> Is there a simple hack to adjust certain styles? In some instances I
> need to adjust padding and margin that act differently from IE6.
Why not hack for IE6 then? Not to mention that hacks should be avoided if
possible (and it is possible more often than seems).
In this case I guess IE6 is in q
2007/3/20, Marty Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have worked on this until I'm cross-eyed. The page here-
> http://commonwealthentpc.com/ is using DIVs to separate the header,
> middle and footer content. They're the same width, etc. but are not
> lining up evenly. They seem
2007/3/19, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Michael Venables wrote:
> > Ran into an interesting something. Not sure if it's a problem,
> > really, but it's confusing.
> >
> > This does not validate in CSS3:
> >
> > .colset01 { column-width: 15em }
>
> Unless you have a typo in your email, you're
> Under the strictest rules, all negative number values for measurement
> are illegal.
False.
> However, even the most ruthless standardistas make use of
> them. Negative percentages in complex positioning occasionally causes
> problems for IE, but no more than anything else!
Most ruthless stand
> I've inherited this website and it is an incredible mess. You can see the
> current version at the root but the HTML is nothing short of horrendous:
> It's old school HTML using tables for layout, not a to found anywhere
> since it's "optional" as well as all the non-quoted attributes.
Well, ma
> Hi,
>
> I have two divs one contains tab navigation and the other contains the
> content. I want the content div to display directly under the tabs.
> In IE6 it's displaying how I want it to...but for some reason in FF
> the tabs are showing up at the top inside the content div..Here's my
> html
> The doctype clarification has to be completely at the top. There can't even
> be an empty line there.
Anything above doctype declaration will throw IE into "quirks mode",
but this does not
mean everything is forbidden here. You may have empty lines, comments,
or xml declaration here...
Regards
<...>
> What do YOU (plural) do?
>
> Do you say, "I'm sticking ot standards, piss on your browser if it doesn't
> look good!"?
> Your clients will like that.
>
> Do you make your pages simple so that there's flexability in the design, so
> that browsers don't notice the difference?
> (Think Google)
> Hi all,
>
> In most browsers, I can do things like
>
> img.logo { margin: 0 auto; }
>
> which results in the element centred within its parent container.
>
> Of course, this does not work with IE. Short of adding
> a text-align:center to the parent (which is *not* what I want), how
> can one ge
> Is there any difference at all between
> * #leftcol {font-family:arial,sans-serif;}
> and
> #leftcol * {font-family:arial,sans-serif;}
Yes, there is. The first rule will apply to the element with the id="leftcol"
regardless of it's position in DOM.
The second rule will apply to _all elements_ w
> I am looking for a current CSS pocket reference guide that I can carry with
> me everywhere I go. I just need it to look up definitions that my aging brain
> sometimes forgets. Eric Meyer's last edition is the only one I could find but
> it's been a while since it was published. Is there a more c
> And your point is? Do you create web sites for visitors or search
> engines? Guess why Google offers the creation of sitemaps for your
> page...
What is the point of website created for visitor if he cannot find it?
What is the point of AJAXed menu, if user with JS off or text browser, or
not JS
> Thanks! Also let's not forget that with JavaScript, you can pull in
> subsequent menu items via Ajax and you don't need to add a lot of
> links for the user to have in the markup just to hide them afterwards.
AJAX is a good way to hide those links from search engines too...
Regards,
Rimantas
-
> http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blue-fly.co.uk%2Fjunction%2Fcounselling.php
> I have a background colour in my body
Yes, you do. But read carefully: validator wants COLOR, not
background-color for body:
Line : 4 (Level : 1) You have no color with your backgro
<...>
> Well, divs have no semantic meaning, so *any* div that you add to a page
> is for the purpose of design, really. There's no such thing as a
> semantic div, in the strict sense. But, I doubt you are looking for
> examples of sites that use neither tables nor divs, as that would be a
> pretty
<...>
> However, basic usability tells you that the current page just should
> not be a link - why should it link to itself?
