Re: [css-d] slight layout change: center numbers in circles.

2011-01-11 Thread Chetan Crasta
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: On the theoretical side: because these characters are dingbats, i.e. specific graphics encoded as characters in a technical sense but not true text characters. On the practical side: because they mostly _don't_

Re: [css-d] slight layout change: center numbers in circles.

2011-01-11 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Chetan Crasta wrote: I'm not sure of the meaning of those characters, though. Do they have the same meaning as regular numbers? Technically, the circled numbers are defined as numbers (digits), i.e. their general category is Number, and they also have numeric values defined for them in

[css-d] help for rendering pages correctly on differents browsers

2011-01-11 Thread olivia antonin
Hi there I have a real problem with my web pages, basically They don't render the same in Safari and firefox. The padding-bottom of the div information in the home page doesn't render the same in firefox as in Safari, and the same problem occur for the about us page too: the padding bottom of

[css-d] Textured Background Not Lining Up

2011-01-11 Thread John Franks
I am building a new website here http://www.danabrahams.com. Currently I am working on the grey textured background below the dark header. As you will see I have applied a background image to the body which is 5px wide by 802px high, and repeated it along the x axis. My CSS for this is as

Re: [css-d] Textured Background Not Lining Up

2011-01-11 Thread Chetan Crasta
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:23 PM, John Franks johnfra...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: .. Everything lines up great in Internet Explorer (7 8 only which is all I need) and Opera. But if you view the website through Chrome, Firefox and Safari the lines in the textured background do not line up at the join

Re: [css-d] help for rendering pages correctly on differents browsers

2011-01-11 Thread David Postill
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:46:55 +0100, olivia antonin wrote: | | Hi there | I have a real problem with my web pages, basically They don't render the same in Safari and firefox. The padding-bottom of the div information in the home page doesn't render the same in firefox as in Safari, and the same

Re: [css-d] Textured Background Not Lining Up

2011-01-11 Thread Chetan Crasta
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:23 PM, John Franks johnfra...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: .. Everything lines up great in Internet Explorer (7 8 only which is all I need) and Opera. But if you view the website through Chrome, Firefox and Safari the lines in the textured background do not line up at the

[css-d] Fixed background image

2011-01-11 Thread Anne Pennington
I have just returned to the list after a break of about 10 months and immediately have a question to ask. I am working on a site that required a fixed background image in a div, as well as one on the page background - the page background is not so important. The site in progress is :

Re: [css-d] Fixed background image

2011-01-11 Thread David Postill
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:32:38 +, Anne Pennington wrote: | I have just returned to the list after a break of about 10 months and | immediately have a question to ask. | | I am working on a site that required a fixed background image in a | div, as well as one on the page background - the

Re: [css-d] Fixed background image

2011-01-11 Thread Chetan Crasta
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Anne Pennington an...@digitalplot.co.uk wrote: The site in progress is : http://www.mauricerowdon.org/site/ and an example of the page which requires fixed  div is http://www.mauricerowdon.org/site/fiction.htm But as you will be able to see, the image

Re: [css-d] Textured Background Not Lining Up

2011-01-11 Thread Chetan Crasta
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:53 PM, John Franks johnfra...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Thanks Chetan, I applied a background:transparent to the #wrapper and removed the background image from the #introPanel and all works perfectly now thanks. John. Sending your email to the list so that everyone knows

Re: [css-d] Fixed background image

2011-01-11 Thread Chetan Crasta
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Anne Pennington an...@digitalplot.co.uk wrote: Hi Chetan Thank you so much for this. I guess if I add more space to the right of the image more of his head will appear? Works fine and thank you again. All best Annie Happy to help. To make more of the

[css-d] iframes and CSS

2011-01-11 Thread Germán Martínez
Hi, I'm having some problems styling iframes, I'm using Facebook Twitter sharing functions and as always IE is ignoring my iframe {border: none; overflow: hidden;}. Right now I'm using frameborder=0 scrolling=no but that makes my HTML not valid. Any ideas? Thanks Germán Martínez, UX Designer

