[css-d] FireFox issues displaying height of div

2014-07-25 Thread Richard Wendrock Forum
/consulting_unconventional_resources.php Thanks, Richard __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org

Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large?

2014-07-25 Thread Richard Wendrock Forum
This is a handle chart. http://jerekdain.com/fontconversion.html -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Crest Christopher Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 9:53 PM To: Tom Livingston Cc: Chris F.A. Johnson; CSS-Di

Re: [css-d] font-variant:small-caps;

2014-06-16 Thread Richard Wendrock Forum
I used David's suggestion to solve the problem. Assuming Arial does not have small-caps variants, I switched to font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; and that solved the problem. Thank you everyone! The Lord bless you and keep you, Richard Numbers 6:24-26 -Original Me

[css-d] font-variant:small-caps;

2014-06-12 Thread Richard Wendrock Forum
It appears there is an optical illusion when using font-variant:small-caps; The first letter of each word appears more bold than the other letters in the word. .fonttext23 { font-size: medium; font-family:Arial; text-align:left; font-variant:small-caps; font-weight:bold; }

Re: [css-d] Will the unsemantic HTML elements B and I be soon phased out?

2014-02-17 Thread Richard Grevers
It must be remembered that the presentation layer is optional, and CSS isn't always available. It might be due to a server error or timeout (i experience that on maybe 1% of page loads), or, as HTML rendering capability extends to ever-smaller devices, a physical limitation. has no default presen

Re: [css-d] Center a DIV on the Page and Center Text Vertically within the DIV

2013-12-17 Thread Richard Wendrock Forum
with the content but not positioned vertically within the Red line. http://hps02.com/index2.php Here is an example of the code with the links properly aligned. http://hps02.com/index3.php Click the Home link at the top of the page to cycle though all three examples. Merry Christmas, Richard

[css-d] Center a DIV on the Page and Center Text Vertically within the DIV

2013-12-17 Thread Richard Wendrock Forum
Can you help me understand how to center text vertically within a DIV that is also center on the page? I am trying to position a DIV in the center of the page and then place text on the right side and centered vertically within the DIV. I can center the DIV with this definition. I color the

[css-d] Clean fallback for CSS Animation in IE9 etc.

2013-11-20 Thread Richard Grevers
image only. It's a CMS, but I can use conditional comments in the template. -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-disc

Re: [css-d] Top margin problem from accessibility link

2013-10-04 Thread Richard Grevers
Thanks Philippe On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > Le 4 oct. 2013 à 12:38, Richard Grevers a > écrit : > > > Hi, > > > > At http://test.permaculture.co.nz I am trying to tighten the layout a > > little in order to fit more cont

[css-d] Top margin problem from accessibility link

2013-10-03 Thread Richard Grevers
-left" technique has been applied to the link inside the p rather than to the block element. Is it safe to give p#skip-link a zero height? -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz __ css-disc

Re: [css-d] Controlling main-content width on a fluid design?

2012-09-02 Thread Richard Grevers
Thanks Georg, that fixed it. Thinking back, that might have gotten commented out when it made the div 100% of screen width on one preview. Drupal's theme bebuild function gets a bit behind itself occasionally. Richard On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Georg wrote: > On 02.09.2012 21:42,

[css-d] Controlling main-content width on a fluid design?

2012-09-02 Thread Richard Grevers
border-right:1px solid #999; border-left: 1px solid #444; border-bottom: 1px solid #444; border-radius: 30px; background-color:#edece6; padding: 0.8em; } -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic

[css-d] Problem with usemap in Fire Fox

2012-08-02 Thread Richard Wendrock Forum
I have found a problem that occurs only in Fire Fox. This link will display a menu that remains visible as the visitor scrolls down the page. http://www.austinwebmaster.com/beecreekumc/christiancrisiscare.php It works perfectly in Internet Explorer 9, Chrome and Safari. The menu does not a

[css-d] Is padding-left Inherited?

2011-10-05 Thread Richard Wendrock Forum
I have a shopping cart that dynamically generates the product detail page. The product title is being generated with a padding-left: 80px which makes it look indented; No place in my code does the value 80px appear in this context. I have used dreamweaver to search the entire website and still

[css-d] css submenu navigation

2011-07-01 Thread Richard Lake
s possible and point me in the right direction please. Thanks and regards Richard __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Lis

Re: [css-d] CSS Problems in IE 9?

