[css-d] please ignore - deaderthanhell.com

2005-06-09 Thread Keith Burgin
Hi again, folks. Please ignore that request for a site check on deaderthanhell.com. After playing with a few pages, I can see that I have much work yet to do. Thanks just the same. Keith __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Containing Block...What Containing Block?

2005-06-09 Thread Ingo Chao
Georg already has provided a very practical answer. I interpreted your question as a question about understanding containing blocks and floats. Chris Morse schrieb: I just want an image floated left so the text that goes along with it is to the right. However, I want the image completely

Re: [css-d] consistent container height no matter the amount of content

2005-06-09 Thread Gianni Cuccu
Hi, you could set a equal minimum height for the #main_content with something like that #main_content{ background-color:#fff; min-height: 500px;/* set here min height */ height: auto !important;/* overwrite the height */ height: 500px;/* this is also the min height for IE */ border:5px solid

Re: [css-d] IE problem - float dropping down

2005-06-09 Thread Ingo Chao
Don Hinshaw schrieb: Hello all, My example page is here: http://test.hinshawdesign.com/css/float_debug.html What I find in IE is that when I make my viewport narrower than ~850px, the center column drops way down. I realize that this is due to the select menu in that column, but ultimately I

[css-d] One more time sitecheck - deaderthanhell

2005-06-09 Thread Keith Burgin
Okay, now I think it's ready for a site check - mostly in PC. I'm not horribly concerned about IE Mac. It seems to work good in Safari, Firefox and Opera for Mac. http://www.deaderthanhell.com http://www.blog.deaderthanhell.com Thanks very much in advance... Keith

Re: [css-d] css box positioning

2005-06-09 Thread Jono Young
On Jun 8, 2005, at 9:34 PM, BabaGanush wrote: yikes. I've been trying to redo a form without tables, and I'm really struggling. Again, this is only for IE6. http://www.yomammashouse.com/css_effort_take23.htm I have a container div (eventually will be two, equally sized, one floated left,

Re: [css-d] For Mr. Meyer - Cascading Style Sheets The Definitive Guide 2nd Edition Mistake

2005-06-09 Thread mbishop
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RE: [css-d] Allegedly simple positioning problem with CSS

2005-06-09 Thread Paul Seale
Do not give up hope. I know it is hard, but it is worth it. My advice to you is to try and completely forget about how things function when designing in tables because the process is completely different. CSS acts completely different from tables in almost even way imaginable. I would advise

Re: [css-d] design decisions by the W3C?

2005-06-09 Thread Ben Curtis
Several times lately, while reviewing various parts of CSS, I have found myself saying why does it work like this? There are several things that seem overly complex, or things that seem obvious to me but aren't there. I'm new at this, and the guys at the W3C are very smart, so I'm sure

Re: [css-d] Weird whitespace in FireFox

2005-06-09 Thread Andrew Hawthorne
The space between the columns and the footer is part of the image ( http://www.krokohunter.dk/test/images/footer_gradient.gif ). Niels M. Frederiksen wrote: Hi there. I'm working on a simple XHTML/CSS site, with a two-collumn, header, footer layout. Something weird is happening. The

Re: [css-d] css box positioning

2005-06-09 Thread BabaGanush
Try giving your inputs a width and height and see if that fixes the issues. Didn't seem to make a difference, logical to think it might though. I stripped down the code to just one UL inside a div, and i still don't get the margin thing. Can't post it online from work, but code follows. On

Re: [css-d] css box positioning

2005-06-09 Thread BabaGanush
sorry html head titlecss effort take 24/title style type='text/css' media='all' body { font-family:arial,sans-serif,serif; font-size:10pt; margin:0px; padding:0px; } input { border:solid 1px #ccc;

[css-d] w3c validation problem

2005-06-09 Thread anthony croshaw
Not sure this is the best place to ask this, but does anyone on this list know of a way to use a flash file in a transitional xhtml document such that it will validate? If you use the embed tag, which seems to be the only way netscape will play the movie, the page does not validate. However,

Re: [css-d] design decisions by the W3C?

2005-06-09 Thread David Storrs
First off, thanks for the reply, Ben. On Jun 9, 2005, at 12:25 PM, Ben Curtis wrote: Several times lately, while reviewing various parts of CSS, I have found myself saying why does it work like this? There are several things that seem overly complex, or things that seem obvious to me

[css-d] Site Review

2005-06-09 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Dear All: Finally finished my transition to valid, tableless XHTML 1.0 and CSS. Please do take a look at the site on as many browsers as possible. Comments and suggestions welcome! http://www.jaithirtha.net/rahul/index.htm Also, my CSS code looks like a huge mess! If anybody has any

Re: [css-d] Site Review

2005-06-09 Thread Arthur Maloney
Hello Rahul, Thursday, June 9, 2005, 6:56:34 PM, you wrote: RG Dear All: RG Finally finished my transition to valid, tableless XHTML 1.0 and CSS. RG Please do take a look at the site on as many browsers as possible. RG Comments and suggestions welcome! RG

