Re: [css-d] skip navigation

At 06:50 AM 1/12/2006, Ian Anderson wrote: It's best to have the skip link visible in the design so that mobility-impaired and keyboard users can use it too, but you can hide the skip link *if you really have to* using CSS. There are two good methods to hide it: a. Using fixed height container

Re: [css-d] Changing Span in link on hover

Julian Voelcker wrote: I have a span within a link to provide a block of colour which I want to change the colour of when the mouse is hovered over the link, but am getting muddled on the correct formatting of the css. The link would appear as follows: a href=#span

[css-d] 3 column backgrounds not spanning tallest column height?

http://www.5finger.com/css/fox/ http://www.5finger.com/css/fox/stylesheet.css I have 3 gray content columns in the middle of the page, but they're not spanning the height of whatever the tallest column will be (most likely will always be the middle one.) Any ideas how to fix this? I tried

Re: [css-d] skip navigation

Christian Heilmann wrote: I need to provide a skip navigation link for pages, what is the best way to do this. All my pages have different named divs so can I just put a named anchor and link it. Any suggestions welcome. The idea of a skip link is that it points to a target that is

Re: [css-d] Site check - any feedback is welcome

This is my first website: http://www.origami-osn.nl/osn/en/start.html . It works as intended, but I'm not completely satisfied. I can't point my finger to the itch, so maybe some of you can. Please note that I'm more of a web developer than a web designer. Helma -- I hope to help with why you

Re: [css-d] Too much space around the hr tag

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay. I got what I wanted. Another user suggested adding position:absolute to the hr and it worked as shown here ... body Hello div style=border: 1px solid red; margin: 0; padding: 0; hr style=position: absolute; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; color: #99;

Re: [css-d] Question about the adjacent selector

Actually, that formulation could well break something you don't want broken. Note that .about.home will break in IE/Win, which will apply the rule to everything with the home class, completely ignoring the about class. However, modern browsers will get it correct, and only apply the rule

Re: [css-d] Changing Span in link on hover

Julian Voelcker wrote: I have a span within a link to provide a block of colour which I want to change the colour of when the mouse is hovered over the link, but am getting muddled on the correct formatting of the css. a href=#span class=redblocknbsp;/spannbsp;Link text/a I would have thought

Re: [css-d] Question about the adjacent selector

cj wrote: this is one example of css that looks like it's working in my own work: .wrapper-div.solo, .wrapper-div.multi { border-top: 2px solid #4e94d5; border-left: 2px solid #4e94d5; } In IE/Win, this will select either of these elements in the markup: div class=wrapper-div

Re: [css-d] Best best practices CSS layout foundation

Martin said: IMHO one true layout is the best choice this time, but it uses a very ugly, not futureproof hack (CSS3 media query) to get things working in Opera. I wouldn't use it for a production site. But for your aims it is probably the best choice. Zoe said: I'm hesistant to say that

[css-d] Need suggestions

Hey everyone, I'm building a site for a client: www.pdrsolution.com/waters/index.html and we talked today. She uses AOL/IE as her browser and has her view - text size set to 'large' or 'larger'(not sure which one) where as I have mine set to medium. The problem (as you can guess) is that the

Re: [css-d] Overlaying DIVs with only one visible

At 09:23 AM 1/12/2006, Vic Rauch wrote: I would like to display one div based on what the mouse is over and hide all the rest of the DIVs within a grouping of these DIVs but have no idea how to do that. Can someone either give a quick demo and/or point me toward a demo/explaination? Here are

[css-d] Site CSS layout trouble

Hello, I am a newbie to the list. I am struggling to get some CSS in order for a site. I could really use help with any or all of my issues. http://www.thetravelingmarathoner.com/test http://www.thetravelingmarathoner.com/test/index.css Firefox + Safari mac 1. rightcolumn border should be

Re: [css-d] CSS based Logo

I'm more focused into providing visual impaired more readable content, including logo. There are so many logos out there that are not scalable and sometimes they're hard to read. I learned this trick from Eric Meyer's web site so I figure it would be a good way to satisfy both worlds.

Re: [css-d] skip navigation

Paul Novitski wrote: a. I think you meant overflow: hidden. My mistake...apologies b. Unless you add overflow: hidden; to this, greatly enlarged text may intrude into the display area (i.e., extend to the right past column 0). Just to be Absolute Sure (in case there's a browser that

Re: [css-d] Firefox 1.5 problem with display: inline-table?

