Re: [css-d] Media queries

2016-06-22 Thread Tim Arnold
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 11:06 AM Tom Livingston wrote: > List, > > Do you use separate css (or LESS or Sass) files for each breakpoint, or > MQ's blended in with the rest? Why? > > Up to this point, I have always used separate scss files for each > breakpoint and used Sass imports to make them in

Re: [css-d] Best technique for: Any number of columns, plus fixed margin, in a responsive parent container

2016-01-22 Thread Tim Arnold
You can download a customized bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com/customize/), or simply comment out the components that you don't want to use if using LESS or SASS: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass/blob/master/assets/stylesheets/_bootstrap.scss https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/le

Re: [css-d] Best technique for: Any number of columns, plus fixed margin, in a responsive parent container

2016-01-22 Thread Tim Arnold
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:50 AM Karl DeSaulniers wrote: > There is also... > > http://getskeleton.com > > ..which is about as basic a grid system. > Found this one when I had gotten tired of bootstrap's bloat. > > I agree with Karl that Bootstrap is overkill if you're just looking for a grid syst

Re: [css-d] need help with proper HTML markup

2015-02-11 Thread Tim Arnold
On Wed Feb 11 2015 at 6:30:09 AM Adam Ambrus wrote: > The specific part I would like the advice on is the short CV part > underneath the white header. It seems easiest to use a , however > > Hey Adam, Since your question is specifically about markup, rather than CSS, you'd be much better served p

Re: [css-d] Floats

2015-01-17 Thread Tim Arnold
On Sat Jan 17 2015 at 8:42:22 AM Philip Taylor wrote: Crest Christopher wrote: > How come, with or without the pseudo-element of clearing float to the > left, it doesn't appear to make a difference ? Everything still floats > to the left, shouldn't some of the class=box be floating to the righ

Re: [css-d] IE Inconsistencies

2014-12-20 Thread Tim Arnold
On Sat Dec 20 2014 at 4:49:08 PM Crest Christopher < crestchristop...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to know what is wrong, that this > > page, doesn't look the same in IE 7 / 8 so I can be on the correct path > to fix it ? > > At

Re: [css-d] Tablets use Cursor for Touch ?

2014-12-03 Thread Tim Arnold
On Wed Dec 03 2014 at 12:13:56 PM Tom Livingston wrote: > I've never heard of a touch screen tablet with a cursor. > On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:11 PM Crest Christopher < > crestchristop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Do most tablets use a "cursor" for touch screen ? If so then :hover > > should work,

Re: [css-d] Don't miss a space

2014-11-25 Thread Tim Arnold
Though this discussion is interesting (as it is every 6 months when it comes back again) it isn't really on the topic of CSS. Any other thoughts for Christopher about media queries? On Tue, Nov 25, 2014, 6:58 AM Philip Taylor wrote: > I don't seek to excuse such an error for one second, but ther

Re: [css-d] Don't miss a space

2014-11-23 Thread Tim Arnold
On Nov 23, 2014 11:01 AM, "Tom Livingston" wrote: > > While testing on devices is important, you get a long way using the dev tools in Chrome or Firefox. The new dev tools in Chrome also provides some pretty amazing device emulation. It's certainly not perfect but miles closer to real than simply

Re: [css-d] Don't miss a space

2014-11-23 Thread Tim Arnold
On Sunday, November 23, 2014, Crest Christopher wrote: > I don't have any site analytics, although that probably does help narrow > things down, although you never know who will visit your site on a device > that is not in your analytic. > > This is the confusing part Tim :) > You say focus on th

Re: [css-d] Don't miss a space

2014-11-23 Thread Tim Arnold
On Nov 23, 2014 6:52 AM, "Philip Taylor" wrote: > > > > David Laakso wrote: > >> No issue seen this end Windows SeaMonkey/2.30. > > > Unless your browser / geometry / font settings / font scaling / screen resolution / a million other possibilities are identical to mine, David, you may not see th

Re: [css-d] Don't miss a space

2014-11-22 Thread Tim Arnold
On Saturday, November 22, 2014, Crest Christopher < crestchristop...@gmail.com> wrote: > In other words I need to test my site on many difference devices until as > you said, the layout looks poor, hence all the mobile testing sites online. > I didn't expect to already begin to need it, I suppose

