[WSG] Use CSS to target last 2 list items

Hi all Just wondering, is it possible to use the nth-child in CSS2 to target the last 2 items of an unordered list? I know you can do nth-last-child, but I wanted to target the last TWO list items. Is this possible? Thanks for any help

[WSG] Ways of sending a HTML email

Hi all, A client of mine wants a HTML email with very little budget! So, I don't want to spend time setting it up in Campaign monitor for him. I'm wondering, can you send HTML emails straight from Word or Acrobat, or something like that these days? I'm not up to speed and can't find any info. It

[WSG] G'day from Copenhagen!

Hi all, I've decided to stop whinging about the lack of action on Climate Change and do something about it! I am currently in Copenhagen for the Climate Change Summit (COP15), which you've probably been hearing about. There's a load of stuff going on behind the scenes that you won't get to see

Re: [ADMIN] THREAD CLOSED - OFF TOPIC Re: [WSG] G'day from Copenhagen!

Hi all I'm really sorry for that last email, I sent it to the wrong list. Please ignore it! Cheers Paul 2009/12/7 Lea de Groot w...@elysiansystems.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

[WSG] Best book for learning PHP

Hi all, I really need to get better at PHP MYSQL, mainly for customising Wordpress. I'm scouring Amazon and the interweb and finding conflicting opinions. I was just wondering what any of the experts on here recommend?! PS - this isn't off topic, right?! Cheers Paul

RE: [WSG] The 'Some Links for Light Reading' posts

I third that, those links for light reading are one of the best sources of information I get. Thanks Russ! From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Jason Grant Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:45 AM To:

RE: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility?

I think it's still necessary... These articles sum it up well. http://zomigi.com/blog/why-browser-zoom-shouldnt-kill-flexible-layouts/ http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200906/page_zoom_does_not_mean_the_end_of_flexibility/ From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org

RE: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility?

At least he didn't call us fucktards, like the last bloke :) From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Maben Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:02 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] How Important Is

[WSG] The head of the document

Hi all, I'm just curious to know what other people do these days with the header of their document? What is best practice for: - Good search engine rankings - Best charset for English text (utf-8, right?) - Do we need robots - all anymore? - Any Accessibility issues? (Can't think of any) - Does

[WSG] RE: The head of the document

[mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Paul Collins Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:15 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] The head of the document Hi all, I'm just curious to know what other people do these days with the header of their document? What is best practice

[WSG] Test in Outlook 2007

Hi all, Just wondering, has anyone ever figured out a way of testing Outlook 2007 when you don't have it installed? Wondering if there is some kind of online software that emulates it perhaps? Campaign Monitor offers testing, but it costs a fiver each time you want to check. Would appreciate

RE: [WSG] Implication of empty divs

Isn't CSS about seperating presentation from content? You apply it once in your CSS as opposed to multiple times in your HTML. In actual fact, if you're only developing for IE6+, Firefox 2+, Webkit Browsers, Opera, you only need the overflow:auto; usually. -Original Message- From:

RE: [WSG] Clearing a row with floated list li

mind a conditional, problem solved! See it at: http://studioj.net.au/wsg/pcl.html - James On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Paul Collins p.coll...@twentyfirst.commailto:p.coll...@twentyfirst.com wrote: Thanks for your replies everyone. I'm not explaining the problem well, so I've created

RE: [WSG] Clearing a row with floated list li

appreciated. Cheers Paul -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Gunlaug Sørtun Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 5:54 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Clearing a row with floated list li Paul Collins wrote

[WSG] Clearing a row with floated list li

Hi all, I'm surprised I can't find the answer to this on the interweb; I haven't had to do it for a while! I have a list of about 10 items, all of varying heights (but fixed widths), in a single ul. I want to clear every third list item and start a new row. Of course, if they are different

RE: [WSG] Browser / OS Test on website.

Hi Danny, The site looks great, just had a quick flick through. My only suggestion would be to repeat the main navigation at the bottom of each section, so you don't have to go back to the top every time you've read the section. Cheers Paul From:

RE: [WSG] Fw: The Great Firewall of Australia

I'm not sure if this will make it to the table, but it is truly worrying. If they went to the extremes outlined though, don't you think that generally the public (not just the web development community) would put up such a stink about it, the government would be forced into taking several

RE: [WSG] is there a way to force legend text shows in TWO lines?

