Re: [css-d] graphic/text spacing different in different browsers

2005-11-27 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Melinda Odom wrote: > IE shows a larger space between the pointer and the text but Netscape > and Mozilla show the pointer right on top of the text. > > http://www.designhosting.biz/gcim/acop/index.html > > Is there a way to make them even in all browsers? Yes. Kill IE's layout bug[1]. * html

Re: [css-d] Trouble with Firefox

2005-11-27 Thread Donna Jones
Matt wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > I am having trouble getting a page to work properly, and was hoping > someone here may be able to point me in the right direction as to where > I'm going wrong. I've included the entire page's code below (I > apologize, but I don't have ready access to a host

Re: [css-d] Trouble with Firefox

2005-11-27 Thread Ingo Chao
Matt wrote: > It is related to the select box on the page. > Whenever I attempt to change the value, the contents of the page > disappear until I refresh the page. If you can't load it up , you should invest some of /your/ free time in narrowing it down - to help others to help you: http://www.

Re: [css-d] trick for fixed positioning in IE?

2005-11-27 Thread Jim Davis
Curby, Eric has a demo of fixed position backgrounds here: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo.html IE will accept a fixed position background as part of the body. In Eric's example it is: body {background: black url(shell-bg.jpg) 0 0 no-repeat fixed;} Jim On 11/26/05, cur

[css-d] Complete Newbie to the scene - Needs Advice.

2005-11-27 Thread Ionize
Hey one and all, I am relatively new to this whole scene and would class myself as more of a graphics designer than a web designer. But like anybody else I want my own website and have seen some of what can be done with CSS and love the beauty and simplicity of what it can Now my problem is that

[css-d] Bug in IE6 -Similar to peekaboo

2005-11-27 Thread Luke Mackenzie
Hi, I'd be very grateful for some assistance on the following problem. I've had a good search around and while it seems like the peekaboo bug, none of the peekaboo fixes seem to work (the ones suggested at P.I.E). Sometimes when I view the following page, I get an effect similar to the peekaboo

Re: [css-d] Complete Newbie to the scene - Needs Advice.

2005-11-27 Thread Jono
On 11/27/05 9:19 AM, "Ionize" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now my problem is that I need to start learning the coding for the pages. >... >And how much html would i need to know to get started with Xhtml. Learning xhtml is really no different than learning html, both are very similar. Check out t

[css-d] IE Horizontal Nav Help

2005-11-27 Thread SpareTimeGeek.com
Hello. This is my first post as a newbie to this list, so be gentle. I am working on a friend's site and converting the table-based design to a CSS layout. As you can see (link is below) I have everything looking almost the same as the original. I have included the styles into the index.html

Re: [css-d] trick for fixed positioning in IE?

2005-11-27 Thread curby .
On 11/27/05, old9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might try to apply a position:absolute; to "#sitename" while applying > the display:block to the span. Thanks for the suggestion. =) That ends up doing the same as a plain display:block though. Namely, the banner is displayed but it pushes the o

Re: [css-d] FF & IE margins and padding?

2005-11-27 Thread Dejan Kozina
I can confirm the following rules work rather well. I use to put them at the very end of my IE-only stylesheet (hidden behind a conditional comment), so I can take care of IE6 first and then add corrections for IE5.5 and IE5.01. @media tty { i{content:"\";/*" "*/[EMAIL P

Re: [css-d] ff bug::human or otherwise?

2005-11-27 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: > Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > >> >> Gosh... >> Let's kill that fox! >> >> - The page at David's site is fine in my Fox 1.5RC3. >> - Not too good in Moz 1.7.12 on first load. 1 + 4 thumbs. >> - Ok also in Moz after a reload. >> >> Definitely something up with that old gecko-engine..

Re: [css-d] Bug in IE6 -Similar to peekaboo

2005-11-27 Thread Ingo Chao
Luke Mackenzie wrote: > Sometimes when I view the following page, I get an effect similar to the > peekaboo bug in IE6: > > http://www.loopfruit.co.uk/component/option,com_contact/Itemid,12/ I don't see the similarity to the peekaboo. There is nothing disappearing next to a float. > To reprod

Re: [css-d] IE Horizontal Nav Help

2005-11-27 Thread Ian Young
I think you define a line height. Try #topnav li {line-height:2em; etc } Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of SpareTimeGeek.com Sent: 27 November 2005 15:03 To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] IE Horizontal Nav Help Hello. T

Re: [css-d] Can't remove extra space between border in IE

2005-11-27 Thread Ingo Chao
Matt Harris wrote: > My site has a header img surrounded by a 1px orange border (attached to the > img) and then a 9px blue border (attached to the div). Internet Explorer > renders this with 2 pixel space between the orange border and the blue > border or the bottom side of the image - space whic

Re: [css-d] ff bug::human or otherwise?

