Re: [WSG] list-style-types

2004-01-27 Thread Hugh Todd
Pete, I have a square as a list-style-type, but it's sitting on the baseline of the text. Is there a way to get it to sit in the middle of the x-height of the text? Not as far as I'm aware, but if you make a graphic bullet you can position it as follows: #topbanner ul {

Re: [WSG] list-style-types

2004-01-27 Thread russ weakley
Peter, The problem is that you are dealing with browsers individual interpretation of how to render lists - in particular list bullets. Each browser decides how they will render lists via their default style sheet (based on something like this - http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/sample.html).

Re: [WSG] list-style-types

2004-01-27 Thread James Ellis
russ weakley wrote: 1. Hippy option Embrace the web and accept that it isn't print. Then you can live with slight differences. After all, you may have users who come to your site using hand held devices, screen reads, text-only browsers, fridges, and a huge variety of operating systems and

Re: [WSG] list-style-types

2004-01-27 Thread Cameron Adams
I just tried setting vertical-align: middle on an li. In IE6 it moves it moves the bullet more centrally, in Mozilla and Opera it does nothing, but they're pretty central anyway. You can try all sorts of different values: baseline, text-top, etc. -- Cameron W: www.themaninblue.com

Re: [WSG] Floats of the Fluid and Fixed kind

2004-01-27 Thread Tonico Strasser
Chris Blown wrote: Hey, After reading Dave Shea's Friday Challenge and all the various solutions posted in response, I decided to have a play with this idea too. Ryan Brill's negative margin method works well across browsers, and I used this method while experimenting. /* Triple checked link ;)

[WSG] Definition lists - misused or misunderstood

2004-01-27 Thread russ weakley
Apologies to those who are over the definition list debate... Definition lists - misused or misunderstood? What are definition lists? When are they appropriate? And how to style them to look like tables, image galleries, calendar of events and more

[WSG] Image Gallery alternative

2004-01-27 Thread Robert Moser II
I was searching the web for a good way to do a thumbnail gallery and came across the discussion on this list between Russ Weakley and Justin French. I came up with this alternative to the ways that they wrote about (Russ - each image in its own DL, Justing - each image in its own DIV). What

[WSG] CSS file size question

2004-01-27 Thread Martin Chapman
Hi All Been enjoying the conversations since joining a week ago, thanks! I am currently converting a clients' site (from tables) into a validated site (well, testing and putting it to them... they asked, but they don't know the price yet! :oO ) The main sections (design) of the site will be

Re: [WSG] Floats of the Fluid and Fixed kind

2004-01-27 Thread Tonico Strasser
Chris Blown schrieb: whole layout relative to the viewport? I guess what I was aiming for was; Sorry, I don't understand this :/ (still learning english) When the content area contains less content than the current users viewport, the content area will stretch to the fill out the vacant area,

Re: [WSG] Flash Problem Mac check?

2004-01-27 Thread Veine K Vikberg
At 11:38 AM 1/28/2004 +1100, you wrote: Your Code: object type=application/x-shockwave-flash data=flash/mma.swf width=130 height=104 param name=movie value=mma.swf/param /object DOH! Thanks Solution: Note that the OBJECTDATA attribute: flash/mma.swf and the PARAMVALUE attribute mma.swf are

Re: [WSG] validation... and invalid markup

2004-01-27 Thread James Ellis
Scott: scott parsons wrote: Standards... yay sure if you belong to this list you gotta support standards or else why bother? Well, not really. Belonging to a list doesn't mean you agree with everything on it. But lately I have seen lots of people trying to find ways to validate their

Re: [WSG] Floats of the Fluid and Fixed kind

2004-01-27 Thread Chris Blown
Thanks Tonico Looks great. Cheers Chris Blown A few months ago I need to do this for a project. It was one of my first pure CSS layouts. It's done with positioning not floats. The abstract HTML: div id=min-heightnbsp;/div divContent/div div id=footerFooter/div CSS: #min-height

RE: [WSG] Definition lists - misused or misunderstood

2004-01-27 Thread Michael Kear
It's just not fair. Just when I think I'm getting a grip on this web development business, along comes Russ with a whole area of markup that I've never looked at. Where have I been? I had no idea there was even such a thing as definition lists! There's an admission for you! I can see dozens

[WSG] Definition lists -- mid-weekly challenge

2004-01-27 Thread Hugh Todd
Russ, anyone, Any thoughts on using dl for the following? I can't seem to make it work. (Could this be a mid-weekly challenge?) Rather than having all of your dl elements stacked above each other, (as in your example: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/definition/dl-image-

Re: [WSG] Definition lists -- mid-weekly challenge

2004-01-27 Thread Cameron Adams
Can't be bothered trying it, but you could float the image left, leave the other elements non-floated, block, with left margins equal to the image width. -- Cameron W: www.themaninblue.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try