Re: [css-d] Don't miss a space

2014-11-22 Thread Tim Arnold
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Crest Christopher < crestchristop...@gmail.com> wrote: > (why the reference to Steve Martin ?) > > Most likely because it's Saturday night and I am very, very old. But specifically the reference to "getting small" made me think of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%

Re: [css-d] Don't miss a space

2014-11-22 Thread Tim Arnold
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Crest Christopher < crestchristop...@gmail.com> wrote: > Percentage values scale the width of the viewport unlike pixel values. > > Tom / I assume when you say use max-width you mean; > > img { > max-width: 123px > } > > If so why do that, if you know the image siz

Re: [css-d] Don't miss a space

2014-11-22 Thread Tim Arnold
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Crest Christopher < crestchristop...@gmail.com> wrote: > Percentages does help make boxes/containers liquid but if you will be > using boxes with images that have a limited width then percentages won't > do, instead I'm left to do multiple MQ, arghh, ah well. > > >

Re: [css-d] Don't miss a space

2014-11-22 Thread Tim Arnold
I use percentage widths on all my containers and try to limit MQ usage to just where the layout needs to change to adapt. The breakpoints (whether tied to specific devices, or just informed by how your design behaves in a browser, is up to you) and since I use percentage widths, that accounts for e

Re: [css-d] IE8/Netrenderer reveals huge problems

2014-09-16 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:50 PM, John wrote: > I just looked at a site I’m developing in IE 8 using Netrender and it looks > like an 18-car pile up…very not pretty. IE 9, 10, 11 appear to draw the page > the way other browsers do. > > Is IE8 a browser of concern anymore, IOW, should I work hard

Re: [css-d] Ready for Pre-processors?

2014-04-26 Thread Tim Arnold
On Apr 24, 2014 11:46 AM, "Andrew C. Johnston" wrote: > > Hello All: > > I have been a bit busy and haven't been keeping up, how does the list feel about discussions involving LESS, SASS and SCSS? I have a Sass project where I have to make some changes and feel a little lost. > > Not sure if I wou

Re: [css-d] child width exceeding parents' ?!

2014-03-10 Thread Tim Arnold
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Georg wrote: > Den 10.03.2014 00:32, skrev Philippe Wittenbergh: > >> The box model John. Adding the padding makes the box wider. > > > Same thing with the border. The 1px border on that image makes it 2px wider > and taller than 100%. > If you really need to have

Re: [css-d] Z-index or stacking issue

2014-01-13 Thread Tim Arnold
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Mike wrote: > Good morning, > > I have a small problem with a site which I hope someone can assist. > > The site is www.deveron.org and the problem concerns the horizontal and > left-hand navigation lists. I have just separated some of the navigation > into the two

Re: [css-d] The Simpsons in CSS

2013-11-13 Thread Tim Arnold
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 2:15 AM, MiB wrote: > > nov 13 2013 06.30 Theresa Jennings: > >> I think they're more proof of concept than anything else. > > Of course, but what about in three years? Someone will always be going there > first. It's possible that graphics apps will eventually have an op

Re: [css-d] Trying to get the big picture view on responsive design

2013-11-13 Thread Tim Arnold
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:26 AM, william drescher wrote: > I looked and googled but... what is a css breakpoint? > Is it just setting width ? > > bill > Breakpoints are points at which certain CSS rules kick in. They are most commonly based on the width of your browser viewport but can also be

Re: [css-d] The Simpsons in CSS

2013-11-12 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:14 PM, COM wrote: > This is cool and all, but…seriously, is CSS being touted as an illustration > tool? > Am I missing a concept here? > > I am very impressed by the samples shown… > I think impressing was the main goal. That, and to an an exercise in "what if?" Tim

Re: [css-d] Where do you cut-off your browser support?

