Re: [css-d] overflow problem in IE

2008-12-24 Thread Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
On 24/12/08 21:27, Paul Jung wrote: > THat is another problem. I really have no idea how to fix. Do you have any > clue? As I observe it, it looks like that the long url address was regarded > as one inseparable word and thus was not text wrapped according to the table > width. You might have some

Re: [css-d] overflow problem in IE

2008-12-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Paul Jung wrote: > [...] As I observe it, it looks like that the long url address was > regarded as one inseparable word and thus was not text wrapped > according to the table width. Browsers ability to break long words on certain characters varies, but we can at least prevent the entire table fro

Re: [css-d] overflow problem in IE

2008-12-24 Thread Paul Jung
Georg, Thank you very much in this Christmas season to help me! The codes you wrote really solve the problem, but "> ...and you will probably want to fix the width of the table in .newreply > to prevent it from overflowing its container and get "cut off", which > seems to be a problem in all bro

Re: [css-d] Monospace font-size anomaly in Webkit

2008-12-24 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:49:49 +0900, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > On Dec 24, 2008, at 10:26 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: > >> It seems that the "monospace" keyword affects more than just Webkit. Playing >> with the >> font stack as you suggested, I found that *eliminating* >> that keyword made Web

Re: [css-d] Academic Question: When a CSS rule is too long on one line...

2008-12-24 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi Jack, The exam tested many subjects in the W3C CSS2 spec, but I have a feeling the question was poorly worded. I think they were trying to test using strings in CSS rules: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#strings The spec says: "It is possible to break strings over several lines, for es

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2008-12-24 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
JR Heard wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Dan Gayle > wrote: >> The full example can be found here: http://dangayle.com/test.html > > Firebug isn't picking up any of the div.extra-info styles you've > defined in the head section. Solve that, and I'd bet you'll solve your > problem. > (I

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2008-12-24 Thread Jonny Stephens
On 24 Dec 2008, at 17:44, Dan Gayle wrote: > I am having a specificity problem that I need help with. I am trying > to create an info box that floats to the right within my main content > div that uses the cascade to supply the styling. The content of that > info box needs to be marked up using pl

Re: [css-d] Specificity Problem

2008-12-24 Thread JR Heard
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Dan Gayle wrote: > The full example can be found here: http://dangayle.com/test.html Firebug isn't picking up any of the div.extra-info styles you've defined in the head section. Solve that, and I'd bet you'll solve your problem. (I'd start by validating the CSS.

Re: [css-d] Humbug!

2008-12-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
tedd wrote: > At 11:22 AM +0100 12/24/08, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >> David Laakso wrote: >>> >> >> ...but it's valid ;-) > > If it wasn't, I would check the temperature of Hell as well. I tried anyway, but the document's source-code can't be vali

[css-d] Specificity Problem

2008-12-24 Thread Dan Gayle
I am having a specificity problem that I need help with. I am trying to create an info box that floats to the right within my main content div that uses the cascade to supply the styling. The content of that info box needs to be marked up using plain html elements, because the content write

Re: [css-d] Humbug!

2008-12-24 Thread tedd
At 11:22 AM +0100 12/24/08, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >David Laakso wrote: > > > >...but it's valid ;-) If it wasn't, I would check the temperature of Hell as well. Cheers and season's greetings. tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancie

Re: [css-d] Academic Question: When a CSS rule is too long on oneline...

2008-12-24 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Stephen Tang wrote: > I was recently taking a CSS online exam, and I ran into a question I > have never encountered before. This list is devoted to discussions on practical use of CSS, but let's imagine that long lines become a practical issue. Rare, but possible. A very long URL, used for back

[css-d] Academic Question: When a CSS rule is too long on one line...

2008-12-24 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi, I was recently taking a CSS online exam, and I ran into a question I have never encountered before. The multiple choice question question basically asked, "If a CSS rule is too long on a single line, what character do you use to tell the style sheet processors that the rule is continued on the

Re: [css-d] overflow problem in IE

2008-12-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Paul Jung wrote: > Thank you very much, but it didn't solve the problem, please look > http://www.europeeurope.net/index.php?pageNum_Recordset2=8&totalRows_Recordset2=4913 > Note that IE5.0 won't react on "zoom: 1;" as 'hasLayout' trigger - it needs a dimensional trigger like "height: 1%;". IE5.

Re: [css-d] overflow problem in IE

2008-12-24 Thread Alan Gresley
Paul Jung wrote: > Thank you very much, but it didn't solve the problem, please look > http://www.europeeurope.net/index.php?pageNum_Recordset2=8&totalRows_Recordset2=4913 > > > > the same problem appears, is it a flowout problem? or text wrap problem? > it seems to me, that it can not deal w

Re: [css-d] overflow problem in IE

2008-12-24 Thread Paul Jung
Thank you very much, but it didn't solve the problem, please look http://www.europeeurope.net/index.php?pageNum_Recordset2=8&totalRows_Recordset2=4913 the same problem appears, is it a flowout problem? or text wrap problem? it seems to me, that it can not deal with text wrap correctly, for exam

Re: [css-d] Humbug!

2008-12-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Laakso wrote: > ...but it's valid ;-) M 't.c.' -- http://www.gunlaug.no __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/c