2011-04-13 Thread Richard Wendrock Forum
issue. Not sure... David, Thanks for the heads up... the problem was with Cufon. I downloaded the latest version at http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/ Problem solved! Thanks, Richard __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-d

[css-d] CSS Problems in IE 9?

2011-04-13 Thread Richard Wendrock Forum
Does anyone know of any CSS problems with IE 9? I have a page that works in IE8 and Firefox but does not display properly in IE9 http://www.PineMillRanch.com/Index.asp The navigation menu is blank in IE 9. Thanks Ahead of time for your help... Take Care, Richard

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

2011-03-14 Thread Richard Wendrock Forum
Thanks very much... The text-align: left; is needed for IE 9 also. Text was centered in the Promotions slide out before adding the text-align: left. Thanks again, Richard -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On

[css-d] Trouble trying to center webpage

2011-03-13 Thread Richard Wendrock Forum
I can force the content to center in the page? Thanks Ahead of time for your help... Take Care, Richard __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Mason
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Alan Gresley wrote I am not a programmer and I wouldn't know the first thing about building a UA since I not even sure what web language or languages are involved in the process. C++ -- Richard Mason http://www.emdp

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Mason
chnical and specific | towards the end. I said the specs were 'aimed' at programmers, not 'exclusive to'. Your quote confirms this: "Implementors, however, should find all they need to build conforming user agents." So, a Software Requirement Specification also made ava

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Mason
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Richard Mason wrote: Speaking of CSS specs I'm always surprised that the spec authors don't get called out for the nonsense they put in them. A specification should tell an author (a programmer) what i

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-12 Thread Richard Mason
eir right mind would get values this way when the Operating System API's will give them the answer directly. -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss

Re: [css-d] form/ul layout weird in IE

2011-01-12 Thread richard
Quoting "Chris F.A. Johnson" : It's off in other browsers as well. See . What browser is that, by the way? The buttons seem off there, but those are a minor concern in relation to the overall form layout, which looks okay to me in your SS. I'm trying t

Re: [css-d] form/ul layout weird in IE

2011-01-12 Thread richard
Quoting David Laakso : Post uri to list. Thanks. ~d Whoops, my mind must have been leaving me at the end of the day.. https://www.moremagicpoints.com/mloyalty/browsercompatability is the address where I placed the page. As Philip mentioned the certificate is off, I've been nagging the

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-11 Thread Richard Mason
fallback font will relate to the first-choice font, but it doesn't matter so I wouldn't bother anyway." Interesting :-) -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http

Re: [css-d] what font is being called?

2011-01-11 Thread Richard Mason
ratio of a font is not fixed but varies with font size. At http://www.emdpi.com/cssfontsizeadjust.html I have a download with graphs of aspect ratio v font size (10px to 50px) for a number of fonts. -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com

Re: [css-d] Trouble with Opacity / Nav Menu in IE

2011-01-01 Thread richard
Quoting Chetan Crasta : Sure, keep in mind this is not a production level site as of now, so I ask that anyone please be respectful in not sharing/using it beyond debugging/inspecting the HTML/CSS. https://www.moremagicpoints.com/ The page has a lot of errors like incorrect nesting of element

Re: [css-d] fixed background

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Grevers
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Richard Grevers wrote: > Other than railing against the fact that you can only apply a fixed > background relative to the viewport rather than a container, what can > I do to position the *left* edge of a background image at 50% with a > fluid layout

[css-d] fixed background

2010-09-22 Thread Richard Grevers
gaps start appearing as the screen gets too wide or too narrow. -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [css-d] Making GridView's Header Fixed while Scrolling vertically or horizantally

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Grevers
*The Help Needed:* > > The *expression* is not css2 compliant. While, it still works in IE6 to 8, > what is the best alternative? > Use the expression, but in an external stylesheet targeted to the versions of IE which need it, called from a conditional comment. Everything the validator a

[css-d] 3-column layouts, current state of play

2010-09-20 Thread Richard Grevers
tes using all 4 possible order permutations) - image backgrounds on some columns (difficult with - full height columns - sticky footer Are there any more up-to-date layout articles? -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www

Re: [css-d] tiny font in Safari and Chrome

2010-05-28 Thread Richard Mason
bsolute that authors are so fond of. -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List poli

Re: [css-d] NOT restarting numbered lists after element

2009-12-18 Thread Richard Grevers
the task back to HTML. More importantly, all browsers support , while support for css counters isn't universal. -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.c

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-12 Thread Richard Mason
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Felix Miata wrote >On 2009/08/13 10:59 (GMT+1200) Richard Mason composed: > >> ... On paper inches are physical inches. On a screen inches are >> logical inches. Logical inches and physical inches are not the same >> thing as I explain here:

