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CSS - Resizing For Accessibility And 800 X 600
Similar TutorialsHi, I have a small problem. I nearly created all the CSS of my web application, and have my layour in place .. and so far I did not even use one single table for the design. However now I tried to see how my website breaks up when the user Scrolls the mouse while pressing Ctrl (if you do this on google you will notice the fonts get small or bigger depending on how the user scrolls). To my amazment nothing happens. The website stayed as is!! I have defined all fonts (normal text, headers, etc) using the pt notation (example font-size: 10pt. I tried using the em notation, but nothing happened either. Now I am a little bit scared. I tought that this feature is a must-have for accessability and I really wanted to make sure that my website was accessable (This was one of the reasons why I wanted to develop a website with only css!) Does anyone have any ideas about this? Regards, Sim085 On the one hand Accessibility guidelines state that sites should work even if stylesheets fail to load... ... and then on another hand, you're told not to include any style/layout/formatting within an html page - to use the stylesheet instead. My question is this. Say i create a site which is arranged in the common layout of header at top, nav menu floated to the left, main content sitting on the right, and then footer below. Should the layout of the div's, namely the float left etc be within the webpage or the stylesheet. I guess most people will say stylesheet, but that means if the stylesheet fails to load, the site layout will be completely messed up with the content appearing below the nav menu. Do you make an exception in this case and include some limited layout-style information in the webpage? What are people's opinions on this? I know there is a forum for this, so I will not paste any URL or such without permission (I don't have 30 posts required to even post there, so). I don't want to get banned, etc. for posting something so instead I will simply ask^_^ & say, "Thank you!" for everyone is helpful here & provides a good community (& endless reading material via posts, tutorials etc!). So, what am I really asking about? "I've been learning XHTML & CSS as a hobby for the past few weeks & needed something to experiment with; my excuse for this practice takes on the form of a personal webpage (not quite comfortable with my name online, I created a pseudonymous company name). For this little project, my goal was to be simple: accessible, valid, & XHTML/CSS only (with hopefully no Javascript or as few hacks/filters as possible)." With that said, it would probably be helpful to actually see my web page to let me know how it's going....but as I said, I don't think it would really belong here (this is not website critique forum & I am not really sure where else to ask since I love this community) I have tested it's viewability on IE6/win, Opera 9.24, Firefox 2.0.0.11 & Safari 3.0b/win, but I don't have access to a Mac machine, either. It's built to be usable with 800x600 resolution (or viewport) in mind, though I designed it with 1024x768. Would it be okay if I ask for some of the more experienced designers to take a look at my coding & layouts to make sure everything is on track? The Q tag is supposed to be used for inline quotations, whereas the BLOCKQUOTE tag for longer quotations. The Q tag is suppose to render quotation marks around the enclosed quote, but does not do so in IE. As far as I known (have read in various articles), IE is the only browser that does not enclose the quote with quotation marks. I have a single-lined quote I want to display and was hoping to use the Q tag as I don't find it neccessary to use the BLOCKQUOTE tag since it's only a 5-word sentence and the BLOCKQUOTE does not render quotation marks around the data in any browser (instead indents both the left and right margins). If I were to forget about both tags competely and just enclose my quote with quotation marks it would 'appear' correct, though it does not adhear to accessibility guidelines as a screen-reader browser like JAWS would not realize it is actually a quotation and would read it the same as any other text enclosed in a P tag. If I were to use the Q tag and add the quotation marks, IE would look right, but in all the other browsers there would be double quotation marks. Should I de-style the Q tag so the quotation marks do not show? If that is possible I could continue using the appropriate tag and just add the quotation marks manually but it would still look right on all web browsers (including text-only browsers), and it would be read properly. Though, is that even possible? and if it were, is it backwards-compatible or will it only work on recent web browsers? Another alternative would be to use the BLOCKQUOTE and add the quotations manually and style the BLOCKQUOTE tag accordingly... but again, this is meant for longer quotations, but may be the only reasonable alternative? OR style the Q tag to have quotation marks before and after in IE, but IE doesn't support 'content:' correct? Does anyone know of a solution? or which of my 'fixes' would you suggest? Thank you. Edit I was thinking about this more and I think I came up with a pretty good solution: Code: q:before, q:after { content:''; }
