On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:19:12 +1200, Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know if there is a common way of listing styles in CSS?
...
For example, perhaps the font and inline information is first, the
block, padding and margin information next, and then the positioning.
Sean,
I've seen more
At 01:47 PM 9/12/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want the text to overflow if the value of the option is greater than the
width...
select, option
{
width: 250px;
overflow: visible;
}
Taco,
I think the default for most browsers is to render the select list widely
enough to
At 05:09 PM 9/12/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want a default width, i.e. all selects to be 250px, if there is overflow
I want to see it...
Taco,
I think I accomplished your goal simply by nesting the select list inside a
div with a constrained width and overflow: hidden:
At 06:22 PM 9/19/2004, Amit Karmakar wrote:
What is better in terms of semantics and accessibility?
div id=footer
pstuff | more stuffbr /
stuff too | more stuff again/p
/div
or
div id=footer
ullistuff/li | limore stuff/li
listuff too/li | limore stuff again/li/ul
/div
Amit,
I suppose you need to
At 05:00 PM 9/23/2004, Tony Aslett wrote:
I created a list of CSS properties and browsers that support them
http://www.csscreator.com/attributes/
Excellent work, Tony. Are you storing this in an SQL database?
I'd like to see some other layers of information added to a database such
as yours.
At 11:35 AM 9/29/2004, Shane Helm wrote:
I have some empty div tags to be able to make a graphic a background image
since this presentation is common to all pages.
For example in my html:
div id=header3/div
My CSS for header3 is as follows:
#header3
{
position: relative;
At 05:19 PM 10/4/2004, Parker Torrence wrote:
Yes you can
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/lists.html
section 10.2
see DEPRECATED EXAMPLE:
which is:
UL
LI ... Level one, number one...
OL
LI ... Level two, number one...
LI ... Level two, number two...
OL start=10
At 12:26 AM 10/5/2004, Rick Faaberg wrote:
But if those data are coming from a database and are being output via a
script language for example, I think a table is the most convenient way to
present the data and the buttons.
It boggles my small intellect to think about outputting CSS positioning
At 12:05 PM 10/6/2004, john wrote:
I want to put a top of page link in the footer of one of my sites, so
instead of using the a name= tag, I a href= to one of my ID's. The
problem is, I've used z-index in the CSS so that the header and nav stay
put when scrolling...but it doesn't work in IE.
Since navigation presents a jargon problem, perhaps menu or another
less techie term might work:
Skip past menu
Jump over menu
What's an appropriate metaphor for a navigation menu if you're not a
programmer and if your interaction with the menu is functional auditory
and not
At 10:10 AM 12/3/04, Michael Vogt wrote:
Some days ago I had a short discussion with a colleague about a
display bug in (surprise) IE. The solution he found was to replace all
tags (except html, head, body I guess) with span and style the
layout with CSS. He really means it, and he was proud that
At 10:03 AM 12/6/04, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
*Don't* use onkeypress, as Mozilla browsers - and rightly so - treat a TAB as
a keypress as well. Using onkeypress makes it impossible for users to TAB
beyond
that particular link.
Isn't it true that, if one did use onkeypress, the attached event
At 10:11 AM 12/6/04, Ted Drake wrote:
I'm a bit confused by the (this.href) code. Should I replace that with the
page in the href= section or is it looking back at the href and use that url?
-Original Message-
From: Veine K Vikberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
a href=wharever.com
At 11:11 AM 12/6/04, Felix Miata wrote:
Fresh meat: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20041206.html
Yes, but only 605 respondents?! Yikes, that's a small sample. Nielsen's
results, satisfying as they are to one allergic to commercialism, would
carry more weight if the sample size were
At 10:19 AM 12/9/04, Sam Hutchinson wrote:
...I can take it because I value the opions of users of this list :)
http://www.sammyco.co.uk/acttrwebpre/PRE%20VALIDATION.htm
Sam,
Action Transport looks like a great project! Here are some very quick
comments:
I suggest making the left-hand
At 07:02 AM 12/10/04, Tom Livingston wrote:
But I can't help wondering if these things, and others mentioned, are done
by people who *know* about these things. In my mind, that is a small
minority. Most likely only developers. Do the 'Bob-The-Office-Worker', and
the 'Mary-The-Surfing-Homemaker'
At 04:16 PM 12/10/04, Chris Stratford wrote:
Just thought I would show off my little standards compliant remake.
