Style Sheet problems

[Punt]

Howdy

it was suggested I post this in here instead of "other help" so apologies in advance for cross-posting...

I recently installed YaBB SE on my site, and I have the same general setup as found here, header across the top, and a menu on the left.

My problem is this: The menu on the left has a black background.  The links are orange, the hover is white, the visited is brown.

I have YaBB SE set up on a light grey backgrounds.  So when I mouseover a link on the board, it shows up white, and is very hard to read. I am linking to an external style sheet in my template.php, so everything is in the same file. I've tried adding a new class, and then going into the template and adding class="newclass" in the TD tags of the tables, but it's not working at all.

Any thoughts? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
-Punt

[PHPlugin]

Hmmm ... I don't get it!

CSS?

class="newclass"

Sorry if I'm wrong ... that's no CSS! ...

So your problem is, you want to change
the hover color of the links in your forum?

[haase]

I think you are wrong.  If you add a .newclass in the style sheet, then you would call it in your code by adding class="newclass" in the HTML.

Of course, if your HTML was embedded in an echo line, you would need to use

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class=\"newclass\"

I always have trouble applying classes to hyperlinks.  They are overridden by the a:link, a:hover, and a:visited tags.  I don't know the specifics, but these seem to be applied automatically....  you don't need to call them in like you would call any other style class.

[haase]

I found what I think you need HERE

This is a topic called pseudo classes.  Basically, what you are going to do is create a class .newclass.  Then you are going to create separate classes like

.newclass a:link
.newclass a:hover
.newclass a:visited

Then when you call class="newclass" it will apply the link, hover, and visited settings that you specified specifically for newclass.

I found that out.  And I also found out that I was half right when I said the link classes seem to be defined automatically.  When you set up a link in HTML you define with with <a> and end it with </a>.   When you have a class a:link, it gets called when you use the <a> tag.

Hey.  Thanks for posting that question, I just learned a lot about CSS tonight.

[Punt]

Thank you both for your reply.

PHPlugin: I should have been a bit more clear. In my style.css file, I have a .newclass:link <attributes>, .newclass:hover <attributes> and .newclass:visited <attributes>. So in the TD tag, I have "class=newclass" hoping to change those links.

greghaase: Thanks for the link. I tried adding the .newclass a:link in the style.css, but that didn't work. I have this exact thing working on other pages of my site. So I know I have the css set up correctly. I'm curious as to where the forums are loading the style.css, and why it ignores the classes set in the TD tags. And why I can't get it to work with the forum.

Thanks again for taking the time to help me out.


-Punt