Re: [css-d] Generally: CSS and SEO

2006-05-31 Thread Mike A
Many thanks for replies. I have a partially formed view. I mention partially because until sitting down in an Edinburgh pub with a knowledgeable blind person I'd had a complete view. I believe content comes first. It should "read" well, both in screen readers and SE bots. Accordingly, a detailed

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-31 Thread Mark Fellowes
 David, You mean with the comments ? Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:34 PM -07:00 To: Mark Fellowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: CSS List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout > Yet to set the max-width but it seems that wh

Re: [css-d] width:"100%" produces width:"150%" (not quite, but almost)

2006-05-31 Thread Chris C
Sorry to push this issue further, but I'm still having difficulties interpreting where the extra 2 pixels are coming from. I tried implementing what you suggested, and It appears uneven with FF and broken with IE I appreciate your help so far.. I'm still overlooking something though :( Again

[css-d] Wrap text both below *and* above a floated element?

2006-05-31 Thread Frank Burleigh
Here's a page (gray box): http://www.law.indiana.edu/alumni/index_.shtml And another: http://www.law.indiana.edu/alumni/profiles/index.shtml The html source for the gray callout box on the first page and the "profile" items on the second page is a common html include file. I'd like to avoid mu

[css-d] content drops in IE

2006-05-31 Thread it
Are you receiving this? I seem to be receiving CSS-discuss emails but no one on the list has commented on this issue. This is the 4th time I have asked this. If you receive this, please respond to me at least just so I know you are getting this email. Calling on CSS Masters, Firefox works fine,

Re: [css-d] [Fwd: Data not Visible in IE, but works fine in FF]

2006-05-31 Thread natarajan
Thanks for the reply, Yes, indeed found the problem it was nothing to do with CSS, but the problem was with my javascript, I have fixed it now. I will indeed look into the browser upgrade notice, thanks for pointing it out. Kind Regards, Natarajan. Holly Bergevin wrote: > Welcome to the list.

[css-d] Telling a div to do something

2006-05-31 Thread Richard Brown
Hi All I am having problems telling a div to do something! The site is: The div in question is "Tips" and sits in the sidebar and should be styling the random tips feature at the bottom of the column.

[css-d] cascading rules

2006-05-31 Thread ross
I have a div which has some links in it #right { float: left; width: 340px; height: 740px; margin-top: 35px; margin-left: 10px; display:inline; color:#4C4C4C; overflow:auto; line-height: 180%; margin-right: 20px; color:#34302E; } #right a{ color:#A90E2D; text-decoration:none; } inside this d

Re: [css-d] [Repost] Two ?Simple Problems

2006-05-31 Thread Tim Gaunt
Hi Bill, Thanks for your response. The FF issue requires you to add overflow:hidden or overflow:auto to your .CategoryList ruleset. There's other ways as well, but that's a simple and effective way. I've tried this but sadly it hasn't sorted it, I've also tried it on a

Re: [css-d] Generally: CSS and SEO

2006-05-31 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
tedd wrote: > Using anything /may/ cause problems -- it's the experience/skill of > the user that makes the difference. If by "user" you mean 'the visitor', then no particular experience/skill should matter. The basics should just work, and the rest should not prevent it from doing so. If, OTOH,

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-31 Thread David Laakso
Mark Fellowes wrote: > > > David, > > You mean with the comments ? > > > Mark > > > > > > Yet to set the max-width but it seems that while it's now a > liquid-elastic hybrid (?), I didn't realize it would lose the ability > to fill up the view port , the advantage of a liquid design. It does > l

Re: [css-d] [Repost] Two ?Simple Problems

2006-05-31 Thread Tim Gaunt
Urgh nevermind me Bill you were right, thanks for that. Tim __ 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://

Re: [css-d] Elastic and liquid layout

2006-05-31 Thread Mark Fellowes
David, It wasn't an IE issue as much as what I stated earlier about how to keep the page in realation to the view port. The 62.5% font size in body style is relative to the width of the wrapper. Changing it would probably break the design when the text size is increased in browsers. I'm go

Re: [css-d] World is upside-down, IE is good but FF is wrong

2006-05-31 Thread Kenny Graham
The closest I know how to get to what you want without javascript or CSS3 stuff is changing the rule I had you insert to this: #menu ul li ul li a:hover { border-right-width: 0; border-left: 4px solid red; margin-left: -4px; } However, the left border on the submenu items will follow the hi

