[css-d] Problem balancing margins and paddings

2006-05-08 Thread Mitko Gerensky-Greene
I am trying to redesign the following 3-column layout http://lmmiller.com/biography.html to a new, simpler version with just two columns: http://lmmiller.com/test.php http://lmmiller.com/assets/css/test.css I am facing the following issues: 1. The #quotes appear to have a tiny top margin even t

Re: [css-d] classes and id's

2006-05-08 Thread francky
Jon Jensen wrote: >It depends on what you are trying to do... Each of these does >something slightly different: >[...] > >[...] > >If all of this went over your head, have a look at >http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/ >for a great primer on selectors and CSS. > >Jon > And a direct online

Re: [css-d] Div jumps in IE (two examples)

2006-05-08 Thread francky
Glenn E. Lanier, II wrote: >>From: francky >>Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 5:07 PM >>[...] >>[...] >>[...] >>To get the difference, I should advise to isolate the problem by >>commenting out parts of the (overwhelming table-) code you got, see >>where the css is going wrong, and correct IE in that

Re: [css-d] irritating margin difference

2006-05-08 Thread Felix Miata
On 06/05/07 23:59 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata apparently typed: > I did some rework on my home page today. It has a 25 sec. delayed > redirect, so I have a copy with no redirect temporarily available at: > http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/indexx.html > I have no Mac, so my only Safari look comes from > http:/

Re: [css-d] site check/couple of issues

2006-05-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rella Abernathy wrote: > [...] > I really am a newbie and out of my depth. I am trying to determine > which doctype to use -- not sure what works where, etc -- but that's > not for a CSS list... Not entirely outside the scope of css-d though, as the choice of DTD definitely affects how CSS is w

Re: [css-d] Side navigation too low

2006-05-08 Thread Mark Fellowes
Actually this seems to be a Firefox problem. Not sure what's going on here. I've been looking through the code (XHTML and CSS validate) However the side nav is too low on the left side. http://pamshop.com/Template1/exp8.html# Here is the CSS for the side navigation: http://pamshop.com/Templat

Re: [css-d] Resizing in IE and footer in Firefox

2006-05-08 Thread francky
Tom McNeer wrote: >Hello, > >I'd appreciate it if folks could take a look at the following sample and >give me some guidance as to my errors: >http://www.mediumcool.com/test/layouttest.html. > >I have included most of the style information within the HTML file for >convenience, although there is a

Re: [css-d] Disappearing Breadcrumb!

2006-05-08 Thread Brian Jones
At first glance it sounds like a problem I had called the Peekaboo bug: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/peekaboo.html On 5/8/06, Nick Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm in the middle of a little mystery, and I'd appreciate any help you > might be able to offer.

Re: [css-d] CSS not loading in Firefox/IE

2006-05-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
CSS wrote: > Your point is taken, Georg -- although, with respect, I don't believe > that the state of the HTML markup (which hasn't changed recently) > really affects whether the stylesheet should load correctly for some > visitors and not for others. Of course it doesn't :-) However, it is so

Re: [css-d] classes and id's

2006-05-08 Thread Jon Jensen
It depends on what you are trying to do... Each of these does something slightly different: a.leftborder {color: #ff;} /* all anchors having the leftborder class will be white e.g. bar */ .leftborder a {color: #ff;} /* all anchors inside an element having the leftborder class will be w

Re: [css-d] distribute images across a page

2006-05-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks to Christian I used his (her?) technique and have a working version of my own. I added a rollover effect on my example: www.dottedi.biz/codesamples/5-image-rollover.html The solution hit the mark! -Bob Christian Heilmann wrote: My guess would be to use a real list, set the images to

[css-d] Side navigation too low

2006-05-08 Thread Mark Fellowes
Not sure what's going on here. I've been looking through the code (XHTML and CSS validate) However the side nav is too low on the left side. http://pamshop.com/Template1/exp8.html# Here is the CSS for the side navigation: http://pamshop.com/Template1/exp8_side_nav.css TIA Mark ___

[css-d] classes and id's

2006-05-08 Thread Ron Payette
Hi - I realize this is a very basic question, but the more I try to figure it out the more confused I get. So maybe one of you can set me straight! When using classes (or id's) - what is the correct way to do the following: a.leftborder {color: #ff;} OR .leftborder a {color: #ff;} OR what

[css-d] Disappearing Breadcrumb!

