Re: [css-d] Text Sizing and Div Height

Chris Morse wrote: > How do I keep my divs the same height if the user resizes the text to > go beyond the min-height property? This looks perfect until the text > size gets too large then it all blows up: > > http://aan.einfosystems.net/blocks.htm Not sure if you got a satisfactory answer to t

Re: [css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css than w3c compliant browsers?

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > discuss.org] On Behalf Of Nicholas Wilson > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:00 PM > To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Subject: Re: [css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css than w3c > compliant browsers? > >

Re: [css-d] CSS Background Image Not Wide Enough

> The width of the image is supposed to total 760 pixels > (180px for the dark gray column, 20 px blank, then 560px for the > light gray column). Hi, I think you calculated your width incorrectly. Try 780px: body { font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,sans-serif; font-size:80%; margin:10px; w

Re: [css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css than w3c compliant browsers?

1/ Regarding Conditional Comments, see: Microsoft Developer Network 2/ Regarding using Conditional Comments to feed hacks to IE, see: On havingLayout (scroll down a little to: "Alternatively, and possibly more future proof, are condi

Re: [css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css than w3c compliant browsers?

On Wednesday 16 April 2008 1:09 am John Griessen wrote: > Thierry Koblentz wrote: > > What about a simple: > > > > > > This short one looks good... As I understand this, it goes in default.css, > so what else besides css code would you want to put here? > > John Griessen > css newbie building his

[css-d] CSS Background Image Not Wide Enough

Thank you all very much for your help with my background image, I've now got it displaying on the page. Now for my next problem: I am trying to use the background image as a faux column. The width of the image is supposed to total 760 pixels (180px for the dark gray column, 20 px blank, then

Re: [css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css than w3c compliant browsers?

John Griessen wrote: > Thierry Koblentz wrote: >> > This short one looks good... As I understand this, it goes in default.css, > so what else besides css code > would you want to put here? John: Wrong! It does NOT go in default.css. It is an HTML comment tag...so it goes in your HTML source.

Re: [css-d] Nested floats render different accross browsers, who's right?

On Apr 15, 2008, at 11:46 PM, Lensco wrote: > In the meantime I updated the testcase and added screenshots for > IE7, FF3 > and Opera: http://lensco.be/test/nested_floats/ > > Safari seems to add some extra 'padding' to the containing boxes, > while > Opera doesn't. As far as I can tell, Oper

Re: [css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css than w3c compliant browsers?

Thierry Koblentz wrote: > What about a simple: > > This short one looks good... As I understand this, it goes in default.css, so what else besides css code would you want to put here? John Griessen css newbie building his own selling web site. -- Ecosensory Austin TX

Re: [css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css than w3c compliant browsers?

On Wednesday 16 April 2008 12:58 am Thierry Koblentz wrote: > What about a simple: > > > > > Or am I totally missing something here? > > Could be me ;) But then every browser would ignore it, which is presumably not what you want. Nicholas ___

Re: [css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css than w3c compliant browsers?

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > discuss.org] On Behalf Of Bill Brown > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4:27 PM > To: Manfred Staudinger > Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org; John Griessen > Subject: Re: [css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css

Re: [css-d] Blog menu overlapping header

> How it happened: I added the Wordpress plugin WP Admin Bar Reloaded to > my blog, adding a little bit of code to style.css and to header.php, > as instructed > athttp://onemansblog.com/2007/04/08/wordpress-plugin-wp-admin-bar-reloaded/ > > That created the mess. Therefore, I removed the plu

Re: [css-d] Text Sizing and Div Height

Chris Morse wrote: [snip] > How do I keep my divs the same height if the user resizes the text to go > beyond the min-height property? [snip] > http://aan.einfosystems.net/blocks.htm [snip] > And I have a feeling that it doesn't look right in IE6 even with the default > text size. (It is a real pa

Re: [css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css than w3c compliant browsers?

Manfred Staudinger wrote: > On 15/04/2008, Bill Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You can use this syntax to target all NON-MSIE browsers: >> >> @import url("css/fix/non_msie.css"); >> > > Thats definitely an unnecessary hack. The correct (although > proprietary) syntax would be: > > > c

[css-d] Blog menu overlapping header

Hello everyone, I'm very new at this. My site is Thiefhunters in Paradise, http://bobarno.com/thiefhunters . You'll see right away that the top menu now overlaps the header image. I don't know where else to start looking to fix it. The header.php and style.css file seem fine, but I'm not goo

Re: [css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css than w3c compliant browsers?

On 15/04/2008, Bill Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can use this syntax to target all NON-MSIE browsers: > > @import url("css/fix/non_msie.css"); > Thats definitely an unnecessary hack. The correct (although proprietary) syntax would be: css here Regards, Manfred ___

Re: [css-d] IE6 & IE7 together [was: Text Sizing and Div Height]

Chris. You can run IE6 and IE7 and a few others side-by-side, I'm doing it right now. :-) See: http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE Regards, Alan. www.theatreorgans.co.uk www.virtualtheatreorgans.com Admin: ConnArtistes, UKShopsmiths, 2nd Touch & A-P groups Shopsmith 520 + bits Flatulus Antiqu

Re: [css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css than w3c compliant browsers?

