Re: [css-d] ie8 bug? The container div is inexplicably jumping around. Please help!

2009-04-14 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Noah Learner wrote: > Is this an ie8 bug? No, it is intentional. The vertical scrollbar is removed when pages are shorter than the browser-window, making the available window wider. Auto-centering (in your stylesheet) then makes pages jump half the scrollbar-width left or right depending on how t

[css-d] ie8 bug? The container div is inexplicably jumping around. Please help!

2009-04-14 Thread Noah Learner
Hi all, Is this an ie8 bug? I have stared at this so long that I know I am missing something stupid. The site is at: http://gti.websitewelcome.com/~wwwbloc/ when you click on one of the other navigation links to : http://gti.websitewelcome.com/~wwwbloc/index.php?id=47 or http://gti.websitewelcom

Re: [css-d] background images

2009-04-14 Thread Bill Brown
Brian Hazelton wrote: > I have been told by a couple people this is off topic, I am not sure how > and to avoid angering eric any more I would like to get a clarification > as to how it is off topic and would like to apologize to everyone if it > is indeed off topic. Thanks I would opine that this

Re: [css-d] background images

2009-04-14 Thread Brian Hazelton
I have been told by a couple people this is off topic, I am not sure how and to avoid angering eric any more I would like to get a clarification as to how it is off topic and would like to apologize to everyone if it is indeed off topic. Thanks

Re: [css-d] background images

2009-04-14 Thread Kathy Wheeler
On 15/04/2009, at 8:10 AM, Brian Hazelton wrote: > When should I use an image and when should i use it as a background > image. If an image is purely decorative, it makes sense to utilise css background techniques and keep it out of the content flow. If on the other hand it's an integral pa

Re: [css-d] background images

2009-04-14 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Brian Hazelton wrote: > When should I use an image and when should i use it as a > background image. Semantically (and generally) speaking, it's recommended that you use an element if the image is actually part of the content (e.g. you're displaying a bunch of photos, ma

Re: [css-d] background images

2009-04-14 Thread Mark Henderson
At 10:10 April 2009 Brian Hazelton wrote > > When should I use an image and when should i use it as a background > image. Since CSS allows designers to seperate content from styling, when > should I use the image tag or should I never use the image tag? > Hi Brian, Have you done any background

[css-d] Weird spacing in IE (go figure)...

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Beaudoin
Hi all. First of all, thanks to those who have helped me before. You've made learning CSS a bit easier to use in the real world. Now, I have a little bit of a spacing problem. All my page look good in Safari, Firefox Mac and PC, but the LINKS and DOWNLOADS pages have this big space in them

[css-d] background images

2009-04-14 Thread Brian Hazelton
When should I use an image and when should i use it as a background image. Since CSS allows designers to seperate content from styling, when should I use the image tag or should I never use the image tag? __ css-discuss [cs...@li

[css-d] CSS footer article from A List Apart breaks when width is added (in ie6)

2009-04-14 Thread Dinshaw Gobhai
I have been using this footer technique for a while: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/footers uses an absolutely positioned footer Example 3 is the final version that dose not use any scripting. It looks great in ie6 (and everything else) until you add a width declaration to the contain

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

2009-04-14 Thread Tim Dawson
Jonny Stephens wrote: > On Apr 13, 2009, at 9:45 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

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

2009-04-14 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 8:01 PM -0600 4/13/09, 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? I don't know, but what I DO know is that knowingly posting an off-topic message is in violation of list polic

Re: [css-d] webpage size

2009-04-14 Thread Teknofile Services
768 is great if you want to target hardcopy-printers on US-Letter sized paper... 720-740 is better for Euro-A4... If that is of any help... *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 14/04/2009 at 2:42 a.m. David Laakso wrote: >Brian Hazelton wrote: >> Just out of curiosity,