Re: [css-d] Floating boxes with variable heights

2012-07-28 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 27.07.2012 01:43 schrieb Georg: On 27.07.2012 00:46, Georg wrote: On 27.07.2012 00:18, Boray ERIS wrote: Is this a joke? Nope. It's CSS! ...an if you don't bother to test this old float-alternative at your end, here are a few examples. http://www.gunlaug.com/contents/test/test-floating-

Re: [css-d] Floating boxes with variable heights

2012-07-28 Thread Georg
On 28.07.2012 13:29, Markus Ernst wrote: http://www.rapid.ch/de/rapid-einachsgeraete/prospekte.html The headings here match the width of 3 image elements plus borders and the 2 margins between them. With space characters added to the margins, the width cannot be caluclated reliably anymore.

Re: [css-d] Floating boxes with variable heights

2012-07-28 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 28 juil. 2012 à 20:29, Markus Ernst a écrit : > The headings here match the width of 3 image elements plus borders and the 2 > margins between them. With space characters added to the margins, the width > cannot be caluclated reliably anymore. Write your source code without any white-space

Re: [css-d] Floating boxes with variable heights

2012-07-28 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:> Le 28 juil. 2012 à 20:29, Markus Ernst a écrit : The headings here match the width of 3 image elements plus borders and the 2 margins between them. With space characters added to the margins, the width cannot be caluclated reliably anymore. Write your source c

Re: [css-d] Floating boxes with variable heights

2012-07-28 Thread Georg
On 28.07.2012 13:58, Georg wrote: Sort of - in a round-about way. The "auto added" space is approx .5em either side of an inline-block, so by subtracting 1em from margin at front-side (often means negative front-margin) and offsetting the blocks (position: relative) to line up 1em further in -

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-28 Thread Alan Gresley
On 22/07/2012 9:11 PM, sweepslate wrote: I want to text-transform:uppercase a piece of text writen in Greek. The Greek language requires that: a. in lower case text, some letters need to have accents --and b. in full upper case text, LIKE THIS, have no accents at all My problem is: if I u

Re: [css-d] Floating boxes with variable heights

2012-07-28 Thread David Hucklesby
On 7/28/12 5:10 AM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:> Le 28 juil. 2012 à 20:29, Markus Ernst a écrit : The headings here match the width of 3 image elements plus borders and the 2 margins between them. With space characters added to the margins, the width cannot be caluclate

Re: [css-d] Floating boxes with variable heights

2012-07-28 Thread Philip TAYLOR
David Hucklesby wrote: You are on the right track when you talk about a container. There's another alternative that lets you retain the white-space in the HTML, which is to use a font-size of zero on some container, and restore the font-size on the paragraphs with a value other than EMs or pe

Re: [css-d] Floating boxes with variable heights

2012-07-28 Thread Georg
On 28.07.2012 17:48, David Hucklesby wrote: There's another alternative that lets you retain the white-space in the HTML, which is to use a font-size of zero on some container, and restore the font-size on the paragraphs with a value other than EMs or percents. Have you checked how white-spac

[css-d] CSS3 slider box/image triggered by onload?

2012-07-28 Thread Keith Purtell
My client has her heart set on each page of her site featuring a different image that slides in when the page loads. I found plenty of info about CSS3 and JQuery slider boxes. I'll probably design for the former and fall back on the latter. Having onload trigger the JQuery slide is a no-brainer

Re: [css-d] Floating boxes with variable heights

2012-07-28 Thread David Hucklesby
On 7/28/12 9:45 AM, Georg wrote: On 28.07.2012 17:48, David Hucklesby wrote: There's another alternative that lets you retain the white-space in the HTML, which is to use a font-size of zero on some container, and restore the font-size on the paragraphs with a value other than EMs or percents.

Re: [css-d] Floating boxes with variable heights

2012-07-28 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 29 juil. 2012 à 14:29, David Hucklesby a écrit : > In Webkit, I can only find a minimum font size setting. (Safari; Chrome)?? > > In Firefox, there's an additional "Allow pages to choose their own fonts" > checkbox. Normally this is set, so I tried toggling it. No problem. Gecko and WebKit t

Re: [css-d] CSS3 slider box/image triggered by onload?

2012-07-28 Thread David Laakso
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Keith Purtell wrote: > My client has her heart set on each page of her site featuring a different > image that slides in when the page loads. > > -Keith Purtell Call the image using a random image script? Best, David Laakso -- Chelsea Creek Studio http://ccst