CSS - Visited Link Hover

Good day,

I am a newbie, both to CSS and to these forums.

I recently undertook a job to update a website for a charity and am dealing with the previous webmasters coding, both html and css. I am trying to modernize the site a bit, it is very 1997.

I am running into a bit of trouble with the hover class on one of my pages. When a link has been visited, it no longer changes color and highlights on hover. I read on multiple forums, this one included that it is because you must define hover last, after visited, active, etc. I did this, but still does not work. I am using Firefox 2.

Here is the code I am working with, sorry that is is a bit lengthy, I don't know what parts are important or not because when I just change the hover, link, visted part it doesn't work.

The page I am working with is at beverlyfoundation . org / library / index . html


/* THE BASICS */
body {
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
color: #eaf5ff;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background-color: #c2d8ec;
}

p {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 14px;
margin-left: 0px;
}

img {
border: none;
}


a:link, a:visited { text-decoration: none; color: #EAF5FF; }
a:active, a:hover { text-decoration: underline; color: #E51322; }


/* HEADERS */
h1, h2, h3 {
font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;
margin: 0px 0px 14px;
}

h1 {
font-size: 220%;
text-align: right;
font-style: italic;
}
h2 { font-size: 140%; }

ul {
list-style-position: outside;
list-style-type: square;
}

/* TOP COLORED LINKS */
.navcells {
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
padding: 2px;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 11px;
}

#navlinks a:link, a:visited { text-decoration: none; color: #EAF5FF; }
#navlinks a:hover, a:active { text-decoration: underline; color: #EAF5FF; }



/* LAYOUT */
#header {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-image: url(../images/header_gradient01_bg.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: left top;
}


#content {
padding: 10px 20px 10px 10px;
background-color: #0060BE;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
font-size: 12px;
}


#rightcolumn {
background-color: #0060BE;
padding: 10px;
width: 220px;
font-size: 11px;
border-left-width: 1px;
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: solid;
border-top-color: #EAF5FF;
border-right-color: #EAF5FF;
border-bottom-color: #EAF5FF;
border-left-color: #EAF5FF;
border-top-width: 0px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 0px;
}

#splashrightcolumn {
background-color: #0060BE;
padding: 10px;
width: 220px;
font-size: 11px;
}

#rightcolumn img {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-left: 0px;
}

#rightcolumn p {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 7px;
margin-left: 0px;
}

#rightcolumn h1 {
font-size: 180%;
text-align: center;
font-style: italic;
}

#rightcolumn h2 {
margin-top: 21px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 7px;
margin-left: 0px;
text-align: center;
}

#rightcolumn a:link, a:visited { text-decoration: none; color: #EAF5FF; }
#rightcolumn a:hover, a:active { text-decoration: underline; color: #EAF5FF; }


#threecolumn {
padding: 10px;
width: 220px;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
font-size: 12px;
}

#threecolumn a:link, a:visited { color: #EAF5FF; text-decoration: none; }
#threecolumn a:hover, a:active { color: #EAF5FF; text-decoration: underline; }


#footer {
color: #EAF5FF;
padding: 10px;
font-size: 11px;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
line-height: 14px;
}

#footer a {
color: #EAF5FF;
text-decoration: none;
}



#address {
color: #EAF5FF;
padding: 10px;
font-size: 11px;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
border-left-width: 1px;
border-top-color: #EAF5FF;
border-right-color: #EAF5FF;
border-bottom-color: #EAF5FF;
border-left-color: #EAF5FF;
border-top-style: solid;
border-right-style: solid;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-left-style: solid;
border-top-width: 0px;
border-right-width: 0px;
border-bottom-width: 0px;
}

#address a {
color: #EAF5FF;
text-decoration: underline;
}


#address h2 {
margin: 0px;
}

.threecolumns {
color: #EAF5FF;
padding: 10px;
font-size: 11px;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: top;
}

.resourcestore p {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 4px;
margin-left: 0px;
}
.gradientrow {
background-image: url(../images/footer_bg01.jpg);
}
.copyright {
font-size: 10px;
}
.resourcestore {
padding: 10px;
}

Good Morning! First off I am not a professional, not even close. I have been teaching myself html & css on and off for the past 6 months. Ok so here is my issue:

I have a CSS rule:

a:link, a:visited {
display:block;
font-weight:bold;
color:#000;
background-color:#FFF;
width:200px;
text-align:left;
padding:10px;
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:uppercase;

}

The above rule is used on my side nav bar. My issue is now every <a href"etc.." </a> i place on my main page inherits all the above attributes. How can eliminate all the parent stuff. Ive been trying to get this working for the past 2 hours and my brain is fried.!