IE already doesn't display the quotes so it doesn't matter that it doesn't support the above code, the rest of the browsers do (i think?), so I can continue to use the Q tag, whilst adding the quotation marks manually. Good fix? A random thought popped into my head today about whether it matters if a site is fluid or static with regards to accessibility. Wherever possible I do try to design fluid sites but is there anything wrong with a static design if you then add an extra CSS file for handheld devices etc? I'm designing a webpage that uses an image for the header/logo. i need the page to have certain things: (1) it needs to be accessible for screen readers (2) it needs to have two stylesheets - the main one <link href= ............. media="screen"/> + one that enables printing of text only, without images e.g. <link href= ............. media="print"/> To get (1) i need to have the alt="whatever" attribute in the html, but i can only do that if i have img src="xxxxx" in the html. To get the print-text-only style sheet i need to have the image in the main css stylesheet e.g. background-image:url (xxx/xxx); instead of having img src="xxxxx" in the html. So my question is: how do I get alt="whatever" if there's no img src="xxxxx" in the html? Or what's the alternative? I hope this makes sense to you, 'cause I've been going round in circles with it! TIA, jifjaf Hi guys, For a pure CSS site, is it depreciated to have a border="0" tag in <img elements? (My reasoning is that if one browser doesn't support CSS, it will show the user images with ugly borders... that's anyway the default behavior in IE and FF). Thank you I have been asked to create a font resize on a website. I can do the basics of it but I'm running into a couple snags Question 1 In my stylesheet, I have: Code: #centerCol {
float: left;
color: #333;
font-size: 10px;
padding: 10px 10px 10px 15px;
}
And in my code I have a function that contains: Code: document.getElementById('centerCol').style.fontSize = '12px';
It works fine to resize the centerCol ID but what if I want to only resize the <p> tags in the centerCol ID? Question 2 Is there a way to resize without the use of Javascript? Everything I've found so far includes it. Here is the code for what is basically the masthead for the top of a web page. It uses tables, and expands and contracts to fit the browser as the viewer re-sizes. Quote: <table width="100%"> <tr> <td><IMG src="images/banner_left_end.gif"></td> <td width="100%" background="images/some_background.gif" align="middle" valign="center"> <!-- middle cell at 100% to push the left and right cells to the browser edges --> </td> <td><IMG src="images/banner_right_end.gif"></td> </tr> </table> What I would like to do is get rid of the table and use DIV tags and CSS to do this, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to push the left image to the left and the right image to the right to make it grow and contract as the browser re-sizes. How is this done? Anyone know how to get your website's background to resize as the page is manually resized when using IE? It resizes properly on both on mac and PC using Firefox, Safari, and Opera, but not IE (on PC). Thanks Sup all. Im trying to make a website but it keeps resizing when I expand and retract me webbrowser. So Far this is my code PHP Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Free UFC PPV</title> <style type="text/css"> body { background-color: #CCC; font-family: Tahoma; } #holder { width: 75%; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid; text-align: left; } #img{ background-image:url(images/header.png); } #login { width: 100%; font-family: Tahoma; font-size:15px; text-align: right; color: Black; border: 1px solid; } </style> </head> <body> <center> <div id="holder" style="width:75%"> <a href="index.php"> <img src="images/header.png" alt="Header Image" width="1024" height="150" /></a> <div id="login" style="100%" > <form action=""> Login:<input name="userlog" type="text" /> Password:<input name="passlog" type="text" /> <input name="btn_sub" type="button" value="Login" /> </form> </div> </div> </center> </body> </html> What can I do to stop resizing? I'm looking to basically replicate the design of Engadget. Not entirely, just the real basic design of it. I'm trying to figure out how to use 4 different images (a right header, left header, left footer, right footer) to construct a site that resizes in different browsers to look good. How do I do this? I'm familiar with CSS and html. I want to make the images in Fireworks and slice them, but after I do that and have the html how do I do things like using a wrapper? Thanks for any help you can offer. Hi there! I am tweaking a WordPress template to fit a blog for a roleplaying game. The template is a three-column, fixed-width one. It looks fine on my tiny 17" monitor at work, but at home on my 22", the blog is very small and sits in the center of the page. (The content section is just 904px wide.) Is there a way to tweak the style.css file in order to give the columns percentage widths instead of absolute pixel widths, so that the center "content" area will resize properly according to the reader's resolution/monitor size/window size? I have some experience with CSS and I'm usually pretty good at tweaking pre-existing CSS to fit my needs, but this is something that's a bit beyond me. I can't put a direct URL in my post, but here's a snippet of the CSS file: Code:
body, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, address, blockquote, dd, dl, hr, p, form{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
body{
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 12px;
text-align: center;
vertical-align: top;
background: #fff url();
color: #fff;
}
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6{
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 16px;
}
a{
text-decoration: underline;
color: #08441e;
}
a:hover{ text-decoration: none; }
a img{ border: 0; }
abbr, acronym{ border: 0; }
address, dl, p{ padding: 10px 0 0; }
blockquote{
margin: 10px 10px 0;
background: #fffada url(images/bg_blockquote.gif) no-repeat 5px 7px;
color: #736926;
}
blockquote p{
padding: 10px 10px 10px 20px;
}
blockquote blockquote{
margin: 10px 20px;
background: #fff;
color: #333;
}
blockquote blockquote p{ padding: 10px; }
code{
background: #f9f9f9;
}
dt{
font-weight: bold;
}
dd{
padding: 0 0 5px 15px;
}
hr{
clear: both;
margin: 15px 0 5px;
width: 100%;
border: 0;
height: 1px;
text-align: left;
background: url(images/bg_comment_bottom.gif) no-repeat;
}
small{
font-size: 10px;
}
input, textarea{
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
padding: 2px;
}
input#author, input#email, input#url, textarea#comment{
border: 1px solid #cbb945;
background-color: #fffadb;
padding: 3px;
}
input#author, input#email, input#url{
margin: 0 5px 0 0;
}
#container, #header, #menu, #menu ul li, #menu ul li a, #pagetitle, h1, #syndication, .pagewrapper, .page, .wrapper, .narrowcolumnwrapper, .narrowcolumn, .content, .post, .entry, .browse, sidebar{
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
}
#container{
margin: 0 auto;
width: 904px;
padding: 10px 0 0;
}
#header{
margin: 0 0 10px;
float: left;
width: 904px;
height: 250px;
background: url(images/bg_header.gif) no-repeat left bottom;
color: #333;
}
#menu ul{
margin: 0;
padding: 0 0 0 175px;
list-style: none;
}
#menu ul li{
float: left;
margin: 0 5px 0 0;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: bold;
background: url(images/bg_tab_right.gif) no-repeat right top;
color: #ffffff;
}
#menu ul li a{
display: block;
padding: 14px 20px 10px;
text-decoration: none;
background: url(images/bg_tab_left.gif) no-repeat left top;
color: #ffffff;
}
#menu ul li a:hover{
text-decoration: underline;
}
#pagetitle{
clear: both;
width: 904px;
height: 250px;
}
}
#pagetitle h1 a{
text-decoration: none;
color: #fff;
}
.pagewrapper{
margin: 0 0 10px;
float: left;
width: 904px;
background: #fff url(images/bg_page_bottom.gif) no-repeat left bottom;
color: #333;
}
.page{
float: left;
padding: 0 5px 5px;
background: url(images/bg_page_top.gif) no-repeat;
}
.wrapper{ /* This wrapper class appears only on Page and Single Post pages. */
float: left;
width: 500px;
}
.narrowcolumnwrapper{
margin: 5px 0 0;
float: left;
width: 500px;
background: #fff url(images/bg_narrowcol.gif) repeat-y;
}
.narrowcolumn{
float: left;
width: 500px;
background: url(images/bg_narrowcol_bottom.gif) no-repeat left bottom;
}
.content{
float: left;
width: 500px;
background: url(images/bg_narrowcol_top.gif) no-repeat left top;
}
Thank you! I fixed it on my own, thanks for the multitude of responses, not. Alright, this seems to be tricky, but here's the story: I've got a photography gallery I made for a friend, and the last thing that needs to be taken care of is cross-browser compatability. I'm down to one problem of image resizing for thumbnails in IE. I've seen a few solutions, but none of them seem to work, so maybe I'm just doing things wrong, but then again no site has talked about resizing both horiz. and vert. For the site, any image thrown on the page needs to be resized to no greater then 105x100. But please, don't tell me to use PHP for this - I'm very attached to the fact that the entire site weighs in at under 300 lines. Thanks, Brian Ziemek http://hmv.co.in/temp/html/boxes.html when the content of the box of either left and right boxes in the above page is diff... the boxes margin is also changed... how can i make both the boxes of the same siz so tht theres blank space in the box tht has less content I have a div centered in the middle of my page if i type a long paragraph between the two <div> tags it is all one line, and resizes the div, even though i have its width set to a fixed size? is there something im doing wrong? Im completely stumped thanks in advance Hi, is there any way to achieve this effect (pseudocode) with CSS? if (image width > 100) add property width="100" to all img tags ie. i want to make all images larger than 100 pixels scale down I have attached the file, If you Open a File using that, the Textarea was styled to go to 90% (<textarea style="width:100%;height:90%;"></textarea>) this is designed only to work in IE! Can someone please help me? Thank you, In advance Zero Hey people. I've been desperatly searching for a fix for the bug in my CSS, but I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Here is a link to the the testfile: http://users.skynet.be/bert_fonteyn...iek/index.html. The page validates as valid XHTML. Now here is the bug in Windows (I have not tested it in Mac yet), both in Netscape 7 as in IE 6. Shrink your window, so you have a horizontal scrollbar. Scroll to the right, and you will notice there is a white area which can 't show the backgroundtile for some 60 px wide. The content (which is white) is there however... Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? Greetz, Bert |
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