Re: [css-d] Lost, Dazed & Confused about the right way to setup basic styles

2005-09-04 Thread Rob Cochrane
I'm lost, dazed and confused! Any suggestions? __ 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.or

Re: [css-d] Opera absolute positioning bug

2005-09-04 Thread Ingo Chao
Alex Robinson wrote: OK, there are quite a few of those (see QuirksMode for most of them - http://www.quirksmode.org/bugreports/archives/opera/index.html), but my head is really beginning to hurt over this one. I've spent quite a bit of time trying to see what I've done wrong, but for the lif

[css-d] Re: css-d Digest, Vol 33, Issue 45

2005-09-04 Thread John Jameson
> it won't give u the registration code if your using a=20 > browser other than Opera.=20 I had no problems getting it with Safari. Regards, John Jameson __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/list

[css-d] styling the label

2005-09-04 Thread Scott Hamm
When I tried to set width on label, it works in IE, but not in FireFox. HTML: Operator:   ... CSS: div#selects label { border:1px solid #000; width:200px; } -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

Re: [css-d] styling the label

2005-09-04 Thread David Dorward
On 01/09/05, Scott Hamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I tried to set width on label, it works in IE, but not in FireFox. > div#selects label { > border:1px solid #000; > width:200px; The width property does not apply to elements that are displaying inline. If you have IE6 in q

[css-d] Ul and li items going over other itms

2005-09-04 Thread Scott Haneda
Look at the nav bar, can anyone tell me whats happening here? And yes, I know this is riddled with bad css and tables, its a very old site and is being redone, starting with the nav bar. The yellow bordered box should be the same height as the

Re: [css-d] Lost, Dazed & Confused about the right way to setup basic styles

2005-09-04 Thread Joe Huggins
Bruce Searl wrote: where and how should I define the basic and extra styles for my general body text? including smaller text, or special but often used side panel text? By using contextual selectors and classes you can specify exactly where your styles are applied. So, if you have a side pane

Re: [css-d] 3-col layout auto-expanding DIV?

2005-09-04 Thread Edward Sanderson
Just an update to my earlier query... It makes me spit, but due to deadlines, I'm having to fall-back onto tables to get the effect I want. The site now looks like this. It seems to me that this is a major failing of CSS positioning, that a DIV can't recognise it's contents and expand accord

Re: [css-d] Safari, table cells, and overflow:hidden

2005-09-04 Thread Stuart Homfray
Stuart Homfray wrote: I'm having a spot of trouble with the Safari browser and the overflow:hidden declaration when applied to table cells. Oh, and before anyone thinks this might be an opportunity for a 'Tables vs Divs' war, this *is* tabular data (see under 'Why we shouldn't use tables'

OFF-LIST RE: [css-d] styling the label

2005-09-04 Thread Uwe Kaiser
On 01.09.2005 15:01, Scott Hamm wrote: When I tried to set width on label, it works in IE, but not in FireFox. HTML: Operator:   ... CSS: div#selects label { border:1px solid #000; width:200px; } As David Dorward wrote already: You can't style a inline element, unless you

[css-d] Recipe Card (Tabular data vs CSS)

2005-09-04 Thread Sam Leathers
I'm getting ready to build a recipe database interfaced with php. Would a recipe card make more sense to be displayed in a table, or using css? If using css how would you break it up, would you have a separate div for title, ingredients, and instructions? I'm just trying to figure out how I want i

Re[2]: [css-d] 3-col layout auto-expanding DIV?

2005-09-04 Thread Steve Clay
Sunday, September 4, 2005, 11:57:15 AM, Edward wrote: > It seems to me that this is a major failing of CSS positioning, that > a DIV can't recognise it's contents and expand accordingly. You desire a layout that can handle arbitrary contents, but if you put a 2000px wide table in a table layout, h

Re: [css-d] Recipe Card (Tabular data vs CSS)

2005-09-04 Thread Rob Cochrane
Sam Leathers wrote: I'm just trying to figure out how I want it to look before I even go about coding the php to interface with the database. Any comments would be very helpful. Sam Hi Sam, Depending on how your user is going to select the actual card I would do a master/detail set up with

Re: [css-d] 3-col layout auto-expanding DIV?

2005-09-04 Thread Edward Sanderson
Susan, The content is being generated dynamically so I can't predict the widths of the pages. Also, even if I could, the page would still break if the font sizes (say) were increased because I assume I would have to give some sort of absolute width to the page which there is always the pos

Re: [css-d] Recipe Card (Tabular data vs CSS)

2005-09-04 Thread David Dorward
On 04/09/05, Sam Leathers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting ready to build a recipe database interfaced with php. Would > a recipe card make more sense to be displayed in a table, or using css? The whole thing wouldn't be in a table, because it is clearly not tabular data. I would expect t

Re: [css-d] Safari, table cells, and overflow:hidden

2005-09-04 Thread Stuart Homfray
Christian Heilmann wrote: On 9/3/05, Stuart Homfray wrote: I'm having a spot of trouble with the Safari browser and the overflow:hidden declaration when applied to table cells. ... have you tried setting the TDs as block? Thanks for the response Chris, but if you do that, the cells will si

Re: [css-d] Safari, table cells, and overflow:hidden

2005-09-04 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 5 Sep 2005, at 6:21 am, Stuart Homfray wrote: Christian Heilmann wrote: On 9/3/05, Stuart Homfray wrote: I'm having a spot of trouble with the Safari browser and the overflow:hidden declaration when applied to table cells. ... have you tried setting the TDs as block? Thanks for the resp

[css-d] last image collapses margin in IE

2005-09-04 Thread Joe Huggins
Hello, I have a trial site that uses a variation of Eric Myer's pure CSS pop ups. There are six images that appear within a . The images wrap to a second line. In IE 6 the last image's margin collapses with the 2nd to last image. The page can be viewed at: http://www.brilliantmistakewebdesi

Re: [css-d] Recipe Card (Tabular data vs CSS)

2005-09-04 Thread Jason M Roehrig
I find it hard to give a yes or no answer. See, you will use CSS for styling the design, (X)HTML for the mark up, which structures your document, and this depends on your requirements. Recipes consists of different forms of data. You have ingredients, instructions, etc..., and every form, will

Re: [css-d] 3-col layout auto-expanding DIV?

2005-09-04 Thread Edward Sanderson
Sorry, the link got lost in my previous post of this message. Here it is again... Just an update to my earlier query... It makes me spit, but due to deadlines, I'm having to fall-back onto tables to get the effect I want. The site now looks like this: http://eh0647.empetushosting.net/datasp