Two wee problems with CSS and Dreamweaver

**Andrew_Sam** · Jul 18, 2002 11:03

How do all?

Whn I apply a newly created style in Dreamweaver 4 by highlighting the hyperlink and selecting the style from the styles pop-up box its not applying the Style to the correct place in the HTML. It seems to be applying ?

For example I have highlighted in bold below where DW is applying the style (hope this works?)

 
<a href="arrangem.doc" target="_blank">ADVANCED INFORMATION</a> 
 

I'm having to go into the HTML of each page manually and apply the style which is a pain. Can any please help please?

Quickie-related query Two, how do you apply a hyperlink text rollover effect on DW 4 please.

Regards as always.

Andrew

**Flawless_koder** · Jul 19, 2002 01:26

I'm not so sure this is a question for dhtml & Javascript.

Flawless

**Dan Morgan** · Jul 19, 2002 02:03

Originally posted by Andrew_Sam
How do all?

Whn I apply a newly created style in Dreamweaver 4 by highlighting the hyperlink and selecting the style from the styles pop-up box its not applying the Style to the correct place in the HTML. It seems to be applying ?

For example I have highlighted in bold below where DW is applying the style (hope this works?)

 
<a href="arrangem.doc" target="_blank">ADVANCED INFORMATION</a> 
 

I'm having to go into the HTML of each page manually and apply the style which is a pain. Can any please help please?

Quickie-related query Two, how do you apply a hyperlink text rollover effect on DW 4 please.

Regards as always.

Andrew

In DW, I expect you just need to go to Edit > Preferences and change the CSS formatting options.

To make a text hyperlink rollover, use the hover pseudo-class selector.

[code]
a:link { color: #000000}
a:visited { color: #000000}
a:hover { color: #FFFFFF}
a:active { color: #000000}
[code]

**Bill Posters** · Jul 19, 2002 04:20

Originally posted by Andrew_Sam
Quickie-related query Two, how do you apply a hyperlink text rollover effect on DW 4 please.

...and to do that in DW4 (as asked

)...

Better to let Macromedia explain it for me...

http://www.macromedia.com/support/dr...nts/ahover.htm

Hope this helps

**Flawless_koder** · Jul 19, 2002 04:25

Bill -> Can i rant about hand coding - please?

Flawless

**Bill Posters** · Jul 19, 2002 04:31

Originally posted by Flawless_koder
Bill -> Can i rant about hand coding - please?

Have you been a good boy this week?

You have? Gooood.

Then go knock yourself out, kiddo

Fwiw, I also prefer to do it by hand (implement pseudo-classes, that is).

What did you think I meant?

**Flawless_koder** · Jul 19, 2002 04:38

* hmmm, hum *

So - where do we start.

Learning to hand code is a good thing.

It gives you far more flexibility for controlling the content of your site in wierd and wonderful ways.

You learn how to improve your code and make it more efficient.

All respect to the amazing way in which code generators such as dreamweaver do what they do, but their functions are still generic.
Without the artificial intelligence to spot when something could be done better in another way, perhaps with css or dhtml, the program often generates far too much code.

This could never be truer than when you're dealing with scripting. The amount of excess code used - and randomly generic functions put in to try and make the code work in
all browsers is absolutely unbelievable.

You'd find it a seriously useful step in the right direction
to start the long path to web development enlightenment by learning the insides of HTML, DHTML and Javascript.

< / rant >

Flawless

**beetle** · Jul 19, 2002 15:36

In order for Dreamweaver to correctly place the class onto the ANCHOR object, you should click on the <a> in the breadcrumb nav at the bottom of the editor (I think they call it the tag selector...) You know...that cool little heirarchial thingie that lets you select code chunks even while in design view? (might look like this: <body><table><tr><td><a>)

If you don't, DW will ALWAYS add the SPAN, because when you highlight the text in the WYSIWYG it just selects the text within the ANCHOR.

**Andrew_Sam** · Jul 19, 2002 18:11

Flawless_koder aplogies if I posted onto the wrong Forum.
I didn't see a DW-specific one so did a search for DW and this came up trumps.
Regarding your recommendation to Hand Code I'll take your advice and read up on it. If this problem has taught me anything its to rely less on WYSIWYG Editors.

glenplake & Bill Posters thanks for the code and link respectively.

beetle - Top Tip re: the a> in the breadcrumb nav at the bottom of the editor.

Many thanks all.

Regards

Andrew

**Flawless_koder** · Jul 20, 2002 03:28

Good luck Andrew.

Flawless

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