Re: [css-d] Site check please

>> Robert O'Rourke on August 03, 2006 9:28 PM asked to Site check http://ipg.sanchothefat.com What I like: --- 1. The site looks to be using a very common CMS which are notorious for using table based templates. You have done a nice job using a CSS based template which passes valid Xh

[css-d] breaking long words in fixed-width areas....

Howdy, I'm doing some bug fixes on a template for a medical site. Everything is pretty clean, but, I'm having a problem with the left-nav. It's a typical styled-UL to create a left-nav that we all do now. The problem is there are a few medical words that are showing up in the left-nav that are

Re: [css-d] multiple-level dropdown menu - exquisitimplementationusing purely CSS

> http://www.grc.com/menu2/invitro.htm > Tell Steve he needs to set the third-level menus with a serious > overlap on their parents because in its current state those leves are > impossible to keep open unless one has his mouse on rails :-) I'm not sure what you mean, Al. Are you wanting the menu

Re: [css-d] multiple-level dropdown menu - exquisit implementation using purely CSS

Christian - Regarding: http://www.grc.com/menu2/invitro.htm Thanks for taking the time to explain your views. I appreciate the links and will look into them deeper the first chance I get. I'm not a CSS purist, just someone who's learning and wanting to do what's right. ;) Robert >> > It is a

Re: [css-d] Any ideas? (was "Navigation list items too far to the right in IE")

On 8/4/06, Justin Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/4/06, Rahul Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looks like you might want to zero out your margins/padding on the > > various items (ul/li for starters). I suspect that it's a problem with > > differing browser defaults. However, my gue

Re: [css-d] Any ideas? (was "Navigation list items too far to the right in IE")

On 8/4/06, Rahul Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like you might want to zero out your margins/padding on the > various items (ul/li for starters). I suspect that it's a problem with > differing browser defaults. However, my guess could be completely off. Sure enough, zeroing the ul's

Re: [css-d] Follow scrolling vertical css menu

I believe that what you are referring to is officially Position:fixed under CSS which naturally is not supported by IE. Evidently they have their own proprietary version of it. Hopefully this will change with IE7. Tom Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Aug 4, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Jasmin Marcolin w

[css-d] Follow scrolling vertical css menu

Hi, I've got two problems associated with a vertical follow scrolling css menu (i.e the menu scrolls down as the user scrolls down the page) :- 1) When it follow scrolls, the menu goes over the top of the 'footer' section of the page. Can the menu be restrained to stop just above the footer

Re: [css-d] No style applied to an A that lacks an HREF... Why?

On 8/2/06, Dean Champeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > I have a series of buttons that I've styled with CCS using a:hover > and I'm having a problem... > > Most of the buttons are just ordinary "a href..." markup that links > to other HTML pages, but one of buttons needs to open a PDF fil

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juliann wheeler wrote: >>> http://www.juliannwheeler.com/phyve/Phyve_Final/index_final.html >>> It looks great in Firefox, but in Internet Explorer many of the >>> boxes are placed in the wrong place. > > >> Looks great :-) but not very usable. You should try to use those >> pages in Lynx - e

Re: [css-d] Style slipping when border deleted or comments out

Ian Young wrote: > This is follow up to a previous post. > > I have rebuilt the page div by div. Used borders to check where everything > was. > everything working and all browsers like. > Removed/commented out borders for live page and yikes, wrapper dropped down > taking background picture with i

Re: [css-d] CSS font question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I don't set a global font size in the css, what is the default size, > and how will EMs be affected? > > If you literally mean not setting a font-size on the body, nor on any selector in the style sheet, the page will render /all text and headings/ at the users

Re: [css-d] Any ideas? (was "Navigation list items too far to the right in IE")

> My main problem right now is the sidebar: I've got three sections to > it (per his design), and the second is a navigation menu marked up as > an unordered list. This renders correctly in all of my test browsers > except IE: IE 5 on Mac nudges all of the list items 33 pixels to the > right, and

Re: [css-d] Site Review - CFL.in/Delta

Phil Pickering wrote: > Hi Rahul, > > The quote inside the element on the home page needs to be > contained inside a element to validate, i.e. > your_quote Ah, thanks. I've been using Dreamweavers validation, and using the Tidy Firefox extension, but neither of them caught that. Will fix this.

