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Oops. I clicked on the wrong button and submitted my reply while I was still composing it. This is turning out to be messier than I expected. Maybe I should curl up with the manual for an hour or two. If I can't figure it out, I'll start another thread. Thanks, Tim

Sorry, I'm not getting it. the div looks like this: div.textdiv { position:absolute; overflow:auto; left:169px; width:620px; top:228px; height:800px; padding:16px; background-color:#CCFFCC; }

Hi, I'm fuzzy on pseudo-classes. I've gotten this far: p:first-letter { color: green; font-size:xx-large } However, this applies to all text on the page. How do I restrict the first-letter specification to the the text in one div? Thanks, Tim

I'm the OP, checking in with a BFO (blinding flash of the obvious). If I want this transparent, animated .gif to display in front of a background image, I must return to the original multi-layer .psd document, make a new layer, send it to the back, copy the desired background image to that...

Hey folks, Thanks for your kind and generous replies. Here's a response to the bunch. ******** Okay, I think I get it. The fringe is not white, it's gray. It's the gray pixels that anti-alias the black lines. Apparently, when ImageReady renders the .psd document as a gif, it processes those...

Hi. Me again. I have an animated .gif, consisting mostly of a line drawing and some text on a transparent background. I've toyed with the notion of displaying it on top of a background image. When displayed in the browser on top of a dark background image, the black lines and text have a...

Heck, I hate IE now, and I don't even know about this issue! ;-) Firefox and Apple are more to my taste. But seriously folks, I've seen this mentioned once or twice on the forum. Would someone be so kind as to post a url for a list of hacks and workarounds necessary to get IE to diplay CSS...

Great! I totally get it. I'm afraid <div> is a little new to me, but it doesn't seem that hard, and CSS seems easier than HTML once you get the hang of it. What about decorative rectangles to border the div rectangle where I put my text? For those, what's recommended? --more div areas...

This is partly an attempt to better understand a helpful suggestion made by vragabond in a previous thread. Lets say I want to place formatted text, including some links, and a few small images, in a rectangle in a certain area of a page. I might want to give the rectangle a border of a certain...

Chris, that was wonderful! Excellent suggestions. To seasoned programmers and designers, this sort of thing might be obvious. Not to me! Fortunately, I can recognize good advice when I see it. Thank goodness for tek-tips, too. Tim

This is me, the OP. Believe it or not, it didn't occur to me to scrutinize all the text-heavy sites. There are gazillions of them! Britannica.com, wikipedia, Snopes, and so on. Derrrr! That's useful, but not conclusive. I must rephrase my question. I want my text-heavy pages to look more...

Thanks very much to both of you. To clarify, my text-heavy pages are almost ALL text! They seem way too dull, to me, though they might be readable. My old site has lots of things wrong with it. Embarrassing, really. I've not yet put any new design elements in place -- still working on them...

Thanks to all on this thread. Apparently, I've posted on the wrong forum. I've re-posted the message on forum253: web site designers. If you want to reply, it might be better to reply on that forum. I appreciate the suggestions so far, but they're not quite the help I need. I think the...

Greetings, I'm a do-it yourself web author, admittedly rather a novice. If this message looks familiar, I earlier posted it on the wrong forum -- HTML, CSS, etc. Most of the pages on my site are text-heavy. That's unavoidable. I think I have avoided serious readability errors. I'm more...

Greetings, I'm a do-it yourself web author, admittedly rather a novice. I hope this is the right forum for web-page design issues. I looked around and couldn't find a better one. Let me know if I'm OT. Most of the pages on my site are text-heavy. That's unavoidable. I know enough to keep...

Hey, Vragabond, Yup, that did it! Thanks a bunch. Wow! The frustration! Is there a CSS property that corresponds to setting cellspacing in the table declaration? I looked for it at w3schools.com, but couldn't find anything. Is the default value for cellspacing not "0" ? Of course I still...

Hi, I'm a do-it yourself web-page author. I'm upgrading my old site, which I made with a simple HTML editor. I'm learning to use CSS. That's going okay, but I'm stumped on a tiny item that's driving me nuts. Please help! I'm using table cells with background-color or background-image to add...

Hi, According to the Dummies book, "this" and "new" are operators. However, they don't show up in lists of operators, so they must be a special class of operators. The explanation in the Dummies book is incomprehensible, and I've found other incomprehensible explanations elsewhere. I'm not...

Hi, A basic question about dropdown menus, if I may. Let's say we have a horizontal row of four menu items. If the mouse is over one of the items, a menu drops down. Lets say the menu that drops down contains three additional items. I understand javascript is picking up a mouseover message...

Hello, I built my website by hand in HTML, several years ago. I've upgraded to CSS, and now need to teach myself JavaScript. I've studied the Dummies book and I've been through the tutorial at www.w3schools.com. I'm also familiar with Transcript and HyperTalk, scripting languages vaguely...