Re: [css-d] List bullet sizes

2009-07-09 Thread Stephen Tang
IE8 appears to render a standard bullet a little smaller than IE7/Firefox 3.x. --Stephen On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:29 PM, tedd wrote: > At 5:50 PM -0400 7/7/09, tedd wrote: >> >> At 5:00 PM -0400 7/7/09, Stephen Tang wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> I have a site that w

Re: [css-d] List bullet sizes

2009-07-07 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi Tedd, I presume by your URL that the answer is "No." :-) --Stephen On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:50 PM, tedd wrote: > At 5:00 PM -0400 7/7/09, Stephen Tang wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I have a site that was using list-style-type: disc for a list bullet. >> The QA tea

Re: [css-d] List bullet sizes

2009-07-07 Thread Stephen Tang
    } > >       li:before { >         content: "\2022"; /* hex codification •  */ >         color: blue; >         margin-right: 0.3em; >       } > > (this doesn't work in IE6) > > or you may use background property to place an image. > > 2009/7/7 Stephen Ta

[css-d] List bullet sizes

2009-07-07 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi, I have a site that was using list-style-type: disc for a list bullet. The QA team noted that in IE8, the list bullets were smaller than in IE7 or Firefox. All three browsers were accessing the same CSS property: li {list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12px; line-height: 160%; } >From reading th

Re: [css-d] Footer doesn't stick to bottom of page

2009-06-22 Thread Stephen Tang
Norman, Have you also looked into this technique for a sticky footer? http://www.cssstickyfooter.com/ --Stephen __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http:/

Re: [css-d] Can CSS target content in an iframe?

2009-05-29 Thread Stephen Tang
Philippe, Thank you for confirming my thoughts on this. Then ,there is something else at work here with my problem. --Stephen On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > On May 29, 2009, at 7:20 AM, Stephen Tang wrote: > >> I have an HTML page that has an

Re: [css-d] Can CSS target content in an iframe?

2009-05-29 Thread Stephen Tang
c1f6b6sfb96d10ae5920...@mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Stephen Tang >wrote: >> it's Javascript code that is doing this, since I know Javascript can >> access iframe content. >Javascri

[css-d] Can CSS target content in an iframe?

2009-05-28 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi, I have an HTML page that has an iframe element. The iframe element src references a page that is on a different domain than the "caller" page. Both the caller page and the iframe page both call the same css file on the same domain. I want to confirm that the caller's CSS file CANNOT influenc

Re: [css-d] vertical centering of list-style-image with list item

2009-05-28 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi Scott, Thanks for the reply. I can't use a background image because there is an image that is floated left of the list (as shown in http://stephentang.info/listtest/test.html) . The list is supposed to wrap around the image, but the tags take up the width of its parent container. Thus, using

Re: [css-d] Flash / Youtube -> CSS

2009-05-28 Thread Stephen Tang
sIFR is used for replacing a text font with a Flash replacement (so users always see the font you want), so it has nothing to do with the Youtube video file. The sIFR is being applied to the part that says "Scott Rouse." Snip: http://hostourcoast.com/submission.cfm?v=4FDAE3A2-3048-71C2-17DBB6

Re: [css-d] Hover using button in IE6

2009-05-28 Thread Stephen Tang
Nancy, Have you tried Whatever:hover? (http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/csshover.html) It's a very small Javascript file that targets IE6 and below using an IE-specific property (behaviors). --Stephen >>I am styling some buttons for an internal application that uses IE6 only. I would like to switc

[css-d] vertical centering of list-style-image with list item

2009-05-27 Thread Stephen Tang
Hello, Previously, I received an answer from the CSS discuss list about using list-style-image to solve my problem. I noticed that IE6/7, the bullet image isn't even close to the vertical center of the list item. In Firefox 3 and Safari 3.x, the image is more or less vertically centered with the l

Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating "handwritten" fonts on notebook paper

2009-05-21 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi Vladislav,, Unfortunately, the amount of text could vary, so a static background image is not likely to work. --Stephen -- Forwarded message -- From: Vladislav Vladimirov To: CSS-D Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 17:48:40 +0300 Subject: Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating "handwritten"

Re: [css-d] font image replacement Re: Displaying/Simulating "handwritten" fonts on notebook paper

2009-05-21 Thread Stephen Tang
the Cufon currently. And last I checked, Cufon has a potential EULA issue with font copyrights that I'm sure the legal team would prefer not to deal with. --Stephen On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:25 PM, David Hucklesby wrote: > Stephen Tang wrote: >> >>  The main problem is tha

Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating "handwritten" fonts on notebook paper

2009-05-21 Thread Stephen Tang
ot; Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 18:41:57 +0300 Subject: Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating "handwritten" fonts on notebook paper Stephen Tang wrote: I encountered a peculiar use case. The business desires to display a small amount of text as a handwritten font. They want the handwritt

Re: [css-d] Displaying/Simulating "handwritten" fonts on notebook paper

2009-05-19 Thread Stephen Tang
cript. Sincerely, Stephen On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Bruno Fassino wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Stephen Tang > wrote: >> I encountered a peculiar use case.  The business desires to display a >> small amount of text as a handwritten font.  They want the handwr

