Re: [css-d] In HTML CSS vs. Separate style sheet CSS

2010-03-15 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 16, 2010, at 1:18 AM, Chris Blake wrote: > On 16/03/2010, at 12:01 AM, Climis, Tim wrote: > >>> 100%px isn't valid, unless my programming mind is tying to make too >>> much sense. >> >> I think that's the problem... His template is putting in 'px' even >> though he doesn't want one.

Re: [css-d] SOLVED multiple IDs and classes to one div - which one speaks loudest?

2010-03-15 Thread Chris Blake
> > >> Here is the HTML: >> >> > class="yoo-toppanel">content >> >> And it reads this CSS first: >> >> #yoo-toppanel-1 div.yoo-toppanel div.panel-container { >> >> But because of this it is disregarding 'mine' and choosing >> default. > > Hi Chris, > > It's actually 'disregarding' your CSS because

Re: [css-d] multiple IDs and classes to one div - which one speaks loudest?

2010-03-15 Thread Bobby Jack
--- On Mon, 3/15/10, Chris Blake wrote: > Here is the HTML: > > class="yoo-toppanel">content > > And it reads this CSS first: > > #yoo-toppanel-1 div.yoo-toppanel div.panel-container { > > But because of this it is disregarding 'mine' and choosing > default. Hi Chris, It's actually 'disrega

[css-d] multiple IDs and classes to one div - which one speaks loudest?

2010-03-15 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I want to targetdiv#yoo-toppanel-1 in my CSS without disturbing the styling already in place for div.yoo-toppanel. Here is the HTML: content And it reads this CSS first: #yoo-toppanel-1 div.yoo-toppanel div.panel-container { position: fixed; left: 50%; wi

[css-d] the CSS discuss Wiki

2010-03-15 Thread Rob Emenecker
THANK YOU to everyone that maintains the CSS Discuss List Wiki. I had a recent "issue" regarding footers. Before doing my "knee jerk send plea for help to the list", I first checked the Wiki. My issue was resolved in less than a minute with information that was available there. So I wanted THA

Re: [css-d] Another IE6 issue I don't understand

2010-03-15 Thread David Hucklesby
On 3/15/10 8:46 AM, Alan Chandler wrote: > David Laakso wrote: > >> With regard to specific difficulty with the ala article "holy >> grail" layout in IE/6.0 please see Ingo Chao's article regarding it >> and a fix for it: >> >> Best, ~d >> > > Thanks for

Re: [css-d] In HTML CSS vs. Separate style sheet CSS

2010-03-15 Thread Chris Blake
On 16/03/2010, at 12:01 AM, Climis, Tim wrote: >> 100%px isn't valid, unless my programming mind is tying to make too >> much sense. > > I think that's the problem... His template is putting in 'px' even > though he doesn't want one. And he wants to have a width of 100% in > spite of it.

Re: [css-d] Image text box

2010-03-15 Thread Brian M. Curran
ta-da!!! http://www.draftingservices.com/building_survey.html CSS: .textBox { width: 200px; float: right; margin: 0 0 5px 5px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid #000; background: #fff; font-size: x-small; } HTML: Building survey floor plan. Thanks again to all who helped me!! Now

Re: [css-d] In HTML CSS vs. Separate style sheet CSS

2010-03-15 Thread Climis, Tim
> 100%px isn't valid, unless my programming mind is tying to make too much > sense. I think that's the problem... His template is putting in 'px' even though he doesn't want one. And he wants to have a width of 100% in spite of it. > Stylesheets should never overwrite a style defined in the ac

Re: [css-d] In HTML CSS vs. Separate style sheet CSS

2010-03-15 Thread Chris Blake
On 15/03/2010, at 11:46 PM, Jack Timmons wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Chris Blake > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think that I already know the answer to this one but it's worth a >> shot: >> >> I am using Joomla and ripping a template apart to make it work for >> me. >> However whe

Re: [css-d] In HTML CSS vs. Separate style sheet CSS

2010-03-15 Thread Jack Timmons
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Chris Blake wrote: > Hi, > > I think that I already know the answer to this one but it's worth a > shot: > > I am using Joomla and ripping a template apart to make it work for me. > However when it comes to some of the modules I have to set the width > in pixels v

