Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph
Tim: I know you said that you didn't want to go the table way, but a table in this case is perfectly acceptable, insofar as the relationship between the image and text is a tabular one. I wouldn't hesitate to use a table here, so long as it's marked up properly. Bob - Original Message - From: Tim Dawson t...@ramasaig.com To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 9:45 AM Subject: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph I'm working on a site which has several images on the page (300x225px). Each image has some descriptive text alongside, which generally is not as high as the image. My client would like the text vertically centred on the image. http://www.mull-bed-and-breakfast.co.uk/newcrofts/self-catering.php CSS deliberately seems to avoid a v-align capability in paragraphs. I realise I could introduce padding, but that would have to be tailored for every piece of text. Tables allow v-align in cells, I know, but I don't want to go that route either Is there a better way, please ? Tim Dawson -- Tim Dawson Maolbhuidhe Fionnphort Isle of Mull PA66 6BP 01681 700718 __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] CSS Menu Over Many Web Pages in a Site
Wayne, I have used Dreamweaver libraries for some years now, and found them invaluable. Google dreamweaver libraries and you'll get lots of hits. Here's one: http://webdesign.about.com/od/dreamweaverhowtos/a/aa090406.htm (picked at random). Libraries will change your life! Bob www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk - Original Message - From: Wayne Wickson webde...@gmail.com To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 11:20 PM Subject: [css-d] CSS Menu Over Many Web Pages in a Site I'm new to CSS, but a conceptual problem has occurred to me. If this is a stupid question, please humour me. :-) Lets assume I am designing a web site of one hundred pages. I design a horizontal dropdown menu which links to each of the one hundred pages. So each page is available from each of the other pages. I need to add a new page or several pages. Is there a way, using only CSS, to easily change the menu on each of the one hundred pages on the site without actually using an editor and modifying the one hundred lists one list at a time? Thanks for any help I receive. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] Float problem in Firefox
Try this: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlists Bob - Original Message - From: David Laakso da...@chelseacreekstudio.com To: Gaurav Sharma sharmal...@gmail.com Cc: css-d css-d css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 12:10 PM Subject: [css-d] Float problem in Firefox Gaurav Sharma wrote: Hi, I have a small problem with float in Mozilla. http://gauravsharma.uuuq.com I need two lists side-by-side. Please help. Thanks and regards, Gaurav Sharma. css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] Site check: List Item menu in different browsers
Hi Scott, It seems to be a function of text size. It works at some settings (small), but falls apart as you enlarge. Your text height is set in ems, whereas your margins etc are in pixels. HTH, Bob - Original Message - From: scott.blanch...@sungard.com To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 4:40 PM Subject: [css-d] Site check: List Item menu in different browsers My site is located here: http://www.eco-tune.net http://www.eco-tune.net/ The menu at the top should look like it does in this image: http://www.eco-tune.net/images/menu.jpg As you can see from the image, their should be a 1 pixel white separator between the top menu and the submenu beneath it. I've tested it in Chrome, Firefox 3 and IE 7 from my work PC and it looks perfect (just like in the picture above). However, from home, there is a wider gap between the two menus when viewed in these same browsers. My text size is the same in all browsers (default: medium). Any ideas what's happening? __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] vertical align div
A properly marked up table with 1-row of 3-cells (in this case) is valid (and accessible) and is the only robust solution I know of for all browsers. The extremists will complain about table layout of course, but it's a case of being pragmatic in making the thing work - simply, and without any problems that I know of. Bob - Original Message - From: Ian Young i...@iyesolutions.co.uk To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 1:31 PM Subject: [css-d] vertical align div I have been playing around with vertically aligning my main portal. The code I have been using has two main problems. 1. It appears to need to be on the page to display the vertical alignment 2. It loses its horizontal alignment. http://www.iyesolutions.co.uk/templates/portfolios/template3/vertical-align. html The red background is just for testing. The vertical align code is on the page. There must be a more elegant method, surely. Best Ian Young Director IY e-Solutions __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
[css-d] IE6 not working in XHTML
For IE bugs I usually just keep widths and heights, padding and margins
in separate boxes. And this site (www.tibbles.net/misc/blog) works
fine in IE 5.5, and 7, 8, firefox, NN, and a bunch of others that I got
screenshots for. What on earth is going on with 6.0?? I'm completely
stuck here!
