Re: [css-d] I can never learn this - how do I center a part of my page

2005-11-23 Thread Jan Erik Moström
Thanks, everyone. I knew it would be something embarrassingly simple. jem -- Jan Erik Moström, www.mostrom.pp.se __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List

Re: [css-d] A quick one or two!

2005-11-23 Thread david
Michael Hulse wrote: > On Nov 23, 2005, at 7:16 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>http://www.nssdesign.scot.nhs.uk/involving%20people/tester.php > > Not sure if you care, or if this matters, or if anyone else has > mentioned: > > The page is blank on Mac/Safari. > > Looks like you forgot to c

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Semantics - For classes or tags?

2005-11-23 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 3:44 PM -0500 11/23/05, Lst Recv wrote: >To me, it seems that this is what XHTML is really about. To me, CSS is what this list is really about. Debating the semantic flavor of XHTML is out of scope. Sorry, but I've seen that subject (and close variants of it) turn into a long, pointles

Re: [css-d] Absolute Positioning Glitch - IE on Mac

2005-11-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 24 Nov 2005, at 8:32 am, Chris Akins wrote: > I tried the below suggestion as wells as specifying a width for that > div, margin-left, margin-right, all to no avail. > > Anything else anyone can think of? > > On 11/23/05, Philippe Wittenbergh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Try: div#search {te

Re: [css-d] Aligning text in same line

2005-11-23 Thread Holly Bergevin
Sorry, mail program messup on the previous try... --- From: Lst Recv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Thanks - I changed it, but it didn't solve any of the bugs... Let's see. The first "bug" you might want to deal with is your incorrectly written selector #top img.dude {

Re: [css-d] Aligning text in same line

2005-11-23 Thread Lst Recv
On 11/23/05, Christian Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > #top img.man { display: block; width: 25%; float: left; } > > > > #top a.logo { display: block; width: 25%; float: right; } > > > > Shouldn't these be display:inline; ? block will never work for your > case. If you want two things to

Re: [css-d] Aligning text in same line

2005-11-23 Thread Lst Recv
On 11/23/05, bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > How about a link to your page and css?? It would help :-) > > Thanks, > Bill Scheider By popular demand, here are the links: http://mortgagephonequotes.com/mortgage.html BUGS On Opera, it displays fine, but: 1) On Firefox and IE, the

Re: [css-d] Aligning text in same line

2005-11-23 Thread Christian Montoya
> > #top img.man { display: block; width: 25%; float: left; } > > #top a.logo { display: block; width: 25%; float: right; } > Shouldn't these be display:inline; ? block will never work for your case. If you want two things to stay on the same line, you have to use inline! -- -- Christian Montoya

Re: [css-d] Site Check, Please; Some Questions

2005-11-23 Thread Felix Miata
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > However, keep in mind that the 62.5% base may result in very, very, > large fonts if a user apply 'min-font-size'[1] in their browser. Min-font-size isn't the only way for that to happen. User stylesheets can do the same thing: http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/css/share/user

Re: [css-d] Aligning text in same line

2005-11-23 Thread bill
Hi there, How about a link to your page and css?? It would help :-) Thanks, Bill Scheider Thanks - I went through the article, but can't seem to apply it to my case. I have a , with two images. I'd like one to show on the left and one on the right. (The div also has a repeat-x background ima

Re: [css-d] IE line wrapping problem

2005-11-23 Thread David Laakso
Michael Hulse wrote: >On Nov 23, 2005, at 2:18 PM, David Laakso wrote: > > >>font:.90%/1.2 Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; >> >>Some say one should use a raw number for line-height. >> >> > >By specifying no unit is that what you mean by raw number?? > >m > > > > Yes. For example: line

Re: [css-d] IE line wrapping problem

2005-11-23 Thread Schalk
David Laakso wrote: > Schalk wrote: > >> David Laakso wrote: >> >>> Either you have fixed this, or I am out to lunch. The problem you >>> are experiencing with fonts in ie is the extreme font-size bug: >>> This corrects it: >>> html, body { >>>margin:0; >>>border:0; >>>padding:0;

Re: [css-d] IE line wrapping problem

2005-11-23 Thread David Laakso
Schalk wrote: >David Laakso wrote: > > >>Schalk wrote: >> >> >> >>>David Laakso wrote: >>> >>> >>> >I do not know, I will keep playing around with some of the widths etc. >Somewhere in there I am going wrong or missing something. > > > Schalk, No wonder. I was looking at the wrong l

