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Question on bold look and text color

Hoopster

2006-08-18, 6:36 pm

Hello,

I have the following code:

<style type="text/css">
a:link{ text-decoration: none;
color: gray;
}
a:visited{ text-decoration: none;
color: gray;
}
a:hover{ text-decoration: none;
color: blue;
font-weight: bolder;
letter-spacing: 2px;
}

This makes my white letters show up bold (about 3 x the size when
hovering. However, the text doesn't change to blue or gray for some
reason it still stays white. I want it so that my text changes from
white to blue on hovering.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Charles Sweeney

2006-08-18, 6:36 pm

Hoopster wrote

> Hello,
>
>
> I have the following code:
>
> <style type="text/css">
> a:link{ text-decoration: none;
> color: gray;
> }
> a:visited{ text-decoration: none;
> color: gray;
> }
> a:hover{ text-decoration: none;
> color: blue;
> font-weight: bolder;
> letter-spacing: 2px;
> }
>
>
>
> This makes my white letters show up bold (about 3 x the size when
> hovering. However, the text doesn't change to blue or gray for some
> reason it still stays white. I want it so that my text changes from
> white to blue on hovering.
>
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

Are you going to come in here every time you hit a problem? What about
doing some researching and fixing things for yourself? By all means ask
in here for pointers, or if you are really stuck, ask for advice.

Strikes me that as soon as you hit the slightest snag you are coming in
here for a quick solution. Continue like that and you will learn
nothing, and you will spend the rest of your life asking questions.

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

Hoopster

2006-08-18, 6:36 pm

Thanks Chuck for your kind words.

Listen - if you do not want to respond or help just don't.

There are other fine people here that are happy to help out.

>Are you going to come in here every time you hit a problem? What about
>doing some researching and fixing things for yourself? By all means ask
>in here for pointers, or if you are really stuck, ask for advice.
>
>Strikes me that as soon as you hit the slightest snag you are coming in
>here for a quick solution. Continue like that and you will learn
>nothing, and you will spend the rest of your life asking questions.

Charles Sweeney

2006-08-18, 6:36 pm

Hoopster wrote

> Thanks Chuck for your kind words.

Believe it or not, I'm trying to help you.

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

Karl Groves

2006-08-18, 6:36 pm

Hoopster <hoops_nospam444@aol.com> wrote in
news:0a8ce25o40b913inoo5rjqivrk0uml2tmt@4ax.com:

> Thanks Chuck for your kind words.
>
>
> Listen - if you do not want to respond or help just don't.
>
>
> There are other fine people here that are happy to help out.

And pretty soon, you're going to alienate every last one of them with your
Chicken Little routine.

We all realize that everyone has to start somewhere. It isn't like any of
us were born knowing this stuff.

Nevertheless, the questions you're asking are so basic that a quick search
through Google will give you all the information you need, and then some.

Try doing THAT before asking your question and you'll find people much more
willing to help you.

--
Karl Groves
www.karlcore.com

Blinky the Shark

2006-08-18, 6:36 pm

Hoopster wrote:
> Thanks Chuck for your kind words.
>
>
> Listen - if you do not want to respond or help just don't.

He obviously *did* want to respond, or he wouldn't have responded.

--
Blinky RLU 297263
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

Mark Goodge

2006-08-18, 6:36 pm

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:13:59 GMT, Hoopster put finger to keyboard and
typed:

>Hello,
>
>
>I have the following code:
>
> <style type="text/css">
>a:link{ text-decoration: none;
>color: gray;
>}
>a:visited{ text-decoration: none;
>color: gray;
>}
>a:hover{ text-decoration: none;
>color: blue;
>font-weight: bolder;
>letter-spacing: 2px;
>}
>
>
>
>This makes my white letters show up bold (about 3 x the size when
>hovering. However, the text doesn't change to blue or gray for some
>reason it still stays white. I want it so that my text changes from
>white to blue on hovering.
>
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?

Post the URL so we can have a look. It's probably a typo or something
in your CSS/HTML, but guessing where is going to be very difficult
unles we can actually see it in action :-)

Mark
--
Please give me one! http://www.pleasegivemeone.com

William Tasso

2006-08-18, 6:36 pm

Fleeing from the madness of the jungle
Karl Groves <karl@NOSPAMkarlcore.com> stumbled into news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:

> ...
> everyone has to start somewhere.

indeed.

> It isn't like any of
> us were born knowing this stuff.

you/we weren't?

That would imply there was life before CSS ;)

--
William Tasso

http://williamtasso.com/words/what-is-usenet.asp

William Tasso

2006-08-18, 6:36 pm

Fleeing from the madness of the The Good Stuff Company of the UK jungle
Mark Goodge <usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> stumbled into
news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:

> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:13:59 GMT, Hoopster put finger to keyboard and
> typed:

>
> Post the URL so we can have a look. It's probably a typo or something
> in your CSS/HTML, but guessing where is going to be very difficult
> unles we can actually see it in action :-)

bah - you promised you were going to use funds from your last paying gig
to pull the crystal ball from hock.

btw: validators are a reasonable place to start looking for typos.
--
William Tasso

http://williamtasso.com/words/what-is-usenet.asp

Uncle Pirate

2006-08-20, 10:36 pm

Charles Sweeney <me@charlessweeney.com> wrote in
news:Xns9823DBB3BEC8Dmecharlessweeneycom@130.133.1.4:

> Hoopster wrote
>
>
> Believe it or not, I'm trying to help you.
>

He really is. The last post I read from Hoopster got Hoopster put into
my killfile.

--
Stan McCann "Uncle Pirate" http://stanmccann.us/pirate.html
Webmaster, ABATE of NM; AMA#758681; COBB; RETIRED!!
'94 1500 Vulcan (now wrecked) :( http://motorcyclefun.org/Dcp_2068c.jpg
A zest for living must include a willingness to die. - R.A. Heinlein

Andy Dingley

2006-08-21, 6:49 am

Hoopster wrote:

> Listen - if you do not want to respond or help just don't.

OK.

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