this is coming from. Works just fine in
other browsers...
IE 5/6 throw a right margin on the entire page...???
http://client.vaska.com/escaut/index8.php
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use I didn't like how it turned out in FireFox and
IE6 either.
On 2/10/06, Vaska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This article does not
create a footer that is fixed to the bottom of
the screen. If your content is longer it will push the footer off the
bottom of the screen.
On 10 Feb 2006
This article does not create a footer that is fixed to the bottom of
the screen. If your content is longer it will push the footer off the
bottom of the screen.
On 10 Feb 2006, at 11:33, Robbie Shepherd wrote:
I'm guessing its due to the overflow: auto; in your #content div.
Remove that,
Second day and I keep coming back to the same problem...IE6/7 keeps
placing a hortizontal scrollbar on this template. IE5, however, does
not.
http://client.vaska.com/escaut/index5.php
There are a number of other issues here (like the height of a div
being created by javascript) that I'll d
Hi folks:
I'm trying to test out a template and I'm not sure if I'm executing
this properly. It's a standard template basically but I've had to do
some things that make me wonder if there is a better way. The
content rectangle (everything inside of the very light gray shadow
effect) is
o, autofill...i bet it has to do with how i name my form
elements...
ok, then it makes sense and 'no', i wouldn't want to turn that off.
i don't see it actually, i'm on a mac. when i'm on a pc testing stuff
i see this though and i've always wondered what it is...
the mystery has bee
Why is it that IE turns the background of some input/text elements to
light yellow? I can't find any information as to why or how it's doing
this...and I want to stop it.
Anybody know what this is about?
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ee any way possible to create urls (clean urls) using Chinese (non-latin) characters.
Ideas?
thanks...v
On Jun 7, 2005, at 1:11 AM, tee wrote:
Hi Vaska, as the w3c links Anders provided, it can. However I will be very
skeptical to using it as obviously browsers are not advance enough to hand
tee, or really any Chinese person on this list,
one thing that I've been cuious about is how do you deal with creating urls. this could sound extremely naive and i'm sorry for that. it's my understanding that use of latin1 characters only is allowed to make a url...or create folders etc...
http
Thanks, that's exactly what I was searching for (the explanation).
Thanks, thanks, thanks. ;)
On Jun 6, 2005, at 5:36 PM, Steven Ametjan wrote:
Unfortunately, IE only reads the :hover psuedo-class on elements.
The use of
javascript can circumvent this. Ideally though, you should not embed
I've been fishing for an answer to this but I can't find one.
I know I've read somewhere in the past that if you want to change the
color of a table row TR I need to use:
class='transparent' onmouseover="this.className='over';"
onmouseout="this.className='transparent';"
I would certainly p
You really need to give us the URL of the page that this occurs on so others can test it.
It's on my dev server. If you really want to see a test page (where the images aren't working and alot of the css is totally in outerspace right now) it's here.
http://www.vaska.com/wsg/08test.php
We also
I'm not sure what the deal is, but when I bring up a page in my system it doesn't encode properly at first. I have to go the browser options and change it to utf-8. The funny thing is that utf-8 is my default as set in all my browsers.
This is my header...
Page title
etc...etc...
And in m
For some reason, I feel I have to escape every character that is not a
letter or number.
I was feeling the same, and working on it, when this thread arrived.
At the time it appeared I was looking up numeric entity lists in
Cyrillic and adapting them to a conversion_map function (for PHP). I
Vaska, you¨re still mixing those:
I think you are mixing two things which should be separated.
The first problem is the language of the page (defined in the header)
The second problem is how to create a non-ascii character
He is right.
I've already identified that I will be using
x27;s out there (theoretically)?
Thanks for the help...v
On Jun 2, 2005, at 10:46 PM, Juergen Auer wrote:
On 2 Jun 2005 at 16:49, Vaska.WSG wrote:
It's for a multilanguage site and base language will be English.
Everything on the form will be English except the actual input
(textarea).
It's for a multilanguage site and base language will be English.
Everything on the form will be English except the actual input
(textarea). Would it hurt anything if I just kept the lang declaration
as EN in the header? Or, since the input will be Chinese should it be
ZN? Or, do I need to b
Am I allowed to ask about non-CSS things here?
In particular, I'm trying to deal with how to handle inputs of Chinese
characters via some forms. What I'm wondering is...
- will utf-8 suffice?
- do I need to specify http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
xml:lang='en' lang='en'> as ZN? is it necessa
It's a pretty solution, but it doesn't word-wrap...at least not in
Safari. Make your browser window thinner and see what happens?
