Re: [css-d] CSS Search form

2013-02-28 Thread Blake Haswell
Check out this quick example I put together: https://gist.github.com/blakehaswell/5055785 -- Blake Haswell http://simpleweb.com.au/ Anthony wrote: What is the best way to implement a search as below using css? If someone could post a link of an example in action that would be great. http

Re: [css-d] Zebra Stripes effect with CSS and jQuery

2013-01-16 Thread Blake Haswell
Or CSS: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/css3-zebra-striping-a-table/ -- Blake Haswell http://simpleweb.com.au/ Tedd Sperling wrote: On Jan 13, 2013, at 10:12 PM, Anthony wrote: The zebra stripes effect doesn't work... Did you know you could do that with php? Here's an exam

Re: [css-d] Zebra Stripes effect with CSS and jQuery

2013-01-13 Thread Blake Haswell
Anthony wrote: What am I missing? A link? It's hard to tell what the problem is from that code snippet. -- Blake Haswell http://simpleweb.com.au/ __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/ma

[css-d] Flexible inside inside a wide div

2012-02-01 Thread Chris Blake
Hello CSS Discuss, I have a 1920 wide div containing an image slide show. Inside that div are the controls. At the moment they sit in a 940px wide container, but i want the 'previous' and 'next' buttons to float either side of the browser. Fixed does this but I don't want them to stick wh

[css-d] Multiple webfonts

2011-07-09 Thread Chris Blake
Hey, I am making a website that will be in two languages, English and Chinese. I am going to use my own webfonts but the font I am using for the English side doesn't have Chinese variations. I have found another font for the Chinese and was wondering if I can have more than one custom fon

Re: [css-d] Making A Link Disappear When Revisited By A Reader

2011-06-10 Thread Chris Blake
(it would just grow out of the viewable area and be clipped). I think you would have to also position it and lay it on a higher layer to hide it. On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Chris Blake wrote: Hi, Just an idea, but might be a bit far fetched: The link you don't want needs

Re: [css-d] Making A Link Disappear When Revisited By A Reader

2011-06-10 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, Just an idea, but might be a bit far fetched: The link you don't want needs to be visible at the start, and then after another link is clicked to disappear. I think that if both links were in a div with a set width and height you could change the CSS for the 'visited' link to increase

[css-d] Fwd: Trying to find active state

2011-05-25 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, http://blakeys.com/index.php/profile I would like the current / active title to be a colour. I have managed to find the tag to make hover work: #page div.whitespace div.yoo-accordion dt span.header-r:hover{ color: red; } but :active doesn't seem to work. Any ideas? Thanks, Chris

Re: [css-d] Stop supporting IE 6 and 7

2011-03-15 Thread Chris Blake
"I do not want to respond to the flames of someone who claims to be THE professional" Are you talking to me? I didn't claim to be anything Ms. hypocrite 2006. You cause offence and then say 'your only point is..' and 'final point', signed with a smiley face. Does that mean I should ignore yo

Re: [css-d] Stop supporting IE 6 and 7

2011-03-15 Thread Chris Blake
On 16/03/2011, at 1:08 AM, Markus Ernst wrote: Am 15.03.2011 17:14 schrieb Gabriele Romanato: With the final release of IE 9 and the good work behind IE 8, I think it's time to move on: http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2011/03/stop-supporting-ie-6-and-7.html I don't want to read other mails abou

Re: [css-d] browser check

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Blake
- the entire image and navigation magnify and reduce together. Yeh that bits cool. I went to one of the gallery pages - there no loader and it was quite a wait for the first large image. Whilst waiting the border does not sit where it should be, it is up and behind the thumbs. I would have

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Blake
On 12/02/2011, at 6:02 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: Though Chris *may* have sounded a bit curt (email is notorious for not conveying tone), it's fair for others to assume that your issue may be *because* of invalid code. Not the other way around. I agree, he wasn't being nasty. It's just standar

[css-d] browser testing, and redirect.

