[css-d] Z-index for a background image?

In this layout...is there any way possible to get the filmstrip (a background image) to show up *over* the banner (using a z-index or some other way)? I am trying to get away from a "boxy" looking layout... http://www.drkdesign.com/parkerpennington/ http://www.drkdesign.com/parkerpennington/css

Re: [css-d] WinIE and Firefox

Thanks Gunlag that fixed it but... On 26 Apr 2006, at 14:45, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > * html body #column-c {margin-right: -200px;} > > ...in that it will make IE think that floating column is 200px narrower > than its actual width - by pulling in its backside margin that amount. > > You should al

[css-d] Browser Issues

hi all, see http://admin.berkeley.edu/. there is a division (right below the gold bar) between the main nav bar and the left and right divs in internet explorer for pc (for mac is fine). do you know of a hack that would eliminate this space/white bar? or is there some other fix? also, i'm hav

Re: [css-d] problem with list elements

Ross, You've got to wrap your list in the tag: item one item two Cheers, -pete On 4/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem with if you look here > http://scottishsocialnetworks.org/events.php list element that have text that > is on two line aligns with th

Re: [css-d] Footer Issues

From: "Tim \(The Site Doctor\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > IE on the PC when there's only a few >products and you will see it appears below the right hand column. >The other issue is the top menu (Home | Example...) in IE on the PC where a >small white border is added (about 3px I think). >http://ww

Re: [css-d] CSS control text flow

I like sites that work the way yours is working now. It automatically adjusts to fit the width that I want. Much better than having to scroll horizontally just so I can see it the way the author felt like making me see it. But if it must be "fixed", then setting a min-width on #container should

Re: [css-d] CSS control text flow

On 06/04/26 09:59 (GMT-0400) [EMAIL PROTECTED] apparently typed: > I've just joined the mailing list and am still very new to CSS and am finding > it > quite a challenge to learn as what looks good in one browser, is a different > story in another. Anyway, here's my question: is it possible to pr

Re: [css-d] My Toolbar menu crashes IE6

Tim Dawson wrote: >I have built a horizontal menu toolbar following Project 6 of More Eric >Meyer. It works fine in Firefox, >[...] > > Hi Tim, In FF1.07 under (Win98SE) hovering over the menu is flashing like as a thunderstorm - the content and the backgound birds are jumping up and down, a

[css-d] IE6 Over-expanding box with white-space nowrap

Hi all, I have a div with a bunch of text content. I want to display the div on one line only, and crop the right edge to the browser's viewport. Easy breazy, I just apply white-space: nowrap; and overflow: hidden; to the div. BUT, when I put that div inside a table cell with no width (this is re

Re: [css-d] IE6 'dotted' border bug

jack fredricks wrote: >Hi all, > >I've got a lil ol IE6 rendering bug, and I was wondering if anyone had >seen it, and found a solution to it. > >NB: this issue is not related to IE getting dotted -vs- dashed confused > >I have this rule; > >.myclass >{ >border: 1px dashed #000; >} > >When I scrol

Re: [css-d] IE6 'dotted' border bug

jack fredricks wrote: > When I scroll down the page, IE doesn't redraw the borders well, and > they end up all 'bunched up' (so instead of steady dashes, i get > little sections of solid lines randomly dispersed throughout) Well, IE doesn't seem to be able to do nice dotted lines. What I have do

[css-d] IE6 'dotted' border bug

Hi all, I've got a lil ol IE6 rendering bug, and I was wondering if anyone had seen it, and found a solution to it. NB: this issue is not related to IE getting dotted -vs- dashed confused I have this rule; .myclass { border: 1px dashed #000; } When I scroll down the page, IE doesn't redraw the

Re: [css-d] Clearing div breaks absolute positioning - IE

On Apr 26, 2006, at 4:21 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Christy Collins wrote: >> I have an absolutely positioned image that isn't appearing in IE - >> I've isolated the offending code and it seems to be a clearing div. >> http://www.loudjoy.com/styled_div.html > You have (at least) two options. In

Re: [css-d] table cell and position absolute/relative

> On 4/24/06, brian ally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I'm putting together a calendar (no link - i'm still at the fiddling >>stage) and want to have details of certain events show up on hover. That >>is, dates with events have a link w/ abbreviated title, and a hidden >>span with more info. The

