RE: [WSG] positioning help, please

2012-05-16 Thread Kepler Gelotte
the first problem i'm having is that bbedit, safari, firefox and opera (on a mac) all position it in a different location (#pre-nex). Hi, Try 'position: relative' for #main (the containing div of #pre_nex). Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway

RE: [WSG] Is it possible to style an attribute?

2011-12-19 Thread Kepler Gelotte
I was wondering if anyone could clarify whether it is possible to style an attribute. Hi Grant, I use a jQuery plugin called cluetip for my CMS admin screens. It will do what you want. Here is the link: http://plugins.learningjquery.com/cluetip/ Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor

RE: [WSG] Content div sticking out the side of container div

2011-12-02 Thread Kepler Gelotte
for IE6: #contents { max-width: 800px; _width: 800px; background:#99F; border:2px solid yellow; } Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] IE7 Issues - The Final Three

2011-09-24 Thread Kepler Gelotte
) no-repeat 0 0; padding-bottom: 10px; } I'm not sure what is causing the two buttons not to line up. Could you switch them to both be either links or submit buttons? Hope that helps. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854

RE: [WSG] image substitution

2011-07-31 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Are we still using the trick of shifting the text off the side of the screen with negative positioning? Or is there a better, more accessible way? How about just using the alt attribute on the image? Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ

RE: [WSG] advice on background images?

2010-11-26 Thread Kepler Gelotte
regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

RE: [WSG] HTML5 - Marking up forms

2010-11-10 Thread Kepler Gelotte
they are grouped together). Each input needs a unique id though, so each label will reference a unique checkbox within the group. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 http://www.neighborwebmaster.com www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax

RE: [WSG] EM bug in Safari 5?

2010-07-29 Thread Kepler Gelotte
: 100% == 16px; Set your font-size to 16px instead of 100.1% and the width will be fixed. Modern browsers will still be able to resize the font, but for IE you may want to have a conditional comment and change the font-size back to 100.1%. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156

RE: [WSG] @import and IE7

2010-07-24 Thread Kepler Gelotte
it here: http://www.coolphptools.com/dynamic_css Best of luck to you. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li

RE: [WSG] Update to site in progress - valid css and html -IE7 issues

2010-02-26 Thread Kepler Gelotte
/a/div You may also want to make the style definitions classes instead of using inline styles. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] Ie7 test?

2010-02-18 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Add an extra div within left_column, and declare the position:fixed in the new div instead. Or, since you already have an extra div, add this to screen.css: .left_column { width: 220px; float: left; } .left_column .column_cushion { width: 180px; position: fixed; } Best regards, Kepler

RE: [WSG] ie8 not rendering contact form in compatibility mode

2010-02-04 Thread Kepler Gelotte
if the contact form stays put. If that keeps the form from disappearing, then my guess is you need to debug the javascript. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] Site doesn't display correctly in IE - looking for some advice please

2010-01-01 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Years to you as well. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 http://www.neighborwebmaster.com www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 *** List Guidelines

RE: [WSG] .box breaks up on feedback page.

2009-11-12 Thread Kepler Gelotte
: 0; margin: 0; } .box_two ul { background: url(top-right.gif) no-repeat right top; padding: 5% 5% 0 5%; margin: 0; } Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] .box breaks up on feedback page.

2009-11-12 Thread Kepler Gelotte
{ background: url(images/top_left.gif) no-repeat left top; padding: 0; margin: 0; } .box_two ul { background: url(images/top_right.gif) no-repeat right top; padding: 5% 5% 0 5%; margin: 0; } Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156

RE: [WSG] Including a DIV element inside an HREF tag

2009-11-04 Thread Kepler Gelotte
the link is ignoring the group of users who don't have javascript or have it disabled. From a practical perspective I would think that having a functional link would be more important than the wrapping tag used. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ

RE: [WSG] Including a DIV element inside an HREF tag

2009-11-04 Thread Kepler Gelotte
. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

RE: [WSG] Extra space in menu in IE on hover

2009-10-20 Thread Kepler Gelotte
a:visited, .eswmenu a:active { border-bottom: 1px solid #d6dad5; color: #8a8989; } .eswmenu ul li a:hover { border-bottom: 1px solid #d6dad5; background: url(bullet-nav.png) no-repeat center 25px; background-color: #e6f0ed; } Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156

RE: [WSG] IE6 display issue

2009-10-09 Thread Kepler Gelotte
regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 http://www.neighborwebmaster.com www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org

RE: [WSG] IE6 display issue

2009-10-08 Thread Kepler Gelotte
}); }); /SCRIPT If that still doesn't work, try moving the javascript after the /body. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] Strange Table Border Rendering in everything BUT FF and IE

2009-09-27 Thread Kepler Gelotte
not perfect, but I can only imagine it is easier to view in a text browser than the table version. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] Big Table inside Div. How can i extend Div?

