Re: [css-d] site review::~dL

http://www.dlaakso.com/blog/wordpress/ FF, "View Page Style: No Style" The photo of the waterfall is 587*440px, while the others are all 100x100px. Could this, depending on the connection and cache, cause headaches while incrementally rendering the page? Tried clearing of cache this morning,

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Bobby van der Sluis's script is an improvement over Geoff's Flash Object, IMO. See bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo/. On 11/21/05, Jim Berkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check out Geoff Stearns Flash Object - with a javascript file you can insert > > your flash into a div, and put whatever text /links yo

Re: [css-d] Getting height to stretch/shrink on resize

On 19/11/05, Ann Adamcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, min- and max-height are not doing the same - > it just fixes the height of the div at the min-height setting. min- and max-height just set boundries for the regular height property. The height is calculated and if it is less then the

Re: [css-d] A css alternative to flash rollover

The ufo example was a really good solution...javascript though. R - Original Message - From: "Eric Shepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jim Berkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 12:10 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] A css alternative to flash rollover > Bobby van der S

[css-d] css problems with text size

Is it possible to make css behave like tables?? http://www.nssdesign.scot.nhs.uk/about_us/whoweare.php If you use the browser to enlarge the text size to largest things get a bit messy. Is there a way to prevent the size of the text or at least detect it?? I want things to exand to fit the w

Re: [css-d] site review::~dL

Ingo Chao wrote: >http://www.dlaakso.com/blog/wordpress/ > >FF, "View Page Style: No Style" > >The photo of the waterfall is 587*440px, while the others are all >100x100px. Could this, depending on the connection and cache, cause >headaches while incrementally rendering the page? > >Tried cleari

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Here is the web site in progress with several div's disabled. I want to check before I continue with next step. It is html and css valid with few warnings (will deal with it later). Please give me feedback on this site. This is my VERY FIRST attempt at graphics. http://www.deafaviator.org/fbco

Re: [css-d] css problems with text size

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Is it possible to make css behave like tables?? > > Can pigs fly? >http://www.nssdesign.scot.nhs.uk/about_us/whoweare.php > >If you use the browser to enlarge the text size to largest things get a bit >messy. >Is there a way to prevent the size of the text or at lea

Re: [css-d] computing sidebar width

David Dorward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 21/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ideally, I'd like the sidebar width to adjust automatically to its > > contents, as in table-based design (oops... sorry for using a rude > > word :) but I don't think it's possible in CSS2

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Hi All I have a site design at: with the css embeded. However, the nav bar has not placed itself immediately below the header div and has actually ended up covering content in a lower div. Could someone please explain why this is happening please? Th

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Is it possible to adjust the height of a form - input element according to the font-size? So if the user increases the font-size the input element will also increase. - Eystein __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-d

Re: [css-d] Nav bar/div not sitting correctly

> I have a site design at: > It looks like you need to clear it, since you float the . Try this (and let us know if it works): #topnavcontainer:after { clear: both; content: "."; display: block; height: 0; visi

Re: [css-d] Nav bar/div not sitting correctly

Hi CJ On 22 Nov 2005, at 14:45, CJ Larson wrote: > It looks like you need to clear it, since you float the . Try this > (and let us know if it works): > > #topnavcontainer:after { > clear: both; > content: "."; > display: block; > height: 0; > visibility: hidden; >

Re: [css-d] css problems with text size

> Is it possible to make css behave like tables?? What, make it hard to maintain, heavy weight and unpredictable in modern browsers? > http://www.nssdesign.scot.nhs.uk/about_us/whoweare.php > > If you use the browser to enlarge the text size to largest things get a bit > messy. > Is there a way

Re: [css-d] Font-size dependent form input size?

On 22/11/05, Eystein Mack Alnæs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to adjust the height of a form - input element > according to the font-size? So if the user increases the font-size > the input element will also increase. Tried: height: 1.3em? -- David Dorward

Re: [css-d] Font-size dependent form input size?

