Beginner seeks help with css problem

[Ian]

'm hoping someone can help me resolve a problem I am having with
stylesheets. I've only just started usinbg them so it's more than
likely something similar. Trouble is I don't seem to be able to fix it
so would be grateful for any help.

Basically I'm working with a web page I inherited which has a menu in
which the layout/colours are something like this:

Heading (always yellow)
- Link (always white irrespective of visited or not etc but hover adds
an underline
- Link (always white irrespective of visited or not etc but hover adds
an underline
- Link (always white irrespective of visited or not etc but hover adds
an underline

ete etc


The css code I inherited is as follows:


..leftNav {
font: bold 14px Helvetica, arial;
color: #FFFFFF;
background: #663333 center;
letter-spacing: .01em;
}


td.leftNav {
font: bold 14px Helvetica, arial;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
background: #663333 center;
letter-spacing: .01em;
border-top: 1px solid #000033;
border-left: 1px solid #000033;
}

td.leftNav ul {
display: block;
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

td.leftNav li {
display: block;
padding: 5px 0px;
border-bottom: 2px solid #FFFFFF;
}

td.leftNav li a:link, a:visited, {
font-weight: bold;
color:#ffffff;
text-decoration: none;
border: none;
background: transparent;
}

td.leftNav li a:hover {font-weight: bold;
font-weight: bold;
color:#ffffff;
text-decoration: underline;
border: none;
background: transparent;
}

..menuitem { color: #FFFF00 !important; }


What I now want to be able to add is a completely new separate table in
which there are links which are ALWAYS yellow irrespective of visited,
active or not, with no underline. Maybe they could change colour on
hover but it doesn't matter. I've tried various attempts at this but I
always seem to end up changing the colours of the other links on the
page in the main menu and can't understand why. So, any help would be
great.

[Blinky the Shark]

Re: Beginner seeks help with css problem

Ian wrote:
[color=blue]
> What I now want to be able to add is a completely new separate table in
> which there are links which are ALWAYS yellow irrespective of visited,
> active or not, with no underline. Maybe they could change colour on[/color]

Why do you want to confuse me by not letting me see which links I've
already used?

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[AES]

Re: Beginner seeks help with css problem

In article <slrnd9k4ah.3pe .no.spam@thurst on.blinkynet.ne t>,
Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.in valid> wrote:
[color=blue][color=green]
> > What I now want to be able to add is a completely new separate table in
> > which there are links which are ALWAYS yellow irrespective of visited,
> > active or not, with no underline. Maybe they could change colour on[/color]
>
> Why do you want to confuse me by not letting me see which links I've
> already used?[/color]

Just for info, the links in the bodies of the short blog messages that
are reproduced on Ariana Huffington's web site

<http://www.huffingtonp ost.com/>

seem to work this way.

Typographically it looks considerably neater to me without the
underlining; and since each message is short and only contains a few
links, and once you've read or skimmed one message and gone on to the
next you're unlikely to go back to the earlier one, perhaps recording
which links have been used is less necessary or useful.

In any event, as a novice question, if you have several links to the
same identical URL at different places within a web page, and a visitor
follows one of those links and then returns to the starting page, under
standard HTLM do (or should) _all_ of those links change color? -- or
only the one that was clicked on?

[Blinky the Shark]

Re: Beginner seeks help with css problem

AES wrote:[color=blue]
> In article <slrnd9k4ah.3pe .no.spam@thurst on.blinkynet.ne t>,
> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.in valid> wrote:[/color]
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>> > What I now want to be able to add is a completely new separate table in
>> > which there are links which are ALWAYS yellow irrespective of visited,
>> > active or not, with no underline. Maybe they could change colour on[/color][/color][/color]
[color=blue][color=green]
>> Why do you want to confuse me by not letting me see which links I've
>> already used?[/color][/color]
[color=blue]
> Just for info, the links in the bodies of the short blog messages that
> are reproduced on Ariana Huffington's web site[/color]
[color=blue]
> <http://www.huffingtonp ost.com/>[/color]
[color=blue]
> seem to work this way.[/color]

Bummer.
[color=blue]
> Typographically it looks considerably neater to me without the
> underlining; and since each message is short and only contains a few
> links, and once you've read or skimmed one message and gone on to the
> next you're unlikely to go back to the earlier one, perhaps recording
> which links have been used is less necessary or useful.[/color]

And perhaps not.

I don't mind no underlining. I very much mind the absence of the
distinctive link color for visited links.
[color=blue]
> In any event, as a novice question, if you have several links to the
> same identical URL at different places within a web page, and a visitor
> follows one of those links and then returns to the starting page, under
> standard HTLM do (or should) _all_ of those links change color? -- or
> only the one that was clicked on?[/color]

I would think they all would.

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