On 15/04/2008, John Griessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Manfred Staudinger wrote: > > > Hi John, > > > > If you want to select IE6 and IE7, but not IE8 nor IE5.5 or IE5.01 > > then you might use > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > very helpful. Looks like you just put this in line with your stds

Re: [css-d] CSS background image not showing up

I meant one of two things, in this case the likely candidate being "B". Sometimes I forget to express the full idea when I'm doing a quick site check amongst my own projects. -Jack Timmons On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Brian Ogden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not true the image does ex

[css-d] Text Sizing and Div Height

Hello All, How do I keep my divs the same height if the user resizes the text to go beyond the min-height property? This looks perfect until the text size gets too large then it all blows up: http://aan.einfosystems.net/blocks.htm And I have a feeling that it doesn't look right in IE6 even with

Re: [css-d] CSS background image not showing up

This is not true the image does exist and showing up on my browser at the following url: http://home.comcast.net/~prairiedream/beginning/images/faux.gif On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Jack Timmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > C

Re: [css-d] CSS background image not showing up

instead of css-d@lists.css-discuss.org #container { background:url(/images/faux.gif) repeat-y; } try this: #container { background:url(../images/faux.gif) repeat-y; } ~Neal life is certain death is short ~furry lewis

Re: [css-d] CSS background image not showing up

Carol Huddleston wrote: > ..., > http://home.comcast.net/~prairiedream/beginning/faux.html > ... > My problem right now is that the background image isn't showing at > all. I have faux.gif in a folder titled "images" like this: > > /beginning/images/faux.gif > > I also tried it like this: /ima

Re: [css-d] CSS background image not showing up

Carol, On hand, my browser is unable to find the image, which is telling me two things: A: You haven't uploaded the image B: You are referencing the image incorrectly. I tried going straight to see if I could look in the directory, but it's disabled. -Jack Timmons On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:32

[css-d] CSS background image not showing up

I'm still going through the "Beginning CSS Web Development" book. I have two problems, but I have to get the first one answered before I can go on to the second one. I am working through an exercise that uses a background image with a repeat-y to create faux columns. Here is the page: http:

Re: [css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css than w3c compliant browsers?

> I have a restructuredtext generated site that now looks as intended in > firefox, but not in the IE > that is installed with Win2K. IE seems to ignore the css positioning of a > list and an image hyperlink. > > http://ecosensory.com/ Hi John, You can use this syntax to target all NON-MSIE b

[css-d] How do you feed IE versions different css than w3c compliant browsers?

David Laakso wrote: > You have height:1%; on the below selector. You may (?) want to feed > that only to IE/6, as compliant browsers might do better without it at > +2 font-scaling. > .p5 { > height: 1%; > } I have a restructuredtext generated site that now looks as intended in firefox, b

[css-d] IE table-layout bug? (Was: IE table column width)

I have posted this before, but could not find anything in the meantime: IE6 and IE7 seem to add any horizontal padding for to the width for the element. Test case: http://test.rudolphina.org/col-width.html Questions: - Is IE 6, IE 7 in accordance with the specification or is it a bug? - How does

Re: [css-d] Full-height left column in fluid layout.

Ingo wrote: >> > It sometimes stops to dynamically resize (stays small) in your > favourite browser (9.27 win xp). You mean vertically? The "lose 100% height initially" (or what one should call it) bug? Can't check in any browser on winXP n

Re: [css-d] Single floated list with forced row clear in IE

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Timothy Kelty wrote: > Example here: http://geniuscar.com/old/tests/iefloat.html > > I just have a single UL with all the LIs all floated left. I want to > be able to force a second row at a given point in the list, so I > applied a clear:left to first element I w

Re: [css-d] Nested floats render different accross browsers, who's right?

Lensco wrote: >>> My opinion: Safari is the most consistent - although it adds some >>> extra padding for no reason? >> Could you clarify that ? > > In the meantime I updated the testcase and added screenshots for IE7, FF3 > and Opera: http://lensco.be/test/nested_floats/ > > Safari seems to ad

[css-d] Single floated list with forced row clear in IE

Having trouble with this one... Example here: http://geniuscar.com/old/tests/iefloat.html I just have a single UL with all the LIs all floated left. I want to be able to force a second row at a given point in the list, so I applied a clear:left to first element I want in the 2nd row. This behav

Re: [css-d] Nested floats render different accross browsers, who's right?

Lensco wrote: > Hello guys & girls, new to this list. > > Observe: http://lensco.be/test/nested_floats/ > Short story: a right float within a left float looks different in > Safari compared to Firefox and IE. So, who is right here? Is there a > way to get them to behave the same? Fixed widths are

Re: [css-d] Full-height left column in fluid layout.

