Re: [css-d] Scroll bar not displaying correctly in IE or Firefox (only works in safary

2008-01-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jan 12, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Lopez-Anzures, Beatriz wrote: > Sorry to bother you...I'm a Multimedia student at UNF > ( University of North Florida) > I'm trying to see why my CSS file does > not display correctly on IE. > The scroll bar is not displayed correctly (it's out of place) > when vi

[css-d] Scroll bar not displaying correctly in IE or Firefox (only works in safary

2008-01-11 Thread Lopez-Anzures, Beatriz
Sorry to bother you...I'm a Multimedia student at UNF ( University of North Florida) I'm trying to see why my CSS file does not display correctly on IE. The scroll bar is not displayed correctly (it's out of place) when viewed in IE or Firefox. In safary looks ok but I need it to work in al

Re: [css-d] question about style inheritance

2008-01-11 Thread Josh Ghiloni
Thank you for your response, Jukka (you too Highpowered!) Both of them were very helpful. Given that I'm required to support IE 6 (shudder) among other browsers, it seems the attribute selector method is not the way to go (I need to remember to test on IE 6 more often -- time to change some of my e

Re: [css-d] Centering multiple floated blocks

2008-01-11 Thread Michael ORourke
Close David, thanks. I found more of what I was looking for here: http://www.brunildo.org/test/shrink-to-fit.html and was able to get it working using the table/table-cell/inline-block combo. I tested it on browsershots and it seems to be ok in all except Opera 9 which pushes one to the next li

Re: [css-d] hover over horizontal list and z-index not working

2008-01-11 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jan 12, 2008, at 7:03 AM, Bert Mahoney wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/2bh4zf > > The issue. > I cannot find a solution to hovering over a menu item. If you hover > over "Tech Info" the drop-down list shows up behind the photo that is > below it. > > I have tried increasing z-index to 1000 and sti

Re: [css-d] H1-H6 usage

2008-01-11 Thread Peter Mount
roxanne sutton wrote: > I am looking for information regarding the usage of H1-H6 tags. I > have followed general guidelines of Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman. I > am trying to keep this site as standard as possible: http:// > www.roxstyle.com/transfer/blssi/InBaseline_Phase_2/v2-optimized/ >

[css-d] H1-H6 usage

2008-01-11 Thread roxanne sutton
I am looking for information regarding the usage of H1-H6 tags. I have followed general guidelines of Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman. I am trying to keep this site as standard as possible: http:// www.roxstyle.com/transfer/blssi/InBaseline_Phase_2/v2-optimized/ template-2.html Today in a meet

Re: [css-d] Alignment issues in FF

2008-01-11 Thread Highpowered
Jeralyn Merideth wrote: > I just started this project and already I'm having alignment issues. Thing > is, everything looks fine, so far, in IE 5.5 & 6, it's FF i'm having a > problem with. Can someone look at my code and help me figure this out? > > Thanks in advance! > > http://www.5pts-inter

Re: [css-d] Alignment issues in FF

2008-01-11 Thread Peter Mount
Jeralyn Merideth wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I added the code like the tutorial said and it's now lined up in FF, but > IE is mis-aligned. Did I miss something?? :-) > > Jeralyn Merideth - Owner > > Designs by Jeralyn > A Division of > 5 Points Interactive > Creative Design Solutions for Web and Pr

Re: [css-d] IE6 min-width technique

2008-01-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
David Hucklesby wrote: > Otherwise, I guess I misunderstand the purpose of validation. No, I don't think you have misunderstood _one_ of the purposes; to check that all is "correctly typed" = "technically valid". As we all should know: validity is easy to achieve - regardless of whether it works o

[css-d] Alignment issues in FF

2008-01-11 Thread Jeralyn Merideth
I just started this project and already I'm having alignment issues. Thing is, everything looks fine, so far, in IE 5.5 & 6, it's FF i'm having a problem with. Can someone look at my code and help me figure this out? Thanks in advance! http://www.5pts-interactive.com/projects/DHSS/ Jeralyn Me

Re: [css-d] Centering multiple floated blocks

2008-01-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:59:56 -0500, Michael ORourke wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a container holding 6 floated divs, each containing an image and a few > lines of > text. My first goal was to be able to center all the floats so they take up > all the > space in the containing div which I think

Re: [css-d] IE6 min-width technique

2008-01-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:31:50 -0500, DAVOUD TOHIDY wrote: > >> Sorry. I don't see how putting a proprietary CSS declaration in a separate >> style >> sheet makes it valid? >> > > It will at least let the main CSS file to validate. The > other css file for IE still will not validate :) that was what

