Re: [css-d] continuity rounded corners with sliding doors navigation

2007-03-13 Thread Web Developer
Used this guys inverted tab design as inspiration (Roger Johansson): http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/inverted_tabs/ http://arihoj.freehostia.com/css/upsideDownSlidingDoors/test3/slidingdoors1.html They look almost the same, but 2nd is expandable (but at expense drop shadows are less 'clean'

[css-d] help with moving menu

2007-03-13 Thread Wonderbaby Designs
I just started uploading the code for the cart design I've been working on and have discovered that in one of the views the left menu is jumping on top of the content and pushing the right column content to the bottom. I have stared at this for hours but can't figure out why it isn't working.

Re: [css-d] help with moving menu

2007-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Wonderbaby Designs wrote: This is a category page (which is correct) http://209.59.136.73/shop/index.php/action/category/id/1/ and this is a product page (with the left menu suddenly on top of everything) http://209.59.136.73/shop/index.php/action/item/id/1/ Source-code HTML) in both

[css-d] Sidebar Menu Playing Up!

2007-03-13 Thread Richard Brown
Good Morning All I hope you are all well. I have a slight problem with a menu. http://www.stwinnowceschool.info/ http://www.stwinnowceschool.info/wp-content/themes/iconschool/style.css I have copied the styling from this site: http://woodland.lostwithiel.org.uk/

Re: [css-d] Works in IE7, Mozilla, Opera, but fails IE6

2007-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
~davidLaakso wrote: The above is just a start. ...but an extremely good one. IE6 never was any good at percentage-calculations, and having a page that only works when users provide a 1280 wide window is not a good design solution - regardless of browser. Validate the markup. ...and use, and

[css-d] Check first css website

2007-03-13 Thread Ranja
Hello, I'm new here, hello everyone. I build my first website with css: http://www.anderson-partners.nl There are a few problems which I cannot fix: I want a max width on my content. Including ie6 if this is possible. The navigation tab must stay on highlighted when it is selected (without

[css-d] IE 6 - Something wrong with my boxes?

2007-03-13 Thread Corey Frang
So, I've been working on this site lately, and the CSS is really starting to bug me. In particular take a look at the left page area. Half of the content is chopped off, and I can't quite figure out why. The site was designed mostly with firefox, so if you want to see the way it should

[css-d] How do I force opposed floats (left and right) to bottom align.

2007-03-13 Thread j t
Hi. I'm trying to get two bits of text to sit on opposite sides (left/right) of a header, and various sources suggest using the opposing floats method. The problem that I have with that is that the opposing floats top align (which becomes apparent when the text sizes differ. In order to show

Re: [css-d] How do I force opposed floats (left and right) to bottom align.

2007-03-13 Thread j t
On 3/13/07, j t [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm trying to get two bits of text to sit on opposite sides (left/right) of a header, and various sources suggest using the opposing floats method. The problem that I have with that is that the opposing floats top align (which becomes apparent

[css-d] Site Check Please

2007-03-13 Thread Richard Brown
Hi All I thought I had this site finished but it seems there might be some problems with it. This is what it should look like: http://woodland.lostwithiel.org.uk/Picture1.jpg Can you tell me if you are seeing this please and if not any ideas why please? http://woodland.lostwithiel.org.uk/

Re: [css-d] Opera border bug

2007-03-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 13, 2007, at 7:09 AM, francky wrote: I'm working on my first elastic-layout site and Opera is giving me something I've never seen before. In my h1 declarations, I've added border-bottom: 1px dotted {color} style. FF, IE 6/7, and Mozilla are rendering correctly, but Opera is generating

Re: [css-d] Opera border bug

2007-03-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
I wrote: CSS3 border module is more explicit: 'Percentages: width* of containing block' http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-border/#the-border-width The width of the border should be computed based on the width of the box, the same way as percentage based margins are computed. Gah, I missed

Re: [css-d] Opera border bug

2007-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: Gah, I missed one sentence there quote '[Border-width doesn't allow percentages in CSS2; should we allow percentages (of the containing block's width) in CSS3?]' /quote Written in red, guess that is why I couldn't see it. :p Probably :-) So, it looks like

Re: [css-d] How do I force opposed floats (left and right) to bottom align.

