Re: [css-d] IE 5 and 6 issue

2007-05-17 Thread Robert Lane
Might start with cleaning up the code: HTML: Failed validation, 21 errors CSS: Sorry! We found the following errors URI : http://aflembroidery.com/newlayout/aflmain.css 107 #footspacer Value Error : border-top-style 0 is not a style value : 0 147 .paraheading Value Error :

[css-d] Inheritence Problem

2007-05-17 Thread Robert Tilley
I am using the Konqueror 3.5.6 browser on Kubuntu Linux. I need text displayed as white against a dark background. My initial code applied the color: property to the paragraph. This does not work: p style=text-align: center; color: white; h3Title of Page/h3/p The solution was to place

Re: [css-d] Box Model Problems, I'm not getting it!

2007-05-14 Thread Robert Lane
Getting close! http://tinyurl.com/ywow9q Thanks to the suggestions here I was able to close up the gaps and get things flowing in IE6 and Firefox. I have it looking like I am expecting it to in IE6. But I had to put a -24 px left margin on the floated image div to get it to flush left.

[css-d] Box Model Problems, I'm not getting it!

2007-05-13 Thread Robert Lane
I have an example here: http://tinyurl.com/3axpuo I don't understand what I am doing wrong, but I am getting totally different results in IE6, IE7 and FireFox 2 Basically I just want a rectangular area with a log at the top, a horizontal navigation box, a content box, and a footer box. I

Re: [css-d] Box Model Problems, I'm not getting it!

2007-05-13 Thread Robert Lane
This is a png of what I want to get to. I had it set up and was breaking in IE6 so I went back to start with the box model and try to get that working before changing in the elements. http://tinyurl.com/2xs42o On 5/13/2007 4:35:20 PM, Peter Hyde-Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Robert: Can

Re: [css-d] Box Model Problems, I'm not getting it!

2007-05-13 Thread Robert Lane
What does that mean? On 5/13/2007 5:14:47 PM, Peter Hyde-Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - Original Message - Cheers, mate. Peter __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[css-d] 10px gap below float in IE6 7 - how do I eliminate?

2007-05-12 Thread Robert Lane
Example is here: http://tinyurl.com/yonjur I can't get this to work right! I have been struggling all day with this. Looks right in FireFox but in IE 6 7 the background is flowing under the float and adding 10px of gray background to the bottom before the footer. How can I get rid of the

[css-d] 12px gap in IE7 below float

2007-05-10 Thread Robert Lane
I have a page here: http://tinyurl.com/2go7kn Looks right in Firefox, but I am getting a 12px white space below my floated image in IE7. Not sure about any other browsers. The code validated and the CSS validates. Is this some kind of bug and how can I fix? Arrggg!

Re: [css-d] 12px gap in IE7 below float

2007-05-10 Thread Robert Lane
Thanks so much - that fixed it up in IE7 - anyone see any IE6 issues or other browsers? On 5/10/2007 4:00:06 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Robert Lane wrote: http://tinyurl.com/2go7kn Looks right in Firefox, but I am getting a 12px white space below my floated

[css-d] 12px gap gpne but still get a 4px gap below floated image in IE7

2007-05-10 Thread Robert Lane
:00:06 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Robert Lane wrote: http://tinyurl.com/2go7kn Looks right in Firefox, but I am getting a 12px white space below my floated image in IE7. Not sure which of IE/win's many bug-variants this is, but the addition of a well-placed

[css-d] lost on positioning

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Lane
I am confused. I am trying to layout a section of content. I have a topmast div with some logos, navigation, etc. I have it centered with margin: auto. I then want to have a content area. I want a total rectangle of 760px wide. I want to have a div on the left side that will hold some

Re: [css-d] Extra padding in Firefox

2007-05-06 Thread Robert Ginn
From: david [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps you could: 1. Leave the hr tags alone, unstyled except for one thing in CSS: hide them. When CSS is enabled, the HR isn't shown. 2. Get the desired horizontal rule effects you want using the border of either the block element

Re: [css-d] Extra padding in Firefox

2007-05-05 Thread Robert Ginn
Robert Ginn wrote: I've been working in XHTML Strict, mostly for experience, but it doesn't like the hr tag, at least the noshade attribute. I'd like this page to work in Strict, but am stuck on the noshade problem. Without it, the hr's look strange---and without any hr's at all

