Re: [css-d] site check please?

2009-05-18 Thread Bill Brown
Chris Blake wrote: > And 'stop the presses' is wrong, 'press' is plural. Uhh, not always, and certainly not when used as Jody is using it: as part of the age old saying: "Stop the presses." This goes way back to the days of the printing press and refers literally to stopping the printing presse

Re: [css-d] PNG alpha transparancy

2009-05-15 Thread Bill Brown
Gunther Van Butsele wrote: > Hi, > > A young webdesigner colleague of mine insists on using PNG's with alpha > transparancy in his designs, mostly because he uses a lot of gradients > and he wants them to flow seamlessly into the other backgrounds. > > Personally, I think it's bad practice to us

Re: [css-d] Image bullets and floated images

2009-05-11 Thread Bill Brown
Stephen Tang wrote: [snipped/] > list item. Is there any way to get the bullet images next to the list > items again? I don't want to jeopardize the text-wrapping either. > http://stephentang.info/floattest/test.html Something like this ought to work for you: ~~~ body, ul, p, li, div {margin:0

Re: [css-d] Fluid Page + Centered 80% Div + Thumbnails

2009-05-07 Thread Bill Brown
Court Kizer wrote: > Here's a screenshot to give you an idea... > > http://courtkizer.com/screenshots/Untitled.png Something like this?: ~~~ http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd'> Gallery /* RESET */ ul,li{list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0;} /* GALLERY */ ul{margin:

Re: [css-d] Hard to achieve pure CSS layout

2009-04-18 Thread Bill Brown
Frederico Caldeira Knabben wrote: > http://www.fckeditor.net/_temp/editor_layout.html > This is a kind of a simple and basic need, and it's a pity to see this CSS > limitation. So, I still have some faith... does anyone there have a > brilliant solution for it? While this layout may be "simp

Re: [css-d] background images

2009-04-14 Thread Bill Brown
Brian Hazelton wrote: > I have been told by a couple people this is off topic, I am not sure how > and to avoid angering eric any more I would like to get a clarification > as to how it is off topic and would like to apologize to everyone if it > is indeed off topic. Thanks I would opine that this

Re: [css-d] :first-word?

2009-04-09 Thread Bill Brown
Climis, Tim wrote: > I've got a newsletter that includes interviews in a Q and A format. > > Usually, there's a question with a "Q:" in front of it, and then an > answer with an "A:". But I just discovered an interview with two > people that goes: "Q:" "Neal:" "Kirsten:" > > My stylesheet curren

Re: [css-d] Acronyms

2009-04-06 Thread Bill Brown
JWN wrote: > CSS > CSS > acronym{ color: navy; more styles;} > You can give different acronyms (NATO, RADAR, CSS) different styles if you > want, but that, I think, is a topic for another post. Just for the record, CSS is an abbreviation , not an acronym. Acronym's are pronounce

Re: [css-d] center float:left

2009-04-02 Thread Bill Brown
AG wrote: > Bill, thanks for your reply. In your suggestion, it appears to me > that if you don't float the li, all links will stack up in the center > of the container. My apologies, I thought that was what you were looking for . ;-) Maybe something like this is better? ul,li{list-sty

Re: [css-d] center float:left

2009-04-02 Thread Bill Brown
AG wrote: > Here's the problem: - building a horizontal tabbed navigation bar [snipped] > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Needs to work in IE6 and all > normal browsers. Something like this? ~~~ [CSS] ul.tabs,ul.tabs li{list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0;} ul.tabs {

Re: [css-d] External Links

2009-04-01 Thread Bill Brown
Chris Akins wrote: > I'm wanting to add indicators for links that leave our site. A little > Googling included this info from MaxDesign: > > > I noticed the 2005 date of the article and just wondered if the info > presented is still considered a good method or is there something > better now? >

Re: [css-d] Middle align?

2009-03-26 Thread Bill Brown
Kim Brooks Wei wrote: > I can't align the logo at the top of the page to the pagenav sitting > to its right. Tried a bunch of things but none of them worked. Is there a link we can use to view the troublesome page? -- __ css-d

Re: [css-d] css3 selectors

2009-03-26 Thread Bill Brown
Climis, Tim wrote: > I'm just curious, is there a css3 selector for previous siblings? > And if there is, how widely supported is it? > > It'd be useful for styling paragraphs that come before (introducing) > lists for instance. None exists, but you could use jQuery to do it: p.p_before_ul {

Re: [css-d] in IE6, 1st level LI in menu expands width on hover (to width of dropdown) -- can you help stop it?

