Re: [css-d] Language switching

2007-03-04 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Chris Chen wrote: > I am help maintain a website that needs to support switching between English > and Chinese languages (preferrably just by clicking on a button/link). Does > CSS prescribe a recommended way to do such language switching? This is a functionality or content

[css-d] Language switching

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Chen
Hi, I am help maintain a website that needs to support switching between English and Chinese languages (preferrably just by clicking on a button/link). Does CSS prescribe a recommended way to do such language switching? Thanks, Pai-Hung ___

Re: [css-d] What's the proper way to vertically center an element within its parent?

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Chen
The modern way to do this, since a menu (even a horizontal one) is just a list of links, is to use the UL element as the wrapper. The anchors then go in the LI elements within. See for example the Listamatic site at http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/ COOL! I am happily switching + inline

Re: [css-d] media=print/css problems with IE7

2007-03-04 Thread Ingo Chao
Bruce MacKay wrote: > Hi folks, > > IE7 users on one of my sites are having a problem in printing out a > long (html) document. In all browsers except IE7, three pages appear > in the print preview and three pages are printed. > > For IE7 users, the print preview shows 3 pages, but only the fi

[css-d] Width blowout in IE

2007-03-04 Thread Mark Lundquist
OK... this layout is almost done, thx to everyone who's helped me out...: dev.hearthstone.wd-2.net The only thing left is that gray footer sort of thing. In Exploder, it... well, it blows up :-(. You can see what I'm shooting for in Firefox or Safari, which do the right thing. I'm r

Re: [css-d] table height problem: FF vs. Safari

2007-03-04 Thread Mark Lundquist
On Mar 4, 2007, at 12:57 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >> Maybe you can get away with something like this... >> > > ...which also comes in an "any column longest" non-table version... > >

Re: [css-d] table height problem: FF vs. Safari

2007-03-04 Thread Mark Lundquist
On Mar 3, 2007, at 10:28 PM, francky wrote: > Then, as I tried to say some days ago, > > in table design, I think you can make a 3x2 table, with sliced images. > Top parts can be a bottom-right positioned background-img in the txt >

Re: [css-d] What's the proper way to vertically center an element within its parent?

2007-03-04 Thread Ed Seehouse
On 3/4/07, Chris Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Whatever reason is the span there for? There's nothing you can do with > >that construction that you can't do with just the link. > > This is for a horizontal navigation bar centered on the top of the page. The modern way to do this, since a

Re: [css-d] table height problem: FF vs. Safari

2007-03-04 Thread Mark Lundquist
On Mar 3, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Maybe you can get away with something like this... > > Well — duh, now why didn't I think of that!? :-) Thanks a lot Georg... I owe you a beer the next time you are in Portland, Oregon USA :

Re: [css-d] Suckerfish drop downs in IE7

2007-03-04 Thread Blake
On 3/5/07, Ingo Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #nav ul ul {background:white} seems to help, both for IE6 and IE7. Yes, it does. Thank you. Now I have another problem, though. In Firefox and Opera the entire drop down menu falls apart if I remove these lines of code: #nav ul ul { z-ind

Re: [css-d] What's the proper way to vertically center an element within its parent?

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Chen
I just realized I only need one level of here to achieve what I want. Chris > > Whatever reason is the span there for? There's nothing you can do with >that > > construction that you can't do with just the link. This is for a horizontal navigation bar centered on the top of the page. > > >

Re: [css-d] One CSS file for each browser (IE/Firefox)

2007-03-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: > [...] > What I'm thinking is to server a different css depending on the > client's browser. This way I could first layout the website on a more > standard compliant browser (FireFox) and then copy the css and start > fixing the layout on IE and server this new c

Re: [css-d] just for laughs

2007-03-04 Thread bill scheider
No comment. B Hi Branko-- It would much more helpful to me, at least, if you HAD made a comment other than 'no comment.' If I'm showing my ignorance, it's only because -- in this case -- I'm ignorant! :-() What's your point? Bill Scheider _

[css-d] One CSS file for each browser (IE/Firefox)

2007-03-04 Thread Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
Hi list, I'm just starting tableless layout design. I'm on my first pure-css layout project. While the concept is easy and the workflow in general is kind of easier than table layouts, I'm getting really frustraded by the differences I'm getting on my lay when I test it on both FF and IE. What I'm

Re: [css-d] What's the proper way to vertically center an element within its parent?

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Chen
> > Whatever reason is the span there for? There's nothing you can do with >that > > construction that you can't do with just the link. This is for a horizontal navigation bar centered on the top of the page. > > >To add to that, if you want to adjust the vertical alignment within a block >of

[css-d] just for laughs

2007-03-04 Thread Branko Vukelic
I stubled across Amaya web site just now. Look at this page: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Amaya.html If you expand the viewport wide enough, the text following the list will be rendered below the sidebar on the left. I could replicate this in Konquerir, Opera and Firefox. No comment. B __

Re: [css-d] Extra margin after float in IE6

2007-03-04 Thread Ian Young
Subject: [css-d] Extra margin after float in IE6 > > > Hi, list, > > I was not able to find an elegant fix for a few problems below. > (Both XHTML > and CSS are valid.) > Actually your XHTML is not valid. End tag at line 62 for element "div" which isn't open. http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos

[css-d] Extra margin after float in IE6

2007-03-04 Thread Branko Vukelic
Hi, list, I was not able to find an elegant fix for a few problems below. (Both XHTML and CSS are valid.) First this: http://www.inberg.co.yu/ 1. The image on the left is floated left. The next box, a div with some text in it will not stick close to the image (as it should), but it has some

Re: [css-d] Suckerfish drop downs in IE7

2007-03-04 Thread Ingo Chao
Blake wrote: > ... > The navigation menu is on this very un-styled page: > > > Thanks for any help. > > On 3/3/07, Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi List, >> >> I'm having a problem implementing a CSS drop down menu in IE7 (I don't >> know how it behaves in

Re: [css-d] How to resolve this?

2007-03-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, what _is_ the problem? Ok, I got it :-) Replace the   with an HTML comment in the empty span in #leftnavbar span.ddne, so it becomes... ...and IE will line up correctly. IE6 will will otherwise 'auto-expand' an element until the content f

Re: [css-d] How to resolve this?

2007-03-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you look at this in FF its fine, but in IE6-PC its not. No Idea > what Mac users are seeing? http://www.linkhomes2000.co.uk/index.php I'd rather not serve any fixes for IE/win, since the layout is so weak at the moment that I wouldn't know what to fix for which brows

Re: [css-d] Suckerfish drop downs in IE7

2007-03-04 Thread Blake
Oh gee, I feel like a moron. I forgot to add a link, and I was wondering why I got no replies. The navigation menu is on this very un-styled page: Thanks for any help. On 3/3/07, Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm having a problem implementing

[css-d] How to resolve this?

2007-03-04 Thread grovesdavid
Hi, If you look at this in FF its fine, but in IE6-PC its not. No Idea what Mac users are seeing? http://www.linkhomes2000.co.uk/index.php Any ideas how to resolve this with minimum hack usage please, gratefully received . TIA DG) ___

Re: [css-d] table height problem: FF vs. Safari

2007-03-04 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Maybe you can get away with something like this... > > ...which also comes in an "any column longest" non-table version... ...in case someone prefer that. Geo