[css-d] Adjacent Selector for IE6?

2006-02-09 Thread Ryan Bowman
I have a definition list where each dt has an id. I'd like to style each dd depending on the preceeding dt. I'd rather not have to class each dt/dd pair, so the most obvious approach to me was dt#id + dd, but just as obvious it doesn't work for IE. Is there a CSS only way to simulate the adjacen

[css-d] Footer That Extends Fully to the Right

2006-02-09 Thread anathema
I have a client that is requesting something a little strange. Well basically it is best to look at it. http://www.webnonsense.org/dan/ What they want is for the blue footer to extend all the way to the right edge of the screen, but NOT the LEFT. I am kinda stumped on how to do that. I sup

Re: [css-d] browser / viewport height problem

2006-02-09 Thread Jonathan Mao
On 10/02/2006, at 4:32 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Jonathan Mao wrote: >> I've added the height parameter to the #bgLayer DIV and that's >> resolved the problem for Safari and FireFox... haven't tested IE/Win >> yet. > >> http://www.abcreative.net.au/test/ > >> and it validates! woo hoo!

Re: [css-d] browser / viewport height problem

2006-02-09 Thread Jonathan Mao
On 10/02/2006, at 9:32 AM, Cem Meric wrote: > >> Ideally, I'd like the pages to be the full height of the browser >> window.. so that there's the white background all the way to the >> bottom of the viewport. >> >> Is that achievable? I've used repeated background images but that >> doesn't seem

Re: [css-d] browser / viewport height problem

2006-02-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jonathan Mao wrote: > I've added the height parameter to the #bgLayer DIV and that's > resolved the problem for Safari and FireFox... haven't tested IE/Win > yet. > http://www.abcreative.net.au/test/ > and it validates! woo hoo! So it should, since 'CSS table'[1] is valid CSS2/2.1 ;-)

Re: [css-d] Urgent Site Check - http://www.wordseurope.domainsolutions.ca/final/index.html

2006-02-09 Thread rashantha de silva
On Feb 9, 2006, at 8:54 PM, K Husbands wrote: > CSS Experts > > > > Can anyone take a look at the following site and accompanying CSS > and tell > me why the "Media" page continues to shift from left to right while > browsing > the site. it's not shifting on safari, the scroll bar comes up a

Re: [css-d] browser / viewport height problem

2006-02-09 Thread Jonathan Mao
On 10/02/2006, at 5:54 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Jonathan Mao wrote: The problem is, when the browser window is less than the height of the page the content seems to go out of the DIVs. >>> http://www.abcreative.net.au/folio_print_case.html http:// www.abcreative.net.au/foli

[css-d] Urgent Site Check - http://www.wordseurope.domainsolutions.ca/final/index.html

2006-02-09 Thread K Husbands
CSS Experts Can anyone take a look at the following site and accompanying CSS and tell me why the "Media" page continues to shift from left to right while browsing the site. When I comment out the "main" div, which stores the page text on the media page the menu works flawlessly without sh

Re: [css-d] browser / viewport height problem

2006-02-09 Thread Jonathan Mao
On 10/02/2006, at 5:54 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Jonathan Mao wrote: The problem is, when the browser window is less than the height of the page the content seems to go out of the DIVs. >>> http://www.abcreative.net.au/folio_print_case.html http:// www.abcreative.net.au/foli

Re: [css-d] need help to sex up my website

2006-02-09 Thread francky
Patrick Aljord wrote: >[...]I was wandering if you had some tips/links to make my site >more sexy such as by rounding my div blocks or things like that. >[...] >Here is my website http://2e2c.free.fr/ > > Hi Patrick, For sexy roundings p.e. you can have a look at the method Liquid Round Corner

Re: [css-d] Can this menu be reproduced with pure CSS?