The summary - in the main div, I have a sidebar floating left, and a
content div floating right. The sum of their widths is less than the
width of the parent container, even if I ADD all margins and paddings to
the width. I've no idea how this is even possible.
I've included a conditional style sheet to try and work around it. In
ie6.css, I've put:
#content {
width: 500px; (over 60px smaller than original css)
background-color:blue;
}
And I have a blue box that is the SAME size, with a smaller child box!
How is that possible?
This is the style sheet - the ENTIRE thing: (I dont' know what is relevant)
http://css.pastebin.com/m1efc3625
Thanks for any insights! I'm not opposed to learning on my own either,
but I can't figure out what to google in this situation.
regards,
Cathy
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Re: [css-d] Double space after a period
I've looked around for a stable solution which doesn't involve putting
nbsp, emsp; etc all over the content (that's presentational :-) ) and
can only come up with using the old s tag (for strikeout):
s{
padding-right: 1em;
text-decoration : none;
}
then, blah blahs./sblah blah. It seems to work, but I'd be grateful
if someone could check it in odd browsers such as Lynx (Rene?). You can
see a working test here:
http://www.rhh.myzen.co.uk/rhh2007/locations/constantine/doublespace.html
Note: it needs a trans doctype if it's to validate . . .
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Re: [css-d] Double space after a period]]
Chris Williams wrote:
I have this problem, and I use nbsp;space and not nbsp;nbsp;.
I find that works, and I haven't seen the space at the beginning
problem. It seems that UA's can handle the nbsp; at the end of the
line OK. I do this replacement with a simple regex in my PHP code.
HTH,
Chris
PS -- it is very correct, it is NOT something for old English teachers.
The Chicago manual, the latest Strunk and White editions, and many
others, still use it. Just because a random entry in Wikipedia and the
AP don't do it, doesn't mean it's not right... And browsers don't do it
because it's easier to collapse all spaces, not because it's right.
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declare:
i {padding-right : 1em; }
then use i./i in the text. Not brilliant, certainly not semantic,
but it seems to work. I wanted to avoid a long 'span' and use a simple
(short) tag.
I doubt that anyone can spot an italicised period. . :-) !
Anyone any good (better) suggestions?
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Re: [css-d] Site Check Please
tedd wrote: Hi gang: Please review -- http://sperling.com/a/ Hi tedd, Very nice look and feel. My only reservation is that I just hate code repeating itself and I hate to see nbsp;nbsp; used as spacing, so I'd like your h3 to be redefined as having the bird gif as a background (left) with a margin/padding left to accommodate it, thereby making your current: h3img src=images/gifs/bird3.gif alt=PHP, MySQL, CGI, Javascript, Flash Section 508 ADA/nbsp;nbsp;Web Applications and Functional Web Sites/h3 types become simply: h3Web Applications and Functional Web Sites/h3 HTH, -- Best Regards, Bob McClelland Cornwall (UK) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] styling a hr / in IE
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I don't remember where I stole this:
hr {border: none 0;border-top: 1px dashed #000;width: 50%;height: 1px;}
Maybe it will work for you. Maybe not.
~dL
Same idea really, but I use:
.hr{
height : 1px;
margin : Xpx 0px;
border-top : 1px solid #000; }
where the X is replaced with half the vertical height you want the line
to occupy. I've used this for a while without problems.
