Re: [css-d] :first-word?

2009-04-09 Thread Divya Manian
On 4/9/09 3:35 PM, "David Laakso" wrote: > Climis, Tim wrote: >> I've got a newsletter that includes interviews in a Q and A format. >> >> Usually, there's a question with a "Q:" in front of it, and then an answer >> with an "A:". But I just discovered an interview with two people that goes: >>

[css-d] OT - Flash player works in FF3, but not in IE7

2009-04-09 Thread Scott Brasted
Greetings, I know this is off-topic and I apologize, but I need to find out where to go for help. I have a xspf audio player embedded in an object tag and it appears and works great in FF3, but the player does not appear in IE7. I get the same kind of place holder you get when a graphic cannot

Re: [css-d] AP's and IE

2009-04-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Alan King wrote: > Is there a fix for making IE impose my absolute positioned divs? > > http://www.helixdesign.ca Yes. IE6' "disappearing A:P element next to a float" bug can be problematic, and not easy to fix in the stylesheet other than by abandoning either the A:P or the float styling. Separ

Re: [css-d] Wrap text in li

2009-04-09 Thread Roberto Gorjão
Well, I think that, if you want help, you should help us a little more. Please set an url or explain it more clearly. Does "within" mean that you want to use a style attribute embeded in a specific element? In what circumstances? What's your goal? Anyway, it's probably better to set an example and

[css-d] AP's and IE

2009-04-09 Thread Alan King
You've probably heard this a million times, but I'm a newbie to CSS, so bear with me. I've done a lot of print and I thought I should finally do some web design. I put together a website using Dreamweaver and CSS on a Mac. I'm pretty happy with it. But in spite of my brave words that my wor

Re: [css-d] Intermittent IE 7 problem

2009-04-09 Thread David Laakso
Rebecca Mazur wrote: > Hi David, > > I think I ran the same scan that you did, but I'm not sure, since the > only issues I got were some unescaped &'s, a couple of missing alts, > and those blasted xmlns attributes that I can't seem to get rid of > (we're CMS based). Just wanted to check that th

Re: [css-d] :first-word?

2009-04-09 Thread David Laakso
Climis, Tim wrote: > I've got a newsletter that includes interviews in a Q and A format. > > Usually, there's a question with a "Q:" in front of it, and then an answer > with an "A:". But I just discovered an interview with two people that goes: > "Q:" "Neal:" "Kirsten:" > > My stylesheet curren

Re: [css-d] :first-word?

2009-04-09 Thread Bill Brown
Climis, Tim wrote: > I've got a newsletter that includes interviews in a Q and A format. > > Usually, there's a question with a "Q:" in front of it, and then an > answer with an "A:". But I just discovered an interview with two > people that goes: "Q:" "Neal:" "Kirsten:" > > My stylesheet curren

[css-d] css list test message

2009-04-09 Thread Wade Smart
20090409 1636 GMT-6 Im just sending this to the list to see if any of my posts show up. I have sent 8 in the past month and none have showed (that I can see) on the list. Wade -- Registered Linux User: #480675 Linux since June 2005

[css-d] :first-word?

2009-04-09 Thread Climis, Tim
I've got a newsletter that includes interviews in a Q and A format. Usually, there's a question with a "Q:" in front of it, and then an answer with an "A:". But I just discovered an interview with two people that goes: "Q:" "Neal:" "Kirsten:" My stylesheet currently uses :first-letter to style

Re: [css-d] Wrap text in li

2009-04-09 Thread Chike Loney
Yes, I would like to set a width within the item itself Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device available from bmobile. -Original Message- From: "Jukka K. Korpela" Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 22:25:56 To: CSS-D Subject: Re: [css-d] Wrap text in li Chike Loney wrote: > I ddint use

Re: [css-d] double borders. A different story in IE?

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:30:07 +0300 Came this utterance formulated by Jon Wickström to my mailbox: > Hi, > > I'm trying to style a horizontal menu with double borders on the > active LI menu item. There is some use of nested floating, as I want > to use blocks for the LI to get them an even width.

