Re: [css-d] Margin Collapsing down to the html element itself

2009-03-23 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Els wrote: > Robert O'Rourke wrote: > >> I've been working on a site and just at the stage of tidying up the >> CSS however I have a strange problem with margin collapsing. It >> looks like there is some unwanted margin on the HTML element itself >> which

[css-d] Margin Collapsing down to the html element itself

2009-03-23 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Hi all, I've been working on a site and just at the stage of tidying up the CSS however I have a strange problem with margin collapsing. It looks like there is some unwanted margin on the HTML element itself which is really confusing me. I've been trying all sorts to fix this problem. Putting a

Re: [css-d] IE Password Field

2008-12-09 Thread Robert O'Rourke
MEM wrote: >> -Original Message- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert O'Rourke >> Sent: terça-feira, 9 de Dezembro de 2008 10:46 >> To: Luc on css-discuss >> >> MEM wrote: >> >>> AHH! >>> >>> The pas

Re: [css-d] IE Password Field

2008-12-09 Thread Robert O'Rourke
MEM wrote: > AHH! > > The password input field it's automatically shorter in IE. > > If we put both input fields with the type: text. All works fine. > If We put two text fields, one with type: text. Another with type:password, > this one get's shorter. > > Is there a way to stop IE from doing

Re: [css-d] I give up with IE

2008-11-21 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Ray Pello wrote: > Hullo, > > I have a problem. THis site : www.reginagarde.com > looks OKAY to FF but when it comes to ie : when it gets to the product > details page (such as : http://www.reginagarde.com/store/show/D231) > The layout of the footer got screwed. > > ... > Can anyone help? > > - Ra

Re: [css-d] Font name

2008-02-25 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Mário Gamito wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know the font name that is used in this picture ? > > http://www.absinto.org/einstein.010.png > > I'd like to use it in a site, but I can't figure out what it is. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Warm Regards, > Mário Gamit If you cut out the bit of

Re: [css-d] styling for two monitors

2008-01-08 Thread Robert O'Rourke
>> On my 2 monitor setup, it works just fine. Just for reference it's a >> iMac 19" with a 19" sony trinitron external monitor with a hack to >> enable the desktop extension (Didn't come that way from the factory... >> Just desktop mirroring.) >> >> The only way I can reproduce what you are

Re: [css-d] Top Bottom - Lets Keep Them Apart

2007-12-06 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Ian Rutgers wrote: > I have been charged with rewriting this www.aslslimited.org such that > the top nav stays at the top of the page and the bottom nav stays at the > bottom of the page and the content makes up the rest. In other words as > the browser window is resized the content section of th

Re: [css-d] Hey, I'm new to the list...

2007-12-06 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Jon Hughes wrote: >> I thought I'd say hi.. I'm Matt Lee, Campaigns Manager at the Free >> Software Foundation, and Chief Webmaster for the GNU Operating System. >> >> I've been using CSS now for about 3 or 4 years, and while I'm not >> > really > >> a designer, I'm extremely interested i

Re: [css-d] ordered lists in ie - is more than 10 items asking too much?

2007-10-30 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Jens Brueckmann wrote: > Hi Robert, > > >> Just realised, it's not giving any extra room for the extra digit when >> you reach list-item number 10. Guess it's something I'll have to live >> with >> > > you may add whitespace between the list numbers and the first > character by adding l

Re: [css-d] ordered lists in ie - is more than 10 items asking too much?

2007-10-30 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Luc wrote: > Good afternoon Robert, > It was foretold that on 30/10/2007 @ 18:59:25 GMT+ (which was > 15:59:25 where I live) Robert O'Rourke would write: > > > > >> For some strange reason if you set 'list-style-position' to 'inside&#

Re: [css-d] ordered lists in ie - is more than 10 items asking too much?

2007-10-30 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Just realised, it's not giving any extra room for the extra digit when you reach list-item number 10. Guess it's something I'll have to live with __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/cs

[css-d] ordered lists in ie - is more than 10 items asking too much?

