dryadsong
05-24-2006, 01:04 PM
Right. Me again. For those that don't remember some of my earlier inane posts, I'm the n00b trying to figure out CSS by redesigning my site without any tables.
Big problem: Livejournal. (Don't worry, I'm not going to ask anyone to delve into their S2 code). I want the damn thing to match the site, and I've basically got it doing that, but I have a problem in that its reply pages have the textarea defined by cols=75 (and this can't be changed manually due to it being stuck in there through a coded function). This makes it too wide for my layout, and although I've got the box resized in IE, I can't get that to work in firefox.
I looked through the code, and I think I've figured out how everything is nested the way that this layout is (not mine, I just stuck divs around the layout and put a stylesheet in. It won't validate, I'm not going to try):
div table tr td table tr td form table tr td table tr td textarea
since I don't know what I'm doing with selectors...umm...should I use the above string to select the textarea in firefox? Or is there another way to make the damn thing narrower?
(Page is here: http://dryad-song.livejournal.com/18590.html?mode=reply )
Also, when do I use 'element element { }' as opposed to 'element > element { }' ? (Or, for that matter, 'element, element { }' ?)
Big problem: Livejournal. (Don't worry, I'm not going to ask anyone to delve into their S2 code). I want the damn thing to match the site, and I've basically got it doing that, but I have a problem in that its reply pages have the textarea defined by cols=75 (and this can't be changed manually due to it being stuck in there through a coded function). This makes it too wide for my layout, and although I've got the box resized in IE, I can't get that to work in firefox.
I looked through the code, and I think I've figured out how everything is nested the way that this layout is (not mine, I just stuck divs around the layout and put a stylesheet in. It won't validate, I'm not going to try):
div table tr td table tr td form table tr td table tr td textarea
since I don't know what I'm doing with selectors...umm...should I use the above string to select the textarea in firefox? Or is there another way to make the damn thing narrower?
(Page is here: http://dryad-song.livejournal.com/18590.html?mode=reply )
Also, when do I use 'element element { }' as opposed to 'element > element { }' ? (Or, for that matter, 'element, element { }' ?)