2006-05-08 Thread Nick Grossman
Hi Everyone, I'm in the middle of a little mystery, and I'd appreciate any help you might be able to offer... On the following page, the breadcrumb is disappearing in IE6/win (fine in ffox). However, if you mouse over the breadcrumb area (top of page to the right of the logo) it will reappear.

Re: [css-d] Div jumps in IE (two examples)

2006-05-08 Thread Glenn E. Lanier, II
> From: francky > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 5:07 PM > Glenn E. Lanier, II wrote: > > >[...] > >If you're still reading and not confused, let me try to sum it up: > >http://www.CarpentersForChrist.com/LayerTest/reg.html > >contains valid HTML > > > > > ... Oho! I was still reading but also con

[css-d] Three right floated horizontal navigation lists

2006-05-08 Thread Kristin Caulfield
Hello, I've been going crazy trying to solve this problemIn the header area of this site I'm working on, I have 3 horizontal navigation bars, one under the other, floated to the right. From top to bottom--A tools menu, a main menu, and a sub menu. In the long run I want to make the sub menu

Re: [css-d] Eliminating the URL address, date, and No. of pages

2006-05-08 Thread Jan Brasna
> it prints out the URL of the document [...] How do I get rid of all that? In your browser settings. -- Jan Brasna :: www.alphanumeric.cz | www.janbrasna.com | www.wdnews.net __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-disc

Re: [css-d] site check/couple of issues

2006-05-08 Thread Rella Abernathy
> Nor sure whether you have done some work on this but cannot see > where Bill > gets 57 markup errors. I was intrigued and had a look see. I found > 3!! and > all the same error. In all fairness to Bill, I'm going through the html and trying to find and fix the errors, uploading it and chec

Re: [css-d] site check/couple of issues

2006-05-08 Thread Bill Brown
> Nor sure whether you have done some work on this but cannot > see where Bill gets 57 markup errors. I was intrigued and had > a look see. I found 3!! and all the same error. [snip] > Whilst I agree with Bill that it is good practice to have > good markup it depends what markup error there is w

Re: [css-d] CSS not loading in Firefox/IE

2006-05-08 Thread Ian Young
> > Your point is taken, Georg -- although, with respect, I don't > believe that > the state of the HTML markup (which hasn't changed recently) > really affects > whether the stylesheet should load correctly for some visitors > and not for > others. > > Having said that, I've corrected the validati

Re: [css-d] site check/couple of issues

2006-05-08 Thread Ian Young
Hi Rob. > > I'm gonna hafta echo Gunlaug's recent sentiments about some other posts in > this list. If the markup doesn't validate, it isn't really fair > to call it a > CSS issue. I got 57 errors validating your code, so to isolate the problem > would require re-coding and then deciding if the pro

Re: [css-d] CSS not loading in Firefox/IE

2006-05-08 Thread Dave Goodchild
Looks fine in Firefox to me.! On 08/05/06, CSS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, again. > > Thanks to Bill and Georg (and to others who replied offlist) for > advice/comments. > > I was already pursuing the 'View > Page Style> No Style' option that Bill > suggested, but don't have an answer as y

Re: [css-d] CSS not loading in Firefox/IE

2006-05-08 Thread CSS
Hi, again. Thanks to Bill and Georg (and to others who replied offlist) for advice/comments. I was already pursuing the 'View > Page Style> No Style' option that Bill suggested, but don't have an answer as yet. This wouldn't, however, explain the visitor experiencing the same problem in IE.

