Re: [css-d] Bug with extra space from clears. New?

2007-04-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Apr 6, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Brandon Oto wrote: > Well, I hammered it out. It's either a widespread confusion in > implementation, or I'm just not grasping the point of how clear > works; I'm sort of assuming it's the latter, but someone can confirm. > Basically it comes down to whether clears are

Re: [css-d] Bug with extra space from clears. New?

2007-04-05 Thread Brandon Oto
On Apr 4, 2007, at 4:59 PM, Brandon Oto wrote: > Hi all, > > I was helping a friend solve a problem just now and was able to > isolate a bug that's caused by a clear:left or clear:both on an > element; the first div in a series ends up with a bunch of extra > whitespace (several lines) before the

[css-d] Pixel perfection in IE6 and earlier

2007-04-05 Thread Jason Hart
I'm trying to put together a CSS / Tableless template for Joomla... All looks good so far in Firefox, but of course in IE6 there are some problems... The following divs have 3 pixles added to the height... top2_2 and top3_2 Also the following divs are 1 pixel to far to the left... top and top3_2

Re: [css-d] Selectors to cover wide range of IDs for Firefox

2007-04-05 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Apr 6, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Jono wrote: > > > > > Login > > > About Us > > > Contact Us > > > > > > I need to ONLY target the "Contact Us" menu item which (above) is > td#LC764_menuItem002. I need to make it white with a red > backgroun

Re: [css-d] Selectors to cover wide range of IDs for Firefox

2007-04-05 Thread L. David Baron
On Wednesday 2007-04-04 23:09 -0400, Devon Miller wrote: > If you can list all the possible values of 'id' , then this should work: > > TD[id~="lc110 lc111 lc113"] > > This will match any TD where the id is lc110, lc111, or lc113. > > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#q10 No, ~= works th

Re: [css-d] Selectors to cover wide range of IDs for Firefox

2007-04-05 Thread Jono
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > Here is a more detailed example of my situation: Login About Us Contact Us I need to ONLY target the "Contact Us" menu item which (above) is td#LC764_menuItem002. I need to make it white with a red backg

Re: [css-d] Background images

2007-04-05 Thread Conyers, Dwayne
Micky Hulse ink wired: > Are there any restrictions (or, suggested best practices) > when it comes to width/height of small background image > tiles? Depends. On an intranet where I know the bandwidth and the settings of the users workstations, I can gauge how a tile effect will look. On

Re: [css-d] Background images

2007-04-05 Thread Micky Hulse
Ingo Chao wrote: > The rendering of a 2x2 px PNG (tiled, bg-image on the html element) in > IE7 may take 10 seconds or more. Some users may find this inacceptable. Ah, interesting. Is that just the html element, or other elements too? Also, is that just PNG (24/8) or does that apply to other gra

Re: [css-d] horizontal scroll bar in Opera

2007-04-05 Thread Bruno Fassino
Mauricio Samy Silva wrote: > Resizing a bit my 1200 horizontal window the scrollbar appear. > Mau Yes, Opera seems to generate some extra space at the right (related to the widths the involved elements?), so (at least in my test case) if you have a wide browser window the problem may not be noti

[css-d] feedback and tips welcome

2007-04-05 Thread Matt Nathan
The website for the Hurricane Katrina-related nonprofit is coming along. You can see it at www.mschildcare.org/laura/index.php Still a few issues, such as -- "drop cap" that gets cut off top and bottom in IE on home page. -- vertical position of arrow bullets different in IE vs other browsers (

Re: [css-d] horizontal scroll bar in Opera

2007-04-05 Thread Mauricio Samy Silva
Hey! I'm stupid. Resizing a bit my 1200 horizontal window the scrollbar appear. Mau > I'm puzzled Bruno! > Returning to your test case in order to locally check the issue pointed > out by Holly, I just realized > that there isn't scrollbars (in Opera sure!) when your code was > renderized. > I

