x bottom space to every li, while FF doesn't. However, since
the problem also occurs in other browsers, I don't want to begin applying hacks
unless I know what I'm doing.
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To: CSS-D
Cc: Michael Leibson
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 10:49:57 PM
Subject:
From: Gunlaug Sørtun
To: Michael Leibson
Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 5:56:02 AM
Subject: Re: [css-d] Getting absolutely positioned divs with bottom: auto to
end together
>> www.thinkingmusic.ca/analyses
>I have us
Hi;
Several weeks ago, I
sought and received some help from this list re. my www.thinkingmusic.ca
website.
While building two more
pages for that site -- www.thinkingmusic.ca/analyses/coltrane,
and www.thinkingmusic.ca/analyses (the much smaller page of the two), I’ve
begun to implement som
>>Everything changes as soon as I add a list-style-image, though: where
IE and Opera abut the image right beside the li content, Firefox and
Safari separate >>the two by 10 pixels. Is this normal browser
behaviour? Is there anything one can do to offset it, besides
specifying a compromise distan
Hi;
I've read that, as each browser has its own defaults for list layout and
indentation, the remedy is to specify amounts for both padding and margins, so
as to address all browser methods. Sure enough, if I specify {margin: 0;
padding 0;} for both a list and its list items, I find a close
omputer/browser's default display for any code -- or
is my html incorrect? (On my FF 3.0.4, on Windows XP, I simply see what I'd
intended -- "contact", with no symbol.)
From: Philippe Wittenbergh
To: CSS-D
Cc: Michael Leibson
Sent:
try to learn these things for my
next site, but, given that I'm still in the dark with a lot of what I've
already learned, even that may turn out to be too ambitious.
Thanks for your help, Georg!
All the best,
Michael
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From: Gunlaug Sørtun
To: Micha
l the time.
Any idea what could be doing this?
Many thanks!
Michael
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From: Theophan Dort
To: Michael Leibson
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 8:59:52 AM
Subject: Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?
I'm not an expert, just a volunteer webmaster for a c
ixing
it as soon as I have some free time.
All the best,
Michael
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From: David Laakso
To: Michael Leibson
Cc: Eric Meyer's CSS List
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 8:33:04 AM
Subject: Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?
Michael Leibson wrote:
>
>Seems to me to be behaving as the stylesheet intends.
Thanks, Peter!
- Michael
From: Peter Hammarling
To: Michael Leibson
Cc: CSS-D
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 8:07:05 AM
Subject: Re: [css-d] Firefox bug on on new Macs?
I used Firefox to view my website
Hi;
I used Firefox to view my website on a friend's zillion-pixel-wide new Mac,
yesterday, and I was astonished to find that all elements on all pages had a
significantly increased width, so that the design was effectively spread,
horizontally, to fit the (maximized) window. This would have pl
Greetings;
It's amazing how much CSS one can forget in a few months! I'm sure there's a
very simple answer to this -- but I've forgotten it!
My containing div has a border. It also contains three other divs: two that
are within the normal flow, and one (class="rightside") that is absolute
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Michael Leibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 3:22:06 PM
Subject: Re: [css-d] IE7 bug changing border color?
Michael Leibson wrote:
Hi,
I just had my f
Hi,
I just had my first look at what IE7 does to my website, via a BrowserCam.com
screencapture. The first thing I noticed is that the border to my homepage
'container' div is rendered as black, rather than as 30% black (#AAA9A9). Is
this the result of an IE7 bug, and -- if so -- any recomme
From: Philippe Wittenbergh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [css-d] tables, table captions in I.E.6
On Oct 11, 2007, at 12:50 AM, Michael Leibson wrote:
> http://members.distributel.net/~leibson/table%20or%20caption%20margins%20in%20IE.htm
> First problem:
> The margin for th
Hi;
I wonder if anyone might be able to tell me where I've gone wrong in the
following?
http://members.distributel.net/~leibson/table%20or%20caption%20margins%20in%20IE.htm
First problem:
The margin {margin-top: 50px; margin-bottom: 10px;} for the table caption
displays properly in FF2, but
Ernie Finlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You could simply add to or reduce (minor)the font size to suit.:)
Thanks, Ernie.
In the end, I decided to increase my paragraph's width enough to pop the
offending widow back onto the
end of the previous line.
- Michael
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"Jukka K. Korpela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Checking on IE 7, the second case, with , works well: the last line is
>"and strategy", as desired. I wonder where it does not work.
Aha -- the problem lay in my own misunderstanding! I'd mistakenly thought that
by using " " I could get "strate
Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>. . . it is easy to insert a no-break space,. . . as the entity reference
> ,
> e.g. "like this?"
>Similar things can be done in CSS . . . you can write
>like this?
>with
> .nobr { white-space: nowrap; }
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Hello;
Is there any way to refine the use of {text-align: justify;} so that one can,
for
example, prevent the last word of the last line from appearing on its own line
- like
this?
Thanks, in advance, for any tips.
- Michael
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- Original Message
From: David Laakso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Michael Leibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: css discuss
Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2007 11:03:10 AM
Subject: Re: [css-d] image replacement techniques and CSS
Michael Leibson wrote:
>> I've a question
Hi,
I've a question about image replacement techniques and CSS. For details,
please see:
http://members.distributel.net/~leibson/Gilder-Levin.htm
Thanks.
- Michael
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Does anyone have experience with this?
