CSS Forum

**silverglade** · 01-27-2009, 03:08 PM

hi, my visited links on my dropdown menu are showing up purple and i want them to be white. i looked hard at my code and cant find anything that lists purple as the color or in hex code. please if anyone can help me id greatly appreciate it. thank you. derek. here is the page im talking about.

http://derekvanderven.com/doctors_columbia/home.html

and here is the css to the page..

Code:

@charset "utf-8";
/* CSS Document */

body {
    margin: 0;  /* clear for browsers */
    padding: 0;
    background-color: #517E86;
}
#container {
    margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
    width: 800px;
    overflow: auto;
    }
    
#header {
    background-image: url(header.gif);
     background-repeat: no-repeat;
     width: 800px;
     height: 96px;
     }
#navigation {
     
      width: 800px;
     height: 40px;
}

and here is the html/css for the page.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<link href="doctor_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<style type="text/css">
.style2 {
    font-size: 13px
}
</style>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
 

<style type="text/css">

#dropmenudiv{
position:absolute;
border:1px solid black;
border-bottom-width: 0;
font:normal 12px Verdana;
line-height:18px;
z-index:100;

 
}

#dropmenudiv a{
width: 100%;
display: block;
text-indent: 3px;
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
padding: 1px 0;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
 background-color: #517e86;    /*makes background color of dropdown blue*/
}

#dropmenudiv a:hover{ /*hover background color*/
background-color: #000000;  /* makes hover color black*/
}
 
a:link {color: #ffffff}
a:visited {color: ffffff}
a:hover {color: #ffffff}
a:active {color: #ffffff}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript">

/***********************************************
* AnyLink Drop Down Menu- © Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com)
* This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
* Visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code
***********************************************/

//Contents for menu 1
var menu1=new Array()
menu1[0]='<a href="meet_the_staff.html#specialists">Specialists</a>'
menu1[1]='<a href="http://www.freewarejava.com">Freewarejava.com</a>'
menu1[2]='<a href="http://codingforums.com">Coding Forums</a>'
menu1[3]='<a href="http://www.cssdrive.com">CSS Drive</a>'

//Contents for menu 2, and so on
var menu2=new Array()
menu2[0]='<a href="http://cnn.com">CNN</a>'
menu2[1]='<a href="http://msnbc.com">MSNBC</a>'
menu2[2]='<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk">BBC News</a>'
        
var menuwidth='165px' //default menu width
var menubgcolor='lightyellow'  //menu bgcolor
var disappeardelay=250  //menu disappear speed onMouseout (in miliseconds)
var hidemenu_onclick="yes" //hide menu when user clicks within menu?

/////No further editting needed

var ie4=document.all
var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all

if (ie4||ns6)
document.write('<div id="dropmenudiv" style="visibility:hidden;width:'+menuwidth+';background-color:'+menubgcolor+'" onMouseover="clearhidemenu()" onMouseout="dynamichide(event)"></div>')

function getposOffset(what, offsettype){
var totaloffset=(offsettype=="left")? what.offsetLeft : what.offsetTop;
var parentEl=what.offsetParent;
while (parentEl!=null){
totaloffset=(offsettype=="left")? totaloffset+parentEl.offsetLeft : totaloffset+parentEl.offsetTop;
parentEl=parentEl.offsetParent;
}
return totaloffset;
}


function showhide(obj, e, visible, hidden, menuwidth){
if (ie4||ns6)
dropmenuobj.style.left=dropmenuobj.style.top="-500px"
if (menuwidth!=""){
dropmenuobj.widthobj=dropmenuobj.style
dropmenuobj.widthobj.width=menuwidth
}
if (e.type=="click" && obj.visibility==hidden || e.type=="mouseover")
obj.visibility=visible
else if (e.type=="click")
obj.visibility=hidden
}

function iecompattest(){
return (document.compatMode && document.compatMode!="BackCompat")? document.documentElement : document.body
}

