Re: [css-d] Border makes gap between divs disappear

2010-03-11 Thread Paul Jinks
Thanks David That's really useful information, as well as a fix that's saved me hours of hitting my head on the keyboard. Paul On 10 March 2010 18:24, David Laakso wrote: > Paul Jinks wrote: >> I have a two column layout with each column divided into two boxes >> (

[css-d] Border makes gap between divs disappear

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Jinks
a solution. Paul Jinks __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Su

[css-d] Margin (?) issue in IE6

2008-05-01 Thread Paul Jinks
thanks in advance - I really am not worthy. Paul Jinks __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/p

Re: [css-d] Breaking out of a div

2008-04-11 Thread Paul Jinks
Thanks to everyone for helping out with this Paul Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > On Apr 11, 2008, at 12:05 AM, Paul Jinks wrote: > >> Hi >> >> First the back story: I'm working at a university using a piece of web >> authoring software called Cours

[css-d] Breaking out of a div

2008-04-10 Thread Paul Jinks
Hi First the back story: I'm working at a university using a piece of web authoring software called Course Genie. Teaching staff write their materials in Word, hit generate and out pops the web page. Fine. My job is to write templates so this looks pretty, however, the html leaves few hooks work

Re: [css-d] Gap between divs in IE6

2008-03-05 Thread Paul Jinks
; } > > This works great in IE6, IE7, and Firefox for me. For some reason it > was just IE6 the old version wasn't working in, guess it has weird > issues with background placement. > > Tim > AIM: TymArtist > www.timpalac.com <http://www.timpalac.com> >

Re: [css-d] Gap between divs in IE6

2008-03-05 Thread Paul Jinks
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Paul Jinks wrote: >> I have a page that looks just as I want in FF but which misbehaves in >> IE6, showing a gap between divs. >> http://www.pauljinks.co.uk/test/contentTemplate2.html > > The simplest and most reliable solution is to put an

[css-d] Gap between divs in IE6

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Jinks
I've been trying to fix this till I can't remember my own name: I have a page that looks just as I want in FF but which misbehaves in IE6, showing a gap between divs. Link: http://www.pauljinks.co.uk/test/contentTemplate2.html I've stripped down everything to identify the offending code, which lo

Re: [css-d] Definition list problems

2006-01-04 Thread Paul Jinks
Martin Heiden wrote: >>You can view the page at: >>http://www.pauljinks.co.uk/house/detail.php?projTitle=A%20ricardo%20le%20duele%20la%20garganta. >>and the CSS at: >>http://www.pauljinks.co.uk/css/detail.css > This is a table and there is nothing wrong with using a table for > markup. You shoul

[css-d] Definition list problems

2006-01-04 Thread Paul Jinks
Hi I've got a page displaying a bunch of data in two columns. I wasn't sure whether to go with a table or definition list for this. I don't think there is much in it, really, but went for a definition list. I wanted it to display kind of like a table though. :p Here's what I've done so far: ht

Re: [css-d] Making whole of navigation list item area clickable in IE

2005-12-19 Thread Paul Jinks
Steve Clason wrote: > I gave "ul#navlist li a" a 100% width and it seemed to work OK locally. > > > ul#navlist li a { > display: block; > width: 100%; /* new */ > padding: 0.2em; > border-width: 1px; > border-color: #ffe #aaab9c #ccc #fff; > border

[css-d] Making whole of navigation list item area clickable in IE

2005-12-19 Thread Paul Jinks
Hi I have a top horizontal nav list css as follows. and so on. This divides the top nav area into 4 areas for 4 links. In FF, the whole of each of these is clickable. In IE6, only the text is clickable. I've tried to get round this by setting a width for , either with px

[css-d] navigation list has gaps in FF

2005-12-19 Thread Paul Jinks
Hi I have a top horizontal nav list css as follows. and so on. This divides the top nav area into 4 areas for 4 links. In FF, the whole of each of these is clickable. In IE6, only the text is clickable. I've tried to get round this by setting a width for , eit

Re: [css-d] Put gap in list styled for navigation IE problems

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Jinks
Thanks Christian That fixed it. I can't figure out why, though. Is there some connection between specifying width and border display? Or is it just an IE thing? Anyway, you sorted it out in the nick of time. I owe you. Paul Christian Montoya wrote: >>First - big thanks to everyone who repli

[css-d] Put gap in list styled for navigation IE problems

2005-10-30 Thread Paul Jinks
/index.css I've tried to keep the code fairly clean and easy to read. let me know if you think not. TIA Paul P.S.: Apologies to Steve for sending this to him instead of the list. A slip of the mouse. Steve Clason wrote: > On 10/26/2005 6:01 PM Paul Jinks wrote: > >> I've

[css-d] Put gap in list styled for navigation

2005-10-26 Thread Paul Jinks
Hi I've got a that I've styled as a nav bar. Fine. My client has now asked to have a gap the width of 1 list item to separate the last two list items as they are links to external sites. If you want to take a look, go to: http://www.digitalbeginnings.shef.ac.uk Here's the basic code: xhtm

Re: [css-d] Advice Please

2005-05-18 Thread Paul Jinks
Hi Rich I think the CSS for your page is actually at: http://www.lamaison.org.uk/pages2.css If you put within the "content" div, that will do the trick. It looks like you may not need the banner div at all, you could just style h1 directly in your stylesheet. Cheers Paul ___

Re: [css-d] Background area too big in IE6/XP

2005-05-10 Thread Paul Jinks
Thanks Gary Display: block was fine this time, but there's bound to come a time when it isn't. Paul __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio

[css-d] Background area too big in IE6/XP

2005-05-10 Thread Paul Jinks
Hi all I have a banner which contains a centered image: CSS: #header { color: #000; background-image: url(../images/bullet1.gif); background-repeat: repeat; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 10px;

[css-d] Text after nav div displays inline in FF

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Jinks
Hi all I've been struggling with this for a while. I know I'm missing something really obvious [maybe to do with the use of the "float" properties my choice of widths] but what? In IE the text following the div #topNav appears beneath it, like I intend it to, but in FF it appears to the right. B