Re: [css-d] Javascript code - firefox vs explorer and spry menu bars

2009-04-09 Thread Els
Tarah - Dome Cleaning, Inc. wrote: > Hey - I have this code <%...@language="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%> > that is appearing on the top of my site when opened in firefox - > but not explorer. > > Here is my site in progress: > www.domecleaning.com/dev > > It was

Re: [css-d] Wrap text in li

2009-04-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Chike Loney wrote: > I ddint use a parent An element without a parent or is a syntax error. All bets are off, CSS-wise and otherwise, then. > but even though the text in the is not wrapping, You're not explaining what text is not wrapping in which sense. You need to provide a URL in orde

Re: [css-d] Javascript code - firefox vs explorer and spry menu bars

2009-04-09 Thread Al Sparber
> From: "Tarah - Dome Cleaning, Inc." > Hey - I have this code <%...@language="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%> that is > appearing on the top of my site when opened in firefox - but not explorer. The code is unnecessary and should be removed. > > It was suggested to remove the tag from my code, b

Re: [css-d] double borders. A different story in IE?

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:16:29 -0700 Came this utterance formulated by Divya Manian to my mailbox: > On 4/2/09 6:30 AM, "Jon Wickström" wrote: > > > The look I'm after is a "double border" with the inner border the > > same color as the parent bg, and the outer the element bg. This I > > get in al

Re: [css-d] Intermittent IE 7 problem

2009-04-09 Thread David Laakso
Rebecca Mazur wrote: > The big difference is that our stuff shouldn't ride all the way to the > bottom of the screen like that. Bottom of footer and bottom of > content should line up (with content just being content; no big gaps), > unless footer + subnavigation > content, in which case the f

Re: [css-d] Wrap text in li

2009-04-09 Thread Climis, Tim
> I ddint use a parent but even though the text in the is not > wrapping, meaning I want it to > display within a certain area so if ther is more than one line of text it wud > automatically skip to > a next line and align itself... Huh? If you have an it needs to be in a , , or (and you

[css-d] Javascript code - firefox vs explorer and spry menu bars

2009-04-09 Thread Tarah - Dome Cleaning, Inc.
Hey - I have this code <%...@language="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%> that is appearing on the top of my site when opened in firefox - but not explorer. Here is my site in progress: www.domecleaning.com/dev It was suggested to remove the tag from my code, but wh

Re: [css-d] Wrap text in li

2009-04-09 Thread divya manian
It would be great if you have a url and then present what is the current behavior (which browser/os) and what is the expected behavior. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Chike Loney wrote: > Lol sry > > I ddint use a parent but even though the text in the is not > wrapping, meaning I want it to

Re: [css-d] Wrap text in li

2009-04-09 Thread Chike Loney
Lol sry I ddint use a parent but even though the text in the is not wrapping, meaning I want it to display within a certain area so if ther is more than one line of text it wud automatically skip to a next line and align itself... Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device available from bm

Re: [css-d] Wrap text in li

2009-04-09 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Chike Loney wrote: > Hi guys, can anuyone tell me how to wrap text in a list item > please? Sure: text :-) Of course, you're /probably/ not asking for that, but it would be useful to have a BIT more detail. Do you mean 'dynamically'? If so, you want to be looking at jav

[css-d] Wrap text in li

2009-04-09 Thread Chike Loney
Hi guys, can anuyone tell me how to wrap text in a list item please? Thnx Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device available from bmobile. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [css-d] Intermittent IE 7 problem

2009-04-09 Thread David Laakso
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Rebecca Mazur wrote: > >> Have you had experience with browsers breaking on those particular >> validation errors? >> > > No. Old IE will "eat, ignore or correct" such minor errors, same as > other browsers. > > I have seen IE do many strange things when served comp