2013-09-21 Thread Tim Arnold
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:52 PM, John D wrote: > It's time to dump IE8 and below. People are buying new machines and they all > come with new browsers like IE9 and above. IE10 is becoming the de-facto > standard these days IMO. > > By all means support FF version 15 and above. > >> My question

Re: [css-d] responsive video

2013-09-18 Thread Tim Arnold
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Ron Zisman wrote: > guys, thanks, but i'm pretty thick > i've tried a few times with no success. > > here's the page: http://decal-bone.com/lab_stories.html > > the video lives in the center column under the text > > html for the vid: > > >

Re: [css-d] Implementing Responsive Design

2013-08-23 Thread Tim Arnold
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Mike O'Toole wrote: > > FYI only recently has the 'smart phone' (all MQ capable) sales passed the > 'feature phone' in sales percentage. > > Many present day low end 'feature phones' and most older (sold in 2009-2012) > 'feature phones' lack the MQ support. > >

Re: [css-d] background displays locally, but not remotely

2013-06-12 Thread Tim Arnold
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Ron Zisman wrote: > http://ricochet.org/evolutionery.com/index.html > > stupidly simple, a background image with 2 links… only the links show (not bg > imgs) > styles in the head of doc. > > thanks in advance > ron The path to the images that do show up: http://r

Re: [css-d] Question regarding the use of

2013-04-18 Thread Tim Arnold
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Nancy Johnson wrote: > > When I first went live with a website a few months ago, the following > code validated and now it doesn't. Why? > > > > Thank you, > > Nancy Johnson Nancy, I'm not sure why it validated before, but generally ARIA roles do not pass va

Re: [css-d] Can You Do This?

2013-03-05 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:15 AM, David wrote: > Hello, Thank you to all who replied; to my question. Firstly, can someone > please inform me how replies are made, do you leave previous conversations, > if so; top-reply; or bottom-reply? "The list admin(s) will scowl heavily in the direction of an

Re: [css-d] clear content after non-floating items?

2013-03-04 Thread Tim Arnold
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Laura Valentino wrote: > My main menu bar is not supposed to wrap (it doesn't on my 2nd gen ipod > touch) - but I fear that on some device somewhere, it will wrap. This > wouldn't be the end of the world except for the ugly way the wrapped menu > item overlaps the

Re: [css-d] what is h1 small syntax?

2013-02-22 Thread Tim Arnold
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Angela French wrote: > Could someone please explain the "small" in the example below: > > h1 small { > font-size: 24.5px; > } > > I would understand h1.small, but am confused by the syntax "h1 small" > > Thanks, > > > > Angela French There is an HTML tag . So

Re: [css-d] white line related to overflow?

2013-02-22 Thread Tim Arnold
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Chip at Caliber Communications wrote: > > http://www.rsecllc.com > > There is a 1px white space between the nav menu and the image slider that I > can't get rid of. I've tried all sorts of margin magicry, to no avail. I > suspect it is related to the {overflow: h

Re: [css-d] Horizontal menus

2013-02-21 Thread Tim Arnold
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:27 PM, David Hucklesby wrote: > > On 2/20/13 4:34 PM, Anthony wrote: >> >> Hi all >> >> I am using a Superfish module for a horizontal menu in my Drupal 7 site. >> I've currently got it set up so that the last menu item is floated to the >> right, and there is a gap in b

Re: [css-d] absolutely positioned div in wordpress theme slides horizontally

2013-01-08 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Dina Derenshtein wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with several absolutely positioned divs on a wordpress > site I built based on the Thematic theme. Here is the link to the site: > http://kasparovchessfoundation.org > > The 2 partner logos on the top right, as wel

Re: [css-d] Link on A tag only active on the underline?

2012-12-10 Thread Tim Arnold
#header-2 is not containing the items within it because they are all floated allowing the container to collapse. This collapse is allowing #header-3 to jump up to the top of the page. It is #header-3 that is covering up the top part of your links...only the bit that #header-3 doesn't cover is hov

Re: [css-d] explain positioning of this tag

2012-10-30 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Angela French wrote: > On this page: > http://wet-boew.github.com/wet-boew/demos/footnotes/footnotes-eng.html#fnb2the > example of the footnotes at the bottom has the link back to the > original footnote appear first, but in the linear order of the code the > ta

Re: [css-d] Equal length columns?

