[WSG] Unexpected underlines and div wierdness in FF and NS

2005-04-07 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Here's the link to look at: http://www.x7m.us/_clients/sheavens/development/accommodations/standard_gallery.htm What's happening is that I'm getting unexpected text decoration throughout the page (and, of course the entire site) in FF and Netscape. Case in point on this page is the "Home,

Re: [WSG] Unexpected underlines and div wierdness in FF and NS

2005-04-07 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Boy, do I feel like an idiot. Thanks Bert for being my seeing-eye dog. Cole - Original Message - From: Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 2:26 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Unexpected underlines and div wierdness in FF and NS G'day

[WSG] Automated accessibility testers

2005-04-13 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
I've never tried testing my code for accessibility before but I'm becoming more interested in the topic.After some web-research, I've found a mountian ofinformation/guidelines/priority checkpoints (etc., etc.) to wade through and consider. My eyes are glazing over.

Re: [WSG] Automated accessibility testers

2005-04-13 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Thanks Shane. I'll give it a look - Getting specific books from local bookstores here (in the philipines) can be a real challenge, but I'll see if I can source the one you've recommended. After you do a site (or during) do you validate your code against one of these Accessibility web sites I

[WSG] Unexpected padding (margin?) on right float

2005-04-18 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
First, take a look here in Firefox or Netscape: http://www.x7m.us/_clients/danielik/dev/testing/index.htm Perfect. both floats line up vertically to the top nav bar as desired. Now, take a look in IE6. Somehow, some right-padding or right-margin has crept into the right side of the red

Re: [WSG] Unexpected padding (margin?) on right float

2005-04-18 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
12:49 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Unexpected padding (margin?) on right float Cole Kuryakin - x7m schrieb: http://www.x7m.us/_clients/danielik/dev/testing/index.htm Somehow, some right-padding or right-margin has crept into the right side of the red outlined box in IE. #sideBar { margin: 25px

[WSG] Blockquote or Q?

2005-04-19 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Hi everyone. I'm working on a site that contains 1 boxed quote per page. By boxed, I mean there's a red border that encloses the quote. These aren't famouse quotes - or anything particulary special -just quotes from people who have read the pre-release of a new book. So, semantically

Re: [WSG] Blockquote or Q?

2005-04-19 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Hughes - That is a neat trick. Thanks for sharing! Cole - Original Message - From: Hugues Brunelle To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:11 PM Subject: RE: [WSG] Blockquote or Q? Hi Cole, Blockquote for sure, and like Alan

Re: [WSG] Blockquote or Q?

2005-04-19 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
with the blockquote is that it can't contain plain text, it has to be in a p or something, but if you don't like the extra margin the p gives, you can just do blockquote p{margin:0} in the css Alan Lea de Groot wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:40:53 +0800, Cole Kuryakin - x7m wrote: So

Re: [WSG] Blockquote or Q?

2005-04-20 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
(or whatever) in your blockquotes is sort of a weird one, IMHO. I believe they've planned to remove that from xhtml2, but in your case it makes sense anyways. --- Cole Kuryakin - x7m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've inserted a bunch of brs within the quote in order to control the line breaks

[WSG] To Table or Not To Table for Forms

2005-04-30 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
I've been wondering the same thing as Tee - whether to use the table for form or not, still can't make up my mind. I've been using tables for my forms just because it's fast and easy to align stuff - like a horizontal double or triple-column input design or even putting a text label AFTERa

[WSG] Semantic tag for copyright slug?

2005-04-30 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
This maybe taking the whole semantic thing too far, but is there a "copywright" tag (not the Meta Tag) that one should use for copyright information? I've searched the web, but can't find one defined other than the meta tag. The use for this would be - frequenlty for my projects - in the

Re: [WSG] Semantic tag for copyright slug?

2005-04-30 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
for trademark, registered mark, service mark?. To all intents and purposes it's a paragraph or phrase of text on the page. Cheers James On 4/30/05, Cole Kuryakin - x7m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This maybe taking the whole semantic thing too far, but is there a copywright tag (not the Meta Tag

[WSG] Jumping text in FF and Netscape

2005-05-01 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Hello everyone - I've got this not-so-critical but annoying problem with text below an image. When the page loads, there'stoo much space (between the bottom of the image and top of the text), but if you refresh the browser, the text snaps back to the correct position. This only happens in

Re: [WSG] Jumping text in FF and Netscape

2005-05-02 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Bert - Specifying the height and width of the small images fixed the problem. Thanks! Yeah, I know the home page shot is HUGE - Client demanded it after much effort on my behalf to talk him out of it. Win some, you lose some. I know I shouldn't spec font sizes in px, but I'm confused about the

[WSG] The mother of all html references?

2005-05-03 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
I've been using this online html reference (http://www.htmlreference.com/) for the past 6 months or so, and so far it's been fine. Can anyone recommend another on-line reference that they prefer so I can take a look? Cole

[WSG] Setting a class for a Select Option list

2005-05-07 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
I'm using a PHP script to set a class on a particular select item if nothing has been selected from the list (form validation routine). It works fine in IE, but doesn't in Firefox and Netscape - apparently something I'm doing wrong. Maybe I'm putting the class in the wrong place? Maybe my

[WSG] Can you style Alt text?