Re: [css-d] iframes and CSS

2011-01-11 Thread Gabriele Romanato
Hi! You should use: border=0 which is valid. For overflow, which version of IE are you using? Bye http://www.css-zibaldone.com http://www.css-zibaldone.com/test/ (English) http://www.css-zibaldone.com/articles/ (English) http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/ (English)

[css-d] font size on pc screen vs mobile phone

2011-01-11 Thread BHomis
Hi. I'm trying to write something in a div that measures 400px wide. It looks fine on my computer screen, but on an iPhone, the text exceeds the div. It looks fine on the Droid. Is there anything I can do? Thanks, Bruce

Re: [css-d] font size on pc screen vs mobile phone

2011-01-11 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/01/11 14:00 (GMT-0500) bho...@aol.com composed: Hi. I'm trying to write something in a div that measures 400px wide. It looks fine on my computer screen, but on an iPhone, the text exceeds the div. It looks fine on the Droid. Is there anything I can do? Set widths in em instead

[css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-11 Thread Rory Bernstein
Hello, When I have a series of fonts being called in a font-family rule, how do I know which one is the one being chosen? On this page: http://mcgivney.ehclients.com/locations/ The font should be the Titillium for the whole page, but of course it gets complicated when there are browsers that

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-11 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Rory Bernstein wrote: When I have a series of fonts being called in a font-family rule, how do I know which one is the one being chosen? You don't, unless JavaScript can tell you (see below). On this page: http://mcgivney.ehclients.com/locations/ The font should be the Titillium for the

Re: [css-d] iframes and CSS

2011-01-11 Thread Germán Martínez
Thanks Gabriele! For overflow, I'm having problems with IE6, 7 and 8. (but I don't really care about IE6 :P) On Jan 11, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Gabriele Romanato wrote: Hi! You should use: border=0 which is valid. For overflow, which version of IE are you using? Bye

Re: [css-d] font size on pc screen vs mobile phone

2011-01-11 Thread David Laakso
On 1/11/11 2:00 PM, bho...@aol.com wrote: Hi. I'm trying to write something in a div that measures 400px wide. It looks fine on my computer screen, but on an iPhone, the text exceeds the div. It looks fine on the Droid. Is there anything I can do? Thanks, Bruce Desktop and handsets

[css-d] very small font size on small devices

2011-01-11 Thread Sandy
I am trying to come up with a style sheet for a site I am working on that addresses small devices. Here is a typical page: http://cantoraccess.com/aboutus/aboutus.html Here are style sheets: http://cantoraccess.com/css/ca.css http://cantoraccess.com/css/menu.css

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-11 Thread David Laakso
On 1/11/11 2:32 PM, Rory Bernstein wrote: Hello, When I have a series of fonts being called in a font-family rule, how do I know which one is the one being chosen? On this page: http://mcgivney.ehclients.com/locations/ The font should be the Titillium for the whole page, but of course it

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-11 Thread David Laakso
On 1/11/11 3:10 PM, Rory Bernstein wrote: On Jan 11, 2011, at 3:08 PM, David Laakso wrote: On 1/11/11 2:32 PM, Rory Bernstein wrote: Hello, When I have a series of fonts being called in a font-family rule, how do I know which one is the one being chosen? On this page:

Re: [css-d] help for rendering pages correctly on differents browsers

2011-01-11 Thread Jonny Stephens
On 11 Jan 2011, at 10:46, olivia antonin wrote: I have a real problem with my web pages, basically They don't render the same in Safari and firefox. The padding-bottom of the div information in the home page doesn't render the same in firefox as in Safari, and the same problem occur for the

Re: [css-d] very small font size on small devices

2011-01-11 Thread David Laakso
On 1/11/11 2:48 PM, Sandy wrote: I am trying to come up with a style sheet for a site I am working on that addresses small devices. Here is a typical page: http://cantoraccess.com/aboutus/aboutus.html Here are style sheets: http://cantoraccess.com/css/ca.css