http://web.archive.org/web/20031219222155/www.matryoshkasandmore.com.au/index.html
that was the original crappy thing.
I remade it to this:
www.matryoshkasandmore.com.au/
The site works
At 06:23 PM 1/12/05, Chris Stratford wrote:
I was asked for the first time yesterday, what the big difference and
advantage to using an ID over a CLASS was...
Chris,
With regard to our intentions as scripters, what you and everyone else has
said applies: ids are unique, classes are generic, and
At 11:58 AM 1/13/05, Jeffrey Hardy wrote:
...
Here's an example of a call to window.open with the 'properties' argument:
onclick=window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=500, height=500,
menubar=no'); return false;
Nice summary, Jeff.
One correction: you're not supposed to embed spaces in the
At 01:20 PM 1/13/05, Seona Bellamy wrote:
-Original Message-
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Novitski
Subject: Re: [WSG] Popups
Also, while it's convenient to insert javascript event handlers into HTML
markup when demonstrating an example, in practice it's probably best
At 02:14 PM 1/13/05, Carl Reynolds wrote:
If I have a section of HTML that is the same in all my files, is there a
way to put it in a file by itself and include it into each page?
Carl,
Here are two ways (I'll be interested to learn about others):
1) Use a server-side scripting language such as
At 02:39 PM 1/13/05, Ben Curtis wrote:
Also, while it's convenient to insert javascript event handlers into
HTML
markup when demonstrating an example, in practice it's probably best
to
leave the script out of the markup and apply it from a separate
script file
at window.onload.
One beef I have
At 02:50 PM 1/27/2005, Bruce Gilbert wrote:
I don't think w3c standards will allow mark-up this way, so I was
wondering the best way to mark up a header for a list. looking for
standards, and accessibility.
what I currently have is:
div id=list1
ul class=navlist
h3Most Requested/h3
At 05:37 PM 1/27/2005, Rene Saarsoo wrote:
Why not use a definition list:
dl
dtHeading/dt
dd
ul
liitem1/li
liitem2/li
liitem3/li
/ul
/dd
/dl
Using some Hx for list heading when there actually doesn't exist a level
for that heading doesn't make much sense... just pollutes
At 01:30 PM 1/27/2005, Tom Livingston wrote:
I was admiring stopdesign.com. I think it's a beautiful layout. But I am
having a problem wrapping my head around the concept behind building a
page like that so that when text is scaled, the containers don't get all
messed up. On stopdesign.com, the
At 04:19 PM 1/30/2005, David R wrote:
I'm just looking for comments on a concept I thought for emulating
min-width in IE:
div id=elementToHaveMinWidth
pContent/p
div id=minWidthMaker /
/div
#elementToHaveMinWidth {
width: 40%;
}
#minWidthMaker {
width: 620px;
}
David,
From the perspective
At 04:22 PM 1/30/2005, Chris Stratford wrote:
...
Also the Dates on the right side of the titles, I used a method like this:
dtTitle Here emdate here/em/dt
so without styles, the title and date are easy to differentiate and also -
it gives me the em tag to position the date :)
Chris,
I think
At 01:33 PM 2/9/2005, Lachlan Hardy wrote:
Something which no one has mentioned is the possible accessibility
benefits of the extra spacing following the period. My thoughts are that
the extra spacing will more easily distinguish the sentence for all, but
particularly those with cognitive
At 03:31 PM 2/9/2005, Richard Czeiger wrote:
Here's a little script that might help this issue.
