Hi. I've been using CSS for basic stuff, mostly concerning fonts. I want
to get going with using CSS fully. Two days ago I purchased O'Reilly's
"Cascading Style Sheets" and "CSS Cookbook." I've been reading them and
have tried some really basic stuff and am not having a very good time
(lol). I'm feeling really stupid, to be honest.
I was able to center an image on a page by mucking about with code
primarily from the Cookbook. I only managed to make a footer go to the
right bottom corner of the browser's window by finding something in a
discussion group.
I suspect the code for both is pretty dismal. To make matters worse,
when I tried to set the page margins to 0, and added 12px as the
basefont, the centered logo got whacked and I could no longer control
the footer's size as well as where it was positioned.
Here's the page in question:
http://www.propriocept.com/
and the code which works (which you can see there in full in page
source) is:
..ftext { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
color: #485C88;
font-size: 9px;
position: absolute;
bottom: 1em;
right: 1em;
text-align: right; }
and
..ctrlogo {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
margin-top: -142.5px;
margin-left: -302.5px;
height: 285px;
width: 605px; }
These two are most likely not properly written.
When I change the body to:
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0; }
the positioning wigs out and I have been unable to find a way to fix the
two with the body like that.
If I add a base font size:
p, table, tr, th, td, ul, ol, li, dd, dl, dt {
font-size: 12px;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; }
my footer loses its size and color.
I've looked online for help and found nothing that addresses my problems.
Add to this having TopStyle Pro 3.11 (which I've barely used) and it
hating the code directly from O'Reilly, and I'm really not enjoying my
attempt to fire up with CSS.
All advice appreciated. If anyone knows sites, groups, whatnot that
would help I'd obviously appreciate that greatly.
Oh, yeah. PS: I'm using Firefox 1.0.7 as my default browser on Windows
2000. All the following browsers are up-to-date: IE 6x, Opera 8x, Aol's
Netscape 8 and some older Netscape versions. On the Mac I have Safari,
Firefox and the old IE. The code works in all the Windows browsers. I
have not checked on the Mac yet.
I have not moved to Firefox 1.5 yet because I've heard too many
complaints about it.
--
"Excuse me, Egon. You said crossing the streams was bad. You're going to
endanger us. You're going to endanger our client, the nice lady who paid
us in advance, before she became a dog."
-- Venkman to Spengler, "Ghostbusters"
