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CSS 2-column layout - how to maximize the column division border height?

I have two columns. One is floated left, one is floated right. There is a clearing div following them and then a footer. I want a vertical line to divide the two columns but the problem is there is no guarantee of which column will be higher. Without using a background image, how do I get a dividing line between the two columns that use...

Is is possible to create inline pseudo styles?

So for instance, can I do something like <a href="#" style="background-color:green;{hover:background-colour:red;}">Coding Horror</a> The reason behind this is I'm developing a .net library that creates UI elements, I want to be produce HTML elements that can have their hover state set without the use of an external style sheet. ...

How can I have a CSS style different for IE6?

I want to have a particular CSS style different for IE6. Basically I am using CSS sprites with a PNG file. But for IE6 I want to use the .gif version. I dont want to use the <!-- if lte IE6 statement. I want to include it within my CSS file itself. How do I do that? Edit: I need this because I want my users to include a single CSS ...

How to get rid of an unwanted space in a tab menu?

I am using asp.net mvc and I am working on a tab menu which is displaying an unwanted space between each tab. This only happens when I have each image tag on its own line as opposed to having it all in one. The top images are on their own line which is what is causing the unwanted space: <img src="/Content/Images/Reports_whit...

What speech readers support CSS3 speech attributes?

Are there any screen readers out now that support CSS3 text-to-speech attributes like richness, pause or pitch? If there's competition, which one is more popular? Are there varying levels of standards compliance? ...

Why is jQuery not inserting new html based on attribute selectors?

Hi all! This is embarrassing, but here goes. Here's the page that I'm working on: www.mchenry.edu/administration/BoardSchedule.asp I'm using jQuery ver. 1.3.1 and I'm putting tiger stripes on the table. All is well. However, I want to insert a FileInfo class after all .pdf file extensions in the document, so users know they are selecti...

Table which doesn't shrink while resizing

Hello, Can someone please tell me how to create a table which doesn't shrink when the window is resized. I tried creating a table with a fixed width, but it causes problems in the Print Preview.I also tried white-space:nowrap which also didn't help. Can someone please help me to fix this. ...

jquery dropdown menu & swf

Hello, Im sure this questions has been asked a zilion times but im dire need of a solution for this example. I've built a jquery dropdown menu to float over a banner swf. for some reason in ie6 & ie7, the menu rolls behind the swf. i've tried the wmode=transparent in the code to load the flash file with no avail. i've also tried z-index...

Can JQuery UI Dialog remember its position between opening and closing

I have a JQuery dialog that I dynamically open and close. Everything is working fine except the position of the dialog is not remembered after it is closed and then reopened. The size is maintained but the position is not. I have tried hooking into the 'Open' event but it appears that the position is being reset by JQuery UI after I ma...

CSS Help with Top Menu Items

I am not sure of how to get this to work, I have a Drop Down Menu that is cross browser compatible and I am trying to have the selected "bread crumb" menus system keep the arrows on the :hover style when I am on child menus. As you can see from the link here: http://www.seth-duncan.com/Test/TestMenu.html When I go to child menu items t...

CSS: Inline element stretch to fill available horizontal space of container

For example I have a 200px div containing three buttons, the text is only minimal so the buttons don't fill the horizontal space available. Is it possible to.. 1) Make the last button stretch to occupy all the remaining space? 2) The First button to stretch to fill the remaining space pushing the last two buttons along? 3) The middle ...

Is there an existing .net class that encapsulates CSS options

Is there an existing .net class (or available one) that already encapsulates all/most of the options available thru css? ie: MyStyleClass msc = new MyStyleClass(); msc.font-family = "arial"; Im looking for an existing class that exposes these properties w/o style("font-family") = "arial"; I didnt see anything while searching through e...

How can I solve this IE CSS Issue?

Look here (http://www.makeofficebetter.com/comments.htm) for a link to an example of my problem. If you look at that link you'll see that I have a IMG floated left, and a DIV overlaying it. within that div I have 2 more divs. Both should overlay the IMG, but for some reason only the first DIV overlays correctly...and the 2nd does not....

Repeating a section of an image in CSS

I want take a section of a picture, for example the middle of a picure, and repeat only that section in the background of a div. Is this even remotely possible? I suppose I could do this in javascript, but that would be messy. In theory the answer to my question should be able to take a single pixel from a picture and repeat it in a li...

How to make my font bold using css?

Hello all, I'm very new to HTML and CSS and I was just wondering how I could make my font bold using CSS. I have a plain HTML page that imports a CSS file, and I can change the font in the CSS. But I dont know how to make the font bold, can anyone help me? Thanks in advance! ...

IE space below image?

How can I fix this page for Internet Explorer? It seems to add a space below the background images for some reason.. http://orangeguy.biz/profile/ The design is like this: ------------------ | TOP IMAGE |<- base_top.png ------------------ | | | | base_...

Php include annoying top margin

I don't know why every time I try to include my header using PHP’s include there's a top margin. I checked it using Firebug and it says there's a 22px offset margin on the top. Is anybody experiencing this problem? I think it's a CSS propiety: top: 22px. But nothing can change it even if I write h1 style="top: 0px; margin-top: 0px;". I t...

Basic Html style font-family question

<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> content </span> Does this mean that there is going to be a priority list for the specified font families on the client, i.e. if no 'Segoe UI' will check for Tahoma, no Tahoma will go for Arial and so on? Answer with YES or NO will be good enough! ...

How to get the containing div to stretch vertically to accommodate a floating image

Here's the basic problem: I want the div that holds the image to stretch vertically to accommodate it. ...

What do you believe to be the best CSS Grid system and why?

I've been using Nicole Sullivan's "Object Oriented" CSS grid for a while now (hate the term, though) and have found it to be quite good. However, as I get more experience with grids, I'm noticing a lot of other frameworks out there; in particular the 960 Grid System and the Yahoo! UI Library. I'm looking for other peoples' experiences ...