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

2006-08-04 Thread Paul Novitski
At 04:30 PM 8/3/2006, Wade Markham wrote: When I try to create a background by using a jpeg file for container {}, I get nothing. container { width: 703px; position: absolute; background-image: url(Images/Paper.jpg); } Try giving your block

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

2006-08-04 Thread David Dorward
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 Dorward

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

2006-08-04 Thread Eric Hassler
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

[css-d] serious problem with display:inline

2006-08-04 Thread Oliver Saager
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

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

2006-08-04 Thread Ian Young
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

[css-d] serious problem with display:inline

2006-08-04 Thread Oliver Saager
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 http://www.haasmayer.com/exhibitions/default.asp to see my problem. All I want to do is align the two (highlighted) tiny

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

2006-08-04 Thread Tom Keenan
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

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

2006-08-04 Thread Dave Goodchild
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? Is it

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

2006-08-04 Thread Portman
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

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

2006-08-04 Thread Dave Goodchild
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 unordered

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

2006-08-04 Thread ross
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] Cc: CSS

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

2006-08-04 Thread Dave Goodchild
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 IMHO to learn

[css-d] hr or border style

2006-08-04 Thread Cecily Anderson
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 hr instead of a

[css-d] CSS vs. DHTML?

2006-08-04 Thread Portman
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

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

2006-08-04 Thread ross
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 css-d@lists.css-discuss.org; Portman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 3:32 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] CSS vs.

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

2006-08-04 Thread ross
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

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

2006-08-04 Thread Ben Munat
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?

2006-08-04 Thread MarcLuzietti
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

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

2006-08-04 Thread Dave Goodchild
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 errors)

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

2006-08-04 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
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 but I

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

2006-08-04 Thread Christian Heilmann
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

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

2006-08-04 Thread Wade Markham
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]

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

2006-08-04 Thread Rayne Bair
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

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

2006-08-04 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
... 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 just not

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

2006-08-04 Thread Christian Heilmann
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 for

[css-d] centering picture/text

2006-08-04 Thread Jan Erik Moström
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 |

[css-d] (no subject)

2006-08-04 Thread juliann wheeler
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]

Re: [css-d] centering picture/text

2006-08-04 Thread Jan Erik Moström
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 is

Re: [css-d] centering picture/text

2006-08-04 Thread Robert O'Rourke
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 the

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

2006-08-04 Thread R. Alan Payne
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.) -

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

2006-08-04 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
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

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

2006-08-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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

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

2006-08-04 Thread Portman
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 --

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

2006-08-04 Thread Josie Xie
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,

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

2006-08-04 Thread David Hucklesby
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 text

[css-d] CSS font question

2006-08-04 Thread MarcLuzietti
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]

Re: [css-d] CSS font question

2006-08-04 Thread Josie Xie
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?

Re: [css-d] CSS font question

2006-08-04 Thread Aaron Scott Hildebrandt
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] Site Review - CFL.in/Delta

2006-08-04 Thread Phil Pickering
Hi Rahul, The quote inside the blockquote element on the home page needs to be contained inside a p element to validate, i.e. blockquotepyour_quote/p/blockquote You've also used the strong element quite a lot in the footer. I'm guessing this is a styling decision rather than a semantic one, in

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

2006-08-04 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
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 use

Re: [css-d] hr or border style

2006-08-04 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
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] background-color/color; IE styling

2006-08-04 Thread Rayne Bair
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] CSS font question

2006-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
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

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

2006-08-04 Thread Justin Myers
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

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

2006-08-04 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
Phil Pickering wrote: Hi Rahul, The quote inside the blockquote element on the home page needs to be contained inside a p element to validate, i.e. blockquotepyour_quote/p/blockquote Ah, thanks. I've been using Dreamweavers validation, and using the Tidy Firefox extension, but neither of

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

2006-08-04 Thread Rahul Gonsalves
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 IE

Re: [css-d] CSS font question

2006-08-04 Thread David Laakso
[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] Style slipping when border deleted or comments out

2006-08-04 Thread David Laakso
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 it!

Re: [css-d] (no subject)

2006-08-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
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 - especially the

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

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Grevers
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 file in a

[css-d] Follow scrolling vertical css menu

2006-08-04 Thread Jasmin Marcolin
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] Follow scrolling vertical css menu

2006-08-04 Thread Tom Keenan
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

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

2006-08-04 Thread Justin Myers
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] Any ideas? (was Navigation list items too far to the right in IE)

2006-08-04 Thread Justin Myers
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 guess could

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

2006-08-04 Thread Robert Byrnes
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] multiple-level dropdown menu - exquisitimplementationusing purely CSS

2006-08-04 Thread Robert Byrnes
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 to

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

2006-08-04 Thread Karl Jacobs
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