[css-d] Text input height and CSS font size/family

2010-06-10 Thread Gabriele Romanato
Hope these tests will be useful: http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2010/06/text-input-height-and-css-font.html HTH :-) Gabriele :-) http://www.css-zibaldone.com http://www.css-zibaldone.com/test/ (English) http://www.css-zibaldone.com/articles/ (English) http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/ (English)

Re: [css-d] Text input height and CSS font size/family

2010-06-10 Thread Lesley Binks
On 10 June 2010 09:44, Gabriele Romanato gabriele.roman...@gmail.com wrote: Hope these tests will be useful: http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2010/06/text-input-height-and-css-font.html HTH :-) Gabriele :-) I may be misunderstanding the intent of these tests. ? 1. If you change the font

Re: [css-d] Text input height and CSS font size/family

2010-06-10 Thread Gabriele Romanato
So your tests highlight the input box adapts to font size and family? Nope. As the title of the tests say, only their _height_. For that reason I specified a width for the input elements. Input elements are inline-block elements. the problem you mentioned: label for=testTest/label

Re: [css-d] Text input height and CSS font size/family

2010-06-10 Thread Tim Climis
On Thursday, June 10, 2010 6:19:42 am Gabriele Romanato wrote: So your tests highlight the input box adapts to font size and family? Nope. As the title of the tests say, only their _height_. I too am confused. When I take the width: 150px off your test cases, the widths of every one of

Re: [css-d] Grid Based Layout

2010-06-10 Thread Nick Leaton
That is in effect what I ended up doing. Putting an extra layer of divs into the output, and then using that to get the output layed out correctly. A solution that works. However, I find it a bit strange. CSS should allow you to put a div with a given ID into a given style and layout, without

[css-d] Output as CSV

2010-06-10 Thread Nick Leaton
I'm trying to get a variant on the XSLT cookbook template to output csv http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6q50V7oykqEClpg=PP1pg=PA240#v=onepageq=delimiterf=false Page 240-241 It uses XSLT 2.0 and parts of it are quite neat. I like the idea of importing a generic module, and then defining the

[css-d] Output as CSV - take 2

2010-06-10 Thread Nick Leaton
I'm trying to get a variant on the XSLT cookbook template to output csv http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6q50V7oykqEClpg=PP1pg=PA240#v=onepageq=delimiterf=false Page 240-241 It uses XSLT 2.0 and parts of it are quite neat. I like the idea of importing a generic module, and then defining the

Re: [css-d] Grid Based Layout

2010-06-10 Thread Lowell Allen
On Jun 10, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Nick Leaton wrote: [snip] On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:14 PM, David Hucklesby huckle...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/9/10 5:09 AM, Nick Leaton wrote: I'm trying to do some layout of some html. The basic idea is to get six divs laid out into a grid pattern of two columns

Re: [css-d] Text input height and CSS font size/family

2010-06-10 Thread Thierry Koblentz
So you don't get the same number of characters in each box, but you DO get different sizes (height AND width) with different font sizes and families. And of course, if I specify a height on the inputs, the height of every input box is the same. So I don't understand what behavior

Re: [css-d] nav placement issue - ff and chrome great, ie not so great

2010-06-10 Thread David Hucklesby
On 6/9/10 9:41 PM, Matthew P. Johnson wrote: http://applegateelements.com/test.html the nav displays correctly in chrome and ff but ie. line 33 margin-top : 10px; as well as line 171 margin-top : -15px; Is there a fix for this? Yes. Take out those br tags so the

Re: [css-d] Text input height and CSS font size/family

2010-06-10 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Thierry Koblentz wrote: It seems that font-size and font-family are not inherited by these input fields, hence why she suggests to always specify a font size and family for those. Browsers indeed generally have specific font-size and font-family defaults for text input fields. Conceptually,

Re: [css-d] Grid Based Layout

2010-06-10 Thread David Hucklesby
On 6/10/10 7:47 AM, Lowell Allen wrote: On Jun 10, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Nick Leaton wrote: [snip] On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:14 PM, David Hucklesbyhuckle...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/9/10 5:09 AM, Nick Leaton wrote: I'm trying to do some layout of some html. The basic idea is to get six divs

Re: [css-d] Grid Based Layout

2010-06-10 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, David Hucklesby wrote: On 6/10/10 7:47 AM, Lowell Allen wrote: On Jun 10, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Nick Leaton wrote: [snip] On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:14 PM, David Hucklesbyhuckle...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/9/10 5:09 AM, Nick Leaton wrote: I'm trying to do some layout