2007-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
http://www.sourceworks.co.uk/communityMxExample This is great, apart from how the text disappears off the top of the page when I manually increase its size. This (I guess) is due to the containing box not expanding to enclose its contents (which in turn is because the contents use absolute

Re: [css-d] How do I force opposed floats (left and right) to bottom align.

2007-03-13 Thread j t
On 3/13/07, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.sourceworks.co.uk/communityMxExample This is great, apart from how the text disappears off the top of the page when I manually increase its size. This (I guess) is due to the containing box not expanding to enclose its

Re: [css-d] How do I force opposed floats (left and right) to bottom align.

2007-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
j t wrote: I still wonder, however, whether it's possible to do some kind of bottom alignment when they're both floats, because then I'm guaranteed that the two boxes will never overlap. You can't bottom-align floats reliable. The way I usually solve this is to declare a margin-right on the

Re: [css-d] IE 6 - Something wrong with my boxes?

2007-03-13 Thread Web Developer
Looks like those negative margins are getting cutoff. like set margin-left to 0px instead of -30px. Not sure why they are getting cutoff though. Ari __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] centering list items within a div

2007-03-13 Thread David Agnew
Greetings - Many thanks to Gunlaug for providing some @media screen {* html} rules to make my sit far more compatible with IE! Now that (most of) the most severe problems are fixed... I'm having trouble centering list items within a div. I'm using % for width (fluid layout), and I don't mind

[css-d] Further Testing: position: fixed, transparency, and site performance

2007-03-13 Thread Matthew Bernhardt
Hello again, I've had a few days to play around some options regarding the scroll speed of a website redesign I'm working on, and wanted to post some findings. The story so far: the site design has 4 main elements: a university toolbar, a navigation menu, the page contents, and a

Re: [css-d] centering list items within a div

2007-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Agnew wrote: I'm having trouble centering list items within a div. I'm using % for width (fluid layout), and I don't mind if it's off by a pixel one way or another, but as the window narrows, the right margin for the list items shrinks far more than the left. This problem is in

Re: [css-d] centering list items within a div

2007-03-13 Thread David Agnew
Georg, you are awesome! This is beautiful. Thank you. Gunlaug Sørtun appears to have written the following on 3/13/07 12:26 PM: David Agnew wrote: I'm having trouble centering list items within a div. I'm using % for width (fluid layout), and I don't mind if it's off by a pixel one way or

[css-d] alternating colors of list items in IE

2007-03-13 Thread David Agnew
I use a list within div.features to display featured links. To make it easier to read, the background color of alternate list items is a different shade (these colors vary depending upon the color of the page wrapper - e.g. containAbt - but that's irrelevant to this post). This method works in

Re: [css-d] alternating colors of list items in IE

2007-03-13 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, David Agnew wrote: I use a list within div.features to display featured links. To make it easier to read, the background color of alternate list items is a different shade That's similar to alternating backgrounds for table rows, a frequently deployed idea. Unfortunately

[css-d] List Items

2007-03-13 Thread Ledvina, Barbara [ED]
How can I modify the amount of space between the bullet in an unordered list and the actual text? Barb [EMAIL PROTECTED] 515-242-5036 __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7

Re: [css-d] List Items

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Ledvina, Barbara [ED] wrote: How can I modify the amount of space between the bullet in an unordered list and the actual text? Which way? Officially, it's impossible. All such joy was ripped out of CSS2 and stamped on by the W3C. Since list items are block-level elements, you could try

[css-d] IE display problems

2007-03-13 Thread Phil Turner
Hi Please can someone help me sort out the Internet Explorer problems. A couple of alignment issues in the header and fonts not displaying in bold http://www.philturner-uk.com/kruger/ Thanks Kind Regards Phil Turner FREELANCE CREATIVE TEL: 0161 439 1669 Chartered Graphic Designer MCSD BA

Re: [css-d] IE 6 - Something wrong with my boxes?

