Re: [css-d] IE6 blows up my nav; NN 8,9 add mystery line

2007-03-22 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Joel D Canfield wrote: > http://spinhead.info/ah/test/test.asp > > IE6 blows up the navigation which appears as expected in FireFox, Opera, and > Navigator > > Navigator adds a thing peep of background under the last paragraph, which > sure seems to be styled exactly as the two above it, which ap

Re: [css-d] Absolute sizes for fonts

2007-03-18 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Yone wrote: > I subscribe to several CSS newletters, and today one come into my > mailbox with some caveats I had never heard of before about absolute > font sizes, and especially about their unreadability on Macs. Hm ... just tried a couple of pages of that have absolute font sizes, but both wor

Re: [css-d] Saving pages to disc for editing?

2007-03-16 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Rick den Haan wrote: > I haven't tried this myself, but a quick search on mozilla's Firefox Add-ons > page delivered something that sounds like what you're looking for. > > Wonderful! That's perfect =) Thanks. Yeah, I should have realised that someone mi

Re: [css-d] Saving pages to disc for editing?

2007-03-16 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Austin Harris wrote: >> Yes I know I can do this, but that's slow and tedious: I'd have to do >> this for >> every single JS file, CSS file, foreground *AND* background image, one >> by one. >> Then I'd have to alter every single file one by one to cater for >> having >> rearranged all the files

Re: [css-d] Saving pages to disc for editing?

2007-03-16 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Austin Harris wrote: > View source > copy > paste ? > > Then do the same for the style sheets. Yes I know I can do this, but that's slow and tedious: I'd have to do this for every single JS file, CSS file, foreground *AND* background image, one by one. Then I'd have to alter every single file o

Re: [css-d] IE 7 Margin and Menu Problems

2007-03-16 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Martin Davis wrote: > Hey guys, > > I don't know why, but IE 7 seems to be giving me some strange > margin/padding issues. The logo at the top is split into three images > spread into three different divs that should have no space in between > the two. Can't figure out IE 7 is adding space. Also,

[css-d] Saving pages to disc for editing?

2007-03-16 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Anyone got a good way of saving pages to disc for editing? That is, when we want to work on someone's page to correct problems. I'm trying to save a copy of the Delta Chi page to edit it, in Windows 2000, and all I get is: * IE 6 -- saves 66% of the page, complains that it can't save it, and

Re: [css-d] hover problem in IE6 for rollover button

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Coral S. wrote: > Hello all, > > I am using CSS to create a rollover effect, using one image with both states > and simply shifting the position of the div. For whatever reason, the hover > state doesn't register in IE6 (it works fine in all other browsers). It > seems like the answer would b

Re: [css-d] align link in a paragraph

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
(Sheesh, why do y'all keep sending replies to both me AND the list? I'm bailing out duplicate mails like a man in a sinking rowboat ;) jeffrey morin wrote: >> When you set a link to display: block, it becomes a block element. Block >> elements by default take on the full width of their containing

Re: [css-d] align link in a paragraph

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
jeffrey morin wrote (but not in the e-mail): > the link is the only thing i want text aligned right. i did the display block > on the link and then applied text-align: right and it worked. but why does > this work? i am not familiar with this technique When you set a link to display: block, it be

Re: [css-d] align link in a paragraph

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
jeffrey morin wrote: > so it sounds like there is no way around adding a class to that paragraph > then? Um ... without seeing your page, I cannot answer that. Right now, your code goes along these lines: #divBox p a:link {text-align: right} OR #divBox a {text-align: right} The former

Re: [css-d] align link in a paragraph

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
jeffrey morin wrote: > hello everyone, > > i have a box with 4 paragraphs in it. one paragraph has nothing but a link > which is 2 words long. my question is can i apply tex-align: right to that > link somehow without adding another class in my code. > > i tried #divBox p a:link {text-align: righ

Re: [css-d] Nested list margins in IE

2007-03-14 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Terry Thompson wrote: > This may be related to IE's implementation of list-style-type:none, which > I've defined for the ordered list. The numbers for each list item in the > ordered list originally appeared each on their own line. Now, after adding > list-style-type:none, the numbers have disappea

Re: [css-d] Hiding div class in print stylesheet

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Joanne wrote: > Hi, > > I have a print stylesheet on a site I'm making. > > div#footer *{ > display: none; > } > > This hides ... Technically no, it hides all child elements of #footer. For example: Here is some text Text inside an inner div Your rule matches all (*) child

Re: [css-d] Sidebar Menu Playing Up!

