Re: [css-d] image background question

2008-07-10 Thread Matijs
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Kelly Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > trying to figure out how to use a small image (such as a fat arrow) as > a background. want to be able to re use the arrow and place different > numbers over it. I've tried the following, but the arrow does not > display: >

Re: [css-d] image background question

2008-07-09 Thread David Jones
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Moore > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:48 AM > To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org > Subject: [css-d] image background question > > trying to figure out how to use a sm

Re: [css-d] image background question

2008-07-09 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: "Kelly Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >tried, but without much luck. >http://yakmaster.net/test/arrowtest.html Please bottom post and leave/include the links so people responding later don't have to go hunt them down. Here's my example - http://members.dslextreme.com/users/cssjedi/css-d/a

Re: [css-d] image background question

2008-07-09 Thread Holly Bergevin
>>http://yakmaster.net/test/arrowtest.html > >Kelly, > >Have you tried setting the arrow image as a background image on the h3 instead >of that span and tried to work things out that way? Delete the non-breaking spaces from your HTML and change your CSS to the following - h3 { color:#2

Re: [css-d] image background question

2008-07-09 Thread Bill Brown
Kelly Moore wrote: > hmm, well here is my test page. it seems to work, but this is > stand-alone. i had to add a bunch of   's for the full arrow to > work. is there a better way to do this? > > http://yakmaster.net/test/arrowtest.html Hi Kelly, On your test page, one of the problems I encoun

Re: [css-d] image background question

2008-07-09 Thread Kelly Moore
tried, but without much luck. > Kelly, > > Have you tried setting the arrow image as a background image on the h3 > instead of that span and tried to work things out that way? > > ~holly > > > __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

Re: [css-d] image background question

2008-07-09 Thread Holly Bergevin
From: "Kelly Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >hmm, well here is my test page. it seems to work, but this is >stand-alone. i had to add a bunch of 's for the full arrow to >work. is there a better way to do this? > >http://yakmaster.net/test/arrowtest.html Kelly, Have you tried setting the arrow

Re: [css-d] image background question

2008-07-09 Thread Kelly Moore
hmm, well here is my test page. it seems to work, but this is stand-alone. i had to add a bunch of   's for the full arrow to work. is there a better way to do this? http://yakmaster.net/test/arrowtest.html On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Chris Akins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Two ideas: > >

Re: [css-d] image background question

2008-07-09 Thread Chris Akins
Two ideas: 1) a link please so we can see your page, check to see if there are other issues not apparent in the snippet you provided, etc. Possibly a path problem to the image? Any number of things could be the case when we essentially can't see what you see. 2) tags are inline elements. You m

[css-d] image background question

2008-07-09 Thread Kelly Moore
trying to figure out how to use a small image (such as a fat arrow) as a background. want to be able to re use the arrow and place different numbers over it. I've tried the following, but the arrow does not display: h3 span.arrow{ height: 5px; width: 24px; margin: 10px; background