Re: [css-d] explain positioning of this tag

2012-10-30 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Angela French wrote: > On this page: > http://wet-boew.github.com/wet-boew/demos/footnotes/footnotes-eng.html#fnb2the > example of the footnotes at the bottom has the link back to the > original footnote appear first, but in the linear order of the code the > ta

Re: [css-d] CSS & footnotes

2012-10-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: But to address the basic problem of recognizing what the link really took the user to, you can do some styling on the :target pseudo-class, e.g. :target { background: #ffd; color: black; border: dotted 1px; } Then it suddenly becomes important how the

Re: [css-d] CSS & footnotes

2012-10-30 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-10-30 20:08, Philip TAYLOR wrote: When an HTML link references an on-page fragment that is near the bottom of the page, the browser (when the link is followed) will display that page fragment as close to the top of the page as it can subject to the more important constraint that the last li

[css-d] CSS & footnotes

2012-10-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR
When an HTML link references an on-page fragment that is near the bottom of the page, the browser (when the link is followed) will display that page fragment as close to the top of the page as it can subject to the more important constraint that the last line of the page content will not be higher

[css-d] explain positioning of this tag

2012-10-30 Thread Angela French
On this page: http://wet-boew.github.com/wet-boew/demos/footnotes/footnotes-eng.html#fnb2 the example of the footnotes at the bottom has the link back to the original footnote appear first, but in the linear order of the code the tag in which the link resides appears last. This is great for a

Re: [css-d] way to style list item number?

2012-10-30 Thread Ben Henick
On 10/30/12 12:18 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: For me, "carriage return" and "return" are as different as chalk and cheese; is there no more appropriate and intuitive symbol generally available ? ...In Unicode, probably so, and likely in the 8193-8448 (U+2001 to U+2200) code position range. In

Re: [css-d] way to style list item number?

2012-10-30 Thread Angela French
Everyone - Thanks for all the ideas. I'll play around with them! >-Original Message- >From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css- >discuss.org] On Behalf Of Jukka K. Korpela >Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:19 AM >To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org >Subject:

Re: [css-d] way to style list item number?

2012-10-30 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2012-10-30 18:36, Angela French wrote: Is there a way (excluding using images for bullets) to style the bullet when it is a number or a letter? Yes. The simplest solution is to wrap it inside a element. Of course, you cannot do that if you use to generate the list, but as soon as we stop t

Re: [css-d] way to style list item number?

2012-10-30 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Ben Henick wrote: Your idea to create return links is more easily - and in my opinion, more intuitively - by trailing each footnote with ↵ and wrapping *that* in a link like so: For me, "carriage return" and "return" are as different as chalk and cheese; is there no more appropriate and int

Re: [css-d] way to style list item number?

2012-10-30 Thread Markus Ernst
Am 30.10.2012 17:36 schrieb Angela French: Is there a way (excluding using images for bullets) to style the bullet when it is a number or a letter? I'm trying to apply css to some footnotes I'm building. The notes themselves appear in a list at the bottom of my page where each list number (an

Re: [css-d] way to style list item number?

2012-10-30 Thread Ben Henick
On 10/30/12 11:36 AM, Angela French wrote: Is there a way (excluding using images for bullets) to style the bullet when it is a number or a letter? I'm trying to apply css to some footnotes I'm building. The notes themselves appear in a list at the bottom of my page where each list number (an

Re: [css-d] way to style list item number?

2012-10-30 Thread Hakan Kirkan
Angela, Can you show us a sample page to better what you are trying to do? Are you trying to style numbers and letters to bullet ? --- Hakan KIRKAN IT Manager http://miamirealestateinc.com Miami/ FL On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Angela French wrote: > Hello, >

[css-d] way to style list item number?

2012-10-30 Thread Angela French
Hello, Is there a way (excluding using images for bullets) to style the bullet when it is a number or a letter? I'm trying to apply css to some footnotes I'm building. The notes themselves appear in a list at the bottom of my page where each list number (an ) corresponds to the footnote number