In the Gilder/Levin Image Replacement Technique, an h (= text for viewers
with 'images off', etc) contains a span (that holds the image that replaces
the text):
CSS:#logo {width: [same as image]; height: [same as image]; position:
relative; }
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Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2007 9:16:50 AM
Subject: [css-d] best way to display a non-inline image
Michael asked:
>>What is the most efficient way to display a non-inline image
>>(eg, a logo) th
P.S. (please see below)
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From: fantasai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Michael Leibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org
Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2007 8:02:12 PM
Subject: Re: [css-d] best way to display a non-inline image
>> Michael Leibs
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>> Michael Leibson wrote:
>> Wh
Here's a very basic question (I hope!):
What is the most efficient way to display a non-inline image
(eg, a logo) that will stand on its own (ie, with no superimposed text, etc)?
As a 'background-image' within a div?
With an inline style, with 'display' set to 'block'?
(Eg, )
If as an in
From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [css-d] simple margins question
>I am new to this listserve so please forgive me if I am off base.
On the contrary, I appreciate your help!
>I have added a 3px yellow border to your containing div, and it appears to be
>positioned at 0
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Subject: collapsing vertical margins
Michael Leibson wrote:
>> . . . IE6 suddenly ignores paragraph
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Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 7:09:14 PM
Subject: Re: [css-d] collapsing vertical margins
>(definitely! I can create a bigger and more complex
Michael Leibson wrote:
>> . . . IE6 suddenly ignores paragraph margin-right when that paragraph is
>> absolutely positioned (it respects all other margins,
>> however). What is THAT all about??
>Alan Gresley responded:
> . . . Since you have a width set for your containe
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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:30:03 -0700
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Michael Leibson wrote:
> . .
Hi;
(With all the workarounds necessary for noncompliant browsers, are you really
any further ahead than you were
before CSS?)
I've found that giving a box element absolute positioning stops its vertical
margins from collapsing.* Any good reasons why one shouldn't use absolute
positioning ev
Hi;
I'm trying to position the content area of a p below the top outer edge of its
containing div, by giving the p a large margin. The div is horizontally
centered within the body, is flush with the top of the page, and has no margins
or padding. To my surprise, the resulting p ends up loweri
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:09:31 +1000
From: "Seona Bellamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [css-d] Background image not centring correctly in
Firefox
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>Just out of curiosity, is there a nice easy way of vertically centring a
>div? I seem to recall seeing this discussion once befor
From: "Jukka K. Korpela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:59:44 -0400
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Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 2:54:57 PM
Subject: Re: [css-d] how to suppress default hypertext link 'hover' borders?
>You might wanna try "a:active{outline:none;}", I know th
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Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 1:05:19 PM
Subject: RE: [css-d] how to suppress default hypertext link 'hover' borders?
> I've discovere
Hi;
I've discovered that both IE6 and FF seem to put a default border (dotted)
around any hypertext link while it is being clicked. I've tried various steps
to suppress this -- eg, adding the styles "a {border: none;}, a
{border-style: none;} a:hover {border: none;}", etc -- but nothing se
david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Get away from the idea of "precisely positioned" etc. That way lies
>madness and rudeness to visitors. What if I visit your page with
>graphics turned off - and your home page name and titles are part of the
>background image? I get nothing.
Hi, David;
I appre
Hi;
My simple homepage design consists of one vertically and horizontally centered
div, within which appears a precisely positioned background image (logo),
homepage name and titles, and navigation buttons. The homepage name and
titles must be exactly positioned in relation to the background
Thanks to Philippe Wittenbergh's help, I now realize that - with the exception
of the root element - the background-color of any block element will normally
apply only to its content-area, and that area, of course, is defined by either
its actual content, or a specified width.
However, in Eric
P.S.
I subsequently found that:
html {background-color: green;}
body {height: 100%; background-color: blue;}
DID display the body background-color in IE6 -- for the entire viewport (minus
a default body margin) -- but not in Firefox 2.0. Is the attribute "height"
only valid in IE6 Quirks mo
Hi;
I'm new to CSS, and have been doing small experiments as a means to
understanding how it works.
I wanted to discover what kinds of attributes are applicable to the html
element, and wrote the following primitive style:
html {background-color: green;}
body {height: 100%; background-color
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:32:26 -0700
From: Alan Gresley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [css-d] centering elements via margin: auto
. . . If the body had no text alignment (the default is text-align: left) then
you don't have to restate text-align: left on any element unless an ancestor
has t
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:03:32 -1000
From: david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [css-d] How to reply to one message within a daily
digest?
. . . you CAN reply to individual posts within a digest . . .
Thanks, David -- I appreciate the very helpful info!
- Michael
Be smarter t
Hi;
I have lots of experience with forums, but not much with email list digests.
Would someone kindly explain how one goes about replying to a message contained
within a daily digest?
Many thanks!
- Michael
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Thank-you, Josue, and also David, for your helpful replies.
I've come across this code before, but not - yet - in Eric's book (it's a
pretty dense study, for someone starting from scratch!). I gather that
"{margin 0 " refers to positioning, and (maybe) means the margin should be at
maximum l
(Sorry to do this via a "p.s.", but as I haven't yet
received the list digest, I've no way to 'reply' to my
own previous email!)
Re. previous post: I later realized that in order to
center a div using margin:auto in IE6, I needed to get
IE6 into Standards mode via entering a Doctype!
(Silly me -
Hi;
I'm new to web-design and CSS, and am studying Eric's
". . . Definitive Guide, 2nd ed.". I have some
questions regarding the proper way to horizontally
center a block element:
On p.162, Eric writes: "If both margins are set to
auto. . . then they are set to equal lengths, thus
centering the
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