Hey all. I'm new to the site and working on my first substantial page.

I'm having a small CSS issue that is leaving me a bit perplexed. I'm hoping there is a simple solution that someone will be familiar with so I will keep it short and elaborate if need be.

I'm linking to a stylesheet with the following:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />

At first it was working perfectly with some of the following:

table#links  {

	background-color:#CC9900;
	width: 100%;
	height: 25px;
	
	
}

td.top   {

	vertical-align: top
}

Now when I attempt to add some style features to the stylesheet the formatting wont accept, however, if I just use SCRIPT tags on the page I am trying to format in the header it formats just fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

-Z

Why would you be using <script> tags to add formatting/styling?

It wasn't working when I tried just using the stylesheet. Which is my whole problem.

Let me elaborate:

A:link {text-decoration: none; color:#FF0000}
A:visited {text-decoration: none; color:#FFFFFF}
A:active {text-decoration: none}
A:hover {text-decoration: none; color: #CC9900;}

When I place this code into the stylesheet and save it my links remain unchanged.

However when I place this exact same code in script tags in the head of the page it's working fine..

I would obviously prefer to not use the script tag.

Does this help?

Edit: Sorry just realized I was saying SCRIPT instead of STYLE.

Not really. I still don't see why you are using <script> tags for styles?

and BTW your pseudo classes are in the srong order
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/css-fo...tml#post288033

You must have been replying when I edited... I'm using <style> and often type <script> accidentally. Thanks for the link and I've changed the order.

Now that I've hopefully cleared up that I am using <style> and not <script> any other rationale?

-Z

Not specially;

HOWEVER! If you show us the actual problem rather than something you may have mis-typed, we will be able to tell you if you have mis-typed something there as well.

HTML

<span class="item">
                

You are Here: <a href="/main2.php">Home</a>&nbsp;>&nbsp;<a href="/cards.php">Cards</a>
		
        		</span>

CSS

A:link {text-decoration: none; color:#FF0000}
A:visited {text-decoration: none; color:#FFFFFF}
A:hover {text-decoration: none; color: #CC9900;}
A:active {text-decoration: none}

.item		{
	
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size:12px;
	color: #ffffff;

}

The span formatting is working fine but not the "a" formatting. Like I tried to state before it WILL work if I use the following in the header..

<style>

A:link {text-decoration: none; color:#FF0000}
A:visited {text-decoration: none; color:#FFFFFF}
A:hover {text-decoration: none; color: #CC9900;}
A:active {text-decoration: none}

</style>

Thanks for your help Chris. I'm fairly new to this and hope I'm not frustrating you too much.

-Z

Looks like a specificity issue. Try it like this instead:

.item a:link etc., etc. .. that will target the link inside the <span>

Why are you putting a span around that anyway ??

I'll try that...

I have a black background, it was just a quick way to make the text white so it's visible.

Still no luck :shrug:

I'm at a loss...

just give us a link to the page with the problem

www.gravurecraft.com/urns.php

If you look right beside the search bar (which doesn't work yet) you will see Home > Urns links

www.gravurecraft.com/cards.php

On this page you can see the difference.

Try and go easy on me, it's my first page remember

Obviously I'm missing something because I can't see a difference.

are you clearing your browser cache between editing and uploading the stylesheet?

Ok... So why is it I must do that for style sheets but not coding changes? Everytime I change like a border or some text it updates perfectly

depends on how the server is set for content expiry.

scripted pages (php,asp,aspx etc) are always expired immediately because they are created at the instant of delivery.

Well that worked. Thanks a lot, I figured it was something simple, sorry to make it seem so complicated. I guess I'll always clear it to be safe from here on out. Thanks again!