2010-12-25 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, http://www.emw8.com/ Is a new design and web-dev business/website I am making that specialises in multi-lingual and localised content. I'm based in China so I want to make my site fully translated (by people not machines) in English and Chinese. I'm getting on top of that bit, but when

Re: [css-d] Is blocking ads OK for web developers?

2010-11-04 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I use mac mail and there is a warning along with this email. It says 'unable to verify message signature'. I have never seen this before. I don't like it, and it makes me a bit uneasy. Off topic. but my penny's worth. Pop ups are intrusive, so I have 'block pup up windows' turned on.

[css-d] lots of validation errors, tables, and other things that we just love!

2010-11-02 Thread Chris Blake
Hey, I have just been handed this: http://wolves.redrunner.co.uk/ The creator has used a template that has since been removed from the place he got it from. I'm trying to save it rather than rebuild it from scratch. Firstly the validation errors seem to be mainly to do with doctype. Any ide

Re: [css-d] How to make the background wrap around the image?

2010-09-29 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I copied the code into my editor and redered it. It's abit hard to see what you're trying to do. Can you explain a bit more.. is it for a header? Could you replace the dummy content with somethig a bit more meaningful because the text over the image, and text next to it is that same s

[css-d] the other list

2010-09-27 Thread Chris Blake
what's the name/link to the other list that some members use for all question regarding web-devm not solely CSS? Mu questions are about developing multi-lingual sites and SEO for foreign search engines (China and HK mainly). ty, cb _

Re: [css-d] Capitalize

2010-09-26 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, i am not too fussed about the title transforming because I can just enter that manually as UC. However I dropped it in so that the question had something to do with CSS. From people's answers about the URL being UC it seems that it's just a bad idea - so I'll just have to go normal.

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-26 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I am basically using EMW8 as the company name. I'd rather do away with the 8, but some sod is just sitting on the domain. to make it be less important I want to make it superscript throughout the website whenever name dropping. So in this instance should I make a span, setting lower t

Re: [css-d] Capitalize

2010-09-25 Thread Chris Blake
On 25/09/2010, at 9:13 PM, Kate wrote: It seems: Officially Google it doesn’t care about the case: http://www.searchenginejournal com/page-title-in-all-caps/10846/#ixzz10Xw5kOAI 52% thinks 'it makes the site stand out', I chose 'It is associated with spam ' and good lord, 82% think same a

[css-d] Capitalize

2010-09-25 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, Hopefully this is anew one for the list - kind of in two parts and the first being CSS based the second not so much :) 1. Can I use text-transform on the 'this' to 'THIS' 2. And what I really want to know, sneaky, is can I make it so the my URL always appears in caps? I have emw8.com a

Re: [css-d] Can i vertically centre a UL?

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Blake
39 AM, Climis, Tim wrote: -Original Message- From: Chris Blake [mailto:ch...@3pointdesign.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 3:41 PM To: Climis, Tim Subject: Re: [css-d] Can i vertically centre a UL? change the selector from ".level3" to "#menu ul.level3", a

Re: [css-d] Can i vertically centre a UL?

2010-09-15 Thread Chris Blake
On 16/09/2010, at 1:38 AM, Climis, Tim wrote: I have got over my fear of sending a ink to the site so you can see that it's level 3, from the websites drop down that could be improved by centering vertically. http://blakeys.com/ /* this is the box that actually lays out the interior of le

Re: [css-d] Can i vertically centre a UL?

2010-09-15 Thread Chris Blake
tell if this is what was desired or not Regards, Gaurav On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Chris Blake wrote: Hi, I have a unordered list sitting in a div. I'd like it to sit right in the middle both vertically and horizontally without using padding or anything like that be

Re: [css-d] Can i vertically centre a UL?