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-12 Thread Richard Mason
ect will be different if that >1920x1200 monitor is a 21", 24", on 15" laptop monitor. Of course. On paper inches are physical inches. On a screen inches are logical inches. Logical inches and physical inches are not th

Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-12 Thread Richard Mason
ls Also there seems to be view that screen dpi can only be 96 or 120. Screen dpi can be adjusted in the Control Panel by small steps between 19 dpi and 480 dpi. The elastic ruler. http://www.emdpi.com/screendpi.html -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com __

[css-d] ie6 float problem

2009-07-17 Thread Richard Lake
ing to sort the problem out because I can only check changes via browsershot and the turn-around is quite slow (and so far unproductive). Help greatly appreciated. Regards Richard __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] Chrome vs floated tables

2009-06-17 Thread Richard Grevers
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bobby Jack wrote: > > --- On Wed, 6/17/09, Richard Grevers wrote: > >> Google chrome (2.0.172.31) appears to >> minimise the width of floated >> tables which have no explicit width, while most other >> browsers assume >> 100%

[css-d] Chrome vs floated tables

2009-06-17 Thread Richard Grevers
Google chrome (2.0.172.31) appears to minimise the width of floated tables which have no explicit width, while most other browsers assume 100%. Is this actually a bug or just one of those undefined behaviours that serve as a lesson to always follow Braden's mantra? -- Richard Grevers

[css-d] site check / footerstickalt problem

2009-05-17 Thread Richard Grevers
ecious metals images overlap rather than dropping to vertical alignment. 4) In IE6, #heading is going extremely wide (much more than 100%), causing horizontal scrolling and the centred content block to drift to the right. -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Desig

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-16 Thread Richard Mason
ion from points to pixels via screen dpi is not required. http://www.emdpi.com/fontsize.html -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d Li

Re: [css-d] Font size dilemma

2009-03-15 Thread Richard Mason
;standard" means what here? The CSS spec tries to define a "standard pixel", and talks rubbish. Actually one pixel on your monitor is different to another pixel on your monitor at different times. If, say, you usually operate at 1280 * 1024 and then switch to 1024 * 768 then 20

Re: [css-d] other alphabets

2009-02-26 Thread Richard Grevers
encoding of your page to UTF-8. Also, avoid using Verdana on the page, as pre-vista versions of verdana are buggy and put diacriticals on the wrong character in some browsers. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdana ) -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dr

Re: [css-d] Font sizing

2009-02-18 Thread Richard Mason
Not really. There is only a loose relationship between font size and how 'big' text looks on screen. http://www.emdpi.com/fontsize.html -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http

Re: [css-d] Is there an alternative way of doing this?

2009-02-01 Thread Richard Grevers
to >> "cancel" the hover for .col1? >> >> or can anyone see an alternative method. (I can't use col2 as that is >> not full-height). >> I considered using a "vertical sprite", but there would be some length >> of page for which that woul

[css-d] Is there an alternative way of doing this?

2009-02-01 Thread Richard Grevers
sing a "vertical sprite", but there would be some length of page for which that would look ugly, and it would presumably siffer from exactly the same triggering issue. -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz _

Re: [css-d] Positioning a background image in holy grail layout

2009-01-23 Thread Richard Grevers
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > Richard Grevers wrote: > >> When I remove no-repeat, the background becomes visible, but its offset >> varies as you change the page width. How can I get it static where I want it >> to be? > > That .leftcol

[css-d] Positioning a background image in holy grail layout

2009-01-23 Thread Richard Grevers
ge is truncated at the right-hand side in IE7. What have I done to offend it? Thanks in advance -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] IE not hiding overflow?

2009-01-13 Thread Richard Grevers
x27;s supposed to look. > It's probably not a case of failing to hide overflow but of it making the element larger than you expect. Slap on a red border as a test and I bet it will be beneath your unwanted bit of blue. -- Richard Grevers, Ne

Re: [css-d] Font stack article

2009-01-12 Thread Richard Mason
ory address specified by &gm. One of the values returned in the structure is the top-left x,y co-ordinates of a box that completely encloses the glyph - so given that the box origin is 0,0 then gm.gmptGlyphOrigin.y (xHeight) is the height of the box. Now I'l

Re: [css-d] Font stack article

2009-01-11 Thread Richard Mason
writers put in a requirement that browser authors determine x-height and then, instead of leaving the programmers to implement the requirement, they tell them what the answers going to be - and get it wrong. -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com _

Re: [css-d] Font stack article

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Mason
.. Reference [1] says "The example given clearly shows that the browser "knows" the x-height of "Times New Roman" to do the calculation.". That's wrong. Browsers do not know the x-height of a font because the Operating System doesn't know. http://www.

