Help!

[catspaw]

I'm trying to teach myself CSS and this is driving me NUTS!



I'm trying to change the 'a:visited' colour on the stylesheet. I want a different colour for it. I can change the 'a:link' to get it to look like I want to, and the 'a:hover' - but every. Single. Time. I change the text colour on the 'a:visited' bit, it changes the colour of ALL of the links in the style. I've looked at it, and looked at it, and LOOKED at it, but I'm damned if I can see why it won't work! What the hell am I doing wrong?

What I'm putting into the style sheet is

a:link {text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal; color:#003333;}
a:visited {text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal; color:#669933;}
a:hover {text-decoration:underline overline; font-weight:normal; color:#003333;}
a:active {text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal; color:#003333}

Just that, with no extra carets or anything. But I'm obviously missing *something* :-(



If anyone could help, I'd be awfully grateful! I'm sure I'm doing something really, really dumb :-(

Comments

[nicci_mac]

I cant see anything wrong with it, but I've got xim on the case. she'll take a look and if she cant find it, no one can. BTW - you've disabled comments over on LJ so I had to pop over her to reply.

[nicci_mac]

would it make any difference if you swapped the order, so that hover came before visited?

[ximeria]

it will always show up with the visited color when you've clicked on the link? As far as I can tell there's nothing off about your code.

[nicci_mac]

Okay - Xim just came up with something. There doesnt seem to be anything wrong with the code. However, if you have actually visited the pages in the browser you are using, they will naturally be showing the colour you set for 'visited'

Try closing down the browser completely and then reopen and see if the pages have gone back to the colour they were before you visited them, and if that doesn't work, empty the cache.

[catspaw]

The links look right when I set it up and don't change the v:link colour. As soon as I change that colour value and refresh the page to check it, all te links change to the v:link colour whether I've visited them or not! It shouldn't DO that! Should it?

[catspaw]

Tried that :-(

[catspaw]

Thought of this as well. Emptied the cache, rebooted twice, hit 'refresh' like a manic monkey (screamed a bit and gave up in disgust *g*). I just don't get it :-(

[ximeria]

No, it shouldn't. I'll have another look at it when I come home, there are ways of getting it to work as far as I recall, but it takes a little digging in one of my reference books. Will let you know what I find.

ETA could you email me the whole css code - not just the ones above?

[nicci_mac]

Then there has to be another piece of code somewhere thats conflicting. I guess we'd have to see the whole thing and not just the bit you're trying to add.

PS - are you up for the Museum this coming weekend at all? *bounce bounce*

[catspaw]

Mail on the way... :-)

[catspaw]

It's on its way... thanks! :-)