Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / CSS / April 2008

Something I stumbled upon with the new Firefox 3. Love the new browser,
but noticed that if your have a white-space: pre element within a
fieldset it causes the containing fieldset to expand like a table cell
regardless of the overflow setting.

I have an application which has to be rendered correctly in Firefox
and Internet Explorer. In order to distinguish css rules for these
browsers I use following approach:
*width:16px; //works for IE only, not work in Firefox.

I have been trying to create a simple feedback message do display on a
web site.
I am trying to have a message with an Icon on left and and Text on
right.

When I type some text into <p> tag and when usable width is less then text
then text is wrapped at spsace between words. I need to create the same with
series of <img>.
Reason? I have unknown number of images and I want to create "galery". But I I

My research on this NG hasn't produced a satisfactory answer.   Here's
what I want to do:
move two div (s) (each has an image tag within) to another location on
the same page.

Not sure if anyone can help me, I am working on a site for my
university, and am having a bit of trouble with css positioning. I am
very new to css and do not know very much about it.
Here is the link: http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~bp6ar/bus_intel/matrix/matrix.html

Is there a tool to identify used / unused styles in a stylesheet?
I have a tendency to accumulate styles in a stylesheet.  Many of these
styles are not actually employed by the page, so many of the defined
styles are redundant.

I am working on a site that is being served to a private network. All
the users are using IE6+.
I am having trouble getting the 1st div added to a containing div to
have its margin-left applied - right now it appears that it is getting

Please take a look at http://www.ianhobson.co.uk/test.htm
It validates and works in Firefox exactly as required...
... but IE6 makes a complete mess of it.
Does anyone have any ideas about how I can make IE play? I'm already

I am applying a style to a anchor tag. This anchor is created by an
ASP.NET page and is inside a list item.
I know the style is working because I applied it to the anchor in a
page that has only this.

IE 7.0.5730.11
Opera 9.27
Firefox 2.0.0.14
I have the following in my stylesheet

Hey everybody,
At the moment I am trying to build a website with a footer at the
bottom of the viewport if the amount of text is too small and at the
bottom of the page if there is enough text.

I need help with a dynamic nav menu,
http://www.mayacove.com/design/nav/nav.html
it looks like I want it in IE 7, but in FF and IE 6 it's totally messed
up.. in FF the main-nav section looks fine, but the drop-downs are

I just completed a new design for a personal web site.  After finishing
the basic CSS stuff and double-checking it in Safari, FF, Opera, et al.,
I put on my war paint and fired up IE7 to figure out what kind of hacks
I'd have to apply.  Delightfully, IE7 only needed four or five ...

I am building a website for a school, but running into a display problem
between IE and CSS.  (The site is http://stmary-stthomas.org/ )
The main horizontal menu bar looks just fine on Mac and PC with most
browsers.