RE: [WSG] Argh! Clearing issues with center column

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Noone
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 in

RE: [WSG] Argh! Clearing issues with center column

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Noone
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 don

RE: [WSG] Argh! Clearing issues with center column

2005-10-23 Thread YW Webmaster
Hello there, Have you tried applying the clearfix hack to a container wrapping around your whole page? I didn't test it thoroughly but it seemed to work on IE 5.5 and 6 for me. Good luck. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.

[WSG] Argh! Clearing issues with center column

2005-10-23 Thread Paul Noone
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 thi

Re: [WSG] inline element directly on body

2005-10-23 Thread Isabel Santos
Thank you all,   first, with short schedules and short weekends I find myself looking for things I cannot find in w3c, its organization is quite confusing, and since I keep loosing bookmarks and favorite lists on every format (unfortunatly too many of those) I end up getting in pannic once in a whi

Re: [WSG] inline element directly on body

2005-10-23 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
2005/10/23, russ - maxdesign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: <...> > Inline elements [1] and anonymous inline boxes [2] cannot be placed directly > inside the body, form or blockquote elements when using a strict Doctype. > They must be wrapped in a block level element. <...>> > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-C

Re: [WSG] inline element directly on body

2005-10-23 Thread Isabel Santos
:) thank you Russ, I must make a w3c site map on my favorites one of this days to be able to find this things... best regards, Isabel Santos  On 10/23/05, russ - maxdesign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...Inline elements [1] and anonymous inline boxes [2] cannot be placed directlyinside the body, form

Re: [WSG] inline element directly on body

2005-10-23 Thread Janos Hardi
Dear Isabel, As you can see from here http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/diffs.html your markup is incorrect because you are attempted to use an old (html4) style () within a new XML based document. In XML based documents you have to use strict markup, e.g. heading: paragraph: etc. Emphasizing some

Re: [WSG] inline element directly on body

2005-10-23 Thread russ - maxdesign
Hi Isabel, Inline elements [1] and anonymous inline boxes [2] cannot be placed directly inside the body, form or blockquote elements when using a strict Doctype. They must be wrapped in a block level element. However, if a Transitional Doctype is used, then inline elements and anonymous inline bo

[WSG] inline element directly on body

2005-10-23 Thread Isabel Santos
Hi all,   maybe I should know this, but I cannot even find where does w3c refers to this, so here it goes: I have a very simple document with a strict dtd. on the body I have something like this:   ...  ...  ... while validating the document I get this message: ___(quoting the valid