[css-d] Suckerfish in Wordpress - 'current page' in sub menu inheriting primary page's colors

2009-03-13 Thread Anne E. Shroeder
I've put a bit of a hack in my CSS to achieve a "current" state on my top horizontal navigation -- I'm using the Multilevel navigation plugin in wordpress, which uses a version of suckerfish. The issue is that while the "current" state is working fine for the top level, it is cascading down to

Re: [css-d] "Q" and "A" (Question and Answer) format using ul

2009-03-13 Thread David Hucklesby
Stephen Tang wrote: > Els, > I could make "Q" and "A" part of the content, but then if the content > is more than one line, the second and subsequent lines would be right > under the letter Q or A, which isn't what I had in mind. I was > thinking of replacing a list bullet with the letter Q and A

Re: [css-d] "Q" and "A" (Question and Answer) format using ul

2009-03-13 Thread Stephen Tang
Els, I could make "Q" and "A" part of the content, but then if the content is more than one line, the second and subsequent lines would be right under the letter Q or A, which isn't what I had in mind. I was thinking of replacing a list bullet with the letter Q and A without using an image. --Ste

Re: [css-d] IE7 and whitespace.

2009-03-13 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Ian Young wrote: > http://www.dbadvertising.co.uk/dev/home-test3.html > > The "address" image has extra space between it and the nav2 div above. The page looks completely blank on my IE 7. No idea why. No fancy browser settings right now, and other pages work normally. On Firefox, I see the war

Re: [css-d] "Q" and "A" (Question and Answer) format using ul

2009-03-13 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi Jenn, Thanks for those ideas. I had not thought about just getting rid of the bullet motif entirely. Both of your suggestions are worth experimenting. Thanks, Stephen On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Jenn Mears-Nickerson wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > Personally, I like to use dl for Q&A features

Re: [css-d] "Q" and "A" (Question and Answer) format using ul

2009-03-13 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi Tim, Thanks for that. I had forgotten about :before and :after pseudo-classes. That would work, except in IE browsers. You answered my question though. :-) Thanks, Stephen On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Climis, Tim wrote: >> Does CSS2.1 allow a way to actually use "Q." and "A." as text?

Re: [css-d] IE7 and whitespace.

2009-03-13 Thread Ian Young
> Subject: Re: [css-d] IE7 and whitespace. > > > > I have fixed the conditional. > > That did the trick. > > > It must be the IE tester then that is not displaying properly as the > > address png is most definitely down more than other browsers in the > > IE7 rendition. > > I compared side-by-

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: Jukka K. Korpela [mailto:jkorp...@cs.tut.fi] Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 12:23 PM To: CSS discuss Subject: Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma Leave aside the font-size, as a CSS property, or as a propery of a font, for a moment. What those people want is not small fon

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-13 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Kathy Wheeler wrote: > Rather than blindly (bad term, I know) accepting the 100% font size, > wouldn't a better approach be to settle on a font-size that doesn't > make a client's site look like a kindergarten reader I'm not sure why one's page should not be better than the crowd in legibility.

Re: [css-d] IE7 and whitespace.

2009-03-13 Thread Ian Young
> To: Ian Young > Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Subject: Re: [css-d] IE7 and whitespace. > > Ian Young wrote: > > > http://www.dbadvertising.co.uk/dev/home-test3.html > > > > The "address" image has extra space between it and the nav2 div > > above. > > Can't see any extra space _there_ i

Re: [css-d] IE7 and whitespace.

2009-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ian Young wrote: > I have fixed the conditional. That did the trick. > It must be the IE tester then that is not displaying properly as the > address png is most definitely down more than other browsers in the > IE7 rendition. I compared side-by-side with the line-up in other browsers, but I ca

Re: [css-d] "Q" and "A" (Question and Answer) format using ul

2009-03-13 Thread Jenn Mears-Nickerson
Hi Stephen, Personally, I like to use dl for Q&A features with the dt tag as the question and the dd tag as the answer. It gives me control over how the two different elements appear (Q in bold for ex) without assigning id's. Another method could be the alternating table rows trick, just wit

Re: [css-d] IE7 and whitespace.

2009-03-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ian Young wrote: > http://www.dbadvertising.co.uk/dev/home-test3.html > > The "address" image has extra space between it and the nav2 div > above. Can't see any extra space _there_ in IE7 compared to in other browsers. However, it would be a good idea to prevent IE7 from seeing those IE6 fixed

Re: [css-d] Menu problem with IE6+7

2009-03-13 Thread Sh
thanks! the white iframe did go away, all works perfect on IE 6 but in IE 7 the menu expands and only when rollover the sub menu it shrinks back. Any idea how to fix that? (I added both the head hack tag plus deleted the iframe from the JS) thanks!! Sh On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Bill Brown

Re: [css-d] My layout needs your help

2009-03-13 Thread David Hucklesby
Kim Brooks Wei wrote: > > My h1 doesn't appear inline as I want it to in the page's first paragraph. > I think that you want h1 { display: run-in; } - but when I last looked, only Safari and Opera supported it. I imagine you have tried display: inline? FWIW I bailed and used h1 { float: left; wi

[css-d] IE7 and whitespace.

