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Old 01-13-2013, 04:19 PM   PM User | #1
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Help with a:hover

I'm having trouble making the links' hover color white. Any suggestions

Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-GB">
<head>
	<title>The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout: No CSS hacks. SEO friendly. iPhone compatible.</title>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />
	<meta name="description" content="The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout: No CSS hacks. SEO friendly. iPhone compatible." />
	<meta name="keywords" content="The Perfect 3 Column Liquid Layout: No CSS hacks. SEO friendly. iPhone compatible." />
	<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
	<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
	<style media="screen" type="text/css">
	/* <!-- */
	/* General styles */
	body {
		margin:0;
		padding:0;
		border:0;			/* This removes the border around the viewport in old versions of IE */
		width:100%;
		background:#fff;
		min-width:600px;		/* Minimum width of layout - remove line if not required */
						/* The min-width property does not work in old versions of Internet Explorer */
		font-size:90%;
	}
	a {
		color:white;
		text-decoration:none;
	}
	a:hover {		
color:white;

		text-decoration:none;
	}
	h1, h2, h3 {
		margin:.8em 0 .2em 0;
		padding:0;
		clear:both;
	}
	p {
		margin:.4em 0 .8em 0;
		padding:0;
	}
	img {
		margin:10px 0 5px;
	}
	#ads {
		width:100%;
		padding:20px 0;
	}
	#ads #mjt {
		float:left;
		margin-bottom:20px;
	}
	#ads .adhere {
		margin:0 10px 10px 0;
	}
	#ads img {
		display:block;
		margin:0;
	}
	
	/* download link */
	.download {
		clear:both;
		float:left;
		padding-top:10px;
	}
	.download a {
		padding:.3em .5em !important;
		margin-right:10px;
		background:#00bd3e;
		text-decoration:none;
		color:#fff;
		font-weight:bold;
		font-size:1.5em;
		-moz-border-radius:.3em;
		-webkit-border-radius:.3em;
		border-radius:.3em;
		line-height:2.5em;
		-moz-box-shadow: 1px  1px 2px #888;
		-webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #888;
		box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #888;
	}
	.download a:hover {
		background:#5f534f;
		text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000;
	}

	/* Header styles */
	#header {
		clear:both;
		float:left;
		width:100%;
	}
	#header {
		border-bottom:1px solid #000;
	}
	#header p,
	#header h1,
	#header h2 {
		padding:.4em 15px 0 15px;
		margin:0;
	}
	#header ul {
		clear:left;
		float:left;
		width:100%;
		list-style:none;
		margin:10px 0 0 0;
		padding:0;
	}
	#header ul li {
		display:inline;
		list-style:none;
		margin:0;
		padding:0;
	}
	#header ul li a {
		display:block;
		float:left;
		margin:0 0 0 1px;
		padding:3px 10px;
		text-align:center;
		background:#eee;
		color:#000;
		text-decoration:none;
		position:relative;
		left:15px;
		line-height:1.3em;
	}
	#header ul li a:hover {
		background:#369;
		color:#fff;
	}
	#header ul li a.active,
	#header ul li a.active:hover {
		color:#fff;
		background:#000;
		font-weight:bold;
	}
	#header ul li a span {
		display:block;
	}
	/* 'widths' sub menu */
	#layoutdims {
		clear:both;
		background:#eee;
		border-top:4px solid #000;
		margin:0;
		padding:6px 15px !important;
		text-align:right;
	}
	/* column container */
	.colmask {
		position:relative;	/* This fixes the IE7 overflow hidden bug */
		clear:both;
		float:left;
		width:100%;			/* width of whole page */
		overflow:hidden;		/* This chops off any overhanging divs */
	}
	#bookmarks{
		font-size:50px;
		font-family:impact;
		color:black;
		text-decoration:none;
		}
	#share{
		font-size:50px;
		color:black;
		text-decoration:none;
		font-family:impact;
		}
		#bookmarks a:hover{
			color:white;
		}
		
		#bookmarks a:visited{color:black;text-decoration:none;}
		
		#bookmarks a:link{color:black;
		text-decoration:none;}
		#share a:hover{color:white;	text-decoration:none;}
		
		#share a:visited{color:black;text-decoration:none;}
		
		#share a:link{color:black;
		text-decoration:none;}
		
		
		
		
	/* common column settings */
	.colright,
	.colmid,
	.colleft {
		float:left;
		width:100%;			/* width of page */
		position:relative;
	}

	.col2{font-size:20px;}
	.col1,
	.col2,
	.col3 {
		float:left;
		position:relative;
		text-align:center;
		padding:0 0 1em 0;	/* no left and right padding on columns, we just make them narrower instead 
						only padding top and bottom is included here, make it whatever value you need */
		overflow:hidden;
	}
	/* 3 Column settings */
	.threecol {
		background:#eee;		/* right column background colour */
	}
	.threecol .colmid {
		right:25%;			/* width of the right column */
		background:#fff;		/* center column background colour */
	}
	.threecol .colleft {
		right:50%;			/* width of the middle column */
		background:#f4f4f4;	/* left column background colour */
	}
	.threecol .col1 {
		width:46%;			/* width of center column content (column width minus padding on either side) */
		left:102%;			/* 100% plus left padding of center column */
	}
	.threecol .col2 {
		width:21%;			/* Width of left column content (column width minus padding on either side) */
		left:31%;			/* width of (right column) plus (center column left and right padding) plus (left column left padding) */
	}
	.threecol .col3 {
		width:21%;			/* Width of right column content (column width minus padding on either side) */
		left:85%;			/* Please make note of the brackets here:
						(100% - left column width) plus (center column left and right padding) plus (left column left and right padding) plus (right column left padding) */
	}
	/* Footer styles */
	#footer {
		clear:both;
		float:left;
		width:100%;
		border-top:1px solid #000;
	}
	#footer p {
		padding:10px;
		margin:0;
	}
	/* --> */
	</style>
</head>
<body>
<!-- BuySellAds.com Ad Code -->
<script type="text/javascript">
(function(){
  var bsa = document.createElement('script');
     bsa.type = 'text/javascript';
     bsa.async = true;
     bsa.src = '//s3.buysellads.com/ac/bsa.js';
  (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]||document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(bsa);
})();
</script>
<!-- END BuySellAds.com Ad Code -->

<div id="header">
  <h1>&nbsp;</h1></div><div class="colmask threecol">
  <div class="colmid">
	<div class="colleft">
			<div class="col1">
				<!-- Column 1 start -->
                
<p>&nbsp;</p>
				<!-- Column 1 end -->
	  </div>
			<div class="col2">
				<!-- Column 2 start -->
		        <div id="bookmarks">	<a href=""> BOOKMARKS</a></div>
                
            <div id="share"><a href="">SHARE</a></div>
				<p>&nbsp;</p>
        
				<!-- Column 2 end -->
</div>
			<div class="col3">
				<!-- Column 3 start -->
				<div id="ads">
                
			  <!-- BuySellAds.com Zone Code --></div>
			  <!-- Column 3 end -->
			</div>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
	<p>&nbsp;</p>
</div>

<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "UA-1848067-8";
urchinTracker();
</script>

</body>
</html>
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Old 01-13-2013, 04:47 PM   PM User | #2
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Hello andynov123,
When styling your links you should remember the LoVeHAte rule.

See here.
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I don't see what wrong with my code even when looking at that lovehate rule.
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I don't see what wrong with my code even when looking at that lovehate rule.
Yours is backward -
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		#bookmarks a:hover{
			color:white;
		}
		
		#bookmarks a:visited{color:black;text-decoration:none;}
		
		#bookmarks a:link{color:black;
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