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>From amutch at waterford.lib.mi.us  Wed Feb 10 10:09:02 1999
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:09:53 -0500
From: Andrew Mutch <amutch at waterford.lib.mi.us>
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Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Re: Control over changing colours of links on page
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Style sheets are the solution but it should be noted that this won't "work in
all browsers and not just
IE".  The support, as Thomas has noted before, is spotty with some CSS
supported in IE 3 & 4.0 and NN 4.0.

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

Thomas Dowling wrote:

> This is a textbook case for the application of stylesheets.
>
> <html><head><title>Test</title><style type="text/css"><!--
> BODY {
>   background: white;
>   color: black;
>   }
> A {
>   background: white;
>   color: blue;
>   }
> A:visited {
>   background: white;
>   color: navy;
>   }
> A:active {
>   background: white;
>   color: purple;
>   }
>
> A.hilight {
>   background: maroon;
>   color: yellow;
>   }
> A.hilight:visited {
>   background: maroon;
>   color: silver;
>   }
> A.hilight:active {
>   background: silver;
>   color: maroon;
>   }
> --></style></head><body>
> <p><a href="somewhere.html">Go Somewhere</a></p>
> <p><a class="hilight" href="elsewhere.html">Go Elsewhere</a></p>
> <p>These two links will have different appearances in a CSS-enabled
> browser</p>
> </body></html>
>
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jonathan Eaton <Jeaton at lbs.ac.uk>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 11:42 AM
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Control over changing colours of links on page
>
> >[Posted on behalf of a colleague who is not a subscriber to WEB4LIB. Any
> >help anyone can give with the following would be most welcomed.  Thanks
> >in advance. ]
> >
> >"I would like to know a general way to change the colour of links on a
> >HTML page. Currently, I set the value of all of the links via
> >ALINK/VLINK/LINK statements in the body, which obviously defines the
> >colours of the links for the page. But I would like one of my links on
> >the page to override these settings with it's own. Does anyone know how
> >to do this?
> >
> >I have heard that if you do:
> >
> ><A href="..."><Font color="#ffffff"> link name </Font></A>
> >
> >this works in Internet explorer - I haven't managed to get IE to do
> >this, and besides that, I need it to work in all browsers and not just
> >IE."
> >
> >
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> >Jonathan Eaton
> >
> >Electronic Resources Manager
> >London Business School
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> >London
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> >
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> >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >
> >
> >