[css-d] the problem of rule reuse

2008-10-24 Thread ray
Hey, all I got a complex rule that is comprised by several parts, for example: .clearfix:after { content: .; display: block; height: 0; clear: both; visibility: hidden; } /* Hides from IE-mac \*/ * html .clearfix {height: 1%;} /* End hide from IE-mac */ I know I can apply this rule to

Re: [css-d] the problem of rule reuse

2008-10-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
ray wrote: I want to apply this rule to all li elements under ul. Giving every li element a class attribute is very tedious. Is there a solution for this situation? The fix can be attached to any element the same ways as any other rule-set... ul li:after { content: .; display:

[css-d] i thought styling some quote images around text can be quite simple but how wrong!

2008-10-24 Thread liketo findoutwhy
to simply add two quote images around some text. seems quite simple at first but turns out all the obvious solutions are not as desirable as a perfect solution: please see http://www.0011.com/css/quote.html basically, Style 1 is just inlining the image, text, and image. Style 2 is using a

[css-d] i thought styling some quote images around text can be quite simple but how wrong!

2008-10-24 Thread liketo findoutwhy
to simply add two quote images around some text. seems quite simple at first but turns out all the obvious solutions are not as desirable as a perfect solution: please see http://www.0011.com/css/quote.html basically, Style 1 is just inlining the image, text, and image. Style 2 is using a

Re: [css-d] i thought styling some quote images around text can be quite simple but how wrong!

2008-10-24 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:53:15 -0700 Came this utterance fomulated by liketo findoutwhy to my mailbox: to simply add two quote images around some text. seems quite simple at first but turns out all the obvious solutions are not as desirable as a perfect solution: please see

[css-d] div+heading vs fieldset+legend

2008-10-24 Thread Emanuele Venezia
Hi all, I would like to insert a box with a tile in the middle the top border, like the default for the legend of a fieldset. See http://www.biblio.polito.it/boxtitle.html. I've tried different approaches and it's been quite easy for FF3, Opera 9.60, Safari 3.1.2, Google Chrome and K-Meleon

Re: [css-d] i thought styling some quote images around text can be quite simple but how wrong!

2008-10-24 Thread liketo findoutwhy
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I think the trailing span will work in IE if you do it with display: inline-block;. Untested as i am on my Linux box. thanks for your reply. i tried: http://www.0011.com/css/quote3.html it has the same effect as

Re: [css-d] i thought styling some quote images around text can be quite simple but how wrong!

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Henderson
liketo findoutwhy wrote: to simply add two quote images around some text. seems quite simple at first but turns out all the obvious solutions are not as desirable as a perfect solution: please see http://www.0011.com/css/quote.html basically, Style 1 is just inlining the image, text, and

Re: [css-d] float problem: not being contained or something else?

2008-10-24 Thread Luc
Good morning Gunlaug, It was foretold that on 24/10/2008 @ 06:35:22 GMT+0200 (which was 02:35:22 where I live) Gunlaug Sørtun would write: snipped a bit Delete 'width: 18em' on #puller2 and let that float default to 'width: auto' and shrink-wrap. Delete 'margin-left: 1em' while you're at

Re: [css-d] i thought styling some quote images around text can be quite simple but how wrong!

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Henderson
liketo findoutwhy wrote: oh thanks for your answer. hm... is the last webpage above the same as my Style 1b? the requirement is that the ending quote image is right next to the ending word, not at the far bottom right corner. thanks again. Hello and you are most welcome. I only took

Re: [css-d] div+heading vs fieldset+legend

2008-10-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Emanuele Venezia wrote: I would like to insert a box with a tile in the middle the top border, like the default for the legend of a fieldset. See http://www.biblio.polito.it/boxtitle.html. Why IE is almost always the only browser behaving differently? For some of the cases the answer is

Re: [css-d] float problem: not being contained or something else?

2008-10-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Luc wrote: That expression do not work well on other screen-resolutions than 96dpi - the most widespread one that IE6 may be found on at the moment, and there's not much I can do about that since resolution can't be easily checked and used as a variable in expressions. Oh well, for me

[css-d] negative background position for sprite

2008-10-24 Thread Marty Martin
Greetz everyone, So I have this H1 tag and I have a little graphic sprite I want to negatively position to the left of the H1 but when I do, the sprite gets cut off at the box border of the H1. Is there a way around that so I can negatively position the sprite without it getting cut off? Here's

Re: [css-d] float problem: not being contained or something else?

2008-10-24 Thread Luc
Good afternoon Gunlaug, It was foretold that on 24/10/2008 @ 17:18:28 GMT+0200 (which was 13:18:28 where I live) Gunlaug Sørtun would write: You're right: web design isn't magic - just code :-) Yup and code is already difficult enough for me, let alone magic ;-) FWIW: my expression

[css-d] Fwd: negative background position for sprite

2008-10-24 Thread Cristian Palmas
I forgot to add css-discuss to the address... -- Forwarded message -- From: Cristian Palmas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/10/24 Subject: Re: [css-d] negative background position for sprite To: Marty Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/10/24 Marty Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetz

Re: [css-d] negative background position for sprite

2008-10-24 Thread Marty Martin
This accomplished what I needed, thanks for the suggestions from everyone! Marty On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Richmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about something like: .mountain { color: #9b422d; background: url (images/h1-mountain-arrow.png) 0px no-repeat;

Re: [css-d] negative background position for sprite

2008-10-24 Thread Richmond
How about something like: .mountain { color: #9b422d; background: url (images/h1-mountain-arrow.png) 0px no-repeat; margin-left: -15px; text-indent: 30px; } Cheers Richmond __ css-discuss [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] What is the offtopic address?

