Re: [css-d] CSS equal columns

2011-10-12 Thread David Laakso
On 10/12/11 5:53 AM, David Laakso wrote: On 10/12/11 1:09 AM, john petroshius wrote: I wonder if any of you learned CSS folks could tell me whether there are any downsides or disadvantages to using what might be called the 'negative bottom margin' technique of creating columns that have equal

Re: [css-d] Floating Boxes Text Wrap Help

2011-10-12 Thread Tomasz Borek
Perhaps a tad late if it's fixed now, but when it comes to floats, I found these two pages to be invaluable: http://css-tricks.com/795-all-about-floats/ http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2007/05/01/css-float-theory-things-you-should-know/ Both are sort-of compendia about floats and floating.

Re: [css-d] CSS equal columns

2011-10-12 Thread patrick
On 10/12/2011 6:10 am, David Laakso wrote: On 10/12/11 5:53 AM, David Laakso wrote: On 10/12/11 1:09 AM, john petroshius wrote: I wonder if any of you learned CSS folks could tell me whether there are any downsides or disadvantages to using what might be called the 'negative bottom margin'

Re: [css-d] center spans in a box, and fix selected ids

2011-10-12 Thread David Laakso
On 10/11/11 11:37 PM, Janis Rough wrote: specifically I would like to know how to make the spans centered and the background color to be yellow and the selector id's, for example, div.container span#lynda don't seem to be right. Keep the CSS and markup valid. Maybe this will help to get it

[css-d] Best practices for ipad, iphone detection.

2011-10-12 Thread Claude Needham
Hello, I was hoping to get a reference link to an article or other content on the best practices for detecting ipad, iphone, and other smart devices. I have seen some very good solutions pass by on the list. But, now that I need them in a serious way, I'm having difficulty locating them in the

Re: [css-d] Menu: where to place in markup?

2011-10-12 Thread John
On Oct 10, 2011, at 10:23 AM, G.Sørtun wrote: On 10.10.2011 18:06, John wrote: Link: http://www.coffeeonmars.com/testing/index.html You have a missing ' ' in there... div id=SideMenuContainer_Home ...which means that ID can't be targeted from CSS in most browsers. Apart from

Re: [css-d] Best practices for ipad, iphone detection.

2011-10-12 Thread David Laakso
On 10/12/11 2:19 PM, Claude Needham wrote: I was hoping to get a reference link to an article or other content on the best practices for detecting ipad, iphone, and other smart devices. Regards, Claude We're off-topic with this on a list devoted to the practical application of CSS... But

Re: [css-d] Best practices for ipad, iphone detection.

2011-10-12 Thread Claude Needham
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:24 PM, David Laakso da...@chelseacreekstudio.com wrote: We're off-topic with this on a list devoted to the practical application of CSS... But anyway, see some of the links in the CSS and Mobile Devices section of this page:

[css-d] how to get rid of space between background images that are repeating vertically

2011-10-12 Thread Angela French
I have a background image that repeats vertically. The weird thing is though, that it is rendering with a small space between each one. Can someone tell me what property I might try to get rid of that? Or why it is doing that? Angela French Internet Specialist State Board for Community and

Re: [css-d] how to get rid of space between background images that are repeating vertically

2011-10-12 Thread Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)
URL or URI ? Angela French wrote: I have a background image that repeats vertically. The weird thing is though, that it is rendering with a small space between each one. Can someone tell me what property I might try to get rid of that? Or why it is doing that? Angela French Internet

Re: [css-d] how to get rid of space between background images that are repeating vertically

2011-10-12 Thread Micky Hulse
I would check your image in an editing program like Photoshop. Are you using PNG or GIF with transparency? If so, I would imagine that your image has a transparent edge that is causing the small gaps. Or, perhaps a JPG image that is not on a full pixel so it has an antialiased edge that looks

Re: [css-d] how to get rid of space between background images that are repeating vertically

2011-10-12 Thread Angela French
Test page: http://sbctc.edu/college/fieldguide.aspx . You can't really see the spaces because I filled them with an offwhite border-bottom. URL or URI ? Angela French wrote: I have a background image that repeats vertically. The weird thing is though, that it is rendering with a small space

Re: [css-d] CSS equal columns

2011-10-12 Thread David Hucklesby
On 10/11/11 10:09 PM, john petroshius wrote: I wonder if any of you learned CSS folks could tell me whether there are any downsides or disadvantages to using what might be called the 'negative bottom margin' technique of creating columns that have equal height regardless of how much content may

Re: [css-d] how to get rid of space between background images that are repeating vertically

2011-10-12 Thread bill scheider
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Angela French afre...@sbctc.edu wrote: Test page: http://sbctc.edu/college/fieldguide.aspx . You can't really see the spaces because I filled them with an offwhite border-bottom. URL or URI ? Angela French wrote: I have a background image that repeats

Re: [css-d] CSS equal columns

2011-10-12 Thread john petroshius
On Oct 12, 2011, at 6:37 PM, David Hucklesby wrote: On 10/11/11 10:09 PM, john petroshius wrote: I wonder if any of you learned CSS folks could tell me whether there are any downsides or disadvantages to using what might be called the 'negative bottom margin' technique of creating columns