Re: [css-d] Two classes, two conflicting rules, which wins ?

2013-10-01 Thread Michael Stevens
This is a great clarification and something that would've stumped me completely if ever encountered. Thanks, Mike -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Chris Rockwell Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 12:01 PM

Re: [css-d] Window widths and responsive design

2013-08-26 Thread Michael Stevens
That is interesting since I never zoom pages in a browser. I'm wondering, though, how did you tell that your "adjusted" sizes were 1920 pixels or smaller than 400 pixels? Mike -Original Message- On Behalf Of David Hucklesby Working on my first "responsive" website, I discovered something

Re: [css-d] Can I specify how much of a background image to show?

2013-07-05 Thread Michael Stevens
o: Michael Stevens Cc: CSS-Discuss Subject: Re: [css-d] Can I specify how much of a background image to show? On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Michael Stevens wrote: Is using images like this fairly prevalent? Using sprites is a solution to certain problems and it has actually been around for quite a

Re: [css-d] Can I specify how much of a background image to show?

2013-07-05 Thread Michael Stevens
Is using images like this fairly prevalent? I'm dumbfounded that a bunch of images would be placed on a page then masked to only show one. Coming from a PRINT graphic design background I get irritated to no end when I see files thrown together like this because the "artist" failed to properly crop

Re: [css-d] page DIV too long for content; footer too high?

2013-02-21 Thread Michael Stevens
You're absolutely right. I hadn't even thought it through like that. Thanks! On 2/21/2013 9:16 PM, Georg wrote: On 21.02.2013 21:35, Michael Stevens wrote: That worked but why does that min-height work on the menu DIV but not the page DIV? I made the page DIV, and actually just left

Re: [css-d] page DIV too long for content; footer too high?

2013-02-21 Thread Michael Stevens
s.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Georg Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:54 PM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] page DIV too long for content; footer too high? On 21.02.2013 11:32, Michael Stevens wrote: > OK, it's not "breaking" but I&

[css-d] page DIV too long for content; footer too high?

2013-02-21 Thread Michael Stevens
OK, it's not "breaking" but I've noticed after making some content changes that my footer is not dropping far enough on a couple pages. www.wideopenphotography.com is the main site. Problem pages are: www.wideopenphotography.com/events.php www.wideopenphotography.com/portfolio.php On both those

Re: [css-d] Let's see if my site breaks badly

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Stevens
Yeah, I should've qualified that... :( -Original Message- From: Chris F.A. Johnson [mailto:ch...@cfajohnson.com] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:37 PM To: Michael Stevens Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Let's see if my site breaks badly On Thu, 1

Re: [css-d] Let's see if my site breaks badly

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Stevens
have switch to it if I decide to keep it. Mike From: Tom Livingston [mailto:tom...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 11:16 AM To: Michael Stevens Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Let's see if my site breaks badly Unless you wish to or have to support a d

Re: [css-d] Let's see if my site breaks badly

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Stevens
I was instructed it goes it's always worked there. So, is it wise to ignore that encoding error, change it in my code to 1252, or change it to UTF-8? Thanks, Mike On 2/14/2013 10:05 AM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: Michael Stevens wrote: Hmmm... That's an old PNG hack I've used fo

Re: [css-d] Let's see if my site breaks badly

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Stevens
Hmmm... That's an old PNG hack I've used forever. I actually just validated it (index at least) and did not receive this error. I'll see if I can't figure out why and fix it... Is there a better alternative to getting PNG transparency out of browsers that don't support it? That I can think o

[css-d] Let's see if my site breaks badly

2013-02-14 Thread Michael Stevens
www.wideopenphotography.com I just rebuilt it. In the past I've always stayed away from as many hacks as I could simply because they seem to be too many of them to keep straight for a guy like me that doesn't do this for a living. I think nowadays there are fewer and fewer people running old m

Re: [css-d] Multiple classes...

2012-08-25 Thread Michael Stevens
On 8/25/2012 7:47 PM, Tim Climis wrote: On Saturday, August 25, 2012 3:03:33 pm Jay Tanna wrote: #invitelist, (AND) .window, (AND) .redframe Uh, no... Maybe some HTML would help. #invitelist .window .redframe: ... #invitelist .window.redframe: -- I thought that first respons

Re: [css-d] Multiple classes...