2007-03-13 Thread Corey Frang
Interesting... Played with your suggestions, got #leftpage positioned 40px left of where it was and added a 40px padding-left, still seems to hold up in IE. I'm well aware of the font-size issue and everything overflowing, the graphic designer on the project doesn't want to spend the time to

[css-d] files structure opinion

2007-03-13 Thread Phillip Cavaco
Hi I would like to know the opinions from CSS coders about website file structure. How do you organize your files? Advantages and disadvantaged? My approach: /images/ /tools/ /css/ /css/main.css /css/menu_item_1.css /css/menu_item_2.css ... /css/menu_item_N.css /menu_item_1/index.php

[css-d] clearing only a nested float

2007-03-13 Thread martin f krafft
Hi there, I am trying to clear after a right-float inside a div which has something floating to it's right too. E.g.: div id=1 div id=2 ul id=2.1 / pSome text/p /div 1 floats to the right of 2, and 2.1 should align with the right border of 2, so I floated it right. This works,

Re: [css-d] IE display problems

2007-03-13 Thread ~davidLaakso
Phil Turner wrote: Hi Please can someone help me sort out the Internet Explorer problems. A couple of alignment issues in the header and fonts not displaying in bold http://www.philturner-uk.com/kruger/ Thanks Kind Regards Phil Turner The page is not contained within its

Re: [css-d] clearing only a nested float

2007-03-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.03.13.2110 +0100]: http://martin-krafft.net/new/ [valid] CSS: http://martin-krafft.net/new/css/base.css [valid] Never mind that IE* barfs on the page big time. I am just doing some design studies right now and will probably simplify the

Re: [css-d] Opera border bug

2007-03-13 Thread francky
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: Gah, I missed one sentence there quote '[Border-width doesn't allow percentages in CSS2; should we allow percentages (of the containing block's width) in CSS3?]' /quote Written in red, guess that is why I couldn't see it. :p

Re: [css-d] alternating colors of list items in IE

2007-03-13 Thread David Agnew
Jason Herber appears to have written the following on 3/13/07 2:18 PM: I'm sorry I don't have an answer to your question, but I wanted to point out that #containAbt .features li { background-color: #F7EFD5; } is all you need for that first style. It'll set the color for all li

[css-d] UL margins

2007-03-13 Thread Travis Killen
Please help me figure out why there is extra space to the left of my menu list in FireFox. Displays correctly in IE7. Thank you. http://bananaboxes.net -Travis Killen __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] site check: 24-10reading.nl A PostScript

2007-03-13 Thread Erik Visser
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: http://24-10reading.nl/ Too many back and forth corrections between browsers for my taste, so I leave the rest to others. Georg, what do you mean exactly with this? Erik __ css-discuss [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] alternating colors of list items in IE

2007-03-13 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, David Agnew wrote: #containAbt .features li { background-color: #F7EFD5; } /* darker shades for alternate li's */ #containAbt .features li+li, #containAbt .features li+li+li+li, #containAbt .features li+li+li+li+li+li, #containAbt .features li+li+li+li+li+li+li+li{

Re: [css-d] List Items

2007-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ledvina, Barbara [ED] wrote: How can I modify the amount of space between the bullet in an unordered list and the actual text? Set suitable paddings on the ul and the li... http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/test_07_3670.html regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no

Re: [css-d] UL margins

2007-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Travis Killen wrote: Please help me figure out why there is extra space to the left of my menu list in FireFox. Displays correctly in IE7. Thank you. http://bananaboxes.net Declare 'padding: 0;' on ul. Firefox has default paddings on lists, and so have most other non-IE browsers. regards

[css-d] relatively positioned float with background is stuck (IE6)

2007-03-13 Thread Ingo Chao
This float is relatively positioned, it has a percentage width, and it should move to the right due to a left margin. .c { position: relative; float: left; display: inline; width: 50%; margin-left: 100px; background: gray url(bg.gif)

Re: [css-d] site check: 24-10reading.nl

2007-03-13 Thread Erik Visser
~davidLaakso wrote: Erik Visser wrote: A site check please for anoter site i recently finished: http://24-10reading.nl/ Any remarks, also on the design are very welcome. Thanks, Erik Visser She did well on my end (xp) in ie/7., opera/9.1, and ff (version whatever it is). In ie/6.0

