Highlighting menu links

webmonkey8 · Jun 16, 2003

Hello, I have a menu on a webpage I want highlighted when a user clicks on it (it's to let the user know that he/she has selected this link. The links I have on this menu already have a rollover highlighted effect, however it doesn't stay when clicked. Can you help me? Thanks!

AtomicChip · Jun 16, 2003

_If_ your menu is text based, and you don't mind having all your links displayed in the same way, try sticking this in between your <head> tags:

<style type=text/css>

A:link
{
color: [COLOR=of a non-visted link];
}

A:hover
{
color: [COLOR=of the link when hovered over];
}

A:visited
{
color: [COLOR=of the link after visited];
}

A:active
{
color: [COLOR=of the link when clicked];
}

</style>

There are ways of handling links so that not all links on your page are affected, but that question should more than likely be asked in the Javascript forum, as you start dealing with onMouseOver events and such.

- Hope that helps

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