[css-d] IE and background colour

2009-01-10 Thread Elle Meredith
Hello again, I've got quick 2 more questions -- and again problems with IE. 1. Background colour is not appearing on #quote and #bookings 2. .mini-gallery last floated li falls below. I tried to specify a smaller margin for IE but it still does not help. The site is at: http://farmpeacelove.co

Re: [css-d] IE and Negative Absolute Positioning

2009-01-10 Thread Elle Meredith
> > I'm having trouble with absolute positioning an image of a rooster > at the bottom in both IE6 and 7. Would anyone know how to fix it? > Add... #footer { z-index: -1;} > ...to compensate for IE's lousy stacking of positioned elements. Thanks Georg -- that fi

Re: [css-d] A font sizing question - with apologies in advance!

2009-01-10 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/01/10 18:12 (GMT-0800) Don Hinshaw composed: > David Laakso wrote: >> Don Hinshaw wrote: >>> Thanks for any thoughts on this...needless to say it's very unnerving >>> to have these issues pop up at this late date when the author of the >>> CSS is unavailable. >>> Don Hinshaw >> body

Re: [css-d] A font sizing question - with apologies in advance!

2009-01-10 Thread David Laakso
Don Hinshaw wrote: > . > Everything I've read seems to point to pixels being the only way to > retain any control over the situation. True? > > Don > No. -- A thin red line and a salmon-color ampersand forthcoming. http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ _

Re: [css-d] Font stack article

2009-01-10 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:07:06 +0100, Dejan Kozina wrote: > Hello list! > > For all those in search of sensible values for font-family: > http://www.sitepoint.com/article/eight-definitive-font-stacks/ > > The samples are way to small, but the result seems nice to me. > I prefer the samples in this a

Re: [css-d] A font sizing question - with apologies in advance!

2009-01-10 Thread Don Hinshaw
David Laakso wrote: > Don Hinshaw wrote: >> Thanks for any thoughts on this...needless to say it's very unnerving >> to have these issues pop up at this late date when the author of the >> CSS is unavailable. >> >> Don Hinshaw >> > body { > font: /*101%*/100% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; > }

Re: [css-d] IE and Negative Absolute Positioning

2009-01-10 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Elle Meredith wrote: > > > I'm having trouble with absolute positioning an image of a rooster at > the bottom in both IE6 and 7. Would anyone know how to fix it? Add... #footer { z-index: -1;} ...to compensate for IE's lousy stacking of positioned elements. > Co

Re: [css-d] A font sizing question - with apologies in advance!

2009-01-10 Thread David Laakso
Don Hinshaw wrote: > Thanks for any thoughts on this...needless to say it's very unnerving to > have these issues pop up at this late date when the author of the CSS is > unavailable. > > Don Hinshaw > body { font: /*101%*/100% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } h1 { font-size: /*.875em*/120%; }

[css-d] A font sizing question - with apologies in advance!

2009-01-10 Thread Don Hinshaw
Hello Group, We just launched a redesign on a heavily visited site, our CSS developer is out of the country, and a problem with font sizes has surfaced that I don't know how to answer. I'm hoping to get some help here. A number of customers and a couple of employees are reporting that the fonts

[css-d] IE and Negative Absolute Positioning

2009-01-10 Thread Elle Meredith
Hello, I've created this website on a mac. When checking the page on browser shots, I'm having trouble with absolute positioning an image of a rooster at the bottom in both IE6 and 7. Would anyone know how to fix it? Besides that, I haven't noticed any other major problems in IE (to my su

Re: [css-d] Text and image alignment

2009-01-10 Thread Bill Brown
> Does anyone have any suggestions how to correct this? > http://dev.howsmykiddriving.org Hi Tim-- Validate the markup, for starters: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.howsmykiddriving.org%2F Errors in coding, even small ones produce unreliable and unpredictable resul

[css-d] Text and image alignment

2009-01-10 Thread Tim Wolak
Hi all, I have some pretty different reactions from various browsers as to how they layout the text of the main content. I have two images that encase my main text, one at the top and one at the bottom, the top image and the text are fine but when you change browsers is the problem(go figure). A

Re: [css-d] Image on submit button

2009-01-10 Thread Del Wegener
> Del Wegener wrote: > >> The Submit button (to the right of the search field) displays >> correctly with a green arrow (a background image) in FF. > > Where? > >> However, in >> IE 7 the button is the wrong size and the background image does not >> show. > > Submit button sizes vary (and might

Re: [css-d] Problem with float drop on pages with a 3-column CSS layout that are generated by Movable Type

2009-01-10 Thread Carla Bruni
Can you send a better formatted CSS? Carla "How many undo-s can be done in Notepad?" __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incu

Re: [css-d] Image on submit button

2009-01-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Del Wegener wrote: > The Submit button (to the right of the search field) displays > correctly with a green arrow (a background image) in FF. Where? > However, in > IE 7 the button is the wrong size and the background image does not > show. Submit button sizes vary (and might be immune to CSS r