Re: [css-d] Background image on body appears to be in viewport or HTML

2014-02-09 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hi - I think you have to give it a position and include a z-index instruction to tell it to put the image at the "back", eg background-attachment: fixed; background-position: 50% 60px; margin: 30px 0px 0px 0px; z-index: 1; } That, above, is taken from a very old style sheet;

[css-d] CSS-only "lightbox"

2013-11-06 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hi list I have looked on the web for instances of a "lightbox" done only with CSS but all those I found seem to have to use a small amount of javascript. Does anyone know of a CSS-only way of doing this? Ie an image is "clickable" and when you click on it, a larger version is displayed whil

[css-d] "Lightbox" gallery with CSS

2011-09-13 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hi list Is it possible to create "lightbox" effects with images, as on this page (click on any of the images in the main part of the page) http://www.rostock-heute.de/tag-des-offenen-denkmals-2011-rostock-staendehaus-kossfelderstrasse/31597 using only CSS and no javascript? TVIA Rachel

Re: [css-d] Chrome background image bug?

2010-06-02 Thread Rachel Mawhood
and edge of the background image in the body would probably become visible, "detached" from the middle (text) part of the page, and the righthand edge of that image is not designed to be visible. Rachel At 21:58 02/06/2010, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: >On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Rachel Mawhood w

Re: [css-d] Chrome background image bug?

2010-06-02 Thread Rachel Mawhood
At 21:36 02/06/2010, David Laakso wrote: >Rachel Mawhood wrote: >>Hi list >> >>This new page has two background images, one in the body and one (a >>logo) in a div called #outerwall (ie the wrapper). >> >>http://www.st-alfege.org/friends-of-the-park/ >&

Re: [css-d] Background question...

2010-06-02 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Have you made leftNav and the main areas transparent? background-color: transparent; Rachel At 19:56 02/06/2010, Michael Beaudoin wrote: >Thanks to all for the help, but this one is escaping me... > >I have the following div's: > > > > header > header copy > > > left nav here

Re: [css-d] Chrome background image bug?

2010-06-02 Thread Rachel Mawhood
It was Chrome on a Mac - will ask about the version/OS and report back. Rachel At 17:55 02/06/2010, Jack Timmons wrote: >On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Rachel Mawhood > wrote: > > Hi list > >What version of Chrome? > >In 5.0 and Firefox latest (I don't like to keep

[css-d] Chrome background image bug?

2010-06-02 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hi list This new page has two background images, one in the body and one (a logo) in a div called #outerwall (ie the wrapper). http://www.st-alfege.org/friends-of-the-park/ Chrome seems to compute the position of the logo differently from other browsers and puts it about 90 pixels too far to t

Re: [css-d] Keeping the footer at the bottom

2010-01-19 Thread Rachel Mawhood
This might help http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/keeping-footers-at-the-bottom-of-the-page and here are two of mine (change the padding etc to suit your requirements) - I can't remember why one has an underscore in front of "height" and one doesn't. :-) { clear: both; margin: 0; padding: 0

Re: [css-d] Can't Adjust Font Size

2009-11-03 Thread Rachel Mawhood
At 10:35 03/11/2009, Victor Subervi wrote: >Hi; >I have the following in my css: > >p { >text-align: left; >font-size: 16px; >margin-left: 10px; >padding-left: 10px; >margin-right: 10px; >padding-right: 10px; >} > >I have this in my html: >... > >It doesn't matter to what value I change "font-size"

Re: [css-d] CSS popup windows

2008-10-25 Thread Rachel Mawhood
to me to be an elegant "degradation". Rachel At 19:22 25/10/2008, david wrote: >Rachel Mawhood wrote: > > This is, I gather, an Accessible way of doing pop-ups that self-close > > if one clicks anywhere else on the screen - > > > > > > onmouseover

