Re: [css-d] Need Help making Printable Form

2006-01-25 Thread Christian Heilmann
> Hello All, > > I need to link to a form that can be printed out and mailed. I know how > > to do the online forms, but the person I'm making a site for doesn't > > want that. > > Is there a way to use CSS for this? > > Thank You! > > Donna Oh dear, it seems I answered that one when I wasn't aw

Re: [css-d] problem in mac IE 5.2

2006-01-25 Thread Michael Hulse
On Jan 25, 2006, at 2:40 PM, D Ross wrote: > FORGET about ie mac - don't worry about..dont waste thought on it. > It's gone bye bye. Some people can't forget about it. Example: My work (newspaper) uses page layout software that is OS9 only. All the staff who uses this software also uses IE 5.x

Re: [css-d] Need Help making Printable Form

2006-01-25 Thread Christian Heilmann
> Hello All, > I need to link to a form that can be printed out and mailed. I know how > to do the online forms, but the person I'm making a site for doesn't > want that. > Is there a way to use CSS for this? > Thank You! > Donna You can create a print style sheet and apply it with the media type

Re: [css-d] transparent background issue with IE

2006-01-25 Thread Stan Winchester
> Holly Bergevin wrote: > > From: "Stan Winchester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> http://www.aftershockweb.net/bd/asian-herbs/test/ > >> > >> It works fine in NS & FF, but in IE the left column is now gone. > > > > > > I think that #inner needs {position: relative;} now. You can probably > > rem

[css-d] Need Help making Printable Form

2006-01-25 Thread Donna
Hello All, I need to link to a form that can be printed out and mailed. I know how to do the online forms, but the person I'm making a site for doesn't want that. Is there a way to use CSS for this? Thank You! Donna __ css-d

Re: [css-d] transparent background issue with IE

2006-01-25 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Holly Bergevin wrote: > From: "Stan Winchester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> http://www.aftershockweb.net/bd/asian-herbs/test/ >> >> It works fine in NS & FF, but in IE the left column is now gone. > > > I think that #inner needs {position: relative;} now. You can probably > remove that propert

Re: [css-d] Breaking Apart issue with Firefox

2006-01-25 Thread Roger Roelofs
Jacob, On Jan 25, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Jacob Reiff wrote: > I've got an issue with this site: http://tinyurl.com/byzgd > > In Firefox (both Mac and PC) - when you contract the window size > horizontally to the point of being smaller than the content > container, the site breaks apart a little bit an

Re: [css-d] Negative top margin disables naviagation in IE

2006-01-25 Thread francky
Vic Rauch wrote: >I just added a "Photo Gallery" to my client's site and wanted the "goto Page >X" to be on the same line as the page title. So I used "margin-top: -14pt;" >to bring this goto Page X to the same line. When I tested this in IE 6, the >navigation no longer works. But it still work

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread Paul Novitski
tedd wrote: > >http://www.sperling.com/examples/pcss/ Tedd, the particular PHP syntactical technique you've used in your pcss article will trip over its own shoelaces as soon as the first {background: url("xxx")} is encountered. Instead of enclosing the whole stylesheet in double-quotes as yo

Re: [css-d] transparent background issue with IE

2006-01-25 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: "Stan Winchester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> http://www.aftershockweb.net/bd/asian-herbs/test/ > It works fine in NS & FF, but in IE the left column is >now gone. I think that #inner needs {position: relative;} now. You can probably remove that property from #outer. ~holly

Re: [css-d] problem with a.p. divs and IE

2006-01-25 Thread francky
James Crumpton wrote: >[...] >Here's an example of what I want that works perfectly in Firefox. >https://www.die.net/tmp/949a82a37c993784.html/ff_example.html > >However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get anything like that >working in IE. [...] >Any suggestions or pointers on where

Re: [css-d] width & height property of the span tag

2006-01-25 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 26 Jan 2006, at 5:29 am, Travis Killen wrote: > I am working with Mambo (CMS) and am working to stylize a template in > CSS. I am having a problem specifying the fixed width of the span tag > for menu background images. > > Here is my site: http://ludco.936webdesign.com > > > The width & hei

Re: [css-d] transparent background issue with IE

2006-01-25 Thread Stan Winchester
> Stan Winchester wrote: > >>> http://www.aftershockweb.net/bd/asian-herbs/test/ > > The simplest fix is to rewrite #outer and forget about that transparent > border. Also, add a stabilizer for IE/win. > > Style it like this: > > #outer { > background-color: transparent; > margin-left: 200px; /*

