Re: [css-d] Problems with unordered lists used for navigation menu in IE

2006-04-12 Thread Els
Christine Ce wrote: Hello everyone! Hi :-) I am having a problem in IE with the navigation menu of a site I am working on. It's in the form of two nested unordered lists. The page is here: http://christinec.e-merging.net/katja/home.htm and the CSS is here:

Re: [css-d] strange border rendering on a fieldset in ie

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Allsebrook
Hi Rob If anyone has seen this problem before and knows how to sort it or knows a link please let me know. Yup, I've seen it before: in every single form I've ever made - and no, there's no way to fix it. This is just how IE renders the legend position :-( In this particular case, I would

[css-d] Aligning Form Elements w/ Text (checkboxes, radio buttons, etc)

2006-04-12 Thread TMH Design
Pleaes look at this page - http://www.santarosatrans.com/forum/index.php?action=search See how the check boxes and the input fields when placed next to text. There must be a way to get the text aligned properly as this looks terrible. Thanks for any help. Tom

Re: [css-d] IE incorrectly positions static content following floats with clears

2006-04-12 Thread francky
Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: Thanks Bruno. I can confirm that this works in my test page, and the paragraph text still wraps. However, I think in my current site I am going to compromise with Georg's solution. This is because the site is going to be heavily maintained by non-web people, and there

Re: [css-d] Volume Display using CSS

2006-04-12 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Ingo Chao wrote: Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: In the context of web development, semantic markup means using the most meaningful (X)HTML element to mark up a piece of content as possible, given the constraints of the (X)HTML vocabulary, where the meaning of the element matches the meaning of

[css-d] Help, please. IE bug?

2006-04-12 Thread john
Hi, everybody. I'm having some trouble with a design I'm doing...looks good in Firefox and Safari, but it's not working properly in IE 6 (haven't tested it on other IE versions yet). I added a subnav system, and you can see in IE when hovering on a primary menu option that contains a subnav, the

Re: [css-d] Help, please. IE bug?

2006-04-12 Thread francky
john wrote: Hi, everybody. I'm having some trouble with a design I'm doing...looks good in Firefox and Safari, but it's not working properly in IE 6 (haven't tested it on other IE versions yet). I added a subnav system, and you can see in IE when hovering on a primary menu option that contains

Re: [css-d] IE incorrectly positions static content following floats with clears

2006-04-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: http://www.saferoutesinfo.org/guide/float-clear-IE-gaps.png The paragraph following the h1 is indented from the left by about 20px, and there is a gap of about 60px below each h2. Don't know what other bugs your IE is throwing in there. My version renders it like

Re: [css-d] Help, please. IE bug?

2006-04-12 Thread john
Thanks, Francky. I tried your suggestion, and toyed more with the widths, but nothing I did seemed to fix it. I would appreciate any other help that can be offered. Thank you! ~john On 4/12/06, francky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: john wrote: Hi, everybody. I'm having some trouble with a

Re: [css-d] IE incorrectly positions static content following floats with clears

2006-04-12 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Apr 12, 2006, at 9:21 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/onlineguide-o9tp2.png ...does turn out as... http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/onlineguide-ff1501.png ...with the changes I suggested. It has to do with _where_ margins goes on CSS-tables, and there are

Re: [css-d] Aligning Form Elements w/ Text (checkboxes, radio buttons, etc)

2006-04-12 Thread Jeff Chester
On 4/12/06, TMH Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pleaes look at this page - http://www.santarosatrans.com/forum/index.php?action=search See how the check boxes and the input fields when placed next to text. There must be a way to get the text aligned properly as this looks terrible.

[css-d] Windows XP Made of CSS in Opera

2006-04-12 Thread Kevin Stone
Hey all I often set myself little challenges to do, to teach myself some more about CSS, and its just fun. Anyway my latest one was to try and make Windows XP made using only CSS and XHTML, I used the CSS pop up code from:

Re: [css-d] Windows XP Made of CSS in Opera

2006-04-12 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] http://www.magic-sandwich.co.uk/windowshome.html/ [/snip] Gives a 404 error. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7

Re: [css-d] Windows XP Made of CSS in Opera

2006-04-12 Thread George Cummins
Kevin Stone wrote: Hey all snip The demo is found here: http://www.magic-sandwich.co.uk/windowshome.html/ Demo can be found here: http://www.magic-sandwich.co.uk/other/windows/windows.html I get a 404 when visiting the original link. -- Thanks, George

Re: [css-d] Windows XP Made of CSS in Opera

2006-04-12 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] http://www.magic-sandwich.co.uk/windowshome.html/ [/snip] Gives a 404 error. Just remove the trailing slash, and everything is hunky-dory. It's a really cool demo! The irony that Windows does not work on IE; an infinite loop of non-working-ness! Beautiful! ;-).