Re: [css-d] Larger Chinese characters

2008-09-20 Thread Richard Grevers
tors don't work in IE 6/7 of course. -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http:

[css-d] help with float and menu

2008-09-18 Thread Richard (Show) Hall
e just wasn't room, with the size of the thumbnails in the post, but the menu refuses to float right. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks ... Richard -- Richard (Show) Hall http://richardshow.org __ css-discuss [EMAIL PR

[css-d] separating submenu width from parent width

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Johnson
to change the width of the main menu on the left though if poss. I think the main problem is I cant get the submenu to have its own defined column width and the fact the page has two css scripts! Css and html below Richard. Apologies if it’s a bit lengthy! /* CSS Popout menuv */ /* THIS

Re: [css-d] CSS IE6 help

2008-08-24 Thread Ceri Richard
Newbie coder here, feel free to ignore :-) The header image is 126px high but you don't seem to have any css for a header div - when I add: #header { height:126px; } to the css, the navigation sits directly below the header image with no gap (viewed in Firefox 3). ceri On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at

Re: [css-d] Rounded Corners -- Simplest Way

2008-07-09 Thread Richard Grevers
rounds module of css3, at which point rounded corners will become much easier, but I'm picking that everyone will support border-radius before that. -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz ___

Re: [css-d] Two background images on the {body}

2008-06-23 Thread Richard Brown
Hi Chris On 23 Jun 2008, at 18:16, Christopher wrote: > Here is a link for the Two background images on the {body} > http://www.walkfar.ca/main3.html > My rough take on it. I haven't done much to the images: <http://cregy.net/test/chris/index.html> -- Kind regards

Re: [css-d] Writing CSS articles in English: site structure issues

2008-06-04 Thread Richard Grevers
gives you the most flexiblity, especially if you have the same article in multiple languages. It is reasonable that the default language of the site doesn't have /it, and if you come up with a language-based navigation management as the site grows, you can always create a redirect from /it to /

Re: [css-d] How to align list numbers?

2008-05-25 Thread Richard Grevers
non-breaking space to force the browser to keep the item number outside the div. I only have Opera, firefox 2 and IE6 available to test with at present, but its orking fine on all of those -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zea

Re: [css-d] Nested div break in IE7

2008-05-20 Thread Richard Grevers
led image. With a vertical gradient in a .png or .gif image you will find that an image 20px or even 100px wide is not signifiantly larger. (If they are jpeg images they shouldn't be!) -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz __

[css-d] Last-minute question

2008-05-15 Thread Richard Grevers
haven't spotted) -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/

Re: [css-d] Full-height left column in fluid layout.

2008-04-15 Thread Richard Grevers
On 4/15/08, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Grevers wrote: > >> Having had problems with onetruelayout before, I tried Gunlaug's > >> companion column example. > > > FYI: "companion column" is not mine. It's Ingo Chao&#x

Re: [css-d] Full-height left column in fluid layout.

2008-04-14 Thread Richard Grevers
On 4/15/08, Richard Grevers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/10/08, David Laakso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Richard Grevers wrote: > > > > > http://www.vine.org.nz/index.php/services uses a > > And also: > > <http://www.satzansatz.de

Re: [css-d] Full-height left column in fluid layout.

2008-04-14 Thread Richard Grevers
On 4/10/08, David Laakso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Grevers wrote: > > > http://www.vine.org.nz/index.php/services uses a > negative-margin based > > How can I make the left-column > > (which is sized in ems) full height? > > > > http://w

[css-d] Full-height left column in fluid layout.