2008-10-24 Thread Jim Nannery
Christopher You wrote; What is the offtopic email address? At the bottom of every email sent by the list you'll find a link to the CSS-D Wiki. [1] It's there that you'll find a link to the off topic list.[2] Regards Jim Nannery [1] List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ [2]

Re: [css-d] What is the offtopic address?

2008-10-24 Thread Keith DiSarno
So is there, or is there not, an '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' address where people can just shoot the breeze? I know that Majestic has asked this twice before and both times was directed to that static page of links to more lists. I believe I may be missing a key link in the chain...LOL.

Re: [css-d] What is the offtopic address?

2008-10-24 Thread Jim Nannery
Keith You wrote So is there, or is there not, an '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' address where people can just shoot the breeze? I know that Majestic has asked this twice before and both times was directed to that static page of links to more lists. I believe I may be missing a key link in the

Re: [css-d] What is the offtopic address?

2008-10-24 Thread Keith DiSarno
Thanks for the clarification Jim. Keith __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html

[css-d] IE6 question - a:hover img

2008-10-24 Thread Phillip Cavaco
Hi everyone, *please help*... I'm on fire with IE6 :) As you can see by the email subject, I want to apply the following CSS rule: a:hover img{ border:solid 1px red; } over the following html: a href=/testimg src=image.jpg alt=test //a I know that IE6 pseudo select only works with

Re: [css-d] IE6 question - a:hover img

2008-10-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Phillip Cavaco wrote: a:hover img{ border:solid 1px red; } I know that IE6 pseudo select only works with anchors by default. But this one ain't working. Give IE6 something that forces it to re-render on :hover, on the anchor itself, like... a:hover { background-position: 0 0; } ...and it

[css-d] IE7 Ignoring Hover State

2008-10-24 Thread Chris Akins
Example page: http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newsite/manager.html http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newsite/reset.css http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newsite/3col.css The left hand navigation list should show a white background on hover for all link items. It does just that except for the last item

Re: [css-d] IE7 Ignoring Hover State

2008-10-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Akins wrote: http://www.springfieldmo.gov/newsite/manager.html The left hand navigation list should show a white background on hover for all link items. It does just that except for the last item (class=last) in IE7 only. In that browser, the hover state is ignored. It looks

[css-d] vertical-align - Parent Element

2008-10-24 Thread Doug Jolley
I must be missing something real obvious. In discussing vertical-align there is a proliferation of references to parent element. For example, we might see a reference like, baseline - Aligns the baseline of the element with the baseline of the parent element.. What is the parent element? For

Re: [css-d] i thought styling some quote images around text can be quite simple but how wrong!

2008-10-24 Thread liketo findoutwhy
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Mark Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: liketo findoutwhy wrote: oh thanks for your answer. hm... is the last webpage above the same as my Style 1b? the requirement is that the ending quote image is right next to the ending word, not at the far bottom

Re: [css-d] vertical-align - Parent Element

2008-10-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Doug Jolley wrote: What is the parent element? For example, suppose that I had pMy dog span style=vertical-align: baseline;has/spanfleas./p I would say that the paragraph element was the parent of the span element. Yes. I certainly don't intend to align the baseline of the word has

Re: [css-d] i thought styling some quote images around text can be quite simple but how wrong!

2008-10-24 Thread Mark Henderson
liketo findoutwhy wrote: This is the one: From Ben Bacarisse How about: http://www.bsb.me.uk/testing/quotes.html (re-size window to test the wrapping). Groovy... ... however, that method has a problem and I noticed a similar one when tinkering with your examples. Have you seen

Re: [css-d] flyout menus + IE6 making progress, still need help

2008-10-24 Thread Jody Levinson
It's not working for me 'out of the box' either. Unless I'm implementing it wrong. Do you have a sample of it working in a vertical menu to level 3 that I could look at to compare? Your page that you referred me to only goes to level 2. Thanks! On Oct 23, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Bob Meetin

[css-d] CSS popup windows

2008-10-24 Thread Hayden's Harness Attachment
If you go to http://www.thepuppyplace.org/page53.html and click on a link (Alabama for example) popups up a window with text inside. Can someone suggest a website that I can learn this technique? Or any other comments? Thank you. Angus MacKinnon Infoforce Services

Re: [css-d] CSS popup windows

2008-10-24 Thread Majestic
Cute dogs on the side of the page. On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Hayden's Harness Attachment [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you go to http://www.thepuppyplace.org/page53.html and click on a link (Alabama for example) popups up a window with text inside. Can someone suggest a website that I

Re: [css-d] CSS popup windows

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Brown
If you go to http://www.thepuppyplace.org/page53.html and click on a link (Alabama for example) popups up a window with text inside. Can someone suggest a website that I can learn this technique? Or any other comments? Thank you. This is better handled through JavaScript than CSS. That being

Re: [css-d] the problem of rule reuse

2008-10-24 Thread ray
Yeah, that's a solution but not perfect. Because this rule-set is comprised of two parts - the normal one and the IE-mac fix. You have to remember to add the new selector to every part. Thanks for you reply. On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ray wrote:

Re: [css-d] the problem of rule reuse

2008-10-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
ray wrote: Yeah, that's a solution but not perfect. Because this rule-set is comprised of two parts - the normal one and the IE-mac fix. You have to remember to add the new selector to every part. Tough :-) Well, if your easyclearing works in IE7 in standards mode, you won't need the second