It takes the element with the id of content and adds an extra white space
at the end of a sentence to the existing one.
This way, the code is still clean and you can have your whitespace cake and
eat it
At 04:19 PM 2/9/2005, Ted Drake wrote:
How about this
One flew over the cuckoos nest should be on the top of everyone's list
of kid's books.br / In fact, it is
even more important than Joe Joe the Big ol' cornflake. br /
style sheet
br {display:inline; width:2em;}
Ted,
This doesn't work, at least
Because there's such a mix of opinions about the value of double-spacing
between sentences and its history, I asked my friend John D. Berry,
typographer book designer of note, to give me the low-down on
double-spacing to post to this list.
__
At 01:50 PM
At 08:18 AM 2/14/2005, Paul wrote:
I am not sure if this is on topic or not but I have to issue a cry for
help. There are a series of pages I am working on that have different
floor plans that you can click on and you get a different floor plan image
(
Bruce,
Your selector [.content ol li ul li] refers to a list item within the
unordered list, not the list itself. What you want is probably:
.content ol li ul {
margin: 0 0 0 25px;
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 100%;
color: #f00;
}
Why you're having a problem
At 02:16 PM 2/16/2005, Dmitry Baranovskiy wrote:
Actually is an inch symbol. For quotes we should use #147; and
#148; in normal text.
I thought #147; and #147; were deprecated in HTML4. I use:
#8216; = left single quote
#8217; = right single quote (apostrophe)
#8220; = left double quote
#8221;
At 02:13 PM 2/16/2005, Andy Pieters wrote:
Why not include a 'browser-build' selector in css?
Andy,
Folks in both listserves you posted this to have explained pretty well why
it's a bad idea.
Ironically, I imagine some of these same folks use browser-specific hacks
in their CSS. Well, heck,
At 03:40 PM 2/17/2005, Tatham Oddie wrote:
Itd be greatly appreciated if you could do a site review of
http://www.whatcanido.com.au/www.whatcanido.com.au. Currently there is
only a holding page but Im interested in what people would have to say
about the way Ive achieved the text wrapping.
At 04:29 AM 3/2/2005, john wrote:
Still working on that photo gallery. :) I found a site that helped me in
creating a photo gallery I like, but I need to put a hover on the
thumbnails so that the user knows where they are. I'd like to have it
change the opacity, but a) I'm not sure how
At 09:34 PM 3/2/2005, RMW Web Publishing wrote:
I am using a bottom border on links for easier reading (compared with
underlines), but only want the border to appear on text links - not
images. Is there a why to set the style on a parent ('a') when you know
what the child is ('img')?
I believe
At 09:34 AM 3/3/2005, Joey wrote:
Thanks, but when I tried to insert onresize into the body tag it told me
it was invalid.
Instead of doing this:
body onresize=SwapStylesheets();
do this:
script language=Javascript src=SwapStylesheets.js/script
/head
body
and in
.
- Original Message -
From: Paul Novitski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| But in this case, I don't think you have to. If an image is the only
thing
| inside a hyperlink, why not simply remove your border from any image whose
| parent is an anchor?
In a very quick test in Firefox IE, applying {display: block
I got a comprehensible English translation of the article from
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Just plug in the article's URL
http://www.itgmarinoni.it/studenti/0405/gennaio/001.php and select Italian
to English.
Paul
At 03:00 PM 3/3/2005, Richard Czeiger wrote:
Sorry - I think Bert has a
Peter Ottery wrote:
so I've designed myself a nice looking navigation scheme that displays
visually whereabouts you are within a site.
Now I just need to work out how to sort out the css :)
...
I've had a play with some css and arrived at this:
At 11:20 AM 3/5/2005, Anders Nawroth wrote:
I wish we could find out why IE throws the submenus around sometimes ...
then it would be *really* useful.