Re: [css-d] Extra padding in Firefox

2007-05-03 Thread Robert Ginn
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Robert Ginn wrote: http://www.sitkamusicfestival.org/4-index.html http://www.sitkamusicfestival.org/1_css_update.css In my original page, I found that the extra padding that Firefox inserted at the top was actually inside the table which contained the logo

[css-d] Extra padding in Firefox

2007-05-02 Thread Robert Ginn
Greetings from a nugget, barely past the basics in CSS. In trying to develop a new header, I've found that Firefox 1.5 puts extra padding at the top of the page. A little padding is needed to make IE7 look proper, but even without any padding, the header in Firefox shows well below the top

Re: [css-d] Extra padding in Firefox

2007-05-02 Thread Robert Ginn
In trying to develop a new header, I've found that Firefox 1.5 puts extra padding at the top of the page. That's the default margin on paragraphs - which differs between browsers. Declare something like... table p {margin: 20px 0;} ...(put in your own values) for cross-browser

Re: [css-d] How can I define a max column width and truncate contents?

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Lane
Maybe I am misunderstanding you - but if you put a width on the container then that is as wide as it gets. Style: .skinny {width: 40px; } Content: div class=skinny Some text more text more text more text /div HTH __

[css-d] Trouble with positioning - not understanding this

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Lane
I am struggling with some positioning. Basically, I have a div at the bottom of a page that is defined to have a height of 143px. It has a background image of that size. I then have some text that I want centered and positioned near the top of the div. I put that in a p tag with a class=addr

Re: [css-d] Trouble with positioning - not understanding this

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Lane
That works! And kind of makes sense to me. Maybe I will get this after all. Thanks! :-) On 4/29/2007 4:52:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make it absolutely postitioned within the footer div. To do this you must define the footer div as position:relative.

[css-d] Footer position problems again!

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Lane
I had this page setup with a flow around the page photo example here: http://tinyurl.com/28fjs4 In the footer I have a p.addr block that I want centered and up closer to the top of the footer rectangle. I put a border around it so you can see. But even bigger problems when I cut the

Re: [css-d] Footer position problems again!

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Lane
Forgot to mention... the p.addr centers in IE7 although not as close to the top as I would like - but it is all askew in Firefox __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information

Re: [css-d] Footer position problems again!

2007-04-29 Thread Robert Lane
I added a 60px top margin to the #footer div and now I can see what the problem is but I am not sure how to fix it. The link is here: http://tinyurl.com/yp3qj2 What is going on is I have a div id=main_box and with in that div I have another div containing an image with a float left. So what

Re: [css-d] Scroll bar in IE6 not in FF

2007-04-26 Thread Robert O'Rourke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My site www.boxdproductions.co.uk gets an unsightly vertical scroll bar in IE but not in FF. Any ideas how I can remove this? Regards Pete As far as I know you can only get rid of it by using overflow-y: hidden on the body but it's a bad idea because then you

[css-d] H1 generating half the space in IE7 as in FF?

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Lane
http://tinyurl.com/38kf6o The space in FireFox from the bottom of the navigation to the top of the H1 line Brain Injury... is 40px But in IE7 I get about 27px. Can anyone point me to why I am getting the difference? Thanks

[css-d] horizontal link menu -browser check

2007-04-23 Thread Robert Lane
http://tinyurl.com/yq8nwz I have been trying to set this up with a horizontal li menu - it seems to be looking right in Firefox and IE7. Am wondering if the styles I have on here will hold up over other browsers. I know there will be issues if someone increases the text size, but am not sure

[css-d] What would you do to get three column list?

2007-04-22 Thread Robert Lane
So I am given a word document for web content and the text is layed out as a three column type list. Would you just throw it in a table or how would you do it in css without table? The list looks like this: Evaluation and treatment by licensed Speech-language Pathologists specializing in

[css-d] every other li set to block and float - will this work?

