Re: [css-d] webpage size

2009-04-13 Thread David Laakso
Brian Hazelton wrote: > Just out of curiosity, if i had a page with a width of 768px total, and > the rest is a subtle bg, would that be too small of a width? > > > Opinions abound on that subject. Depends on the market you and/or your client hope to meet. For now let's just say 768px width i

Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?

2009-04-13 Thread David Laakso
Michael Leibson wrote: This is in reference to uri: > Hi, David; > > Thanks for this feedback! > > A few things I didn't quite get: > > Interesting visual. It would be nice to pull it off. No AP needed. > Really? How would one go about duplicating it without ab

Re: [css-d] OFF TOPIC (webpage size)

2009-04-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:01:24 -0600 Came this utterance formulated by Brian Hazelton to my mailbox: > Just out of curiosity, if i had a page with a width of 768px total, > and the rest is a subtle bg, would that be too small of a width? > For a phone that can view 400px wide or a 2400px wide moni

Re: [css-d] 100% height for wrapper div?

2009-04-13 Thread David Hucklesby
Debbie Campbell wrote: > I'm using this sticky footer method: > >> http://www.cssstickyfooter.com/ > > But my wrapper (outlined in red) isn't going to the bottom - can > someone point out my error(s)? This page validates as both XHTML > strict and CSS. > > My page: > >> http://www.redkitecreati

[css-d] OFF TOPIC (webpage size)

2009-04-13 Thread Brian Hazelton
Just out of curiosity, if i had a page with a width of 768px total, and the rest is a subtle bg, would that be too small of a width? __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d L

Re: [css-d] How to set opacity

2009-04-13 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Apr 14, 2009, at 8:26 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: >> How do I set the opacity of a to let's say 50% >> > DIV, or DIV background? If the latter, here's my (partial) solution > for 25%: > > .aside { > background: url(images/argb44452713.png); > *background: transparent; > > filter:progid:DXI

Re: [css-d] How to set opacity

2009-04-13 Thread David Hucklesby
Chike Loney wrote: > How do I set the opacity of a to let's say 50% > DIV, or DIV background? If the latter, here's my (partial) solution for 25%: .aside { background: url(images/argb44452713.png); *background: transparent; filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=

[css-d] 100% height for wrapper div?

2009-04-13 Thread Debbie Campbell
I'm using this sticky footer method: > http://www.cssstickyfooter.com/ But my wrapper (outlined in red) isn't going to the bottom - can someone point out my error(s)? This page validates as both XHTML strict and CSS. My page: > http://www.redkitecreative.com/projects/mgwa/ -- Debbie C www.re

Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread Tim Dawson
Venditelli, Daniel - Web Development Administrator wrote: > > Just keep in mind that if you do use then your layout won't hold up > as soon as someone uses their browser settings to increase the font-size Yes, the is only a stop-gap to show the client. It doesn't appear that there's any simple

Re: [css-d] Get rid of top space

2009-04-13 Thread trevor bayliss
Thanks Brian Elias and David David it only had one error which obviously happened between the last time I validated it- I have now sorted out margin: none instead of margin: 0px There are however some warnings there-important? Thanks _

Re: [css-d] Get rid of top space

2009-04-13 Thread Tim Dawson
Try setting html margins to zero as well. I have pages with and without top gap, and that seems to be the only difference. Tim -- Tim Dawson Maolbhuidhe Fionnphort Isle of Mull PA66 6BP 01681 700718 __ css-discuss [cs...@li

Re: [css-d] Get rid of top space

2009-04-13 Thread David Laakso
trevor bayliss wrote: > I am trying to get rid of the space right at the top of the page but I can't > seem to do it, what do I need to doo? Thank you > http://tinyurl.com/clg668 > > > > It is a collapsing margin problem. #wrapperLogoNavigation { /*padding: 0px; */ padding-top: 1px; /*margin:

Re: [css-d] Get rid of top space

2009-04-13 Thread Brian Hazelton
make p margin:0px instead of the 0 0 1em, I just tried it and that is what was screwing you up. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.in

Re: [css-d] Get rid of top space

2009-04-13 Thread trevor bayliss
--- On Mon, 4/13/09, Brian Hazelton wrote: > From: Brian Hazelton > Subject: Re: [css-d] Get rid of top space > To: bayliss_tre...@yahoo.com > Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 1:54 PM > body margin and padding set to 0 and the first element set > to margin-top

Re: [css-d] Get rid of top space

2009-04-13 Thread Brian Hazelton
body margin and padding set to 0 and the first element set to margin-top 0 __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List polic

Re: [css-d] IE Fix For Floated Netflix-Style Links?

