From: "Allison Bloodworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>All my *text* (not just links) is underlined on mouseover in FF 1.5.0. 

>here: http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~allisonb/OHA/
>http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~allisonb/OHA/stylesheets/styles.css

>what
>would be causing this.

Others have made suggestions that will allow you to fix this, but you asked 
what would be causing this. 

The method you chose to close your anchor element is what is causing this. 
Firefox doesn't appear to accept the single tag with the closing slash (which 
is missing a space before the slash, by the way). So, it "computes" that you 
must have made a mistake, and puts in an actual closing tag for that element.

(continuing to assume what the browser is "thinking"...)
Then, since you _hadn't_ closed the tag in a way that FF recognized, it 
suspects you intended to enclose the paragraph in an anchor. Since that's not 
"legal," FF then places a replacement anchor element inside the paragraph, 
surrounding the text, and closes it, because that's what it thinks you intended 
to do. Thus, the text is all a link.

I realize that this is not the HTML that you wrote, but it's what is being 
"computed" by the browser. (extra spaces added in  tags to prevent the HTML 
from displaying in my email client)

What you wrote -

< div id="oha_mainContent" >
< a name="mainContent"/ >
< p >OHA provides a cooperative in which the members can pursue their love of 
riding and nature.  It strives to support those members through mutual respect 
and commitment.< /p >

What Firefox displays/computes - 

< div id="oha_mainContent" >
< a name="mainContent" >
< /a >< p >< a name="mainContent" >OHA provides a cooperative in which the 
members can pursue their love of riding and nature.  It strives to support 
those members through mutual respect and commitment.< /a >< /p >

I hope that helps the understanding part, anyway.

~holly  
 
                   
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