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CSS - Css + Semantics Questions, Site-related
this is my site
i am converting to semantics (starting with the topleft VIPs Area login). i have some questions regarding some of my unique/weird cases: for stats like " * Games Played: 119 * Votes Casted: 64 * Comments Added: 56", i have grouped sets of them into <p>aragraphs, but instead of using line breaks (which is bad, apparently), i am trying to use <ul>s, just removing the bullet image and the indent. well, the indent is not going away. by making the margin-left:0em, does nothing, the padding-left does except it becomes out of line :S so it looks like Code: <p>
<ul class='nobullet'>
<li>Games Played: <b><?php echo $user['totalgames']; ?></b></li>
<li>Votes Casted: <b><?php echo $user['totalratings']; ?></b></li>
<li>Comments Added: <b><?php echo $user['totalcomments']; ?></b></li>
</ul>
</p>
should i be using <ul>s or something else to avoid the <br />? (i will have more questions, but this is a start) thanks a ton in advance! Similar TutorialsHello - My name is Steve Douglas website designer for AAA Northwest Ohio. I'm 19, and learning as I go - AAA paying for any courses that I need to take, but i'm not the school type of guy. I like to learn it by self-studying; i learn it better by making my own mistakes. Anyways were doing a site re-design, I first started off with a simple re-design with just HTML and tables (whoopity doo), boss was impressed - I was not. I hated it. But - I'm doing a new site design now with CSS, learned how to code it overnight. I started the designing and had wierd errors all around with browser related issues, I would re-design, re-design, and re-design until everything worked Perfect in all Screen Resolutions, IE 5.0, IE 6.0, IE 7.0, and Firefox I got advice from a fellow devshed guy kasmatu (spelling could be off), but helpful guy, gave me the clue to get the Mozilla Firefox Extension for CSS [Love It!]. Now should I follow these tools by heart? I mean like if I click Tools then Validate CSS, and Validate HTML, and Etc. 1. I am at a state where my header finally looks great in all popular browsers, but when I validate my CSS it's saying i'm missing a </div> at line 40 - Which is True! but when I go to add it, um, yea doesn't like that - all ID's are totally screwed from there after. not even the header looks right. And it doesn't look like a simple fix. I mean it's working! - So why should I want to validate my CSS? ALSO - and this is prolly why.. How do I speed up the site? Our Current site that we are using, is running 98 seconds loading time for Dialup users (a minute an a half!). The new CSS is at 45 seconds for Dialup users (i think). I'm pretty sure it's to do with all the Javascripts i'm using, I'm planning on combining the Scripts together and taken out code I do not need. But the document sizes are still huge. --------- I'm looking into HTTP Compression for our server - is this smart? we are running on a windows 2000 server IIS - What are the negatives to installing the compresser? ---------- Here is the site re-design http://www.aaanwohio.com/test/together.php Our Current Site is located at http://www.aaa.com/stop - Zip Code 43465 I have just been asked whether or not the navigation div's and other proprietry stuff should be below the content in the source code and until asked I was sure it was. Now it doesn't sound right to me. Am I right or wrong? Hi guys, I've been toying with this for a while, but don't really know where to take it . . . ? I've got the basic layout of the page to work across most browsers, need to tweak for IE 5.0 & 5.5. I don't have linux, so Konqueror . . . ? Anyway, this is it, I'm wondering how to remove the layout images from the html in a way that is more semantically correct than having them where they are at present (in the html). The problem is, I don't know what would be more semantically correct than an image. If I use a paragraph and place image as background - the paragraph will be empty - not content per say - just the image. I've already been advised not to over do the divs, so I don't know what to do. The html page and css page are there. [Both have been validated] Any suggestions?? Thanks. ***SOLVED**** A mod can delete this if you like I have a problem in IE when dynamically adding elements through the DOM, the problem is basically: if i add a element(a div btw), with document.createElement and use setAttribute("class", "my_CSS_classname") to apply styling, the styling doesnt get applied when viewing it in IE6 (it works fine in firefox). Does IE force you to style dynamic elements though the .style proberty or wah? Thanks to the forum I've worked out a prior issue but 2 remain in regards to the secondary navigation bar. 1. Width - If I use a value of 25% for the pages with 4 sub-links (i.e. "The Music" main) it spans the full width of the right column but in IE6 it pushes the box below it down abot 10px. In OP7, NS6, NS7 & Mozilla1.7 it displays properly. 