Re: [css-d] IE6 'dotted' border bug

2006-04-26 Thread Ian Anderson
jack fredricks wrote: > When I scroll down the page, IE doesn't redraw the borders well, and > they end up all 'bunched up' (so instead of steady dashes, i get > little sections of solid lines randomly dispersed throughout) Well, IE doesn't seem to be able to do nice dotted lines. What I have do

Re: [css-d] Website critique

2006-03-12 Thread Ian Anderson
Keith Cox wrote: > http://website1.keithcoxdesign.com Nice site! This is really your first? Two comments. 1. I think there is some risk of confusion calling a section "Siteplan"; I expected this to be a sitemap for the web site, not a plan of the, well, site. Perhaps you could come up with a

[css-d] Mid-Pass filter - any problems expected with IE7?

2006-02-08 Thread Ian Anderson
Hi all, I use the Mid Pass filter[1] from Tantek Celik to supply IE5 Win specific styles to that browser: @media tty { i{content:"\";/*" "*/}} @import 'ie5.css'; /*";} }/* */ According to Celik, this should be safe for standards compliant browsers, provided they do not render to the 'TTY' me

Re: [css-d] Need help!

2006-02-07 Thread Ian Anderson
Julie Flolo wrote: > My main question right now is: Why isn't the background on the top > horizontal menu going all the way to the top of the element? There's > a gap between the top logo and the menu, and the page background is > showing. I think the default margin on the UL inside topmenu is

Re: [css-d] Inline styles and the people who hate them.

2006-02-03 Thread Ian Anderson
Martin Heiden wrote: > If you have too many rules, you can add page level external css-files. Personally, I cannot see the purpose in having page-level external files in addition to shared group-wide or site-wide files, except for one thing: media types. If you link to external style sheets you

Re: [css-d] CSS and e-mail clients

2006-01-31 Thread Ian Anderson
Sander van Surksum wrote: > Is there a guideline or a website that can show/tell me how css will > display in the most common e-mailclients. Try these for information: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssemail/ http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StyleInEmail Also, these guys have a good re

Re: [css-d] IE and Firefox respond differently to pixel setting!

2006-01-30 Thread Ian Anderson
francky wrote: > Without spacer or html-comment also a {font-size: 1px; }can be usefull > (that also forces down the line-height that IE is giving). Indeed, but IE then gives the container contents a height of 2px. Using a comment, you can get it down to 1px, or even 0px Cheers Ian -- _

Re: [css-d] Browser Statistics

2006-01-30 Thread Ian Anderson
Bob Easton wrote: > If you are trying to make a decision about which browsers to support, > the *only* place you should be looking is your own site's logs. > Determine what your actual audience uses, not some sample of an unknown > audience. I think this is potentially bad advice in that it ca

Re: [css-d] IE and Firefox respond differently to pixel setting!

2006-01-30 Thread Ian Anderson
Zach Byrd wrote: > I used pixels to set the height on a web project I am > working on. The height in IE does not respond(will not > get any smaller) below a setting of 15px(in CSS), but > in Firefox the setting reflects what height I put in > the CSS. I would appreciate any advice on this matter.

Re: [css-d] stylesheet not working in IE

2006-01-17 Thread Ian Anderson
Arno @ Raketnet wrote: > First, the stylesheet seems not to be working in IE. IE seems to not like the media-type here: @import url(scripts/sheet1.css) screen; In a basic local test, removing "screen" allowed the styles to work. Hadn't seen this in use before; interesting. What's the U

Re: [css-d] Positioning Help Please

2006-01-16 Thread Ian Anderson
Colin McGarry wrote: > Hello > I'm no expert on css but it seems to me that one can't put > postion:absolute on contained items. > They postion themselves relative to the window. There is a little more to it than that. Read this if you're interested: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#conta

Re: [css-d] Positioning Help Please

2006-01-16 Thread Ian Anderson
Thomas Hall wrote: > This is about what I am after except I'd like to be able to absolutely > position elements inside the header, footer, and columns. You need to establish a new positioning context specific to each of those areas: you can do this by setting each area to either position: rela

