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, if setting

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 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 html with

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. David:

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 beyond the desktop. Users

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... http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/bs/test_09_0101.html

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

2009-01-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: http://www.maireadnesbitt.com/CSSversion.html 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

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 gn...@hawaii.rr.com 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:

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

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 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 bruce . somers
david gn...@hawaii.rr.com 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 bruce . somers
Scott Demontluzin scottdemontlu...@gmail.com 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

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... http://www.gunlaug.no/tos/alien/bs/test_09_0101.html regards Georg --

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 and IE.

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

2009-01-01 Thread david
bruce.som...@web.de wrote: Scott Demontluzin scottdemontlu...@gmail.com 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

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 and other

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 accommodate them. Also, the web reaches

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

2008-12-26 Thread bruce . somers
Mustafa Quilon mustafavizcomr...@gmail.com 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 clear. It's

[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

[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

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, bruce.som...@web.de 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

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

2008-12-25 Thread Mustafa Quilon
#figure { text-align: center; /*This should do what you want*/ } - Mustafa __ 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

Re: [css-d] centering images

2007-07-05 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 11:19:37 -0700 (PDT), Robert Morgan wrote: First post!!! I'm wanting to center my images yet be able have the text set to the right OR left of the images. One look at the page and you'll see what I'm going for...

[css-d] centering images

2007-07-04 Thread Robert Morgan
First post!!! I'm wanting to center my images yet be able have the text set to the right OR left of the images. One look at the page and you'll see what I'm going for... http://www.9worldstudios.com/portfolio/galleryBlockPrints.htm I'm reasonably certain that this is the wrong approach, but it

Re: [css-d] centering images

2007-07-04 Thread Robert Morgan
And I see that it's jumbled in IE---Hopefully you can check it in Firefox to see what I'm going for...Thanks Robert - Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel.

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-13 Thread david
Mark Lundquist wrote: On Jan 12, 2007, at 3:12 PM, david wrote: Diane Ross wrote: I don't know what I'm doing wrong. When I want to center an image I can only get it to work if I select div align=center. If I use a class .txtcenter, .center { text-align: center; } Or #test img {

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-13 Thread Mark Lundquist
On Jan 13, 2007, at 12:50 PM, david wrote: My understanding is, no, text-align is only supposed to align text. That's incorrect; see http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#alignment-prop: This property describes how inline content of a block is aligned [etc...] All of this section is

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-13 Thread david
Mark Lundquist wrote: On Jan 13, 2007, at 12:50 PM, david wrote: My understanding is, no, text-align is only supposed to align text. That's incorrect; see http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#alignment-prop: This property describes how inline content of a block is aligned [etc...]

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-13 Thread Mark Lundquist
On Jan 13, 2007, at 1:17 PM, david wrote: Then the W3C's choice of TEXT-align is a bad choice. It specifies text when it's really talking about something broader than what people think of as text. I agree :-) —ml— __

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-13 Thread Diane Ross
On 1/13/07 1:19 PM, Mark Lundquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 13, 2007, at 1:17 PM, david wrote: Then the W3C's choice of TEXT-align is a bad choice. It specifies text when it's really talking about something broader than what people think of as text. I agree :-) ‹ml‹ From a

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-13 Thread Diane Ross
On 1/12/07 7:04 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should be... .img_center {display: block; margin: 0 auto;} It's working now. Thank YOU!! I didn't find a class .img_center in your on-line stylesheet, so I can't say why it didn't work. I added one with the styles from my

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-13 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Diane Ross wrote: #main {overflow: hidden; margin: 0; } * html #main {overflow: visible; height: 1%; } * html #sidebar {overflow-x: hidden;} I'm not quite sure if I should remove clear from the hr and add a clear class if needed or add the corrected css you suggested above. Or do I really

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-13 Thread Diane Ross
On 1/13/07 3:27 PM, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not quite sure if I should remove clear from the hr and add a clear class if needed or add the corrected css you suggested above. Or do I really need hr in my style sheet? I don't think you need HR in your HTML unless you want to have a

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-13 Thread Diane Ross
On 1/13/07 4:52 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since your page... http://www.test.entourage.mvps.org/atest/ ...is already broken in IE6, I suggest you add the extra css to the bottom of your stylesheet - and both the clearing hr problem and IE6' bugs will be gone. You can always

[css-d] Centering images

2007-01-12 Thread Diane Ross
I don't know what I'm doing wrong. When I want to center an image I can only get it to work if I select div align=center. If I use a class .txtcenter, .center { text-align: center; } Or #test img { text-align: center; } the image does not center. Here is my example:

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-12 Thread david
Diane Ross wrote: I don't know what I'm doing wrong. When I want to center an image I can only get it to work if I select div align=center. If I use a class .txtcenter, .center { text-align: center; } Or #test img { text-align: center; } the image does not center. Because an image is not

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Diane Ross wrote: When I want to center an image I can only get it to work if I select div align=center http://www.test.entourage.mvps.org/faq/center_images.html Note that text-align: center should not be targeting the image. Instead: target the container - the div, p or other block-element

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-12 Thread Diane Ross
On 1/12/07 3:23 PM, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that text-align: center should not be targeting the image. Instead: target the container - the div, p or other block-element - and text and images /inside/ the container will be centered. You can also center images directly

Re: [css-d] Centering images

2007-01-12 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Diane Ross wrote: OK, now I have another question... The majority of the images on the site will be centered while a few will be wrapped in a paragraph. I tried a class, but this did not work. http://www.test.entourage.mvps.org/atest/image_center.html .img_center {margin: 0 auto; }

[css-d] centering images

2006-10-19 Thread Linda Quinn
I must be missing something in centering images. The following CSS is set up to contain the contents of a page, and center the contents regardless of the size the browser window is set. #pagewrapper { min-width:780px; max-width:950px; margin-left:auto;

Re: [css-d] centering images

2006-10-19 Thread david
Linda Quinn wrote: I must be missing something in centering images. The following CSS is set up to contain the contents of a page, and center the contents regardless of the size the browser window is set. #pagewrapper { min-width:780px; max-width:950px;

Re: [css-d] centering images

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel
No it doesn't. david wrote: Does IE7 understand max- or min-width? __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List

Re: [css-d] centering images

2006-10-19 Thread david
Daniel wrote: No it doesn't. david wrote: Does IE7 understand max- or min-width? Then for IE7, it would think the original poster's container (with only max-width and min-width specified) has no width specified and default to auto, yes? -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty,

Re: [css-d] centering images

2006-10-19 Thread Daniel
without a specific width it'll default to 100% or whatever the windows width is (someone could correct me if I'm wrong) so something like #pagewrapper { width:780px; min-width:780px; max-width:950px; margin: 0 auto inherent; /*not sure about the inherent*/ padding: 5px 0 0

Re: [css-d] centering images

2006-10-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Daniel wrote: without a specific width it'll default to 100% or whatever the windows width is (someone could correct me if I'm wrong) so something like #pagewrapper { width:780px; min-width:780px; max-width:950px; margin: 0 auto inherent; /*not sure about the inherent*/

Re: [css-d] centering images

2006-10-19 Thread Linda Quinn
Thanks for the followup discussion on min/max width in IE. Daniel's suggestion of adding a width declaration above the min/max width declarations does make the page look better in IE. Thanks! __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]