Re: [WSG] Not and IE bug?!?

2005-02-10 Thread Peter Flaschner
Thanks Peter, I'll check it out! On 9-Feb-05, at 5:12 PM, Peter Asquith wrote: Hi Peter Peter Flaschner wrote: Well, the clearing didn't do it. At least not as I understand it. If you're following the lead of the page you mentioned, you will find removing the overflow: hidden; line from t

RE: [WSG] Not and IE bug?...follow up difference why a difference between IDs and classes?

2005-02-10 Thread Trusz, Andrew
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kornel Lesinski Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:09 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Not and IE bug?...follow up difference why a difference between IDs and classes? > newbie questions... What is the advant

RE: [WSG] Not and IE bug?...follow up difference why a difference between IDs and classes?

2005-02-10 Thread Mike Pepper
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Trusz, Andrew > Sent: 10 February 2005 11:41 > To: 'wsg@webstandardsgroup.org' > Subject: RE: [WSG] Not and IE bug?...follow up difference why a > difference between ID

Re: [WSG] Not and IE bug?...follow up difference why a difference between IDs and classes?

2005-02-10 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 06:40:49 -0500, Trusz, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: newbie questions... What is the advantage of the fact that IDs must be unique on a page? 1. getElementById() works. 2. Validation. If you use , validator will complain when you have two or more such divs (typical copy

RE: [WSG] Not and IE bug?...follow up difference why a difference between IDs and classes?

2005-02-10 Thread Trusz, Andrew
newbie questions... What is the advantage of the fact that IDs must be unique on a page? I am aware of the circumstance that if you need to "repeat" an ID, set is as a class, but have still not figured out the advantage of an ID. ¤ devendra ¤ In

Re: [WSG] Not and IE bug?...follow up difference why a difference between IDs and classes?

2005-02-09 Thread Ben Curtis
I thought I should pick up on the comment by Peter and ask one of my many newbie questions... What is the advantage of the fact that IDs must be unique on a page? I am aware of the circumstance that if you need to "repeat" an ID, set is as a class, but have still not figured out the advantage

Re: [WSG] Not and IE bug?...follow up difference why a difference between IDs and classes?

2005-02-09 Thread Peter Asquith
Hi Devendra Devendra Shrikhande wrote: What is the advantage of the fact that IDs must be unique on a page? I am aware of the circumstance that if you need to "repeat" an ID, set is as a class, but have still not figured out the advantage of an ID. This is an important topic. At first glance, it wo

RE: [WSG] Not and IE bug?...follow up difference why a difference between IDs and classes?

2005-02-09 Thread Iain Gardiner
Devendra Shrikhande Sent: 09 February 2005 22:27 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Not and IE bug?...follow up difference why a difference between IDs and classes? I thought I should pick up on the comment by Peter and ask one of my many newbie questions... What is the advantage of the

RE: [WSG] Not and IE bug?...follow up difference why a difference between IDs and classes?

2005-02-09 Thread Devendra Shrikhande
PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Not and IE bug?!? Hi Peter Peter Flaschner wrote: > Well, the clearing didn't do it. At least not as I understand it. If you're following the lead of the page you mentioned, you will find removing the overflow: hidden; li

Re: [WSG] Not and IE bug?!?

2005-02-09 Thread Peter Asquith
Hi Peter Peter Flaschner wrote: Well, the clearing didn't do it. At least not as I understand it. If you're following the lead of the page you mentioned, you will find removing the overflow: hidden; line from the style sheet should solve your problem. By setting the height to zero and th

Re: [WSG] Not and IE bug?!?

2005-02-09 Thread Peter Flaschner
Well, the clearing didn't do it. At least not as I understand it. Here's a bit more info: ... bunch of stuff... float:left float:right clear:both In ie, home_bg sticks out a couple of pixels below the footer, but not in safari/moz. I've tried applying the :after trick from p.i.e., as well as

Re: [WSG] Not and IE bug?!?

2005-02-08 Thread Peter Flaschner
Aha. Thanks. Clearing ought to do the trick. Peter On 8-Feb-05, at 7:30 PM, Peter Asquith wrote: Hi Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just-about-to-go-live site, and have run up against something I've never seen before. The problem has to do with a disappearing background image in Safari/Mozilla. It

Re: [WSG] Not and IE bug?!?

2005-02-08 Thread Peter Asquith
Hi Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just-about-to-go-live site, and have run up against something I've never seen before. The problem has to do with a disappearing background image in Safari/Mozilla. It shows in IE, and I can make it show in Safari/Moz if I change the structure around, which causes n

Re: [WSG] Not and IE bug?!?

2005-02-08 Thread Andrew Krespanis
You need to clear your floats. Check this: http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html (technique discovered by WSG member Tony Aslett ;) Andrew. -- http://leftjustified.net/ ** The discussion list for http

[WSG] Not and IE bug?!?

2005-02-08 Thread peter
Hiya, Long-time lurker, first time poster. I'm debugging a just-about-to-go-live site, and have run up against something I've never seen before. The problem has to do with a disappearing background image in Safari/Mozilla. It shows in IE, and I can make it show in Safari/Moz if I change the struct