2. a:hover - I can't seem to figure how to make the hover effect respond to mousing over all parts of the box. It only activates when hovering over the text portion. Works properly in the main-nav but not for the sub-nav (note - this is also ONLY IE related). Really not important unless it is an easy fix. I have tested this site in IE6, NS6.2, NS7.1, OP7.5, Moz1.7. I know v4 browsers are a lost cause but if you could confirm success/failure in others I would appreciate it. Regards, Golem2 I have a gap between my <td> data. HTML Code: <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="11" height="31"><img src="/images/header_left.jpg" width="11" height="31" border="0" alt="" /></td> <td class="header" height="31"><? echo $query_data[3]; ?> <? echo $query_data[0]; ?></td> <td width="16" height="31"><img src="/images/header_right.jpg" width="16" height="31" border="0" alt="" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="smaller" colspan="2"><b><? echo $query_data[1]; ?></b><br /> <? echo nl2br($query_data[2]); ?><br /> and so on... CSS Code:
.header {
background-image: url(http://www.mysite.com/images/header_fill.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}
This displays nicely in Firefox et al. But IE sucks so... Any suggestions? Please and thanks. I am using wordpress for my blog/site. I am using Freshnews theme from woothemes as the theme for the blog. Here is the link: demo.woothemes.com/freshnews The font is not that good and it is way too small and the spacing is bad (too congested). How do I change the fonts, size, spacing (line and paragraph) throughout the blog. I know I would have to change it somewhere in the stylesheet. But where exactly and how? And what are the ways to get this done? Should I install a font somewhere? Should I use webfonts (like google webfonts)? What is the advantage in using this? or what are the other ways? I was just wondering if any knew any good books on CSS (especially how it pertains to webdesign). One good example is Eric Meyer on CSS. Thanks so much! I have a basic layout that I'm working on right now (a gif is attached), but I can't figure out the best way to code it. I know the corners have to be gif images. That's easy enough. What I'm wondering, is whether the top and side sections can be div's with corresponding borders or if I'm going to have to use images all around the center div. I'd really like to use as little bitmap imagery as possible just to get used to working conservatively instead of just laying everything out with images. I'm still new to CSS layouts, and I've seen some good tutorials, but not much related to escaping the blocky look traditionally associated with them. I know a list apart has a good article on rounded corners, but it didn't seem to apply here. Thanks for your time Hey, I got a webpage that looks like it should in both IE 6.0 and firefox 2.0. Now i went testing it in opera and it has a problem with some div positions. Here is how it looks in firefox and IE: Internet explorer:http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8176/iexz2.jpg firefox:http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/5503/firefoxqc0.jpg And this is how it looks in Opera 9.10:http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/5125/operauw7.jpg The buttons signout, new contact and contact list are shifted to the low. I use this code on every page do display the header with the buttons ( the red part is the div with the buttons in it. Code:
<body>
<div class="containingTitles">
<div class="titleNavDiv">
<b>Hello, stefan.</b>
</div>
<div class="titleContentDiv">
<form action="search_contact.php" name="search" id="search" method="get">
<div style="float: left; width: 35%; margin: 0%; padding: 0%;">
<input type="text" style="width: 50%" name="sq" value="" id="sq">
<input type="submit" name="s" value="Search" id="s">
</div>
</form>
<form name="new_contact" id="new_contact" method="get" action="new_contact.php">
<div style="float: left; width: 22%; margin: 0%; padding: 0%; text-align: right;">
<input type="submit" name="nc" value="New Contact" id="nc">
</div>
</form>
<form name="contact_list" id="contact_list" method="get" action="contact_list.php">
<div style="float: left; width: 22%; margin: 0%; padding: 0%;">
<input type="submit" name="cl" value="Contact List" id="cl">
</div>
</form>
<form name="logout" id="logout" method="get" action="logout.php">
<div style="float: left; width: 20%; margin: 0%; padding: 0%; text-align: right;">
<input type="submit" name="lo" id="lo" value="Sign out">
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
<div class="navigationDiv">
<div class="unselectedContact"><a href="contact_info.php?contact_id=102">Username1</a></div>
<div class="unselectedContact"><a href="contact_info.php?contact_id=102">Username2</a></div>
<div class="selectedContact"><a href="contact_info.php?contact_id=102">Username3</a></div>
etc.