2009-04-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
The Ferrett wrote: > I did this by wrapping the elements in a (with an assigned > width) and then by assigning a left margin calculated to push the div > out into the center of the column. This works in every browser but, > you guessed it, IE. Problem is, in IE 7 that margin appears to be not >

[css-d] Get rid of top space

2009-04-13 Thread trevor bayliss
I am trying to get rid of the space right at the top of the page but I can't seem to do it, what do I need to doo? Thank you http://tinyurl.com/clg668 __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss

Re: [css-d] IE Fix For Floated Netflix-Style Links?

2009-04-13 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: > The Ferrett wrote: > >> This works in every browser but, you guessed it, IE. >> Problem is, in IE 7 that margin appears to be not quite doubled, but >> definitely added to: >> >> http://www.starcitygames.com/SCG_6/test_article_page_with_vote.html >> >> >> > > > In

Re: [css-d] IE Fix For Floated Netflix-Style Links?

2009-04-13 Thread David Laakso
The Ferrett wrote: > This works in every browser but, you guessed it, IE. > Problem is, in IE 7 that margin appears to be not quite doubled, but > definitely added to: > > http://www.starcitygames.com/SCG_6/test_article_page_with_vote.html > > Interesting, indeed... I can get the block cente

Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
>> does IE support display:table or display:table cell though? I could >> have sworn it didn't. - IE7 and older does not support CSS table. - IE8 does support CSS table as well as any other browser - when in full "standards mode". Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no __

Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread Brian Hazelton
does IE support display:table or display:table cell though? I could have sworn it didn't. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.

Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread Tim Dawson
Brian Hazelton wrote: > does IE support display:table or display:table cell though? I could have > sworn it didn't. Georg has a long article on this, on his web site, and he says it doesn't. Tim -- Tim Dawson Maolbhuidhe Fionnphort Isle of Mull PA66 6BP 01681 700718 __

Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread Ian Young
> -Original Message- > From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d- > boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Tim Dawson > Sent: 13 April 2009 09:46 > To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Subject: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph > > I'm working on a site which

[css-d] Tables and font-size and Chrome

2009-04-13 Thread Nancy Johnson
The site which I work on has an older form that is several pages long. The outer shell is doctype 4.0, tabular with so many coding errors I could only make it work in all browsers. Currently, I updated the out shell to be standards css based with xhtml transitional but kept the form in the older

Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread Venditelli, Daniel - Web Development Administrator
Just keep in mind that if you do use than you layout won't hold up as soon as someone with slightly older eyes uses their browser settings to increase the font-size even a single step where-as the table MAY hold up a little better. Or, if you're not worried about that, keep a note somewhere so

[css-d] IE Fix For Floated Netflix-Style Links?

2009-04-13 Thread The Ferrett
Hey, folks; I have a three-column, fixed-width "holy grail" layout, and I've recently added a jQuery plugin that transforms a set of radio buttons into six floated A elements with a star background, which submit a vote to rank this page when you click on them. The problem is that these "star" ele

Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread Tim Dawson
Brian Hazelton wrote: > sorry, that was bad information. > Thanks for trying, anyway (I got both your e-mails). It seems it's one of those apparently small problems that require sledge-hammer treatment to achieve in CSS. Regards, Tim -- Tim Dawson Maolbhuidhe Fionnphort Isle of Mull PA66 6B

Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread Brian Hazelton
sorry, that was bad information. I just tried it and while it does make it vertically centered, it adds huge space because of the line height. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listin

Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread Brian Hazelton
You can apply a class to the paragraphs that are together and make the line height the same as the height of the image and then st vertical-align to middle. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/

Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread Tim Dawson
andree hollander wrote: > > On 2009-04-13, at 13:03, Tim Dawson wrote: > >> I'll explore putting the text into a span. Meanwhile the >> solution >> (forcing the text down the para), while not good semantically, is >> quick and >> flexible, particularly if the clients change their mind when t

Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread Tim Dawson
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Tim Dawson > wrote: > > I'm working on a site which has several images on the page > (300x225px). Each > image has some descriptive text alongside, which generally is not as > high as the > image. My client would l

Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread Jack Timmons
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Tim Dawson wrote: > I'm working on a site which has several images on the page (300x225px). > Each > image has some descriptive text alongside, which generally is not as high > as the > image. My client would like the text vertically centred on the image. > > ht

Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread Tim Dawson
Thanks, Bob. I know it's possible to take table-aversion too far, and you are right in saying the information is essentially tabular. I'll look into it. Meanwhile I'm using a varying number of which has the merit of being very simple to insert. Provided the content is fairly static, it's no

Re: [css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread designer
Tim: I know you said that you didn't want to go the table way, but a table in this case is perfectly acceptable, insofar as the relationship between the image and text is a tabular one. I wouldn't hesitate to use a table here, so long as it's marked up properly. Bob - Original Message --

[css-d] Vertically centering text in a paragraph

2009-04-13 Thread Tim Dawson
I'm working on a site which has several images on the page (300x225px). Each image has some descriptive text alongside, which generally is not as high as the image. My client would like the text vertically centred on the image. http://www.mull-bed-and-breakfast.co.uk/newcrofts/self-catering.p