Great! I'm glad it worked for you, Bert. In the copy of my email I received back from the group, the cyber goblins seem to have put spaces between the line I...
Glad you caught that, Thomas. I agree that is very important. Probably the reason I missed it is because I do have vision problems and I don't usually catch...
... Extra whitespace slows downloads? Not necessarily true. HTTP relies on TCP/IP. The TCP/IP protocol gets weird when you start talking MTUs, segments,...
... Thomas, I'm grateful for your comment about em measurements. I've stuck with pixels so far purely because the basic template I used for the main section...
Thanks for clarifying, Thomas. I should have said unnecessary white space rather than extra. I agree that things need to be separated. I cannot read large...
Is there a utility available which fill the screen with a grid and report co-ordinates as your mouse moves over it? I know that most graphics packages can do...
After having messed around for a while with page design and layout, and having got some results that I rather like, I've discovered that I've apparently made a...
Sorry about that: I sent the previous message by accident before I'd finished writing it. Trying again... I'm trying to write a heading with two words in a...
OK, maybe I have to assign a class to the <span>... <h1 id="main_heading"> These words are smaller <span class="bigger">THAN THESE</span></h1> and #bigger...
class="bigger" would do, but just:- h1 span {font-size: 3em;} would be easier. As you shouldn't use the <h1> tag more than once in a page, no other <span> tag...
Bert, I think you're getting id's and classes mixed a bit. A class is written .bigger e.g. dot bigger and be used multiple times in a page. Also, an id can...
Bob, thanks for the replies. ... That did it: I now have my multi-font-size heading. It's done strange things to the layout of the page, which I'll have to...
I've been experimenting and I've discovered that where I place the .bigger { font-size: 3em; { in the stylesheet makes a significance difference to the effect...
Hi Bert, Stylesheets work from the top down. The first style will be superseded by the next style it finds. If you put h3 = font-size: 0.3em; Then put h3 =...
Using #span won't affect the contents of a <span>...</span> tag. You need something more like this in your css... #bigger { font-size: 3em } ...and then...
Michael, thanks for that. Between you and the others, I now have a multi-sized heading. The next thing that's puzzling me is about something else, so perhaps...
I'm have a problem with something very basic: a simple defined area with a tiled background. HTML: <div id = "main_block"> CONTENT <br /> <br /> <br /> CONTENT...
It can't find the 'tile.jpg'. The 'images' directory needs to be inside the directory that your html page is (in this example) unless you specify differently. ...
Have to checked (or double checked) to make sure the case is right in your code meaning everything is upper or lower cases as needed as I have done that myself...
Thanks for the thought but yes I made absolutely certain that the case was correct: I've been caught with that myself before now. The trouble was obvious once...
... This is why you should use a CSS hierarchy: div#header div#main_heading h1 { font-size: 1.5em; } div#header div#main_heading h1 span.bigger { font-size:...
... I almost never use absolute positioning. It is only useful when you need to overlay something like a dialog on a page or stretch a column to the maximum...
... Go get Firebug or, if you use Chrome, use the Developer Tools. The "Network" tab in both will tell you where the browser is looking for those files. 404...
... Pathing in CSS files operate from the location where the CSS file resides. You can use relative or absolute paths and full URLs. So, '/tile.jpg' is going...
Thomas, ... That's the elegant solution I was trying to remember. Much better than my temporary fix. Many thanks for that and your other replies: I'll comment...
Thomas, ... After various false starts I went back to basics and did exactly that: I slimmed down my css and html files to remove all content, put thin red...
Thanks to everyone here (and a lot of web searching) things do seem to be falling into place now, both in my head and on the screen. But here's one thing...
I've temporarily uploaded two pages in the hope that it might help someone here solve a puzzle for me. If you've a moment to take a look, I'd be grateful. The...