> Is it possible to adjust the height of a form - input element > according to the font-size? So if the user increases the font-size > the input element will also increase. > > - Eystein I'm just guessing, as there may be reasons you can't or don't want to do this, but couldn't you specify t

Re: [css-d] css problems with text size

> Is it possible to make css behave like tables?? I'll say it's possible to do whatever you want with CSS, if you are creative enough. > If you use the browser to enlarge the text size to largest things get a bit > messy. > Is there a way to prevent the size of the text or at least detect it?? I

Re: [css-d] Nav bar/div not sitting correctly

> That is perfect and as you can see from the site worked. Is there any > reason why I could not have just deleted the float bit? This would be the PERFECT time for someone who knows more about floating menus to take over. :) >From one not-so-great with this, though... I think floating the UL m

Re: [css-d] Font-size dependent form input size?

Eystein, on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 15:37 Eystein Mack Alnæs wrote: > Is it possible to adjust the height of a form - input element > according to the font-size? So if the user increases the font-size > the input element will also increase. Size the input in em: input { width: 1

Re: [css-d] css problems with text size

2005/11/22, Christian Heilmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Is it possible to make css behave like tables?? > > What, make it hard to maintain, heavy weight and unpredictable in > modern browsers? What is so hard to maintain, heavy weight, or unpredictable in display: table-row and display: table-cell

Re: [css-d] computing sidebar width

> > Let me summarize: > > I have a block that contains dynamically generated text, and an image. > I would like the width of this block to be determined by its textual > contents, and the image scaled to fit that width. Any ideas? > > Nicolas img { width:100%; } -- -- C Montoya christianmontoya.c

[css-d] IE overlapping

Greetings All Please have a look at the following site: www.volume4.com/oxfordprice/ in IE. On some of the pages the content overlaps the footer. In Firefox everything seems fine. Any ideas? Thank you in advance. -- Kind Regards Schalk Neethling Web Developer.Designer.Programmer.President Volu

Re: [css-d] Font-size dependent form input size?

I ended up using: form input { font-size: .9em; } It resizes in Safari2 and IE6, haven't checked others yet. 'height=[value]' worked too, though it only sized the actual input box, but left the text inside untouched/to large. I had to separately give the submit-button it's own values in em's

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I'm having a moment of brain lapse here. In the last day or two someone on this list or my Dreamweaver list posted a nice bunch of links for box model tutorials. After going through my inbox and trash I can't find them. If it was here, can you please re-post? Thanks much, Miki __

Re: [css-d] css problems with text size

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it possible to make css behave like tables?? > > http://www.nssdesign.scot.nhs.uk/about_us/whoweare.php Yes. We have 'display: table' that most browsers understand in part, and IE/win can be "tricked" into simulating - in part. There's also the default-behavior, wh

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i have a div that is centered on the web browser, that is if the browser is size is changed the div will always remain in the center of the page (vertically and horizontally). this div has a transparency setting. i need to place another without a transparency setting directly below it. can

[css-d] (no subject)

Hi all, I'm hoping to augment Eric Shepherd's hybrid CSS menu shown here: http://www.alistapart.com/d/hybrid/hybrid-4.html And documented here: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/hybrid/ The roadblock for me is the display of the second level . In Eric's design he uses an absolute position to

Re: [css-d] css problems with text size

> > > Is it possible to make css behave like tables?? > > > > What, make it hard to maintain, heavy weight and unpredictable in > > modern browsers? > > What is so hard to maintain, heavy weight, or unpredictable > in display: table-row and display: table-cell ? > > The most important part is also

Re: [css-d] Box Model Tutorial

Miki Kersgard wrote: > I'm having a moment of brain lapse here. In the last day or two someone > on this list or my Dreamweaver list posted a nice bunch of links for box > model tutorials. http://www.tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=E0

Re: [css-d] 2 divs in centered, floating

> > > several div's inside here > > > > Set your div without transparency inside the outer div and keep it horizontally centered. Set your last to have background-color: #fff; (or whatever color you want). -eystein __

[css-d] problem with posotioning a dhtml popup

I have a dhtml popup that uses an onclick action. I want it float to the left of the link that calls it and on top of the rest of the page. This works fine when the page is shortish but the page is dynamic and when the text is really long and the link is at the bottom of the window the popup appear

Re: [css-d] 2 divs in centered, floating

On Nov 22, 2005, at 8:25 AM, Eystein Mack Alnæs wrote: >> >> several div's inside here >> >> >> >> > > > Set your div without transparency inside the outer div and keep it > horizontally centered. Set your last to > have background-color: #fff; (or whatever color you want). nested divs