2009-03-19 Thread Bill Brown
Kir Talmage wrote: > I'm using a suckerfish-based nav menu at > http://www.alysonchasestudio.com (doctype is strict) > > In IE6 (but not FF2 or 3, not IE7, not not -- as far as I've tested -- > Safari or Chrome), when I hover over the top-level menu item, it will > expand to accommodate the (wider

Re: [css-d] Firefox is covering the corner of a button with the background of the main div

2009-03-18 Thread Bill Brown
Donald Davis wrote: > I am working on the book Javascript the Missing Manual, by David > McFarland, and I've noticed that during the tutorials, the corner of > the image for a link button is covered by the div for the middle > column. You can download the files at www.sawmac.com/javascript. The

Re: [css-d] Styling fieldset legends

2009-03-17 Thread Bill Brown
Climis, Tim wrote: > I'm trying to get the legend text to drop down to the same baseline > as the label text. But I have no idea how. Firebug isn't giving me > any clues as to the default style that makes it hang out up there > anyway. So I'm not sure what to set. Does anyone have any > experi

Re: [css-d] inline-block ignored by IE6

2009-03-16 Thread Bill Brown
Milano wrote: > Can't you use Title? The tag is depracated [1] and is in many ways an inelegant solution. [^1] http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_u.asp -- __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org

Re: [css-d] inline-block ignored by IE6

2009-03-16 Thread Bill Brown
Geoffrey Hoffman wrote: > I've already had a look at trying to force hasLayout, using zoom: 1 [1], > and other IE6/7 inline-block posts[2] but none seem to work in my case. > > Any suggestions? The display:inline must be in a separate rule for IE. This should do it: ~~~ h1 { border-bott

Re: [css-d] Epileptic DIV jumping in IE on initial page load (disappears after resize)

2009-03-15 Thread Bill Brown
Ramon Felciano wrote: > Hi all -- > > I'm trying to track down the source of an annoying CSS jumping problem > that happens when loading http://www.emmacarlson.com/emmablog/ in IE. > During page load, the left-hand nav jumps back and forth between the > left size and center of the page, and often

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Bill Brown
Ib Jensen wrote: > The "template" should fill a total of 90% of the viewport / screen. > I want the header and footer in the "template" to fill 90% of the > viewport / screen. > The left- and content-column in the "template" should only fill 80% of > the viewport / screen. > I don't know if this cl

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Bill Brown
Bill Brown wrote: > /* FLOAT BEHAVIOR SWITCH FOR IE */ > #page-panel { > display: inline-block; > } > #page-panel { > display: block; > position:relative; > } I lied: remove the position:relative from that last block. That's an artifact

Re: [css-d] Size calculations

2009-03-15 Thread Bill Brown
Ib Jensen wrote: > I want a 2 column design with header and footer, a left nav- and > info-column, and a right content-column. Centered. > Header and footer : 90% > These two columns together: 80% > Left column: 20-25% > Content column : 80-75% > How do I change these measurements to: em Use ems.

Re: [css-d] print style sheet

2009-03-14 Thread Bill Brown
Sandy wrote: > Could you please take a look at something for me? > I have been trying to write a print style sheet for this page, but it > just isn't working. > http://sandyfeldman.com/proposal/nathanieldett/nd_print.css > http://sandyfeldman.com/proposal/nathanieldett/test.php > when I try and pr

Re: [css-d] Menu problem with IE6+7

2009-03-13 Thread Bill Brown
Sh wrote: > Hi, > I have a problem in IE (6+7) when mouse-over the menu where there's a > sub-menu (dreamweaver- spry), It shows a white cell under the sub > menu. > This doesn't show wither in FF, Safari and IE mac. > Any help will be greatly appreciated Ah, SpryMenus. Hate's too strong a word, b

Re: [css-d] 1px jog help

2009-03-11 Thread Bill Brown
rollandburn wrote: > Hi everyone, I have a layout that is falling victim to the 1px jog in > firefox and wonder if there is somebody could lend a hand. The > testing url is http://www.flexcomp.ca.php5-10.websitetestlink.com/ Changing the margin-left to -1px on the body worked for me in Firebu