Re: [css-d] IE line wrapping problem

2005-11-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Schalk wrote: > I do not know, I will keep playing around with some of the widths > etc. Somewhere in there I am going wrong or missing something. Maybe 'dealer portal' is the simplest solution? An equally simple solution is to provide more space in ul and li, and float or position the entire ul

Re: [css-d] Aligning text in same line

2005-11-23 Thread Larry Israel
Lst Recv wrote: > I have a , with two images. I'd like one to show on > the left and one on the right. (The div also has a repeat-x > background image). I've tried several permutations - but none get it > right. > > I also tried http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=AlignLeftAndRight , > but it p

Re: [css-d] Aligning text in same line

2005-11-23 Thread Lst Recv
Thanks for the links and info. I was sent a private email asking for the page itself. Here it is, condensed - let me know if you need more. I'm STUMPED by two problems: 1) Why is the logo on the right being pushed down to the next line? 2) Why is a thin white line appearing between #top and #b

Re: [css-d] Absolute Positioning Glitch - IE on Mac

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Akins
I tried the below suggestion as wells as specifying a width for that div, margin-left, margin-right, all to no avail. Anything else anyone can think of? On 11/23/05, Philippe Wittenbergh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try: div#search {text-align:right;}

Re: [css-d] Site Check, Please; Some Questions

2005-11-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Nick Fitzsimons wrote: > I personally find it useful to specify a font size of 62.5% on the > body, giving me a default size for 1em of 10 pixels. If I then want a > heading at 14 pixels, I can specify 1.4em. Yes, it's a simple calculation - although not too precise across browser-land. However

Re: [css-d] IE line wrapping problem

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 23, 2005, at 2:18 PM, David Laakso wrote: > font:.90%/1.2 Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; > > Some say one should use a raw number for line-height. By specifying no unit is that what you mean by raw number?? m __ css-

Re: [css-d] Aligning text in same line

2005-11-23 Thread ron zisman
a newbie guess: The Opera (Fri, July13) .cat {float: left} .date {float:right} .descrip {clear: both} at least conceptually... i think... On Nov 23, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Lst Recv wrote: > Is there anyway to have one line of text, with part of it aligned to > the containers left and part of it

Re: [css-d] A quick one or two!

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 23, 2005, at 7:16 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.nssdesign.scot.nhs.uk/involving%20people/tester.php Not sure if you care, or if this matters, or if anyone else has mentioned: The page is blank on Mac/Safari. Looks like you forgot to close you comment in the style tag:

Re: [css-d] Aligning text in same line

2005-11-23 Thread Lst Recv
Thanks - I went through the article, but can't seem to apply it to my case. I have a , with two images. I'd like one to show on the left and one on the right. (The div also has a repeat-x background image). I've tried several permutations - but none get it right. I also tried http://css-discus

Re: [css-d] IE line wrapping problem

2005-11-23 Thread David Laakso
Schalk wrote: > David Laakso wrote: > >> Schalk wrote: >> >>> Greetings All >>> >>> Please have a look at the following site in IE: www.volume4.com/scq/ >>> >>> You will see that the last line 'dealer portal' wraps to two lines. >>> Why is this? I have tried a variety of things but nothing works.

Re: [css-d] Semantics - For classes or tags?

2005-11-23 Thread David Dorward
On 23/11/05, Lst Recv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, is this really hitting it properly? "class" is, afterall, > for presenatation, not semantics. Is it? Where does it say that? The specification uses class names which describe semantics, not presentation. > Semantically, we're just sayin

Re: [css-d] lateral page shift in opera

2005-11-23 Thread David Laakso
Mark Batty wrote: >Hi all > >David Laakso gave me advice off-list, following up on this I want to force a >vertical scroll bar. This is to prevent lateral page shifting when one page >is very short and one page is very long. > >This is caused because a vertical scrollbar is shown when a page is l

Re: [css-d] I can never learn this - how do I center a part of my page

2005-11-23 Thread David Dorward
On 23/11/05, Jan Erik Moström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #pagebody > { > background-color: #fbb; > width: 500px; > } > > but how do I center this part? http://dorward.me.uk/www/centre/#block -- David Dorward

