On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:58 PM, David Terrell wrote:
>
> --- Arlen Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't it have been simpler all around to just use
>> the header image
>> as a background, and put the menu inside the header
>> div? Use of
>
On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:46 PM, christopher wrote:
> I've got a question about a layout I'm doing in which I
> keep getting the background color poking out between
> the images I'm using. I'm not sure why this is, and
> it's only in Internet Explorer (opera and firefox
> display it with out this). I
On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:33 PM, David Terrell wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have an issue with a negative margin in IE. I have
> this site set up so that the navigation falls back on
> top of the header as seen in this capture:
Wouldn't it have been simpler all around to just use the header image
as
On Feb 22, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Rick Faircloth wrote:
> However, I've been wondering lately, if I shouldn't code the HTML
> content,
> without any design applied, then start applying design.
Yep. Andy Clarke, "Transcending CSS" is a terrific book espousing this.
Have Fun,
Arlen
On Feb 20, 2008, at 4:31 AM, Nick Mavros wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the html is this :
>
> Title subtitle
Does it have to be?
If not, style the typography the same for the link as the title, then
put the link first and float it right.
Have Fun,
Arlen
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In God we trust, a
Noted something interesting:
Floats appear to affect text alignment but not background alignment.
A p to the right of a floated box has centered background and text-
align: center text. The two do not line up.
Can use a variant of the old "margin: 0 auto" to line the text and
background up, b
On Feb 13, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Ken Davies wrote:
> I am probably asking it wrong but I am asking. Possibly a repeat
> post as
> I had html setting on email, sorry.
> Please review and advise.
> I have tried using h4, or p for a line of text below the banner
> separating the menu and gallery. Li
On Feb 7, 2008, at 6:32 PM, Kathy Wheeler wrote:
> My question is - do these (and other) rather handy (and annoyingly
> deprecated) HTML attributes have a CSS equivalent?
It's called counters.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/generate.html#counters
http://www.arraystudio.com/as-workshop/make-ol-li
On Feb 7, 2008, at 3:50 AM, Lee Bettridge wrote:
> Is their a better way of doing it than this ?
Oh great googily-moogily yes.
CSS
html { text-align: center; }
body { width: 800px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; text-
align: left; }
(Why use a wrapper div when you have one built in to
On Feb 2, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Ken Davies wrote:
> I will be trying to see what this does with some adjustments,
> thanks but please clarify
> you show #banner each line. Is there a reason other than MY future
> reference?
Specificity. I wanted to only affect an img in the div id'ed as banner:
> I sent that 5 hours ago. I want to end up with a very similar look
> but
> expanding to fit the window, not fixed width.
Then change the CSS I posted. Maybe something like width:100% or
width:95% and add some margins. Whatever you want to see.
Have Fun,
Arlen
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On Feb 1, 2008, at 6:11 AM, Ken Davies wrote:
> Original site http://www.equestrian-jewelry.com/index.htm -
> Right now
> I am just worried about the top banner.
Off the cuff, here's the approach I'd take to the banner. I've done
no testing on it, apart from Safari and Firefox, so it's no
On Jan 30, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Kenoli Oleari wrote:
> I would like it if these divs
> caused the outer div to expand as they expand.
Can't be done solely in CSS, unless you know for sure which of the
divs will be longest.
The only reliable solution is javascript. Look up Inman Positioning
an
On Jan 23, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Geoffrey Hoffman wrote:
> #outer { border:4px solid red; }
> #outer a { color:red; }
> .inner { border:4px solid green; }
> .inner a { color:green; }
The why has been answered well, but let me chime in. If you want it
green, simply replace
.inner { border:4px sol
Just wanted to thank Ian, Georg, and David for the help. Through
their information I was able to make the most of my time in front of
the borrowed IE7 test machine (no doubt about it, I'm going to have
to get one for myself which means I'll finally have to upgrade off of
Win2K in my test la
On Feb 23, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Ian Young wrote:
> Just checked the site on another PC with IE6. On first load the
> site is Ok,
> menus work, except "preferences".
>
> On clicking on a menu, the font on the menus reduce in size.
> Refreshing the
> page results in the page starting normal size
I seem to be triggering a text size bug in IE7. I don't have a copy
of 7 yet, but when I went to a test machine to view the site, all the
text was microscopic.
The markup is XHTML 1.0 strict and validates as such.
The CSS has validation errors on lines 230, 239, 704 and 705. The
latter two a
I've been wracking my brain: Is there any way a CSS selector can pick
up on the accesskey assigned to a link to style it differently?
