Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / CSS / March 2007

Say I have a table of products that I sell.  There are four columns -
part_number, item_name, item_picture, item_price.  The problem is that
I want to group some items in this table together.
For example, say one of the items I sold was a hose by a particular

I have a check box with let's say 20 elements. I would like to have it
align as 4 columns, 5 rows. Without using a table and using
understandable CSS is there any way to make the check boxes align as I
would like?

After finding a page on an existing site that was not being displayed
correctly by IE7, I have boiled the problem down to the following
simple example:
  http://bsb.me.uk/tmp/bug.html

In need of some enlightenment here, I'm trying to get my wrapper div
to expand to accommodate height-wise, to whatever content is placed in
it, no luck yet and I realize it's probably something simple, I just
don't see it yet. I have the following:

I am trying to insert a background image into URLs that link to pages
outside our intranet and thus when clicked open a new window. The
image used is the common one seen on many sites, the little
overlapping windows.  This code:

I'm trying to put an image into a table header via a css-style:
th.order1 {
background-image: url(asc.png) top right no-repeat padding-right: 5px;
}

Can I have <h1>, <p> and <span> tags inside a <p> tag?
What should be the best tag to encapsulate all other tags? <div>?
What are the limitations of using <p> and <span> in this?
Where can I find some information on this?

Dear Pros,
How can I achieve a nicer hover-effect for the image "tomasio.design"
on the bottom-right of my webpage? I am using the class ".footer
a:hover" for a CSS-based mouseover-effect but this  causes an ugly

I'm trying to clean up my website, and it's in pretty good shape now,
but I've gotten confused reading about Doctypes.  My site is
http://www.simi-therapy.com
and my CSS is

I need some browser implementation clarification.
In the below example, the alternate stylesheet could be invoked by
user agents that support alternate stylesheets or by script.  Are
there any browsers that don't recognize "alternate stylesheet" as a

I'm making a Javascript program that uses overflow:hidden on a containing
div to crop an image. This page (temporarily) shows an example of what I
mean:
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~night/crossroads/

I am validating my webpages for HTML 4.01 Transitional. I have the
problem that I cannot remove a border on a small graphic on my page. I
have researched various websites for the correct CSS code but none
seems to work.

I used css for a page, it worked but only in IE not in firefox.
What DOCTYPE whould I use for firefox.
the external stylesheet contains the following:
body {

Simple question: how better set font color in script?
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
//Secify scroller contents

I came across this CSS while researching CSS only (no tables) layouts:
* html>body .clearfix {
      display: inline-block;
      width: 100%;