Re: [css-d] Problems with CSS between Firefox and IE

2005-11-23 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Reynier Perez Mira wrote: >The site is being tested in Firefox because I'm anti micro$oft. > It's good to test in Firefox, not to be anti-Microsoft, but because it handles CSS better. That way, you build for all the good browsers out there and then tweak for IE, instead of trying to hack good

Re: [css-d] I can never learn this - how do I center a part of my page

2005-11-23 Thread Schalk
Jan Erik Moström wrote: > It looks like I'm not able to learn how CSS does things, sigh, sorry for this > basic question. If I want to make a page that look like this > > > Greetings Jan If you want to center your entire page wrap your current div's in a outer div and set it to center as

Re: [css-d] I can never learn this - how do I center a part of my page

2005-11-23 Thread Eugene Humbert
margin: Auto; -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan Erik Moström Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 2:46 PM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] I can never learn this - how do I center a part of my page It looks like I'm not abl

Re: [css-d] I can never learn this - how do I center a part of my page

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Hulse
> but how do I center this part? Hi, Check this page: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1239967&postcount=4 Link description: "FAQ :How to centre an existing page horizontally? ... The usual way to centre is to use margin-left:auto and margin-right:auto on the div. However , you

Re: [css-d] I can never learn this - how do I center a part of my page

2005-11-23 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Hi Jan, Jan Erik Moström wrote: >#pagebody >{ >background-color: #fbb; >width: 500px; >} > >but how do I center this part? > > Just add "margin: 0 auto". Think of it this way: you want the centered item to have equal size margins on each

Re: [css-d] IE line wrapping problem

2005-11-23 Thread Schalk
David Laakso wrote: > Schalk wrote: > >> Greetings All >> >> Please have a look at the following site in IE: www.volume4.com/scq/ >> >> You will see that the last line 'dealer portal' wraps to two lines. >> Why is this? I have tried a variety of things but nothing works. The >> CSS files used are

Re: [css-d] Aligning text in same line

2005-11-23 Thread Larry Israel
> Is there anyway to have one line of text, with part of it aligned to > the containers left and part of it to it's right? > > Floats don't seem to work here - I don't know widths in advance, and I > don't want flow, just justification. > > Crude example of what I'd like: > > The Opera

Re: [css-d] Aligning text in same line

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 23, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Lst Recv wrote: > Is there anyway to have one line of text, with part of it aligned to > the containers left and part of it to it's right? You might want to take a look at this ALA article (Scroll down to "Splitting the Difference"): http://www.alistapart.com/article

Re: [css-d] IE line wrapping problem

2005-11-23 Thread David Laakso
Schalk wrote: >Greetings All > >Please have a look at the following site in IE: www.volume4.com/scq/ > >You will see that the last line 'dealer portal' wraps to two lines. Why >is this? I have tried a variety of things but nothing works. The CSS >files used are: >default: www.volume4.com/scq/css

[css-d] Page check and suggestions needed

2005-11-23 Thread Alisha
Ok, so I got this idea of makind an html cv instead of only a .doc to sent to people through mail. So i thought this page as it has to be seen perfecly even offline and attacching just one file to the mails which is the html so no picture/image where possible to put in. I checked it in IE6 and Fi

Re: [css-d] Faux column behaviour

2005-11-23 Thread Schalk
David Laakso wrote: > Schalk wrote: > >> Greetings All >> >> I believe I have got the footers on the site to stick to the bottom >> using the technique of footerStickAlt but now my faux column graphic >> is not being repeated up to the footer anymore. > Schalk, > I believe you'll need to add th

Re: [css-d] Aligning text in same line

2005-11-23 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Lst Recv wrote: >Is there anyway to have one line of text, with part of it aligned to >the containers left and part of it to it's right? > >Floats don't seem to work here - I don't know widths in advance, and I >don't want flow, just justification. > > You don't need to know widths to use float

[css-d] I can never learn this - how do I center a part of my page

2005-11-23 Thread Jan Erik Moström
It looks like I'm not able to learn how CSS does things, sigh, sorry for this basic question. If I want to make a page that look like this |HH| |--| |c | |ccc

[css-d] lateral page shift in opera

2005-11-23 Thread Mark Batty
Hi all David Laakso gave me advice off-list, following up on this I want to force a vertical scroll bar. This is to prevent lateral page shifting when one page is very short and one page is very long. This is caused because a vertical scrollbar is shown when a page is long but the scrollbar is n