2006-02-09 Thread Jono
> http://www.itshere.org.uk > > Does anyone know of a way I could do this, without a whole heap of work > (and ideally without Javascript). > You can create that effect fairly easily with CSS by using left borders to create the blocks and then margins and a small background image to create the d

[css-d] Is this the IE guillotine bug? Or something else?

2006-02-09 Thread Virginia Murdoch
Hi there, I'm having problems with this site: http://www.jd-associates.com.au/ test/permissions/ The CSS is at http://www.jd-associates.com.au/jd.css In IE, the main column content gets lopped off below the line of the sidebar (you can see different examples on other pages). I've put some bor

Re: [css-d] need help to sex up my website

2006-02-09 Thread David Laakso
Patrick Aljord wrote: >Hey all, >I recently tried to make my website using 100% CSS and make it valid >XHTML1.0. It worked but the result is kind of ugly, well I'm not a >designer as you might guess. I was wandering if you had some >tips/links to make my site more sexy such as by rounding my div b

Re: [css-d] Was: Newby struggling with unwanted border color in Firefox, now Fixing it to work in IE 6

2006-02-09 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Maxwell Balmain wrote: > Thanks again Rahul, Please don't mention it. > > I REALLY appreciate your taking the time out to explain some of this > stuff. I will make these changes and move on from there. > www.rubybluestudio.com From one obsessive, compulsive person, to another. Add To your

Re: [css-d] Was: Newby struggling with unwanted border color in Firefox, now Fixing it to work in IE 6

2006-02-09 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Maxwell Balmain wrote: > Thanks again Rahul, Please don't mention it. > > I REALLY appreciate your taking the time out to explain some of this > stuff. I will make these changes and move on from there. > www.rubybluestudio.com From one obsessive, compulsive person, to another. Add To your

Re: [css-d] Site Check: www.girlscantwhat.com

2006-02-09 Thread Felix Miata
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:26:00 -0600: > Also - what are the advantages/disadvantages of using em width verses % > width on the columns? I don't see anything to directly address this on the wiki home page. Both are relative measures. The difference is what each is relative to

Re: [css-d] IE and clear:both

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Hilder
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: http://stressed.180bpm.co.uk/stuff/design/float.htm > >>> #container {position: relative;} > >> Ok that fixed most of the disappearing text. >> >> However the s are still not showing in IE. I can see they're >> there. There's the right amount of space to allow for them

[css-d] need help to sex up my website

2006-02-09 Thread Patrick Aljord
Hey all, I recently tried to make my website using 100% CSS and make it valid XHTML1.0. It worked but the result is kind of ugly, well I'm not a designer as you might guess. I was wandering if you had some tips/links to make my site more sexy such as by rounding my div blocks or things like that.

Re: [css-d] IE and clear:both

2006-02-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Paul Hilder wrote: >>> http://stressed.180bpm.co.uk/stuff/design/float.htm >> #container {position: relative;} > Ok that fixed most of the disappearing text. > > However the s are still not showing in IE. I can see they're > there. There's the right amount of space to allow for them. But IE > j

Re: [css-d] Was: Newby struggling with unwanted border color in Firefox, now Fixing it to work in IE 6

2006-02-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Maxwell Balmain wrote: > www.rubybluestudio.com > Can someone test this for me and give me a quick report to compare it > in IE6 vs Firefox? I am assuming this problem is a margin issue? Sort of... :-) IE6 is showing its 'margin-doubling bug on floats' on those logos, and is running out of space

Re: [css-d] IE and clear:both

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Hilder
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Paul Hilder wrote: >> http://stressed.180bpm.co.uk/stuff/design/float.htm >> >> The above page looks fine in Firefox and Dreamweaver incidentally. >> However in IE a lot of the text doesn't appear until you resize the >> page. It goes again if you refresh it. > > A well k

Re: [css-d] What's causing the offset of items in this form?