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Blake
whizz-bang-blammo align centered vertically. Brilliant!!! But sadly not. If you, or anyone is till interested in helping in the next 30-45 mins then reply to me (don't click 'reply all') and I will put the site live and send you the link. Be warned this CMS template creates a whole lo

Re: [css-d] Sidebar disabling navigation in center section

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, Sorry, that wasn't very clear. Your CSS for for the nav column should just be this: #navigation { float:right; min-height:553px; padding-right:20px; } Check ur validation errors too: http://validator.w3.org Cheers, CB On 15/09/2010, at 7:31 AM, Chris Blake wrote: Hi,

Re: [css-d] Sidebar disabling navigation in center section

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, It's because of you layout. The padding for the navigation is covering the entire main content making it impossible to highlight any text let alone click a link. It can be fixed though: Remove from #naviagtion: position: absolute top: xxpx padding-left fixed it for me in firebug anywa

Re: [css-d] Can i vertically centre a UL?

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Blake
On 15/09/2010, at 6:30 AM, Boray ERIS wrote: Do you have the site live? Kind of, it's a CMS website that I am developing but I'm sort of hiding it from the world until the right time. Sorry, I know I should post a link. _

Re: [css-d] Can i vertically centre a UL?

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Blake
Given: I think div {position: relative}; ul { position: absolute; top: 50%; height: 5em; margin-top: -2.5em; } does it. Or does the div need a height too? Okay, in this case it would, since there's nothing *in* the div, but in a similar case, where the div has other contents to gi

[css-d] Can i vertically centre a UL?

2010-09-14 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I have a unordered list sitting in a div. I'd like it to sit right in the middle both vertically and horizontally without using padding or anything like that because it's dynamically fed. is there such a way using CSS? Cheers, CB *the lists been kinda quiet recently __

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: List Moving (was: Re: List Options)

2010-08-29 Thread Chris Blake
Thanks, you guys n' gals are great. \ TY,CB On 30/08/2010, at 1:53 AM, Dean Mah wrote: Hello, We are currently in the process of moving the css-d list to another server. You may notice some flakiness as the new DNS information propagates. The new IP address of css-discuss.org and lists.css

Re: [css-d] Can CSS get me out of the stone age?

2010-08-26 Thread Chris Blake
http://www.coastalind.com/ciordersample.html Does anyone have any suggested CSS coding that would streamline this page? Not really, no. CSS cannot be used to reduce *content*, only to style it. Your issue is one of markup - how best to represent thousands of items in a form - and, thus,

Re: [css-d] is this list still alive?

2010-08-22 Thread Chris Blake
The list is soo good nobody needs help anymore :-D On 22/08/2010, at 2:33 PM, david wrote: > Francesco wrote: >> I used to get 50 messages a day from here. Where is everyone? > > Well, including your message and the ones I haven't looked at this > evening, there are 14. > > Your email made it

Re: [css-d] Hide current page link

2010-08-16 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, > CSS does not "know" anything about > a link pointing to the page itself. What about a:active and/or a:current? I'm uncertain but a:hover works in style sheets without having to add an ID or class of 'hover' to the links so maybe it's the same with the former two. Then perhaps} display:

Re: [css-d] Simple menu bar

2010-08-07 Thread Blake
e to use for creating centred menus: http://blakehaswell.tumblr.com/post/920625293/create-a-simple-horizontally-centred-menu Hope that helps. -- Blake Haswell http://www.blakehaswell.com/ | Twitter: @haswell00 __ css-discuss [cs.

Re: [css-d] new website - critics welcome

2010-07-22 Thread Chris Blake
On 22/07/2010, at 10:40 PM, Climis, Tim wrote: >> i'd be more than greatful for any kind of ctiticism. > > It'd be nice if there was some kind of clue that there are links on > the first page. I don't know that most people will discover that a > few random letters produce hover effects.

