Re: [css-d] Background missing in IE

2008-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jehangir Larry wrote: > Pls see http://www.neelamindore.com/1.html The background (gif image, > not png) appears in FF but not IE incl. IE7. Put a space after the url parenthesis - before "repeat", like so... background:url(test_08_0314_files/6bg.gif) repeat; ...otherwise IE/win won't recognize t

[css-d] Background missing in IE

2008-03-13 Thread Jehangir Larry
Pls see http://www.neelamindore.com/1.html The background (gif image, not png) appears in FF but not IE incl. IE7. Strange. Grateful for help. -- Best, JL Jehangir Larry __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: [css-d] Building a Print CSS

2008-03-13 Thread Rob Emenecker
Jeff, > it only prints one page, cutting the rest of the text off Printing works fine for me in both IE7 and FF2 on Win XP Pro SP2. On screen display, however __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailm

[css-d] Building a Print CSS

2008-03-13 Thread Jeff Gates
I'm trying to create a print css and am having a few problems. The first is that when there is a lot of text on a Web page, it only prints one page, cutting the rest of the text off. Example: http://inourpath.com/essay1.html Print CSS: http://inourpath.com/iop_print.css BTW, I found a nice bit of

Re: [css-d] Sidebar display problems in IE7.0

2008-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Leah Maclean wrote: > I'm having display troubles with the content in 2 sidebars sitting > above the header image. It is displaying in the correct place on FF, > Opera even IE6.0is OK but not in IE7.0. > The site is http://www.slimink.com.au IE7 does not register space taken up by an element

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-13 Thread Alex Robinson
>I noticed this when I added conditional comments to my XU-A tests That is, that IE8 matches the conditional comment "if IE 8" regardless of what X-UA target you set. Sorry. I knew what I meant, but forgot that not everyone has access to the inside of my head...

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-13 Thread Alex Robinson
>http://www.satzansatz.de/ie8/xua7.html >does not show the generated content, but the Conditional Comment for _IE8_ >Is this expected? Even if the X-UA-Compatible is set to "IE=7", the >conditional comment acts as if this is IE8? I noticed this when I added conditional comments to my XU-A tests

[css-d] X-UA-Compatible vs. Conditional Comments

2008-03-13 Thread Ingo Chao
I don't know if it has been reported before. Both files just differ in the X-UA and the headline, see below http://www.satzansatz.de/ie8/xua8.html shows the generated content and the Conditional Comment for IE8 Correct http://www.satzansatz.de/ie8/xua7.html does not show the generated content,

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Ingo Chao
Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: > I don't know what you mean by complex alpha, but I have a 32-bit png (it's > just black fading to transparent, a 25x25px png, eg yes it is a a nice soft > 8-bit alpha) that acts as a shadow on both sides of a site that has a table > floated in the center and the png tiles

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Geoffrey Hoffman
I don't know what you mean by complex alpha, but I have a 32-bit png (it's just black fading to transparent, a 25x25px png, eg yes it is a a nice soft 8-bit alpha) that acts as a shadow on both sides of a site that has a table floated in the center and the png tiles down both sides. It is casting a

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Ingo Chao
Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: > For anyone reading this post in the future, I thought I'd reply to my own > post. > > For those of you who say it can't be done, at least in IE6, I have a > solution working... I haven't checked it in IE 5.5 or below. > > What I discovered is that background-repeat:repea

Re: [css-d] IE6 woes w/ Suckerfish, absolute positioning, weird margins

2008-03-13 Thread David Laakso
> Lisa Onizuka wrote: > >> I redid the sizes in ems for fonts and heights (this page was useful: >> http://jontangerine.com/silo/css/pixels-to-ems/) so I think now it >> will scale somewhat... >> With font-size: 1em; declared on the body declaration, as you have it, you may want t

[css-d] Sidebar display problems in IE7.0

2008-03-13 Thread Leah Maclean
Hi , I'm having display troubles with the content in 2 sidebars sitting above the header image. It is displaying in the correct place on FF, Opera even IE6.0is OK but not in IE7.0. This is driving me to distraction and I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. The site is http://www.slimink.com

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Geoffrey Hoffman
For anyone reading this post in the future, I thought I'd reply to my own post. For those of you who say it can't be done, at least in IE6, I have a solution working... I haven't checked it in IE 5.5 or below. What I discovered is that background-repeat:repeat-x and background-repeat:repeat-y fai