2012-10-23 Thread Tim Arnold
On Oct 23, 2012 5:23 AM, "Joergen Lang" wrote: > > In which way are borders neccessary for the construction of equal height > columns? Borders are only necessary if you use the "negative margins and borders" technique described here, though "faux columns" works best for me: http://www.vanseodesi

Re: [css-d] html5 use of

2012-10-16 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Nancy Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question on appropriate use of tag in HTML5 when it > comes to wrapper containers. > > Hi Nancy, That's a really good question, but one that does not actually apply to this list. I'd suggest you either post the question

Re: [css-d] Firefox & Numerical Class Names

2012-10-01 Thread Tim Arnold
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:37 PM, David Halliday wrote: > > Hello, > > I have several class names that start with digits (e.g. .100, .200, .300 > etc). Firefox is not recognising them. Is there a solution/hack to get > round it? > On w3.org, it says this:- > In CSS1, a class name could start with

Re: [css-d] Pixels won't increase in IE

2012-08-07 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Angela French wrote: > Hello, > I have encountered a circumstance where IE 8 will not increase text size of > the pixels in one area of my page. > > http://sbctc.edu/indexTESTAD.aspx > > The area with the issue is the div with the block of text that begins "One >

Re: [css-d] Food menus and definitions

2012-07-26 Thread Tim Arnold
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:37 PM, John wrote: > > On Jul 26, 2012, at 2:22 PM, Jay Tanna wrote: > >> In certain situation you have to use Tables and the food menus you have >> produced is the ideal candidate for this. Consider using a table to do >> exactly what you want to do. CSS can be appli

Re: [css-d] border-radius and image corners

2012-07-26 Thread Tim Arnold
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Jay Tanna wrote: >> Actually you can apply the css to the img directly like >> this: >> >> img { >> border:1px solid red; >> border-bottom-left-radius:20px; >> display: block; >> } >> > > David's picture: > > http://www.mytechnet.talktalk.net/round-cor

Re: [css-d] Wrapper DIV vs. BODY

2012-06-22 Thread Tim Arnold
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Kyle Sessions wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:47 AM, mem wrote: > >> I'm taking the body element as the "viewport area" and the wrapper as the >> "content container area" > > > That's how I usually interpret it. I might want my content to have an > explicit wi

Re: [css-d] line widgets up horizontally

2012-05-24 Thread Tim Arnold
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:10 PM, John wrote: > > At this link:  http://coffeeonmars.com/testing/index.html > > You see 5 "widgets" all identical, lined up vertically. I would like them to > line up horizontally, the way the other, different widgets at the bottom of > the page do. > > The bottom-

Re: [css-d] position with div in stead of table

2012-04-09 Thread Tim Arnold
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Marie-Ange Demeulemeester wrote: > Hi, > I need a block with two columns. > > Despite of the quite simple code by using a table, I’ve tried to have the > same result with DIV. > > The requirements are: > > ·         The columns have an equal height > > ·         Eac

Re: [css-d] problem with positioning

2012-03-31 Thread Tim Arnold
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Lisa Frost wrote: >> > Thanks that works a treat, but i do not understand why i have to put a > relative position on my container div and then why my bee image is taking > its values from the container div and not the div it is contained in or the > parent of that

Re: [css-d] "classes"...?

2012-03-09 Thread Tim Arnold
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Paceaux wrote: > > > Smashing Magazine has a great article on Object Oriented CSS. > http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/12/12/an-introduction-to-object-oriented-css-oocss/. While I do think that Nicole Sullivan's Object Oriented CSS has real value (especiall

Re: [css-d] problem with opacity

2012-02-16 Thread Tim Arnold
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Angela French wrote: > It appears that this background color is inheriting the opacity of the > div it lives in as the white background-color seems to have no effect. I > have even reset the opacity of this by setting it to 100. > > Yes, the opacity css propert

Re: [css-d] Text flow around a DIV containing absolutely positioned items

2012-02-13 Thread Tim Arnold
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Tim Dawson wrote: > http://www.webadit.co.uk/test/templates/partialsolution.html > > Is there any other way I can achieve both objectives, preferably without > resorting to absolutely positioning everything ? > Try taking the "overflow: hidden;" off of the tag a

Re: [css-d] FW: An elementary question on absolute positioning

2012-01-31 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:10 AM, wrote: > On the page at  http://www.maireadnesbitt.com/index_next_tt.html  I have a > group of absolutely positioned thumbnails. > > I expected them to appear within the containing block called left_third. > Instead they appear to be positioned on the page. Is

