Richard,

You are saying that it would be OK if you could control the "?" icon
position. Have you tried doing this by modifying the xforms-help
class? If that does not work, can tell us what you can't do in CSS.
Maybe some CSS guru here can help you on this.

Alex

On 2/25/06, Richard Braman <rbraman@bram...> wrote:
>
> can someone give me some help or hints about styling these tags in OPS.
>
> take a look at
> http://24.75.221.234:8080/taxcode/1040ez (which is coming
> along , thanks to contributions already recieved from Erik(Thanks to Alex,
> Daniel, and Ryan)
>
> I know OPS styles these tags with .xofmr-help whihc uses the little "?" By
> default, it appear where it needs to, because i use absolute positions and
> my div:width was too small.  I tried bumping up the width of my div tags ,
> whihc worked, but I am still thinking of other ideas
>
> My idea is to make this a mouseover on the control, a right click, a
> keyboard shortcut, or something else other than the little ?,  I would be
> alright with ? if I could control its position. I also noticed, the pop up
> appears in different spots on the page, whihc sometimes are to hihg
> depending on how much text is in the help, whihc can be pretty lengthy with
> IRS instructions.
>
> I found this class in xforms.css
>
> .xforms-help {
>     background-image: url(../../images/help.gif);
>     background-repeat: no-repeat;
>     background-position: top left;
>     display: -moz-inline-box;
>     display: inline-block;
>     white-space: nowrap;
>     padding-left: 20px;
>     width: 16px;
>     height: 19px;
>     overflow: hidden;
>     font-size: 10px;
>     color: black;
>     line-height: 10px;
>     margin-left: .2em;
>     vertical-align: middle;
> }
>
> Richard Braman
> mailto:rbraman@taxc...
> 561.748.4002 (voice)
>
> http://www.taxcodesoftware.org
> Free Open Source Tax Software
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