[WEB4LIB] Re: Fonts & CSS

[Kevin W. Bishop]

Hey Bill,

A few die-hard CSS envelope pushers (for lack of a better label) have 
discovered that the order in which you specify link styles may make a big 
difference:

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/link-specificity.html


Also, this will be of interest to many (includes a summary chart of what 
works with which browsers):

How to Hide CSS from Buggy Browsers
http://pixels.pixelpark.com/~koch/hide_css_from_browsers/

HTH,
-kb


At 08:18 AM 8/7/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Here is what we do here for the import function:
>
><STYLE type="text/css" media="all">@import
>"http://library.morrisville.edu/library.css";</STYLE>
>
>Here is what we use for styles:
>
><snip>
>
>         a:hover {
>                 color:black;
>                 background:yellow ;
>                 font-weight: bold;
>                 font-family : Verdana, sans-serif;
>                 border-left-width : thin;
>                 border-top-width : thin;
>                 border-right-width : thick;
>                 border-bottom-width : thick;
>                 border-style : none;
>                 border-color:black;
>                 font-style : oblique;
>; text-decoration: underline
>         }
>
>         a:active {
>                 background: Silver;
>                 text-decoration:underline;
>                 color: Black;
>         }
>
>         a:focus {
>                 background:green;
>                 color:#ff9900;
>         }
>
>         a:link {
>                 color:black;
>                 text-decoration:underline;
>                 background : transparent;
>                 font-family : Verdana, sans-serif;
>                 font-weight : bold;
>         }
>
>         a:visited {
>                 background:transparent;
>                 text-decoration: underline;
>                 font-family : Verdana, sans-serif;
>                 color:blue;
>                 font-weight : bold;
>         }
>
>
>I am still finding font codes in some of our older fiels, so clean up never
>really ends.
>
>Bill Drew

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