2006-02-09 Thread Rowan Wigginton
James Eaton wrote: > What causes the vertical alignment offset in the > bottom example? > > http://dm126.mediaodyssey.com/form.htm I have no idea what's causing it, but in Firefox any value of "vertical-align" will change the alignment, "vertical-align:top" gives the best result. Don't forget

Re: [css-d] Was: Newby struggling with unwanted border color in Firefox, now Fixing it to work in IE 6

2006-02-09 Thread David Laakso
Maxwell Balmain wrote: >An update on www.rubybluestudio.com > > [...] > The navigation links drop >down in Opera 6 for the Mac. > Opera6 on any OS is going way back there, IMO. Most Opera users stay relatively up to date-- and your pages look fine in Debian Opera 8.51/Firefox1.0.7. > I am

Re: [css-d] New IE 7 Ruined my Nav???

2006-02-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ingo Chao wrote: > TMH Design wrote: >> http://www.thomashall.com/ >> It was perfect in IE 6 > The navigation is still jumpy, and the zooming the text size is not > possible in IE6. Of course it is, but that doesn't make it come through any better... ...

Re: [css-d] creating an overlay div

2006-02-09 Thread Jesse Skinner
Hi Peter, You can set an absolute position, width, height and z-index to a div. You can set a top/left to position it, or you can put it beside the 'drop zone', like: drop zone These divs will have the same position and size. The 'position:absolute' causes the element to take up no space o

Re: [css-d] Can this menu be reproduced with pure CSS?

2006-02-09 Thread BigSmoke
You can give each menu item a different id and then style these IDs accordingly, such as in: Home About us Our Services ul.menu { list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; } .menu li { border-left: 1em solid yellow; border-bottom: 2px solid white; background-color: white; m

Re: [css-d] "Does not allow "h3" here???

2006-02-09 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 09/02/06, Maxwell Balmain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put > a block-level element (such as "" or "") inside an inline > element (such as "", "", or ""). There's what's gone wrong. You've put an (a block-level element) into an

Re: [css-d] "Does not allow "h3" here???

2006-02-09 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 10/02/06, Maxwell Balmain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Recent Assignments > > One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put > a block-level element (such as "" or "") inside an inline > element (such as "", "", or ""). > > What could I substitute to get the style tha

Re: [css-d] New IE 7 Ruined my Nav???

2006-02-09 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 10/02/06, TMH Design <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please look at this page - www.thomashall.com > in IE 7 and Firefox. Can someone tell me what is going on? It was perfect in > IE 6 1) IE7 is still just a beta, so there's no use relying on it to get things right jus

[css-d] "Does not allow "h3" here???

2006-02-09 Thread Maxwell Balmain
Can someone please explain this validation: Error Line 43 column 29: document type does not allow element "h3" here; missing one of "object", "ins", "del", "map", "button" start-tag. Recent Assignments The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which you've placed it; the

Re: [css-d] New IE 7 Ruined my Nav???

2006-02-09 Thread Ingo Chao
TMH Design wrote: > Please look at this page - www.thomashall.com > in IE 7 and Firefox. Can someone tell me what is going on? /* Hide from IE-mac \*/ * html .vnav ul li a/* hide from IE 5.0 */ {height: 1%;} /* End hide */ The star html head is dead, but not the bug

Re: [css-d] New IE 7 Ruined my Nav???

2006-02-09 Thread Al Sparber
From: "TMH Design" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 1:56 AM Subject: [css-d] New IE 7 Ruined my Nav??? > Please look at this page - www.thomashall.com > > in IE 7 and Firefox. Can someone tell me what is going on? It was > perfect in > IE 6

[css-d] creating an overlay div

2006-02-09 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, Suppose I have an inline div and I want an invisible but perfectly matching div overlaying it. How do I do this so that when I resize the window or scroll the two div's remain overlayed? The reason I ask is for detecting a dragging item over a drop zone. The drop zone won't respond to the mou

[css-d] New IE 7 Ruined my Nav???

