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Changing Background Color

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eharris

eharris

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Mar 13, 2001
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Is it possible to use CCS's to change the background color of an entire <td></td> by using the background-color parameter with hover?

Example:

A.sidebar:hover{color: #66ccff;
text-decoration:none;
font-weight:bold;
background-color: white;
}

I notice you can't use the class=&quot;sidebar&quot; withing the <td>, as <td class=&quot;sidebar&quot;></td> and have it work. Is there a way?

Thanks
 
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You can make the anchor tag do all the work.

display: block

This would make the entire anchor a separate chunk on a line, then -

div.menu a { display: block; width: 150px; margin-top: 4px;}

or something to set this up, then -

div.menu a:hover { font: 12pt Verdana; background-color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none; color: white; ; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 2px; }

To give it a lovely border effect lol. Can't be bothered re-writing it for background, but I am sure you can work that bit out!
 
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Yes, this is a fine solution, and thank you.

If I may ask one more CSS novist question, what is the correct syntax in which to include the display:block tag within the HTML document.

Thanks again.

Ed
 
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Just put his code in the heading like this:
Code: 
<style type=&quot;text/css&quot;>
div.menu a { display: block; width: 150px; margin-top: 4px;}
div.menu a:hover { font: 12pt Verdana; background-color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none; color: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 2px; }
</style>
And then specify the div as div class=&quot;menu&quot;

That should be all you have to do...
 
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Sorry, because you had quoted CSS, I assumed you were familiar with the syntax. Oops.
 
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I'm sorry. I realize this is very clear, but I must still be missing something.

As indicated above I attempted to perform a test by entering:

<style type=&quot;text/css&quot;>
div.menu a { display: block; width: 150px; margin-top: 4px;}
div.menu a:hover { font: 12pt Verdana; background-color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none; color: white; border: 1px solid black; margin-top: 2px; }
</style>

. . .within the heading. Then I placed the code:

<td height=&quot;30&quot;><A href=&quot;&quot; div class=&quot;menu&quot;>Test</a></TD>

. . .within a <TD> cell of the applicable page. However I am getting no results. All other CSS effects continue to work. I would appreciate some direction on what I am missing.

Thanks in advance.

Ed
 
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Change the td part to:
Code: 
<td height=&quot;30&quot;><div class=&quot;menu&quot;><a href=&quot;&quot;>Test</a></div></td>
[code]
And it should work...
 
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Thank you. All is well now. I suppose there is no way for this effect to work in Navigator 4. It does work in Explorer, and Navigator 6. Though I have noticed that Navagator 6 is so buggy that it is hardly worth designing for.

Thank you all for all your assistance.

Kind Regards,

Ed
 
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I think the above method is way more complicated than it needs to be. It also doesn't look quite right when hover cells are mixed with other cells, keeps most of the default behavior of anchors, and the anchor will actually work. The method below works fine in IE 5.5 (that's all I bothered to test it with). It makes the cell background turn gray when you hover over it, and that's ALL it does. The anchor itself does nothing.
Code: 
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Table Cell Hover BG Color Change</TITLE>
<style type=&quot;text/css&quot;>
.tbl2 a { color:#000000; text-decoration: none; border: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; }
.tbl2 a:hover { background-color: #cccccc; }
</style>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<table border=&quot;2&quot; cellspacing=&quot;2&quot;>
<tr>
<td>this is a normal cell</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href=&quot;javascript:&quot;>this is a normal anchor cell</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class=&quot;tbl2&quot;><a href=&quot;javascript:&quot;>this is a special anchor &quot;hover&quot; cell</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.
 
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Note that you can also get rid of the &quot;hand&quot; pointer (in IE 5.5) by including cursor:default; in the &quot;.tbl2 a&quot; style. Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.
 
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ts-
Netscape 4 doesn't seem to like your example. I didn't expect the hover color to show up, but it also doesn't show the text as a link. Weird huh? Well, actually, that's not weird...Nothing ever seems to work in Netscape 4.

(It works great in NN6 and IE though)
 
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Now you know why I didn't even bother to test it in NS. 9 times out of 10 what I want to do either doesn't work at all in NS or I have to recode most of it to make it work in NS. Why bother? I don't even bother to support NS on my web pages any more.
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.
 
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Hello
this is almost another ( and it is another) topic
Tsdragon, I agree with you however if we do design only for IE and Opera how many viewers will click away
for instance many of my customers won't make the dif in between browsers, for them a PC is to be turned on and off
further if the machine is 10 years old and still works why bother?
so now I spend some times in shifting from IE to NN and playing with resolutions
for my own like I will start to use Flash (got to learn first!)then how many will click away?
on another hand some positioning and border and hover etc..
are personna non grata in NN and as mentioned NN 6 is buggy
so shouldn't we try to be in between.
cheers

Henry
 
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