If you haven't already, you might try posing the problem also to the CSS-D
listserve http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d. There
At 04:24 PM 3/11/2005, Hassan Schroeder wrote:
Depending on what you're showing the code for, line numbers may be
almost essential, or at least very useful; here's a sample I did a
while back for someone to use as a model for a tutorial:
http://webtuitive.com/samples/code-as-list.html
Of course,
At 03:05 PM 3/14/2005, Mary Ann wrote:
I see you have set the container width at 760px. Does anyone
know what is
the maximum number of pixels for page width in order to avoid truncating the
text along the left side of a print job? Even Microsoft's support pages
suffer from this same
At 07:14 AM 4/3/2005, Chris Stratford wrote:
You can use this DTD:
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC XHTML 1.0 Strict
http://www.neester.com/DTD/xhtml-target.dtd;
I made it myself from a tutorial.
It is XHTML 1.0 Strict.
But I modded it to allow target=_blank
Further on this subject, here's some interesting
At 09:00 AM 4/3/2005, David wrote:
Somewhat off topic but wonder if any javascript could get a window to open
up in a new tab? I know only maybe 30% of people have a tabbed browsing
capable browser but I just think it would be cool. lol.
David,
I use Firefox, set to open new pages in new tabs
Why is it that rows and cols are required attributes for the textarea
element, even in xhtml? They strike me as being purely presentational, and
not really needed: in the absense of styling, browsers could apply
arbitrary defaults as they do with text input field width. I can't find
any
At 03:00 PM 4/4/2005, Sigurd Magnusson wrote:
It could be argued that it is more than presentation. It indicates to the
user about the quantity or usage of the textarea; the size of text fields
is a usability topic. If you were told to write a Summary of your
proposal, and given 8 lines instead
At 07:37 PM 4/4/2005, tee wrote:
I have a menu in my site that I use class ID for each link with different
menu button. It was validated until I added body#ID for persistent page
indicator.
Before persisten page indicator:
.lia href=index.htm id=home title=home accesskey=1 /a/li
After page
At 12:29 PM 4/5/2005, tee wrote:
I have a one pixel in padding-bottom in the li Everything looks so perfect
in FF and Safari, but in IE (PC Mac) , it's something like 3 or 4 pixel.
It messes up my menu.
At 12:42 PM 4/5/2005, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
In the markup, do not leave whitespace between
It's fascinating to see so many CSS styling standards. What makes perfect
sense to one person can be nonsensical to the next. Clearly what makes
styling work for any author is consistency and thoughtful logic -- even if
that logic is idiosyncratic.
Here's what I do:
Any given page can have
At 04:44 AM 4/14/2005, designer wrote:
I have been trying to present the information relating to a novel in a more
interesting style than 'just text' or indeed three columns, and have
experimented with a sort of newspaper style. The newspaper is a fictitious
one which is mentioned often in the
I'm converting a book to a website and am mulling over various ways to
implement the text, index, and end-notes in web-standards, accessible XHTML
and CSS, potentially with the aid of scripting. I welcome your feedback
and links to existing examples on the net.
Index format
At 01:40 PM 4/20/2005, Collin Davis wrote:
I would argue that in a heartbeat - when you're talking about an
architectural or otherwise design showcase site - what designer is going to
give half a though to blind or visually impaired users? Quite honestly, in
a situation like this site... who
At 04:17 PM 5/17/2005, Bruce Morrison wrote:
This may help:
Transparent custom corners and borders
Rounded corners, no extra markup, script required. Now that we¢re
finally embracing JavaScript, all those complicated markup kludges are a
thing of the past.
At 04:36 PM 6/4/2005, Lea de Groot wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 18:07:48 -0500, Matt Thommes wrote:
For instance, I always escape a dash (-) with #8211;--- when
using it in a normal sentence.
Thats interesting - I escape such entities as ampersands () and double
quotes (), but not things
At 05:05 PM 6/14/2005, Richard Czeiger wrote:
Wondering how we can get CSS to specifity the spearator used in ordered
lists (ie: the thing between the list item number and the value of the
list item). For example...