[css-d] disappearing background color on navigation in Internet Explorer 6

2007-04-05 Thread kristin
Hi All, I have a problem with my navigation bar in internet explorer 6 :-( and i'm wondering if anyone can give me a hand. Under some circumstances the blue background behind the navigation disappears. I can't figure out why. It is perplexing to me, and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: [css-d] horizontal LI menu doesn't work in FireFox [solved]

2007-04-05 Thread Tom Dell'Aringa
That fixed it, thank you Don! Tom On 4/5/07, Don - HtmlFixIt.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tom Dell'Aringa wrote: > > Floating the containing DIV does not seem to help. How can I get UL in > FF to > > open up? You can see the test page at: > > > > http://www.pixelmech.com/rev/tabs2.html > >

Re: [css-d] horizontal scroll bar in Opera

2007-04-05 Thread Mauricio Samy Silva
I'm puzzled Bruno! Returning to your test case in order to locally check the issue pointed out by Holly, I just realized that there isn't scrollbars (in Opera sure!) when your code was renderized. I am supposing that the test case must shows the scrollbar or Am I missing something? Sorry, Mau --

Re: [css-d] horizontal LI menu doesn't work in FireFox

2007-04-05 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
Tom Dell'Aringa wrote: > Floating the containing DIV does not seem to help. How can I get UL in FF to > open up? You can see the test page at: > > http://www.pixelmech.com/rev/tabs2.html > Oh, now I see you want it side to side 100% in essence? Float the UL itself. #navbar ul { float: l

Re: [css-d] horizontal LI menu doesn't work in FireFox

2007-04-05 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
Tom Dell'Aringa wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm wanting to use a navigation bar similar to Simplebits.com - just a > simple horizontal menu. It seems to work just fine in IE6 and IE7, but fails > in Firefox (for a change). In Firefox, the UL seems to be collapsing, due to > the fact that the LI and A's

Re: [css-d] site check

2007-04-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
jeffrey morin wrote: > www.melissagerstein.com/tests/akon/akon.htm The addition of... ul#secondaryNav {display: inline;} ...will fix the 'margin doubling on floats' bug in IE6, and make the columns line up as intended in that browser. regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no

Re: [css-d] Sane CSS Sizes strategy

2007-04-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/ The method itself is as cross-browser reliable as they come. Setting font-size on paragraphs at 100% is of course just as reliable. Whether it is sane to use a font-size as small as 76% as base, is another matter.

[css-d] horizontal LI menu doesn't work in FireFox

2007-04-05 Thread Tom Dell'Aringa
Hi folks, I'm wanting to use a navigation bar similar to Simplebits.com - just a simple horizontal menu. It seems to work just fine in IE6 and IE7, but fails in Firefox (for a change). In Firefox, the UL seems to be collapsing, due to the fact that the LI and A's are floated. In IE it does not col

Re: [css-d] site check

2007-04-05 Thread Ian Young
> To: CSS > Subject: [css-d] site check > > > hi everyone, > > i'm not too experienced with 3 column layouts. could you be so kind as to > let me know if this is acceptable. it hasn't been debugged yet > but works ok > in ff and ie7. haven't checked anything else yet. thanks > Totally breaks in I

[css-d] Site Check Request

2007-04-05 Thread Robert DeLaurentis
I would appreciate anyone who takes the time to look at my site and lets me know how its working on their browsers. This is my first all- CSS site. I tried to use minimal number of classes, ids for major layouy divs only, and as little non-standard cruft as possible. http://sbwc2.bobdel.com/

Re: [css-d] horizontal scroll bar in Opera

2007-04-05 Thread Bruno Fassino
On 4/5/07, Holly Bergevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just for fun, Bruno, try reducing on of the inner floats in your test case > (say the 200px sized one) by only one tenth of a pixel. I realize that this is > nonsensical, but - ... > got rid of the scrollbar. > > Opera does this going back to

[css-d] site check

2007-04-05 Thread jeffrey morin
hi everyone, i'm not too experienced with 3 column layouts. could you be so kind as to let me know if this is acceptable. it hasn't been debugged yet but works ok in ff and ie7. haven't checked anything else yet. thanks Jeff www.melissagerstein.com/tests/akon/akon.htm ___

