Julian Voelcker wrote: > I have a span within a link to provide a block of colour which I want > to change the colour of when the mouse is hovered over the link, but am > getting muddled on the correct formatting of the css. > > The link would appear as follows: > > <a href="#"><span class="redblock"> </span> Link text</a> > > I would have thought this would work: > > a:hover span.redblock{background-color:#AE0042;} > > but is doesn't - any ideas?
But it /does/ work. It's only IEWin that wants everything with jam on it [1], e.g. additionally a:hover {background-position: 0 0} Ingo [1] http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/pseudocss.html#hover -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html ______________________________________________________________________ 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/