Re: [css-d] What is best practice when using CSS to create forms?

2011-04-19 Thread Tim Dawson
I use much the same mark-up as shown in the 'alistapart' article you've referenced, using fieldset and legend. I recommend 'Fancy Form Design' by Jina Bolton et al (Sitepoint, (www.sitepoint.com)) if you want a book about it. Tim Dawson On 19/04/2011 04:12, Keith Purtell wrote: I have a

Re: [css-d] What is best practice when using CSS to create forms?

2011-04-19 Thread Kurtis Kroon
Here's where I plug Luke Wroblewski's book _Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks_: http://www.lukew.com/resources/web_form_design.asp Kurtis Sent from my mobile On Apr 18, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Keith Purtell keithpurt...@keithpurtell.com wrote: I have a simple form on my Contact page where

Re: [css-d] What is best practice when using CSS to create forms?

2011-04-19 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Kurtis Kroon kurtis7...@gmail.com wrote: Here's where I plug Luke Wroblewski's book _Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks_: http://www.lukew.com/resources/web_form_design.asp Kurtis Sent from my mobile On Apr 18, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Keith Purtell

Re: [css-d] What is best practice when using CSS to create forms?

2011-04-19 Thread Barney Carroll
On 19 April 2011 15:47, Tim Arnold tim.arn...@gmail.com wrote: Does form markup OR plugging LWs book have anything to do with CSS? Colossal amounts. Come back to us when you've built a form purely out of CSS and no markup. Keith, The HTML5 boilerplate [1] collects some excellent forms CSS

Re: [css-d] What is best practice when using CSS to create forms?

2011-04-19 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Barney Carroll barney.carr...@gmail.comwrote: On 19 April 2011 15:47, Tim Arnold tim.arn...@gmail.com wrote: Does form markup OR plugging LWs book have anything to do with CSS? Colossal amounts. Come back to us when you've built a form purely out of CSS and

Re: [css-d] problem with overflow: visible under IE8 resizing the containing node

2011-04-19 Thread Victor Danilchenko
Thanks, that was exactly what was needed! I greatly appreciate it. On 4/16/11 12:19 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: On 4/15/11 1:35 PM, Victor Danilchenko wrote: I put together a page to show the problem at http://www.askonline.net/overflow_test.html . Basically, if the container node is

Re: [css-d] problem with overflow: visible under IE8 resizing the containing node

2011-04-19 Thread Victor Danilchenko
Sorry to bug you guys again, but while this solved the problem in my test case, in my application the code behaves exactly like it used to, quirks-style. I even copy-n-pasted my test code into the app page, with the same result: it works fine on standalone page, but malfunctions on the app

Re: [css-d] problem with overflow: visible under IE8 resizing the containing node

2011-04-19 Thread Kevin A. Cameron
Is the doctype on line 1? Kevin __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html

Re: [css-d] problem with overflow: visible under IE8 resizing the containing node

2011-04-19 Thread Victor Danilchenko
On 4/19/11 12:40 PM, Kevin A. Cameron wrote: Is the doctype on line 1? yes -- and neither DOCTYPE nor X-UA-Compatible meta-tag get me out of quirks mode on the app page, though both work just fine on the test page. -- Victor Danilchenko Senior Software Engineer,

Re: [css-d] What is best practice when using CSS to create forms?

2011-04-19 Thread Kurtis Kroon
I only commented because the question was about whether to use a DIV or a DL which has nothing whatever to do with CSS. Per the list policies found at http://css-discuss.incutio.com/wiki/Off_Topic : Some topics are off-topic for css-d, for example:- mark-up questions A question on

[css-d] slideshow positioning problem

2011-04-19 Thread Jody Levinson
Hi everyone, I'm trying to get a css slideshow working on this page: http://web648.dark.plainblack.net/home/home-test but the slides are stacking vertically instead of occupying the same space. I've used the exact same code on this page and it works: http://evamoon.net Can anyone tell me how

Re: [css-d] slideshow positioning problem

2011-04-19 Thread Rich M
On 04/19/2011 05:25 PM, Jody Levinson wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to get a css slideshow working on this page: http://web648.dark.plainblack.net/home/home-test but the slides are stacking vertically instead of occupying the same space. I've used the exact same code on this page and it

Re: [css-d] slideshow positioning problem

2011-04-19 Thread Steve Clason
Jody Levinson wrote: I'm trying to get a css slideshow working on this page:http://web648.dark.plainblack.net/home/home-test but the slides are stacking vertically instead of occupying the same space. I've used the exact same code on this page and it works:http://evamoon.net Add something

Re: [css-d] slideshow positioning problem

2011-04-19 Thread Theresa Newman
it is looking for your javascript here http://web648.dark.plainblack.net/home/slidefadinger.js and not finding it make sure you have the css in place as well On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Jody Levinson j...@troutdream.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to get a css slideshow working on

Re: [css-d] slideshow positioning problem

2011-04-19 Thread Jody Levinson
On Apr 19, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Theresa Newman wrote: it is looking for your javascript here http://web648.dark.plainblack.net/home/slidefadinger.js and not finding it make sure you have the css in place as well Thank you all for your help. It also wasn't finding the CSS file. I thought

Re: [css-d] Looking for online reference re optimizing style sheet syntax

2011-04-19 Thread Keith Purtell
On 4/18/2011 12:19 PM, Nancy Johnson wrote: There are optimization checkers and I have used those but do it judicially. http://designshack.co.uk/articles/css/18-css-compression-tools-and-techniques Some good info there. I hadn't looked into CSS sprites before. They'll be useful when I have

[css-d] Need advice please

2011-04-19 Thread Kirsten Rourke
Hi - I had to redo my wordpress site and found a theme that works well for what I want BUT even when I make the W3C validator test for CSS3 it still kicks up a TON of errors -http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://kirstenrourke.comprofile=css3 If anyone has time, could you

Re: [css-d] Need advice please

2011-04-19 Thread Claude Needham
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Kirsten Rourke rourke.train...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - I had to redo my wordpress site and found a theme that works well for what I want BUT even when I make the W3C validator test for CSS3 it still kicks up a TON of errors  

Re: [css-d] Need advice please

2011-04-19 Thread David Laakso
On 4/19/11 10:18 PM, Kirsten Rourke wrote: Hi - I had to redo my wordpress site and found a theme that works well for what I want BUT even when I make the W3C validator test for CSS3 it still kicks up a TON of errors

Re: [css-d] Need advice please

2011-04-19 Thread G.Sørtun
On 20.04.2011 04:18, Kirsten Rourke wrote: http://kirstenrourke.com Lots of proprietary MS code in there, but all that IE-targeting code only seem to work in IE8 - not older and not IE9. So, to me it looks like all that IE code can be deleted, and then you should check up in and tweak for