Posted by K A Nuttall on 11/15/06 17:15

wrote:

> I am very new to html and am currently messing about with a
> geocities page which is at
> www.geocities.com/simian_technology/coral
>
> For the links that I intend to put along the top HOMES /
> INTERVIEWS / REVIEWS / LINKS
> I don't want the colour of the link to be blue, I want the colour
> to stay black and underlined whether its been clicked or
> previously visited. Could somebody reply with some code on how to
> do this. I know I am using geocities which is drag and drop, but I
> am able to insert html code fairly easily.

You need to define a style for the anchor tag, like this:

a {
color: black;
text-decoration: underline;
}

This would live in an external stylesheet, or within style tags in the
head of the page.

If this only applies to a certain section of the page, you can apply
the style in context, for example inside a div with id="content", like
this:

div#content a {

Also, there's no indication that the link is really a link, other than
the cursor's reaction. So creating a hover effect is helpful:

a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
}

....would momentarily remove the underline when hovering over the link
(not necessarily the best effect, it's up to you what you do).

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K A Nuttall
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