Re: [css-d] mysterious letter appearing only in IE6

2008-05-15 Thread Joel D Canfield
> In the top right there is a menu and in IE6, and ONLY in IE6, > the letter > "e" appears like a fourth link in the menu. > > http://raidesign.ca/test/test.html in my copy of IE6 (on WinXP) there's nothing at all above the large image, which is jammed right against the top of the window. my a

Re: [css-d] Missing width and height for : why IE doesn't showtheimage when I'm using CSS?

2007-10-26 Thread Joel D Canfield
> t show the images when height="" and width="" If the height and width are explicitly set to zero, well, they'll be zero. If they're *left out entirely*, that's not great, but at least it doesn't display them with a width and height of zero. joel

Re: [css-d] How can I prevent this menu from wrapping?

2007-10-18 Thread Joel D Canfield
> I can't get anything to work without either > getting a scrollbar or having the menu be the wrong width. What's the 'Other Option' you're looking for? If the nav is wider than the window, either it wraps or you get a scrollbar, unless you're looking for a way to shrink the nav on the fly? I th

Re: [css-d] coloring ordered list item numbers

2007-09-29 Thread Joel D Canfield
> Is there a "CSS way" of handling it without extraneous markup: > > foo Nope. (Okay, not that I know of.) Different browser/speed of the wind/OS combinations seem to handle list bullets very differently. Which makes this 'necessary markup' rather than 'extraneous markup', yes? ;) Maybe it's ju

Re: [css-d] Easy way to replace table layout with css-layout?

2007-09-17 Thread Joel D Canfield
> I'm trying to achieve someting like this (the rows and > columns that is): > http://www.wiberger.se/templates/vred.htm That's tabular data, isn't it? Either it belongs in columns and rows, and you should use a table, or it doesn't belong in columns and rows, and just floating items left until t

Re: [css-d] Beginner: fixing text to bottom of a div

2007-08-23 Thread Joel D Canfield
> > #heading { > > position: relative; > > } > > > > #heading h1 { > > bottom: 0; > > position: absolute; > > } > > > > Works for me. > > Thanks, for me, too. Now I gotta read why ;) from http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=AbsoluteLayouts "The CSS2 specification tells us that an absolute pos

Re: [css-d] simple css question

2007-08-20 Thread Joel D Canfield
> Does 50% x 2 not > equal 100% in IE 7? Quite often, it doesn't, since IE has emotional issues with padding due to some childhood trauma. See http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/floatIndent.html or this list's archives (where would those be, I wonder?) for more details. joel ___

Re: [css-d] 5 column 5 row table

2007-08-20 Thread Joel D Canfield
> I' m trying to > recreate a five column, 5 row table using CSS I'll leave the other semantic issues to more experienced heads, but are you certain your data isn't really tabular, making a table the correct tool? joel __ css-di

Re: [css-d] Ways to create css pages

2007-08-02 Thread Joel D Canfield
> That said, whether you maintain libraries and/or snippets of css for > reuse from project to project or like to roll your sleeves up afresh > each time confronted with a blank slate is very much on topic, so > have at it! I've developed the habit of reusing the most recent client's CSS for th

Re: [css-d] Un-wanted space around images

2007-07-19 Thread Joel D Canfield
> I want six thumbnails of the same size lined up horizontally to be > touching each other. They do until I create a link out of each of > them. you may only be styling the ; if they're links, you'll need to style the as well (which would explain why it happens when you make them links) joel

Re: [css-d] Companion column method

2007-07-09 Thread Joel D Canfield
> http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/companions.html > > introduces a technique for equal heights aspect of columns. I'll have to come back and give it a thorough read rather than just scanning, but I have to say, this graphic http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/companions/co-pedestal.png is a spectac

Re: [css-d] alignment using CSS

2007-07-06 Thread Joel D Canfield
> I have a list of hours > > Monday - Friday9:00 AM - 9:00 PM > Saturday 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM > SundayClosed the fact that you don't explicitly include the headings 'Days' and 'Hours' doesn't stop it being a table. it's tabular data; I'd consider using pure CSS to b

Re: [css-d] Best way for text when enlarged

2007-06-21 Thread Joel D Canfield
> complete user control over text size > Example: I have a fixed width design mutually exclusive parameters. if the width is fixed, at some point I can enlarge the text enough to break it. it's about balance - *how much* can they enlarge it before it breaks? is it really 'broken' or just not t

Re: [css-d] Ideas for handling text with CSS

2007-06-20 Thread Joel D Canfield
> > > include 3 pieces of information, like name, phone, and email > Is a table with just one column really a table? nope, it's a list. now, a table with *three* columns, that's different . . . __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Ideas for handling text with CSS

2007-06-20 Thread Joel D Canfield
> I was wondering if anyone has a link or information as how to > best handle > text with CSS. By text I mean a line of text that may > include 3 pieces of > information, like name, phone, and email address. > > In the past, I always used tables for this, but want to > handle this with > the u