2009-09-24 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Is it possible to extend the container div till the end of table? Because right now it overflows the container. Hi, I think this is what you are looking for: http://www.coolphptools.com/tests/wide-table.html The *float's are to support IE7 and IE6. Best regards, Kepler

Re: [WSG] a table layout issue

2009-09-23 Thread Kepler Gelotte
you the format you want. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

RE: [WSG] Ordered List Best Practice

2009-09-22 Thread Kepler Gelotte
/a div class=margin_left_minus_40px h3Subheading/h3 /div /li lia href=d.pdfFirst/a/li lia href=e.pdfFirst/a/li /ol Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] Fixed Sidebar Fluid Content - Source Order Limitations

2009-08-16 Thread Kepler Gelotte
- To put my content first in the markup, my content needs to be floated (for a following sidebar) - My content is fluid, so I can not assign a width You may want to try max-width on your main content. I'm not sure if that will work for you since you didn't post a link. Best regards, Kepler

RE: [WSG] CLARIFICATION: Print Preview Cut off after 1pg

2009-07-02 Thread Kepler Gelotte
I implemented a style sheet and works fine, however all pages are being cut off after one page. Any idears? It is doing it in Mozilla but IE is fine. Hi, Have you tried removing the overflow:hidden from the rules? I would start with the container classes. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte

RE: [WSG] Installing More than one version of IE6

2009-07-02 Thread Kepler Gelotte
-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 http://www.neighborwebmaster.com www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 *** List

RE: [WSG] Right div dropping below left floated div when browser resized

2009-06-30 Thread Kepler Gelotte
h2My List/h2 div class=tablelist table trthCol 1/ththCol 2/ththCol 3/th/tr trtd1/tdtd2/tdtd3/td/tr /table /div /div /body /html Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] Div Img Overflow with Screen Resolution

2009-06-19 Thread Kepler Gelotte
/Kangaroo_and_joey05. jpg / /div Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 http://www.neighborwebmaster.com www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] The weirdest IE bug I've ever encountered.

2009-06-03 Thread Kepler Gelotte
://neighborwebmaster.com/tests/iebug.html If you open it in IE8 and switch between IE7 compatibility mode and back, you will see the view cart link moving up and down. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732

RE: [WSG] The weirdest IE bug I've ever encountered.

2009-06-03 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe

RE: [WSG] Blockquote

2009-01-07 Thread Kepler Gelotte
twenty quid?/P/BLOCKQUOTE /BLOCKQUOTE Since you are scraping the site you should have the URL. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 http://www.neighborwebmaster.com www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] Clearing issue and IE7 weirdness

2009-01-02 Thread Kepler Gelotte
is position: relative, the clear: both in footer has no effect. Clear works with floated elements. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] Vanishing icon within a Span Element in IE7

2008-11-25 Thread Kepler Gelotte
to be trying to achieve. Use the following CSS instead: img.smallHelpIcon { display:inline; vertical-align:bottom; padding:0; margin:0; } Your spans could then be replaced with just an img: img alt=help icon src=assets/icon/forms/h_small.png class=smallHelpIcon / Best regards, Kepler Gelotte

RE: [WSG] HTML/XHTML/XML - Question about the future of.

2008-11-25 Thread Kepler Gelotte
of HTML and it does not involve browsers. When representing your code (xHTML) as XML, it can also be viewed as data. A perfect example of this is screen scrapers which read your web pages to pull specific content out of them. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr

RE: [WSG] Is it a good practice to have 'Back to Top' link?

