[css-d] Recommended lists for Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Apache?

2008-10-08 Thread Hedley Finger
Can anybody recommend any lists as good as css-d (sycophant! sycophant!) for lurking about JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and Apache? Oh, just the whole damn AJAX thingy! Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone fir

Re: [css-d] CSS Browser Hacks

2008-10-08 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Oct 9, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Michael Adams wrote: > I have grown so fond of this technique that i have thought of > extending > both it and @media in a new direction. If browsers were seen as a > type of media you could legally write fixes for any CSS issue in a > given browser. The technique w

Re: [css-d] Z-index and IE

2008-10-08 Thread Big John
Denise McLaurin wrote: > I'm experiencing a problem with a left-hand menu that > uses css to hide/display submenu items on a particular > page which gives certain content items a z-index setting. > The problem is corrected in Firefox by adding a higher z-index to the submenu s. However, this doe

[css-d] CSS Browser Hacks

2008-10-08 Thread Michael Adams
I am currently using the @import browser hack for IE that i first read about here: http://annevankesteren.nl/2005/10/ie-import-hack I have grown so fond of this technique that i have thought of extending both it and @media in a new direction. If browsers were seen as a type of media you could leg

Re: [css-d] :active with display: none

2008-10-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 15:39:17 -0600, Jack Blankenships wrote: > How does that "kill the child?" If the link has display: none, why does that > have any > effect whatsoever on the clickability or the link or the resulting action? > Doesn't > display none simply not show it on the page but allow it

Re: [css-d] Pop-Outs on Leftnav Menu Only Happening in IE7

2008-10-08 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:41:17 -0700, John Biggs wrote: [...] > > I am using a CSS/Javascript-based design for my left-nav menu, incorporating > pop-out > menus for lower level lists. However, the popouts (menu buttons with blue > right > border) are only occurring under IE7. I have done what I co

Re: [css-d] :active with display: none

2008-10-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jack Blankenships wrote: > How does that "kill the child?" If the link has display: none, why > does that have any effect whatsoever on the clickability or the link > or the resulting action? Doesn't display none simply not show it on > the page but allow it to exist in the DOM? You can no long

Re: [css-d] Image replacement? -- link provided

2008-10-08 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Bill Moseley wrote: > Question: > > What's the best way to move text off screen and allow a background > image to still show? And done with accessibility in mind? > Answer: Sorry, but from what I've seen there is no _good_ way to do this, with current standards and implementations. Y

Re: [css-d] :active with display: none

2008-10-08 Thread Jack Blankenships
How does that "kill the child?" If the link has display: none, why does that have any effect whatsoever on the clickability or the link or the resulting action? Doesn't display none simply not show it on the page but allow it to exist in the DOM? On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun <[E

Re: [css-d] Standrards Compliance -fine-tuning

2008-10-08 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.constructweb.com/seo/ > > It validates! - anything else that be suggested from the css/html (maybe > SEO if it's not too OT) perspective that would make this page even more > web standards compliant? > > Thanks > Neal > > > As far as the Web Standards stuf

[css-d] Standrards Compliance -fine-tuning

2008-10-08 Thread neal
apologize for the cross post. I created a page (pages) for a client and they will be used mostly for SEO This is the (very simple) page: http://www.constructweb.com/seo/ It validates! - anything else that be suggested from the css/html (maybe SEO if it's not too OT) perspective that would make th

Re: [css-d] Image replacement? -- link provided

2008-10-08 Thread Alexandru Dinulescu
You can try the following For SEO purposes try display: none on the text span, SEO bots will take it, others wont Or you can use the text-indent property and set it to something like -2000px; OR you can set the text with a font-size1 and make the text have the same color as the background image (th

Re: [css-d] :active with display: none

2008-10-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jack Blankenships wrote: > I want to make it so that an active link makes the parent element > disappear. The element does disappear when I place an :active > pseudo-class on the parent element to change the display to none, > however the link ceases to function (i.e. - clicking on it does > n

[css-d] :active with display: none

2008-10-08 Thread Jack Blankenships
I want to make it so that an active link makes the parent element disappear. The element does disappear when I place an :active pseudo-class on the parent element to change the display to none, however the link ceases to function (i.e. - clicking on it does nothing). Working example: http://www.c

[css-d] Pop-Outs on Leftnav Menu Only Happening in IE7

2008-10-08 Thread John Biggs
Ladies and Gentlemen, This is my first post to this forum. I have gained a lot of insight and knowledge reading your posts here, so I'm hopeful I may get some input on a problem I am having with my website. I am using a CSS/Javascript-based design for my left-nav menu, incorporating pop-out m

Re: [css-d] condensing css

2008-10-08 Thread Keith DiSarno
About 90% of the time I do the border-top:0 method, but I have found myself using the 0 1 1 1 method as well. I don't really see anything wrong with it. Maybe in the future we'll have: border:0 1px 1px 1px solid blue; __ css-disc

Re: [css-d] condensing css

2008-10-08 Thread Scott Hamm
You can also do this way: div.className { border:solid 1px #91a7b4; border-width:0 1px 1px 1px; /* T R B L (easily remembered as Trouble) */ } -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vincent Pollard Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 200

[css-d] condensing css

2008-10-08 Thread Vincent Pollard
Generally when I want borders on 3 sides of something I write: div.className { border-top: 0; border-right: solid 1px #91a7b4; border-bottom: solid 1px #91a7b4; border-left: solid 1px #91a7b4; } But I'm wondering if the following is better: div.className { bord

[css-d] Image replacement? -- link provided

2008-10-08 Thread Bill Moseley
Page in question: http://hank.org/image.html Question: What's the best way to move text off screen and allow a background image to still show? And done with accessibility in mind? I've been messing with this for a while today and now ask for help. ;) I have javascript that finds

[css-d] Z-index and IE

2008-10-08 Thread Denise McLaurin
I'm experiencing a problem with a left-hand menu that uses css to hide/display submenu items on a particular page which gives certain content items a z-index setting. The problem is corrected in Firefox by adding a higher z-index to the submenu s. However, this does not work in IE. If someon

[css-d] Site check please - DAC

2008-10-08 Thread Calliope Georgousi
Hi *Peter, I am new member and I am still finding my feet in this forum. I happen to have a similar problem, have tried everything and even though I am just a placement student , the professional staff doesn't know how to deal with this as well. so I created this website and no matter whether I