Thanks for all your help!

-Chris

I am using an external CSS where I am defining the color of my links when un-visited, visited etc.
The problem is in Netscape 7.1/7.2
those links which are calling my other pages, are being shown up as visited when clicked,.

But those where I say href='javascript:void(0);my js function'

are not being shown with the correct 'visited' link color. They are being shown in the color specified for 'un-visited' links!!

Can someone help??

I have another problem with IE for Windows:
I have several links which should not appear as links but should inherate the colors (grey or black) and decoration (none) from their parents ... works fine every where except MSIE for windows (where the usual red and blue - but no underline - appear)

the relevant styles:

<style type="text/css">

a:link {
text-decoration: none;
color: inherit;
}

a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: inherit;
}
</style>

the relevant html:

<h3 style="padding: 0; margin: 0.25em;color:#000000; ">Some <a href="http://www.theDanceGypsy.com/danceFinder.shtml" target="viewFrame">Dance Events</a> near you:</h3>
<ul class="newsList">
<li><a href="http://www.thedancegypsy.com/danceList.php?dance=dance-26:6-4" target="viewFrame"><span class ="unconfirmed">6/25: Bernardston~ <cite>Eastern Squares</cite>
</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.thedancegypsy.com/danceList.php?dance=dance-30:6-4" target="viewFrame">6/26: Brattleboro~ <cite>Paneurhythmy</cite>
</a></li>

anyone have any idea for a workaround?
Thanx

Not sure what this is referred to. I checked my dhtml book but its from 2000! I want to apply link, visited, hover, active to below code:

Code:

#print_category {
     position: absolute;
     left: 35%;
     top: 30%;
     font-size: 13px;
     text-align: left;
     line-height: 2 ;
     margin-right: 5em;
		}

Properties I want to apply:

A:link {color: #000099;
text-decoration: underline;
}

A:visited {color: #000099;
text-decoration: none;
}

A:hover {color: #000099;
text-decoration: none;
}

A:active {color: #000099;
text-decoration: none;
}

How can this be done, Ive tried but to no avail:

- A#print_category:active {color: #000099;
text-decoration: none;
}

Thanks!

Hello,

The hover link looks good on IE7 and FF but not on IE6
Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
#header_navigation {
background-color:#0000FF;
	position:absolute;
	float:left;
	font-size:11px;
	color:#FFFFFF;
	font-weight:bold; 		
	left:190px;
	top:130px;
	width:145px	
}
#header_navigation ul {
border:1px solid #FF0000;
	float:left;
	list-style-type:none;
	margin:0 30px 0 0;
}
#header_navigation li {
	width:145px
}
#header_navigation li:hover {
	background-color:#FFFFFF;
}
#header_navigation a {
	text-decoration:none;
	color:#ffffff;
	background-color:none;
}
#header_navigation a:hover {
	color:#000000;
	background-color:#FFFFFF;
	width:145px
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="header_navigation"><!--begin of header_navigation-->
				<ul>
					<li><a href="index.asp">Home</a></li>
					<li><a href="#">News</a></li>
					<li><a href="#">Forum</a></li>				
					<li><a href="blog.asp">Blogs</a></li>			
					<li><a href="shoutbox.asp">Shoutbox</a></li>
					<li><a href="#">Testimonials</a></li>
					<li><a href="#">Photo Gallery</a></li>
					<li><a href="#">About Us</a></li>
				</ul>												
			</div>	
</body>
</html>

I'm trying to have a hover effect on a link within a <td> tag. In firefox it works fine, but in IE it's not working. I wasn't sure if there's a special property in CSS to get it working. My CSS code is:

Quote:
.leftblock a{display: block;
border-top: 1px solid #ffffff;
font-weight: bold;
color: #21536A;
text-decoration:none;
background-color:#CCCCFF;
}



Quote:
.leftblock a:hover{border-top: 1px solid #cccccc;
background-color: #DDEEFF;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
}



I added display:block to the a:hover class as well to try that to no avail.

http://www.sassyproducts.com/hover.php is where you can see what I'm working on. If you hover over anywhere on the first link, Fundraising, it adds the hover effect, but the other ones will only show the hover effect if you hover over the text. This is in IE. In FF, it works properly. Any ideas what I may need to add or change?... Thanks.

I wish to have links for the menu like this: http://www.tristarwebdesign.co.uk/templates/templates/karma/index.html

However, I wish to have MY OWN font style on each links as it can be seen on:

The only difference I want is that this guy has used "title" in order to display text on each "li" link, while I would like to use MY OWN font style instead as can be seen from my page on: http://members.lycos.co.uk/darsh25/Personal%20Website/contact.php

i.e. the font style that can be seen in links like About, Services, Owner, Template & Contact.