Re: [css-d] style sheet not linking

On 26/04/06, Miriam Battersby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am pretty new to .css and have done this site makeover from a public > domain template I found - (Open Source Web design Sinorca 2.0). See > http://www.on-line-biz.com. Why is there no style applied? http://www.on-line-biz.com/olb-screen

Re: [css-d] style sheet not linking

ignore the comment one the tag was closedsorry..my bad... Abyss - Original Message - From: "Miriam Battersby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:56 AM Subject: [css-d] style sheet not linking >I am pretty new to .css and have done this site makeover from

Re: [css-d] style sheet not linking

solved - you have not closed your comment above.. thats why its not linking..do not change the code just close your comment tag Abyss - Original Message - From: "Miriam Battersby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:56 AM Subject: [css-d] style sheet not linking

Re: [css-d] style sheet not linking

When the page initially loaded, I didn't see a stylesheet. So I pulled up your stylesheet and it looked fine. Both the HTML and CSS validate. What's funny is, when I clicked the "back" button in my browser, suddenly the stylesheet was applied. The only thing I could think of that *might* be

Re: [css-d] style sheet not linking

Is your olb-screen.css file located at the root of your website or inside a folder? Miriam Battersby wrote: > I am pretty new to .css and have done this site makeover from a public > domain template I found - (Open Source Web design Sinorca 2.0). See > http://www.on-line-biz.com. Why is there

[css-d] style sheet not linking

I am pretty new to .css and have done this site makeover from a public domain template I found - (Open Source Web design Sinorca 2.0). See http://www.on-line-biz.com. Why is there no style applied? Could someone please help me with this. In the Dreamweaver design view screen this page looks OK

[css-d] My Toolbar menu crashes IE6

I have built a horizontal menu toolbar following Project 6 of More Eric Meyer. It works fine in Firefox, but crashes IE6 when I try testing it there. I cannot establish any pattern to the failure; I can click around the links randomly and they will work for two or even twenty times, and then IE c

Re: [css-d] CSS control text flow

Yes instead of specifying absolute units (in this case pixels (px) use relative units like % or ems or exs :) Problem with using pixels is the browser tryies to render it exact thus when the screen width becomes less than the total of your 3 column divs, because they're floated it'll knock the end

[css-d] IE6 Over-expanding box with white-space: nowrap;

Hi all, I have a div with a bunch of text content. I want to display the div on one line only, and crop the right edge to the browser's viewport. Easy breazy, I just apply white-space: nowrap; and overflow: hidden; to the div. BUT, when I put that div inside a table cell with no width (this is re

[css-d] pure css tooltips and IE

Greetings All, I am using the pure css tool tips from here:http://psacake.com/web/jl.asp It is supposed to work in IE and when I test the above page in IE it does indeed. However, where I use it on my page, http://www.epda.cc/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=26, it d

Re: [css-d] Extra whitespace in IE

I actually ended up fixing the problem by applying the background color to the whole containment div instead of the individual parts (which seems painfully obvious now). Transparent png was still quite large, and of course requires hacking on its own part to make work in IE. I guess I still need a

Re: [css-d] FW: Unwanted gap within div in firefox.

lyn wrote: > For some reason when I place a div within a floated div I get an > unwanted gap at the top of the div. > > Below is a snippet of my code. The problem div is called "column" and > seems to start 10px below the containing div border although there's > only a padding of 5px.. The code y

Re: [css-d] forcing a span right

Schalk wrote: > I am floating it right at the moment but when there is little or no > content to the left of the span it does not stay flush left. > > The site in question is here: > https://www.epda.cc/joomla/index.php > > CSS: > http://www.epda.cc/joomla/templates/epda/css/template_css.css > >

Re: [css-d] Comments, please!

Anne Campbell wrote: > http://www.pocketvenus.net/omnitrend/ > > I've reviewed it in IE 6, Firefox 1.5 and Opera 8.51, all for > Windows. In Opera, there's a space between the header area and the > top of the text box, and I'd be grateful for any help with that. I think Opera 8+ is adding a mis

Re: [css-d] New Member Layout problem looks good in Safari, not in IE 6

Adam McClure wrote: > My problem is that my page looks the way I want it in Safari, and > Firefox but my text is moved up in IE 6 making my exact positioning > of the text screwed up. I checked all of my reference books and > various websites for an explanation but too no avail. Is the > diff

[css-d] Massive IE Screw-up Part 2

Thanks guys for your ideas. While it doesn't look as good (what does in IE), I did get the transparency issue worked out. But, the link problem is still giving me grief. The weird part is, the back part of each is linking, but the image itself. But, the image is in the background. Everythi

[css-d] Very odd bug: disappearing div in IE6/XP, Intermittent

I have a site that just went live and has gotten three reports of a problem where the main content portion of the site completely disappears when using IE6 on Windows XP. I have been unable to duplicate the problem on IE6/XP, or any other browser. The site in question is a fixed width css-p layout

[css-d] Comments, please!