1.
a)
1 -
a:
I would argue that this is perfectly
At 12:54 AM 6/15/2005, Bert Doorn wrote:
G'day
Paul Novitski wrote:
I would argue that this is perfectly good markup styling:
ol
li1 - Aardvark/li
li2 - Banshee/li
li3 - Cicada/li
/ol
and then:
ol li
At 06:00 PM 6/30/2005, Bert Doorn wrote:
If the image is to be replaced on hover, you'll probably need javascript
(someone correct me if it can be done with CSS)
CSS can't replace foreground images but certainly can replace background
images:
.Products a
{
display: block;
At 07:41 PM 6/30/2005, Wayne Godfrey wrote:
But like I said, this requires me to code each image individually, using
the above or even what you've given me below, can I eliminate the height
and keep the image constrained?
At 06:00 PM 6/30/2005, Bert Doorn wrote:
If you don't specify a height
At 08:47 AM 6/30/2005, Chris Kennon wrote:
Strike-through styling for visited links, I've heard differing
opinions on this method, but am asking the consensus of the WSG.
a:visited { text-decoration: line-through; }
Chris,
I don't see any ambiguity. Crossing out text indicates that it's
Reference, not tutorial:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/
Paul
At 11:29 AM 7/18/2005, Chris Kennon wrote:
As many of you, more skilled than I, carry the burden of spreading
good practices, I'm calling upon you for resources for learning the DOM.
I've an understanding of Javascript,
At 02:03 AM 7/22/2005, Stephanie wrote:
I need to create an alphabetic horizontal list to link to content on a
page - problem I am having is that I want to float the list right but when
I do that the alphabetic list is ordered from Z - A instead of A - Z.
Any clue as to how to solve this
At 11:13 AM 8/2/2005, designer wrote:
I have been looking at methods to produce dot leaders, and many seem to
use tables to do it. Others seem to have classitis. I have knocked up a
method using a dashed background gif in a list item, whilst trying to keep
the code to a minimum.
...
I'd be
For IE only, you can use Microsoft's proprietary expression extension to
execute JavaScript from the stylesheet, e.g.:
div#header
{
width: expression(window.clientWidth / 2);
}
Use of expression() is currently* an IE-only filter, e.g.:
div#blob
At 01:39 AM 8/25/2005, designer wrote:
All I can say is that, as a sighted viewer, if I encountered a site with
100 links, each of which which opened in the same window, I'd be outa
there faster than you can say 'back button' :-)
I've been wondering of late if there is another way out of
At 11:00 AM 8/25/2005, Janelle Clemens wrote:
Who says opening a new window is bad practice. Especially if it is an
outside link. I've been searching the web for information on this and
finding nothing. My understanding of web accessibility and 508 is to make
everything as clear a possible.
At 06:15 PM 9/6/2005, Kenny Graham wrote:
The most obvious one I can think
of is the need for two background images.
Sometimes this is the case, but often times it can be avoided with a
little creativity, such as using a background image on the ul, and
classing the first and last li to give
At 11:37 PM 9/6/2005, Chris Blown wrote:
The mess that is tables - and here I mean a bunch of tables for layout -
can easily lead to broken markup, especially when you have to go back a
re-jig something, whether is easier than CSS/P doesn't matter, the fact
remains.
The problem is that browsers
At 01:19 AM 9/7/2005, John Allsopp wrote:
Paul,
Hang on now. There's nothing about the use of table markup per se
that leads one to err more frequently.
on the contrary, actual research suggests very strongly that there is.
I have found a very high correlation between malformed documents
At 01:19 AM 9/7/2005, Chris Taylor wrote:
Not sure if this has been flagged up anywhere else, but I noticed the
barclays website has had a CSS makeover: http://www.barclays.co.uk/.
It's great to see a huge company like this hauling themselves into the
21st century web-wise, and maybe it will be
At 10:57 PM 9/18/2005, Stuart Sherwood wrote:
...
