why the CSS cannot overrule the default link color anymore?

[chinan]

I spent around the forum for around 30 minutes but can not find my solution therefore asking for help.

I made a table, in the cells I put link text inside. To enable both background color and words color looks different when mouse is over the cell, I put following codes inside that cell:

<td height="20" onMouseOver="this.style.backgroundColor='#XXXXX'"; this.style.color='#XXXXXX';" onMouseOut="this.style....>

It was "white bg + black text", once the mouse over, I want the colors switch, say. black background + white text.

It works good when I did not put any URL on the cell text.

But once I put a URL (e.g

http://google.com)

link to that cell text, and when mouse over, only the background color changes from white to black, and the text color does not change at all.

The result is: black bg + black text ....it sounds the page is telling me to go to hell...

Any comments? Please help. Thanks alot!

 

[dmacster]

Why don't you use CSS for the cell

like

td a { text-decoration: none; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;}
td a:hover { text-decoration: underline; color: #333333;}

or something similar

 

[chinan]

sorry I forgot to say what I am making is a pop-up memu, the Nav bar(first menu), submenu and second submenu are different colors.

If I setup CSS there, then all the table cells in the page will be like that, say, there is no difference between the navigator bar, submenu and 2nd-submenu any more.

That comes my second question: Is there a way to apply several CSS styles in one page? for example, style name C1,C2,C3,C4.... Then at the navbar table, I want to apply C1. In the main content table cell, I want to apply C2 style and so on.

How to do this? I guess it is to make (or export) different CSS styles to separated CSS files. such as C1.css, c2.css... Then import them to the current page. Is that correct? I have never done this I guess this function does not exist in DW.

Thanks for your patient reading my long article,

 

[dmacster]

See if this is what you're trying to accomplish.

http://projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/snapmenus/index.htm

 

[chinan]

Thanks you got a good solutions for me. I installed those plugins.

Thanks again and have a good weekend.