Re: [css-d] Centering multiple floated blocks

2008-01-11 Thread Michael ORourke
Thanks for the suggestions. I think I've tried some variation of all of them without success and I fear Davoud may be correct that it isn't possible without serious hacks, conditionals or scripting. Stu Nichols appears to have accomplished it with an unordered list ( http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/

Re: [css-d] question about style inheritance

2008-01-11 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Josh Ghiloni wrote: > I have a bit of code that, for example, looks like this: > > > div { color: blue } > div[dir="rtl"] { color: red } > First of all, I'd like to say that most "questions about style inheritance" aren't. In you example, there is no way in which any div element could inherit

Re: [css-d] question about style inheritance

2008-01-11 Thread Highpowered
Josh Ghiloni wrote: > Hi All. > > I have a bit of code that, for example, looks like this: > > > div { color: blue } > div[dir="rtl"] { color: red } > > > > hi! > bye! > > > As I somewhat expected, the outer (hi!) text rendered red, whereas the > inner child is rendering blue. Is there a wa

[css-d] hover over horizontal list and z-index not working

2008-01-11 Thread Bert Mahoney
Hi Everyone, I have a horizontal ul list, css based, that is used for primary navigation on a web site here: http://tinyurl.com/2bh4zf The issue. I cannot find a solution to hovering over a menu item. If you hover over "Tech Info" the drop-down list shows up behind the photo that is below

[css-d] question about style inheritance

2008-01-11 Thread Josh Ghiloni
Hi All. I have a bit of code that, for example, looks like this: div { color: blue } div[dir="rtl"] { color: red } hi! bye! As I somewhat expected, the outer (hi!) text rendered red, whereas the inner child is rendering blue. Is there a way I can define my styles such that div[dir="rtl"] an

Re: [css-d] Centering multiple floated blocks

2008-01-11 Thread Alex Robinson
A combination of display:table (Mozilla, Opera) and display:inline-block (IE) can cause a wrapper around floats to shrink-to-fit and thus be made amenable to being centered. However, Safari (neither 2 nor 3) does not do the shrink wrapping and so no centering occurs. As far as I know - I'd love

Re: [css-d] Centering multiple floated blocks

2008-01-11 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> > Thanks for the responses. I apologize if I wasn't clear. I't not > > #featurecontainer that I'm trying to keep centered, it's the floated > > divs > > inside. If I remove any number of those floated divs, they will no > > longer be > > centered unless I adjust the width for .featureMerch. I'm t

Re: [css-d] Centering multiple floated blocks

2008-01-11 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> Thanks for the responses. I apologize if I wasn't clear. I't not > #featurecontainer that I'm trying to keep centered, it's the floated > divs > inside. If I remove any number of those floated divs, they will no > longer be > centered unless I adjust the width for .featureMerch. I'm trying to do

Re: [css-d] Centering multiple floated blocks

2008-01-11 Thread Highpowered
Michael ORourke wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a container holding 6 floated divs, each containing an image and a > few lines of text. My first goal was to be able to center all the floats so > they take up all the space in the containing div which I think I > accomplished. The test page is here:

Re: [css-d] Centering multiple floated blocks

2008-01-11 Thread DAVOUD TOHIDY
You were clear Michael, no need to applogize :) . I understood what you are asking. As I mentioned if you would like to center the divs add margin:0 auto to the parent. However if you are asking for dynamically centering the divs when you remove or add the divs, which I believe this is what y

Re: [css-d] Centering multiple floated blocks

2008-01-11 Thread Derrick Knight
If you want the entire container holding 6 elements centered, try adding margin: auto; to #featurecontainer I know you said you didn't want to use margin, but am assuming that you meant you didn't want to have to state a specific value for the margin with each use. Hope this helps. -Derrick M

Re: [css-d] Centering multiple floated blocks

2008-01-11 Thread Michael ORourke
Thanks for the responses. I apologize if I wasn't clear. I't not #featurecontainer that I'm trying to keep centered, it's the floated divs inside. If I remove any number of those floated divs, they will no longer be centered unless I adjust the width for .featureMerch. I'm trying to do it without h

Re: [css-d] IE6 min-width technique

2008-01-11 Thread DAVOUD TOHIDY
> Sorry. I don't see how putting a proprietary CSS declaration in a > separate style sheet makes it valid? It will at least let the main CSS file to validate. The other css file for IE still will not validate :) that was what I meant. regards davoud

Re: [css-d] Centering multiple floated blocks

2008-01-11 Thread DAVOUD TOHIDY
Michael, I guess you have forgotten to add margin:0 auto to #featurecontainer in your css. > constant. There will be anywhere from 1-6. I don't think CSS can do anything in this regard. Interested in hearing about that myself. davoud

