[css-d] css image reveal rollover problem

2009-07-09 Thread Sara Ullman
I'm not sure how to respond within a thread so apologies for that. I want to thank Tim Snadden and Bobby Jack for your help. I feel foolish that I missed that. Tim I tried your most simplified code but wasn't able to make it work. I'm referring to this: #photonav a:hover { background-position: 0 -

Re: [css-d] General Check

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Snadden
On 10/07/2009, at 3:59 PM, Tim Snadden wrote: > > On 10/07/2009, at 3:44 PM, MEM wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, there is still a lot of people that uses FF2 on this >> side of >> Atlantic. Can I have help on solving that issue? >> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/ >

Re: [css-d] General Check

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Snadden
On 10/07/2009, at 3:44 PM, MEM wrote: > > Unfortunately, there is still a lot of people that uses FF2 on this > side of > Atlantic. Can I have help on solving that issue? > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/ > 20090605 > SeaMonkey/1.1.17 > Doesn't display proper

Re: [css-d] General Check

2009-07-09 Thread MEM
> if you want to just forget FF/2x; and, ride with a broken page in > SeaMonkey and Camino until such time as they catch-up? The site is far away from been launch. And SeaMonkey is absolutely inexistent on this side. But the fact that affects also Firefox 2 - bugs me. > The correction for FF2x,

Re: [css-d] css image reveal rollover problem

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Snadden
On 10/07/2009, at 11:25 AM, Tim Snadden wrote: > > #photonav li.dmitri a:hover { > background-position: 0 -217px; > } Even better would be one rule for them all. #photonav a:hover { background-position: 0 -217px; } __ css-discu

Re: [css-d] css image reveal rollover problem

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Snadden
On 10/07/2009, at 11:01 AM, Sara Ullman wrote: > Greetings CSS enthusiasts, > > I am struggling with some problems with a site I am building for a > friend. I > found some instructions for doing rollover button navigation using > images > that have the normal, off state plus the hover state c

Re: [css-d] top nav tabs - distorted on laptop?

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Novitski
At 7/9/2009 03:23 PM, Greg Wilker wrote: >I just noticed that the top nav "tabs" are distorted on my laptop with IE8. > >They work fine on my desktop with a widescreen monitor and they are working >fine in FF of the laptop. > >http://www.achildsdream.com/htn/design3/index.html > >Anyone know what m

Re: [css-d] css image reveal rollover problem

2009-07-09 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Fri, 7/10/09, Sara Ullman wrote: > Unfortunately, in my case the image is disappearing entirely > rather than showing the lower part of it on mouseover. An easy one, for a change :) Your :hover images are referenced in an 'images' directory; looks like this should be 'pics'. Everything

[css-d] css image reveal rollover problem

2009-07-09 Thread Sara Ullman
Greetings CSS enthusiasts, I am struggling with some problems with a site I am building for a friend. I found some instructions for doing rollover button navigation using images that have the normal, off state plus the hover state combined in one graphic. The lower half of the graphic is supposed

Re: [css-d] top nav tabs - distorted on laptop?

2009-07-09 Thread David Laakso
Greg Wilker wrote: > I just noticed that the top nav "tabs" are distorted on my laptop with IE8. > > They work fine on my desktop with a widescreen monitor and they are working > fine in FF of the laptop. > > http://www.achildsdream.com/htn/design3/index.html > > Anyone know what might be happenin

[css-d] top nav tabs - distorted on laptop?

2009-07-09 Thread Greg Wilker
I just noticed that the top nav "tabs" are distorted on my laptop with IE8. They work fine on my desktop with a widescreen monitor and they are working fine in FF of the laptop. http://www.achildsdream.com/htn/design3/index.html Anyone know what might be happening? (They are dropping "off", or

Re: [css-d] General Check

2009-07-09 Thread David Laakso
> > >> Check your page in SeaMonkey/1.1.17. >> > No I get the same symptoms on Firefox 2. > > So the problem is that, on SeaMonkey 1.1.17, The problem is in FF/2x, SeaMonkey, and also Camino. > I'm unable to contain the float > ? Should I apply a clear fix method, or a ove

Re: [css-d] General Check

2009-07-09 Thread MEM
> Actually, you're doing quite well, Thanks. > regardless of your personal choice > for font-family :-) I see... http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2004/01/avoid-verdana Well, if Unix distros don't have it by default. I must declare on the CSS Verdana alternatives. However, doing that, will caus

Re: [css-d] A simple question - h1 before p

2009-07-09 Thread David Hucklesby
Gabriele Romanato wrote: > what's the point?see http://www.jquery.com > and you won't need a class anymore ^^/ > > 2009/7/9 MEM > >>> These will not work in IE6 either. Your "safest" route is probably to >>> follow >>> Brian's suggestion and define a class that you can apply. >> No worries,

Re: [css-d] A simple question - h1 before p

2009-07-09 Thread Climis, Tim
> I didn't know that we should only use one h1 per page. > Why is that ? It's not so much a rule as a convention. H1 is a top-level heading, and the theory goes that there should only be one top, and thus one top-level heading. Recently, I've decided that that logic isn't necessarily true. On

Re: [css-d] A simple question - h1 before p

2009-07-09 Thread MEM
>It's not so much a rule as a convention. H1 is a top-level heading, and the theory goes that >there should only be one top, and thus one top-level heading. ... > We all agree that markup should be semantic, but sometimes that's > somewhat subjective. Despite some web creators believes, isn't su

