Re: [css-d] Div background image in Chrome

2010-09-24 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Sep 25, 2010, at 9:05 AM, K DeMott wrote: > I'm cleaning up a small website an checking browser compatibility. Everything > appears to line up correctly in IE 7 and 8, FF 3 and 4 and Opera 10. > > drbrentchiropractor.com > > In Chrome, the background image for the main content section (betw

[css-d] Div background image in Chrome

2010-09-24 Thread K DeMott
I'm cleaning up a small website an checking browser compatibility. Everything appears to line up correctly in IE 7 and 8, FF 3 and 4 and Opera 10. drbrentchiropractor.com In Chrome, the background image for the main content section (between the header and footer) is offset by one pixel to the r

Re: [css-d] fixed background

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Grevers
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Richard Grevers wrote: > Other than railing against the fact that you can only apply a fixed > background relative to the viewport rather than a container, what can > I do to position the *left* edge of a background image at 50% with a > fluid layout? > "fudging" i

Re: [css-d] "Legal" format lists

2010-09-24 Thread Geoff Lane
Multiple replies in one post: On Friday, September 24, 2010, 6:42:54 PM, David Hucklesby wrote: > That markup may be difficult for a screen reader to digest. > I'd stick with a list if I were you (and clobber the list > markers/numbers with list-style-type: none.) Thanks. It's an internal docume

Re: [css-d] "Legal" format lists

2010-09-24 Thread Michael Geary
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Geoff Lane wrote: > BTW, switching my doctype declaration to 4.01 strict and then running > the page through W3C's validator jogged my memory as to why I've > stayed with the transitional standard: the target attribute of the > anchor tag is deprecated and my page

Re: [css-d] "Legal" format lists

2010-09-24 Thread David Hucklesby
On 9/24/10 1:53 AM, Geoff Lane wrote: On Thursday, September 23, 2010, 8:10:48 PM, Eric A. Meyer wrote: In theory you could do it with a combination of ::marker and CSS counters. In practice, nobody ever implemented ::marker. And I agree with the assertions made in the link from David H.

Re: [css-d] "Legal" format lists

2010-09-24 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> Thanks for that. I had (mistakenly) assumed that it wasn't necessary > to refer to the DTD explicitly and that each "flavour" of HTML was > fully defined. > > BTW, switching my doctype declaration to 4.01 strict and then running > the page through W3C's validator jogged my memory as to why I've

Re: [css-d] "Legal" format lists

2010-09-24 Thread Geoff Lane
On Friday, September 24, 2010, 11:15:57 AM, Duncan Hill wrote: > Even a fully qualified transitional Doctype should trigger Standards Mode > in IE > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> > and so give you the benefit of stability (predictability?) on your pages. --- Thanks for that. I ha

Re: [css-d] "Legal" format lists

2010-09-24 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:05:40 +0100, Geoff Lane wrote: On Friday, September 24, 2010, 9:52:45 AM, Alan Gresley asked whether the markup was OK for HTML 4.01 Strict. --- Unfortunately not. I have to confess to being a naughty boy and using deprecated attributes in the HTML! One day I'll learn en

Re: [css-d] "Legal" format lists

2010-09-24 Thread Geoff Lane
On Friday, September 24, 2010, 9:52:45 AM, Alan Gresley asked whether the markup was OK for HTML 4.01 Strict. --- Unfortunately not. I have to confess to being a naughty boy and using deprecated attributes in the HTML! One day I'll learn enough about CSS to be able to do away with them, but for no

Re: [css-d] "Legal" format lists

2010-09-24 Thread Geoff Lane
On Thursday, September 23, 2010, 8:10:48 PM, Eric A. Meyer wrote: > In theory you could do it with a combination of ::marker and CSS > counters. In practice, nobody ever implemented ::marker. And I > agree with the assertions made in the link from David H.'s post, that > you want the numb

Re: [css-d] "Legal" format lists

2010-09-24 Thread Alan Gresley
Geoff Lane wrote: On Friday, September 24, 2010, 6:12:06 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: The technique used on Wikipedia won't give you the wrapping you want. What about using two spans and using this approach: 2.1.1.2It shall be construed a crime against humanity to recover an ancient musical i

Re: [css-d] "Legal" format lists

2010-09-24 Thread Geoff Lane
On Friday, September 24, 2010, 6:12:06 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: > The technique used on Wikipedia won't give you the wrapping you want. > What about using two spans and using this approach: > 2.1.1.2It shall be construed > a crime against humanity to recover an ancient musical instrument from