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

I'm unclear as to how best to use what I'm terming the top-level CSS
selectors, by which I mean selectors like *, html and body. I'm coming
at this from trying to understand how best to set font sizes but I
seem to have strayed into a broader question.

I'm creating a template paging sing pure CSS and all looks good except
the footer which I am having problems with.
1) When I space out each of the FOUR DIVS at 25%, it wraps in IE.  I
hacked it by changing to 24% but don;t know why.

Typography rules for English suggest to have a longer space after a full
stop than between normal words.  TeX does this automatically when the
language is English, using funky spacing rules.
Is it possible to do something similar with CSS?

How close can you get to making a submit button look like a link?
Answers to the inevitable questions:
1. Because I don't want my email address (which would have to be part of
the URL in a real link) becoming obviously visible.

I have a problem with a print.css. When trying to print or using the
print preview in Firefox only a blank page is shown.
At http://80.190.188.58/test/test.html you can find a test-page with
the problem (please ignore some missing images and additonal,

I'm having a problem with the CSS on the website I am developing. A div that
works perfectly fine in IE7, FF, and Opera doesn't appear at all in IE6.
Now, I realize that I could simply post a link to the site and someone here
will likely look at it for about 30 seconds and tell me ...

I have a row of 5 <DIV> elements that have the "float: left" attribute
as I wanted them on the same row.  I issue a "clear: left" for the
subsequent element.
All looks great except if I increase the browser text size of contract

I have been developing a site for a friend of mine using a JavaScript
slide show and have encountered some problems when viewing the site in
IE. The bottom margin of the slide show area expands when the 'next
image' button is clicked. The site works fine in FF. I just don't know

I have a drop down menu system that consists of many entries in two to
four levels. Because of the size and complexity of the menu, I have the
user hover over a menu list item to make its submenu visible.
This works fine, but I'd like to have this behavior also implemented

On 2008-05-25, mehstg1319 wrote:

Help! I'm usually the technologically savvy one, but when a friend of
mine asked me what web hosting company would be best for their
business, I had no idea. I have tried searching online, but I have no
idea what most of the technological terms mean (such as PERL, VPS,

I'm trying to resolve a contradictory situation in which I have rows
going down a page, and each consists of two elements: to the left is a
thumbnail image that is a hot link; to its right is a brief descriptive
paragraph.

I'm working on a layout that has a variable-height middle section and need
some suggestions on how I can make the bottom section adapt to that
situation.
Basically, I have:

I have an unordered list that displays for elements horizontally.  I'd
like each to take up 25% of the browser window but my code does not
work.  Can someone help? The code is shown below.
HTML Code

I have four images lined p on a single row.  The HTML code is:
<div id="header">
  <div class="header_image">
     <img id="home_logo" src="images/home_logo.gif" alt="" />