Re: [css-d] new website - critics welcome

2010-07-22 Thread Chris Blake
mac, safari 5 - it's all good. I think it's really cool and unique! On 22/07/2010, at 9:09 PM, tomo jacobson wrote: > hi, > > i'm an amateur. i haven't done any website since early high-school... > > anyway this is what i achieved (can't post the link, sorry...): > > tomojacobson.art.pl/strona

[css-d] article on fonts

2010-07-20 Thread Chris Blake
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10689931 might be of interest to some. I find it interesting when they say 'helvetica = cheap' and that the BBC are using Arial and that there was someone on here saying that arial is harder to read, but OK in menus. I wish there was a set rule and more rea

Re: [css-d] CSS IDs and class selectors: details

2010-07-20 Thread Chris Blake
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - but I was after an Aston Martin. :-D On 20/07/2010, at 4:26 PM, Gabriele Romanato wrote: > Hi! > Today's my birthday. Here's a gift for you: > > http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2010/07/css-id-and-class-selectors-details.html > > HTH ^^/ > > Gabriele Romanato > > http://www.css-

Re: [css-d] ID vs. Class [solved]

2010-07-19 Thread Chris Blake
On 20/07/2010, at 11:32 AM, Claude Needham wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Chris Blake > wrote: >> Really for this because it is only appearing once for now I should >> use >> ID - but there's a good chance I may use it again later on this >&g

Re: [css-d] ID vs. Class

2010-07-19 Thread Chris Blake
On 20/07/2010, at 11:06 AM, Beth Lee wrote: > -Original Message- > From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org > [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Chris Blake > Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 8:50 PM > To: css discuss discuss > Subject: [css-d] ID

[css-d] ID vs. Class

2010-07-19 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I understand the difference between class and ID to a basic level. I am adding a #div but I may want to add another later. Therefore I should use class but what is the danger if I use a class - is it slower, does something cache that may not if it's an ID - what's the real difference o

Re: [css-d] background image - repeat, flip horizontal and vertically

2010-07-13 Thread Chris Blake
ed by Safari, there is a firefox one (-mozilla blah blah blah) but I couldn't get it to work. It'll need javascript but I couldn't even find an answer with that that didn't involve adding wrappers, even tables!. Case closed :-( BR, CB On 13/07/2010, at 5:22 PM, Chris B

[css-d] background image - repeat, flip horizontal and vertically

2010-07-13 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, Ok I have an image for my background. It's repeating but because it's not a tiling pattern it looks odd if you are zoomed out so far that you can't see it. One option could be to remove the repeating and have some kind of effect, e.g. gradient, that dissolves the image into a suitable

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

2010-07-13 Thread Chris Blake
On 13/07/2010, at 6:38 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > > > Michael Adams wrote: > >> Would it help to create a page with all the Unicode chars in the >> range you are >> using and ask who can see how many based on font selections on a per >> paragraph basis. For *my* Linux "Nimbus

Re: [css-d] Fonts, fall-backs & Unicode

2010-07-13 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, What about using CSS3 web fonts http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator ? Upload the font you want, it will generate all the different types, link to them using the @fontface thing and bingo - they don't need that font on their system. or am I dreadfully mistaken? BR, CB On 1

Re: [css-d] browser reports please [blakeys]

2010-07-13 Thread Chris Blake
run into a new problem! Lovin' web design :D Thanks, CB On 13/07/2010, at 2:53 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/07/13 13:52 (GMT+0800) Chris Blake composed: > >> 2. 'line-height set in pixels' - what should I use? It's a menu >> rather >> than a

Re: [css-d] browser reports please

2010-07-12 Thread Chris Blake
> > > I did not look at the demo. > With regard to your page, setting type in pixels is not a good idea. > In > general, the culprits as far as type is concerned, is setting fonts > with > line-height set in pixels, and hard-coding a height on blocks > containing > text-type. Just for ki

Re: [css-d] browser check pls -- intermittent problem in ie8

2010-07-12 Thread Chris Blake
On 13/07/2010, at 11:50 AM, snak detek+0r wrote: > Intermittent is generous, actually. My client was browsing in ie8 at > 75% > zoom, and saw the problem pictured here > > http://bit.ly/cxZRUU > > but I can't replicate it. Any one else able to get this to happen in > ie8 > or other? > > Real

[css-d] browser reports please

2010-07-11 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, http://blakeys.com/design/index.php/en/blakeys-websites-introduction I am just playing around with getting some things to work and the imageflow and layout looks fine in mac os x; safari 5 and Firefox but my friend has just sent me a crazy jpg showing the two columns underneath being al

