[css-d] conditional comment not seen by IE 5.5?

2007-03-28 Thread David Agnew
My site works fine on the good browsers, and thanks to the help I've gotten on this list, it's nearly acceptable on IE. I've recently cleaned-up my css by adopting conditional comments (a new trick for me) to feed additional rules to specific IE versions. It's worked very well with IE5, but IE

Re: [css-d] alternating colors of list items in IE

2007-03-15 Thread David Agnew
Thanks to all who replied, and especially Jukka for the practical advice on my main issue (MSIE6 and below not 'getting' my long selectors). Jukka's suggestion (assign a separate class to alternate li's) makes sense, but I thought that in this case I'd let those MSIE users suffer some ugliness,

Re: [css-d] alternating colors of list items in IE

2007-03-13 Thread David Agnew
Jason Herber appears to have written the following on 3/13/07 2:18 PM: > I'm sorry I don't have an answer to your question, but I wanted to > point out that > > #containAbt .features li { > background-color: #F7EFD5; > } > > is all you need for that first style. It'll set the color for all li

[css-d] alternating colors of list items in IE

2007-03-13 Thread David Agnew
I use a list within div.features to display featured links. To make it easier to read, the background color of alternate list items is a different shade (these colors vary depending upon the color of the page wrapper - e.g. containAbt - but that's irrelevant to this post). This method works in

Re: [css-d] centering list items within a div

2007-03-13 Thread David Agnew
Georg, you are awesome! This is beautiful. Thank you. Gunlaug Sørtun appears to have written the following on 3/13/07 12:26 PM: > David Agnew wrote: >> I'm having trouble centering list items within a div. I'm using % for >> width (fluid layout), and I don't m

[css-d] centering list items within a div

2007-03-13 Thread David Agnew
Greetings - Many thanks to Gunlaug for providing some @media screen {* html} rules to make my sit far more compatible with IE! Now that (most of) the most severe problems are fixed... I'm having trouble centering list items within a div. I'm using % for width (fluid layout), and I don't mind i

[css-d] clueless with

2007-03-05 Thread David Agnew
Greetings good CSS coders - I'm developing on a Mac, with no ready access to a PC. Although I've gotten things to display 'ok' in IE in the past, I often break that with changes. http://www.lighthouse.chtr.k12.ma.us/index.php works in IE7, Firefox, Safari, but not earlier versions of IE (see h

[css-d] strange rendering in IE Win

2005-11-30 Thread David Agnew
The following pages use the same CSS and all the XHTML validates. Between the sidebar and the content area, http://www.vsi.cape.com/~dagnew/abt/beacon.php looks fine, but http://www.vsi.cape.com/~dagnew/abt/index.php does not. I thought perhaps the floated image in beacon.php somehow helped, but

Re: [css-d] can't get images to float in IE5 Mac

2005-11-18 Thread David Agnew
>>[...] > >Actually, Adam is right, and wrong > >IE Mac indeed needs a width declaration when using the float >property, in accordance with the CSS 2.0 rec. But , when an >**image** is floated, you don't need to declare the width, the >intrinsic width of the image will do perfectly fine. Y

Re: [css-d] can't get images to float in IE5 Mac

2005-11-17 Thread David Agnew
>At 01:43 PM 11/17/2005, David Agnew wrote: >>I'm probably missing something obvious, but... >> >>I'm simply trying to get one or more images to float to the right of >>some text. It works on Firefox and Safari (MacOS), and in Firefox and >>IE6

[css-d] can't get images to float in IE5 Mac

2005-11-17 Thread David Agnew
I'm probably missing something obvious, but... I'm simply trying to get one or more images to float to the right of some text. It works on Firefox and Safari (MacOS), and in Firefox and IE6 (Windows) - but I have no luck with Mac IE5. These pages illustrate the problem: http://www.vsi.cape.com/

Re: [css-d] text appears only if window is resized!

2005-11-09 Thread David Agnew
Thank you, Michael, that was it! At 12:23 PM -0600 11/8/05, Michael Hulse seems to have written: >Peekaboo bug maybe? > >http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/peekaboo.html > > > When http://www.vsi.cape.com/~dagnew/lib/foo.php is viewed in IE6 > > Win, all text within #content div appea

[css-d] text appears only if window is resized!

2005-11-07 Thread David Agnew
I'm making vey slow headway with my first CSS layout. I'd love it if someone could offer advice on my 2 biggest unresolved problems: When http://www.vsi.cape.com/~dagnew/lib/foo.php is viewed in IE6 Win, all text within #content div appears only after the window is resized. When http://ww

[css-d] Frustration learning css for layout

2005-10-26 Thread David Agnew
CSS is clearly elegant and powerful, and I have little difficulty using it to style elements. And using divs for layout - which I'm new at - works pretty well designing for ONE browser. But trying to make the layout look right for 'all' browsers is driving me nuts (and I suspect I have company)

RE: [css-d] Site Check - ElasticJohn.com

2005-10-24 Thread David Agnew
Hi Rahul - From Mac OS 10.4, Safari 2, it looks fine, 'tho elastic John is fixed (stays out of text, as he should). Using IE 5.2, John sticks to right side of window - if window is small enough, he intrudes on text - and if the window is short and it's scrolled, the image gets hacked up by Mr.

Re: [css-d] Newbie browser-compatibility question(s)

2005-10-21 Thread David Agnew
Thank you very much for your help, Gunlaug. I've replied off-list. At 10:37 PM -0400 10/19/05, Gunlaug seems to have written: David, I'll just pick the easiest one for now. David Agnew wrote: <http://www.vsi.cape.com/~dagnew/arc/test.php>http://www.vsi.cape.com/~dagnew/a

[css-d] Newbie browser-compatibility question(s)

2005-10-19 Thread David Agnew
Greetings CSS-ers - Apologies if you've seen this before - I subscribed and posted these questions earlier from gmail - my post appeared as garbage-text, dunno why. So I've subscribed from a POP email account but have already posted it twice without seeing it in the digest or archives. I've

RE: [css-d] Stretching Too Much in IE

2005-09-29 Thread David Agnew
Using Mac OS 10.4.2, your page looks fine in Safari 2.0.1 looks good in Firefox 1.5 b1 - but the yellow lower portion of the chipotle box (only) protrudes to the right about 6px looks good in IE 5.2.3 - but to the right of both headlines (Iron Giant / I like Ray) is a white, borderl

[css-d] Re: css-d Digest, Vol 34, Issue 38

2005-09-27 Thread David Agnew
Mac OS 10.4.2, Firefox 1.5 - Looks / works great Mac OS 10.4.2, Safari 2.0.1 - Looks / works great Mac OS 10.4.2, IE 5.2.3 - Looks fine, but the Home/About/Services, etc links on /store.htm don't work! Also, on the store page it mentions the lice comb (below) - but it appears above. very cle

[css-d] Newbie probs with css layout on IE

2005-09-15 Thread David Agnew
I'm attempting to re-design a website using CSS layout. It looks fine in Safari, Opera (Mac) and FireFox (Mac/PC), but not IE (Mac/PC). I've identified 4 rendering issues, I'll mention the most glaring 2 here. No doubt my issues have been addressed in this list, but i've done a bunch of reading, a