Re: [css-d] what does "!important" mean?

2012-04-20 Thread David Thorp
Thanks everyone for the responses, (including a couple of private ones) particularly those pointing me to useful articles etc. I'm now enlightened. ;) Much appreciated. Cheers, David. __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org

Re: [css-d] what does "!important" mean?

2012-04-19 Thread David Thorp
Really? No one knows? I tried googling it and seeking it out on w3schools, but can't seem to find the !important thing specifically. Just finds lots of (unhelpful) instances of the word "important". (Search engines ignore punctuation supposedly). David On 18/04/2012, at

[css-d] what does "!important" mean?

2012-04-18 Thread David Thorp
Greetings all... Every now and then, when I'm reading other peoples'/companies' css code, i see this "!important" thing added to the end of some of the lines in css. What does it do/change? Thanks! David. __ css-discuss [css-

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-03-11 Thread David Thorp
t;> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 8:09 AM, David Thorp >> wrote: >> Just to clarify, what I mean is, as soon as I add >> "resize:horizontal;" to the div.sidebar {}, it breaks. >> >> -- >> It is a little difficult to help because you seem a li

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-03-10 Thread David Thorp
Just to clarify, what I mean is, as soon as I add "resize:horizontal;" to the div.sidebar {}, it breaks. On 11/03/2012, at 12:05 AM, David Thorp wrote: > Duh. Brilliant. Now that you present that, it's pretty obvious. Haha. > Thanks. > > But now we have an

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-03-10 Thread David Thorp
27;m grateful for the likes of you to help. So thanks, yet again... David. On 10/03/2012, at 11:45 PM, Ghodmode wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:55 AM, David Thorp > wrote: >> Hi again Vince, >> >> Ok, well as recommended by you in the other thread, I've

Re: [css-d] "classes"...?

2012-03-09 Thread David Thorp
object-oriented methodologies for one of our clients. >>> >>> I can't give you a short answer to the methodology I've adopted, but I >>> wrote a blog post a while back on the layers of design - which is the >>> foundation for my approach. >>>

Re: [css-d] "classes"...?

2012-03-09 Thread David Thorp
an example. So... apologies for any confusion. And thanks again to those who've chimed in on this. I'll do some more research and look into the suggestions that were made. Cheers, David. On 10/03/2012, at 4:33 AM, David Thorp wrote: > I've had a couple of private repl

Re: [css-d] "classes"...?

2012-03-09 Thread David Thorp
r way to how I've learnt recently, for example, (thanks to people on this list) that it's best not to use tables for layout. On 09/03/2012, at 9:17 PM, David Thorp wrote: > Greetings all... again... ;) > > I'm familiar with some concepts from object oriented programm

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-03-09 Thread David Thorp
roblem is just that it's not positioned correctly. Thanks again for your help! David. On 01/03/2012, at 1:54 PM, Ghodmode wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 3:58 PM, David Thorp > wrote: >> Greetings all... >> >> I'm relatively new to both CSS, and this list

[css-d] "classes"...?

2012-03-09 Thread David Thorp
Greetings all... again... ;) I'm familiar with some concepts from object oriented programming. In particular something which i think is called encapsulation. In languages like C++ you build classes which are portable mini programs that do stuff. You can pick them up and plug them into any C++

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-09 Thread David Thorp
Interesting idea David. What would you say are the pros and cons of this method? On 09/03/2012, at 8:23 PM, David Laakso wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:36 AM, David Thorp > wrote > > What you describe (starting over) is exactly what I've just start

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-09 Thread David Thorp
. So I'll put that together soon and let you have a look and you can tell me if I'm on the right track. ;) On 09/03/2012, at 7:05 PM, Ghodmode wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:47 AM, David Thorp > wrote: >> Brilliant on both counts. Thanks! >> >>

Re: [css-d] extra blank rows in table to fill window.

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
Brilliant, that's hit the nail on the head, at least in Safari (both Mac and Win). It doesn't seem to be working in IE9 though. Did I miss something? I can see you've specifically put code in there for -ms-... (That's for IE, right?), so how come not working? :( On 09/03/2012, at 1:36 AM,

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
And in Firefox I'm getting some other nasty inconsistencies too. Haven't dared try Chrome or Opera yet, although again, I don't need any of these. Only IE9 and Safari. But still... why are they all so wildly inconsistent?? On 09/03/2012, at 12:47 PM, David Thorp wrote:

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
ly appreciated! David. On 08/03/2012, at 10:09 PM, Ghodmode wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:54 PM, David Thorp > wrote: >> Hi Vince, >> >> Thanks for another helpful reply. That all makes sense. >> >> One small problem with the nowrap... >>

Re: [css-d] extra blank rows in table to fill window.

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
Any thoughts? David. On 08/03/2012, at 9:23 PM, Ghodmode wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:22 PM, David Thorp > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Another question on my current project... >> >> Again, first, here's the code: >> >&g

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
Correction: > http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-0b.html > http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/css/browser-0b.css On 08/03/2012, at 8:54 PM, David Thorp wrote: > Hi Vince, > > Thanks for another helpful reply. That all makes sense. > > O

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-08 Thread David Thorp
..) at the end of a row of text that's been cut short, that would be even more awesome. ie. "a really really rea…") ;) Thanks! David. On 08/03/2012, at 7:41 PM, Ghodmode wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:53 PM, David Thorp > wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >&

[css-d] extra blank rows in table to fill window.

2012-03-07 Thread David Thorp
Hi all, Another question on my current project... Again, first, here's the code: http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-tables-2.html http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/css/browser-tables-2.css Also look at this image for reference: http://www.davidthorp.n

[css-d] Vertical Text Alignment confusion

2012-03-07 Thread David Thorp
Greetings all, Thanks again to those who helped me last week. A couple of new problems now. First, here's the code: http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/browser-tables-2.html http://www.davidthorp.name/testingstuff/css/browser-tables-2.css My confusion lies with the display

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-03-01 Thread David Thorp
ated. I'm stuck on another project now and will get back to this next week. So I'll try this out then and let you know if I have any problems. David. On 01/03/2012, at 1:54 PM, Ghodmode wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 3:58 PM, David Thorp > wrote: >> Greetings al

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-02-29 Thread David Thorp
f days probably. Thanks again! David (T). On 27/02/2012, at 9:43 AM, David Hucklesby wrote: > On 2/25/12 11:58 PM, David Thorp wrote: > [...] >> >> I have a number of objects arranged in various positions: >> >> 1. A toolbar across the top that is the full widt

Re: [css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-02-29 Thread David Thorp
and then post the question again where you can all see what's going on. That'll be a couple of days probably. Thanks again! David (T). On 27/02/2012, at 3:49 PM, David Laakso wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 2:58 AM, David Thorp > wrote: > Greetings all... > > I

[css-d] Object height and width issues

2012-02-25 Thread David Thorp
Greetings all... I'm relatively new to both CSS, and this list, but I've had some very positive experiences on other lists for other programming tools, so I'm hoping this list will be similar :) I've been learning css from the w3schools website, which seems to be pretty good as a crash course,