Is there a reason my below CSS only half works?
div.share
{
position:relative;
top: -4px;
left: 25px;
font-family:Tahoma;
background-color:#000000;
font-size:11px;
font-weight:bold;
}
/* share link css */
a.share:active
{
color: #000000;
}
a.share:hover
{
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color:#000000;
text-decoration: none;
}
The div.share CSS is all working but the CSS for the active and hover is not
CSS is valid, but make sure the link does have the "share" class, if its in the DIV, change the css to:
div.share a:active
{
color: #000000;
}
div.share a:hover
{
color: #FFFFFF;
background-color:#000000;
text-decoration: none;
}
adding your html would make this easier.
I can only guess that you have a <div> with class='share' and no <a> tag with the same.
e.g., does your html look like:
<div class='share'>
<a class='share' href='http://yoursite.com'>Your site</a>
</div>
or
<div class='share'>
</div>
...
<a class='share' href='http://yoursite.com'>Your site</a>
If it's the first, then
div.share a:hover {
...
}
would make more sense.
If it's the second, then the selector looks fine... though it might be better to choose different, but appropriate class names.
Use div.share a:active and div.share a:hover.
The way you have it right now it is looking for an <a> tag with a share class applied directly. However the share class is on the outer div.
Can you show us an HTML snippet using this CSS? Is it really the <a> tag that has the share class or is it nested inside the <div class="share">?
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I'm trying to stop a link from turning purple when you click it. My link is within a div with the class name "header". My code doesn't seem to work and the link just stays purple.
.header a:visited {
color: black;
}
The :visited selector is used to select visited links. If your HTML looks the same as below it should be working, Possibly you might want to use :focus or :active?
.header a:visited {
color: black;
}
.header a:focus {
color: pink;
}
<div class="header">
sdfsd
</div>
a:visited {
color: black;
}
<div>
Link
</div>
try ctrl + shift + r, might just be a browser cache thing.
I have a ccs sheet with the usual tags
a. {}
a.hover {}
I also have a div=id "footer" that I want to change the font style but the global a. and a.hover are overriding it even when I add a
#footer{
color: #333333
}
Can I override using this or do I need to try? a.#footer or a.hover:#footer
Basically the #footer as is wont work because of the a. mentioned above even though the other elements are working in the #footer div such as margin...just the font color and hover??
Can someone tell me how to style this and not let the global a. interfere with it?
Many thanks
It's all about the hierarchy of code:
HTML:
<div>
Sample link
<div id="footer">
Footer link
</div>
</div>
CSS:
a {
color: #ebebeb;
}
a:hover {
color: #000;
}
#footer a {
color: #3e3e3e;
}
#footer a:hover {
color: #609;
}
Try this piece of code
#footer a,
#footer a:hover{
color:#333;
}
what is dot after a ?
the correct form is a {} , a:hover {} , a#footer and a:hover #footer
If you are nesting a inside div element you need to use
#footer a {
color: #333333;
}
If you only use #footer {} it will apply the styles to div and a won't inherit the color, so you can also write
#footer {
color: #f00;
}
#footer a {
color: inherit;
}
This is a matter of specificity. Styling the <a> elements directly is more specific then just applying some CSS to the <div id="footer"> element and all of its children. You can target any links within your footer by using
#footer a {
color: #333;
}
Due to the descendant selector this rule itself is more specific than the one you're using for all the other <a> elements outside of the footer.
I'm trying to show the current page link in a different color. I've found other answers that will do this, but its still not working. I'm using a class of current_link on the respective links of each page. I also found an answer that said to apply the !important tag to the color rule but that didn't do anything. I'm thinking I have something small wrong or that I'm not aware of. Maybe some kind of ordering rule.
Here's the CSS rules relative to my links. As you can see I have .current_link at the top (I figured this would get rid of any ordering/over riding issues). The relative HTML naming will follow.
.current_link {
color: #00AD26;
}
#main_nav a:link, a:visited {
text-decoration:none;
color: #00A3E6;
}
#main_nav a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #A8EDFF;
}
#main_nav a:active {
text-decoration: none;
color: #00B7FF;
}
a:link, a:visited {
text-decoration:none;
color: #00A3E6;
}
a:hover, a:active {
text-decoration: none;
color: #00B7FF;
}
Relative HTML from one of the pages.
