Re: [css-d] Controlling image placement with CSS

2010-08-17 Thread Tim Arnold
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Keith Purtell < [email protected]> wrote: > Because, long ago when I started with CSS, someone I thought was a guru > told me I had to do it that way to accommodate several browsers. At that > time, it may have been true. I will make the change you have

Re: [css-d] Controlling image placement with CSS

2010-08-17 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Well, I'm not sure if their recommendation was grounded in fact, but it does look as though the memory of what they actually proposed must have faded with the years, because :

Re: [css-d] Controlling image placement with CSS

2010-08-17 Thread Keith Purtell
Because, long ago when I started with CSS, someone I thought was a guru told me I had to do it that way to accommodate several browsers. At that time, it may have been true. I will make the change you have suggested and move on to the matter of placing images correctly. > Why not try the alternati

Re: [css-d] Controlling image placement with CSS

2010-08-17 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:53:28 +0100, Keith Purtell wrote: > Well, the validator was a huge help. Two problems I ran into: > > 1- It did not like the way I imported my style sheet. I thought my tag > > was correct, but the validator choked on both the @ and the ; > > 2-I tried just pasting in my

Re: [css-d] Controlling image placement with CSS

2010-08-17 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Why not try the alternative : Philip Taylor Keith Purtell wrote: > Well, the validator was a huge help. Two problems I ran into: > > 1- It did not like the way I imported my style sheet. I thought my tag >

Re: [css-d] Controlling image placement with CSS

2010-08-16 Thread Keith Purtell
Well, the validator was a huge help. Two problems I ran into: 1- It did not like the way I imported my style sheet. I thought my tag

Re: [css-d] Controlling image placement with CSS

2010-08-16 Thread Keith Purtell
I noticed that the answers I got to this were the exact same ones that I posted in the Adobe Dreamweaver forum. If the same people are giving me the same answers, I suppose I can quit posting to the Dreamweaver forum, and save myself the trouble of deleting the large number of individual emails it

Re: [css-d] Controlling image placement with CSS

2010-08-16 Thread Duncan Hill
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:35:09 +0100, Keith Purtell wrote: > I want to diagnose problems on this page. One at a time; I don't want > all the answers to every flaw you see ... I want to work and try to > figure out most of this myself. Please ignore the attempted fly-out > navigation links at top

Re: [css-d] Controlling image placement with CSS

2010-08-15 Thread Chris Akins
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Keith Purtell < [email protected]> wrote: > I want to diagnose problems on this page. One at a time; I don't want > all the answers to every flaw you see ... I want to work and try to > figure out most of this myself. Please ignore the attempted fly-ou

[css-d] Controlling image placement with CSS

2010-08-15 Thread Keith Purtell
I want to diagnose problems on this page. One at a time; I don't want all the answers to every flaw you see ... I want to work and try to figure out most of this myself. Please ignore the attempted fly-out navigation links at top left for now (I'm looking at this in FireFox by the way). What about