CSS - Background Color On Image Links

I have just started writing a page and the first thing I did was establish a body background color and image. It works in IE but not FF.

Can someone please give me a clue what is wrong.

I have searched all the CSS books and the internet but I cannot find an answer.

Thanks in advance.

The URL is http://www.childrens-stories.me.uk/

Hi,

I have some links in a <ul> list. I have set them to have a background image using CSS. When I rollover the links using IE6 the egg timer appears briefly. No such problem with FF or Opera.

Anyone come across this before?

Here's my CSS:

Code:

#section1 div ul{
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
#section1 div li{
list-style-type:none;
margin:15px 0 0 0;
}
#section1 div li a{
color:#fff;
text-decoration:none;
padding-right:20px;
background: transparent url(/newsite/images/square.gif) right center no-repeat;
display:block;
}

Does anyone know if/how I can get a CSS script for link classes that would only change the colour of the underline like the one at the top of Altavista's translate page??
I have tried viewing the source but can't seem to put my finger on it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheerz,
sheermonkey.

I've got two questions of which one is to gather some opinions to help me decide what's best.

1) color notation in CSS:
Any recommendations as to what notation I should use?

examples:
color: rgb(255,234,0)
color: slateblue
color: #FF99CC
color: #F9C

Is there some recommendation here? I'm quite used to the long hex notation e.g. #FF99CC. Is the short notation also very much accepted? And should I be using those at all or should I prepare myself with a new site to switch to rgb().

2) text-decoration yes or no?
I was thinking the following:
A) when it's absolutely clear that some text presents a link, like e.g. in a menu or some newscolumn with a brief description and a bold title, then it's "okay" to set text-decoration: none. Maybe an underline or colorchange when hovering.
B) When it's not absolutely clear what's a link, like some word in a paragraph text, use underline or at least some other colour which is consistent over the website for being a link.

Also, with point B I was thinking of choosing:
A new link: text-decoration with color and text-decoration gone with hover, for a nice effect.

With a visited link:
I) text-decoration but normal paragraph color and again text-decoration gone when hovering OR...
II) no text-decoration, but still with that color and text-decoration when hovering.

It troubles me coz I can't make up my mind. Something keeps telling me that I should try to keep those text-decorations like with B-I and simply remove the colour, instead of relying on colour to indicate a link. So forget about B-II?! Ah, it was this site which works on my conscious not to rely on color for links: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2003Mar/att-0002/01-part#colorunits

Anybody got some comments or tips? And yes also some tip on the CSS I want things to be "user-friendly" enough, but this also means that I don't want text to be broken up too much. Some people even suggested that I should take ALL links out of the paragraph and simply mention them below the paragraph. All good points, but which way to go

Is there a way to tell the browser not to change the color of a visited link? I have an anchor around some text, but I don't know the color setting of the text. When I visit the link, I just want the text to retain its color based on the other CSS declarations in effect for the text.

So, is there a way to specify a:visited { color: do-not-change; }?

Hi Guys!

Most of the links in my document are set to #ffffff, because they have a dark background.

I have 'content' section that I want to show blue links. I tried adding the following code into my style sheet:

PHP Code:
 a.content:link {
color: #0000FF; 
text-decoration: underline;
}

a.content:visited {
color: #0000FF; 
text-decoration: underline;
}

a.content:hover {
background-color: #6666FF;
text-decoration: underline;
} 





And nothing!? (apart from the layout crapped up!!!!) Could someone point me in a better direction?

Full CSS below!