[css-d] Any ideas? (was "Navigation list items too far to the right in IE")

Hi! I posted a message a few days ago, and I hadn't received any sort of response yet; I'm assuming it somehow didn't get through, so I thought I'd try again. Sorry for any inconvenience it may cause. --- Hello, all. I'm coding a site for a webcomic my brother's starting--he already gave me t

Re: [css-d] CSS font question

On 06/08/04 15:00 (GMT-0400) [EMAIL PROTECTED] apparently typed: > If I don't set a global font size in the css, what is the default size, There's no real way to know, as you don't know the visitor's combination of screen resolution, DPI, display size, viewing distance and so forth. The CSS si

Re: [css-d] background-color/color; IE styling

1) I'm checking that my CSS validates and I've fixed the errors (didn't realize that background properties had to be in a certain order). But I'm getting warning that no color is specified on elements where I've defined a background-color. It's just a warning, but should I explicitly define all my

Re: [css-d] hr or border style

Cecily Anderson wrote: > I'm working on http://www.uspirg.org/redesign/enviro/template.html, > trying to manipulate the look of the bottom border in some div > styles. The problem is that I want the text in the divs to have > padding, but the bottom border doesn't respond to the padding. If I

Re: [css-d] Style slipping when border deleted or comments out

Ian Young wrote: > This is follow up to a previous post. > > I have rebuilt the page div by div. Used borders to check where everything > was. > Oops! Now you know not to do that in the future. Use background colors instead. Never, ever use border to debug, because they affect layout. You can

Re: [css-d] Site Review - CFL.in/Delta

Hi Rahul, The quote inside the element on the home page needs to be contained inside a element to validate, i.e. your_quote You've also used the element quite a lot in the footer. I'm guessing this is a styling decision rather than a semantic one, in which case you should really be using CSS t

Re: [css-d] CSS font question

> If I don't set a global font size in the css, what is the default size, > and how will EMs be affected? Most browsers default to 12pt Times New Roman. I'm assuming anything you do without setting something globally will be calculated on that. Of course, personal browser settings can change that

Re: [css-d] CSS font question

I'm not sure how ems will be affected, but the default size will be whatever the user has set on their browser. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I don't set a global font size in the css, what is the default size, > and how will EMs be affected? > > _

[css-d] CSS font question

If I don't set a global font size in the css, what is the default size, and how will EMs be affected? -- Marc Luzietti Flagship Project Bayview Financial, L.P. (305) 341-5624 __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-disc

Re: [css-d] Trouble with list left margin

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:10:11 -0500, Travis Killen wrote: > I am trying to style a menu with rounded corners.  [...] > > http://oit.sfasu.edu/test/frame2.html > Hi Travis, I'm not seeing the problem to which you refer[1]. Did you fix it? OTOH I see problems in all except Opera with any increase in t

Re: [css-d] Site Review - CFL.in/Delta

Your website is great. I like the quote, how you styled it. One thing that I think you should change is the font. In my opinion, in this website the sans-serif font isn't the best for the headings. I think using a serif font will be better. Rahul Gonsalves wrote: > Dear All, > > http://cfl.in/d

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

Thanks Joel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This might work for you: > http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/testMenu.html __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http:/

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

This might work for you: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/testMenu.html Portman wrote: > Hi, > > My boss wants me to put a menu on her new website but she wants me to > use DHTML and not CSS. She says that DHTML is more robust and will look > better in all browsers (she wants to go intern

[css-d] Site Review - CFL.in/Delta

Dear All, http://cfl.in/delta/index.html A site check, and your comments would be greatly appreciated. It's a fairly simple, two-column layout, with a CSS/JS dropdown menu from Project VII (thanks Al!). The site is not quite at the release state - so some links don't work. These are in a minor