2008-04-08 Thread Richard Grevers
similar problem on three-column pages e.g. http://www.vine.org.nz/index.php - complicated by the presence of the two-column masthead, which may mess up 100% heights. (I still have to redo the footer there as I write) some days I hat implementing other people's designs :-) -- Richard Grevers

Re: [css-d] Broken negative-margin layout

2008-04-07 Thread Richard Grevers
On 4/8/08, Richard Grevers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure which of several changes did it, but the 2-column > negative margin layout at > > http://www.vine.org.nz/index.php/services > > suddenly has a disappeared left column (in IE, firefox, Opera)

[css-d] Broken negative-margin layout

2008-04-07 Thread Richard Grevers
I'm not sure which of several changes did it, but the 2-column negative margin layout at http://www.vine.org.nz/index.php/services suddenly has a disappeared left column (in IE, firefox, Opera) HTML and CSS both validate. -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic D

Re: [css-d] font vs. font-size in firefox

2008-04-03 Thread Richard Grevers
ww.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS21/fonts.html#propdef-font If the latter, the values have to be in a specific order: Value:[ [ <'font-style'> || <'font-variant'> || <'font-weight'> ]? <'font-size'> [ / <'line-height'> ]? <

Re: [css-d] Creating inner border on hover

2008-04-02 Thread Richard Grevers
the effect will work on IE6. On hover, the parent is resized (reduced by twice the border width, the border is added, and a negative margin applied to the image to prevent it moving. The original used multiple classes in order to control color, and of course you need a separate class for each size o

Re: [css-d] Prohibit Font resizing (cross browser)

2008-03-31 Thread Richard Grevers
e graphic idea > would work. > But page zoom (e.g. Opera - haven't tried IE's) just scales everything proportionately - it doesn't break layouts, only magnifies them. So the solution of using an image still works. -- Richard Gre

Re: [css-d] Oldest Browser Currently Testing for

2008-03-06 Thread Richard Grevers
abled (which has the effect of disabling stylesheets from the user end) -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.or

Re: [css-d] THis layout must exist somewhere...

2008-03-05 Thread Richard Grevers
). -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http

[css-d] THis layout must exist somewhere...

2008-03-05 Thread Richard Grevers
in source - fixed (or possibly em) sized. 6) full width footer. 7) any column longest. In other words, when the screen is narrow enought to trigger the min-width of the center column, there will be a horizontal scrollbar and the right column will start to vanish. -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, N

Re: [css-d] Textarea padding and scrolling

2008-03-03 Thread Richard Grevers
s in Opera, however. Valerie's version causes some display glitches in Opera. In version 9.26, scrolling the textarea causes white artefacts to partially obscure the text. These are gone in the latest 9.5 weekly, but the overlay

[css-d] Styling DL

2008-02-25 Thread Richard Brown
Hi All On this page: The county entry was riding up into the city field. I added clear:left into the dl class so that it didn't do it but I am a bit concerned that it might not be correct. Have I stored up problems for myself please? Is ther

Re: [css-d] Keeping table rows together when printing.

2008-02-23 Thread Richard Grevers
ds with no success. > > I have tried using a tgroup around each group and a tbody around each group, > again with page-break-inside set to "avoid" but nothing works. > > Any ideas? > What browser are you testing in? IE has no support for paged media. Opera supports it bu

Re: [css-d] Absolutely positioned div breaking out of parent in IE

2008-02-20 Thread Richard Grevers
padding-left:10px; > padding-right:29px; > background-color:#318b4d; > } > Is your doctype one that will trigger quirks mode rendering in IE? >From memory, getting the parent wrong for absolute positioned elements

Re: [css-d] wrap text around an absolute image

2008-02-20 Thread Richard Grevers
g #wrapper wider and putting faux columns inside it), a quick-and-very dirty fix would be to leave the image absolutely positioned and float a transparent image to push the text out of its way. -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz

Re: [css-d] setting background colour

2008-02-17 Thread Richard Grevers
vity of eyes) and suddenly have unreadable text or ugly white edge artefacts on images. To me its a sign that the designer doesn't have a sound understanding of CSS. -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz __

Re: [css-d] Suckerfish Dropdown Problem with IE6

2008-02-13 Thread Richard Grevers
> Form elements have infinite z-index in IE6. No way to correct it, so you will have to work around it in the design: Either 1) Move the form so that the menus won't intersect the form elements or 2) Hide the form elements when the menus extend. -- Richard Grevers, New Ply

Re: [css-d] Maximum value for em

2008-02-07 Thread Richard Mason
al to it. One em is the font size of a font. If font size is 12px then one em is 12px. http://www.emdpi.com/emsquare.html -- Richard Mason http://www.emdpi.com __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailm

Re: [css-d] printing online forms

2008-02-04 Thread Richard Grevers
ion level of asking people to print a form which includes half a dozen select fields (they have to remember to make all the selections prior to printing, especially as the "choose one" text gets in the way of them simply writing their response in the box.) -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth,

Re: [css-d] Where does the large gap come from please?

