All but a:link works...?

SoKalzFynest

10-03-2006, 06:53 PM

I've tried everything and I'm pretty much stuck. I have an external stylesheet (styles.css)... code's in my header (<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.fishidinfo.com/css/styles.css">)... I've never had this problem before. But then again I haven't built sites in a couple years. Anywho... so a:visited, a:hover, and a:active all work fine, except for a:link is giving me the default blue with the underline... instead of the #000000 that I'm asking... I don't think it's the CSS. Can someone have a looksee at my source at http://www.fishidinfo.com or maybe it is the CSS... here it is...

EDIT: If it makes a difference... I'm using SSI... so I'm using .shtml... if that makes a difference... (but I always have before and it never did so I don't see why it should... hence the reason why I'm just baffled...)

body,td,th {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10px;
color: #FFFFFF;
}

body {
background-color: #000055;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
scrollbar-face-color: #000055;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #000000;
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #000000;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #990000;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #000000;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #990000;
scrollbar-track-color: #000055;
}

.border {
border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
}

.content {
padding-top: 20px;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
}

//** MENUS **//

.menulink a:link {
font-weight: bolder;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}

.menulink a:visited {
font-weight: bolder;
color: #3399FF;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}
.menulink a:hover {
font-weight: bolder;
color: #990000;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}
.menulink a:active {
font-weight: bolder;
color: #0099CC;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}

//** LEFT NAVIGATION **//

.lnav a:link {
font-weight: bolder;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}

.lnav a:visited {
font-weight: bolder;
color: #990000;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}
.lnav a:hover {
font-weight: bolder;
color: #3399FF;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}
.lnav a:active {
font-weight: bolder;
color: #0099CC;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}

//** RIGHT NAVIGATION **//

.rnav a:link {
font-weight: bolder;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}

.rnav a:visited {
font-weight: bolder;
color: #990000;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}
.rnav a:hover {
font-weight: bolder;
color: #3399FF;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}
.rnav a:active {
font-weight: bolder;
color: #FF0000;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}

//** FOOTER **//

.footerlink a:link {
font-weight: normal;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}
.footerlink a:visited {
font-weight: normal;
color: #0000AA;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}
.footerlink a:hover {
font-weight: normal;
color: #3399FF;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}
.footerlink a:active {
font-weight: normal;
color: #FF0000;
text-decoration: none;
cursor: pointer;
}

_Aerospace_Eng_

10-03-2006, 07:23 PM

A proper CSS comment is
/*comment*/
not
//*comment*//
That seems to be your problem.
You also need to change this line
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
to this
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

After you've done that I advise that you validate your page. It has a lot of errors. http://validator.w3.org
Good luck.

SoKalzFynest

10-03-2006, 08:10 PM

Odd... I took that ""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">" part out yesterday and had to change the way I scripted because that was the only way I could get the scrollbar script to work... What the? Now when I add that part back in the scrollbar script won't work again... So now that I've fixed my "a:link" problem, I'm back to my scrollbar problem... lol. Darnit. Now how do I fix THAT part? :confused:

EDIT: By the way if that sounded confusing... I guess the reason the whole a:link problem came to was because when I took the ""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">" part off my heading... So thanks to the person who suggested me putting that back in... I never thought that to be the problem... And thanks... I'll validate my page. :)

_Aerospace_Eng_

10-03-2006, 08:21 PM

Scrollbar colors only work in IE but they need to be applied to the html element as well
html, body {
background-color: #000055;
margin:0;
padding:0;
scrollbar-face-color: #000055;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #000000;
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #000000;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #990000;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #000000;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #990000;
scrollbar-track-color: #000055;
}
And it wasn't the doctype that caused the problem with your links. Look at your CSS comments you have //**comment**//
both the beginning and ending slash are invalid.

SoKalzFynest

10-03-2006, 08:25 PM

OK, just added html and that just fixed it all. :D Thanks a bunch. :)

As for the comments, that actually didn't cause any errors, cuz that was the first thing I changed, and when I changed it and refreshed, it didn't change anything at all...

And I do remember yesterday when I had the first doctype before I deleted the "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> I did have it correct with the links, that was before I deleted it (before I had issues with the scrollbar)...

Arbitrator

10-04-2006, 01:46 AM

And I do remember yesterday when I had the first doctype before I deleted the "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> I did have it correct with the links, that was before I deleted it (before I had issues with the scrollbar)...If you're interested in why that made a difference you can read the article and table at http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/.