<...>
As an another method to refresh the page. I got quite used to that :/
Regards,
Rimantas
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http://rimantas.com/
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> And even if some may think that a calendar should not be done in CSS, why
> not try? I agree that there are times when tables are the right answer, but
> I think that part of what we do as advocates of CSS design is to push the
> limits of our craft.
>
> Besides, you gotta admit, it pretty friki
<...>
> Here's a fact: Not all clients will have CSS enabled or not have your
> CSS or even enough screen space to accommodate for a menu like this.
<...>
Please, provide numbers and sources. Don't forget to provide numbers
for JavaScript - for comparison.
<...>
> For a multi level menu CSS
> is
> Google -- either collectively or one individual in a very powerful position
> -- hates CSS
> and XHTML.
Maybe that's too strong to say. Maybe they just don't care. Sigh :(
> They seem to consider web standards, separting presentation from content, or
> making HTML
> conform to the rules of XM
> >From the W3C CSS 2 spec [0]:
>
> "In CSS2, identifiers (including element names, classes, and IDs in
> selectors) can contain only the characters [A-Za-z0-9] and ISO 10646
> characters 161 and higher, plus the hyphen (-); they cannot start with a
> hyphen or a digit. They can also contain escap
<...>
> Mozilla, etc. likes this just fine, and displays the SPAN when we roll over
> LI.mapspot. IE displays nothing. We've piddled and poked and cajoled the
> stylesheet in an effort to get IE to honor this, all to no avail. What
> gives? And more importantly, how do we fix it?
<...>
Check out t
> I know that XHTML tags and attributes are supposed to be written in lowercase
<...>
> but it seems to me the following is perfectly acceptable in a style sheet
> declaration:
> IMG { border: none; }
<...>
> Or is there really some official prohibition against uppercase in CSS
> declarations that
> However, when font-size is set in absolute units (pixels, or even -
> shudder- points), as opposed to relative units (percentages or ems),
> IE has trouble resizing them. As a result, it is usually suggested
> that you avoid absolute units for accessibility reasons.
Just for nitpicking sake: pi
2005/12/28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This is a Firefox problem. I have been using alt to display alternate
> text in IE and title to do the same in Firefox/Mozilla. This was
> working until I'm guessing I made a windows or firefox config change on
> my windows pc. I looked throug
<...> Could someone please explain the use of display:table-cell?
>
> I can never seem to get my brain around the how's and why's
>
> Like, why wouldn't you use a table instead of using divs that act
> like tables and table cells?
<...>
Because when you change your mind and don't want that
table b
2005/12/2, Jacky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 1. use server-side script to generate CSS files, so that the image path can
> be stored in one variable.
> 2. move also the CSS files to the image location, so the css files can still
> use relative reference. The only change is the import location in the HTM
2005/11/25, Maarten Reynders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> I used the horizontal align code I found in previous posts of this list. My
> site now is perfectly centered in Mozilla Firefox, but in Internet Explorer
> it sticks to the left.
<...>
> Can anyone help me out?
margin: auto forks in IE6
2005/11/22, Christian Heilmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Is it possible to make css behave like tables??
>
> What, make it hard to maintain, heavy weight and unpredictable in
> modern browsers?
What is so hard to maintain, heavy weight, or unpredictable
in display: table-row and display: table-cell
2005/11/20, Erwin Heiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi all: a short question: is there a way to use
>
> a {display: inline-block;}
>
> and still have your CSS validate?
> the validator gives this as an error although I believe it's a valid
> CSS2 value for display.
> Any alternatives to this?
>
displ
2005/11/16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Is there an absoulte positioning bug that effects ie.
>
> Have searched but cannot find anything.
