Re: [css-d] IE Rendering Problem

2006-10-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Martin Davis wrote: > I have this working beautifully under Firefox 1.5. However, the > wonderful IE plagues me and I don't know where to start to fix it. > http://www.smwstudios.com/Martin/index2.htm Try adding... #mainbody {zoom: 1;} #newsblock {zoom: 1; position: relative; } ...which will

Re: [css-d] IE Rendering Problem

2006-10-18 Thread david
Martin Davis wrote: > Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't even think to look at that. I validate as I go. Only way I can keep on top of things. Then, after I put it up where people can see it, I validate again, just in case! I'm just a learner here, myself, so I'm CCing this back to the CSS-D

Re: [css-d] IE7 Released

2006-10-18 Thread Mark Wheeler
Ok... So is there a way to run IE7 and at least IE6 on the same box? Mark -- On Oct 18, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Mike Soultanian wrote: Well, it looks like it's finally out: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/ later, Mike

[css-d] Making my FIRST fully compliant site! (and losing)

2006-10-18 Thread Jon Hughes
I am a graphic designer aspiring to be a web developer. I know PHP and HTML pretty well, CSS a bit, but ultimately, I don't know what I am supposed to use and where. I've read all I could retain on "AListApart" and some other sites, but now, 15% into the site, I am stumped. I didn't think it wo

[css-d] background/menu missing in IE6

2006-10-18 Thread Linda Quinn
I laid out a page with the markup, and just started formatting with CSS. I have the page header positioned in CSS, and it looks fine in Safari and Firefox on the Mac. In both IE6 & Firefox on the PC both the header background and the menu do not appear. (I was surprised that the problem exi

Re: [css-d] EM's, Images, sperling.com, /16? Please advise.

2006-10-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Micky Hulse wrote: > The number used was 16. Is that related to default font size for a > particular browser? I thought that number changed depending on > browser... I would love to setup a site that displayed images at the > optimal/default dimensions/resolution, but scaled on zoom. > > Seems

Re: [css-d] IE Rendering Problem

2006-10-18 Thread david
Martin Davis wrote: > Hi guys, > > I tried emailing this before, so if you already replied I apologize in > advance. I tried searching the archives and couldn't find my email. > > I don't even know where to start. I have this working beautifully > under Firefox 1.5. However, the wonderful IE plag

[css-d] IE Rendering Problem

2006-10-18 Thread Martin Davis
Hi guys, I tried emailing this before, so if you already replied I apologize in advance. I tried searching the archives and couldn't find my email. I don't even know where to start. I have this working beautifully under Firefox 1.5. However, the wonderful IE plagues me and I don't know where to s

[css-d] IE7 Released

2006-10-18 Thread Mike Soultanian
Well, it looks like it's finally out: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/ later, Mike __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 test

Re: [css-d] Moving divs up page

2006-10-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
ed gooddy wrote: > http://www.villa-corti.com/menus.htm > > > The image divs are all in the right place but the navigation bars I > can´t seem to move. tabsH and navbar are the ones I want to move and > they are in the navshadow div which presently doen´t have a style. > All the divs hare posi

[css-d] EM's, Images, sperling.com, /16? Please advise.

2006-10-18 Thread Micky Hulse
Ian Young wrote: > Have a look at Tedd's article on this: > http://sperling.com/examples/zoom/ (Note: Above quote taken from CSS-d email/thread with this Subject line: "Re: [css-d] Can images be dynamically resized proportionally with minand max sizes?" I did not want to thread-jack.) Maybe Te

Re: [css-d] Shopping Cart

2006-10-18 Thread Ted
> I am looking for advice on what shopping cart software packages are > out > there and your experiences with them. I am a (somewhat picky) Web > designer > and would want full control of the source code so that I could > design the > storefront to my own liking. I have general knowledge of

Re: [css-d] Moving divs up page

2006-10-18 Thread Dave Goodchild
You may want to validate your xhtml before you amend that. 32 errors. __ 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 --

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for "Trimmed Content" in a narrowing table cell

2006-10-18 Thread Curby
Ok, there seems to be two solutions. The first is to use a fixed-layout table with hard-set column widths on col elements. The columns that should shrink and grow don't have such styling; in effect, they have an "auto" width. The advantage to the first solution is that the table renders quickly

