Re: [css-d] mac testing with no mac

2007-01-31 Thread Mark J. Reed
t wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.

Re: [css-d] Bizarre * selector rules processing

2007-01-18 Thread Mark J. Reed
; http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___

Re: [css-d] Styling abbr

2006-12-28 Thread Mark J. Reed
Ah! border-bottom! I thought it was some sort of extension to text-decoration. Thanks! On 12/28/06, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Mark J. Reed wrote: > >OK, is there any way to get rid of the dotted underlines on abbr tags, > >assuming I'd lik

[css-d] Styling abbr

2006-12-28 Thread Mark J. Reed
OK, is there any way to get rid of the dotted underlines on abbr tags, assuming I'd like to indicate that they're abbreviations some other way? -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [css-d] Div show/hide

2006-12-12 Thread Mark J. Reed
hen the link is clicked, with no other action taken. > > > Hope this helps, > Andy > __ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css

Re: [css-d] Div show/hide

2006-12-12 Thread Mark J. Reed
Seen the rant. I agree that links to content should be, at their core, plain links that would, absent JavaScript, take you to a new page with the content, said behavior then available to be modified by JavaScript to do something else, preferably without making the core behavior inaccessible even i

Re: [css-d] input type=GET target=DIV ???

2006-12-11 Thread Mark J. Reed
on that populates the div with the results. There are JavaScript libraries that make this task easier (dojo, Yahoo!, etc), but you still need to know how to program... -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [

Re: [css-d] Should I use cascaded ids for nested divs?

2006-12-07 Thread Mark J. Reed
external stylesheet shared by multiple HTML pages, many of which have an element with an id of "branding", and you want to apply certain styles *only* when that "branding" element is inside of another element w

Re: [css-d] "margin: 0 auto" and "float" dont work together

2006-12-06 Thread Mark J. Reed
iving everything a fixed height), it has to be floated itself. Is there no way to do this? -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 informat

Re: [css-d] New to CSS, can't figure out why this won't work.

2006-12-06 Thread Mark J. Reed
MAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [css-d] tooltip question

2006-12-06 Thread Mark J. Reed
> space in the flow of the document. True, but since they're going to be floating over an image, I just figured they'd be set to "positiion: absolute" and therefore removed from the document flow anyway. -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [css-d] tooltip question

2006-12-06 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 12/6/06, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > document.getElementById("thisToolTipId").style.visible = "visible". that should be ... .visibility = "visible". -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [css-d] tooltip question

2006-12-06 Thread Mark J. Reed
_ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ &

Re: [css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: IE7 release

2006-10-27 Thread Mark J. Reed
> I didn't know there were standalone versions of IE7. There probably are, but that's not what I meant. I was referring to using standalone versions of IE6, as opposed to trying to roll back to it. -- Mark J. Reed <

Re: [css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: IE7 release

2006-10-26 Thread Mark J. Reed
ight be able to roll back, and if it really works, that's great - but I'm still sticking with the standalone installs. -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.o

Re: [css-d] css rule not working

2006-10-23 Thread Mark J. Reed
es the container and whatever matches the containee: #content .homepage-box -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-disc

Re: [css-d] How to move image div to front or back

2006-10-23 Thread Mark J. Reed
:hover, or you can use JavaScript with something like document.getElementById('navimager').style.zIndex = 0; -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/li

Re: [css-d] Specifying CSS definition via HTML attributes & IE6

2006-10-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > -- Mark J. Reed <[EM

Re: [css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: IE7 release

2006-10-19 Thread Mark J. Reed
Mac - such as Parallels (if you have an Intel system), for example. -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.i

Re: [css-d] [ADMIN - OFF TOPIC] Re: IE7 release

2006-10-19 Thread Mark J. Reed
ntil some time after Vista's release. Assuming you want to upgrade, do be careful about installing it, as there's no going back. You may want to look into the varioius standalone solutions that let you have multiple versions of IE installed, to make multibrowser testing easier. --

Re: [css-d] Inline or block display for div question

2006-10-18 Thread Mark J. Reed
> > Mark > __ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ >

Re: [css-d] Remove frame borders through CSS

2006-10-18 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 10/17/06, Bernat Lleonart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying with frame { border: none;} and it doesn't work (perhaps > because I'm on Firefox on Mac OS X?). Well, you could try border-style: none; but border: none should work. Do you have a link we could

Re: [css-d] Remove frame borders through CSS

2006-10-17 Thread Mark J. Reed
he HTML, you can;the spec just makes you specify borders on the individual frame elements instead of on the frameset as a whole (which does give you more control): But you might as well do it just once with CSS instead. --

Re: [css-d] Necessity of width and height attributes within

2006-10-17 Thread Mark J. Reed
> in ems or in % (of the width of its container), I was addressing recommended use of the HTML attributes, not CSS width/height spec. So ems don't really enter into it. However, I did forget, in this and my other reply, that percentages are legal there. Mea culp

Re: [css-d] Necessity of width and height attributes within

2006-10-17 Thread Mark J. Reed
The reason it has long been recommended to include "width" and "height" attributes in image elements is to assist the browser in rendering the page. Once upon a time browsers would, upon encountering an image of unknown size, stop rendering until the image had been downloaded and the size thus det

Re: [css-d] validation

2006-10-17 Thread Mark J. Reed
p://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mail

Re: [css-d] nesting / specificity problem

2006-10-12 Thread Mark J. Reed
TED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [css-d] Universal selector

