[css-d] Hardcore CSS problems - http://testdrive.whatcanido.com.au/

2005-05-30 Thread Tatham Oddie
Guys n' gals, I have a fairly hardcore CSS implementation in the works. and it's almost there. However, I'm having a few minor bugs. Guess where? Did I hear you say IE6Win? *applause* Basically: * The cap on the bottom block is positioned incorrectly. * Any text in the bottom b

Re: [css-d] Hardcore CSS problems - http://testdrive.whatcanido.com.au/

2005-05-30 Thread Ingo Chao
Tatham Oddie schrieb: I have a fairly hardcore CSS implementation in the works. and it's almost there. However, I'm having a few minor bugs. If you already know that it might be difficult for others to analyze your files, you might want to help us to help you by splitting the "hardcore" prob

Re: [css-d] Mac IE 5 Problem

2005-05-30 Thread Roger Roelofs
Frank, On May 29, 2005, at 10:59 PM, Frank McClung wrote: Could anyone tell me the hack to fix the main boxes (red, yellow, blue, green) from all going down the left side of the screen? They should go across. http://www.computerrecycling.us IE/mac inherits the 'clear' property, which it shou

[css-d] Background image obscuring floated div in Win IE 6

2005-05-30 Thread Michael Angeles
Hi, I'm hoping that someone might be able to provide some guidance with a Windows IE 6 problem I'm having. IE is obscuring a left floated div, putting the parent div's background image above it. The divs that are relevant to the issue are here: #Page <- page container with bg image for bor

[css-d] Problem under MAC IE 5.0 and 5.5

2005-05-30 Thread jérôme coupé
Hello list, I recently redesigned the horisontal navbar of this website for accessibility reasons (used Image Replacement before, have switched to text). Since then, I have problems under IE 5 MAC, which did not occur previously: The problems are the following: * Under IE MAC 5.0 the navbar displ

Re: [css-d] Background image obscuring floated div in Win IE 6

2005-05-30 Thread Ingo Chao
Michael Angeles schrieb: IE is obscuring a left floated div, putting the parent div's background image above it. ... http://wc.urlgreyhot.com/temp-what.html ... would really like to know why that div is being hidden. The upper part of the left float nav is hidden by the parent's background

Re: [css-d] Re: Website check on Windows [worldadventurer.net]

2005-05-30 Thread David Laakso
On Mon, 30 May 2005 02:52:48 -0400, Mikhail Bozgounov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, *** I am completing a website and I am not able to check it on Windows configurations. *** The address is: http://www.worldadventurer.net *** Thanks, Luca -- XP_SP2 1

RE: [css-d] Mac IE 5 Problem

2005-05-30 Thread Frank McClung
Thanks. I've now applied the fix suggested on the #maincontent ul li. Can someone give me a browser check on Mac IE 5 to ensure that it worked? I'm working from a PC. Also, any suggestions on how to keep the main nav from breaking at higher text sizes and not sliding under? Thanks, Frank

RE: [css-d] Hardcore CSS problems - http://testdrive.whatcanido.com.au/

2005-05-30 Thread Tatham Oddie
Ingo, Thanks a lot for your help Ingo. I've manged to fix the bottom navigation block, however am still having the same problems with the header logo, and top-right buttons. I've tried a similar approach, but still can't get it to work. Thanks, Tatham Oddie Technical Director, Fuel Advance

RE: [css-d] Mac IE 5 Problem

2005-05-30 Thread Adam Kuehn
Frank McClung wrote: I've now applied the fix suggested on the #maincontent ul li. Can someone give me a browser check on Mac IE 5 to ensure that it worked? It didn't. Clear inheritance cannot be cured that way on IE5/Mac. See for more. Botto

Re: [css-d] Mac IE 5 Problem

2005-05-30 Thread Roger Roelofs
Frank, On May 30, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Frank McClung wrote: Thanks. I've now applied the fix suggested on the #maincontent ul li. Can someone give me a browser check on Mac IE 5 to ensure that it worked? I'm working from a PC. Also, any suggestions on how to keep the main nav from breaking at

