I have a top nav and a left nav.

I want the styles on each to be different.

I got it to work just fine on NN7 but with IE6 the 'visted' colour
(not specified anywhere on my page) takes precedence of the <style>
entry.

Example here : http://217.34.24.184/

Thanks in advance for somebody pointing out my error.

dc@sell365.com (Dave) wrote:
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>I have a top nav and a left nav.
>
>I want the styles on each to be different.
>
>I got it to work just fine on NN7 but with IE6 the 'visted' colour
>(not specified anywhere on my page) takes precedence of the <style>
>entry.[/color]

Depends what you styles are. If you've only defined a {} or a:link {}
(regardless of whether you use a class to define the two different
sets of links) then the browser's defaults for a:visited should apply
when the link is in the visited state.
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>Example here : http://217.34.24.184/[/color]

"Directory Listing Denied
This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed."

Steve

--
"My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you,
I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." - The Doctor

Steve Pugh <steve@pugh.net> <http://steve.pugh.net/>

Sorry, link was crap :/

http://www.myfootballworld.org.uk/page1.htm

As far as I know I have defined all I need to.

Maybe you can take a look at the source?

Im thinking that the norm is to _not_ prevent the visiter from knowing
which links they have previously visited and therefore IE overrules
what I am trying to do?

The strange thing is that if I set a link to be for an external
webpage opening in a new browser, the link works fine.

Thanks in advance.

dc@sell365.com (Dave) wrote:
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>Sorry, link was crap :/
>
>http://www.myfootballworld.org.uk/page1.htm
>
>As far as I know I have defined all I need to.
>
>Maybe you can take a look at the source?[/color]

a.leftmenu:visted

Spot the missing letter.
The CSS validator would have told you as much:
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/v...g.uk/page1.htm
[color=blue]
>Im thinking that the norm is to _not_ prevent the visiter from knowing
>which links they have previously visited and therefore IE overrules
>what I am trying to do?[/color]

The norm is to distinguish between visited and unvisited links.
So what you are trying to do is bad practice. But IE isn't sabotaging
you, your own typing is.

Steve

--
"My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you,
I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." - The Doctor

Steve Pugh <steve@pugh.net> <http://steve.pugh.net/>

> The norm is to distinguish between visited and unvisited links.[color=blue]
> So what you are trying to do is bad practice. But IE isn't sabotaging
> you, your own typing is.[/color]


Thanks Steve, that would explain it ! On reflection I will be using a
diff colour for visited, just not red :)

Rgds
Dave