[WSG] list item markers disappear behind floated image

2004-08-17 Thread Peter Ottery
Title: list item markers disappear behind floated image Hi, I have a problem with images that are floated left and then when a list wraps around that image the list bullet points themselves dont get pushed out by the floated image and instead remain behind (or on top of) the image. to help

Re: [WSG] list item markers disappear behind floated image

2004-08-17 Thread Gary Menzel
Well - I have not experienced this - but - if I was looking for a quick fix (although it will sound like a hack) I would look at adding a DIV around either or both blocks of text and see if that helps with the visible/invisible image issue. (I know - it sounds like wrapping table tags to give

Re: [WSG] list item markers disappear behind floated image

2004-08-17 Thread russ - maxdesign
Pete, This may sound insane but the problem is fixable by floating the ul element. ul { float: left; } 0r if more specific version is needed: ul#wrapped-list { float: left; } This will have a major impact on content that comes after the list (will appear up beside the list), but this could be

RE: [WSG] list item markers disappear behind floated image

2004-08-17 Thread Trusz, Andrew
Title: list item markers disappear behind floated image Try giving the ul list-style-position:inside. No need for additional p or div. drew From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ottery Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 2:52 AM To: Web Standards

RE: [WSG] list item markers disappear behind floated image

2004-08-17 Thread Peter Ottery
Title: RE: [WSG] list item markers disappear behind floated image Russ wrote: This may sound insane but the problem is fixable by floating the ul element.ul { float: left; } that does sound weird but on reflection of the finer points of the behaviours of floats, does make sense. fix a

[WSG] Form fields in navbar causing IE to expand size of bar

2004-08-17 Thread Helen . Rysavy
Hi Could someone please help me with this. I'm trying to make a standards based site for Teaching Evaluation using the current CDU requirements of banner and global nav (these can be seen here: http://www.cdu.edu.au/visiting/). However, putting in the form field into my global nav div cause the

[WSG] Valid Flash state of play

2004-08-17 Thread David McKinnon
Does anyone know if anyone has managed to produce a valid and reliable way to embed Flash objects yet? I'm noting Nick Gleitzman's reply to Seona Bellamy yesterday [RE: [WSG] Can someone reproduce these issues for me please?] suggesting Flash Satay at A List Apart. My understanding is that the

Re: [WSG] Valid Flash state of play

2004-08-17 Thread Neerav
The following is valid XHTML transitional, and seems to work fine in the browsers I've checked (IE6, Mozilla, Opera) object codebase=http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0; type=application/x-shockwave-flash data=http://www.example.com/flash.swf;

RE: [WSG] Form fields in navbar causing IE to expand size of bar

2004-08-17 Thread Bert Doorn
Hi form tag causes some issues with IE. Any ideas as to what would be the best way to approach this? Remove margin and padding from the form and all should be well. #searchform form { margin:0; padding:0; } Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.bwdzine.com/ Fast-loading,

[WSG] help on this rollover please

2004-08-17 Thread Jim Barricks
Hi folks, I am having a problem with this sample rollover at http://www.barricksinsurance.com/button.html . It shows up fine with 4 rows across and 4 rows down on IE but it shows 5 rows across on Firefox. Has anybody any idea what is going wrong here Please? Thanks much, Jim Barricks Marina Del

Re: [WSG] help on this rollover please

2004-08-17 Thread Vicki Berry
Adding float:left to ul.navlist in Firefox fixed it Vicki. :-) Jim wrote: I am having a problem with this sample rollover at http://www.barricksinsurance.com/button.html . It shows up fine with 4 rows across and 4 rows down on IE but it shows 5 rows across on Firefox. Has anybody any

Re: [WSG] help on this rollover please

2004-08-17 Thread Ben Bishop
Hi Jim, On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:35:01 -0700, Jim Barricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.barricksinsurance.com/button.html . It shows up fine with 4 rows across and 4 rows down on IE but it shows 5 rows across on Firefox. Has anybody any idea what is going wrong here Please? You are

RE: [WSG] help on this rollover please

2004-08-17 Thread Nick Cowie
Jim asked I am having a problem with this sample rollover at http://www.barricksinsurance.com/button.html . It shows up fine with 4 rows across and 4 rows down on IE but it shows 5 rows across on Firefox. Has anybody any idea what is going wrong here Please? I believe is all to do with

Re: [WSG] list item markers disappear behind floated image

2004-08-17 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Pete, that's not a drawback - that's what list-style-position: inside is intended to do! N ___ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ On Wednesday, Aug 18, 2004, at 09:45 Australia/Sydney, Peter Ottery wrote: the only drawback i can see from that is that

Re: [WSG] list item markers disappear behind floated image

2004-08-17 Thread russ - maxdesign
I tried that too, Hugh, but in Safari the background images on the list items went all the way under the floated image. Each browser seems to have their own reading on where the background of a list should stop. Here is a sample page with both options:

[WSG] Aligning the text in list items

2004-08-17 Thread Anura . Samara
I am attempting to replace an image based navigation set in a top banner with a styled list of links. If you have a look at this sample (http://www.thesamaras.com/_newsite2/home1.htm), you can see how I have set a specific height for each of the three list items; this is because the banner will

Re: [WSG] Form fields in navbar causing IE to expand size of bar

2004-08-17 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Wednesday, Aug 18, 2004, at 10:18 Australia/Sydney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, putting in the form field into my global nav div cause the brown bar (especially in IE) to become quite wide and not look right. I do recall reading somewhere some time ago that the form tag causes some

Re: [WSG] help on this rollover please

2004-08-17 Thread Jim Barricks
At 07:06 PM 8/17/2004,Vicki Berry, your nimble fingers typed... Adding float:left to ul.navlist in Firefox fixed it Vicki. :-) Jim wrote: I am having a problem with this sample rollover at http://www.barricksinsurance.com/button.html . It shows up fine with 4 rows across and 4 rows down on

Re: [WSG] help on this rollover please

2004-08-17 Thread Jim Barricks
At 07:21 PM 8/17/2004,Ben Bishop, your nimble fingers typed... Hi Jim, You are absolutely correct - IE is displaying it wrong. You've set the width of the UL to 80% of its parent. You've set the width of LI to 20% of its parent. So, the UL is 4/5 of BODY and LI is 1/5 of UL - therefore you get 5

RE: [WSG] Aligning the text in list items

2004-08-17 Thread Nick Cowie
Anura asked: My question is: how do I get the text in each list item to appear vertically in the middle of item? In other words, I want the text to appear midway between the top and bottom of the item, rather than at the top. Try adding line-height: 29px; to #banner ul li This will force

RE: [WSG] help on this rollover please

2004-08-17 Thread Jim Barricks
At 07:35 PM 8/17/2004,Nick Cowie, your nimble fingers typed... Jim I believe is all to do with the box model http://tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html and that IE sees the li containers at greater than 20% in width and Gecko sees the containers as exactly 20% and 5*20% will fit in 100%

Re: [WSG] Form fields in navbar causing IE to expand size of bar

2004-08-17 Thread Helen . Rysavy
Thanks Nick Probably the best solution would be to take it out of the globalnav bar all together and put it somewhere else as I don't know how I can stop it from wrapping. Thanks for sending through the screenshots and even though Lotus Notes doesn't tell me what browsers they are from, I can

RE: [WSG] Aligning the text in list items

2004-08-17 Thread Anura . Samara
Thanks for the tip. I applied the line-height property to both the list item and the link and it seems to work across IE, Mozilla and Opera. AS Anura asked: My question is: how do I get the text in each list item to appear vertically in the middle of item? In other words, I want the text to