Re: [css-d] CNNs CSS file

2009-03-02 Thread Bill Brown
Atkinson, Sarah wrote: > I was looking on CNNs site to see what there CSS file looks like > > And they have a grouping of common padding. Just though it was > interesting. What do you guys think? Here is part of it: I guess they can get away with such bad practice because they're CNN. Ever tried

Re: [css-d] nav displaying incorrectly in IE

2009-03-02 Thread Bill Brown
Daniel Hammond wrote: > URL: http://www.studentremix.org > The top navigation (Middle School, High School, Parents) displays > correctly in FF, Safari, and Opera, but IE really messes it up. Internet Explorer doesn't support display:inline-block. Changing this rule should help: #navmenu li {

Re: [css-d] vertical align div

2009-03-02 Thread Bill Brown
designer wrote: > A properly marked up table with 1-row of 3-cells (in this case) is valid > (and accessible) and is the only robust solution I know of for all browsers. > The extremists will complain about table layout of course, but it's a case > of being pragmatic in making the thing work - s

Re: [css-d] FireFox3 - avoiding hacks

2009-02-26 Thread Bill Brown
Tom wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a way to provide CSS files specifically > for FF3, or is that ridiculous hack the only way to go? While I can't imagine a reason for which I would need to target/hack FF3, I've recently moved away from CSS hacks during testing. That doesn't mean my CSS d

Re: [css-d] Is the browser using clientWidth properties to determine the size of a box? (IE)

2009-02-25 Thread Bill Brown
Bastien MOYET wrote: > I have a box A of 300px (div for instance) with the overflow set to > auto, which contains an other box B of 100%. If the height of B is > lesser than A no scrollbar are displayed, which is OK. However if its > height is greater than A, a scrollbar appears, which is still OK.

Re: [css-d] Superscript issues

2009-02-19 Thread Bill Brown
Gene Falck wrote: > You wrote: >> Why do you use a span with a class when you already >> have the html tags for them? Can't you just tell the >> and tags to look the way you wish with >> css instead of making new classes? They are already >> there, and they seem more semantic (maybe not, kinda >>

Re: [css-d] Transparent Rows

2009-02-19 Thread Bill Brown
Kathy Wheeler wrote: > On 19/02/2009, at 1:02 PM, Bill Brown wrote: >>background: rgba(153,153,153,0.5); > Ooooh ... rgba ... I like it. How well supported is the a (alpha)? http://css-tricks.com/rgba-bro

Re: [css-d] (no subject)

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Brown
Casey wrote: > Thanks! That works fairly well. I'm curious, what do "!ie" and the > zoom property do?) It works perfectly in Firefox, but in IE and > Safari, there's some quirk involving vertical alignment. !ie is a CSS filter used to target the MSIE family of browsers and zoom is a Microsoft pro

Re: [css-d] (no subject)

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Brown
Casey wrote: > > ... > ... > ... > > The inner s are all float: left'd. However, when the contents of > the s is too wide for the browser, the line of DIVs break. Is > there a way to prevent this, other than setting a fixed width for the > container ? (Yes, the alignment of the s is crucial.)

Re: [css-d] Transparent Rows

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Brown
Wade Smart wrote: > What I was thinking was doing a transparent effect on each row. > .even { > background-color: #E0E0E0; > opacity:0.5; > filter: alpha(opacity=50); > } > That didnt work so my question is - can this ONLY work on a image and > now on a color? One solution

Re: [css-d] before pseudo element and opera

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Brown
Scott Schumpert wrote: > I'd like to put an rightwards arrow in front of a link and using the > 2192 code it works fine in safari, firefox and my preview in my css > helper. I even added the escaped hexadecimal code for the character > entity. Do you have a link we can reference? This works fine w

Re: [css-d] Styling

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Brown
Casey wrote: > I'm trying to remove the indentation from my element. Text-indent > does not seem to do the trick. Any suggestions? dd{margin:0;padding:0;} -or, more extensively- dl,dt,dd{margin:0;padding:0;} -- __ css-discus

Re: [css-d] margin: 83_qem?