[css-d] Moving divs up page

2006-10-18 Thread ed gooddy
Here is the page I'm working on: http://www.villa-corti.com/menus.htm The image divs are all in the right place but the navigation bars I can´t seem to move. tabsH and navbar are the ones I want to move and they are in the navshadow div which presently doen´t have a style. All the divs hare

Re: [css-d] CSS solution for "Trimmed Content" in a narrowing table cell

2006-10-18 Thread Curby
Ok, I notice that gmail also has "table-layout: fixed" for the table, so i tried applying that. It got the clipping to work, but it set every column to be the same width, as shown in the second table here: http://curby.net/pub/temp/indexer_test.htm How does gmail get a fixed layout table to use

Re: [css-d] Site check please - IE problem......

2006-10-18 Thread francky
Pieter Botha wrote: >Hello everyone. >Please check this site for me: http://kusile.cojjoconnect.co.za > >I have a little problem in IE... >The dark green header bar (h1 with background color applied) should >touch the menu bar, there is a small little annoying gap. > >Seems like padding is applied

Re: [css-d] Can images be dynamically resized proportionally with minand max sizes?

2006-10-18 Thread Richard Grevers
> > Subject: [css-d] Can images be dynamically resized proportionally > > with minand max sizes? > > > > > > Is there any way, using css, to resize both the height and width > > of an HTML > > element like an image to the same percentage based on the width of the > > browser window? > > > > Ideally

Re: [css-d] Menu Positioning

2006-10-18 Thread ~davidLaakso
Murphy, Percevial wrote: > [.].I > can't figure out how to descriptions that are appearing > below the menu to show to the right of the main menu item you are > hovering over? > > I believe that is Eric Meyer's 'pop-up' demo.

Re: [css-d] CSS Gallery from database

2006-10-18 Thread ~davidLaakso
Ian Young wrote: > I have a client, like Annie who is a photographer and I would like a simple > Gallery that uses CSS as the main driver but picks the images from MySQL. > > Now if I were being really lazy, I could use a CMS - like Joomla with its > Zoom extension which does a reasonable job, can

Re: [css-d] Inline or block display for div question

2006-10-18 Thread Mark J. Reed
OK, first of all, div's default to display: block, so setting that is the same as not setting display: at all. The purpose of div is to be the generic block-display container, just as span is the generic inline-display container. By definition, absent explicit positioning, a block element is a fu

Re: [css-d] Inline or block display for div question

2006-10-18 Thread Roger Roelofs
Mark, On Oct 18, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Mark Wheeler wrote: > Ok, I've been following the "why margin-top/bottom don't work for > span class?" thread, and have an offshoot question that has been > bugging me for some time. Say I have a div that has a little bit of > content such as: > > .div1 { >

Re: [css-d] link in FF

2006-10-18 Thread Roger Roelofs
Kathryn, On Oct 18, 2006, at 4:47 PM, Kathryn Crutcher wrote: > I am working on a touch screen kiosk that will use FF. In IE i > could define > the button size and background and the size specified was the link > which is > what I want. To get the background images to show completely In FF

Re: [css-d] Shopping Cart

2006-10-18 Thread Fabienne
Russ Bombardieri wrote: > I am looking for advice on what shopping cart software packages are out > there and your experiences with them. I am a (somewhat picky) Web designer > and would want full control of the source code so that I could design the > storefront to my own liking. ... Any guidance

Re: [css-d] Can images be dynamically resized proportionally with minand max sizes?

2006-10-18 Thread Ian Young
> Subject: [css-d] Can images be dynamically resized proportionally > with minand max sizes? > > > Is there any way, using css, to resize both the height and width > of an HTML > element like an image to the same percentage based on the width of the > browser window? > > Ideally, I'd like to give

Re: [css-d] CSS Gallery from database

2006-10-18 Thread Ian Young
> Subject: Re: [css-d] CSS Gallery from database > > > > So what are the thoughts? > > ...about what? Not quite sure what you are asking. > > I am looking for the elegance of the CSS Gallery but with the flexibility of using MySQL and PHP to pick the images, so that we can upload images to databas

