Going Out Of Style (Sheet)

Well, that was fun. Wasted too much time searching for a solution to the rendering problem in Internet Explorer 7 that was chopping off the bottom of the title — my name! — that I intend to replace with a picture eventually, anyway.

None of the discussions I found nailed down the problem, so I figured it out on my own. What fixed it was adding some padding to H1 headers in the cascading style sheet:

#header h1 {
/*display:none; This will hide the text in your header */
padding-top:50px; padding-bottom:10px;
}

The “hide the text in your header” comment was an obvious hint!

4 thoughts on “Going Out Of Style (Sheet)”

  1. Hoo, boy. Big subject. There’s plenty of HTML done by hand in this blog, but 99.9% of the HTML in this blog is generated automatically by WordPress. That’s the whole point of blogging. THE PAGES DON’T EXIST ON THE SERVER. THEY ARE GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY, with a relational database sitting behind it. That’s what makes it dynamic and that’s why I can enter this comment.

    The Cascading Style Sheet is a template that controls the look of the blog. In this case, it’s a template called Blix, done by some German guys. I picked it because the color scheme matches the colors of the walls and carpet I see every day when going to work, walking in the rear entrance! True. I’ll have to take a picture to prove it. At some point I’ll be customizing the style and changing the banner, etc. But first I have to once again confront a big update that I would have done already, except another update came along, and then another. So I’m waiting for things to settle down.

  3. I remember Susan. Met her a couple of times when dropping you off at FSC — a place I now drive past regularly.

    CSS is just another flavor of text markup for describing document output. My first exposure to markup tags was in 1979, in the newspaper business. The electronic feeds from AP and UPI had GML (Generalized Markup Language) tags. These were interpreted by a Compugraphic photo-electronic typesetting machine.

  4. Ye Gods! What you are displaying up above looks like the old commands I had to type into theancient Wang word processors to create a mathematic (Greek) symbol for one of the endless, dry econometric papers I typed for one of the boyz at MIT! It was endless, mindless and boring. It was much faster just switching type balls on the old IBM Selectric (I typed papers for nPhD candidates on the side for a little extra pocket money).

    You probably don’t remember my friend and roommate for two years at college, Susan Smith. She was a computer science major who had to set her alarm to all hours of the night to get time in the computer lab to do her homework. And yes, they used key punch cards back then! Piles and piles of them! One night she got up and deftly starting feeding a stack of invisble cards into an invisible computer, all in her sleep! I didn’t dare try to wake her, but I DID squeeze off a picture on one of those old cube flashlight cameras. Never woke her up. It came out great, but I gave her the picture! I wish I’d make a copy of it for myself. She looked TOTALLY AWAKE! After about 15 minutes, she pushed some invisible buttons, then went back to sleep.

    I also had a friend in college who was narcoleptic. What a sweetheart. Naturally, she wasn’t allowed to drive. You’d be talking to her and then she’d just nod off. About a minute later, she nod back on, actually finishing the sentence she was saying without missing a beat!

    What does this have to do with your post? Absolutely nothing!

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