Re: How to override the style of a pseudoclass (a link)?

[Jonathan Sachs]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:22:34 +0200, Andreas Prilop
<prilop2008@tra shmail.netwrote :

>Then give us the address (URL) of your web page!

The "live" page is not publicly accessible, but in connection with
another problem, I have posted a simplified version at
http://www.amphigoricbooks.com/dummy/About.htm. All of the
stylesheets are there.

The problematic link is in the menu bar between "Store" and "sign
up...". To find it in the source, search for the string "Log Out".

This particular link will be replaced by an image consistent with the
other menu bar items, but the site will have plenty of other text
links which will stay, and they all are subject to the same problem.

[John Hosking]

Re: How to override the style of a pseudoclass (a link)?

Jonathan Sachs wrote:

>
The "live" page is not publicly accessible, but in connection with
another problem, I have posted a simplified version at
http://www.amphigoricbooks.com/dummy/About.htm. All of the
stylesheets are there.
>
The problematic link is in the menu bar between "Store" and "sign
up...". To find it in the source, search for the string "Log Out".
>

You have
#bldHeaderMenuL ink a, #bldHeaderMenuL ink a:link,
#bldHeaderMenuL ink a:active, #bldHeaderMenuL ink a.visited {
color: white;
}

but you do not have

#bldHeaderMenuI tem a, #bldHeaderMenuI tem a:link,
#bldHeaderMenuI tem a:active, #bldHeaderMenuI tem a.visited {
color: white;
}

Compare with your markup.

You also have:
1) validation errors in markup and CSS

http://validator.w3.org/

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

2) lots and lots of rule sets in the CSS. 7 count 'em 7 files

3) filespecs with apparent variables for CSS files

"node.css?u ", "defaults.css?u ", etc.

4) CSS rules marked as IE-only which are really IE6 and under

/* Note: IE-only fix due to '* html'. */
* html.js fieldset.collap sed legend,

5) XHTML instead of HTML, served as text/html anyway

6) Some apparent dependence on Drupal. This probably is the main cause
of items 1-5 above.

GL

--
John
Pondering the value of the UIP: http://improve-usenet.org/

[Jonathan Sachs]

Re: How to override the style of a pseudoclass (a link)?

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:14:18 +0200, John Hosking
<John@DELETE.Ho sking.name.INVA LIDwrote:

>You have
>#bldHeaderMenu Link a, #bldHeaderMenuL ink a:link,
>#bldHeaderMenu Link a:active, #bldHeaderMenuL ink a.visited {
> color: white;
>}
>
>but you do not have
>
>#bldHeaderMenu Item a, #bldHeaderMenuI tem a:link,
>#bldHeaderMenu Item a:active, #bldHeaderMenuI tem a.visited {
> color: white;

Thank you! That's the sort of thing that a person can stare at in his
own code forever and not see.