Re: [css-d] problem with posotioning a dhtml popup

> I have a dhtml popup that uses an onclick action. I want it float to the > left of the link that calls it and on top of the rest of the page. This > works fine when the page is shortish but the page is dynamic and when the > text is really long and the link is at the bottom of the window the popu

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I'm trying to create a version of the dropdown navbar Eric Meyer describes in his book "More Eric Meyer on CSS". My aim is to have a greater width on the submenus than the width of the parent elements. My sample page is at http://www.webdesign101.dk/www/cssmenu/dropdownmenu/eks14.html It works a

Re: [css-d] 2 divs in centered, floating

>> Set your div without transparency inside the outer div and keep it >> horizontally centered. Set your last to >> have background-color: #fff; (or whatever color you want). > > nested divs all contain the transparency of the outer div no matter > what i do. > > rush. This works for me in

[css-d] IE and :first-letter

I'm having an issue I was hoping you all could help me with. *of course* I have it displaying perfectly in Firefox. But I'v enow moved to IE6, and things are totally screwy. This is a CSS thing I've never used before, but this client's site is requiring it. IE totally sucks. Argh! (sorry.

Re: [css-d] computing sidebar width

> > I have a block that contains dynamically > generated text, and an image. > > I would like the width of this block to be > determined by its textual > > contents, and the image scaled to fit that > width. Any ideas? > > > > Nicolas > > img { width:100%; } > > C Montoya No, it doesn't work wit

Re: [css-d] Submenu width in list navbar

> My aim is to have a greater width on the submenus > than the width of the parent elements. > > My sample page is at > http://www.webdesign101.dk/www/cssmenu/dropdownmenu/eks14.html WinXP IEsp2 - on your "Inner Planet" -> "Mars" drop down, the pop out covers up the expanded space that IE puts in

Re: [css-d] IE overlapping

> Please have a look at the following site: > www.volume4.com/oxfordprice/ > in IE. On some of the pages the content overlaps the > footer. In Firefox > everything seems fine. Any ideas? Thank you in > advance. > You might try moving the clearfooter div up into the content-container div. If t

[css-d] OT - Understanding the Website Flow

On one of the lists I belong to, someone posted a link to an article about "When Graphic Designers become Web Designers" or "Understanding the Website Flow" or something like that. If I could remember, I could probably find it in the search a lot better. And it may not even been this group tha

Re: [css-d] 2 divs in centered, floating

> This works for me in Safari and Firefox, but doesn't in IE5.2 on Mac. > So it's a problem with _that_ browser. Perhaps the Holly hack will > work. I assume it's got something to do with the Explorer hasLayout > issue. "hasLayout" only affects IE on Windows. > Sorry I'm not helping you further,

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Hi Could someone tell me if they think this is actually possible? http://www.virtuallee.co.uk/client_area/screenshot.gif The problem lies with the main picture. Obviously it cannot expand to fill the screen. I could create a very wide main image (3000px) and set it as a background, but the isla

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Hi, In the following html statement: Home. Could anyone please explain to me why the pound sign is placed in quotes. I'm a bit baffled about this one. Thanks! Stephen Kortz __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-disc

[css-d] Understanding the Website Flow

--snip From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On one of the lists I belong to, someone posted a link to an article about "When Graphic Designers become Web Designers" or "Understanding the Website Flow" or something like that. If I could remember, I could probably find it in the search a lot better. And i

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Funny: just as I was about to send this, I saw someone else posted a question about the same pseudo-class. I'm going to post this anyway, though, because it's a different question that I keep forgetting to ask you experts about: My parish web site deliberately is trying to look "old" because of t

Re: [css-d] IE and :first-letter

Shelly @ WDG wrote: > ... I need to use the ":first-letter" pseudo-class for my links > (and other assorted header tags). ... in IE6 (haven't checked older version > yet) the first letter is > *way* smaller than the rest, and the tags have completely lost their > styling and the first letter i

Re: [css-d] IE overlapping

Ann Adamcik wrote: >>Please have a look at the following site: >>www.volume4.com/oxfordprice/ >>in IE. On some of the pages the content overlaps the >>footer. In Firefox >>everything seems fine. Any ideas? Thank you in >>advance. >> >> >> >You might try moving the clearfooter div up into