[css-d] Displaying/Simulating "handwritten" fonts on notebook paper

2009-05-18 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi, I encountered a peculiar use case. The business desires to display a small amount of text as a handwritten font. They want the handwritten font sitting on blue lines. This would simulate the effect of writing in a notebook. My first thought was sIFR for the fonts, but I don't think it suppo

Re: [css-d] Image bullets and floated images

2009-05-12 Thread Stephen Tang
bulleted list away form the floated element, if the list extends past the bottom of the floated element, wrapping occurs normally, which is what was desired. Thanks for those that who contributed advice to this. --Stephen On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Stephen Tang wrote: > Hi Alan, > Than

Re: [css-d] Image bullets and floated images

2009-05-12 Thread Stephen Tang
element. This area is managed by a content management system, so I don't have control over the content. I may try swapping out the bullet image for a green disc, since the bullet image is really a green disc. Thanks, Stephen On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Alan Gresley wrote: > Step

Re: [css-d] Image bullets and floated images

2009-05-12 Thread Stephen Tang
arded message -- From: Bill Brown To: Stephen Tang Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:56:46 -0400 Subject: Re: [css-d] Image bullets and floated images Stephen Tang wrote: [snipped/] list item. Is there any way to get the bullet images next to the list items again? I don't want to jeop

Re: [css-d] Image bullets and floated images

2009-05-12 Thread Stephen Tang
(image name); the only problem with this is that the image is not directly in the center of the text. Hope this helps. -- Forwarded message -- From: Stephen Tang To: CSS-D Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:09:16 -0400 Subject: [css-d] Image bullets and floated images Hi, I have a div/image

Re: [css-d] Image bullets and floated images

2009-05-11 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi Bill, What is this style? ul {display:inline!ie;} Is this a browser hack? --Stephen On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Bill Brown wrote: > Stephen Tang wrote: > [snipped/] >> >> list item. Is there any way to get the bullet images next to the list >> items again?  I

[css-d] Image bullets and floated images

2009-05-11 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi, I have a div/image that is floated left from the rest of the content. My content consists primarily of tags and lists. The text needs to wrap below the floated dv/image. This part is not difficult. However, I have a list where the bullets have been replaced with images. When I do this, the

Re: [css-d] IE6/IE7 border problem on list items (wrapping)

2009-04-15 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi Divya, I eventually came to that conclusion as well. I have provided instructions to the programming team to use the HTML vertical pipe in their code. Thanks for the help everybody. --Stephen On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:32 PM, divya manian wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Step

Re: [css-d] IE6/IE7 border problem on list items (wrapping)

2009-04-15 Thread Stephen Tang
ed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Stephen Tang wrote: > Hi Brian, > Actually, the tags are display: inline.  However, there was a > float: none that was taking precedence over the float: left in another > class.  When I remove it, I can see what IE6/IE7 is doing.  The > box is act

Re: [css-d] IE6/IE7 border problem on list items (wrapping)

2009-04-15 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi Brian, Actually, the tags are display: inline. However, there was a float: none that was taking precedence over the float: left in another class. When I remove it, I can see what IE6/IE7 is doing. The box is actually two lines. http://www.stephentang.info/ie/test2.html Hmm, I may have to

Re: [css-d] IE6/IE7 border problem on list items (wrapping)

2009-04-15 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi Brian, Unfortunately, the content of the links are dynamically generated. I'd have to ask the programming team to change their code to create a vertical line explicitly. I'm trying to determine if I can avoid this. I just tried with a border-left and the problem is still there. --Stephen On

[css-d] IE6/IE7 border problem on list items (wrapping)

2009-04-15 Thread Stephen Tang
Hello, I have a list of links in a fixed-width div. Each link is in an tag. The tag has a border-right to create vertical separators. One of the link's text is too long and word wraps to the next line. In IE6 and IE7, there is an extra right border that appears at the end of the line for that

Re: [css-d] Safari 3.x: background image on an anchor tag bug

2009-04-06 Thread Stephen Tang
ever, I am still at a loss why Safari behaves this way. It's as if the right-padding on the A is being ignored. --Stephen On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > On Apr 7, 2009, at 1:48 AM, Stephen Tang wrote: > >> The CSS looks like this: >> .

[css-d] Safari 3.x: background image on an anchor tag

2009-04-06 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi, I am trying to place a background image of an right-facing arrow on an anchor tag. The HTML markup looks like this: See All Galleries The CSS looks like this: .viewAllLink a {padding: 4px 20px 0 0; background: url(../i/green-arrows.gif) center right no-repeat; font:normal 13px "Tahoma", verda

Re: [css-d] Site Check: Can this DIV be vertically centered in the viewport?

2009-03-21 Thread Stephen Tang
Georg, Thank you for the link to your website on this. Will this work on a DIV with a declared height? I'll see what happens to my site when I remove my declared height on the DIV. --Stephen On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > David Laakso wrote: > >>> I built this site, h

Re: [css-d] Site Check: Can this DIV be vertically centered in the viewport?

