help a lost newb

davemajor · 2 May 2008 at 15:25

Hey guys, i need a little help. I'm currently bundling my way through Dreamweaver CS3 trying to get my girlfriends website up and running for her uni course.

I am sort of getting there with a lot of the things i was having trouble with but there is one thing that is ******* me off.
I can't get the mailto: loinks to not be purple and rollover. for some reason they are either purple and rollover to the colour i want them to. Or they are not purple but don't rollover.

I have tried editing using CSS, but am a bit lost. The main page properties don't seem to change anything either.

Any help would be great

Cheers

Dave

Watch your language.

Craig321 · 2 May 2008 at 15:31

So it doesn't work even if you change it here? (right click design view, page properties)

paradigm · 2 May 2008 at 15:39

In CSS, its the a, a:hover and a:visited properties you need to edit.

For example:

Code:

[COLOR=magenta]a {[/COLOR]
color[COLOR=magenta]:[/COLOR] [COLOR=dimgray]#000000[/COLOR][COLOR=magenta];[/COLOR]
[COLOR=magenta]}[/COLOR]
 
[COLOR=magenta]a:visited {[/COLOR]
color[COLOR=magenta]:[/COLOR] [COLOR=dimgray]#000000[/COLOR][COLOR=magenta];[/COLOR]
[COLOR=magenta]}[/COLOR]
 
[COLOR=magenta]a:hover {[/COLOR]
color[COLOR=magenta]:[/COLOR] [COLOR=dimgray]#000000[/COLOR][COLOR=magenta];[/COLOR]
[COLOR=magenta]}[/COLOR]

Craig321 · 2 May 2008 at 15:40

paradigm said:
In CSS, its the a, a:hover and a:visited properties you need to edit.

Which is basically the more advanced way of doing the above that I posted a screenshot of

If you're unsure about CSS it's probably best to use the properties page as shown above.

paradigm · 2 May 2008 at 15:55

Unless the site is already taking its values from an external CSS document, in which case it wont matter what you put on the properties of the page, the CSS when loaded on pageload will override it.

Ross1234 · 2 May 2008 at 16:00

paradigm said:
Unless the site is already taking its values from an external CSS document, in which case it wont matter what you put on the properties of the page, the CSS when loaded on pageload will override it.

I thought css on a page overwrites an external file?

davemajor · 2 May 2008 at 16:29

craig 321.

it doesnt seem to change the colour to what i would like it to be.
If i use the page properties it is then purple whn not rolled over but when i do rollover it it goes to the colour i want.
Thats why i ventured into CSS. It gets rid of the purple but then it doesn't change when selected/rollover (or hover in the case of css)

I'll have another bash and see if i get rid of the styles and start again that'l help.

Cheers guys

Craig321 · 2 May 2008 at 16:31

Try go with the method paradigm posted above if that's the case.

davemajor · 2 May 2008 at 20:26

hi guys, got it fixed.
I followed paradigms method and that was all correct without fixing the problem.

So i went into the CSS style sheet and went to edit and found that no border colour was specified. so i specified one and yipee-kay-ay. fixed!

Cheers again guys

Dave