[css-d] IE line wrapping problem

2005-11-23 Thread Schalk
Greetings All Please have a look at the following site in IE: www.volume4.com/scq/ You will see that the last line 'dealer portal' wraps to two lines. Why is this? I have tried a variety of things but nothing works. The CSS files used are: default: www.volume4.com/scq/css/default.css forms: www

[css-d] Aligning text in same line

2005-11-23 Thread Lst Recv
Is there anyway to have one line of text, with part of it aligned to the containers left and part of it to it's right? Floats don't seem to work here - I don't know widths in advance, and I don't want flow, just justification. Crude example of what I'd like: The Opera

Re: [css-d] Faux column behaviour

2005-11-23 Thread David Laakso
Schalk wrote: >Greetings All > >I believe I have got the footers on the site to stick to the bottom >using the technique of footerStickAlt but now my faux column graphic is >not being repeated up to the footer anymore. Please have a look at: >http://www.elpasoreading.us/joomla/index.php?optio

[css-d] Avoiding overlap from absolutely positioned elements

2005-11-23 Thread Seth Livingston
I have the following (severely snipped) structure: #menu ul { position: relative; } #menu ul li ul { position: absolute; left: 0; } The second level ul overlaps the paragraph below it (see http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=AbsoluteLayouts). Unless I'm mistaken, the be

[css-d] Semantics - For classes or tags?

2005-11-23 Thread Lst Recv
We all know about the virtues of semantic markup. Normally, it is done (or span or div instead of p). However, is this really hitting it properly? "class" is, afterall, for presenatation, not semantics. Semantically, we're just saying it's a paragraph. It seems that the better way to do it wo

Re: [css-d] one last thing-expanding divs

2005-11-23 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am close to getting there but have one last problem > >I have a container div with two or three divs in it > >http://www.blue-fly.co.uk/test/1.jpg > >I want the background container to expand to the height of the biggest DIV > >http://www.blue-fly.co.uk/test/2.jpg >s >T

Re: [css-d] site check - flash transparency check with windows

2005-11-23 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
rashantha de silva wrote: >every thing looks good on safari, but i need confirmation from pc users. > >in virtual pc on my powerbook the flash edges seemed to be jagged. > >windows users can you please check this on a desktop as well as laptops. > > > > Just a remin

Re: [css-d] one last thing-expanding divs

2005-11-23 Thread Ingo Chao
Divs don't expand to contain floats. Again: where is the URL to your code? Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://cs

Re: [css-d] Site Check, Please; Some Questions

2005-11-23 Thread Felix Miata
Nick Fitzsimons wrote: > One thing immediately stands out: you are declaring a font-size of 85% on > the body. As the standard browser font size is 16 pixels, and 85% of 16 is > 13.6, you're starting from a baseline of 13.6 pixels. As you can't have > fractions of a pixel, you're pretty much boun

Re: [css-d] IE makes my images go on a diet

2005-11-23 Thread Ingo Chao
Lst Recv wrote: > ... IE pushes the graphic down to > the next row, unless I set the width to 9% or less!!! I can't figure > out where that 9% is coming from - 55 + 10 + 15 + 2 = 82, leaving 18 > percentage points. This has really got me stumped. Hi Lst Recv, see http://positioniseverything.net

[css-d] Faux column behaviour

2005-11-23 Thread Schalk
Greetings All I believe I have got the footers on the site to stick to the bottom using the technique of footerStickAlt but now my faux column graphic is not being repeated up to the footer anymore. Please have a look at: http://www.elpasoreading.us/joomla/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemi

Re: [css-d] Site Check, Please; Some Questions

2005-11-23 Thread David Laakso
L. Robinson wrote: >Converting legacy site to tableless layout and there are some advanced >(and not-so-advanced) cross-browser tricks eluding me. Having searched, >I'd be most grateful if someone can hit me with a clue stick on a few of >these. > >Site here: http://beta.consupro.net/default_new.

Re: [css-d] site check - flash transparency check with windows

2005-11-23 Thread Brian Cummiskey
rashantha de silva wrote: > every thing looks good on safari, but i need confirmation from pc users. > > in virtual pc on my powerbook the flash edges seemed to be jagged. > > windows users can you please check this on a desktop as well as laptops. I'm not sure which i'm supposed to be seeing...