2006-02-09 Thread TMH Design
Please look at this page - www.thomashall.com in IE 7 and Firefox. Can someone tell me what is going on? It was perfect in IE 6 __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listi

Re: [css-d] Problem in IE/WIN with borders

2006-02-09 Thread Ingo Chao
cindy Smeulders wrote: > > http://roundtheworld.homelinux.com > > If you go the website the first time it all looks like it should. When you > do a refresh or try a link the borders are all screwed up. > I looks like it first displays the menus and then draw the border over it, > so you can't see

Re: [css-d] breaking boundaries

2006-02-09 Thread David Laakso
Vincent Hide wrote: >I have been working on www.tuxdiscs.com and all is well in IE and I >thought all was well in FF - however, the background doesn't always go >all the way to the bottom of the content (sometimes it does, sometimes >it does not.) > > I have no idea what is wrong. But I'd start

Re: [css-d] On Testing IE7 beta 2

2006-02-09 Thread cj
if anyone was interested in what the ie7 "experts" had to say in the live chat today, i went through the answers after the session and tried to copy/paste all the css-related questions into one page. http://sltclan.com/images/cj/ie7.html very quick summary: - haslayout still exists, but they hope

[css-d] breaking boundaries

2006-02-09 Thread Vincent Hide
Hi all, first off, sorry to be a pain! I have already requested a little help with this. I have been working on www.tuxdiscs.com and all is well in IE and I thought all was well in FF - however, the background doesn't always go all the way to the bottom of the content (sometimes it does, sometime

Re: [css-d] Constructive Critisism, Please

2006-02-09 Thread David Laakso
Donna wrote: >Hi List, > >I am almost finished with this site I'm making. All pages validate. >This is my first site I've done that looks the closest to professional >that I've done so far (very new to web site design). > >Please be kind; I'm looking for any helpful suggestions on improvements

Re: [css-d] relative positioning creates horizontal scroll in Firefox

2006-02-09 Thread Neill Harmer
Your best bet would be to use absolute positioning and top/right/bottom/left to specify. Example: -- this will put the image on the bottom right hand side of the page, and still scroll. Or you can try this -- this will put the image on the bottom right hand side of the page, and it still st

Re: [css-d] Need main content to touch top nav bar

2006-02-09 Thread Ingo Chao
Julie Flolo wrote: > ...I want the main content of the page to butt up against the top navigation > bar. > http://www.floloweb.com/test/index4.html > http://www.floloweb.com/test/4style.css In Fx, zero the default margin of the ul #topmenu ul {margin-bottom: 0;} Ingo -- http://www.satzansat

Re: [css-d] Site Check: www.girlscantwhat.com

2006-02-09 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> David Laakso wrote: > > Sorry, sent wrong uri for the Opera captures: http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=227152 > ~davidLaakso > > > __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED

[css-d] relative positioning creates horizontal scroll in Firefox

2006-02-09 Thread pmarsh2
Essentially, I'm attempting to position non-background graphics outside of a page's main content area (in the right and left 'margins'), but trying to avoid having them call up scrollbars. What I've done is attach these graphics to (that is, enclose them in the div of) absolutely positioned 'mo

Re: [css-d] Site Check: www.girlscantwhat.com

2006-02-09 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >David Laakso wrote: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>ite: http://www.girlscantwhat.com >>>CSS: http://www.girlscantwhat.com/css/gcwcss.css >>> >David - I appreciate your taking time to offer feedback. I have made >most of the changes that you have suggested and it is

[css-d] Need main content to touch top nav bar

2006-02-09 Thread Julie Flolo
I have searched and searched and I think my brain is tired. I want the main content of the page to butt up against the top navigation bar. How do I make this happen? Thanks in advance for your help! http://www.floloweb.com/test/index4.html http://www.floloweb.com/test/4style.css -

Re: [css-d] Was: Newby struggling with unwanted border color in Firefox, now Fixing it to work in IE 6

