How to design for CSS: can anyone direct me to a resource on learning how to think about designing templates for use with CSS? Particlarly, how it's best to subdivide your page into divs and spans, and when to use a div id vs. a div class? [more inside]
posted by Zed_Lopez
on Oct 14, 2004 -
11 answers
I want to create a website which visitors can "annotate" with something more than a simple commenting system. Basically, I'm looking for Flickr's photo annotation capabilities, but for html documents instead of jpegs. My instincts say this could be accomplished with some fancy CSS and javascript, but I would prefer not to start from scratch if something already exists. Any ideas?
posted by sanitycheck
on Oct 6, 2004 -
8 answers
What's your preferred method for dealing with IE's less-than-stellar CSS box-model interpretation (specifically, where it adds padding to DIVs). Currently, I am using 2 divs, the outside one has the "width" attribute set, the inner one the padding. Works, but is kind of clunky.
Do you have anything simpler or more elegant?
posted by signal
on Oct 5, 2004 -
6 answers
So I have this home page. It looks pretty good (which is to say, it looks like I intended) in Safari, and passable in Internet Explorer. But in FireFox the CSS completely dissapears for some reason, so everything just comes up in a big unstyled pile. So in trying to find out why this is, which I have not done, I came to wonder: Is there a place on the web that has information about the differnces between browsers and how they render various bits of HTML, CSS and so on?
posted by donkeymon
on Oct 1, 2004 -
9 answers
DHTML/CSS Wizards: I am looking for free source code to create a simple two-tiered menu. When you hover above a link in a horizontal list of links, each link will display the sublinks in another horizontal bar underneath the first list of links. An example can be seen at macromedia.com. Although I could do this easily enough in Flash, I'm hoping there is some code already out there somewhere in DHTML/CSS/XHTML.
posted by banished
on Sep 29, 2004 -
16 answers
RipVanWinkleFilter: Way back in '98, I learned very basic HTML. I wrote some code, made graphics in Photoshop, saved it all in Simpletext, got a domain, and had myself a website. And, err ... six years later I'm basically using the same method. Help me upgrade my skillz? (mi) [more inside]
posted by lisa g
on Sep 27, 2004 -
13 answers
Firefox question. Unmodified, just-installed firefox opens a new tab behind the current tab, instead of on top as Mozilla does; and the right-click popup menu for tabs does not have "close this tab" first in the list, as in Mozilla. Are these two behaviors customizable? I know I'm being lazy but these two misfeatures are deal-killers for me. If you knowledgeable firefox users tell me they're fixable in userChrome.css or users.js or whatever I promise I'll rtfm-rtfm-rtfm and become as rabid a firefox zealot as you might desire. But if they're not changeable then it's all wasted effort and I'll stay with Mozilla (or whatever they're calling it this week.) Thanks!
posted by jfuller
on Sep 25, 2004 -
11 answers
HTML/CSS helpfilter: This page displays properly in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari, but confounds Netscape 7.0. Why? [mi] [more inside]
posted by andrewraff
on Sep 20, 2004 -
4 answers
Quickie Gecko-CSS question - not finding useful help on Google. How to align the text (value) of a form button?
This looks great in IE (aligned right), but always reverts to center in Moz/Firefox. Anyone find any clever workarounds (I really don't wanna resort to images) [more inside]
posted by kokogiak
on Sep 1, 2004 -
15 answers
CSS trouble; using absolute positioning for a box doesn't seem to place it in the exact same spot in Firefox and Internet Explorer. [more inside] [more inside]
posted by kchristidis
on Aug 24, 2004 -
10 answers
CSS Headaches: Hours into a redesign, everything is looking great in Safari and Firefox - is almost looking right in IE Mac, but is simply not functioning properly on the Windows side. Box model hacks are failing me. [A little more inside] [more inside]
posted by aladfar
on Aug 22, 2004 -
14 answers
I'm having a javascript/CSS/IE problem. I'm working on a website that has a line of buttons at the top for navigation, and when you mouseover the button, a menu drops down giving you sub-options. This is controlled pretty simply with javascript changing the "visibility" attribute in the stylesheet for the menu. A problem arises in IE, however, when there are form elements on the page. If the dynamic drop-down menu overlaps a form element, that form element disappears. (Specifically, this is happening with a menu) You have to reload the page to get it back. Anyone know why this might be happening, or how to fix it? Works fine in NS7, Firefox, Mozilla, etc..... [more inside]
posted by emptybowl
on Aug 18, 2004 -
5 answers
It would be nice if there was some favelet, firefox extension, or web-based app that would 1) scrape an html page for all the spans and ids on the page 2) compare this list to the stylesheet and 3) point out the elements that aren't in use any longer.
