[css-d] Thanks for resizing my window -- NOT!

2008-11-11 Thread Hedley Finger
All the recent browsers I have let you open a page in a tab within the browser window. You can usually set an option that a page opens within a tab even as a result of code or whatever that tries to open a new page. And that's something we all need to watch. Sitepoint, our very favouritist we

Re: [css-d] Same Dynamic Width

2008-11-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jack Blankenships wrote: > Using display: inline-block seems to work for now, but I am wondering > what circumstances may cause that to fail. >> http://mylittletestsite.com/same_dynamic_width.html I would have preferred a valid document, and not an incomplete, quirks mode triggering, fragment. I

Re: [css-d] Same Dynamic Width

2008-11-11 Thread Peter Hyde-Smith
- Original Message - From: "Jack Blankenships" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gunlaug Sørtun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] Same Dynamic Width http://mylittletestsite.com/same_dynamic_width.html In theory the first section should have th

Re: [css-d] Same Dynamic Width

2008-11-11 Thread Jack Blankenships
Using display: inline-block seems to work for now, but I am wondering what circumstances may cause that to fail. On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Jack Blankenships <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://mylittletestsite.com/same_dynamic_width.html > > In theory the first section should have the heade

Re: [css-d] Unwanted margin with 0pix padding and margin

2008-11-11 Thread David Laakso
Elaine LaBonte wrote: > This is the most basic of basic, yet I can't see the problem. This is my > first post here, so please let me know if I'm out of protocol somehow. > > http://www.labontewebstudio.com/web210-index-scratch.css > http://www.labontewebstudio.com/web210-index-scratch-2v.htm >

Re: [css-d] Same Dynamic Width

2008-11-11 Thread Jack Blankenships
http://mylittletestsite.com/same_dynamic_width.html In theory the first section should have the header stop at 800px. The second should stop at 400px for both the header and the content. On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jack Blankenships wrote: >> >> A

Re: [css-d] Same Dynamic Width

2008-11-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jack Blankenships wrote: > Any suggestions on how to make two items have the same dynamic width? > I can think of at least a dozen reasons why neither 'width: auto'(default) or 'width: 100%' will work for you, but figuring out which one you have run into will be pure guesswork. Present a link to

[css-d] Same Dynamic Width

2008-11-11 Thread Jack Blankenships
Any suggestions on how to make two items have the same dynamic width? For example, if I have two divs with one being a header and a second with content. I want to make the header div expand to fill the same width as the content div. I have tried enclosing both in a parent div and giving the con

Re: [css-d] Unwanted margin with 0pix padding and margin

2008-11-11 Thread Andrew Frazier
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:53:18 -, Elaine LaBonte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Question:  Why do I get what appears to be padding or margin around the > div #content? > In Opera all I can see is the blue border round the #container div, no margin or padding though. -- Using Opera's re

[css-d] Unwanted margin with 0pix padding and margin

2008-11-11 Thread Elaine LaBonte
This is the most basic of basic, yet I can't see the problem.  This is my first post here, so please let me know if I'm out of protocol somehow. http://www.labontewebstudio.com/web210-index-scratch.css http://www.labontewebstudio.com/web210-index-scratch-2v.htm Question:  Why do I get what app

Re: [css-d] Newbie text ghosts and alignment

2008-11-11 Thread David Laakso
tony wrote: > I have run into a number of problems as can been seen: > http://www.somersetspiess.co.uk/xmas.html > > > Tony > > > Might be a good idea to start by validating the markup. Compare your page in IE/7 (and IE/6) to Opera.

Re: [css-d] tr, td, th, and caption

2008-11-11 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Doug Jolley wrote: > The XHTML 1.0 DTD makes clear that the "table" element is a block > element. Not really. Both in HTML 4.01 and in XHTML 1.0, the concept of "block element" is obscure or at least vague, and it cannot be defined by the DTD, which is purely a formal description of some featur

Re: [css-d] IE6-7 not seeing margin/height in header...

2008-11-11 Thread David Laakso
Eric Heitz wrote: > Simple one page site that is using a large barkground for my layout. Looks > great in FF and Safari. > Noticed that IE6-7 is not liking my header height or margin to keep it out of > the header area. Also applied to the content div. > Tried applying margins to the logo and the

[css-d] tr, td, th, and caption

2008-11-11 Thread Doug Jolley
The XHTML 1.0 DTD makes clear that the "table" element is a block element. No surprise there. However, the "tr", "td", "th", and "caption" elements are not listed in either the "Block" section or the "Inline" section. How do I know what type of elements these elements are? Thanks for any input.

[css-d] CSS Wrap background problem

2008-11-11 Thread Nouhad
Hi there, I am trying to include a 'background' on the left and right hand sides of my square wrap container in Divs. Currently my HTML is as follows : I tried to do the following: //Div Style background:url(images_03.jpg); background-repeat:no-repeat; width:37px; height:448

[css-d] :: IE7 Margin Issue ::

2008-11-11 Thread Amrinder
Hello Friends I am facing weird margin issue in IE7 whereas things are fine otherwise. http://demo.awayback.com/maknetforms/ There is another problem around the main menu in IE7. The bottom border sticks with the menu. Pls help. Regards, Amrinder www.awayback.com _

[css-d] IE6-7 not seeing margin/height in header...

2008-11-11 Thread Eric Heitz
Simple one page site that is using a large barkground for my layout. Looks great in FF and Safari. Noticed that IE6-7 is not liking my header height or margin to keep it out of the header area. Also applied to the content div. Tried applying margins to the logo and the header which works but adds

Re: [css-d] IDs on W3C.org

2008-11-11 Thread Jerod Venema
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Tim Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I often find myself using classes where I would normally use IDs when > coding templates for any number of .NET-based content management > systems. Many .NET controls output system-generated IDs which forces us > to use clas

Re: [css-d] Complete Stylesheet for Each IE Version - No Trickle Down

2008-11-11 Thread Melbeach
>> Melbeach wrote: >> Each IE version can now be targeted in complete isolation. > Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > Another advantage of this approach is that each IE version only has to > download one stylesheet, rather than two or three or four, so that's fewer > HTTP requests. Exactly. If you

Re: [css-d] IE Problem (naturally!)

2008-11-11 Thread Jonny Stephens
On 11 Nov 2008, at 09:37, Jonny Stephens wrote: > On 11 Nov 2008, at 08:58, wlb wrote: > >> I have a graphic decoration at the bottom of each of the following >> two pages >> and have used CSS margin-left to position them, but IE doesn't >> seem to >> recognize the margin and places the graphic

Re: [css-d] IE Problem (naturally!)

2008-11-11 Thread Jonny Stephens
On 11 Nov 2008, at 08:58, wlb wrote: > I have a graphic decoration at the bottom of each of the following > two pages > and have used CSS margin-left to position them, but IE doesn't seem to > recognize the margin and places the graphic on the left side of the > screen. > I tried fiddling with

[css-d] IE Problem (naturally!)

2008-11-11 Thread wlb
Greetings! I finally finished this website and everything works perfectly on all browsers (Win & Mac) except for IE 6 and 7 on Windows. I have a graphic decoration at the bottom of each of the following two pages and have used CSS margin-left to position them, but IE doesn't seem to recognize the

[css-d] Newbie text ghosts and alignment

2008-11-11 Thread tony
Hi, I have run into a number of problems as can been seen: http://www.somersetspiess.co.uk/xmas.html Within a Div are many Div's which each contain an image and comment each in a limited range of sizes. Right at the bottom (in IE7 and around 1971-2 and '69) ghost text -partial comment -and a blank