> I have subsequently used display: none; on the headers. Is this OK, or would
> you recommend your
> suggestion as being more standards-based?
display: none has known issues for screen readers:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fir/
The absolute method, which I have since heard referred to as "
Hi Russ
Thanks very much for your reply.
> The most powerful way to achieve this (but not supported by IE) would be to
> use adjacent sibling selectors so no classes were used at all. For example:
>
> #subnav ul li, #subnav ul li + li { background: yellow; }
> #subnav ul li + li + li, #subnav ul
> 2. I have used a modification of one of Russ' tutorials for the #header and
> #subnav - to float the
> menu elements left and right. Is there a cleaner way to achieve this other
> than to apply a class to
> *every* tag?
The most powerful way to achieve this (but not supported by IE) would be to
Thank you, everyone-
Wow . . . you guys are great!
Mary Ann
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Hi Mary Ann
Seems as though
Hi Mary Ann
Seems as though everyone has pipped me to the post!
> I printed out your test site because I thought it was so very clean and
> attractive and I wanted to study your use of styles in creating it.
You (and others) may be interested in the following links which have helped me
with thi
On Monday, March 14, 2005 5:44pm, Sigurd Magnusson wrote:
>
>Don't know the maximum number of pixels a page can have; it very likely
>depends on the user agent. I would have thought the most robust way is
>to have a fluid design; which led me to an idea--having a fluid design
>only in the print med
pages
suffer from this same problem . . . really maddening when trying to solve
a
technical problem.
Thanks for your help.
Mary Ann
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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 prob
me problem . . . really maddening when trying to solve a
technical problem.
Thanks for your help.
Mary Ann
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Subject: Re: [WSG]
Siggy
See below:
> I think what you and I are both really waiting for is XHTML2; except we need
> to wait for browsers and W3C to adopt it :P
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-list.html#edef_list_nl
>
>
>
>Contents
>Introduction
>
>
> Terms
> May
>
The change to the heirarchy above is great, but it doesn't help the
#header, #mainnav
and #subnav lists because there isn't a heading for these. If you look at
the page with styles
disabled you'll see what I mean.
I think what you and I are both really waiting for is XHTML2; except we need
to wa
Hi Siggy
Thanks for your reply.
> Sub Heading 1
>
> Category 1
> Category 2
> Category 3
> Category 4
> Category 5
> Category 6
>
> Sub Heading 2 Sub Heading 1
>
The change to the heirarchy above is great, but it doesn't help the #header,
#mainnav
and #su
#1 - not sure
#2 If you want to apply something to every li within #header, use #header
li { ... }
Regarding #3, nesting your menus will create a clearer heirachy;
e.g. change
Sub Heading 3
Category 1
Category 2
Category 3
Category 4
Category 5
Category 6
to
Sub Heading 1
Categ
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