That seems to work if add a a:visited as well (or your visited links
will have underlines):
a:visited
{
text-decoration:none;
color:000000; // You probably want this to be different from the
color for a:link
}
Thanks,
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnson, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 9:00 AM
> To: Brett Leber; David Cramer
> Cc: docbook-apps
> Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] styling links
>
> Would something along the following lines work:
>
> a:link
> {
> text-decoration:none;
> color:#000000;
> }
>
> The :link says only style if it is an unvisited link.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Leber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 8:51 AM
> To: David Cramer
> Cc: docbook-apps
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] styling links
>
> Not sure who maintains the xhtml stylesheets, but it might be
> a nice improvement to drop the <a> anchors altogether and
> just use the id attribute on elements, which can be linked to
> using the standard <a
> href="#blah">:
>
> http://bitesizestandards.com/bites/cleaning-up-code-with-seman
tic-anchor
> s
>
> That's an off-the-cuff comment; I'm not sure what other XSL
> changes that might entail.
>
> With regard to browser support, the article linked above has:
>
> > Note that Netscape 4 does not properly support this, neither do some
> mobile browsers. In the case of the latter, at least, we can
> expect them to add support for this in the foreseeable
> future, whereas those who still have to support Netscape 4
> will be less fortunate.
>
> Java's HTML rendered may or may not work with this approach,
> so that'd be a deal-breaker. But this could be a nice
> enhancement to the xhtml stylesheets.
>
> Brett
>
> PS: For CSS questions, I recommend the excellent css-d list:
> http://www.css-discuss.org/
>
> On 12/3/2007 3:37 PM, David Cramer wrote:
> > I ran across a little more info about this. If you do what
> I suggested
>
> > previously, a[href]{ color: red; text-decoration: underline;}, then
> > your problem is fixed in firefox, but you've got a new
> problem in IE
> > (in 7 anyway...not sure about others). It appears that IE 7 doesn't
> > recognize the a[href] selector. So your caught between a
> mozilla bug
> > (inabiilty to see that <a/> is the same as <a></a>) and an IE bug
> > (inabilty to recognize a[href]). So here's my advice:
> >
> > 1. Don't style link text (best approach...I don't style them except
> > for this one css that I inherited, which is where I ran across this
> > problem) 2. If you do, ask someone on a css list how to
> deal with the
> > problem, given that your content will have lots of <a
> id="foo"/> tags
> > and you can't/don't want to force them to be <a id="foo"></a>.
> > 3. You could try getting your output to look like this, but
> I'm no css
>
> > expert. This seems to handle IE and Firefox, but I don't know about
> > other browsers:
> >
> > <style type="text/css" media="screen"> a[href]{ color: red;
> > text-decoration: none;} </style> <!--[if IE]> <style
> type="text/css"
> > media="screen"> a{ color: red; text-decoration: none;} </style>
> > <![endif]-->
> >
> > David
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Johnson, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 9:39 AM
> >> To: David Cramer; Barton Wright
> >> Cc: docbook-apps
> >> Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Weird characters in generated HTML
> >>
> >> David,
> >> The change to the CSS did the trick!! Thanks.
> >> Cheers,
> >> Eric
> >>
> >
>
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