Re: [css-d] Firefox: absolute positioning ignored in generated content?

On Jul 17, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: Firefox doesn't support absolute positioning on generated content, because CSS2 didn'treally allow it. (That changed in CSS 2.1, but has not been implemented yet ) Well... crap. Looks like I have to resort to some kludgery. (as for I

[css-d] Firefox: absolute positioning ignored in generated content?

Ahoy, me droogs... I have a this site layout that works in Safari, but fails in FF3; see here: http://dev.everettvet.wd-2.net/hospital It looks like Firefox is just blowing off my absolute positioning properties on those images. Any idea how to make it bee-have? (as for IE...

Re: [css-d] ul/li alignment fails when height is longer than one line

On May 1, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Daniel Kessler wrote: > alright. > > I dunno if it's actually tabular data and I have a difficult time > determining if it is or isn't. It is. > It's a list of records from a > database and that list is presented here to choose which record to > edit. It does

[css-d] Still a glitch here in IE6 (fine in FF and Safari)

Hi all, So, this navmenu is almost working: http://dev.bell.wd-2.net Except that in IE6, there's a glitch as you hover onto the secondary nav menus, where they bloat out to 100% width. What causes that, and what can I do to get rid of it? thx-a-lot! —ml— _

[css-d] IE woes in pure CSS drop-down menu

Hi all, This site http://dev.bell.wd-2.net works fine in FF/Safari, but it's still lacking in IE. The problem is with the :hover behavior of the navigation links. Notes: 1) I've got Dean Edward's brilliant-but-unfortunately-named "IE7" package in the loop here (I use it for all my

Re: [css-d] Width blowout in IE

On Mar 7, 2007, at 1:53 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Guess one _can_ describe IE's behavior that way, but your understanding > of this 'auto-expansion' bug is still too weak to leave it at that. > > [sufficiently-detailed explanation snipped...] Wow! I had no idea it was that subtle... but I gue

Re: [css-d] Width blowout in IE

On Mar 6, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Add... > > #footer {margin-right: -25px;} > > ...to avoid IE's 'auto-expansion' bug. Perfect, thanks! I think you spoon-fed me a fix for a problem that was substantially like this one, a couple of months ago... but I didn't really understan

Re: [css-d] Width blowout in IE

Anybody? :-) thx, —ml— On Mar 4, 2007, at 8:50 PM, Mark Lundquist wrote: > OK... this layout is almost done, thx to everyone who's helped me > out...: > > dev.hearthstone.wd-2.net > > The only thing left is that gray footer sort of thing. In Exploder, &g

Re: [css-d] In-frame navigation with CSS

Hi Chris, On Mar 6, 2007, at 12:35 AM, Chris Chen wrote: > Is there a recommended way to do in-frame navigation with CSS > (replacement for )? Navigation isn't a concern of CSS, which has to do with presentation. But you knew that already :-)... Questions I would have, given that you are lo

Re: [css-d] position: fixed, transparency, and site performance

Hi Matt, I think all the ideas you mentioned are things that you can just try really easily... On Mar 5, 2007, at 2:12 PM, Matthew Bernhardt wrote: > a) Implement the background image via the background-image property - > but > I'm not sure how to get it to stretch as it does now? Not sure a

Re: [css-d] form elements and back button

Hi Noel, Yeah, this list really is just for CSS-related topics only, not HTML forms or Javascript. I'll email you the answer off-line. cheers, —ml— __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [css-d] Removing space between div tags

Hello, On Mar 5, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Farid Jamea wrote: > Here is the website I'm working on: > > http://cateringbyingrid.com/menu.html > > both IE7 and FF2 show spaces between my "menuheader" and "menufooter". This is caused by normal margin collapsing... which takes everyone by surprise at som

[css-d] Width blowout in IE

OK... this layout is almost done, thx to everyone who's helped me out...: dev.hearthstone.wd-2.net The only thing left is that gray footer sort of thing. In Exploder, it... well, it blows up :-(. You can see what I'm shooting for in Firefox or Safari, which do the right thing. I'm r

Re: [css-d] table height problem: FF vs. Safari

On Mar 4, 2007, at 12:57 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >> Maybe you can get away with something like this... >> > > ...which also comes in an "any column longest" non-table version... > >

Re: [css-d] table height problem: FF vs. Safari

On Mar 3, 2007, at 10:28 PM, francky wrote: > Then, as I tried to say some days ago, > > in table design, I think you can make a 3x2 table, with sliced images. > Top parts can be a bottom-right positioned background-img in the txt >

Re: [css-d] table height problem: FF vs. Safari

On Mar 3, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Maybe you can get away with something like this... > > Well — duh, now why didn't I think of that!? :-) Thanks a lot Georg... I owe you a beer the next time you are in Portland, Oregon USA :

Re: [css-d] table height problem: FF vs. Safari

On Mar 3, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Mark Lundquist wrote: >> See the 3 colored block areas here?: >> http://dev.hearthstone.wd-2.net/ > > (lots of frustration :-) ) > >> Help! How do I fix this? > > Maybe you can get away with something lik

[css-d] table height problem: FF vs. Safari

Hi, (Note, I'm still trying to pull this design together in compliant browsers, and I have dared not look at it Exploder yet...) See the 3 colored block areas here?: http://dev.hearthstone.wd-2.net/ Note, all the relevant CSS is in the top-level stylesheet "site.css" (not in the other

Re: [css-d] Two Problems

On Mar 1, 2007, at 11:06 AM, francky wrote: >> 1) The footer content has a higher z-index than the gray mask that >> runs across it... so why is the gray mask actually stacking above the >> content? >> >> > Hi Mark, > Though no answer to the question, ;-) > >#footer-content { >posit