[css-d] Negative top margin disables naviagation in IE

2006-01-25 Thread Vic Rauch
I just added a "Photo Gallery" to my client's site and wanted the "goto Page X" to be on the same line as the page title. So I used "margin-top: -14pt;" to bring this goto Page X to the same line. When I tested this in IE 6, the navigation no longer works. But it still works in FireFox. For the

Re: [css-d] Make footer display below column content

2006-01-25 Thread Yazmin Media
Nevermind! I just fixed this issue by floating the 2 columns, instead of positioning them absolutely. On 1/25/06, Yazmin Media <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have the following page: > > http://yazminmedia.com/playground/tabs.htm > > The page has 3 columns in a wrapper and I've been able to succ

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread Christian Heilmann
Ok, this is actually OFF-Topic, just a quick note: I didn't say Tedd's solution was intrinsicly bad and I think it is great that he answered so quickly to a problem somebody asked here. However, it is important to point out flaws of solutions. I expect that from anyone here, as this is the only wa

Re: [css-d] transparent background issue with IE

2006-01-25 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Stan Winchester wrote: >>> http://www.aftershockweb.net/bd/asian-herbs/test/ The simplest fix is to rewrite #outer and forget about that transparent border. Also, add a stabilizer for IE/win. Style it like this: #outer { background-color: transparent; margin-left: 200px; /* replaces border */ po

Re: [css-d] problem in mac IE 5.2

2006-01-25 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 26 Jan 2006, at 7:40 am, D Ross wrote: > FORGET about ie mac - don't worry about..dont waste thought on it. > It's gone bye bye. Very helpful answer... On 26 Jan 2006, at 5:45 am, Denise Hartmann wrote: > Help, > > I am having a problem in mac IE 5.2 with www.ourtownplayers.org, > the main

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread tedd
Zoe: >Tedd, > >Please add this link to this page in the wiki: >http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ConstantsInCSS Sure, what do you want me to call it? >And everyone, we can just point people here whenever this FAQ comes up >(seems to be coming up a lot more frequently lately...). Hmmm... coul

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread tedd
Chris: Not meaning to be argumentative, but: > > >or is there another way to do this to accomodate elements being created on >> >the fly? >> See: >> > > http://www.sperling.com/examples/pcss/ > >This kills every color coding your IDE might have, fails when someone >uses " for any reason in th

[css-d] problem with a.p. divs and IE

2006-01-25 Thread James Crumpton
I have a layout with a header, some content and footer. Pretty straightforward expect that I want the footer in a "fixed" position at the bottom, and want the content area to fill up the space between. There wont (or at least shouldn't) be any content that will scroll, but I'm fine with a overflow:

Re: [css-d] transparent background issue with IE

2006-01-25 Thread Stan Winchester
> >Here is html: > >http://www.aftershockweb.net/bd/asian-herbs/test/ > >[...] > >Here is css: > > http://www.aftershockweb.net/bd/asian-herbs/test/assets/styles.css > > Thanks to All who have helped on this issue, > > I validate

Re: [css-d] problem in mac IE 5.2

2006-01-25 Thread D Ross
FORGET about ie mac - don't worry about..dont waste thought on it. It's gone bye bye. On Jan 25, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Denise Hartmann wrote: > Help, > > I am having a problem in mac IE 5.2 with www.ourtownplayers.org, > the main body of the site won't float. It's ending up below the > content

Re: [css-d] Breaking Apart issue with Firefox

2006-01-25 Thread cj
have you tried min-width? div#shell { min-width: 760px; } i wouldn't recommend setting the min-width lower than 760 or so, otherwise people viewing in 800x600 will have horizontal scrolling 100% of the time. __ css-discuss [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please - udrise.udayton.edu

2006-01-25 Thread David Laakso
Joe Otten wrote: >I saw the page viewed in FF 1.0 and it had some serious layout issues. I >was wondering if others could spot any issues with code, layout, etc. >Site: http://udrise.udayton.edu/index.asp >CSS: http://udrise.udayton.edu/style.css >Thank you, >-Joe > Joe, in Debian FF1.0.7 @1400

[css-d] Breaking Apart issue with Firefox

2006-01-25 Thread Jacob Reiff
I've got an issue with this site: http://tinyurl.com/byzgd In Firefox (both Mac and PC) - when you contract the window size horizontally to the point of being smaller than the content container, the site breaks apart a little bit and some of the content on the right hand side shifts into unr

