Re: [css-d] CSS replacement for table layouts

2008-12-11 Thread Angel Martin Alganza
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05:10:45PM -0700, Geoff Hoffman wrote: Sorry for the long post, but I've been thinking about this for over a year now, and it's been asked many times before without a viable answer that is actually reliably workable in a production environment. The bottom line is, I

Re: [css-d] fractions in font-size

2008-12-11 Thread david
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Angela French wrote: Is there no way to get in between sizes? Not on today's screens where a pixel is a screen-pixel. Modern technology often makes subpixels available. It is unclear how they should relate to the pixel concept of CSS, which

Re: [css-d] CSS replacement for table layouts

2008-12-11 Thread Éric Vesque
Angel Martin Alganza a écrit : On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05:10:45PM -0700, Geoff Hoffman wrote: Sorry for the long post, but I've been thinking about this for over a year now, and it's been asked many times before without a viable answer that is actually reliably workable in a production

Re: [css-d] CSS replacement for table layouts

2008-12-11 Thread Angel Martin Alganza
Hi Éric, everybody, On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:53:49AM +0100, Éric Vesque wrote: Your solution seems to work only in Opera, other browsers don't like ids begining by numbers. It was such a quick thing that I didn't bother to check it out in any other browser than the one I use most of the

Re: [css-d] CSS replacement for table layouts

2008-12-11 Thread Éric Vesque
Angel Martin Alganza a écrit : Hi Éric, everybody, Thanks for that. But what have you added the div for? ul is already an html element one can style with CSS. Cheers, Ángel I took the first of my templates

Re: [css-d] Semantic Approach for Link Columns/Fragments

2008-12-11 Thread Rasal Postill
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:48:47 +0530, Mustafa Quilon wrote: | Hi, | | I wanted to know what would be the best(semantic) approach to mark-up/style | lists that appear in columns. I've uploaded an example image[1]. | | I would normally code it as follows: | | div id=list1 |ul |/ul | /div |

Re: [css-d] CSS replacement for table layouts

2008-12-11 Thread Kevin Warrington
Floating of the li's will make it very hard for you to preserve a grid layout using this approach. You will rarely will see content with the same height in the first two rows, if at all. Try adding a br to the a12 li. -Kev 2008/12/11 Angel Martin Alganza [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Dec 10,

Re: [css-d] CSS replacement for table layouts

2008-12-11 Thread Éric Vesque
Kevin Warrington a écrit : Floating of the li's will make it very hard for you to preserve a grid layout using this approach. You will rarely will see content with the same height in the first two rows, if at all. Try adding a br to the a12 li. -Kev This can be done by styling the li's

Re: [css-d] CSS replacement for table layouts

2008-12-11 Thread Éric Vesque
Kevin Warrington a écrit : Floating of the li's will make it very hard for you to preserve a grid layout using this approach. You will rarely will see content with the same height in the first two rows, if at all. Try adding a br to the a12 li. -Kev Ooops. I've answered too quickly.

Re: [css-d] CSS replacement for table layouts

2008-12-11 Thread Kevin Warrington
This can be done by styling the li's where you want the new line to begin, as shown here : http://www.banturle.com/divers/grille3x3.html That is true, but keeping in mind that the content within these li's will be variable, do you really want to be applying clears based on li height, as opposed

Re: [css-d] CSS replacement for table layouts

2008-12-11 Thread Éric Vesque
Kevin Warrington a écrit : This can be done by styling the li's where you want the new line to begin, as shown here : http://www.banturle.com/divers/grille3x3.html That is true, but keeping in mind that the content within these li's will be variable, do you really want to be applying

Re: [css-d] CSS replacement for table layouts

2008-12-11 Thread Kevin Warrington
Well, for semantic reasons, I use tables only for tabular data. Sure, a table design may look perfect, but what about users with text readers? I do agree that tables should only be used in extreme cases where there is really no other alternative. However, some of the CSS design choices you

[css-d] CSS and iFrames

2008-12-11 Thread shaf
Is there a way to control embedded CSS that in an iFrame? I am able to add hooks to control the CSS for the iFrame but I want to be able to control the CSS hooks in the iFrame. How is this achieved if at all? Thanks. Shaf __

Re: [css-d] resetting global font size

2008-12-11 Thread David Laakso
Angela French wrote: Which bug please? I know that the design starts to fall apart, but want to make sure I'm seeing what you are alluding to. http://checkoutacollege.com/. Angela French It's a known bug when setting font-size in em.. The correction is to add

Re: [css-d] Anyone Know of Hover Drop Down Menus?