On 12 Jan 2006, at 11:32 pm, Pringle, Ron wrote: Is there somewhere I can find a list of what Firefox doesn't support in terms of CSS? David Hammond has a quite comprehensive overview for IE 6, Fx, Opera, Safari 2 http://nanobox.chipx86.com/browser_support_css.php?

Re: [css-d] site check please: www.mmwebsite.com/vasquez

Hi Felix... Thanks for pointing these issues out. I still have some tweaking to do. Much appreciated. For what it's worth, I set the CSS font sizes to em values, not px, so that they are relative to what the browser is set to. Would you still consider that to be, as you put it, so

[css-d] Container coding/alignment problem with float

Hi, I need some adviceI am attempting to recode a web site (and possibly others) so that I have everything nested at the same level...that is: container with the content, link, footer, etc. nested underneath. (Previously I had the link and footer inside the content). When I am done with

Re: [css-d] ul won't auto center in body

At 02:31 PM 1/12/2006, Thomas Hall wrote: Maybe a stupid question but why won't this ul center in the page: html body ul style=width:800px;margin:0 auto; liTest/li /ul /body /html Are you using a valid DOCTYPE? Which browser? The following works fine for me (colors added to see what's

Re: [css-d] Container coding/alignment problem with float

Regarding my earlier message...I tried absolute positioning again for the content, and while I don't have the width problem this time, and don't have the alignment problem I do when using float, I do have varying top margins between IE, FF, and Opera. I've encountered this problem before and

[css-d] Just in the interest of learning a little bit ...

... what is causing the annoying horizontal jumping when you mouse over the links to song lyrics on this page? http://www.rockfind.com/little_river_band/ Not my site, I just came upon it and was wondering ... I've only looked at it in FF 1.5 for Linux. -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Overlaying DIVs with only one visible

Vic Rauch wrote: I would like to display one div based on what the mouse is over and hide all the rest of the DIVs within a grouping of these DIVs but have no idea how to do that. Can someone either give a quick demo and/or point me toward a demo/explaination? I'll try the latter - if I've

[css-d] frameless frames, synchronized scroll, and tableless tables (basically Excel)

I have been trying to implement a frameless frame system, so when I saw this post I decided to base it on the example you linked to at http://home.comcast.net/~rob.freundlich/css/noFrames.html My requirements are slightly different though - I need header and footer frames and a main content frame

[css-d] Repost: Quirks mode and validation

the navigation of this site: http://nglcc.orchidsuites.net performs beautifully in safari, nn, and firefox on mac and pc ... but horribly in IE -- I suspect because the css doesn't validate ... is that because I'm using workarounds (incorrectly)? can someone suggest a remedy? Validation returns

Re: [css-d] Site check - any feedback is welcome

hepabolu wrote: Hi, This is my first website: http://www.origami-osn.nl/osn/en/start.html . It works as intended, but I'm not completely satisfied. I can't point my finger to the itch, so maybe some of you can. Please note that I'm more of a web developer than a web designer. Thanks. Bye, Helma

[css-d] IE/FF Spacing Problem

Morning All, I have been working on a site that has three columns, two of which are menus (I didn't design it). Anyway, if I tweak the column widths to get them to work well in IE6, they leave spaces in FF PC, FF Mac, IE Mac, Safari Mac, etc. If I tweak the the other way (with the exact

[css-d] Centering myself

I did end up changing it to something very similar to this. It worked great, thanks! To the person that wrote that my use of javascript will eliminate certain crowds, this is going to be used on a TV viewing station in our hallway and lounge only and isn't indended for another audience. I

[css-d] Avoiding inline styles [WAS Re: Centering myself]

well ya shouldn't give me the benefit. I was given a drop-dead task and tried to use the CSS that I could. It's a 4 hr project that's taking 3 days because I don't know what I'm doing so I was changing thing's inline constantly trying to figure out how to make it do what I wanted. It's

Re: [css-d] Too much space around the hr tag

Thierry Koblentz wrote: May I ask why you need the HR in there? AFAIK, the markup below would render exactly the same: body Hello div style=border-top: 1px solid red;border-bottom: 1px solid #999;/div Bye /body Yes it would, but using hr is semantically correct for the layout of the page.