Hi all, Just to elaborate on this one, has anyone ever found a way to remove the left indent on the legend element in IE? I don't care if I have to add a SPAN inside the LEGEND element, I just want to make sure the text will be left aligned correctly in all browsers. Please send a link if you

RE: [WSG] Fw: The Great Firewall of Australia

Just to add to this, you can monitor Senator Conroy via email updates and message him through the Getup wesbite. http://www.projectdemocracy.com/senator/senator.php?senatorid=15 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jelina Korhecz Sent:

[WSG] Email form builder

Hi all, Does anyone know of a free online resource for building a form that sends an email? One that's aimed at people with limited knowledge of databases. I'm trying to locate one for a friend. He'd like to add his own customisable fields too. Most of the ones I am searching for want you to

RE: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what

Hi Joe, Can you recommend a shopping cart system that is easy to set up and use, be it open source or not? Trying to make a decision myself at the moment and would be interested to hear your thoughts. Cheers Paul From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what

though http://www.ubercart.org/downloads The deluxe package includes drupal and some extra modules. I would steer clear of zencart - not keen on that software at all. Not very easy to customise. Darren Lovelock Munkyonline.co.uk Quoting Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Joe, Can you

RE: [WSG] Correct markup of fieldset

. Cheers Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jens Brueckmann Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 11:00 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Correct markup of fieldset 2008/8/7 Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is one I've

RE: [WSG] Correct markup of fieldset

Hi Mike, Thanks for the reply. When you say fieldset labelled, you mean the legend, right? I've actually not been using a legend tag in this instance because the design doesn't warrant it. Case by case basis I guess. But yes, both you and Jens are right that it depends on the content. Cheers

RE: [WSG] Correct markup of fieldset

That was my thinking originally Stuart, which is why I put up the post. The submit button isn't part of a group, so I thought it shouldn't be in a fieldset. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Foulstone Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008

[WSG] Correct markup of fieldset

Hi all, This is one I've never been sure of; should the submit button be in a seperate fieldset, or should it even be in a fieldset at all because it is not a group of fields; it's a button on it's own. I usually put groups of fields in a fieldset, then have the submit button on it's own

[WSG] @import rule

Hi all, Just working on someone else's website and they are using the @import rule to include their CSS. I usually use the link rel method. I am wondering, is there really any reason not to use @import, be it Accessibility, standards, etc? I don't want to pull in other stylesheets into the one

[WSG] Multiple Firefox on Mac

Hi all, Does anyone have a link to a decent reference on running Firefox 2 3 simultaneously on Mac? I can't seem to find a decent one out there. Basically, I've created the new profile, installed Firefox 3 under a different name, but I can't find any information on how you create shortcuts to

Re: RE: [WSG] Mobile phone support of CSS

Sorry, haven't been around for a few days. Thanks for the replies everyone. Much appreciated and I can now talk about mobile development with more confidence! Cheers 2008/6/25 Darren Lovelock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

[WSG] Mobile phone support of CSS

Hi all, I'm trying to find a comprehensive list of Mobile phone browsers and CSS support. I currently have a Nokia N70 and as far as I can see it doesn't support CSS at all. But, perhaps with a stylesheet targeting mobile phones it would?! The main reason is, I am trying to decide whether

Re: [WSG] Firefox 3 candidate

Thanks for your replies everyone. I finally got both versions working! 2008/6/23 Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2008/06/23 11:42 (GMT+0100) Steve Green apparently typed: You can still get some old versions from the Mozilla FTP site at

Re: [WSG] Mobile phone support of CSS

Thanks for your replies everyone, those are good resources. 2008/6/24 Jens Nedal [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul Collins wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to find a comprehensive list of Mobile phone browsers and CSS support. I currently have a Nokia N70 and as far as I can see it doesn't support CSS

Re: [WSG] Firefox 3 candidate

Hi all, Thanks for your replies to this thread last week. I'm on a PC today and trying to get both versions of Firefox running, the only issue is, I can't find where to download version 2 of Firefox anymore! Mozilla have made it very hard to find previous versions Does anyone know where you

Re: [WSG] Firefox 3 candidate

, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Thanks for your replies to this thread last week. I'm on a PC today and trying to get both versions of Firefox running, the only issue is, I can't find where to download version 2 of Firefox anymore! Mozilla have made it very hard

