Re: [css-d] layout inline elements in block

2006-08-16 Thread Olly Hodgson
you could try simpy floating the h1 left. -- Olly http://thinkdrastic.net/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wi

Re: [css-d] META TAGS not validating

2006-07-15 Thread Olly Hodgson
the WSG, webdesign-l or evolt.org lists would be better. Here goes anyway: XHTML is a lower-case language, so all elements and attribute-names must be lower-case (although the content of the attributes can be mixed-case): If you want to mix case, you'd be better of with HTML 4.01 Strict. -

Re: [css-d] stupid question regarding background position: fixed and IE6

2006-07-07 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 07/07/06, Paul Seale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I assigned the background fixed attribute and it works great with Fire > Fox but not with IE6. Does IE 6 not support this attribute? IIRC yes, it does, but only on the element. Cheers, -- Olly http://t

Re: [css-d] Missing bullet image in dynamically generated list

2006-04-06 Thread Olly Hodgson
ground-image, etc) to see if that makes any difference? -- Olly Hodgson http://thinkdrastic.net/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.co

Re: [css-d] Form elements spilling over divs

2006-04-06 Thread Olly Hodgson
; over; if I put some other element out side of the form at the bottom say a p > tag then every thing is fine. Can any one explain to me what is going on > here? Martyn - do you have some code or a URL we could take a look at please? Otherwise it can be a bit tricky to debug your problem :)

Re: [css-d] Georgia font not showing in FF/Netscape

2006-03-27 Thread Olly Hodgson
e code we could look at? Cheers, -- Olly http://thinkdrastic.net/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://

Re: [css-d] variations with firefox onwindows PC vs Linux

2006-03-18 Thread Olly Hodgson
ve margin and get it to line up correctly on the > Linux PC in em's, that it will be about .5em too high in the windows PC. Bob - Do you have the same fonts installed on both Win and Lin? I guess if the fonts are slightly different sizes then any em-sized bits will be slightly diff

Re: [css-d] disapearing text in IE

2006-03-14 Thread Olly Hodgson
To learn more about the subject, I would strongly recommend that you read "How to attack an Internet Explorer bug": <http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=C37E0> Cheers, -- Olly Hodgson http://thinkdrastic.net/

Re: [css-d] styling SELECT in IE

2006-03-13 Thread Olly Hodgson
although there are projects floating around that replace select elements with javascript-generated controls. When IE7 comes along, the select will apparently become a true HTML control - so we should be able to style it in the same way we would in any other browser. -- Olly http://t

Re: [css-d] Question about validation

2006-03-13 Thread Olly Hodgson
s, > but I am supposing that the css is still valid, right? I can't see anything wrong with your code, so I would guess it's a problem with the validator. -- Olly http://thinkdrastic.net/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [css-d] Problem with image float in Ff

2006-03-03 Thread Olly Hodgson
0%; overflow: hidden; } More on the subject at http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html Cheers, -- Olly http://thinkdrastic.net/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE

Re: [css-d] paragraphs disappearing

2006-02-27 Thread Olly Hodgson
. I think having line-height: 0; set in the CSS is probably what's causing the problem. Cheers, -- Olly http://thinkdrastic.net/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testin

Re: [css-d] Legend of the Fieldset

2006-02-24 Thread Olly Hodgson
#x27;t look right in Opera 9TP2. You might need to play with the "padding" on fieldset and "top" on legend to make it work with your layout. Cheers, -- Olly http://thinkdrastic.net/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROT

Re: [css-d] "Does not allow "h3" here???

2006-02-09 Thread Olly Hodgson
elements may contain only data and other inline elements." > What could I substitute to get the style that I need? Switching it around to some text would probably work :-) -- Olly http://thinkdrastic.net/ __ css-discu

Re: [css-d] New IE 7 Ruined my Nav???

2006-02-09 Thread Olly Hodgson
gh. By the way, aren't the hacks for IE4 and Netscape 4 a bit pointless in this day and age? :) -- Olly http://thinkdrastic.net/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing h

Re: [css-d] viewing sites via AOL

2006-01-11 Thread Olly Hodgson
on of Gecko (Mozilla/Firefox's rendering engine) - although I may be wrong on that point. -- Olly http://thinkdrastic.net/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d Li

Re: [css-d] Looking for Header, 2 columns, footer fixed at bottom of screen example?

2006-01-04 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 05/01/06, Julian Voelcker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking for an example layout with a header, two columns and then a > footer fixed at the bottom of the browser window. Is this the sort of thing you're after? http://steve.pugh.net/test/test57.html Chee

Re: [css-d] display: table-cell --- why?

2005-12-07 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 07/12/05, Rimantas Liubertas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of course, if you are dealing with tabular data then fiddling with > divs does not make much sense. Oh of course. If you're working with tabular data, use a table element. It's common sense :) -- Oll

Re: [css-d] display: table-cell --- why?

2005-12-07 Thread Olly Hodgson
all of the columns, full-length backgrounds, etc), with all of the advantages of semantic html (accessibility, SEO, degrading to small-screen / print devices, etc). -- Olly http://thinkdrastic.net/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: [css-d] Site check

2005-11-21 Thread olly
> From: Donna Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > i don't particularly like the bricks either but if you made them to be > unscrollable i think it would be neater. just add "fixed" in where > you're calling that image as background. (i think you have repeat just > add fixed after that). done, and it loo

Re: [css-d] Site check

2005-11-19 Thread olly
On 11/19/05, David Laakso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- The uppercase text in the header is /very/ difficult to read. i agree to an extent - i'll look at it again > -- The color of the blocks of content text(their black-whiteness, not > hue) would be improved with more lead. And same above/belo

Re: [css-d] Site check

2005-11-18 Thread olly
Sorry, not sure I sent that link correctly. It should be: http://www.nealemarriott.co.uk cheers, olly __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css

[css-d] Site check

2005-11-18 Thread olly
to be clickable - I'm not too fussed about this though, it's not my target audience. I'm mainly concerned about Safari on the Mac (I dread to think what IE Mac does to it - not that I really care) http://www.nealemarriott.co.uk <http://www.whistlebump.co.uk/test> Any other feed

Re: [css-d] Flowable CSS Columns?

2005-11-14 Thread Olly Hodgson
t.com/archive/200509/css3_multicolumn_layout_considered_harmful/> -- Olly http://thinkdrastic.net/ __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org

Re: [css-d] Problems with DIV elements and position

2005-11-13 Thread Olly Hodgson
On 13/11/05, Reynier Perez Mira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > divRight divLeft >divBelow #divRight, #divLeft { width: 50%; float: left; } #divBelow { clear: left; } You might need to fiddle with the width to get IE to play nicely. -- Olly http://t

Re: [css-d] An IE problem

2005-09-26 Thread Olly Hodgson
2. It > should look fine. Do I have to do the box model hack for IE6? I *think* this is an instance of the IE Escaping Floats Bug, for which an explanation and a fix can be found at <http://lyxus.net/mk> [1] I hope that helps, -- Olly http://thinkdrastic.net/ [1]

Re: [css-d] How to get a good monospaced font for IE6

2005-09-21 Thread Olly Hodgson
eing used by that browser is proportional and all of my tabular data > is all over the place horizontally speaking. The simplest way I can think of would be to wrap the data in or elements. Not perhaps the most semantic way of doing things, but it'd be monospaced (unless you s

Re: [css-d] Site check please

2005-09-17 Thread olly
Wow, thanks for the feedback - really appreciated. I'm purchasing a Mac in the next few weeks so then I'll be able to cover most browsers :) Anyway, until then... On 17/09/05, Jono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IE/Mac 5.2.3: > > Home page: > The bottom of the second box - WhistleBump Records

Re: [css-d] Site check please--whistlebump

2005-09-17 Thread olly
On 17/09/05, David Laakso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mac/ie5.2 and Safari screen captures here > . > In XP_SP2 you are drawing a scroll bar at 800 in all my browsers. > Other than that she's 'working' well in XP, albeit unreadable at any >

[css-d] Site check please

2005-09-16 Thread olly
(until it goes live) as will the mailing list, so please don't try that. cheers, olly __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Su

Re: [css-d] Submit Button Styling

2005-07-04 Thread Olly Hodgson
either end of the button. The more text there is on the button, the more space it will add. This is really good for XP users because text-heavy buttons that use the standard XP visual theme end up looking stretched and broken. Sorry I can't b