What I'm doing is no different except that I'm going through the
trouble of having php count the number of tabs and then using that
information to insert the corre
I think this will do the trick. It's a little odd, and I'll have to
test this out more, doing a preg_match_all to determine how many \t's
there are (so we know what class='tab$number' to use), but I think in
most instances this will suffice.
Thanks for pointing this solution out...v
On M
Thanks for the discussion folks...
Actually, because I can't really find a way to get by on the word-wrap
issue and also the use of indents (as they appear in the code) I've
done all of this in php without code or pre. It uses 's for the
tabs (preg_replace("/\t/"...). Aside from creating
I'm trying to make a page that will display some source code. The PRE
tag works very will with retaining \t and \n but I can not find a way
to make it wrap words. Words fly off the monitor...
I've been reading around (via Google) and I find others with similar
problems but no solution. Is t
Yeah, the typo was from a fast typist... ;)
I think Rowan's solution will just have to do. I do make a point to
specify to users that it's highly recommended they use a 'modern'
browser - complete with a link to Firefox. So, I think that will just
have to cover this problem well enough...
Certainly modern browsers (Safari, Firefox, Mozilla) handle what I'm
trying to do, but IE is mucking this up. I'd post a link but this is
on an internal dev server...
I have a div that is 775px wide and 300px tall with overflow:auto.
Inside there is a table (for tabular type data) that is 10
Digging around in there I don't think I see the article I was
originally looking for, but this seems to be the same thing (overflow:
auto;). It's not exactly as I remembered it either, but that's a
different subject (my poor memory)...
Thanks Stuart
On Apr 18, 2005, at 1:40 PM, Stuart Homfray
No, that's not it. Now I'm totally dying because I can't find it.
Some guy had figured out, and I believe had tested a way to
audtomatically keep column heights at equal heights to each other. No
javascript and it didn't even appear to be a hack.
He made some comment that he stared at his mo
Fauxcolumns isn't it. Darn, I can't believe I didn't put this link in
my read me files...
On Apr 16, 2005, at 5:28 PM, David wrote:
Also a case for faux columns...
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/
A short while ago somebody wrote an article about achieving 100%
height divs when
Thanks for that. I was missing the span display:block...plus I had
forgotten the simplicity of a floated div that doesn't have a width
applied to it.
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Yep...it's will work in IE5/Mac is it's just span (without
display:block) oddly enough, otherwise it does
Hi folks:
I'm trying to do something and I'm not sure if this is possible. What
I want to do is write simple sentence constructed of left floated
divs...like...
This
is
a
sentence.
The tricky part, since I can't do this with a span (I believe) is that
I only want class='sentence' to be just th
Check this out...not sure if it's what you want, but I found an article
about it for you...
http://www.stunicholls.myby.co.uk/layouts/frame.html
Doesn't work in IE5 but I think if you dig around enough you could find
somebody who has solved this problem...
good luck...v
On Mar 25, 2005, at 1:
Javascript...calculate the height of the window or even a particular
div (like the one that the overflow is inside of)...and then apply
height to the div in question (based upon the calculated heights of
things minus some amount perhaps)...not the most elegant way to things
however...
What
Nice. We're currently in a prototype stage so I won't really think about the final solution until next week (but I'm downloading your markups right now).
Thanks very much, vaska
On Mar 25, 2005, at 12:28 AM, Andrew Hawthorne wrote:
Hi Vaska,
I think I may have a solution for
i had a similar problem recently...we figured out after a week that it wasn't just on my end...although the host claimed they had checked everything, the server had a virus (that was connect to a java applet on another site that was a known home for hackers)...hopefully your problem isn't nearly as
As far as I'm concerned, when you have a great long scrolling list (for
example) and you want (need) to keep the nav stuff stationary, frames
represent the ONLY way to do it.
The "ONLY"? What about:
That seems to work pretty well too.
Iframes are perfecty fine in some situations, but don't forge
Hi Folks:
I understand what is happening here, but I'm not really sure how to go
about resolving this. What's happening is that a floated right div is
being pushed down below the left when the the browser window is at
800px wide or less.
It works in all the other browsers - it's only IE 6 that
I can't find the exact webpage, but it is possible to arget IE on
Mac...like this...it's an odd hack that does work...
.innerbox {
/* commented backslash for IE5-Mac \*/
background: url(../imgs/bg-menu-test.png) repeat !important;
/* end hack */
background: #666;
height: 36px;
padding: 6px 0 0 51
I did manage to get my version working...it's very much like Zeldman
and Inman's (as I did research their techniques for pulling this
off)...I cringe to admit that I had not closed the tag and this
is why it was not behaving...I had validated it, but somewhere lost the
"/"...lesson learned, ag
Aside from an example over at Shaun Inmans great site, has anybody come
up with a reasonable method for creating an inline list that hides the
text (via text-indent) and uses image swapping on hover via css?