2007-10-30 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Hello, I didn't have much luck with google on this one so I've put together a demo page: http://www.sanchothefat.com/css/bugtests/ie/ol.html For some strange reason if you set 'list-style-position' to 'inside' on an ordered-list from the tenth list-item onwards the text-indent i

Re: [css-d] at import loading

2007-08-13 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Gate Wizard wrote: > question > How does a browser handle @import? > > Example: > in HEAD we have: > > > > - > main.css > /* */ > > Does the browser load the imported CSS before it starts rendering the page, > or after? > > I've looked here, but it doesn't se

Re: [css-d] Wordpress theme floats and footers

2007-06-29 Thread Robert O'Rourke
ByteDreams wrote: > Thank you. > I've temporarily loaded the theme on my site. It's now worse than it was - > than it appeared offline. For instance I had gotten the dock menu working > and in the middle, now its back on the left. > I don't know what happened now. I can't see straight anymore.

Re: [css-d] Wordpress theme floats and footers

2007-06-29 Thread Robert O'Rourke
ByteDreams wrote: > I'm working on my very first WP theme. > Everything is inside a #wrapper which is underneath the body tag > Then I have the following structure: > #header > > body{ > top: 0; > margin: 0; > font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif > font-size:10px;

Re: [css-d] Any consensus on reset css?

2007-06-21 Thread Robert O'Rourke
David Hucklesby wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:04:55 -0400, Scott Glasgow wrote: > >> There seems to be a good deal of contention, or at least spirited >> discussion, on the >> value or advisability of using reset stylesheets >> (http://www.webmasterworld.com/css/3329010.htm). I'm just getting

Re: [css-d] Best way for text when enlarged

2007-06-20 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Rick Faircloth wrote: > What establishes the baseline size of 100% ? > Do all browsers use the same baseline size? And do all > browsers react to percentages the same? > > Rick > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luc > Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [css-d] Ideas for handling text with CSS

2007-06-20 Thread Robert O'Rourke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wow, thanks to EVERYONE who responded to this!! I should have given you > more info. > > This is a page for the client's board members/commissioners. There is a > single line above each photo and bio that contains: > > LastName, FirstName MiddleInitial PHONE: 999-9

Re: [css-d] Ideas for handling text with CSS

2007-06-20 Thread Robert O'Rourke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was wondering if anyone has a link or information as how to best handle > text with CSS. By text I mean a line of text that may include 3 pieces of > information, like name, phone, and email address. > > In the past, I always used tables for this, but

Re: [css-d] FOUC of a new kind

2007-05-31 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Rakesh Pai wrote: > Consider the following markup: > > > ... header stuff here > > > > ... lots of markup > > > > ... lots of markup > > > > ... Some footer stuff > > > > Now, let's assume that the #leftColumn is floated left, the > #rightColumn is floated right, and the #fo

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 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,

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 ca

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 spe

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 t

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

[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 bet

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]>> wrot

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] 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

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 go

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 av

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
[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 wan

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 als

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

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

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 o

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 essenti

Re: [css-d] Column Blow Out

2006-07-06 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Steve LaBadie wrote: > Robert, > > The cell expands the page and throws the entire table out of whack. The > cell is set to 150px in width, the images are 145px. If I put content > in the cell everything stays perfectly together. > > > Which browsers have you tested this in so far? Sounds like

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 stret

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. Basi

Re: [css-d] Page check please

2006-06-26 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Ian Young wrote: > thanks, Robert > > Trying to get the logo and the "about" gif to line up and be close together > as per original > > http://www.mambo.in-development-server.co.uk/trossachs/index.php?option=com_ > content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=39 > > This table based template looks ok but the sc

Re: [css-d] float: left problem

2006-06-25 Thread Robert O'Rourke
> www.livinghopecollege.com/test2/ > > It looks fine in Flock, but in IE the quick links are messed up. > Anyone know if this is an IE bug or what and how to fix it? > > Trey Copeland Alright Trey, I'd start by setting a default margin and padding to the ul. Different browsers have differe

