CSS Parsing Error Mac IE 5.2

[jonblaz630 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I think this is a simple problem but I can't find any documentation anywhere on how to fix it. On the following CSS style definition i get an error from Dreamweaver MX 2k4 that there is a Parsing Error for mac IE 5.2. The only thing I can think of is if Mac IE doesn't support multiple definitions for the A tag because i have six different 'a' style definitions.


A:link.menu
{font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none}

If you have mac ie you can take a look at what I'm talking about. The main menu links should be white. If you want to take a look at my CSS styles I've attached the CSS file. You can also look at it from the links i've provided

[url]http://webforums.macromedia.com/attachments/manitoumenus.txt[/url]




Referring URLs
[url]http://www.campmanitou.com/main.htm[/url]
[url]http://www.campmanitou.com/include/manitoumenus.css[/url]

[Murray *TMM*]

jon:

Why are you doing it that way?

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"jonblaz630" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I think this is a simple problem but I can't find any documentation

anywhere on how to fix it. On the following CSS style definition i get an
error from Dreamweaver MX 2k4 that there is a Parsing Error for mac IE 5.2.
The only thing I can think of is if Mac IE doesn't support multiple
definitions for the A tag because i have six different 'a' style
definitions.

>
>
> A:link.menu
> {font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;

font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; color: #ffffff; text-decoration:
none}

>
> If you have mac ie you can take a look at what I'm talking about. The main

menu links should be white. If you want to take a look at my CSS styles I've
attached the CSS file. You can also look at it from the links i've provided

>
> [url]http://webforums.macromedia.com/attachments/manitoumenus.txt[/url]
>
>
>
> Referring URLs
> [url]http://www.campmanitou.com/main.htm[/url]
> [url]http://www.campmanitou.com/include/manitoumenus.css[/url]
>
>
>

[jonblaz630 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I don't know exactly what you mean by that. Could you be a little more precise?

Thanks
Jon

[Murray *TMM*]

Jon:

Sorry - why are you doing this -

> i have six different 'a' style

definitions.

Do you perhaps mean that you have 6 different sets of pseudo-classes
defined?

And why this -

> A:link.menu

instead of this -

..menu a:link???

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"jonblaz630" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I don't know exactly what you mean by that. Could you be a little more

precise?

>
> Thanks
> Jon
>
>

[jonblaz630 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Awesome. That fixed it. Do you know of any documentation out there of proper CSS syntax?? Because my previous definitions were indeed valid CSS according to the validator on w3c.org.

Thanks for your time
Jon

[Murray *TMM*]

Jon:

I think a good understanding of CSS is what is required. You were creating
a rule that said to use the style whenever an <a> tag had the state of
link.menu, and I guess (while valid?) the browser just didn't understand
what state that was.

It's always easier to assign classes to containers than to specific tags,
and in the case of pseudo-classes, it's often much more efficient. Doing it
the way you did, you would have to somehow modify each specific instance of
the a:link state (I still don't know for sure how I would do that), whereas
my way requires only modifying the link's container.

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"jonblaz630" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Awesome. That fixed it. Do you know of any documentation out there of

proper CSS syntax?? Because my previous definitions were indeed valid CSS
according to the validator on w3c.org.

>
> Thanks for your time
> Jon
>
>

[Troyan]

Shouldn't it be like "a.menu:link" instead ou "a:link.menu"?

[Murray *TMM*]

Actually, the best would be .menu a:link....

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"Troyan" <dnunes@email.com> wrote in message
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> Shouldn't it be like "a.menu:link" instead ou "a:link.menu"?
>
>