[WSG] Firefox 3 candidate

Does anyone know if it will replace your version of Firefox 2, or will it run side by side?! Cheers *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

[WSG] Outlook 2007

Hi all, I am building an email for Outlook 2007, oh joy. I am aware that you can no longer use background images, that's fine. The one thing I want to confirm is whether the background colour will disappear when you nest a table inside your TD. I can't test here, but this will cause me a lot of

Re: [WSG] AJAX short courses london

Oh yes, I'm not bothered about Accredations really. More concerned about the quality of the course and most employers I've come across are more concerned with your experience. Cheers again! 2008/6/3 Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Sorry, I lost this thread. Perhaps you are right about

Re: [WSG] AJAX short courses london

pace. I've recommended the training to numerous people and they have all said it is of good quality. You can try some of the free courses before committing - there are also books and cds if you don't like the online version. On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WSG] Marking up company logo

To throw another question in here, should the page title therefore be different to the main heading of the page? I thought the content in the page title should be as specific as possible for SEO, including the heirarchy? So, for example titleSite title - Section Title - Page title/title And

[WSG] AJAX short courses london

Hi all, I hope this is on topic. I'm trying to find a short course on AJAX in london and having troubles finding one that is of a reasonable price (IE- less than £300 for a half day). Could anyone recommend me one or possibly a good school to look into? Thanks for any help, Paul

Re: [WSG] Background on body not aligning with tiled background on wrapper DIV

Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: can we see an example? Paul Collins wrote: Hi all, I've seen this problem before, but can't remember how I solved it. Basically, I have put a centred background that repeats vertically on the body of my page using CSS. The main wrapper div is also centred and has

[WSG] Background on body not aligning with tiled background on wrapper DIV

Hi all, I've seen this problem before, but can't remember how I solved it. Basically, I have put a centred background that repeats vertically on the body of my page using CSS. The main wrapper div is also centred and has a background sits on top of the Body one, but is only a fixed height

Re: [WSG] Background on body not aligning with tiled background on wrapper DIV

number of pixels on the window size when you have a centred background. Anyway, here is the test URL, anyone got an idea of how to solve this without an extra DIV?! http://paulcollinslondon.com/test/ Cheers Paul 2008/5/15 Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for your reply Adam. I can't

Re: [WSG] Background on body not aligning with tiled background on wrapper DIV

A good idea Matijs, but doesn't seem to work. Thanks for taking a look anyway. 2008/5/15 Matijs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does overflow: hidden on the containing div and making the green bar wider help? On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've managed

[WSG] Reset the styles on a submit button with CSS

Hi all, Here's an odd one I can't seem to solve. I had to style all input fields in a form with a black background, white text. Rather than give them a class, I've just given all inputs this styling EG: input {background:#000; color:#FFF;} My issue is that the submit buttons now have this

Re: [WSG] Reset the styles on a submit button with CSS

PM, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My issue is that the submit buttons now have this styling also in certain browsers. I'd like to give them a class and set them back to their original look, but background:none; doesn't work. Is there a way of doing this does anyone know

Re: [WSG] Skip nav links, tab through

Thanks for your replies Steve and Phillipe, sorry to take so long to get back. My Safari works well now, so that's good news. I can't figure out how to set this up in Firefox, any ideas? Cheers On 16/11/2007, Tee G. Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 15, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Philippe

[WSG] Skip nav links, tab through

Hi all, I've added a hidden skip navigation link to my site, that I want to show up when you tab through each page. I'm using the method described on the webaim site: http://www.webaim.org/techniques/skipnav/#focus Problem is, I realised that you can't actually tab through the links on a page

Re: [WSG] Skip nav links, tab through

are not on the tab sequence in Safari by default, but you can turn that on in the Preferences. I have no idea if users actually do in practice. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Collins Sent: 15 November 2007 14:45 To: wsg

Re: [WSG] Testing emails for Outlook 2007

Thanks again for your replies on this guys, just got back on my email. It might be worth investing 10 bucks in campaign monitor just to see what they recommend. Cheers On 07/11/2007, Chris Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Palac wrote: Paul, You might also check out Campaign Monitor -

Re: [WSG] Testing emails for Outlook 2007

Thanks for your replies everyone. I was hoping Browsercam had gotten onto it or a site like that. I think the best thing to do is grab a version for XP, I didn't actually know I could add it to that. Thanks for your help Paul On 07/11/2007, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/7/07,

