Posted by Florida Flamingo on 06/22/06 15:18

Ok, so what you are saying is that "active" is the same thing as "hover".
Both have a rollover effect per~se. I guess I can eliminated one of them
from the CSS file.

Too bad about the other - it would have saved me a lot of work on menu's.

Thanks for you comments.

"Jim Higson" <jh@333.org> wrote in message
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> Florida Flamingo wrote:
>
>> What exactly does using A:active do vs the others:
>>
>> : link
>> : hover
>> : visited
>
> Not sure exactly what the specs say, but in practice, it's the style
> applied
> if you tab over the link. In some browsers it is also shown momentarily as
> the link is clicked, and might still be applied when the back button is
> pressed.
>
>> I have a global menu bar at the top of each page. I am looking for the
>> ability to change the color of the link in the global tool bar to a
>> different color if I am actual viewing that page.
>
> I don't think this can be done in CSS. A scripting language like CSS is a
> good way to do it though.
>
> --
> Jim

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