</div>
<div class="contentDiv">
----- contents of the page -----
</div>
</div>
And belowis the css code i use to float the divs into position. And here you can see the division of the pages and which class belongs to which div: http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/1503/layoutai3.jpg css Code: Original - css Code body{ margin: 0; padding-left: 0%; padding-right: 0%; padding-top: 0%; padding-bottom: 0%; background: url(background.jpg) 22% 0; } .containingTitles{ float: left; width: 100%; margin: 0%; padding: 0%; background-color: #4D3D4D; color: white; overflow: hidden; } .titleNavDiv{ float: left; width: 20%; margin: 0%; padding-left: 2%; padding-right: 0%; padding-top: 1%; padding-bottom: 1%; overflow: hidden; } .titleContentDiv{ float: left; width: 77%; margin: 0; padding-left: 0%; padding-right: 0%; padding-top: 1%; padding-bottom: 1%; overflow: hidden; } .navigationDiv{ float: left; width: 22%; margin: 0; padding-left: 0%; padding-right: 0%; padding-top: 0%; padding-bottom: 0%; overflow: hidden; color: #FFFFFF; background-color: #4D3D4D; } .contentDiv{ float: left; width: 76%; margin: 0; padding-left: 2%; padding-right: 0%; padding-top: 0%; padding-bottom: 0%; overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #BFACBF; }
hope you can tell me why this happens. Thanks in advance. Does anyone know much about IE 7? In particular does it conform to the WWW consortium's box model (margins and padding). This would reduce a whole lot of extra CCS elements and headaches. Does is finally support transparent PNG files? Support for PNG will change the look of the web dramatically! Hi, I'm designing a web site using a full CSS layout with XHTML. It's quite challenging as I'm used to complex table designs. My design is located at http://www.definitedigital.com/vida/index.html And the style sheet at http://www.definitedigital.com/vida/style.css There's some things that look different across browsers, and I'm not sure if it's some sort of bug or my mistake. For example, 1. On Firefox the 'Punta Del Este Vida Beach House' link image is sometimes detected and sometimes unclickable. 2. There's much more vertical spacing between the divs (logo, photo, menu) in Firefox than in IE. I'd really appreciate if someone could take a look at my CSS, as I don't really know whether I'm doing this right or not. Thanks, Ralph I have the following code: Code: <div class="Outer"> <div class="Inner"> Text one </div> </div> <div class="Outer"> <div class="Inner"> Text two </div> </div> I have the following CSS Code:
.Outer{
width:150px;
float:left;
}
.Inner{
Margin:10px:
}
I would like to set the Inner div in first instance of Outer to have a margin-left of 0px. I have tried the following Code: .Outer:first-child .Inner{
margin-left:0px;
}
This works in Chrome but not in IE, but it does work if I apply the style inline to the First Inner Div. Can it be done within the CSS file? So I just started a class about 4 weeks ago with CSS and I have run into a problem. Its probably a stupid mistake on my part somewhere but I can't figure it out. I have div id tags and for those id tags I have created for example: #test h2, p { font-style:italic; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; display:inline; padding: 10px; } This is because I want only the header and p content in this specific div tag to have these properties. But for some reason its spilling out onto the rest of my p and h2 tags. Why is this happening and how do I stop it so that I can control which h and p tags have specific properties? Hope someone can help!! Thanks I know how to center an element horizontally, but why does it not work with vertical centering? Horizontal (working) - Code:
element.foo {
margin: auto;
width: 0;
}
Vertical (not working) - Code:
element.fuu {
margin: auto;
height: 0; /* no values work */
}
I've seen an entire layout vertically centered by containing the entire layout in a single-cell table and applying the "valign" attribute to the cell, but I'd rather not use tables. I've also checked out the W3C's "Centering Vertically" example, but it relies on the author knowing the height of the content. Since height doesn't work with %, I can't use that. Does somebody know of a way to center vertically without using absolute positioning (relative is fine) or tables, and without knowing the height of the content? I'd rather not use trial and error, but this does seem like a question that is virtually impossible to answer 100% affirmatively (about as sure as 100% height works ). First: I have seen: p.classname and just .classname What is the difference between the two if the latter is applied to a paragraph? Also: I have seen classes stack on top of each other like: <p class ="classname" class ="classname2">text</p> <p class = "classname" id = "idname">text</p> So is there a way to use classes with other classes id with other ids or classes and ids together like the above? I never usually code my layouts and test for validation (which after this I see they would fail horribly), even though it displays right theres so many mistakes. I finally got my layout to pass validation in HTML 4.1, but some things went wrong. First heres the links: (and yes this does involve CSS): http://65.26.50.204/ec/index.php - My Layout (View Source) http://65.26.50.204/ec/stylesheet.css - The CSS One thing I was told to do is take out height="100%" but it only told me to take it out in some places and not otheres... strange. Anyways how do I get it to stretch 100% with CSS? Second question, is it a bad practice to use a lot of css classes, I mean like if I have a CSS class used only once is that bad? Does it even matter how many I use?... it wont delay page loading time will it? Third question, I was told to remove the cellspacing tag in most of the places, is that not used anymore or what? Id really like to use css for page layout. Im using asp.net and I need to setup a template that all my pages use. Id rather not use tables, but ive had trouble using css in the past. I need a layout that allows for a header certered section (used to do it with a nested, centered table) center section should have shaded edges to simulate a printed page footer menubar below the header I also need the content area to expand and not go bezerk when i add data in a table or a large image. Can anyone point me to an example that does this ? |
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