[css-d] XML Validation & IE6/FF 'hover' Difference

Two problems (webpage: www.dvmvac.com/REDESIGN ... css: www.dvmvac.com/REDESIGN/DVMcss.css) 1 - Have recreated the 1st page of website thanks to Dave Goodchild and David Laakso (basing webpage on http://www.chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/layout21.html from David L.) - bu

Re: [css-d] centering picture/text

Jan Erik Moström wrote: > Another basic CSS question. What I would like to do is to create a part of > page > that contains a photo with a caption that is centered on the page, something > like this: > > --- > | some other part of t

Re: [css-d] centering picture/text

Reply to Jan Erik Moström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06-08-04 19:25: > Another basic CSS question. What I would like to do is to create a > part of page that contains a photo with a caption that is centered on > the page, something like this: > Opps, I forgot to say that the section shown in the sketch

[css-d] (no subject)

Please see my additional questions below (separated by asterisks). Thanks!! Message: 18 Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:39:59 +0200 From: Gunlaug S?rtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [css-d] need help with placement of boxes in CSS To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Co

[css-d] centering picture/text

Another basic CSS question. What I would like to do is to create a part of page that contains a photo with a caption that is centered on the page, something like this: --- | some other part of the page | --

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

> > Here's a fact: Not all clients will have CSS enabled or not have your > > CSS or even enough screen space to accommodate for a menu like this. > Please, provide numbers and sources. Don't forget to provide numbers > for JavaScript - for comparison. No, as there is no such thing as valid stats

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

<...> > Here's a fact: Not all clients will have CSS enabled or not have your > CSS or even enough screen space to accommodate for a menu like this. <...> Please, provide numbers and sources. Don't forget to provide numbers for JavaScript - for comparison. <...> > For a multi level menu CSS > is

[css-d] background-color and color / IE solution

hi, I'm Rayne and I've just joined the list. I'm working on a redesign of my new site and I've got several questions. 1) I'm checking that my CSS validates and I've fixed the errors (didn't realize that background properties had to be in a certain order). But I'm getting warning that no color is s

[css-d] a new problem (now trying to see body's background image)

I want to be able to center the .classcontainer background image in order to see some of the .classbody background image. http://www.geocities.com/sirsavien/ Wade __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

> > Use wired.com and espn.com as examples. Espn.com gets over a million hits > > a day and is all css. They are a huge business. If css is a viable > > solution for them, it is for you too. > > > > Defo use espn.com as an example of how to use css, but not how to > > structure xhtml (over 2000 val

[css-d] ADMIN: end the thread [WAS Re: CSS vs. DHTML?]

Portman wrote: > Hi, > > My boss wants me to put a menu on her new website but she wants me to > use DHTML and not CSS. She says that DHTML is more robust and will look > better in all browsers (she wants to go international) - can you do one > without the other? Is it true? (I don't think so bu

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

> > Use wired.com and espn.com as examples. Espn.com gets over a million hits > a day and is all css. They are a huge business. If css is a viable > solution for them, it is for you too. > > Defo use espn.com as an example of how to use css, but not how to > structure xhtml (over 2000 validation er

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

The important question is what is meant by international? If your audience is going to consist of mostly industrialized nations, it's safe to assume that the vast majority of your audience has decent, CSS-capable browsers. If your goal is a 3rd world audience, you may be dealing with older brow

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

Sheesh, is anyone still using that silly term? Tell your boss to get wake up and come back from 1998. :-) Ok, maybe you don't want to do that... unless you already wanted a new job. But if you can delicately explain that DHTML is (was!) a convenient catch phrase for the practice of making a

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

Nice one Dave! I like to expand my knowledge too but I also do this for a living so sometimes you have to make concessions. Ross __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