Re: [css-d] transparent background issue with IE

2006-01-25 Thread Stan Winchester
Stan Winchester wrote: >Using FF 1.5 & NS 8 the div tag id "outer" I've set the >background-color to transparent it renders as I wanted, but in IE 6 >shows the background black (look under the FAQ button - My client >insist on using the graphic button menu). It seemed the black is coming >from

[css-d] Make footer display below column content

2006-01-25 Thread Yazmin Media
I have the following page: http://yazminmedia.com/playground/tabs.htm The page has 3 columns in a wrapper and I've been able to successfully get the footer to display at the bottom of the 3 columns. However, the middle column has additional elements that have been positioned absolutely in order t

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please - udrise.udayton.edu

2006-01-25 Thread peter hyde-smith
Joe Otten wrote, >I saw the page viewed in FF 1.0 and it had some serious layout issues. I > was wondering if others could spot any issues with code, layout, etc. > > Site: http://udrise.udayton.edu/index.asp > > CSS: http://udrise.udayton.edu/style.css > > > Thank you, > -Joe Joe: Looks very

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please - udrise.udayton.edu

2006-01-25 Thread David Merchant
At 10:45 AM 1/25/2006 -0500, Joe Otten wrote: >I saw the page viewed in FF 1.0 and it had some serious layout issues. I >was wondering if others could spot any issues with code, layout, etc. Sorry, no feedback on code issues, but in FF 1.5 (WinXP), it appeared fine to me, I did not notice any se

[css-d] problem in mac IE 5.2

2006-01-25 Thread Denise Hartmann
Help, I am having a problem in mac IE 5.2 with www.ourtownplayers.org, the main body of the site won't float. It's ending up below the content on the left. It is fine on PCs in IE 5 and up and on Firefox. Anybody know what's causing this? Thanks, Denise

Re: [css-d] Inconsistent unordered list

2006-01-25 Thread Adam Kuehn
At 01:43 PM 1/25/2006, you wrote: >Greetings: > >I am styling a two level unordered list with each item hyperlinked. >The first level behaves as I have >dictated by CSS. The second level ul does not. > >Does anyone have a solution? Thanks in advance. > > > item1 > item1 > > item1 >

Re: [css-d] Inconsistent unordered list

2006-01-25 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
> Although I explicitly state that the second level ul list items - > #left-nav li ul li - do not have a top > > border nor a hover background color, they continue to inherit the > properties of the parent ul - #left-nav ul > > > > item1 > item1 > item1 > > item1 > item1 >

Re: [css-d] Inconsistent unordered list

2006-01-25 Thread cj
this might or might not be your problem, but have you tried putting the after the nested list? x x __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread Chris Ovenden
I am continually scripting CSS, because for one of the main sites I work on the images are coming out of a CMS, so I need to write a references asp.net whenever I want a background-image. Colours are also dynamic in some parts of the site. However, over two years of hardcore CSS work, I have found

Re: [css-d] transparent background issue with IE

2006-01-25 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: > > >>Hmm, I'm confused now. Where did the black color come from then? I >> can't even seem to find the background-color: transparent >>declaration now on the original page... Ack. :-) >>http://www.aftershockweb.net/bd/asian-herbs/test/ >>

Re: [css-d] transparent background issue with IE

2006-01-25 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: > Hmm, I'm confused now. Where did the black color come from then? I > can't even seem to find the background-color: transparent > declaration now on the original page... Ack. :-) > http://www.aftershockweb.net/bd/asian-herbs/test/ Look for #outer {border-left: 200px

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
tedd wrote: >>How flexible are wildcards in CSS? >> >> > >http://www.sperling.com/examples/pcss/ > > > Tedd, Please add this link to this page in the wiki: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ConstantsInCSS And everyone, we can just point people here whenever this FAQ comes up (seems to

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread Christian Heilmann
> >or is there another way to do this to accomodate elements being created on > >the fly? > See: > > http://www.sperling.com/examples/pcss/ This kills every color coding your IDE might have, fails when someone uses " for any reason in the CSS and it means the CSS will not be cached. All CSS parse

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread Christian Heilmann
> > CSS is not a programming language, so it doesn't have variables in it. > > You define set classes and ids that appear in your source somewhere. > > Just to be clear, it's a totally reasonable thing to expect > from CSS. It would be nice to be able to define > > h[0-9] { > font-family: V

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread tedd
>How flexible are wildcards in CSS? >suppose if I have a series of dynamically created rightnav list items styled >like so: > >.dynamic_rightnav-1 li{border:1px dotted red;} >.dynamic_rightnav-2 li{border:1px dotted red;} >...and so forth > >can I use the wildcard >.dynamic_rightnav-* li{border:1px

