On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:16 AM, John Unsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Paul Bennett wrote: >> >> > Hi Kevin, >> > >> > It's not clear what you're trying to achieve. Can you give us some more >> information? >> > >> > Paul >> > >> Christian Snodgrass wrote: >> >> > >> I think he's essentially talking about a CSS reset file, specific to input, >> to neutralize all of the browser differences. >> >> I'm not sure of the specific elements, but just about any CSS reset should >> handle it. This is the one I prefer: >> http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/05/01/reset-reloaded/ >> >> Yahoo also has it's own, but it's a lot bigger and I think somewhat of an >> overkill. >> >> -- >> Christian Snodgrass >> Azure Ronin Web Design >> http://www.arwebdesign.net >> Phone: 859.816.7955 >> >> > Having just been working on a series of pages consisting predominately > of form elements, including inputs fields/boxes etc, and also using > the Eric Meyer reset, it's my experience thus far that the reset does > not neutralize all the browser differences. Opera for one seems to > treat the sizing of the input boxes differently to Firefox and Safari. > Added to that you can differing results depending on the system of > measurement you use, ie: em's vs pixel vs percentage, although I'm > inclined now to stick to percentage, ensuring the containing div or > fieldset is sized consistently across browsers with either em's or > px's. > I'm not informed or smart enough to know exactly why this is, but > suspect that as the browser is applying the OS input elements, in the > process it is creating dimensions that go beyond padding and margin. > Otherwise the reset would work? > Slightly off topic, but still with the Eric Meyer reset, I found that > when it declares a universal - background: transparent; - it disabled > Safari and IE7 from applying a class to the <tr> in a table when I > tried to Zebra stripe the table rows. I removed it (the univeral > reset), and at least in Safari (not yet tested on IE7) it was fixed. > Firefox, Opera and Camino all rendered the stripes as expected. Can > anyone possibly explain that?
2 quick things: line-height: the ugly henchman lurking in the shadows, ready to strike when margin and padding have been defeated. Eric Meyer's CSS reset is old and outdated. gotta run, hope that helps. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
