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There might be some other code that overrides the style declarations.
Would you mind sharing a ful copy of the page in question? I'm curious
how the styles cascade to override the class settings.
-Tony
On 2012-09-03, at 12:20 PM, "McLauchlan, Kevin"
<Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> Tried that after receiving your post. No change. Even though the syntax looks more sensible now.
> The working browsers still work, and the non-working ones still don't. So the real gap is somewhere else.
>
> Did I improperly nest <a href=..... and some browsers are picky about it?
>
>> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Jan Cohen <najnehoc -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>> Kevin,
>
>> onclick should work in all browsers and should be coded like so:
>
>> onclick="doSomething()"
>> Try changing your code to match and see if it fixes your problem (lose the colon and add the quotes).
>
>> Jan C.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tony Chung [mailto:tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca]
>> Sent: September-03-12 12:40 PM
>> To: McLauchlan, Kevin
>> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>> Subject: Re: html/css question
>>
>> Kevin,
>>
>> How is this supposed to make the links stand out? Onclick only acts
>> when the link is clicked. Jan is right also that onclick is an
>> attribute where you set the value with ="functionName()" and not
>> :=functionName() -- the := syntax is in VB/VBA
>>
>> My instinct tells me to set a CSS block that codes all links of a
>> "specialClass" to look different.
>>
>> <style type="text/css">
>> a.specialClass { border: 1px blue solid; padding: 2px; }
>> </style>
>> Then add the class attribute to your links like this:
>>
>> <a class="specialClass"
>> href="./001-011136-003_myproduct_5-2_webhelp_rev-
>> a/startpage.htm"
>> target="_blank">My Product 5.2.x Help </a>
>>
>> It might also help to set a colour change when the mouse hovers. Add
>> this to the style block after the first declaration:
>>
>> a.specialClass:hover { background-color: blue; }
>>
>> (Note, because the border and padding are already set in the overall
>> link, border and padding will be applied here as well.)
>>
>> You can also add a special handler for when the link is clicked:
>>
>> a.specialClass:active { border: 1px red solid; background-color: red; }
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> -Tony
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2012-09-03, at 7:50 AM, "McLauchlan, Kevin"
>> <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
>>
>>> Wiser, and more HTML/CSS-proficient brains than mine are asked:
>>>
>>> Can you tell me please why this specific code works in some
>> browsers
>>> and not in others? And what, if anything, to do about it?
>>>
>>> The task:
>>> An intro page contained links to several things, including the main
>>> product documentation, the release notes, some white papers, etc.
>>> It was pointed out that all the links were similar-looking, and the
>>> most important one - the main docs - should stand out.
>>>
>>> The approach:
>>> So, in the <head> of my START_HERE.html page, I added this:
>>>
>>> <script>
>>> function displayResult()
>>> {
>>> document.getElementById("p1").style.textDecoration="underline
>> overline";
>>> }
>>> </script>
>>>
>>>
>>> Then, down where the link text is, I surrounded the href like this:
>>>
>>>
>>> <button type="button" onclick=:displayResult()><a href="./001-
>> 011136-003_myproduct_5-2_webhelp_rev-a/startpage.htm"
>> target="_blank">My Product 5.2.x Help </a></button><br>
>>>
>>> Now, the appearance of the link is a nice, big, hard-to-miss button,
>> in all browsers.
>>> Unfortunately, it is a working link only in Chrome or Iron or Safari
>> browsers right now.
>>> It fails in IE9, Firefox, and Opera browsers... Click-click... nothing.
>>> Well, not totally nothing - it briefly inverts when clicked, but it
>> doesn't function as a link
>>>
>>> Did I steal some deprecated code? Or...
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -kevin
>>>
>>> PS: It doesn't need to be a button. Anything non-garish, to make
>> the link text stand out a bit, would be fine.
>>>
>>>
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