Code:

				
<li><a title="link six" href="index.html">link six</a></li>
<li><a title="link five" href="index.html">link five</a></li>
<li><a title="link four" href="index.html">link four</a></li>
<li><a title="link three" href="index.html">link three</a></li>
<li><a title="link two" href="index.html">link two</a></li>
<li><a title="link one" href="index.html">link one</a></li>

My links are saved as an "image" (both background & the text on it) & as far as I'm aware, I couldn't possibly "hover" EACH INDIVIDUAL image of EACH of these links using CSS, could I ???

I know that I could "hover" change the background colour, but then what about the text on it ??? Is it possible to use the same fancy font AND being able to change the background colour when hover to "grey" (just as it could be seen from the "tristar" website.

My CSS code so far is:

Code:

/* CSS Document */

body 
{
	background-color:black;
	background-attachment:fixed;
}

/* .................................... HEADER & FOOTER ................................... */

#header
{
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	color:white;
	text-align:center;
	width:100%; 
}

#header  a
{
	color:yellow;	
	text-decoration:none;
}

#header  a:hover
{
	text-decoration:underline;
}

#footer
{
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	color:white;
	text-align:center;
	border-top:3px solid fuchsia;
	float:left;
	background-color:black;
	width:100%; 
}

#footer a
{
	color:yellow;	
	text-decoration:none;
}

#footer a:hover
{
	text-decoration:underline;
}

/* ........................................ BANNER ........................................ */

#banner
{
	width:100%;
	border:none;
	text-align:center;
	background-color:none;
}

/* ......................................... TOP MENU .................................... */

#topMenu
{
	width:100%;
	float:right;
	border:none;
}

#topMenu ul
{
	float:left;
	margin-left:4%;
}

#topMenu ul li 
{
	display:inline;
	width:20%;
}


/* ................................... CONTENT ................................................ */

#leftContent
{
	float:left;
	width:10%;
	border:1px solid red;
	background-color:green;
}

#centerContent
{
	background-color:white;
	width:75%; 
	margin-left:1%;
	float:left;
	border:1px solid green;
}

#centerContent ul
{
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	text-align:justify;
	list-style-type:decimal;
	color:black;
}

#centerContent li
{
	margin:3% 3%;
	line-height:1.5em;
}

#rightContent
{
	float:right;
	background-color:fuchsia;
	border:1px solid red;
	width:10%;
}

/* ................................... STYLES ......................................... */

p.first-letter:first-letter
{
	color:red;
	margin-left:5%;
	font-size:xx-large;
}

p
{
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	text-align:justify;
	font-size:medium;
	line-height:1.5em;
	margin:2% 3%;
	color:black;
}

h4
{
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	text-align:center;
	font-size:x-large;
	color:green;
}

h5
{
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	text-align:justify;
	font-size:medium;
	margin:2% 3%;
	color:blue;
}

h6
{
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	text-align:justify;
	margin:0;
	font-size:medium;
	font-weight:normal;
	color:red;
}

.italic
{
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	text-align:justify;
	color:black;
	font-style:italic;
}

.bold
{
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	text-align:justify;
	color:black;
	font-weight:bold;
}

.colorTextRed
{
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	text-align:justify;
	color:red;
}

.colorTextBlue
{
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	text-align:justify;
	color:blue;
}

.colorTextGreen
{
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	text-align:justify;
	color:green;
}

/* ................................... TABLE ......................................... */

#contactTable
{
	background-color:white;
	border-spacing:2%;
	margin:3% 3%;
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	text-align:left;
}

#contactTable tr
{
	border:none;
}

#contactTable th
{
	color:fuchsia;
}

#contactTable td
{
	font-size:medium;
	color:black;
}

/* ................................... CLASSES ......................................... */

.table
{
	background-color:white;
	border-spacing:2%;
	margin:3% 3%;
	font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	border-collapse:collapse;
	text-align:left;
}

.tr
{
	border:none;
}

.td
{
	border:thin solid red;
	font-size:medium;
	padding:2px;
	text-align:center;
	color:black;
}

I am attempting to create a link on a page that will only appear when it is hovered upon. This is to direct an administrator to an admin page. Here is what I have attempted so far to no avail:

Code:

div.headleft {
    text-align: right;
    width: 100%;
}

div.headleft a:link {
    display: none;
}

div.headleft a:visited {
    display: none;
}

div.headleft a:hover {
    display: block;
    background: inherit;
    color: #ff0000;
}

div.headleft a:active {
    display: none;
}

I have tried a few variations to the above snippet of code and am at my wits end...