Re: [css-d] transparent background issue with IE

2006-01-25 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Holly Bergevin wrote: >From: "Zoe M. Gillenwater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >>IE doesn't support "transparent" as a value for background-color. It >>always renders it as black. In your case, just leave out the >>background-color declaration, since it's transparent by default anyway. >> >

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Stephen R Laniel wrote: >On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:19:42AM -0500, Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: > > >>CSS is not a programming language, so it doesn't have variables in it. >>You define set classes and ids that appear in your source somewhere. >> >> > >Just to be clear, it's a totally reasona

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Jim Ryan wrote: >Regular expressions in a stylesheet definition would be a tremendous help in >defining multiple duplicate styles. Let's hope something like this is in the >works. > > I doubt it. It gets brought up on www-style periodically and brought back down. :-) If you need regular expr

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:19:42AM -0500, Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: > CSS is not a programming language, so it doesn't have variables in it. > You define set classes and ids that appear in your source somewhere. Just to be clear, it's a totally reasonable thing to expect from CSS. It would be ni

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread Jim Ryan
I suppose you could build a layer atop CSS -- say, a program that parses a "CSS+Regexen" sheet, looks at the HTML to which it's being applied, finds the elements in the HTML that match the regex, and generates a stylesheet containing those elements. But it's not part of CSS. Regular expressions

Re: [css-d] [how to] tr background-image or block inheritance ?

2006-01-25 Thread Bru, Pierre
> this might work for you (but won't in ie. not sure how important that > one is to you) unfortunatly, I need IE too :( BTW, I do not think this solution would allow the image in the 1st cell to span over the other cells. that's why I was looking for a bagground-image attached to the tr node. >

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Jim Ryan wrote: >How flexible are wildcards in CSS? > > CSS is not a programming language, so it doesn't have variables in it. You define set classes and ids that appear in your source somewhere. >suppose if I have a series of dynamically created rightnav list items styled >like so: > >.dyna

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread David Dorward
On 25/01/06, Jim Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How flexible are wildcards in CSS? CSS doesn't have wild cards. The * character is a universal selector, which matches any element, it isn't a wild card. > suppose if I have a series of dynamically created rightnav list items styled > like so: >

Re: [css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 10:52:01AM -0500, Jim Ryan wrote: > can I use the wildcard > .dynamic_rightnav-* li{border:1px dotted red;} This comes up often: http://www.hixie.ch/specs/css/wwwstyle/#selectors Sadly, the answer is no. I suppose you could build a layer atop CSS -- say, a program that pa

[css-d] CSS wildcards

2006-01-25 Thread Jim Ryan
How flexible are wildcards in CSS? suppose if I have a series of dynamically created rightnav list items styled like so: .dynamic_rightnav-1 li{border:1px dotted red;} .dynamic_rightnav-2 li{border:1px dotted red;} ...and so forth can I use the wildcard .dynamic_rightnav-* li{border:1px dotted re

Re: [css-d] [how to] tr background-image or block inheritance ?

2006-01-25 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
> Albeit a "noisier" solution, you can assign a "first" class to the first > cell in each row, or make them table headers (th). > Note that you should only make them elements if they are, in fact, header cells. E.g. - | Monday | data | data | - |

[css-d] Site Check Please - udrise.udayton.edu

2006-01-25 Thread Joe Otten
I saw the page viewed in FF 1.0 and it had some serious layout issues. I was wondering if others could spot any issues with code, layout, etc. Site: http://udrise.udayton.edu/index.asp CSS: http://udrise.udayton.edu/style.css Thank you, -Joe

Re: [css-d] all-css menu elements hover behavior doesn't work in IE

2006-01-25 Thread jono
> On 1/25/06, Studio Express <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I have an all-css dropdown/flyout menu on my site. The menu works >> beautifully in Safari & FF, but not in IE. I used an htc file to >> append element hover behavior in IE. > I have just encountered the very same problem - menu is g

Re: [css-d] transparent background issue with IE

2006-01-25 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: "Zoe M. Gillenwater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >IE doesn't support "transparent" as a value for background-color. It >always renders it as black. In your case, just leave out the >background-color declaration, since it's transparent by default anyway. This is not correct. IE does support {ba

Re: [css-d] Collumn Divider for Liquid Multi-column Layout, any Column Longest

2006-01-25 Thread Dagmar Noll
Hello again. I've been doing more work on this problem, and just can't figure it out. Initially I was unable to get a vertical line to extend from the banner are to the top of the footer in a liquid multi-column layout where any column is the longest. Matthew Levine suggested that I check out

Re: [css-d] [how to] tr background-image or block inheritance ?

