Re: [css-d] background-color not working in IE7

2010-06-27 Thread John Franks
A strange thanks for your reply David. You have indirectly fixed my problem. In the process of stripping everything out to enable you to take a look, I realised that I had not applied a width to the div which was producing my IE7 background problem. Of course, give it a width and IE7

Re: [css-d] Layout help needed, almost right

2010-06-27 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
David Laakso wrote: This: html { font-family : Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; } Becomes this [user friendly and shorter]: html { font : 100%/1.4 Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; } With the greatest respect, your dislike for the fonts which Microsoft

Re: [css-d] Layout help needed, almost right

2010-06-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/06/27 12:41 (GMT+0100) Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) composed: David Laakso wrote: This: html { font-family : Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; } Becomes this [user friendly and shorter]: html { font : 100%/1.4 Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; }

Re: [css-d] IE hacks - css conditions

2010-06-27 Thread Michael Adams
On Saturday 26 June 2010 20:31, Alan Gresley wrote: Michael Adams wrote: A few years back i dropped conditional comments in favour of the CSS IE @import hack[1][2][3]. Now i find myself in a position where i want to send one thing to ie7 ie8 and another to all other browsers. What i

Re: [css-d] Layout help needed, almost right

2010-06-27 Thread David Laakso
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Re: [css-d] Layout help needed, almost right

2010-06-27 Thread David Laakso
Eric Peterson wrote: Below is the test page I've been playing with. What I am trying to do is * have a header block at the top of the page/screen * have a footer block at the bottom of the page/screen * have a menu side bar on the right with links that does not scroll with the main

Re: [css-d] Layout help needed, almost right

2010-06-27 Thread Eric Peterson
Interesting use of h1 and h2 as the footer and header. Thinking about it, I would have chosen h5 and h6 as they seem to be used a lot less. If I wanted to use h1 as a header in this context, I would have to redefine a different header to emulate what the h1 used to have. Not really a

Re: [css-d] Layout help needed, almost right

2010-06-27 Thread David Laakso
Eric Peterson wrote: Why did you choose to use h1 and h2 in this manner? Why would a div class=header definition not work the same way? Is there something about the h1 that is 'easier' or 'better'? I did not choose the method, I simply stripped Georg's layout, and deleted the

Re: [css-d] Layout help needed, almost right

2010-06-27 Thread Peter Hammarling
This: html { font-family : Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; } Becomes this [user friendly and shorter]: html { font : 100%/1.4 Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; } David, for someone whose contributions here are so consistently helpful and well-informed

Re: [css-d] Layout help needed, almost right

2010-06-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2010/06/27 16:57 (GMT+0200) Peter Hammarling composed: David, for someone whose contributions here are so consistently helpful and well-informed your crusade against Verdana is difficult to comprehend, and out of place on this list. Several times I've nearly risen to the bait of