Re: [css-d] Grfx/text alignment

2012-01-10 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Kim Brooks Wei wrote: > I'm not sure how I'm supposed to respond to help like that That much has been made clear twice. I'll leave it to others to help out. -tim -- tim.arn...@gmail.com __

Re: [css-d] Grfx/text alignment

2012-01-10 Thread Tim Arnold
On Jan 9, 2012 11:52 PM, "Kim Brooks Wei" wrote: > > Tim, I don't know what that youtube video was supposed to teach me. I obviously know what alignment is. Thanks for pointing out the alignment designation in the shortcode, tho. That was helpful. Unfortunately, altering it doesn't fix my problem.

Re: [css-d] Grfx/text alignment

2012-01-09 Thread Tim Arnold
>> >> On Jan 8, 2012, at 21:00 , Kim Brooks Wei wrote: >>> >>>  I'm having trouble figuring out how to align pictures and text here >>> http://is.gd/B7MBSg. Kim, I see this div wrapped around your image: The presence of the class "alignnone" suggests that you have not aligned the image in yo

Re: [css-d] Submenu Location Assistance

2012-01-09 Thread Tim Arnold
> I want the submenu items to show up on hover on "Target" underneath this menu > bar.  Like this: > > [Home] [About] [This] [That] [Target] > [Sub1] [Sub2] [Sub3] [Sub4] [Sub5] > > But all I can get to happen is the submenu lining up with "Target", that is, > it is not left aligned with "Home".

Re: [css-d] Submenu Location Assistance

2012-01-09 Thread Tim Arnold
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Chris Williams wrote: > My question is simple: is this possible with just CSS?  Choices: > >  1.  Yep, I simply not found the right combination of CSS to get it to happen. >  2.  Yes, but you need a different HTML structure. >  3.  No, you can't do it with hover,

Re: [css-d] Border: Double

2011-11-28 Thread Tim Arnold
> I think I understand you.  A double border consists of two lines and > you want to be able to define the width of each of the pair > independently.  I'm am fairly certain that you can not do this as the > two lines as well as the space between them are sort of baked into a > single unit. There ar

Re: [css-d] Border: Double

2011-11-28 Thread Tim Arnold
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > 2011-11-28 23:52, Elli Vizcaino wrote: > >> Was just wondering if there was a way to give a double border different >> values. > > It depends on what you mean by that. > >> For instance have one be 1px while the other is 3px? > > Can a 1px

Re: [css-d] box-shadow don't display on the right side

2011-11-15 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:15 PM, mem wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm building the following: > > http://help.nuvemk.com/floatedFluidLayoutHtml5/ > http://help.nuvemk.com/floatedFluidLayoutHtml5/style.css > > Line 125 and next I have: > > #navigation-and-slideshow { >    width: 100%; >    overflow: hid

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

2011-11-10 Thread Tim Arnold
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: > > > Paceaux wrote: > >> most of the time, I actually set html{font-size: 16px} so I can guarantee >> the font size and a width of 960px. > > Why do you /want/ to guarantee the font size ?  Surely > the user is the best judge of the size at wh

Re: [css-d] CSS Content

2011-09-22 Thread Tim Arnold
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Giles, Sarah wrote: > Some of these groups are "Special" And their specialness changes on a > personal whim. So I am creating a class to denote their specialness that will > change their background color, give a boarder, and change font color. I also > want to

Re: [css-d] Expand parent width to contain floated elements

2011-09-16 Thread Tim Arnold
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Stevio wrote: > >> Hi is there a way to expand the width of a parent container so that it fits >> the contents of the floated elements within it? On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Kevin A. Cameron wrote: > Pretty sure if you float the parent, it will grow to fit

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS Drop Down Menu Help

2011-09-09 Thread Tim Arnold
> Wow can't beleive it was a matter of something so simple. Thanks a million! > :)) > > It's only simple when you've done the same thing half a dozen times :) -- tim.arn...@gmail.com __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.o

