[Tutor] css in web software

Wed Oct 8 15:47:15 EDT 2003

http://validator.w3.org/
The W3C MarkUp Validation Service

While getting your HTML to be fully compliant can be a pain, my experience
is that it pretty much eliminates browser problems.

Benjamin Walling wrote:

> A:link, A:visited,  A:active { text-decoration:none; } 
> 
> You are missing the opening curly bracket for the text above.  Making
> this change causes it to work for me in Mozilla Firebird.  I do not have
> Netscape installed, but the rendering engine is (nearly) the same.
> 
> Netscape/Mozilla are not as forgiving as IE in terms of bad HTML.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirk Bailey [mailto:idiot1 at netzero.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 12:20 PM
> To: Tutor
> Subject: [Tutor] css in web software
> 
> OK, I am adding some css to my 2 wiki programs. Alas, it works fine in
> Internet Exploiter, but the hover effect will not operate on the
> Netscape Navelgator browser, no matter what I manage to do. Here is a
> sample of the header which is currently output by the software (I am
> using imbedded css):
> 
> <html><head><title>MiniWiki - WikiNature</title> <style type="text/css">
> body { margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%; } A { text-decoration: none; }
> A:link, A:visited,  A:active text-decoration:none; } A:hover {
> background-color: #D0D0FF; } </style></head> <body bgcolor="FFFFFF"
> text="000000" links="0000FF"> <table width=100% bgcolor="FFE0C0"
> border="0" cellpadding="10"><tr><td> <b><font size="4"
> color="FF0000">MiniWiki</font></b>
> <center><font size="6"><a href="./MWbacksearch.py?WikiNature">Wiki
> Nature</a></font><br>
> (Click for backsearch)<p></center></td></tr></table>
> 
> Everything works in ie; the hover does not work for NS. Anyone got some
> clueatude to share?
> 

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