[css-d] Eliminating the URL address, date, and No. of pages

2006-05-08 Thread Scott Hughes
I am trying to create an on line document that has it's own header and footer. However, whenever I currently print the document, it prints out the URL of the document in the lower left corner, the number of pages in the upper right corner, and the date in the lower right corner. How do I get rid

Re: [css-d] div covering up scroll bar? Z-index?

2006-05-08 Thread Ingo Chao
Matthew Bernhardt wrote: > > http://benedikt.knowlton.ohio-state.edu/faculty/ > > ... in IE/Windows, the top header div is appearing > over the scroll bar. ... > Am I right in thinking that this is somehow related to the z-index of the > element? Or would it be something else? Something else.

Re: [css-d] div covering up scroll bar? Z-index?

2006-05-08 Thread Matthew Bernhardt
Hello all, On Fri, 05 May 2006 14:37:11 -0400, Brian Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://benedikt.knowlton.ohio-state.edu/faculty/ >> >> ...in IE/Windows, the top header div is appearing >> over the scroll bar. > > one thing that needs fixing is the label element referencing a id that > isn

Re: [css-d] site check/couple of issues

2006-05-08 Thread Bill Brown
> I'm about finished with this site and I've been working on a > Mac, so I could really use some feedback on Windows. I've > checked the site on Safari, Netscape, Firefox and iCab. I'm > not a web developer at all and am just doing my best to try > to kluge this all together. > [snip] > > Eve

[css-d] help

2006-05-08 Thread Brien Wright
help __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http:

Re: [css-d] CSS not loading in Firefox/IE

2006-05-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
CSS wrote: > Any suggestions what might cause Firefox/IE6 to not load the > stylesheet? > > (site is at: www.sfep.org.uk, stylesheet at: > www.sfep.org.uk/styles/sfep.css) Not really, as it seems to styled well enough in my Firefox and IE6 (and also in Opera). However, any attempt to figure out

[css-d] site check/couple of issues

2006-05-08 Thread Rella Abernathy
I'm about finished with this site and I've been working on a Mac, so I could really use some feedback on Windows. I've checked the site on Safari, Netscape, Firefox and iCab. I'm not a web developer at all and am just doing my best to try to kluge this all together. I've had feedback that th

Re: [css-d] CSS not loading in Firefox/IE

2006-05-08 Thread Bill Brown
> Hi, folks > > Please excuse me if this question is off-topic for this list > (although if that is the case, offline responses with any > suggested solutions would be welcome). > > A user of one of the sites I am involved with is seeing some > strange behaviour. It looks as though neither Fi

Re: [css-d] Resizing in IE and footer in Firefox

2006-05-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tom McNeer wrote: > I'd appreciate it if folks could take a look at the following sample > and give me some guidance as to my errors: > http://www.mediumcool.com/test/layouttest.html. Visit the validator first...

[css-d] CSS not loading in Firefox/IE

2006-05-08 Thread CSS
Hi, folks Please excuse me if this question is off-topic for this list (although if that is the case, offline responses with any suggested solutions would be welcome). A user of one of the sites I am involved with is seeing some strange behaviour. It looks as though neither Firefox nor IE6 ar

[css-d] Resizing in IE and footer in Firefox

2006-05-08 Thread Tom McNeer
Hello, I'd appreciate it if folks could take a look at the following sample and give me some guidance as to my errors: http://www.mediumcool.com/test/layouttest.html. I have included most of the style information within the HTML file for convenience

Re: [css-d] Search Engine Design

2006-05-08 Thread bj
> if you could reply with ideas, perhaps some code or links to tutorials or css > effect you have seen and think would be >appropriate, i would be very > grateful. I have a feeling you're not going to get a whole lot of response to this, so I'll give you a starting direction.

Re: [css-d] I'm trying to link to a pdf file.