Re: [css-d] tabbed nav: head chopped off in IE

2007-06-15 Thread Joel D Canfield
I've sorted out the FF issue; now it's just IE. I can't find any reference to the right bug to fix :( http://spinhead.info/ah/4.1/ The tabbed navigation floats up and the top border of each tab is chopped off. Any thoughts? Thanks. joel __

[css-d] tabbed nav: won't sit down in FF, head chopped off in IE

2007-06-15 Thread Joel D Canfield
http://spinhead.info/ah/4.1/ The tabbed navigation floats above the bottom of the header div instead of dropping to the bottom in FF. In IE, it floats to the top and the top border of each tab is chopped off. I've colored the background of the navcontainer yellow and the header div turquoise just

Re: [css-d] mystery padding/margin

2007-06-03 Thread Joel D Canfield
> Joel D Canfield wrote: > > I can't sort out why the navigation is dropped about 1 em > below the top > > of the containing div here: > > > > http://www.grassies.com/ > > > > In what browser and operating system are you experiencing > this

[css-d] mystery padding/margin

2007-06-03 Thread Joel D Canfield
I can't sort out why the navigation is dropped about 1 em below the top of the containing div here: http://www.grassies.com/ Any ideas? thanks joel __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [css-d] Centering a floating element

2007-05-29 Thread Joel D Canfield
> It's a list of prices, in my opinion. Prices, related to quantities. Rows and columns; a matrix of related values. A list is a single column of values; once you get into multiple columns which are directly related like this, isn't that tabular? joel

Re: [css-d] Centering a floating element

2007-05-29 Thread Joel D Canfield
> I do NOT want to resort to tables, and I'm > starting to think I have to :( Why do you feel this isn't tabular data? joel __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- h

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

2007-05-09 Thread Joel D Canfield
> All my *text* (not just links) is underlined on mouseover in This isn't valid: An anchor has to have a separate end tag, thus: visible text joel No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.6/794 - Release Date: 5/

[css-d] image shifted right

2007-04-24 Thread Joel D Canfield
I can't sort out why the logo in the white box at the top is shifted right 8 or 10 px http://spinhead.info/ah/one/ I've colored the background image yellow to show where the left edge is; the white background of the logo image should cover that, but leave a small dark blue border to the ri

[css-d] gap between divs in IE6 only

2007-04-15 Thread Joel D Canfield
This page http://rgtoday.com/rg/new/ looks as expected in FireFox, last two versions of Netscape, last two versions of Opera, and IE7. In IE6 the last rounded corner-producing div in each column has a large gap above it. Any idea what I've done to cause it? Thanks very much. joel -- No

[css-d] IE padding and/or positioning issues

2007-04-14 Thread Joel D Canfield
http://rgtoday.com/rg/new/ Looks as expected in the last two versions of FireFox, Netscape, and Opera. In IE7, the text in the header is jammed at the top instead of being more or less vertically centered. IE6 is even cooler; besides the header alignment issue, the image div at the bottom of e

Re: [css-d] Firefox - opening container with only floats inside

2007-04-12 Thread Joel D Canfield
> I have a wrapper DIV. Inside that > wrapper div, > all the content is floated, thereby causing the wrapper DIV > to never open up. float the wrapper. if everything inside it is floated, it collapses. floating it puts it in the same negative zone as the other DIVs (and, presumably, Captain Am

[css-d] IE6 blows up my nav; NN 8,9 add mystery line

2007-03-22 Thread Joel D Canfield
rough draft which is why the top banner pic is ugly, and the lower curves are jaggy. among other things ;) thanks joel -- Joel D Canfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intranet Intelligence Streamline Business Tasks with Web Tools http://Streamliine.com/ -- No virus found in this outgoing message

[css-d] a in li w/o padding-top -bottom: what is IE doing?

2007-03-09 Thread Joel D Canfield
http://streamliine.com/ii/bb/ looks as expected in FireFox, last two versions of NN, and Opera. IE7 adds padding, methinks, to the text; IE6 blows up entirely and adds a quart of margin. why? thanks muchly spinhead -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Vers

[css-d] setting width of

2007-03-06 Thread Joel D Canfield
I'm stumped (again) How can I set the width of the navigation on the right so each link is the same width? Meaning, the background/hover effects, etc. http://www.grassies.com/g/ Setting the width of just doesn't seem to have any effect whatsoever. Thanks. joel -- Joel D Canfi

[css-d] IE (6 & 7) not clearing

2007-03-02 Thread Joel D Canfield
Still struggling with the quirks of CSS in IE; perhaps this should be obvious, but I can't tell why the content div floats left against the logo div in IE 6 & 7, rising to the top of the page, but in FF, NN, and Opera, the header clears, and the content floats left against it, top-aligned with the