2005-11-27 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: >David Laakso wrote: > > > >>Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >> >> >> >>>Gosh... >>>Let's kill that fox! >>> >>>... >>>Georg >>> >>> >>> >>> >The prevailing winds have change hereabouts. Here are the 3 states of >the bug within a 15 minute time-span. >... >Since writing

Re: [css-d] Can't remove extra space between border in IE

2005-11-27 Thread Matt Harris
Thanks, Ingo! This resolved the problem. Who knew? Guess I'll have to spend more time reading the html specs... :) On 11/27/05, Ingo Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matt Harris wrote: > > My site has a header img surrounded by a 1px orange border (attached to > the > > img) and then a 9px b

Re: [css-d] trick for fixed positioning in IE?

2005-11-27 Thread Christian Montoya
IE does not support position:fixed. You will have to use Javascript to make it work. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mai

Re: [css-d] trick for fixed positioning in IE?

2005-11-27 Thread David Laakso
curby . wrote: >I'm trying to get a floating logo to work on this elastic jello page: > >http://curby.net/doc/jello-new.html > >It works in recent Geckos and Safari, but not IE. It uses a span with >fixed position and a background image, but I'm open to changes to both >the markup and the css to

[css-d] Avaters floating wrong

2005-11-27 Thread bas
Hello list, I have a problem with pictures that float outside the parent div. I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but I can't fix it. Here's a page with stubborn avatars: http://www.5gt.nl/node/31#comment-12 I thought that divs, when enclosed within eachother, would prevent this behaviour,

Re: [css-d] Complete Newbie to the scene - Needs Advice.

2005-11-27 Thread David Laakso
Ionize wrote: >Hey one and all, > >I am relatively new to this whole scene and would class myself as more of a >graphics designer than a web designer. But like anybody else I want my own >website and have seen some of what can be done with CSS and love the beauty >and simplicity of what it can > >

Re: [css-d] IE Horizontal Nav Help

2005-11-27 Thread Joshua Roark
Ian, Thanks for the help. Everything is working well now. I am still learning all the "ins and outs" with regards to CSS and I am curious why you used "padding" twice in the #navback, #topnav ul li? I understand the line height setting but was wondering your reasoning for padding. Again, I

Re: [css-d] trick for fixed positioning in IE?

2005-11-27 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
curby . wrote: > I'm trying to get a floating logo to work on this elastic jello page: > > http://curby.net/doc/jello-new.html > > It works in recent Geckos and Safari, but not IE. It uses a span > with fixed position and a background image, but I'm open to changes > to both the markup and the

Re: [css-d] trick for fixed positioning in IE?

2005-11-27 Thread Eric Porter
I once stumbled on a site where it was stated that 'html' could be styled or otherwise treated like a 'body' tag. That would, theoretically, allow for 2 body backgrounds. I can't find it again and tests I've done proved ineffective. It would be great if it were true... Anyone? -- 127.0.0.1 is w

Re: [css-d] Avaters floating wrong

2005-11-27 Thread Christian Montoya
On 11/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a problem with pictures that float outside the parent div. I'm sure > I'm missing something simple, but I can't fix it. Here's a page with stubborn > avatars: > > http://www.5gt.nl/node/31#comment-12 > > I thought

[css-d] ff bug::human or otherwise?--resolved

2005-11-27 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: > David Laakso wrote: > >> David Laakso wrote: >> >>> >>> >> >> The prevailing winds have change hereabouts. Here are the 3 states of >> the bug within a 15 minute time-span. >> ... >> Since writing the above, I have re-named the thumbs in the >> footer(each of the 3 sets

[css-d] Margins that just won't change

2005-11-27 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I'm stumped. I have inherited this site, and am busy making changes and adding new sections to it. The stylesheet was a complete mess, and I've at least managed to tidy it up a little bit, but it's still (I feel) more complex than it really needed to be. Which of course, occasionaly cause

Re: [css-d] Margins that just won't change

2005-11-27 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 28/11/05, Chad Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add the !important rule. > > div.highlightBox p { > margin-bottom: 0 !important; > padding-bottom: 0; > } > > That oughta fix it. You're right, it did. Virtual hugs to Chad! *hugs* Cheers, Seona. ___

[css-d] TEXTAREA wrap="off" - a CSS alternative?