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Brown
Peter-Paul Koch wrote: > I encountered the following CSS declaration: > margin: 83_qem > Does anyone have any idea what kind of unit it is? Apparently it's > used in Safari's internal style sheet > (http://www.accessifyforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=5551), and I saw it > mentioned in Nokia documentation

Re: [css-d] ASP.NET - Tableless Forms

2009-02-17 Thread Bill Brown
christi...@netscape.net wrote: > It seems to be a little-known fact that the W3C actually says that > tables can be used to lay out (actually it says "present") forms. > More info here: http://developer.cmzmedia.com/?p=71 > Yes, tables were not intended to lay out a whole web page but they do

Re: [css-d] Tricky 3-col layout issue

2009-02-06 Thread Bill Brown
>>> http://www.theholiergrail.com/ >> Hmm. Seems to be a work in progress. Using those links on the left >> of the home page brings up a succession of pages with blank content >> this end. (Opera 9.6 on Win xp). ??? > > > In its defense, I've been using the template (downloaded from the site) >

Re: [css-d] IE issue with positioning

2009-01-19 Thread Bill Brown
Jeff Chastain wrote: The issue I am running into is that I have a box which has a fluid width (90% of the page). Within that box, I am attempting to absolutely place another box at the very top, but with a 14px margin on both the left and right side. The following CSS rules work just fine in Fi

Re: [css-d] Global Rules?

2009-01-19 Thread Bill Brown
johny why wrote: can i do something like this?: a.myclass !important { color:blue; width:5em; } Nope thanks You're welcome. ;-) __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d

Re: [css-d] Drop Caps

2009-01-18 Thread Bill Brown
Ron Koster wrote: > ...will it break in some browser or other? For one thing, for example, > I'm not sure why extra padding is needed (or suggested) on two sides of > the drop cap. Ron, I'm just leading horses to the Kool-Aid...I can't make 'em drink it. -- ___

Re: [css-d] Drop Caps

2009-01-18 Thread Bill Brown
Ron Koster wrote: > http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=DropCaps > p:first-letter { > font: 2.5em/80% serif; > float: left; > padding: 0.2ex 0 0 0.2ex; > margin: 0; > overflow: visible; > } > and so I'm just wondering if there's a particular reason why... > a) 2.5em/8

Re: [css-d] css3

2009-01-18 Thread Bill Brown
David Laakso wrote: > Is PC Safari and Chrome rendering (unable to view this end for a lot of > boring reasons): > > 1/ border-radius > 2/ box-shadow > 3/ text-shadow > Tested in XP/VirtualBox on Ubuntu Ibex: Safari and Chrome both appear to reco

Re: [css-d] The CSS Overlords

2009-01-17 Thread Bill Brown
Christie Mason wrote: > I've been very happy that CSS removed the need to have font > declarations littered through the code and being able to change > colors etc from one shared CSS resource, but I'm still not convinced > of the practical usefulness of it for positioning. I've written, erased, re

Re: [css-d] Random padding in firefox...

2009-01-16 Thread Bill Brown
Jerod Venema wrote: > Thanks all for the replies...the overflow: hidden does indeed do the trick, [snip] > ...I'm still playing with it to figure this out... I just sent something like this to the list a while back, so pardon the redundancy, but it seemed to help some folks, so here it is again:

Re: [css-d] Hide labeled link [a rel]

2009-01-16 Thread Bill Brown
> I want to hide all the links labeled rel="tag", maintaining visibility > for the rest of the content. In theory, you could use this attribute selector: a[rel~=tag]{display:none} In practice, IE lte 6 do not support the attribute selector. You could use a javascript solution for the older IEs o

Re: [css-d] Some css questions

2009-01-16 Thread Bill Brown
4css aka deb wrote: > Any help would be so greatly appreciated, there are so many different > layouts out there and I really need to brush up on my skills again. Glad you're feeling better. Your questions cover a broad range of topics and replying to them would require a fairly lengthy email. M

Re: [css-d] Div Overflow Issue

2009-01-15 Thread Bill Brown
Robert Swilley wrote: > Ex. A: http://www.rswilley.com/test/index.html > Ex. B: http://www.rswilley.com/test/index2.html > If you look at example B you will see that this works until the content > overflows. Since #main height is set to 95% it is not growing. This might help (more or less) in Exam

Re: [css-d] Random padding in firefox...

