Re: [css-d] How to stop text from wordwrapping.

2007-05-11 Thread David Sharp
jana coyle wrote: > This has been driving me nuts. If you make the browser window small (less > than half of the screen) the header text will wordwrap. If there are no > spaces between characters then the text stays put. I have add "_" and change > the color to match the background color. Is the

Re: [css-d] ul question - it's driving me crazy

2007-05-08 Thread David Sharp
Sara Citrenbaum wrote: > I have an unordered list on my page, but for some reason the second (and > third) lines of text with each bullet are not aligning with the first line. > How do I get everything to line up? > > > Not exactly sure what the desired effect is. What I am seeing is the correc

Re: [css-d] font-family font sizes

2007-04-24 Thread David Sharp
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > On Apr 24, 2007, at 7:31 PM, Simon White wrote: > > >>> Is there a way to specify different font sizes depending on >>> which font is actually used? >>> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-size-props >> >> font-size-adjust would appear to help :

[css-d] font-family font sizes

2007-04-24 Thread David Sharp
Take the site www.syntony.org I have specified garamond for the titles because it most closely matches the logo I was given, and georgia as a fall-back. However it strikes me that georgia appears quite a bit larger than garamond even at the same specified font size. Although I realise we don't

Re: [css-d] lists in blocks

2007-04-17 Thread David Sharp
David Hucklesby wrote: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:20:40 +0100, Ross Hulford wrote: > >> I have an unordered list of 10 items >> >> > [...] > >> but I want to diaply it in block of 3 >> >> 14710 >> 258 >> 369 >> >> >> Is this possible with css or any other method

Re: [css-d] styling a ul

2007-04-01 Thread David Sharp
> Question: if I style the ul element the way I want it to appear for the > sub-navigation, won't that make it unusable for other ul instances > where I want > other styling? How can I style this one instance of a ul and still be able to > use the ul element for other purposes with other styling?

[css-d] safari check/ Background position issues

2007-03-06 Thread David Sharp
Hi Listers, The site www.syntony.org/2007/diary.html Don't have access to a mac, so am using snugtech to get screenshots, but it seems to chop most of my page off at the higher screen widths. I'm hoping this is a problem with the screenshot, and not with my site. Also on this particular page (

Re: [css-d] Holy Grail issues

2007-02-27 Thread David Sharp
David Sharp wrote: > I am using the holy grail http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail > layout for a site because I want the source code in a particular order. > > The site is here http://www.syntony.org/ > > One more thing. IE7 (and maybe 6 as well - I haven't che

[css-d] Holy Grail issues

2007-02-27 Thread David Sharp
I am using the holy grail http://www.alistapart.com/articles/holygrail layout for a site because I want the source code in a particular order. The site is here http://www.syntony.org/ In IE6 strange things start to happen when the window becomes very small - the left sidebar (called #series_nav

Re: [css-d] Horizontal Navigation with Images

2007-02-11 Thread David Sharp
Matthew Stoneback wrote: > I would like the images to have a 1 pixel border on the > bottom and right; border color #847983... > Right now it is showing a border around the images on all > sides. I can take the border off with, border: none;, but I don't want to > take away the entire border. A

Re: [css-d] UL and LI Borders question

2007-01-24 Thread David Sharp
Fred Janon wrote: > I have a UL with some LIs. I want a 1px border around all the LIs with no > 2px border between the LIs. I have been fiddling around with the UL and LIs > borders but I can't find a simple solution to it. My best solution so far is > to have no border on the UL and the top, left,

Re: [css-d] thumbnail gallery with captions

2007-01-22 Thread David Sharp
Trish Meyer wrote: > At 10:53 AM +1030 1/23/07, David Sharp wrote: > >> I have a bunch of image thumbnails - all the images are the same size, >> but some are portrait, some are landscape. >> >> I currently have them displayed inline, text-align : center; >&

[css-d] thumbnail gallery with captions

2007-01-22 Thread David Sharp
Hi all, This is a question that I have seen come up in the past, but didn't really pay attention to the answer - now I would love a nudge in the right direction. Couldn't find an answer in the WIKI. I have a bunch of image thumbnails - all the images are the same size, but some are portrait, s

Re: [css-d] Feedback on rounded corners for a menu

2007-01-09 Thread David Sharp
MATTHEW BERNHARDT wrote: > What I'm aiming for is to have rounded corners on all 4 corners of each of > the items in a menu. This leads me to several apparent constraints: > > 1 - Because all 4 corners will need to be rounded, the sliding > doors[2]technique doesn't seem like it will work as th

Re: [css-d] UBER newbie question

2006-08-21 Thread David Sharp
David Sharp wrote: > > > Underlined text with...span.underline > { text-decoration : underline } ...may be more useful, especially if you > want to combine selectors, but I don't think this is such an elegant > solution as the judicious use of and > > er

Re: [css-d] UBER newbie question

2006-08-21 Thread David Sharp
Shiloh Madsen wrote: > > I know that we should no longer be using the bold and underline html > tags and the like, however I am not entirely certain how to handle > performing this function on a page in the most elegant way. As I understand it... Tags like bold and italic have been deprecated I t

Re: [css-d] Get my DIVs in a row.

