[ale] Problems with style sheet

David Fitzhenry dfitzhenry at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 19:27:50 EST 2005


It's only when it's 'visited', and it's because of this line:

td.lhs a:link, a:visited {
       color: #ffffff ;
}

should be

td.lhs a:link, td.lhs a:visited {
       color: #ffffff ;
}

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 15:18:47 -0500, joh6nn <joh6nn at hotpop.com> wrote:
> it may be somehow related to the specificity of the rule.  try changing
> a.black to #black, and see if that registers.  if it does, then your
> permanent fix (assuming you're not going to have a.black links elsewhere
> on the page) would be to change the CSS to read td.main a.black, or
> something equivalent.
> 
> if that's not it, here's what i usually do when i've got a CSS problem
> to bang my head against:
> 
> 1) validate the HTML and CSS; this'll help find typos and other trivial
> stuff that can throw things out of wack.
> 
> 2) reduce it to the simplest possible test case; helps you figure out if
> it's something in your code, or if it's something in the browser.  i
> generally notice something stupid that i did at this step
> 
> 3) start googling to see if there's some browser bug that this is
> related to.
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-- 
thanks, 
 - Dave



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