2006-02-09 Thread Maxwell Balmain
An update on www.rubybluestudio.com I went through and validated each page as in "strict" mode. Again, thanks to Rahul Gonsalves for pointing out that I needed a closing "/" at the end of my images and to replace any capitalization that I had in my markup. That seemed to help. It looks good

Re: [css-d] Drop shadow effect on Text with CSS

2006-02-09 Thread Peach Lynda L CTR USAF 96 CG/SCTA
>> http://wwwdev.eglin.af.mil/faq.shtml Our users are primarily IE -- but > I couldn't connect to your page ... Sorry -- that's a test environment before it goes to "public". Site page is http://www.eglin.af.mil/faq.shtml I am so trying a JavaScript solution one of you kind folks suggested. I

Re: [css-d] Site Check: www.girlscantwhat.com

2006-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Also - what are the advantages/disadvantages of using em width verses % width on the columns? I am experimenting with giving my layout a fluid center and columns that are a % of the screen. Any pointers would be appreciated. I think I have it working, but I am not quite grasping the differe

Re: [css-d] Constructive Critisism, Please

2006-02-09 Thread Els
Els wrote: > #nav li a:focus, > #nav li a:hover, > #nav li a:focus{ I meant to write #nav li a:focus, #nav li a:hover, #nav li a:active{ > #nav li a.current:link, > #nav li a.current:visited, > #nav li a.current:focus, > #nav li a.current:active, > #nav li a.current:hover{ And here I meant to ha

Re: [css-d] IE and clear:both

2006-02-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Paul Hilder wrote: > http://stressed.180bpm.co.uk/stuff/design/float.htm > > The above page looks fine in Firefox and Dreamweaver incidentally. > However in IE a lot of the text doesn't appear until you resize the > page. It goes again if you refresh it. A well known IE/win bug - related to 'La

Re: [css-d] Site Check: www.girlscantwhat.com

2006-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Felix Miata wrote: >I like small caps. > >Originals: >http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/gretcg1.jpg >http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/gretcg2.jpg >Current: >http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/gretcg3.jpg >http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/gretcg4.jpg > >Now that the base text size is medium, the fixed width is even worse

[css-d] site check pc 'ttm'

2006-02-09 Thread Michelle W
Hello all, I have nearly completed a site, and would appreciate a review. Since i am on mac, please point out any PC bugs to me. http://www.thetravelingmarathoner.com/test This is how is screenshot of Mac view. http://www.thetravelingmaratho

Re: [css-d] Constructive Critisism, Please

2006-02-09 Thread Els
Donna wrote: >> ***I'd give the links in the navigation a bit more >> styling, and make them clickable in the full width of the >> container, not just over the text.*** > > I don't know how to go about doing that, could you explain? Sure. If you have a list like this: Home page Some place Elsewh

Re: [css-d] browser / viewport height problem

2006-02-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jonathan Mao wrote: >>> The problem is, when the browser window is less than the height >>> of the page the content seems to go out of the DIVs. >> >>> http://www.abcreative.net.au/folio_print_case.html http:// >>> www.abcreative.net.au/folio_tv_showreel.html ... >> We naturally want the DIVs t

Re: [css-d] Can this menu be reproduced with pure CSS?

2006-02-09 Thread Jackie Carey
Thanks for this, Rakesh. My problem is, I can't work out how write the css to get a different colored box into the different list items when I rewrite the menu as a list, as per http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/vertical05.htm which uses just one image. That weird mouseover event is one of

Re: [css-d] Site Check: www.girlscantwhat.com

2006-02-09 Thread Felix Miata
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:32:34 -0600: > David Laakso wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Site: http://www.girlscantwhat.com > >> CSS: http://www.girlscantwhat.com/css/gcwcss.css > > Reduce the size of all headings (h1, h2) and declare font-weight 200 > > on them. I hav

Re: [css-d] pixel to em conversion revisited

2006-02-09 Thread Els
css man wrote: > I've been studying the archives on this subject and > experimenting a bit, using the suggestion to set font-size: to > 75% and 12px in the body, like so: > > body { > font-size: 12px; > _font-size: 75%; > } I don't know yet what IE7 will do with the pix

