Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / CSS / June 2005

If you display the styles in use at Yahoo.com, you can see some
interesting things.  For example, this:
html>body{font:84.5%/122% arial;}
I tried creating a sample page using this style and it didn't do

I'm developing a site using CSS layout. One of the main divs contains
the content, another contains the side bar. I want the content next to
the sidebar so the content is floated left and the sidebar is floated
right. This looks fine is Firefox and IE but doesn't in Opera ( Opera 6

I have stumbled over this website
<http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/index.html>
and I wonder how they manage to invert the colors of the fixed
background image when scrolling downward and the blue header moves

i try to build a site in CSS and am new to this. Some things work,
others do not.
Now i have a problem with this page:
http://www.groningenbevrijd.nl/colofon.asp

I really hope I'm not hitting a frequently asked question here, because
I think almost every author must have made that decision. Anyway, here
goes:
Would it be better to write one global stylesheet, then write

I've created a div tag that has overflow set to scroll in  my css file.
Now I've embedded a table inside of that div.  However, a div always
expands to the size of it's container.  Here the whole width of the
browser.  Thus, the scroll bar shows up way at the right and the data

I have the following in my css sheet:
body {
    font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
    font-size: 14px;

Does somebody have an idea why MSIE 6 on this page
http://www.nies.ch/switzerland/fauna/index.de.php/2
does not show the "New" icon in the lower right corner of the thumbnail
like in any other browser?

Although it might seem like I am firing out random posts in quick
succession this matter is indeed one I thought about for quite some
time without coming to a conclusion:
Why is it that most professional CSS authors prefer /float/ing elements

Apologies if the terminology isn't quite right here...
say we have the following code:
<SELECT NAME="p1_val" class=list-element>
If the class "list-element" isn't defined, is it possible to specify an

i have this page: http://www.foodtoknow.org/test.htm
when i look at it in IE the red div's in the center of the screen are
aligned as they should (leaving a white border to the left the same size as
the border to the left of the top bar picture).

I figure before I go and write my summary of why you should go back to
tables and only use CSS for fonts and colors and stuff, I ought to make
sure I've got my facts right.  So, please tell me how I can get this:
<div style="border:1px solid #000;width:100% ">

I've been playing with CSS inline floats of <span> elements and the
results are not quite what I would expect. In the example attached
at the end of this post, I would expect the floated span 2 to be
on the same line as span 1, but instead it is on the same line

On http://festest.hullin.net/index2.php?was=nurstruktur&ausklapp=,2, (make
sure to add that last comma to the URL), you can see a basic example of a
discussion board's tree structure. Right now, I'm doing the expanded text
box as a table, such as:

Here is what I want to say in CSS:
Dear div, please try to be 300px wide.  If for some reason there's a
table inside of you that's 400 px wide, go ahead and expand to envelop
it, RATHER THAN A) holding your boundary and letting it spill over the