Re: [css-d] [Fwd: Data not Visible in IE, but works fine in FF]

2006-05-31 Thread Holly Bergevin
Welcome to the list. From: natarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >After a bit of searching, I have identified the source of the >problem, but still yet to find a solution. The problem seems to be an >IFRAME (which is created thru Javascript @ runtime). This is causing IE >to whiteout the rest of t

[css-d] Jello layout

2006-05-31 Thread Mark Fellowes
Hoping I can get some assistance on this type of layout. I've beein working through Mike Purvis's explanation and code and have made adjustments to my page which was originally elastic. If your familiar with Mike's tutorial then I used his bodydiv in the body style, I took the expander code fo

Re: [css-d] Telling a div to do something

2006-05-31 Thread Ian Young
> I am having problems telling a div to do something! The site is: > > > > The div in question is "Tips" and sits in the sidebar and should be > styling the random tips feature at the bottom of the column

Re: [css-d] Telling a div to do something

2006-05-31 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 31/05/06, Ian Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am having problems telling a div to do something! The site is: > > > > > > > > The div in question is "Tips" and sits in the sidebar and should be

Re: [css-d] Telling a div to do something

2006-05-31 Thread Stuart Homfray
Richard Brown wrote: > I am having problems telling a div to do something! The site is: > > > > The div in question is "Tips" and sits in the sidebar and should be > styling the random tips feature at t

Re: [css-d] Telling a div to do something

2006-05-31 Thread Dave Goodchild
On 31/05/06, Stuart Homfray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Richard Brown wrote: > > I am having problems telling a div to do something! The site is: > > > > > > > > The div in question is "Tips" and sits

Re: [css-d] A Gecko page rendering problem with restyled table layout...?

2006-05-31 Thread Stuart Homfray
L. David Baron wrote: > On Monday 2006-05-29 21:38 +0100, Stuart Homfray wrote: >> Anyone seen anything like this before? It's not a Gecko bug is it!? > > If a page behaves differently depending on the order things load, the > speed they load, or separation of packets during the loads, then it's >

Re: [css-d] Telling a div to do something

2006-05-31 Thread Stuart Homfray
Dave Goodchild wrote: > On 31/05/06, Stuart Homfray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Richard Brown wrote: >>> I am having problems telling a div to do something! The site is: >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Guys - the #t

Re: [css-d] Wrap text both below *and* above a floated element?

2006-05-31 Thread Ingo Chao
Frank Burleigh wrote: > http://www.law.indiana.edu/alumni/index_.shtml > In the callout box on the first page, it would be better if the h2 could > consume the full width of the callout box. But it can't because the > floated image consumes space even if it's given top margin that visually >

[css-d] Min Max for IE - FIX FOUND?

2006-05-31 Thread Bill Brown/Jessica Weinberg
Hey All. I was working on some global CSS code for a client's site today and found an interesting little IE "quirk" I thought I'd throw your way. The client site was table based, used javascript to navigate the entire site by sending variables to PHP, had meta tags embedded in the body tags and s

Re: [css-d] Telling a div to do something

2006-05-31 Thread David Laakso
Richard Brown wrote: > I am having problems telling a div to do something! The site is:> > > The div in question is "Tips" and sits in the sidebar and should be > styling the random tips feature at the bottom of the column. However, > it doesn't

Re: [css-d] cascading rules

2006-05-31 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a div which has some links in it > > #right { > > } > > #right a{ > color:#A90E2D; > text-decoration:none; > > } > > inside this div I have a class set up > > Back > > > with the following css... > > .blank_button { > > } > > .blank_button a{ > color:#FF

[css-d] Looking for a consultant to heal me with a redesign of my ui.

2006-05-31 Thread Vineet Jain
My website is at: www.eswap.com:8080 It is still pre-alpha but should give u an idea of the application. I'm looking for someone who can help me with redesigning the look and feel of the above application and come up with a corporate identity. I would really appreciate it if someone can recomm

Re: [css-d] Min Max for IE - FIX FOUND?

