Re: [css-d] why aren't these 2 divs on top of each other?

2010-11-09 Thread David Laakso
On 11/9/10 9:36 PM, John wrote: Dunno. But guessing at is always a pleasure...:-) . Send clues. thanks, Dave! Your example is what I am aiming for. Claude pointed out a number of errors in my code which could explain why things weren't behaving

Re: [css-d] why aren't these 2 divs on top of each other?

2010-11-09 Thread David Laakso
On 11/9/10 5:21 PM, John wrote: my goal is for "blackbar" to be underneath "header" and for it to remain at the left of "header" as the browser window gets wider... what I'll do after the 750px is exceeded, I haven't figured out, but why is the blackbar div not underneath (in the Z dimension)

Re: [css-d] Son of Suckerfish problems

2010-11-09 Thread David Laakso
On 11/9/10 3:11 PM, Daniel Hammond wrote: URL: http://www.numcchildren.org/new/index.html CSS: http://numcchildren.org/new/children.css I¹m trying to use the son of suckerfish method for the drop-down navigation. Any insight on causes for the issues and/or solutions for them are much appreciat

Re: [css-d] why aren't these 2 divs on top of each other?

2010-11-09 Thread Claude Needham
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:21 PM, John wrote: > my goal is for "blackbar" to be underneath "header" and for it to remain at > the left of "header" as the browser window gets wider... > > what I'll do after the 750px is exceeded, I haven't figured out, but why is > the blackbar div not underneath (in

[css-d] why aren't these 2 divs on top of each other?

2010-11-09 Thread John
my goal is for "blackbar" to be underneath "header" and for it to remain at the left of "header" as the browser window gets wider... what I'll do after the 750px is exceeded, I haven't figured out, but why is the blackbar div not underneath (in the Z dimension) the header div? thank you!

Re: [css-d] 2-column definition list - when floated DT is longer than DD?

2010-11-09 Thread Bruno Fassino
Dev monkey wrote: > > the typical way to format definition lists as a 2-column table is > to float the DTs (left column) and give the DDs a left margin > larger than the DT width. This works fine when all DDs are equal > to, or longer than, their matching DT. > > In my case, all my definition-list

[css-d] Son of Suckerfish problems

2010-11-09 Thread Daniel Hammond
URL: http://www.numcchildren.org/new/index.html CSS: http://numcchildren.org/new/children.css Browsers that display the site correctly: Firefox, Opera, IE8 Browsers that have problems: Safari, Chrome, IE8 in compatibility view I¹m trying to use the son of suckerfish method for the drop-down navi

Re: [css-d] Simple (I hope) styling question

2010-11-09 Thread Climis, Tim
> -Original Message- > From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d- > boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of John Deighan > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 1:51 PM > To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Subject: [css-d] Simple (I hope) styling question > > I think there's

Re: [css-d] mobile devices friendly

2010-11-09 Thread G.Sørtun
On 09.11.2010 18:40, TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson wrote: What I have a question about is the original header. It is a graphic placed there by the image tag in the html. To change this site over I would have to remove the image tag in the html and replace it with the background-image selec

[css-d] Simple (I hope) styling question

2010-11-09 Thread John Deighan
I think there's something here that I don't understand - though I have done a lot of reading about how CSS works. Fortunately, I have a very simple example below. I have tried this in both Firefox 3.6.12 and IE8 and the behavior is the same. In the HTML file below, I'm expecting the label on th

Re: [css-d] mobile devices friendly :: ec

2010-11-09 Thread David Laakso
On 11/9/10 1:11 PM, David Laakso wrote: Error Control The URL, doctype, and stylesheet is the same for desktop and mobile. What I meant to say is that the URI and doctype are the same regardless of the media you are attempting to hit *And* that the styles [ media queries ] for both deskt

Re: [css-d] mobile devices friendly

2010-11-09 Thread David Laakso
On 11/9/10 12:40 PM, TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson wrote: I have been studing the info lately about making a site mobile device friendly. I would like to take an existing site and create a seperate style sheet so that it is mobile friendly. On the tutorial I studied, you replace the existin

[css-d] mobile devices friendly

2010-11-09 Thread TriState Advantage, Kris Jacobson
I have been studing the info lately about making a site mobile device friendly. I would like to take an existing site and create a seperate style sheet so that it is mobile friendly. On the tutorial I studied, you replace the existing header graphic with a smaller one by using the background-ima