Re: [css-d] pop ups

Someone better kill that . There's nothing I can do about the fact that my mail-provider has a lot of bad customers. I'm not one of them... :-) Anyway, I have to communicate on list. Might be useful for someone else, so... Doreen Cowan wrote: > I want to see the changes that you have made but I d

Re: [css-d] Is this possible? Background image fill the screen

> Hi > > Could someone tell me if they think this is actually possible? > http://www.virtuallee.co.uk/client_area/screenshot.gif > > The problem lies with the main picture. Obviously it cannot expand to > fill the screen. I could create a very wide main image (3000px) and set > it as a background,

[css-d] [OT] Re: Quoted Pound Sign

Stephen Kortz wrote: > Hi, > > In the following html statement: Home. Could anyone > please explain to me why the pound sign is placed in quotes. I'm a bit > baffled about this one. This has nothing to do with CSS. W3 spec [0] suggests links be wrapped in quotes. # is a book mark, usually som

Re: [css-d] 2 divs in centered, floating

>> This works for me in Safari and Firefox, but doesn't in IE5.2 on Mac. >> So it's a problem with _that_ browser. Perhaps the Holly hack will >> work. I assume it's got something to do with the Explorer hasLayout >> issue. > > "hasLayout" only affects IE on Windows. > >> Sorry I'm not helping you

Re: [css-d] Quoted Pound Sign

On 22/11/05, Stephen Kortz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the following html statement: Home. Could anyone > please explain to me why the pound sign is placed in quotes. I'm a bit > baffled about this one. In certain cases, authors may specify the value of an attribute without any quotation marks

Re: [css-d] 2 divs in centered, floating

On Nov 22, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Eystein Mack Alnæs wrote: >>> This works for me in Safari and Firefox, but doesn't in IE5.2 on >>> Mac. >>> So it's a problem with _that_ browser. Perhaps the Holly hack will >>> work. I assume it's got something to do with the Explorer hasLayout >>> issue. >> >> "

Re: [css-d] risks of using p.initial:first-letter?

Charles Dort wrote: >Can anyone tell me what trouble I might get into using this pseudo-class? >Thanks! >Charles > > > Life is a risk. Pick your poison.

Re: [css-d] [css-d - ADMIN] OT - Understanding the Website Flow

On 11/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On one of the lists I belong to, someone posted a link to an article about > "When Graphic Designers become Web Designers" or "Understanding the Website > Flow" or something like that. If I could remember, I could probably find it > in t

Re: [css-d] Box Model Tutorial

On 11/22/05, Brian Cummiskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Miki Kersgard wrote: > > I'm having a moment of brain lapse here. In the last day or two someone > > on this list or my Dreamweaver list posted a nice bunch of links for box > > model tutorials. > > http://www.tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmo

[css-d] form unexpectedly submits on Enter

Typically, a form won't submit when you press the Enter key in a text field unless it has a or . I have a form that is submitting anyway, and it shouldn't. I have looked long and hard at it and can't see any difference between it and a similar form that doesn't exhibit the behavior. Any id

Re: [css-d] IE5.2/Mac mess. Help please!

On 11/22/05, Philippe Wittenbergh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 22 Nov 2005, at 6:59 am, Richard Grevers wrote: > > > > In the rush to meet a tight deadline to reskin a legacy site, we > > didn't have the chance to address issues in IE5.2 for Mac with our > > site, but one of the 0.15% (our old

Re: [css-d] IE5.2/Mac mess. Help please!

> > In one line > > > > * html>body #masthead {display:inline-block; width:100%;} > > > Wow, it works! Thanks. Now I'm wondering WHY it works? > The other question is, if IE7 supports child selectors and > display:inline-block, what effect will this have in IE7? > > My next task is to try and fix

Re: [css-d] IE and :first-letter

From: "Shelly @ WDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >The code I'm using is as follows (the "top" div is where the links are >located): > >#top {position:absolute; >z-index:0; >top:0px; >left:0px; >width:100%; >background:#422911; >color:#EEE2C3; >height:30px;} > >a.top:first-

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Hello, I'm in the process of redoing my personal webpage in order to gear up for the big job search in the Spring, and I'm having an unusual issue that I've never encountered before. My styles work in IE but not in FF or Safari. Weird. If someone could check it out for me, and see what the myst

Re: [css-d] photo slide show

I think if you look at: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/gallery.html you might have what you are after with a tweak or two. rashantha de silva wrote: > can i have photo slide show where the thumbnails are in 1 div and the > larger images that show up in another div? > > or do they have to be co

Re: [css-d] photo slide show

> I think if you look at: > > http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/gallery.html > > you might have what you are after with a tweak or two. it might be good though to point out that cssplay is what it says on the tin: A showcase what can be done with CSS. Stu does a great job, but the examples are not rea

Re: [css-d] IE5.2/Mac mess. Help please!