2006-01-25 Thread Mark Canlas
Albeit a "noisier" solution, you can assign a "first" class to the first cell in each row, or make them table headers (th). On 1/25/06, Bru, Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hello, > > to put an icon at the begining of every line in a table and be able to > change it easily, I defined the fol

Re: [css-d] [how to] tr background-image or block inheritance ?

2006-01-25 Thread cj
this might work for you (but won't in ie. not sure how important that one is to you) tr.close { background: #dadada; background-image: url(./images/icon_close.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; } tr.open { background: #f0f0f0; background-image: url(./images/icon_open.gif); background-repea

Re: [css-d] transparent background issue with IE

2006-01-25 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Stan Winchester wrote: >Using FF 1.5 & NS 8 the div tag id "outer" I've set the background-color to >transparent it renders as I wanted, but in IE 6 shows the background black >(look under the FAQ button - My client insist on using the graphic button >menu). > >http://www.aftershockweb.net/bd/asi

Re: [css-d] Page layout in a container

2006-01-25 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Chris Ovenden wrote: >Alternatively, make the #container expand enclose its floated >contents. This shows one way of doing it: > >www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html > > And other ways of containing floats are explained on this page: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ClearingSpace

Re: [css-d] all-css menu elements hover behavior doesn't work in IE

2006-01-25 Thread Bryce Fields
On 1/25/06, Studio Express <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an all-css dropdown/flyout menu on my site. The menu works > beautifully in Safari & FF, but not in IE. I used an htc file to > append element hover behavior in IE. Have you thought about attaching the hover behavior via

[css-d] [how to] tr background-image or block inheritance ?

2006-01-25 Thread Bru, Pierre
hello, to put an icon at the begining of every line in a table and be able to change it easily, I defined the following: tr.close { background: #dadada; background-image: url(./images/icon_close.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; } tr.open { background: #f0f0f0; background-image: url(.

Re: [css-d] all-css menu elements hover behavior doesn't work in IE

2006-01-25 Thread Chris Ovenden
I haven't gone through your CSS, but you should be aware that IE only allows :hover on a tags. Also it doesn't like anything "downstream' of a :hover, eg a:hover ul { display:visible } //work work in IE as it is To make a rule like this latter type work, you will need to make some trivial change

Re: [css-d]

2006-01-25 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Paul Kahl wrote: >>Also how do I align content center with div tags. I am trying not to >>use any tables. All I want is my "navBar" to align center on the page. >>It doesn't work with text-align or >>margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto; or align="center" in the div >>tag. I can center using a ta

Re: [css-d] Liquid Box

2006-01-25 Thread francky
Brian Ogden wrote: >I am trying to make a liquid box with four image corners and repeating images >for the four sides. FF is being more cooperative then IE of course but both >are confusing me. >If possible could I have a explanation along with the fix. >I have added a border to the parent div

Re: [css-d] Page layout in a container

2006-01-25 Thread Chris Ovenden
Alternatively, make the #container expand enclose its floated contents. This shows one way of doing it: www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html Chris On 1/25/06, Roger Roelofs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike, > > On Jan 24, 2006, at 8:41 PM, Mike Tuller wrote: > > > I am trying to desig

Re: [css-d] transparent background issue with IE

2006-01-25 Thread francky
Stan Winchester wrote: >Using FF 1.5 & NS 8 the div tag id "outer" I've set the background-color to >transparent it renders as I wanted, but in IE 6 shows the background black >(look under the FAQ button - My client insist on using the graphic button >menu). It seemed the black is coming from the

Re: [css-d] Broken border in IE and Mac browser check

2006-01-25 Thread Chris Ovenden
I found it on a bittorrent site - probably torrentspy.com - after hearing it had been leaked. If you can't find it I could probably turf up the link. I *thought* peekaboo had been killed in b1, but this form of it (if it is) had certainly survived into b2. Chris On 1/24/06, Martin Heiden <[EMAIL

[css-d] IE4 filter

2006-01-25 Thread Matthew J. Tretter
This past summer, I discovered that IE4 incorrectly parses \***\ as both the beginning and end of a comment. To the best of my knowledge, IE4 is the only browser that exhibits this behavior. Consider the following code as a simple example. body { background: red; /***/ background: blue; /***/