For each category, the list of topics must be hidden until clicked.
...
//Populate the array with all the page tags
var allPageTags=document.getElementsByTagName(*);
//Cycle through the tags using a for loop
for (i=0; iallPageTags.length; i++)
At 08:32 PM 10/3/2005, Buddy Quaid wrote:
I'm not trying to offend anybody here at all but so many posts about
whether or not to use Verdana is just boring.
Boring! Holy smokes, every technical field is boring unless the
details happen to fascinate you. Boring isn't an attribute of
At 11:45 PM 10/3/2005, Helmut Granda wrote:
I have a background that is centered horizontally but tiled vertically.
...
Everything looks fine the only difference is 1 pixel between IE and FF. Has
anyone encounter a similar problem?
Note: The background is 700px in width.
How wide is the
Sorry, my misreading. What I ought to have said was, make sure that
both the background image and its container are both an even number
of pixels wide.
Paul
At 12:11 AM 10/4/2005, Rick Faaberg wrote:
On 10/4/05 12:00 AM Paul Novitski [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this
out:
Everything looks fine
At 11:15 PM 11/5/2005, Christian Montoya wrote:
What I would like to do is have a list header, much like tables have
table headers.
I wrote more about this here:
http://montoya.rdpdesign.com/2005/11/06/list-headers-an-idea/
But what it basically boils down to is having a tag I call list
header
At 10:24 PM 1/4/2006, Nic wrote:
You go to a site, and it proudly claims xhtml/css/wai compliance. You do a
quick check, and discover that the code wouldn't pass xhtml 1.0 compliance,
let alone the 1.1 strict they claim! Their css is a mess.
...
This upsets me on several levels.
...
Nic,
At 12:09 PM 1/11/2006, David Nicol wrote:
I'd appreciate it very much if
you could take a quick look at:
http://www.shetlandcoffee.com/
David,
You've got an XHTML-Strict doctype, and yet you've got a great whack of
whitespace above the doctype tag. If I'm not mistaken, this will
cause browsers
At 01:26 PM 1/13/2006, denAnden.dk wrote:
in the sence that in address example, the meaning a Br-tag would
carrie could instead be carried by commas or seperate p tags, which
would be more correct and should be used?
This is one of those points we'll never all agree on but love to
argue.
At 07:18 AM 1/14/2006, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
assign an id or class to each navigation bar link, and also assign
an id or class to the body element. then, in your css, define rules
that match up the two.
...
ul
lia href=/ id=navhomehome/a/li
lia href=/portfolio/ id=navportfolioportfolio/a/li
At 04:02 AM 1/16/2006, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
(The charset parameter is only really needed for text/* media types,
for XML served with an application/* media type, the XML declaration
is recommended for use instead which may be omitted for UTF-8 and UTF-16)
At 11:52 PM 1/25/2006, Geoff Deering wrote:
header/header
nav/nav
article/article
aside/aside
footer/footer
Do others feel there are *elements* of presentation creeping back
into the structure?
...
The second
At 04:46 PM 1/26/2006, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote:
[Add] [Edit] [Delete] Item 1
[Add] [Edit] [Delete] - SubItem 1.1
[Add] [Edit] [Delete] - SubItem 1.1.1
[Add] [Edit] [Delete] - SubItem 1.1.2
[Add] [Edit] [Delete] - SubItem 1.2
...