On 23 Nov 2005, at 6:09 am, Richard Grevers wrote: > Wow, it works! Thanks. Now I'm wondering WHY it works? > The other question is, if IE7 supports child selectors and > display:inline-block, what effect will this have in IE7? display:inline-block establishes a new block formatting context [1],

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Is their a nice CSS IDE that maintains the W3C standards, has drag and drop type of functionality, all of the nifty things you'd expect from an CSS editor? I was thinking along the lines of a Jedit, or Eclipse plugin. I'm partial to open source but commercial recommendations are welcome. I'm

Re: [css-d] IE and :first-letter

From: "Shelly @ WDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>Is the #top element a div<< > >yes. > >>>#top a:first-letter might work. << > >tried it - it doesn't. I even tried #top a:first-letter {} and all kinds of >other variations, still no go. > >>>does the element identified with "top" actually have a class

Re: [css-d] Funky Margins with FF 1.5?

I've run into this before, but haven't figured out why it happens. For some reason, setting a top margin on the first element of a div (your #flag h1 in this case) pushes the div's background image down. Try padding instead. If anyone has an explanation, I'm curious... -Ann --- Geoffrey Alan C

Re: [css-d] Funky Margins with FF 1.5?

On 11/22/05, Ann Adamcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've run into this before, but haven't figured out why > it > happens. For some reason, setting a top margin on the > first element of a div (your #flag h1 in this case) > pushes > the div's background image down. Try padding instead. > If >

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Hello, I am having problems in hover of image in the IE6 Windows XP SP2. What the reason happens this? Example CSS Code: #nav li.mypage a { width: 173px; height: 42px; background-image: url(../img/bt_mypage.png) } #nav-inst li a:active, #nav-inst li a:hover { ba

Re: [css-d] Funky Margins with FF 1.5?

Geoffrey Alan Colbath wrote: > http://www.id.iit.edu/~colbath > My styles work in IE but not in FF or Safari. > > Weird. Not really... :-) It's just a bunch of good browsers following standards about "collapsing margins"[1]. IE isn't good, and doesn't follow standard - especially not when it's

Re: [css-d] Pipe Dream?

On 11/22/2005 5:20 PM Tod Thomas wrote: > Is their a nice CSS IDE that maintains the W3C standards, has drag and > drop type of functionality, all of the nifty things you'd expect from an > CSS editor? I was thinking along the lines of a Jedit, or Eclipse > plugin. I'm partial to open source b

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Hi All, I'm working on a site that has an inner content div that must remain a certain distance from the edges of its container. The container div is resizable, so I can't just set the width/height. I've tried positioning the inner div absolutely, specifying all 4 edges. This works in FF, but n

Re: [css-d] photo slide show

On Nov 22, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Joe Huggins wrote: > I think if you look at: > > http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/gallery.html > > you might have what you are after with a tweak or two. since it was too difficult to come up with something brand new. i used one of stu's demos and tried to tweak it.

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Hello, I am having some issues with IE rendering the right column of a three column site differently from Firefox. The photo and text on the right-hand column of http://www.lmmiller.com/biography.html show on the bottom in IE while they should be on top (as Firefox properly shows). I would appreci

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Ann Adamcik wrote: > I've tried positioning the inner div absolutely, specifying all 4 > edges. This works in FF, but not Opera or IE. I then tried > specifying just the left and bottom edges, with margins for the top > and right sides. The top margin doesn't work, and the right margin > doe

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Re: [css-d] photo slide show

Hi Rashantha On 23 Nov 2005, at 03:33, rashantha de silva wrote: > since it was too difficult to come up with something brand new. i > used one of stu's demos and tried to tweak it. > > i need the pictures to appear at the top right of the green box in an > absolute position, but i can't seem to