Re: [css-d] site check please

2006-05-28 Thread Peter Hyde-Smith
From: "Pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 10:16 PM Subject: [css-d] site check please > Hello, > > Could someone have a look at a site that I've rebuilt. It is my first > attempt at a proper website since starting to learn XHTML and CSS last > year. > I've put the complete site h

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-28 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mark Fellowes wrote: > Regarding the issues [with] [max-width] and IE, are there any > workarounds ? Think so... Here's one solution, using a rather complex IE-expression: ...but it isn't without its problems. Note: I'm just testing, and haven't fine-tun

Re: [css-d] Fonts

2006-05-28 Thread Nicholas Morgan
Sorry for the delay in this post, I'm sure you thought I gave up but Chris thanks for your post but here's my counter. >If you create a movie that only works on 16x9 or needs colour you >cannot stop people from watching it on a TV in 4x3 or black and white. Does this mean that we don't

[css-d] site check please

2006-05-28 Thread Pat
Hello, Could someone have a look at a site that I've rebuilt. It is my first attempt at a proper website since starting to learn XHTML and CSS last year. Before that, I'd done a couple of sites using Front Pge, so it's been a great learning curve. I've put the complete site here temporarily: h

Re: [css-d] Netscape 7 problem?

2006-05-28 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On May 29, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Keith Cox wrote: > Can someone tell me why text on left side of form > (name, address, etc.) will not display in the Netscape > 7 Windows browser? Because you float the label. It is a bug in that browser (and the equivalent Mozilla 1.0 browser. That was fixed in a

[css-d] Forms

2006-05-28 Thread Mark Fellowes
I'm just starting out on forms and CSS. I'm not having luck with one little bit and it maybe difficult to see since it's php code. The form has 3 fields , 2 text for username and password, 1 checkbox for a "remember me". Next to the username and password are "hint" text. It doesn't show up in

[css-d] Netscape 7 problem?

2006-05-28 Thread Keith Cox
Can someone tell me why text on left side of form (name, address, etc.) will not display in the Netscape 7 Windows browser? http://www.keithcoxdesign.com/lsm/mr.html Thanks for your help! Keith Keith Cox Design Phone (918) 520-0836 FAX (918) 622-2830 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-28 Thread Mark Fellowes
Georg, Thank you for the excellent clarification. Regarding the issues iwth mix-width and IE, are there any workarounds ? Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:59 PM -07:00 To: Mark Fellowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: CSS List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

Re: [css-d] centering a absolute div

2006-05-28 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> Could someone help me center this heading? > > I want it to look basically like this: > http://www.clients.thedogsonline.com/timepieces/magoo.html > > Only I want the header just slightly overlapping the content. > You can get the general (un-centered) idea by looking at it here in IE, but it tot

[css-d] centering a absolute div

2006-05-28 Thread ERSpangler
Hi all, Could someone help me center this heading? I want it to look basically like this: http://www.clients.thedogsonline.com/timepieces/magoo.html Only I want the header just slightly overlapping the content. You can get the general (un-centered) idea by looking at it here in IE, but it tota

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-28 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Mark Fellowes wrote: > http://pamshop.com/Template1/ala_elastic.html > > What if I set body (font-size: 50%) then increased the wrapper width > to 72ems ? Does that still keep things in relative proportion ? Doesn't help any, and will make the layout run into 'minimum font size' imposed scaling-

[css-d] IE drops center and right column content below left column

2006-05-28 Thread it
Calling on CSS Masters, Firefox works fine, MS IE 6.0 drops the center(column 2) and right (column 3) below the last line of left (column1). CSS uses a liquid 3 column layout centered and utilizes faux columns. http://www.availcompany

[css-d] different positioning with Internet Explorer

2006-05-28 Thread David McFarland
Hi, I've used absolute positioning to place a paragraph of text over a photo. The paragraph is placed relative to the left, bottom corner of a containing the image and the paragraph. The bottom setting is 10 pixels--in every browser but IE (including IE 7) the bottom of the paragraph is 1

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-28 Thread Mark Fellowes
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 7:41 PM -07:00 To: CSS List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout Here's another question , same topic. In the article by Patrick Griffiths http://www.alistapart.com/articles/elastic/ he uses a

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-28 Thread Mark Fellowes
Here's another question , same topic. In the article by Patrick Griffiths http://www.alistapart.com/articles/elastic/ he uses a 100% font-size for the body and then makes the width at 36ems so that (if I'm correct in my understanding) the text and elements scale in proportion to each other. It

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-28 Thread Mark Fellowes
max-width being set in ems or percentages ? Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 8:34 AM -07:00 To: Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: CSS List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout You can combine elastic and liquid layout

Re: [css-d] Relative-sized horizontal menu buttons

2006-05-28 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Table layout for navigation... > http://www.washington.edu/doit/Stem/ ...converted to CSS layout... > http://staff.washington.edu/tft/menutest/test.html 'CSS table' properties are supposed to solve these problems, and will work just fine in all supporting browsers...

[css-d] Relative-sized horizontal menu buttons

2006-05-28 Thread Terry Thompson
Hi All, I'm converting a table-based layout to CSS, and have run into some complications with a horizontal navigation menu. There are always five buttons on the menu, but the text varies. There's a sample table-based layout here: http://www.washington.edu/doit/Stem/ Here are the things we like

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-28 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 27/05/06, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Fellowes wrote: > > I had a thought (not a revelation) and it seems to me that perhaps > > elastic layouts are good for users who increase text size and liquid > > layouts are better for those with wider displays. It seems that > > li

Re: [css-d] Link Cascade

2006-05-28 Thread Tihomir Georgiev
Hi Christian, I just wanted to add to Ryan's reply and explain why ID selectors take precedence over Class selectors. It's because of something called "specificity", which is basically the calculated "weight" of a selector. The selector with the most weight gets applied last. Selector specificity

Re: [css-d] Site-check

2006-05-28 Thread Andrew Gregory
On Sat, 27 May 2006 23:13:31 +0800, Eystein Alnaes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > http://www.eystein.no/test/OR/fluid.html >> > > I think I can live with really large fontsizes not working to well, this > is a rather hasty project. But - > Opera8.5 is not displaying the menu right, any idea w