Re: [css-d] Question about ">" and targeting IE/Mac

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Hulse
On Mar 24, 2006, at 2:42 PM, Michael Hulse wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, me again... actually, still Googling, but... I just wanted to mention that the menu is surround by several other divs in the overall document... does that

Re: [css-d] Question about ">" and targeting IE/Mac

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Hulse
Hi Adam, thanks so much for you quick response! I really appreciate the help. :) On Mar 24, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Adam Kuehn wrote: > What is your markup? Doh! sorry about that... Hehe, noob mistake. :: blushes :: > Based on those selectors,

Re: [css-d] disappearing content in IE

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Hulse
On Mar 24, 2006, at 2:13 PM, David Feldman wrote: > Anyone encountered anything like this before? Peekaboo Bug? http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/peekaboo.html __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.

[css-d] Question about ">" and targeting IE/Mac

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Hulse
Hi, I need to change this: * html>body dl.hNav>dd to use an ID, like this: * html>body #hNav dl>dd Does that look right? Or should I do this: * html>body #hNav>dl>dd The goal is to target IE/Mac only. Any help would be great. TIA, Cheers, Micky _

[css-d] Front-page search box: Room for CSS improvement?

2006-03-23 Thread Michael Hulse
Hi folks, Below is HTML/CSS for a home page search box... I want the label, input, and search button graphic to align all on one line. Example via Safari: How could I improve-upon this code (basically I want it to be as cross-browser/platform compatible

Re: [css-d] body: margin=0 and padding=0, not working in Firefox or Opera - Problem solved

2006-03-19 Thread Michael Hulse
On Mar 19, 2006, at 4:21 PM, SED wrote: > I found out why the extra empty line showed up in Firefox and Opera. > The > margin and padding for tag must also be set to zero, not only > . > Weird, but it works. I think someone would have caught that if your code sample had the tag in it. Glad y

Re: [css-d] body: margin=0 and padding=0, not working in Firefox or Opera

2006-03-18 Thread Michael Hulse
On Mar 18, 2006, at 6:38 PM, SED wrote: > > > > > bla, bla, bla > > > What happens when you try this: bla, bla, bla Also, you do not need to specify units for zero. Hth, M __ css-discuss [EMAIL P

Re: [css-d] Legend of the Fieldset

2006-02-24 Thread Michael Hulse
On Feb 24, 2006, at 2:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can you help the young monkey? Lol, nice story. :D This is what I do... Prob best to put the hacks in separate IE-specific style sheets using condtional comments: /* You can use the underscore hack in order to not let this css affect fi

Re: [css-d] Centering a List Menu

2006-02-20 Thread Michael Hulse
On Feb 19, 2006, at 9:47 PM, Tyson Tate wrote: > I'm trying to create a centered menu using a ul that looks like so: > http://ohgoditburns.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/desired_menu.gif > The links are regular and don't use image replacement. > I can get the menu just fine using most any list menu

[css-d] IE7b2, interesting Sitepoint articles:

2006-02-20 Thread Michael Hulse
Just thought I would post some links to a couple of articles published via Sitepoint.com newsletters: • IE7: The 'IEagle' has Landed http://snipurl.com/mrrt • Introduction: Let's get to work! • CSS: Fixing SitePoint for IE7 http://snipurl.com/mrrw If anyone is curious, Sitepoint offers some dec

Re: [css-d] vertical stretch .. just can't get it

2006-02-06 Thread Michael Hulse
On Feb 6, 2006, at 10:37 PM, Peter Lindstrom wrote: > why can't I just have: > > > > > > That would be nice, but then again, everyone and their dog would be "web designers"... no thanks. Have you surfed these sites: http://www.cssbeauty.com/ http://cssdrive.com/ http://w

Re: [css-d] Is there a CSS hack png transparency?

