Fri, 2006-12-01 00:07
Hello everyone.
I want to create a "holy grail" and stumbled at inability to make background color to be displayed properly.
I tried using "background" and "background-color" and in all cases it only shows up on part of the left column, leaving white areas.
See the result: http://fly2c.com/csstest
Could anyone hint me to the solution?
Thanks!
Gleb
Fri, 2006-12-01 00:42
#1
You layout doesn't look
You layout doesn't look anything like the Holy Grail.
Fri, 2006-12-01 01:05
#2
Well, I am trying to add
Well, I am trying to add borders and menu and background colors to it.
Any CSS-related ideas?
Gleb
Fri, 2006-12-01 01:22
#3
Have you looked at faux
Have you looked at faux columns.
Fri, 2006-12-01 01:45
#4
Business approach.
Yes, but...
I am approaching it from the business perspective - by asking the question:
"what should I do to change the background color for this ... page".
PS: Textpattern is a great philosophy IMHO.
PPS: I am persuing something sinful - I want to create a tutorial for people who don't know CSS to be able to come up with custom CSS-based designs without actually learning CSS 
Gleb
Fri, 2006-12-01 02:17
#5
gesman wrote:Yes, but... I
gesman wrote:
Yes, but...
I am approaching it from the business perspective - by asking the question:
"what should I do to change the background color for this ... page".
Are you talking about the page or the columns?
I've given you a link that describes one method for achieving equal height columns. There are others. If these don't help you'll need to give a better explanation of why not.
Fri, 2006-12-01 03:00
#6
Changing background color
Oops, sorry for being unclear.
Here's my question: What do I need to change in .css file to change the background color of left column in the following layout:
http://fly2c.com/csstest
If anyone knows CSS (and the answer) please respond!
Gleb
Fri, 2006-12-01 03:30
#7
Maybe I'm not being clear
Maybe I'm not being clear enough then.
With your current CSS/HTML set up, the only thing you can do to add a bg-color to your columns that equals their full height is to use the faux columns technique.
If you don't want to use that technique, then you need to completely change your approach.
Fri, 2006-12-01 09:58
#8
gesman wrote:Yes,
gesman wrote:
Yes, but...
PPS: I am persuing something sinful - I want to create a tutorial for people who don't know CSS to be able to come up with custom CSS-based designs without actually learning CSS
Gleb
Are you serious? Why should people be able to create CSS styles without having put any effort in to learning the skill, and it is a skill, one that most of us have put a fair bit of time and effort into understanding.
If you want to write tutorials then generally it is a good idea that one has an understanding of the subject that is not at the same level as the target audience really, otherwise it's the blind leading the blind.