CSS - Link Colouring & Styles

hi guys,

I'm sure this is an easy fix but it's driving my little non-technical mind nuts...

I have an external style sheet for a site, and it appears to be linked correctly as altering it does affect the text in my site.

HOWEVER, the elements I've included to keep web links displaying as normal text aren't working (visited, hover, active, etc etc)

Please help.

Code below.

.main {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
link {text-decoration: none;
visited {text-decoration: none;
hover {text-decoration: none;
active {text-decoration: none;
}

I have 2 content areas. One with id sidebar2 and another with id maincontent.

I want the links in these separate content areas to have different hover colors and possibly other characteristics.

My problem is, the styles for sidebar2 are being overwritten by the styles in maincontent as it is below it in the style sheet (cascade).

The hover of the words "Good Game" in this example is green which clashes with the background of the sidebars content. It should be a blue color.

Why does a completely separate id overwrite the styling in a previous id? How can I improve this code to get the desired results.

Line numbers eg (line 140) are just referencing where the code appears within the stylesheet and are not actually in the css sheet.

HTML example:

<div id="sidebar2">
<h1>Daily Content</h1>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="(URL)">Good Game</a>
</li></ul>
</div>


#sidebar2 li a:link, li a:visited (line 140)

{

text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #336699;

}

#sidebar2 li a:active, li a:hover (line 148)

{

text-decoration: none;
color: #2986aa;
text-indent: 5px;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;

}

#mainContent a:link, li a:visited (line 157)

{

text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #003366;

}

#mainContent li a:active, li a:hover (line 166)

{

text-decoration: none;

color: #99cc66;
text-indent: 5px;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;

}

Hi there,

Is it possible to have the same name for a link style to a text style?

For example:

a.small:link{....

and

.small{...

Many thanks!

I am trying to use the following in my external style sheet for my links:

Code:

a:link, a:visited{
color: #006699;
text-decoration: underline;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;

}

a:hover {
color: #006699;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;

}

a.big {
color: #006699;
text-decoration: underline;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;

}

a.big:hover {
color: #006699;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;

}

a.bigger {
color: #006699;
text-decoration: underline;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 17px;
font-weight: bold;

}

a.bigger:hover {
color: #006699;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 17px;
font-weight: bold;
}

My problem is that I can't get big & bigger to work properly in Internet explorer. When I hover over the link it goes to its proper size but when not hovering it stays at 11px.

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Typically we would define our link styles in CSS using something like: PHP Code:
 a, a:link, a:visited {
        color: #BF28B2;
        text-decoration: none;
        font-weight: bold;
} 



I just realized I am not sure how to represent the same style when using inline styles such as <span style='...'>text</span>. Just what can I do to modify the link styles using inline styles?

Thanks

Is it possible to set link styles that are defined inside of a heading tag...

for example,

h1 a:link{bleh}
h1 a:visited{bleh}
h1 a:hover{bleh}

I tried it... but it doesn't want to go, I'm thinking I might have to think of another solution

Hello. I'm trying to figure out a way to define link states (link, active, hover, visited) using an inline style or in a manner other than specifying via an imported or embedded style sheet. The project I'm working on involves designing an HTML email (template) with links that have formatting specified. Some webmail providers (particulalrly gmail and hotmail) seem to strip the away all code from the BODY tag on up (I assume to avoid conflicts with their own formatting), making formatting a very creative endeavor. Anyhow, without specifying these attributes in the header, is there any other way of doing this? The best I can figure out is specifying a link color, but without allowing for changes on visited, active, or hovered links. I've been googling for hours, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

P.S. I know the prevailing attitudes on plain text vs html formatted emails and how it ties into spam, etc. I assure you this isn't being done in the context of spam, but rather, an opt-in newsletter for a client interested in sending fully formatted newsletters. :-)

I need some really rediculous link styles, like all of the cool fading/pixelating ones that work on IE - but I can't find any for Firefox. Does anyone know if they exist, or where to find them?

Hey all,

So i have two files my html file:
Code:

 
<html>
<head>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" />
</head>
<body>

<a href="#">this is a test</a>

</body>
</html>

And my css file:
Code:

a:link {color:#000000;text-decoration:none;}
a:visited {color:#000000;text-decoration:none;}
a:hover {color:#CC0000;text-decoration:underline;}
a:active {color:#000000;text-decoration:none;}

except that the styles don't work on the links. If i put the styles in <style> tags in the html head it works, but in a seperate file they don't, can someone help me?

thanks!
- legit


Edit, whoops sorry, I had the wrong name for my css file

Is it possible to just colour colour the bullett of a list item?

eg. disc or square orange and the text black

Thanks for any help

Hi, i have a weird problem when trying to set the background-color of a table using css.

If i use the following code the table / cell displays fine:

Code:

.tabletop {
    	border-width:1px 0px 0px 0px;
	border-style:solid;
	border-color:#666666;
	background-color:#8C9DA9;
	width:600px;
}

...there is a 1px border at the top, and the background is coloured in.

But if i remove the border, and just leave in the background colour like:

Code:

.tabletop {
    	background-color:#8C9DA9;
	width:600px;
}

...the background is no longer coloured! Can anyone explain why this is please?

Cheers

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I'd like to seperate blocks of text with a horazontal rule. I'd like it to be dashed. So, I've come up with this:
Quote:
hr
{
border: none 0;
border-top: 1px dashed #000;
width:98%;
height: 1px
}

However, although this works well in IE, it Firefox there is too much space between the HR and the text block under it. In other words, the text above the HR comes right up to the line, but the text under the line, there is a larger gap. Any way to close the gap?

Any ideas?

Hello -- new to this forum. My questions concerns a problem I've run into many times. I'm trying to be CSS-moral and use style sheets as much as possible, or a least place properties in the Header. But here's what I run into. Many times I find it necessary to have different properties for the same tag within the Body.

Currently, I use CSS to create the Menu items at the top of each web page, an Unordered List, using the "li" tags. Ok, but I just discovered that by using a new CSS statement, I can use custom bullets in the Body's li tag: list-style-image : url(bullet.gif) . Cool!!! So, I went about making a little dog bone .gif and used it for my bullet graphic halfway down the page. Voila! It worked. Voila! I suddenly have dog bones in my menu (which I don't want !), which also use the li tag.

I only know two workarounds. 1) is to go back to the BAD practice of using the taboo in-line style="images/dogbone.gif" in each li within the body and NOT put the statement in the Header style section or 2) at least try to use CSS in the header by making a class like li.bone { list-style-image : bone} and then repeat class="bone" for each li in the body, which is only slightly shorter than just putting in the style="xxx" in the first place.

So, how do we handle using different style properties for the same tag within the body?

Perplexed,
Mike

Unfortunately I am not very experienced and I am trying to edit some coding that has been done for me.

The code is as follows

<div title="[[TITLE]]" style='background-image: url ([bg]); padding: 5%; width:90%; height:100%; padding-left: 6%; padding-right: 6%; background-size: 100% 100%; '>

Now what happens is the words I type in this box are beautifully laid out because of the padding...

The images placed in the box should stretch border to border - but obviously don't because of the padding....

Can anyone please tell me what I can change to give my text padding but images with no padding?

Thanks so much