Thanks Charlie



PHP Code:
 html {height:100%;}
body {
margin:0; padding:0; height:100%;
background-image:url(images/newback.jpg);
background-position:top right;
background-repeat:repeat-y;
background-color:#ffffff;
font-family: sans-serif; 
font-size: .7em;
}
#wrap {
background-image:url(images/newback150px.jpg);
background-position:top left;
background-repeat:repeat-y;
min-height:100%;
}
* html #wrap {height:100%}

div#navbar {padding: 0%; 
text-align: center;
background-image:url(images/newback.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat;
background-color: #000044; 
color: #ffffff; 
margin-bottom: 0px; 
border-bottom: solid #000000 1px}

div#formbox {
color: #000000;
padding: 2%;
border: #000044 solid 1px;
}

div#userbar {padding: 0%; 
text-align: center;
background-image:url(images/newback.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat;
background-color: #000044; 
color: #ffffff; 
margin-bottom: 0px; 
border-bottom: solid #000000 1px}

#header {
background-color: #000044;
background-image:url(images/wel.jpg);
width 100%;
background-repeat: repeat;
border-bottom: 2px #000000 solid;
color: #ffffff; 
margin:0; padding:0;
height:100px;
}

}
#left {
float:left;
width:149px;
background-image:url(images/newback.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat;
color: #ffffff; 
text-align:center;
background-color: #000044;
border-right: 1px #000000 solid; 
}
#main {
position:relative;
margin-left:200px;
}

#content {
text-align:center;
padding:4px;
margin-right:200px;
margin-bottom:150px;
text-align:left;
}

#clearfooter {
clear:both;
height:80px;
overflow:hidden;
}
#footer {
height:40px;
background-color: #000044;
border-top: 2px #000000 solid;
margin:0; padding:0;
background-image:url(images/newback.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat;
margin-top:-0px;
color: #ffffff; 
text-align:center;
}
div#newsbar {padding: 0%; 
text-align: center;
height:140px; 
background-image:url(images/newback.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat;
background-color: #000044; 
color: #ffffff;
margin-left: +150px;
margin-right: +10px; 
margin-top: -180px; 
border: 2px #000000 solid;  
width: auto;} 

code {
font-size:0.8em;
border:1px solid navy;
background-color:white;
color:#333333;
padding:10px;
display:block;
width:80%;
margin:10px auto;
overflow:auto;
}

h1 {font-size: 1.4em; 
font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; 
font-weight: bold; 
text-align: left;} 

h2 {font-size: 1.3em; 
font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; 
font-weight: bold; 
text-align: left;} 

h3 {font-size: 1.2em; 
font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; 
font-weight: bold; 
text-align: left;} 

h4 {font-size: 1.1em; 
font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; 
font-weight: bold; 
text-align: left;} 

h5 {font-size: 1em; 
font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; 
font-weight: bold; 
text-align: left;} 

a:link {color: #ffffff; 
text-decoration: underline;} 

a:visited { 
    color: #ffffff; 
    text-decoration: underline;}     

a:hover {color: #dedbcb;
background-color: #0000FF;
text-decoration: underline;} 

Hey
i got some cells in a table which hold links.
How can i make only the links inside these cells a different color?

This is the class i use on the table cells:
css Code:
Original - css Code .selectedContactRow{ background-color: white; color: black; }

  

  


 .selectedContactRow{


     background-color: white;


     color: black;


 } 

I only know how to change the link colors in general.
css Code:
Original - css Code a:link{color: red;} a:hover{color: red;} etc.

  

  


 a:link{color: red;}


 a:hover{color: red;}


 etc. 

thanks in advance.

Hi,

I have made a page using <div> tags.

<div id="page">
<div id="leftmenu">
</div>
<div id="mainarea">
</div>
</div>

My problem is that sometimes, the leftmenu is longer than the main area(1) and sometimes its the opposite- the main area is longer than the leftmenu(2). I want them both to be of the same height. (3)

How can I do this? Plz Help!

I have pasted the style codes for the 3 tags below.


(1)


(2)



(3)

#mainarea {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
float:left;
position:relative;
right:0pt;
width:630px;
}

#leftmenu {
background-color:#EEEEEE;
float:left;
left:0pt;
position:relative;
width:140px;
}

#page {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
position:relative;
width:770px;
}

Hi,

I am trying to apply a background color to an item other than the body but I cannot make it display in IE 6 or 5.5. I have tried applying it to both <div>'s and <p>'s. Does IE not support the background-color property outside of the page background?

i wanted usersto choose their own style sheet by giving them different links like red, green, blue which will take them to different layouts or background color page. the problem was that worked only for that particular page but if they click on any link or menu from that page it will take them back to the default color.
is there any way that i can set so that their choice will stay throught their surfing ?
any thoughts ?

hanks

Having an issue with the background color in a div.

