Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-25 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Jukka K. Korpela wrote: vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; bottom: ex; That looks really cool and simple and seems to fix things nicely. How come I never thought of that? Don't know. What I /do/ know is that the problem drove me crazy until I hit on that idea. Are there any h

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-26 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I am basically using EMW8 as the company name. I'd rather do away with the 8, but some sod is just sitting on the domain. to make it be less important I want to make it superscript throughout the website whenever name dropping. So in this instance should I make a span, setting lower t

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-26 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Chris, I have to be honest, I do not know what question(s) you are asking, IF you are asking "how should I enter EMW8 throughout my site so that it comes out consistently and with the 8 raised (and perhaps grey) without affecting anything else ?", I would propose something along the lines of the

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-26 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Sep 26, 2010, at 7:13 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: >>> vertical-align: baseline; >>> position: relative; >>> bottom: ex; I've used that for quite a while and it works fine across the board. At least it never blew up in my face :-) One nitpick: I'd use 'em' instead of 'ex'. S

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-26 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: One nitpick: I'd use 'em' instead of 'ex'. Some browsers have poor support for 'ex' (treating 1ex= 0.5em, whatever the font in use, no questions asked) - IE running on XP, Opera. Some browsers have half broken support - with very different computation of what it

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-26 Thread tedd
At 1:08 AM +0300 9/26/10, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: and the phase of the moon, Ah-ha, that's what I was missing. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com/ __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discus

Re: [css-d] Subscripts and superscripts

2010-09-26 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Sep 26, 2010, at 7:13 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; bottom: ex; I've used that for quite a while and it works fine across the board. It seems that it wasn't completely new to me either... I had even