RE: [css-d] Mac IE 5 Problem

2005-05-30 Thread Frank McClung
Good catch Adam. Think that clear must have been an artifact from an earlier attempt at something else. Could someone on Mac IE5 tell me if it cleared up the problem with the #maincontent ul li? - Frank -Original Message- From: Adam Kuehn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 30,

[css-d] drop down menus

2005-05-30 Thread Virtuallee
Hi Can anyone recommend a good horizontal standards compliant drop down menu? Thanks Lee -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.15 - Release Date: 22/05/2005 __

[css-d] Need workaround for Firefox rendering bug of LIR

2005-05-30 Thread Chris Hardie
Hi, I've run into a bit of a wall trying to use the Leahy Image Replacement technique to develop a horizontal menu. I've mirrored an example Dan Cederholm presented for an article on Simplebits, but I have removed most of the extraneous HTML. http://www.nextdesigns.ca/menu_test_fail.html When th

Re: [css-d] Background image obscuring floated div in Win IE 6

2005-05-30 Thread Michael Angeles
Thanks, Ingo. This is only the second time I've come across the peekaboo bug -- I totally forgot about it. -Michael IE is obscuring a left floated div, putting the parent div's background image above it. ... http://wc.urlgreyhot.com/temp-what.html ... would really like to know why that di

Re: [css-d] drop down menus

2005-05-30 Thread Schalk Neethling
Lee This is one of the best: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns Virtuallee wrote: Hi Can anyone recommend a good horizontal standards compliant drop down menu? Thanks Lee -- Kind Regards Schalk Neethling Web Developer.Designer.Programmer.President Volume4.Business.Solution.De

Re: [css-d] Need workaround for Firefox rendering bug of LIR

2005-05-30 Thread Schalk Neethling
Chris This may or may not be a direct solution for your problem but, you may want to review the following two articles: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/ http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors2/ HTH Chris Hardie wrote: Hi, I've run into a bit of a wall trying to us

Re: [css-d] drop down menus

2005-05-30 Thread Christian Heilmann
> This is one of the best: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns > Actually, as with every ALA article, it is a good idea to read the comments, as changes and fixes are announced there. Suckerfish is over two years old and a lot of fixes went into son of suckerfish: http://www.htmldog.com

[css-d] Stumped: Mac IE image over menu issue

2005-05-30 Thread Frank McClung
I've been scratching my head as to why the "Instant Quote" image is covering up my navigation on Mac IE 5.2? Could someone point me to the correct hack? http://www.computerrecycling.us/ Thanks, Frank __ css-discuss [EM

[css-d] Problems with a div height

2005-05-30 Thread David Driver
I seem to be having problems with a div not going to the full height of the div next to it. What I need is the line between the navigation pane and the content to go all the way to the footer. I have tried height:100% and min-height: . I am very close esthetically to what I want. I just need that b

Re: [css-d] drop down menus

2005-05-30 Thread David Laakso
On Mon, 30 May 2005 16:30:45 -0400, Virtuallee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Can anyone recommend a good horizontal standards compliant drop down menu? Thanks Lee There were a number of replies Saturday and Sunday to a post titled "Re: [css-d] best CSS drop down menu" that answered the

RE: [css-d] Problems with a div height

2005-05-30 Thread Heather Haggerty
Hello, Have you tried setting: body { height:100%; } ? Divs after that are set to 100% should stretch the height of the window. Although I was having a little trouble with this myself. I did find a script that dynamically resizes divs to 100% @ http://cross-brows

Re: [css-d] Problems with a div height

2005-05-30 Thread Pactum web services
- Original Message - From: "Heather Haggerty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 4:58 PM Subject: RE: [css-d] Problems with a div height Hello, Have you tried setting: body { height:100%; } ? Divs after that are set to 100% should stretch the height of the window. Al

[css-d] background height for whole page

2005-05-30 Thread Tim Burgan
Hi, I presume this is a common problem, but I cant find a nice answer. I have a background image that I want to repeat for the height of the whole page and screen, even if the content is shorter than the page's fold. I thought applying the background to the BODY tag would make sense and not