2008-12-11 Thread Tim Arnold
After using the stripped-down suckerfish CSS + very light JS for IE6 for the past few years, I've started using the Suckerfish jQuery menu solution ( http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/) primarily because it is based on the Suckerfish menus, uses very clean XHTML/CSS, and provides

Re: [css-d] CSS and iFrames

2008-12-11 Thread Adam Ducker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to control embedded CSS that in an iFrame? I am able to add hooks to control the CSS for the iFrame but I want to be able to control the CSS hooks in the iFrame. How is this achieved if at all? Thanks. As far as I know CSS will not cascade down into

Re: [css-d] can apply style inline but not in style sheet

2008-12-11 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Angela French wrote: On this page: http://checkoutacollege.com/ I am trying to apply a background color in back of the Ready/Set/Go buttons (of the same color) so that if the images are turned off, the text can still be read. (I'd like to just get rid of the beveled images before long!).

Re: [css-d] Anyone Know of Hover Drop Down Menus?

2008-12-11 Thread shaf
I think this is a question that keeps being posted and subscribers on here are offering great help. Anyone out there that needs assistance on CSS menus please bookmark this site as it will give you great guidance. Stu Nicholls keeps it simple to follow and has a good archive of CSS experiments. I

Re: [css-d] Anyone Know of Hover Drop Down Menus?

2008-12-11 Thread Al Sparber
From: Tim Arnold tim.arn...@gmail.com After using the stripped-down suckerfish CSS + very light JS for IE6 for the past few years, I've started using the Suckerfish jQuery menu solution ( http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/) primarily because it is based on the Suckerfish

Re: [css-d] can apply style inline but not in style sheet

2008-12-11 Thread Angela French
Angela French wrote: On this page: http://checkoutacollege.com/ I am trying to apply a background color in back of the Ready/Set/Go buttons (of the same color) so that if the images are turned off, the text can still be read. (I'd like to just get rid of the beveled images before long!).

Re: [css-d] CSS and iFrames

2008-12-11 Thread Nancy Johnson
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Adam Ducker a...@plugged-n.biz wrote: s...@ssyed.com wrote: Is there a way to control embedded CSS that in an iFrame? I am able to add hooks to control the CSS for the iFrame but I want to be able to control the CSS hooks in the iFrame. How is this achieved if

Re: [css-d] CSS replacement for table layouts

2008-12-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:23:15 +0100, Angel Martin Alganza wrote: Hi Éric, everybody, On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:53:49AM +0100, Éric Vesque wrote: Your solution seems to work only in Opera, other browsers don't like ids begining by numbers. It was such a quick thing that I didn't bother to

Re: [css-d] CSS replacement for table layouts

2008-12-11 Thread Angel Martin Alganza
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:20:10PM -0800, David Hucklesby wrote: Your solution is very close, Angel. Some very minor tweaks got it working this end in all my browsers - As I already said, it was a couple of minutes typing to just show that what the OP claimed he was trying for years (even

Re: [css-d] Redefining a style for a portion of html

2008-12-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jim Albert wrote: Is there a way to redefine P but only for a portion of the HTML of a page? If you mean something like... p { font-size: small; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; } #sidebar p {font-size: x-small;} ...then that's how all paragraphs are given 'small'

Re: [css-d] Redefining a style for a portion of html

2008-12-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Jim Albert wrote: Am I getting close with the following: div.tinyp p { font-size: x-small; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; } And then use it as such: DIV class=tinypPI hope this html will use the div tinyp class/DIV It should work. The best would be if you presented

Re: [css-d] Redefining a style for a portion of html

2008-12-11 Thread Jim Albert
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Jim Albert wrote: Am I getting close with the following: div.tinyp p { font-size: x-small; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; } And then use it as such: DIV class=tinypPI hope this html will use the div tinyp class/DIV It should work. The best

[css-d] how to check for embedded styles when using external style sheet?

2008-12-11 Thread Elaine LaBonte
I need to eliminate all embedded styles from my site, but it would be tedious to do it manually.  I'm using Dreamweaver CSS3 and don't see a way for DW to do it.  Can anyone point me to an easier way than manual? Thanks, Elaine

[css-d] Fw: Re: how to check for embedded styles when using external style sheet?

2008-12-11 Thread Elaine LaBonte
Hi, Alex, I have appointments tomorrow, so I'll work on this over the weekend - thanks for the good directions.  I have about 350 pages to check, whew. Elaine --- On Thu, 12/11/08, A. Beutl c...@netgra.de wrote: From: A. Beutl c...@netgra.de Subject: Re: [css-d] how to check for embedded