Re: [css-d] problems with 2-column layout positioning and borders

2006-02-09 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Stan Winchester wrote: > I have two different methods of trying to layout a page that has a header, > footer, left column for navigation buttons (client insists on the image > based buttons), and a main content column as seen on: > http://www.asian-herbs.com/index.cfm > > The problem with the abo

[css-d] Height collapses in Firefox 1.5

2006-02-09 Thread css man
I have a #container div: #container { border: .4em solid #cc6; background-color: #fff; height: 42.1em; <--must be set specific value, otherwise collapes--> font-size: .95em; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0;

[css-d] A way to set a dynamic anchor in a div?

2006-02-09 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hi, all... I'm working on an web-based office application, so I'm trying to put as much functionality on a single screen as possible. I've using scrolling div's for areas to add, update, and delete content. Everythings going well except for trying to place an anchor inside a div for client conta

[css-d] pixel to em conversion revisited

2006-02-09 Thread css man
I've been studying the archives on this subject and experimenting a bit, using the suggestion to set font-size: to 75% and 12px in the body, like so: body { font-size: 12px; _font-size: 75%; } I downloaded "Calipers" and tested this out on Firefox and IE6 and found

Re: [css-d] Any good sites about font sizes?

2006-02-09 Thread Julian Voelcker
Hi Julia, > http://www.unc.edu/~jkullama/inls181/final/font.html Thanks Julia. -- Cheers, Julian Voelcker Cirencester, United Kingdom __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 te

Re: [css-d] Constructive Critisism, Please

2006-02-09 Thread Els
Donna wrote: > Hi List, Hi Donna :-) > I am almost finished with this site I'm making. All pages > validate. This is my first site I've done that looks the > closest to professional that I've done so far (very new to web > site design). > > Please be kind; I'm looking for any helpful suggestions

Re: [css-d] Constructive Critisism, Please

2006-02-09 Thread cj
On 2/9/06, Donna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you in advance to all who feel inclined to help! Here's the link: > > http://sswd51.accountsupport.com/index.html these are probably personal preferences, so feel free to take them as such! - the navigation looks weird to me with a background

Re: [css-d] Constructive Critisism, Please

2006-02-09 Thread Marcel Fahle
Donna, Donna wrote: > I am almost finished with this site I'm making. All pages validate. > This is my first site I've done that looks the closest to professional > that I've done so far (very new to web site design). > > Please be kind; I'm looking for any helpful suggestions on improvement

[css-d] Was: Newby struggling with unwanted border color in Firefox, now Fixing it to work in IE 6

2006-02-09 Thread Maxwell Balmain
Thanks to Rahul Gonsalves for fixing that unwanted color border on the actual image thumbnails and nav arrows. He suggested a img {border:none} attribute and it fixed the Firefox problem. I checked the site last night on a friend's PC and it fails totally in IE6 and Opera. It looks fine on IE

Re: [css-d] tables

2006-02-09 Thread Jim Barraud
This is an excellent write-up: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200410/bring_on_the_tables/ On 2/9/06, Zoe M. Gillenwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jeremy wrote: > > I am looking for a good tutorial on creating Tables that validate. > > any good recommendations? > > > > Jeremy, > > This a

[css-d] Constructive Critisism, Please

2006-02-09 Thread Donna
Hi List, I am almost finished with this site I'm making. All pages validate. This is my first site I've done that looks the closest to professional that I've done so far (very new to web site design). Please be kind; I'm looking for any helpful suggestions on improvements. Thank you in advan

Re: [css-d] Any good sites about font sizes?

