Re: [css-d] Scrollbar styles (etc.) validation

Ron Koster wrote: You have no background-color set (or background-color is set to transparent) but you have set a color. Make sure that cascading of colors keeps the text reasonably legible. How on earth is that a warning? If I set a background color for my links or whatever else, well,

Re: [css-d] revealTrans

Hi Del, In the past I have used JavaScript and revealTrans to obtain desired transition effects when swapping images. This works only in IE. Is there a purely css method to obtain the same (or similar) effects and which works in most browsers. Check the business cards on

Re: [css-d] MS abandons IE8 for development for FF3?

Alan Gresley wrote: Can anyone please confirm that what I read here is correct about Microsoft abandoning IE8 development for Firefox 3. http://www.bbspot.com/News/2008/06/microsoft-abandons-internet-explorer-8.ht ml Heheh, thanks for the laugh :) Just in case you were serious: no, it's

Re: [css-d] handheld http-referrer

Gilbert Midonnet wrote: I need to do a quick down and dirty retrofit of a site. Adding a stylesheet media=handheld will be too time-consuming. I would rather do this server-side: if http-referrer = handheld redirect to another page. Only problem is that I can't seem to find the http_referrer

Re: [css-d] Saving pages to disc for editing?

Daniel Beardsmore wrote: Anyone got a good way of saving pages to disc for editing? That is, when we want to work on someone's page to correct problems. I haven't tried this myself, but a quick search on mozilla's Firefox Add-ons page delivered something that sounds like what you're looking

Re: [css-d] I E bold fonts

Phil Turner wrote: I know this has been posted before but cant find the thread IE isnt displaying bold fonts, please can someone point me in the right direction Phil, The problem is probably in the font: rule. Do you get the same problem if you split everything out of the shorthand and into

Re: [css-d] /*\*/ what's this /**/

Timothy Martens wrote: Hi I noticed this strange comment markup in much of Happy Cog's new CSS /*\*/ #branding a { overflow: hidden; } /**/ What does it do? Not #branding a { overflow: hidden; } but the comments around it. T That's the commented backslash hack. Commonly used to

Re: [css-d] Absolute Height

George L Smyth schreef: I have been asked to redesign a site where they want the size of each page to remain a fixed size of 1000x750px. Assigning a width is no problem, but is there a way to assign an absolute height regardless of the amount of information within? You can always use a DIV

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

Kevin J Pledger wrote: One the page in the link, www.oneyed.com/mt . I want to be able to make that image as background in #banner within the CSS file so its the same on all pages. After looking at various pages and trying to understand the different types of coding, I put in this line (

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

Kevin J Pledger wrote: Rick den Haan wrote: See http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS201/colors.html#propdef-background for more information. Tried the link you give and get *The URL path in your request doesn't match anything we have available.* My bad. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/colors.html#propdef

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

Kevin J Pledger wrote: I had tried that already but the minute I try that the code goes from this: #banner { background-color: #fff; background-image: url(images/mt2.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: top center; height:75px;

Re: [css-d] Moving stuff to the right ?

J.E., I'm trying to create a page header that should look like this [...] In other words I don't understand how to get the menu to move to the right. The HTML code looks like this: div id=page div id=pagetop Page header ul class=sectionlist

Re: [css-d] Can somebody explain IE quirks mode?

David O'Neill wrote: Can somebody explain what [quirks mode] means and does it affect positioning in Firefox? David, Take a look at the following[1] page. It had enough information to explain it to me. HTH, Rick. [1]: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html

Re: [css-d] Restricting Class position

Peter Brooks wrote: Hello all, I am writing a php template editor for a blog site currently and I am exploring my options, we are restricting users from editing anything outside #blogWrapper, as currently users happily override the top header for the site. I've sucessfully created this

Re: [css-d] Adding border to image when hovering

Trish Meyer wrote: Hi all, Getting back to CSS after a few months away, and having a brain freeze doing something new (for me). I have a page of small thumbnail images with a thin gray border, and as the mouse moves over them, I want the hover state to be a larger red border so the

Re: [css-d] Print stylesheet/alt text

Shelly, Design Groups schreef: What I want to do is display the alt text for my images, instead of the images themselves, in the printed page. I don't want any images to print out at all - just the text. Interesting problem. Have you considered image replacement? If you want it to be pure