[css-d] box-shadow on circle causes glitch in Firefox and Opera

2012-10-21 Thread sweepslate
I'm trying to create a, somewhat, blurred out circle but I get a strange glitch. I'm adding box-shadow in the same color as the circle itself but there appears to be a void between the circle and shadow, so the background leaks in, and becomes visible as a kind of... pixelated border. This on

Re: [css-d] Is it bad practice to float the child but not the parent?

2012-08-08 Thread sweepslate
I just wanted some comments on my approach on the issue. Which I did. Thanks :D Seems okay to me. I guess I don't understand your objection to the way you have it now. ? __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.

Re: [css-d] Is it bad practice to float the child but not the parent?

2012-08-08 Thread sweepslate
Ow... well, that's another approach. Thanks :) On 8/6/2012 2:25 AM, Jay Tanna wrote: P.S.: For anyone wondering there is a reason why I'm not doing just one list. This is a thumbnail gallery and each list is precedded by an . I will position:absolute the at the side. Well in that why not

Re: [css-d] Is it bad practice to float the child but not the parent?

2012-08-04 Thread sweepslate
No, no! I want UL to collapse because I want to make all these lists seem as one. I'm just wondering if there is a better way to do it :) Well, if you are simply trying to prevent the UL from collapsing, you need to give the UL a "new block-formatting context." Floating the UL does that. If you

[css-d] Is it bad practice to float the child but not the parent?

2012-08-04 Thread sweepslate
I have a series of unordered lists with thumbnail items that want to present as one, big list of thumbnails. In order to do that, I floated the items but not the ones, so the area of kind of 'collapsed' and the different lists 'merged': http://geocities.ws/sweepslate/

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-27 Thread sweepslate
Yes. Thank you, Philippe, Robert, and Philip :) __ 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.o

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-23 Thread sweepslate
> How many blocks of Greek text is this needed for? Are the accented letters a different Unicode codepoint from the same letter unaccented or is it unaccented letter followed by the accent? If so, you can just use find/replace to do the conversion of the text in the HTML. I'm not sure I unders

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-23 Thread sweepslate
> Hmm. > It works for me. > Oh, but I have a nightly Firefox build, not the release build (which > version is the latest ?). After a quick look though the MDC docs, it appears > you'll have to wait for Firefox 15 to have it work correctly. Yes, it works with on the latest Firefox Nightly. Is t

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-22 Thread sweepslate
I tried your example, and the upper case letters still have accents. I tried adding lang="el" myself, on and on , but the accents are still there: http://geocities.ws/sweepslate/greek-accenting/lang_el1.html http://geocities.ws/sweepslate/greek-accenting/lan

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-22 Thread sweepslate
Beeing able to have the user agent figure that out would be a great solution. I checked on Firefox 14, and it didn't work. Check yourself if you'd like: http://geocities.ws/sweepslate/greek-accenting/greek-acce

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-22 Thread sweepslate
Off-hand, no, but could you clarify : are you speaking of polytonic ("classical") Greek or modern (monotonic) Greek ? Modern, monotonic Greek. Beeing able to do this in classical, polytonic Greek would be a great bonus though! __

[css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-22 Thread sweepslate
I want to text-transform:uppercase a piece of text writen in Greek. The Greek language requires that: a. in lower case text, some letters need to have accents --and b. in full upper case text, LIKE THIS, have no accents at all My problem is: if I use the uppercase property I will end up wit

Re: [css-d] can an absolute box inside a relative one expand it?

2011-05-23 Thread sweepslate
On 5/18/2011 2:07 AM, Alan Gresley wrote: A pointer about absolute and fixed positioning. The only way to counter elements removed from the normal flow is to add padding to something that equal the heights and widths of positioned elements. In you case, this would be the content div. I managed

Re: [css-d] can an absolute box inside a relative one expand it?

2011-05-23 Thread sweepslate
I realised that #items doesn't have to be absolute-positioned. A relatively-positioned box can expand its container. So it all works nicely :) http://sweepslate.vacau.com/absolute-in-relative/expand-success.html This is, assuming, that #filters is shorter than #items. Thanks guys! _

Re: [css-d] can an absolute box inside a relative one expand it?

2011-05-18 Thread sweepslate
> My security software forbids any page located at > http://www.geocities.ws/ to load. May I suggest a new hosting provider > if you want people to look at the code. Strange. Is geocities.ws a host for malware? In any case, John D tipped me on another service. Here is what I'm trying to achieve:

Re: [css-d] can an absolute box inside a relative one expand it?

2011-05-17 Thread sweepslate
Thanks for the links. All these examples use float, and I can't manage to have neither, negetive margin, nor z-index, with float: http://www.geocities.ws/sweepslate/absolute-in-relative/float-test.html On 5/14/2011 6:58 AM, John D wrote: > > > Have you looked at these links:

[css-d] can an absolute box inside a relative one expand it?

2011-05-13 Thread sweepslate
ith the longest height to expand the relative box, and I have failed so far: http://geocities.ws/sweepslate/absolute-in-relative/index.html I resorted to absolute boxes because I want the sidebar to overlap the content area by some pixels. Here is an example of the result I'm trying to a

Re: [css-d] the box that clears float can't have margin?

2010-12-17 Thread sweepslate
On 12/17/2010 5:34 PM, Eric A. Meyer wrote: To clarify, the cleared element does have a top margin. It's just that the top margin is set by the browser to be wide (tall?) enough to push the element's top outer border edge past the float's bottom outer margin edge. In other words, the '10px' value

[css-d] the box that clears float can't have margin?

2010-12-17 Thread sweepslate
I have to add a, semantically meaningless, class to "clear" the float before the footer. I'd like to avoid this. Here is an example without the cleaner: http://geocities.ws/sweepslate/float-without-cleaner.html And with the cleaner: http://geocities.ws/sweepslate/float-with