Re: [css-d] CSS popup windows

2008-10-25 Thread Rachel Mawhood
This is, I gather, an Accessible way of doing pop-ups that self-close if one clicks anywhere else on the screen - Subject of your pop up page (alter the dimensions and positioning on the screen to your requirements) - except if javascript is disabled, and for those you need to include a Close

Re: [css-d] Horizontal alignment of dt and dd in IE 6 and 7

2008-10-14 Thread Rachel Mawhood
>Hi Rachel, > >I'd float the DTs. Thank you. >As a side note, you cannot use DIVs in these DTs, only inline elements are >allowed there. I remember now - thank you. >If you "need" them for the border effect around the images, then move that >styling to the DTs or simply use the images (via pa

Re: [css-d] drop down menus/flash

2008-10-14 Thread Rachel Mawhood
You've got z-index: 999; on your nav a . Isn't that causing the drop down menu when active to be in front of everything else? Doesn't it need to be something like z-index: 2, and the video and the title above it being z-index: 3 ? Hope this helps. Rachel At 13:01 14/10/2008, Ed Pybus wrot

[css-d] Horizontal alignment of dt and dd in IE 6 and 7

2008-10-14 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hi list In Firefox and Safari, the text displays alongside the thumbnails as desired. In IE 6 and 7 it doesn't. I have tried a number of things - negative margin on the , adding position:relative, removing text-align - but so far without success. I would appreciate any pointers to fixing th

[css-d] Admin at css-discuss - is that the right address

2008-09-05 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hi to any moderators looking in I sent an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] yesterday, and perhaps I am being too impatient hoping for a reply today, but in the meantime I thought I'd better check that that is a working/correct e-mail address. My e-mail was asking permission to see if there was any

Re: [css-d] IE7, background-image - displays OK on one page but not on the others

2008-08-28 Thread Rachel Mawhood
; >Don't aks me why that fotter style influences the #fauxframe , because >honestly I don't know. ;) > >Best regards, > >Christian Kirchhoff >*Directmedia Publishing GmbH* · Möckernstraße 68 · 10965 Berlin >www.digitale-bibliothek.de >AG Berlin-Charlottenburg · HR

Re: [css-d] Pseudo frame and Skip to Content, unexpected behaviour

2008-08-28 Thread Rachel Mawhood
, for giving this so much thought. Kind regards Rachel At 02:27 28/08/2008, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: >Rachel Mawhood wrote: > > > When one uses the keyboard shortcut for Skip to Content (access key > > S, to a div called "content") on this site, > > > > http

[css-d] Pseudo frame and Skip to Content, unexpected behaviour

2008-08-27 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hi list Has anyone else experienced this? When one uses the keyboard shortcut for Skip to Content (access key S, to a div called "content") on this site, http://www.internationalorganbuilders.com/uk/access.php http://www.internationalorganbuilders.com/journal/index.php which has a pseudo fram

[css-d] IE7, background-image - displays OK on one page but not on the others

2008-08-27 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hello list Well, I've tried a number of things - clear:both, zoom:1, min-height, removing the mask.gif, etc - but nothing so far has worked. I have Googled the problem, looked at positioniseeverything and other bug-fixing sites, but without finding the solution. It is so far completely baffl

Re: [css-d] Too much for MSIE 6 and 7 to cache?

2008-08-22 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hi Jens Thank you for looking - that's really helpful. Kind regards Rachel At 10:44 22/08/2008, Jens Brueckmann wrote: >Hi Rachel, > >no problem here with IE6. Images were displayed on first page loading. > >Cheers, > >jens > >-- >Jens Brueckmann >http://www.yalf.de

Re: [css-d] Too much for MSIE 6 and 7 to cache?

2008-08-22 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hi David >Don't know how your Browsercam session was set to capture, maybe it >wasn't waiting long enough every time before doing the capture?? Thank you - I did wonder if that might be the problem. When the Board members were invited to review the site last week, one wrote that when she firs

[css-d] Too much for MSIE 6 and 7 to cache?

