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Most of my site is pictures accessed by thumbnaisl with a ipx border.
My stylesheet contains the usual
a:link {color: white}
a:visited {color: #800080}
a:hover {color: red}
a:active {color: teal}
which works fine in Firefox,Opera & Safari (all windows)

However IE7 gives me an unchangable blue border.
I tried the ploy of using a:link:hover, but all that does is turn the
border in FF to blue with a white hover (
I thought IE7 had solved this one.
What I really want is a white frame with a red hover, the rest is a bonus.
--
Jim S
Tyneside UK
www.jimscott.co.uk

Scripsit Jim S:

> My stylesheet contains the usual
> a:link {color: white}
> a:visited {color: #800080}
> a:hover {color: red}
> a:active {color: teal}

That's not usual at all, but it is usual to make the elementary mistake
of not setting background when setting color. What happens on a browser
with a user style sheet
* { color: black; background: white; }
?

> However IE7 gives me an unchangable blue border.

That's because the border color is a property (the border-color
property) of the img element. IE has, conceptually, a browser style
sheet that sets specific border colors for images that are links. You
need to override that, e.g.

a:link img { border-color: white; }

> What I really want is a white frame with a red hover, the rest is a
> bonus.

Is the user supposed to guess that in _this_ particular site, white
border means a link?

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

On Tue, 6 May 2008 15:28:19 +0300, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> Scripsit Jim S:
>
>> My stylesheet contains the usual
>> a:link {color: white}
>> a:visited {color: #800080}
>> a:hover {color: red}
>> a:active {color: teal}
>
> That's not usual at all, but it is usual to make the elementary mistake
> of not setting background when setting color. What happens on a browser
> with a user style sheet
> * { color: black; background: white; }
> ?
>
My backgrounds are all defined.

>> However IE7 gives me an unchangable blue border.
>
> That's because the border color is a property (the border-color
> property) of the img element. IE has, conceptually, a browser style
> sheet that sets specific border colors for images that are links. You
> need to override that, e.g.
>
> a:link img { border-color: white; }

That works - thanks, and so does
a:hover img { border-color: red; }
>
>> What I really want is a white frame with a red hover, the rest is a
>> bonus.
>
> Is the user supposed to guess that in _this_ particular site, white
> border means a link?

There's a prompt on the homepage.


--
Jim S
Tyneside UK
www.jimscott.co.uk

On Tue, 6 May 2008 15:28:19 +0300, "Jukka K. Korpela"
<> wrote:

>> What I really want is a white frame with a red hover, the rest is a
>> bonus.
>
>Is the user supposed to guess that in _this_ particular site, white
>border means a link?

Heavens no! How dare he employ non-standard links colors! I'm amazed
that users on the Internet can even survive with non-standard colors!