2006-01-28 Thread Michael Hulse
On Jan 28, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Abyss Information wrote: > it falls over and doesn't work is there a CSS hack for this? CSSd WIKI search for "PNG": http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?action=find&find=PNG CSSd Archive search for "transparency": http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/css-discu

Re: [css-d] z-index with flash in firefox

2006-01-27 Thread Michael Hulse
On Jan 27, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Tanya Renne wrote: > can someone diagnose a fix for that? Z-index is still baffling to me. I suggest using wmode=opaque. www.communitymx.com article pertaining to Flash, DHTML Menus and Accessibility: http://snipurl.com/m08r

Re: [css-d] problem in mac IE 5.2

2006-01-25 Thread Michael Hulse
On Jan 25, 2006, at 2:40 PM, D Ross wrote: > FORGET about ie mac - don't worry about..dont waste thought on it. > It's gone bye bye. Some people can't forget about it. Example: My work (newspaper) uses page layout software that is OS9 only. All the staff who uses this software also uses IE 5.x

Re: [css-d] how to vertically align text?

2006-01-24 Thread Michael Hulse
On Jan 24, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Matthew Levine wrote: > On Jan 24, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Francesco wrote: > >> The text inside the LI appears lower slightly lower >> (almost subscripted) to the custom image. We usd to >> fix such things with vertical-align: middle; before >> CSS. How is this corrected

Re: [css-d] Calling a class within a class

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Hulse
On Jan 23, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Paul Kahl wrote: > Thanks for the input. I'm constantly freaking out about reusability. > I'm writing my first ASP.Net aps, and .Net code is heavy enough > without having to load a 50k stylesheet on top of it. I try to just > multi-class tags, but sometimes that gets

Re: [css-d] Form field colours

2006-01-21 Thread Michael Hulse
On Jan 21, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Vicki Stebbins wrote: > I set the background colour via the CSS to reflect a grey colour for > the background in the text boxes, which works fine in FF and Opera but > in IE6.0 it randomly shows some of the text boxes 'yellow'??? I get this same exact problem! I hav

Re: [css-d] Organizing CSS

2006-01-21 Thread Michael Hulse
On Jan 20, 2006, at 9:38 AM, Bill Moseley wrote: > I just looking for a few tips on how to organize CSS files. I kinda like how the CSS for most Ruthsarian Layouts is organized: http://webhost.bridgew.edu/etribou/layouts/index.html My personal technique is to link from index page like so: ...

Re: [css-d] preloading and background slices

2006-01-05 Thread Michael Hulse
On Jan 5, 2006, at 4:41 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The slices on this page load at different times. Is there a way to > delay the page loading until the all CSS background images are loaded. > Or make them all apear at the same time? I tried the basic preloading > (javascript) techniques b

Re: [css-d] Header, 2 cols, fixed footer

2006-01-05 Thread Michael Hulse
On Jan 5, 2006, at 2:34 AM, Julian Voelcker wrote: > Any advice, pointers to samples, etc would be appreciated. Here is an example, I think it is kinda like what you are looking for: Link: http://www.pmob.co.uk/temp/mac3column.htm Link description: 3 column layout - any column can be the longest.

Re: [css-d] * html div /* comment */ { ??

2006-01-04 Thread Michael Hulse
On Jan 3, 2006, at 11:50 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Looks like 'property/**/: value;', which indeed hides from IE5 on win > and Mac. > Reference: Ah, perfect. :) Thanks Gunlaug, I really appreciate your help. Hehe, ok, so when are you

[css-d] * html div /* comment */ { ??

2006-01-03 Thread Michael Hulse
Hello, Does the comment found in below CSS hide the styles from IE5.0/Win & IE5/Mac? * html #vNav dl dd a/* hide from IE5.0/Win & IE5/Mac */ { height: 0.01%; } Maybe I am blind, but I could not find: * html div /* comment */ { } via this reference page: http://centricle.com/ref/css/fi

Re: [css-d] Image repeat, what a mess

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Hulse
On Jan 2, 2006, at 4:41 AM, Ian Young wrote: > Thoughts? > At a quick glance, I noticed this as a possible problem: #container { float: right; width: 100%; margin-left: -210px; background-image: url(./images/leftbar.gif);repeat-y; } Instead, try some variat

Re: [css-d] PNG24 - AlphaImageLoader - Feed gif to IE5 - Will thisCSSapproach work?

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Hulse
On Jan 2, 2006, at 4:36 AM, Rowan @ Jetboy wrote: > IE5 on the Mac supports PNG transparency Ah! Right... Lol, I knew that. Hehe, well, I should have known that... Sometimes it is hard for me to remember these things... Anyway, thanks for pointing that one out too. :D > If you start to get am

Re: [css-d] PNG24 - AlphaImageLoader - Feed gif to IE5 - Will this CSSapproach work?

