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

Hi again folks.
I finally got my page to look the way I wanted in IE7, Netscape and
Firefox when I decided to try it in IE6. Unfortunately, my right
content moved directly below my left content.

I was wondering, in order to get results are the same in all browsers
(or as close to the same) shoud I be using px for padding and margins
or should I be using em's. Or is there is another unit that I should
be using?

Guys (and girls if you are here)
This group is one of the funniest I have read for a long while.
Most of my other lists and groups deal with dull tech stuff like 'how do
I stop my parabolic swash pump controller leaking memory all over the

I'm using CSS to highlight main navigation items in a 'suckerfish menu'
for the currently loaded page, i.e. when on the home page, the 'home'
navigation item should be highlighted.
I've almost got this working, except for some reason, the highlighted

I posted some time ago about a particular layout I was trying to achieve. I
was told that I needed to strip the page of all the non essentials to make
sure that the page was easily accessible. The idea was to have individual
fixed positions for components on the page. In Safari, ...

I'm trying to understand the overflow property.
The following was suggested as a solution to a previous issue I had
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html
This works (section: The New Solution) but I don't understand why.

I am just writting a custom JavaScript control for one of my web pages
and it is gread to write controls that look just like the native ones.
How come system colors have been depricated in CSS 3 ?
Why limited systems that have no system colors could not just supply

Is there a way to make the browse button an image?
Thanks,
Miguel

been messing around but can't seem to find what's causing my problem.
If in IE 7 i look at the page http://www.techtransfer.ugent.be/joomlatt/ it
looks fine and as it should (that is: the dotted line on top of the left
hand menu and the dotted line under the title on the right ...

I have a narrow TD in a TABLE. It has a width=SomeNumberpx
constraint. SomeNumber is much less than the width of a unique word.
I would like to split within the TD, according to the width  of the
TD.

Having a problem in Firefox, with something similar to:
<div style="border: thin solid blue; min-height: 15em;">
   <div style="border: thin solid red; height: 80%;"></div>
</div>

this is another problem that tempts me to use tables but before I do
that I'm going to ask you.
Sounds simple: A list of images with a description to their right.
Illustration:

how can i clear float inside a div without impacting others elements?
regards.

I have a p tag defined as
.nav_current
{
    opacity:.5;

Firefox 2.0
IE 7.0
Opera 9.22
I have the following html (there is no stylesheet, the ids are just