Re: [css-d] CSS Dropdowns

2005-11-23 Thread David Laakso
Richard Brown wrote: >Hi All > >I am still working on this site: > >The css is located at: > > >I am trying to implement a CSS Dropdown menu using the technique listed >here: >

[css-d] one last thing-expanding divs

2005-11-23 Thread ross
I am close to getting there but have one last problem I have a container div with two or three divs in it http://www.blue-fly.co.uk/test/1.jpg I want the background container to expand to the height of the biggest DIV http://www.blue-fly.co.uk/test/2.jpg s This is what I am getting at present..

[css-d] IE makes my images go on a diet

2005-11-23 Thread Lst Recv
I'm really, really stumped by this weird IE behavior. I'm trying to have two cols, the left is content, the right is a logo (which, if there's not enough room, should be the element to be scrolled off). I'm trying: Heading Resuls go here etc. Many paragraphs CSS: #results { float: le

Re: [css-d] Edge Positioning in Resizable Container

2005-11-23 Thread Ann Adamcik
Georg, Thanks so much - this is just what I needed! -Ann --- Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 a

[css-d] site check - flash transparency check with windows

2005-11-23 Thread rashantha de silva
every thing looks good on safari, but i need confirmation from pc users. in virtual pc on my powerbook the flash edges seemed to be jagged. windows users can you please check this on a desktop as well as laptops. thanks rush. ___

Re: [css-d] Is this possible?

2005-11-23 Thread Mindy
Thanks for your help, Jesper. I did fiddle with it and have it sort it out. It still has problems (thick white line in IE 6; background disappears in Firefox 1.0, but not in the 1.5 beta!) I appreciate your comments about the navigation. Unfortunately, I have no control over the site's design, I'm

Re: [css-d] layouts fine but having print problems!

2005-11-23 Thread John Jameson
Hi Peter, > No need to try a different layout -- you just need a print style sheet. > In your print sheet, you'll need to set floats back to non-floating and > positioned objects back to static. See the wiki page for more info: > http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=MediaStylesheets The layout

Re: [css-d] A quick one or two!

2005-11-23 Thread ross
This breaks my page in IE..crazy! this is the error CSS Validator Error Target: http://www.nssdesign.scot.nhs.uk/involving%20people/tester.php Please, validate your XML document first! Line 334 Column 5 The string "--" is not permitted within comments - Original Message - From

Re: [css-d] A quick one or two!

2005-11-23 Thread David Dorward
On 23/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > found you that ie doesn't like coments > IE has no problems with comments like that. Of course those are SGML/HTML/XML/XHTML comments, so if you are putting them in a style sheet then they aren't comments. > can I add comments that val

Re: [css-d] A quick one or two!

2005-11-23 Thread Pringle, Ron
> found you that ie doesn't like coments > > > > can I add comments that validate? > > R. Are you talking about comments in your CSS? Those should be written as such: /* comment */ Regards, Ron __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [css-d] A quick one or two!

2005-11-23 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Have been working on a total revamp/rethink of my layout. It was an absolute >mess and needed a total work around >http://www.nssdesign.scot.nhs.uk/involving%20people/tester.php > > > No answers to your questions. Just some food for thought. What if the following word

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

2005-11-23 Thread Charles Dort
David Laakso wrote, in part, ... try Georg's method with a red background-color and a 3px solid border. #BDB76B for the border and the letter will yield something on the order of a goldleaf /initial/ drop-cap. One can never have enough illumunated manu

Re: [css-d] A quick one or two!

2005-11-23 Thread ross
found you that ie doesn't like coments can I add comments that validate? R. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:16 PM Subject: [css-d] A quick one or two! > Have been working on a total revamp/rethink of my layout (thanks for the

Re: [css-d] Positioning dynamic form elements via css

2005-11-23 Thread Martin Heiden
David, on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 at 16:15 David Dorward wrote: > On 23/11/05, Martin Heiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > 2. you would have to rely on absolute positioning, making it very likely >> > for your divs to start overlapping each other at larger text sizes. >> Only if you posi

Re: [css-d] Site Check, Please; Some Questions

2005-11-23 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
> -3- > > Font-sizing: Hardest to leave behind are my pixel-based fonts. :\ There > is a large difference between IE and Firefox, which I've slapped a > band-aid on for now... that Opera isn't happy with. > > I've read about many people's preferences on this, but could use a lot > more. Opinions o