Re: [css-d] 2 column layout problem

2006-06-25 Thread Robert O'Rourke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a page in a 2 column layout When the content in the right column goes > beyond the the content in the left column, the extra text moves to the left. > ... > > Cheryl > Hi Cheryl, its the 3-pixel text jog bug in IE. Its caused by an extra 3 pixels of margin

Re: [css-d] z-index question

2006-06-07 Thread Robert O'Rourke
xtiandc wrote: > Just to clarify, I suppose my real question is: can you apply z-index > specifically to an element that only appears on hover? > > > My question is this: is there any way to enforce z-index conditionally? > > Christian. > Hi Christian, Interesting problem, there're a few c

Re: [css-d] Firefox issue

2006-06-05 Thread Robert O'Rourke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am pretty new to CSS. This file is fine with IE but when view through > Firefox it does not display correctly. Any help would be greatly > appreciated! > > http://www.ccclib.org/programs/srl_dsl.html > http://www.ccclib.org/Style/programs.css > > > Thanks > S

Re: [css-d] IE7's treatment of height [WAS Re: Broken Layout]

2006-06-04 Thread Robert O'Rourke
bj wrote: >> Entered by Microsoft on 4/21/2006 >> This was logged as a suggestion for future IE versions. We've already >> added support for min-height and it is in the March 20 Beta 2 Preview >> build that we put out during MIX06. >> > > Did anyone else notice that NOTHING is said about mi

Re: [css-d] IE7's treatment of height

2006-06-02 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Ingo Chao wrote: >> Time to update the wiki re. min/max then. >> > > You seem to have overlooked the "Fixed in Mar20:" comment. > > It is implemented [1], it works well, but it adds haslayout. > > Ingo > > [1] I think this intervening post > http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/02/02/523679.a

Re: [css-d] IE7's treatment of height [WAS Re: Broken Layout]

2006-06-02 Thread Robert O'Rourke
cj wrote: > On 6/2/06, Zoe M. Gillenwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> No, IE7 now respects height. So, all those Holly Hacks with height: 1% >> will need to be hidden from it or altered. However, I'm not sure if IE7 >> supports min-height (can't remember!). >> > > yes it does and the la

Re: [css-d] IE7's treatment of height [WAS Re: Broken Layout]

2006-06-02 Thread Robert O'Rourke
> Rob, > > No, IE7 now respects height. So, all those Holly Hacks with height: 1% > will need to be hidden from it or altered. However, I'm not sure if IE7 > supports min-height (can't remember!). > > Zoe What a nightmare! According to the wiki IE7beta2 does not support min/max rules yet:

Re: [css-d] Broken Layout

2006-06-02 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Brian Jones wrote: > On 6/1/06, francky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> New experiment: here is another altenative, with small images, and >> font-scaling proof: >> http://home.tiscali.nl/developerscorner/css-discuss/test-brian.htm >> (fixed width version) > > Hi francky, > > thanks for your help..

Re: [css-d] Broken Layout

2006-06-01 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Brian Jones wrote: > On 5/31/06, Robert O'Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You can either do this: >> >> .float >> { >> float: left; >> width: 190px; >> margin: 0; >> padding: 0 0 0 10px; &

Re: [css-d] Generally: CSS and SEO

2006-05-29 Thread Robert O'Rourke
> Thanks Robert, > > My apologies, I wasn't specific enough. My question was intended to point > towards CSS issues of using flow in the way under consideration. So I should > have written, "what are the CSS pitfalls, if any?" > > I accept, of course, there are other issues, especially accessibili

Re: [css-d] Generally: CSS and SEO

2006-05-29 Thread Robert O'Rourke
> My question is this: is it more search engine friendly to use a mark-up > format of Columns / Header / Footer and use CSS position:absolute to place > Header above Columns and Footer? If so, what are the pitfalls, if any? > > TIA for response. > > Mike A. Hi Mike, I think thelist (http://

Re: [css-d] Site Check please, www.1850.co.uk

2006-05-18 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Andree Hollander wrote: > Here's a screen shot from Mac OS X 10.4, Netscape 7.2. > > Overall it looks very nice, but the last item on the left (Home Page > Featured Items) has too little room. And I think it is strange that > the tooltips on the links have the same text at the items themselves.