I haven't found anything like this, and I'm wondering if anyone else has.
posted by jragon
on Aug 11, 2004 -
7 answers
I have a div within a div. I want them both to be exactly the same width (but not height), so that the inner div's border will overwrite the outer div's border. Is this possible?
posted by Tlogmer
on Aug 6, 2004 -
5 answers
CSS issues with IE. I'm working on a draft for my new photoblog and IE seems to be rendering part of it about 2 pixels off, but I cannot figure out quite why. Here's the page in question. It shows up fine in Mozilla, but in IE the logo and unordered list menu on the right are pushed to the right about 2 pixels, running over the border. I thought I just needed to use the "box model hack," but when I tried that it didn't work. Any tips? [more inside]
posted by dnash
on Aug 2, 2004 -
4 answers
Mouse over a link and a link elsewhere on the page lights up, too. I know how to do it in Javascript (er, I used to) but apparently it can be done with just CSS. How? [more inside]
posted by Tlogmer
on Jul 23, 2004 -
17 answers
I have a tree-like navigation done with an unordered list, CSS and JavaScript. on IE, the bullet itself responds to the onclick event (haven't worked out whether it should or not, but it's what I want it to do...).
Stick it inside a div. Still works.
Specify either width or float for the div. It doesn't work.
I can get round it by putting a redundant div inside the one with float and width, but that seems a little messy to me. Any ideas? [more inside]
posted by monkey closet
on Jul 23, 2004 -
8 answers
Hey, CSS Cowboys - spacer help needed! Look here. This is a simple box with three different backgrounds in three fields with no content; the first two need to be exactly 100 pixels tall, and the last one needs to be 200 pixels tall. I am making this happen with transparent spacer .gifs, but I want to eliminate them, if possible. I've tried a couple of things (spacer tag, fer example) that work in Mozilla but not IE; and a couple of things that work in IE (span tags with height declaration, fer example) but not in Mozilla. Padding doesn't work well in either for exact spacing. Can you help me conquer space, the final frontier?
posted by taz
on Jul 23, 2004 -
5 answers
CSS problem wtih firefox. I have this site, it's kind of a porn site, so don't go if that's a problem for you. I can't get the css to work for mozilla/firefox. It works great in IE. No one can seem to figure out the problem. Can anyone help? [more inside]
posted by nyxxxx
on Jul 15, 2004 -
6 answers
I want to believe in XHTML/CSS. I want my structure entirely separate from my layout. But I also think it might all be a big lie, and not because of browser difficulties. Please help clear my misunderstanding. Further explanation - your people call it "more" - is inside. [more inside]
posted by tirade
on Jul 15, 2004 -
23 answers
This is kind of an embarassing question. Is there any decent cheap or shareware software for building basic websites? I know how to edit HTML pretty well, and even tinker with CSS to get it to do what I want, but I don't know how page structure/architecture really works. I want to build a very basic website where I can have an inaccessible image/media folder (to serve to my Blogger-hosted blog, which I'll eventually migrate to a subdomain) and just a few pages of text. All I get from the controls where my domain name is hosted (GoDaddy) is an IP address and a login. After that it's up to me, evidently.