[WSG] Testing emails for Outlook 2007

Hi all, Just wondering if anyone has found a clever way of testing your HTML emails for Outlook 2007? I don't have Vista and can't see myself buying it just yet! I thought there may be some kind of online rendering engine setup by now, but couldn't find anything in a search. Cheers Paul

Re: [WSG] Floated list items of differing heights

Pennell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/10/2007, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've managed to avoid doing this for while, but I'm doing a CMS job and the content in a floated group of LI's is going to be differeing heights. They need to wrap onto a new line when they hit the right

Re: [WSG] Floated list items of differing heights

Hi Mathew, I have gone the path of clearing left on the first LI of each new line. This doesn't seem to work in all versions of IE for me, have you got it working yourself? Cheers Paul On 25/10/2007, Matthew Pennell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/10/2007, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [WSG] Priority 2 error - Clearly identify the target of each link.

I agree with what everyone is saying, altough it is not always feasible to make the link text descriptive and sometimes makes it look clunky when you've added the read more link straight after the title, having to write read more about... and repeat the title again. All that aside, it is a

[WSG] Floated list items of differing heights

Hi all, I've managed to avoid doing this for while, but I'm doing a CMS job and the content in a floated group of LI's is going to be differeing heights. They need to wrap onto a new line when they hit the right edge of the container, causing layout problems. I've found this article, but it

[WSG] Cross platform line-height?

Hi all, Just wondering if anyone here has ever found a way of achieving a consistent line-height for Windows and OS X? Been searching for a while and can't seem to find the answer... Can it be done? Cheers Paul *** List

Re: [WSG] Cross platform line-height?

Sorry, I meant to say: Any idea how I can get them to be exactly the same height? Using CSS or something simple :) On 17/08/07, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Phillipe, Thanks for your reply. I've been given a design that has a box with specified height containing Web Text

Re: [WSG] Cross platform line-height?

height? Cheers Paul On 17/08/07, Philippe Wittenbergh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 17, 2007, at 10:07 PM, Paul Collins wrote: Just wondering if anyone here has ever found a way of achieving a consistent line-height for Windows and OS X? Been searching for a while and can't seem to find

[WSG] Imageready CS3

Is it bothering anyone else out there that they've removed Imageready in CS3? I've tried to use Fireworks and it just isn't the same... Anyway, I found this petition online, quite short of signatures so far, but I guess no-one is really putting it out there and it's only been up a month.

Re: [WSG] When to use image replacements?

Hi Lee, I think Image replacement is probably best to use if you are developing for Mobiles; as these are becoming more relevant. You don't want people to have to scroll past 10 navigation images in their mobile browser everytime the page loads. The logo should be a graphic as you want people to

[WSG] Absolute positioning in the flow of the document?

Hi all, I've spent a while trying to figure this out and I'm not sure there is a solution. I've got two levels of navigation here; visually one sits on top of the other, but the second level will change according to what top level link you click: http://www.method.com.au/newWebsite/ So, my

Re: [WSG] Absolute positioning in the flow of the document?

Sorry, yes Phillip. I haven't done PC testing at all yet, I'm on Firefox on the Mac. Wanted to decide how to code this before I get onto testing. Should have mentioned that! Cheers On 02/08/07, Philip Kiff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Collins wrote: I've spent a while trying to figure

Re: [WSG] Absolute positioning in the flow of the document?

positioning in this site. Thanks for taking the time to reply, much appreciated. Paul On 02/08/07, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Collins wrote: http://www.method.com.au/newWebsite/ ... The problem is that semantically this is not correct, the second level here is relating

Re: [WSG] Javascript image rotator

I guess I thought the original poster wanted something more for a simple banner vs an actual gallery script. You're right. I didn't go back far enough in the thread. Sorry. You are all right, thanks for your replies everyone. Sorry, I've been away from the machine for a few days, but I did

[WSG] Javascript image rotator

Hi all, I thought this would be an easy one to Google, but yet I find myself here again asking your professional opinions :) Trying to find a script for random image rotation on a website. Meaning the images would rotate every 5 seconds or so automatically, without the need for a refresh. The

Re: [WSG] Javascript image rotator

- everything else could be done with lightweight javascript but actually modifying an image is a bit beyond its reach and as such that puts you in the Flash object department. Regards, Barney Paul Collins wrote: Hi all, I thought this would be an easy one to Google, but yet I find myself here again

Re: [WSG] Javascript image rotator

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Collins Sent: 12 July 2007 12:45 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Javascript image rotator Hi all, I thought this would be an easy one to Google, but yet I find myself here again asking

Re: [WSG] Client - Site Edits

Funny you should send that one Kevin, I am literally just scoping around for a similar solution to the site I have just built. I was recommended these two aparrently free CMS solutions by another client. http://www.dotnetnuke.com/ http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/ I am only just taking a look now

Re: [WSG] RE: WSG Digest

* Due to an upgrade of SmarterMail, digests seem to have had a problem. We are working on it. * From: Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:17:03 +0100 Subject: Re: [WSG] Client - Site Edits Funny you should send

[WSG] Select that goes to a new URL

Hi all, This should be pretty basic stuff, but coding the forms can be a bit above me sometimes :) I've hunted around and can't seem to find the answer, so here goes... I've got a select box, with a bunch of options that need to go to another page in the website when the go button is clicked.

Re: [WSG] Select that goes to a new URL

code there is nothing called ID on there! and also - PHP is really off topic of this list, not sure of any PHP mailers but the sitepoint forums always get me out of bother! - Original Message From: Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent

Re: [WSG] Font-size 62.5% problem

font-size in firefox and still no result! Can't for the life of me figure this out! Cheers On 02/07/07, Nick Gleitzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2 Jul 2007, at 3:10 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Paul Collins apparently typed: I seem to be having trouble assigning the font-size:62.5% Please

[WSG] Font-size 62.5% problem

Hi all, I seem to be having trouble assigning the font-size:62.5%; property to the body of my document. Basically, it doesn't seem to be working and I can't figure out why. The font stays slightly larger than 11px, when I set it to 1.1em. this has worked fine on other sites, so not sure why it

Re: [WSG] Javascript problem

Thanks for your replies everyone, much appreciated. All working well now. Cheers Paul On 21/06/07, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Behalf Of Paul Collins I have a script that adds colours to a all the columns in a table. It works fine, the only problem is, it is trying

[WSG] Javascript problem

Hi all, I hope this is on topic, please ignore it if not, I have a small Jscript problem that shouldn't be hard to sort out, but I am not great with these things... I have a script that adds colours to a all the columns in a table. It works fine, the only problem is, it is trying to apply the

[WSG] 1 pixel gap

Hi all, Just got a 1 pixel gap at the left of my image here that is baffling me. It is happening in Firefox and Safari on Mac - the only browsers I have tested in so far. you can see there is space below the image to the right where it sticks out a bit too. http://method.com.au/test.html I

Re: [WSG] 1 pixel gap

Thanks Alex, I feel a bit daft for not noticing that myself :) It seems though, that even though this has fixed that, the problem is now occuring the other way; So when there is NO content, it displays fine and when there IS content going below the fold, it shows the 1px gap on the right now.

Re: [WSG] 1 pixel gap

be a server thing? Cheers On 19/06/07, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Alex, I feel a bit daft for not noticing that myself :) It seems though, that even though this has fixed that, the problem is now occuring the other way; So when there is NO content, it displays fine and when

Re: [WSG] 1 pixel gap

/06/07, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, there seems to be some inconsistencies now, the version on my localhost is showing the problem I just sent, yet when I put it live it doesn't occur. Both versions are using the same CSS and HTML... Anyone seen a problem like that before? It's

[WSG] Safari 2.0?!

Hello all, I downloaded the beta for Safari 3 the other day, it looks nice. Unfortunately, someone has pointed out a problem with a site I'm building and they are using version 2.0. I can't replicate the problem in the new version!! So after searching Evolt and a few other places, I can't find

Re: [WSG] Safari 2.0?!

great, done. I usually throw those things away :) Cheers for that. On 19/06/07, Nick Fitzsimons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Jun 2007, at 20:39:44, Paul Collins wrote: I downloaded the beta for Safari 3 the other day, it looks nice. Unfortunately, someone has pointed out a problem

Re: [WSG] semantic HTML for intro text

Sorry, I've been away for a while and lost track of this, thanks to everyone for your comments. I think what you have said is right in that perhaps the intro text doesn't really have any semantic value, so there doesn't need to be any tag to match it. Thanks again for all your replies. On