[css-d] Div width and paragraph padding problem

2007-04-05 Thread Noah Learner
Hi all, I am working on a page at http://www.acufamily.com and the sidebar has a div called consultation that looks fine in ie 7 and firefox 2.0 , but looks messed up in older versions of ie. I want it to display like it shows in the the attached browser shot from ie 7.0 what part of css do I nee

Re: [css-d] horizontal scroll bar in Opera

2007-04-05 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: "Bruno Fassino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I've extracted a small test case [1]. A widthless float (the purple >one) inside a fixed width wrapper contains two opposite floats that >fill exactly (with their widths and possibly margins) the wrapper. >Opera creates an unnecessary horizontal scrollba

[css-d] Sane CSS Sizes strategy

2007-04-05 Thread kdavis
I found an article (Sane CSS Sizes, by Owen Briggs) which looks great to me and like it's the solution I should follow: http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/ It basically recommends setting p at 1em and body at 76%, but the article is dated 2002 and I'm wondering: is this approac

Re: [css-d] Background images

2007-04-05 Thread Ingo Chao
Micky Hulse wrote: > Micky Hulse wrote: >> Lol, what are your thoughts? Should I be worried about this, or can I go >> as small as needed for optimal file size? :) > > To be a little more on topic, I am just wondering if there are > restrictions and/or problems when it comes to using small bitma

Re: [css-d] horizontal scroll bar in Opera

2007-04-05 Thread Bruno Fassino
On 4/5/07, Mauricio Samy Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The document is valid XHTML and CSS and is hosted at: > http://www.clickmaujor.com/tiradentes/index.html > Everything goes fine in FireFox - IE 5.5 & 6 - (IE7 not tested yet, but would > appreciate a report). All under Windows > Things

Re: [css-d] Background images

2007-04-05 Thread Micky Hulse
Micky Hulse wrote: > Lol, what are your thoughts? Should I be worried about this, or can I go > as small as needed for optimal file size? :) To be a little more on topic, I am just wondering if there are restrictions and/or problems when it comes to using small bitmaps (in width/height) as CSS

Re: [css-d] horizontal scroll bar in Opera

2007-04-05 Thread Mauricio Samy Silva
Hi Bruno Fassino, Many thanks for the fix and test case. I forgot that widthless floats can cause headaches. :-) For information only: I've had discover that using an Opera8 and 9 filter it is possible to fix too, but IMO is a horrible solution: :-( @media all and (min-width: 0px) /* only Opera

[css-d] Background images

2007-04-05 Thread Micky Hulse
Howdy, This may seem like a silly question, but... Are there any restrictions (or, suggested best practices) when it comes to width/height of small background image tiles? I am trying to optimize some template graphics, but did not want to go over-board when it comes to tiled background images

Re: [css-d] Pipe List

2007-04-05 Thread Bruno Fassino
On 4/5/07, Philippe Wittenbergh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You could of course minimise on hacking and use display:inline-block > for everybody. Then use display:-moz-inline-box for Gecko <=1.8 (up > to Firefox 2.0 - Gecko1.9alpha, FX 3.0alpha support inline-block > pretty well) if needed (mor

Re: [css-d] Bug with extra space from clears. New?

2007-04-05 Thread Brandon Oto
On Apr 4, 2007, at 7:33 PM, Holly Bergevin wrote: > > Ah, Brandon! > > Welcome (back). It's nice to see that an "old" regular will still > drop by now and then. > > I'm sure someone's seen this before, there are many here smarter > and more observant than me, but a test case would be welcome

Re: [css-d] A little layout advice please...

2007-04-05 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Les Mizzell wrote: >> Sounds like a whole bunch of contradictions > It is, that's part of the problem! > > I'm tempted to say "Can't be done exactly the way you wish..." Which should be interpreted as: "not really a problem" :-) The standard-based 'auto-expanding container' is what makes the ex