Re: [css-d] General Check

2009-07-09 Thread David Laakso
MEM wrote: > Hello again list, > > We always can do better and better, this is my second css layout, so I know > it's mediocre, anyway: > Actually, you're doing quite well, regardless of your personal choice for font-family :-) . My second CSS layout was exactly like my first CSS layout: u

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2009-07-09 Thread Dirie F
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Re: [css-d] A simple question - h1 before p

2009-07-09 Thread MEM
> To create spacing between a > heading and > a paragraph, it is normally best to use margin, because one day you > might > want to set background color for the heading, and then it would extend > to > the padding. Thanks a lot, precious information! > > As the discussion has shown, the practic

Re: [css-d] List bullet sizes

2009-07-09 Thread Kevin Doyle
---[snip]--- In short, there are many differences between browsers with respect how they display html. If you don't like the size of a disc displayed in one browser as compared to another, then you have two choices: 1) live with it; 2) or browser sniff and change the code accordingly. However

Re: [css-d] List bullet sizes

2009-07-09 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi Tedd, No harm done. :-) Thanks for confirming that the browsers each have their own way of rendering bullets. In the end, I did "browser-sniff" using an IE8 conditional statement and modifying the CSS until that bullet was close in size to the other browser's rendering. IE8 appears to render

Re: [css-d] A simple question - h1 before p

2009-07-09 Thread Rob Emenecker
> As the discussion has shown, the practical way is to use a > class. On the other hand, normally a page should have one h1 > element (one highest-level > heading) only, so I don't quite see why you can't just use > the selector h1. That is true. I don't usually have more than a single on a pa

[css-d] Newbie Asks for General Guru Check

2009-07-09 Thread MEM
Hello again list, We always can do better and better, this is my second css layout, so I know it's mediocre, anyway: By having a look, and without changing the structure, here: http://www.cantinho.org/pt/cantinho-site/layout9_ups_6.html Knowing that it will never be perfect, what optimizations d

Re: [css-d] List bullet sizes

2009-07-09 Thread tedd
At 5:50 PM -0400 7/7/09, tedd wrote: >At 5:00 PM -0400 7/7/09, Stephen Tang wrote: >>Hi, >>I have a site that was using list-style-type: disc for a list bullet. >>The QA team noted that in IE8, the list bullets were smaller than in >>IE7 or Firefox. All three browsers were accessing the same CSS >

Re: [css-d] A simple question - h1 before p

2009-07-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
MEM wrote: > All h1 that are followed by a p will have a padding-bottom of X. > > Is this possible? As the discussion has shown, the practical way is to use a class. On the other hand, normally a page should have one h1 element (one highest-level heading) only, so I don't quite see why you can'

Re: [css-d] nav improvements?

2009-07-09 Thread Greg Wilker
- Original Message - From: "Chris Akins" Subject: Re: [css-d] nav improvements? > But, like I said, the navigation on the page now looks completely > different than what I remember two days ago. Looks fine in my Firefox > on the Mac. Yes, the client scratched the concept and I did a

Re: [css-d] A simple question - h1 before p

2009-07-09 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
2009/7/9 Gabriele Romanato : > what's the point?see http://www.jquery.com > and you won't need a class anymore ^^/ > Oh dear :-( It's bad enough that every single JavaScript question on StackOverflow.com gets answered with "use jQuery" (even when it's wildly inappropriate or has been excluded

Re: [css-d] A simple question - h1 before p

2009-07-09 Thread Rob Emenecker
> what's the point?see http://www.jquery.com and you won't need > a class anymore ^^/ The point, in the original question, was to get this *basic* display aspect handled without resorting to scripting tactics. Rob Emenecker @ Hairy Dog Digital www.hairydo

Re: [css-d] A simple question - h1 before p

2009-07-09 Thread MEM
>what's the point? >see http://www.jquery.com >and you won't need a class anymore ^^/ And so I asked: "How can I clean this little dot on my car left mirror"; And so they reply: "Here, take this Airplane - dot free!"; ;) Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, learning a framework it's out of rea

Re: [css-d] A simple question - h1 before p

2009-07-09 Thread Gabriele Romanato
what's the point?see http://www.jquery.com and you won't need a class anymore ^^/ 2009/7/9 MEM > > These will not work in IE6 either. Your "safest" route is probably to > > follow > > Brian's suggestion and define a class that you can apply. > > No worries, I'm using a class. :) > Thanks for

Re: [css-d] A simple question - h1 before p

2009-07-09 Thread MEM
> These will not work in IE6 either. Your "safest" route is probably to > follow > Brian's suggestion and define a class that you can apply. No worries, I'm using a class. :) Thanks for the suggestions. Regards, Márcio __ css-di

Re: [css-d] A simple question - h1 before p

2009-07-09 Thread Rob Emenecker
> Anyway, I now know another concept on css: Adjacent Sibling > Selector. And I believe there is a Child and a Parent selector too. > > I will investigate when the need arrive. These will not work in IE6 either. Your "safest" route is probably to follow Brian's suggestion and define a class that

Re: [css-d] @media tv

2009-07-09 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ingo Chao wrote: > How would a generic media types string look like for the visual media > group in CSS2.1? > > @media screen, projection, handheld > is this correct? 'tv' gets the "fit to width" treatment for medium resolution devices by Opera, and some 'screen' layouts - like mine - simply d

Re: [css-d] @media tv

2009-07-09 Thread Ingo Chao
Thank you for your answers. How would a generic media types string look like for the visual media group in CSS2.1? @media screen, projection, handheld assuming that - 'tty'-capable-devices would need a very special style sheet, if there are such devices at all (?) - 'tv' is not needed because MS