Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-04 Thread David Laakso
tedd wrote: > At 4:21 AM -0500 1/4/09, David Laakso wrote: > >> The lower IEs often need both height and width of an image. Easier to >> include physical dimension in the html than not. Sometimes the >> dimensions need to be set in both the html and the css to avoid image >> distortion. >>

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-04 Thread Del Wegener
>>The lower IEs often need both height and width of an image. > David: > > Ah, the reason is to keep image distortion from happening for IE6 and > under. > > Interesting, I've never seen that happen with IE6 and considering > that IE5 fell below 1% this year, I don't think I'll clutter up my > ht

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-04 Thread tedd
At 4:21 AM -0500 1/4/09, David Laakso wrote: >The lower IEs often need both height and width of an image. Easier to >include physical dimension in the html than not. Sometimes the >dimensions need to be set in both the html and the css to avoid image >distortion. David: Ah, the reason is to keep

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-04 Thread David Laakso
tedd wrote: > >> http://www.clanjones.org/stnicks/20081214.php >> >> > > http://www.webbytedd.com/b4/css-centers/ > > see: http://www.webbytedd.com/b4/css-centers/a.css > setting the width and height of the > images is not really needed either and can be done (if needed) in css. > > However,

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-03 Thread tedd
At 11:32 PM +0100 1/1/09, bruce.som...@web.de wrote: >david wrote > >Hmmm, something like this? > >http://www.clanjones.org/stnicks/20081214.php >-- >David A few minor comments for the author of the above page to consider: First, the css can be simplified, like so: http://www.webbytedd.com/b4/

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: > Your understanding of proportional image-scaling is correct, and that part of your final looks ok in all good browsers. Note that I declared the 'max-width:' quite small (80%) because you have margins, paddings and bord

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-03 Thread bruce . somers
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote > > I don't understand what you want, which makes it a bit difficult to even > suggest solutions. So, before going into practical matters, have a look > at this on varying window-sizes in a reasonably CSS-aware browser... > >

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-03 Thread david
Bob Rosenberg wrote: > At 15:09 -1000 on 01/01/2009, david wrote about Re: [css-d] Centering > images with caption in a column: > >> As long as visitors (like me) can use their browsers at widths narrower >> than 1024, we should accommodate them. Also, the web reaches

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-01 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jan 2, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Bob Rosenberg wrote: > At 15:09 -1000 on 01/01/2009, david wrote about Re: [css-d] Centering > images with caption in a column: > >> As long as visitors (like me) can use their browsers at widths >> narrower >> than 1024, we should acco

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-01 Thread Bob Rosenberg
At 15:09 -1000 on 01/01/2009, david wrote about Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column: >As long as visitors (like me) can use their browsers at widths narrower >than 1024, we should accommodate them. Also, the web reaches beyond the >desktop. Users of iPhones/iTouches

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-01 Thread david
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: > Scott Demontluzin" wrote > > change > #wrapper { width: 55%; } to > #wrapper { width: 520px;} > > Scott > > Thank you Scott. That takes me down to a width of 1024px at any rate. I don't > yet understand why it works, but I hope to. > I wonder how much longer we w

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-01 Thread david
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: > david wrote > > Hmmm, something like this? > > http://www.clanjones.org/stnicks/20081214.php > > Thanks David. Looks very promising, of course. It will require some study on > my part. I feel that I'm about to learn something -- that's always good. It works in FF a

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-01 Thread bruce . somers
Georg wrote I don't understand what you want, which makes it a bit difficult to even suggest solutions. So, before going into practical matters, have a look at this on varying window-sizes in a reasonably CSS-aware browser... regards Georg -

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-01 Thread bruce . somers
Scott Demontluzin" wrote change #wrapper { width: 55%; } to #wrapper { width: 520px;} Scott Thank you Scott. That takes me down to a width of 1024px at any rate. I don't yet understand why it works, but I hope to. I wonder how much longer we will have to worry about widths less than 1024.

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-01 Thread bruce . somers
david wrote Hmmm, something like this? http://www.clanjones.org/stnicks/20081214.php -- David Thanks David. Looks very promising, of course. It will require some study on my part. I feel that I'm about to learn something -- that's always good. Bruce. __

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-01 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: > I don't yet see a solution. I don't understand what you want, which makes it a bit difficult to even suggest solutions. So, before going into practical matters, have a look at this on varying window-sizes in a reasonably CSS-aware browser...

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-01 Thread david
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: > Scott Demontluzin wrote > >> Hi Bruce, I did a test page that I think will work for you >> http://scottdemontluzin.com/test/centered_images.html I placed the >> images in an unordered list and floated the list to the left. Best, >> Scott >> __

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2009-01-01 Thread bruce . somers
Scott Demontluzin wrote > Hi Bruce, I did a test page that I think will work for you > http://scottdemontluzin.com/test/centered_images.html > I placed the images in an unordered list and floated the list to the left. > Best, Scott >

[css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2008-12-26 Thread Scott Demontluzin
>The page at http://www.maireadnesbitt.com/CSSexp.html has fixed-width columns at the left and right (not of >the same width) and a column of variable width, depending on the screen size, in the middle - shown temporarily >with a blue border. In that middle column, I have a pair of images with cap

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2008-12-26 Thread bruce . somers
Mustafa Quilon" Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column > #figure { > text-align: center; /*This should do what you want*/ > } > > - Mustafa > __ Thank you, but I hadn't made it cl

Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2008-12-25 Thread Mustafa Quilon
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Re: [css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2008-12-25 Thread JR Heard
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 4:20 PM, wrote: > > The page at http://www.maireadnesbitt.com/CSSexp.html has fixed-width columns > at the left and right (not of the same width) and a column of variable width, > depending on the screen size, in the middle - shown temporarily with a blue > border. In th

[css-d] Centering images with caption in a column

2008-12-25 Thread bruce . somers
The page at http://www.maireadnesbitt.com/CSSexp.html has fixed-width columns at the left and right (not of the same width) and a column of variable width, depending on the screen size, in the middle - shown temporarily with a blue border. In that middle column, I have a pair of images with capt