2006-02-09 Thread Julian Voelcker
Hi Nick, > You've already received some good lists in response to this, but as an > aside I would suggest one thing which seems to concentrate designers' > minds: make them turn off antialiasing of fonts in Photoshop (or whatever > design tool they use). Great idea - never considered that one,

Re: [css-d] tables

2006-02-09 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
jeremy wrote: > I am looking for a good tutorial on creating Tables that validate. > any good recommendations? > Jeremy, This a question about HTML/XHTML, not CSS, so it doesn't belong on this list. You will have better results asking it on another list, such as one of the ones listed here:

Re: [css-d] tables

2006-02-09 Thread David Dorward
On 09/02/06, jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a good tutorial on creating Tables that validate. > any good recommendations? http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html -- David Dorward

[css-d] tables

2006-02-09 Thread jeremy
I am looking for a good tutorial on creating Tables that validate. any good recommendations? -jeremy __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incut

Re: [css-d] Any good sites about font sizes?

2006-02-09 Thread Julia Kulla-Mader
I am still a CSS newbie, but I happened to look into research surrounding font size and accessibility for a class project last semester. You can find the results at: http://www.unc.edu/~jkullama/inls181/final/font.html Julia Julia Kulla-Mader MSIS Student School of Information and Library Sci

Re: [css-d] Site Check: www.girlscantwhat.com

2006-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Laakso wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Site: http://www.girlscantwhat.com >> CSS: http://www.girlscantwhat.com/css/gcwcss.css >> >> >> > Gretchen, > With regard to readability and breaking on zoom: > Work in FF: > Set the font- size on html to 100%; and 1em on the body; > Set the ma

Re: [css-d] Any good sites about font sizes?

2006-02-09 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
> I am struggling to educate the design team about using sensible font > sizes - all their designs come out with tiny fonts and then when I > create the layout with sensible sizes it tends to knock out the layout. > > One of the biggest problems is that they bounce around design 'proofs' > in PDF f

[css-d] IE and clear:both

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Hilder
Hi, This has probably been discussed before but anyhow. http://stressed.180bpm.co.uk/stuff/design/float.htm The above page looks fine in Firefox and Dreamweaver incidentally. However in IE a lot of the text doesn't appear until you resize the page. It goes again if you refresh it. I'm using cl

Re: [css-d] Any good sites about font sizes?

2006-02-09 Thread Julian Voelcker
Thanks both of you, great help. -- Cheers, Julian Voelcker Cirencester, United Kingdom __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page

[css-d] Problem in IE/WIN with borders

2006-02-09 Thread cindy Smeulders
Hi, I'm a newbie and trying to learn CSS as i go along. Tried to convert my website from tables to css, but have a problem in Win/IE. Other browers (Firefox(lin,mac), Opera(mac), IE(mac) don't show this problem. Used borders to have same lenght columns, tried several other systems (Faux columns a

Re: [css-d] right button panel

2006-02-09 Thread Kike Estellés
On 2/8/06, Zoe M. Gillenwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kike Estellés wrote: > > I've seen in www.csszengarden.com an effect that I can't reproduce. > > > > In this website, when you make smaller the window, it gets a point where > the > > rigth button panel stops and the horizontal scroll bar

Re: [css-d] IE Developer Toolbar b2 released

2006-02-09 Thread Conyers, Dwayne, Mr [C]
Cj announced: > the ie developer toolbar beta 2 was released. I installed the first beta and while it worked fine it seemed to "attach" itself to the Adobe bar... I couldn't hide one without the other hiding, or show one without the other showing. Maddening... especially since deleting the too

[css-d] IE Developer Toolbar b2 released

2006-02-09 Thread cj
the ie developer toolbar beta 2 was released. direct link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/ [no, i don't work for ie.] :)

[css-d] Floats and border. How does this work?

2006-02-09 Thread Michiel van der Blonk
For long I have been looking for the easiest way to create forms without tables. I found several methods: - floating - position:absolute - display:inline-block & display:-moz-inline-box All come with their own caveats and problems. The floating is usually considered the "best". However, it's not

Re: [css-d] browser / viewport height problem

2006-02-09 Thread Jonathan Mao
On 09/02/2006, at 9:58 PM, Cem Meric wrote: > >> The problem is, when the browser window is less than the height of >> the page the content seems to go out of the DIVs. >> >> In other words, the user scrolls down to see the content (that's ok) >> but the white background doesn't extend to the bot

Re: [css-d] browser / viewport height problem

2006-02-09 Thread Jonathan Mao
On 09/02/2006, at 7:39 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Jonathan Mao wrote: >> The problem is, when the browser window is less than the height of >> the page the content seems to go out of the DIVs. > >> http://www.abcreative.net.au/folio_print_case.html http:// >> www.abcreative.net.au/folio_tv_sh

Re: [css-d] Any good sites about font sizes?

2006-02-09 Thread Felix Miata
Julian Voelcker wrote Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:30:10 -: > I am struggling to educate the design team about using sensible font > sizes - all their designs come out with tiny fonts and then when I > create the layout with sensible sizes it tends to knock out the layout. > One of the biggest probl

Re: [css-d] Any good sites about font sizes?

2006-02-09 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Julian: Julian Voelcker wrote: > Have any of you come across any good sites covering the issue of font > sizes and providing sensible (and preferably backed up) guidelines that > I can wave infront of them saying 'it's not just me'? > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html http://

Re: [css-d] Can this menu be reproduced with pure CSS?

2006-02-09 Thread Rakesh Pai
This is fairly simple. You can use a border-left for the colored boxes with a background-position: left with an appropriate image to show that white gap between the colored box and the menu item. There might be other solutions too, though. This is just something I came up with off the top. Just a

Re: [css-d] browser / viewport height problem

2006-02-09 Thread Cem Meric
> The problem is, when the browser window is less than the height of > the page the content seems to go out of the DIVs. > > In other words, the user scrolls down to see the content (that's ok) > but the white background doesn't extend to the bottom of the browser > window. > > Pages to check: >

[css-d] Any good sites about font sizes?

2006-02-09 Thread Julian Voelcker
Hi, I am struggling to educate the design team about using sensible font sizes - all their designs come out with tiny fonts and then when I create the layout with sensible sizes it tends to knock out the layout. One of the biggest problems is that they bounce around design 'proofs' in PDF form

Re: [css-d] z-index? content menu hiding behind header

2006-02-09 Thread francky
cj wrote: >[...] >On 2/7/06, francky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Oops, the % was in the direction, but I was too much in a hurry. - A >>(bottom-2em) is indeed impossible AFAIK, but what you can do is to hang >>the bg-img in the footer, and then push him upwards: >> >> >unfortunately oth

[css-d] Can this menu be reproduced with pure CSS?

2006-02-09 Thread Jackie Carey
http://www.itshere.org.uk I've inherited this table-based site, which is going to be replaced with a CMS-based site at some point in the next six months. I've worked styles into some of it, and the rest can remain until the switch. However, I am not happy with the menu and would like to replace

Re: [css-d] What's causing the offset of items in this form?

2006-02-09 Thread Ingo Chao
James Eaton wrote: > http://dm126.mediaodyssey.com/form.htm Hmm, maybe .sitesearch input {vertical-align: bottom;} ? probably other Browsers don't like this, so serve it to IE only. Ingo -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html ___

Re: [css-d] What's causing the offset of items in this form?

2006-02-09 Thread Marcel Fahle
James, James Eaton wrote: > In this test I have two forms, each with text input field and submit > button. In the top example the button is a standard type="submit", and > the two items line up as I'd expect. In the bottom one I use a > type="image" button. What causes the vertical alignmen

Re: [css-d] browser / viewport height problem

2006-02-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jonathan Mao wrote: > The problem is, when the browser window is less than the height of > the page the content seems to go out of the DIVs. > http://www.abcreative.net.au/folio_print_case.html > http://www.abcreative.net.au/folio_tv_showreel.html It's the div#bgLayer {height: 100%;} and div#wr