Re: [css-d] Background Inheritance

2008-01-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:59:36 -0600, J wrote: [...] > > >>> Hello, all. I'm having an issue with the wrapper div inheriting the >>> background >>> color of the body, but that isn't what I want, as you can see below. >>> >> > Jukka wrote: > >> Normally, it is best to post the URL of a demo page to i

[css-d] Centering multiple floated blocks

2008-01-11 Thread Michael ORourke
Hello all, I have a container holding 6 floated divs, each containing an image and a few lines of text. My first goal was to be able to center all the floats so they take up all the space in the containing div which I think I accomplished. The test page is here: http://www.basalweb.com/test/dltest

Re: [css-d] IE6 min-width technique

2008-01-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:13:59 -0500, DAVOUD TOHIDY wrote: > > Anything inside * html will be ignored by other browsers. IE Expressions will > not > validate. You will need to take that out and put in a seperate style sheet. > Sorry. I don't see how putting a proprietary CSS declaration in a separ

Re: [css-d] IE6 min-width technique

2008-01-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rod Miles wrote: > > Has anyone run into complications using this method? Any gotchas?? Apart from the 'star HTML' problem Davoud mentioned, any comments I have about the use of expressions f

Re: [css-d] probably a common IE6 issue

2008-01-11 Thread David Hucklesby
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:48:49 -0800, Julian Tulip's Licorice wrote: > Hello, > > http://johnkehm.com/hana > > If you look at this page on IE6, the top nav bar has a pretty tall bottom > margin. > I put a green border around it (border may not show in IE7 or Firefox). > It looks to me like IE6 is ad

Re: [css-d] IE6 min-width technique

2008-01-11 Thread DAVOUD TOHIDY
Anything inside * html will be ignored by other browsers. IE Expressions will not validate. You will need to take that out and put in a seperate style sheet. see this too: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=StarHtmlHack > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org> Date:

[css-d] IE6 min-width technique

2008-01-11 Thread Rod Miles
Hello everyone, I wanted to get some feedback from the list on using IE's proprietary CSS attributes to define min/max width for IE6. I found a link on www.CSSBeauty.com to this: http://perishablepress.com/press/2007/01/16/maximum-and-minimum-height-and-w idth-in-internet-explorer/ Pe

Re: [css-d] Alignment Problem

2008-01-11 Thread Brian Simmons
This worked like a champ. Thanks. Brian Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.simmonswebdesign.net 404.316.2655 -Original Message- From: Kepler Gelotte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 12:49 AM To: 'Brian Simmons'; css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: RE: [css-d] Alignmen

Re: [css-d] bottom border vs padding in IE, retry

2008-01-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Trevor Nicholls wrote: > Hmm. I see that putting my tiny HTML file on freehomepage.com has > caused it to be engulfed by an advertising monster. It does indeed complicate things a bit, and parts of your layout gets hidden by ads in IE6. I think you need a better place to serve your work. >> I'm

[css-d] bottom border vs padding in IE, retry

2008-01-11 Thread Trevor Nicholls
Hmm. I see that putting my tiny HTML file on freehomepage.com has caused it to be engulfed by an advertising monster. If it helps, the relevant bits of the problem are this: HTML - CSS - body { font-family: "Arial",sans-se

Re: [css-d] Background inheritance

2008-01-11 Thread david
J wrote: > Thanks, David. Your "boxes in boxes" analogy got my mind working and I > think I figured out what was wrong with the graphic not showing up, > although what I came up with is making the "test" page inside of > Dreamweaver look all twisted. But that's probably another thread of > dis

Re: [css-d] Alignment Problem

2008-01-11 Thread Kepler Gelotte
> Can you all tell me why in Firefox this page is dropping the content down. > This is not happening in IE. Hi Brian, You need to remove the top margin from the #menu definition. Try this: #menu { color:#FF; font-weight:bold; margin: 0pt 0pt 40px; } Best Regards, Kepler Gelotte http://www

Re: [css-d] Background Inheritance

2008-01-11 Thread J
Message: 8 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:02:22 +0200 From: "Jukka K. Korpela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [css-d] Background inheritance To: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, all. I'm having an issue with th

Re: [css-d] Background inheritance

2008-01-11 Thread J
David Laakso wrote: > J wrote: >> >> Well, the problem I had was that I forgot to put the # sign in the >> body selector. So, I think the problem I was having is fixed, but now >> I'm having another problem. I've got two graphics I made that I >> wanted to stick on either side of the wrapper div

Re: [css-d] Alignment Problem

2008-01-11 Thread Ingo Chao
Brian Simmons wrote: > Can you all tell me why in Firefox this page is dropping the content down. > This is not happening in IE. > > http://208.106.151.24/turner/ Collapsing margins (CSS2.1:8.3.1). The margin-top:87px of #menu collapses with the adjoining vertical margins of h1, #header, #wrapp