2012-08-25 Thread Michael Stevens
That makes each entry separate, no? #invitelist, (OR) .window, (OR) .redframe I was intentionally making it as specific as I could so it would only apply to that one specific element. Mike On 8/25/2012 2:22 PM, Jay Tanna wrote: You also need a comma after each Id and/or clas like this: #in

[css-d] Multiple classes...

2012-08-25 Thread Michael Stevens
I've been out of it for a while so this is likely a rookie question that I've forgotten the answer to. I'm working on a section that makes a DIV of a certain size with scrolling contents. I wanted to make different DIVs with the difference being their border color. And instead of writing a larg

Re: [css-d] menu in separate page?

2012-02-02 Thread Michael Stevens
s is wildly off-topic from CSS, so I'll summarize by suggesting that you research PHP. Look for best practices surrounding or On Feb 2, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Michael Stevens wrote: Is this the same question from the WebDesign L list? There was one earlier this morning dealing

Re: [css-d] menu in separate page?

2012-02-02 Thread Michael Stevens
Is this the same question from the WebDesign L list? There was one earlier this morning dealing with it and it was addressed pretty well. Outside of using an actual server side language like PHP, probably javascript as well, you can't accomplish it with just HTML. Mike -Original Message-

Re: [css-d] PNG; apply class in stylesheet?

2011-05-26 Thread Michael Stevens
So, I've been using the AlphaImageLoader for years. Was the transparent PNG issue resolved in IE7? I noticed in DD_belatedPNG code there's an if targeting IE6 only but I didn't think it was fixed until like IE8... Mike -Original Message- From: Tom Livingston [mailto:tom...@gmail.com] Se

[css-d] PNG; apply class in stylesheet?

2011-05-25 Thread Michael Stevens
I'm reworking a site and changing some colors around and I've decided to remove some backgrounds from images and resave everything as transparent PNGs. In my stylesheet I've got the following to allow older versions of IE to properly display PNGs: img.png { background-image: expression(

Re: [css-d] [+] nav link states

2010-10-18 Thread Michael Stevens
> What is the state called when I click on one of a number of links on a > navbar and while I am visiting that page, the link stays "lit" so that > if I forget where I am, I need simply glance up at the navbar to see > where I am? > > And the million dollar question is: How do I style such? Yo

Re: [css-d] Need help clearing some floats...

2010-08-22 Thread Michael Stevens
> How do I clear floats inside one div without clearing floats outside > of that div? Make #content a float -- I couldn't see how making #content a float would help but I tried and it didn't do anything. I imagine you could put a top margin in the tag but it wouldn't be very good coding a

[css-d] Need help clearing some floats...

2010-08-21 Thread Michael Stevens
http://centrestagetest.bigmikes.org/events_entry.php What I've got is these DIVs: PAGE HEADER MENU (floated left) CONTENT FOOTER Inside the CONTENT div on the above page I have two other DIVs (question and answer) that form the holding blocks for the form to keep everything aligned and pretty. W

Re: [css-d] FW: tags

2010-03-06 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] Subject: Re: [css-d] FW: tags Because, if the developer uses some elements primarily for their browser default CSS, then any element can be considered "presentational" for that reaso

[css-d] FW: tags

2010-03-06 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] is presentational. It says, "Make this bold." and aren't presentational. They say "emphasize"/"strongly emphasize" this. They don't say HOW to emphasize/strongly emphasize it. The

Re: [css-d] external link indicators

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Stevens
I'm personally of the opinion that the web page should have some form of intelligence. I typically design so that if you stay within the domain you stay in the window. If you leave the domain you get a new one so you can more easily return to the domain if you get too deep into the new site. I jus

Re: [css-d] external link indicators

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Jack Anything's better than opening links in a new window, though :-) Not much is more irritating to me than a site that DOES NOT open external links in

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-13 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sherohman >...I think about on-screen image sizing purely in terms of pixels and find the idea of trying to size things on-screen based on inches or any other physica

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-10 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: Sam Brown [mailto:freejack_in...@yahoo.com] >You can use the DOM object to get at settings such as deviceXDPI and others. I've used it to determine a client's DPI and set different styles to correct for IE rounding errors at higher DPI. http://www.w3schools.com/htm

Re: [css-d] How to get window to crop image?

