I am working on a website showing how I am building a cedar strip canoe and I found a photo of a pine board that I am using for a background. It looks great...
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Cary Driscoll
eidirsceoil
May 5, 2008 4:22 am
My guess is it's an optical illusion, but can't be sure without seeing all the html and css for the page....
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Dave
david_99_au
May 5, 2008 1:24 pm
Hi Are the links active ,change color when you land on them ,you may have to change the color to match your background ,have you checked the colors ? THANKYOU...
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Chris Dart
cj_dart
May 5, 2008 2:10 pm
Are perhaps the link colour values different in different tags? Such as - is the background in a container tag together with the links? Regards Chris Dart ...
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sisterscape
May 5, 2008 3:46 pm
Here are some more thoughts . . . Sometime colors will look different on different backgrounds. It's kind of an optical illusion - I often have to readjust a...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
May 5, 2008 3:53 pm
... Agreed. What you could do is make a screenshot and feed it to some graphics program. Many have a tool to pick the colour from one precise point and show...
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Greg Chapman
gregchapmanuk
May 5, 2008 10:19 pm
... And in the case of a menu I'd only use: a.menu and normally: a.menu:hover as one rarely wants menu links to change colour in the way that one does with...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
May 6, 2008 5:09 am
... Don't just use hover, always use focus,hover,active in that order. While a mouse user has the pointer to show him where he is, a keyboard user tabbing...
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loro
yastupidhoo
May 6, 2008 11:37 am
... I also think it's a matter of perception. That or you accidently changed more than you think you did when you added the background image. But to...
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woodysnomad
May 6, 2008 4:38 pm
Thanks for all your replies... Here is what I have done: This is the code in my index.htm file seting up the CSS <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"...
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Marcelo de Castro Bas...
mcbastos
May 6, 2008 5:09 pm
... OK, in the first example your CSS syntax is just wrong. You are using HTML syntax in CSS, which won't work, unless the browser is more forgiving than it...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
May 6, 2008 5:11 pm
As to colour I stand by what several people wrote, it must be perception. As a case in point I have just adjusted the default colours in my browsers a little....
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sisterscape
May 6, 2008 6:22 pm
In addition to what Marcelo listed (he beat me to it!). . . If you are using a linked style sheet you shouldn't include the <!-- -->. I also use " " around the...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
May 6, 2008 8:52 pm
... And I didn't even notice. Am I going balmy? That said, Joe, you really ought to validate your code and your stylesheets. If not for grossly wrong syntax...
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woodysnomad
May 6, 2008 11:07 pm
Here is the actual code from my index sheet: <html> <head> <title>NomadIndexPage</title> <link rev="made"; href="mailto:jmgledhill@..."> <meta...
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sisterscape
May 6, 2008 11:41 pm
Just put the following in your .css file. NO <STYLE></STYLE> TAGS NEEDED! body {background-color:#FFCC99; color:#660000; font-family:Tahoma,Sans-serif; ...
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sisterscape
May 6, 2008 11:49 pm
PS. Just to clarify. The HTML headers aren't needed in the stylesheet either. Remove all of this in addition to the <style></style> tags: <html> ... </head>...
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woodysnomad
May 7, 2008 1:36 am
Back to where I was... the elimination of the h in href was an error when coping selected areas as was the body tag omission and thanks to some good eyes,...
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sisterscape
May 7, 2008 3:59 am
I have never used that function but checked it just now. In creating the HTML page, it offers the choice of external or embedded styles. It does NOT create...
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loro
yastupidhoo
May 7, 2008 7:22 am
... Your style sheet is a whole HTML document. Remove all the HTML tags. The part that actually is CSS still contains errors. http://shurl.net/aaU Still have...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
May 7, 2008 9:05 am
... Joe, I'm repeating myself but *please* validate first and ask later. There is absolutely no use at all in asking questions about invalid code. If you tried...
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woodysnomad
May 9, 2008 3:40 am
Well, I started with 47 errors and I'm down to 11 after many hours of trying to figure this stuff out. The DOCTYPE was all my error and I put in a line for...
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Cary Driscoll
eidirsceoil
May 9, 2008 4:42 am
Do you have a URL we can look at to see what you're doing? ... From: "woodysnomad" Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:40 PM Subject: [NH] Validator......
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sisterscape
May 9, 2008 5:10 am
Yes. Can't do a thing without the complete HTML and .css. ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better...
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Greg Chapman
gregchapmanuk
May 9, 2008 7:29 am
Hi Woody, ... It might be worth installing HTMLTidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/) which integrates with NoteTab. HTMLTidy will automatically correct some...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
May 9, 2008 9:16 am
... Yes but that layout is not the way I like it. What I do recommend is the Html Validator extension for Firefox. It gives you both the W3C Validator errors...
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Axel Berger
absalom_nemini
May 9, 2008 10:42 am
... If you are writing with NoteTab in Windows, then the standard Windows character set is what your files actually contain. That being the case, this is what...
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loro
yastupidhoo
May 9, 2008 12:41 pm
... Look what you have on the line before the opening BODY tag. ...
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woodysnomad
May 9, 2008 2:35 pm
My code is at http://nomad17.home.comcast.net I corrected the <BR> between HEAD and BODY and that error went away... one more down... I put in the META...
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loro
yastupidhoo
May 9, 2008 3:26 pm
... Yay! ... Almost anything (within reason) will work if you use only ASCII characters. Personally I wouldn't use the Windows Charset, but to each his own. ...