2008-09-30 Thread Kepler Gelotte
on this list some people are suggesting. I personally haven't tried his script yet myself. I have read many positive reviews about it though. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] Learning Javascript properly

2008-09-18 Thread Kepler Gelotte
itself around. This is called inversion of control. I have never seen this done in any javascript application. An example of inversion of control would be Struts or Spring in Java. Your co-workers have nothing to fear. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr

RE: [WSG] Copycat site

2008-09-07 Thread Kepler Gelotte
. A bigger issue (at least in my eyes) is that is you turn images off, navigation (on foryoung.com), links and headings disappear. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: Can I widen the question? Re: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what

2008-08-13 Thread Kepler Gelotte
://forum.webstandardsgroup.org/discussion/25/standardsaccessibilty-frien dly-shopping-cart-/ Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 *** List

RE: [WSG] clearing position:absolute

2008-08-07 Thread Kepler Gelotte
(resizeTimer); resizeTimer = setTimeout('window.location.reload()', 100); }); /script ![endif]-- Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 http://www.neighborwebmaster.com www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] form from hell - difficult redesign

2008-07-30 Thread Kepler Gelotte
think about outsourcing the project. Unless you are a masochist ;-) Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 *** List Guidelines

RE: [WSG] Book ideas for updating skills to modern html xhtml standards

2008-07-13 Thread Kepler Gelotte
vouch for this version, but version 1 was a huge help to me back in 2000. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 *** List

RE: [WSG] To stretch an image within a div ??

2008-07-05 Thread Kepler Gelotte
http://www.freightturntables.com/ Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 http://www.neighborwebmaster.com www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 *** List

RE: [WSG] Margin or Float error?

2008-05-30 Thread Kepler Gelotte
and text **/ #main-navigation li { text-align: center; } /style Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 http://www.neighborwebmaster.com www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302

RE: [WSG] linking multiple CSS files

2008-04-29 Thread Kepler Gelotte
(I just created this web site so it is still very sparse). There is a PDF document included with basic syntax and examples. There are scripts to handle the expires header for javascript and images as well. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr

RE: [WSG] JS Image Slider

2008-04-29 Thread Kepler Gelotte
a javascript window.onLoad function to set .viewport's overflow to hidden and enable the prev and/or next functionality as appropriate. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] why

2008-04-26 Thread Kepler Gelotte
-POSITION: left 50%; BORDER-TOP: pink 1px solid; /* FLOAT: left; */ BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(../images/mast.jpg); BORDER-LEFT: pink 1px solid; /* WIDTH: 955px; */ BORDER-BOTTOM: pink 1px solid; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; HEIGHT: 155px } Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy

RE: [WSG]

2008-04-22 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Anyone know about a tool that automate the process of testing accessibility? any new good tool? One I like is: http://www.sidar.org/hera/index.php.en It is interactive and shows the area in question on your page. It has been around for a while though. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor

RE: [WSG] :: Footer not resting at bottom of page ::

2008-04-21 Thread Kepler Gelotte
adding another div id=wrapper around div id=masthead ... div id=footer with a min-height of 100%: div#wrapper { min-height: 100%; } This should keep the footer at the bottom of the page on short pages. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854

RE: [WSG] Floating model: FF counterintuitive

2008-04-18 Thread Kepler Gelotte
is shrunk too small. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

RE: [WSG] Character Encoding Mismatch

2008-04-04 Thread Kepler Gelotte
=content-type content=text/html; charset= iso-8859-1 / Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 http://www.neighborwebmaster.com www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 Thanks

RE: [WSG] Print stylesheet and long urls

2008-03-26 Thread Kepler Gelotte
I am putting together a print stylesheet for an online newsletter that contains quite a number of urls, some of which are very long. Hi Sarah, You could translate your long URLs to shorter ones using some code on your server or TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/ Best regards, Kepler Gelotte

RE: [WSG] floats and ie7

2008-03-26 Thread Kepler Gelotte
i thought i had fixed this problem. i guess i didn't. Hi Dwain, Try adding float: left to your nav definition: #nav { FLOAT: left; FONT-SIZE: 90%; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 8.5em; COLOR: #039; TEXT-ALIGN: left } Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156

[WSG] Why is u deprecated?

2008-03-26 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi, I am just curious if anyone can explain why the u tag has been deprecated while b and i are still allowed. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] Why is u deprecated?

2008-03-26 Thread Kepler Gelotte
as possible. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

RE: [WSG] a a:hover

2008-03-20 Thread Kepler Gelotte
HTML to: lia href=http://www.bittencourtlopes.com.br/; class=launch target=_blank title=LaunchemLaunch/em/a/li Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ 08854 http://www.neighborwebmaster.com www.neighborwebmaster.com phone/fax: (732) 302-0904

RE: [WSG] a a:hover

2008-03-20 Thread Kepler Gelotte
; } li.launch a:hover{ color:#CDEB8B; text-decoration:underline; } If that doesn’t work, make sure you have the class=”launch” on all list elements that you want the color applied to. Hope that helps. Best regards, Kepler Gelotte Neighbor Webmaster, Inc. 156 Normandy Dr., Piscataway, NJ

RE: [WSG] strange css behavior

2007-12-19 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi Michael, The problem appears to be that Internet Explorer gets confused by the link being also referenced in the head section with the link tag. I think it is assuming it has read the contents of the link (which it doesn't because I traced HTTP requests). A simple test shows that this is the

RE: [WSG] strange css behavior

2007-12-19 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Horowitz Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 12:06 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] strange css behavior So this will be a universal issue RSS in IE 7? Michael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomputerconsultant.com 561-394-9079 Kepler Gelotte wrote: Hi Michael

RE: [WSG] Appropriate use of the ABBR tag and Roman Numerals

2007-12-01 Thread Kepler Gelotte
That's interesting. I had thought of the lang attribute as well but didn't think that Roman Numerals were attached to any language in particular (as Lars points out). I think maybe the HTML specification needs something like a num attribute that allows you to specify the numeric system (e.g.

RE: [WSG] display issue in IE7

2007-11-29 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi Taco, Try getting rid of the HEIGHT: 3em from: FORM#search-main LI { CLEAR: left; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.5em; PADDING-TOP: 0.5em; HEIGHT: 3em } In power.css Regards, Kepler -Original Message- From: Taco Fleur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [WSG] Appropriate use of the ABBR tag and Roman Numerals

2007-11-29 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi Tate, I came across this article: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/hattrick Which recommends using the dfn tag: Roman numerals Another good application for this trick is the Roman numeral. We want to make sure our Roman numerals are accessible to users who are unfamiliar or have

RE: [WSG] Input tag - closing tag optional?

2007-11-26 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Also, if I understand correctly, this will break in IE? Actually the original question was whether the input element (which is defined as EMPTY in the DTD) requires a closing /input tag. It was not whether an empty element like a div with no content could be written as a simple tag. According to

RE: [WSG] Input tag - closing tag optional?

2007-11-25 Thread Kepler Gelotte
I'm afraid browser don't agree with this, though. I'm not sure about input but I'm positive that div/div is not the same as div / as far as browser rendering goes. Hi Dusan, I was going by my knowledge of XML. According to the XHTML spec. both forms are equivalent:

RE: [WSG] Input tag - closing tag optional?

2007-11-20 Thread Kepler Gelotte
there's no closing tag input / is XHTML input is HTML Actually as far as XML (and consequently XHTML) is concerned: input type=text name=a value=a/input Is the same as: input type=text name=a value=a / It's just that input can't contain anything between the start and end tags. Both are

RE: [WSG] cant stop IE 7 unnecessary vertical scrolling

2007-11-05 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi Samantha, I believe your issue is that you are using position: relative in combination with a negative top offset to align adjacent divs. This leaves the original space where the div would have been. The extra space is shifted below the footer because you have height set on the html and

RE: [WSG] javascript help

2007-10-31 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi there, I have some questions for an assignment that I can't figure out. If anyone could be of assistance that would be much appreciated. How many credits do we get for the correct answers? ;-) *** List Guidelines:

RE: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-19 Thread Kepler Gelotte
] On Behalf Of Nick Fitzsimons Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 9:06 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links On 19 Oct 2007, at 04:59, Kepler Gelotte wrote: I created a test page that demonstrates the technique. I tested it with my email but changed

RE: [WSG] Encoded mailto links

2007-10-18 Thread Kepler Gelotte
domain so I won't get flooded with emails. The link is: http://www.neighborwebmaster.com/tests/safe_email.php Regards, Kepler Gelotte *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

RE: [WSG] IE 7 check please

2007-10-13 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi Tee, For http://spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/ - I'm not seeing a horizontal scrollbar in IE7 until you resize below around 770px (after the 3rd column drops below the 2nd). I suspect this is the behavior you wanted since FireFox behaves the same way. One thing I did note was the search

RE: [WSG] document.getElementById slow?