Hi all, David Laakso sent me some very helpful hints on the site I was struggling with last week, and I was inspired to take the plunge and make it standards-compliant after all. It was originally built with tables, but is now table-free for layout, and the HTML and CSS validate! Hooray! I would

Re: [css-d] Footer Issues

Hi Zoe, Thanks for your help but this page is the one that now shows it, I've sorted the footer issue with exception to IE on the PC when there's only a few products and you will see it appears below the right hand column. Firefox however is fine. The other issue is the top menu (Home | Example..

[css-d] New Member Layout problem looks good in Safari, not in IE 6

Hello and thanks in advance for any help or advice anyone out there can give me. First off I am a total newbie or FNG to CSS. My problem is that my page looks the way I want it in Safari, and Firefox but my text is moved up in IE 6 making my exact positioning of the text screwed up. I ch

[css-d] Need Horz Scroll in IE

We have a page that contains a series of nested lists -- standards and sub-standards and sub-sub-standards, etc. Each sub level is indented from it's parent. The problem I have is that there could be something like 8 or 10 sub levels, which can push the content wider than the browser. (Or alter

Re: [css-d] Footer Issues

Tim (The Site Doctor) wrote: > I'm trying to be clever (and failing), basically I would like the footer of > the page to be below everything else, its fine with a small number of > products but as they grow it miss places. Can you please post a page with more products that actually exhibits the

Re: [css-d] Why does IE6 ignore image width?

> Why? Maybe because this is not valid html: > > * no doctype, > * no charset, > * no , > * placed in the I thought about that, but didn't think that would be it. But after you suggested it I went back and fixed all of that. It didn't make a difference. However, I have figured

Re: [css-d] top banner image and link - button loosing borders

MaryES wrote: > The only problem left that I can see is in #button that sits in #leftnav. > There is a light blue border that divides the buttons. In Netscape this > line disappears between 3 of the 10 buttons. The different shades of blue > rollover does work within each button. > > Has anybod

Re: [css-d] Floats and content jumping

Eoin Maguire wrote: > Hi, > >I'm working on a layout with 2 divs floating in a container div. The two > divs float left and right so essentially they are two columns, however, I > have it designed so that they only float side-by-side when the screen > resolution expands to a certain point. The

Re: [css-d] css text sizes

On 4/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have notices that if I make the body of the page font-size:0.8em and do the > the same in a DIV. I get a tiny sized font. Is there any way around this? Always start with 1em at the body. Apparently the safest is: html { font-s

[css-d] CSS control text flow

Hi I've just joined the mailing list and am still very new to CSS and am finding it quite a challenge to learn as what looks good in one browser, is a different story in another. Anyway, here's my question: is it possible to prevent columns wrapping when resizing in a browser window? I have an ex

Re: [css-d] Extra whitespace in IE

Tim Owens wrote: > Thanks for the help! I'm not sure why I didn't think of checking validation > first and foremost. Always validate before anything else. :-) > The problem with the > size of the page is that it is php driven, and the content could change > based on my client's needs so it has t

[css-d] Web publishing software and css

Hi, How do you do css styling when using desktop publishing and web publishing software? Don't ask what software because I won't know until after the interview. I just want to have some idea of what will be possible. What is the difference between desktop and web publishing software? I looked at t

Re: [css-d] WinIE and Firefox

Richard Brown wrote: > > There does seem to be a problem with the third column falling away. In IE/win, yes. That's normal behavior in that browser when the content is too wide. Make that column appear narrower. This addition will do... * html body #column-c {mar

Re: [css-d] horizontal menu help

Travis wrote: > I am trying to make a menu without images. I want it to be > something like: > Menu Item1 | Menu Item2 | Menu Item3 | Menu Item4 | Menu Item5 > > and would like to use type markup. Does > anyone have a good example or link how I can do this? > > Travis D. Falls | Consult

Re: [css-d] table forces float down?

