[css-d] drop-down with active state on main menu

2008-11-12 Thread Karl Jacobs
Howdy all, I'm doing the standard sons-of-suckerfish menu (and have been using it a while) but with a new site I'm being requested to have an active state where the current section is highlighted in the main nav. Of course, it works fine in Safari, Firefox, but not IE. I suspect it's

Re: [css-d] drop-down with active state on main menu

2008-11-12 Thread Karl Jacobs
state on the main nav?..(never done it before myself, as I'm usually dropping the nav in a include file, which would rule out active state). Thanks, -- Karl On Nov 12, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Blake wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Karl Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas

[css-d] Print version CSS questions... print hidden content?

2008-09-29 Thread Karl Jacobs
Howdy, Had a hot project dump in my lap. We are going to eliminate the print version of an in-house newsletter, and taking it online. So I'll have a site for it, with a front page for it, that would hold the first paragraph or so of each article, and then click for more. No problem there.

[css-d] New CSS/html tools?..

2008-03-10 Thread Karl Jacobs
Howdy, I'm really ready to dump BBedit, and am wondering if anyone has a good html/css editor with autocomplete like many of the current tools, but also has the built-in ftp capabilities of BBedit? I am seeing a lot of tools with one or two good features, but nothing outstanding.

[css-d] Aligning text to the bottom of a li nav block?

2007-05-09 Thread Karl Jacobs
Howdy, I'm building a template for a standard horizontal menu navigation. The trick is, I'm trying to allow for buttons that might have two lines, where others have only one. Is there any way to get the text in the standard styled UL navigation method to get the text to align to the

[css-d] Designing for a CMS?.. absolute positioning vs wrapper div

2007-03-28 Thread Karl Jacobs
Hello, I've been tasked to design a new corporate template, that will theoretically be sucked into a CMS in the future, but of course, I don't know which one yet. (I'm pushing for MySourceMatrix for what it's worth). So, I need any best practices for designing the core of a layout that

[css-d] IE 3-pixel bug problem revisited

2006-08-16 Thread Karl Jacobs
Hello, I've got a question regarding the IE 3-pixel bug problem. (I've read over the Molly/John page on this a dozen times). I have been using the {height:1%;} to fix the bug in most of my layouts where needed. However, I've come across a situation where it breaks something worse that the

[css-d] breaking long words in fixed-width areas....

2006-08-04 Thread Karl Jacobs
Howdy, I'm doing some bug fixes on a template for a medical site. Everything is pretty clean, but, I'm having a problem with the left-nav. It's a typical styled-UL to create a left-nav that we all do now. The problem is there are a few medical words that are showing up in the left-nav that are

[css-d] style the parent object?...

2006-07-10 Thread Karl Jacobs
Howdy, I'm doing a standard suckerfish-style dropdown/flyout menu, but I'd like to add something. As you know, in a dropdown/flyout menu, if you have a item's background change using a:hover, once you roll off of that to the next level of the dropdown (I currently have 3 levels). the

[css-d] [OT] Need Contribute Publishing server resources

2006-05-09 Thread Karl Jacobs
Howdy, For those of you using CPS, I need references for Perl scripts used in conjuction with CPS for moving files and such. Since the Adobe takeover, their forums are pretty useless, and Google searches haven't turned up anything. Please don't respond back to the list... thanks! -- Karl

[css-d] IE whitespace bug AGAIN

2006-02-23 Thread Karl Jacobs
Howdy, Still having a whitespace problem with IE (5, 6, and 7). #leftnav li { width: 143px; border-top: solid 1px #7A7BAF; } #leftnav a { font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px; display: block; vertical-align: bottom; font-weight: bold;

[css-d] IE7 hovers and a IE vertical list bug?

2006-02-22 Thread Karl Jacobs
Hello all, Just discovered two things in a template that I'm building. Using Browsercam.com, it appears that the standard hover over a list item to highlight the item is not working. IE7 appears to ignore the hover. It's working in every other browser I test. I've searched for info on