Re: [css-d] Styling a menu

2014-10-16 Thread Peredur
El 16/10/14 a las 23:01, Eric escribió: Peredur, I looks like this is a university's directory page/site. Well. It's a company working with potential university students. Mainly potential students from outside of the UK. Not sure how much we can generalise about what they might have

[css-d] Styling a menu

2014-10-15 Thread Peredur
I imagine that this will turn out to be a very simple question, but never one to avoid displaying my own ignorance, here goes... I'm trying to create a layout for a website that is in dire need of attention and this (URL below) is a mockup of something approaching what I'm aiming for:

Re: [css-d] Styling a menu

2014-10-15 Thread Peredur
El 15/10/14 a las #4, David Laakso escribió: Peter, One way to do that is to put the nav after the footer in the markup. And then absolute position the nav into a block [article] of padding. Once you get to the media queries, the amount of padding needed can be tweaked-- less needed at

[css-d] For my own education

2013-10-21 Thread Peredur
I wonder if somebody could take a look at this site: http://www.memoriahistorica.org.es/joomla/ It's not a site I'm working on or associated with, from a development point of view, in any way. However I notice that the page's text content overflows its container and I wondered (in case this

Re: [css-d] For my own education

2013-10-21 Thread Peredur
El 21/10/13 16:54, Tom Livingston escribió: What browser? I'm not seeing the issue in FF 2 Interesting. FF24 on Ubuntu 12.04LTS. Also in Chrome on the same. Regards Peter -- *Peter Bradley* peredur.net http://www.peredur.net

Re: [css-d] For my own education

2013-10-21 Thread Peredur
El 21/10/13 17:05, Chris Rockwell escribió: Check out this article from 456bereastreet.com: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200704/how_to_prevent_html_tables_from_becoming_too_wide/ Specifically: The layout model of tables differ from that of block level elements in that they will

Re: [css-d] For my own education

2013-10-21 Thread Peredur
El 21/10/13 17:12, Tom Livingston escribió: Looks like the article columns near the bottom are 50% each, plus 25px left and right padding. Turning off the padding helps, but I think there is more going on like that in the two columns. HTH It does Tom. Thanks. Basically the message I'm

Re: [css-d] For my own education

2013-10-21 Thread Peredur
El 21/10/13 17:21, Tom Livingston escribió: haha... and my example goes along with what Chris was saying. 50% + 50% + 50px of padding = more than 100%. Table says OK, if you say so, here ya go! :) :-D Many thanks all Peter -- *Peter Bradley* peredur.net http://www.peredur.net

Re: [css-d] For my own education

2013-10-21 Thread Peredur
El 21/10/13 17:23, Alan Gresley escribió: It's caused by the table further down having two images side by side (the first is 551px wide and the second is 573px wide ) in two separate columns. This fixed width of 1,124px causes the parent table (with one table cell) to be as wide. Because

Re: [css-d] For my own education

2013-10-21 Thread Peredur
El 21/10/13 17:41, Alan Gresley escribió: Your welcome. A simple demo below. There more involved but this gives the concept of the madness. Alan div style=float: left; background: yellowgreen; width: 20%;height: 100pxfloat left/div div style=float: right; background: skyblue; width: 80%;

Re: [css-d] position relative border disappears

2012-04-20 Thread Peredur
El 20/04/12 22:09, Barry Brevik escribió: I am now desperate enough to post to this list. Everything below refers to the code at: http://obedience4life.com/index3.html Disclaimer: The site displays properly only with MSIE. Making it cross-browser is my next project. This is a 3 column layout