Gunlaug Sørtun schrieb am 15.04.2008 15:10 > > > It's a pretty versatile method. It sometimes stops to dynamically resize (stays small) in your favourite browser (9.27 win xp). Greetings, Ingo _

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please: IE 6 / CSS Zen Garden Project

Thanks for your feedback but I'm gonna have to probably remove it altogether. I actually placed it in there thinking I had a haslayout bug but, it turns out it was a file call to a .htc file to handle transparency in IE6 - something I wasn't supposed to do being that the challenge is not to touch t

Re: [css-d] DTD- from ccs-d Vol 65, Issue 17

Doreen Cowan wrote: > Could David / or someone / explain to me how the original DTD > (strict) put the file into quirksmode and why the second one > (transitional) corrects the problem ...or.. Perhaps someone can > direct me to a tutorial that will help me to understand. The former was a pile

Re: [css-d] Nested floats render different accross browsers, who's right?

>> My opinion: Safari is the most consistent - although it adds some >> extra padding for no reason? > > Could you clarify that ? In the meantime I updated the testcase and added screenshots for IE7, FF3 and Opera: http://lensco.be/test/nested_floats/ Safari seems to add some extra 'padding' to

[css-d] DTD- from ccs-d Vol 65, Issue 17

I'm not sure if this is the correct place for my question but here goes... The other day David was helping Keith with a coding problem and he recommended the following " re: /Part/ of the difficulty may be that the file is in quirksmode. Delete this: http://www.w3

Re: [css-d] css-d Digest, Vol 65, Issue 20

This has been an excellent thing for me to learn in my greenhorn-hood.. As I adjust my pages to work with this new combined style sheet, I'm adding "id="index" to every instance of my tags; my "space after" design employs a paragraph's worth of text paragraph's worth of text, so ever

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please: IE 6 / CSS Zen Garden Project

Elli Vizcaino wrote: > > >>> http://e7flux.com/csszengarden/chaoticspring.html >>> >>> You have height:1%; on the below selector. You may (?) want to feed that only to IE/6, as compliant browsers might do better without it at +2 font-scaling. .p5 { height: 1%; } __

Re: [css-d] Full-height left column in fluid layout.

Richard Grevers wrote: > Since the footer has a child it was easiest to fake the left column > by giving the child the same left margin and moving the background. That's easier than stacking, yes. >> Also a number of contradicting styles in your page, which makes it >> less cooperative. I don't

Re: [css-d] Nested floats render different accross browsers, who's right?

On Apr 15, 2008, at 9:10 PM, Lensco wrote: > Observe: http://lensco.be/test/nested_floats/ > Short story: a right float within a left float looks different in > Safari compared to Firefox and IE. So, who is right here? Is there a > way to get them to behave the same? Fixed widths are not an option

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please: IE 6 / CSS Zen Garden Project

Thanks. I'm using a PNG file in the background and had a .htc file call in the HTML which I removed, so now the transparency doesn't show in IE6 - the .htc file was causing it not to layout right. I will resort to using a different image file format for the reasons mentioned as well as the fact, th

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please: IE 6 / CSS Zen Garden Project

In IE6 the layout is fine, but instead of a drop shadow behind the container div, I see a solid gray border. You can see a screen shot here: http://valeriewininger.com/css_list/ssCssZenGarden.jpg Valerie www.valeriewininger.com On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Alan K Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: [css-d] Full-height left column in fluid layout.

On 4/15/08, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Grevers wrote: > >> Having had problems with onetruelayout before, I tried Gunlaug's > >> companion column example. > > > FYI: "companion column" is not mine. It's Ingo Chao's (linked to from my > site). > I stand corrected. (Sorry

[css-d] Nested floats render different accross browsers, who's right?

Hello guys & girls, new to this list. Observe: http://lensco.be/test/nested_floats/ Short story: a right float within a left float looks different in Safari compared to Firefox and IE. So, who is right here? Is there a way to get them to behave the same? Fixed widths are not an option. My opinion

Re: [css-d] wrapping woes - paras containing preformatted phrases - IE7

Following on from the previous post, I should probably put up an example to show why I am not using pre-wrap instead of pre. These two examples illustrate: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~tmjpbn/prefprew.html http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~tmjpbn/prefprew1.html The prefprew version has div.fragment

Re: [css-d] when are 2 external css called for?

Bill Brown wrote: > John wrote: > [snip] > > This has been an excellent thing for me to learn in my > > greenhorn-hood.. > > > > As I adjust my pages to work with this new combined style sheet, I'm > > adding "id="index" to every instance of my tags; my "space > > after" design employs a pa

[css-d] wrapping woes - paras containing preformatted phrases - IE7

Hello Scattered liberally throughout my webpages one will find pieces of application code which have been marked up as . The preformatted class is used for code which may occupy a single word, or may extend over several lines. For this reason carriage returns and whitespace in these spans need to

Re: [css-d] Full-height left column in fluid layout.

Richard Grevers wrote: >> Having had problems with onetruelayout before, I tried Gunlaug's >> companion column example. FYI: "companion column" is not mine. It's Ingo Chao's (linked to from my site). >> > But I still have the problem of the gap (