Why color difference on web links?

[jeb]

I have links on my web site to other web sites and to pages in my site.

In Xara, I have these in white text - dark background. I have "underline" turned off.

When I upload, SOME of them are still in white and some are in a deep plum color - hard to read on web.

What I don't understand is that some are the same - send to ##1, ##3, etc and send to ##1 will still be white while send to ##3 will be plum.

The email address and the CONTACT - mailto: is plum as well.

Is there a way to keep them all white so they can be seen?

Tks - jb

[Odat]

Web browsers have several colors for links:

• The color of the link before it's been clicked
• The color of the link as it's being clicked
• The color of the link when it points to a page that has been visited recently

Xara's export changes the colors of links before they're clicked, but once you visit them, they change to the standard colors. To fix this you need to manually edit the CSS file that is generated when you export.

See this thread: http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...light=link+css

[steve.ledger]

You can have them whichever colour you wish.
You need to edit the default.css and change the hex colour codes to the colours you require.
Xtremes default web standard hyperlink colours:

As ODAT pointed out, you were informed of this once before, so for you I will repeat this as it will also help someone else.

* Document settings */
body {background-color:#404040; font-family:sans-serif;}
a[href] {color:#0000ff;}
a[href]:hover {color:#ff0000; cursor:pointer;}
a[href]:visited {color:#800080;}
div {unicode-bidi:bidi-override;}
span {unicode-bidi:bidi-override;}
sup {font-size:0.5em;}
sub {font-size:0.5em;}

An example edited to all white:

/* Document settings */
body {background-color:#404040; font-family:sans-serif;}
a[href] {color:#ffffff;}
a[href]:hover {color:#ffffff; cursor:pointer;}
a[href]:visited {color:#ffffff;}
div {unicode-bidi:bidi-override;}
span {unicode-bidi:bidi-override;}
sup {font-size:0.5em;}
sub {font-size:0.5em;}

Here's a list of 500 colours each with their hex values to get you started.

*Remember* Each time you make changes to your site and export from Xtreme, the default.css WILL BE OVERWRITTEN. So once you make changes, save a copy to a temp folder so that you can replace the default.css again with your edited copy before you upload your site

[dduran]

I ran into the same problem. One way to work around this is to make a box, same color as your background, around the wording and group together and then apply your url to the group. You can also make it into a roll over button so it changes colors when you go over it.

Hope this helps.

Danny

[jeb]

Tks, guys - I'll give it a try. - jb