Re: [css-d] Opera Type and Menu issues

2011-10-27 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 27/10/11 00:37, Kevin A. Cameron wrote: Browser preference. Most browsers now-a-days zoom the entire site (layout, graphics and all) not just text. Am I alone in detesting this practice? It means that enlarging the text causes the whole page to enlarge, often resulting in a horizontal scro

Re: [css-d] issue with suckerfish menu

2011-10-19 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 19/10/11 17:35, David Hucklesby wrote: On 10/19/11 7:32 AM, Chris Kavinsky wrote: I have a styled list for a site navigation I'm working on with a suckerfish dropdown menu. Below it I have an h1 tag with an image in it. I used a negative top with relative positioning to get the image/logo to

Re: [css-d] I must be a moron, How to reply to messages

2011-10-18 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 18/10/11 15:03, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Felix Miata wrote: > Linux distros are free to package extensions or not as they see fit. Apparently David's doesn't and yours does, or David's using neither Linux nor an extension that provides it. Is there any evidence to suggest t

Re: [css-d] I must be a moron, How to reply to messages

2011-10-18 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 18/10/11 09:37, david wrote: Al Sparber wrote: If you use a client like Thunderbird, there is a convenient "Reply List" button :-) Well, I use Thunderbird, and there's no Reply List button in mine. Odd - I use Thunderbird on Linux, and there is on mine. I've just used it! Lesley __

Re: [css-d] Help with 3rd column in IE8

2011-09-16 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 16/09/11 20:22, David Laakso wrote: On 9/16/11 3:03 PM, Coleen Holley wrote: http://www.aheartbreakinghchoice.com Can anyone offer me any assistance with why I am getting this overflow effect in IE8 only? Here is my CSS for that section: Coleen 3:24p Server not responding. ~d There's

Re: [css-d] FF4 and FF5 was (Sticky Footer Cuts Off In FF 4 & 5 Both Mac & Windows)

2011-09-12 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 12/09/11 14:19, Elli Vizcaino wrote: No, what I mean is FF 4& 5 were the 2 offered for testing on both Windows and Mac via Adobe Browser Labs. I'm still on version 3.6 on my own machine because the upgrade to FF4 was incompatible with Firebug and I didn't want to compromise my development

Re: [css-d] style with border, affecting nothing?

2011-08-29 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 29/08/11 16:17, John wrote: Is it possible to insert a style into my documents that would show a border of dimensions I choose, like 1024x768, which would be visible, but would affect/interfere with nothing else? my question is along the lines of Georg's suggestion of including a 1px red line

Re: [css-d] [CSS3] [HELP] Nav menu bug

2011-07-06 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 06/07/11 17:29, Mark Ayers wrote: It should work now. Theres still too much space at the top, but it doesn't jump around. It works fine on all three browsers, but the text saying "Nav" has vanished, making it very hard to find, especially on Firefox and Chromium, which don't display the whit

Re: [css-d] [CSS3] [HELP] Nav menu bug

2011-07-06 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 06/07/11 16:41, Mark Ayers wrote: This is the bug I'm trying to fix. Firefox is far worse because I develop for Webkit then add support for everything else, so I don't have the text written vertically in Firefox. On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Lesley Lutomsk

Re: [css-d] [CSS3] [HELP] Nav menu bug

2011-07-06 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 06/07/11 05:53, Mark Ayers wrote: http://www.ineedwebpage.com/ When you hover over the lower ones, the menu compresses (specifically the firstli in the list), which makes it very difficult to click the link to the homepage. FWIW, as a user with neurological/co-ordination problems, I find

Re: [css-d] Drop Cap missing in FF4

2011-05-12 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 12/05/11 13:27, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > Thanks for testing. That's really weird, because I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 with FF4.0.1 and there's no letter displayed. > > I realise there's an easy fix by deleting the ChromaSSK font, which i

Re: [css-d] Drop Cap missing in FF4

2011-05-12 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 12/05/11 00:59, David Laakso wrote: Dunno. Is this a blessing or a "bug." Thanks for the link, but that's an @font-face bug, and I'm using a simple font-family declaration, so I don't think that's the problem. On 12/05/11 02:12, Philip

Re: [css-d] Drop Cap missing in FF4

2011-05-11 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 11/05/11 21:40, David Laakso wrote: Site uri or an isolated test page uri might help those trying to help... Best, ~d Oops - sorry. It's been a long day. Lesley __ css-discuss [css-d@lists

[css-d] Drop Cap missing in FF4

2011-05-11 Thread Lesley Lutomski
Hi all, I have a site which uses drop caps at the start of some pages. The code for this is taken more or less straight out of Dan Cederholm's "Web Standards Solutions", apart from the font-family line. A .drop {float: left; font-size: 300%; line-height: 1em; margin:

Re: [css-d] Using CSS to control width of page.

