Re: [css-d] navigation link a different colour when page is active

eral pages with the same body id value, this doesn't matter as only one page is loaded at a time. This allows several pages to be current under a navigation link, like part 2 of an article and so on. I use this technique on quickly made mockups and similar. /MB ___

Re: [css-d] New to css [late response]

Ed Seedhouse said: >Yes, it is wrong to use tables to create a layout, but not to use them >when appropriate is equally mistaken. I would argue that a general "wrong" is a bit strong in this context. "The wrong approach to reach your objectives" in many cases or "a more limited way of achieving w

Re: [css-d] Combinators: How to Address Multiple Successive Tags

Rick Gordon said: >There's no way the user is going to deal with HTML for this, so CSS is >the only hope. What about the server-side software? It can't be made to translate user- input paragraphs to, paragraphs? If so, that's quite lame. It do sound like a setting issue as it's very basic mechani

Re: [css-d] doctype

Chris Blake told: >Sorry! This document can not be checked. > >When i try to validate anything that is UTF8. If you kept reading you would see that the validation page says further down: "I am unable to validate this document because on line 35 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot int

Re: [css-d] doctype

Chris Blake said: >What gives, I can't even pass 100% before writing anything! You are mixing the syntax of HTML and XHTML. I wouldn't be using XHTML unless I had specific reasons for that. From a pure CSS perspective the reasons for choosing HTML or XHTML are close to nil. However, if you're goi

Re: [css-d] New to css

Bill Braun said: >Your interpretation is a bit on the literal side, but I am grateful for >your kind words nevertheless. My apologies. I forgot the smiley. Digital communication can be difficult when writing on the run. __ css

Re: [css-d] New to css

tis- what-is-it/> The cure is IMHO semantic markup methods. Robert Nyman has a nice brief introduction: "Explaining Semantic Mark-Up" <http://robertnyman.com/2007/10/29/explaining-semantic-mark-up/> /MB "Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not

Re: [css-d] sprites and dropdowns

Ido dekkers asked: >one more - is there a way to make the dropdowns (regular ones) accessible >without JS? Only with mouseover ie adding the pseudoclass ":hover". Clicks means JS. __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http

Re: [css-d] content in table won't align vertically

Chris Blake suggested: >The best editor for Mac OSX is Coda by Panic. It uses the Safari >render engine (webkit) from your mac to preview your pages. >http://www.panic.com/coda/ I may take this route and use Coda, but I am still thinking about it. Perhaps I could use it for a small project duri

Re: [css-d] content in table won't align vertically

Philip TAYLOR said: > In my experience, DW almost never >grasps the full subtlety of CSS, and its rendering >usually leaves a great deal to be desired. I thought DW used webkit for the Live view on Mac OS X at least. There are a lot of webkit-based browsers, no? Obviously, the Design view in DW i

Re: [css-d] "Transcendant" web design and CSS3

at recently. But that varies from site to site of course. /MB "Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration." -- Jeffrey Zeldman <http://twitter.com/zeldman/statuses/804159148>

Re: [css-d] can't get my sprites to work.

Drazin Carrie said: >My sprites are not working- any suggestions? I'll get back to you on this. >Also, the orange badge that says upcoming events >is supposed to be absolutely positioned, >but when I resize the page - it moves? You have not set a positioning context to let your absolutely positio

Re: [css-d] "Transcendant" web design and CSS3

Thierry Koblentz said: >I'm not for serving pixel perfect designs - or even identical look - across >browsers, but I'm not for "punishing" IE6 users either. >I'm sorry, but this makes no sense to me... To quote Georg: "It leaves older IE/win versions with a perfectly usable document, and doesn't

Re: [css-d] css-sound joomla templates?

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. It turns out I'm going to write my own publishing engine instead for this assignment, so no Joomla this time. /MB __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discus

Re: [css-d] css-sound joomla templates?

stead for this assignment, so no Joomla this time. Thanks for your response. /MB __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List poli

Re: [css-d] FW: tags

Alan Gresley blurted out: >> The "built-in defaults" ARE CSS. It's the CSS the browsermakers decided >> to have builtin. Technically, this is the case with Firefox anyway. > >No, you are both wrong in opposite ways. The user agent defaults are >just style sheets and an important part in the casca

Re: [css-d] FW: tags

eel my markup work WITH the browsers way of conveying this structure, not against it. I don't think HTML is perfect in any way, but separating presentation and structure/meaning is way better than the old alternative IMHO. /MB __

Re: [css-d] FW: tags

Bob Rosenberg said: >CSS is a way of changing the built-in defaults for how to display >text enclosed in the different tags. The "built-in defaults" ARE CSS. It's the CSS the browsermakers decided to have builtin. Technically, this is the case with Firefox anyway. __

Re: [css-d] FW: tags

ut perhaps (hopefully) I'm missing your point. /MB __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-disc

[css-d] css-sound joomla templates?

y edit the layout via CSS. /MB __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/pol

Re: [css-d] horizontal scrollbar :: OS X 10.5 -- 10.5.8 + IE6 in XPsp3

afari 4.04 (both OS X), IE5 and now also Chrome 4.0 (both XPsp3). No scrollbars at the end or anywhere but the browser window itself. /MB __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [css-d] horizontal scrollbar :: OS X 10.5 -- 10.5.8 + IE6 in XPsp3

the problem so I fired up IE6 running under Windows XP sp3. I see no scrollbars there either, also text-size set at biggest. Unfortunately I don't have access to IE7 or 8 at this time. I'll see if i can confirm in Chrome later if you want. Coudl you post a picture too? Mayb

Re: [css-d] horizontal scrollbar

David Laakso sa såhär: >Thanks to all who took time to view and write (saves a trip to the >Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Outpatient Clinic). I wish when someone posts something, this someone either move the original problem files to a new URL and post that afterwards, or even be

Re: [css-d] Moving css to external css changes results?!

David Dorward said: >There is no difference in cascade order between embedded and external. Not so fast. If the link to the external stylesheet preceeds the style element - which is common - styles declared in the style element come before in the cascade because of source order, ie being redecla

[css-d] Is there a simple way to center in an iframe?

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:21 PM, David Dorward wrote: > 2009/11/11 Alan Gresley : >> Hello, Michael, since iframe is a deprecated inline element. > > Iframe is not deprecated (although is discouraged). If you are using the strict version of HTML 4.01, then iframes aren't even a part of HTML. i.e