Re: [css-d] IE6 woes w/ Suckerfish, absolute positioning, weird margins

2008-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Lisa Onizuka wrote: > I redid the sizes in ems for fonts and heights (this page was useful: > http://jontangerine.com/silo/css/pixels-to-ems/) so I think now it > will scale somewhat... It helps, and will work even better if you change _all_ line-heights from pixels to percentages or raw numbers

Re: [css-d] IE6 woes w/ Suckerfish, absolute positioning, weird margins

2008-03-13 Thread Lisa Onizuka
I redid the sizes in ems for fonts and heights (this page was useful: http://jontangerine.com/silo/css/pixels-to-ems/) so I think now it will scale somewhat... -Original Message- From: Gunlaug Sørtun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:22 PM To: Lisa Onizuka Cc: cs

Re: [css-d] IE6 woes w/ Suckerfish, absolute positioning, weird margins

2008-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Lisa Onizuka wrote: > As for text size - they were using 10px, which I took the liberty of > bumping up...but I agree that it is still tiny and not accessible. Do > you think adding overflow:auto to the constrained boxes to get a > scroll bar on constrained boxes is a reasonable fix? You'll have

Re: [css-d] IE6 woes w/ Suckerfish, absolute positioning, weird margins

2008-03-13 Thread Lisa Onizuka
Thank you! It works! -Original Message- From: Highpowered [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:07 PM To: Lisa Onizuka Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] IE6 woes w/ Suckerfish, absolute positioning, weird margins Lisa Onizuka wrote: > So, I compl

Re: [css-d] IE6 woes w/ Suckerfish, absolute positioning, weird margins

2008-03-13 Thread Lisa Onizuka
I can't believe that little #nav {position: relative;} was all that was missing! Like magic! Phew. Georg, you rock. As for text size - they were using 10px, which I took the liberty of bumping up...but I agree that it is still tiny and not accessible. Do you think adding overflow:auto to the cons

Re: [css-d] IE6 woes w/ Suckerfish, absolute positioning, weird margins

2008-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Lisa Onizuka wrote: > Of course, now the client (a design agency who has not yet shown the > redo to their client) wants to hold on to wacky remnants like photos > and little corner points and that are also links, etc...so I added > in those extra links. They are currently laid over bg images w

Re: [css-d] IE6 woes w/ Suckerfish, absolute positioning, weird margins

2008-03-13 Thread Highpowered
Lisa Onizuka wrote: > So, I complete redid this site that was all nasty nested tables and spacer > images, etc...to a pretty clean css layout. > > Of course, now the client (a design agency who has not yet shown the redo to > their client) wants to hold on to wacky remnants like photos and little

[css-d] IE6 woes w/ Suckerfish, absolute positioning, weird margins

2008-03-13 Thread Lisa Onizuka
So, I complete redid this site that was all nasty nested tables and spacer images, etc...to a pretty clean css layout. Of course, now the client (a design agency who has not yet shown the redo to their client) wants to hold on to wacky remnants like photos and little corner points and that are a

Re: [css-d] Gentle site check please

2008-03-13 Thread Cynthia M. Brumbaugh
With major thanks to ALL who responded, I think I am finally happy with my page at: http://chekmed.com/med_index.htm Now to start on the inside pages, which should* go considerably easier with a starting point! But I have *assumed* things before ;) Thank You All, Cynthia ___

Re: [css-d] Gentle site check please

2008-03-13 Thread David Laakso
Cynthia M. Brumbaugh wrote: > Ok, so I am finally getting off the porch and testing my running shoes. > Please be gentle but honest. > > http://www.chekmed.com/med_index.htm > > This page does validate both html and css. > > Cynthia > Who admits to learning everything she knows about css from this

[css-d] jogging over a tiled background

2008-03-13 Thread clanmesa.earthlink
http://mdh-test.com/Quiel/index.shtml http://mdh-test.com/Quiel/quiel.css Because of the complexity of the frame, I'm using tables so I don't spend weeks trying to get the divs to behave. I'm recoding a website with previously created images that have been sliced and diced from Photoshop. I h

Re: [css-d] margins & background clipping

2008-03-13 Thread Alan Gresley
Niels Matthijs wrote: > > Well I can only take guesses since nothing is clear to me. Maybe this test > > case [1] > will possibly help until I can see what the problem is. Why did > > you pull the page? > > I have no idea why you can't reach it, the following link works fine for me: > > http:

