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Topic: css a:visited:hover

Posted By: MrCarl
Subject: css a:visited:hover
Date Posted: 26 April 2003 at 4:31am

How come this css entry doesnt actually work? I set my css for links to look like this:

a {
color : #FFFF00;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-decoration: underline;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: bold;
}

a:hover {
color : #FF0000;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-decoration : underline;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: bold;
}

a:visited {
color : #FF0000;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-decoration : underline;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: bold;
}

a:visited:hover {
color : #FFFF00;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-decoration : underline;
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: bold;
}

Which is norm link = yellow with red hover
&
visited link = red with yellow hover

But what actually happens is the hover for both normal and visited links just turn yellow and it ignores the a:hover css

Any idea's why?

- Carl S

Replies:

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 26 April 2003 at 4:39am

Looks like you got visted and visted hover around the wrong way.

Check up on some CSS sites if you are unsure how it works.

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Posted By: MrCarl
Date Posted: 26 April 2003 at 5:12am

I have trawled the web, and changed them into every different possible order!! tried loads of ways... and still nothing (though in netscape it works fine...

I actually now dont believe it is possible to have two different hover colours for visited and unvisited links in IE... Most sites just use the same colour, like for example here on this forum...

If anyone can prove me wrong then please do!! This is a dead simple thing which is causing me to tear my hair out!!

- Carl S

Posted By: Dergal
Date Posted: 26 April 2003 at 11:09am

IE caches the CSS files (linked) so do a hard refresh! (CTRL and f5) took me ages to learn that...

HTH's

Gerry