[css-d] Peculiar contraction

2010-11-27 Thread bruce . somers
I've seen the contraction "How's about ..." here two or three times in recent days. Can someone please tlell me what it means? What does the apostrophe replace? B. Somers __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.c

Re: [css-d] Peculiar contraction

2010-11-27 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
I think I was the one to use it first (recently); it is just a colloquial form of "how about", intended solely for humerous effect, and possibly modelled on the how the average speaker of believes that the average speaker of speaks ... ** Phil (native speaker of ). bruce.som...@web.de

[css-d] Centering the background and DIVs in small windows

2010-11-27 Thread ktt
Hello, I have to center background and DIV's on it. All this content should open centered even in small browser windows. But it seems there is no firm method to do this. 1. The trick with "left:50%" parent div and negative child div margin has the shortcoming - it cuts left side a bit. So it i

[css-d] Site Revision Critique

2010-11-27 Thread Del Wegener
Good Day; I am beginning the long process of revising a large site which, until now, has just grown without design. I began with one of many pages which index content pages. My first attempt is here http://www.drdelmath.com/playpen/tableless_single_index_page.html Because I have ripped this page

Re: [css-d] ANN: hcss/0.1

2010-11-27 Thread Jonas Galvez
Jonas Galvez wrote: > >   padding: 5px; >   .b { >     padding: 10px; >   } >   #c { >     font-size: 15px; >   } > Just to make it more clear, you can also do the following: #specific-case { } div.child { } If the selectors starts with '#' or '.', HCSS assumes it's a variation o

Re: [css-d] ANN: hcss/0.1

2010-11-27 Thread Jonas Galvez
Jonas Galvez wrote: > div.parent > div.child { > } Ops, that should read: div.parent div.child { } (If you wanted it to have a ">", then it would have be an actual tag-based selector). -- Jonas __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-d

Re: [css-d] Site Revision Critique

2010-11-27 Thread David Laakso
On 11/27/10 4:25 PM, Del Wegener wrote: My first attempt is here http://www.drdelmath.com/playpen/tableless_single_index_page.html Del Making it readable might be a nice touch. How about something really dumb for starters -- like mocha on #eee blocks with no font set smaller, nor larger,

Re: [css-d] Centering the background and DIVs in small windows

2010-11-27 Thread G.Sørtun
1. The trick with "left:50%" parent div and negative child div margin has the shortcoming - it cuts left side a bit. So it is possible to scroll only to the right, and a little part of the left side background remains hidden. http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/thebox/deadcentre4.html Your exampl