[WSG] Styling forms inside a horizontal navigation bar

2005-06-20 Thread Anura Samara
t. Thanks for any help, Anura ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

[WSG] Feedback on a new website developed very quickly

2004-12-31 Thread Anura Samara
m taking some time to look away from a screen for a while. Anura ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

Re: [WSG] Length of ALT attribute

2004-12-15 Thread Anura Samara
"user"? I think the ALT text is as short as possible, to convey the meaning of the image. But, of course, I would, wouldn't I? Anura >> According to WCAG20, the ALT text for English should be less than 100 characters. >> Here is the link: >> http:

Re: [WSG] Length of ALT attribute

2004-12-14 Thread Anura Samara
ptions for the images already. As I said at the start, the longest is 280 characters so I'll assume that is safe. Now, what is that old saying about "assume"... Anura ** The discussion list for http://webstand

[WSG] Length of ALT attribute

2004-12-14 Thread Anura Samara
pointers, Anura ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

Re: [WSG] IE misbehaving with a list

2004-10-27 Thread Anura Samara
Next time I should hit Google a lot harder, and also remember who my CSS friends are! I have just found this handy tip on Andy Budd's site >== http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2003/12/css_crib_sheet_1_gaps_between_vertical_nav_elements_in_ie5/ Setting the containing LI to "display: inline" has f

Re: [WSG] IE misbehaving with a list

2004-10-27 Thread Anura Samara
o hit this problem ... AS On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:52:55 +0800, Kay Smoljak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:43:35 +1000, Anura Samara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, just using the basic version of the CSS rollover lists, I'm > > finding

[WSG] IE misbehaving with a list

2004-10-27 Thread Anura Samara
htm Thanks everyone, Anura ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help **

[WSG] Tables inside DIVs are misbehavin'

2004-10-18 Thread Anura
width of the page way out. What exactly is the right way to get this work. I figured it out once before but have absolutely no idea what I did; after struggling to get everything else right it seems to basic! Thanks for any suggestions. The relevant snippets of CSS are below. Anura CSS snippets

Re: [WSG] Strange style behaviour in IE

2004-09-15 Thread Anura
ths for columns, floats for columns) the problem has gone away. I would give myself a pat on the back except for the fact I have no idea what went wrong in the first place or what I did to fix it! Anura On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:09:53 +1000, Lachlan Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anura

[WSG] Strange style behaviour in IE

2004-09-15 Thread Anura
I had finished all this. Thanks. The advice from many in this forum to code for standards-based browsers like Mozilla and then fix up for IE is good advice... Anura ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of W

[WSG] Print style sheets - different between IE and others?

2004-08-31 Thread Anura . Samara
Am I right in thinking that there is a difference in the way IE5.5 and other browsers use style sheets for printing? Here is what is happening to me... If I set the main style sheet (ie. for display in the browser) to media = "screen", IE still uses it for printing purposes. In other words, it doe

RE: [WSG] Absolute positioning vs floats

2004-08-26 Thread Anura . Samara
Thanks everyone for your thoughts on positioning vs float... except of course that opinion is divided! As usual, its a matter of finding the best fit for what I want to achieve. I think I might do a new version of the site using floats over the weekend, just to see if it makes a difference. My re

Re: [WSG] Restricted HTML Editor?

2004-08-26 Thread Anura . Samara
Well, something like HTMLArea allows you to customise the toolbar, so that you can remove functionality that you don't want the unwashed to have. The problem is that I recall it doesn't produce 100% standards-compliant code AS ** The dis

[WSG] Absolute positioning vs floats

2004-08-24 Thread Anura . Samara
I noticed someone made the comment that the preferred floats to absolute positioning. I have just created a new design using absolute positioning. It 'seems' to work across IE, Mozilla, Opera and latest Netscape (I'm trying to forget about NS4.7). But what is the consensus amongst my esteemed col

[WSG] Designing for Opera's zoom functionality

2004-08-23 Thread Anura . Samara
I am well on the way to developing new designs for our site. However, in having the design tested for accessibility, I have run into some problems with the way Opera handles zooming. My design has three columns: from left-to-right there are (1) a fixed width column with a bit of contextual info ab

RE: [WSG] Aligning the text in list items

2004-08-17 Thread Anura . Samara
Thanks for the tip. I applied the "line-height" property to both the list item and the link and it seems to work across IE, Mozilla and Opera. AS Anura asked: > My question is: how do I get the text in each list item to appear > vertically in the middle of item? In other w

[WSG] Aligning the text in list items

2004-08-17 Thread Anura . Samara
I am attempting to replace an image based navigation set in a top banner with a styled list of links. If you have a look at this sample (http://www.thesamaras.com/_newsite2/home1.htm), you can see how I have set a specific height for each of the three list items; this is because the banner will co