2007-10-06 Thread Kepler Gelotte
form.elements: 294 Safari 3.0.3 Overhead: 7 getElementById: 26 form.elements: 66 IE 7.0.6 Overhead: 54 getElementById: 5533 form.elements: 235 You can try for yourself here: http://www.neighborwebmaster.com/tests/get-id-v-dot.html Regards, Kepler Gelotte

RE: [WSG] document.getElementById slow?

2007-10-05 Thread Kepler Gelotte
() using hash tables, etc. In reality most DOM structures aren't huge so traversing a tree shouldn't take that long. Regards, Kepler Gelotte *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Not every website or even company is run by a large corporation ... not everyone has lots of cash to spend on lawyers... You can be sued for lot's of reasons. Laws are in place to protect people. You break them, you run the risk of getting sued. From Title III of the Americans with

RE: Betr.: Re: [WSG] IE bug?

2007-09-19 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi, I noticed your images are pretty large. Are you on a slow bandwidth connection like dial up? I know IE gives up if something doesn't download within a specific time period (I believe it is 60 seconds by default - could be wrong about the default). You could try bringing your images into

RE: [WSG] IE7 resolution dependency query

2007-09-19 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi Sarah, Line 35 in resolution.js doesn't look right to me. Seems to be missing small for the setStylesheet function: function checkBrowserWidth() 6{ 7 var theWidth = getBrowserWidth(); 8 9 if (theWidth == 0) 10 { 11 var resolutionCookie =

RE: [WSG] IE7 resolution dependency query

2007-09-19 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi, If you get rid of HEIGHT: 116px in your .header definition in narrow.css that should fix your problem. Regards, Kepler *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

RE: [WSG] lack of 'lang' attribute fails WAI

2007-09-07 Thread Kepler Gelotte
am using UTF-8 and setting the lang attribute based on the currently selected language. Regards, Kepler Gelotte *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

RE: [WSG] lack of 'lang' attribute fails WAI

2007-09-07 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Wow!! Powered by Zencart! I know it's not ready for production environment, but did you check the Magento? Yes, I did look at Magneto briefly. I like their checkout screen much better than ZenCart's checkout process, but when I saw it was still Beta I decided I needed something more stable.

RE: [WSG] Firefox bug on CSS white-space property

2007-08-28 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi, I don’t think it is a bug. First of all you are not overriding the white-space property buy assigning it to child elements or parent elements. You just create a conflict. Then precedence takes affect. According to the CSS2 spec: 'white-space' Value:  normal | pre | nowrap | inherit

RE: [WSG] Firefox bug on CSS white-space property

2007-08-28 Thread Kepler Gelotte
And if the link text were to long for the space allowed by the table (e.g. a very very long word), the table should expand, unless the table has 'table-layout: fixed' specified. The table should expand even though he specified width=175? I learn something new every day. Regards, Kepler

RE: [WSG] CSS/IE Link Color Problem - SOLVED

2007-08-04 Thread Kepler Gelotte
now I replace the link with the navigation text wrapped in a span (programatically) and style the span to match my active/hover needs. e.g. ul#navTopSimpleUL li a:focus, ul#navTopSimpleUL li a:hover, ul#navTopSimpleUL li.active span { color: #CC0033; cursor: default;

RE: [WSG] Footer taking width from form

2007-08-03 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Good morning http://www.colouru.com.au/contactus.html On this particular page in IE only, the #footer seems to be taking its width from the form. I have cleared everything I can think of but cannot find the problem. Hi Lyn You have a typo in your clearfooter div: xdiv

RE: [WSG] Please help! CSS/IE Link Color Problem

2007-08-03 Thread Kepler Gelotte
When the chosen page loads, the chosen link turns deep red. The declaration for this is as follows: /*ACTIVE LINKS ONLY*/ ul#navTopSimpleUL li a.active { color: #CC0033; cursor: default; text-decoration: none; } Hi Cole,, You may want to also set focus on the element

RE: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-02 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Could you show me how to correctly position the image overlay in the content-reserved portion in my example. Hi Matt, I'm not sure what you are asking me. One thing to remember is that absolute positioning is from the next higher block element. If you want to absolutely position within a

RE: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-02 Thread Kepler Gelotte
No. Positioned element, not block element. Ah, thanks for clarifying. Type attribute? this was just a stripped down example to show the concept. 50 what? It's what he was asking for help on. *** List Guidelines:

RE: [WSG] Auto scaling within a table's background image

2007-08-01 Thread Kepler Gelotte
class=overlayHere is some text/div img src=logo.jpg class=stretch / /body /html Best of luck, Kepler Gelotte *** List Guidelines: http

RE: [WSG] Floats Drifting

2007-07-23 Thread Kepler Gelotte
CK, I also see that you have fixed width header definitions within your percentage width floated divs. I think earlier versions of IE would widen the container to accommodate the inner widths, so your 40% width container would widen to 500px even if 500px was 90% of your browser screen.

