I'm building a Wordpress theme, and I have these snippets in my style.css:
#content a:link, #content a:visited, #content a:hover, #content a:active {
color: #fff;
}
.entry-utility a:link, .entry-utility a:visited, .entry-utility a:hover, .entry-utility a:active {
background: #fff;
color: #111;
}
The problem is that all links, even those within a <div class="entry-utility"> are being rendered with color: #fff". The background selector in the second snippet works fine, but not the color: selector. I've checked, and that is definitely the most granular color selector. What could be causing this?
I've tried commenting out the first one, which does cause the second one to work. As far as I can tell, it's just using the least granular selector for all the links in my theme.
You must put color: #111; in rule that is more precise than #content a like this.
#content div.entry-utility a {
background: #fff;
color: #111;
}
Related
Problem with Chrome when displaying my css styles:
The horizontal nav should have background grey and
text color black but on Chrome get maroon and text white.
On I.E 9 works fine but on Chrome not.
The style for the second nav looks ok.How do I resolve these conflicting styles.
Here is my codepen:
http://cdpn.io/uCgyF
add the shiv to your head
<script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
Add id to the ul and style accordingly as in this fiddle
<ul id="firstNav">
nav #firstNav a:link,a:visited{
color: black;
background-color:grey;
display: block;
}
(skip to the bottom for tl;dr)
When I first loaded your pen, I saw things correctly. But then I clicked on one of the header links and saw the behavior you describe. That tells us that a :visited selector is probably the issue. Take a look at your css code (I removed some to help illustrate the point):
nav#navigation a:link, a:visited {
background-color:grey;
color: black;
}
aside a:link, a:visited {
background-color: maroon;
color: white;
}
the comma (,) doesn't do what you think it does. the comma in css is shorthand for writing the same definition twice, so if we didn't have that shorthand, your css would look like this:
nav#navigation a:link {
background-color:grey;
color: black;
}
a:visited { /* <-- oops! */
background-color:grey;
color: black;
}
aside a:link {
background-color: maroon;
color: white;
}
a:visited { /* <-- oops! */
background-color: maroon;
color: white;
}
with your css, every visited link on the entire site (whether it is in your nav or not) will be white on maroon.
as a general rule of thumb, add a new-line after each comma in css. It will help you see these errors more easily.
tl;dr: do this:
nav#navigation a:link,
nav#navigation a:visited {
background-color:grey;
color: black;
}
aside a:link,
aside a:visited {
background-color: maroon;
color: white;
}
Hi I'm trying to make a joomla site here, only one problem I can't seem to figure out. The color of my active link doesn't change, it has an image and a color, the image is in place as it should be, but the color doesn't change. Anyone an idea? here's the css:
a {
color: #ffffff;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:link, a:visited {color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none;}
a:focus, a:hover {
color: #e2231a;
text-decoration: none;
}
#links li.active {
color: #e2231a;
text-decoration: none;
background: url("../images/hover.png") bottom center no-repeat;
padding-bottom: 17px;
}
I know the active statement looks different then the rest, but this was the only way to get my image to show. Really stuck on this..
Used to this for a tag
#links li.active a {
// here style for your anchor link
}
If you want just the list elements within Links to change when active use this.
#links li:active a {color:#000;}
If you want all lists to be effected by this change use
li:active a {color:#000;}
If you want more than just the li elements to change ie ever single link on the site that is active to obey these rules then use the following
a:active {color:#000;}
Hope this helps you out.
I'm having an issue on my site http://noahsdad.com; if you look at the widget I installed at the very bottom, you can't see the links unless you hover over them. This doesn't just happen with this widget, almost any I put in have a 'haze' over them, if that makes sense.
I'm wondering if someone could help me figure out what's going on, and how to correct it.
Thanks.
The links are visible, they are just set to a light grey colour. You have these rules defined in your default.css file:
a:link, a:visited {
color: #EEEEEE;
}
a:hover {
color: #999999;
}
You could change the value of the standard link colour, or you create a new rule with a higher specitivity, so that only links in that widget are affected.
#dsq-combo-widget a {
color: #999;
}
Update
You haven't specified the color for your new style:
.widget ul li a:link, .widget ul li a:visited {
display: block;
text-decoration: none;
color: #999; <-- Add this
}
Only because of color you can't see it but it's visible. You have a predefined color (#EEE) for all of your "a:link, a:visited" at "http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/themes/ProPhoto_10/style.css" at line 3 and all links are inheriting that color so if you want to change the color for your widgets then add another color like
.widget ul li a:link, .widget ul li a:visited {
display: block;
text-decoration: none;
color: #333; /*or whatever you want*/
}
It's at line 345 in the same file.
I've a button and I wanted to know if it is possible to make the css bellow shorter.
.button a:link, .button a:visited, .button a:hover, .button a:active {
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
}
I mean maybe:
.button a:* {
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
}
Maybe there isn't any shorter way, but I just wanted to know.
I found something like this out:
.button a:link:visited:hover:active {
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
}
But it wasn't working, don't know why..
For information - I've general css for a in the top of the file:
a:link {
color: #DA5632;
}
a:visited {
color: #CE3408;
}
a:hover {
color: #289BF8;
}
a:active {
color: #CE3408;
}
So the button class a should overwrite the main a css.
.button a is all you need
I always set a default style on a, and target pseudo classes only when I need to have a different effect.
Edit to include fix from comments:
Because a default style for the a element is declared like:
a:link {
color: #DA5632;
}
a:visited {
color: #CE3408;
}
a:hover {
color: #289BF8;
}
a:active {
color: #CE3408;
}
at the top of the stylesheet, we need to make it body .button a by increasing selectivity we increase the importance of the styles applied.
Here are some things to try
make sure that your stylesheet has a rule for ".button a" - also make sure this stylesheet is included after the global one defining rules for "a".
If that doesn't work, try being more specific, as in: ".button > a", only selecting direct descendants.
If THAT doesn't work, while it's bad practice, you could always mark your styles as important, like so:
color: #fff !important;
this will demand that they are parsed last.
I have the following HTML:
Bioshock 2<span> - Xbox 360 review</span>
I'd like to style the first part of the link in one way and the span in another, like this:
I've managed to do this, using the following CSS:
a {
text-decoration: none;
}
a span {
color: #c8c8c8;
}
a:link,
a:visited {
color: #787878;
}
a:hover,
a:active {
color: #fff;
background-color: #a10000;
}
However, it doesn't work as expected when I hover over it:
I'd like the entire link to have the same hover effect and not have the span keep its colour. I'd also like this to happen whether you're hovering over the span or the rest of the link. The desired effect would look like this:
Any ideas how I could do this?
Try:
a:hover, a:active, a:hover span {
// ...
}
instead of:
a:hover, a:active {
// ...
}
Add this css code to it:
a span:hover {
color: #fff;
background-color: #a10000;
}
And here is the demonstration. :)