Re: [WSG] Footer taking width from form

: See if fixing that helps. Regards -- Scott Swabey Design & Development Director - Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com | www.thought-after.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubsc

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

like: /* Target IE7 only */ html>body #getquotebox { *background: url(../images/loginbox-bg.jpg) 10px left no-repeat; } /* end */ -- Scott Swabey Design & Development Director - Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com | www.thoug

Re: [WSG] Form layout issue

ggest placing a after each input, and apply a clearing class to the . This will force IE to play, and has the added bonus of retaining some semblance of formating if styles are turned off. .clear { clear: both; height: 1px; display: block; } Regards -- Scott Swabey Design & Development

RE: [WSG] IE Reverse Indent ?

Kevin wrote >On this page... >http://www.hudsonantiquecarclub.com/index.html >IE6 adds an reverse indent just under the header "Monthly Meetings" Hi Kevin Adding a couple extra pixels to the #content_home right margin should fix things up. Regards Scott Swabey Design &am

RE: [WSG] A legitimate case for pop-ups

be completely wrong. Regards Scott Swabey Design & Development Director Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hint

RE: [WSG] site check

s problems, I'm afraid. The first is > that it has been developed using a table based layout. Hi Kevin Gotta love consultants! Hopefully he wasn't in a paid position if that was his professional judgement of the site. If he was I would be suggesting a refund. Great looking site

RE: [WSG] The dilemma: tabular data with sublevels

f actions and ordered list of sub-items. Regards Scott Swabey Design & Development Director Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.

RE: [WSG] Staring at the CSS with bloodshot eyes

Hey Veine Unfortunately, without being able to see it, it means as little to us as it does to you! A link to the site/page in question would be useful. Regards Scott Swabey Design & Development Director Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com > -Original Message- > Fr

RE: [WSG] Margin being inherited. Why?

Because you have set the id for the textarea to content. Apart from the fact that the element is now picking up styles for that ID, you also now have two ID's with the same name, which is not allowed. Regards Scott Swabey Design & Development Director Lafinboy Productions www.laf

RE: [WSG] Hover text bunching up in Firefox

You may want to try adding a width to your link container div: div#links { width: 11em; } It's a quick fix. Regards Scott Swabey Design & Development Director Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com White Ash wrote The navigation (at the bottom of the page) looks f

RE: [WSG] Jello Mold not working right in IE/Win

/viewport[1] width is greater than 1554px then set the width of the sizer element to 402px, otherwise set the width to 75%" [1] Browsers implement the measurement of document.body.clientWidth differently, mostly falling into either of the viewport width minus the scrollbar, or the width of t

RE: [WSG] CSS Driven?

theoretically change the layout and appearance of the whole site. The key word here is 'driven', in that the site presentation is controlled by the CSS, much the same as a database driven sites content is controlled and easily changed by making changes to the database records. Regards

RE: [WSG] talking points for standards

prehend. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

RE: [WSG] talking points for standards

uage that will convince most, if not all, sceptics. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com > Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote: > > The day WILL come when there is a governing body over the net. > There WAS a day when housing codes DID NOT exist and were > being worked

RE: [WSG] My Turn for a Site Critique

re they're going they want to know about. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com > Samuel Richardson wrote > > If you read the month of december as being summer its true for the > southern hemisphere but not the northen, to do it properly you would > have

RE: [WSG] page break up

Hi Lori Your issue with the tabs can be quickly fixed by switching the order in your css of the #menu a:visited and #menu a:hover, so the hover is 'above' the visited declaration. The page break up looks like a guillotine bug. Need to dig more to find the cause for that! Regards Sc

RE: [WSG] menu suggestions and problems

To make the site truly fluid you'll need to use relative size units (em, %) in place of pixels. This will ensure that container elements change size in proportion to the font contained therein. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com -Original Message- From: [

RE: [WSG] position fixed on the thead

eems to fit your requirements, though I haven't investigated/played with it myself. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/gui

RE: [WSG] two column

Hi JoAn, and welcome to the list Have a read of some of the articles over at A List Apart (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins/) which should give you a good grounding for a source ordered 2 column layout. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com -Original

RE: [WSG] a: class border width problem

ards ____ Scott Swabey General Manager Lafinboy Productions web development :: web design :: graphic design e [EMAIL PROTECTED] t +61 (0)415 193 126 w www.lafinboy.com > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [WSG] Style a parent element based on an id selector of the child element

As Matthew said, the selectors step down, so you could apply the active_menu id to the td, then use descendence(!) on the contained elements. snip #active_menu { styles } #active_menu a { styles } Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com > -Original Message- >

RE: [WSG] Site Check [BushidoDeep]

Have you run it through the validators you link to? You are showing errors in the XHTML validator, which stops validation in the CSS validator. You are also showing warnings when run through Tidy. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com > -Original Message- &

RE: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

This is my 0.005c (times are hard!) Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the

RE: [WSG] Expanding height of left column to fill space

egards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

RE: [WSG] Text Size Statistics

y posted question to warrant it redundant. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

RE: [WSG] Text Size Statistics

/products/methods. Backwards compatibility can only extend so far, and relaxation of a standard dilutes the purpose and impact of the standard. Why have a standard if there is no effect in not applying or adhering to it? Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com

RE: [WSG] Text Size Statistics

rs would be rid of the need to worry about 90% of the hacks we currently use. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.c

RE: [WSG] tabbed content within content pages

re _individual_ in as far as they have separate URI's, they are all a template, and the template content is derived from the querystring passed through the URL. In this case the URL is rewritten to make it more readable, but behind the scenes it is still in the format of ?a=1&b=2.

RE: [WSG] Designing for printing

u have specific knowledge that that is the size your users _will_ be printing at then I see no need to prepare for anything other than the _standard_ A4/letter sheet sizes. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The disc

RE: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem

should_ be part of the default declaration. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

RE: [WSG] Spec box and leaders

ctions to take. [1] http://webstandardsgroup.org/manage/archive.cfm?uid=ADB96CC1-E463-9773-87201 99CF9431C68 [2] http://www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk/blogstuff/dotleader.html Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The

RE: [WSG] Semantic Calendar

appropriateness of using a table for apparently non-tabular data. After a bit more thought I have decided to present the calendar in a table, which, combined with some additional functionality of the calendar, now seems to be the _right_ way to do it. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Prod

[WSG] Semantic Calendar

gards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

RE: [WSG] Spacing Issue

e standards hacks are always going to be required. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints o

RE: [WSG] Align text vertically in a division

_top: -50%; } some test text here Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rachel Radford > Sent: Wednesday, 10 A

RE: [WSG] Resource on using rel attribute to open new window

www.accessify.com/tutorials/standards-compliant-new-windows.asp Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

RE: [WSG] Browser hijacking for usability

Title: Message Jamie Mason >> I've been thinking about whether it would help to automatically fix these problems by using registry keys, for example.     Ask the question of yourself - if you were instructed by a website to run a file that changed registry settings on your pc, would you do

RE: [WSG] textarea: why rows and cols?

uld be defined in the CSS. > > Any thoughts? I declare the height/width of textareas in CSS and don't use cols/rows in the markup. I haven't come across any problems in [ limited ] testing so far. Regards ____ Scott Swabey General Manager Lafinboy

RE: [WSG] Exporting inline CSS

hat would do this for you, but it should be quite easy to set up a Regular Expression routine to strip all style='foo' content from a page. Regards ________ Scott Swabey General Manager Lafinboy Productions :: website design :: website development :: gra

RE: [WSG] Can you style Alt text?

The ALT text displayed when an image is not available will inherit the properties of the containing element. To unify your ALT text you can add a font style to your img: img { font: 1em arial #000 } Regards Scott Swabey General Manager Lafinboy Productions

RE: [WSG] link one style sheet from another

reate two files that import the relevant style selections. Regards Scott Swabey General Manager Lafinboy Productions :: website design :: website development :: graphic design e [EMAIL PROTECTED] t +61 (0)415 193 126 w www.lafinboy.com -Ori

RE: [WSG] A form within a form

Hi Charla AFAIK you are not permitted to nest forms. Regards Scott Swabey General Manager Lafinboy Productions :: website design :: website development :: graphic design e [EMAIL PROTECTED] t +61 (0)415 193 126 w www.lafinboy.com -Original

RE: [WSG] Opinions about contact form please

On Firefox 1.0.2, WinXP, 1024x768 the sample article divs push the footer div down at normal font size. 2 sizes down and alignment is good but readability is gone. Regards Scott Swabey General Manager Lafinboy Productions :: website design :: website

RE: [WSG] email client css suport

said, the style declaration may well reduce the overall size of the email by removing superfluous inline styles. Regards ________ Scott Swabey General Manager Lafinboy Productions :: website design :: website development :: graphic design e [EMAIL PROTECTED] t +61