Re: [css-d] Too much space around the hr tag

2006-01-13 Thread Ian Anderson
Thierry Koblentz wrote: > May I ask why you need the HR in there? > AFAIK, the markup below would render exactly the same: Can't speak for the OP, but personally I use hidden HR tags sometimes as section separators in the source so that with CSS off, the page is more usable. It's an accessibili

Re: [css-d] skip navigation

2006-01-13 Thread Ian Anderson
Paul Novitski wrote: > a. I think you meant overflow: hidden. My mistake...apologies > b. Unless you add overflow: hidden; to this, greatly enlarged text may > intrude into the display area (i.e., extend to the right past column 0). > > Just to be Absolute Sure (in case there's a browser that

Re: [css-d] Too much space around the hr tag

2006-01-12 Thread Ian Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I do want the tag. I put the border around the tag to show > that there are space above and below the in IE. I want the red > border around an tag. But I don't want the "white air" in between > the red border and the . That is what I want to achieve. > > I want the

Re: [css-d] skip navigation

2006-01-12 Thread Ian Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to provide a skip navigation link for pages, what is the best > way to do this. All my pages have different named divs so can I just > put a named anchor and link it. Some of this may be OT for this list, so apologies to all if that is the case. Yup, from a bro

Re: [css-d] multiple columns inside multiple columns

2006-01-09 Thread Ian Anderson
Ian Young wrote: > I would play around with the width of your left and right columns making > sure that these do not have more than a 100% width, including margins and > padding etc and see if these give you two columns on their own before > including within your page. > > eg This might be better

Re: [css-d] Printing Stylesheet?

2006-01-08 Thread Ian Anderson
Design Groups wrote: > You know, just to try it an see what would happen (I didn't really expect it > to work, but one can hope!) - and everything was *enlarged* by 80%. So I > was wondering if anyone had any alternate suggestions or ideas that wouldn't > require me to basically go in and rede

Re: [css-d] css & fonts

2006-01-05 Thread Ian Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://typetester.maratz.com/ That could be the coolest thing I have seen this year. (*ahem*) But why does 1em Verdana look so small? Surely it's totally misleading? Looks like it's based on setting the default size really small in the first place - somewhere not in t

Re: [css-d] image replacement problem in Mac IE

2006-01-05 Thread Ian Anderson
Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: > I'm not a MacIE expert (still haven't gotten that MacMini to play > around with, alas) but I know that there are other image replacement > methods that are more accessible than FIR and that work better with > MacIE. This is the best one for across the board compatibili

Re: [css-d] Deciding what browsers to build for/test in

2006-01-05 Thread Ian Anderson
Christian Heilmann wrote: > Make the sites work in all browsers, enhance by object detection or > valid CSS selectors and do the cleaning up for those your users are > most likely to have according to your stats. I agree with the principle Christian outlines here, but I think the danger in the w

Re: [css-d] Peekaboo bug?

2005-12-22 Thread Ian Anderson
Jonathan Berry wrote: > We are having a problem with one of our sites wherein the left nav shifts > either on load or refresh (i.e. if you cannot get it immediately then > refresh and you will see the probelm). This is only in IE and looks like it > might be an instance of the Peekaboo bug. But we

Re: [css-d] Box Model

2005-12-21 Thread Ian Anderson
bill scheider wrote: > This has been completely answered in regards to IE6. Does it also apply to > earlier versions of IE? Thanks for any further help or suggestions. Versions of IE for Windows prior to 6.0 use the incorrect box model regardless of DOCTYPE, where margins, border and padding are

Re: [css-d] Reassurance or otherwise required for first efforts in CSS!

2005-12-20 Thread Ian Anderson
Rizky wrote: > the content of master-import.css > > @import url(main.css); @import url(about-page.css); @import > url(profile-page.css); > > And so this is the file that I linked to the page templates. Btw, I > got this idea from the Macromedia website.. I agree with this; certainly

Re: [css-d] Variable background image size

2005-12-17 Thread Ian Anderson
Stevio wrote: > I am trying to have a left column with a different colour that resizes when > the font size is resized. > > I saw this technique a while ago but I can't remember exactly how it works - > where basically you have a background image that is larger than what your > window will ever b