Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: >On 10 Jan 2006, at 3:21 am, Adam Kuehn wrote: > > >>> [1] http://www.littleandreid.com/mentaidyn/about > >>> > >>> <ul class="mainnav"> > >>> <li><a href="/" id="menu_default"><span>Home</span></a></li> > >>> <li><a href="about" class="active" > >>> id="menu_about"><span>About</span></a></li> > >>> [--more links--] > >>> </ul> > >But in this case, the CMS (textpattern) and the plugin used for >generating the menu does the correct thing, by adding the >class .active to the <a>. > >It is just a question of specificity to apply the class >.mainnav li a:link is more specific than just .active
Yes, except the presence of the ID could complicate things as the ID could "trump" any number of classes. I agree that if the CSS is constructed properly, your way should work, but the pre-existing ID makes it a bit tricky. The author would need to make certain that any CSS selectors which use that ID do not contain rules the author wants overridden by the .active class, or the CMS would need to be configured to swap out the ID (which could get fairly complicated). Good construction will make it easy, though, as the rest of your post suggests. -Adam Kuehn ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