2009-08-10 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Lalena >I have a new challenge. In CSS, is it possible to get an image to be cropped off on both sides? Or in print language, to "bleed" on both sides? -- Any particular

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-10 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Felix Miata >If accessibility and usability of a CSS-styled web page design matter, then the size of web page objects is a matter of quite some significance. >Resolution

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-10 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: hramr...@gmail.com [mailto:hramr...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Michal Suchanek >The problem is that the physical size is what the user sees, not the pixel resolution. That's why it's better to avoid pixels and specify sizes in points or other physical units where poss

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-10 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Felix Miata >Think that if you want, but because the pixel density is higher on the smaller, those with adequate vision may in fact find the smaller to be the better when

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-10 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Felix Miata Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 11:35 AM >> It think it's still best to optimize your images for 72dpi - 96 max - >> because higher DPI images create larger fil

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-10 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Theresa Mesa On Aug 10, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Lalena wrote: It think it's still best to optimize your images for 72dpi - 96 max - because higher DPI images create larger file

Re: [css-d] Getting CSS to work in HTML forms generated by Perl

2009-04-27 Thread Michael Stevens
This is how we do it... open CSS, "/home/username/public_html/orderform.css"; while ( ) { $csstext .= $_; } close CSS; print<<"end_results"; Order Form ... end_results } Note that the path is relative to the machine root and not your web root. Mike _

[css-d] My footer background image is misplaced in IE 6

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Stevens
http://testsite1.bigmikes.org/ http://testsite1.bigmikes.org/jbc.css In FF the pages render fine but in IE the footer image is not being placed {bottom right no-repeat} as I've requested. It's cramming it up at the top of the footer div which puts the patt

Re: [css-d] [OT] EMs vs. PERCENTs

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: Climis, Tim [mailto:tcli...@indiana.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:04 AM To: 'Rob Emenecker'; 'David Laakso' Cc: 'css-d' Subject: Re: [css-d] [OT] EMs vs. PERCENTs For box sizing, em is still the font-size. But percent is relative to the container. If you

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: Jukka K. Korpela [mailto:jkorp...@cs.tut.fi] Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 12:23 PM To: CSS discuss Subject: Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma Leave aside the font-size, as a CSS property, or as a propery of a font, for a moment. What those people want is not small fon

Re: [css-d] Pragmatic look at our CSS future - ripped from: The CSSOverlords

2009-01-22 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: Nancy Johnson [mailto:njohnso...@gmail.com] The problem with getting rid of IE6 is too many internal applications especially in the business community will only work in IE6, like the internal application we use. There is no budget to make the updates and I'm sure

Re: [css-d] Can't figure out this white space above my menu in IE...

2008-12-29 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: Gunlaug Sørtun [mailto:gunla...@c2i.net] 2: IE sees whitespace (text) wherever it can in any mode. It's an old bug. So you better close all gaps in the source-code - yours is wide open, and make sure you keep track of what's block and what's inline elements and mod

Re: [css-d] Can't figure out this white space above my menu in IE...

2008-12-29 Thread Michael Stevens
display: block took care of it... So, where is this mysterious TEXT element that IE is fabricating? We have to fight this pig enough without it making stuff up... :( Thanks... Now I'll see what I can figure out about the misplaced boxes in the FedEx section. Mike -Original Message- From

[css-d] Can't figure out this white space above my menu in IE...

2008-12-29 Thread Michael Stevens
http://bctaztest.bigmikes.org/test.html http://bctaztest.bigmikes.org/test_bct.css ~5 pixels above the burgundy menu bar. With no Firebug in IE it makes it difficult to figure things out... Using the IE Developer Toolbar I can see that the TD cell that holds the header image is containing the pro

Re: [css-d] Simple Horizontal Menu

2008-12-08 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: Chris Casciano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That would certainly work, but optimally I don't think you'd need to put a class on every item... really you shouldn't need to use classes on any of them to solve this problem, but browsers would tend to disagree with that

Re: [css-d] Simple Horizontal Menu

2008-12-08 Thread Michael Stevens
Make separate classes for the oddball menu item... .menu_border {border-right: 1px solid;} .menu_border_last {border-right: none;} or adversely .menu_border {border-left: 1px solid;} .menu_border_first {border-left: none;} Mike -Original Message- From: MEM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] H

Re: [css-d] menu bar

2008-10-28 Thread Michael Stevens
Wouldn't this work? ul li ul li {}; Or, easier yet... li.first {}; Am I trying to make it too simple and ignoring something? Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:58 AM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [

Re: [css-d] Fitting conent to the screen

2008-08-06 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- What matters is whether the content fits, and that's generally best measured in something the visitor has and rightfully should have control of - em. If your content properly fits in a (e.g.) 42em wide window that just happens to be (e.g.) 800px wide on your screen, then

Re: [css-d] Dynamic navigation link aid

2008-08-06 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: David Hucklesby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For this, I make the current link a STRONG element instead of a link. This emphasizes "you are here" even in the absence of CSS. -- How do you use CSS to make a link another element? Or am I misinterpreting what you are

Re: [css-d] How would you approach an organization chart in CSS?