function clearbrowseredge(obj, whichedge){
var edgeoffset=0
if (whichedge=="rightedge"){
var windowedge=ie4 && !window.opera? iecompattest().scrollLeft+iecompattest().clientWidth-15 : window.pageXOffset+window.innerWidth-15
dropmenuobj.contentmeasure=dropmenuobj.offsetWidth
if (windowedge-dropmenuobj.x < dropmenuobj.contentmeasure)
edgeoffset=dropmenuobj.contentmeasure-obj.offsetWidth
}
else{
var topedge=ie4 && !window.opera? iecompattest().scrollTop : window.pageYOffset
var windowedge=ie4 && !window.opera? iecompattest().scrollTop+iecompattest().clientHeight-15 : window.pageYOffset+window.innerHeight-18
dropmenuobj.contentmeasure=dropmenuobj.offsetHeight
if (windowedge-dropmenuobj.y < dropmenuobj.contentmeasure){ //move up?
edgeoffset=dropmenuobj.contentmeasure+obj.offsetHeight
if ((dropmenuobj.y-topedge)<dropmenuobj.contentmeasure) //up no good either?
edgeoffset=dropmenuobj.y+obj.offsetHeight-topedge
}
}
return edgeoffset
}

function populatemenu(what){
if (ie4||ns6)
dropmenuobj.innerHTML=what.join("")
}


function dropdownmenu(obj, e, menucontents, menuwidth){
if (window.event) event.cancelBubble=true
else if (e.stopPropagation) e.stopPropagation()
clearhidemenu()
dropmenuobj=document.getElementById? document.getElementById("dropmenudiv") : dropmenudiv
populatemenu(menucontents)

if (ie4||ns6){
showhide(dropmenuobj.style, e, "visible", "hidden", menuwidth)

dropmenuobj.x=getposOffset(obj, "left")
dropmenuobj.y=getposOffset(obj, "top")
dropmenuobj.style.left=dropmenuobj.x-clearbrowseredge(obj, "rightedge")+"px"
dropmenuobj.style.top=dropmenuobj.y-clearbrowseredge(obj, "bottomedge")+obj.offsetHeight+"px"
}

return clickreturnvalue()
}

function clickreturnvalue(){
if (ie4||ns6) return false
else return true
}

function contains_ns6(a, b) {
while (b.parentNode)
if ((b = b.parentNode) == a)
return true;
return false;
}

function dynamichide(e){
if (ie4&&!dropmenuobj.contains(e.toElement))
delayhidemenu()
else if (ns6&&e.currentTarget!= e.relatedTarget&& !contains_ns6(e.currentTarget, e.relatedTarget))
delayhidemenu()
}

function hidemenu(e){
if (typeof dropmenuobj!="undefined"){
if (ie4||ns6)
dropmenuobj.style.visibility="hidden"
}
}

function delayhidemenu(){
if (ie4||ns6)
delayhide=setTimeout("hidemenu()",disappeardelay)
}

function clearhidemenu(){
if (typeof delayhide!="undefined")
clearTimeout(delayhide)
}

if (hidemenu_onclick=="yes")
document.onclick=hidemenu

</script>
<title>Dental Partners of Columbia Home</title>
</head>

<body>
<div id="container">
   <div id="header"> </div> 
   <div id="navigation"> 
            <div align="center" class="style2"><a href="default.htm" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu1, '150px')" 
         onMouseout="delayhidemenu()">Meet the Staff</a> |
             <a href="default.htm" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu1, '150px')" 
           onMouseout="delayhidemenu()">Forms and Instructions</a> |
             <a href="default.htm" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu1, '150px')" 
           onMouseout="delayhidemenu()">Advanced Technologies</a> |  
             <a href="default.htm" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu1, '150px')" 
           onMouseout="delayhidemenu()">Smile Gallery</a> |  
             <a href="default.htm" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu1, '150px')" 
           onMouseout="delayhidemenu()">Contact Us</a> |  
             <a href="default.htm" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu1, '150px')" 
           onMouseout="delayhidemenu()">Convenience Services</a> |  
             <a href="default.htm" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu1, '150px')" 
           onMouseout="delayhidemenu()">Links</a> |  
             <a href="default.htm" onClick="return clickreturnvalue()" onMouseover="dropdownmenu(this, event, menu1, '150px')" 
           onMouseout="delayhidemenu()">Press Mentions</a> |     </div>
   </div>
   <!-- end NAVIGATION-->
  
   
</div><!-- END CONTAINTER-->
</body>
</html>
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**Insensus** · 01-27-2009, 03:23 PM

Add something like:
a:visited {
color: #fff;
}

To your code.
Not specifying any style for visited links, makes them purple.

**silverglade** · 01-27-2009, 03:31 PM

awesome thank you!! you made me look at that specific code i had here in my page, and it was missing ";" and "#", that fixed it. thank you very much!!!

derek

here is the correct code without missing stuff.

Code:

a:link {color: #ffffff;}
a:visited {color: #ffffff;}
a:hover {color: #ffffff;}
a:active {color: #ffffff;}