Re: [css-d] [css-d ] IE and background,IE and imbeded DIV

2008-01-29 Thread John Leishman
As a kind person pointed out, the url, missing a full stop doesn't resolve. For those who had given up it's really http://www.32smallshipsqn.org.au/demo/Dec29/ >Could some kind genius with a couple of minutes have a look at >http://www32smallshipsqn.org.au/demo/Dec29 for me and point out where >

[css-d] extra padding in Safari

2008-01-29 Thread Rebecca Richter
Hi! Anyone have a clue why I have a little extra margin or padding on either side of the "content" table on this page: http://www.montola.com/buy/index.html? Only happens in Safari, that I know of. Thanks! Becca __

Re: [css-d] Nested menus in Joomla 1.5

2008-01-29 Thread Nancy E. Sosna Bohm
> Joomla 1.5 ... > What I want to do... > > 1. A ...menu item will have... >the background will change on hover. > > 2. ...If the parent is not active, >i.e. unexpanded, it will have a right arrow, if >it is expanded it will have a down arrow. > ... > > ... Ab

Re: [css-d] [css-d ] IE and background,IE and imbeded DIV

2008-01-29 Thread John Leishman
Valerie, Thanks for your input. I have fiddled at length and the splash page now validates. For some reason I though it did but how wrong I was. Shows how a fresh eye to a problem can see that which is transparent to the originator! Kicking onself here . NO change in the appearance in IE howeve

Re: [css-d] Safari reading IE comments

2008-01-29 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:css-d- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jeffrey morin > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 1:39 PM > To: CSS-Discuss List > Subject: [css-d] Safari reading IE comments > > Hi everyone, > Has anyone ever come across a case where Safari will actually read what > is > i

[css-d] Safari reading IE comments

2008-01-29 Thread jeffrey morin
Hi everyone, Has anyone ever come across a case where Safari will actually read what is in your IE conditional comments? i have never seen this before but am getting that now. IE conditionals are being used to deliver certain jsp files to certain versions but safari is just treating it like the com

Re: [css-d] Site not playing right in IE6

2008-01-29 Thread David Laakso
> Brian Jones wrote: > >> I am developing a site ( http://fatusboutique.com/index2.php ) and it >> displays fine in FF and IE7..I came to work today and on friends >> computer who still has the old IE, I realized that its not displaying >> correctly..It seems like the #right div is dropping and

Re: [css-d] Site not playing right in IE6

2008-01-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Brian Jones wrote: > I am developing a site ( http://fatusboutique.com/index2.php ) and it > displays fine in FF and IE7..I came to work today and on friends > computer who still has the old IE, I realized that its not displaying > correctly..It seems like the #right div is dropping and not floatin

Re: [css-d] IE6 and overflow hidden problem

2008-01-29 Thread David Laakso
Phillip Cavaco wrote: > Hi guys, lately I've being working a lot with overflow hidden. > But sometimes I have problems with IE6 (it doesn't set the overflow to > hidden). Till now I solved the most of them but theres one still ahahah > > > In other browsers works great. I little help please. > > Ph

Re: [css-d] Extra vertical space between LI elements in IE :: correction

2008-01-29 Thread Erik Domingo
Ok, the fix for getting the background image on the LI element was to add float:left, and then clear:left so that my list still displayed vertically. The end result was: *:first-child+html #nav-main li {display:inline; margin-bottom:0.05em; float:left; clear:left;} /*fix for IE7*/ Very strange, bu

[css-d] Site not playing right in IE6

2008-01-29 Thread Brian Jones
Hi, I am developing a site ( http://fatusboutique.com/index2.php ) and it displays fine in FF and IE7..I came to work today and on friends computer who still has the old IE, I realized that its not displaying correctly..It seems like the #right div is dropping and not floating to the right...can a

Re: [css-d] Presentation vs content issue for interlinear text

2008-01-29 Thread Jim Davis
Have you thought of using a definition list? Original text Translated text Original text Translated text You can use css to style the dl dt and dd elements. Jim On Jan 29, 2008 10:32 AM, T. R. Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on a project to display inte

[css-d] IE6 and overflow hidden problem

2008-01-29 Thread Phillip Cavaco
Hi guys, lately I've being working a lot with overflow hidden. But sometimes I have problems with IE6 (it doesn't set the overflow to hidden). Till now I solved the most of them but theres one still ahahah This is my situation: bla bla bla . CSS: #cale

Re: [css-d] Extra vertical space between LI elements in IE :: correction

2008-01-29 Thread Erik Domingo
Thanks for the tips, David. Adding the display:inline to the #nav-main li element did the trick of removing the extra bottom margin. Unfortunately, I'm still working on getting the background image for the element to display properly, but hopefully I can work that out myself. Thanks also for all t

[css-d] Presentation vs content issue for interlinear text

2008-01-29 Thread T. R. Valentine
I'm working on a project to display interlinear text (original language with a very literal word-by-word translation immediately below). The only presentation which my poor imagination can conceive is to place each word in a separate cell with the translating word in a separate cell immediately bel

Re: [css-d] Struggling to get height to 100%

2008-01-29 Thread Luc
Good afternoon David, It was foretold that on 29/01/2008 @ 09:07:43 GMT-0500 (which was 12:07:43 where I live) David Laakso would write: > There are a number of ways to get "any column longest." As a 99% lurker i'm taking the opportunity to jump in here because the topic interests me also.