posted by _sirmissalot_
on Jul 13, 2004 -
12 answers
Help, I'm stuck in IE/Mac hell! (It's the only browser we support for Mac at the moment, so it has to work there.) I have a dropdown list with various values: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, etc. One of these values is set by the JSP as the current selected value: . Clicking on the value in the dropdown you want (Page 5, whatever) will bring you to that new page. The code is valid and works perfectly fine in IE/Win, Safari, Mozilla, etc. But on IE/Mac, when the new page loads, the value that's *visible* on screen in the dropdown box is not the currently-selected one, but rather whatever value was the first value in the dropdown list! So you could be on Page 1, go to Page 5, but Page 1 (the first option in the list of options) is what displays in the dropdown. To make matters funkier, when you then click to open that dropdown, it "jumps" to show you that yes, you're really on Page 5, that Page 5 is indeed the selected/highlighted value. So it's a display bug of some sort...?
I've seen plenty of bug reports and workarounds online for Mac/IE, but nearly all of them involve CSS, not core HTML pieces like options/selects. We do use CSS on the site, but it's minimal, and we generally use nested tables, inside which this naughty dropdown resides. Ideas to get around this--maybe javascript to force the correct value to display? Anyone else had this sort of issue? Help!
posted by Asparagirl
on May 27, 2004 -
2 answers
CSS question. Usually, I can figure these things out. This one has me stumped. I know its a box model problem, but none of the usual fixes seem to fix it. Everything looks right in Mozilla, Firefox, and Opera. Bigger, better explanation inside, along with some code. [more inside]
posted by Grod
on May 26, 2004 -
11 answers
Minor CSS trouble; how do you remove the bottom border of a linked image? [more inside] [more inside]
posted by kchristidis
on May 3, 2004 -
18 answers
CSS issue. I have a problem with a site that I built. I can either make the centre box containing the main body of the pages line up with the other boxes on the page, or I can make the centre box flexible to allow for different resolutions etc, but not both. [more inside] [more inside]
posted by dg
on Apr 15, 2004 -
6 answers
Stupid CSS Tricks: can the CSS sprite method described at various places (ALA, for example) be used to change the background of a container other than the one being rolled over? [more inside]
posted by precocious
on Apr 1, 2004 -
5 answers
CSS - Does anyone know how to get me around an IE style sheet problem? Mozilla shows the right text box correctly while IE goes off and does it's own thing. Any suggestions?
posted by twine42
on Mar 26, 2004 -
11 answers
CSS question. I know you can orientate paragraphs horizontally and even vertically using CSS. However, is it possible to give paragraph a constant tilt, like this?[more inside]
posted by MintSauce
on Mar 16, 2004 -
4 answers
Apparent CSS or related markup problem. This page renders mostly correctly in IE6, but most of the content disappears under Moz. It's a hybrid CSS/table layout. I need your Browser-Fu! [more inside] [more inside]
posted by weston
on Mar 12, 2004 -
16 answers
I know I should be validating all the stuff I put on the Intarweb on various different browsers, so I alternately run Mozilla 1.4, IE 6 and Opera 7 to review my work. I tried to download IE 5.X from a 'legacy browsers' site, but it wouldn't install with 6 already installed. How do I make that work? (And, as long as I'm letting my web dumbness hang out, where are the bestest places to validate your HTML and CSS, and what else should I be testing/validating that I haven't mentioned?)
posted by wendell
on Mar 6, 2004 -
6 answers
HTML/CSS: Damn it Jim! I'm an architect of buildings, not of the web! I've been working on the web site for our chapter of the AIA in Europe. I've been trying to learn as much as I can about HTML and CSS -- looking, reading, trial and error. Our new site is coming along but I have one vexing problem. On the front pages of two directories, some browsers exhibit three odd characters at the upper left hand corner of the page: . Links are inside... [more inside]
posted by Dick Paris
on Feb 24, 2004 -
12 answers
What are some good web development links or discussion lists with an emphasis on CSS development to help me troubleshoot some problems with a new site of mine? Mozilla and Safari aren't rendering my CSS correctly (it's fine in IE) even though I thought I was being careful in how I coded it. I'm a member of CSS-discuss and have posted my issue there, but the nice people who tried to take a look at the problem have been stumped. I've also read through the archives at scriptygoddess and a list apart. Help! [more inside]
posted by Asparagirl
on Feb 17, 2004 -
7 answers
CSS or maybe PHP question about limiting the display size of content. More inside, of course. [more inside]
posted by dobbs
on Feb 17, 2004 -
7 answers
Is there a blackletter typeface in default Windows installations? – or at least a fairly common one? I've got an idea for a website with blackletter drop caps and the occasional heading. I'd rather not resort to images since it's otherwise all C.S.S.