The color shows up in I.E. but not in Firefox.

I have a div with a width of 100%. Inside the div is an unordered list with two list items.

Here is the css:

div#nav {
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
background-color: #EAE9E4;
}

#nav ul {margin: 0; padding: 0; }

#nav li {
list-style: none;
float: left;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 15%;
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 20px;
white-space: nowrap;
}

Essentially this will be a navigation aid below the banner of the webpage. The list items will contain anchors which will appear as "buttons". The containing div extends to the end and I want it to have a background color.

Any help appreciated.

Hey Guys!

I'm going absolutely bonkers trying to find out how to change the color of the background of a certain element on my site. I installed Vanilla forums on my site and am trying to customize the css script.

If you look at the page, you will see an annoying white in the body. I am trying to make the background of that #F6F6F2. Could you guys possibly put me in the right direction?

Thanks!

Here is a link to my page:
shipswatchdotcom/forum/vanilla/aaa.html

Here is the css script:
Code:

#Body {
	margin: 0;
	width: 99.9%;
	position: relative;
	background: #F6F6F2;

}
#Head {
	background: #B8D4B8;
	padding:0;
	margin: 20px 20px 0;
	text-align: left;
	position: relative;
}
div.Popup h1,
div.Popup h2,
div.Connect h1,
div.Connect h2 {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #3b5998;
}
.Banner {
	padding: 10px;
	text-align: left;
	position: relative;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
.Banner ul {
	background: #B8D4B8;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
}
.Banner ul li {
	display: inline;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
}
.Banner ul li a {
	font-weight: bold;
	padding: 3px 6px;
	font-size: 11px;
	color: #336633;
	display: inline-block;
}
.Banner ul li a:hover {
	background: #E5F0E5;
}
.Banner ul li a.SignOut {
	font-weight: normal;
	position: absolute;
	top: 10px;
	right: 10px;
}
.Banner ul li a span {
	border-radius: 3px;
	-moz-border-radius: 3px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
	padding: 1px 2px 0 1px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border-right: 1px solid #F6F6F2;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #F6F6F2;
	color: #F6F6F2;
	font-size: 9px;
	position: relative;
	top: -3px;
}
#Content {
	float: none;
	width: auto;
	margin: 0 280px 0 10px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
#Panel {
	float: right;
	margin-right: 10px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
#Panel div.SearchBox input.InputBox {
	width: 200px;
	margin-right: 4px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
div.SearchBox {
	margin-bottom: 6px;
}
body.Profile div.SearchBox {
	display: none;
}
body.Profile #Content {
	float:none;
	width: auto;
	margin: 0 10px 0 280px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
body.Profile #Panel {
	margin: 0 0 0 10px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
form.Activity textarea {
	width:99%;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
#Foot div {
	width: auto;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
body.Post #Content {
	width: auto;
	margin:0 20px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
#ConversationForm textarea.MultiComplete,
#ConversationForm .TextBox,
#MessageForm textarea,
div.Comment div.CommentForm,
div.Comment div.CommentForm textarea,
div.CommentForm textarea,
#DiscussionForm input.InputBox,
#DiscussionForm textarea {
	width:99%;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
#ConversationForm form {
	border: none;
}
div.Preview div.Message,
ul.MessageList div.Message {
	clear: none;
}
#DiscussionForm form {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
div.MessageForm,
div.Tabs {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;
}