[css-d] link in FF

2006-10-18 Thread Kathryn Crutcher
I am working on a touch screen kiosk that will use FF. In IE i could define the button size and background and the size specified was the link which is what I want. To get the background images to show completely In FF i ended up resorting to a table. Ideally, i want to get rid of the table. Even w

[css-d] Inline or block display for div question

2006-10-18 Thread Mark Wheeler
Hi all, Ok, I've been following the "why margin-top/bottom don't work for span class?" thread, and have an offshoot question that has been bugging me for some time. Say I have a div that has a little bit of content such as: .div1 { border: 1px solid red; padding: 5px;

Re: [css-d] Layout differences in IE/FireFox (Win) WRT Fieldset

2006-10-18 Thread Glenn E. Lanier, II
> From: Glenn E. Lanier, II > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:36 PM Original Post: http://lists.css-discuss.org/mailman/private/css-d/2006-October/070167.html > I have a page [1] that works solidly (as far as I can tell) in FireFox > (Windows XP, v1.5.0.7) but when viewed in IE the third > f

[css-d] Menu Positioning

2006-10-18 Thread Murphy, Percevial
Below is some CSS that I found that I really like. To see a working sample, visit http://www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/customcf/murphyp/sample5.html. Right now when you hover over the links, you get a description. I actually plan to modify this so that an actual sub menu with links appears, but I can't figure

[css-d] Can images be dynamically resized proportionally with min and max sizes?

2006-10-18 Thread Craig Palenshus
Is there any way, using css, to resize both the height and width of an HTML element like an image to the same percentage based on the width of the browser window? Ideally, I'd like to give a minimum and maximum size (height and width), too. In other words, I want to make sure my image is displa

Re: [css-d] Sticky footer kinda sorta

2006-10-18 Thread Tribou, Eric
http://webhost.bridgew.edu/etribou/layouts/exp/diane/one.html That's my attempt at sticky footer (and header). There are some browsers that don't handle it well but it might be something that could be worked around (or the "sticky" part just not applied to older browsers). -- Eric Tribou > -

Re: [css-d] Sticky footer kinda sorta

2006-10-18 Thread ~davidLaakso
Tom Livingston wrote: > I am in need of a footer that sticks to the bottom of the viewport, > but when content runs deep, the footer is pushed down accordingly. > Here, for example: > http://66.155.251.18/mlinc.com/06/ Anything is possible. Getting it to work reliably cross-browser without throwin

Re: [css-d] why margin-top/bottom don't work for span class?

2006-10-18 Thread Tribou, Eric
How vertical padding and margins are applied vary between browsers. The typical reaction I see is that vertical padding/margins/borders are applied, but they do not change the dimensions of the inline element. Meaning if an inline element is 1em tall, it remains 1em tall and it is rendered as if i

[css-d] Sticky footer kinda sorta

2006-10-18 Thread Tom Livingston
Hi list, I am in need of a footer that sticks to the bottom of the viewport, but when content runs deep, the footer is pushed down accordingly. Here, for example: http://66.155.251.18/mlinc.com/06/ Can the footer be pinned to the bottom no matter how tall the viewport, but when copy, etc. is add

Re: [css-d] CSS Gallery from database

2006-10-18 Thread Austin, Darrel
> So what are the thoughts? ...about what? Not quite sure what you are asking. I've built an image/portfolio management tool. The front end CSS is somewhat arbitrary. I could use a CSS template or a table template interchangeably. IMHO, a good content management tool does just that...and leaves

[css-d] CSS Gallery from database

2006-10-18 Thread Ian Young
Anne Pennington's recent post got me thinking and maybe this has already been answered. If so forgive the repetition. I have a client, like Annie who is a photographer and I would like a simple Gallery that uses CSS as the main driver but picks the images from MySQL. Now if I were being really la

Re: [css-d] class and id naming conventions?