Re: [css-d] background layering, transparency help

2010-06-22 Thread Chris Blake
> Stuart King wrote: >> Hi : >> >> I need to logo to be on top. >> >> 2. I need the yellow background to be at 75% opacity >> >> 3. I need the text and image in the .mc_50 and .mc_50r classes to >> be at 100% >> opacity >> >> Please help >> >> >> URL: >> >> http://www.clarksburgwineco.com/index

Re: [css-d] styling non-english fonts

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I would have thought the idea wold be to find out what fonts are installed in the language packs - install. Specify fots before choosing 'serif' e.g. "arial" helvetica, serif but using the names of the fonts in the system. How can you specify the language if it's a multi-lingual site?

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS fisheye menu with icons: a demo

2010-06-15 Thread Chris Blake
On 16/06/2010, at 5:44 AM, tedd wrote: > While it's neat, but it's a misnomer. That's not a fisheye, it's just > a magnification. > > A fisheye is like looking through a fisheye lens. > > Here's a fisheye picture for example: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fisheye_lens_room.jpg > > The per

Re: [css-d] IE8, CSS 2.1 & page-break-inside: avoid problem

2010-06-15 Thread Chris Blake
Salut, It's a strange question for the list but I am going to give answering it a go because I can't sleep. First off I looked at your HTML (I don't really care which fancy way you got to it - that's the bare bones). ... is not a 'page break'. "The tag inserts a single line break.

[css-d] link trickery

2010-05-05 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I have a Joomla module installed that feeds articles into a small block. The module lets me choose show or hide the 'read more' link, which I have hidden. For now I do not want people to click on the title or read more link to go the article, it is simply for show. However the title is

Re: [css-d] semantic accessible animated drop up menu

2010-05-03 Thread Chris Blake
On 03/05/2010, at 10:27 PM, David Laakso wrote: > Ido dekkers wrote: >> hello >> >> does anyone know about a drop down/up menu with JS animation that >> is also >> accessible and semantic? >> >> thanks >> > > > > > ~d > I've used this befo

Re: [css-d] Safari Issue

2010-04-30 Thread Chris Blake
Hi,,, CSS DISCUSS!!! I've never had a personal response from the CSS-d list like this before. It's hysterical. In my defence I will refer to the very first sentence that sparked this (but remember to read the response.). > I have been handed a couple of amends to do on this website CB :-)

[css-d] Safari Issue

2010-04-30 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, The lions keep eating my zebra! http://www.accidentclaimwestmidlands.co.uk/ I have been handed a couple of amends to do on this website and I am seeing a strange problem in Safari. The flash movie is not in it's container! I don't see it in FF so my handy little firebug can't help and I

Re: [css-d] parenting issues

2010-04-23 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, > body#page.corporate That has worked! Thank you so much! Cheers, CB On 23/04/2010, at 7:27 PM, Christian Kirchhoff wrote: > > Am 23.04.2010 12:18, schrieb Chris Blake: >> Hi, >> >> I have added page class suffix to some pages on my website giving the >&g

[css-d] parenting issues

2010-04-23 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I have added page class suffix to some pages on my website giving the . I want to rewrite the CSS for the h1 in only the corporate pages. However my body.corporate gets overwritten by #page styles. What order can I layout these IDs, classes so that I only style h1 for corporate body?

[css-d] Image loading order

2010-04-22 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I have applied a simple transparent PNG to my wrapper div. I would like that to load as one of the first images. What is the best way to do this? Thanks, CB __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-disc

Re: [css-d] Unbelievable CSS Trick

2010-04-22 Thread Chris Blake
On 22/04/2010, at 8:21 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: > On 4/21/10 12:07 PM, Chris Blake wrote: >> Hi, >> >> http://s318194674.websitehome.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=132&Itemid=1 >> I was trying to apply a white, 50% opaque, background

[css-d] Unbelievable CSS Trick

2010-04-21 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, http://s318194674.websitehome.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=132&Itemid=1 I was trying to apply a white, 50% opaque, background colour to a wrapper via CSS and see what happened! I have no idea CSS could do something like that! It's tuned the whole lot into a ghost web

Re: [css-d] Text next to logo

2010-04-20 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, Your title div has clear: both; clearing the float! cheers, CB On 20/04/2010, at 7:16 PM, Brian M. Curran wrote: > Hi All, > Does someone know why the text in my masthead is not aligning to the > right of my logo, but rather it is sitting below it? > > http://www.draftingservices.com/lo

Re: [css-d] How to handle cached styles...