2006-10-12 Thread Mark J. Reed
in the #leftcol * selector gets applied to the p inside the div, but not the div itself. -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing h

Re: [css-d] Validation assistance

2006-10-04 Thread Mark J. Reed
othing to do with .NET, "the Net", etc. :) -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.i

Re: [css-d] Trouble using classes on dynamic content in IE 6

2006-10-02 Thread Mark J. Reed
OK, FWIW, apparently the HTMLElement-specific shortcut element.className = 'foo'; is more reliable than the generic Element's element.setAttribute('class', 'foo'); in this instance; replacing the latter with the former caused things in the real page to sta

[css-d] Trouble using classes on dynamic content in IE 6

2006-10-02 Thread Mark J. Reed
'<p class="attention">added via innerHTML - should be red</p>'; } window.onload=init; Normal paragraph. Static 'attention' paragraph - should be red. -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-26 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 9/26/06, Roger Roelofs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've emailed you a sample file off-list Looks great. Thanks! -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-26 Thread Mark J. Reed
of horizontally (which makes the extra info for the active servers awkward to place)... Any suggestions welcome. -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/m

Re: [css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-25 Thread Mark J. Reed
see with horizontal list examples. What I do need is two rectangles with different colors in the same vertical space. Which I don't know how to get outside of tables (or table-* display: values, anyway), or explicit positioning which will be easily thwarted by font size changes

[css-d] Newbie-ish question

2006-09-25 Thread Mark J. Reed
d label grouped into its own container item, whether it's a td or an li or what have you. The two sets (active and inactive) need to have separate parent containers for the code to fill up, but I still want them to appear side-by-side on the page. Suggestions welcome. Thanks! -- Mark

Re: [css-d] Styling tables with &

2006-09-22 Thread Mark J. Reed
using at all is to provide a place to put s, then you only need one. And if you want to do anything not in the Gang of Four above, you still have to fall back to assigning column-signifying classes to each of the individual s that fall in

Re: [css-d] Deprecated list elements Question

2006-09-22 Thread Mark J. Reed
e your own DTD. Here's a thread from last year discussing this issue: http://www.mail-archive.com/wsg%40webstandardsgroup.org/msg14074.html -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww

Re: [css-d] Animated/scrolling show/hide?

2006-09-22 Thread Mark J. Reed
You end up having to write JavaScript code with timers (window.setInterval), but sure. Set the height of the element to 0 and then grow it gradually up to whatever the desired height is... -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [css-d] duplicate id's

2006-09-22 Thread Mark J. Reed
ame id, you can't have an with the same id as a ). The "class" attribute has no such restrictions, and is the way to do what you're trying to do: ul#foo li.first ul#bar li.last etc. -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

Re: [css-d] Styling a tag cloud

2006-09-22 Thread Mark J. Reed
li.t2 a {font-size:120%; } li.t3 a {font-size:140%; } li.t4 a {font-size:160%; } li.t5 a {font-size:180%; } -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-disc

Re: [css-d] Why doesn't this padding-left work?

2006-09-21 Thread Mark J. Reed
ng? Like the others, I'm unable to replicate the behavior; an with padding-left set to 5% is correctly indented with its surrounding when I use this HTML: Testing padding CSS Information Lorem ipsum, etc.

Re: [css-d] overflow: auto elements receiving focus when tabbing

2006-09-21 Thread Mark J. Reed
and my question, again, is > whether it is > correct for it to do what it is doing. Correct according to what, though? CSS doesn't even specify what user agents are supposed to do with "overflow: auto"; getting down to how keyboard shortcuts behave is way out of scope. Is

Re: [css-d] overflow: auto elements receiving focus when tabbing

2006-09-21 Thread Mark J. Reed
I would expect, based on absolutely no formal spec but just user intuition, that the presence of a scrollbar should place the scrolling element into the tab list. So the tab key should take you to the element in question when overflow is set to scroll, or when it's set to auto *and* there's actual

Re: [css-d] css compatible for 600x400 and 1024x640 resolutions

2006-09-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 9/20/06, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Meanwhile, this article is a good starting point: > > http://www.alistapart.com/articles/elastic/ Though I note that it is, somewhat ironically, itself a fixed-width column of text. :) -- Mark J. Reed &l

Re: [css-d] css compatible for 600x400 and 1024x640 resolutions

2006-09-20 Thread Mark J. Reed
hat's giving you trouble, we can offer some targeted suggestions. Meanwhile, this article is a good starting point: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/elastic/ -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PRO

Re: [css-d] IE6 vs Firefox 1.7

2006-09-17 Thread Mark J. Reed
to the far left, while my h1 stays exactly > | where it should be. What I'm I doing wrong? Please help the newbie! > > Can you send us a link so we can see what you're looking at? Also, what version of Firefox did you test? Your subject says 1.7, but the latest release is o

Re: [css-d] IE 7 and IE 6 Installs

2006-09-12 Thread Mark J. Reed
arent target audience member, can navigate to a specific key in Regedit - without even the benefit of copy and paste for the path to said key - but to find the ie.inf file, the instructions say to use "Find files or folders"?? -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

Re: [css-d] site check, please - cchy website

2006-09-12 Thread Mark J. Reed
ess of doctype. Is that affected by quirks mode? Or is the default 'display' for images not specified by CSS and therefore not affected by standards mode? -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL

[css-d] Unordered list in a popup?

2006-09-08 Thread Mark J. Reed
ne has a better idea, I'd love to hear it. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub --