Re: [css-d] CSS Technique Resource

2006-01-17 Thread Christian Heilmann
> If there exists none currently, I'll look into making a public Wiki > for everyone. > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ ^ What is wrong with supporting this one? :-) -- Chris Heilmann Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com Writing: http://icant.co.uk/ Binaries: http://www.onlinetoo

[css-d] Rounded Corners - IE

2006-01-17 Thread Richard Brown
Hi All I asked Francky on this list for some help and he provided a lot of help with using a rounded corner layout. However, he hit a slight snag with IE. Don't we all! I believe he is currently looking for a solution and I thought I would ask the list for help! The site is at:

[css-d] Horizontal border on LIs not showing in FF

2006-01-17 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I ran into this problem more than once. In FF, in a vertical list, horizontal borders may not show between some list items. I didn't investigate much, but it seems that the following fixes the issue: li {display:table} Regards, Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com

Re: [css-d] 2-column liquid layout - one div fixed

2006-01-17 Thread Christian Montoya
On 1/17/06, Ricky Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's the best way to have a 2-column layout where the left div is > > fixed at 475px and the right div stretches to accommodate the viewport? > > Try setting width: 475px on the left column and use margin: 0 0 0 > 475px; for the right column.

[css-d] CSS Technique Resource

2006-01-17 Thread Tyson Tate
I've recently found myself collecting all the little techniques I find around the internet in a Wiki (using the awesome Instiki) such as the different rounded-corner techniques. I've been organizing them in tabular format with columns for "Works In IE 5" and "Clean Code" (i.e. no extra XHTM

Re: [css-d] Doctype and CSS

2006-01-17 Thread Keith Sader
Try this article: http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=E2F258C46D285FEE On 1/17/06, Uwe Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- Keith Sader [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saderfamily.org/roller/page/ksader http://www.jroller.com/page/certifieddanger __

Re: [css-d] Headline positioning woes in all mac browsers

2006-01-17 Thread bj
Though the mac screenshot generator is offline right now, the "position: relative;" fix appears to have nailed the headline to that blue field when resizing in windows browser so I suspect it's now fixed in all browsers at all resolutions. Anyone that can confirm that, especially in Mac, it wo

Re: [css-d] Doctype and CSS

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Kaiser
On 18.01.2006 01:40, Design Groups wrote: > Here's a question that was brought to my attention today... > > What, exactly, does the Doctype *do*? Unfortunately the use of doctype is not very intuitive, and I too don't understand the *exactly* sense of it. All I know is: 1)The document declarat

Re: [css-d] Headline positioning woes in all mac browsers

2006-01-17 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 18 Jan 2006, at 12:53 am, bj wrote: > > > CSS here: > style.css> > iestyle.css> > > This design is an xhtml/css inte

Re: [css-d] Doctype and CSS

2006-01-17 Thread Jim Nannery
Afternoon Shelly You wrote > Here's a question that was brought to my attention today... > > What, exactly, does the Doctype *do*? I know it determines how the > browser > should treat the display of the page and stuff...but what would happen if > you used perfect CSS that's on par with today'

Re: [css-d] Doctype and CSS

2006-01-17 Thread Roger Roelofs
Shelly, On Jan 17, 2006, at 7:40 PM, Design Groups wrote: > What, exactly, does the Doctype *do*? I know it determines how the > browser > should treat the display of the page and stuff...but what would happen > if > you used perfect CSS that's on par with today's standards, but served > your

Re: [css-d] 2-column liquid layout - one div fixed

2006-01-17 Thread Ricky Zhou
> What's the best way to have a 2-column layout where the left div is > fixed at 475px and the right div stretches to accommodate the viewport? Try setting width: 475px on the left column and use margin: 0 0 0 475px; for the right column. Ricky

Re: [css-d] 2-column liquid layout - one div fixed

2006-01-17 Thread Ian Young
>>What's the best way to have a 2-column layout where the left div is fixed at 475px and the right div stretches to accommodate the viewport? >> You could try making both columns with % but left column with a maximum width. Mixing fixed and liquid for me always ends in tears. Ian IY e-Solutions

[css-d] Great Book/Tutorial to learn CSS Layout - Was:position: relative causing positioning and display problems in class

2006-01-17 Thread Stan Winchester
I want to thank everyone for all the leads for good CSS learning materials. Thank you, Aftershock Web Design, Inc. by: Stan Winchester President/Developer http://www.aftershockweb.com/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

[css-d] 2-column liquid layout - one div fixed

2006-01-17 Thread Tim Ware
Hello, What's the best way to have a 2-column layout where the left div is fixed at 475px and the right div stretches to accommodate the viewport? I tried setting the left to 475px and the right div using percentages, but this isn't working. There must be a better solution that using a table

Re: [css-d] Heights suddenly not working right

2006-01-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Seona Bellamy wrote: > Page: http://staging.renovate.com.au/admin/index.cfm?page=editDoc Reversing your html & body styles seems to do the trick :-) html {height: 100%;} body {min-height: 100%;} ...and Opera and Firefox are back, in line with IE/win. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.

Re: [css-d] IE6 and img height: auto > Debugging IE

2006-01-17 Thread videoscott1
Thanks a million! Wow! Lengthy reply! I actually tried taking out the img height auto with only the a img, but not the img;-( dah! Always helps to have a 2nd pair of eyes for these lacking in sleep one's;-) I thought the idea of the auto in css is to allow the image without the extra markup to

[css-d] problem combining static height div w/dynamic height div

2006-01-17 Thread Brian Fidler
I'm building a page that uses only CSS for positioning. I've broken it down into rows and assigned an id to each row. There are approximately 8 rows and I'm running into a problem because the first 6 rows have a static height attribute. The 7th row will have content that will vary in length a

[css-d] Heights suddenly not working right

2006-01-17 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I'm sure I got this fixed yesterday - I distinctly remember feeling very pleased with myself about it. Now I find that my wrapper div is no longer entending to the fill height of the screen if the content isn't enough to push it out. Funnily enough, the fixes I'd put in to make IE behave

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

2006-01-17 Thread videoscott1
Thank you for the reply, and please don't take this as anything other then trying to find out the best for this site, but I'm probably misunderstanding you since I have cellpadding="9" cellspacing="5" which is enough that when I look at it on a cell phone template in Opera and Golive and when r

Re: [css-d] Definition list in four columns: possible?

2006-01-17 Thread David Hucklesby
Hi Esther, You wrote: > I'm struggling with a definition list: I would like to have it in four > columns, but until now it seems to be impossible. ... I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to achieve here. Could you possibly dummy up something on a server, possibly using a table to illustrat

Re: [css-d] stylesheet not working in IE

2006-01-17 Thread David Hucklesby
Hi Arno, The centering seems to work here (in non-IE browsers). Did you fix it? I notice you have no quotes around the url to your imported style sheet. There is a bug in IE 5+ Windows. See here: Cordially, David -- David Hucklesby, on 1/17

Re: [css-d] stylesheet not working in IE

2006-01-17 Thread Arno @ Raketnet
Ah! The screen problem. I was sure I had uploaded the new index file. That problem was solved already (thanks to the list). David, thank you for your asides. I will definitely take notice. The redo is still going on, I'm sure it's not too late to switch to strict. Now that one problem (I have up

Re: [css-d] Flickering and Oozing UL background

2006-01-17 Thread Dagmar Noll
> Haven't tested it locally, but ul.navhead {zoom:1} removes the approx. > 1em bleeding of the bluish background at my end (IEDomExplorer). > > If so, serving IE a conditional comment with a height:1px; for this ul > should do. Yup, Holly Hack seems to have fixed it. IE doesn't make the least

Re: [css-d] DIV won't cover text

2006-01-17 Thread Colin McGarry
Sarangan Thuraisingham wrote: > Colin McGarry wrote: > >> Hello >> I'm trying to adapt a script I found for roll down menus in css. >> My adaptation works except the rolldown menus displace the text of >> the div just below. >> In the original they cover the text. I can't see what I've changed

[css-d] Definition list in four columns: possible?

2006-01-17 Thread Esther van Summeren
Hi all, I'm struggling with a definition list: I would like to have it in four columns, but until now it seems to be impossible. I have been trying several float- ways, and have been searching with google, all without any results sofar. Does anyone have any idea whether it is possible, and, most i

Re: [css-d] CSS alternative to 3X3 table?

2006-01-17 Thread Vic Rauch
Joe Blow wrote: >I was trying to research an alternative to using tables for a 3X3 >layout grid. As an example, I've posted this page: >http://earthday.ca/temp/index.html. The middle-center slice >(r3_c2.jpg) is where the content would go, and it should expand >vertically to accomodate any

Re: [css-d] 3px holly hack - not working for my needs

2006-01-17 Thread Scott Holdeman
Thank you Holly! That seemed to do the trick (and was driving me crazy). A couple of questions: I realize that it was causing me problems in this example, but is it always the case that a block level element cannot (should not) be contained in an inline element? Could you be more specif

Re: [css-d] Flickering and Oozing UL background

2006-01-17 Thread Dagmar Noll
> Could you repost the URL so that people might be able to have a look? Sure. Thank you! http://www.wincog.org/test/indexflicker.html The css that may hold some clues: http://www.wincog.org/test/wincogstyle.css Best regards, Dagmar Noll

[css-d] CSS alternative to 3X3 table?

