RE: Navigation bars with dynamic content

I think Jim has a point. IE in my case, with the ignore colors specified on
web pages option set, seems to use a transparent background for all
elements. So any "layored" (and I use the term carefully) text will overlay
other text which causes mess. Simple way to see this is to uncheck this
option. So I agree with Jim that IE should be a little more cleavor about it
and realise this problem and use an appropriate background colour.

I am however disparing since I now have the stylesheet below based on Jim's
suggestion but am not getting what I want viewing http://jibbering.com/. The
popup menus which are now useable, use a baige background with black text
(how do I cahnge that?) and the page itself is a light bluey colour with
black text. I want a black background and white text as in the following. Am
I missing an element somewhere? Why isn't my background black and text
white? (It's a bit hacked together I'm affraid! I'm not really a CSS person
and have avoided them until now!)

<style>

BODY, DIV, TABLE, MENU, P, SPAN, UL, LI
{
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
font-style: normal;
color: white;
background-color: black;
line-height: 115% !Important;
}

TD
{
line-height: 115% !Important;
}



.finePrint
{
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;

}
.footer
{
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;

}
A
{
background: black;
color: blue;
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
cursor:hand;
text-decoration:none
line-height: 115% !Important;
}
A:hover
{
color: green;
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
cursor:hand;
text-decoration:underline
}
A:visited
{
color: yellow;
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
line-height: 125% !Important;

}
LI
{
color: #0033CC;
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
}
P
{
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
margin-bottom: 5px;
margin-top: 5px;
line-height: 115% !Important;

}
P.header
{
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
line-height: 125% !Important;
font-weight: bold;
margin-top: 10px
}
P.header2
{
line-height: 125% !Important;
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
margin-top: 10px
}
P.space
{
line-height: 125% !Important;
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
margin-bottom: 5px;
margin-top: 5px;

}
P.overview A
{
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
font-weight: normal;

text-decoration:underline
}
H1
{
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;

font-weight: bold;
margin-bottom: 1px;
margin-top: 1px
}
H2
{
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;

font-weight: bold;
margin-bottom: 1px;
margin-top: 1px
}
H4
{
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;

font-weight: bold;
margin-bottom: 1px;
margin-top: 1px
}
H5
{
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;

font-weight: normal;
}
UL
{
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;

list-style: disc;
margin-bottom: 1px;
margin-left: 16px;
margin-top: 1px
}
UL.learnmore
{
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;

list-style: disc;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 16px;
margin-top: 0px
}
OL
{
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;

list-style: decimal;
margin-bottom: 1px;
margin-left: 16px;
margin-top: 1px
}
UL.learnmore LI
{
margin-bottom: 1px;
margin-top: 1px;
}
LI
{
margin-bottom: 5px;
margin-top: 5px;
}
		
</style>

Cheers
Ian 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Ley [mailto:jim@jibbering.com]
Sent: 31 January 2002 12:37
To: WAI Mailing list
Subject: Re: Navigation bars with dynamic content


"SHARPE, Ian":
> Thanks Jim for putting me straight regarding my UA problem. I
> don't suppose anyone has a complete CSS2 stylesheet I could
> use please or can point me in  the direction of one?

I'm afraid I don't know of any, I confirmed it worked okay for me, by
disabling author suggestions, and using a very simple user stylesheet,
which just re-enforced the background for various block elements commonly
used with menus:

body,div,ul,table,menu { background-color:black; }

all other colours then come from your existing settings.  This certainly
overcame the problem of the overlapping text - you may need to do more
than just those.

> Regarding these menus though, are we saying that they are accessible
then
> provided they are used correctly and you use a non-text based browser?
I'll
> have to wait until I get my stylesheet sorted out before I pass
judgement
> myself.

I've not managed to create a scenario where the menus at
http://www.rcslt.org/ fails - even your problem would be reasonable, the
mouseover would just give you some horrible mess which you could ignore
if you followed the link - the link works in addition to the mouseover.
That said the vast majority of menus require javascript and hide the
links without javascript, so I don't think they're accessible - I see
nothing wrong with the idea though.

Jim.


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