Tony - Very interesting idea. I like it (it makes complete sense), tried it, and solves my issue all together (as far as I can see) without the need for using !imporant - which, as I've continued reading about, is said to be really an accessibility-specific declaration.
Why, however, do you wrap your link text in a <span>? Are there standards - or some other - issues I'm not aware of if you simply border your "landing-page" link text with the <li>'s without span elements? Cole -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Crockford Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 2:00 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] CSS/IE Link Color Problem - SOLVED Importance: High On 4 Aug 2007, at 05:46, Cole Kuryakin wrote: > er-riding user styles??? I've never run into that one before. > Irritating. > > Aside from the !important solution or the (as yet untried) focus > solution > that Kepler suggested, does anyone else have an even more elegant > option or > ... for my issue ... is this (these) the only ones that'll work? In the past I have classed the li, rather than the a. ul#navTopSimpleUL li.active a { color: #CC0033; cursor: default; text-decoration: none; } as it overcomes any pseudo differences. however I have since stopped having links to the page on the page they are on (as they go nowhere and do nothing and AIUI are bad accessibility practice). now I replace the link with the navigation text wrapped in a span (programatically) and style the span to match my active/hover needs. e.g. ul#navTopSimpleUL li a:focus, ul#navTopSimpleUL li a:hover, ul#navTopSimpleUL li.active span { color: #CC0033; cursor: default; text-decoration: none; } ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
