Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / CSS / May 2006

I am using the <select> element form
http://www.hedgerwow.com/360/dhtml/ui_select_with_fixed_width/demo.php
which has a dropdown with a varied width that allows users to see
longer values when clicked or moused over.

I have a form in my html and a <select> inside the form. I did no
specify the width of the <select>. Since one of the options in the
select has a very long text, the <select> filed takes a lot of space in
the page. I want to make it samller in the page, but if I give it a

Having discovered what I believe to be two CSS bugs in IE7, I have
submitted bug reports to MS. AFAIK, these don't get acted on until they
receive votes form others to say they are worth investigating.
As (I naively assume) it's in everyone's interest to see IE7 support CSS

I'm writing a panoramic image viewer in javascript. When the mouse is over
the image, I want it to be a crosshair (over most of the image), or a
hand/pointer (when it's over an image map region). The image map is
created in javascript, but doesn't set any 'cursor' style rules.

IE allows to show text that exceeds the container's boundaries as
unfinished (by adding ellipsis).
e.g.:
<div style="text-overflow:ellipsis;overflow:hidden;width:20px">some

the page
http://www.moon2.de/float.htm
is displayed in IE as I would expect (the second block right beside the
first).

Good afternoon all of you,
(concerning: http://test.while.be/TEST_menu.php)
I've made a CSS styled menu (on the left side of the page underneath
'products') and it's working correctly in all browsers but IE.

By clicking a link on a website I set a USERINFO cookie and then I
redirect to a program which ultimately executes an XSL file which
dynamically builds an input form. The input form, while having some non
dynamic hidden INPUT tags, has one hidden INPUT tag that is dynamic. In

A question relating to http://www.entrust-systems.net/
Just for a change I have run into a problem that seems to be OS
specific rather than browser specific - the box image that is acting as
a faux border for the main text block shows nasty image effects on the

I've tried this:
  #some-div img { text-align: left }
but no luck.
What I have is some-div that requires 'text-align: center'

I finally got around to buying a 2nd hand Mac, so I can test pages in
the Mac-only browsers. It has IE5.2, although that hangs up every time I
try to start it up, so I guess I won't be testing much in that!! I also
have Safari 1.0 (v85).

just like ie5.5 does,
style ="
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Wipe(GradientSize=1.0,wipeStyle=1,motion=reverse,enabled=0,Duration=0.61)"
I tried to use obj.filters[0] to access it but failed in IE5.0

can't figure this one out, what's the CSS way to specify the language?
In HTML it would be simply an lang="xx" attribute, or XHTML
xml:lang="xx", but, how about in CSS? This would be required for a
screen reader (text to speech) for accessibility, to help the reader

In my (seemingly) endless quest to understand CSS, I have yet another
problem. Please look at http://www.kidsinaction.org.uk/ph/x.html in
Opera, where you will see it how I expected. If you look at it in IE (6
or 7), you find it also looks fine, except for the top margin missing

I'm trying to get output that looks like this:
1. main point 1
  A.  subordinate point
  B.   subordinate point