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Re: [css-d] CSS beginner seeking help
Janet Chang wrote: Hi, I just joined the listserv and am seeking help on a new site I am coding for my organization. I took an intro to CSS class a few months ago so I'm still quite a newbie, but would like to build my experience using CSS. Since this is a brand new site, I was able to start from scratch and build it up following the basic procedures we learned in my class. However, when I get to the more complicated layout stuff, that's when I feel like I'm starting to resort to trial and error instead of actually knowing what I'm doing. If someone wouldn't mind taking a look at what I've done so far and letting me know if there are any glaring errors I've made or improvements I could make, I would be most grateful. Also, I'm having trouble figuring out how to get a border separating my mainnav div and my content div that stretches from the subheader to the footer regardless of length of text in either box. Any help on this would be most appreciated! Here's the draft of the site so far: http://www3.law.northwestern.edu/macarthur/ Here is the designed template I'm more or less basing it on: http://www3.law.northwestern.edu/macarthur/graphics/MacArthur_website.jpg (it doesn't show well in the image, but there is supposed to be a grey line separating the nav area and the content area) Thanks! Janet __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ Hi Janet, Nice layout and a marvellous 'first real try'. All I would say (in addition to what has been said) is to move your background image from the wrapper and put it in the header. That way, when anyone resizes the text significantly, the background remains throughout the height of the header - whereas now it stops and the text goes down below it. -- Best Regards, Bob McClelland Cornwall (UK) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] Random Space
Felix Miata wrote: text-align:left/*center*/ Hi Felix, I've googled this intriguing bit of markup and got nothing. Also looked for David's term : 'flush left/scatter right' to no avail. What /exactly/ does it do, and have you got any links to it? Thanks -- Best Regards, Bob McClelland Cornwall (UK) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] XML and CSS
Hi Shelly, Interesting. I have recently been experimenting with the problem of presenting XHTML1.1 as application/xhtml+xml without blowing up IE, and I came across the excellent work outlined at : http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/scripting/mimetypes/ This uses PHP to check the http_accept and insert the DTD header/mimetype as appropriate. You can see it working on my site at the signature below. It's very easy to implement and seems to work fine. Decent browsers display 'proper' xhtml 1.1 and IE produces HTML4.01 strict. HTH, Bob McClelland www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk Design Groups wrote: I have a project coming up in the very near future. It's for a company that is some kind of investment firm, and they have a *ton* of data that is tabular in form. They want to use tables *only* for the tabular data, and that's it - the rest is supposed to be in XHTML. Now, I've been told my *my* boss that the client eventually wants to move the site into complete XML - not necessarily now, but in the next couple of years. So they want me to code the site in as strict XHTML as I possibly can. I have no problem doing this - I am aware, though, that if you use the XHTML 1.1 documentation, you should really serve the page up as an XML document using application/xml or something like that, and that many people who use XHTML 1.1 incorrectly serve up the document (I'm guilty of this in the past). I'm not sure what the exact semantics are on this, so pardon my iffyness here! Anyway, I'd like to have this site function and work properly with CSS and XHTML 1.1 - if I can even go as far as XML, I'd love to. Or, would you all stick with XHTML 1.0 Strict and let them work it up to XML themselves? I know when I've *tried* to do XHTML 1.1 (and serve it up as an XML doc) I get all kinds of weird errors and code things - it just seems so difficult. Have any of you done an XML site and had it display CSS (and HTML code) successfully? Where can I read up on this kind of thing? Everything I find when trying to Google it is either foggy in this area, or complete techno-babble and I can't make heads or tails of it. Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated! It's kind of exciting to actually have a client that understands some of this stuff for once, and I'd like to make the transition as easy as possible for them. Plus, I've been wanting to try it out *seriously* but haven't had a real chance to yet. I think this is a cool opportunity. ~Shelly __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] IE Developer tool bar
matthijs abeelen wrote: Why would anyone - certainly on this list - be interested in a toolbar for IE? __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ Looking at an IE problem page actually in IE and using the Dom inspector (e.g.) could be very useful at times. Well, it would to me, anyway. -- Best Regards, Bob McClelland Cornwall (UK) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] Is it possible - Image scaling with CSS in liquid layout
Hi Janie, If you are talking about small(ish) graphics, you can produce the graphic twice the size it should be, then specify the graphic dimensions as 50%, so that when someone resizes, you've got some way to go to get to the 'real' size, then a bit more until it breaks up, or pixelates, or whatever. It's a method which is contrary to everything I believe in, however - I was brought up to make images as 'small' (file size) as possible . . . Bob McClelland www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk Janie Hadsel wrote: . . . I'd like to point out that there are some image quality issues with allowing the browser to resize images according to the user's text-size settings and ask how one would go about detecting the user text size (if that's even possible) so that pre-optimized images could be used according to size ranges. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