2006-01-17 Thread Joe Blow
I was trying to research an alternative to using tables for a 3X3 layout grid. As an example, I've posted this page: http://earthday.ca/temp/index.html. The middle-center slice (r3_c2.jpg) is where the content would go, and it should expand vertically to accomodate any height of content. Therefo

[css-d] Headline positioning woes in all mac browsers

2006-01-17 Thread bj
Page here: CSS here: This design is an xhtml/css interpretation of a client's main (table layout) sit

[css-d] CSS Based Logo -- Updated version

2006-01-17 Thread Scott Hamm
I have gathered all advices and here is my latest CSS based logo, works well with FireFox, Opera (ok-ok), needs a little work on Konqueror and works good in IE... http://www.deafaviator.org/project/da_1.htm Would appreciate y'all feedback :) -- Power to people, Linux is here. ___

Re: [css-d] Flickering and Oozing UL background

2006-01-17 Thread Pringle, Ron
> It seems to me there must be something very basic going on > here, and yet > I can't figure it out, and you are the first person on any > mailing list > who has ever even attempted to offer a suggestion. > > If you or anyone else has any other ideas regarding this > mystery, I'd be > very

Re: [css-d] Flickering and Oozing UL background

2006-01-17 Thread Ingo Chao
Dagmar Noll wrote: > 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... > http://www.wincog.org/test/indexflicker.html No flickering here. Haven't tested it locally, but ul.navhead {zoom:1} removes th

[css-d] Pushing Div overlap...

2006-01-17 Thread Well Damn
Hi all... I've tried all various combinations of things I could possibly think of, and still have failed to get this working correctly. I have two issues: #1 - I have a page setup as follows: - outterdiv - maincontent - header - content - sidepane - modules

Re: [css-d] Flickering and Oozing UL background

2006-01-17 Thread Dagmar Noll
Thanks for the reply, Francky. > In IE6 under Win98SE there is no flickering at all. But in the box you > indicated, the first line has the light blue color of the item-headings. Yes, that is one undesirable behavior. When I try to put a small search form in that area, it flickers as well. > Y

Re: [css-d] stylesheet not working in IE

2006-01-17 Thread David Dorward
On 17/01/06, Arno @ Raketnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I come across yet another few problems in IE. > > First, the stylesheet seems not to be working in IE. Internet Explorer doesn't support: @import URL media_type > Second, the page isn't centered, as I intended. It is here. Now a few as

Re: [css-d] stylesheet not working in IE

2006-01-17 Thread Ian Anderson
Arno @ Raketnet wrote: > First, the stylesheet seems not to be working in IE. IE seems to not like the media-type here: @import url(scripts/sheet1.css) screen; In a basic local test, removing "screen" allowed the styles to work. Hadn't seen this in use before; interesting. What's the U

[css-d] stylesheet not working in IE

2006-01-17 Thread Arno @ Raketnet
I come across yet another few problems in IE. First, the stylesheet seems not to be working in IE. Second, the page isn't centered, as I intended. Strange thing is that I copied the basic css setup from another page that I made where it IS working properly. Can anyone tell me where I went wrong

[css-d] DIV won't cover text

2006-01-17 Thread Colin McGarry
Hello I'm trying to adapt a script I found for roll down menus in css. My adaptation works except the rolldown menus displace the text of the div just below. In the original they cover the text. I can't see what I've changed to make the comportment change. The base script is at http://www.cpmac

Re: [css-d] Problems with automatic div sizing

2006-01-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jochen Kächelin wrote: > http://gizmo.sp-online.de/test.html ... > Is there a way to size a div automatic depending on the size of > another div inside? Several solutions available - depending on case. In _your_ case you may add: #main_container {overflow: hidden;} ...and get the expansion/conta

[css-d] Hello

2006-01-17 Thread Kate
Testing my first e-mail to this list. Hello everyone. Kate __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evo

Re: [css-d] I feel like an idiot

2006-01-17 Thread Ingo Chao
Please use a more specific subject line. I feel your pain, but I assure you, that's the normal feeling when dealing with IE. Suzanne Goodwin wrote: > I like the look of the updated tabs on veer.com, so I wanted to see if I > could do it with CSS only (OK, I *did* use Dean Edwards IE7 scripts,