2009-03-13 Thread Ian Young
Hi guys, Last throw of dice before the weekend. Trying to get elements to line up across the page. Just about sorted in FF/IE8, Opera, Safari and have fix in for IE6, but IE7 just won't play ball. See http://www.dbadvertising.co.uk/dev/home-test3.html The "address" image has extra space be

Re: [css-d] My layout needs your help

2009-03-13 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Fri, 3/13/09, Kim Brooks Wei wrote: (The link's in the signature, David ;) > My h1 doesn't appear inline as I want it to in the > page's first paragraph. Your h1 is inline, but your paragraph isn't. > Side navigation is giving me a bit of trouble. The content > type > scrolls up and d

Re: [css-d] My layout needs your help

2009-03-13 Thread Christian Kirchhoff
The link is mentioned in the footer: thewei.com Best regards, Christian *Editura Gesellschaft für Verlagsdienstleistungen mbH* Tempelhofer Damm 2 · 12101 Berlin www.editura.de AG Berlin-Charlottenburg · HR B 81823 · USt.Id. DE217180548 Geschäftsführer: Ralf Szymanski David Laakso schrieb: > Kim

Re: [css-d] "Q" and "A" (Question and Answer) format using ul

2009-03-13 Thread Bobby Jack
-- On Fri, 3/13/09, Els wrote: > I think that Q and A should be part of the content, not the > styling. > Without CSS and without images, the content of the page > should still > make sense, so I reckon you'll want to have the images > for Q and A > with alt text, or just plain text, in the HT

Re: [css-d] "Q" and "A" (Question and Answer) format using ul

2009-03-13 Thread Climis, Tim
> Does CSS2.1 allow a way to actually use "Q." and "A." as text? Or > maybe a different markup (dl?) should be used? Sure. It's even easy. li.Q:before { content:"Q: "; } li.A:before { content:"A: "; } http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#before-after-content ---Tim

Re: [css-d] My layout needs your help

2009-03-13 Thread David Laakso
Kim Brooks Wei wrote: > Here are the problems I'm having with my own site's layout. Perhaps > you can help me resolve them. > > > Kimi > > Link? -- A thin red line and a salmon-color ampersand forthcoming. http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ __

[css-d] My layout needs your help

2009-03-13 Thread Kim Brooks Wei
Hi List Friends, Here are the problems I'm having with my own site's layout. Perhaps you can help me resolve them. My h1 doesn't appear inline as I want it to in the page's first paragraph. Side navigation is giving me a bit of trouble. The content type scrolls up and down, but I want the navi

Re: [css-d] "Q" and "A" (Question and Answer) format using ul

2009-03-13 Thread Els
Stephen Tang wrote: > I know the background image technique is well-known > (http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listutorial/introduction.htm), but > since in this example, it's just "Q" and "A", I was hoping there is > a way not to use images. I think that Q and A should be part of the content, not the

[css-d] "Q" and "A" (Question and Answer) format using ul

2009-03-13 Thread Stephen Tang
Hello, I saw a FAQ page where it listed a question followed by an answer as follows (fictional question and answer below): Q. How do I login? A. You log in by clicking on the login link. The HTML markup is an unordered list (ul), where the list (li) have background images for the "Q." and "A." u

[css-d] Eric Meyer on CSS project 6 and 7 combined getting gray outlined image box under menu bar option

2009-03-13 Thread David Shapiro
Hello, I am trying to combine chapter 6 and 7 things to make a horizontal bar of options with stylish rounded options that also has drop-down menu options. The problem is that if if use something like: Weblogic Deployment Share Administration Rock Administration Moon Administration Schedule

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-13 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Fri, 3/13/09, Kathy Wheeler wrote: > Looking at major general news sites, popular public > blogging etc > sites, they ALL seem to have fonts set much smaller. This > being the > case surely the visually impaired surfer, being otherwise > perfectly > normal individuals frequenting po

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-13 Thread david
Kathy Wheeler wrote: > I know the mantra: let the user decide, set font-size to 100% but ... > > Looking at major general news sites, popular public blogging etc > sites, they ALL seem to have fonts set much smaller. This being the > case surely the visually impaired surfer, being otherwise pe

Re: [css-d] Menu problem with IE6+7

2009-03-13 Thread Bill Brown
Sh wrote: > Hi, > I have a problem in IE (6+7) when mouse-over the menu where there's a > sub-menu (dreamweaver- spry), It shows a white cell under the sub > menu. > This doesn't show wither in FF, Safari and IE mac. > Any help will be greatly appreciated Ah, SpryMenus. Hate's too strong a word, b