2010-04-12 Thread Chris Blake
I use safari and it pretty much does a hard refresh every time. Sometimes with firefox i hold the shift key whilst refreshing. On 13/04/2010, at 3:02 AM, Climis, Tim wrote: >> Hi all, I wanted to get some collective input on how you all handle >> updating > styles that are cached. > > Doubl

Re: [css-d] validation with no warnings SOLVED

2010-04-12 Thread Chris Blake
ed to use odd HTML characters for things like apostrophes (the keyboard one works just fine). Excellent news, I am so happy and feel that I understand it a bit better now. Cheers again, CB On 12/04/2010, at 11:22 PM, Chris Blake wrote: >> >>> http://wch.redrunner.co.uk/

Re: [css-d] validation with no warnings

2010-04-12 Thread Chris Blake
> >> http://wch.redrunner.co.uk/ >> >> The index page just has one warning, the others have 3. >> I'd love it if someone could tell me what >> doctype and UTF >> setting suits my style so that I can just strike that from >> my list. > > Hi Chris, > > Your home page only has a single warning, which

[css-d] validation with no warnings

2010-04-12 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I am pleased that I managed to get this site done without asking the list for help! I did however post about doctype at the start and still didn't find the right answer. http://wch.redrunner.co.uk/ The index page just has one warning, the others have 3. I don't really get HTML and CSS

Re: [css-d] doctype

2010-03-31 Thread Chris Blake
ester Community Housing | Rewards I left the gap because that is where I have tried to put this line: What gives, I can't even pass 100% before writing anything! Thanks, CB On 01/04/2010, at 11:58 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Chris Blake wrote: > >> HI, >

[css-d] doctype

2010-03-31 Thread Chris Blake
HI, Although it's not a CSS question it is strongly related to validation which is something we all care about at css-discuss so I am sticking my neck out a bit but hope to get an OK response. I have validated a very simple layout and although it validates I am getting a few warnings: http:

Re: [css-d] Reset CSS

2010-03-30 Thread Chris Blake
>> From: Chris Blake >> >> Anyone know of a standard and simple reset.css file to >> use. > > This is a good, recent article from our very own Thierry: > > http://carsonified.com/blog/design/setting-rather-than-resetting-default-styling/ > > I think

[css-d] Reset CSS

2010-03-30 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, Anyone know of a standard and simple reset.css file to use. I finally have a 'back to the old days' job, a website purely HTML and CSS, and standards compliant - what a cool challenge. The design has been done by print designers so it's not going to be easy either! Thanks, CB ___

Re: [css-d] Die focus, die!

2010-03-25 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, There's an address for admin questions like that and I think it is: cs...@css-discuss.org Reply under the quote, if you remember, I often forget like in this instance. As for your mac mail question I would stop over-thinking it. I click 'new' type 'css' the address appears, tab down,

Re: [css-d] content in table won't align vertically

2010-03-17 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, The best editor for Mac OSX is Coda by Panic. It uses the Safari render engine (webkit) from your mac to preview your pages. http://www.panic.com/coda/ The next step is to use the firebug extension in firefox which is just a godsend for testing things on the fly. I might use Dreamweaver i

Re: [css-d] In HTML CSS vs. Separate style sheet CSS

2010-03-16 Thread Chris Blake
On 16/03/2010, at 12:18 AM, Chris Blake wrote: > > > > On 16/03/2010, at 12:01 AM, Climis, Tim wrote: > >>> 100%px isn't valid, unless my programming mind is tying to make too >>> much sense. >> >> I think that's the problem... His templat

Re: [css-d] SOLVED multiple IDs and classes to one div - which one speaks loudest?

