[css-d] background color with div

2006-01-16 Thread Marty Martin
Hi all, It has been a while since I've designed much and am having a brain fart at the moment. I have a graphic (inside a div) that is 100px high and is positioned absolute at left:0; top:0;. I am wanting to put a div beside the div with graphic with a background color to stretch to the far

[css-d] Background color with image?

2006-01-02 Thread Iorhael
Is there any way to add a background color to a page that already has a background image? I want to put the background color around the container: www.drk-writing.com/northwesternesse/ Debbie __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [css-d] Background color with image?

2006-01-02 Thread Mike Soultanian
Yeah.. just set a background color on your body (an outer container div). Now, if you want the background color to show through your little diamond things, you'll need to make a transparency, making sure to use the background color as the color you select for the transparency so it aliases

Re: [css-d] Background color with image?

2006-01-02 Thread francky
Iorhael wrote: Is there any way to add a background color to a page that already has a background image? I want to put the background color around the container: www.drk-writing.com/northwesternesse/ Debbie I understand you want the outside of the centered content-column colored, and the

Re: [css-d] Background color with image?

2006-01-02 Thread Iorhael
Soultanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Iorhael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 2:25 PM Subject: Re: [css-d] Background color with image? Yeah.. just set a background color on your body (an outer container div). Now, if you want the background color

Re: [css-d] Background color with image?

2006-01-02 Thread Mike Soultanian
In the case of the site you referred to, that's just a tiled image applied to the body tag: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/process/img_39.gif is that what you're trying to do? If you don't already have it, I'd get FF and the developer toolbar and then click edit CSS and play with

Re: [css-d] background color warnings

2005-10-30 Thread Michael Nixon
within anything with an id of summary. The last is any p with an id of summary. Since both p and div are block level, I leave it up to you to think about why Eric Meyer wouldn't bother with an extraneous div tag. -Michael From: Trish Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [css-d] background color

Re: [css-d] background color warnings

2005-10-30 Thread Richard Grevers
On 10/30/05, Trish Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, is there any difference between div#summary p #summary p p#summary They select different things: The first selects any P element which is a descendant of a div with an id of 'summary' The second removes the

Re: [css-d] background color warnings

2005-10-29 Thread Vicki Stebbins
Hi Trish, I posted the same last week, it seems to have recently started doing this. Here's the replies I got: http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/?search=CSS+Validation subject CSS Validation. I took the advice that it was only a 'hint' to check your code and if it's okay then

Re: [css-d] background color/color declarations - why?

2005-10-26 Thread Zoe M. Gillenwater
Hi Ron, Pringle, Ron wrote: snip Again, no color or background-color is applied to this since all paragraph text is colored on the p tag and I obviously want the background image in the secondaryBottom div to show through. And yet the validator throws specific errors indicating that I haven't

Re: [css-d] background color/color declarations - why?

2005-10-26 Thread Adam Kuehn
Pringle, Ron wrote: I'm trying to understand exactly why the W3C CSS validator now spits out errors for instances where you do not declare a color on a property with a background-color declaration, or vice versa. It doesn't. The validator spits out WARNINGS for that situation, not ERRORS.

Re: [css-d] background color/color declarations - why?

2005-10-26 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
I originally replied to this off-list, but as the link looks like being useful to more people than Ron, I'll send it here too: Hi all- I'm trying to understand exactly why the W3C CSS validator now spits out errors for instances where you do not declare a color on a property with a

RE: [css-d] background color/color declarations - why?

2005-10-26 Thread Pringle, Ron
Yes. The possibility that someone may have a user style sheet set up with his or her own colors, which may end up contrasting with your colors. So the idea is that if you're going to reset one of the user's preferences (color or background color), make sure you reset both of them so

RE: [css-d] background color/color declarations - why?

2005-10-26 Thread Peter Williams
From: Pringle, Ron I'm trying to understand exactly why the W3C CSS validator now spits out errors for instances where you do not declare a color on a property with a background-color declaration, or vice versa. It's just a sanity check sort of a tip. Just intended to alert you to the

[css-d] background-color will not set transperant in Mozilla browsers

2005-06-10 Thread Matthew LaVelle
The URL is http://www.parenteducation.org/ On the front page there is a photo of a little girl. Her hair is getting cut off for some reason in Moz browsers. The photo is a background-image set on the content-wrap div. The other div in question is the content-rc div. I've tried setting:

Re: [css-d] background-color will not set transperant in Mozilla browsers

2005-06-10 Thread David Dorward
On 6/10/05, Matthew LaVelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The URL is http://www.parenteducation.org/ Your HTML has syntax errors detectable by the Markup Validator. Your CSS has syntax errors detectable by the CSS validator. http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/05/05/why_we_wont_help_you On the

[css-d] background color of form field

2005-05-04 Thread Jack Albright
On IE 6/Win the background color of some of my form fields are an ugly yellow. When viewed with Win / Firefox or Safari, the text input areas have a plain white background. Since this seems to be specific to IE, is there a CSS solution to this ugliness? Can I apply css properties to form

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