[css-d] Two Problems

Hi, I just started this today... http://dev.hearthstone.wd-2.net/ and I'm seeing two problems (note, as always I'm starting w/ just FF & Safari — I'll deal w/ the IE carnage later!) 1) The footer content has a higher z-index than the gray mask that runs across it... so why is the gray

[css-d] Two Problems

Hi, I just started this today... http://dev.hearthstone.wd-2.net/ and I'm seeing two problems (note, as always I'm starting w/ just FF & Safari — I'll deal w/ the IE carnage later!) 1) The footer content has a higher z-index than the gray mask that runs across it... so why is the gray

Re: [css-d] (no subject)

On Feb 16, 2007, at 10:14 AM, jeffrey morin wrote: > is there a way to set an image as a border? No... but if the box you're bordering is fixed-width, you can combine a full-width background that contains the two side rails with :before/:after rules to give the top and bottom images. HTH, —ml

Re: [css-d] Problem with div wrapping

On Feb 13, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > I suggest you turn that #sidebar into a cross-browser reliable float, > by > replacing its styles with the following. > > #sidebar { > display: inline; > ... What's the purpose of the "display: inline" in this case? cheers, —ml—

[css-d] list-style-image horizontal spacing

Hi, What's the deal with the horizontal spacing between the image given by a 'list-style-image' property, and the contents of the element? IE inserts no space (which is actually what I want in this case); Firefox and Safari each appear to insert some amount of horizontal space in there. How

[css-d] position: relative on , hasLayout problem in IE?

Hi, I'm trying to make a simple 2-level all-CSS nav menu: first level horizontal, second level "flyover" vertical. It looks fine in Firefox and Safari, but not IE6. Here's a test page: http://dev.firpoint.wd-2.net/ notes before going on...: [1] In case you're viewing it only in IE6:

[css-d] inline-block (was Re: s inside inline s break free of their containers)

On Jan 18, 2007, at 8:23 AM, Rob O'Rourke wrote: > No problem, it gets even weirder in IE aswell, they have a display rule > called 'inline-block' (!?) which is nowhere in the w3c spec. Huh? http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#display-prop If I recall correctly... KHTML & IE get it

[css-d] 2 problems in IE...

Hi, I've got a couple of problems in IE that I don't know how to fix... if somebody could offer some tips I'd be grateful! An example page is here: http://dev.holliday.wd-2.net/promotions Problem #1: The "title bar" at the top of the main page content area, where it reads "EVENTS & PR

Re: [css-d] Centering images

On Jan 13, 2007, at 1:17 PM, david wrote: > Then the W3C's choice of "TEXT-align" is a bad choice. It specifies > "text" when it's really talking about something broader than what > people > think of as text. I agree :-) —ml—

Re: [css-d] Centering images

On Jan 13, 2007, at 12:50 PM, david wrote: > My understanding is, no, text-align is only supposed to align text. That's incorrect; see http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#alignment-prop: "This property describes how inline content of a block is aligned [etc...] All of this section i

[css-d] problem w/ absolute positioning in IE

Hi, Anybody know why this page http://dev.paradise.wd-2.net/views displays correctly in Gecko or KHTML browsers, but looks so very wrong in IE6? Notes: 1) there are some colored borders around some of the elements as a debugging aid. In particular, the masthead element with the whit

Re: [css-d] Header Width

Hi Paul, On Sep 1, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Paul Novitski wrote: I was mentioning floating as an alternative method of shrinking blocks I've always had the impression that floated blocks are supposed to have an explicit width... can you explain? Or am I just hepped-up on goof balls? :-) —ml—

Re: [css-d] How to get rid of gaps

On Sep 1, 2005, at 11:34 AM, Peter Speltz wrote: If anyone cares to reply: Is using id just a matter of protection for the developer by limiting them or is there more to it than that? It makes a difference at the JavaScript DOM level. And there are maybe other differences that I don't know

Re: [css-d] How to get rid of gaps

On Aug 31, 2005, at 9:51 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: Peter gave you the answer for the extra space already, but I'd like to add that you do not really need class="logo" in the markup because you can get to the images through: .logobar img {} ...and, unless there are more than one "logobar"

Re: [css-d] Opera ASA giving away license codes (1 day only!)

On Aug 30, 2005, at 2:34 PM, !!blue wrote: it won't give u the registration code if your using a browser other than Opera. just in case you tried it like me and all you got were blank boxes. it worked fine for me from Safari... —ml— ___

Re: [css-d] Possible to use a PHP echo within CSS?

On Aug 6, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Richard Hawking wrote: I was wondering if it's possible to use a PHP echo within CSS styling. Something like: # # {color:#66;} Would this work? If so, is it advisable to do this kind of thing? Well I think PHP is inadvisable, but that would probably not be a

Re: [css-d] Newbie needs help PLEASE

On Aug 1, 2005, at 7:51 PM, Matthew Ohlman wrote: Jon Trelfa wrote: I didn't have the <[cdata[ ... ]] around my style element UmmmI don't think that's necessary, is it? I never use that an my documents validate just fine...? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think It's optional. That

Re: [css-d] Newbie needs help PLEASE

On Aug 1, 2005, at 12:30 PM, Steve Clay wrote: I get *nothing* in Opera8. The page is invalid: Move this to your CSS so you have What Steve means is that you should have body { background-color: white; } in your CSS. :-) —ml— _

Re: [css-d] Is it possible? - 2 backgrounds images

On Jul 22, 2005, at 5:55 PM, Abyss Information wrote: Hiya CSS friends, Is it possible to have to have 2 background images? eg one in the top left hand corner and one in the top right hand corner of the one div? Nope. You'd have to specify 'background-image' twice, and the browser