2008-02-03 Thread Richard Brown
Hi Matt On 03/02/2008, Matthew Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In both cases it appears that a is the problem. This is adding > more than one line of space because it is between two block-level elements > (a heading and a parragraph) that have vertical margins. The total space > created is

[css-d] Where does the large gap come from please?

2008-02-03 Thread Richard Brown
Hi I have puzzled over the css for days and tried experimenting with different layouts and still find a large gap appearing. See this site: CSS: The gap exists between th

[css-d] Can contained DIV's height be governed by external DIV (not its parent)?

2008-01-28 Thread Richard Querin
Hi, I'm working on a semi-liquid layout for my wordpress blog and I'm having a bit of a problem. It's essentially a three column layout: a left hand image of fixed width, a central post area of variable width and a right hand fixed width sidebar. I can get the behaviour ok as far as stretching an

Re: [css-d] February 12th, 2008 - a Glorious day for web designers / developers

2008-01-23 Thread Richard Grevers
-- > > Forgive my ignorance on server matters, but does this mean that all > machines running IE6 will be forced to upgrade to IE7? > No, because last time I heard they still aren't releasing IE7 for all those Win2000 systems (like the one I'm posting from - using Opera o

Re: [css-d] Three Column advice needed

2008-01-05 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks for that Holly. On 05/01/2008, Holly Bergevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Richard Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> > <http://dejavulostwithiel.co.uk/> > > >as I can tell it now works. Except for the header. Why do I have

Re: [css-d] Three Column advice needed

2008-01-05 Thread Richard Brown
Hi All On 05/01/2008, David Hucklesby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Getting ambitious and needing a little bit of advice. > > > [...] > > Could I set a min-width on the navigation columns, say 200px please? Do I > > need to add > > some sort of declaration t

[css-d] Three Column advice needed

2008-01-04 Thread Richard Brown
Hi All Getting ambitious and needing a little bit of advice. The above is a three column site that has two navigational columns floated left both with fixed width objects contained in. Navigation

Re: [css-d] White Block moving up

2007-12-22 Thread Richard Brown
Thanks Georg On 22/12/2007, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Brown wrote: > > > Could you take a quick gander at this site please and help me > > understand why the white block has moved up into the header div > > please. <http://www.trewithenre

[css-d] White Block moving up

2007-12-22 Thread Richard Brown
Hi All I hope all is well with everyone. Could you take a quick gander at this site please and help me understand why the white block has moved up into the header div please. Screen c

Re: [css-d] need help on nested list styling

2007-12-14 Thread Richard Brown
Hi Patrick On 14/12/2007, Patrick Aljord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fixed it myself :) It still doesn't work on XP in either Firefox or IE7. In Firefox we see the drop down but cannot actually get to any of them. As soon as you mouse down the hover disappears and in IE the hover sits to the righ

Re: [css-d] Selecting CSS file depending on Server using the HTML Page

2007-12-12 Thread Richard Grevers
RITE: Have the web pages call a constant path for the css file and modify it according to the domain. My Mod rewrite skills aren't up to actually giving an example. -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz

Re: [css-d] Ideal way to link-ify a div?

2007-12-05 Thread Richard Grevers
h a little bit of help for IE7) and use a javascript onclick handler to link the other elements. (I think you can get away with just the outer container, but I haven't tried it myself). -- Richard Grevers, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dramatic Design www.dramatic.co.nz

[css-d] sanity check

2007-11-14 Thread Richard Tolpin
Hi everyone - I'm an old software engineer trying to learn an entirely new trick. This CSS thing is challenging to say the least and though some of the concepts are sinking in, others still elude me. I'm hopeful a "sanity check" at this point in my studies will keep me from getting too far off tra

[css-d] float drop, horizontal scroll bar and font-scaling

2007-11-03 Thread Richard Brown
Hi All On this site: I am getting reports of problems. What I have seen is in screen resolutions of 800 x 600 in Explorer 6.0 I am getting float drop. In all browsers when viewed at screen resolution of 800 x 60

Re: [css-d] Fixed, fluid width and sidebars

2007-11-02 Thread Richard Brown
Hi On 01/11/2007, Richard Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Many thanks for the input and links. I decided on sticking with a pure > > > flexible width 3 column layout which you can see here: > > > <http://weada.cregy.net/> > > > <http:/

Re: [css-d] Fixed, fluid width and sidebars

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Brown
Hi David and All On 01/11/2007, David Laakso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Brown wrote: > > > > Many thanks for the input and links. I decided on sticking with a pure > > flexible width 3 column layout which you can see here: > > <http://weada.cregy.

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