Re: [css-d] Positioning dynamic form elements via css

2005-11-23 Thread David Dorward
On 23/11/05, Martin Heiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2. you would have to rely on absolute positioning, making it very likely > > for your divs to start overlapping each other at larger text sizes. > Only if you position the divs with px or other fixed values. He could > use em to avoid this

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

2005-11-23 Thread David Laakso
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >Charles Dort wrote: > > >>I still see those differences with yours, the drop-cap in FF being >>noticeably lower than in IE6,...] >> >That's right. > >I usually go more for 'look and feel' than 'pixel-perfection', the >"tuning" is a bit 'middle of the road'...] > FWIW, try

[css-d] A quick one or two!

2005-11-23 Thread ross
Have been working on a total revamp/rethink of my layout (thanks for the help David Laasko & Christian Heilmann). It was an absolute mess and needed a total work around Now I have 2 quick questions (i) My new layput which expands without breaking until about 200-300% as advised by David Laas

[css-d] Site Check, Please; Some Questions

2005-11-23 Thread L. Robinson
Converting legacy site to tableless layout and there are some advanced (and not-so-advanced) cross-browser tricks eluding me. Having searched, I'd be most grateful if someone can hit me with a clue stick on a few of these. Site here: http://beta.consupro.net/default_new.asp CSS here: http://beta.

Re: [css-d] Positioning dynamic form elements via css

2005-11-23 Thread ross
I wouldn't use CSS I would use ASP (or php in my case) if (condition is met) { include (layout1.php) //external php file elseif (other condition is met){ include (layout2.php) } where layout 1 and 2 are external asp files or This may not be practical if you have loads of layouts.. $layout1=

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

2005-11-23 Thread Pringle, Ron
Charles, et al- Below is my implementation, based on using a for the first letter instead of the first-letter pseudo class. Should work the same for the pseudo-class, but I'm not positive. This implementation was based off an article I found on the web, but I can't locate it at the moment. .dro

Re: [css-d] Positioning dynamic form elements via css

2005-11-23 Thread Martin Heiden
Zoe, on Wednesday, November 23, 2005 at 13:28 Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: > John Mandia wrote: >>I want to build a form with a set amount of standard form controls (e.g. >>textbox, label beside text box and validator [asp.net]) and some dynamic >>ones (depending on the audience there may be differ

Re: [css-d] one template to rule them all

2005-11-23 Thread CJ Larson
> Did I miss a post, or is the article not yet finished? Thierry created a new post about the article instead of replying here, so if you've been keeping tabs here, no you didn't miss it. :) http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/liquid.asp ___

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

2005-11-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Charles Dort wrote: > I still see those differences with yours, the drop-cap in FF being > noticeably lower than in IE6, but if I'm understanding you correctly, > there was an even bigger difference before in Opera and Safari, and > this "tuning" makes them closer to FF and IE. Is that right?

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

2005-11-23 Thread Charles Dort
Georg wrote, in part, ... there's also some differences in how the latest browsers position 'first letter' drop-caps. Nothing major, just a slight height-difference... So I ended up with something like this: p:first-letter { float: left;

Re: [css-d] one template to rule them all

2005-11-23 Thread Erik Visser
Thierry Koblentz wrote: > Actually, your post inspired me to write an article about this. > I'm almost done, I'll post the link later today or tomorrow. > Same markup, different layouts (as you suggested), isn't what CSS is > supposed to deliver? > One of the layouts even shows that it is not neces

Re: [css-d] site check - montenegro

2005-11-23 Thread Hein Tore Tønnesen
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:21:56 -, Virtuallee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Would someone mind doing a site check for me (especially mac since I > don't have)? None of the links work. I've just done the test page for > the home page which is designed for an 800x600 resolution. > > b.t.w a

Re: [css-d] Positioning submenus absolutely - was: (no subject)

2005-11-23 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: "Seth Livingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >The roadblock for me is the display of the second level . In Eric's >design he uses an absolute position to get the second level menu items to >left align with the first tab: > >#nav li.off ul, #nav li.on ul { > /*put the subnavs below and hide them al

Re: [css-d] layouts fine but having print problems!