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Hulse
Hi Jetboy! Thanks for your prompt response! I really appreciate your time. :D On Jan 2, 2006, at 3:59 AM, Rowan @ Jetboy wrote: > I'd skip the hacks if I were you. Ah, thanks for the code. I think you are right... Separating the CSS into different style-sheets is the way to go. What would b

Re: [css-d] PNG24 - AlphaImageLoader - Feed gif to IE5 - Will this CSS approach work?

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Hulse
On Jan 2, 2006, at 3:58 AM, francky wrote: > Hello Micky, Hi! Thanks for the quick response! I really appreciate it. :) > I'm sorry I don't have the answer on your question. But do you have a > link to an online testpage, so we can see what kind of effect you > want? Sure. This is just a test

Re: [css-d] PNG24 - AlphaImageLoader - Feed gif to IE5 - Will this CSS approach work?

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Hulse
Ooops... On Jan 2, 2006, at 2:45 AM, Michael Hulse wrote: > #logoContainer { > background: transparent url(../img/template/logo.png) no-repeat > scroll 0 0; > width: 832px; > height: 396px; > margin: 0 auto; > } > @media all { >

[css-d] PNG24 - AlphaImageLoader - Feed gif to IE5 - Will this CSS approach work?

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Hulse
Hello all, I hope your new year is off to a good start! :) I am working with a transparent png... I want to the AlphaImageLoader filter to fix IE/PC... and because IE 5.0 on PC does not understand transparent .png or the filter, I want to feed that browser a gif version of same graphic... M

Re: [css-d] and Elements into one line?

2005-12-27 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 27, 2005, at 2:59 PM, heinrich klassen wrote: > how can i get a an into one row? i could not figure it out. A quick search on google for "Definition Lists" should yield some helpful results... This site will prob have what you need, or it will at least give you some good ideas: (Scrol

Re: [css-d] http://www.timbenzinger.com/

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 19, 2005, at 5:06 PM, Jan Brasna wrote: > It's some DOM magic AJAX comes to mind. On Dec 19, 2005, at 5:02 PM, Christian Heilmann wrote: > An effect like the one on this page could be easily done with moo.fx > http://moofx.mad4milk.net/ Breaks horribly in/on IE/Mac. :( -- ¸.·´¯`·.¸¸><(

Re: [css-d] display: -moz-inline-box; (&) inline-block;

2005-12-18 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 18, 2005, at 4:02 PM, Michael Hulse wrote: > (Using pieces of above two menus, I ended up with a centered > horizontal menu that is not floated and avoids phantom links on a > Mac.) I should also mention that I was able to avoid setting widths on each menu item too... man, wh

Re: [css-d] display: -moz-inline-box; (&) inline-block;

2005-12-18 Thread Michael Hulse
Hi! On Dec 18, 2005, at 6:07 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > Without knowing what you're trying to do, have you tried with display/ > table+display:table-cell? > > Here is a little experiment I did with various display types for a > 'navbar' kind of things: >

[css-d] display: -moz-inline-box; (&) inline-block;

2005-12-17 Thread Michael Hulse
Hello all, The below code makes Firefox on Mac to behave: .nav { display: -moz-inline-box; /* Fixes Firefox */ display: inline-block; } Any probs with -moz-inline-box in the PC world? Any good alternatives that will get Firefox to recognize inline-block? Man, I really need to g

Re: [css-d] can this behavior be beaten out of IE

2005-12-16 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 16, 2005, at 12:09 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Al Sparber presented what looked like a more compact solution on this > list a week or two ago, which does the same. Check list-archives. On Dec 2, 2005, at 4:43 AM, Al Sparber wrote: > As a point of information, we've had this page floating ar

Re: [css-d] IE Mac check - problem with unordered list

2005-12-12 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 12, 2005, at 8:25 AM, Janet Lynn Ford wrote: > I've run into an IE Mac issue & was wondering if anyone has seen the > problem before and knows how to fix it. Yes! I hate IE/Mac because of that bug/weirdness... Anyway, here are some links: http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/phantom-links/ Lin

Re: [css-d] links not clickable in Safari

2005-12-12 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 12, 2005, at 4:48 AM, Erik Visser wrote: > in this the links in the left column are not clickable in safari: > > http://www.bartbleijerveld.nl/ > http://www.bartbleijerveld.nl/css/skidoo_too.css > > anybody any idea how to solve this? They are clickable in the version of Safari I am using..