2008-06-10 Thread Michael Stevens
Looks like a table to me... I wouldn't be afraid of using a table for it but making it a graphic would be MUCH easier than screwing with any HTML element. Mike -Original Message- > I need to redo a organization chart that is a graphic and therefore > not editable. > > I could rework it i

Re: [css-d] How do I get my DIVs to stay within their parent DIV?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Stevens
nlaug Sørtun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] How do I get my DIVs to stay within their parent DIV? Michael Stevens wrote: > www.karmarbfi.com You're introducing a 'hasLayout&

Re: [css-d] How do I get my DIVs to stay within their parent DIV?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: David Laakso [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Michael Stevens wrote: > > www.karmarbfi.com > www.karmarbfi.com/karmar.css > > My understanding is the #content div contains the #products and > #prodR, #prodL divs so when floating they must

[css-d] How do I get my DIVs to stay within their parent DIV?

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Stevens
www.karmarbfi.com www.karmarbfi.com/karmar.css My understanding is the #content div contains the #products and #prodR, #prodL divs so when floating they must stay within #content. Judging by FF rendering it correctly I'll assume my understanding is close to correct. What about IE? It's floating t

[css-d] I can't see why my menu is shifted down

2008-03-21 Thread Michael Stevens
in FireFox... http://corpdelservice.bigmikes.org http://corpdelservice.bigmikes.org/cds.css I'm using Firebug to check things and I've got left and right padding on the but nothing on top or bottom. What's amazing me is I swiped this from another site of mine and just adjusted the padding to

[css-d] Got a strange space that I can't figure out

2008-03-12 Thread Michael Stevens
http://bctaztest.bigmikes.org/ http://bctaztest.bigmikes.org/bct.css View it in FF and it looks as expected. View it in IE and there's gap of 10px or so off to the right. You can see it since the header doesn't extend fully to the right. Or, actually it does but something is pushing the backgroun

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

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Stevens
@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] New CSS/html tools?.. On 11/03/2008, at 12:34 PM, Michael Stevens wrote: > WeBuilder from Bluementals > http://www.blumentals.net/webuilder/ WeBuilder is windows only. > -Original Message- > Karl Jacobs > > I'm really rea

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

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Stevens
WeBuilder from Bluementals http://www.blumentals.net/webuilder/ They have several different flavors with each supporting more flavors of code. WeBuilder is their top of the line and supports php coding. I've been using HomeSite forever and hoping someone would come along with a piece of software

Re: [css-d] Scaling type isn't expanding the container div

2008-01-24 Thread Michael Stevens
] Scaling type isn't expanding the container div Michael Stevens wrote: > http://nancyray.accountsupport.com/index0.php > I can't figure out why the type under the Presstek Ad isn't pushing > the div below it down when I scale the type. Setting a height like you have..

Re: [css-d] Scaling type isn't expanding the container div

2008-01-24 Thread Michael Stevens
: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] Scaling type isn't expanding the container div Michael Stevens wrote: > http://nancyray.accountsupport.com/index0.php > I can't figure out why the type under the Presstek Ad isn't pushing > the div below it down when I scal

[css-d] Scaling type isn't expanding the container div

2008-01-24 Thread Michael Stevens
http://nancyray.accountsupport.com/index0.php http://nancyray.accountsupport.com/bct.css The layout is still crap but it's coming together. I can't figure out why the type under the Presstek Ad isn't pushing the div below it down when I scale the type. It keeps the divs in place as though I've gi

[css-d] Content is being pushed outside container in FireFox

2007-08-21 Thread Michael Stevens
http://nancyray.accountsupport.com/ http://nancyray.accountsupport.com/bct.css http://nancyray.accountsupport.com/menu.css http://nancyray.accountsupport.com/footer.css Finally getting around to attempting to convert this site to XHTML/CSS and I'm slowly adding content here and there so I can get