Re: [css-d] Intermittent IE 7 problem

2009-04-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rebecca Mazur wrote: > Have you had experience with browsers breaking on those particular > validation errors? No. Old IE will "eat, ignore or correct" such minor errors, same as other browsers. I have seen IE do many strange things when served compacted source-code though, and your markup is pr

Re: [css-d] Intermittent IE 7 problem

2009-04-09 Thread Rebecca Mazur
I did a copy-and-paste validation and only found a couple of unencoded "&" two missing alts, and an xmlns attribute that I need to get rid of--I can't imagine those being the trouble. They're not things I want in there, and I should find and fix them regardless, but they're not the sort of thin

Re: [css-d] Float and Width

2009-04-09 Thread David Laakso
Del Wegener wrote: > I have two questions. Both arise because I get warnings when validating > css. > Both are illustrated at > http://www.drdelmath.com/playpen/test1_float.htm > > Should I live with the warning or is there a > better way to position my images? > > > > Del > The answer to

Re: [css-d] Float and Width

2009-04-09 Thread Ian Young
> From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d- > boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Del Wegener > Sent: 09 April 2009 14:28 > To: css > Subject: [css-d] Float and Width > > I have two questions. Both arise because I get warnings when > validating > css. > Both are illustrat

Re: [css-d] Float and Width

2009-04-09 Thread David Dorward
2009/4/9 Del Wegener : > I have two questions.  Both arise because I get warnings when validating > css. There was a requirement that any floated element have a specified width in CSS 2. This requirement was dropped in CSS 2.1 and the warning is due to be removed from the next release of the W3C C

Re: [css-d] 3 column expanding center column CSS

2009-04-09 Thread Ian Young
> -Original Message- > From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d- > boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Yazmin Media > Sent: 09 April 2009 14:48 > To: css discuss > Subject: [css-d] 3 column expanding center column CSS > > I've been doing a search through a lot of 3 c

Re: [css-d] Padding Browser Issue

2009-04-09 Thread taestrada
-Original Message- From: Els [mailto:el...@tiscali.nl] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 12:19 AM To: taestrada; css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Padding Browser Issue taestrada wrote: > In IE7, the photos and the 2009-2010 Outdoor Programs have the same > padding and the

Re: [css-d] double borders. A different story in IE?

2009-04-09 Thread Divya Manian
On 4/2/09 6:30 AM, "Jon Wickström" wrote: > The look I'm after is a "double border" with the inner border the same color > as the parent bg, and the outer the element bg. This I get in all sane > browsers by specifying the parent bg as the border color and the border style > "double". This gives

Re: [css-d] 3 column expanding center column CSS

2009-04-09 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Yazmin Media wrote: > I need to setup a 3-column, fixed width layout that allows > the center column to expand in width when necessary. That's a bit of an oxymoron, but if you want the middle column to be no smaller than a certain width, you can use min-width. - Bobby

Re: [css-d] Float and Width

2009-04-09 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Thu, 4/9/09, Del Wegener wrote: > ... I get warnings when validating css. > > http://www.drdelmath.com/playpen/test1_float.htm Which validator are you using? W3C's gave no errors when I tried it. - Bobby __ css-discuss

[css-d] 3 column expanding center column CSS

2009-04-09 Thread Yazmin Media
I've been doing a search through a lot of 3 column CSS layout examples, but I'm getting the feeling that what I want cannot be done. I need to setup a 3-column, fixed width layout that allows the center column to expand in width when necessary. For example, say I have a fixed width 3-column design

[css-d] Float and Width

2009-04-09 Thread Del Wegener
I have two questions. Both arise because I get warnings when validating css. Both are illustrated at http://www.drdelmath.com/playpen/test1_float.htm 1) It seems to me that I have declared a width for the classes "left_objectives" and "right_objectives", but the validator warns me I need a wi