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Rick Faircloth
IE6 won't work with tiling transparent png's. The solutions to using transparent png's with IE6 involve replacing the background image with a foreground image so alpha transparency filter can operate on it. So, I haven't been able to find anything that will work with IE6 and transparent png's as

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Ingo Chao
Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: > Can someone point me to a solution for PNG transparency in IE 6 that works > on tiling background images? (If such as solution exists...) > There are solutions for PNG background-images, they none of them can tile or position this image, for example http://www.twinhelix

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On Thu, March 13, 2008 2:42 pm, Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: > Can someone point me to a solution for PNG transparency in IE 6 that works > on tiling background images? (If such as solution exists...) > Unfortunately, it can't be done. The IE filter that allows for PNG transparency

Re: [css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Rob Emenecker
Geoff, The problem is that most solutions regarding PNG-32 transparency with IE rely on using a DirectX filter to dynamically rewrite the image (usually via JavaScript). Of course, with CSS, this doesn't work, because the JS does not "find" the image in the document.images[] object array. If you'

[css-d] PNG transparency in IE6 and below

2008-03-13 Thread Geoffrey Hoffman
Can someone point me to a solution for PNG transparency in IE 6 that works on tiling background images? (If such as solution exists...) I think that the pages I've scoured only work on and not on .myclass { background-image: url( transparent.png ) } http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew/webdesign

Re: [css-d] Fwd: Tests on generated content

2008-03-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 13, 2008, at 9:57 PM, I wrote: > [...] BTW, here is a screenshot from what I see with 'Arial Unicode MS' On the left is Gecko 1.9 (FX3b5pre), on the right, Webkit. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ __

Re: [css-d] Fwd: Tests on generated content

2008-03-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 13, 2008, at 9:20 PM, David Laakso wrote: > Mac OS X 10.4.11 > With regard only to: > > Opera/9.24 :: pass > Latest versions: Firefox, Safari, WebKit, Camino :: fail I have the nagging suspicions that Opera simply fails to

Re: [css-d] Gentle site check please

2008-03-13 Thread Listsmem
Hi Cynthia, I was just re-reading my emails in this chain and I have to correct a grievous error, this suggested code: Dietary Booklets Condition Brochures ... is wrong I meant this: ... Terribly sorry for the confusion. I should have re-read it before hitting send.

Re: [css-d] Fwd: Tests on generated content

2008-03-13 Thread David Laakso
Gabriele Romanato wrote: > http://www.css-zibaldone.com/test/generate/ > > notes: > http://www.css-zibaldone.com/test/generate/about.txt > > > Endless possibilities... Mac OS X 10.4.11 With regard only to: Opera/9.24 :: pass L

Re: [css-d] margins & background clipping

2008-03-13 Thread Niels Matthijs
> There is no 'one-fix-it-all' solution. Overflow is one option; float, > display:table-cell or inline-block are 2 more options. Hmmm, that's a shame. Should you be wondering why I'm bothering with all this, I've been looking for a good way to work with paddings and margins (trying to find som

Re: [css-d] how big is a space in ems?

2008-03-13 Thread Jason Crosse
On 11/03/2008 18:20, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > So if you had a situation where you wanted, for some reason, to set e.g. > the left padding of an element to match the width of a space, then > padding-left: 0.25em > would probably be the best guess in general. That's exactly what I want: I have tex

Re: [css-d] margins & background clipping

2008-03-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 12, 2008, at 11:22 PM, Niels Matthijs wrote: > Adding a border on the parent this is an ugly trick because when > changing the background color you need to change the border color > too. Generally I avoid such methods in css. border-color:transparent ? (of course, iExploder v6 doesn't

[css-d] Fwd: Tests on generated content

2008-03-13 Thread Gabriele Romanato
-- Forwarded message -- From: Gabriele Romanato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 13-mar-2008 9.41 Subject: Tests on generated content To: css test <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.css-zibaldone.com/test/generate/ notes: http://www.css-zibaldone.com/test/generate/about.txt -- http://www.

Re: [css-d] margins & background clipping

2008-03-13 Thread Niels Matthijs
Hi, > Well I can only take guesses since nothing is clear to me. Maybe this test > case [1] > will possibly help until I can see what the problem is. Why did > you pull the page? I have no idea why you can't reach it, the following link works fine for me: http://users.pandora.be/onderhond/onde