2011-04-23 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 23/04/11 15:02, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > You've missed the semi-colon after "width: > 800px" - I don't know if that might be causing problems in whichever > browser you're using. It's not missing, it is omitted; as in Algol-68, semi-colon is a separator in CSS, not a termi

Re: [css-d] Using CSS to control width of page.

2011-04-23 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 23/04/11 07:45, Robin Chapple wrote: This is my first attempt at CSS for control of page display. Previously I used tables and CSS for the text, How do I set a width limit for anything that appears on a page. I tries this which does not work: body { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvet

Re: [css-d] Rule of Thumb For Naming Classes/IDs?

2011-03-30 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 30/03/11 16:09, Elli Vizcaino wrote: So I guess, in essence the answer is NO you cannot begin a class or ID name with numeric characters? Trip Adviser do it all the time and the W3 Validator throws an error, so technically I guess you can but you shouldn't! Lesley ___

Re: [css-d] CSS Horisontal Navigation Stopped Working

2011-03-25 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 24/03/11 20:28, Stephanie Robinson wrote: I've now changed it over to div's and while part of the css is working OK, the navigation drop downs and hovers quit working. My brain is mush looking at so few lines of code and not seeing what's wrong. http://www.issw.com/hallmark/index_new.htm

Re: [css-d] Browser Stacking Issues

2011-03-25 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 24/03/11 20:20, Tim Wolf wrote: 1. In Chrome (Mac& Win) and IE 7& 8, the css drop-downs on the left of this page fall behind the flash MP3 player in the left column. Seems like this would be a stacking issue but can't pin it down. http://159.247.160.110/pod.php FWIW, the same problem o

Re: [css-d] Trouble trying to center webpage

2011-03-14 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 14/03/11 05:50, Richard Wendrock Forum wrote: any idea as to how I can force the content to center in the page? Hi Richard, Try adding #aspnetForm {width: 1074px; margin: auto;} Works for me on Firefox but I can't test on anything else at the moment. Hope that helps. Lesley _

Re: [css-d] letter spacing difference (FF vs. Safari)

2011-03-04 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 04/03/11 14:57, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: Here is how I see it, by the way : https://picasaweb.google.com/Chaa006/ScreenCaptures?authkey=Gv1sRgCPLV3Kvwm6zA5QE#5580238912279306258 ** P. __ For what it's wor

Re: [css-d] which tag do i target with css for the hover effect i want

2010-11-08 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 08/11/10 13:36, Lisa Frost wrote: Is it better accessibility wise to make the whole area clickable or for a menu does it not matter. For folk with poor co-ordination or mobility problems, then (IMHO) the bigger the target to aim at, the better! On the other hand, a wee bit of "dead" space

Re: [css-d] Stylesheet renders in chinese?

2010-10-26 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 26/10/10 02:07, Rory Bernstein wrote: Hi all, A client asked me to do some basic work on her site (which was done by someone else), and when I view her stylesheet in a browser, the contents of the stylesheet show up in chinese: http://www.jitterbugsnyc.com/css/layout.css Can anyone suggest

Re: [css-d] nav help

2010-10-02 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 02/10/10 17:10, ludmilla wrote: Can anybody please let me know how to make the purple horizontal navigation to go all the way to the right. So that there is no "empty" space after the Mercantile link. http://www.moscowfood.coop/design_new/index.php?nmx=2_0 css is here: http://www.moscowfood.co

Re: [css-d] site design/layout feedback desired

2010-08-25 Thread Lesley Lutomski
On 25/08/10 04:21, Francesco wrote: Looking for feedback on a design I'm almost done with. http://blackcoil.com/classychild -- Francesco Sanfilippo, Blackcoil Productions I've tried this in Firefox 3.6.8 for Ubuntu Linux, with default text size set at 16, and in Epiphany 2.30.2 (Linux Webki