RE: [WSG] Floats Drifting

2007-07-22 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Would someone assist in containing the floats? Hi, Seems to be a number of issues with your layout. The 2 main ones would be the footer should use clear: both instead of absolute positioning: div#bd_footer { background-color:#FF; padding:10px; clear:both;

RE: [WSG] margin problem in Firefox

2007-07-19 Thread Kepler Gelotte
; width:auto; margin-left:5px; } Regards, Kepler Gelotte -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tee G. Peng Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 2:04 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] margin problem in Firefox Hi, I don't seem able

RE: [WSG] H1 font not set in IE

2007-07-18 Thread Kepler Gelotte
fonts would be a good idea. H1 { FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 2.5em; COLOR: #051779; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; } Regards, Kepler Gelotte http://www.neighborwebmaster.com *** List Guidelines: http

RE: [WSG] Re: Microformats was [ Is this a good use of dl ]

2007-07-07 Thread Kepler Gelotte
to contacts type of plugin for example. Microformats are a step in the direction of the semantic web. Regards, Kepler Gelotte *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org

RE: [WSG] Content not appearing in IE

2007-06-28 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Peekaboo bug? Since it is not showing up in IE7 either I'm not sure it is the Peekaboo bug. I have seen this behavior before when mixing floated divs with positioned divs and then clearing the floats underneath. You could try switching to a floated content_info section like: DIV#content_info

RE: [WSG] Navigation link not working in some browsers

2007-06-28 Thread Kepler Gelotte
There is a very strange instance of a navigation link not working on one particular page - the products.html page link back to HOME. All other pages seem to be OK. Your div id=nav is being overlaid by your div id=left. I don't think z-index will help in this case, but you still may want to try

RE: [WSG] Problem getting IE to behave

2007-06-15 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi, The problem is in the javascript function TJK_tipMenu() in external.js. Add the following line: z_IMG.style.top=0; after the line: z_IMG.style.left=0; Regards, Kepler Gelotte -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thierry Koblentz Sent

RE: [WSG] Tiling image problem

2007-05-21 Thread Kepler Gelotte
/assets/images_medical/wrapper_vertical_tile.jpg) repeat-x 0 300px; Regards, Kepler Gelotte _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cole Kuryakin Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 1:18 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Tiling

RE: [WSG] Tiling image problem

2007-05-21 Thread Kepler Gelotte
/assets/images_medical/wrapper_vertical_tile.jpg) repeat-x 0 300px; Regards, Kepler Gelotte _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cole Kuryakin Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 1:18 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Tiling

RE: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-16 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi Taco, I would suggest using a percentage to size the text in the yellow band instead of smaller since IE has a different idea of what smaller is compared to Firefox: p span.smaller { font-size: 80%; } I would also suggest using em sizing. The height of the yellow band would then

RE: [WSG] IE6 problem - more general

2007-05-15 Thread Kepler Gelotte
a quite good book - The CSS Anthology, by Rachel Andrews. But it's pre-IE7 ... Any thoughts, suggestions would be great! Thanks again ... :) - susie On 15/5/07 6:37 AM, Kepler Gelotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Susan, To make the navigation buttons clickable in IE7 you need to define

RE: [WSG] IE6 problem

2007-05-14 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Hi Susan, To make the navigation buttons clickable in IE7 you need to define the container as position: relative: #container { position: relative; } Also the pseudo links should be defined for :link and :visited if you define It for :hover. Try using these for the

RE: [WSG] problem with 1 and 1 wordpress blog

2007-05-06 Thread Kepler Gelotte
your blog into your web site similar to a portal, but I think that may be overkill for what you are trying to do. Regards, Kepler Gelotte http://www.neighborwebmaster.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dwain Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 2

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