Re: [css-d] help with ie/mac

2005-12-12 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 12, 2005, at 8:52 AM, Emily Tarrant wrote: > A couple of people also raised some other valid points about the > design (sizing of text and boxes), so I will now go on to look at > those more closely. Hello, I was reminded of this Ruthsarian layout when I saw your site: http://webhost.

Re: [css-d] help with ie/mac

2005-12-11 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 11, 2005, at 10:38 AM, Emily Tarrant wrote: > I'd be very grateful for any advice. I've tested it widely on PC and > Mac > and I think that IE/Mac is the only problem... Here is a real quick fix for IE/Mac... looks better in IE/Mac... Could use a lot more work... no guarantees for the PC

Re: [css-d] Centering multi-line Inline

2005-12-09 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 9, 2005, at 2:28 PM, wendy wrote: > Thanks very much. I've just started on this project, so with luck the > horrifying bits will be improved. > Wendy A little better, but you may need to play around with the Tan hack: http://www.ambiguism.com/CSSD/wendy.html I am sure someone else will ha

Re: [css-d] Centering multi-line Inline

2005-12-09 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 9, 2005, at 2:28 PM, wendy wrote: > Could someone please give me an idea as to how to make the > five sections of text sit centered as a group within the #prefooter? Hello Wendy, Have you tried: margin: 0 auto; on #prefooter? M -- BCC for Privacy: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/b

Re: [css-d] Using Fieldset/legend on non-form elements?

2005-12-08 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 8, 2005, at 12:48 AM, Michael Hulse wrote: > [LEGEND]- > Content, content, content.. Just out curiosity, how does this function on the PC: http://www.ambiguism.com/CSSD/testing2.html ... div.pseudoLegend { p

Re: [css-d] Using Fieldset/legend on non-form elements?

2005-12-08 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 8, 2005, at 12:57 AM, Christian Heilmann wrote: > There is one solution in the archives. No idea if it works on Mac/IE > but I guess that is hackable. Actually, that does pretty well on IE/Mac... Can anyone tell me how it looks on a PC? http://www.ambiguism.com/CSSD/testing.html Any tho

[css-d] Using Fieldset/legend on non-form elements?

2005-12-08 Thread Michael Hulse
Hi list, What are you thoughts on using tags on/with non-form content? Anyone have suggestions for the best alternative (one that works on Mac/IE would be nice)? I am going for this look: [LEGEND]- Content, content, content...

Re: [css-d] display: table-cell --- why?

2005-12-07 Thread Michael Hulse
Any thoughts on the CSS compatibility/browser support of "display: table-cell;"? If you use it, should you also be thinking about adding filters to other browsers that do not understand it? Thanks. :) M -- ¸.·´¯`·.¸¸><(((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸><º> ·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸><º> `·.¸

Re: [css-d] Forms: Fluid layout: Best technique?

2005-12-05 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 5, 2005, at 1:27 AM, Tony Crockford wrote: > I generally refer to the ideas in use here: > http://www.aplus.co.yu/css/forms/?css=1 Very helpful, thanks! :) Micky -- BCC for Privacy: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/bcc-for-privacy.html My del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/mhulse __

[css-d] Forms: Fluid layout: Best technique?

2005-12-04 Thread Michael Hulse
Hello, What would you suggest as the best technique for laying-out forms in a fluid-width site? Any fluid-width form examples available? I plan to use fieldsets/labels... I would prefer to have the label to the left of the input, not above. Any links, tips, suggestions would be greatly apprec

Re: [css-d] #idname.classname - IE Support

2005-12-02 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 2, 2005, at 11:08 AM, Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: > This would work, but only because of the first part of the selector. > The second part selects nothing in the HTML snippet provided. I just misunderstood the original question... All of the CSS I posted was intended to be exactly you you ex

Re: [css-d] Garbled Text In Firefox Under Suckerfish Dropdown

2005-12-02 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 2, 2005, at 12:04 AM, Christian Montoya wrote: > I've found that most scripts that do not work in FF work fine once > they are scripted correctly. That makes sense... Now I feel silly for pointing the finger at Firefox... :( M

Re: [css-d] Min-width/Max-width: IE PC/IE Mac too?