Re: [css-d] skip navigation

On 1/12/06, Ian Anderson wrote: On no account put the skip link on a single pixel image with alt text, as was common practice a couple years ago. This is because at least one screen reader (JAWS, the most common one) will not read the link because it does not read alt text on any image smaller

Re: [css-d] right and left justify

At 01:20 PM 1/13/2006, Vic Rauch wrote: I have a listing of seminars that are happening on 3 different days and would like to list these with the seminar time right justified, then the seminar title and description left justified just to the right of the seminar time: 9:00AM -- Seminar

Re: [css-d] Question about the adjacent selector

Hey CJ, Here's a test I made. Take a look in IE and you'll see it mess up. http://www2.csulb.edu/colleges/cota/test3.html It's pretty obvious ;) Mike cj wrote: Actually, that formulation could well break something you don't want broken. Note that .about.home will break in IE/Win, which

[css-d] Flickering and Oozing UL background

I have this problem where the background of a UL with nesting elements oozes (and sometimes flickers) outside of its borders in at least IE6. Can anybody tell me what is going on here? See it beneath the navigation here: http://www.wincog.org/test/indexflicker.html The css that may hold some

[css-d] Suckerfish validation issues

I can't seem to get suckerfish to validate - which is keeping it from working in IE. The site: http://nglcc.orchidsuites.net The css: www.orchidsuites.net/nglcc.css -Tanya- -- Tanya Renne, CEO, ORCHID SUITES, Inc. Online tools to engage your

Re: [css-d] Identifying and marking external links using only CSS

Thanks, I think this can be used for our requirements. Vijay Nerella -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bjoern Hoehrmann Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d]

[css-d] inheritance mystery

Hi, We've got a little CSS problem on our the rightnav of our test site: http://ixlr8.org/development The List of Related Topics on the right nav is inheriting all its attributes from the enclosing div (#anothernav). Redefining #flap, .content #flap etc. doesn't get rid of the unwanted block

[css-d] Nesting Absolute Layers in Relative Layers

Greetings all, Well, IE has me stumped again. I'm trying to nest an absolute layer within a relative layer but IE 6 isn't playing nice. It seems to be doubling the left margin but I can't fix it with a simple display:inline; Would you take a look at this in IE6 and tell me why the image

[css-d] Tweaked p7 menu behind text in IE5.2mac

Hello All. I am looking for a quick bit of help from a knowledgeable absolute positioning/project 7/mac IE5.2 type of person. I bastardized a project seven pop menu magic dropdown to use images and be variable width, and all is going great. Looks perfect in every browser test. Except, the

Re: [css-d] Identifying and marking external links using only CSS

Vijay, This will not work in IE, as others have noted. But just in case you don't care. This really just checks for absolute URLs. This says that if the href attribute has a value that begins with http://; the style should be applied. a[href^=http://;] {} If you have in-house

Re: [css-d] Tweaked p7 menu behind text in IE5.2mac

thanks so much Al, i'll try these new avenues!!! -Original Message- From: Al Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj: Re: [css-d] Tweaked p7 menu behind text in IE5.2mac Date: Fri Jan 13, 2006 3:17 pm Size: 1K To: kristin [EMAIL PROTECTED],css-d@lists.css-discuss.org - Original Message

Re: [css-d] 3 column backgrounds not spanning tallest column height?

On Jan 12, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Magenta Placenta wrote: http://www.5finger.com/css/fox/ http://www.5finger.com/css/fox/stylesheet.css I have 3 gray content columns in the middle of the page, but they're not spanning the height of whatever the tallest column will be (most likely will

[css-d] Hello - New Guy - And Question

Hello all. Thanks to whomever is hosting this list. Can someone help me with something? I can't get the bottom border image to be visible between these navigation tabs and the white area below them. In a book I bought by Dan Cedarholm, this border should be visible unless a tab is hovered over

Re: [css-d] Identifying and marking external links using only CSS

Vijay Nerella wrote: Hi CSS Gurus, To comply with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 we have to mark/highlight all the published links, in our websites, which are external pointing. Is there a way to mark all external links for pages already published, by change in CSS only,

Re: [css-d] Identifying and marking external links using only CSS

Hi Dan, ':not' doesn't seem to work in any browser. Neither did I find it in W3C specs. Can u share some more information on this, as to where and how it can work. Vijay Nerella -Original Message- From: Storm, Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 3:09 PM To:

[css-d] Obviously Misguided

kaiserklan.com/roundtable/index2.html is my attempt to rewrite my 10 year effort to help the Boy Scouts. But I'm in pretty desperate shape, it's just not coming together the way I would like, here are my guidelines. 1) I want it to look similar to http://www.northernstarbsa.org/ 2) NO tables, only