2010-03-15 Thread Chris Blake
> > >> Here is the HTML: >> >> > class="yoo-toppanel">content >> >> And it reads this CSS first: >> >> #yoo-toppanel-1 div.yoo-toppanel div.panel-container { >> >> But because of this it is disregarding 'mine' and choosing >> default. > > Hi Chris, > > It's actually 'disregarding' your CSS because

[css-d] multiple IDs and classes to one div - which one speaks loudest?

2010-03-15 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I want to targetdiv#yoo-toppanel-1 in my CSS without disturbing the styling already in place for div.yoo-toppanel. Here is the HTML: content And it reads this CSS first: #yoo-toppanel-1 div.yoo-toppanel div.panel-container { position: fixed; left: 50%; wi

Re: [css-d] In HTML CSS vs. Separate style sheet CSS

2010-03-15 Thread Chris Blake
On 16/03/2010, at 12:01 AM, Climis, Tim wrote: >> 100%px isn't valid, unless my programming mind is tying to make too >> much sense. > > I think that's the problem... His template is putting in 'px' even > though he doesn't want one. And he wants to have a width of 100% in > spite of it.

Re: [css-d] In HTML CSS vs. Separate style sheet CSS

2010-03-15 Thread Chris Blake
On 15/03/2010, at 11:46 PM, Jack Timmons wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Chris Blake > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think that I already know the answer to this one but it's worth a >> shot: >> >> I am using Joomla and ripping a templat

[css-d] In HTML CSS vs. Separate style sheet CSS

2010-03-15 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I think that I already know the answer to this one but it's worth a shot: I am using Joomla and ripping a template apart to make it work for me. However when it comes to some of the modules I have to set the width in pixels via the Joomla backend and the resulting code looks like this:

Re: [css-d] FF 2.0 rendering issues - blank content

2010-03-09 Thread Chris Blake
Hi Eric, To stop your rollover images blinking on first rollover: place both images side-by-side and save it as one image. Then use the background position property to move the image on rollover/hover. apart from that it all looks good to me - mac, safari. Cheers, CB On 10/03/2010, at 1:

Re: [css-d] Why JavaScript and CSS can work well together

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Blake
> Eric Meyer once said: "JavaScript will save us all". > I started to effectively work with JavaScript almost a year ago, > when I > discovered the powerful features of jQuery and the DOM. > I have to say that JavaScript and CSS can work well together, > especially > when dealing with browser

Re: [css-d] :: makeready ::

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Blake
On 23/12/2009, at 8:08 AM, David Laakso wrote: > David Laakso wrote: >> I'd appreciate your comments and suggestions on this site. >> >> >> >> > > > David, I loved it before and I still love it now. There are a few things that I would like to see changed thoug

Re: [css-d] Weird display in Safari

2009-12-16 Thread Chris Blake
With a mac download too! Cheers! CB On 16/12/2009, at 3:21 AM, Bill Braun wrote: > > Chris Blake wrote: >> Thanks David, I've been ignoring validation a bit too much recently. >> > I recently started using Amaya from W3 for markup > (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Use

[css-d] Weird display in Safari

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Blake
On 15/12/2009, at 3:45 PM, David Laakso wrote: > Chris Blake wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am having the exact same problem! >> >> http://football.redrunner.co.uk/ >> >> Everything is OK in all my other browsers, apart from Safari, my >> current brow

Re: [css-d] Strange display in Safari

2009-12-14 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I am having the exact same problem! http://football.redrunner.co.uk/ Everything is OK in all my other browsers, apart from Safari, my current browser of choice. If anyone knows anything about these fairly new safari problems please let us know. Thanks, CB On 15/12/2009, at 1:19 PM,

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: Recent quietude

2009-10-28 Thread Chris Blake
On 29/10/2009, at 1:32 AM, Eric A. Meyer wrote: > Hi all, > >I wanted to pop in for a moment to say that you may have noticed a > recent slowdown in list traffic. You're not mistaken-- things are, > indeed, slower 'round these parts. This appears to be in part due to > everyone's favorite p

Re: [css-d] clearing spans?