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 1, 2005, at 11:37 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: > I think you are the best judge of that. > Thanks for the response Christian, I really appreciate your time. :) I probably should not worry about IE/Mac, but I do (I am a Mac guy, and I also like the feeling of having my CSS look good in tha

Re: [css-d] Garbled Text In Firefox Under Suckerfish Dropdown

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Hulse
On 12/2/05, Michael Hulse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not just hide the JS from Firefox? If it's only needed for IE, > then why oh why haven't you put it behind a conditional comment? Yeah, good idea. Hehe, I feel silly for not thinking of that... duh! On 12/2/05,

[css-d] Adding a border to a div fixes gaps/margins/padding? Why?

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Hulse
Hello, I have come-across a couple of different situations where I have added a 1px solid border to a div, and it seemed to fix weird gaps and/or made the child-content behave a bit better by tightening-up what appears to be the padding/margins ... It is really hard to explain, and I think it

Re: [css-d] Garbled Text In Firefox Under Suckerfish Dropdown

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 1, 2005, at 7:31 PM, cFA wrote: > HI there, Ive got an issue in which when a line of text is overlapped > (usually by a portion like half) in my suckerfish, that the text > becomes > garbled and fuzzy in Firefox. Yep, happens to me too with my own version of Suckerfish. I believe that it

[css-d] Min-width/Max-width: IE PC/IE Mac too?

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Hulse
Hello, Example code: -- #mainContainer { min-width: 500px; /* IE doens't understand this property. */ /* IE Dynamic Expression to set the width: */ width:expression(document.body.clientWidth < 500 ? "500px" : "100%" ); } -- Questi

Re: [css-d] #idname.classname - IE Support

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Hulse
On Dec 1, 2005, at 3:41 AM, Kevin Cannon wrote: > ... > > #tabs.ski { > background-color: green; > } Excuse my noobieneess... Why not: ... /* Make .ski green: */ #tabs .ski { background-color: green; } /* Make .ski red: */ #tabsTwo .ski { backgro

Re: [css-d] One pixel height line - FF vs IE

2005-11-29 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 29, 2005, at 7:56 PM, Michael Hulse wrote: > div.horizRule { > font-size: 1px; > line-height: 1px; > background: url(/img/dotted.gif) repeat-x left center; > padding: 10px 0; > height: 1px;

Re: [css-d] One pixel height line - FF vs IE

2005-11-29 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 29, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Mário Gamito wrote: > Is there a way to make this thing work well on both browsers ? > Hi, Here is an example of a horizontal rule that uses a background image: div.horizRule { font-size: 1px; line-height: 1px; b

Re: [css-d] When to use raw numbers for units?

2005-11-28 Thread Michael Hulse
> Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the responses all... very helpful, descriptive, and informative... as always, css-d rocks! Cheers, micky. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailm

[css-d] When to use raw numbers for units?

2005-11-28 Thread Michael Hulse
Hello, I have always specified a unit when coding my CSS (except units of 0). I am wondering what, when, why, and where I would be specifying a raw # for units? Examples? Should I be coding like so: font: normal 76.1%/125 "Lucida Sans Unicode", verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; Rather

Re: [css-d] Netscape not showing what it should

2005-11-25 Thread Michael Hulse
Hello, Not too sure about your problems in NN... you might want to start here: http://validator.w3.org/check? uri=http%3A%2F%2F216.197.219.40%2Fam%2FLESA_ONE_am_7_files%2Ffdeflt.htm A few screens from the Mac/OSX world: Safari (I get the same javascript error twice): http://www.ambiguism.com/C

Re: [css-d] IE line wrapping problem

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 23, 2005, at 2:18 PM, David Laakso wrote: > font:.90%/1.2 Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; > > Some say one should use a raw number for line-height. By specifying no unit is that what you mean by raw number?? m __ css-

Re: [css-d] A quick one or two!