2009-03-21 Thread Stephen Tang
kso wrote: > Stephen Tang wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I built this site, http://www.isadoratang.com/index.php, but I've been >> trying to determine if I can center the vertically in >> the viewport. >> Any advice on this would be helpful. >>

[css-d] Site Check: Can this DIV be vertically centered in the viewport?

2009-03-20 Thread Stephen Tang
Hello, I built this site, http://www.isadoratang.com/index.php, but I've been trying to determine if I can center the vertically in the viewport. The inside of this div has some additional divs that are floated left or right). I'm not sure if my margin: auto on the is really centering this di

Re: [css-d] David Laakso's site in Firefox 2.x/Firefox 3.x

2009-03-20 Thread Stephen Tang
home on Firefox 3.0.7 on OS X, and the navigation is flushed right and the About links work. I'm going have to chalk this up to a fluke on my office machine. Don't mind me. Sorry for the scare. --Stephen On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:03 PM, David Laakso wrote: > Stephen Tang

Re: [css-d] David Laakso's site in Firefox 2.x/Firefox 3.x

2009-03-20 Thread Stephen Tang
David, For some reason, your vertical navigation does not work in Firefox 3.0.7 on my Windows machine. I don't see an vertical lines or any interactivity from the navigation. --Stephen >Curious to know if the vertical menu is functional and usable in Firefox >2.x (no got this end). >

Re: [css-d] "Q" and "A" (Question and Answer) format using ul

2009-03-13 Thread Stephen Tang
A without using an image. --Stephen On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Els wrote: > Stephen Tang wrote: > >> I know the background image technique is well-known >> (http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listutorial/introduction.htm), but >> since in this example, it's just "Q

Re: [css-d] "Q" and "A" (Question and Answer) format using ul

2009-03-13 Thread Stephen Tang
209 > LinkedIn > Facebook > Twitter > > > > > From: Stephen Tang > Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 11:37 AM > To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Subject: [css-d] "Q" and "A" (Question and Answer) format using ul > >

Re: [css-d] "Q" and "A" (Question and Answer) format using ul

2009-03-13 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi Tim, Thanks for that. I had forgotten about :before and :after pseudo-classes. That would work, except in IE browsers. You answered my question though. :-) Thanks, Stephen On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Climis, Tim wrote: >> Does CSS2.1 allow a way to actually use "Q." and "A." as text?

[css-d] "Q" and "A" (Question and Answer) format using ul

2009-03-13 Thread Stephen Tang
Hello, I saw a FAQ page where it listed a question followed by an answer as follows (fictional question and answer below): Q. How do I login? A. You log in by clicking on the login link. The HTML markup is an unordered list (ul), where the list (li) have background images for the "Q." and "A." u

Re: [css-d] Style a select tag (the arrow part)

2009-02-17 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi Martyn, I saw that in my internet searches, but it doesn't work in IE6, and unfortunately, the projects I am working on all still use IE6. I don't object to using Javascript and CSS to style the tag, but I wanted to see if I missed anything about a CSS-only solution. So far, I have found no ev

Re: [css-d] Style a select tag (the arrow part)

2009-02-16 Thread Stephen Tang
Blake, Thanks for the reply and confirming this. I did find several Javascript-based solutions in my internet search, so I will investigate those options further. Thanks, Stephen On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Blake wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Stephen Tang > wrote: &g

[css-d] Style a select tag (the arrow part)

2009-02-16 Thread Stephen Tang
Hello all, Is there a way to style the down arrow in a tag as shown in this image with just CSS for IE6 and FF3? http://stephentang.info/test/selecttag.gif Based on current information on the internet, I presume that there is no way to do this with CSS only. Am I right? Thank you for reading th

[css-d] Help: CSS (horizontal) scalable buttons using for IE6 with a slight variation...

2009-01-21 Thread Stephen Tang
Dear Mustafa, Thank you for looking at my code. Your second solution is what I was trying to do. I was trying to make sure that the right image (btn_right_side_long_on.gif) would "widen" or "narrow" itself as the length of the text string changed. Obviously, if a text string was so long that it

[css-d] Help: CSS (horizontal) scalable buttons using for IE6 with a slight variation...

2009-01-20 Thread Stephen Tang
halves are on opposite ends of each other from the float rules. I am not sure how to keep the two halves together in IE6 and IE7. (Should I enclose the entire code in a DIV and set a width?). Has anybody had to work with this scenario? Thank you for rea

Re: [css-d] Academic Question: When a CSS rule is too long on one line...

2008-12-24 Thread Stephen Tang
*/}" Otherwise, I agree with you on your other points. --Stephen On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Jack Timmons wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Stephen Tang > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I was recently taking a CSS online exam, and I ran into a question I &g

[css-d] Academic Question: When a CSS rule is too long on one line...

2008-12-24 Thread Stephen Tang
Hi, I was recently taking a CSS online exam, and I ran into a question I have never encountered before. The multiple choice question question basically asked, "If a CSS rule is too long on a single line, what character do you use to tell the style sheet processors that the rule is continued on the