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Blake
I had a play around and; .views-field-created{ color: #AA; display: block; } fixed the problem. On 26/10/2009, at 6:05 PM, Chris Blake wrote: > HI, > > > > > > This is the Blog Title > > > > > Post

[css-d] clearing spans?

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Blake
HI, This is the Blog Title Post date: Wed, 2009-10-14 12:49 How can I stop the date sitting on the same line as the title? TITLE post date to TITLE post date I have tried to float the title and then use

[css-d] styling different a-link states

2009-10-16 Thread Chris Blake
helloo, link can i style the other states, e.g. hover, using this method of adding css or would i need to do it in the ? Thanks, CB __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-

[css-d] Site Check

2009-10-07 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, http://www.redrunner.co.uk/rr/ Battling with Drupal and Javascript, but it's getting there. Let me know of any problems and if you have any fixes for them. There are a few niggles in IE7, but nothing major as far as I can see. Cheers, Chris _

[css-d] bold and italic

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, Anyone got much experience using bold and italic at the same time? What fonts support this, mac and PC? What happens if the font has bold and italic but not bold italic? Which one does it choose, if either? Thanks in advance, CB _

Re: [css-d] shorthand elements

2009-09-28 Thread Chris Blake
I agree. I have to write some styles on the fly i.e. and shorthand comes in very useful. However I only know a few so anyone with a useful to all of the ones available would be really appreciated. --- On Mon, 9/28/09, tedd wrote: > >> >> I find reading other code (as well as mine later)

Re: [css-d] absolute, big z-index hidden by, you guessed it, IE

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Blake
On 26/09/2009, at 4:39 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > On Sep 26, 2009, at 4:31 PM, Chris Blake wrote: > >> http://airora.redrunner.co.uk/node/1 (The spelling mistakes aren't >> mine.) >> >> The logo is too big for it's container, but it'

[css-d] absolute, big z-index hidden by, you guessed it, IE

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Blake
http://airora.redrunner.co.uk/node/1 (The spelling mistakes aren't mine.) The logo is too big for it's container, but it's positioned absolute with a massive z-index. IE7 does not like it and I am certain that I feel the same about IE. Oh yeh, it's making a mess of another site I am making

[css-d] web 2.0 style, 100% browser width backgrounds for header and footer

2009-09-18 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, http://www.redrunner.co.uk/rr/?q=content/home-page# The design I am trying to recreate can be seen here: http://www.redrunner.co.uk/rr/themes/framework/img/RedRunner.jpg I would like to know how I can have two background images that repeat across the browser and still keep all my content

Re: [css-d] Amazing CSS

2009-09-16 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, Managed to get it working, and stripped it of unnecessary babble. http://blakeys.com/cssdiscuss.html Cheers, CB On 16/09/2009, at 10:54 AM, Tim Climis wrote: > On Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:00:50 pm Chris Blake wrote: >> Using Just CSS, but maybe not as good. What do

Re: [css-d] Amazing CSS

2009-09-15 Thread Chris Blake
Thank you, > Marc Hall > HallMarc Websites > 610.446.3346 > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Chris Blake [mailto:ch...@3pointdesign.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4:01 PM >> To: HallMarc Websites >> Cc: 'Untitled' >> S

Re: [css-d] Amazing CSS

2009-09-15 Thread Chris Blake
.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d- >> boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Chris Blake >> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 3:43 PM >> To: Chris Blake >> Cc: Untitled >> Subject: Re: [css-d] Amazing CSS >> >> Hey, >> >> ...and if anyone co

Re: [css-d] Amazing CSS

2009-09-15 Thread Chris Blake
/2009, at 3:36 AM, Chris Blake wrote: > Hi, > > What a response, I must start naming my IE issues as 'amazing' too! > hehe > > Thanks Marc, I was talking about the text. I had a feeling it was done > by javascript but wasn't sure. How can I copy the effect? W

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