Re: [css-d] Allegedly simple positioning problem with CSS

2005-06-09 Thread Michael Wilson
Thomas W. Bickle wrote: http://tombickle.com/files/test/board_only.html I simply want one group to sit to the right of the other group, on the same horizontal plane. I have placed a simple table below the first two images to illustrate what I want, if it helps. Hi, This may not be an

[css-d] Problem with form styling in IE and footer in Opera

2005-06-09 Thread Arno @ Raketnet
Hi list, I have two problems. One is the form styling in IE, which is completely messed up. Aside from the actual styling which looks crappy (but which isn't the main problem) the boxed to be filled in are supposed to float: right, which they do in Moz, FF, NS and Opera. In IE they drop down

Re: [css-d] Weird whitespace in FireFox

2005-06-09 Thread Andrew Hawthorne
My apologies, I assumed the small space. I can't seem to recreate the problem. I've tested in FF 1.0.4, and IE6. Could you perhaps supply a link to a screen shot of the problem? Andrew Niels M. Frederiksen wrote: I'm talking about a 50-60px vertical whitespace, which shows on load in FF..

Re: [css-d] Weird whitespace in FireFox

2005-06-09 Thread Niels M. Frederiksen
Did you try to set a height/width on the image ? width=176 height=221 Cannot reproduce it here with DeerPark, but my old Moz1.6steamboat shows a gap, which disappears when the image is cached. Ingo Hey Ingo Thanks mate. That did the trick. I can sleep peacefully now. w

Re: [css-d] text vertial align problem

2005-06-09 Thread Jono Young
Try using a list instead, and then give your list items a background image that is vertically centered and aligned to the left of the list item. This should help you: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listutorial/master.htm On Jun 9, 2005, at 11:19 AM, Greg Creme wrote: I created a test page

Re: [css-d] Mac site check and IE question

2005-06-09 Thread Greg Salt
On 9 Jun 2005, at 20:40, Patrick Mannix wrote: http://xps.org/test08jun.html Hi Patrick, Looks great in Mac FF, Safari and IE Mac under Tiger. The layout breaks in IE Mac at 200% zoom but I don't think that is anything to worry about. Good job! Regards Greg

[css-d] validation problem follow-up

2005-06-09 Thread Jeanne Prine
Hello, Thanks to everyone who replied to my validation problem post. I knew about converting to amp; in text but didn't think about doing it in the URLs as well. After I fired off my question, I dug around some more on http://validator.w3.org and found a reference to using amp; in URLs. That's

RE: [css-d] Allegedly simple positioning problem with CSS

2005-06-09 Thread Thomas W. Bickle
Thanks to one and all who replied. I have been able to get this right and move on. Thanks again, I needed that. Whew. Tom -Original Message- From: Jasper Kuperus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 8:12 AM To: Thomas W. Bickle Subject: Re: [css-d] Allegedly simple

[css-d] border-collapse and padding

2005-06-09 Thread James Hallam
Source file: http://james.globalhavens.com/css-discuss/webtop/2col-scroll.html I'm trying to get columns lined up between three stacked tables, the middle one of which is in a scrolling DIV. The scroll bar has pushed the content in, so the %-width columns have adjusted, and no longer line up

Re: [css-d] validation problem follow-up

2005-06-09 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Jeanne Prine wrote: Thanks to everyone who replied to my validation problem post. I knew about converting to amp; in text but didn't think about doing it in the URLs as well. After I fired off my question, I dug around some more on http://validator.w3.org and found a reference to using amp;

[css-d] Help, Firefox and IE problems . . .

2005-06-09 Thread Daniel Doesburg
Hi list, I've some strange problems. Look at the file www.doesburg.biz/html/ the style is in www.doesburg.biz/html/style2.css In Firefox there goes something wrong if the left column (blue) is longer than the right one (yellow). A cyan block appears. How can I solve that? So that the

RE: [css-d] text vertial align problem

2005-06-09 Thread Greg Creme
Thanks to everyone who replied! I was able to get this working. The problem turned out to be a combination of my anchor tag had the same classid as the div above it and the vertical-align: middle property needed to be on the image, not the div or the anchor. So, the solution was removing the

Re: [css-d] text vertial align problem

2005-06-09 Thread Eric Ladner
But each LI needs a differnt image. A nightmare. A simple fix to the current CSS: Add this: .remoteItem * { vertical-align: inherit; } .remoteItem img { padding-right: 20px; } Should be dead on. On 6/9/05, Jono Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try using a list instead, and then give your

Re: [css-d] Site Review

2005-06-09 Thread David Laakso
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 13:56:34 -0400, Rahul Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally finished my transition to valid, tableless XHTML 1.0 and CSS. Please do take a look at the site on as many browsers as possible. Comments and suggestions welcome! http://www.jaithirtha.net/rahul/index.htm

