Re: [css-d] CSS validation error in Line 1

2005-07-17 Thread Andrew Clover
all CSS encoding issues, use plain ASCII with backslash-escapes for any special characters. -- Andrew Clover mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.doxdesk.com/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mai

Re: [css-d] Help with overlap background image in IE

2005-07-08 Thread Andrew Clover
n unexpected places. Try removing the default top and bottom margins from the s and s you've got inside your boxes. Using padding instead of vertical margins means you don't have to think about the strangenesses of margin collapsing and IE's typically quirky version of it. -- An

Re: [css-d] How to add Unicode chars with CSS 'content' property?

2005-07-08 Thread Andrew Clover
t issues by just using only ASCII characters. You can put out-of-set characters in a CSS string using a backslash escape: content: '\2018 hello \2019 '; means 'hello' in smart quotes (no spaces). IE5/Win does not understand backslash escapes. But then IE/W

Re: [css-d] Flexible (minimal) width. How to make compliant browsers misbehave like IE ?

2005-06-18 Thread Andrew Clover
xt (+padding) but no wider? If you want to get shrink-to-fit elements on browsers that don't support CSS 2.1/auto-width-float, the only other documented way is a table (with table-layout: auto, the default). Which probably wouldn't be much use with positioned menus. -- Andrew

Re: [css-d] Div inside another div not sizing correctly in IE?

2005-06-18 Thread Andrew Clover
I make IE to also keep the inner red div at 100% of its parent div size? Put the inner red div in the same table cell as the long (unwrappable) content. Forget about 'display: table' for the moment, it doesn't work well enough cross-browser yet.

Re: [css-d] more on the [/*IE*/ hack

2005-06-18 Thread Andrew Clover
but CSS does not allow you to arbitrarily insert square brackets into the middle of a ruleset. -- Andrew Clover mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.doxdesk.com/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailma