Images on Corners of a Div?

[Firas D.]

http://www.firasd.org/scrapbook/poet...vercheevy.html

This is probably wishful thinking, but it's worth a shot.. is there a
way to put four different images on the corners of the bordered div? To
make it look framed, kinda?

[Neal]

On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 01:58:14 -0500, Firas D. <fd********@fir asd.org> wrote:

http://www.firasd.org/scrapbook/poet...vercheevy.html

This is probably wishful thinking, but it's worth a shot.. is there a
way to put four different images on the corners of the bordered div? To
make it look framed, kinda?

I don't know how to do that, if it is possible. But I can tell you that
Miniver Cheevy was published in 1910 so it is public domain.

(Anything before 1923 is public domain, and some items after are as well
if they were never renewed. I believe starting in 2013 works will again
enter the public domain one year at a time. All this presupposes the
current legal cases against the Sonny Bono Act will not succeed, of
course.)

[e n | c k m a]

> This is probably wishful thinking, but it's worth a shot.. is there a

way to put four different images on the corners of the bordered div? To
make it look framed, kinda?

Not as far as I know - a lot of people have tried... and succeeded to some
degree but it's not really well supported.

There is a mozilla-specific CSS style [i forget what it is now maybe someone
else knows] that creates rounded edges on borders.

Nickos.

[Neal]

On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 08:14:45 GMT, e n | c k m a <bo*@marley.com > wrote:

This is probably wishful thinking, but it's worth a shot.. is there a
way to put four different images on the corners of the bordered div? To
make it look framed, kinda?

Not as far as I know - a lot of people have tried... and succeeded to
some
degree but it's not really well supported.

There is a mozilla-specific CSS style [i forget what it is now maybe
someone
else knows] that creates rounded edges on borders.

I did see one page where they had before and after stuff, it was a fixed
width div and the top border (including the corners) was one wide GIF, the
bottom the same, and each line had a before and after border too. Of
course, this has its own set of problems...

[Chris Morris]

"e n | c k m a" <bo*@marley.com > writes:

This is probably wishful thinking, but it's worth a shot.. is there a
way to put four different images on the corners of the bordered div? To
make it look framed, kinda?

Not as far as I know - a lot of people have tried... and succeeded to some
degree but it's not really well supported.

There is a mozilla-specific CSS style [i forget what it is now maybe someone
else knows] that creates rounded edges on borders.

..rounded {
\-moz-border-radius: 2em;
}

Also \-moz-border-radius-topright, etc.

Cautions:
Put it in an @import stylesheet or older browsers will complain
Put the style in a separate style block or a few browsers (Opera 6,
IIRC) will ignore the whole style block - so
..main {
padding: 1em;
\-moz-border-radius: 0.5em;
}
is not as good as
..main {
padding: 1em;
}
..main {
\-moz-border-radius: 0.5em;
}

--
Chris

[Neal]

On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 01:58:14 -0500, Firas D. <fd********@fir asd.org> wrote:

http://www.firasd.org/scrapbook/poet...vercheevy.html

This is probably wishful thinking, but it's worth a shot.. is there a
way to put four different images on the corners of the bordered div? To
make it look framed, kinda?

Read this: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/customcorners/

[Karl Smith]

Neal <ne*****@spamrc n.com> wrote:

I don't know how to do that, if it is possible. But I can tell you that
Miniver Cheevy was published in 1910 so it is public domain.

(Anything before 1923 is public domain, and some items after are as well
if they were never renewed. I believe starting in 2013 works will again
enter the public domain one year at a time. All this presupposes the
current legal cases against the Sonny Bono Act will not succeed, of
course.)

It also presupposes something much more fundamental, namely that the
entire population of planet Earth is governed by the laws of the
United States of America.

[Karl Smith]

"Firas D." <fd********@fir asd.org> wrote:

http://www.firasd.org/scrapbook/poet...vercheevy.html

This is probably wishful thinking, but it's worth a shot.. is there a
way to put four different images on the corners of the bordered div? To
make it look framed, kinda?

You got two options:
[1] Wait ten years until CSS3 is widely deployed:
[2] Wrap it in four DIVs:-
<div class="content one">
<div class="content two">
<div class="content three">
<div class="content four">
and use the classes .one .two etc. to put background images in the
corners. This ugly markup is marginally better than using a table
which would require 9 cells just to place the 4 corners.

Now let's talk about XML. Here's how the page begins, complete with
the fuzzy dice and all:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

And here's how it continues:

<div class="content" >
<center>
<b>Miniver Cheevy</b><br>
<tt>Edwin Arlington Robinson</tt>
</center>
<p>
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nb sp;Grew lean while he assailed the seasons<br>
He wept that he was ever born,<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nb sp;And he had reasons.
<p>

I thoroughly approve of using simple paragraphs and line breaks (the
trendies would have you marking that up with a lot of <li>...</li>
because you know, "A poem is a list of lines," "A gallery is a list of
images," "A navigation bar is a list of links"...), but since it is
fad-compliant XHTML, one <p> should </p> before the next <p> opens.

(Those <br>s look too normal to be fashionable, too.)

[Neal]

On 4 Feb 2004 05:06:47 -0800, Karl Smith <go************ @kjsmith.com>
wrote:

Neal <ne*****@spamrc n.com> wrote:

I don't know how to do that, if it is possible. But I can tell you that
Miniver Cheevy was published in 1910 so it is public domain.

(Anything before 1923 is public domain, and some items after are as well
if they were never renewed. I believe starting in 2013 works will again
enter the public domain one year at a time. All this presupposes the
current legal cases against the Sonny Bono Act will not succeed, of
course.)

It also presupposes something much more fundamental, namely that the
entire population of planet Earth is governed by the laws of the
United States of America.

I suppose so. Though the purpose of this change in US law was to bring us
closer to the international standard. One would assume that this means in
most of the world similar dates would apply.

Of course, I am not a copyright lawyer, we all know that, and my advice
is, as always, worth the price.

[Steve Fulton]

Firas D. wrote:

This is probably wishful thinking, but it's worth a shot.. is there a
way to put four different images on the corners of the bordered div? To
make it look framed, kinda?

Wait for CSS3! <g>

3.4 The Border Image properties
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-css3-bo...e-border-image

--
Steve

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