[css-d] image replacemnt techniques background print

2005-06-09 Thread Neal Watkins
using an dimage replace ment technique basically I want the background to print that is being delivered by the css sheet - - - - any suggestions? I did check archives - this has been bandy'd around abit any solutions thanks Neal

Re: [css-d] print stylesheet ignored by IE

2005-06-09 Thread Stan Baptista
IE seems to straight up ignore the #wrapper { width: 660px; } In hmprint.css: #wrapper { width: 660px !important; } __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

RE: [css-d] question about inline-block

2005-06-09 Thread Peter Williams
From: Ricky Morley In the test page, I gave the divs the style display: inline-block. ...neither IE nor Firefox seem to support inline-block. When I look in the CSS2 recommendation I see the following values that are applicable to display: inline | block | list-item | run-in | compact |

Re: [css-d] Mac site check and IE question

2005-06-09 Thread David Laakso
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:40:29 -0400, Patrick Mannix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The sample page is: http://xps.org/test08jun.html with css at http://xps.org/styles/fluid.css ... IE, however, pushes the rightmost columns down as the viewport is narrowed. This isn't all that bad, vertical

[css-d] Div not getting background or border on IE6/Win

2005-06-09 Thread H. Wade Minter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've made progress on my layout issues from the other day. But I've got a real head-scratcher at this point, so I was wondering if anyone could take a look. I've got a site, example page at http://beta.comedyworx.com/ directions.php and CSS

[css-d] Site check IE Mac issue

2005-06-09 Thread Janet Lynn Ford
Hello to All, I'm re-doing an older site moving it from tables to CSS could use a quick check some help. I've got many of the bugs out, but I've used a couple conditional comments if someone could view with IE 5.0 and IE 5.5, I'd appreciate it as I can't view if the layout is working as

Re: [css-d] css box positioning

2005-06-09 Thread BabaGanush
So, it would appear that I found a band-aid for my problem. http://www.yomammashouse.com/css_effort_take24.htm By making a print style sheet lessening the height of the div that has a specific pixel height (rather than rendered by it's enclosed elements) by the total of the top/bottom margins

Re: [css-d] Site Review

2005-06-09 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Dear All: Thanks for the extremely useful feedback that I've got about the project. Roxanne: Rahul: Site looks great! You do have a few Mac issues though. Here are some screenshots. http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=163962 I believe that IE Mac 5.5 and prior versions have a

Re: [css-d] Site check IE Mac issue

2005-06-09 Thread David Laakso
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:37:37 -0400, Janet Lynn Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. I've got many of the bugs out, but I've used a couple conditional comments if someone could view with IE 5.0 and IE 5.5, I'd appreciate it as I can't view if the layout is working as planned because I have

Re: [css-d] question about inline-block

2005-06-09 Thread Ricky Morley
background information about the differnt ways of display property, and its support by browsers. http://www.quirksmode.org/css/display.html Yeah, thanks, I came across that page. And according to it, From 1.1 Alpha onwards Mozilla doesn't support it any more. Bummer. Since Opera is my

Re: [css-d] question about inline-block

2005-06-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 10 Jun 2005, at 8:39 am, Ricky Morley wrote: Regarding this test page http://www.rickymorley.com/test.html I wish to have a series of div's that I can display next to one another. I can then format then as I wish. I can't float them, because that will force them either right or left, but I

[css-d] footer and right border problem

2005-06-09 Thread Luke Mackenzie
hi there, i am having some problems positioning the footer and displaying the right-border of the leftnav div at the following page: http://testing.loopfruit.co.uk can anyone tell me how to get the footer to display after the allcontent div (i.e. right at the bottom of the page) and/or why

Re: [css-d] Site check IE Mac issue

2005-06-09 Thread Janet Lynn Ford
Wish I could offer more than screen captures of the 'evil one:' win/2000-5/5.5/6.0 at 800 1024. http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=168957 http://www.hopetribute.org/new-site/index.htmJanet Thanks David, I appreciate the screens. Guess I'll have to play a bit more with the

[css-d] content not scrolling in IE6

2005-06-09 Thread Maren Child
I have a page at http://www.biotext.com.au/test0205/testpage3.html with a background image on the body tag. The content doesn't scroll in IE6 - the scrollbar is 'greyed out'. The html and css validate and I can't see anything else to cause this. It scrolls in IE5 and Firefox. I have tried a

RE: [css-d] question about inline-block

2005-06-09 Thread Bruno Fassino
Ricky Morley wrote: Regarding this test page http://www.rickymorley.com/test.html I wish to have a series of div's that I can display next to one another. I can then format then as I wish. I can't float them, because that will force them either right or left, but I wish to have them

Re: [css-d] Div not getting background or border on IE6/Win

2005-06-09 Thread Ingo Chao
H. Wade Minter schrieb: http://beta.comedyworx.com/ Apply the Holly hack [1] to .sidebox Ingo [1]http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=2cid=C37E0 __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]