Re: [css-d] [WD]: CSS Form problem

2007-06-16 Thread Michael Stevens
I got it to work by removing the div around the button and floating the navform div. The button is too high but you can adjust that easily... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Bell Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 4:21 PM To: Paul Roberts

Re: [css-d] table class

2007-06-04 Thread Michael Stevens
Well, I understand you are right, and did from the start because I've experienced it myself (even though my argument's logic failed), but I still say it's an inconsistency. :) border= in HTML should equal border: in CSS. I understand they are different but to make them inconsistent would be one re

Re: [css-d] table class

2007-06-04 Thread Michael Stevens
ds, doesn't apply to children elements. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/cascade.html#cascade [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/cascade.html#inheritance Maurício Samy Silva http://www.maujor.com/ - Original Message - From: "Michael Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [css-d] table class

2007-06-04 Thread Michael Stevens
Hi Ross, There is a 'equal sign' missed in your HTML code: In case the missed sign was a typo and you want a border around ALL cells of the table you must use the following CSS: table.signup_table { border-collapse:collapse; } table.signup_table tr td { border:1px solid green; } -- Why doesn't

Re: [css-d] changing font sizes - pt > px doesn't work in CSS

2007-05-23 Thread Michael Stevens
-Original Message- From: David Laakso It is a lot easier if you set default (100%) on the body. And use percent throughout for font-sizes and a raw number (no unit of measure) for line-height. This is a 5 minute fast & dirty pass at what you've got: body {...] -- By setting body to 100%

[css-d] changing font sizes - pt > px doesn't work in CSS

2007-05-23 Thread Michael Stevens
Here's the site in question: www.bctarizona.com It's a nightmare and I'm slowly trying convert it to good XHTML/CSS. Today I was attempting to change all the type from points to pixels via the stylesheet. I put font-size: 13px in the body and then changed all the other specs as %s to reference it

Re: [css-d] question regarding MaintainableCss page on the wiki

2007-04-02 Thread Michael Stevens
That's because it's working like it's supposed to... :) If you have: .redbold {color: #ff; font-weight: bold;} Here is some text and a link. The will inherit the properties from the browser's style sheet since it is not explicitly formatted in the supplied style sheet. Mike -Origina

[css-d] I'm sure this is an easy problem...

2007-03-23 Thread Michael Stevens
but I'm not having any luck remembering how to fix it... www.regencygarden.com/test/contact.html In IE the table looks good but in FF the cells are twice as tall as in IE. What's the easy fix for that? I thought it was a display: table or display: block applied to the table in the CSS but it's

Re: [css-d] How to embed Flash movies?

2007-03-23 Thread Michael Stevens
I hate having to jury rig something but that one was pretty painless. Thanks - Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Myers Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 9:43 AM Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] How to embed Flash m

[css-d] How to embed Flash movies?

2007-03-23 Thread Michael Stevens
I'm working on a site redesign at www.regencygarden.com/test/ and there are several pages there with Flash movies. They all validate XHTML 1.0 Strict except for the pages with the Flash. The validator doesn't like anything about the tag or the attributes therein. How do we embed these movies and

Re: [css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: Inline paragraph with headers

2007-03-08 Thread Michael Stevens
WOW! That's pretty tight administration... I haven't seen a response yet that didn't have something to do with CSS. There was my reply: Jeff Altemus - Director First and Second Week Adding a span & class is clearly CSS... There was Austin's reply: Jeff Altemus - Director First and Second Week Add

Re: [css-d] Inline paragraph with headers

2007-03-08 Thread Michael Stevens
How about: Jeff Altemus - Director First and Second Week I've been doing that for years, even before I knew how to really use CSS. Mike > I would like to be able to use a Header and a paragraph on the same > line in > > Where there is an H5 such as: > Jeff Altemus - Director > I would like to

Re: [css-d] setting width of

2007-03-06 Thread Michael Stevens
You'll want to give navcontainer a width... Speaking of that why do you have id="navcontainer" and immediately add another div with the id="navlist", especially when you don't have a navlist in your CSS? Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf O

[css-d] Clearing floats in same DIV but not external floats...

2007-02-20 Thread Michael Stevens
I've got a normal 3 column layout with a header, left menu floated left, right menu floated right, and content DIV with margins equal to the left & right menus so it's centered. I don't have the current incarnation up but you can see a moderatly close sample of what I'm doing at www.bctphoenix.com.

Re: [css-d] CSS with WordPress?

2007-02-20 Thread Michael Stevens
Wow, now I really feel dumb. It took me the better part of a day to get their CSS file modified to match a customer's site. The WordPress CSS file is long and confusing. They subscribe to the theory that the CSS should be divided into sections based on layout & style sections so that if you want to

Re: [css-d] Positioning a list navigation and highlighting a specificlink

2007-02-19 Thread Michael Stevens
For the Second Thing add: #header .nav a.current, #header .nav a.current:link, #header .nav a.current:visited, #header .nav a.current:hover { color: #ff; border-bottom: 2px solid black; background: url(images/arrow.gif) no-repeat bottom center #d60c8c; cursor: d

Re: [css-d] Text & Images not appearing in IE

2007-02-14 Thread Michael Stevens
No, but changing it to Transitional does... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of david Fixing XHTML 1.0 Strict validation errors might be a place to start: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bctarizona.com% 2Findex_new

[css-d] Text & Images not appearing in IE

2007-02-14 Thread Michael Stevens
www.bctarizona.com/index_new.php Fine in FF but two problems in IE: 1. The white space of the the "Login" menu on the last of the left side menu. 2. Underneath the Presstek ad should be a small graphic with a line underneath. The image that is there is correct but there's some text that should

Re: [css-d] RollOver href="#" makes text disappear?

2007-02-13 Thread Michael Stevens
Of course, the first place I shoulda looked... I actually made a #menu ul li a.flyout:hover declaration which works just the same. Thanks, Mike -Original Message- The text is going nowhere but it is turning the same colour as the background. The background colour is specified for the c

[css-d] RollOver href="#" makes text disappear?

2007-02-13 Thread Michael Stevens
http://www.centrestagedancestudio.com/newmenu.htm http://www.centrestagedancestudio.com/assets/centrestage.css http://www.centrestagedancestudio.com/loadmenu.js http://www.centrestagedancestudio.com/mm_menu.js This site is a mess. Made by some version of Dreamweaver it's incredibly bloated and a

Re: [css-d] link style problem

2007-02-13 Thread Michael Stevens
It looks like you already had the idea but I add a class="current" to the and this in my CSS: #menu ul a.current, #menu ul a:link.current, #menu ul a:visited.current, #menu ul a:hover.current { background: url(images/button_current.gif) top left no-repeat; cursor: default;

Re: [css-d] A huge space in IE... any reason why?

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Stevens
Excellent. That worked! I went a little further so that I didn't affect the other form and said: #content form {float: left;} so that only the forms inside the content DIV are affected. I can't see it being a double-margin 'cause if that were the case it would be happening on each page, not just

[css-d] How do we handle rollovers using a NAME tag?

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Stevens
XHTML now prohibits the name="" in favor of id="". I've read a little about it and fragments and all kinds crap that I don't understand and don't really care to understand; don't care WHY. I just need a solution. The question for me is in order to make an XHTML compliant document and use Javascri

[css-d] A huge space in IE... any reason why?

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Stevens
www.jimbarnettconsulting.com/contact.html www.jimbarnettconsulting.com/short_form.html www.jimbarnettconsulting.com/jbc.css Of course, it's fine in FireFox... Every page on the site is identical except what's between the content DIVs. The only difference on these pages is the form in use. I d

Re: [css-d] Any way to remove MouseOver flicker in IE?

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Stevens
I'll reply to all in one email... Yes, it was the browser cache settings in IE. I was doing some testing on our intranet and I had changed IE's cache. Before another lister told me the cause I did try the background-position thing with one image and it failed on the first try. Before I could to m

[css-d] Any way to remove MouseOver flicker in IE?

2007-02-06 Thread Michael Stevens
http://www.regencygarden.com/test/ http://www.regencygarden.com/test/regency.css I'm using CSS rollovers just like I've done for other projects. This one has a very noticable flicker of the images as they swap out. I thought it might be a file size problem but the buttons are only 24k. I checked

Re: [css-d] DOCTYPE/FireFox problem? Why does this happen?

2007-02-01 Thread Michael Stevens
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gunlaug Sørtun Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 7:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] DOCTYPE/FireFox problem? Why does this happen? Michael Stevens wrote: > Why is there a space between images in the JB part of the logo

Re: [css-d] DOCTYPE/FireFox problem? Why does this happen?

2007-02-01 Thread Michael Stevens
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[css-d] DOCTYPE/FireFox problem? Why does this happen?