Inman's is great, but after experimenting with what he has done it
doesn't hold up wel
I can't quite figure out why my list (site navigation) shifts to the
right 1px every time I hover over an item that has a link that I've
already visited - in Safari and Firefox on the mac at least. It
doesn't effect links that I have not visited.
I've validated both the page and the css and I
Ah gee, after having this in the back of my head for two days I get a
solution the second after I posted this (I'll wait three days in the
future). Unless somebody has a more solid solution (like exactly why
it does that) this does the trick and doesn't get in the way of the
design. ;)
Change
Sorry, this is on an internal server that's not accessible to the
outside.
I'm having a strange little bug that is showing up in Safari 1.2.4
(oddly, it works fine in IE). I have a container div and then a
content div inside of that. The content div has a margin at the top of
150px. When I
It's not beautiful if you zoom your text.
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Perhaps it's the line-height in #jour? Looks like it's about 12px
extra there...you might need to add that to "#jour a"...v
On Dec 10, 2004, at 1:08 PM, Antonio wrote:
I can't solved a space problem in a CSS menu that only affects IE5.0:
XHTML: http://kalimeo.com/menu
CSS: http://kalimeo.com/men
I have an image that I'm dropping into a paragraph that I want to align
to the left and wrap the text around it. Easy enough...
Now, this does the job but the top of the image is about 5 pixels above
the top of the line. I can easily adjust this with margin or padding,
but is there a better
I'm following behind the curve on this one as it seems people have put
this to rest. However, I really do not want to be grouped into a
category of people who believe in standards above all else. I am a
print designer first and foremost.
My response, below, was really more about shock than an
heme of things...v
On 12 May 2004, at 17:29, Justin French wrote:
Vaska,
The answer is simple. Your URLs contain ampersands (&), which are a
character which cannot be used directly in HTML. Why? Because it's
used for entities, like & and © and —.
Without boring you with the de
Yes, but are there any really hard statistics about what the public is
doing. We know roughly 7% don't use or diable javascript. But what
about disabling styles?
On 12 May 2004, at 16:13, Jeremy Flint wrote:
On the web, you really have NO control over your site once it is
public. Users have
Thanks, all of this is just making more stupid by the second... ;)
On 12 May 2004, at 17:15, Chatham, Will wrote:
What it's trying to say is that you need to change your '&' to the
'&'
entity in your URL's. The XHTML validator is trying to parse &year,
which
isn't valid. Check out this (Secti
It's frustrating as it can be very difficult to find information about
these things via Google.
Anyways, I'm getting alot of error messages when I validate - in
particular I'm getting messages like this:
7. Line 50, column 40: cannot generate system identifier for general
entity "year"
«
8.
Since it seems like a rather common problem...
My solution certainly required the box model hack. Plus instead of
left and right floats I used only left floats. All my column widths
are obviously fixed. Perhaps things were helped by the fact that only
one of the tables required a width of 10
On 11 May 2004, at 15:41, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
For one - you have a width defined container (#middle) next to a
floated box, this is sometimes (hmm) problematic in IE - the 3px jog
is messing things up.
Do you think so? I have a space in between the left and middle divs
that is left e
I'm having the wost time right now trying to get IE to handle this test
page. I have two columns and inside of each column is a table (one of
which has a width of 100%). But IE just will not allow both tables to
align side-by-side. I have the box model hack in here to control the
widths of t
This is really a pain. The problem I can see is that with a liquid
layout I need to specify an actual width for the middle column (the
left and right columns both being fixed-width) - so the solution is not
so easy. Holly's hack didn't work and besides I rarely use hacks as I
generally simpl
I'm having a problem with a textarea. It will display properly on the
page (which has three div columns) but when a person begins to input
data it automatically expands (to the right) so it occupies two columns
instead of just the middle column. I've never seen anything like this
before...
I'm not sure what this means actually. This is from a table in my code
which is for tabular data, not for layout. ???
Am I correct in assuming that the validator does not like the 'nowrap'?
And that probably being the case, and since I do need it, is there
some other betther method for pulli
I'm not sure if my understanding of min-height is correct. What I want
to do is set a min-height on a div and then when there is too much info
it will automatically expand itself.
Apparently, I need to use height as well for M$ browsers but what I
don't quite understand is how do the other bro
I hate to ask a dumb question, but I can't find any information about
this altough I'm pretty sure I've read about this someplace.
What I'm trying to do is use
.cl {
clear:both;
}
But the sticky part is that I don't want it to add the extra line
space. I'm not sure of the best way t
Thanks all,
I guess the many explanations explain just why I've never done it with
pure CSS before. I'll go back to my javascript and have a coke and a
smile.