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 23, 2005, at 7:16 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.nssdesign.scot.nhs.uk/involving%20people/tester.php Not sure if you care, or if this matters, or if anyone else has mentioned: The page is blank on Mac/Safari. Looks like you forgot to close you comment in the style tag:

Re: [css-d] I can never learn this - how do I center a part of my page

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Hulse
> but how do I center this part? Hi, Check this page: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1239967&postcount=4 Link description: "FAQ :How to centre an existing page horizontally? ... The usual way to centre is to use margin-left:auto and margin-right:auto on the div. However , you

Re: [css-d] Aligning text in same line

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 23, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Lst Recv wrote: > Is there anyway to have one line of text, with part of it aligned to > the containers left and part of it to it's right? You might want to take a look at this ALA article (Scroll down to "Splitting the Difference"): http://www.alistapart.com/article

Re: [css-d] Flash and CSS

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 21, 2005, at 6:27 AM, Chad Calhoun wrote: > Actually, if you're interested in using DENG, the CSS support is > amazing > (includes CSS3). Not ALL of the features are supported, but it is a > lot > better than Macromedia's base support. Whoa! Thanks for info! DENG is [EMAIL PROTECTED] coo

Re: [css-d] Flash and CSS

2005-11-20 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 20, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Kat Lindsey wrote: > Is it true you have limited use of the CSS tags in flash? And if so, > does > anyone know where I might be able to find out more about this business > of > creating styles using actionscript? You may want to subscribe to this list: http://chatty

Re: [css-d] Placing divs using css over flash files

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 17, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Angelo Ioculano wrote: > Does anyone have a work around for this? Hmmm, this article should help you out: http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=E5141 His DHTML example seems to work fine on Mac/Safai/Firefox: http://www.communitymx.com/content/source/E5

Re: [css-d] Placing divs using css over flash files

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 17, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Angelo Ioculano wrote: > Does anyone have a work around for this? Hello Angelo, Flash is always on top. Each browser will treat that object tag differently, but AFAIK, that is the word on the e-street... There may be a Javascript solution, but applying a z-index (m

Re: [css-d] Background Repeat Problems in Safari.

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 17, 2005, at 6:54 AM, Keith Fjellman wrote: > body { > background: url("../images/webBG.gif"); > background-repeat: repeat-y; > } Try: body { background-image: url(../images/webBG.gif); background-repeat: repeat-y; } I prefer shorthand: body { background: #666 u

Re: [css-d] Why I hate IE, oh let me count the ways

2005-11-16 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 16, 2005, at 7:48 PM, el Deuce wrote: > I am trying to make it vertically center aligned. Hmm, the layout goes outside of the page (top and left edges) when window is shrunk down to size... I am on Safari 1.3/Mac... My laptop screen is small, so I can't expand the window big enough to see

Re: [css-d] Disappearing background on list in IE

2005-11-15 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 15, 2005, at 1:05 AM, Ali Lee wrote: > I'm trying to get a dotted border showing on the bottom of each list > item in > a ul used for navigation, http://www.alistapart.com/articles/customunderlines/ • The above ALA article may give you some good ideas on how you would go about using image

Re: [css-d] removing IE border on linked images

2005-11-14 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:57 PM, bill wrote: > Thanks Mickey, That did it. I just need to re-space those images in > the container now. It actually makes more sense your way Glad it works for you now... don't forget to thank bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> too. :) I quoted his original response in my last

Re: [css-d] removing IE border on linked images

2005-11-14 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 14, 2005, at 9:31 PM, bill wrote: > I probably should've done this in the first place but since the fixes > you sent -- they were all the same fix BTW: img a { border: none; } -- > didn't fix my problem Hi Bill, I know it is easy to mix things up, but did you happen to try reversing the

Re: [css-d] Flowable CSS Columns?

2005-11-14 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 14, 2005, at 12:51 PM, Rachell Coe wrote: > Is it possible to create columns in CSS where the text automatically > flows > from one column to another on the page? An interesting example of this technique can be found here: http://www.iht.com/ Choose a story, for example: http://www.iht.co

Re: [css-d] @media {} filter: info/links/usage?

2005-11-13 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 13, 2005, at 6:40 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > --- > That's it, me thinks. Hope I got all the details right. > > CSS sure is fun... :-) > > regards > Georg WOW! Thanks Georg! Amazing advice and knowledge you have! I can not tell you how much I appreciate your help. :D I will be (re)

[css-d] @media {} filter: info/links/usage?