2006-10-18 Thread Arlen Walker
On Oct 18, 2006, at 8:32 AM, frances wrote: > Does anyone know of experienced css users creating or suggesting > naming > standards for classes and IDs? I *never* put style information in the ID/class name. that means when the time comes to rework the site, I can rework the style without h

Re: [css-d] Min/max-width problem in IE6

2006-10-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Brett Derry wrote: > http://www.coopintranet.co.uk/xmas > When I scale the window in the page width doesn't change (much) until > the right hand side of the window hits the right hand side of the > page. Only then does it change width. > > Any ideas? Yes... :-) ...there's a flaw in your page-

Re: [css-d] Shopping Cart

2006-10-18 Thread Clint Ecker
For the love of everything that is sacred stay away from osCommerce. If you ever plan to extend it's basic functionality with plugins you'll go mad* I don't seem to remember it being very friendly in many aspects, but is seems like there are a lot of people out there using it. * Unless osCommerce

Re: [css-d] class and id naming conventions?

2006-10-18 Thread Barney Carroll
frances wrote: > Does anyone know of experienced css users creating or suggesting naming > standards for classes and IDs? > > Thanks for your help! > -frances The best theory, I believe, is to keep names, especially class names, related to their function, as opposed to description. So if y

Re: [css-d] why margin-top/bottom don't work for span class?

2006-10-18 Thread Tee G. Peng
Hi Alex, thanks for the quick response. On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:42 AM, Alex Bienz wrote: > span is an inline element, and top and > bottom paddings and margins don't apply to inline elements. But according to my example, it does work for top/bottom padding. In the example I have background color

[css-d] Shopping Cart

2006-10-18 Thread Russ Bombardieri
I am looking for advice on what shopping cart software packages are out there and your experiences with them. I am a (somewhat picky) Web designer and would want full control of the source code so that I could design the storefront to my own liking. I have general knowledge of ASP, ASP.NET, and P

Re: [css-d] class and id naming conventions?

2006-10-18 Thread Dave Goodchild
I shy away from using ids and classes like .red or .bright simply because at some point I may need to change the colours and then will have to change the name too ie .red { color: red; } better: .warning { color: red; } __ css-d

Re: [css-d] class and id naming conventions?

2006-10-18 Thread Gareth Rodger
Hi Frances, With a layout like the following: Navigation Area Home About I use the following CSS: .left-navi { /* Main navi box */ width:120px; } .left-navi h1 { /* Title font */ font-family: Verdana; } .l

Re: [css-d] Min/max-width problem in IE6

2006-10-18 Thread Brett Derry
Hi Georg, That's exactly what I was looking for (and not a million miles away from Ian Young's earlier suggestion). However, I still have a problem with IE6. When I scale the window in the page width doesn't change (much) until the right hand side of the window hits the right hand side of the p

Re: [css-d] Remove frame borders through CSS

2006-10-18 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 10/17/06, Bernat Lleonart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying with frame { border: none;} and it doesn't work (perhaps > because I'm on Firefox on Mac OS X?). Well, you could try border-style: none; but border: none should work. Do you have a link we could look at? -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAI

Re: [css-d] why margin-top/bottom don't work for span class?

2006-10-18 Thread Alex Bienz
Hi, this is not the first time I have the similar problem that the margin top and bottom have no effect for inline span class. http://project.lotusseedsdesign.com/sh1/follows-1018-span.html for the above page, I declared "margin-left: 30px;margin-top: 500px; " for the following span class, a

[css-d] why margin-top/bottom don't work for span class?

2006-10-18 Thread Tee G. Peng
Hi, this is not the first time I have the similar problem that the margin top and bottom have no effect for inline span class. http://project.lotusseedsdesign.com/sh1/follows-1018-span.html for the above page, I declared "margin-left: 30px;margin-top: 500px; " for the following span class, a

[css-d] class and id naming conventions?

2006-10-18 Thread frances
Hello. I've been working with css for a while now, but I still struggle with creating flexible and re-usable Class and ID names. IDs are usually easier since I most often use them for structure, so the left column is #left-column, etc. But in cases where they are used to style content, I am to

Re: [css-d] Using Dreamweaver with standards-based websites?

2006-10-18 Thread Matt Dawson
Wow! I'm away from my email for a day and look at all the terrific replies! Thanks to everyone for your advice. For those who mentioned it'd be easier if you could see the design, I've posted it here: http://www.southernenvironment.org/test/home_redraft.html For comparison sake, check out the

Re: [css-d] Min/max-width problem in IE6

2006-10-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Brett Derry wrote: >> www.coopintranet.co.uk/xmas > Further to my last email, I've played around a little with my margins > on my wrappers and changed my _width: expression in my ie.css > stylesheet and it seems to have sorted it! As far as I can see you now have a solution that makes IE6 free

Re: [css-d] taming the tabs that follow a table! Really desperate!

