I know this has been dicussed, but I still need help with my link colors. I am using VSD 6. In order to get my unvisited links to look blue, I had to put the blue color in the visited links box under page settings. In the unvisited, I have red. However, when you click on links in my site, they don't change color.
Any suggestions?
www.novacreativemedia.com
Thanks,
Lisa
Link Colors - Post ID 89235
Lisa Karl
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Phil
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Did you hit ctrl-F5? I just went to that site and roamed around and everything looked fine. Was red, came back and it was blue.
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Cary
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Your unvisted links look red to me and turn blue for visited pages.
Lisa Karl
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Hit ctrl F5 and everything still the same. Unvisited links are blue and don't change when I click on them.
As I said, I had to put the in 'backwards' in the software. In the software thought, they look red. When I hit 'preview' they are blue. And when I go to my site live, they are blue and don't change color.
Anyone else?
I use IE 7
As I said, I had to put the in 'backwards' in the software. In the software thought, they look red. When I hit 'preview' they are blue. And when I go to my site live, they are blue and don't change color.
Anyone else?
I use IE 7
Cary
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VSD's design window only shows normal link states. They should appear blue in the browser and the preview if you have already visited the other pages. Flushing the cache shouldn't change that. You would need to flush the browser history to see the links as red again.
I'm not sure what you're saying here. Your pages have the following styling which seems to match what you described in your first post.
Lisa Karl wrote:
As I said, I had to put the in 'backwards' in the software.
As I said, I had to put the in 'backwards' in the software.
I'm not sure what you're saying here. Your pages have the following styling which seems to match what you described in your first post.
a:link { /* aka unvisited */
color: #ff0000; /* red */
}
a:visited {
color: #0000ff; /* blue */
}
color: #ff0000; /* red */
}
a:visited {
color: #0000ff; /* blue */
}
Phil
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Oh shoot, thanks Cary... I mis-spoke previously. I was in a rush to get her an answer that I had seen it properly before I took care of a customer at work, and didn't think that one through. Good catch.
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Lisa Karl
Registered User
15 posts
OK, I understand in the software and preview, the links would look blue. In the software, mine look red, but look blue when I hit preview.
I know the unvisited is listed as red and the visited as blue, because when I had it the other way around the unvisited were red, even though I had it as blue. Almost as if there were crossed wires.
I just looked at my site 'live' again. The links are blue and when I click on a link, the color doesn't change.
I know the unvisited is listed as red and the visited as blue, because when I had it the other way around the unvisited were red, even though I had it as blue. Almost as if there were crossed wires.
I just looked at my site 'live' again. The links are blue and when I click on a link, the color doesn't change.
Cary
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1,086 posts
Lisa Karl wrote:
OK, I understand in the software and preview, the links would look blue. In the software, mine look red, but look blue when I hit preview.
OK, I understand in the software and preview, the links would look blue. In the software, mine look red, but look blue when I hit preview.
The links should look red in the software, and blue in your preview, which uses an embedded IE and I suspect its history as well.
Lisa Karl wrote:
I just looked at my site 'live' again. The links are blue and when I click on a link, the color doesn't change.
I just looked at my site 'live' again. The links are blue and when I click on a link, the color doesn't change.
That's correct. Your browser has the paths to those other pages in its history, so it shows them as blue or visited.
Cary
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Cary wrote:
The links should look red in the software, and blue in your preview, which uses an embedded IE and I suspect its history as well.
The links should look red in the software, and blue in your preview, which uses an embedded IE and I suspect its history as well.
The built in preview may have its own history, independent of the IE browser, but if you have previewed all the pages you have made and linked, then the links to those pages should all appear blue in the preview.
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