2005-11-27 Thread tedd
Hi: In June 2002, the above question was asked: http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/7157 and answered by Meyer. However, neither using suggested "white-space: pre;" nor "white-space: nowrap;" appear to work in any browser other than Opera. Please review: http://www.webbytedd.com

[css-d] Is there an easy way to reset a list?

2005-11-27 Thread tedd
Hi: In the good-old just-html days, if you had an ordered list going and wanted to interrupt it for a graphic, you could start it up again without losing count by using a "start=" attribute, such as: This is my first item. This is a graphic. This is my second i

Re: [css-d] Margins that just won't change

2005-11-27 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Seona Bellamy wrote: > On 28/11/05, Chad Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Add the !important rule. ... > You're right, it did. Virtual hugs to Chad! *hugs* !important usually works, and is fine for debugging _and_ hopeless cases. Advice: better save !important for cases where nothing

[css-d] aligning text to the bottom of a div

2005-11-27 Thread ross
I want to recreate the v-align property in HTML tables http://www.nssdesign.scot.nhs.uk/shared/acessibility_box.htm I have text in DIVS of varying sizes and the text also gets increased for acessibility. The problem is When I expand the text I get a mis-alignment of the text as the div seem

Re: [css-d] TEXTAREA wrap="off" - a CSS alternative?

2005-11-27 Thread Uwe Kaiser
On 28.11.2005 00:16, tedd wrote: > Hi: > > In June 2002, the above question was asked: > > http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/7157 > > and answered by Meyer. > > However, neither using suggested "white-space: pre;" nor > "white-space: nowrap;" appear to work in any browser other

Re: [css-d] TEXTAREA wrap="off" - a CSS alternative?

2005-11-27 Thread tedd
Please review: http://www.webbytedd.com/textarea.php > > However, neither using suggested "white-space: pre;" nor > > "white-space: nowrap;" appear to work in any browser other than Opera. > >white-space: nowrap; is supported by MSIE/PC 5.5 and up, >but it seems not to be supported by Mozilla (i

[css-d] ie cache from google (maybe)

2005-11-27 Thread Helno Beauregard
Greetings, I found a strange problem with IE (obviously): I run a site that use clean url with mod_rewrite and i found a lot of error messages about the way stylesheet are called. The url-site is like "http://www.mysite.name"; that has an import statement like this: @import "themes/ThemeName/styl

[css-d] Problems with DIV elements

2005-11-27 Thread Reynier Perez Mira
I try to build a site using only DIV elements. I need a template like this : --- TOP BANNER OR SOME IMAGE --- --

Re: [css-d] Problems with DIV elements

2005-11-27 Thread Roger Roelofs
Reynier, On Nov 28, 2005, at 1:29 AM, Reynier Perez Mira wrote: > I try to build a site using only DIV elements. I need a template like > this : > > But it doesn't work. In IE the elements appear bad. For example the > divLeftNav is up to divContent. When text is to large the divContent > exp

Re: [css-d] Problems with DIV elements

2005-11-27 Thread Christian Montoya
Looks like http://webhost.bridgew.edu/etribou/layouts/ could help you. Especially this one: http://webhost.bridgew.edu/etribou/layouts/skidoo_too/index.html -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ___

Re: [css-d] trick for fixed positioning in IE?

2005-11-27 Thread curby .
Thanks for all the help. It is important to me to have "nice" code as a matter of principle, so I didn't want to throw IE into quirks mode (a prereq for almost every solution). The banner now as an absolute (stuck to page) position for IE and fixed (stuck to viewport) position for Ff/Safari. htt

Re: [css-d] TEXTAREA wrap="off" - a CSS alternative?

2005-11-27 Thread Sebastian Redl
tedd wrote: >However, neither using suggested "white-space: pre;" nor >"white-space: nowrap;" appear to work in any browser other than Opera. > >Please review: http://www.webbytedd.com/textarea.php > >I would like the TEXTAREA NOT to wrap lines -- is there any way >around this problem other than

[css-d] Help needed with CSS

2005-11-27 Thread Diana Horvitz
Hi, I'm new to the list and I need some help with CSS. I have been using CSS just for font and color definitions. I'm now working now on re-writing the UI for an application that was originally written with very heavy table layout, and my job is to make it accessible and to replace all these nest

Re: [css-d] Help needed with CSS

2005-11-27 Thread Christian Montoya
> > One problem I have is with the positioning of the Simple/Advanced tabs > bottom line, which is separated from the tabs themselves (and the distance > is different if I see it with IE, NS or Firefox) > > Another problem is with the positioning of the background and the "Go" > button. It looks as