Re: [css-d] text align problem

2009-07-03 Thread Tim Climis
On Friday, July 3, 2009 11:05:26 pm Linda Quinn wrote: > Any suggestions on where I can look? The firebug extension for Firefox is great for this. It'll show you exactly which rules are being applied, what's being over ruled from other selectors that also apply, and which files they're in. It'

Re: [css-d] Magical Disappearing Tabs - How to Get Them Back?

2009-07-03 Thread Tim Snadden
On 4/07/2009, at 1:32 PM, Chris Akins wrote: > Can you clarify the above? In my mind, old school is table-based > design with sliced images. CSS-based layouts with background images > for non-content visuals is the new way, right? Is there a newer way > yet that's now the current standard? Many

Re: [css-d] text align problem

2009-07-03 Thread J.M. Knowles
Actually ... all of the text is centered - it is just that the Qs are shorter and hence the centering is more obvious. If they were longer questions they would appear like the answers (and vice-versa). Removing the declaration in sidebar.css seemed to work (not sure if that messes up anything

[css-d] Too much space between header and image

2009-07-03 Thread Terry - Al Rio Art
Hey folks - I'm laying out a pretty basic site right now and it's looking fine in everything except Internet Explorer on a PC. There's just a little too much space between the "Lavender..." image in the header and the picture of Thai food underneath it. Lines up great in Safari, Firefox (Mac) and

[css-d] text align problem

2009-07-03 Thread Linda Quinn
I am working on a rather involved site — it started as a simple job that grew exponentially, and I guess I ended up repeating some of the css rules in subsequent files. The problem I am having is that I cannot get paragraph text that does not take up a full line to align left. If you look

Re: [css-d] Magical Disappearing Tabs - How to Get Them Back?

2009-07-03 Thread Chris Akins
> I would urge you to rethink how this page is being put together. The > whole 'slices' approach to background images is very 'old skool'. You > should look at getting your markup valid and semantic, then isolating > the background images, borders required to achieve your design. Can you clarify t

Re: [css-d] IE margin/padding problem when floating image to left of text

2009-07-03 Thread Tim Snadden
On 4/07/2009, at 6:08 AM, Doug Stumberger wrote: > Problem description: > > Text that is to the right of a left-floated IMG tag in a "stream_item" > article description is offset horizontally in Internet Explorer 7, 8 > but not > in Firefox or Safari. The top of the text to the right of the ima

Re: [css-d] Headline Background overlapping floated Div

2009-07-03 Thread Tony Lush
> Tony Lush wrote: > >> On this page http://tinyurl.com/mo88uz the headlines in the left > >> column under "Course Description" go the full width of the > >> containing Div and overlap the 30% width, right-floated Div to the > >> right. > >> > >> Is there a way to prevent this? > > Try something

Re: [css-d] Magical Disappearing Tabs - How to Get Them Back?

2009-07-03 Thread Tim Snadden
On 4/07/2009, at 1:38 AM, Chris Akins wrote: > The page with the tabs showing: > > http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newsite/traffic/ > > > The page with the tabs NOT showing - gone AWOL: > > http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newsite/tabs/home.jsp Setting #header to height: 178px won't solve your problem

Re: [css-d] Magical Disappearing Tabs - How to Get Them Back?

2009-07-03 Thread David Laakso
Chris Akins wrote: > The page with the tabs showing: > > http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newsite/traffic/ > > The page with the tabs NOT showing - gone AWOL: > > http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newsite/tabs/home.jsp > > While unlikely to help finding the missing tabs, validating the markup might b

Re: [css-d] Magical Disappearing Tabs - How to Get Them Back?

2009-07-03 Thread Chris Akins
I'll look into the errors. I try to always validate my code, and the basic page we're using on this site has been validating. I ran this page through the validator the other day and saw many of the same errors. Several - probably most - are from a couple jsp include files - files which I have no

Re: [css-d] Same Height Columns - the terror scenario!

2009-07-03 Thread Ingo Chao
2009/7/3 talofo talofo : > ... > > I need to have the same height columns and allow the borders of those > columns, to stay at the same heigh too. Yes, familiar, I know... > I realise that there are techniques that use a container to contain the > columns, and then, define overflow:hidden; to the c

[css-d] IE margin/padding problem when floating image to left of text

2009-07-03 Thread Doug Stumberger
Problem description: Text that is to the right of a left-floated IMG tag in a "stream_item" article description is offset horizontally in Internet Explorer 7, 8 but not in Firefox or Safari. The top of the text to the right of the image should be even with the top of the image. Site: www.race

Re: [css-d] Headline Background overlapping floated Div

2009-07-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tony Lush wrote: >> On this page http://tinyurl.com/mo88uz the headlines in the left >> column under "Course Description" go the full width of the >> containing Div and overlap the 30% width, right-floated Div to the >> right. >> >> Is there a way to prevent this? Try something along these lines.

[css-d] Same Height Columns - the terror scenario!

2009-07-03 Thread talofo talofo
Hello again, I have clean up the code (I suppose), and added the three columns already discussed and solved earlier with the help of this mailing-list. - (Mail subject: "Centering floated elements ?") . The task seems so simple, but achieve it seems like a nightmare (according to the layout struc

Re: [css-d] Headline Background overlapping floated Div

2009-07-03 Thread Tony Lush
> On this page http://tinyurl.com/mo88uz the headlines in the left column under > "Course Description" go the full width of the containing Div and overlap the > 30% width, right-floated Div to the right. > > Is there a way to prevent this? > > Thanks -- Tony-- This is happening in most browse

[css-d] Headline Background overlapping floated Div

2009-07-03 Thread Tony Lush
On this page http://tinyurl.com/mo88uz the headlines in the left column under "Course Description" go the full width of the containing Div and overlap the 30% width, right-floated Div to the right. Is there a way to prevent this? Thanks -- Tony-- Tony Lush

[css-d] Magical Disappearing Tabs - How to Get Them Back?

2009-07-03 Thread Chris Akins
The page with the tabs showing: http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newsite/traffic/ CSS: http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newsite/css/reset.css http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newsite/css/3col.css The page with the tabs NOT showing - gone AWOL: http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newsite/tabs/home.jsp CSS: http

Re: [css-d] Can this be done with CSS?

2009-07-03 Thread David Laakso
Debbie Roes wrote: > > One more question... Both HTML5 and CSS3 have been mentioned and suggested. > I don't know much about either but would be happy to research and learn. > However, I am concerned about the always present and dreaded issues with IE6 > (and sometimes IE7). Would the rounded corn

Re: [css-d] Z-index issues in IE

2009-07-03 Thread nancy
> ... But in IE ...the background div is being displayed above > the gallery. Here is my code: > ... > #wrapper { > ... > position: relative; > } > ... > #slideshow_bg { > position: absolute; > z-index: 100; > ...} > ... > .imageGalleryWrapper { > ... > position: absolute; > z-index: 200; > ... > }