Depends what value you put on your time. Why reinvent the wheel? Ross - Original Message - From: "Dave Goodchild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "CSS List" ; "Portman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 3:32 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML? > On 04

[css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

Hi, My boss wants me to put a menu on her new website but she wants me to use DHTML and not CSS. She says that DHTML is more robust and will look better in all browsers (she wants to go international) - can you do one without the other? Is it true? (I don't think so but I am not so well versed

[css-d] hr or border style

I'm working on http://www.uspirg.org/redesign/enviro/template.html, trying to manipulate the look of the bottom border in some div styles. The problem is that I want the text in the divs to have padding, but the bottom border doesn't respond to the padding. If I do an instead of a bottom b

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

On 04/08/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am not advertising but I have used this before, a cheap quick way to > build > menus, > cross browser & platform. Even works for IE mac (apparently). > > http://www.sothink.com/product/dhtmlmenu/ > > > That is not free! Much better IMH

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

I am not advertising but I have used this before, a cheap quick way to build menus, cross browser & platform. Even works for IE mac (apparently). http://www.sothink.com/product/dhtmlmenu/ - Original Message - From: "Dave Goodchild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Portman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

On 04/08/06, Portman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the reply Dave. > > Yep, I guess JavaScript would make it a moot point. My boss wants a menu > similar to Slashdot's menu (www.slashdot.org) but that uses JavaScript. > Could that be redone only using CSS? Yep. You can build an unorde

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

Thanks for the reply Dave. Yep, I guess JavaScript would make it a moot point. My boss wants a menu similar to Slashdot's menu (www.slashdot.org) but that uses JavaScript. Could that be redone only using CSS? Riva Dave Goodchild wrote: > DHTML depends on JavaScript, so it's a moot point. Not a

Re: [css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

On 04/08/06, Portman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > My boss wants me to put a menu on her new website but she wants me to > use DHTML and not CSS. She says that DHTML is more robust and will look > better in all browsers (she wants to go international) - can you do one > without the other?

Re: [css-d] serious problem with display:inline

It would be easier to have an idea if I didn't get a 404 error. Tom Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Aug 4, 2006, at 6:45 AM, Oliver Saager wrote: > Hello! > > I have a serious problem regarding the display:inline style. (At > least I > think THAT is the problem...) > > Please visit http://www.ha

[css-d] serious problem with display:inline

Hello! I have a serious problem regarding the display:inline style. (At least I think THAT is the problem...) Please visit http://www.haasmayer.com/exhibitions/exhibition.asp to see my problem. All I want to do is align the two (highlighted) tiny

Re: [css-d] Gap along right side (from header to footer) in IE5.5 & 6

Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's the 'margin-doubling on floats bug' in IE/win. Same on both sides BTW. Adding... #mainContent { display: inline; } ...and... #secondary { display: inline; } ...will fix it. Note: 'floats' can't be 'inline', so the above is of course "pure nonsense

[css-d] Style slipping when border deleted or comments out

This is follow up to a previous post. I have rebuilt the page div by div. Used borders to check where everything was. everything working and all browsers like. Removed/commented out borders for live page and yikes, wrapper dropped down taking background picture with it! here is how it looks wit

[css-d] serious problem with display:inline

Hello! I have a serious problem regarding the display:inline style. (At least I think THAT is the problem...) Please visit http://www.haasmayer.com/exhibitions/default.asp to see my problem. All I want to do is align the two (highlighted) tiny arrows NEXT to each other. Currently one is BELOW the

[css-d] Showing and Hiding CSS divs - Safari issue

Hi list, Apologies if this gets double posted. I sent it about six hours ago, but from the wrong email address. I suspect posting from an email address that hasn't subscribed to the list won't work... I'm havi

Re: [css-d] Trouble with putting a background-image in container

On 04/08/06, David Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't believe you need the quotes but I think they look pretty. > Pretty they may be, but it is my understanding they don't play nicely > with IE Mac... Double quotes are fine. It is single quotes that IE has trouble with. -- David Dorw