Illyria: Wesley's dead. I'm feeling grief for him. I can't seem to control it. I wish to do more violence. Spike: Well, wishes just happen to be horses today.

'Not Fade Away'


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bon bon - Apr 06, 2009 8:19:38 am PDT #9637 of 25501
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Our Garmin Nuvi can be moved from car to car. It just plugs into the electrical outlet.


§ ita § - Apr 06, 2009 8:40:13 am PDT #9638 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That annoying CSS refresh issue I was trying to fix for b.org a while back doesn't exist in google chrome. Hmmph.


§ ita § - Apr 06, 2009 1:48:36 pm PDT #9639 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

More CSS questioning. If I have a list setup like this:

t ul class="class_list"
t li class="class_item"
List item t /li
t /ul

How do I, in CSS, specify ::before, say, for the list item? It took me a million years to work out a way to specify a generic t li in this instance (ul.class_list li::before), but I keep breaking things trying to style the more complicated example.


Restless - Apr 06, 2009 2:10:18 pm PDT #9640 of 25501
Lurkers are like posting board ninjas!

ul.class_list li.class_item:before {...}

Should work. Also: according to this IE8 is not good with double colons. So I would recommend sticking with single colons for the standard selectors.


§ ita § - Apr 06, 2009 2:16:40 pm PDT #9641 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks! I could have sworn I tried that. Probably something very similar. There's the rub.

Did you get the email I sent you?


Restless - Apr 06, 2009 2:24:48 pm PDT #9642 of 25501
Lurkers are like posting board ninjas!

Yes. Just in case the response got stuck in a spamfilter: You may use my css-file as you please. It is however Firefox 3 specific (for the rounded corners anyway) since I saw no reason for cross-browser coding.


§ ita § - Apr 06, 2009 2:32:11 pm PDT #9643 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Great. Thanks again. For the record, as you may have noticed, I'm breaking the links to the left.

You wouldn't happen to know if it's possible to override

ul.linkcluster li::first-letter {
  color: #990000;
}

without explicitly stating the colour? I mean, to just erase settings for an attribute as if they'd never been written?


Restless - Apr 06, 2009 3:05:26 pm PDT #9644 of 25501
Lurkers are like posting board ninjas!

No, sorry. I'm not sure whether it is even possible to unset attributes that don't support "none".


§ ita § - Apr 06, 2009 3:07:39 pm PDT #9645 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It would seem logical that it should be possible, wouldn't it? Or am I overwishing again?


Restless - Apr 06, 2009 3:16:30 pm PDT #9646 of 25501
Lurkers are like posting board ninjas!

Or am I overwishing again?

It would appear so. But on the other hand, haven't we all?