2006-05-31 Thread Ingo Chao
Bill Brown/Jessica Weinberg wrote: > ... Expressions finds min-height > with the proper syntax, but not the others (go figure). My tests indicated > that > other browsers ignored the special IE spelling, but I also used conditional > comments to hide it anyway (since I need CCs to hide the expres

Re: [css-d] Jello layout

2006-05-31 Thread David Laakso
Mark Fellowes wrote: > Hoping I can get some assistance on this type of layout. > I've beein working through Mike Purvis's explanation and code and have made > adjustments to my page which was originally elastic. > If your familiar with Mike's tutorial then I used his bodydiv in the body > style

Re: [css-d] Min Max for IE - FIX FOUND?

2006-05-31 Thread Bill Brown
> > Bill, I am clueless when it comes to scripting. > > * { >height: expression( ... ? ... :auto); >... > > wouldn't that let the costs of this function get too height > in longer documents with many elements, as every element has > to be parsed? > > I have inserted your set of expres

Re: [css-d] [Fwd: Data not Visible in IE, but works fine in FF

2006-05-31 Thread Dave Pierce
> >>After a bit of searching, I have identified the source of the >> problem, but still yet to find a solution. The problem seems to be an >> IFRAME (which is created thru Javascript @ runtime). This is causing >> IE >> to whiteout the rest of the code. >> >> Also my same column height is not

[css-d] problems with background-image and footer

2006-05-31 Thread Dave Goodchild
Hi all, having learned a lot from this list I am carefully building up the following design using an elastic layout: http://www.mediamasters.co.uk/dg/doodles/rhindex.php for some reason, the background-image for the header and background colour for the footer do not display in IE6 (Windows XP). A

Re: [css-d] problems with background-image and footer

2006-05-31 Thread Bill Brown
> Hi all, having learned a lot from this list I am carefully > building up the following design using an elastic layout: > > http://www.mediamasters.co.uk/dg/doodles/rhindex.php > > for some reason, the background-image for the header and > background colour for the footer do not display in IE6

Re: [css-d] [Fwd: Data not Visible in IE, but works fine in FF

2006-05-31 Thread Dave Pierce
> >>After a bit of searching, I have identified the source of the >> problem, but still yet to find a solution. The problem seems to be an >> IFRAME (which is created thru Javascript @ runtime). This is causing >> IE >> to whiteout the rest of the code. >> >> Also my same column height is not

[css-d] left justified UL

2006-05-31 Thread Dave Pierce
> (Somebody shoot me...they're making MORE changes!) On this site, > which many of you have helped me create through your expert knowledge, > the client requested that the list be flush left with the heading, no > margins/padding. So I did that but the overflow wraps down and to the > left to

Re: [css-d] Jello layout

2006-05-31 Thread Mark Fellowes
 Tom , It looks good. I'm going to play around with it some more , add some elements. You were the one who threw out the idea yesterday of a jello layout. Have you been using this method for other sites ? Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 2

Re: [css-d] Jello layout

2006-05-31 Thread Mark Fellowes
Tom - Meant to ask in my last email, why do you set the elements in px, shouldn't they be set in % ? Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 2:01 PM -07:00 To: Mark Fellowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [css-d] Jello layout Mark, I have a sample

Re: [css-d] Min Max for IE - FIX FOUND?

2006-05-31 Thread Ingo Chao
Bill Brown wrote: > > Turns out, it's a half fix. It DOES draw significant resources on very long > pages. I've changed the * selector to a class (minMax) and applied the class > to > five elements, much like one applies a clearFix. I noticed a nearly neglible > delay when I applied the class to m

[css-d] Percentage-width input field bug in IE

2006-05-31 Thread Mike Daross
Hi. I'm doing some work that involves embedding a form on the sidebar of people's blogs, and there is a bug that seems to appear on some blogs but not on others. The form contains a form input field with the style "width: 100%;", and, in IE/Win, entering text into that field causes the field

Re: [css-d] Min Max for IE - FIX FOUND?