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS Drop Down Menu Help

2011-09-09 Thread Tim Arnold
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Elli Vizcaino wrote: > ...so yes the drop down drops on hover now but it just wont stay there so one > can hover over the submenu links, so it's still a problem. > > > Here is the revised code snippet and the url again: > http://e7flux.com/dfd/index.html It's rea

Re: [css-d] Win IE 6 issues

2011-09-07 Thread Tim Arnold
On Sep 7, 2011 7:02 PM, "John" > I have a PNG-24 with transparency which Win IE 6 shows as having a light blue background. Look for help from the PIE.htc fix for this one. IE6 does not support 24-bit transparency. Odd that it's blue. It should be grey. Tim

Re: [css-d] change colour of bullet in UL no images no spans

2011-08-29 Thread Tim Arnold
Lisa, The only way to make the text a different color than the bullet is to wrap the text in something (, , , whatever) that you can give a color to. Other than that, you'll have to use a bullet image. Tim On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Lisa Frost wrote: > I've been googling and trying to

Re: [css-d] Off-topic : h1 replacement -- which one is recommended?

2011-08-26 Thread Tim Arnold
I made the rounds of a few different techniques over the years for replacing H1 text with an image until I realized that the most reliable, most semantic, most indexable, most manageable solution was also the simplest: Google loves alt text. No extra classes to identify which background should

Re: [css-d] Horizontal Numbered List problem

2011-08-03 Thread Tim Arnold
On Aug 3, 2011 8:38 AM, "Tod" wrote. > > I've got something similar to this: > > > 1. > Text1 > > 2. > Text2 I know we're about the CSS more than the markup but having the number and the text in subsequent list items like that means something different than you are trying to convey. Tim ___

Re: [css-d] CSS alignment question

2011-07-08 Thread Tim Arnold
A URL would help a log, but is the title (first field) also floated left? It probably should be. -Tim On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Neil Hunt wrote: > I have two fields (each in their own tag) that I am attempting to > align next to each other.  The first field is a title, the second is > ad

Re: [css-d] "lock" a resize?

2011-05-16 Thread Tim Arnold
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Michael Beaudoin wrote: > Is it possible to "lock" in the css type specs so if a window is resized it > won't mess up the type? > > If not, is there a good way of maintaining type integrity? I'm using ems to > spec they type. While there may be a few exceptions,

Re: [css-d] What is best practice when using CSS to create forms?

2011-04-19 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Barney Carroll wrote: > On 19 April 2011 15:47, Tim Arnold wrote: > > Does form markup OR plugging LWs book have anything to do with CSS? > > Colossal amounts. Come back to us when you've built a form purely out > of CSS and no markup

Re: [css-d] What is best practice when using CSS to create forms?

2011-04-19 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Kurtis Kroon wrote: > Here's where I plug Luke Wroblewski's book _Web Form Design: Filling in the > Blanks_: > > http://www.lukew.com/resources/web_form_design.asp > > Kurtis > Sent from my mobile > > On Apr 18, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Keith Purtell > wrote: > > > I h

Re: [css-d] CSS navigation/"menu"/selection

2011-04-13 Thread Tim Arnold
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Chetan Crasta wrote: > > http://www.kacevisual.com/files/CSSContentSlide/ > > > > Ingenious. It would be better without the non-semantic empty > elements though. > > ~Chetan > __ > > Pretty cool.

Re: [css-d] CSS navigation/"menu"/selection

2011-04-13 Thread Tim Arnold
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Aaron Gray wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot remember how to do this or what it is called. > > But I am looking for some CSS that allows a number of "menu" or selector > links that change the displayed 'div' on the main page, displaying say a > different image. > > Basical

Re: [css-d] Stop supporting IE 6 and 7

2011-03-15 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Gabriele Romanato < gabriele.roman...@gmail.com> wrote: > With the final release of IE 9 and the good work behind IE 8, I think it's > time to move on: > > http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2011/03/stop-supporting-ie-6-and-7.html > > I don't want to read other mails ab

Re: [css-d] Trouble trying to center webpage

2011-03-14 Thread Tim Arnold
On Mar 14, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Lesley Lutomski wrote: > On 14/03/11 05:50, Richard Wendrock Forum wrote: > >> >> any idea as to how I can force the content to center in the page? >> > > Hi Richard, > > Try adding > > #aspnetForm {width: 1074px; margin: auto;} > > Works for me on Firefox but I can't