Re: [css-d] Image text box

2010-03-15 Thread Brian M. Curran
>>I was asking for a "No, because..." or "Yes, because..." response. >Fair enough. >No, because it's not a paragraph, it's an image. A reader (forget humans, just >think reading mechanisms, which can include humans) when it sees a expects >to >see a paragraph of content. Instead it sees an ima

Re: [css-d] Another IE6 issue I don't understand

2010-03-15 Thread Alan Chandler
David Laakso wrote: > With regard to specific difficulty with the ala article "holy grail" > layout in IE/6.0 please see Ingo Chao's article regarding it and a fix > for it: > > > Best, > ~d > Thanks for these pointers. It's good reading and I thin

[css-d] In HTML CSS vs. Separate style sheet CSS

2010-03-15 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I think that I already know the answer to this one but it's worth a shot: I am using Joomla and ripping a template apart to make it work for me. However when it comes to some of the modules I have to set the width in pixels via the Joomla backend and the resulting code looks like this:

Re: [css-d] Image text box

2010-03-15 Thread Skip Knox
>I was asking for a "No, because..." or "Yes, because..." response. Fair enough. No, because it's not a paragraph, it's an image. A reader (forget humans, just think reading mechanisms, which can include humans) when it sees a expects to see a paragraph of content. Instead it sees an image. The

Re: [css-d] Image text box

2010-03-15 Thread Brian M. Curran
> Your question has more to do with HTML than CSS -- asking if using a > paragraph tag is okay as long as it works -- but I'll respond anyway. > > There are two different kind of "it works" in our business. There's "it > works for me" and there's "it works across browsers". > >>> Brian M. Curran w

Re: [css-d] Image text box

2010-03-15 Thread Skip Knox
Your question has more to do with HTML than CSS -- asking if using a paragraph tag is okay as long as it works -- but I'll respond anyway. There are two different kind of "it works" in our business. There's "it works for me" and there's "it works across browsers". An important point about standar

Re: [css-d] Image text box

2010-03-15 Thread Bill Braun
Brian M. Curran wrote: Brian M. Curran wrote: > Hi All, > I've never done this before... I made a bordered text box around an > image using a paragraph. It can be found here: > > http://www.draftingservices.com/building_survey.html > > Would this be

Re: [css-d] Image text box

2010-03-15 Thread Brian M. Curran
>>> Brian M. Curran wrote: >>> Hi All, I've never done this before... I made a bordered text box around an image using a paragraph. It can be found here: http://www.draftingservices.com/building_survey.html Would this be considered acceptable CSS or make-shift? >

Re: [css-d] Image text box

2010-03-15 Thread David Laakso
Brian M. Curran wrote: >> Brian M. Curran wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> I've never done this before... I made a bordered text box around an image >>> using a paragraph. It can be found here: >>> >>> http://www.draftingservices.com/building_survey.html >>> >>> Would this be considered acceptable C

Re: [css-d] Image text box

2010-03-15 Thread Brian M. Curran
> Brian M. Curran wrote: >> Hi All, >> I've never done this before... I made a bordered text box around an image >> using a paragraph. It can be found here: >> >> http://www.draftingservices.com/building_survey.html >> >> Would this be considered acceptable CSS or make-shift? >> >> Sincerely, >> B

Re: [css-d] Another IE6 issue I don't understand

2010-03-15 Thread David Laakso
Alan Chandler wrote: > > It all works fine in other browsers and I am now going round trying to > fixup IE6 issues. > > In this particular example (using a template I have copied from > elsewhere - and which I have now found doesn't work in the original form > either) changing the content is cau

Re: [css-d] Another IE6 issue I don't understand

2010-03-15 Thread Gabriele Romanato
Basically, when you test something with CSS, you should always make sure that no DOM interactions are actually active, that is, you should remove all JS files from your page. Then you can start testing. Since you said that all elements have layout, I guess it's something related to element di

[css-d] Another IE6 issue I don't understand

2010-03-15 Thread Alan Chandler
The following template is a standard style three column layout, using the holy grail technique to pull the left column into place. These pages are controlled by a php template which generates the code identically for each page other than the content of the content section, and the precise codin