posted by Utilitaritron
on Feb 7, 2004 -
3 answers
Wanted: list of canonical, essential mailing lists/discussion groups for web development, a lá css-discuss. [more inside] [more inside]
posted by weston
on Feb 5, 2004 -
3 answers
What user-agents reliably support the @font-face rule in CSS? According to Microsoft, IE5 and up supports it. I've been trying to determine if Mozilla does, and I have no clue about Mac only browsers like Safari. Googling has not led me to a clear answer, so I turn to you all. [more inside]
posted by Grod
on Jan 21, 2004 -
5 answers
I'm about to design one or more sites I may need to maintain for some time to come. I've always used nested tables and HTML 3 tags to get the job done, but nowadays, CSS seems to be all the rage. I can appreciate some of the advantages it offers [more inside] but given all the questions I've heard about "How can I do XYZ in CSS?" and miscellaneous browser compatibility snafus, I'm wondering whether it's really worth the effort to learn CSS and change all my habits. Convince me? I'm not looking for tutorials or help getting started, I'm looking for arguments in favor of learning the standard, reasons why my life will be easier after doing so. Thanks in advance! [more inside]
posted by scarabic
on Jan 20, 2004 -
16 answers
I'm very fond of the "staggered" content layout of this site, but I can't figure out how to reasonably duplicate it in CSS (with text instead of images). Any suggestions? [more inside] [more inside]
posted by oissubke
on Jan 20, 2004 -
8 answers
CSS Issue: I need to add a 45° notch to the bottom right of a table, so I made an oversize background GIF with said notch, assigned it as a background and set its 'background-position attribute' to '100% 100%', as per w3 instructions. The test page I made works fine in IE6, but doesn't work at all in Firebird 0.7, Opera 7.21 or Safari 1.1. Here's the CSS, and the GIF.
posted by signal
on Jan 15, 2004 -
14 answers
As a budding web designer, what are good sites to steal ideas from? Hopefully ones that update frequently and cover a wide range of style / technologies, though minimalism/CSS is where I'm at right now.
posted by signal
on Jan 12, 2004 -
26 answers
Safari is being a b!tch about correctly rendering basic CSS elements. Specifically, the 'background' attribute simply is not being honoured in any way, shape or form. The kicker is that according to Apple's own specs, Safari does indeed support that attribute; in addition, Googling turns up nothing--a few lists of Safari CSS oddities, but those don't seem to contain anything about the problem I'm seeing. [more inside] [more inside]
posted by cyrusdogstar
on Jan 12, 2004 -
13 answers
CSS Question: is it possible to redefine a tag only within the context of a certain class?
For instance, if I have a class called text1, could I specify that any [a] element which is contained in a [span] with the text1 class have certain properties?
I know I could define it for each a with an a.text1 selector, what I want is to not have to set a class for each a element, but rather just wrap them all in the span.
posted by signal
on Jan 5, 2004 -
4 answers
For some unknown reason, my validating XHTML and CSS is totally broken in MSIE 6.0.. the text doesn't always appear, and will only show up if you minimize the browser and maximize it, or if you scroll down and then back up. This problem is driving me batty! I checked the css-discuss wiki and archives for answers, but no joy.
posted by xyzzy
on Jan 4, 2004 -
9 answers
What's the best code-centric, css-aware HTML editor, or failing that, what's your favorite, and why? [more inside] [more inside]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken
on Dec 18, 2003 -
40 answers