/* Tabs */
div.Tabs {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	padding: 0;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa;
}
div.Tabs ul {
	padding: 0 8px;
	white-space: nowrap;
}
div.MessageForm {
	padding: 8px 8px 5px;
}
div.MessageForm div.Tabs {
	padding: 0 8px;
}
div.Tabs li a,
div.Tabs li a:link,
div.Tabs li a:hover,
div.Tabs li a:active,
div.Tabs li a:visited {
	font-size: 11px;
   margin: 0;
   border: none;
   border-radius: 0;
   -moz-border-radius: 0;
   -webkit-border-radius: 0;
   background: #F6F6F2;
   color: #336633;
   text-decoration: none;
   padding: 8px 10px;
	line-height: 11px;
}
div.Tabs li a:hover {
   text-decoration: underline;
}
a.Active,
div.Tabs li.Active a {
   background: #F6F6F2;
   color: #336633;
   margin: 0;
   border: 1px solid #aaa;
	border-bottom: none;
   border-radius: 3px 3px 0 0;
   -moz-border-radius: 3px 3px 0 0;
   -webkit-border-radius: 3px 3px 0 0;
   display: inline-block;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height: 12px;
   font-weight: bold;
   text-decoration: none;
   padding: 6px 10px;
	position: relative;
	top: 1px;
}
div.Tabs li a span {
   line-height: 1;
   font-size: 80%;
   padding: 0 3px;
   border-radius: 3px;
   -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
   -moz-border-radius: 3px;
   font-weight: normal;
	background: #F6F6F2;
   color: #4A7023;
   margin: 0 0 0 4px;
}
div.DiscussionsTabs div.SubTab {
	font-size: 11px;
	border-radius: 0;
	-moz-border-radius: 0;
	-webkit-border-radius: 0;
	border-top: 1px solid #aaa;
	background: #F6F6F2;
	margin:0;
	padding:4px 8px;
}
div.HeadingTabs ul {
	margin: 8px 0 0;
}
body.Discussion a.Bookmark {
	margin: 6px 2px;
}
div.Preview {
	border: 1px solid #aaa;
	background: #F6F6F2;
	margin:0 0 8px;
	padding: 8px;
}
.Foot {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border: none;
}
div.MorePager a,
div.MorePager a:link,
div.MorePager a:visited,
div.MorePager a:active,
div.MorePager a:hover {
	border-radius: 0;
	-moz-border-radius: 0;
	-webkit-border-radius: 0;
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border: none;
	color: #4A7023;
	line-height: 1;
	padding: 0;
	text-decoration: none;	
}
div.MorePager a:hover {
	color: #4A7023;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
body.add #Content {
	margin: 0 10px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}

/* Panel Boxes */
#Panel div.Box {
	border-radius: 0;
	-moz-border-radius: 0;
	-webkit-border-radius: 0;
	box-shadow: none;
	-moz-box-shadow: none;
	-webkit-box-shadow: none;
	background: #F6F6F2;
	padding: 0;
}
div.Box h4 {
	color: #4A7023;
}
ul.PanelActivity,
ul.PanelInfo {
	border-top:1px solid #ccc;
}
ul.PanelActivity li,
ul.PanelInfo li,
ul.PanelInfo li.Active {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
}
ul.PanelInfo li.Active {
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
#Status {
	border-radius: 2px;
	-moz-border-radius: 2px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 2px;
	background: #eee;
	color: #000;
	line-height: 1.6;
	padding: 3px 6px;
	margin: 0 0 8px;
}
body.Profile ul.PanelInfo {
	border: #F6F6F2;
}
body.Profile ul.PanelInfo li {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}
body.Profile ul.PanelInfo li a {
	font-size: 12px;
	display: block;
	padding: 0 6px;
	background: #F6F6F2;
}
body.Profile ul.PanelInfo li a:hover {
	background: #F6F6F2;
}

/* Sign In Page */
body.Entry #Content {
	text-align: center;
	margin: 0 auto !important;
}
body.Entry #Content div.Box {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border: 0;
}
div.Methods {
	border-left: 1px solid #ccc;
}

