Re: [css-d] Firefox - Font-size and Line-height

2009-03-08 Thread Gene Falck
Hi Blake, You wrote: > This behaviour seems really unintuitive, especially since there > appears to be no way to force the line height I want ... I don't think what you appear to be trying to do belongs in the realm of "intuitive" behaviors. Just imagine, if you will, trying to do this in old-fa

Re: [css-d] Firefox - Font-size and Line-height

2009-03-08 Thread Blake
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Try... > > strong  { font-size: 24px; display: inline-block; margin: -3px 0;} > > ...which will give you some, initial, control. Thanks. This helps, but has a few issues. Mainly that the text will attempt not to wrap, if it can, and this

Re: [css-d] Firefox - Font-size and Line-height

2009-03-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Blake wrote: > This behaviour seems really unintuitive, especially since there > appears to be no way to force the line height I want (except for > setting line-height: 0; which breaks IE and also seems completely > unintuitive). Try... strong { font-size: 24px; display: inline-block; margin

Re: [css-d] Firefox - Font-size and Line-height

2009-03-08 Thread Blake
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:47 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > So what the 'line-height' property does is actually a lot more like > "inline height" than "line height".  And that height is always > placed so that the font is centered within it (or, in this case, so > that it is centered within the font,

Re: [css-d] Firefox - Font-size and Line-height

2009-03-08 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/03/09 12:45 (GMT+1100) Blake composed: > However you set font-size or line-height this is still an issue, so > we'll save the px v.s. em debate for another day, shall we? > http://www.blakehaswell.com/lab/lineheight/line-height.html You really can't ignore it once you understand the magni

Re: [css-d] Firefox - Font-size and Line-height

2009-03-08 Thread L. David Baron
On Monday 2009-03-09 11:46 +1100, Blake wrote: > I have the font-size and line-height set on the body, which is fine. > But then I want to set any STRONG elements to a font-size larger than > the line-height. In Firefox doing this completely throws out the line > height. So what the 'line-height'

Re: [css-d] Firefox - Font-size and Line-height

2009-03-08 Thread Blake
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:10 PM, David Laakso wrote: > Debate? Debate what? I did not bring up px vs em. Point to the problem page. > Perhaps someone more experienced than me can help. Sorry, perhaps I misunderstood what you said. If you check out this page

Re: [css-d] Firefox - Font-size and Line-height

2009-03-08 Thread David Laakso
Blake wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:15 PM, David Laakso > wrote: > >> Well, short of not of not setting mousetype and font-sizes and line-height >> in pixels-- not really... >> > > However you set font-size or line-height this is still an issue, so > we'll save the px v.s. em debate f

Re: [css-d] Firefox - Font-size and Line-height

2009-03-08 Thread Blake
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:15 PM, David Laakso wrote: > Well, short of not of not setting mousetype and font-sizes and line-height > in pixels-- not really... However you set font-size or line-height this is still an issue, so we'll save the px v.s. em debate for another day, shall we? -- Blake H

Re: [css-d] User Style Sheets ?

2009-03-08 Thread David Laakso
Christopher R wrote: > I have two questions, first off how many people here sometimes use there own > style sheet ? Also could you have your style sheet so that > no matter what it could not be overwritten but without adding a series of > !important everywhere in the style sheet? > I'll bite

Re: [css-d] Firefox - Font-size and Line-height

2009-03-08 Thread David Laakso
Blake wrote: > Any ideas? > > Well, short of not of not setting mousetype and font-sizes and line-height in pixels-- not really... -- A thin red line and a salmon-color ampersand forthcoming. http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ __

[css-d] User Style Sheets ?

2009-03-08 Thread Christopher R
I have two questions, first off how many people here sometimes use there own style sheet ? Also could you have your style sheet so that no matter what it could not be overwritten but without adding a series of !important everywhere in the style sheet?

[css-d] Firefox - Font-size and Line-height

2009-03-08 Thread Blake
Simple problem, but I can't see a solution. I have the font-size and line-height set on the body, which is fine. But then I want to set any STRONG elements to a font-size larger than the line-height. In Firefox doing this completely throws out the line height. body{ font-size: 13px; l

Re: [css-d] Hunting a peek-a-boo bug in IE8rc1

2009-03-08 Thread David McGlone
On Sunday 08 March 2009 3:35:44 pm Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm trying to catch a bug in IE8rc1, hoping it can be found and killed > before they release IE8 final. > > Bugnote: > ...and this bug randomly makes the footer on all my reg

Re: [css-d] css, in place of javascript

2009-03-08 Thread karla pringle
thank you so much that is perfect, i'll give it a go! On 08/03/2009, at 10:47 PM, Daniel Navarro wrote: > Hi, > > Here is a simple example that works in IE6, but I don't know why! > http://webpelon.net78.net/css-d/2009-mes03-08-img_and_text_rollover_without_javascript/ > (styles in same url /styl

Re: [css-d] Hunting a peek-a-boo bug in IE8rc1

2009-03-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm trying to catch a bug in IE8rc1, hoping it can be found and > killed before they release IE8 final. > > Bugnote: > ...and this bug randomly makes the footer on all my regular pages > collapse - disappe

Re: [css-d] Hunting a peek-a-boo bug in IE8rc1

2009-03-08 Thread Ian Young
> -Original Message- > From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d- > boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Gunlaug Sørtun > Sent: 08 March 2009 19:36 > To: cs...@css-discuss.org > Subject: [css-d] Hunting a peek-a-boo bug in IE8rc1 > Georg I have tried a number of your

Re: [css-d] Hunting a peek-a-boo bug in IE8rc1

2009-03-08 Thread Ingo Chao
I can reproduce the issue in a fresh IE8rc1 install on XP. After a few refreshes, the footer disappeared. regards, Ingo __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ

Re: [css-d] css-d Digest, Vol 76, Issue 7

2009-03-08 Thread peter . twiggs
I am currently out of the office and will return on Monday the 9th of March. If you have any urgent queries please contact Steve Lee on 0113 391 2929. Regards Peter __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-di

Re: [css-d] Floating a sub-list level with it's parent list

2009-03-08 Thread Seona Bellamy
2009/3/7 > From your layout above the only way I could get it to position correctly > was with the following: > > HTML: > > > Main Nav > > Page 1 > Page 2 > Page 3 > Subscriber Modules > > Module 1 > Module 2 > Module 3 > Module 4 > > > > > > CSS: > > #mainnav { > float: left; > } > #submod

[css-d] Hunting a peek-a-boo bug in IE8rc1

2009-03-08 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Hey all, I'm trying to catch a bug in IE8rc1, hoping it can be found and killed before they release IE8 final. Bugnote: ...and this bug randomly makes the footer on all my regular pages collapse - disappear. The IE developer tool shows that a

Re: [css-d] text positioning

2009-03-08 Thread Jim Albert
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > On Mar 7, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Jim Albert wrote: > >> I have an example of a table defined with a height to one of the cells >> and I would like some text to be aligned to the right and bottom of >> that >> cell. >> >> Here is the example: >> http://www6.netrition.com/