;)
On 31 Mar 2004, at 07:28, scott parsons wrote:
Well it depends upon the exact behaviour desired, and the browsers you
want to sup
Hi WSG...
I've searched through my email archives and I can't dig up a good
discussion on this, although I know that it must exist someplace in
here.
I'm trying to find a method for showing/hiding layers using CSS which
doesn't use javascript if it's possible (?). Ideally, a layer (let's
cal
I haven't been following how things are going on PHP5, but do we have a
target on when this might be a full stable release (and then have to
really start dealing with it)?
v
On 25 Mar 2004, at 06:38, Justin French wrote:
PHP5 looks to have some VERY NICE features in the form of Tidy, which
am
I would still like to know
Have you ever had a project that was basically on an emergency basis,
was only trying to fix something that somebody else had done poorly and
in a months time would tossed once the problem was fixed?
It's like that. Small budget and it needed to be done about 10 years
Besides the other downfalls of frames-based pages, they also do not
perform
well in the search engines.
Which is something we don't really need. This is for an internal
project and I can't send out a link. Frames are required for this -
it's probably the first time since '96 where I actually
Yes, but it's not the overflow of the div, it's the frame itself. The
page is going larger than the frame window - meaning, the divs aren't
respecting the size of the window. Sorry if my explanation was
confusing on that point.
;)
On 24 Mar 2004, at 09:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not q
Hi everybody...
I'm having a terrible time trying to figure out just why IE6 (Windows
XP) is throwing scrollbars at me when I view a page in a frame - I'm
really not sure what the trick is to this (if there is one). I hate to
ask dumb or redundant questions, but this one is really nagging.
Th
Hi Todd,
I don't have a solution for you, but I too can see the same problem -
using Safari 1.2.
v
On 11 Feb 2004, at 07:07, Hugh Todd wrote:
Hey, this is sort of an OT post, but affects my CSS development, so...
I'm testing my pages as I go along (coding in BBEdit). But I'm finding
that in
I don't know if this is common knowledge, but I haven't seen anybody
mention this - if this has been reported before sorry.
Firefox has an extension called EditCSS that allows you to edit CSS
live in your browser. Actually, you can view and edit any CSS from any
site (only your machine). Then
What about YoungPup's solution to transparentizing pngs?
It seems it's been updated, but worthy reading on the subject...
http://www.youngpup.net/?request=/snippets/sleight.xml
Jv
On 30 Jan 2004, at 04:16, Chris Blown wrote:
Just for the record...
I wouldn't recommend using this, but it does
On 19 Jan 2004, at 21:01, russ weakley wrote:
A pencil image made out of CSS
http://www.designdetector.com/tips/csspencils.php
i gotta say it...in some way...
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That's very interesting - I wasn't aware of that. I've worked with a
few large governmental organizations in the past and the default was
always Explorer. Of course, that was Seattle and Redmond was only 20
minutes away...
And CSS wasn't generally used for as much back then either...the need
Do people really code/tweak for NS4? My netscape traffic generally
ranges less than 3% and I can only imagine that a very small chunk of
that is actually NS4. Am I missing something?
v
On 16 Jan 2004, at 11:10, James Ellis wrote:
Hi all
For those who didn't make it, Russ in his presentation
Thanks Russ,
Actually, that's not quite it, but it's pretty good.
If I manage to find it again (I spent about an hour trying yesterday)
I'll send a note along - it also had a nice discussion about producing
hacks for the various browsers.
Vaska
On 14 Jan 2004, at 19:34, rus
Hi all,
I actually hate to ask this, but awhile back I found a resource that
had all the possible (both currently supported and not) CSS attributes
for the Safari browser. Additionally, it also had Mozilla I believe.
Does anybody know where I might find this (these)?
Actually, I guess this is
russ, i just wanted to mention that these links you provide
perdiodically have really been helping me get up to speed with css -
thank you very much! if you're ever in brussels, i'll gladly buy you a
beer...
and happy 2004 to the list...v
On 07 Jan 2004, at 21:18, russ weakley wrote:
Abstrac
n every browser this way...i
can live with it if i have to...
thanks for your input...vaska
>
> Hi
>
> vertical-align doesn't really work the way valign in a table cell works
> - it applies to inline elements and table cell elements only (see css2
> rec 10.8.1).
>
&g
round the web I just
fine solutions using tables and that's not in my plan (I hope).
Thanks...vaska
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I'm having some problems with heights. What I need to do is have a window
that has 100% width and 100% height used by a div. Inside of this div are
more header type objects and then (yes) an iframe which I want to f
YOUR LIST IN HERE...
#masterdiv just has some margin information...nothing special...
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