2005-11-13 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 3, 2005, at 6:13 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > CSS filters are generally unsafe - except when used correctly to > separate "dead" browsers from the "living". IE6 and previous versions > are "dead", and can be filtered out safely. CSS filter for IE5+/win > only, targeting versions less than I

Re: [css-d] clearing clears sidebar too

2005-11-12 Thread Michael Hulse
Hehe, that should be: "Know your shizzle" as in, know your stuff I still think that Sitepoint link is excellent info, esp. for beginners. http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=171943&page=1&pp=25 Cheers, Micky On Nov 12, 2005, at 12:35 AM, Michael Hu

Re: [css-d] clearing clears sidebar too

2005-11-12 Thread Michael Hulse
Good information Georg, you obviously know you shizzle. ;) Cheers, Micky > Michael Hulse wrote: >> If you read that Sitepoint post about floats you should be able to >> tackle the float-drop issue with ease. > > Comment: floats don't drop in IE/win in a fixed-width

Re: [css-d] clearing clears sidebar too

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Hulse
Trish, On Nov 11, 2005, at 10:46 PM, Trish Meyer wrote: > Okay, maybe I'm seeing two issues then. Even when I remove the clear: > both style from the headings in the #content section, the entire > #content moves down below the sidebar on IE Windows ONLY. That was the other issue I saw too... I d

Re: [css-d] clearing clears sidebar too

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Hulse
Hi trish, On Nov 11, 2005, at 9:52 PM, Trish Meyer wrote: > > Please help! I've troubleshooted this for hours and can't figure out > how to fix it. > Fixed it a little bit: http://www.ambiguism.com/CSSD/caa.html Added this to CSS: #innerContentWrap { width: 100%; float: left; }

Re: [css-d] clearing clears sidebar too

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 11, 2005, at 9:52 PM, Trish Meyer wrote: > Hi all, > > I hope this isn't too much of a challenge. I hope it's really easy to > fix... a really common error (that I just can't seem to find > anywhere). > > I've got a new site mostly designed, but have run into a problem, > which I've explaine

Re: [css-d] Who is up for a CSS challenge?

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 11, 2005, at 6:31 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: >> Why do you have the form wrapped around the entire page? It seems to >> me that you're losing a valuable styling hook by not wrapping the form >> around just the login elements. > > yeah, was that a mistake? Maybe this: "The tag is there b

Re: [css-d] sitecheck / lists equal in ie+ff

2005-11-09 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:50 PM, Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga wrote: > I just finished a mainly CSS site: > http://www.museoarqueologico.com > It's not 100% valid since it uses Flash. > Any comments will be appreciated. Nice site! Looks good. I thought I would comment on Flash and a few techniques on how

Re: [css-d] 'textured bckgrnd' layout

2005-11-07 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 7, 2005, at 7:57 PM, Patrick Roane wrote: > Hey folks, > > I've been working w/pure css layouts for a little > while now with great results. > > Resently, I took a look at: > > http://www.tirolskaizba.sk/en/ > > (which was submitted to http://www.cssbeauty.com/) > > and I'm curious about h

Re: [css-d] text appears only if window is resized!

2005-11-07 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 7, 2005, at 1:43 PM, David Agnew wrote: > When http://www.vsi.cape.com/~dagnew/lib/foo.php is viewed in IE6 > Win, all text within #content div appears only after the window is > resized. Peekaboo bug maybe? http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/peekaboo.html _

Re: [css-d] question on layout and Mac check please

2005-11-05 Thread Michael Hulse
I made a typo... see below: On Nov 4, 2005, at 3:15 PM, Michael Hulse wrote: > I ussually do this for my sites: > > * html { > margin: 0; > padding: 0; > } That should have been: /* Zero-out margins and padding for all elements: */ * { margin: 0;

Re: [css-d] MY FIRST CSS LAYOUT (PLEASE CHECK FOR ERRORS)

2005-11-05 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 5, 2005, at 1:25 PM, Kalen Higton wrote: > Hello, I made two "easy to troubleshoot" layout pages. I will love > you long time if you could take a look and give me your thoughts/ > suggestions. > > www.kalenarts.com/tester1 > www.kalenarts.com/tester2 > > "tester2" was modeled after the sugge

Re: [css-d] Logical expressions

2005-11-05 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 5, 2005, at 11:24 AM, Arjen Schwarz wrote: >> ...is there any way to set any >> relative measures in CSS like telling a div to set its bottom edge or >> height to the value of another element like another div who's bottom >> edge adjusts to the amount of content. Sounds like a job for Java