<ul id="main_nav" class="grid_5 prefix_9">
<li id="home" class="current_link">Portfolio</li>
<li id="about">About</li>
<li id="contact">Contact</li>
</ul>
Your .current_link matches the <li>.
The <a> inside the <li> overrides the color it inherits from its parent element.
You need to apply the color to the <a> itself, either by moving the class or by changing the selector to select <a> elements inside the <li>.
Also, lower rules override earlier ones (if they have the same specificity).
Try this:
.current_link a {
color: #00AD26 !important;
}
You should use:
#main_nav li.current_link a {
color: #00AD26;
}
This will overrule the other selectors and avoids using !important.
In my Page the following CSS is set:
a:link {
color: #0094DE;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
color: #0094DE;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
color: #DD127B;
}
I want to Change the Link color inside a div which has a class assigned to it.
I tried the following :
register:link{color:#FFFFFF;
}
Where register is the name of the div in which i want to change the link color.
How can i do that?
Also how to change the color for hover link over the same div?
.register a:link{
color:#FFFFFF;
}
It can be something like this:
a.register:link { color:#FFF; text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal; }
a.register:visited { color: #FFF; text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal; }
a.register:hover { color: #FFF; text-decoration:underline; font-weight:normal; }
a.register:active { color: #FFF; text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal; }
how about something like this ...
a.register:link{
color:#FFFFFF;
}
I think there is a confusion about what the OP is actually asking.
This solution:
a.register:link {color:#FFF}
...changes the color of a link whose class is "register". But that's not what the OP was asking.
And this solution:
.register a:link {color:#FFFFFF;}
...changes the color of a link that itself has no class but is placed inside of a div with class "register". And that's what the OP was asking.
Both of these answers are being upvoted here but only the second one is correct answer to the original question.
#register a:link
{
color:#fffff;
}
If you want to add CSS on a:hover to not all the tag, but the some of the tag, best way to do that is by using class. Give the class to all the tags which you want to give style - see the example below.
<style>
a.change_hover_color:hover {
color: white !important;
}
</style>
<a class="change_hover_color">FACEBOOK</a>
<a class="change_hover_color">GOOGLE</a>
I think you want to put a, in front of a:link (a, a:link) in your CSS file. The only way I could get rid of that awful default blue link color. I'm not sure if this was necessary for earlier version of the browsers we have, because it's supposed to work without a
smaller-size version:
#register a:link {color: #fff}
I want the links inside of the second, nested div to have red text.
Dulled down CSS:
#outerdiv{ padding:10px; background-color: #ddd;}
#outerdiv a:link{ color:blue; }
.innerdiv{ padding:10px; background-color: #aaa;}
.innerdiv a:link{ color: red; background-color:White;}
Dulled down HTML:
<div id="outerdiv">
OUTERDIV link
<div class="innerdiv">
INNER DIV link
</div>
</div>
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/5S6ez/1/
How can I make my innerdiv links have red font?
My link keeps as much of its grandparents' styles as possible even though it has new styles applied to it that occur later in the CSS file. Why?
The problem is that the id based selector is more specific than the class-name based selector, to change that, use:
#outerdiv .innerdiv a:link{ color: red; background-color:White;}
Try making the outerdiv classes instead of ids. Like this:
.outerdiv{ padding:10px; background-color: #ddd;}
.outerdiv a:link{ color:blue; }
.innerdiv{ padding:10px; background-color: #aaa;}
.innerdiv a:link{ color: red; background-color:White;}
If that is not an option (outer div must be an id), then you can try to make the innderdiv rules more specific to the outerdiv, like this:
#outerdiv .innerdiv{ padding:10px; background-color: #aaa;}
#outerdiv .innerdiv a:link{ color: red; background-color:White;}
Also, I was recently introduced to this article, and it really has helped me a lot with CSS in general:
http://www.vanseodesign.com/css/css-specificity-inheritance-cascaade/
Use a, not a:link.
:link is a pseudo-class for unvisited links.
Also, just for a heads up that may help you with other things, keep in mind that a tags are also inline elements and not to style them with padding, etc unless you set "display: inline-block" or "display: block". Yeah, a bit more than you asked but still can be helpful.