Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / CSS / January 2004

I can't seem to figure out how to specify that the width of a block should
be "enough". For example, I've got a form on a page. With styles, I've given
the form a background and a border. It takes up 100% of the width of the
viewport. If the labels and controls are narrow, I've got ...

See:
http://mapage.noos.fr/dardelf3/tintin/page3bits.html
The series of picts in the first row have no style no table, they just
arrange themselves nicely depending on the window width available.

What am I not understanding about the definition of { position: absolute; }?
"The box's position (and possibly size) is specified with the 'left',
'right', 'top', and 'bottom' properties. These properties specify offsets
with respect to the box's containing block."

I am trying to develop very standards-compliant content using XHTML
and CSS.  I am using CSS positioning and thus need to only include my
stylesheet on browsers I have tested to make sure they display
correctly.  The page is readable without the CSS though the formatting

I've run CSSCheck on my style sheets and I always get a warning
similar to this:
"font: bold 9pt/100% sans-serif
Warning: Absolute length units should not generally be used on the Web ..."

I've got a form used to enter items to be listed in a web-based
catalog. In the past, I've instructed the users to enter I and B tags
(this goes back a while) into the textareas to get italics and bold
face in the catalog.

Hello, I'm pretty sure this is the right place to post and I hope
someone can help me. I'm more of a cgi scripter, so I'm not 100%
familiar with stylesheets but I know enough to get by.
The problem I am having is this: I have a table with two colums. I the

I'm displaying some stats in a table and I'd been putting the text into
a <p> tag inside the <td>s:
<td>
  <p>Note 1: See column x for foo...</p>

Masters:
On two or three-column layouts, one column often has a list
of links.  Scrolling the page hides them.  I'm aware there's
supposed to be the ability to fix the column (frame-like).

i have a <div> with a couple of <p> inside it.  the div is given a border
and a fixed size. how would i get the <p> to sit at the bottom of the <div>
box?
what i've read is that "vertical-align: bottom" is an inline only property

I use a PC almost exclusively, and I was recently very surprised at the
difference in my page when viewed in IE for the Mac (sorry, I couldn't
figure out how to get the version...it was OS9 if that helps).  Is there
any tool out there that offers some kind of Mac browser ...

I've created a page and have a table with a no repeating background.
Works in all but Opera.
Any ideas?
Here's the style sheet:

I'm afraid I'm bursting with questions this week.
Here's another:
Is it possible to give an element a class AND an id?
I'm thinking of a situation where I might want to give

I have an unordered list as menu and want some space at the bottom,
underneath  the last <li>.
I have tried:
setting bottom-margin to ul

Everywhere I have used <h#> ... </h#>, with or without a class=.. I get an
effective double line break, with or without CSS.
What I want to do is to switch text colors, size, and positioning (left,
center, right) and keep the text on the same line (unless I put in a <br>