2009-01-15 Thread Bill Brown
David Hucklesby wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:13:37 -0500, Bill Brown wrote: >> Jerod Venema wrote: >>> www.frozenmountain.com, shows the behaviour. If you visit the [snip:collapsing margin explanation] >>> Anyone have any ideas? >> Collapsing Margin Bug. >>

Re: [css-d] Text Position Problem

2009-01-15 Thread Bill Brown
Del Wegener wrote: > http://www.edi-cp.com/homepage_tests/edi-index.shtml > However, in IE 7 the text starts far down the page leaving a large empty > space to the left of the div which will contain the pictures. > What causes this? How do I fix it? My guess is that your div#caption2 element is

Re: [css-d] Random padding in firefox...

2009-01-14 Thread Bill Brown
Jerod Venema wrote: > I've got a weird bug that I can't figure out. Our website, > www.frozenmountain.com, shows the behaviour. If you visit the site, check > out #header. You'll notice that it has a 1px top padding. What's bizarre is, > if you remove the padding, the spacing jumps about an extra 1

Re: [css-d] Dont understand float drop

2009-01-14 Thread Bill Brown
Fiona Hayward wrote: > Ive been trying to work out why I have a float drop in IE6 (but not in IE7, > 5.5, or Firefox (Windows)). > http://www.fionahayward.com/visionprint/untitled2.html Hi Fiona, Looks like you've got something flowing out of one of your column boxes. This fixes it: #left,#con

Re: [css-d] two column data

2009-01-14 Thread Bill Brown
James E. Darfler wrote: > Not quite right for me. The names may not have a corresponding photo and the > photos may not have a corresponding bio. There isn't a one to one here. > > As for keeping the tables, it's what I have been using but I would change to > a more css format if that would work b

Re: [css-d] two column data

2009-01-14 Thread Bill Brown
James E. Darfler wrote: > I am working to change my web site from XHTML Transitional to XHTML Strict > which requires more css. One of my pages was working with the transitional > but gave me 130+ errors when converted. Now the layout is wrong. There > should be two columns, one with the text to th

Re: [css-d] IE pushes up my sidebars

2009-01-13 Thread Bill Brown
> It's not really fair to claim they need to validate if the answer you supply > them is invalid itself. > > Other methods of gaining layout are available, height: 0 in a conditional > comment being one I sometimes you. You can always view the chart on > havingLayout [1] as an example of other met

Re: [css-d] IE pushes up my sidebars

2009-01-13 Thread Bill Brown
John Shepard wrote: > IE pushes up both right and left sidebars on my homepage. > To view, go to: http://earthpedal.com > Anyone have a fix? > > Thanks ahead! > > John Hi John, Try this: #content{zoom:1} Also maybe wanna have a look at validating the source code, which has a few errors. Hope

Re: [css-d] Background

2009-01-13 Thread Bill Brown
Keith Kaiser wrote: > When setting the background in CSS can you set the image width at the > same time? > > Example; > background: #00ff00 url('smiley.gif width:50') no-repeat fixed center; > > Or something like that anyway. > > Thanks. Hi Keith, The short answer is "No, you can't." But t

Re: [css-d] Browsershot alternative

2009-01-13 Thread Bill Brown
>>> I have seen references to browsershot on this list. >>> Is there another similar site? >>> Thanks >>> Del Hi Del, BrowserCam.com - $39.95/month to $89.95/month BrowserShots.org - free BrowsrCamp.com - $19/month - Mac only LitmusApp.com - $49/month CrossBrowserTesting.com - Pay

Re: [css-d] Strangely positioned table

2009-01-11 Thread Bill Brown
Thom Brown wrote: > Can someone have a look at this page for me and let me know what I've done > wrong? The table seems to be going to the right of its container when > viewed in Firefox, Safari or Chrome, but it's fine in Opera and IE. It was > fine before when there was another div above the on

Re: [css-d] Text and image alignment

2009-01-10 Thread Bill Brown
> Does anyone have any suggestions how to correct this? > http://dev.howsmykiddriving.org Hi Tim-- Validate the markup, for starters: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.howsmykiddriving.org%2F Errors in coding, even small ones produce unreliable and unpredictable resul

Re: [css-d] gap under header in IE

2009-01-08 Thread Bill Brown
> There is a small gap of space (about 2px) below the header on this > page in IE: > > http://www.goldendragonhouse.com/specs.html > http://www.goldendragonhouse.com/main.css Hi Anne-- Either of these oughta help: #topboxrightspecs img { display : block } -or- #topboxrightspecs img { vertical-

Re: [css-d] Firefox layout issue, works fine in IE7, Safari etc.

