[css-d] Pure CSS Drop Down Menu Help

2011-09-09 Thread Elli Vizcaino
Hello CSS Discuss, I have a site all coded up and the only besides cross browser checking left to do is integrate a drop down behavior to one of the menu items: About. I found a couple of articles and I can't the sub menu to work and drop when one hovers over About. I have tried the methods in

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS Drop Down Menu Help

2011-09-09 Thread Kevin A. Cameron
Something along the lines of #main-nav li:hover ul {display:block;} should help. May also want to check the support for the :hover pseudo element on LIs to make sure it accommodates your audienc ( http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html). Kevin On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Elli Vizcaino

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS Drop Down Menu Help

2011-09-09 Thread Elli Vizcaino
Thanks for the suggestion but I'm not targeting IE 6 if that is what you're referring to and my document validates as XHTML transitional as per client request :). I went ahead and changed the code based on this: http://www.htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns/ - so yes the drop down drops

[css-d] converting frame style website to tables and css

2011-09-09 Thread Brahm Friedlander
This is my first post. In the past I've used frames to make web sites. My site - http://www.brahmfriedlander.ca uses frames. Other artists have asked me to make similar sites for them but I know frames are not the way to go and css is. How would I go about creating a site with the same features

Re: [css-d] Win IE 6 issues

2011-09-09 Thread John
On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:26 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: John, if you have IE8 or IE9, you can use the developer tools to show IE7 emulation mode. Select the key 'F12' at the top of your keyboard. Here is IE6 (on the left) and IE7 (emulation mode) side by side.

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS Drop Down Menu Help

2011-09-09 Thread Tim Arnold
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Elli Vizcaino elli...@yahoo.com wrote: ...so yes the drop down drops on hover now but it just wont stay there so one can hover over the submenu links, so it's still a problem. Here is the revised code snippet and the url again:

Re: [css-d] converting frame style website to tables and css

2011-09-09 Thread Chetan Crasta
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Brahm Friedlander brahmf...@gmail.comwrote: This is my first post. In the past I've used frames to make web sites. My site - http://www.brahmfriedlander.ca uses frames. Other artists have asked me to make similar sites for them but I know frames are not

Re: [css-d] converting frame style website to tables and css

2011-09-09 Thread Kevin A. Cameron
Most people nowadays use something like lightbox, thickbox or fancybox (there must be a generic term for these...?), these use JS to open a large image in an overlay (similar to clicking an image in a status feed on Facebook). We use fancybox quite a bit here: http://fancybox.net/ The markup is

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS Drop Down Menu Help

2011-09-09 Thread Elli Vizcaino
It's really just a matter of distance.  The UL that opens up is too far down and so your mouse pointer is leaving the hover area for a second before it gets to the UL.  Remove that 3px top margin and it should be better. -Tim Wow can't beleive it was a matter of something so simple.

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS Drop Down Menu Help

2011-09-09 Thread Tim Arnold
Wow can't beleive it was a matter of something so simple. Thanks a million! :)) It's only simple when you've done the same thing half a dozen times :) -- tim.arn...@gmail.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] Win IE 6 issues

2011-09-09 Thread David Laakso
OK..can I get IE 8 or 9 and still keep the Beloved and Venerable IE 6? thank you John Good grief! Just what is the problem, now? Screenshots IE 6/7/8/9 using the code sent to the list last night. http://home.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=563292 Tweak that code for IE/6 in the

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS Drop Down Menu Help

2011-09-09 Thread Elli Vizcaino
 It's only simple when you've done the same thing half a dozen times :)   Haha so true. I've been coding for years now but it just didn't occur to me that the margin could be the culprit. I don't do a whole lot of drop margins but this design called for it and the spacing between the

[css-d] OT: Browser Testing Sandbox Or Site Please

2011-09-09 Thread Elli Vizcaino
Hello CSS Discuss, Looking for a nice site like spoon.net with a browser sandbox for fast and painless browser testing. All versions of IE were removed from spoon.net at the request of Microsoft. I don't like browser shots or browser cam because you have to wait a while for the screen shots

Re: [css-d] Mysterious Div

2011-09-09 Thread Tom Livingston
Link? On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Nancy Timper na...@timperarts.com wrote: (I admit I don't know nearly enough about CSS. So please be kind. And I built this page a while ago.) I'm trying to do something so simpleadd a background color to the div #newslinks. Previews OK in DW CS5;

Re: [css-d] Mysterious Div

2011-09-09 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Tom Livingston wrote: Link? Nancy Timper wrote: DUH. http://www.datecreekranch.com thanks __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ --

Re: [css-d] Win IE 6 issues

2011-09-09 Thread Alan Gresley
On 10/09/2011 3:56 AM, John wrote: On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:26 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: John, if you have IE8 or IE9, you can use the developer tools to show IE7 emulation mode. Select the key 'F12' at the top of your keyboard. Here is IE6 (on the left) and IE7 (emulation mode) side by side.

Re: [css-d] converting frame style website to tables and css

2011-09-09 Thread David Hucklesby
On 9/9/11 11:26 AM, Kevin A. Cameron wrote: Most people nowadays use something like lightbox, thickbox or fancybox (there must be a generic term for these...?), these use JS to open a large image in an overlay (similar to clicking an image in a status feed on Facebook). We use fancybox quite a

Re: [css-d] converting frame style website to tables and css

2011-09-09 Thread David Laakso
On 9/9/11 8:40 PM, David Hucklesby wrote: Looking at your gallery, I think this example is likely more in line with your needs: http://thewebwiz.net/temp/noinaa/gallery.html This is CSS only at the moment - it can be improved with a touch of JavaScript to prevent the page jump on short

[css-d] ID Selector Question

2011-09-09 Thread Mary Villanueva
Greetings all, I am doing a CSS dropdown menu which is working but I don’t understand this piece of code. What does it mean or do when one sets an ID selector to an HTML element such as the one below? It seems to be acting as a class in this case but I’m not really sure. I want to understand this