Andreas,
I could argue either list
At 05:39 PM 1/26/2006, Paul Bennett wrote:
You're saying that Add is a definition of Item 1
dtItem 1/dt
dda href=?add=123Add/a/dd
dda href=?edit=123Edit/a/dd
At 05:44 PM 1/26/2006, Joshua Street wrote:
Hmm I'd strongly contest a definition list. Maybe nested UL's
At 11:11 PM 1/26/2006, Geoff Pack wrote:
How about this:
style type=text/cssli span {float:right; margin-right:30%;}/style
ul
lispan[ Add | Edit | Delete ] /spanItem 1
I believe the challenge arises when you consider Add/Edit/Delete as a
series of links or buttons and deserving of a
At 01:39 PM 1/28/2006, Paula Petrik wrote:
The blockquote element
requires that it enclose block level elements--in my case usually a
p. Since blockquotes are usually in a run of text (#content p), it
picks up the content p's line-height. But a blockquote,
typographically speaking, should have a
At 05:44 PM 1/29/2006, SunUp wrote:
Does anyone know of a method which will toggle the visibility of the
FAQ answers while still displaying everything properly without
javascript, and that adheres to current best practise for javascript?
Hmm. The text-toggling examples folks have posted on
From: Paul Novitski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmm. The text-toggling examples folks have posted on this topic
use {display: none} to hide text. I'm under the impression that
some screen readers will not speak text that's been hidden with
{display: none}.
At 05:04 AM 1/30/2006, Al Sparber wrote
At 02:27 PM 2/8/2006, kvnmcwebn wrote:
Im thinking about making a vertical
navigation list with rounded corner(all 4) buttons.
I would like to uses two images-for the right and left ends- and a 1px
repeater background image running behind.
Should i just place two end images on either side of
At 12:22 PM 2/9/2006, Al Sparber wrote:
Getting away from the FAQ thing to links within documents, I find
that sort of navigation almost as annoying as popup windows. It
might very well be a convention, but I do consider it a negative for
usability. Very distracting - even more so when there
I'd like to hear from folks who've used screen-readers:
What are the best ways to drill down into a nested list?
Consider a nested menu that's marked up as an unordered list
(UL). Select an item in the top-level menu and the page reloads with
a second-level menu of items opened up within the
At 11:26 PM 2/11/2006, Terrence Wood wrote:
the page reloads with a set of breadcrumbs that spells out the history
Essentially you are repeating information already available through
the browser history, and it still doesn't inform the user that there
is a new menu if that is your goal. Also,
At 01:49 AM 2/12/2006, kvnmcwebn wrote:
I have to semantically mark up large lists of contact info.
Below is an example of one of the list items.
Is this the best way to mark it up?
dl
dt class=HeadAccord Inishowendt
dtContact Name:/dt
ddSecretary: Breege Canny dd
dtContact Informationdt
At 03:30 AM 2/12/2006, kvnmcwebn wrote:
in this structure from the w3c i dont think theres any hierarhcy for the
first dt?
DL
DTCenter
DTCentre
DD A point equidistant from all points
on the surface of a sphere.
DD In some field sports, the player who
Paul Novitski wrote:
Tell me if this would be a better scenario: When you select a menu
item, the page reloads with a set of breadcrumbs that spells out
the history of selected menu items, such as:
Thanks very much, Ian, your response to my posting was exactly the
kind of feedback I
At 05:35 AM 2/27/2006, Curby wrote:
What is the recommended way for linking back to the top of the page? I
can't link to the id of my H1 because of my CSS.
Whoa. Stop right there. How can CSS stop you from linking to an h1
that's got an id?
Paul
At 03:34 PM 2/28/2006, Hill, Tim wrote:
a href=#Back to Top/a
Is there an issue with using this for screenreaders?
Wouldn't they activate this link and nothing would happen?
Does this work effectively across browsers to scroll the page to the top
though? I've found it works on firefox, ie,
At 03:30 PM 3/3/2006, Chris Kennon wrote:
A accessibility/usability quirk was posed to me and led to a me
neither response. I've yet to encounter a font for the web that has
a distinction between the uppercase letter O and the number 0. If
such a font exist, which is it?
Checking quickly:
Barrie North wrote:
I need some help, what is the difference between:
table.module
At 07:45 PM 3/5/2006, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
Specificity: 0,0,1,1
To see where Lachlan is getting these numbers, read:
6.4.3 Calculating a selector's specificity
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