2007-04-22 Thread Robert Lane
I posted a test here: http://tinyurl.com/2hd7hk This looks like it is working in IE7 and FireFox... Is this going to be stable and is it looking right in other browsers? Or am I in for problems doing it this way? I am basically looking for a two column display, hours on the left (but the hours

[css-d] Simplified -- CSS menu and DIV are freezing -- Site check needed

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Tilley
I have simplified the problem page to the bare essentials. The site in question is located at: http://home.cfl.rr.com/rtgroup/test-case.html;. A description follows of verifying menu function and then of causing the problem this message describes. Select Filler Text from either of the menus

Re: [css-d] Simplified -- CSS menu and DIV are freezing -- Site check needed

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Tilley
On Saturday 21 April 2007 04:47:57 pm Robert Tilley wrote: SNIP Through the process of selective code elimination, I found the error: Piping to a non-existant div. Thank you for your time. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[css-d] CSS menu and DIV are freezing -- Site check needed

2007-04-20 Thread Robert Tilley
The site in question is located at: http://home.cfl.rr.com/rtgroup/index-tantra27.html;. Each menu option will display a corresponding text description in a content DIV in the left column. This works and can be verified by choosing any item, _except Watsu_, from the top menubar. Items can

[css-d] FF gap disappears with Border set to none?

2007-04-19 Thread Robert Lane
http://tinyurl.com/2d279b Can someone explain this? I was getting a 10px gap between the footer div and the maincontent with the body background color showing through in FF - but IE7 showed it the way I intended with no gap. When I added a border and then set it to none on the p.addr in the

[css-d] Link menu - Background gap in FF]

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Lane
The test page is at: http://tinyurl.com/2adrbd I put a ul li menu in a wrapper div and then tried to center that with auto margin in another div. It looks correct in IE7 but in Firefox 2.0 there is a 2px gap on each side where the background color isn't showing. What would be doing that and how

Re: [css-d] lists in blocks

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Lane
Gee looks like a table, walks like a table, quacks like a duck! :-) Actually I had a similar question but not for menus. I have a document that client wants added to web page. They laid it out in a 2 column bulleted list format. Of course it has an odd number of bullets, and the text per

Re: [css-d] @import vs link for stylesheets

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Lane
Unhelpfully, I'll reply with a question - why are you previewing in an editor? It is actually my CSS editor = Topstyle, which does a great job of working with CSS and displaying changes as you type them. But I just discovered this quirk that it isn't showing the tiling of a background

[css-d] @import vs link for stylesheets

2007-04-15 Thread Robert Lane
Sorry if this has been asked before. I just discovered that the CSS editor I am using doesn't preview background images properly when I use a link connection to the css file - whereas with the @import connection it works perfectly. So I am just curious as to the pros and cons of one method

Re: [css-d] IE bug?

2007-04-15 Thread Robert Lane
what if you write it like this: !--if [IE] stuff here ! [endif]-- removing the spaces __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information --

Re: [css-d] Problems with IE 6 7

2007-04-14 Thread Robert Lane
There are a lot of issues on there that need work, but where to start. I usually like to validate my Html and css first to make sure I don't have errors that might be causing the quirky behavior. I ran your page through the W3C validator and found errors in both. So my suggestions would be to

[css-d] Problem - background showing above/below footer div

2007-04-14 Thread Robert Lane
http://tinyurl.com/2264jb I am getting a gray background from the body background color showing through above and below my footer div (well below in IE7 but not in FF) It is about 12 px of gray at the top and about 5 px in IE7 at bottom. I want the footer to sit flush to the maincontent box

Re: [css-d] menu troubles

2007-04-13 Thread Robert Lane
I don't see a left sidebarIE7 and Firefox __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ --

[css-d] Footer Image not centering in IE7 - fine in FF :-(

2007-04-08 Thread Robert Lane
I put an example over here: http://tinyurl.com/37pl7l I have an image in the footer that has an address/phone, etc. I am trying to center it in the footer area. Looks fine in Firefox but IE7 is showing it on the left side instead of centered. CSS validates. I am clueless why this is not

Re: [css-d] Footer Image not centering in IE7 - fine in FF :-(

2007-04-08 Thread Robert Lane
Now it seems broken in Firefox as well. How do I get the footer image to center? :-( __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information --

Re: [css-d] Footer Image not centering in IE7 - fine in FF :-(

2007-04-08 Thread Robert Lane
off topic -- But why an image? That kills SEO -- off topic Don't have ie up at the moment but works in ff. Was a temporary thing until we decide on format and color scheme. Plan to change it before we go live. Thanks I seem to have the centering sorted now.

[css-d] Site Check Request

2007-04-05 Thread Robert DeLaurentis
I would appreciate anyone who takes the time to look at my site and lets me know how its working on their browsers. This is my first all- CSS site. I tried to use minimal number of classes, ids for major layouy divs only, and as little non-standard cruft as possible.