[css-d] overflow prob in IE6.0 no scrollbars for overflow:scroll/auto

2005-05-30 Thread Latika Markan
Hi, I'm having browser compatibility issues. The overflow does not seem to be working for IE6.0 but it works for the IE5.5 and Mozilla, NN, Firefox. My page needs to be divided vertically into 2 parts. The one on the left contains a map image. Its a relatively positioned div containing some ab

RE: [css-d] overflow prob in IE6.0 no scrollbars for overflow:scroll/auto

2005-05-30 Thread Archer, Tim
Hi Latika, overfolw:auto; overfolw:auto; overfolw:scroll; I hope the "overfolw" is a typo! :) You might like to change that first. Tim __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/c

Re: [css-d] overflow prob in IE6.0 no scrollbars for overflow:scroll/auto

2005-05-30 Thread Latika Markan
Thanx Tim, Its just a typo in my post. The spelling is correct in the stylesheet. Archer, Tim wrote: Hi Latika, overfolw:auto; overfolw:auto; overfolw:scroll; I hope the "overfolw" is a typo! :) You might like to change that first. Tim ___

Re: [css-d] Problem under MAC IE 5.0 and 5.5

2005-05-30 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 31 May 2005, at 12:39 am, jérôme coupé wrote: The problems are the following: * Under IE MAC 5.0 the navbar displays all funny (big gaps between items) * Under IE MAC 5.2 the navbar is ok but the text in the box underneath on the homepage jumps a bit (reflow) when links are hovered. It st

[css-d] Reassurance on site design

2005-05-30 Thread Patrick Mannix
I can't think of a better way to express what I'm asking. I developed and maintain two sites, and , with the xps site being the most extensive (and important). They each evolved since the mid-1990s, using a basic two-column design using simple table layout.

Re: [css-d] background height for whole page

2005-05-30 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 31 May 2005, at 10:28 am, Tim Burgan wrote: I have a background image that I want to repeat for the height of the whole page and screen, even if the content is shorter than the page's fold. I thought applying the background to the BODY tag would make sense and not require any extra tags

Re: [css-d] background height for whole page

2005-05-30 Thread Prabhath Sirisena
> I thought applying the background to the BODY tag would make sense and > not require any extra tags in my html, and it does work it the content > goes beyond the fold, but if the content is shorter, the background > image stops where the content stops. This is strange. If you applied the backgro

Re: [css-d] Need workaround for Firefox rendering bug of LIR

2005-05-30 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
meone has seen this issue before and has a workaround solution. This works perfectly fine in Firefox1.04, Camino 0.8.2 and Firefox 1.0+ nightly build (20050530), on OS X. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh <http://emps.l-c-n.com/> __

Re: [css-d] Problems with a div height

2005-05-30 Thread Prabhath Sirisena
This looks like a good situation to use faux columns [1] Prabhath http://nidahas.com [1] http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki

[css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

2005-05-30 Thread Linda Dunn
I'm running into a validation issue I haven't seen before. My page (http://www.ncwinnerscircle.com/index.htm) validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. However, when I then try to validate its CSS document, I get the following: - Target: http://www.ncwin

Re: [css-d] Need workaround for Firefox rendering bug of LIR

2005-05-30 Thread David Laakso
th images as expected. It's a bug that I have reported to Mozilla, but I'm hoping someone has seen this issue before and has a workaround solution. This works perfectly fine in Firefox1.04, Camino 0.8.2 and Firefox 1.0+ nightly build (20050530), on OS X. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenber

RE: [css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

2005-05-30 Thread Peter Williams
> -Original Message- > From: Linda Dunn > > However, when I then try to validate its CSS document, I get > the following: > Target: http://www.ncwinnerscircle.com/ > The stylesheet isn't being seen by the validator at the URL you gave it. The stylesheet is at http://www.ncwinnerscircle.