My gratitude ahead of time...

Is it possible to have a link where the user rolls their mouse over it, and an image appears on top of it?

I tried setting it as a background image, but it only fills the background of the text.

Thanks!

Hello
I would like to make a hover effect when my mouse is over a link, as shown in my attachment.
What I want is, as shown in the attachment (at design time), when I hover on any link, two horizontal lines are added at the top and bottom of that specific link, and a slight black transparency appears as well as a highlighter (not the text of the link, and by default the background will be slightly grayed).
Anyone can help me with this?

Edit: even if the black transparency does not appear is not a problem, but how to implement the two lines? Am using only css and html here, no javascript or any other libraries.

My layout contains a vertical navigation bar. It is split up into individual images. I have created a table to organize the sliced images. I am using CSS to create a hover effect. When you mouseover the table cell, the backgroudn changes (and changes back when the mouse is removed.) This is all peachy, but is it possible for me to change the colors of the text within that table cell along with the background.

Heres the CSS:

Code:

	.link_hover1{
	background-image: url("images/link_img_01a.jpg");
	background-repeat: repeat-n;
	cursor: pointer;
	width: 170px;
	height: 44px;
	} 
	td.link_hover1:visited{
	background-image: url("images/link_img_01a.jpg");
	background-repeat: repeat-n;
	cursor: pointer;
	width: 170px;
	height: 44px;
	} 
	td.link_hover1:hover{
	background-image: url("images/link_img_01b.jpg");
	background-repeat: repeat-n;
	cursor: pointer;
	width: 170px;
	height: 44px;
	} 
	td.link_hover1:active{
	background-image: url("images/link_img_01a.jpg");
	background-repeat: repeat-n;
	cursor: pointer;
	width: 170px;
	height: 44px;
	}

I tired implementing the font-color property. No use. does this have something to do with my 'td' selector? I have a feeling that this is the problem.

I have the following code, but the CSS file that I have already defines link and hover to be something else

Is there a way I can edit the div#hdr_cnt to have it's own definition of the hover and link?

Thanks for the help


Code:

div#hdr_ctr	{ width:100%; min-width:670px; background-color:#FFF; overflow:hidden; margin:0; padding:0; text-align:center; color:#000000}

div#hdr_cnt { background: url('http://www.hobbyspeed.com/header/hobbyspeed.jpg') no-repeat center; width:670px; height:73px; margin:0 auto; padding:0;}	
	div#hdr_cnt ul.l { float:left; margin:15px 0 0 18px; padding:0; list-style-type:none; direction:rtl; text-align:right; color:#000000}	
	* html div#hdr_cnt ul.l { margin-left: 9px; color:#000000 }	
	div#hdr_cnt ul.r { float:right; margin:15px 0 0 20px; padding:0; list-style-type:none; direction:ltr; text-align:left;}

This is the new site I'm working on:
http://animalemergencybloomington.com/Index2.html

Link and Visited Link colors work, but I can't get Active or Hover color to work. (Doesn't work in any of the browsers I've tested it in.)

Right now I have this in the <head>

css Code:
Original - css Code <style type="text/css"> body { color: #000000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana; margin: 0px 0px; } A:link { text-decoration: none } A:visited { text-decoration: none } </style>

  

 <style type="text/css">


 body {


 color: #000000;


 font-size: 12pt;


 font-family: Verdana;


 margin: 0px 0px;


 }


 A:link { text-decoration: none }


 A:visited { text-decoration: none }


 </style> 

and this for the <body>:

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" alink="#0000FF" vlink="#1E90FF">

adding a:active and a:hover colors to the style gives a "parse error" for those lines when I try to validate and doesn't work anyway as far as getting a color change on hover.

I've been trying different combinations in the body and style all afternoon but get error warnings on everything I've tried except the above combo.

I'm just trying for links that are never underlined (hate how cluttered that makes things look) but turn red on hoover.

Help?
Thanks,
Ez

Hi,
I have a pure css menu that uses hover,
Kravitz told me it wont work in touchscreens which I searched for and is so, thanks Kravitz.

Also one told me to keep the hover and add a class to make it posible to click on li if hover does not work.

Problem, cant test this as I dont have any touchscreen.
So 1. is there a way to add a code to disable the hover affect?
2, maybe a website where you can test but using mouse....
3. Dont remember, its validates but are there anything against using <a href="#">?

Thanks,
Helen