2006-05-31 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Bill Brown wrote: > What's mostly intriguing to me about this is > that IE expressions are able to find the incorrectly named minWidth, > maxWidth and maxHeight styles, presumably from the DOM? Even more > fascinating is that it IS able to locate the min-height style using > correct syntax. I bel

Re: [css-d] Percentage-width input field bug in IE

2006-05-31 Thread Felix Miata
On 06/05/31 16:20 (GMT-0400) Mike Daross apparently typed: > Hi. I'm doing some work that involves embedding a form on the sidebar > of people's blogs, and there is a bug that seems to appear on some blogs > but not on others. The form contains a form input field with the style > "width: 100%

[css-d] floating list/picture gallery style page

2006-05-31 Thread skye estes
hi everyone! i'm in a bit of a jam. i'm doing a floated page, but it's not behaving at all correctly in i.e. in firefox it works great, thanks to the idea of wrapping the pictures in lists in order to drop the text under them, but in i.e./win some of the pictures seem like they've randomly grown hu

Re: [css-d] Jello layout

2006-05-31 Thread Mark Fellowes
 I tried the generator, I think the reasoning and logic penetrated enough into my brain to at least get a layout going. I'll need more rehashing and pensive thought to be a preacher though. I think the IE width hack is still not right. Also the side navigation still loads funky in IE. And why

Re: [css-d] Percentage-width input field bug in IE

2006-05-31 Thread Mike Daross
Felix - > Sounds like a problem that wouldn't exist if the input field width was > sized in em, or if the whole layout was sized in em. > Thanks for the reply, but this doesn't really help, since the field needs to take up 100% of a pre-defined column, and we can't modify the entire layout; th

Re: [css-d] content drops in IE

2006-05-31 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Firefox works fine, MS IE 6.0 drops the center(column 2) and right > (column 3) below the last line of left (column1). > http://www.availcompany.com/webdev/webcode/css_test10.htm > > I have asked why does IE drop column content before and Mr. Georg > (Gunlaug Sørtun

[css-d] 3 column layout with gaps

2006-05-31 Thread Jill Lenz
Hello, I have a page at http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/intech/lab2/index2.htm where I use a three column layout. In IE6 and FF 1.5.0.3 I am experiencing gaps between the middle and right columns where the yellowish background shows thru, plus I'd like all 3 columns to be the same height. Here's

Re: [css-d] site check please (Pat)

2006-05-31 Thread Pat
Hi Peter I've tried out most of your suggestions and they work great. I haven't tried the one for fixing the varying column lengths yet, but will do that soon. Thank you very much for you help. Pat Peter wrote: Try adding, let'

[css-d] div displaying like a img

2006-05-31 Thread Santiago Restrepo
Hi: This is a really simple question. What kind of properties do I have to give a div to make it behave like a imag. What I mean is that, when you add a images to a text, the keep going with the line until you give a . But the keeps positioning one under another. Is there any way that i can add

Re: [css-d] div displaying like a img

2006-05-31 Thread Christian Montoya
On 5/31/06, Santiago Restrepo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > This is a really simple question. What kind of properties do I have to give > a div to make it behave like a imag. > > What I mean is that, when you add a images to a text, the keep going with > the line until you give a . But the

[css-d] Broken Layout

2006-05-31 Thread Brian Jones
Hi, I have a problem with this layout that I am working on. On the right side of the box there seems to be two overhangs about 10px each that's breaking the layout. I believe it has something to do with the position of the background but I can't seem to figure it out. Here's the link to the probl

[css-d] wanky menu

2006-05-31 Thread Dave Pierce
Hi group, I've just finished putting a new nav bar on this page, http://www.lorettosedgwick.org/pages/sedgwicklife2.html ...this was done according to instructions, and mostly it worked quite well. However, the left side of the navbar should not have the border on it, and I followed the direct

[css-d] Margins displaying differently in IE vs Firefox/Opera

2006-05-31 Thread Joanne
I have a page made where the navigation is sitting in a div with a margin left value of 20px. It is sitting in a different place in IE than it is in Firefox (and I'm pretty sure that Firefox is actually correct. My css code is: #navigation {width: 157px; float: left; margin-left: 20px;} Is there

Re: [css-d] Looking for a consultant to heal me with a redesign of my ui.

