Re: [css-d] Site check, please -- two small problems

2007-05-30 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
See this Tom, http://htmlfixit.com/?p=1013 The advice there should fix your son of suckerfish issue I suspect. Don > Second, I am using the son of Suckerfish menus. In Safari, when you move > over a choice to reveal the submenu, things appear okay -- until you move > onto one of the submenu's choi

Re: [css-d] FW: Unwanted underlines on text (not links) in FF

2007-05-09 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
Allison Bloodworth wrote: > Hi, > > For some reason when I add the following to my css: > > a:hover { > text-decoration: underline; > } > > All my *text* (not just links) is underlined on mouseover in FF 1.5.0. This > is not happening in IE 7. The site where this is happening can be

Re: [css-d] pdf link is linking to everything

2007-05-03 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
Phil Turner wrote: > Help please Ive linked a pdf file to the brochure image, but its also > made the other images a link > and I cant get rid of the colour highlight on the links, its > obviously inheriting the default but I've written new link attributes > for the div and its not working >

Re: [css-d] conditional comments

2007-04-25 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
Jens Brueckmann wrote: > Hi John, > >> >> >> shows at the top of the page on a white line. > > adding a space after the first two dashes and before the second double > dashes should solve your problem. > > Cheers, > > jens > Works for me. ___

Re: [css-d] problem with subemenus in drop menu (IE7)

2007-04-24 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
> The trigger for the dropdown is in the javascript, so the submenus are not > positioned underneath the top level menu with CSS when hovered. Pure CSS > based dropdown menus can now work in IE7 since it now honors the hover of any > element. The element to make CSS dropdowns work when hovered i

Re: [css-d] menu affect

2007-04-23 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
Terry O'Leary wrote: > HI Guys > > I'm wanting to produce a menu type affect that when a user rollsover a menu > item an image slide out of the menu (similar to a drop down) I dont want > this image to do anything just slide in and out of view depending o nthe > hovering. > > Can anyone suggest a

Re: [css-d] IE bug?

2007-04-15 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
Shelly wrote: > I'm having an issue here I've never come across before. > > I've got a site changed out from tables to XHTML Transitional/CSS. I > need a couple of conditional comments for teensy edits, but I'm having a > headache of a time. > > If I set the conditional like so: > > > > (wi

Re: [css-d] Web calendar

2007-04-09 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
David Dorward wrote: > On 04/04/07, Chris Rahe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm pretty new to css, table-less design but I'm trying to get up to speed >> quickly. I had to put a calendar on the web and I tried to come up with a >> useful way to do it using CSS and no tables. snip > ... I suggest s

Re: [css-d] horizontal LI menu doesn't work in FireFox

2007-04-05 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
Tom Dell'Aringa wrote: > Floating the containing DIV does not seem to help. How can I get UL in FF to > open up? You can see the test page at: > > http://www.pixelmech.com/rev/tabs2.html > Oh, now I see you want it side to side 100% in essence? Float the UL itself. #navbar ul { float: l

Re: [css-d] horizontal LI menu doesn't work in FireFox

2007-04-05 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
Tom Dell'Aringa wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm wanting to use a navigation bar similar to Simplebits.com - just a > simple horizontal menu. It seems to work just fine in IE6 and IE7, but fails > in Firefox (for a change). In Firefox, the UL seems to be collapsing, due to > the fact that the LI and A's

Re: [css-d] Pipe List

2007-04-04 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
~davidLaakso wrote: > Jim Nannery wrote: >>> I am seeking a pipe menu, or a border menu that does /not/ require >>> images and works in all versions of IE including mac/IE5.2. If I have a >>> choice I would prefer /not/ to hack IE7.0. >>> For example, something like this >>>

Re: [css-d] Conditional Comments: Help with order please in IE

2007-04-03 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
I would use this: Are you sure though that you really want to do this this way? Maintenance nightmare. Better to come up with a cross browser/version solution? __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/

Re: [css-d] Pipe List

2007-04-03 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
snip > Here's one that apparently works all three ways in ie6, ie7 and in ff > using just borders ... > http://www.sitepoint.com/examples/pipe-delimiter/index.htm > > Note that he is hiding the first pipe by using a negative left margin > even though it actually exists. One could of course a

Re: [css-d] Pipe List

2007-04-03 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
> Both of the "conditional comment" fixes you provided will work. No > question about that. > > I had hoped (and should have written) to find a solution that would > /not/ require hacking IE7.0. > > Anyone? Or is this a pipe dream? Well you didn't say so David :-) We hack ie6 in the existin

Re: [css-d] Pipe List

2007-04-03 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
Ian Young wrote: >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ian Young >> Sent: 03 April 2007 17:21 >> To: ~davidLaakso; CSS >> Subject: Re: [css-d] Pipe List >> >> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ~da

[css-d] broken son of sucker fish menu

2007-03-30 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
Ok so I managed to break it ... seems to work in ff just fine, but has a sticky problem in ie7. If you hover slowly right over the left/right divider, it will sometimes hang so that the hover pop-up doesn't disappear. http://ownersconnect.com/dev/index5.html I am obviously doing something wron

Re: [css-d] styling a ul

2007-03-30 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> (Should I create a class to attach to the ul?) >> The short answer is "yes", but a better (longer) answer is you should >> use an ID, since there's only likely to be one instance of it per page. > > Thank you, so then it would be (for instance) > > > > > > an

Re: [css-d] Help me with this mess

2007-03-19 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
I use a nice text editor called notetab (there is a free light version at http://notetab.com in addition to a low cost pro version) and it has a utility clip that will find every image tag with a missing alt and prompt you for the text to insert so that you can easily insert them. If you have a