[css-d] Can't figure out this positioning...

2007-04-04 Thread Robert Lane
The example is here: http://tinyurl.com/3a4h6c I have some simple divs - I just want the wrapper div to float centered horizontally in the browser window with some background color and either side and the top and bottom. I was looking for 20px for the top background and the same at the

Re: [css-d] Embedded Fonts

2007-04-02 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Conyers, Dwayne wrote: Dino CSS ink wired: Can I embedded ttf font inside my website through css so that any browser can open and view the font ? There is a Microsoft API for that... it isn't CSS and it isn't very reliable either... -- I made magic once. Now, the sofa is

Re: [css-d] CSS Development General Question

2007-03-22 Thread Robert O'Rourke
OOzy Pal wrote: Dears, Every time I start developing a site I start with small css file and after I am done the .css file gets bigger and out of control. I am sure that I am doing something wrong. I am sure that I am duplicating and adding items that I don't need. I mean items that can

[css-d] Divs, floats, and disappearing backgrounds

2007-03-22 Thread Robert DeLaurentis
Is there a way to make this scenario work? -- A single div (name=wrapper) contains two other divs (maincolumn and sidebar) The wrapper is assigned a background image via CSS. Now, add maincolumn and sidebar, both of which are floated left to create the two content container regions on the

[css-d] Frames or CSS? Dynamic section of page

2007-03-20 Thread Robert Tilley
My page has a static top, sides, and bottom. I would like to have a dynamic center which changes according to menu (top of page) selections. The only solution which I understand is to use frames. It would work to reload the entire page with each selection, but avoiding is the main purpose of

[css-d] CSS Newbie Requesting Site Check

2007-03-12 Thread Robert DeLaurentis
Hi everyone, Thank you for reading this note. I'm working on converting an existing site from tables to pure CSS, and I have posted a sample page for the new site. This is my first attempt at a CSS-based site, and I still have a lot to learn. I invite commentary of any kind, how to

[css-d] Need Help fixing pure-CSS menus in IE6

2007-03-12 Thread Robert DeLaurentis
I'm struggling with my first CSS based site. I tried to implement a fairly simple (what I thought was fairly simple beforehand) pure CSS menu. The menu works everywhere except IE6 - now there is a surprise. I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this, and would be grateful for some advice.

Re: [css-d] Need Help fixing pure-CSS menus in IE6

2007-03-12 Thread Robert DeLaurentis
On Mar 12, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Daniel Beardsmore wrote: Might want to fix the first URL :-) (and post a corrected message to the list) Dang. Sorry! Site: http://sbwc.org/web20dev/dev_sbwc_menu.htm CSS: http://sbwc.org/web20dev/dev_sbwc_menu.css b Original message: I'm struggling with my

[css-d] Review Needed

2007-03-01 Thread Robert Tilley
I'm creating a website, and when I view the local copy of the page index-tantra22-test.html it is rendered correctly with two menubars, on my linux (Kubuntu) box using the Konqueror browser. When all files from the entire site development directory are copied to my web server, the same page is

Re: [css-d] Review Needed

2007-03-01 Thread Robert Tilley
On Thursday 01 March 2007 05:10:13 pm Robert Tilley wrote: snip Thank you to all who replied to my problem. After correcting the permissions on all files in my webspace, the problem was solved. Keep up the good work! Thanks, Bob

[css-d] background images cut to html

2007-02-26 Thread Robert Schooley
Hello, I have created a wire frame in PS and am now cutting it to html. There is a gradient background 1 pixel wide that is applied to the body element of the document. There is also a header, footer, and main content area slices that all have a drop shadow that fades into the background

[css-d] Scroll Top/Down CSS/DOM

2007-01-16 Thread Robert Santander
I am looking to tool of scroll top/down that it uses css/dom. Where meeting? Thanks. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7

[css-d] Yet another IE6 to IE7 problem

2006-12-21 Thread Robert Paterson
Hello, Recently I revised my CSS code in an attempt to fix a problem (of my own making, no doubt) with how a menu is displayed in IE7 ... in FF and IE6 the fly-out sub-menu items aligned properly with the relevant main menu item ... in IE7 the spacing if off slightly. The relevant code (the

[css-d] Page divs cause background overflow

2006-12-12 Thread Robert Tilley
This must be a descriptive post as FTP problems prevent me from posting a live site to check. I have a web page with a 1280x1024 background picture set to repeat. If a user's screen is smaller, they won't see a difference and if larger, they'll only see repeating around the edges. When the