Have Fun,
Arlen
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In God we trust, all others must supply data
On Oct 31, 2006, at 5:44 AM, Barney Carroll wrote:
> I can't really imagine this, but this is because I used to use tables
> all the time. I can't imagine how they could be so frustrating
> though -
> and there is a lot of (respected) work around the net helping people
> constrained to div-base
On Oct 27, 2006, at 3:17 AM, Ross Hulford wrote:
> what is the correct way to change the ul properties without
> effecting other properties.
I'll assume you meant to use the id "nav" instead of "mylist" on the
ul. Most of what you have here will do it, but it depends on other
circumstances
On Oct 26, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Css Discuss wrote:
> I could easily just build for standards compliant browsers.
You do understand that the total market share for standards-compliant
browsers is well under 20% (the real picky ones would say under 1%),
don't you?
Have Fun,
Arlen
-
On Oct 25, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
> A:hover,#myelement { color: #FFF }
>
> But every other element on the page got selected.
Depends on the markup. If the link you're hovering over has the id
myelement, try:
a#myelement:hover
Have Fun,
Arlen
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On Oct 24, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Css Discuss wrote:
> What do YOU (plural) do?
>
> Do you say, "I'm sticking ot standards, piss on your browser if it
> doesn't
> look good!"?
Nope.
> Do you make your pages simple so that there's flexability in the
> design, so
> that browsers don't notice the d
On Oct 18, 2006, at 8:32 AM, frances wrote:
> Does anyone know of experienced css users creating or suggesting
> naming
> standards for classes and IDs?
I *never* put style information in the ID/class name. that means when
the time comes to rework the site, I can rework the style without
h
On Oct 13, 2006, at 4:40 PM, Austin, Darrel wrote:
>> Is there a way in CSS to turn a single space after a
>> period into a double space - without using (the no
>> break HTML code)? The drawback to using , besides
>> having to type it in, is that if a sentence in the middle of
>> a parag
On Sep 5, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Theresa Mesa wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Doesn't add much to the weight of the page and saves me a world of
> trouble.
I meet you halfway on that. I only comment the end. (The beginning is
already labeled.)
Have Fun,
Arlen
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In Go
On Aug 20, 2006, at 3:06 AM, Leo Ingson wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:48:15 +0400 Kimathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hello, I am new to CSS. We have CMS (Content Management System). It
>> uses a lot of HTML tables to lay out design. For example, navigation
>> menu on the right is placed
On Mar 5, 2006, at 1:11 AM, Paul Novitski wrote:
> 2) declare them both inline:
>
> dt,
> dd
> {
> display: inline;
> }
I just went through this on the page I've been pestering folks in
vain about. By itself, this doesn't work. By defining both as in-
line, you're forced to either ad
Running into YAIEB (Yet Another IE Bug).
URL: http://uscf.arachnidae.com/tla/tlaworkcsg2.html
Styleswitcher buttons across the top. To simplify matters only the
last three are hooked up.
Columns - displays in green
Columns (HC) displays in monochrome
Reg. Form displays a printable registration
On Feb 25, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Arlen Walker wrote:
> 1) In IE, the print forces a page break before the #sections div
> begins, distributing the earlier material along the page vertically
> in what appears to be an attempt to use the whole page. All other
> browsers don't p
On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:36 PM, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:02:57 +0800, Arlen Walker
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> http://uscf.arachnidae.com/tla/tlaworkcsg2.html
>>
>> 2) Note the corny buttons across the top for the styleswitching.
On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:18 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:
>> Now:
>>
>> 1) In Opera 8.5.1 (Mac) load one of the color styles and do a print
>> preview. Note how the minty green page background color is there.
>> Then note how all the colors in the print stylesheet are either #000,
>> #FFF, or #999
Scratching my head over this:
http://uscf.arachnidae.com/tla/tlaworkcsg2.html
View the page in Firefox or Safari for what it's supposed to look
like. Load one of the color styles and do a print preview to see what
the printed sheet should look like.
Now:
1) In Opera 8.5.1 (Mac) load one of
OK, here's the current idea:
page header
multiple columns of material
page footer
The idea is that the "executive summary" of an entry is in the
header, the multiple column area contains information specific to
sections of the entry, and the footer wraps it up with the less
important info
On Oct 20, 2005, at 10:12 AM, Lisa Hoppes wrote:
Should I bag the dl altogether and use a different method?
Yes, please. Tag the form elements properly and use CSS to style them
the way you need them is better than trying to fool the browser into
doing it by claiming they're something els
On Oct 18, 2005, at 3:18 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
Arlen Walker wrote:
http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=199715
I can't explain what Browsercam tells you, but I can say that on
Safari 1.0.2 none of them work well. In fact all but #5 are hopeless,
while #5 has a si
On Oct 18, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote:
Not one of the layouts works in Safari 1.3.
