Re: [css-d] layout inline elements in block

2006-08-16 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 16/08/06, Peter Speltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > HEADING TEXT item1 > item2 ... Firstly, that's not valid HTML code. A block level element cannot sit inside an inline element. Better would be as follows: Foo bar (etc) To achieve the effect you want, you could try simpy floa

Re: [css-d] META TAGS not validating

2006-07-15 Thread Olly Hodgson
the WSG, webdesign-l or evolt.org lists would be better. Here goes anyway: XHTML is a lower-case language, so all elements and attribute-names must be lower-case (although the content of the attributes can be mixed-case): If you want to mix case, you'd be better of with HTML 4.01 Strict. -

Re: [css-d] stupid question regarding background position: fixed and IE6

2006-07-07 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 07/07/06, Paul Seale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I assigned the background fixed attribute and it works great with Fire > Fox but not with IE6. Does IE 6 not support this attribute? IIRC yes, it does, but only on the element. Cheers, -- Olly http://thinkdrastic.net/ __

Re: [css-d] Missing bullet image in dynamically generated list

2006-04-06 Thread Olly Hodgson
ground-image, etc) to see if that makes any difference? -- Olly Hodgson http://thinkdrastic.net/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.co

Re: [css-d] Form elements spilling over divs

2006-04-06 Thread Olly Hodgson
; over; if I put some other element out side of the form at the bottom say a p > tag then every thing is fine. Can any one explain to me what is going on > here? Martyn - do you have some code or a URL we could take a look at please? Otherwise it can be a bit tricky to debug your problem :)

Re: [css-d] Georgia font not showing in FF/Netscape

2006-03-27 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 27/03/06, 2geedesign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If anyone can suggest why this font doesn't show in FF and Netscape on my > machine and why it appears in only half the content on the second machine > it would be much appreciated. Ian, do you have a URI or some code we could look at? Cheers

Re: [css-d] variations with firefox onwindows PC vs Linux

2006-03-18 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 18/03/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone else noticed variations in margin height between Firefox > 1.5.0.1 on a Windows PC vs Linux? > > I can't point you to the example yet, but I'm finding that if I set the > margin-top with a negative margin and get it to line up c

Re: [css-d] disapearing text in IE

2006-03-14 Thread Olly Hodgson
To learn more about the subject, I would strongly recommend that you read "How to attack an Internet Explorer bug": <http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=C37E0> Cheers, -- Olly Hodgson http://thinkdrastic.net/

Re: [css-d] styling SELECT in IE

2006-03-13 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 13/03/06, Maziak, Peter (Tek Systems) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Older posts (circa 2002*) indicate there is no way to style border, > padding, z-index, etc on a SELECT in IE (because it is an active-x > control). Has anyone seen different since? Not as far as I am aware, although there are

Re: [css-d] Question about validation

2006-03-13 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 13/03/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And yet there is a background-color, it's just transparent. I understand > that it is only a warning, but does the validator not recognize > transparent as a color? I have several of the background-color warnings, > but I am supposing th

Re: [css-d] Problem with image float in Ff

2006-03-03 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 03/03/06, Steve Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The photo is floated to the left, and the div in which it sits inside is > set to 100% height, however when viewed in 800 * 600, the div does not > expand when you scroll down. > > Anybody got any ideas what could be causing this? It works fi

Re: [css-d] paragraphs disappearing

2006-02-27 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 27/02/06, Virtuallee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apparently some of the paragraphs on this page > http://www.fou2foot.com/services.php are disappearing when the user > scrolls up/down. It seems to be mainly 'Services for football Clubs' and > 'Services for football players'. Is this happening

Re: [css-d] Legend of the Fieldset

2006-02-24 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 24/02/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once upon a time a young HTML monkey was happily > banging out some code. The monkey god came to the > monkey and said, "These fields should be grouped > together, and there should be signs indicating what the > grouping is." EEEP! The yo

Re: [css-d] "Does not allow "h3" here???

2006-02-09 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 09/02/06, Maxwell Balmain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put > a block-level element (such as "" or "") inside an inline > element (such as "", "", or ""). There's what's gone wrong. You've put an (a block-level element) into an

Re: [css-d] New IE 7 Ruined my Nav???

2006-02-09 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 10/02/06, TMH Design <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please look at this page - www.thomashall.com > in IE 7 and Firefox. Can someone tell me what is going on? It was perfect in > IE 6 1) IE7 is still just a beta, so there's no use relying on it to get things right jus

Re: [css-d] viewing sites via AOL

2006-01-11 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 11/01/06, Patrick Roane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have AOL or is it pretty much the same as > IE? For the most part, AOL uses the currently installed version of IE as it's rendering engine. I think the Mac version is an exception, which uses an older version of Gecko (Mozilla/

Re: [css-d] Looking for Header, 2 columns, footer fixed at bottom of screen example?

2006-01-04 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 05/01/06, Julian Voelcker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking for an example layout with a header, two columns and then a > footer fixed at the bottom of the browser window. Is this the sort of thing you're after? http://steve.pugh.net/test/test57.html Cheers, -- Olly (just up the road

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

2005-12-07 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 07/12/05, Rimantas Liubertas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of course, if you are dealing with tabular data then fiddling with > divs does not make much sense. Oh of course. If you're working with tabular data, use a table element. It's common sense :) -- Olly http://thinkdrastic.net/

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

2005-12-07 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 07/12/05, Rolf Mortenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Like, why wouldn't you use a table instead of using divs that act > like tables and table cells? It's so that you can have all the advantages of a style layout (easy multi-column layouts, footers that clear all of the columns, full-length

Re: [css-d] Flowable CSS Columns?

2005-11-14 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 14/11/05, Rachell Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm geekin out over this!!! Using the javascript implementation, how > widely is it supported? Before you go too far down that route, I suggest that you check out

Re: [css-d] Problems with DIV elements and position

2005-11-13 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 13/11/05, Reynier Perez Mira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > divRight divLeft >divBelow #divRight, #divLeft { width: 50%; float: left; } #divBelow { clear: left; } You might need to fiddle with the width to get IE to play nicely. -- Olly http://thinkdrastic.net/ ___

Re: [css-d] An IE problem

2005-09-26 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 26/09/05, Christopher Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My problem: the houses on the left side adjust to the screen, whereas the > houses on the right stick out and do not conform to the screen constraints. > To see what I mean, do the same thing in Firefox and compare the 2. It > should lo

Re: [css-d] How to get a good monospaced font for IE6

2005-09-21 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 21/09/05, Rick F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got some reports that I generate that are tabular in nature and > look fine in Firefox for both PC/Mac as well as Safari on Tiger (OSX). > In reviewing how the output looks for IE6 on PC's I find that the font > being used by that browser is p

Re: [css-d] Submit Button Styling

2005-07-04 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 7/4/05, Hershel Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know why they render differently? And more importantly, how to > get IE to match Firefox? I've not yet figured out why, or a solution to it for that matter, but in my experience IE6 always seems to add space at either end of the butt