Re: [css-d] Pure CSS bar chart

2011-03-09 Thread Tim Arnold
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Gabriele Romanato < gabriele.roman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > continuing the series of useless experiments, here's a simple demo that > creates a pure CSS bar chart: > > http://onwebdev.blogspot.com/2011/03/pure-css-bar-chart.html > Less useless (your words, not

Re: [css-d] Right column drooping

2011-01-07 Thread Tim Arnold
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Kim Brooks Wei wrote: > Hi People, > > I don't remember what will make my right column slide up to sit side by > side with the left one. What am I failing to do? > > http://bit.ly/ad7AEl > > Kimi > > I assume that you want the "rightcopy" and "leftcopy" divs to be

Re: [css-d] can a div be a link?

2010-12-23 Thread Tim Arnold
> > Sure. Here it is. http://ba-doyn.com/junk/link_test/ > > You'll see the outlined block in the upper left. I would like the block to > have a link, but obviously no copy in there. > > Thanks, > Michael > > If you put a link in that div (around the text), you can make it a block and it should acc

Re: [css-d] can a div be a link?

2010-12-23 Thread Tim Arnold
> > Reese said: > Some legacy sites are not ready for HTML5 conversion. Then, I'm not > so sure about this method even for new development. Because: > > Divs are block-level elements, anchor tags are line-level elements. > Loosening the standards to permit inserting block elements inside > of li

Re: [css-d] Footer on odd pages only

2010-12-22 Thread Tim Arnold
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Mark Richards wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 18:40, Evan Panagiotopoulos >wrote: > > > I create a string of html documents using php. Each document prints one > > sheet of paper. > > > [snip] > > > If I use: Using id=... to call the css and I only > > get the

Re: [css-d] How do I style links which are only a part of ul li?

2010-12-20 Thread Tim Arnold
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:32 PM, wrote: > I don't have code for this yet, this is what I tried: > css: > .longlinelist { >color: red; >font-weight: bold; > } > > html: > Summary > >If you already know what you are looking for, go ref="contact.html">Contact page

Re: [css-d] How do I style links which are only a part of ul li?

2010-12-20 Thread Tim Arnold
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:13 AM, wrote: > I'm customizing free template and trying to make fast navigation top of > the information page, like FAQ - questions that are a links first, then > in-page links to answer below. > > With the only difference: this is "jump to" navigation that consist from

Re: [css-d] how do i get rid of the space under the header image?

2010-12-13 Thread Tim Arnold
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Matthew P. Johnson wrote: > http://www.applegateelements.com/new/index.htm > > Once I add the code for the nav, a space adds itself underneath the header > image. Before I add the "Nav" code marked by > > There is surely a better way, but adding "display: block;" t

Re: [css-d] How to 'unvisited' links?

2010-12-06 Thread Tim Arnold
Clearing your browser history will reset all your visited links. Other than that, you will either have to change the link, or remove the visited style from your css. -Tim On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Yu-Hsuan Lai wrote: > When I test my page's css, I want to see element both :link and > :

Re: [css-d] [+] Re: OK to insert block-level tag inside div?

2010-11-22 Thread Tim Arnold
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:02 PM, John wrote: > Why does adding 8px to my margin top make that paragraph go as wide as the > container? why wouldn't it make the text respect the existing space all the > way around? > > Here's the class in question: > > .dotted { >border-top: 1px dotted #00

Re: [css-d] H tags and style

2010-11-22 Thread Tim Arnold
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Giles, Sarah wrote: > I am working on a large site with some designers. > I have been told to have the h1 tags below the h2 and h3 tags because they > want the headlines that are lower on the page to be larger and more > important then the ones higher up. > > I th

Re: [css-d] Is this proper use of div tags?

2010-11-17 Thread Tim Arnold
The H3, image and p can all be styled due to their being inside that div: .outer h3 { font-weight: bold; } .outer img { float: left; margin-right: .5em; } .outer p { padding: 0.2em 0; } -Tim On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:54 PM, John wrote: > On Nov 17, 2010, at 11:25 AM, G.Sørtun wr

Re: [css-d] XHTML or not?