Re: [css-d] List Items

2007-03-13 Thread francky
Gunlaug Sørtun schreef: Ledvina, Barbara [ED] wrote: How can I modify the amount of space between the bullet in an unordered list and the actual text? Set suitable paddings on the ul and the li... http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/test_07_3670.html regards Georg Ah, too

[css-d] background doesn't fill area border doesn't show

2007-03-13 Thread PBC Web Design
Hi, Here are the two page links: http://www.gentlethreads.com.au/master.html (still in tables) http://www.gentlethreads.com.au/test.html (tableless version) CSS: http://www.gentlethreads.com.au/gentlethreads.css I'm trying to take link 1 above and make it tableless (link 2). My problems

Re: [css-d] Opera border bug

2007-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
francky wrote: Molly the Cat will like it: Opera ahead for the future! ;-) She loves it!!! She is also quite used to seeing Opera in that position ;-) btw: maybe next question for w3c: [css2 doesn't say what is the definition of a 'dot' - should we allow UA's to have their own definition

Re: [css-d] site check: 24-10reading.nl

2007-03-13 Thread Erik Visser
Daniel Beardsmore wrote: ~davidLaakso wrote: However, with both of your sites (and this is a personal opinion that is not shared by all on this or any other list), I find sites that require both horizontal and vertical scrolling when the fonts are scaled to be bothersome. Not just font

Re: [css-d] List Items

2007-03-13 Thread Kenny Graham
How can I modify the amount of space between the bullet in an unordered list and the actual text? Of course, the most positioning control comes from replacing the bullet with a background image. But then the bullet doesn't resize with the text, which may be an accessibility issue.

Re: [css-d] site check: 24-10reading.nl A PostScript

2007-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Erik Visser wrote: Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: http://24-10reading.nl/ Too many back and forth corrections between browsers for my taste, so I leave the rest to others. what do you mean exactly with this? Only that I personally found it hard to keep track of what was targeting which browser where

Re: [css-d] site check: 24-10reading.nl

2007-03-13 Thread Erik Visser
bill scheider wrote: I really like the design of the site; it has a nice, open feel that I like. That's exactly what my cliennt was after. But it takes a lot of space as you noticed. The same as David noted, in IE6 on xp on my machine, the left side logo starts to disappear at text-size

Re: [css-d] background doesn't fill area border doesn't show

2007-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
PBC Web Design wrote: http://www.gentlethreads.com.au/master.html (still in tables) http://www.gentlethreads.com.au/test.html (tableless version) I'm trying to take link 1 above and make it tableless (link 2). My problems are: 1) #leftcolumn, #middlecolumn, #rightcolumn

Re: [css-d] site check: 24-10reading.nl A PostScript

2007-03-13 Thread Erik Visser
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Erik Visser wrote: Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: http://24-10reading.nl/ Too many back and forth corrections between browsers for my taste, so I leave the rest to others. what do you mean exactly with this? Only that I personally found it hard to keep track of what was

Re: [css-d] site check: 24-10reading.nl

2007-03-13 Thread Erik Visser
Daniel Beardsmore wrote: Hm ... I am no expert, but the design seems simple enough to me that it should reduce in width quite a bit more. agreed lots of whitespace everywhere to reduce I don't know why it stops at ~850px. me neither, but i should look into that later. Personally I

Re: [css-d] site check: 24-10reading.nl

2007-03-13 Thread Erik Visser
sorry, this mail was meant to be sent offlist Erik Visser wrote: Daniel Beardsmore wrote: Hm ... I am no expert, but the design seems simple enough to me that it should reduce in width quite a bit more. agreed lots of whitespace everywhere to reduce I don't know why it stops at

Re: [css-d] background doesn't fill area border doesn't show

2007-03-13 Thread PBC Web Design
At 04:30 PM 3/13/2007, you wrote: I'll hit you with a CSS sledgehammer instead :-) Anyway, if you plug in the additions above, your table-less version will end up looking like this... http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/pbc/test_07_3690.html ...which shouldn't be too far off. Nice flowers. I'll

