css link styles don't work

[shelld]

Hi-I've made a css style that is supposed to make links and visited links on
the main part of my page one color and the links and visited links on the
bottom part of my page another color. I cannot get it to work and can't see why
it won't work. Can anyone help? The website I'm doing is
[url]http://vintagemorgans.com[/url]

The class attrributes for the main page links are called "main" and the class
attributes for the bottom links are called "bottom"

If anyone can help, I would really appreciate it!

[shelld]

I have followed the step by step directions and still can't see what I did
wrong. See the attached code for the style sheet. Thanks!

.bottom {
color: f1e1c8;
}
.main a:link {
color: 002200;
}
.main a:visited {
color: 663300;
}
.main a:hover {
color: 002200;
}
.main a:active {
color: 002200;
}
.bottom a:link {
color: f1e1c8;
}
.bottom a:visited {
color: 999966;
}
.bottom a:hover {
color: f1e1c8;
}
.bottom a:active {
color: f1e1c8;
}

[wizardofdata]

Okay, I see what you're doing. Change your css to reflect the following (I
copied and pasted your css and made the modifications):

.bottom {
color: f1e1c8;
}
a.main:link {
color: 002200;
}
a.main:visited {
color: 663300;
}
a.main:hover {
color: 002200;
}
a.main:active {
color: 002200;
}
a.bottom:link {
color: f1e1c8;
}
a.bottom:visited {
color: 999966;
}
a.bottom:hover {
color: f1e1c8;
}
a.bottom:active {
color: f1e1c8;
}


This should work now. Let us know how it goes and keep coding!

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(wizardofdata)

>Okay, I see what you're doing. Change your css to reflect the following (I
>copied and pasted your css and made the modifications):

The CSS was correct.

>[...]
> a.bottom:active {
> color: f1e1c8;
> }
>
>
> This should work now. Let us know how it goes and keep coding!

Please learn how to use descendant selectors. Applying a class to every
link is really ugly code.

Micha

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(shelld)

>Hi-I've made a css style that is supposed to make links and visited links on
>the main part of my page one color and the links and visited links on the
>bottom part of my page another color. I cannot get it to work and can't see why
>it won't work. Can anyone help? The website I'm doing is
>[url]http://vintagemorgans.com[/url]

Works here. Or what am I missing?

Micha

[shelld]

I made the changes to the code and it still doesn't work. The links at the
bottom are supposed to change to another color after they're visited.

Could it be something from within Dreamweaver not working? I'm using
Dreamweaver MX. Any other ideas? I appreciate your help!

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(shelld)

>I made the changes to the code and it still doesn't work. The links at the
>bottom are supposed to change to another color after they're visited.

OK, I _did_ miss something ...

[url]http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://vintagemorgans.com/&warning=1&profile=css2[/url]

Color values have to start with an '#'.

Micha