2009-01-08 Thread Bill Brown
Graham Cox wrote: > The header in the page below displays incorrectly in Firefox v3.0.5 and > I'm struggling to work out the cause. > > http://www.ultimatefooterad.com/salespage/index.htm Hi Graham, That's a collapsing margin issue. Adding this: *{margin-top:0} into your style sheet. Can't say

Re: [css-d] question about combining descendant selectors

2009-01-08 Thread Bill Brown
Brett wrote: > I'm wondering if combined selectors have a lower specificity than > non-combined. For example in my stylesheet I have: > > .hm #events_snip .date, .article { color: red; } > .hm #news_snip .date, .article { color: green; } > > On the page the .article class shows up green, even t

Re: [css-d] missing image in IE6, and a menu stacking issue

2009-01-07 Thread Bill Brown
Debbie Campbell wrote: > My absolutely-positioned #challengeBtn link is missing in IE6 but > present in other browsers (the big blue 'Create a Group' button on the > orange bar): > Also, the submenus for the navigation bar are sliding under the content > in IE6/7. I've tried various z-indexes f

Re: [css-d] Line Height IE7 problem with PVII TMM

2009-01-07 Thread Bill Brown
> Thanks for the offer Bill, but we've been around since 1998 and have a very > good handle on things. I can't disagree with your underlying points, but it > does work :-) > > Tree Menu Magic (original release 2001) will soon be upgraded to a more > modern codebase. Prototype here: > http://www

Re: [css-d] Line Height IE7 problem with PVII TMM

2009-01-07 Thread Bill Brown
Virgilio Quilario wrote: > consider using lists instead of divs for menus. > good luck. > virgil Hi Joanne-- I just want to second what Virgil said here. I actually downloaded your page and set about translating the P7M div-heavy code into a more semantic assembly, but I got winded. ;) The P7M

Re: [css-d] Nested lists in columns

2009-01-06 Thread Bill Brown
Hey Dan, Here's the issue on your site: (http://www.calvarygreenmeadow.com/schedule.htm) In order to "capture" the floated elements, we have to alter the way the browsers handle them. Under normal circumstances, floated elements are given special consideration within the document flow. This is

Re: [css-d] 100% height?

2009-01-05 Thread Bill Brown
Aubrey Benasa wrote: > Hi there, > html: http://aubreybenasa.com/height/ > css: http://aubreybenasa.com/height/styles.css > > I can't figure out how to make the the full background-image appear on this > page. When you open the page at a height less than the height of the > background image (810px

Re: [css-d] Nested lists in columns

2009-01-02 Thread Bill Brown
Telecosm wrote: > I fear this may not be possible, but I'd like to have a nested UL display > such that the child elements are displayed alongside their parents. > Here is a link to a working-copy of the code: > http://www.calvarygreenmeadow.com/schedule_new_5.htm > Thanks in advance for your help!

Re: [css-d] Problem with form in IE6 and IE7

2008-11-30 Thread Bill Brown
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > Peter Bradley wrote: > >> I have a form that I can't get to format properly in IE (6 or 7). > > It looks like you are using a definition list for the form fields. In > addition to being illogical, it also causes trouble in styling. The > element may have idiosyncratic

Re: [css-d] how do I get the under the div?

2008-11-25 Thread Bill Brown
Sandy wrote: > After the larger div is closed, there is a followed by a short > paragraph. The shows up on the right of the table of contents > instead of under it. When I try to use a "clear : left" on it, the whole > rest of the content moves way, way down under the menu on the left. > > Ho

Re: [css-d] IE 6 strikes again .....

2008-11-25 Thread Bill Brown
Ambient Glow wrote: > I had a number of CSS issues with IE on this draft page, but, thanks > to Gunlaug's help, most of them are worked out. The page is > displaying fine for in IE7, but client says it is splitting in two and > the navigation is detached in IE 6. > http://ambientglow.com/garage/jf

Re: [css-d] Can't put “ in a blockquote?

2008-11-23 Thread Bill Brown
Peter Bradley wrote: > Thanks to Peter, Benjamin and yourself. English never was my strong point. > Cheers > Peter No worries, mate. Here in America, the same can be said of about 90% of the population...and about me before my morning coffee. Glad it helped. Stay well. --Bill __

Re: [css-d] Can't put “ in a blockquote?

