[WSG] CSS solid lines and Opera

2004-05-24 Thread John McDougald
How do I show solid lines in a table with CSS to properly display with an Opera web browser? This is the style Im using: .btable1 { background: #E4E0CD; border: 1px solid #9E946A; color: #33; font-size: small; } When this loads in a table: td class=btable1 Opera

RE: [WSG] CSS solid lines and Opera

2004-05-24 Thread Peter Ottery
How do I show solid lines in a table with CSS to properly display with an Opera web browser? that example code you've supplied makes a border on all 4 sides of a TD in my copy of Opera (v7.22 on PC) Could it be that other classes on your project are causing the prob? Like a negative

RE: [WSG] CSS solid lines and Opera

2004-05-24 Thread John McDougald
Thanks Pete, I was afraid that might be the problem. Back to the drawing board. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ottery Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 11:36 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [WSG] CSS solid

RE: [WSG] What's the value and of a Ruby?

2004-05-24 Thread Jamie Mason
Title: RE: [WSG] What's the value and of a Ruby? I think he's asking what other othes it could have, other than those intended. I have no ideas at the moment. Jamie Mason: Design -Original Message- From: Chris Bentley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 May 2004 08:23 To:

Re: [WSG] naming a form so it validates?

2004-05-24 Thread Kristof Neirynck
robert e. lee wrote: I have a name attribute in the form tag, but I need it there due to the javascript validations necessary for client side checking, name=surveyform. 1. change name=surveyform to id=surveyform 2. change document.forms[surveyform] to document.getElementById(surveyform) Easy

[WSG] Width difference in IE - OK in Firefox

2004-05-24 Thread Michael Kear
Im stumped at what Ive done wrong here. Ive copied (or at least I THOUGHT I copied!) a structure from another site that worked, but its playing out wrong for IE6. can anyone tell me what Im doing wrong here please? The sites at http://paraklesis.com.au and the style sheet is at

RE: [WSG] Width difference in IE - OK in Firefox

2004-05-24 Thread David McDonald
Title: Message Try using display:inline on the floated element in question. It's most probably one of the IE bugs listed here: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html Regards,David McDonaldWeb Designerhttp://www.davidmcdonald.orgSouthbank, MelbourneAustralia -Original

RE: [WSG] Width difference in IE - OK in Firefox

2004-05-24 Thread Michael Kear
Title: Message I found it!!! Thanks for your suggestion David, but that wasnt it. However it did prompt me to go looking at the site where I got the original inspiration from (translation I went back ot the site I stole it from in the first place before I tinkered with it beyond

[WSG] CSS Positioning of Navigation

2004-05-24 Thread Sean Sullivan-Daley
CSS Positioning of Navigation I am having a problem with IE again. I am trying to create a framed top navigation. It seems to work in Safari/Firefox the way I intended. The only way I can seem to get it to work in IE 6 is to add padding to the HeadNav id this pushed the nav donw in

[WSG] hey

2004-05-24 Thread Jochen Sengier [SHiKai]
Dear WSG Its great you guys are promoting XHTML, CSS and such.. But theres one thing that bothers me.. On the WSG MINI BUTTON page, you publish the code for adding The image, but the code itself isnt valid xhtml strict Instead of using: border=0 Replace it with:

Re: [WSG] CSS Positioning of Navigation

2004-05-24 Thread Mordechai Peller
Sean Sullivan-Daley wrote: CSS Positioning of Navigation I am having a problem with IE again. I am trying to create a framed top navigation. It seems to work in Safari/Firefox the way I intended. The only way I can seem to get it to work in IE 6 is to add padding to the HeadNav id this pushed

Re: [WSG] Mini buttons (was: hey)

2004-05-24 Thread Mordechai Peller
Jochen Sengier [SHiKai] wrote: Its great you guys are promoting XHTML, CSS and such.. On behalf of my small part, thank you. On the WSG MINI BUTTON page, you publish the code for adding The image, but the code itself isnt valid xhtml strict

[WSG] Ten questions for Patrick Griffiths

2004-05-24 Thread russ - maxdesign
Patrick Griffiths talks about HTML Dog, AAA compliance, the HR element, Elastic Design and web standards. http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/patrick-griffiths.cfm Russ * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

[WSG] IE. Stopping a table from stretching past the containing div

2004-05-24 Thread Benjamin
Hey all, got a problem with tables stretching past my globalWrap div in ie5.0, 5.5, 6.0 when they are set to 100% works fine in firefox pcmac, ie5.1+5.2 mac safari, ns6.2+ on pc and mac anyone know how to fix this? thanks Benjamin Life through a polaroid www.lifethroughapolaroid.com

[WSG] Good DOM tutorial?