2005-11-23 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Peter Downes wrote: >I used an online tool to generate the layout and hey presto it looks and >works fine except when I come to print the page - 99% of page content >disappears! > >I've tried to decipher the css (some of it is beyond my level - eg I don't >know what to do with this - "content

Re: [css-d] Positioning dynamic form elements via css

2005-11-23 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
John Mandia wrote: >I want to build a form with a set amount of standard form controls (e.g. >textbox, label beside text box and validator [asp.net]) and some dynamic >ones (depending on the audience there may be different textboxes/dropdowns >etc that get dynamically added). > >My question is thi

[css-d] site check - montenegro

2005-11-23 Thread Virtuallee
Hi Would someone mind doing a site check for me (especially mac since I don't have)? None of the links work. I've just done the test page for the home page which is designed for an 800x600 resolution. b.t.w although it may not look like it, there is supposed to be a white bg on either side of

Re: [css-d] Flash and CSS

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 21, 2005, at 6:27 AM, Chad Calhoun wrote: > Actually, if you're interested in using DENG, the CSS support is > amazing > (includes CSS3). Not ALL of the features are supported, but it is a > lot > better than Macromedia's base support. Whoa! Thanks for info! DENG is [EMAIL PROTECTED] coo

[css-d] firefox bug

2005-11-23 Thread Eystein Mack Alnæs
For all you good css bug fixers on this list. I'm using the "In search of the One True Layout" (http:// www.positioniseverything.net/articles/onetruelayout/) as part of my layout, and it's particularly important in my layout to use the absolutely positioned div at the bottom of each column.

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

2005-11-23 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Charles Dort wrote: > Can anyone tell me what trouble I might get into using this > pseudo-class? If it will just be that some browsers will display it > as regular paragraphs, I'm not going to worry about it. The drop > caps aren't that important. Here's the only page I've used them on, > at

[css-d] layouts fine but having print problems!

2005-11-23 Thread Peter Downes
Dear List I've created a css layout using the good work of Alex Robinson(1). I used an online tool to generate the layout and hey presto it looks and works fine except when I come to print the page - 99% of page content disappears! I've tried to decipher the css (some of it is beyond my leve

[css-d] Positioning dynamic form elements via css

2005-11-23 Thread John Mandia
Hi All, Just came across this list and it seems really useful. I was wondering if the following scenario was possible: I want to build a form with a set amount of standard form controls (e.g. textbox, label beside text box and validator [asp.net]) and some dynamic ones (depending on the audience

Re: [css-d] form unexpectedly submits on Enter

2005-11-23 Thread David Dorward
On 22/11/05, David Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Typically, a form won't submit when you press the Enter key in a text > field unless it has a or type="submit">. Not so. http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/formquestion.html Why don't you have a submit button though? How is the user s

Re: [css-d] Problem in WinXP SP2 (Correct E-mail)

2005-11-23 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
> Hello, > > I am having problems in hover of image in the IE6 Windows XP SP2. > > It is blinking when the event happens to hover. > > What the reason happens this? > It's difficult to say without an actual page to look at, but, like most developers, you presumably have IE set to "Check for newer

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

2005-11-23 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
> To this beginner, that seemed to fly against the idea of separating > content > from presentation, and "felt" sort of like sprinkling font tags through > the > document. The overzealous, who are legion, get massively hung up on the whole "semantic markup" thing when it comes to such matters as s

Re: [css-d] Absolute Positioning Glitch - IE on Mac

2005-11-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 23 Nov 2005, at 7:50 am, Chris Akins wrote: > The on the following page: > > www.springfieldmogov.org > > does not appear in the proper place on IE Mac. > > The css for this page is www.springfieldmogov.org/css/3colTest.css > > I've read some stuff about IE Mac not doing absolute positioning

Re: [css-d] site check transparency, aligning overlaid divs

2005-11-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 23 Nov 2005, at 3:04 pm, rashantha de silva wrote: > on mac it works on safari, firefox > > opera has some alignment issues because the scroll bar props up and > disappears. if anyone has way of fixing this i would love to know how. > > camino is not that bad. > > ie 5.2 does not work with tra

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

2005-11-23 Thread Ingo Chao
In case anyone is interested in a fix for the snipped code fragments in these threads: add !important as mentioned. Ingo #top {position:absolute; z-index:0; top:0px; left:0px; width:100%; background:#422911; color:#EEE2C3; height:30px;} a.top:first-letter