[css-d] Help with a live page -- div/image problems

2006-12-11 Thread Robert Tilley
The page http://home.cfl.rr.com/rtgroup/tantra-table_no-pics.html; displays correctly while the version with graphics http://home.cfl.rr.com/rtgroup/tantra-table.html; displays correctly. The background of the page is a 1280x1024 picture which repeats. This should work for most browsers and

[css-d] Why does this table shift right? -- Live page

2006-12-09 Thread Robert Tilley
The page http://home.cfl.rr.com/rtgroup/tantra-table.html; has it's table in the center of the window. If the second definition of h1 (near the end of the style section) is removed from the code (so that the first definition [near the top] of h1 is used), the table jumps to the right. The

Re: [css-d] CSS Positioning problems

2006-12-08 Thread Robert Mcleod
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .date { margin-top: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight:bold; } G'day, I think the biggest problem here is that you redefine margin to 0px after you declare margin-top as 10px. Having margin: 0px *after* your margin-top: 10px line will set margin-top

[css-d] site check please

2006-12-07 Thread Robert K
Please, would you take a look at www.zangthal.co.uk any comments/suggestions would be of interest. BTW the styling of the contact page's script hasn't been finished yet. Maybe off-topic but one possible problem is for the line in .htaccess RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|pdf)$

[css-d] Scrollbar attributes vs Valid CSS

2006-12-05 Thread Robert Lane
A group I am in asked me to look at some web stuff they are doing with an eye to cleaning up the CSS. One of the key individuals that worked on this likes to customize the scrollbar colors and has used the following in the CSS file: scrollbar-base-color:#B7D9FF; scrollbar-track-color:#B7D9FF;

Re: [css-d] Background Image Resizing -- Solution

2006-11-22 Thread Robert Tilley
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 16:30, Robert Tilley wrote: SNIP As I am not the best researcher nor experienced with CSS, is the above the best method, given the lack of CSS2 support? The process I chose was to enlarge the picture with a photo editor to 1280x1024, then set it as a repeating

[css-d] Can CSS Help With This Design?

2006-11-15 Thread Robert Tilley
I wish to produce a page with Header, Left, Center, Right, and Footer divs. There are templates aplenty that display these properties. My addition would be a Description div within the Center column. A hover menu would be in the Left div, with each item being a different topic. When a menu

[css-d] H-Scroll in IE7 - Please Help

2006-10-25 Thread Robert Lane
Try validating the document first? Just a thought. __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ --

Re: [css-d] Web Testing

2006-10-22 Thread Robert L. Hicks
I also use a Mac. I ran across this site this morning: http://www.browsercam.com/default.aspx. It isn't free, but it would cost a fortune to have access to everything they offer. They do have a free trial. I'm going to give it a whirl to see how it works. -Bob On Oct 22, 2006, at 6:22 PM,

[css-d] Can I center a UL menu?

2006-09-25 Thread Robert Tilley
Although gaining experience with CSS, I consider myself a newbie. I would like to center a vertical menu with a column. -- | | | | | | Menu || |

[css-d] Why do the displays differ?

2006-09-23 Thread Robert Tilley
When I browse the web page http://www.manisheriar.com/holygrail/index.htm;, the left and right columns are colored for the full height of the window. When I save the source and css code to disk and display the page locally, the columns are only drop as far as the text. I would like to use this

[css-d] CSS, IE, and Purity of Code -- Opinion and Question

2006-09-22 Thread Robert Tilley
Please allow me to air a question that may appear naive. I was reading a CSS site (http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/onetruelayout/anyorder). The continual coding references correct display on IE unsettled me. My first response is that specifications exist to facilitate global

Re: [css-d] CSS, IE, and Purity of Code -- Opinion and Question -- Thank you

2006-09-22 Thread Robert Tilley
. Your insight on a balance between standards while supporting different browsers is greatly appreciated. Robert Tilley __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css

[css-d] Why doesn't this padding-left work?