2006-05-08 Thread Don Miller
The pdf downloads for me and opens even in Acrobat 4 so the links work. The pdf has to be downloaded before it can displayed. On my computer I use a download program that automatically takes over for a download. In some the pfd should opens the reader and displays the pdf in the browser window. I

Re: [css-d] Right Navigation Pane in Liquid Layout is not behavingproperly

2006-05-08 Thread Duckworth, Nigel
Your right column looks fine (FF1.5), it's your background image on that column - it's only 150px wide. Nigel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris C Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 9:31 AM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] Righ

[css-d] Right Navigation Pane in Liquid Layout is not behaving properly

2006-05-08 Thread Chris C
>From reading posts and help you guys helped others with; I resolved my left menu bar navigation problem by implementing the liquid columns (based on this site http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins/) But the problem I'm having is that I can't get my right column to be un-proportional

Re: [css-d] text alignment in footer div

2006-05-08 Thread Ed Seehouse
On 5/8/06, Stevio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would be wrong with using a table in this instance? It achieves > everything that is required without any hacks, like what Francky posted, and > will validate? What's "wrong" (in my opinion) is that it uses tables for layout, something for which

Re: [css-d] align-right-left on same line

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel Kessler
It's improved and fine on the PC IE, but on Safari and Navigator the footer runs up to the navigation, behind the iframe. Alot of the problem is that I wanted the iframe to be indented by a margin-right 15 pixels and this was too much for it. It would be nice if I could indent it more tow

Re: [css-d] text alignment in footer div

2006-05-08 Thread Stevio
What would be wrong with using a table in this instance? It achieves everything that is required without any hacks, like what Francky posted, and will validate? Stephen - Original Message - From: "Helen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 6:22 PM > At the following location

Re: [css-d] png transparency with image-background

2006-05-08 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
Bill Brown wrote: >

[css-d] margin revealer

2006-05-08 Thread Michiel van der Blonk
Hi, The FF and IE toolbars both do a terrific job with the DOM explorer and being able to outline almost anything, except... margins. I have created a javascript solution that outlines elements' margins when you click on them. Though this has some drawbacks (e.g. links cannot show their margin) i

Re: [css-d] png transparency with image-background

2006-05-08 Thread Bill Brown
> Hi, > > I want to make a transparent png the background for a div it > is fine when the image is in an IMG tag I can just use this > > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/ > > but what if I am using image-background{}. Any ideas? > > Ross Hi Ross. This should do the trick. /*

[css-d] align-right-left on same line

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel Kessler
I forgot the url last time, sry: http://hhp.umd.edu/events/systems_thinking/ -- I'm having trouble getting my nav to align on the left and my content (iframe) to align right. I've tried all sorts of combinations. Should I just use a table? My other problem with this is that the nav is not

[css-d] align-right-left on same line

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel Kessler
I'm having trouble getting my nav to align on the left and my content (iframe) to align right. I've tried all sorts of combinations. Should I just use a table? My other problem with this is that the nav is not on the left border on Safari and Navigator, as it is on IE. How can I make that

[css-d] png transparency with image-background

2006-05-08 Thread ross
Hi, I want to make a transparent png the background for a div it is fine when the image is in an IMG tag I can just use this http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/ but what if I am using image-background{}. Any ideas? Ross _

Re: [css-d] Fluid right margin in an auto-centering

2006-05-08 Thread francky
Marcus Duke wrote: >The example for the question is: > >http://fish.washington.edu/wrac/beta/2ndary1.html > >An auto-centered div, fixed width, with bulk of content, including >background image, navigation menu, and a nested text div are giving me >problems with IE Win/Mac (latest versions) and

Re: [css-d] Center Div Vertically and Horizontally

2006-05-08 Thread Els
TMH Design wrote: > I have a splash page for which I want to have a div that is > sized 760px wide by 410px high and regardless of screen > resolution is always centered both vertically and > horizontally. Can someone please show me how to do this? What do you want it to do on a window size of 550

Re: [css-d] Center Div Vertically and Horizontally

2006-05-08 Thread Micky Hulse
TMH Design wrote: > I have a splash page for which I want to have a div that is sized 760px wide > by 410px high and regardless of screen resolution is always centered both > vertically and horizontally. Can someone please show me how to do this? > Thanks so much. Tom Hi Tom, This page might help