Re: [WSG] semantic HTML for intro text

, Nick Fitzsimons wrote: On 25 May 2007, at 18:03:06, Paul Collins wrote: Hi all, Just marking up a page, the layout seems to require various tags, as far as I can gather, I need seperate tags for: - The intro heading (a H2) - The orange intro text (not sure what tag to add here

[WSG] semantic HTML for intro text

Hi all, Just marking up a page, the layout seems to require various tags, as far as I can gather, I need seperate tags for: - The intro heading (a H2) - The orange intro text (not sure what tag to add here) - a smaller, bold heading, same size as body text (probably a h3) - a quote (probably a

Re: [WSG] Image in a label in IE

reference i guess. Sam Paul Collins wrote: Hi all, Just encountered a problem where IE won't do anything if you add an image inside your label, that is you can't click on the label to activate the radio, checkbox etc. I found this idea, which sounded good, but the Javascript conflicts

[WSG] Image in a label in IE

Hi all, Just encountered a problem where IE won't do anything if you add an image inside your label, that is you can't click on the label to activate the radio, checkbox etc. I found this idea, which sounded good, but the Javascript conflicts with another onclick event. Just wondering if anyone

[WSG] Hack for all IE versions including 7

Hi all, I am trying to find hacks for IE7 and I can't, could someone please point me in the right direction? I would like the following: - a hack to target IE7 only - a hack to target all versions of IE, including IE7 Anyone got any ideas? I don't want to create conditional comments as this is

Re: [WSG] Hack for all IE versions including 7

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/18/07, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to find hacks for IE7 and I can't, could someone please point me in the right direction? I would like the following: #mydiv { background: red; /* all browsers */ *background: green; /* all IE */ _background

Re: [WSG] Hack for all IE versions including 7

PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If you want to do hacks then you shouldn't pretend to do valid coding. Stuart On Fri, May 18, 2007 2:05 pm, Paul Collins wrote: Nice one, thanks for your help. I knew there was an answer! The only problem is validation I guess, anyone know of a hack that validates? Cheers

Re: [WSG] css type loop

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Re: [WSG] Hack for all IE versions including 7

experience. Cheers, Paul On 18/05/07, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Behalf Of Paul Collins conditional comments gives an excuse to be lazy and just write a whole new bunch of styles for IE that could have been fixed in the original stylesheet with a bit of playing around. When

[WSG] css type loop

Hi all, I recently had to add numerical bullet point graphics to an OL. This meant I had to add an individual class and style to each bullet point for each image, which can add up when you've got 20 bullets. I was wondering, does anyone know more clever way of doing this in some kind of a CSS

[WSG] Testing multiple Flash Player versions...

Hi all Just wondering if anyone has a clever way of testing multiple Flash players on a single machine? Preferably without having to uninstall. If not, does anyone know of a good place to download earlier versions? Cheers, Paul

[WSG] Accessible drop down menu

Hello all, Got another question today which I can't seem to find any new information on. Was wondering with Ajax and some of these new methods coming out, is there a way of creating an accessible drop-down menu that doesn't use scripting? As in, can we have a drop-down menu that

Re: [WSG] Accessible drop down menu

Hi Richard, Thanks for that one, that will definitely come in handy in the future and I've got it bookmarked. Unfortunately though, in this instance the design won't permit me to have a list of links as it would be far too long to fit, so a select box is preferable. Really useful though,

[WSG] list's with header text

Hello all. Just wondering if there is such a thing as a header tag for a HTML list, ul or ol, such as the TH tag or the Summary tag for a table? Would be a handy feature, but I haven't seen anything like this out there yet? So you could have: The following are the days of the week 1.

Re: [WSG] list's with header text

Hi thanks allfor your replies. Stephen, are definition lists supported by JAWS or any other screen reader? Last time I tried to test them with JAWS it didn't seem to pick up that it was anything different to normal text. Maybe you can tell me otherwise. Thanks Paul - Original

Re: [WSG] list's with header text

Thanks Ric, you're definitely right and this would work. It would be nice however if there was an equivalent to the Summary or Legend attribute where a screen reader would read outthat there is an unorderedlist with say,10 items and then read the summary at the top. What yousay would

[WSG] Check boxes ticked (UK Law)

ible links to back this up?Thanks heaps, Paul Collins

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