Re: [css-d] Site Check please, www.1850.co.uk

2006-05-18 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Thanks a bundle to everyone =] The screen shots provided by David Laasko all look good to me, there's a bit of a width issue on the product boxes in IE5.0 but it's still set out like a list so i'm going to treat that as 'acceptable' for now. I can't believe i forgot about those site map and con

[css-d] Site Check please, www.1850.co.uk

2006-05-18 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Hello, I am in the process of handing over a website for an antiques company and so far I have only been able to test it under FF 1.5, IE6win, and Opera 8+. These are all fine i think but i would really appreciate it if anyone could have a look on mac browsers and earlier IE versions.

Re: [css-d] A Fairly Complex Design Complete, wishing to implement using all CSS

2006-05-17 Thread Robert O'Rourke
> Finally... I am (BRAND) new to the list - please accept my apologies if this > post is offensive in any way, as I have not had time to lurk and observe the > true etiquette and nature of the list. I just want to get this done, but if > a CSS-only layout is too much for this design, I'll have to

Re: [css-d] Images in liquid / elastic layouts.

2006-05-17 Thread Robert O'Rourke
> I thought I could get the graphics to expand (Latin text box) using a rounded > corners method. However the box breaks up as the text is enlarged. > > So being aware of the various limitations and knowing the chances one takes > are there some guidelines to follow when using images in a liqu

Re: [css-d] columns streching

2006-05-17 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Erik Visser wrote: > so i'am looking for a place with good explaination of the technique(s) of: > columns streching to the bottom of the viewport, regardless of the > content length of any of the columns > > through google i found in some forums tips for specific user questions, > but not a good ar

Re: [css-d] @import media rule

2006-05-11 Thread Robert O'Rourke
jack fredricks wrote: > Hi all, > > I've done a bit of a google - with no luck..so I thought I'd mozie on > over here... > > I can't seem to get this rule to work on IE6 or FF; > > @import url("fineprint.css") print; > > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#at-import > > > The file and the file l

Re: [css-d] ugly IE effect with submenu (ul li:hover state)

2006-05-11 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Alberto Stracuzzi wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I combined a css with peterned's csshover.htc (IE 6 doesn't understand > the pseudoclass :hover - http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/csshover.html ) > You can see my site: http://segramm.dsi.unimi.it > > It works fine until the second submenu or, better, with

Re: [css-d] Liquid layouts with graphics

2006-05-04 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Mark Fellowes wrote: > I think this is probably obvious to me but at the certainty of sounding > stupid I'll ask. > I am working on a liquid / fluid layout, 3 columns using floats. If it's > relevant this is the rough layout: http://pamshop.com/Template1/exp10.html > > I'm considering using a on

Re: [css-d] Fwd: navigation with death kiss by Dave Shea

2006-05-03 Thread Robert O'Rourke
> i'm currently having a problem, i never had before; > i'm using Dave Shea technique for navigation for my site, but it wont show > this time, and i dont know where i'm doing wrong since both xhtml and css > validates fine; > Hi Landrik, I've played with this technique a little, what exact

Re: [css-d] selects appearing above an a.p. ul

2006-04-20 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Bill Brown wrote: > click the toolbar label on my site, it snaps the toolbar into a dashboard or > console fixed across the top of the page. Worked great, except in IE, select > elements were appearing above the dashboard. The fix I used is included in > the ieFixes style sheets and the iframe can

[css-d] selects appearing above an a.p. ul

2006-04-20 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Hello, I'm using Christian Heilmann's pure DOM explorer (http://www.onlinetools.org/tools/puredom/) for part of the navigation in an app that i'm working on. I have a horizontal list, the first of which contains the submenu. The page will contain generated forms (laid out in a table)

Re: [css-d] Latest Firefox update - is it just me or has it screwed the rendering?

2006-04-14 Thread Robert O'Rourke
L. David Baron wrote: > > Are you referring to Firefox 1.5.0.2 (released about 28 hours ago), or > to something else? > > -David > The one released 28 hours ago, I always update when i get the option to. Rob __ css-discuss

[css-d] Latest Firefox update - is it just me or has it screwed the rendering?

2006-04-14 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Ever since I updated firefox ie. two days ago some sites have been displaying oddly, various blogs with fixed width-ness going on seem to pick up fluid sizes when the window is resized to be smaller than the content. Some examples are left-aligned nav bars with a fixed width still shri

Re: [css-d] Hello new to list and with layout problem

2006-04-12 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Hi Richard, I'm definitely not an expert but there are definite advantages to css in terms of the layout, once you've done some research and a lot of playing around with css layouts it all comes together. Getting used to using class names and ids appropriately is the key to not repeati

Re: [css-d] changing bullet point colours

2006-04-12 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Its had a baby! I did knock it up after all... =P Akins, Chris wrote: > Maybe you mean "mocked up" rather than "knocked up." 2 different things > entirely. > > :-) > > > Here's something i knocked up: > > http://www.sanchothefat.com/css/mentalist.html > > Rob > > [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [css-d] changing bullet point colours

2006-04-12 Thread Robert O'Rourke
: > Hi > > Has anyone found a way of changing bullet point colours to a different > colour to the text Hello, You could always put the text in a span, i'm not sure if you can do it without markup. Its got me thinking though, what about multi-coloured bullet points, each list item would

Re: [css-d] strange border rendering on a fieldset in ie

2006-04-12 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Alright Richard, Cheers for getting back to me, I've actually found a rudimentary fix for the border problem. I doubt it will hold up when re-sizing text in IE but to be honest for the rare occasions thats necessary it still won't look too bad because everything is in the right order.

[css-d] strange border rendering on a fieldset in ie

2006-04-11 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Hello, I've been spending some time getting to grips with forms and css, There's a strange effect in IE where the fieldset displays properly as indicated by the background-color however the orange border and legend are pushed down into the fieldset, there's a test page here: http://ww

Re: [css-d] I also have a problem with background color change on hover, clearfix hack

2006-03-30 Thread Robert O'Rourke
No problem, I came across the clearfix hack quite recently on http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html, It's useful for keeping your css simple in a complicated float layout without using any additional html. You can treat the containing block as part of the normal flow for all

Re: [css-d] I also have a problem with background color change on hover

2006-03-29 Thread Robert O'Rourke
across the page. I loaded it online... > http://www.changeswlc.com. What is with that??? > > >> From: Robert O'Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: Joanie Mae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [css-d] I also have a problem with background color >> c

Re: [css-d] I also have a problem with background color change on hover

2006-03-29 Thread Robert O'Rourke
lay: block; color: #BE32FE; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; padding: 4px 15px; height: 19px; /* fix the height to avoid it spilling downwards */ } Hope that solves the problem. Robert O'Rourke Joanie Mae wrote: > I also h

Re: [css-d] css vertical menu that expands down

2006-03-29 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Just use nested lists in the normal flow with something like the suckerfish dropdowns. Also see the article at a list apart, http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/ if you get stuck. just give your nav an id of #nav and put this script in your header: startList = function() {

[css-d] IE trouble, a tags refusing to display bottom border on hover

2006-03-29 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Hi there, I'm having trouble with some links, I've given them a bottom border that's hidden and then displays on hover. There are some similar links on the page however (#categories) where i have set the bottom border to 0. For some reason this is being picked up by the links in my navigati

[css-d] lis and nested anchor tag background image problem

2006-03-28 Thread Robert O'Rourke
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