Re: [css-d] why margin-top/bottom don't work for span class?

2006-10-18 Thread Alex Bienz
Hi, this is not the first time I have the similar problem that the margin top and bottom have no effect for inline span class. http://project.lotusseedsdesign.com/sh1/follows-1018-span.html for the above page, I declared "margin-left: 30px;margin-top: 500px; " for the following span class, a

Re: [css-d] changing backgrounds in list items

2006-09-13 Thread Alex Bienz
>Thank you all for the various suggestions. >It seems that the straight-forward approach is the way to go: >simply add extra classes or id's for each of the elements. >I implemented it, and it works perfectly. >One question: why would I prefer 'id' over 'class' selectors? ID's should be used t

Re: [css-d] piping bullets into lists

2006-09-12 Thread Alex Bienz
>Is there a way to tell the lists to use the pipe symbol "|" as a bullet in >an unordered list? No, but you can use a border on the LI element instead. Hope this helps. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.o

Re: [css-d] Weird form-behaviour in Firefox

2006-09-06 Thread Alex Bienz
With the Firebug extension, I get the following error when I click on the input box in the header. [Exception... "'Permission denied to set property XULElement.selectedIndex' when calling method: [nsIAutoCompletePopup::selectedIndex]" nsresult: "0x8057001e (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)" location:

Re: [css-d] div to fit content - safari / ff

2006-08-17 Thread Alex Bienz
Hi Ross, It sounds like you have floated content inside your containing DIV, IE incorrectly expands to contain floated elemts that haven't been cleared, so you can try try floating your containing DIV or add something at the end of the content inside your floating DIV that will clear your floats.