/* Messages */
div.DismissMessage {
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border: 1px solid #ccc;
	padding:6px 8px;
	border-radius: 3px;
	-moz-border-radius: 3px;
	-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
}
div.DismissMessage a.Dismiss:hover {
	color: #000;
}
div.Warning {
	background: #d00;
	border: 1px solid #b00;
	color: #F6F6F2;
	text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #444;
}
div.Warning a.Dismiss {
	color: #F6F6F2;
}
#Content div.Box {
	color: #000;
	background: #F6F6F2;
	border: 1px solid #F6F6F2;
}
body#dashboard_entrycontroller_signin div.Box {
	border: none;
}
/* Autocomplete */
.ac_results {
   border: 1px solid #d7d8da;
	color: #000;
   border-top: 0;
   background-color: #F6F6F2;
}
.ac_results li {
   border-bottom: 1px solid #d7d8da;
}
.ac_lastitem {
   border-bottom: 0 !important;
}
.ac_results strong {
   background: #F6F6F2;
}
.ac_over strong {
   background: #F6F6F2;
}
.ac_over {
   background: #3b5998;
   color: #fff;

}

Hi there people,

I have a question about CSS but before I start off asking this question I'll introduce myself.

I'm a new user of this great forum, my name is Dwight and I'm a student on the "Graphical Lyceum Amsterdam" where I follow the education for "Multimedia Designer".

Ok so now you know me a little, I'll start off asking my question.

Question: I have to change the layout for a html page that askes for information from different asp pages, but that's not my problem . The problem is that I have to make some td's a different color -the background that is- but the problem is that I can't change the html page itself (it is automaticly generated and I don't have permission to change it).
So my question is can someone tell me how I can change the color of some (not all!) td's with CSS without making classes?

Tnx, Dwight

I have a horizontal ul:

Code:

<ul>
<li>blah</li>
<li>loooooooooooooooooooooong blah blah blah</li>
</ul>

If I set the background color:
Code:

li { background-color: yellow; }

It works fine, but If the long line gets wrapped, the height of the background of that li is higher, and it looks very funny. I want the background to be equally height, independent on the other li:s height.

Is that possible? I don't want to have a fixed value for the height

for some reason my background color won't show in firefox..

http://losemybreath.org/

take a look in IE and then in FF, I can't for the life of me figure out why it's not working.. any ideas?

this is the css
Code:

body {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	background: #ECF0CD;
	text-align: center;
	font: 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #666; }
	
#header {
	margin-left: 25px;
	width: 800px;
	height: 524px;
	background: url(http://www.losemybreath.org/images/greenlayout.jpg) no-repeat;
	}
	
#center {
	margin: auto;
	width: 800px; }
	
#content {
    width: 495px;
	margin: auto;
    text-align: left;
	background: #BCD4B2; }
	
#blog {
	float: left;
	margin-left: 10px;
	width: 290px;
	text-align: justify;
	display: inline;
	background: #BCD4B2; }
	
#sidebar {
	float: right;
	margin-right: 10px;
	width: 165px;
	text-align: justify;
	display: inline; 
	background: #BCD4B2;}

p {
	font: 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #666;
	margin-top: 0;
	text-align: justify; }
	
h1 {
	text-align: center;
	background-color: #ECF0CD;
	margin-bottom: 0;
	padding-bottom: 0;
	margin-top: 0;
	padding-top: 0;
	letter-spacing: 3px;
	font-weight: bold;
	font: 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	color: #77936C; }
	
ul,li {
	list-style-type: none;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0; }
	
a:link, a:visited {
    color: #669257;
    text-decoration: none; }

a:hover,a:active {
    color: #666666;
	background: #ECF0CD;
	text-decoration: underline; }
	
hr {
	width: 100%;
	color: #ECF0CD; }
	
.right {
	float: right; }
	
textarea, select, input {
	color: #666666;
	background: #ECF0CD;
	border: 0px none;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 2px;
	font: 10px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }
	
#question {
	border: 1px solid #ECF0CD;
	padding: 2px; }