Re: [css-d] very small font size on small devices

2011-01-11 Thread Sandy
So - few questions. Are there simulators out there that are more reliable in showing what shows up on the various devices? The OperaMini simulator is quite good. http://www.opera.com/mobile/demo/ thanks for this - the page looks fine in this. Viewing the page in a small window in Safari

Re: [css-d] very small font size on small devices

2011-01-11 Thread David Laakso
On 1/11/11 4:30 PM, Sandy wrote: The OperaMini simulator is quite good. http://www.opera.com/mobile/demo/ shrinking the window down in Safari 5.0.2 seems to get the small_devices style sheet going, but not in Opera 6.0.3 Umm. Try Opera/11.0. S. ~d --

Re: [css-d] iframes and CSS

2011-01-11 Thread Gabriele Romanato
For overflow, try to give IE the declarations overflow-x/overflow-y. They should work. Also, first turn the iframe into a block level element with 'display: block'. Iframes are inline-block elements by default. :-) http://www.css-zibaldone.com http://www.css-zibaldone.com/test/ (English)

Re: [css-d] very small font size on small devices

2011-01-11 Thread Sandy
The OperaMini simulator is quite good. http://www.opera.com/mobile/demo/ shrinking the window down in Safari 5.0.2 seems to get the small_devices style sheet going, but not in Opera 6.0.3 Umm. Try Opera/11.0. right! yes - that works. thanks, Sandy

[css-d] form/ul layout weird in IE

2011-01-11 Thread Rich M
Hi, I've revamped some forms in my application, but the display is unexpected in IE8 / Windows 7 for me. I assume it's equally weird on other OS and probably IE versions. If you view the page in FireFox, you should see what I expected. A form with a layout specified by margin-left and

Re: [css-d] form/ul layout weird in IE

2011-01-11 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Rich M wrote: Hi, I've revamped some forms in my application, but the display is unexpected in IE8 / Windows 7 for me. I assume it's equally weird on other OS and probably IE versions. Would that be : https://www.moremagicpoints.com/ ? If so, Seamonkey doesn't like its

Re: [css-d] form/ul layout weird in IE

2011-01-11 Thread David Laakso
On 1/11/11 6:02 PM, Rich M wrote: I've revamped some forms in my application, but the display is unexpected in IE8 / Windows 7 for me. I assume it's equally weird on other OS and probably IE versions. Thanks, Rich Post uri to list. Thanks. ~d -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jan 12, 2011, at 4:32 AM, Rory Bernstein wrote: On this page: http://mcgivney.ehclients.com/locations/ The font should be the Titillium for the whole page, but of course it gets complicated when there are browsers that cannot show this font and it falls back to the next font in the

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-11 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:32:31 -, Rory Bernstein r...@rorybernstein.com wrote: Hello, When I have a series of fonts being called in a font-family rule, how do I know which one is the one being chosen? On this page: http://mcgivney.ehclients.com/locations/ The font should be the

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-11 Thread Richard Mason
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote If you want/need to know the aspect ratio of a font, this service can help (for fonts installed on your local drives): http://fontdeck.com/font-size-adjust.html or this page: http://brunildo.org/test/fontlist3.html Both wrong because the aspect

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Richard Mason wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote If you want/need to know the aspect ratio of a font, this service can help (for fonts installed on your local drives): http://fontdeck.com/font-size-adjust.html or this page:

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-11 Thread Rory Bernstein
On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Richard Mason wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote If you want/need to know the aspect ratio of a font, this service can help (for fonts installed on your local drives): http://fontdeck.com/font-size-adjust.html or this page:

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-11 Thread Richard Mason
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote Both services will give you an idea of how the aspect-ratio of the fallback font will relate to the first-choice font. That is the point. Without using font-size adjust, it doesn't matter much beyond that (and even with font-size-adjust, it

Re: [css-d] Font-face, alignment issue similar to images

2011-01-11 Thread Nancy Seeger
On Jan 11, 2011, at 6:29 AM, css-d-requ...@lists.css-discuss.org wrote: From: Andrew Cunningham lang.supp...@gmail.com Nancy, you are mixing encodings within a document. If you do want to use a character rather than an image, you should use the appropriate Unicode character, considering the