Changing properties of hyperlinks?

Hi ppl,

Okay, I am designing this site for a school project, I have very limited knowledge in HTML but can use dreamweaver quite easily. In dreamweaver to chnage wot happens when you hover, vistit, click and release you use the modify>pageproperties>Links box. This is all great but now i dont want the same colours used for every bit of text on that page and site that has a hyperlink. I am 100% sure there is a way to change whether it "underlines when hovered", changing the colour etc in CSS but in the create new rule of dreamweaver I cannot find any properties that would achieve such an effect.

Could anyone help me here and tell me how to do such a thing in dreamweaver?

Thank you :-)

tom

You need to think outside the box here I think mate...

Rather than just saying "I don't know HTML but I can use Dreamweaver" you need to look into learning... that's right that word people around here seem to get so offended about...LEARNING.

Using Dreamweaver is fine but only in CODE VIEW.

Learn XHTML and CSS. I will give you links at the bottom of this post.

You're going to get nowhere fast just using the GUI features of Dreamweaver and even less of a distance just shying away form the prospect of learning.

It's really rewarding when you begin to make progress in web design and I really wish that more people would take the time to see it. It's like a drug!

You can learn XHTML and CSS by looking at thsese sites.

• http://www.alistapart.com/
• http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/default.asp
• http://www.elated.com/tutorials/authoring/css/
• http://www.csszengarden.com/
• http://www.cssbeauty.com/
• http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1
• http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/index.htm

There are others too but I'll leave you to find these.

You'll get a much better response out of people on this forum if you appear to be learning by doing research and not just giving up and saying "I don't really know HTML"

Regards

Dan

It goes in this order:

a:link {}

a:visited {}

a:hover {}

if not it won't work.

Yep, aaah I can't help but remeber the old days when I spent ages pulling my hair out over this....lol

lol yeah. Well if it makes you feel better the other day I was working on a project and the CSS wouldn't take. After about an hour I realized I was saving the CSS to the wrong file. Go figure . Oh and the times I actually forget to save the changed files to the server. That is a pure shining moment.

Also tom a bit of advice. Ignore anything your teacher tells you and immediately start using DW in code view. Start hand coding everything right away and then you won't have to re-learn your methods and ditch bad habits later. DW is a great app if used correctly and can save you lots of time etc.. but like Frontpage etc it has the ability to be downright mean and nasty and do more harm than good.

thanx alot ppl,

I ended up research a bit about css. I knew the code was:

a:link {}

a:visited {}

a:hover {}

what I wanted to find out was how to make mutipul copies of this code.

If found out, all you had to do was using something like:

a.test:link {}

a.test:visited {}

a.test:hover {}

and where i put the "test" rename that to what you wanted and then apply the style to the text

cheers tom

Or in a styled list scenario =P

#foo li a {}

#foo li a:visited {} etc etc..