Re: [css-d] Identifying and marking external links using only CSS

Vijay, I apologize for sending that code without testing it, but the :not pseudo-class does work. I just tried this in FF1.5. input[type=text]:not([disabled=disabled]) {background-color: red;} input type=text size=10 / input type=text size=10 disabled=disabled / You can read about this at:

Re: [css-d] Hello - New Guy - And Question

At 04:14 PM 1/13/2006, Mark - JForce New Media wrote: Can someone help me with something? I can't get the bottom border image to be visible between these navigation tabs and the white area below them. In a book I bought by Dan Cedarholm, this border should be visible unless a tab is hovered

Re: [css-d] Hello - New Guy - And Question

Hello all. Thanks to whomever is hosting this list. Can someone help me with something? I can't get the bottom border image to be visible between these navigation tabs and the white area below them. In a book I bought by Dan Cedarholm, this border should be visible unless a tab is hovered

Re: [css-d] page bottoms

Site: http://www.conigliowines.com Problem: I have cut off or uneven page bottoms on the Wines Stuart, I see you have it fixed. Care to share your solution? -- Susan A Street Web Design http://astreetweb.com __ css-discuss

[css-d] CSS Guru Wanted for Major Web App Layout

Hi again all I posted this to Craig's List earlier today and thought I would share it here as well. Please respond if you have an interest. We haven't a preference as to where you are located at this is a telecommute/virtual team opportunity. We are seeking an equity partner. Thank you Mark

Re: [css-d] Obviously Misguided

On 1/13/2006 5:49 PM Keith Kaiser wrote: kaiserklan.com/roundtable/index2.html is my attempt to rewrite my 10 year effort to help the Boy Scouts. But I'm in pretty desperate shape, it's just not coming together the way I would like, here are my guidelines. 1) I want it to look similar to

[css-d] How to define CSS alt/title attributes in stylesheet

In html you define the alt/title attributes in the page markup. How would you do the same in a CSS stylesheet for a background or other image? Should you? -Bob __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] How to define CSS alt/title attributes in stylesheet

In html you define the alt/title attributes in the page markup. How would you do the same in a CSS stylesheet for a background or other image? Should you? -Bob Interesting question Bob. Short answer; you shouldn't, or even if you could you wouldn't. Search engines ignore CSS files. Even

Re: [css-d] 3 column table like css?

This is the best reaction I've gotten since I came back to this list;-0 If I had any doubts I don't now. I figured since I was only putting the info. bottom right from this page: http://videointegrations.com/serenity/facial_rosacea_mask.html into 3 columns, I really didn't even need rows - just

Re: [css-d] How to define CSS alt/title attributes in stylesheet

Just as an addon to that, the alt attribute is supposed to be describing the embedded image for those who can't view it. This is assuming that the image in question actually has something to do with the content of the site to begin with; if it's a CSS background image, odds are it's either

Re: [css-d] 3 column table like css?

http://videointegrations.com/serenity/facial_rosacea_mask.html Well, I decided to try putting some borders into the table and it looks decent in all but IE6;-( Anyone got any bright ideas? -Scott __ css-discuss [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] inheritance mystery

Jim Ryan wrote: Hi, We've got a little CSS problem on our the rightnav of our test site: http://ixlr8.org/development The List of Related Topics on the right nav is inheriting all its attributes from the enclosing div (#anothernav). Redefining #flap, .content #flap etc. doesn't get rid of the

Re: [css-d] 3 column table like css?

Well, maybe it's the knee jerk that everyone knew tables and the standards issues, so since no one responded, I've decided no borders except the th. If anyone has a better looking idea, please let me know;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[css-d] Links jumping on hover (was Re: Just in the interest of learning a little bit ...)

Christian Heilmann wrote: ... what is causing the annoying horizontal jumping when you mouse over the links to song lyrics on this page? http://www.rockfind.com/little_river_band/ Not my site, I just came upon it and was wondering ... I've only looked at it in FF 1.5 for Linux. The first thing

Re: [css-d] 3 column table like css?

Thought I'd also give some interesting info I found: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=TableDesign However, CSS has its own kind of tables: [display types] http://www.google.com/url?sa=Dq=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FTR%2FREC-CSS2%2Fvisuren.html%23propdef-display that exist specifically in