2007-02-01 Thread Michael Stevens
Why is there a space between images in the JB part of the logo in FireFox... http://www.jimbarnettconsulting.com/index_new.html but if I take out the XHTML DOCTYPE from the file it works fine? http://www.jimbarnettconsulting.com/index_new2.html The CSS is common...

Re: [css-d] Images defined as %

2007-01-31 Thread Michael Stevens
Looks good... I've run into IE problems and they way it does't work properly. My layout is a little odd with basically a two column layout with one big picture on the left and two little pictures on the right stacked on top of each other with two separate images underneath those three forming a se

Re: [css-d] Images defined as %

2007-01-30 Thread Michael Stevens
Excellent... So, I drop into my HTML and .scaledimages {width: 30%;} in my CSS and the CSS % dimensions will overide the width of the image dropped into the HTML? Seems like a conflict... or do I remove the width & height from the tag? There won't be a lot of these images, maybe 4, and they won

[css-d] Images defined as %

2007-01-30 Thread Michael Stevens
I'm working on redesigning a site converting it from some horrendous, completely non-compliant code using tables throughout, into XHTML & CSS. What I've got is: A that has a min-width: 725px and max-width: 975px. The fills the entire width. is 143px wide floated left. is 143px wide floated ri

Re: [css-d] How to Filter Out Explorer 7 and Below

2007-01-23 Thread Michael Stevens
And there is the simple answer... I know I've been to my share of sites that break in other browsers. That's why I originally switched from NN to IE back in the mid 90s. Fortunately, I now know better but at least 99% of the public doesn't... Mike -Original Message- They have every incent

Re: [css-d] How to Filter Out Explorer 7 and Below

2007-01-23 Thread Michael Stevens
Making their browser display like crap might not be a "primary goal" of Microsoft's but it seems that another "primary goal" that IS DEFINITELY NOT theirs is making their browser compliant... But it sure does look pretty! Mmike -Original Message- Contrary to popular belief, it is not Micr

Re: [css-d] Capitalize is making capitals after Apostrophe. e.g. Neil's -Neil'S

2007-01-20 Thread Michael Stevens
I thought IE ignored all psuedo classes except :hover and that only works on anchors... Mike -Original Message- I thought that first-letter doesn't work in Windows IE 5.x. Not sure about MAC. Are folks still taking IE 5 issues into account when designing? I've been working with drop cap

Re: [css-d] Colour diferences in IE and FF...

2007-01-19 Thread Michael Stevens
I can't positively say I know what UTF-8 encoded characters are but I see two things that make me wonder: 1. You are using ' for apostrophes and I always use ’ and ‘ for a apostrophes and single quotes and “ and ” for double quotes. 2. This line: Much Love & Fairycakes,Edi, Jack & Mark – The AFC h

Re: [css-d] calling an image from within the CSS

2007-01-19 Thread Michael Stevens
Being curious I visited that page and it did indeed have the properties listed in the order: [<'background-color'> || <'background-image'> || <'background-repeat'> || <'background-attachment'> || <'background-position'>] But, at the bottom of that property the example is given: P { background:

Re: [css-d] how to hyperlink a background image?

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Stevens
Put a clear GIF over the part you want to link and make that GIF an achor... -Original Message- Is there a way to hyperlink a background image (so it takes the visitor to a page in the site?) I've got the logo as a background and want to be able to click-through to the home page. Thank

Re: [css-d] CSS Coding standards v0.2 by Andy Peatling

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Stevens
Now, I could get behind this theory. If, at some point, I develop a page with a horrendous amount of CSS breaking it into page.css, header.css, menu.css, content.css, footer.css, would make perfect sense. But, breaking it into text, layout, and color schemes just makes the whole sheet more cluttere

Re: [css-d] CSS Coding standards v0.2 by Andy Peatling

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Stevens
I'm sure I'm in the minority because I don't subscribe to a lot of the theories that a lot of people here do but what a horrific pain it is to group CSS into the different areas of structure, text, and themes. In his sample on page 4 he shows that his H1 an H2 elements can be cleaned up by using t

Re: [css-d] Getting a background to scroll to bottom?

2007-01-15 Thread Michael Stevens
You make at least two separate DIVs. The "header" div will have a background exactly like what you have. The "content" div will have just the side images. Or You could make the body have a blue background... Have the header div with the top background image... Then have the content div with a ba

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