Re: [css-d] relatively positioned float with background is stuck (IE6)

2007-03-13 Thread francky
Ingo Chao wrote: This float is relatively positioned, it has a percentage width, and it should move to the right due to a left margin. .c { position: relative; float: left; display: inline; width: 50%; margin-left: 100px; background: gray

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Richard Brown wrote: Hi All I thought I had this site finished but it seems there might be some problems with it. This is what it should look like: http://woodland.lostwithiel.org.uk/Picture1.jpg Can you tell me if you are seeing this please and if not any ideas why please? OK, three

Re: [css-d] Sidebar Menu Playing Up!

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Richard Brown wrote: Good Morning All I hope you are all well. I have a slight problem with a menu. http://www.stwinnowceschool.info/ http://www.stwinnowceschool.info/wp-content/themes/iconschool/style.css I have copied the styling from this site: http://woodland.lostwithiel.org.uk/

Re: [css-d] relatively positioned float with background is stuck (IE6)

2007-03-13 Thread Ingo Chao
francky wrote: Ingo Chao wrote: This float is relatively positioned, it has a percentage width, and it should move to the right due to a left margin. .c { position: relative; float: left; display: inline; width: 50%; margin-left: 100px; background: gray

Re: [css-d] relatively positioned float with background is stuck (IE6)

2007-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ingo Chao wrote: http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/prbgbug.html This fix does solve for the example, probably not for the original problem, but I will try, thank you very much. It's a column, its height is not easy to determine, and the proposed inner div would have to have the same height ...

Re: [css-d] List item markers in different colour using pure CSS?

2007-03-13 Thread Chris Hoffman
On 3/12/07, Barney Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if I were to have a list of black text with red numeric markers, would I be forced to create a span within each li, then set the li's colour to red and the span back to black? Here it is with pure CSS. It works in FF 2 and Opera 9 on

Re: [css-d] alternating colors of list items in IE

2007-03-13 Thread Corey Frang
If you can afford a little javascript, jQuery can solve that pretty quickly... $(document).ready(function(){ $(#containAbt .features li:even).addClass(even); }); -or- $(document).ready(function(){ $(#containAbt .features li:even).css({background-color:#ebdab3}); });

Re: [css-d] relatively positioned float with background is stuck (IE6)

2007-03-13 Thread francky
Gunlaug Sørtun schreef: Ingo Chao wrote: http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/prbgbug.html This fix does solve for the example, probably not for the original problem, but I will try, thank you very much. It's a column, its height is not easy to determine, and the proposed inner

Re: [css-d] IE 6 - Something wrong with my boxes?

2007-03-13 Thread Web Developer
hmmm anyone know AlphaImageLoader isn't working for him? I tested the method as well by going to http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/tmp/alphatransparency.html in IE6 and transparency failed on that age in IE=6. any ideas? __

Re: [css-d] Sidebar Menu Playing Up!

2007-03-13 Thread Richard Brown
Hi Daniel On 13/03/07, Daniel Beardsmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope you are all well. I have a slight problem with a menu. http://www.stwinnowceschool.info/ http://www.stwinnowceschool.info/wp-content/themes/iconschool/style.css But as you can see the result is not the same. Any

[css-d] Hiding div class in print stylesheet

2007-03-13 Thread Joanne
Hi, I have a print stylesheet on a site I'm making. div#footer *{ display: none; } This hides div id=footer but how would I get it to hide div class=footer I tried the following (below) but it didn't work. div.footer *{ display: none; } .footer *{ display: none; } Joanne

Re: [css-d] Hiding div class in print stylesheet

2007-03-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 14, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Joanne wrote: I have a print stylesheet on a site I'm making. div#footer *{ display: none; } This hides div id=footer No it doesn't. It hides all the descendants of div#footer. That is what the * selector does there. Depending on the formatting (e.g.

Re: [css-d] List Items

2007-03-13 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Kenny Graham wrote: How can I modify the amount of space between the bullet in an unordered list and the actual text? Of course, the most positioning control comes from replacing the bullet with a background image. There are various ways to create bulleted lists in the