Re: [css-d] IE incorrectly positions static content following floats with clears

2006-04-12 Thread Bruno Fassino
Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: http://www.saferoutesinfo.org/guide/float-clear-IE-gaps.png The paragraph following the h1 is indented from the left by about 20px, and there is a gap of about 60px below each h2. I see the left gap. Without checking too much, I think that its reason is the

Re: [css-d] strange border rendering on a fieldset in ie

2006-04-12 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Alright Richard, Cheers for getting back to me, I've actually found a rudimentary fix for the border problem. I doubt it will hold up when re-sizing text in IE but to be honest for the rare occasions thats necessary it still won't look too bad because everything is in the right order.

[css-d] changing bullet point colours

2006-04-12 Thread David Hearn
Hi Has anyone found a way of changing bullet point colours to a different colour to the text? Cheers Dave __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub --

[css-d] table layout to css conversion

2006-04-12 Thread ~davidLaakso
I am converting this site http://www.rackemann.com/ from tables to css; and, I'm a little reluctant to go further without some feedback. Your comments on any aspect will be appreciated. There is only one clickable link: Read on... (bottom of left column) The uri is: http://www.dlaakso.com/srb/

Re: [css-d] IE incorrectly positions static content following floats with clears

2006-04-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: Section 9.5 is otherwise pretty clear for this particular case http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#floats So, how do we best solve it now..? - 1) just wait until all browsers settle on the same interpretation. - 2) do as I usually do: not apply margins or

Re: [css-d] changing bullet point colours

2006-04-12 Thread Christy Collins
Try background images: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/vertical05.htm -C On Apr 12, 2006, at 10:57 AM, David Hearn wrote: Hi Has anyone found a way of changing bullet point colours to a different colour to the text? Cheers Dave

Re: [css-d] changing bullet point colours

2006-04-12 Thread Duckworth, Nigel
Has anyone found a way of changing bullet point colours to a different colour to the text? Dave, try this: CSS li { color: #C00; } li span { color: #0C0; } HTML ul lispanList Item One/span/li /ul Regards, Nigel

Re: [css-d] IE incorrectly positions static content following floats with clears

2006-04-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Bruno Fassino wrote: I guess that the reason why Georg doesn't see the problem is that he applied the fix to the h1 too. When also the h1 is inline, the bug doesn't trigger. You got that right :-) ...one dead bug - one to go... About the space below each h2, I haven't checked, but can't this

Re: [css-d] Windows XP Made of CSS in Opera

2006-04-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Kevin Stone wrote: ... It works fine for the most part, but when I try opening the final list, or the third layer as its labelled on the demo, it only displays one of the list items. http://www.magic-sandwich.co.uk/windowshome.html Have seen this Opera-nonsense before, but have forgotten

Re: [css-d] changing bullet point colours

2006-04-12 Thread Robert O'Rourke
: Hi Has anyone found a way of changing bullet point colours to a different colour to the text Hello, You could always put the text in a span, i'm not sure if you can do it without markup. Its got me thinking though, what about multi-coloured bullet points, each list item would

Re: [css-d] changing bullet point colours

2006-04-12 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Its had a baby! I did knock it up after all... =P Akins, Chris wrote: Maybe you mean mocked up rather than knocked up. 2 different things entirely. :-) Here's something i knocked up: http://www.sanchothefat.com/css/mentalist.html Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] question about safari, IE and FF

2006-04-12 Thread Paul Seale
I gotta ask this question.. ive done a few sites recently which look exactly as they should in IE, FF and event Netscape for mac.. but for what ever reason, the styles are not even loading in safari. What is up with that? Inquiring minds would like to know what piece of code am I missing? Thanks!

Re: [css-d] question about safari, IE and FF

2006-04-12 Thread Els
Paul Seale wrote: I gotta ask this question.. ive done a few sites recently which look exactly as they should in IE, FF and event Netscape for mac.. but for what ever reason, the styles are not even loading in safari. What is up with that? Inquiring minds would like to know what piece of code

Re: [css-d] question about safari, IE and FF

2006-04-12 Thread Roger Roelofs
Paul, On Apr 12, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Paul Seale wrote: I gotta ask this question.. ive done a few sites recently which look exactly as they should in IE, FF and event Netscape for mac.. but for what ever reason, the styles are not even loading in safari. What is up with that?

