Re: CSS Buttons

On 20 Aug 2003 06:29:23 -0700, timmy_dale12 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com wrote:

I am trying to adjust the buttons with css. I can set the width of the
button but not the length, what am i doing wrong ?

CSS :

.short{
background-color: brown;
color:brown;
length: 50;
width: 80;

Generally speaking it is better to supply a URL rather than include a
listing of HTML/CSS, as that makes it easier to track down problems.
However in this case the following immediately leaps out:

- you haven't provided units for your measurements;
- length is not a CSS property;
- brown is not a standard colour keyword.
- having background-color and color the same is not generally very
useful.

Time to make friends with the CSS validator:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html

I have a page on CSS buttons that you may find helpful:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmat...ssbuttons.html

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Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/

In article <emu6kv8t7umua7jsc2ro7orm6egtd09bjp (AT) 4ax (DOT) com> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Stephen Poley
<sbpoley (AT) xs4all (DOT) nl> wrote:

- brown is not a standard colour keyword.

True. This weekend I tried "brown" in a stylesheet, and Mozilla
rendered it just fine, roughly #963 I think. I bopped on over to the
W3C site to find the official definition of "brown", and was
surprised to see that it's not standard.

I've got used to Mozilla ignoring non-standard stuff, but this time
was different.

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http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Stan Brown wrote:

In article <emu6kv8t7umua7jsc2ro7orm6egtd09bjp (AT) 4ax (DOT) com> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, Stephen Poley
sbpoley (AT) xs4all (DOT) nl> wrote:
- brown is not a standard colour keyword.

True. This weekend I tried "brown" in a stylesheet, and Mozilla
rendered it just fine, roughly #963 I think. I bopped on over to the
W3C site to find the official definition of "brown", and was
surprised to see that it's not standard.

Some browsers support the X11 colors even though they are non-standard.
"brown" is in this group. One article on the subject:
<URL:http://www.daft.com/~rab/x11-colors.html>

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In article <3f43ff51$1 (AT) news (DOT) sihope.com> in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets, kchayka <kcha-ns-
yka (AT) sihope (DOT) com> wrote:

Some browsers support the X11 colors even though they are non-standard.
"brown" is in this group. One article on the subject:
URL:http://www.daft.com/~rab/x11-colors.html

Nice reference; thanks! I won't use the names, but it's a good
compendium of popular color choices and I can use the hex.

Doug Jacobson also has some useful color charts, at
<http://www.hypersolutions.org/rgb.html>.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/