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Richard Brown wrote: > Good Morning All > > I hope you are all well. I have a slight problem with a menu. > > > > I have copied the styling from this site: >

Re: [css-d] Site Check Please

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Richard Brown wrote: > Hi All > > I thought I had this site finished but it seems there might be some > problems with it. > > This is what it should look like: > > > Can you tell me if you are seeing this please and if not any ideas why please?

Re: [css-d] List Items

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Ledvina, Barbara [ED] wrote: > How can I modify the amount of space between the bullet in an unordered list > and the actual text? Which way? Officially, it's impossible. All such joy was ripped out of CSS2 and stamped on by the W3C. Since list items are block-level elements, you could try pla

Re: [css-d] Background image black in Konqueror

2007-03-12 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Hm ... what happens if you switch to a PNG or GIF image? Maybe save the JPEG in another app, or try different compression settings. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information

Re: [css-d] site check: 24-10reading.nl A PostScript 2

2007-03-12 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
A PostScript of my own: http://24-10reading.nl/wordpr/ This page works in IE 6. The blue bar works, the footer appears, and you don't get 50-60 empty pages. You might want to use this as a reference page. __ css-discuss [EMAIL

Re: [css-d] site check: 24-10reading.nl A PostScript

2007-03-12 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
bill scheider wrote: > I forgot to add: In IE6 at all text sizes, I'm getting a vertical scroll bar > that runs down 60 pages (hit page-down 60 times!). I expected that I'd find > a footer down there at the end, but no-go. So besides the lo-o-o-o-ong page, > in IE6 xp, there is no footer. Hm, so

Re: [css-d] site check: 24-10reading.nl

2007-03-12 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
~davidLaakso wrote: > However, with both of your sites (and this is a personal opinion that is > not shared by all on this or any other list), I find sites that require > both horizontal and vertical scrolling when the fonts are scaled to be > bothersome. Not just font size but window size. I t

Re: [css-d] problem with floating divs in FF and IE7

2007-03-12 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Oh and for what it's worth, you might want to run the page through a validator: the W3C Validator isn't too happy with it :) __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- htt

Re: [css-d] problem with floating divs in FF and IE7

2007-03-12 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Pawel Tulin wrote: > Gents and Ladies, > I have been killing myself over this: > http://sb.massmind.com/sites/dh/ > Please look in FF and IE 7 (IE6 I will deal later) > .whiteTab { > float: right; > border: 1px solid green; > /*width: 200px;*/ > } Wow. That is

Re: [css-d] increase text size

2007-03-12 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know that text size can be increased using browser controls, but the client > would like the links up there. Let me express my curiosity. Does your client have any justification for this feature? Given that most sites do not offer such a feature, and given that an

Re: [css-d] List item markers in different colour using pure CSS?

2007-03-12 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Barney Carroll wrote: > To be honest, I have no great gripe with using meaningless spans and > divs. By specification they are not forced to assign meaning anyway, so > I only really worry about massive nesting, and even then it's only for > the sake of standardistas browsing my site in view-sou

Re: [css-d] List item markers in different colour using pure CSS?

2007-03-12 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
Barney Carroll wrote: > So if I were to have a list of black text with red numeric markers, > would I be forced to create a span within each li, then set the li's > colour to red and the span back to black? As far as I am aware, yes. > I'm distraught at the prospect of having to use extra marku

Re: [css-d] Style & Format Form Elements

2007-03-12 Thread Daniel Beardsmore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Having some real problems with styling and formatting the following form > elements. I don't seem able to have any impact on them at all... > > , ... I dunno. It's always worked for me. They're awkward to style, but it's far from impossible. For example, I'v