2006-09-21 Thread Robert Tilley
Please bear with me, as this question is from a CSS beginner. I am using the following: DIV id=content H2CSS Information/H2 Lorem ipsum, etc. /DIV This displays, in large text, CSS Information. I wish to indent the heading, so I write:

[css-d] Please pardon...Problem Solved

2006-09-06 Thread Robert Tilley
I reported difficulties with copying and pasting a code segment for vertical menus and after modifying the code for my purposes, discovering it was broken. After diving into my code and minutely following each tag and attributes I have solved my problem. I don't understand why it broke and am

[css-d] Differences Between Exact Code Sections -- Vertical Menus

2006-09-05 Thread Robert Tilley
In the process of implementing vertical menus, I am drawing the work pure CSS menus located at http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/menus/demo.html;. The web page I'm building and testing, http://home.cfl.rr.com/rtgroup/index-tantra13.html;, shows some bizarre behavior. The original menu is

[css-d] Flabergasted with float: left;

2006-08-30 Thread Robert Reed
. The page: http://atma.whatnet.org/zp1 The css: http://atma.whatnet.org/zp1/main.css Insight would be eternally welcome :) -- Robert Reed (neoatmaweapon.at.gmail.com) --- We don't see things as they are. We see things as we

[css-d] CSS-generated Text Problem

2006-08-25 Thread Robert Tilley
I have a menu on my site that points to various HTML files. These files have a description of each menu item. In a previous version of my site, each menu item would open the description file within a frame in the window. Can someone please tell me if the following is possible with CSS? I

[css-d] IE6 margin issues.

2006-08-07 Thread Robert Reed
solution out there. The page in question is http://atma.whatnet.org/sobag/index.php The style sheet in question is http://atma.whatnet.org/sobag/main.css Any suggestions? -- Robert Reed (neoatmaweapon.at.gmail.com) --- We don't see things as they are. We see things as we

Re: [css-d] Site check please

2006-08-05 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Thanks everyone, I wasn't aware I could specify line-height without units till now. Nice one. I've used a darker colour for the emphasised paragraph and left the font-size on the body and content well alone. I think the reason I shrank it down was that trebuchet didn't look so good so I've

Re: [css-d] centering picture/text

2006-08-04 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Jan Erik Moström wrote: Another basic CSS question. What I would like to do is to create a part of page that contains a photo with a caption that is centered on the page, something like this: --- | some other part of the

Re: [css-d] multiple-level dropdown menu - exquisit implementation using purely CSS

2006-08-04 Thread Robert Byrnes
Christian - Regarding: http://www.grc.com/menu2/invitro.htm Thanks for taking the time to explain your views. I appreciate the links and will look into them deeper the first chance I get. I'm not a CSS purist, just someone who's learning and wanting to do what's right. ;) Robert

Re: [css-d] multiple-level dropdown menu - exquisitimplementationusing purely CSS

2006-08-04 Thread Robert Byrnes
unusable? Are you saying the technique is flawed in principle? Because this menu project seems to have met all its objectives. Care to elaborate? Many thanks! Robert __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org

Re: [css-d] Skewed Text.....can it be done?

2006-08-03 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Christian Heilmann wrote: I was just playing with photoshop to come up with a new layout for a site and I was wondering if it was possible to do skewed text, or divs. I am finding it hard to word this properly so I will just post a link to the image of what I have in mind. And if any of you

Re: [css-d] Style with only one bit of content

2006-08-03 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Christian Montoya wrote: On 8/3/06, Eoin Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems strange to create a whole new style just for adding bold text but then I can't think of any other way of doing it. I've ended up creating styles named things like 'makeBold' with nothing more than

Re: [css-d] Style with only one bit of content

2006-08-03 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Dave Goodchild wrote: On 03/08/06, *Robert O'Rourke* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Montoya wrote: On 8/3/06, Eoin Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems strange to create a whole new style just

Re: [css-d] multiple-level dropdown menu - exquisit implementation using purely CSS

2006-08-03 Thread Robert Byrnes
Works on all versions of all browsers on all platforms: http://www.grc.com/menu2/invitro.htm Courtesy of Steve Gibson, a consummate perfectionist ;) Not working with keyboard access (ok, also not forcing users to tab through all links either) and not allowing the menu to stay on the

[css-d] Site check please

2006-08-03 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Hello list, Another day another template, I'd appreciate some testing on http://ipg.sanchothefat.com Its the development copy of a simple website I've put together to try and improve their search engine rankings. I'm not really a designer so I didn't spend long on the design (its a lot

