Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-23 Thread Ingo Chao
2010/3/22 Bruno Fassino : ... > The spec deliberately not very precise about these cases. At >  http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#bfc-next-to-float > there is > "CSS2 does not define when a UA may put said element next to the float > or by how much said element may become narrower" > > So the

[css-d] Nested Divs - Backgrounds Out of Sequence

2010-03-23 Thread Andrew Frazier
I have a series of three divs nested one inside the other - the reason being that the background of the content area needs images top and bottom with a third image filling the space in between when the content becomes too tall - but for some reason the images are overlapping in the wrong se

Re: [css-d] Nested Divs - Backgrounds Out of Sequence

2010-03-23 Thread Davies, Elizabeth
It looks good on my end in IE8, FF3.5 and IE7. In IE6 you run into the dreaded PNG-lack-of-transparency-support and will require ipingfix scripting if you with to support png's in that browser. Elizabeth Davies System Application Developer Input | Intellection | Learner | Achiever | Belief _

Re: [css-d] Nested Divs - Backgrounds Out of Sequence

2010-03-23 Thread Andrew Frazier
It looks OK in all browsers, but it's not showing what I've asked it to. The grey border down each side of the central area should actually come in diagonally at the bottom to join the black border. I've added a background colour to the middle div to show how the top and bottom images shoul

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-23 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2010, at 12:27 AM, Bruno Fassino wrote: >> Moreover, the spec now says: >> "the _border box_ of a table, block-level replaced element, or element >> in the normal flow that establishes a new block formatting context >> mus

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-23 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Bruno Fassino wrote: > Yes, with positive margins there is more consistency amongst modern browsers. > The only anomaly that I see, with positive margin on the same side of > the float, is that Safari 4 makes the b.f.c. box narrower than > necessary, so there is a ga

Re: [css-d] overflow boxes next to floats

2010-03-23 Thread Bruno Fassino
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Bruno Fassino wrote: > >> Yes, with positive margins there is more consistency amongst modern browsers. >> The only anomaly that I see, with positive margin on the same side of >> the float, is that Safa

Re: [css-d] Nested Divs - Backgrounds Out of Sequence

2010-03-23 Thread Claude Needham
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Andrew Frazier wrote: > It looks OK in all browsers, but it's not showing what I've asked it to. > The grey border down each side of the central area should actually come in > diagonally at the bottom to join the black border. I think the css is behaving as expect

Re: [css-d] Nested Divs - Backgrounds Out of Sequence

2010-03-23 Thread Andrew Frazier
Claude, You've hit the nail firmly on the head there. It's the transparent parts of the foremost image allowing the rearmost image to show through. A slight alteration to the foremost image to include some of the background colour at the foot of the grey band should fix that. What a scho

Re: [css-d] Question about standards compliant mode in IE

2010-03-23 Thread Tim Snadden
On 22/03/2010, at 11:11 AM, Claude Needham wrote: > > Or, would that be the F12 Developer Tools thing in the IE8? I'm talking about the Microsoft one (http://bit.ly/2MHgIY). While it's still a pale imitation of Firebug, the IE8 one is much improved and can be used for most IE7 work by switchi

Re: [css-d] Question about standards compliant mode in IE

2010-03-23 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Tim Snadden wrote: > I'm talking about the Microsoft one (http://bit.ly/2MHgIY). While it's > still a pale imitation of Firebug, the IE8 one is much improved and > can be used for most IE7 work by switching modes. A little confused : when you write "the IE8 one", the "one" that you have cite

Re: [css-d] Question about standards compliant mode in IE

2010-03-23 Thread Tim Snadden
On 24/03/2010, at 7:00 AM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > > > Tim Snadden wrote: > >> I'm talking about the Microsoft one (http://bit.ly/2MHgIY). While >> it's >> still a pale imitation of Firebug, the IE8 one is much improved and >> can be used for most IE7 work by switching modes. > > A little confus

Re: [css-d] Question about standards compliant mode in IE

2010-03-23 Thread Tim Snadden
On 24/03/2010, at 7:00 AM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > > > Tim Snadden wrote: > >> I'm talking about the Microsoft one (http://bit.ly/2MHgIY). While >> it's >> still a pale imitation of Firebug, the IE8 one is much improved and >> can be used for most IE7 work by switching modes. > > A little confus