[css-d] Table of contents with dotted line
Hi Jared and all, On 7/28/05, Jared Stein wrote: Hey all, I've come up with this work-around to deliver a typical book-like table of contents entry appearance (with dashes/dots between toc entry and page number) and while it seems fully flexible, pretty reliable, and not too trashy in terms of coding, I'd still welcome anyone's alternative approaches or experiences. Page available, with CSS embedded: http://stein.uvsc.edu/steinja/tableofcontents.html I was intrigued by your method, so tried an alternative using a dashed background on inline elements. The code for each entry is reduced to, e.g.: li p Bookless in Benidorm /p a href=ch23.html 5/a /li The li has the background (dashes) and the p is made to display : inline. You can see this working, including the relevant CSS, at http://www.treyarnon.fsworld.co.uk/menufiles/chapters.html (A dummy mockup so far - the chapter links don't go anywhere). Can anyone see any problems with doing this? Thanks, Bob McClelland www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
[css-d] Typography and CSS
Could someone please recommend a book which deals fully with typography and web design (ie, CSS, primarily :-). I've Googled and got a zillion hits, mainly web sites of course, many concentrating on which units to use. What I'm after really is a book which covers typography in the same way that it would for a printer, but written from the standpoint of CSS and, very importantly, DESIGN. Things like the relationship of sizes for text/headings, which fonts are most 'readable/legible' etc etc. Since so much of the web is about the presentation of text I feel sure there must be a book . . . Many thanks for any pointers. Bob P.S. I've read Mark Boulton! __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
[css-d] more on the [/*IE*/ hack
To Ingo, and anyone else who is interested:
I have provided another example to test this out, viz:
#tester{
padding : 50px;
width : 500px;
border : 5px solid #ff;
font: 14px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #ff;
[/*IE*/] width: 610px;
[/*IE*/] border : 5px solid #ff;
[/*IE*/]color: #ff;
background : #ccc; /*to prove that the parser does indeed carry on
executing normally*/
}
file is at www.marscovista.com/ieonlypt2.html
It seems to work fine, even though the W3C CSS validator declares a
parsing error. I am simply not sufficiently knowledgeable enough to
know if this means that the validator is confused by the 'syntax error'
and is actually wrong here?
Anyone?
Thanks,
Bob
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Re: [css-d] more on the [/*IE*/ hack
Hi Philippe and all, Interestingly, all the declarations are honoured on a PC in IE5.5, IE6, FF1, Opera 8, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530. . . . ? Bob Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: Of course, the 3 previous declarations are invalid and should be ignored (all decent UA's do ignore those on my Powerbook) -- and they would be flagged as an error by a validator that is based on CSS2.1. And all those UA's resume parsing after the semi-column following [/*IE*/]color: #ff. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
[css-d] syntax errors and coding for IE
Dear experts,
As a variation on the underscore hack, I would dearly love to use the
following variation:
#tester{
width : 500px;
[/*ie only*/width: 610px;] or just [width: 610px;]
padding : 50px;
border : 5px solid #ff;
}
or even:
--
#tester{
padding : 50px;
border : 5px solid #ff;
width : 500px;
}
#tester { [/*ie only*/ width: 602px; ] }
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I find the square brackets to be neat, simple and it makes for readable
and more 'understandable' code. It validates fine and there doesn't
seem to be a problem. However, I do understand that, whereas the
underscore is not reserved for future developments, other characters
such as square brackets are actually considered by the W3C to be syntax
errors at this time (even though, as I said, the markup validates).
Now, I have also been told that the problem will occur when I start to
parse XML - but when is that likely to be? (I have no plans/need to at
this time). If It's going to be five years off, then IE5 and it's kin
will be long gone and I can delete these IE only lines.
So, finally, my question: When do you reckon that using [ ] will be a
problem and in what way, from a practical point of view?
Many thanks,
Bob McClelland
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
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Re: [css-d] Paste plain text to clean HTML
Gustavo Caetano wrote: Since it may be an off topic, I apologize myself in precedence. The fact came up today as I was working on a writer's website. He sent me many of his stuff, all in doc. So, I hade to copy and past the plain text and insert each p and /p for each paragraph of each text myself. Needless to say after the 10th text I couldn't see a p anymore. So, how do you deal if this kind of situation? If you want to keep your code clean, without those weird tags and classes inserted by some softwares that allow you to paste a plain text straight to HTML is there any other alternative than doing like I've done? Really, I'm really feeling an idiot about it. It's a huge timewaster and I'm sure that there's probably dozens of softwares that do this, though I couldn't find ANY searching in Google. Thanks a lot Gustavo Caetano -- Pensamentos bonitos e mulheres bonitas jamais perduram - Charles Bukowski __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ Hi Gustavo, I've had this problem also. The solution is to use Dreamweaver in design mode: if you copy and paste from a word doc into DW in this way, all the formatting is preserved, all the funny characters are dealt with properly, and it actually does a brilliant job AND produces valid code! It's the only time I use design view and it's one of the few things it does very well. Hope this helps you as much as it did me! Bob McClelland www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