2006-05-31 Thread brian ally
Looks like you require someone to help you with the back-end, as well: http://www.eswap.com:8080/ -- snip -- Bad Gateway The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. Additionally, a 502 Bad Gateway error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle t

Re: [css-d] wanky menu

2006-05-31 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jun 1, 2006, at 8:45 AM, Dave Pierce wrote: > I've just finished putting a new nav bar on this page, > http://www.lorettosedgwick.org/pages/sedgwicklife2.html ...this was > done according to instructions, and mostly it worked quite well. > However, the left side of the navbar should not have t

[css-d] 3 Column Static Layout: Left Column Content Broken

2006-05-31 Thread Dan Wadleigh
CSS Team: I have been searching for what I believe to be an IE6/5 bug fix. And along the way I have learned a bit and even resolved another display error with the "hollyhack", but, can't quite seem to figure this one out. I have implemented the 3 column static layout as found here: http://www.br

Re: [css-d] Looking for a consultant to heal me with a redesign of my ui.

2006-05-31 Thread Stephen
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:20:52PM -0400 or thereabouts, brian ally wrote: > Looks like you require someone to help you with the back-end, as well: > > http://www.eswap.com:8080/ The OP might want to be sure SSL is enabled on the site, 'cause port 8080 is usually reserved for SSL. -- Regards St

Re: [css-d] Margins displaying differently in IE vs Firefox/Opera

2006-05-31 Thread Ricky Zhou
On 5/31/06, Joanne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a page made where the navigation is sitting in a div with a margin > left value of 20px. It is sitting in a different place in IE than it is in > Firefox (and I'm pretty sure that Firefox is actually correct. Although I can't tell much more wit

Re: [css-d] Looking for a consultant to heal me with a redesign of my ui.

2006-05-31 Thread Vineet Jain
> Looks like you require someone to help you with the back-end, as well You can try it again. I was uploading new code to fix the 'liable' typo someone else pointed out on this list. VJ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

[css-d] IE doesn't like these column margins

2006-05-31 Thread Christian Montoya
I just put something quick together over at http://portfolio.christianmontoya.com/ and I don't know why IE has such funny column margins compared to the good browsers. I'll most likely redo the design later with flexible columns but at least for now I would like to know what the problem is and fi

Re: [css-d] 3 Column Static Layout: Left Column Content Broken

2006-05-31 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Dan Wadleigh wrote: > The site displays as desired in IE7/FireFox etc, but, the left column > content appears to have an extra margin-top type setting: > http://dev.fowlersoftware.com/ Not sure what you mean by that. 1: you have: .left {margin-top: 65px;} ...and that's the only margin-top I c

Re: [css-d] Percentage-width input field bug in IE

2006-05-31 Thread it
Mike, Take a look at this example for clues on an embedded form css inside the top page banner or header. http://www.availcompany.com/servicefm.php Also,you can see form layout within the page. Good luck -Original Message- From: Mike Daross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May

Re: [css-d] IE doesn't like these column margins

2006-05-31 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Christian Montoya wrote: > http://portfolio.christianmontoya.com/ > > and I don't know why IE has such funny column margins compared to the > good browsers. The margin-doubling bug on floats. Cure: #sidebar {display: inline;} The rest is the default margin on unordered lists that needs to be

Re: [css-d] IE doesn't like these column margins

2006-05-31 Thread Christian Montoya
On 5/31/06, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Montoya wrote: > > > http://portfolio.christianmontoya.com/ > > > > and I don't know why IE has such funny column margins compared to the > > good browsers. > > The margin-doubling bug on floats. > > Cure: > #sidebar {display: inlin

Re: [css-d] Fonts

2006-05-31 Thread Nicholas Morgan
Thanks for your post Richard. I get what you are saying about font licenses and I fully understand. The point of having a font accessible by the web would be that it wouldn't have to be installed natively on the machine ( gets rid of that performance hit) and of course you can't download

Re: [css-d] IE doesn't like these column margins

2006-05-31 Thread it
Are you referring to the vertical margins on the left column of links? If so, try using #sidebar ul li { padding:0 0 5px 0; } instead of margin dino -Original Message- From: Christian Montoya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 9:35 PM To: CSS-D List Subject: [css-d]

Re: [css-d] wanky menu

2006-05-31 Thread it
You forgot the # in #navbar ul .first a {background: none;} dino -Original Message- From: Dave Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 6:45 PM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] wanky menu Hi group, I've just finished putting a new nav bar on this

[css-d] td height

2006-05-31 Thread Anastasios Angelidis
Not sure this is a css question but hey... Using link below... http://ads.infected-rhythms.com/shop/index.php?categoryID=84 In firefox the right hand boxes size to fit the content.. You will See there ie one bottom box that is left empty. If the main content stretches only that last bottom box