Hi Jeff,

it's not working because the selector "#right a"  has a higher specificity than 
".download-file".
I'm assuming that those images are also inside the #right element, then you 
should use:

#right a.download-file  {
border-bottom: none;
}

Hope that helps

On Jan 14, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Gates, Jeff wrote:

> I have applied a style to my links with this css:
> 
>   #right a:link {text-decoration: none;
>    border-bottom: dotted 1px #666;}
>    #right a:visited {text-decoration: none;
>    border-bottom: dotted 1px #666;}
>    #right a:hover {text-decoration: none;
>    border-bottom: dotted 1px #666;}
>    #right a:active {text-decoration: none;
>    border-bottom: dotted 1px #666;}
> 
> This puts a nice dotted line under each link. This looks nice for text but I 
> don't want it showing under my image links. I've tried all sorts of ways of 
> styling image links without the border-bottom but the dotted line always 
> shows up.
> 
> The class of one subset of image links is "download-file". I've tried styling 
> that like this:
> .download-file {text-decoration: none;  border-bottom: none; } and various 
> variants like:
> .download-file a {text-decoration: none;  border-bottom: none;} plus others. 
> But none seem to override the #right a styles.
> 
> Here's the code that surrounds such an image (this code is being generated by 
> the cms from a database):
> <div class="item-file image-jpeg"><a class="download-file" 
> href="/omeka/files/download/52/fullsize />
> </a></div>
> 
> I'd love to have a style for all linked images that eliminate the 
> border-bottom dotted line. Any
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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