[css-d] css + javascript to create/open links for specific classes/ids

2005-05-30 Thread Gregory Charles Rivers
hello people. I want to add a feature to my web pages. briefly, I want something like this: in the html code: tantalising in the css: span.lookup { something. not sure yet. } javascript either in the css or in the header. result: in the web page, the reader will see: tantalising [

Re: [css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

2005-05-30 Thread Linda Dunn
Peter Williams wrote: The stylesheet isn't being seen by the validator at the URL you gave it. The stylesheet is at http://www.ncwinnerscircle.com/styles/wcstyles.css http://tinyurl.com/92fo6 Now the validator sees the style sheet, and finds an error. But I don't understand *why* the style

Re: [css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

2005-05-30 Thread Matthew Ohlman
Linda Dunn wrote: I'm running into a validation issue I haven't seen before. My page (http://www.ncwinnerscircle.com/index.htm) validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. However, when I then try to validate its CSS document, I get the following: - Ta

Re: [css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

2005-05-30 Thread David Laakso
On Mon, 30 May 2005 23:18:00 -0400, Linda Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running into a validation issue I haven't seen before. My page (http://www.ncwinnerscircle.com/index.htm) validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. However, when I then try to validate its CSS document, I get the follow

Re: [css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

2005-05-30 Thread Linda Dunn
Matthew Ohlman wrote: Try removing this line from your document:xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> And then adding this line as the very first one: That fixed it, many thanks! linda -- Linda Dunn Purplegenie Design {web+graphics} [EMAIL PROTECTED] 252.422.9393

RE: [css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

2005-05-30 Thread Peter Williams
> -Original Message- > From: Linda Dunn > > But I don't understand *why* the stylesheet isn't being seen I wonder if it is because you have commented (html comments) out the style import statement? Take the out and try again to test if this is the problem. -- Peter Williams ___

Re: [css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

2005-05-30 Thread Prabhath Sirisena
> But I don't understand *why* the stylesheet isn't being seen -- it's a > relative path; shouldn't the validator find it? > > I haven't had this problem before, and I always do my stylesheets the > same way (or else, there's something I'm being really obtuse about). I've seen this error recently

RE: [css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

2005-05-30 Thread Peter Williams
> Linda Dunn wrote: > > I'm running into a validation issue I haven't seen before. > > My page (http://www.ncwinnerscircle.com/index.htm) > From: Matthew Ohlman > Try removing this line from your document: > http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> > > And then adding this line as the very first one

Re: [css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

2005-05-30 Thread Linda Dunn
Peter Williams wrote: From: Matthew Ohlman Try removing this line from your document: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> And then adding this line as the very first one: :-) You can't remove the HTML element, you need to modify that line, not remove it, now it doesn't validate becau

Re: [css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

2005-05-30 Thread David Laakso
On Tue, 31 May 2005 01:15:40 -0400, Linda Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matthew Ohlman wrote: Try removing this line from your document:xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> And then adding this line as the very first one: That fixed it, many thanks! Hmm. Are you sure. Remov

Re: [css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

2005-05-30 Thread David Laakso
On Tue, 31 May 2005 01:14:36 -0400, Prabhath Sirisena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But I don't understand *why* the stylesheet isn't being seen -- it's a relative path; shouldn't the validator find it? I haven't had this problem before, and I always do my stylesheets the same way (or else, ther

Re: [css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

2005-05-30 Thread Linda Dunn
David Laakso wrote: Hmm. Are you sure. Removing the space you had between the: ? and > in this declaration fixes it. And then removing this http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> it would seem to me, then makes the file invalid. Here's the header that finally validated (and didn't aslo chok

Re: [css-d] Content not allowd in prolog validation error

2005-05-30 Thread Prabhath Sirisena
What could the reason be for this error? (I/O Error. Stream closed). The site is: http://nidahas.com Try validating the CSS. The content is served as application/xhtml+xml. Thanks, Prabhath http://nidahas.com > > I/O Error: Stream closed. > > > > Looks like the validator has started chocking on

Re: [css-d] Reassurance on site design

2005-05-30 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Patrick Mannix wrote: ...I have tentatively decided that the fluid (?) design seen at http://www.mhcug.org/members.htm which seems to fit my requirements the best. This design is classic three-column with header and footer. Column widths are in EMs, such that at default browser font settings,

Re: [css-d] css + javascript to create/open links for specific classes/ids

2005-05-30 Thread Christian Heilmann
> hello people. > > I want to add a feature to my web pages. > tantalising You'll need to use JavaScript for that. It is not hard to do and the datepicker example can give you a pointer how to: http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/unobtrusivejavascript/chapter3.html However, what is happening to