Re: [css-d] nav placement issue - ff and chrome great, ie not so great

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew P. Johnson
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Re: [css-d] nav placement issue - ff and chrome great, ie not so great

2010-06-10 Thread David Laakso
Matthew P. Johnson wrote: Who in the world has Century Gothic on their computer? Tiger got it. Don't know about Leopard/Snow Leopard. Best, ~d http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] nav placement issue - ff and chrome great, ie not so great

2010-06-10 Thread Climis, Tim
Matthew P. Johnson wrote: Who in the world has Century Gothic on their computer? My computer has it. I think it's included with MS Office - because I've only installed a few other fonts and that wasn't one of them. Which means that a pretty fair number of people have it, probably. (I

[css-d] overflows...

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Beaudoin
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around overflows. I've used them before (thanks to a few here who were able to help me), but sometimes they don't want to work for me. Case in point... I have uploaded a site I'm helping a buddy with, and I can't seem to get the background (diamond

Re: [css-d] overflows...

2010-06-10 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around overflows. I've used them before (thanks to a few here who were able to help me), but sometimes they don't want to work for me. Case in point... I have uploaded a site I'm helping a buddy with, and I can't seem to get the background (diamond

Re: [css-d] overflows...

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Beaudoin
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around overflows. I've used them before (thanks to a few here who were able to help me), but sometimes they don't want to work for me. Case in point... I have uploaded a site I'm helping a buddy with, and I can't seem to get the background (diamond

Re: [css-d] nav placement issue - ff and chrome great, ie not so great

2010-06-10 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/06/10 09:20 (GMT-0700) David Hucklesby composed: On 6/9/10 9:41 PM, Matthew P. Johnson wrote: http://applegateelements.com/test.html Who in the world has Century Gothic on their computer? Not I... I have it on several, but why the question? What is it about web developers that

Re: [css-d] nav placement issue - ff and chrome great, ie not so great

2010-06-10 Thread Peter Bradley
Ar 10/06/10 21:28, ysgrifennodd Felix Miata : Who in the world has Century Gothic on their computer? Not I... I have it on several, but why the question? What is it about web developers that they're so insistent visitors never get to see their defaults without disabling styles entirely?

Re: [css-d] nav placement issue - ff and chrome great, ie not so great

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew P. Johnson
My computer has it. I think it's included with MS Office - because I've only installed a few other fonts and that wasn't one of them. Which means that a pretty fair number of people have it, probably. (I wouldn't use it, because I think it's ugly as sin, but to each his own.) Tim,

Re: [css-d] Grid Based Layout

2010-06-10 Thread Thierry Koblentz
http://webwiz.robinshosting.com/temp/css-table-layout/ [snip] Take a look at CSS code for this popular grid system:http://960.gs/ Ah yes. Rigid pixel-width layouts. Just perfect in these days of iPad and mobile devices... :-\ Better is the fluid version:

Re: [css-d] nav placement issue - ff and chrome great, ie not so great

2010-06-10 Thread Matthew P. Johnson
Ar 10/06/10 21:28, ysgrifennodd Felix Miata : Who in the world has Century Gothic on their computer? Not I... I have it on several, but why the question? What is it about web developers that they're so insistent visitors never get to see their defaults without disabling styles entirely?

Re: [css-d] Text input height and CSS font size/family

2010-06-10 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jun 11, 2010, at 2:28 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: Browsers indeed generally have specific font-size and font-family defaults for text input fields. Conceptually, such defaults are rules in browser's default style sheet (in reasonably modern browsers), thus preventing any inheritance.

Re: [css-d] overflows...

2010-06-10 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Case in point... I have uploaded a site I'm helping a buddy with, and I can't seem to get the background (diamond plate) to expand down without adding a height. Can someone go to: www.ba-doyn.com/junk/index.html and www.ba- doyn.com/junk/products_new_equip_heil.html and take a peek

[css-d] CSS forms: default styles

2010-06-10 Thread Gabriele Romanato
Hi! Regarding my last discussion, this is something that may interest many of you: http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2010/06/css-forms-tutorial-default-styles.html HTH :-) Gabriele http://www.css-zibaldone.com http://www.css-zibaldone.com/test/ (English) http://www.css-zibaldone.com/articles/