Re: [css-d] text positioning

2009-01-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David McGlone wrote: > I'm thinking that even though there are more than 1 words, closing > the tag after each word does not make it a whole new box that can be > moved individually. > > Am I thinking correctly? No, I'm afraid your thinking is flawed for positioning bits of text on top of a fi

Re: [css-d] text positioning

2009-01-29 Thread David Laakso
David McGlone wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I've been doing a lot of CSS coding lately and I'm having a slight problem > with text positioning. I cannot seem to position any of the words after the > first word. > > Here's the code I'm using: > #text { > padding: 0px 0px 10px 5px; > position: relative

Re: [css-d] text positioning

2009-01-29 Thread Martyn Merrett
Check out http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/index.htm for useful list/nav tips :) ~Mx http://www.mxdx.co.uk 2009/1/30 Martyn Merrett : > Would it not be much easier to have a single "button" as each links > background? > > i.e. > > > Foo link > Bar link > > > CSS: > > .btn { > display:

[css-d] Fwd: text positioning

2009-01-29 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Begin forwarded message: > On Thursday 29 January 2009 7:28:51 pm you wrote: >> On Jan 30, 2009, at 9:14 AM, David McGlone wrote: >>> I've been doing a lot of CSS coding lately and I'm having a slight >>> problem >>> with text positioning. I cannot seem to position any of the words >>> after the

Re: [css-d] Font size

2009-01-29 Thread Hayden's Harness Attachment
David > Reduce the font-size on this selector: > p.time { > font-size: 180%; > } Thank you. I missed that. > Why is the font-size declared on html,body set at 14% less than default? Probably an error. > BTW, Google search is throwing a slew of markup errors. I was trying to comment this out s

[css-d] text positioning

2009-01-29 Thread David McGlone
Hi everyone. I've been doing a lot of CSS coding lately and I'm having a slight problem with text positioning. I cannot seem to position any of the words after the first word. Here's the code I'm using: #text { padding: 0px 0px 10px 5px; position: relative; left: 10px; bottom: 2px; top: 2px; fo

Re: [css-d] problem with IE7, suckerfish and flash video

2009-01-29 Thread Ingo Chao
2009/1/29 Chris Kavinsky > ... when I hover over a nav item to activate a > dropdown, IE7 hides the video and all content below (everything within > the same div from the video to the end). > > http://associationdatabase.com/aws/ORAEF/pt/sp/prostart_cafe > > I think this is an IE7 guillotine (a t

Re: [css-d] width of scrollable table

2009-01-29 Thread Jim Albert
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > On Jan 29, 2009, at 7:10 AM, Jim Albert wrote: > >> It seems like the only way I can get table to be "clipped" properly >> and >> scroll is to give a pixel length to the width of the DIV. >> >> I thought I could use: >> >> and I was expecting that the table would f

[css-d] problem with IE7, suckerfish and flash video

2009-01-29 Thread Chris Kavinsky
I'm running into a real poser and hopefully someone can help me out. I'm building a site using Son of Suckerfish dropdowns for the main navigation. One one page, I have a Flash video imbedded at the top of the content area where the dropdowns overlap. I added wmode="transparent" to get the dropdown

Re: [css-d] spacing problem in IE

2009-01-29 Thread Jody Levinson
Thank you for the comments. I've been having trouble aligning the fonts in the header and I haven't been able to figure out how to make it work right. I want the phone numbers to be aligned to the bottom right of the contain they're in, but nothing I do seems to work consistently. I also kn

Re: [css-d] width of scrollable table

2009-01-29 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jan 29, 2009, at 7:10 AM, Jim Albert wrote: > It seems like the only way I can get table to be "clipped" properly > and > scroll is to give a pixel length to the width of the DIV. > > I thought I could use: > > and I was expecting that the table would fill the width of the browser > and the

Re: [css-d] Font size

2009-01-29 Thread David Laakso
Hayden's Harness Attachment wrote: > David > Thank you. Firefox was not recognizeing the defaults for some reason. I > manually reset and both Firefox and IE are the same. Do you know > why`"Greenwich Mean Time Says ..." is in 21 point font. I would like to knock > it to 18point. > > http://www.

Re: [css-d] spacing problem in IE

2009-01-29 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Laakso wrote: >> http://www.atlas-inspection.com/privacy.html >> > > FWIW, for anyone following this thread-- It is not positioned > correctly in XP IE 6/7 (don't know about Vista or Win/200) and Mac > Safari (don't know about PC Safari or Chrome). PC Safari: mildly broken at my end - butt