RE: [WSG] Not and IE bug?...follow up difference why a difference between IDs and classes?

The main advantage of using an ID is simply that it uniquely identifies the element. So your CSS or DOM scripting can target it alone. -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [WSG] List Indenting

Have you tried text-indent: 0? -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pringle, Ron Sent: 04 February 2005 17:42 To: 'wsg@webstandardsgroup.org' Subject: RE: [WSG] List Indenting

RE: [WSG] Default state of radio buttons. (Maybe OT?)

I think it's the good old checked=checked attribute that you add in your default radio button's code. HTH Iain -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris W. Parker Sent: 01

RE: [WSG] Default state of radio buttons. (Maybe OT?)

Oops, sorry I didn't really read your question thoroughly. Surely an e-mail address will be either a personal or a business address. Personally I'd set the default to personal as this seems to me the most likely option. Iain -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com

RE: [WSG] moving elements

this? Iain -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Sent: 26 January 2005 20:47 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] moving elements Paul wrote: If a user increases

RE: [WSG] double space after period

It certainly has nothing to do with grammar, it's more a presentation convention that has evolved with type. As for a solution, maybe the CSS property 'white-space: pre' would work? Iain -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: Are forms tabular data? (was Re: [WSG] Can I use a table in a form?)

. Iain -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David R Sent: 12 January 2005 22:39 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: Are forms tabular data? (was Re: [WSG] Can I use a table

RE: Are forms tabular data? (was Re: [WSG] Can I use a table in a form?)

. -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David R Sent: 12 January 2005 21:28 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: Are forms tabular data? (was Re: [WSG] Can I use a table

RE: [WSG] Shedding Holiday Pounds

I was puzzled by the different link styling. I use FF 1, and when I hover over the ALA link, the underline that appears causes some odd shifting in the following links. -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: [WSG] CSS alignment issues

have the freedom of choice too. If you design to Firefox to the point of having a layout totally broken in anything else, I say let people see it broken and draw their own conclusions about whether they should upgrade or not. Just my two penn'orth. :) Iain -- Iain Gardiner http

RE: [WSG] alt or title...

to and amending it. Iain -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett WalshSent: 08 December 2004 12:07To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [WSG] alt or title

RE: [WSG] funky padding

Hi, Well at first glance I'd say the division itself has 5 px applied on all sides as per the #qotd rules. The extra white space is most probably a mix of margin and line-heights on the paragraphs you use within the div. Iain -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com

RE: [WSG] funky padding

a difference. Iain -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john Sent: 19 November 2004 22:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] funky padding Thanks for the response

RE: [WSG] funky padding

In addition to my previous e-mail, I also spotted this rule: html p { text-align: left; line-height: 1.5; -- This is applied to all paragraphs in your document } -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com

RE: [WSG] funky padding

his books read to me by my mum as a child. :) Iain -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

RE: [WSG] anchor, classes and IDs

-- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of helmut Sent: 19 November 2004 23:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] anchor, classes and IDs Hello All, This might be a dumb question but I don't

RE: [WSG] Might be off-topic

Black underpants left in wash chewing-gum grey. -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Laakso Sent: 14 November 2004 00:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Might be off

RE: [WSG] CSS float/clear rendering in Firefox 1.0

it on a div which is not technically good practice. Hope this helps. :) Iain -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kim Nylander Sent: 11 November 2004 20:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [WSG] CSS float/clear rendering in Firefox 1.0

that a CSS-defined class should tie-in to its subsequent use in the markup. :) Iain -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeroen Visser [ vizi ] Sent: 11 November 2004 23:17 To: [EMAIL

RE: Re[2]: [WSG] CSS float/clear rendering in Firefox 1.0

and the contained images so they no longer have identical sets of rules applied. I don't have the means of testing this so it's all guess work. Fingers crossed! Iain -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [WSG] Proper extension and directory for server side includes

-- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Rappaport Sent: 10 November 2004 19:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] Proper extension and directory for server side includes I have

RE: [WSG] Site critique w/url

. This doesn't happen in IE because it always retains the scrollbar whether it's needed or not. Relax, your design is not flawed in this respect. :) Iain -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [WSG] Spacing Between Paragraphs

Title: Message You need to use this selector: #contacts .p { etc... instead of the .p contacts { you currently have since there is no such element as 'contacts'. Hope this helps. :) -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message-From

RE: [WSG] Spacing Between Paragraphs

gin-bottom: 0; padding: 0; } .contacts .contact dl dt { margin-top: 0; padding: 0; } Obviously it would need a little more tweaking to get it to look how you want. :) -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [WSG] Spacing Between Paragraphs

Oops, just spotted this, yeah that's what I was driving at in my last e-mail but with a different markup approach. :) Stay lucky. Iain -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: [WSG] Spacing Between Paragraphs

Feck, this seems to be my night for errors too 'cos I meant: .contacts dl { etc... And not .contacts .contact dl { :) -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com * The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] Fixed vs flexible layouts

. :) -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Budd Sent: 30 July 2004 10:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] Fixed vs flexible layouts Hi folks, Everybody has an opinion on fixed vs

RE: [WSG] Linking Background Images

Check out this article: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/imagemap/ -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Helm Sent: 05 July 2004 19:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

RE: [WSG] :before Pseudo Element

Do you have any more background than this? The CSS you are applying, for example. Letting us know which browsers you are using would also help. If you are using IE, then that's the problem. Its support for generated content is pitiful if not non-existant. Iain -- Iain

RE: [WSG] :before Pseudo Element

it to: p class=dialogueBlah blah blah/p p.dialogue:before { content: - ; /* Note that the browser will not convert an Ascii code, just write the literal content you want. */ } This works in Firefox and Opera as far as I can tell. Iain -- Iain Gardiner http

RE: [WSG] First table-free site - part 2

image which you've wrapped in a paragraph tag, but you haven't done so for the first. I would consider removing that as it is unnecessary. Hope this helps, Iain P.S. I notice it's a Gloucester company, is that where you are? It's where I am, but I often wish I wasn't. ;) -- Iain

RE: [WSG] First table-free site

Hi Mary, Welcome to the group! I've had a look at the site and CSS (nice-looking by the way) and although I am pretty poor at analysing other people's problems, I think it might come down to theis rule: #sidebar-a { float: left; width: 100px; \width: 110px; /* Try removing this line */ w\idth:

RE: [WSG] meta http-equiv

. It works. :) -- Iain Gardiner http://www.firelightning.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Milnes Sent: 09 June 2004 12:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] meta http-equiv The correct content type

RE: [WSG] Hi All

Title: Message Ciao belo, And that's all your getting because I don't know any Italian. :) That's a nice layout. Clean and uses colours that lead the eye but don't drag it. Only thing I can see that I might change is purely subjective and it has to do with the black border at the very

RE: [WSG] CSS Disaster

Title: Message Hi Sean, Interesting. Especially this bit: "For my new History Website redesign, I worked hard on creating a valid XHTML 1.0" Allow me to quote this from Simplebits a month ago... "23. On May 6, 2004 8:08 PM, Dante said: D: Dont use XHTML at all. Seriously though

RE: [WSG] EMBED tag

Hi Mario, I believe this article will be of help: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/ Good luck, :) Iain -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2004 20:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] EMBED