Re: [css-d] Site check please

2006-08-03 Thread Robert O'Rourke
David Laakso wrote: Robert O'Rourke wrote: Another day another template, I'd appreciate some testing on http://ipg.sanchothefat.com Its the development copy of a simple website...} Rob ... Subjective: The pale yellow is too pale; and, while the fonts scale fine, the start

[css-d] multiple-level dropdown menu - exquisit implementation using purely CSS

2006-08-02 Thread Robert Byrnes
Works on all versions of all browsers on all platforms: http://www.grc.com/menu2/invitro.htm Courtesy of Steve Gibson, a consummate perfectionist ;) __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] background pos x/y repeat-x/y

2006-07-31 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Michael Landis wrote: Eric A. Meyer wrote: There are no values such as 'repeat-down' or 'repeat-right', which is what I assume you're seeking. On 7/29/06, Robert O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there going to be a feature like this in future at all? I can see it being useful

Re: [css-d] background pos x/y repeat-x/y

2006-07-29 Thread Robert O'Rourke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone ever notice that if you repeat-x a background image you can only background position that image on the y coordinate and vice versa - so when you repeat-y you can position x but the y is useless (defaults to 0). ?? Isn't that kind of the point? Or did you want

Re: [css-d] background pos x/y repeat-x/y

2006-07-29 Thread Robert O'Rourke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes it does seem to make sense however it would be nice to be able to do and not add extra divs Thats true, I think the CSS3 border-image properties might go someway towards sorting that kind of thing out. Damn all this waiting...

Re: [css-d] background pos x/y repeat-x/y

2006-07-29 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Eric A. Meyer wrote: There are no values such as 'repeat-down' or 'repeat-right', which is what I assume you're seeking. Is there going to be a feature like this in future at all? I can see it being useful, at least for the sake of completeness in the range of background properties

Re: [css-d] floated layout puzzle

2006-07-27 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Audra Coldiron wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm hoping someone out there has the insight I lack to achieve this certain layout.I'm not sure it's even possible. I want to do a 2 column fixed width floated layout with a header and clearing footer. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, I also want

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Tom Livingston wrote: Sure it is. Adding clearing elements, and the ensuing additional CSS (or extra clearing markup), makes code less readable for, in most cases, no good reason. Since overflow: hidden or overflow: auto does the trick, the whole issue of clearing floats becomes essentially a

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting

2006-07-17 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Alex Foley wrote: I'd sure like a confirmation from someone that overflow: auto is the way to go... I've been clearfix-ing up until about 12:03 pm today. Here we go: http://dev.l-c-n.com/IEW/containing-float-overflow.php It's not as consistent as clear-fixing but in general using

Re: [css-d] easy question about centering my design on the page in css

2006-07-17 Thread Robert O'Rourke
juliann wheeler wrote: You can view my design at: http://www.agentevaluator.com/juliann/brown/indexbrown.html How do I get this to center on the page? thanks! It's a bit tricky when everything is absolutely positioned like that. You could produce the same layout with floats and normal

Re: [css-d] CSS Formatting - overflow for clearing floats

2006-07-17 Thread Robert O'Rourke
So, the overflow-property is a useful solution for containing floats in some cases, but not in others. regards Georg Good to know, Does a floated element within a container that has overflow : hidden ; applied respect the padding of the container? In particular the bottom

[css-d] List Style - how would you change to get a -

2006-07-12 Thread Robert Lane
Trying to do a nested nested nested type list and want to use just a - in front of the list item Is there a way to style that? __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing

[css-d] How do you adjust the indent on UL LI elements?

2006-07-12 Thread Robert Lane
My page is at: http://www.careercounselingservices.com/test2/outplacement.htm If you scroll down in the lower half of the page (yes it is long!) there are some nested unordered lists. I want to reduce the indents. I tried the following but it didn't seem to work: .disc{list-style-type: disc;}

Re: [css-d] About replacing a structural table with colspan

2006-07-06 Thread Robert O'Rourke
So I stumbled upon the zen garden, bought a book or two and am currently converting to css-ism. Heh, maybe css-ists will get tax-exempt status soon :P However, I don't see a solution to a particular problem I have already solved with the table, but cannot see a solution with css.

Re: [css-d] Column Blow Out

2006-07-06 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Steve LaBadie wrote: I have an issue where a table cell blows out when I put images in it. If I put text in it, the cell stays firm. What suggestions are out there to lock the cell from blowing out when I put images in it? What exactly do you mean by 'blowing out'? If its stretching

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