2008-08-22 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hello list There is a group of "captures" on this public page on Browsercam, three pages x MSIE 6 and 7 http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=385801 and the thing I don't understand at the moment is why sometimes the "masthead" of the web page does not appear and sometimes it does. Th

Re: [css-d] Trying to compact styling as much as possible

2008-08-15 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Thank you both, Christian Kirchhoff and Chris Atkins. Your suggestions work beautifully! At 15:24 15/08/2008, Christian Kirchhoff wrote: >Hello, > >you might recognize what the problem is if you format the css code in a >different way, e.g. like this: >#footer, >#pieddepage, >#seitenende a:link

[css-d] Trying to compact styling as much as possible

2008-08-15 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hi List, I have been staring at this so long without solving it. I'd be grateful for your help. Why, with this styling, only the links on the seitendende div are styled correctly (on the others, footer and pieddepage, the adjacent ordinary text also goes the wrong colour - ie not black - and

Re: [css-d] CSS Opacity with tags. Can this be done in CSS?

2008-08-04 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hello >The trouble is, I cannot get the h2 #000; background to fade. It is >always a solid balck. Where I had to do something similar (if I understand your question correctly), I had to add _height: 0; /* for IE 6 and lower haslayout */ zoom: 1;/* for IE7 haslayout */ to make it work in MSIE

Re: [css-d] Displays mostly OK in IE7 but not in IE6 or IE8

2008-04-19 Thread Rachel Mawhood
again - I am so happy! Kind regards Rachel --- >Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:20:29 +0200 >From: Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org >Subject: Re: [css-d] Displays mostly

[css-d] Displays mostly OK in IE7 but not in IE6 or IE8

2008-04-18 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hi list http://www.internationalorganbuilders.com/new-build-delivered/members/test-member-index.php When I checked this with Browsercam, I was expecting problems with IE7 and was surprised that this displayed OK in IE7. Then I found a helpful post by Gunlaug Sørtun a while ago about position

[css-d] Re: Conceptual problems with the docty pe - thank you, Björn

2008-04-04 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Yay, Björn That fixed it. Thank you! (Your reply came back so quickly, too!) Kind regards Rachel At 20:21 04/04/2008, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >* Rachel Mawhood wrote: > >Validating the html on a site built this week, and the only remaining > >uncorrected error is to do with

[css-d] Conceptual problems with the doctype

2008-04-04 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hello Validating the html on a site built this week, and the only remaining uncorrected error is to do with the doctype. I don't understand the instruction: I tried putting in the line the validator says is missing but that produced a new error. At the moment I have http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtm

[css-d] Invisible on MSIE 5.2/Mac only? and righthand scrollbar top arrow lost

2007-07-16 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hi list I am told that this serves a blank page in MSIE 5.2/Mac http://www.internationalorganbuilders.com/delivered/index.php but I have no idea why (have w3-validated the code). Also the righthand scrollbar runs from top to bottom in Netscape 7/pc but on all other set-ups on pcs so far te

[css-d] Before I start filling in the content ...

2007-07-12 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Hello list I'm doing a redesign and rebuild of an existing site and would be glad to know how the new template displays on your machines, including on Macs. I have uploaded two pages to the development area http://www.internationalorganbuilders.com/delivered/index.php http://www.internationalo

Re: [css-d] This breaks completely in IE6 - request for help

2007-04-19 Thread Rachel Mawhood
Thank you, Jeff and Georg. >looks like the double margin float bug. it does break in ie7 as well. try >adding display inline to the first container floating left. hope that works >A more cross-browser reliable styling is necessary, or else your design >won't have a chance in non-Gecko browsers.

[css-d] This breaks completely in IE6 - request for help

2007-04-18 Thread Rachel Mawhood
I have validated both the css and the html, and although this displays as intended in Firefox and an old copy of Netscape, it completely breaks in MSIE 6 (old), all on a pc. http://www.jonathanlouth.co.uk/development/key-jla.htm I am guessing that it is because MSIE interprets "margin" differen