Re: [css-d] Struggling to get height to 100%

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Brummel
After restructuring my markup based off of Jim Davis' recommendations, I was able to get the foux columns to extend by "faking" the background color as an image in the parent columns. Good tips everyone, and thanks for pointing me to the faux column resources. -Chris On Jan 29, 2008, at J

[css-d] IE7 needs both width and min-width

2008-01-29 Thread Jason Crosse
After a day of plenty of swearing, I seem to have found something out that I think I should have known about before. I'm posting in the hope it will help out some other hapless web developer and prevent some nasty monitor-forehead interfacing. For some reason, I know not why, after making a sma

Re: [css-d] Struggling to get height to 100%

2008-01-29 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> On Behalf Of Chris Brummel > > Hey, I'm trying to get two columns to extend to the bottom of my > layout. > > I apply a height of 100% to the two columns ("sidebar & "posts") and > "height: auto !important; min-height: 100%;" to the "container", but > I'm having no luck. The columns only exten

Re: [css-d] Menu background not aligned in IE

2008-01-29 Thread Jeff Blaine
FF2 and IE7 show the menu the same for me. Can you elaborate on the problem? Bill Stemp wrote: > Please refer to: http://www.pielows.co.za/highlights.htm > > The left-hand menu has a background fill that does not align in IE, > although fine in FF. > > Can anyone please advise? > > Many thank

[css-d] Menu background not aligned in IE

2008-01-29 Thread Bill Stemp
Please refer to: http://www.pielows.co.za/highlights.htm The left-hand menu has a background fill that does not align in IE, although fine in FF. Can anyone please advise? Many thanks, Bill __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

Re: [css-d] IE7 problem with lists (other?) next to floated items

2008-01-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jeff Blaine wrote: > This is exactly what I was looking for. > > Thanks Georg! You're welcome. Note: I left what looks like a couple of typos in the styles for my example. It was a "non-valid quickie" I often use during testing. For correct styles, please reload my example... >>

Re: [css-d] IE7 problem with lists (other?) next to floated items

2008-01-29 Thread Jeff Blaine
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Georg! Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Jeff Blaine wrote: >> I guess what I am saying is that I am looking for the generalized >> solution, not the solution to the test case page+image as static >> files. The test case exists only to show the problem. >

Re: [css-d] Struggling to get height to 100%

2008-01-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Be sure you have: html, body { height:100%; } Then you have to be sure any parents you have are also 100% so the sidebars (as children) will follow that rule. However, it probably won't accomplish what you want. What it'll do is extend to the height of the browser window - so if your sidebars

Re: [css-d] Struggling to get height to 100%

2008-01-29 Thread David Laakso
Chris Brummel wrote: > I'm trying to get two columns to extend to the bottom of my layout. > > > > > Thanks, > Chris > > There are a number of ways to get "any column longest." One of them is to create a "faux column" using a repeated background image:

Re: [css-d] [css-d ] IE and background,IE and imbeded DIV

2008-01-29 Thread Valerie Wininger
John, Your site doesn't validate, so that is the first thing I would work on. >From what I saw, there were some missing closing tags and also some extra closing tags in there. There was a css error also. Valerie On Jan 29, 2008 2:46 AM, John Leishman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could some o

[css-d] [css-d ] IE and background,IE and imbeded DIV

2008-01-29 Thread John Leishman
Could some one please have a look at this site. In FF it works as intended but IE .. No graded background, a DIV imbedded in a wrapper is outside and right of same. As it's a menu system that ' opens ' to the right ... no menus visible! I've been looping around attempting every thing I can see

[css-d] Struggling to get height to 100%

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Brummel
Hey, I'm trying to get two columns to extend to the bottom of my layout. I apply a height of 100% to the two columns ("sidebar & "posts") and "height: auto !important; min-height: 100%;" to the "container", but I'm having no luck. The columns only extend to the end of their content and no l

Re: [css-d] Menu padding issue

2008-01-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Joanne wrote: > http://dragonflytanks.com.au/newnav/ > > I have stripped the bulk of the code out, but can't get the > positioning quite right or the height of the background-colour on > mouse over. > Can someone point me in the right direction? The addition of... #navigation a {float: left;}

[css-d] Menu padding issue

2008-01-29 Thread Joanne
Currently I have been using PVII's PMM for this websites navigation http://www.dragonflytanks.com.au/ and I need to strip it out because it's clashing with a form handling script I'm using (and since I'm not using the drop down menu portion, it's not actually necessary on this site). The stripped

Re: [css-d] IE7 problem with lists (other?) next to floated items

2008-01-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jeff Blaine wrote: > I guess what I am saying is that I am looking for the generalized > solution, not the solution to the test case page+image as static > files. The test case exists only to show the problem. >>> http://www.kickflop.net/csstest/ In general: 1: eliminate all browser-default di