Re: [css-d] maintaining site proportions across screen resolution -NOT Quite

2007-08-09 Thread Robert Van Dam
I don't have safari to test on but konqueror 3.5.5 has the same problem until you remove position: relative from the #outer rule. Fortunately the only effect that seems to have in firefox is to lengthen the relative height of both #inner and its contents which is reasonably accounted for by adjusti

Re: [css-d] maintaining site proportions across screen resolution-NOT Quite

2007-08-09 Thread Ian Young
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Van Dam > Sent: 09 August 2007 08:07 > To: CSS-D > Subject: Re: [css-d] maintaining site proportions across screen > resolution-NOT Quite > > > I don't have safari to test on but konqueror 3.5.5 has

Re: [css-d] mixed units for table padding

2007-08-09 Thread Trevor Nicholls
Hi fantasia, thanks for your suggestion. Margin is ignored for captions. But a white border-left seems to do the trick: table { /* NB */ /* IE tables don't inherit font-size */ font-size: 1em; border: thin solid black; } th, td { padding: 0.25em; } table caption {

[css-d] Form buttons and background image in IE7

2007-08-09 Thread Pål Eivind J Nes
Hi! Was hoping you could help me out here. I am implementing a form that uses a background image on the submit-buttons. So far, so good. However, in IE7, the background-images will not fill the button, and always leave a 1px border with the background-color, inside the borders specified for the b

[css-d] width and percent

2007-08-09 Thread karuna sagar k
Hi, {width: 60%} - here the width of the element is 60% of what ? Also, does the answer to above hold good for "margins" and "paddings" ? Thanks, Karuna - 5, 50, 500, 5000 - Store unlimited mails in your inbox. Click here.

Re: [css-d] RFC: printing backgrounds by default

2007-08-09 Thread fantasai
Robert Van Dam wrote: > > I don't see anything confusing in it*. I suppose it might catch a few > developers off guard at first but going forward, I would imagine the > existing method is far more confusing to anyone unfamiliar with this > problem. What's more confusing, "I said show a background

Re: [css-d] IE's filter property can affect unreleated css rendering

2007-08-09 Thread Bruno Fassino
On 8/7/07, Nathar Leichoz wrote: > > Hello fellow designers,I'm using IE's "filter" CSS property and > have found that when I use it, IE has problems rendering > positioned elements on a completely different part of the page > I also tried experimenting with IE's "expression" value and > have found

Re: [css-d] mixed units for table padding

2007-08-09 Thread fantasai
Trevor Nicholls wrote: > I hope this requirement is simple! > > I am trying to align a table caption with a table cell. > The table has a 2 pixel border. > The table cell has 0.25em padding. > This means that the table caption needs padding of 0.25em + 2px. > The browser is IE. > > Is this possib

Re: [css-d] ie7 jumping nav buttons

2007-08-09 Thread Bruno Fassino
On 8/8/07, Melinda Odom wrote: > > Why are the navigation buttons at the top jumping each time you put your > cursor over them in ie7 (this one jumps when putting the mouse over the > links the second, third, etc. time)? The other browsers calm down after the > first time. > http://www.designhostin

[css-d] how to set width of LEGEND tags in FF

2007-08-09 Thread Kelemen Viktor
Dear All, I should set width of legend tags to 100% in Firefox (2.0). Is it possible? Obviously, I tried to set their display to block but it doesn't have any effect. thanks in advance, Viktor __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [css-d] how to set width of LEGEND tags in FF

2007-08-09 Thread Ian Young
> Subject: [css-d] how to set width of LEGEND tags in FF > > > Dear All, > > I should set width of legend tags to 100% in Firefox (2.0). > Is it possible? > > Obviously, I tried to set their display to block but it doesn't have any > effect. > > Hi Viktor, need a bit more information here as not

Re: [css-d] RFC: printing backgrounds by default

2007-08-09 Thread Jason Crosse
On 04/08/2007 23:41, fantasai wrote: > So we want to know what you think: would a switch like this be confusing? > Is there a better way to handle this kind of switch? What are your thoughts > on this problem? > > For those who want more details, the bug report is here: >https://bugzilla.mozil

Re: [css-d] how to set width of LEGEND tags in FF

2007-08-09 Thread Kelemen Viktor
Hi, yes, sure. Here is the sample: http://people.inf.elte.hu/kelemen/css/legend.html Problem: How to set the width of the legend tag to 100% (to fill the screen in this case) I added a plus span within the legend tag hence I can control its size but 100% is still not working (which is not surp

Re: [css-d] width and percent

2007-08-09 Thread Ray Leventhal
karuna sagar k wrote: > Hi, > > {width: 60%} - here the width of the element is 60% of what ? > Also, does the answer to above hold good for "margins" and "paddings" ? > > Thanks, > Karuna > > > - > Hi Karuna, As I understand it, a percentage width is ca

Re: [css-d] Baseline ruled background

2007-08-09 Thread Ray Leventhal
Aaron Gray wrote: > How do I make ruled background ? > > Something like a z-index'ed div with ruled baselines. > > Many thanks in advance, > > Aaron > > > Hi Aaron, If I understand you correctly, you're looking to have a background image that appears as lines across the page horizontally. If t

Re: [css-d] content little off in FF

2007-08-09 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had trouble in the past displaying my content right in IE7, but that I > solved > 2 days ago...The funny thing now it though, that my content is a little off in > FF, while before that was not a problem at all... > > It has to do with this little piece of coding: > > m

Re: [css-d] Looks fine on my IE6 but not others

2007-08-09 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Tim Offenstein wrote: > I'm hoping someone can detect and substantiate this issue for me > because I'm flying blind. The site is http://www.rst.uiuc.edu. It > validates fine and looks fine in IE6 on my desktop but another person > on campus says when they look at the site (also in IE6), the main

Re: [css-d] Mixing fluid layouts and px padding

2007-08-09 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Richard Brown wrote: > Hi > > I have just completed the re-design of this site: > > > > I was at first using a fixed width design but wanted to regain a fluid > width design. However, I ran into the prob

Re: [css-d] Menu broken in IE - Please help!

2007-08-09 Thread Alan Gresley
Timothy Burgin wrote: > Hi Ray, > > I thought I had validated the CSS before, but now all is fixed and > validates fine. I don't have MS IE on my iMac yet, so I'm waiting on > a screen shot from browsershots.org to see if this has helped. > > Thanks, > Timothy Hi Timothy You have this doctype

Re: [css-d] how to set width of LEGEND tags in FF

2007-08-09 Thread Ian Young
> To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Subject: [css-d] how to set width of LEGEND tags in FF > > > Dear All, > > I should set width of legend tags to 100% in Firefox (2.0). > Is it possible? > > Obviously, I tried to set their display to block but it doesn't have any > effect. > > The problem lies w

Re: [css-d] RFC: printing backgrounds by default

2007-08-09 Thread Rob Crowther
Jason Crosse wrote: > What I have done in the past is to have a print stylesheet to make > printed text darker than its on-screen equivalent. This relies on > the backgrounds not printing. > I've also done this in the past - assumed the background wouldn't print, but since it's an option in the br

Re: [css-d] content little off in FF

2007-08-09 Thread btwien
@ Zoe, Odder Thanks for the suggestions both of you... As you mentioned Zoe, I simplified the #content div. Great suggestion!! Sometimes a person thinks to complicated ;) There is only one more thing, the first paragraphe/sentence stays 'off', see http://www.cmamali.org/koutiala.html again... I

Re: [css-d] IE background position bug demo

2007-08-09 Thread Alan Gresley
Snadden Tim wrote: > Recently I needed to set a background image on in order to create > full height faux columns. I found that if font size is set on > that IE still uses the default font size to position the background > image. To get around it I ended up putting the background image on a div

[css-d] defining heights in nested divs

2007-08-09 Thread Ian Young
Continuing the saga of having fluid heights, I have changed the rules and have some kind of solution. However, I cannot clear the floats so that the left and content divs don't break out of wrapper div. In the first example, the content and left divs are set to height:100% (just are the two conta

Re: [css-d] RFC: printing backgrounds by default

2007-08-09 Thread fantasai
Rob Crowther wrote: > Jason Crosse wrote: >> What I have done in the past is to have a print stylesheet to make >> printed text darker than its on-screen equivalent. This relies on >> the backgrounds not printing. >> > I've also done this in the past - assumed the background wouldn't print, > but

[css-d] Automated generation of CSS sprite images and test code

2007-08-09 Thread Christian Heilmann
http://www.csssprites.com Sweeet! Is mine. More feedback welcome (done by a colleague of mine). -- Chris Heilmann Book: http://www.beginningjavascript.com Blog: http://www.wait-till-i.com Writing: http://icant.co.uk/

[css-d] Bottom margin not displaying in IE7 within nested boxes

2007-08-09 Thread CAROLINE_UMALI
Hi all, I'm currently working on a page which requires a background image to use as a surrounding border to content. Within this box is another container which will have an image applied, and within that there will be 2 columns. In the example in the link below, I've used borders rather than b

Re: [css-d] content little off in FF

2007-08-09 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >There is only one more thing, the first paragraphe/sentence stays 'off', see > http://www.cmamali.org/koutiala.html Try the following changes to your CSS - #content { font-family:arial, verdana, serif; font-size:12px; background:url(http://www.cmamali.org/images/patter

[css-d] navigation bar

2007-08-09 Thread karuna sagar k
Hi list, I am facing problem in creating a page with a navigation bar - MARKUP: some content here STYLE: .nav_bar { margin: 1%; width: 15%; background-color: grey; height: 98%; // i tried 98% thinking 1%+1% margin (top and bottom) accounted (also, is the

Re: [css-d] Bottom margin not displaying in IE7 within nested boxes

2007-08-09 Thread Bruno Fassino
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm currently working on a page which requires a background > image to use as a surrounding border to content. Within > this box is another container which will have an image > applied, and within that there will be 2 columns. > > In the example in the link below, I've

Re: [css-d] IE background position bug demo

2007-08-09 Thread Snadden Tim
> Another IE bug surely. I would recommend using > font-size:200%; so not to set of another IE bug when using em > on the body. > > http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingEms > Thanks for your input - On the actual site I am setting font-size as a percentage on . This is just a minimal demo

Re: [css-d] mixed units for table padding

2007-08-09 Thread fantasai
Trevor Nicholls wrote: > Hi fantasia, thanks for your suggestion. > > Margin is ignored for captions. > But a white border-left seems to do the trick: Good point. There's a 'transparent' color keyword for borders, btw. You can use that. ~fantasai _

Re: [css-d] problem with IE 6 and a border

2007-08-09 Thread Matthew Ohlman
JGardner wrote: > I have a red border under the navigation bar which displays correctly in > Firefox, but in IE there is a gap between it and the navigation. > > The other problem is another border issue, the gold border around the image > on the page (it is a rotating image) has a gap between t

[css-d] problem with IE 6 and a border

2007-08-09 Thread JGardner
Well, I here I am again with an IE problem. It is really two problems. I have a red border under the navigation bar which displays correctly in Firefox, but in IE there is a gap between it and the navigation. The other problem is another border issue, the gold border around the image on the

[css-d] IE6 spacing and white border issue

2007-08-09 Thread Pat
Hi, I am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong here. I've created my web site and it seem to work fine in Safari and Firefox but has a spacing issue in IE6 (surprise.) There is a space between two divs and I can't seem to figure out the cause. It appears just below the icons (in the blue are

Re: [css-d] problem with IE 6 and a border - solved

2007-08-09 Thread JGardner
Wow, that fixed it! Thank you Matthew - this group is truly amazing. Jennifer - Original Message From: Matthew Ohlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: JGardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: CSS List Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2007 8:42:35 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] problem with IE 6 and a border JGard

[css-d] Loading CSS background images

2007-08-09 Thread Mark Weiss
Let's say a style sheet for an entire web site has 22 background images it references. However on one of the pages in the web site it only uses 5 of those background images. So does the site make 22 http requests to download all of those background images from the style sheet or does it only make

Re: [css-d] IE6 spacing and white border issue

2007-08-09 Thread Hakan K
Checking.. "site is best viewed on Firefox or Safari" line is cut from the bottom part on IE7 because of the font size issue on IE. Troy http://primoris.com On 8/9/07, Pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong here. I've created my > web site an

Re: [css-d] IE6 spacing and white border issue

2007-08-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Pat wrote: > > I've created my web site and it seem to work fine in Safari and > Firefox but has a spacing issue in IE6 (surprise.) There is a space > between two divs and I can't seem to figure out the cause. > Also, if anyone knows how to eliminate the white border on the main > pages and the

Re: [css-d] mixed units for table padding

2007-08-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, fantasai wrote: >> But a white border-left seems to do the trick: > > Good point. There's a 'transparent' color keyword > for borders, btw. You can use that. There is, but it is not supported by IE, so it is much safer (though less flexible and sometimes less convenient) to s