2005-05-15 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
When you've got an href'd image that's farily large that's being pulled down over a dialup line, you can see the alt text in the background as the image loads. Usually, this this text is a big, blue serif style. Sure, once the picture gets completely downloaded, it's hidden, but during

[WSG] Best way to train someone in css and web standards

2005-05-23 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Hello All - I have the opportunity to hire two people in the next few weeks to help me with my one-man-band web development business. Problem is, these two know only the most basic aspects of HTML and don't know anything about CSS or web standards. Problem also is that I can't afford to

[WSG] WSG Meetings for the rest of us

2005-06-08 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Man, oh man, would I love to attend some (pretty much all) of the meetings, seminars and discussions being hosted/held by WSG - but they seem to all be in Sydney. I live in the backwaters of the Philippines and am too broke to travel to these meetings and I really feel like I'm missing out

[WSG] Crazy font sizing with 2 tables inside a positioned div

2005-06-10 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
I'm having this strange problem: I've got a content div (#content) which has 2 tables in it (.guestHeader and .guestComment - both classes). The first table accepts my css font stylingrules just fine. The second table however, absolutely messes up the font sizing and line height: The line

Re: [WSG] Crazy font sizing with 2 tables - follow on

2005-06-10 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
80% of (70% of 0.7em))On 6/10/05, Cole Kuryakin - x7m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having this strange problem: I've got a content div (#content) which has 2 tables in it (.guestHeader and .guestComment - both classes). The first table accepts my css font styling rules

[WSG] Element Properties Cheat Sheet

2005-06-12 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Is there any guide or cheat sheet out there somewhere which gives the exact properties of each html element which CAN be altered/positioned/styled via CSS? Like I've been putting: margin: 0; padding: 0; on a default table rule set, but something I've just read "indicates" that tables

[WSG] Element Properties Cheat Sheet

2005-06-12 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Is there any guide or cheat sheet out there somewhere which gives the exact properties of each html element which CAN be altered/positioned/styled via CSS? Like I've been putting: margin: 0; padding: 0; on a default table rule set, but something I've just read "indicates" that tables

Re: [WSG] Element Properties Cheat Sheet

2005-06-13 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Style Sheets 2.0, Programmers Reference by Eric Meyer. Roberto Cole Kuryakin - x7m wrote: Is there any guide or cheat sheet out there somewhere which gives the exact properties of each html element which CAN be altered/positioned/styled via

Re: [WSG] Class Discusion: *{margin: 0; padding: 0} ???

2005-06-16 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Zeroing all default margins and padding throught a document is something I'm always sweated over as I like to zero all of these properties right from the top. For the past 6 months or so I set the margin and padding to '0' in all elements at the top of my style sheet: body - margin 0, padding 0;

[WSG] Background image in li not showing in IE

2005-06-18 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
I've got a small background icon that I've hooked to a few li's. Displays as planned in FF, but doesn't display at all in IE6. Here's the HTML snippet: ulli class="signInOptions"Admin Area data includes Guestbook Entries, Read A Chapter contacts, and Email contacts./li/ul Here's the

Re: [WSG] Background image in li not showing in IE

2005-06-19 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Thanks for all the suggestions Peter. I hadn't gotten it fixed until I set the width of the li as per your suggestion. Now the bullets show up in IE as desired. Cole - Original Message - From: Peter Ottery To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005

[WSG] Proper use of nbsp;

2005-06-21 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
I tend to use nbsp; alot when it comes to seperating horizontal menu items with a pike "|". while this gives me what I want visually,I've always been sort of intuitively uncomfortable with this technique for some reason. Here's what I tend to do: ul id="topNav"lia href="" title="James

[WSG] font-size =1em (in the body) vs. font-size = 101%

2005-06-21 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
I've just gotten comfortable using ems for font sizing in my projects by starting out with font-size=1em within the body tag. Now I'm seeing that some people are using font-size = 101% in the body tag. I seem to remember someone saying that using "1em" in the body tag makes some versions of

[WSG] Picky, picky, picky

2005-06-25 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
I'm almost embarrased to ask this because it's such a minor detail, but it's driving me crazy. First, the link: http://www.x7m.us/_testing/index2.htm This is a new design I'm just starting to build. If you look at it in FF/Netscape/Opera it's perfect (the latest versions of those browsers,

[WSG] Picky, picky, picky

2005-06-25 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
I'm almost embarrased to ask this because it's such a minor detail, but it's driving me crazy. First, the link: http://www.x7m.us/_testing/index2.htm This is a new design I'm just starting to build. If you look at it in FF/Netscape/Opera it's perfect (the latest versions of those browsers,

Re: [WSG] Picky, picky, picky

2005-06-25 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Add this: div { border: 1px solid #f00 } to your css and look at the page in IE6, compared to FF. You'll see that the extra space is actually being generated by your div id=topEdgeH. Added the border to the divs and you're right. it is the topEdgeH that's causing the problem. Fix? You

[WSG] Image Thumnail Advice

2005-07-02 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
Hello All - I'm having a mess of a time getting sharp thumbnails of the site's I've built into a thumbnail format. Here's what I do: 1. Load the home page of a site into a browser 2. Use a screen capture utility to snap an image of the home page 3. paste the capture into PhotoShop 4.

Re: [WSG] Image Thumnail Advice

2005-07-06 Thread Cole Kuryakin - x7m
A big thanks to all regarding all of the advice given on my image-reduction issue. I have tried a number of the suggestions and - depending on the color depth of the differentsites I'm trying to reduce - the results are much more favorable than previous to my post. I know that one of the