Re: [css-d] List item hover issue

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 4, 2005, at 8:14 PM, Jonathan Carter wrote: > I'm designing a test page right now and have run into an odd issue with > my top navigation. It's implemented as an unordered list and works fine > until you mouse over one of the list items in which each item seems to > convert into block elemen

Re: [css-d] Body Background issue

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 4, 2005, at 7:29 PM, Kenoli Oleari wrote: > I'm working on a MacIntosh system. > > I notice that when I use the style: > > body { > background-image: url(assets/bottom_image.gif); > background-repeat: no-repeat; > background-position: bottom center; > } > > It is rendered differently in dif

Re: [css-d] vertical alignment of text fields with other elements - I'm stuck!

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Hulse
> Michael Hulse wrote: >> Also, I would make your logo a background image rather than a >> transparent gif. Makes things a bit more simple. >> >> Hopefully the above css does not confuse you... You may even be able >> to >> get away with something

Re: [css-d] I want to scream

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 4, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Michael Hulse wrote: > On Nov 4, 2005, at 3:05 PM, Angela Trigg wrote: >> Been developing in Firefox like a good little CSS newbie, and am >> making the >> tweaks necessary to make it work in IE6/WIN (which feels like trying >> to put >&g

Re: [css-d] I want to scream

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 4, 2005, at 3:05 PM, Angela Trigg wrote: > Been developing in Firefox like a good little CSS newbie, and am > making the > tweaks necessary to make it work in IE6/WIN (which feels like trying > to put > a rubix cube together). I felt like I was so close, until I just took > a look > at it

Re: [css-d] question on layout and Mac check please

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Hulse
I am on Mac, so I do not see this border you talk about... here are some screens from the Mac world: Safari: http://www.ambiguism.com/CSSD/sharemycodeSafari.jpg IE5.2: http://www.ambiguism.com/CSSD/sharemycodeIEMac.jpg Firefox: http://www.ambiguism.com/CSSD/sharemycodeFFMac.jpg I do notice tha

Re: [css-d] vertical alignment of text fields with other elements - I'm stuck!

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 4, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Don Hinshaw wrote: > Hi list, > I am trying to vertically align a text field with two adjacent > elements: > a graphic label and a graphic button. > The working page is here: > http://test.hinshawdesign.com/css/slpl/cluster_masthead_v2.html > Here is what it should lo

Re: [css-d] Using background-image PNGs in IE

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 4, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Christopher Brown wrote: > I'd like to somehow shoehorn it into an ID or class: > > div#image {background-image: url("../images/image.png");} > > Does anyone know if this is this even possible without using script? > I'm tired of waiting for IE7 to come out. > Dunno,

Re: [css-d] Layer not showing in IE

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 4, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Angela Trigg wrote: > Ok, one step forward-- had a position:relative in there that I took > out and > now it shows, but in IE only it's showing up to the right of the image > instead of on top of it. Here's the css: > > #menulist { > height: 63px; >

Re: [css-d] Horizontal layout

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 4, 2005, at 11:40 AM, András Bártházi wrote: > Hi, > >> Any ideas? > > Thanks for all your help, this was the most usable link: > http://cssplay.co.uk/menus/centered2.html > > Bye, > Andras All three menu examples align left on IE/Mac5.2. Beware of phantom links if you decide you want

Re: [css-d] Header's inline display and alignment

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 4, 2005, at 10:27 AM, Adriano Castro wrote: > Hi, > > I want to have, aligned to the left, a title followed by a > sub-title. Then, on the same line as the sub-title, I want to have, > aligned to the right, a date. Lastly on the next line, also aligned to > the right a link. > >

Re: [css-d] Wierd color display IE/Firefox

2005-11-04 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 4, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Andreas Håkansson wrote: > I did a bit more investigation and it appears the anomaly disappears > if I > change the background image file format > > from png to gif. Is this another one of the “Internet Explorer sucks > at png > rendering” issues? I just recently swi

Re: [css-d] Width:100% and padding?

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Hulse
On Nov 3, 2005, at 8:23 PM, Josh McDonald wrote: > Following up, my problem is that width:100% on the containing div > seems to > be ignored. What should I look for that could trigger that? > > -Josh > > > -Original Message > > How on earth do I push a div out to 100% when it's padded, if

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