Re: [css-d] Intermittent IE 7 problem

2009-04-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rebecca Mazur wrote: > If someone could just recognize and name the bug for me, that would > be a help, as then I could go searching for solutions. > http://www.kenyon.edu/x12305.xml The bug is clear enough, but finding a fix isn't. I found it easier to reproduce the problem in IE6 - multiple t

Re: [css-d] Intermittent IE 7 problem

2009-04-09 Thread Rebecca Mazur
Certainly. Here's the way it should look: http://theredsetter.com/test/ie7mistake_good.jpg Here's what it does sometimes that it shouldn't: http://theredsetter.com/test/ie7mistake_bad.jpg Note that the "good" screenshot was taken after refreshing the bad, so you're looking at the same page in

Re: [css-d] Problem with a header image in Opera 9.64

2009-04-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Krystian - Sunlust wrote: > http://maleconcept.com/test/ > > Has the header image centered right, but on opera it slides a bit to > the left. Something strange about that '.gif', but only Opera (all versions - at least back to Op7.20) seems to react on it. If I send the image through PhotoShop

Re: [css-d] Trying to emulate a LaTeX trick in CSS...

2009-04-09 Thread Cristian Palmas
2009/4/9 Philippe Wittenbergh > > On Apr 9, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Cristian Palmas wrote: > > > By the way, the "ex" measure unit in CSS does not exist for width. > > You can > > use, on second your needs: "px", "pt" (I recommend to use only for > > print > > styles), "%" or "em". > > See http://www.w

Re: [css-d] Trying to emulate a LaTeX trick in CSS...

2009-04-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Apr 9, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Cristian Palmas wrote: > By the way, the "ex" measure unit in CSS does not exist for width. > You can > use, on second your needs: "px", "pt" (I recommend to use only for > print > styles), "%" or "em". > See http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#propdef-width fo

Re: [css-d] Problem with a header image in Opera 9.64

2009-04-09 Thread Els
Krystian - Sunlust wrote: > I'm using Opera 9.64 on Windows 7 Beta. > > This website: > http://maleconcept.com/test/ > > Has the header image centered right, but on opera it slides a bit > to the left. > > Any ideas what bug is causing it or how to fix it? I see the same effect in Opera 9.63 on W

[css-d] Problem with a header image in Opera 9.64

2009-04-09 Thread Krystian - Sunlust
Hi, I'm using Opera 9.64 on Windows 7 Beta. This website: http://maleconcept.com/test/ Has the header image centered right, but on opera it slides a bit to the left. Any ideas what bug is causing it or how to fix it? Regards, -- Krystian Szastok Affordable, Freelance Web Designer in Eastbour

Re: [css-d] Trying to emulate a LaTeX trick in CSS...

2009-04-09 Thread Cristian Palmas
2009/4/9 Chris Lee > In LaTeX, there's a package called 'tracking' which provides a few > methods that will adjust letter spacing to fit a given chunk of text > content to a specified width. > > I'd like to replicate the effect of: > > \fittrack{66ex}{$chapter} > > (where $chapter is likely to be

Re: [css-d] Padding Browser Issue

2009-04-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Apr 9, 2009, at 3:56 PM, taestrada wrote: > In IE7, the photos and the 2009-2010 Outdoor Programs have the same > padding > and the tops line up (as intended). But in Firefox, the Outdoor > Programs box > is about 9 pixels higher. I can't figure out why. Any ideas? > > > > http://wildernes

Re: [css-d] Padding Browser Issue

2009-04-09 Thread Els
taestrada wrote: > In IE7, the photos and the 2009-2010 Outdoor Programs have the same > padding and the tops line up (as intended). But in Firefox, the > Outdoor Programs box is about 9 pixels higher. I can't figure out > why. Any ideas? > > http://wildernessawareness.org/index1.html The top mar

Re: [css-d] IE6 peculiarity - need help to sort it

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Hammarling
Kenny, thanks for that tip - it is a neat solution. But seeing as the negative margin worked for me I'm going to leave well alone, guided by the motto "If it isn't broken, don't fix it". Peter H. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.cs