Really? So please explain this to me:
http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=199715
I can't explain what Browsercam tells you, but I can say that on
Safari 1.0.2 none of them work wel
On Oct 17, 2005, at 8:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
\IE for MAC is a AWFUL browser. And therefore is no longer being
developed.
Just a factual correction: IE/Mac is an "awful" browser because it is
no longer being developed.
The cynical side of me says the IE/Mac team paid the price f
On Oct 15, 2005, at 1:00 PM, Holly Bergevin wrote:
I believe your description is exactly what the specs describe about
collapsing margins, quoted below -
"In this specification, the expression collapsing margins means
that adjoining margins >(no padding or border areas separate
them)
On Oct 14, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:
Arlen Walker wrote:
Love to have someone explain why sometime,...
FWIW: it's not a browser-bug. It's a part of the W3C CSS2 standard,
that
often results in 'complete nonsense'!
<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/box.
On Oct 14, 2005, at 12:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have head alot about DOM and DOM inspectors. I have also played
around with Fire Fox and looked throughout the DOM interface, but I
am still not qute sure of the benefit of it and if it has anything
to do with CSS although I can see
On Oct 14, 2005, at 11:47 AM, Akins, Chris wrote:
The first page looks the way I want, but I don't understand the WHY
behind
my CSS. I figured it out by just playing with padding and margins
on the
#overview h2 tag, but have no idea WHY I need the h2 rule there.
It's even freakier. Follo
On Oct 14, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Andrew Gregory wrote:
I thought the recent IEBlog announcing "the end" of CSS hacks just
as I was applying the finishing touches to the script a little freaky.
Read it, didn't think much of it. As long as IE refuses to support
standards, hacks will be needed.
On Oct 14, 2005, at 7:45 AM, Christopher Brown wrote:
I'd like a second opinion on this -- the style sheet is 89KB. Is that
overly large? Is there a way to tell how long it takes to load?
Lots of ways to guess. And yes, it's quite large.
I believe I can break it into (more or less) 10KB ch
On Oct 12, 2005, at 4:07 AM, Jørgen Farum Jensen wrote:
Derek de Jong wrote:
Internet Explorer is including the margin *inside the box width*,
while
This is what I did'nt know.
Just as well you didn't, as it's incorrect. IE5's broken box model
included padding and border in the widt
On Sep 25, 2005, at 7:53 PM, Jeff Chastain wrote:
What are you referring to here? I have looked through this page
and I must
be missing what you are seeing.
Christian pointed you to a list of table stylings, none of which
really apply to your situation as I understand it. The way I
und
On Sep 25, 2005, at 2:26 PM, Jeff Chastain wrote:
What I would like to do is simply set the text alignment where the
first
cell is left justified and the last three cells are right
justified. Is
there a way to reference these table cells differently without a
specific id
tag on them?
Y
On Sep 22, 2005, at 3:08 PM, Ian Skinner wrote:
I have my copy, but have yet had the chance to read it, so I can
only comment that it exists and had decent review on Amazon.
I've read it, repeatedly. I can generally recommend anything with
Molly's name on it, but this one is even better th
On Jul 19, 2005, at 4:14 AM, designer wrote:
Since so much of the web is about the presentation of text I feel
sure there must be a book . . .
Web Type Expert is the best book I know of dedicated to typography on
the web. It's no better than mediocre on the subject, but the rest
are wors
On Jul 15, 2005, at 8:23 PM, Sean Montgomery wrote:
With a theme that I am working on, I am generating images
out of my headings using php. I could put the h tag in there and then
define the display as none. But will a search engine or non visual
device catch this as a heading?
Yes. Image r
On Jul 15, 2005, at 3:42 PM, Sean Montgomery wrote:
So what is wrong with using divs and spans? To me they are a far
better container than the others for the reasons stated above. Just
my 2 cents.
a) There's nothing "wrong" with it per se. To me they're just a
confusing; they supply no in
On Jul 14, 2005, at 6:05 AM, victor NOAGBODJI wrote:
I did a #sideBox { float: left; clear: left; } and it worked.
Now I do #sideBox { float: left } ... id="sideBox">. and it works also.
What is the difference, which is better?
First method: Place sideBox on the left edge, belo
On Jul 14, 2005, at 6:01 AM, victor NOAGBODJI wrote:
Hello,
AFAIK, DIVs are to section a page (maybe I'm wrong, as i'm still a
beginner). When learning CSS I use to write things like this:
My Title
One day, I has been told that this is bad, according to web
standard accessibility (or some
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