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...
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...
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 ...
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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
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"...
... 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...
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....
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...
... 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...
Just put the following in your .css file. NO <STYLE></STYLE> TAGS NEEDED! body {background-color:#FFCC99; color:#660000; font-family:Tahoma,Sans-serif; ...
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>...
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,...
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...
... 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...
... 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...
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...
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......
Yes. Can't do a thing without the complete HTML and .css. ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better...
Hi Woody, ... It might be worth installing HTMLTidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/) which integrates with NoteTab. HTMLTidy will automatically correct some...
... 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...
... 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...
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...
... 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. ...
