Re: [css-d] Problems with background images

2008-08-06 Thread Alan Gresley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to figure out why I have to have a background image in my = > body for background images in other elements such as divs to work. [...] > The site is www.astratechnologies.com/index.php. [...] > Please help. > > William D. O'Dell And as I wr

[css-d] Problems with background images

2008-08-06 Thread rastinon
I am trying to figure out why I have to have a background image in my = body for background images in other elements such as divs to work. I = have a background image set for the overall body, but it's messing with = my CSS rollovers. And I am having the same problem across browsers

Re: [css-d] Curious Interanet/Web access

2008-08-06 Thread Alan Gresley
David Laakso wrote: > Hayden's Harness Attachment wrote: >> I hope I am not off topic. If I am please direct replies to [EMAIL >> PROTECTED] When I logon to the company network and I use the IE6 to view the >> company intranet to view sites or go on the web to view sites everything >> seems fi

Re: [css-d] Curious Interanet/Web access

2008-08-06 Thread David Laakso
Hayden's Harness Attachment wrote: > I hope I am not off topic. If I am please direct replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > When I logon to the company network and I use the IE6 to view the company > intranet to view sites or go on the web to view sites everything seems > fine. When ever I go to my s

[css-d] Curious Interanet/Web access

2008-08-06 Thread Hayden's Harness Attachment
I hope I am not off topic. If I am please direct replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I logon to the company network and I use the IE6 to view the company intranet to view sites or go on the web to view sites everything seems fine. When ever I go to my site at http://www.infoforce-services.com or

[css-d] IE6 Pushdown Float Problem

2008-08-06 Thread Chang Huang
Hi, I'm having this problem when a floated container is pushed down when I resize the window on IE6, I'm giving up after a couples of hours without finding the root of the problem =( Here's the code: http://www.html-channel.com/pastebin.php?id=5 div#main-column is pushed down in this case w

Re: [css-d] IE bug?

2008-08-06 Thread Alan Gresley
good one wrote: > On the 'About' drop down on the 'supporters/patrons' link it goes 'too far' . > It is fine in firefox where it defines the width of the drop down but in IE > it sticks out. [..] > How do I sort this out-what IE bug is it? Thanks > http://tinyurl.com/64cvtk Putting whitespace

Re: [css-d] Fitting conent to the screen

2008-08-06 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- What matters is whether the content fits, and that's generally best measured in something the visitor has and rightfully should have control of - em. If your content properly fits in a (e.g.) 42em wide window that just happens to be (e.g.) 800px wide on your screen, then

Re: [css-d] My Apologies

2008-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/08/06 08:42 (GMT-1000) david apparently typed: > Screen resolution doesn't matter. What matters is the size of the > visitor's browser window, effected by any toolbars, sidebars, etc-bars > they might have open. It matters to users, but it shouldn't matter to HTML & CSS authors, at leas

Re: [css-d] My Apologies

2008-08-06 Thread david
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Stephen Carrell wrote: >> Thanks to everyone who helped and pointed out my off-topic posting. I >> appreciate the criticism and am reviewing the guidelines again. I >> don't see that apologies are off-topic (wink, wink); sorry to bother >> anyone. > > Your question may b

[css-d] Make one link longer than the others

2008-08-06 Thread good one
On the first link on the 'About' drop down is it possible to have the long link text 'What is the...you most fear?' on one line by adding a special class or something? Thanks for any pointershttp://tinyurl.com/64cvtk _ Win New York

[css-d] IE bug?

2008-08-06 Thread good one
On the 'About' drop down on the 'supporters/patrons' link it goes 'too far' . It is fine in firefox where it defines the width of the drop down but in IE it sticks out. The obvious way would be to put a space in the text after supporters/ but I am building a content management system so I don'

Re: [css-d] My Apologies

2008-08-06 Thread tedd
At 5:38 PM +0200 8/6/08, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >Stephen Carrell wrote: >> Thanks to everyone who helped and pointed out my off-topic posting. I >> appreciate the criticism and am reviewing the guidelines again. I >> don't see that apologies are off-topic (wink, wink); sorry to bother >> anyone

Re: [css-d] Dynamic navigation link aid

2008-08-06 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: David Hucklesby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For this, I make the current link a STRONG element instead of a link. This emphasizes "you are here" even in the absence of CSS. -- How do you use CSS to make a link another element? Or am I misinterpreting what you are

Re: [css-d] Msg from Stephen Carrell re Dynamic navigation link aid

2008-08-06 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:03:56 -0400, Jim Swanson wrote: > Another brief tutorial on this topic is at > http://www.search-this.com/2007/06/13/css-current-page-indicator/. It is very > straightforward -- you can add pages to your nav menu as long as you give the > body of > your new page a class, and

Re: [css-d] Designing for Screen Resolution

2008-08-06 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 08:22:43 -0400, Stephen Carrell wrote: [...] > > For a long time, I've been designing pages/sites for 800x600 resolution > (width of > 780px), unless the client specifies differently. I know that different book > authors say > that that's the lowest common denominator of users,

Re: [css-d] My Apologies

2008-08-06 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Stephen Carrell wrote: > Thanks to everyone who helped and pointed out my off-topic posting. I > appreciate the criticism and am reviewing the guidelines again. I > don't see that apologies are off-topic (wink, wink); sorry to bother > anyone. Your question may be off-topic but the solution def

[css-d] Msg from Stephen Carrell re Dynamic navigation link aid

2008-08-06 Thread Jim Swanson
Another brief tutorial on this topic is at http://www.search-this.com/2007/06/13/css-current-page-indicator/. It is very straightforward -- you can add pages to your nav menu as long as you give the body of your new page a class, and also class the link. Then you have to add a rule about the pa

[css-d] My Apologies

2008-08-06 Thread Stephen Carrell
Thanks to everyone who helped and pointed out my off-topic posting. I appreciate the criticism and am reviewing the guidelines again. I don't see that apologies are off-topic (wink, wink); sorry to bother anyone. Stephen Carrell ___

Re: [css-d] Designing for Screen Resolution

2008-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/08/06 08:22 (GMT-0400) Stephen Carrell apparently typed: [roughly 3 paragraphs of off-topic stuff] What screen resolution to design for is off-topic for this group. http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=PostingGuidelines http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=OffTopic That said, designing f

Re: [css-d] Designing for Screen Resolution

2008-08-06 Thread Adam Ducker
Stephen Carrell wrote: > If 800x600 _is_ still the norm, is it possible to detect a browser's > resolution and redirect him/her to a different CSS file based on a higher > screen resolution? That way, for example, if a user's resolution >= > 1024x768, they would automatically be able to take advan

Re: [css-d] Designing for Screen Resolution

2008-08-06 Thread good one
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org> Date: Wed, 6 Aug > 2008 08:22:43 -0400> Subject: [css-d] Designing for Screen Resolution> > Hi > all,> > Again, I appreciate all the help with the dynamic nav aid question> > yesterday. It works great; I love it.> > My question du jour

[css-d] Designing for Screen Resolution

2008-08-06 Thread Stephen Carrell
Hi all, Again, I appreciate all the help with the dynamic nav aid question yesterday. It works great; I love it. My question du jour is: For a long time, I've been designing pages/sites for 800x600 resolution (width of 780px), unless the client specifies differently. I know that different book a