2008-11-23 Thread Bill Brown
Peter Bradley wrote: > Ysgrifennodd Peter Hyde-Smith: >> Peter: >> You may need to wrap each block in a ... or ... , >> >> “I found the teaching of exceptionally high standard.” >> > Neither of those seem to work, either. > I've posted the page to: > http://www.apvx95.dsl.pipex.com/SpanishInten

Re: [css-d] Really need help - white spaces on zoom in using IE and FF

2008-11-17 Thread Bill Brown
talofo talofo wrote: >> You can find a version with all of the code for TheHolierGrail here: >> Link: http://theholiergrail.com/cssd/cantinho-maximal.html >> Size: 3 KB (30 KB uncompressed) >> ...and this version contains only the code you need for your project: >> Link: http://theholiergrail.co

Re: [css-d] IE6 and IE7 Correct, everyone else wrong with negative margins

2008-11-17 Thread Bill Brown
Mark Wheeler wrote: > Yep! That did the trick. I've run into this before, but it was a > while back. What is it about adding the padding that does the trick? > Mark Hi Mark. Glad it helped. Basically, I think when you have an element with no border or padding, the margin looks like this: m m

Re: [css-d] IE6 and IE7 Correct, everyone else wrong with negative margins

2008-11-17 Thread Bill Brown
Mark Wheeler wrote: > http://dev.tonedeafdesign.com/test/test27.html > Any help is greatly appreciated. Hi Mark, You are experiencing collapsing margins, a semi-intended, somewhat troublesome component of CSS design in compliant browsers. Adding a small amount of padding or bordering will genera

Re: [css-d] Really need help - white spaces on zoom in using IE and FF

2008-11-17 Thread Bill Brown
MEM wrote: > http://www.cantinho.org/test6.html > http://www.cantinho.org/css/teste_V6.css > This layout is not an ordinary 3 columns layout with head and footer. He has > to have the ability to change the border line differently on each column, > and the columns height should always be the same an

Re: [css-d] IDs on W3C.org

2008-11-10 Thread Bill Brown
ut if something _might_ be replicated, or _could be_ replicated, I class it, otherwise, I identify it. Hope that makes /some/ sense. --Bill -- ~~~~~~~ Bill Brown, MacNimble.com :: "From dot concept to dot com since 1999"

Re: [css-d] Firefox 3 vs IE7 spacing between links

2008-11-09 Thread Bill Brown
27;t remove the spaces on my IE7/WinXP. The CSS rule I sent through is targeting only the relevant images in his menu, not his entire design. It looks like Keith is using display:block and that seems to solve it. Best, Bill -- ~~~~~

Re: [css-d] Firefox 3 vs IE7 spacing between links

2008-11-09 Thread Bill Brown
and paste content below this line --- #services-subcontainer img {display:block} --- Copy and paste content above this line --- Hope it helps. Bill -- ~~~~~~~ Bill Brown, MacNimble.com :: "From dot concept to dot com since 1999" We

Re: [css-d] Site Check for IE layout issues

2008-11-08 Thread Bill Brown
/xml," but I'm not sure if this is still possible (or even used). Source: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#ie Two other useful questions on that page: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#texthtml http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#mime11 Hope that helps. --Bill -- ~~~

Re: [css-d] Site Check for IE layout issues

2008-11-08 Thread Bill Brown
nefit to using XHTML over well-formed HTML and tend to use this doctype for everything as a consequence: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> It seems to deliver more consistent and predictable results cross-browser. Hope it helps. --Bill -- ~~

Re: [css-d] control td text

2008-11-07 Thread Bill Brown
ag in place for this sort of thing. Hope it helps. Bill -- ~~~ Bill Brown, MacNimble.com :: "From dot concept to dot com since 1999" WebDevelopedia.com, TheHolierGrail.com, Cyber-Sandbox.com, Anytowne.com "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift

Re: [css-d] Suggestion

2008-11-04 Thread Bill Brown
7;m also not going to lose sleep trying to convince you. You're pretty clearly set on having a newsgroup and I think it's a great idea. Let us know how to register for it once you get it going. Just my tooth sense. Bill -- ~~~ Bill Brown, MacNimble.com :: "From dot concept to dot com