2010-11-10 Thread Tim Arnold
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:49 PM, John wrote: > I am relatively inexperienced with CSS and HTML..I've made all my own web > pages, but learn what I need at the time followed by years of doing nothing > with it until the next re-design. > > A tutorial I watched recommended going with XHTML, but so

Re: [css-d] which tag do i target with css for the hover effect i want

2010-11-08 Thread Tim Arnold
Since IE doesn't support :hover on an LI tag, you will have to use the to get what you want. Start with setting the to "display: block;" and all margins and padding on both types of tags to zero. Add from there understanding that adding padding or margin to the LI tags will space the hovered bloc

Re: [css-d] methods of color specifying

2010-11-05 Thread Tim Arnold
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:16 PM, John wrote: > I have been looking online for something that will show the color naming > systems in HTML and CSS so that I can make myself a cheat sheet... > > eventually, it'll be second nature, I'm sure. > > I know there's the 3-digit method, the 6 digit/characte

Re: [css-d] trouble getting a search form to line up properly

2010-11-03 Thread Tim Arnold
Warning: quick Firefox test, not checked in any other browsers. #headerlinks { background:url(" http://associationdatabase.com/aws/ASCAI/am/gi/back_headerlinks.png";) repeat-x; scroll left top #C55E01; color:#FF; float:right; padding:10px; width:280px; /*add thi

Re: [css-d] can't click links in IE

2010-10-25 Thread Tim Arnold
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Theresa Newman wrote: > if you don't wish to cut up images you can position each absolutely > over the large image. give them display block and a height and width > > > That is what he currently has. But empty links are terrible accessibility and I don't see any

Re: [css-d] can't click links in IE

2010-10-25 Thread Tim Arnold
If you add "display: block;" to the styles governing those empty tags you should be able to click on them in IE. But as Kevin said, the links are empty. You should really put some text in there so they make sense. You can hide the text with a negative text-indent of some really big number. The

Re: [css-d] can't center h1 in Joomla template

2010-10-13 Thread Tim Arnold
It is the table holding the that you need to center. Do the "margin: 0 auto;" on and it will center. That, or make that table 100% wide instead of the td inside it. Cheers, Tim On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Debbie Campbell wrote: > I've tried margin: 0 auto; and text-align: center on the

Re: [css-d] How to link global.css to html page?

2010-09-29 Thread Tim Arnold
27;t these the and referred to, Tim : > > http://www.otekno.biz/ps";>Easy >> shopping >> > > ** Phil. > > > Tim Arnold wrote: > >> Also, it appears that none of the elements in your page are being targeted >> by your CSS. You have styles

Re: [css-d] How to link global.css to html page?

2010-09-29 Thread Tim Arnold
Also, it appears that none of the elements in your page are being targeted by your CSS. You have styles defined for "p" and "a" but there are no or elements in your page (with the exception of the red "home" link in the table header. Speaking of which, I'd get rid of that entire table and just u

Re: [css-d] Flash in iframe coming in above overlays

2010-09-29 Thread Tim Arnold
In getting Flash to stay underneath dynamic elements, as I understand it, adding "wmode=transparent" to the Flash is simply the only way. -Tim On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:10 AM, James White wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for any ideas on a way to force flash in an iframe to display > below over

Re: [css-d] :after and :before psedo elements.

2010-08-26 Thread Tim Arnold
On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: > >> 200 >> >> With css for one page >> .negative:before {content: '-'} >> >> And for the other page, >> .negative:before {content: '(';} >> .negative:after {content: ')';} > > I'm not sure this a good example as this added content is only serve

Re: [css-d] Floating images - understanding the details

2010-08-19 Thread Tim Arnold
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Alan Gresley wrote: > I should remind myself. Floating an element causes it to display as a > block. Also width and margin values are used. > > Lucky me, I didn't need Philippe to remind me this time. > > > -- > Alan http://css-class.com/ > > I'm not so sure that

Re: [css-d] Floating images - understanding the details

2010-08-19 Thread Tim Arnold
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Alan Gresley wrote: > Since IMG are inline elements, then any margin or width values will > not be used. For the margin and width values to work, one must make > the IMG display as a block element. > > .floatL { > float:left; > margin: 0 1 em 1em; > padding:

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