2006-08-09 Thread David Sharp
Travis Killen wrote: > > I am having trouble with my DIVs. How can I make them all appear on the > same row? > http://oit.sfasu.edu/test/getstart.html > > > > I think this the problem: .threemenu div { float : left; clear : left; } For what you are trying to achieve, these rules

Re: [css-d] Trouble with putting a background-image in container

2006-08-03 Thread David Sharp
Steve Clason wrote: > > background-image: url("/Images/Paper.jpg"); > > I don't believe you need the quotes but I think they look pretty. > > > Pretty they may be, but it is my understanding they don't play nicely with IE Mac... regards, D#

Re: [css-d] 3 column, relative size of bg-images

2006-07-29 Thread David Sharp
>> I think the trick is that your middle column is fixed, so you need >> your left and right columns to be 50% of the available width, and >> have margins equal to half that in which the middle column will >> sit. Someone may have a more economical solution, and I'm not sure >> how this wo

Re: [css-d] 3 column, relative size of bg-images

2006-07-29 Thread David Sharp
problem when using them with centered content. Adding a 30px white margin down the left side of the left image fixes this (much as I did for the background image of test1). Cheers, David Sharp __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww

Re: [css-d] 3 column, relative size of bg-images

2006-07-29 Thread David Sharp
Bart Zonneveld wrote: > Thanks a lot! > Really helped me going in the right way. > So far, I managed to get it all to work in Firefox. > See http://20kmiles.dyndns.org/djtrx/ > > I'm confused - if there is no content in the right and left divs, then all this seems to be a lot of trouble. Why

Re: [css-d] spacing problem

2006-07-26 Thread David Sharp
David Sharp wrote: > I think you have discovered browser inconsistency with regards to the > Box Model (see http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=BoxModel for a far > more detailed explanation than I could give you). I am assuming you are > looking at IE6 as I think IE7 has correcte

Re: [css-d] spacing problem

2006-07-26 Thread David Sharp
Aaron Gray wrote: > I seem to be having a problem with div's vertical spacing. > > > > Basically the #header should be 80px in height, on IE it is, but other > browsers are inserting extra line space, effectively creating another lines > worth. > > > I think you have discovered browser incons

Re: [css-d] How to put 3 layers...

2006-07-25 Thread David Sharp
Pedro de la Lastra wrote: > I have been all night trying to put 3 white layers > horizontaly aligned inside a container black layer... > > 2. Put 3 layers floating. Result: The 3 layers goes > out from the container layer, so the black background > is gone. > > Your options with floating the 3

Re: [css-d] bkgrnd image and attachment not happy in IE

2006-07-24 Thread David Sharp
> > >> I'm having an IE-specific problem regarding a background image in the html >> and a background attachment in the body. >> >> >> > > Can you move the image into the HTML? Perhaps raises semantic issues, and also doesn't address the problem of *why* the previous method doesn't w

Re: [css-d] CSS beginner seeking help

2006-07-20 Thread David Sharp
> > I actually originally had the background image on the header, but when I > did that, it created a white space between the header and the subheader > that I couldn't figure out how to get rid of. When I moved the background > image to the wrapper, that's when the white space disappeared. >

Re: [css-d] Site check - if you would be so kind

2006-06-14 Thread David Sharp
Thanks to Phillipe I have now solved my min-height problem in Safari and IEmac (fingers crossed this hasn't created problems elsewhere!). I have also learned that earlier versions of IE don't support margin : auto, and that quote marks on the uris of background images, for example:

Re: [css-d] Site check - if you would be so kind

2006-06-14 Thread David Sharp
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > Safari (all versions, including WebKit nightly builds). > The div #content is set to 'display:table-cell'. That is nicely > broken in Safari, causing it to jump to the top of the parent block. > > IE 5.x Mac doesn't support display:table-cell at all, but when it >

[css-d] Site check - if you would be so kind

2006-06-14 Thread David Sharp
or IEMac, but I must admit to being a little curious as to why it looks so bad on browsercam - colours are all wrong, logo doesn't appear correctly, float drop of #content (but incidentally not the top image which is wider?!)

Re: [css-d] Unwanted three pixel padding-bottom of image in div

2006-03-05 Thread David Sharp
Cem Meric wrote: >> I'm stumped by an extra three pixels of padding that are appearing at >> the bottom of images I enclose in divs. >> > > The issue I believe is caused by DOCTYPE (XHTML 1.0 Strict) rules e.g. div > needs height declaration with the same value as the image in order to wrap

Re: [css-d] Help with Nav LIs that work in IE6, not in FF

2006-03-03 Thread David Sharp
Chris Williams wrote: > I have a new site design I'm working on at http://clwill.com/new/ The page > is index.html, the CSS is in clwill.css. Obviously this is just an instance > of my template page that I'm working on, I'll be all over the actual pages > once I get this one nailed. (And y

Re: [css-d] Trouble implementing CSS Layout design

2006-03-03 Thread David Sharp
This might be a good place to start http://www.alistapart.com/articles/customcorners/ hth D# Andrew Glover wrote: > Hi, > > Im hoping someone or some people can help me on my first try of a CSS > Layout. > > What I am trying to re-create in CSS Layouts is an Image I originally drew > here: > > h

[css-d] background image inherited after scroll

2005-08-20 Thread David Sharp
with this site - gentle criticism would be welcomed. Thanks, David Sharp __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by ev