Strange.
http://www.positioniseverything.net/posbugs.html
http://www.positioniseverything.net/abs_relbugs.html
Regards,
Rimantas
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http://rimant
<...>
> The problem is using image replacing techniques... #container span {display:
> none;} or one of the more advanced techniques (leathy/langridge) I have used
> all the common tags (, , ) in the #container.
>
> Do we have a way of creating custom tags in CSS ()?? Or can we create
> extra pa
2005/10/18, Christian Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
<...>
> That being said, class "img" is a poor naming convention. Something
> like "imgleft" would have made more sense. And I would strongly
> discourage naming a class just like an element... I mean, imagine if
> you made a little typo and put "i
2005/9/23, Nancy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I am doing my first CSS site and it is a killer.
> First, it doesn't look right in Foxfire or Monzilla,
Hi, some interesting browsers you have got ;)
> but only IE on the PC and Mac. Very frustrating.
> Second, none of my jpegs show up on the site.
2005/9/1, Tom Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Perhaps I am just not as worldly as others (of of limited brain capacity),
> but I am having trouble seeing how the above would differ from this:
>
> html, body{color:#ABCDEF; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, Verdana,
> sans-serif;}/*or just body*/
> a{
On 23/08/05, Haoshiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<...>
> This is generally regarded as a *bad* thing because "tables are for
> tabular data only" but the fact of the matter remains that they do
> *work* and are generally rendered close to the same way across browsers
> common browsers.
<...>
With
On 8/8/05, Roger Roelofs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<...>
> 1. Conflicting instructions: combining display: inline; and float:
> left; - these are mutually exclusive. I believe float takes priority
> and all floats are block level so it ignores the display: inline.
<...>
display:inline on float
On 8/5/05, Klaus Hartl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If you use "text-transform: uppercase;" on an element holding text which
> contains "ß", that letter transforms to "SS" (correct), but than, under
> certain circumstances (has to be one word or the second of two), the
> last letter is missing.
On 7/21/05, T Shorrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hmm.. in your opinion anyway. The web is a multi-media platform... I
> would hate my TV, DVD's etc to be silent. Websites are often an advert
> for people's business, and they use sound on their TV ads and,
> probably, in their presentations, prom
On 7/11/05, Bruce Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello,
>
> on my graphics page, I want the images to be centered within their
> table cells using CSS , but what I have tried isn't working. I can't
> seem to find the selector for the images.
<...>
> any assisatnce is greatly appreciative!
T
On 7/10/05, Jeff Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In Firefox (on Mac and PC) and Camino, the background-image sometimes
> doesn't go all the way to the bottom. Haven't run into the problem
> just yet in IE.
> Any ideas?
<...>
Hi,
first of all make your code valid.
That makes debugging (if there
On 6/28/05, Viascape List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I noticed a strange problem this morning with firefox regarding how it
> loads external stylesheets that are specified using the html
> element when the title attribute is given a value. I like to use the
> title attribute to give descriptive
On 6/3/05, Scott Haneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a:image { border-bottom: 0; }
>
> There is my line 5, I remove it and I validate, I don't get it, whats wrong
> with that?
Hi, what do you mean by a:image? There is no such pseudo-class (like
:hover, :link, :focus,:visited,:active; see [1]) or
On 6/1/05, Rudolf Vavruch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IE7 will support a bunch of CSS3 stuff, more than Firefox currently
> supports (although at the moment as far as I can see CSS3 is not yet
> finalised so stuff is due to change).
<...>
> http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/compatibility/
Dean's scri
On 6/1/05, Albert van der Veen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On http://www.vakdagdirectmail.nl/ the footer isn't showing in Firefox.
<...>
I'd suggest to add different color borders for your html, body, footer
and achtergrond_ -- you will see the effect of height in percents.
Then you may try to r
On 5/21/05, Richard Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<...>
> At the bottom of the page there is two lines in the footer. The top
> line (a search box) is meant to be centred, the bottom line is meant to
> be aligned to the right. I have entered the following code in the html:
>
> © Keith Jones
>
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