Re: [css-d] table layout to css conversion

2006-04-12 Thread cj
On 4/12/06, ~davidLaakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am converting this site http://www.rackemann.com/ from tables to css; and, I'm a little reluctant to go further without some feedback. Your comments on any aspect will be appreciated. There is only one clickable link: Read on... (bottom of

[css-d] site check please

2006-04-12 Thread Ryan Brunsvold
Hi again everyone, Requesting a site check (excluding menu - which is linked to the old, table-based site and should be ignored) for the following site: Site: http://www.baycreek.net/newest.html CSS: http://www.baycreek.net/newest.css Having a few display problems in Safari, so any help on that

Re: [css-d] question about safari, IE and FF

2006-04-12 Thread Paul Seale
Here is an example. The CSS validates. Help would be great. http://www.wrightforauditor.com/aboutmark.asp Thanks. -Original Message- From: Roger Roelofs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re:

Re: [css-d] Problems with unordered lists used for navigation menu in IE

2006-04-12 Thread Christine Ce
Thank you Els, it's all fixed now! :-) Christine On 4/12/06, Els [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christine Ce wrote: Hello everyone! Hi :-) I am having a problem in IE with the navigation menu of a site I am working on. It's in the form of two nested unordered lists. The page is here:

Re: [css-d] question about safari, IE and FF

2006-04-12 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 12 Apr 2006, at 19:31, Paul Seale wrote: Here is an example. The CSS validates. Help would be great. http://www.wrightforauditor.com/aboutmark.asp Thanks. Have you fixed this? It looks fine one my Mac with Safari 2.0.3 (417.9.2). Regards, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons

Re: [css-d] table layout to css conversion

2006-04-12 Thread ~davidLaakso
cj wrote: On 4/12/06, ~davidLaakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am converting this site http://www.rackemann.com/ from tables to css; and, I'm a little reluctant to go further without some feedback. The uri is: http://www.dlaakso.com/srb/ [...] i hope those were constructive. :) good

Re: [css-d] table layout to css conversion

2006-04-12 Thread Connor Boyack
I am converting this site http://www.rackemann.com/ from tables to css; and, I'm a little reluctant to go further without some feedback. The uri is: http://www.dlaakso.com/srb/ I think the site needs a color more reflective of a law firm. Grays or Browns usually work well. Additionally,

Re: [css-d] site check please

2006-04-12 Thread ~davidLaakso
Ryan Brunsvold wrote: Hi again everyone, Requesting a site check (excluding menu - which is linked to the old, table-based site and should be ignored) for the following site: Site: http://www.baycreek.net/newest.html CSS: http://www.baycreek.net/newest.css I think you'll need a

[css-d] Hello new to list and with layout problem

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Gilmore
Hi everyone, I¹m Richard I¹m new to the list and new to CSS. I¹m learning it for my job and the websites I work on. I¹m used to tables and old fashioned html and am having a hard time understanding how layout is done in css. I¹m used to working with Fireworks and Photoshop, Illustrator and

Re: [css-d] Hello new to list and with layout problem

2006-04-12 Thread Connor Boyack
I¹ve got an example here of what I¹ve done and now I¹m stuck. And I¹ve included a jpg of what I would like it to look like. Can it be done in css? Frankly I¹m having a hard time believing the hype about how good and useful css is supposed to be when I can¹t even do the simplest layout. I

[css-d] table layout to css conversion

2006-04-12 Thread Peter Hyde-Smith
David Laakso wrote... I am converting this site http://www.rackemann.com/ from tables to css; and, I'm a little reluctant to go further without some feedback. Your comments on any aspect will be appreciated. There is only one clickable link: Read on... (bottom of left column) The uri is:

Re: [css-d] Hello new to list and with layout problem

2006-04-12 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Hi Richard, I'm definitely not an expert but there are definite advantages to css in terms of the layout, once you've done some research and a lot of playing around with css layouts it all comes together. Getting used to using class names and ids appropriately is the key to not

Re: [css-d] table layout to css conversion

2006-04-12 Thread Maziak, Peter \(Tek Systems\)
I like the idea of you using live text for some of the header text, but when it comes down to it--when it is on the screen, it just doesn't look optimum/professional due to aliasing. Try experimenting with different font-family, font-size, or even color. (The Georgia is easier to read than

Re: [css-d] Hello new to list and with layout problem

2006-04-12 Thread Jonathan Mao
Hi Richard The short answer is 'yes' that can be done. I notice some people have already offered suggestions. Here are some references that I hope will help you. Whilst there are some rules there are many ways to implement those rules. You're now entering a world of standards-based design.

Re: [css-d] layout - not centered, not left aligned

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Grevers
On 4/12/06, Donna Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trey wrote: say you have a page/design that's 900px wide, but you want anyone with a view portal of say 800px to see the _rightmost_ 800px. so the design is neither centered nor left aligned. What's wrong with placing everything in a

Re: [css-d] Width of nested block elements

2006-04-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
(edited address) www.loc.gov/nls/children/ Is there a workaround that enables me to keep the banner inbounds in FF and at the end of the file? Try adding... #wrapper {position: relative; padding-top: 1px;} ...so the absolute positioned 'banner' has an element to relate to. That'll make

[css-d] absolute positioning items in self-contained blocks?

2006-04-12 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, I am trying to turn a definition list into an attractive tabbed pane. The user clicks on one of the definition titles and the associated definition is set to display:block by JavaScript. The CSS part is causing me some grief. In the example below, I would like the grey dl to contain all of