2006-10-18 Thread James Leslie
Hi Tee, Sorry I don't have time to properly look at your code, but I have a similar thing here that I managed to get to work after a bit of tweaking, apologies for putting the full code up but you should be able to find the bits you need easily enough. This uses lists for the tabs. (The links on

[css-d] CSS solution for "Trimmed Content" in a narrowing table cell

2006-10-18 Thread Curby
The idea is to have a column in a table of static content where enough content is displayed to take up the full width of the table cell as the table's width changes. Here's an example of a file listing, displayed in a table: Wide table: | Filename | Size | Date | | short n

[css-d] taming the tabs that follow a table! Really desperate!

2006-10-18 Thread Tee G. Peng
I have a layout that should look exactly like so http://project.lotusseedsdesign.com/sh1/ss.jpg and is displaying fine in Firefox (Mac only) with span classes for the tabs: http://project.lotusseedsdesign.com/sh1/follows-1018-span.html http://project.lotusseedsdesign.com/sh1/follows_2.css Span

[css-d] Slide show thumbnails tiling

2006-10-18 Thread Anne Pennington
Kind people A while ago Marcello Mastroianni very kindly pointed me in the direction of http://cssplay.co.uk/articles/gallery/index.html as a solution to a slideshow. On that occasion I used another method but since then an opportunity to build a website for a photographer has come up so I have ex

Re: [css-d] Min/max-width problem in IE6

2006-10-18 Thread Brett Derry
Ian/List, Further to my last email, I've played around a little with my margins on my wrappers and changed my _width: expression in my ie.css stylesheet and it seems to have sorted it! Many thanks, Brett > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > discuss.o

Re: [css-d] Min/max-width problem in IE6

2006-10-18 Thread Ian Young
> > > Hi Ian, > > Thanks for the reply. I've made the change to the CSS as you specified > but now the site is fixed in FF and I'm still getting the problem in IE. > > I've uploaded the new CSS so you can see what's happening. > > http://www.coopintranet.co.uk/xmas/ > > Any other ideas? > > Brett

Re: [css-d] Min/max-width problem in IE6

2006-10-18 Thread Brett Derry
Hi Ian, Thanks for the reply. I've made the change to the CSS as you specified but now the site is fixed in FF and I'm still getting the problem in IE. I've uploaded the new CSS so you can see what's happening. http://www.coopintranet.co.uk/xmas/ Any other ideas? Brett > > > > > > Morning all

Re: [css-d] Min/max-width problem in IE6

2006-10-18 Thread Ian Young
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brett Derry > Sent: 18 October 2006 09:35 > To: CSS Mailinglist > Subject: [css-d] Min/max-width problem in IE6 > > > Morning all, > > > > I'm having a problem with my min/max-width site in IE6. As we all > know, IE6 doesn't support th

Re: [css-d] Serious problems in IE 6

2006-10-18 Thread Stefan Nagtegaal
Op 18-okt-2006, om 0:15 heeft Rainer Wagener het volgende geschreven: > tefan Nagtegaal wrote: > >> It looks like, when hovering a hyperlink in the main >> content area or >> the right sidebar, the background in the (floated) >> sidebars, are ... >> well... not displayed right. > > Looks like a H

[css-d] Min/max-width problem in IE6

2006-10-18 Thread Brett Derry
Morning all, I'm having a problem with my min/max-width site in IE6. As we all know, IE6 doesn't support this CSS but I'd like to know a bulletproof way of getting it to work! I've noticed that simplebits.com uses this method of CSS for his wrapper div and I've tried to replicate it in t

Re: [css-d] validation

2006-10-18 Thread Ian Young
> > However, some of the responses have lead to something I've wondered > about which *is* CSS-related. Does setting image dimensions in a style > sheet and leaving them out of the HTML cause problems in any browsers? > > Funny you should ask. I have just done a test on this. So far haven't found