2004-05-24 Thread Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen
The discussion about validating forms led me to download the DOM Level 1 spec again from the W3C, and after a moment or two I remembered why I'd scrubbed it off my disc the last time. It was either that or grab my Uzi and hunt down the people who wrote that spec. Right now I'm dependent on

RE: [WSG] Good DOM tutorial?

2004-05-24 Thread Jeff Lowder - Accessibility 1st
Hi Rev This is probably a good one to start on. http://www.w3schools.com/dhtml/default.asp Cheers Jeff Lowder Accessibility 1st Website: www.accessibility1st.com.au -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen Sent: Tuesday, 25

RE: [WSG] Good DOM tutorial?

2004-05-24 Thread P.H.Lauke
This got me started fairly quickly with my JS DOM experiments http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/index.php?tut=0part=24 Patrick Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk winmail.dat

RE: [WSG] IE. Stopping a table from stretching past the containing div

2004-05-24 Thread P.H.Lauke
Check your table's width, padding and margin. In the worst case, drop the width from 100% to something like 99.5%. I may be wrong, but I think this is another instance of the box model problem IE has... Patrick Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford

Re: [WSG] IE. Stopping a table from stretching past the containing div

2004-05-24 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On May 25, 2004, at 9:14 am, Benjamin wrote: got a problem with tables stretching past my globalWrap div in ie5.0, 5.5, 6.0 when they are set to 100% IE win is unable to correctly calculate % width tables IF the direct parent container doesn't have a dimension (width or height) specified. Wrap a

[WSG] using web standards on non-english language sites

2004-05-24 Thread Neerav
Do any WSG members have experience with non-english language websites? If so some tips would be helpful. Ive found Beyond Borders: Web Globalisation Strategies by New Riders helpful in a broad sense, but not for topics like: * which is the best way to specify charsets (UTF-8, iso-8859-1, BIG-5

[WSG] about that new way to clear floats

2004-05-24 Thread Peter Ottery
so you know how there's that new way to clear floats... http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html just wondering how everyone is gauging that method? I mean,the "hack" used up until now of adding a div style="clear:both"/div (or similar) to properly clear floats when needed is

Re: [WSG] IE. Stopping a table from stretching past the containing div

2004-05-24 Thread Benjamin
the containing div has a width of 100% but ie doesnt want to adhere to this On May 25, 2004, at 9:14 am, Benjamin wrote: got a problem with tables stretching past my globalWrap div in ie5.0, 5.5, 6.0 when they are set to 100% IE win is unable to correctly calculate % width tables IF

Re: [WSG] IE. Stopping a table from stretching past the containing div

2004-05-24 Thread Benjamin
thanks Phillipe I solved the problem as you suggested I put a div around it called it tableContain #tableContain{width: 100%} works like a charm On May 25, 2004, at 9:14 am, Benjamin wrote: got a problem with tables stretching past my globalWrap div in ie5.0, 5.5, 6.0 when they are

Re: [WSG] using web standards on non-english language sites

2004-05-24 Thread Peter A. Shevtsov
Hello Neerav! Neerav wrote: Do any WSG members have experience with non-english language websites? Yes. I'm from Russia, so I have experience with non-english (especially Russian) language websites. Currently I'm redesigning one site to make it standarts compliance -- you can see its redone home

[WSG] strange white flash on mouseover

2004-05-24 Thread Neerav
Anyone have an idea why the menu at left of http://www.h27.info/ works fine in Firefox 0.8, Opera 7 and IE 5.5 but in IE 6 when you mouseover the links they change from the image background into a white background until you mouseout ? -- Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au Web Development IT

RE: [WSG] strange white flash on mouseover

2004-05-24 Thread Jason Turnbull
Neerav wrote: Anyone have an idea why the menu at left of http://www.h27.info/ works fine in Firefox 0.8, Opera 7 and IE 5.5 but in IE 6 when you mouseover the links they change from the image background into a white background until you mouseout ? Neerav, I'm not seeing this behaviour in

Re: [WSG] strange white flash on mouseover

2004-05-24 Thread Marc Greenstock
Unfortunately images called in through CSS don't cache at least with IE. Go to IE Menu Tools Internet Options Temporary Internet Files Settings Turn Check for newer versions of stored pages to Automatically. The problem will go away in your browser but anyone else who doesn't have the

Re: [WSG] strange white flash on mouseover

2004-05-24 Thread erietta
Dear Neerav and Marc I have settings set as Marc recommended and still got no mouseovers in IE 6. Erietta * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to

RE: [WSG] strange white flash on mouseover

2004-05-24 Thread Peter Firminger
Works perfectly on IE 6 for me. There's always a flash of no BG on IE but it returns as it loads it again. IE separates the normal and hover states and when you roll over it loads the image again, even though it's the same one. Try the nav on the WSG site in IE and you'll see the same happens to