web site course - CSS - Link Behaviour

Hi Duncan,

I posted the answer to your Frames question here.

To adjust the hover, visited and active colours in CSS, you need to use what's called Selector Class. This is covered in our Dreamweaver Intermediate course.

To do this, you start with the tag itself (A), put a colon, and then the selector type. Then add parameters as normal. For example:

a:hover {
color: red;
weight: bold;
}

a:visited {
color: grey;
}

The above will make all links hover colour red and bold. Visited links will be grey. You may need to refresh your browser if you make changes to your CSS file to flush out your browser's cache of your CSS file.

If you use the dialogue boxes to set up CSS, go to 'new css style', type 'CSS Selector', then from the drop-down box choose your selector type, then press OK to bring up the style dialogue box and adjust your styles.

The page properties setting for these colours is the 'old way'. Once you've set up the CSS correctly, I would remove the colours from the page properties settings (or delete the parameters from the BODY tag, as this is where the settings are stored).

Hope this helps, let me know how you get on.

Regards, Rich