I'm trying to make a web page that has links (<a> tags) formatted in a
couple of different ways on the same page. I know CSS is the way to do
it, but I don't begin to understand how.

Please, would someone direct this thicko to a tutorial that explains the
way to do it in *very* simple terms...

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In article <d6lhut$ml0$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>,
dave@dbpreston.wanadoo.co.uk says...
> I'm trying to make a web page that has links (<a> tags) formatted in a
> couple of different ways on the same page. I know CSS is the way to do
> it, but I don't begin to understand how.
>
> Please, would someone direct this thicko to a tutorial that explains the
>   way to do it in *very* simple terms...
>
>

Go here:

http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

David Preston wrote:

> I'm trying to make a web page that has links (<a> tags) formatted in a
> couple of different ways on the same page. I know CSS is the way to do
> it, but I don't begin to understand how.
>
> Please, would someone direct this thicko to a tutorial that explains
> the
>   way to do it in *very* simple terms...

This should head you in the right direction
http://www.google.com/search?q=css+tutorial

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On Fri, 20 May 2005 15:48:48 -0500, saz <saz1958@nospammersexcite.com> wrote:
> In article <d6lhut$ml0$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>,
> dave@dbpreston.wanadoo.co.uk says... 
>
> Go here:
>
> http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

A beautiful link. I was  desperate for something like this.

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On Fri, 20 May 2005, David Preston wrote:

> I'm trying to make a web page that has links (<a> tags) formatted in a
> couple of different ways on the same page. I know CSS is the way to do
> it, but I don't begin to understand how.
>
> Please, would someone direct this thicko to a tutorial that explains the
>   way to do it in *very* simple terms...

I'm just learning CSS myself (at least, trying to) and have found it very
convenient to have CSS and HTML references available for off-line viewing.

Besides on-line references at:
http://www.htmlhelp.org/index.htm
the "Web Design Group's Help file Distribution Page",
http://www.htmlhelp.org/distribution/
has links for downloading the references for off-line access in a number
of formats (including Windows Help file format).  The zipped HTML versions
of their references are:

"HTML 3.2 Reference - Zipped HTML"
http://www.htmlhelp.org/distribution/wilbur.zip

"HTML 4.0 Reference - Zipped HTML":
http://www.htmlhelp.org/distribution/wdghtml40.zip

"CSS Guide - Zipped HTML":
http://www.htmlhelp.org/distribution/wdgcss.zip

You may find the latter especially convenient for your current endeavour.

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Norman L. DeForest wrote:
> Besides on-line references at:
>     http://www.htmlhelp.org/index.htm
> the "Web Design Group's Help file Distribution Page",
>     http://www.htmlhelp.org/distribution/
> has links for downloading the references for off-line access in a number
> of formats (including Windows Help file format).  The zipped HTML versions
> of their references are:
>
> "HTML 3.2 Reference - Zipped HTML"
>     http://www.htmlhelp.org/distribution/wilbur.zip
>
> "HTML 4.0 Reference - Zipped HTML":
>     http://www.htmlhelp.org/distribution/wdghtml40.zip
>
> "CSS Guide - Zipped HTML":
>     http://www.htmlhelp.org/distribution/wdgcss.zip
>
> You may find the latter especially convenient for your current endeavour.
>

That's the sort of thing I was looking for, thank you.

Now a follow up question that proves just how lacking my knowledge is in
this area -

A stylesheet has just this entry-
nav.a:link {  color: #FFFF66}

My understanding is that any link inside, say, a table with a
class="nav" should be yellow (#FFFF66)

But it just doesn't work - the link is the standard blue.

I'm obviously doing something wrong, but I don't know what.

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Forging a path through the Usenet jungle, armed only with a rusty Mozilla
Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206), David Preston stumbled into
alt.www.webmaster and said:

> ...
> A stylesheet has just this entry-
> nav.a:link {  color: #FFFF66}
>
> My understanding is that any link inside, say, a table with a
> class="nav" should be yellow (#FFFF66)

.nav a:link {color:#ffff66;}

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In article <d6llt8$pqv$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>,
dave@dbpreston.wanadoo.co.uk says...
> Norman L. DeForest wrote: 
>
> That's the sort of thing I was looking for, thank you.
>
> Now a follow up question that proves just how lacking my knowledge is in
> this area -
>
> A stylesheet has just this entry-
> nav.a:link {  color: #FFFF66}
>
> My understanding is that any link inside, say, a table with a
> class="nav" should be yellow (#FFFF66)
>
> But it just doesn't work - the link is the standard blue.
>
> I'm obviously doing something wrong, but I don't know what.
>
>
The correct way to write that is:

nav.a:link {  color: #ffff66; }

You left out the semi-colon, and you should also use lower-case for all
letters (the semi-colon was the real problem).

In article <MPG.1cf81a247cd50dc098977c@news.comcast.giganews.com>,
saz1958@nospammersexcite.com says...
> In article <d6llt8$pqv$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>,
> dave@dbpreston.wanadoo.co.uk says... 
> The correct way to write that is:
>
> nav.a:link {  color: #ffff66; }
>
> You left out the semi-colon, and you should also use lower-case for all
> letters (the semi-colon was the real problem).
>
It should also have a dot in front of the nav.  Sorry.

.nav.a:link {  color: #FFFF66}

Forging a path through the Usenet jungle, armed only with a rusty
MicroPlanet Gravity v2.50, saz stumbled into alt.www.webmaster and said:
 
> It should also have a dot in front of the nav.  Sorry.
>
> .nav.a:link {  color: #FFFF66}

Keep going - you'll get there :)

btw, semi-colon is optional on the last entry and the characters in the
colour code are case insensitive.

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