Re: [css-d] Deprecations in recent versions of HTML cause CSS problems?

2010-02-10 Thread Williams, Dewey
-Original Message As a learner when it comes to HTML/CSS I am a little confused about (apparently) recent changes to HTML, moving functionality to CSS. For example: given an in-line citation such as (McConnell, 2002) in an academic/scientific paper, the bibliographic reference might

Re: [css-d] How to control width via CSS

2010-02-10 Thread Troy Harshman
I'm not familiar with the rotating post plugin, does it use frames? If not, WordPress doesn't use frames. It uses PHP to dynamically create pages. Also, it looks like you're using the default theme since you have div id=content class=narrowcolumn. Narrowcolumn is an element in the default theme's

Re: [css-d] How to control width via CSS

2010-02-10 Thread MarvinC
I caught on to that after sending the email. The plugin author was using the Kubrik theme as an example tis why it didn't work on my theme. I don't think it uses frames and the author provided a stylesheet to modify, I just can't seem to make this basic changes to get this to fit in with my theme.

Re: [css-d] Deprecations in recent versions of HTML cause C SS problems‏

2010-02-10 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Wed, 2/10/10, fred dagg rickdu...@hotmail.co.nz wrote: For example: given an in-line citation such as (McConnell, 2002) in an academic/scientific paper, the bibliographic reference might be: McConnell, S. (July, 2002) The Business of Software Improvement. IEEE Software pp. 5-7

Re: [css-d] How to control width via CSS

2010-02-10 Thread David Laakso
MarvinC wrote: I caught on to that after sending the email. The plugin author was using the Kubrik theme as an example tis why it didn't work on my theme. I don't think it uses frames and the author provided a stylesheet to modify, I just can't seem to make this basic changes to get this to

Re: [css-d] How to control width via CSS

2010-02-10 Thread Troy Harshman
The best way to tackle this would be to view the source for the page from your browser. Note all of the elements involved in the trouble area and go through your styles and see what's going on with each of them. Keep in mind that WordPress also dynamically assigns classes as well, so you'll want

Re: [css-d] How to control width via CSS

2010-02-10 Thread MarvinC
http://www.nusolutions.biz/demos/dg/gfa/ The top system is the one I'm trying to customize. Basically what I'm trying to do is decrease the width to match that of my other two boxes and add a heading? for the title and a different one for the buttons. So the title heading may be a red background

Re: [css-d] How to control width via CSS

2010-02-10 Thread Climis, Tim
what I'm trying to do is decrease the width to match that of my other two boxes You're not setting a width anywhere. If you want to make the container the same width as the others, you need to either specify a width or margins on #rp_frame. But also, you have 4 boxes in the column on that

[css-d] IE6 whitespace in list

2010-02-10 Thread Ryan Nauman
Problem: This problem is from a drupal (content management system) site. Note the top nav and left nav.  The left nav has the top nav elements (the parents) in it but I want to hide them with CSS.  This works great in firefox but not in IE6 which I must support.  Screenshots of each are below. 

Re: [css-d] Deprecations in recent versions of HTML cause C SS problems‏

2010-02-10 Thread David Hucklesby
On 2/10/10 6:50 AM, Bobby Jack wrote: --- On Wed, 2/10/10, fred daggrickdu...@hotmail.co.nz wrote: For example: given an in-line citation such as (McConnell, 2002) in an academic/scientific paper, the bibliographic reference might be: McConnell, S. (July, 2002) The Business of Software

Re: [css-d] How to control width via CSS

2010-02-10 Thread David Hucklesby
On 2/10/10 8:09 AM, MarvinC wrote: http://www.nusolutions.biz/demos/dg/gfa/ The top system is the one I'm trying to customize. Basically what I'm trying to do is decrease the width to match that of my other two boxes and add a heading? for the title and a different one for the buttons. So

[css-d] List width mystery

2010-02-10 Thread Skip Knox
This is a small thing but I do like to understand why styles behave the way they do. Here is a sample page in question: http://boisestate.edu/webcenter/bestpractice/accessibility.shtml Stylesheets are here: http://boisestate.edu/webcenter/styles/main.css

Re: [css-d] List width mystery

2010-02-10 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Feb 11, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Skip Knox wrote: This is a small thing but I do like to understand why styles behave the way they do. Here is a sample page in question: http://boisestate.edu/webcenter/bestpractice/accessibility.shtml Stylesheets are here:

Re: [css-d] List width mystery

2010-02-10 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 11 February 2010 14:39, Skip Knox sk...@boisestate.edu wrote: 1. Can someone explain why, with no width on the li, the words wrap the way they do I suspect that this is to do with the 11em right margin on line 5 of the bestpractice stylesheet. 2. Can someone offer a better solution to

Re: [css-d] List width mystery

2010-02-10 Thread Skip Knox
Color me *duh* If it's not too much trouble, could you say how you detected that? I looked for width statements, so I was obviously focused on the wrong thing. When led you to the right margin business? Was it a tool? Logic? Intuition? Just curious. (the question goes to both Seona and Philippe,

Re: [css-d] List width mystery

2010-02-10 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 11 February 2010 15:04, Skip Knox sk...@boisestate.edu wrote: Color me *duh* If it's not too much trouble, could you say how you detected that? I looked for width statements, so I was obviously focused on the wrong thing. When led you to the right margin business? Was it a tool? Logic?

Re: [css-d] List width mystery

2010-02-10 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Feb 11, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Skip Knox wrote: f it's not too much trouble, could you say how you detected that? I looked for width statements, so I was obviously focused on the wrong thing. When led you to the right margin business? Was it a tool? Logic? Intuition? The Firebug extension for