[css-d] Footer too high in IE7

2011-02-16 Thread Dermot Ward
Thank you very much maestro Georg. Perfect. Dermot. __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-disc

[css-d] Footer too high in IE7

2011-02-16 Thread Dermot Ward
Thank you very much Tom for your help. I've learned a lot more about IE7 workarounds which i was ignorant of and the simplicity of adding the full width footer color is really neat. I'd have been cluttering the thing up with repeat-x gifs. Thanks again and kind regards. Dermot. __

[css-d] Footer too high in IE7

2011-02-15 Thread Dermot Ward
Can anyone please tell me why the footer on this testing page :- http://www.arealnicesite.com is too high in IE7? I want to add a repeating gif to extend the footer color to the full browser window width and IE is messing things up. It's fine in Firefox and Opera on windows and in Safari an

[css-d] nested lists in IE7

2009-08-03 Thread Dermot Ward
Hi Christian, Thank you very much for your solution which completely solved the problem and then some with the neat styling. Also thank you Alan for the useful suggestions and info on default and< li> margins and padding in various browsers. All much appreciated. Kind regards...Dermo

[css-d] nested lists in IE7

2009-08-03 Thread Dermot Ward
Hi Bobby, Thank you very much for your help. Please excuse my typo where I inadvertantly put 'class' instead of 'one'. Your solution below solves the main problem, it stops the bold style being applied to the nested list in IE7. One One A One B

[css-d] nested lists in IE7

2009-08-03 Thread Dermot Ward
Sorry for my typo in original post. .class should read .one in the style snippet..Dermot. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incu

[css-d] nested lists in ie7

2009-08-03 Thread Dermot Ward
Hello all. I have a nested list problem in IE7. I want to highlight a selected item in a list by applying a bold style to the selected item, but IE7 applies the bold style to not just the selected item but to everything within the nested list also. Firefox and Safari work perfectly. Hope this

[css-d] hover on input tag in IE6

2009-01-23 Thread Dermot Ward
Benjamin, I was meaning of just replacing the clunky browser buttons with prettier button images as being the most reliable cross browser solution and forgetting about the hover option altogether. Or would using javascript to fake hover here be acceptable practice.? Thank you again. Dermot.

[css-d] hover on input tag in IE6

2009-01-23 Thread Dermot Ward
Many thanks Benjamin, I guess using images is best in the long run so. Dermot. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List

[css-d] hover on input tag in IE6

2009-01-23 Thread Dermot Ward
Hi all, I think this is a css problem, but if it's not I apologise in advance. I'm trying to style a php input tag for hover and it works great in Firefox and Opera but alas not in IE6 which is the version I use for testing IE, on the assumption that if it works in 6 it should work in more rec

Re: [css-d] Banner width 1px less than page width

2008-12-15 Thread Dermot Ward
Thank you David. I thought there might be some bug workaround going on so thanks for clearing things up. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://cs

[css-d] Banner width 1px less than page width

2008-12-14 Thread Dermot Ward
Why do developers sometimes have a banner width 1px less than the page width? Thank you. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.

[css-d] Egg timer flicker in ie6 on hover

2008-04-28 Thread Dermot Ward
Alan, Thanks very much for your comments. That fix banishes the egg timer thing completely on my page. I'm still fiddling around a bit with spans and if I get lucky with a css fix I'll let you know. I'm constantly amazed at all the people here like yourself and Mark who take so much time and

[css-d] Egg timer flicker in ie6 on hover

2008-04-28 Thread Dermot Ward
Very many thanks Mark for your reply Really appreciated. Excellent article. Excellent fix. That flicker thing was like a toothache all weekend. Happy again. Kind regards, Dermot. _

[css-d] Egg timer flicker in ie6 on hover.

2008-04-27 Thread Dermot Ward
Hi Alan, Many thanks for your suggestion. I did as you directed but to no avail.. (You mentioned div#rightNav, but I think you meant div#catNav). When I remove the background bullet from div#catNav ul li everything works normally again. Its very frustrating. Thanks again for your reply Alan a

[css-d] egg timer flicker in ie6 on hover

2008-04-26 Thread Dermot Ward
Hi, Can anyone please tell me why there is that irritating egg timer flicker on the Categories ul on hover? The bullets and dotted underline are background graphics. The page is here:- http://defaultosc.com The css and markup validate. Many thanks. Dermot. ___

[css-d] Bullet graphics alignment in IE6

2008-04-25 Thread Dermot Ward
Hi all, I've just sussed my problem with the graphic bullets and IE6. Got the answer on an old thread from 30th Nov 2006:- "Problems with custom-image bullets (IE of course)" Many thanks to Barney Carroll. Basically use graphic bullets as background images. And use background-position to plac

[css-d] Bullet graphics alignment in IE6

2008-04-25 Thread Dermot Ward
Hi all, I've learned so much from this list in the last year or so that I'm finally attempting to hone my basic skills by duplicating some templates. I've hit a problem aligning graphic bullets with a ul. Things are fine in Firefox and Opera but the bullets are not lining up properly in IE6. Y

[css-d] Transparent div with opaque text.

2007-08-29 Thread Dermot Ward
Hi, What a great place this is for helping to demystify css. I've been grappling with this particular problem now for a couple of weeks so here goes with my first post. Is it possible to have a semi - transparent box within a div, that allows the containing div's content to partially show through