Els wrote: > Tom Dell'Aringa wrote: > > [table causing div to drop] > > I removed all the borders with no luck. It appears the problem > > is the auto width on the body div. When I changed the widths > > to 24% / 74%, it works - see page now: > > > > http://www.pixelmech.com/rev/posts_multiple.htm

Re: [css-d] can't select text in Mozilla

Francky, Thanks so much, that did resolve the issue. Actually, I applied position: relative to a sub-div within the content div, around the content, so that text could be selected on all pages. I also applied the relative positioning to images within the sidebar div so that the link to the galler

[css-d] WinIE and Firefox

Hi I am running into problems at the following site: There does seem to be a problem with the third column falling away. Any ideas please? Thanks -- Rich http://www.cregy.co.uk Embracing what God d

[css-d] horizontal menu help

I am trying to make a menu without images. I want it to be something like: Menu Item1 | Menu Item2 | Menu Item3 | Menu Item4 | Menu Item5 and would like to use type markup. Does anyone have a good example or link how I can do this? Travis D. Falls | Consultant | RAFT.Net | 860.547.4070 |

Re: [css-d] image swap with css

Follow the link and look at the code (view source): www.dottedi.biz/codesamples/rollover.html I got some of this through google search looking for a multi-image rollover. It is a combo of setting the link with an and the alternate/rollover image in CSS. -Bob+ Schalk wrote: >Greetings Al

Re: [css-d] css text sizes

On 06/04/26 05:33 (GMT-0400) [EMAIL PROTECTED] apparently typed: > I have notices that if I make the body of the page font-size:0.8em and do the > the same in a DIV. I get a tiny sized font. Is there any way around this? Yes. Don't do it. First, learn CSS inheritance. Start with the spec: http:/

Re: [css-d] css text sizes

jejeje. I was dealing with this yesterday and I see this post. Sorry for not adding any interesting info to it, but it was just so weird to read it!! Btw, I finally omitted asigning a font size to the whole body. I asign a font size to each div which is going to contain font separately instead. Th

Re: [css-d] css text sizes

On 26/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have notices that if I make the body of the page font-size:0.8em So whatever font size the user has picked in their preferences, you push one 20% smaller? > and do the the same in a DIV. I get a tiny sized font. So the div contains a

Re: [css-d] table forces float down?

Tom Dell'Aringa wrote: [table causing div to drop] > I removed all the borders with no luck. It appears the problem > is the auto width on the body div. When I changed the widths > to 24% / 74%, it works - see page now: > > http://www.pixelmech.com/rev/posts_multiple.html > > I kind of wanted a fi

[css-d] Update to One True Layout Article - problems with anchors within columns

Dear css-d-ers This is a quick note to announce that the long overdue update to my One True Layout article got published on PIE yesterday. http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/onetruelayout/ In summary, the changes are as follows: * New appendix page, Problems with the Equal

[css-d] problem with list elements

I have a problem with if you look here http://scottishsocialnetworks.org/events.php list element that have text that is on two line aligns with the li not the text. I can fix this by putting in a few non breaking spaces on wrapping a span inside (messes up on some browsers) but want to know a

[css-d] css text sizes

Hi, I have notices that if I make the body of the page font-size:0.8em and do the the same in a DIV. I get a tiny sized font. Is there any way around this? __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listi

Re: [css-d] can't select text in Mozilla

Roger Roelofs wrote: >On Apr 26, 2006, at 12:40 AM, Jeniffer C. Johnson wrote: > > >>in Mozilla I can't select text, and on the page >>with the form I also can't bring the form fields into focus >> >>http://mode-superior.offlead.com/dev/clientlogin.php >> >>Problem not occurring in Firefox, Oper

Re: [css-d] Clearing div breaks absolute positioning - IE

> Christy Collins wrote: > >> I have an absolutely positioned image that isn't appearing in IE - >> I've isolated the offending code and it seems to be a clearing div. >> http://www.loudjoy.com/styled_div.html I'll mention a third option also, where the inclusion or exclusion of a clearer-div do

Re: [css-d] Clearing div breaks absolute positioning - IE

Christy Collins wrote: > I have an absolutely positioned image that isn't appearing in IE - > I've isolated the offending code and it seems to be a clearing div. > http://www.loudjoy.com/styled_div.html You have (at least) two options. In any case: delete the clearing div first. Option 1: add..