Re: [css-d] Help with line spacing

2006-03-27 Thread Don - htmlfixit.com
Michelle Tarby wrote: > I'm hoping for some help or guidance with some text positioning issues > on a menu I'm working with. I'm struggling to get some space between > list items that wrap onto a second line (If I'm not explaining that > clearly, you can look at http://wwwdev.lemoyne.edu/academ

Re: [css-d] gabs in my header

2006-03-27 Thread Don - htmlfixit.com
shawn a wrote: > http://briandchandler.com/shawn/tara/ > > Firefox: 2 gaps. one gab above the horizontal nav bar. 2 or 3 pixels > in height. And one below looking to be like 10px in height > > > IE: one gab above the horizontal nav bar. 2 or 3 pixels in height You haven't given anything a heigh

Re: [css-d] IE column width problem

2006-03-27 Thread Don - htmlfixit.com
> The original site is www.a-wind-farm-too-far.com > The new page is www.a-wind-farm-too-far.com/indexnew.htm > > The original layout has a column ('sidebar') floated right with the main > content in 'maincol' inside 'container' which is floated left. > > The new layout has added 'infobar' inside

Re: [css-d] removing underlines from images placed between anchor tags

2006-03-26 Thread Don - htmlfixit.com
> for now i'm playing with the main CSS here: http://silvasonic.com/ > temp/sandbox/css_test_00.html (the actual CSS is right on the file > for the time being). so here's my question: > > how do i get rid of the underlining below the little calendar / clock > icon on hover? i've tried of sort

Re: [css-d] Centre a Div

2006-03-25 Thread Don - htmlfixit.com
> > > #everything{ > position: relative;} > > The learning curve for designing without tables is a steep one :) > > Joanne Not really Joanne, It does take a minute, but once you get it you'll see it isn't that difficult. http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/center/ _

Re: [css-d] Calling different navigation colours for different divs

2006-03-20 Thread Don - htmlfixit.com
Richard Brown wrote: > Hi > > Is it possible to name different navigation colours for different divs > please? The site in question is: > > style.css> > > If you notice the botto

Re: [css-d] h1 bottom border missing in IE

2006-03-18 Thread Don - htmlfixit.com
Ann Adamcik wrote: > Hi there, > > Could someone take a look at the header of this page and see what I'm doing > wrong? > In good browsers, the h1 at the top ("Engaged Encounter") has a 1px teal > bottom border. > In IE, the bottom border doesn't show up. Any clues? > > Page: http://ind

[css-d] how to specify mutiple selectors for a:link etc

2006-03-14 Thread Don - htmlfixit.com
I have this: .header1, .header2, a:link {color: #881719; text-decoration: none;} but that seems to treat it as: .header1 .header2 a:link I want it to be this: .header1 a:link .header2 a:link Do I need to repeat the a:link part? .header1 a:link, .header2 a:link {color: #881719; text-decoration: n

Re: [css-d] Navigation Woes

2006-03-10 Thread Don - htmlfixit.com
Richard Brown wrote: > I am trying to build a navigation for this site: > Following up on my earlier answer where your menu was dropping ... it is a total width issue that triggers the problem in ie6. You can easily fix the width issue: #sidebar{ /*width: 20

Re: [css-d] Navigation Woes

2006-03-10 Thread Don - htmlfixit.com
> As you can see it is a bit of a mess! What I would like to do is to > produce a small photo with a word underneath. The whole to be contained > within a border and to be the link. Is it possible to do this please > and if so how? > Here is the right direction ... perhaps. I note that the

Re: [css-d] Border-line Crazy

2006-03-09 Thread Don - htmlfixit.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, I'm trying to make a dashed bottom border for IE6-Win2K > (captive audience). It won't do it. I know dotted appears as > dashed in IE (at least that is what I read), but dashed is just > appearing as a solid line. The relevant code (I think) is > below (a little Java

Re: [css-d] Arrangement Attempt

2006-03-07 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
nouhad wrote: > Hello again :) > Here is how the page > looks after I applied my CSS Coding to it. > CSS Source can be found here . > HTML Source can be found here . > My mock-up ca

Re: [css-d] Table widths not the same with image in td

2006-03-07 Thread Don - htmlfixit.com
Scott Haneda wrote: > > Top table, has an image in it 728px wide, with a 3px border > > Bottom table is the same spec, but no image, yet it is narrower. This seems > to happen in Safari and FF on the mac, I can not test other browsers. > > How can I make the

Re: [css-d] simple problem?

2006-03-06 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
Peter Lloyd wrote: > Guys, thanks for the suggestions... > > The problem with clear: left; used in the main content area is that > it not only clears the image, but also the bottom of the search box > in the left-had column! So I guess the question then becomes can I > stop the interaction

Re: [css-d] building page with 100% divs

2006-03-04 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
Dear Georg, David and list, Thank you for your help! I have read carefully both of your emails and visited the pages recommended by both. I need my solution to work in Safari eventually, so I used the latter of the solutions suggested in David's reference page and did most of what Georg said

Re: [css-d] building page with 100% divs

2006-03-03 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
Don - HtmlFixIt.com wrote: > I am trying to build a page ... with little current success. Every > time I think I have it, it doesn't work. > I decided that was a bit obtuse ... so let me see if I can build my page one step at a time and get feedback. Step one is here: http:

[css-d] building page with 100% divs

2006-03-03 Thread Don - HtmlFixIt.com
I am trying to build a page ... with little current success. Every time I think I have it, it doesn't work. I want this: 1. a background image for the whole page html{ background-image: url(bgtile.gif); background-repeat: repeat; } 2. a body ... body { margin: 0px 0px 0