Posted by Ed Mulroy on 06/09/06 02:32

THANK YOU!!!!! I'll do that.

If the truth be known, I'd gladly trade Firefox' better css support for it
not occasionally locking up when it shells to Adobe Acrobat to display a
*.PDF file. Unlike IE it has tabs and when one instance locks up that often
means 3 other pages are also gone.

.. Ed

> Jonathan N. Little wrote in message
> news:a7a7a$4488c567$40cba7a9$28282@NAXS.COM...
>
>>> Perhaps you need: text-decoration: none; in your
>>> hover style? ...
>>
>> No, I don't want that. The a:hover is as I want it. I do not want to
>> discard behavior that I worked to achieve because Firefox decides to
>> decorate a non-link as if it were a link. It decorates acronym items
>> also although not in any way that you can control or turn off.
>>
>>> Then change it. S'far as I know, IE and all the rest treat
>>> an <a> hover the same...
>>
>> As I have described, Firefox treats it differently for
>> <a name=
>>
>>>> <a name="some_name"></a>Description
>>> ..and nothing to click on.
>>
>
> Actually it is IE that flubbing up here, an 'A 'element whether it is an
> anchor or a link is *still* an 'A' element. So...
>
> A:hover should apply to markup as <a name="anAnchor>Some Anchor</a>
>
> To fix it your use an attribute selector to specify only 'A' elements that
> have 'href' attributes, i.e, links!
>
> STYLE:
> A { color: yellow; }
> A[href]:link { color: blue; }
> A[href]:visted { color: violet; }
> A[href]:hover { color: green; }
> A[href]:active { color: red; }
> /* yes I know i didn't spec a background */
>
> HTML:
>
> <a name="anAnchor">An Achor</a>
> <a href="#">A Link</a>
>
> Now only the link hovers, problem is IE again is the problem with poor CSS
> support. So you can work around by:
>
> 1) stop using <a name="something"></a> and reference an id on an element
> <h2 id="someAnchor>... or <p id="anotherAnchor">...
> 2) have hovered links defined with a class
> 3) enclose hovered link some other element whereas your can define the
> hovers
>
> .gotLinks A:hover{}
>
>
> <div class="gotLinks">Blah, blah blah <a href="#">Will Hover</a>...
>
> You just have more studying to do....

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