Re: [css-d] Sidebar not expanding content div

2008-11-01 Thread Bill Brown
ems. Maybe a fresh pair of eyes... >> >> http://chromacreative.com/testingserver/tritech/site/template.html Maybe this'll help: .pagewrapper #container { overflow: hidden; /* <-- Compliant Browser Float Clearing */ } Best, Bill -- ~~

Re: [css-d] CSS popup windows

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Brown
<!-- google.load("prototype","1.6"); // --> <!-- var set_blank_targets = function () { $$("a[rel='external']").invoke("writeAttribute","target","_blank"); }; Event.observe(document, 'dom:loaded', set_blank_targets);

Re: [css-d] Scalable CSS Buttons That Work in All Browsers

2008-10-21 Thread Bill Brown
/* Set to to 0 for FF3 */ text-align: center; width: auto; overflow: visible;} to get it to work in FF3 on my Ubuntu box. Hope it helps. --Bill -- ~~~~~~~ Bill Brown, MacNimble.com :: "From dot co

Re: [css-d] Scalable CSS Buttons That Work in All Browsers

2008-10-20 Thread Bill Brown
ed, I'll see if I can't dig something else up for you. Best, Bill -- ~~~ Bill Brown, MacNimble.com :: "From dot concept to dot com since 1999" WebDevelopedia.com, TheHolierGrail.com, Cyber-Sandbox.com, Anytowne.com "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rat

[css-d] A Snippet for Testing IE Float Clearing

2008-09-19 Thread Bill Brown
into the URL after the page has loaded. If you're clearing the right container, IE will adjust the layout. Anyway, thought it was interesting, so I'm sending it along in case it helps someone else. Best Regards, Bill -- ~~~~~

Re: [css-d] IE Clearing Bug

2008-09-19 Thread Bill Brown
7;re viewing during development, but visitors to the page won't benefit unless you include a hard-coded hasLayout fix in the CSS. Hope it helps. --Bill -- ~~~ Bill Brown, MacNimble.com :: "From dot concept

Re: [css-d] clearing a CSS float

2008-09-19 Thread Bill Brown
ase, you can leave the IE fix in place, but would need to adjust the fix for other browsers using the :after pseudo element on the UL. Hope it helps. Bill -- ~~~~~~~ Bill Brown, MacNimble.com :: "From dot concept to

Re: [css-d] workaround to inherited opacity

2008-09-18 Thread Bill Brown
Al Sparber wrote: > From: "Bill Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Not good. Whenever you expose IE7 to a filter you kill font-smoothing. > That's a showstopper. Best to go purely with PNGs for IE7 and forget about > older browsers in the name of progressive enhancemen

Re: [css-d] workaround to inherited opacity

2008-09-18 Thread Bill Brown
h it: http://www.webdevelopedia.com/better_opacity.html and http://theholiergrail.com/sandbox/rgba-cross-browser.php Hope it helps. --Bill -- ~~~ Bill Brown, MacNimble.com :: "From dot concept to dot com since 1999" WebDeveloped

Re: [css-d] just using CSS, can I center a sentence both horizontally and vertically in a window (viewport)

2008-09-16 Thread Bill Brown
> Opera 9.25 Yes > Firefox 3 Yes Simple fix added to support hcenter for IE5.5 (which should also fix 5.01). Thanks, Martin! -- ~~~ Bill Brown, MacNimble.com :: "From dot concept to dot com since 1999" WebDevel

Re: [css-d] just using CSS, can I center a sentence both horizontally and vertically in a window (viewport)

2008-09-16 Thread Bill Brown
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > On Sep 16, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Bill Brown wrote: > >> http://www.webdevelopedia.com/vertical_centering_unknown_height.html > > That can't work correctly on IE 7, as far as can tell. > That browser supports selectors of the type #vc-fra

Re: [css-d] IE/6 & IE/7 nav line-height

2008-08-29 Thread Bill Brown
t find a work-around beyond specifying the line-height in pixels as you'd done. Hope it helps. --Bill -- ~~~ TheHolierGrail.com | MacNimble.com | Cyber-Sandbox.com | Anytowne.com Bill Brown, Web Developer - "From dot

Re: [css-d] Any IE8 news?

2008-08-27 Thread Bill Brown
.com | MacNimble.com | Cyber-Sandbox.com | Anytowne.com Bill Brown, Web Developer - "From dot concept to dot com since 1999" "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has for

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