Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8

2012-08-07 Thread Ted Rolle, Jr.
Actually, the blue line looks like a nice design element. Check whether it really does look nicer without it :-) Ted On 08/07/2012 07:05 PM, Angela French wrote: http://sbctc.edu/indexTESTAD.aspx There is an odd gap under the blue div that has the text in it that reads One System. 34

Re: [css-d] Value naming, Forms

2012-08-03 Thread Ted Rolle, Jr.
On 08/03/2012 03:04 PM, Tedd Sperling wrote: On Aug 3, 2012, at 1:44 PM, John j...@coffeeonmars.com wrote: In creating a form with a pull-down menu, and naming the various entries ( select shown below), are there best practices for the number of characters in value=name ? The tutorial I

Re: [css-d] CSS3 101

2012-05-12 Thread Ted Rolle, Jr.
On 05/12/2012 08:08 PM, Isabel Santos wrote: Hi Ted, first of all, you use the tags that make sense for your content, not because it is css-ish. If your data should be presented in a list, because for instance, it constitutes a list of items, thats ok. If it is tabular data, it should go on

Re: [css-d] CSS3 101

2012-05-12 Thread Ted Rolle, Jr.
On 05/12/2012 10:27 PM, David Laakso wrote: Thanks so much for the reply...even at this level I have to read it a couple of times. The pointer to a web search will be helpful. Ted Putting your page on a public server and providing a clickable link to it in your post to the list may get

[css-d] CSS3 101

2012-05-11 Thread Ted Rolle Jr.
I've lurked on this list, but the level of expertise required to understand posts is beyond my level. I've been to CSS3 design sites (w3school and others). I have 5 (may increase) boxes for data entry. Right now they'er vertically aligned. I'm using ul rather than table because that seems more

Re: [css-d] Internet Explorer

2012-04-24 Thread Ted Rolle, Jr.
I'm retired. You've made it all come back. FWIW, my employer (large insurance company) recently upgraded it's official corporate browser ... from IE6 to IE7. What is this IE8 you speak of? ;-) -- GPG/PGP public key: B07F9AAE

[css-d] Internet Explorer

2012-04-23 Thread Ted Rolle, Jr.
I know that in some cases this not possible, but if someone reports issues with IE, I'd politely ask whether they have tried late versions of Firefox or Chrome :-) Ted -- GPG/PGP public key: B07F9AAE __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] menu in separate page?

2012-02-02 Thread Ted Rolle Jr.
Write it as PHP and include the PHP file is how I do it. You can have this: whatever.php: ?php ? Boilerplate html code In the calling module: html . . . ?php include('whatever.php); ? . . . /html There's probably more elegant solutions. I'm looking forward to seeing them. On Thu, Feb 2,

Re: [css-d] css measures - em grid system makes sense ?

2011-11-09 Thread Ted Rolle Jr.
I've used mm because it's neither geeky nor is it jargon and you can use a tape measure to measure it. For typefaces you'd probably have to try different values to make it look nice, but we do that with px and/or em. px: computers, geeky; em: printers, jargon. You can have fractions of a

Re: [css-d] Centering an entire page in the available window.

2011-08-15 Thread Ted Rolle Jr.
You're almost there. First, you don't need text-align: center. That's extra. But you do need a width on the body. By default, it's 100% of the browser, but looking at the stuff inside, it only needs to be 885px. Once you give the body a width, it'll center itself up. body { margin:

Re: [css-d] [OT] Why no HTML

2011-07-19 Thread Ted Rolle Jr.
I just performed a test with a short message: Unadorned: This is yellow. This is Garamond typeface. This is Comic Sans typeface. This is BOLD. This is italicized. This is underlined. This is in a different size. Note emoticon --- Adorned: This is yellow. *This is underlined.* This is

Re: [css-d] Fwd: Newbie has big CSS AND cross browser issues

2011-07-19 Thread Ted Rolle Jr.
FWIW, I use mm. That way I can take out my tape measure and measure it. mm vs. px? We guess at both until it looks right. Ted -- +-+ | 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 May the Spirit

Re: [css-d] [OT] Why no HTML

2011-07-19 Thread Ted Rolle Jr.
sigh Here is the usual course of these conversations: People fight about something trivial (However, I don't believe this issue is trivial!) All leave the list forever for two weeks. Then come back and ignore each other. ... Ted, almost 70, and appreciates the ability to change type faces/sizes in

[css-d] Which approach is best?

2011-07-17 Thread Ted Rolle Jr.
I've not coded CSS or JavaScript much at all, but I'm getting pleasing results with CSS. I'm developing an application that reads a database and has a text field next to the DB-generated data. I wish to have the application go to the next (PHP) menu when text is entered into any of the fields

Re: [css-d] Multiple webfonts

2011-07-09 Thread Ted Rolle Jr.
Newbie question: Would having the language declaration at the html level mean that there must be two HTML pages? html lang=zh-tw /html html lang=en /html -- +-+ | 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279

Re: [css-d] Multiple webfonts

2011-07-09 Thread Ted Rolle Jr.
Thank you! On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: 2011-07-09 22:44, Ted Rolle Jr. wrote: Would having the language declaration at the html level mean that there must be two HTML pages? html lang=zh-tw /html html lang=en /html No, you would use html