Changing link colors?

[Dillinger4]

Does anyone know if the color of a link used as an anchor can be changed? As it is now the link is displayed purple and when it is clicked it is still purple. I thought links were supposed to turn blue when moused over.

Here is my link

<li><font size="1" face="Lucida Bright"><a href ="C:/My Documents//page2.htm#page2">This will take you to page 2</a>

And here is the anchor

<p><a name = "page2"><font face="Lucida Bright" color="#00FF00" size="6">Welcome to page two</font></a></p>

[TheGoldenShogun]

You can use a Style Sheet for that, put this before your BODY tags.

<STYLE>
A {color:'purple'}
A:hover {color:'green'}
</STYLE>

There are other properties you can change too, like font-size, font-weight, which might help you out also. I can't remember off hand any other Style Sheet state properties, Hover (mouseover) and plain are all I ever use. You could find them with a search on the web I bet.

[Dillinger4]

Hey ill check it out. Im not sure if i want to mess with style sheets yet. But maybe i better since the WC3 suggests it.

[Dillinger4]

I know in the BODY tag you can specify Link, VLink or ALink
= "#rrggbb" but these seem to be not what i want. I always thought a link was supposed to change color when rolled over?
The dam thing is purple.

[thinktank2]

I always thought a link was supposed to change color when rolled over?
The dam thing is purple.

May be u are so used to vbforums that u strongly believe so.
By default a visited link is purple.

[TheGoldenShogun]

Do you know any JavaScript? You could embed a onMouseOver= thing in the Anchor tag.

[ubunreal69]

Originally posted by thinktank2


May be u are so used to vbforums that u strongly believe so.
By default a visited link is purple.

correct, and there is no change of color but u can set it to underline when hovered over.

hey, Dilenger4, if u want to use that CSS then here is a more detailed version of that one of " TheGoldenShogun" :

<STYLE> 
A:Link {color: #000000; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px} 
A:Hover {color: 'red'; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px} 
A:Visited {color: #000000; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px} 
</STYLE>

this will hilite all your links red when hovered ove and display them as black when just sistting there or if theyt have been visited.

NOTE: it is also possible to have:

<STYLE> 
A:Body {color: #000000; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px} 
</STYLE>

but it will not change text in tables and in that case u can use:

<STYLE> 
A:Table {color: #000000; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px} 
</STYLE>

well, i hope this is of some help to you.

ME!

[Dillinger4]

TheGoldenShogun
Do you know any JavaScript? You could embed a onMouseOver= thing in the Anchor tag.

No i don't really know any java script yet. I know Java pretty well though. Java script just seems to be coded a little diffrently. onMouseOver sounds like the way to go though. So i guess ill go with that. Thanks for the help guys. ubunreal69: I wrote down your code for future refrence so when i switch over to style sheets ill know what to do.

[ubunreal69]

thats cool. i dont know all that much but i like to help people with what i do know.

ME!