Re: [css-d] Ahhh! Why can't I find you? Degrading Popup (CSS only?)

2007-01-26 Thread Chris Ovenden
IE doesn't get thrown into quirks mode just becuase it finds some tag soup in the body. The switch is in the !DOCTYPE (or lack of it) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode#Triggering_different_rendering_modes Chris On 1/26/07, james shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd imagine Andy meant

Re: [css-d] Ahhh! Why can't I find you? Degrading Popup (CSS only?)

2007-01-26 Thread Andy Harrison
I stand corrected; thanks for the reference. :-) Andy On 1/26/07, Chris Ovenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IE doesn't get thrown into quirks mode just becuase it finds some tag soup in the body. The switch is in the !DOCTYPE (or lack of it)

Re: [css-d] Ahhh! Why can't I find you? Degrading Popup (CSS only?)

2007-01-25 Thread Andy Harrison
On 1/25/07, muskokee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at this page. http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/balloons.html This is an excellent css pop-up. This is a surprising solution! I personally wouldn't use it since the conditional comments make the HTML invalid when using IE -- there's

Re: [css-d] Ahhh! Why can't I find you? Degrading Popup (CSS only?)

2007-01-25 Thread muskokee
Hmm. When I use the validation tools, the xhtml (strict) validates and the css would validate (except for the hand cursor property which doesn't exist) in firefox 2.0, 1e6 and ie7. On 1/25/07, Andy Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/25/07, muskokee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look

Re: [css-d] Ahhh! Why can't I find you? Degrading Popup (CSS only?)

2007-01-25 Thread james shannon
I'd imagine Andy meant that IE won't internally be able validate it (because it sees through the comments to something that's invalid) -- thus IE will degrade to quirks mode and a lot of other things you had designed under the assumption that IE would be in standards mode will be off.

Re: [css-d] Ahhh! Why can't I find you? Degrading Popup (CSS only?)

2007-01-25 Thread Andy Harrison
Yes, nicely put. ;-) On 1/25/07, james shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd imagine Andy meant that IE won't internally be able validate it (because it sees through the comments to something that's invalid) -- thus IE will degrade to quirks mode and a lot of other things you had designed

Re: [css-d] Ahhh! Why can't I find you? Degrading Popup (CSS only?)

2007-01-24 Thread Matt Fielding
On 1/23/07, Andy Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is another way to do it, but IE doesn't support the popup (since IE only works with :hover on anchors/hyperlinks - maybe IE 7 works; I don't know), so only the hyperlink would work. It would be something like this: div class=popdiv

Re: [css-d] Ahhh! Why can't I find you? Degrading Popup (CSS only?)

2007-01-23 Thread Andy Harrison
There is another way to do it, but IE doesn't support the popup (since IE only works with :hover on anchors/hyperlinks - maybe IE 7 works; I don't know), so only the hyperlink would work. It would be something like this: div class=popdiv class=popuppopup content/diva href=...?/a/div .pop {

[css-d] Ahhh! Why can't I find you? Degrading Popup (CSS only?)

2007-01-22 Thread Jon Hughes
I would prefer to keep this CSS only, but I'm not sure I can. Basically, I have this page: http://goonsquad.org/hosting The little help buttons bring you to a new page (in a new window/tab) with that question focused (via an anchor) ... I don't like that. I personally hate when sites open new

Re: [css-d] Ahhh! Why can't I find you? Degrading Popup (CSS only?)

2007-01-22 Thread Andy Harrison
On 1/22/07, Jon Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I need, is an floating popup on hover, basically, but every time I try to do it in just CSS, it activates when I go near it Could you give a bit more detail? What activates? Andy

Re: [css-d] Ahhh! Why can't I find you? Degrading Popup (CSS only?)

2007-01-22 Thread KJ'[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This works very well http://tjkdesign.com/articles/popup_window_with_no_extra_markup.asp Jon Hughes skrev: I would prefer to keep this CSS only, but I'm not sure I can. Basically, I have this page: http://goonsquad.org/hosting The little help buttons bring you to a new page (in a new

Re: [css-d] Ahhh! Why can't I find you? Degrading Popup (CSS only?)

2007-01-22 Thread Jon Hughes
Could you give a bit more detail? What activates? Andy Well, I can give you an example. If you have any experience with flash buttons, it's like the hit frame on the button. When I set a width and height for the popup it uses that as the area of affect when I mouse-over it, or it

Re: [css-d] Ahhh! Why can't I find you? Degrading Popup (CSS only?)

2007-01-22 Thread Andy Harrison
Okay, well here's an option using only CSS; the popup should only show when the mouse is over the link/image (or over the popup itself when it's displayed), but you can still click the link like normal without CSS: a href=/faqs#target class=popimg src=q.gif /span class=popuppopup content/span/a