css problems

[mmj]

Hi there, could you please check out www.mostlyamphigory.com

I use a stylesheet called /navbar/style.css
Here it is:
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A {
font-color: #000070;
text-decoration: underline;
}
A:hover
font-color: #0000FF;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.toplinks {
font-color: #ffffff;
text-decoration: none;
}
.toplinks:hover {
font-color: #ffffff;
text-decoration: underline;
}
BODY {
background-color: #ffffff;
}
.maintable {
background-color: #FFF0C0;
}
.secondtable {
background-color: #E5D49B;
}
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The .maintable and .secondtable are working in both IE and netscape but the link colors and text-decoration aren't

In IE the A doesn't work
In netscape the A and the A.toplinks don't work

How do I fix it?

If you get there and it is working, then it has already been fixed.

[lynlimz]

Well..Is it fixeD? LOL

Anyway, a solution would be to properly specify your styles.
Set a default:

a {}
a:link {}
a:visited {}
a:hover {}
a:active {}

for setting other type of A links,

make you set all 4, or 3 ( excluding a:hover ).
eg.
a.toplinks:link {}
a.toplinks:visited {}
a.toplinks:hover {}
a.toplink:active {}

thray set a.toplinks {} if you have any defualt styles for all <a href="" class="toplink"></a> elements.

If you don't understand, make a post and i'll explain it more detailed. haha..I still don't know if you already fixed it. *grin*

[mmj]

okay no it isn't quite fixed yet

Thanks for the quick reply

The
A {
font-color

etc - doesn't seem to work on the front page.

It should make the links on the page dark blue whether visited or not.

the toplinks has been fixed, but in netscape the hover doesn't work (it's like that on all sites with NS so don't worry).

[mmj]

PS this is the first day my site has been up, I'm still going so please excuse the broken links (about us).

[lynlimz]

Geez..should have noticed your code!
Its color : #FFFFFF;

NOT font-color!!
LOL

Should work now =)

[mmj]

ok thanks!

I should have looked at one of my other pages to check!!

I will fix it now...

[edit]
FIXED! Thanks lynlimz!

I should be more careful.

By the way I'm using stylesheets so for things like the table colours, so I can keep the colour scheme the same all over the site. If the viewer doesn't have stylesheets at the moment, some of the tables will be light blue. Doesn't matter too much. 4% of my visitors may get the old colour scheme that's all

Using SSI for the header too. Cool ey? My first ssi, and my first external stylesheet link.

[lynlimz]

LOL mmj, you'll get to better stuffs very soon =)
Try PHP for better experience! haah

[mmj]

yes...

I've used ASP a bit. Now on a new server, and I will teach myself PHP in the future. There's a good beginner's guide on the sitepoint homepage that I will refer to.

Then I'll be able to access the articles by php, it'll be good.

[lynlimz]

=)

[creole]

wtg lyon...I noticed the font-color part too and was going to bust out an answer, but you beat me to it...good job!

[lynlimz]

Geez....Way to go Creole too..

Still haven't beat your post count *grin* juz joking
hey...am i really 'chatting' with a dog? lol

[creole]

that is my dog "Nacho"...he can be found "lurking" at www.nachodog.com

[lynlimz]

wow! lucky you..having a dog. my parents forbid pets in house.


hmm...glad to knwo you ain't a dog..lol
eklse you'll be a darn intelligent/capable one.

[creole]

well seeing as how it is MY house, I think I can have a dog if I want eh?

[lynlimz]

haha...hey..how come your posts run so high so fast...haha

[creole]

i just been posting a lot...you have too...

[lynlimz]

LOL Creole...Juz slowly picking up my pace.
I've initiated the gradual process of posting in other forums too..haha

[mmj]

I've been watching this thread from interest.

It's funny that the topic seemed to change from css to talking dogs to post counts...

Keep up the good work, and thanks again lynlimz for the answer.

[lynlimz]

LOL..I apologise for the shift in topic..lol

hheehz..Creole..it seems we both hav been overtaking other people's posts soon after their problem has been resolved? haha

[creole]

I've been laughing at that too. THe way I look at it, if we answer the question, then we should get to make a post that is off-topic right?

<grin>

[lynlimz]

haah...yeah right!
we take over the posts...muahahaha! lo.

[mmj]

yes.

no problems...

By the way I've just taught myself PHP (it is very easy - especially for a c/c++/java veteran) and I've created a totally database driven site.

http://www.mostlyamphigory.com/

The only non-database bits under this domain are the news and about page (the news page soon to be replaced by a script for fetching news from the database).

Still struggling with the css in netscape though, but I'll do a bit of research on that. I think the problem is that the way I'm doing it is WRONG and that IE is too forgiving.

[lynlimz]

cool mmj,
i know php cause i know perl.
regarding the css problems...
netscpae doesn't support some attirbutes, or is buggy at some of them.

tkae a look at this page if you haven't.
http://css.nu/pointers/bugs.html

[mmj]

Uh huh.

Well I had a look at a variety of web sites and instead of using the style property border-width, etc - they use a nested table inside another table, where the table has a cellspacing of 1 pixel to create an outline.

I've done that now. On my page there is now a border around the boxes on the left in both NS 4.x and IE 4-5.x.

[creole]

it's because Netscape does not fully support the border attribute.