Hyperlinks....?? Am I in the right place?

[Tandier]

Hi there!

I am trying to just highlight a few hyperlinks that I have. I can do the hyperlink coding, just not able to change its colour and or highlight it. Can anyone help me please.

Thanks.

[bartonc]

Hi there!

I am trying to just highlight a few hyperlinks that I have. I can do the hyperlink coding, just not able to change its colour and or highlight it. Can anyone help me please.

Thanks.

It seems to me that an easy way to learn this stuff is right-click a page that is doing what you want to do (much as this page is doing) and "view source". That's how I'd learn HTML if I could bare to look at it with out falling asleep.

[drhowarddrfine]

To change the color of the hyperlink font and the background:
a{
color: your-color;
background-color: your-color;
}

[drhowarddrfine]

via PM:

thanks for getting back to me. So the coding that you provided me with, do I just place that in along with my hyperlink? As for example the hyperlink I'll be using is:

<a href="http://www.myspace.com/internelliedesigns">InternellieDesigns</a>

Where would I place what YOU provided me with in that link? Please. Many thanks.

Oh. Myspace. The horror.

The markup I showed you is CSS, so it needs to go wherever the CSS file is or at the head of the document between the style tags. However, it may be necessary to be more specific as to which <a> tag to change.

[Tandier]

via PM:

Oh. Myspace. The horror.

The markup I showed you is CSS, so it needs to go wherever the CSS file is or at the head of the document between the style tags. However, it may be necessary to be more specific as to which <a> tag to change.

Ok..

Due to me not being very sure! lol...honestly I am a scientist! I am not built for HTML jargon! lol...but sure!

The hyperlink I am using is the following: InternellieDesigns

And all I wanna do is to change its colour, or preferrably highlight it. For it to go on to myspace. Many thanks for helping me out on this.

[drhowarddrfine]

I don't know which link you have in mind. Some of them are graphics so it would be more difficult if not impossible. If it's text alone, then it's easy.

I don't know if you have access to the CSS so I'll show how it can be done "inline" by editing the HTML.

Where your "Email Internellie" link is, change this:
<p><a href="mailto:[e-mail]">Email Internellie Designs</a></p>

to this:
<p><a style="color:#f00" href="mailto:[e-mail]">Email Internellie Designs</a></p>

#f00 is just the hex representation of "red". You can use the actual color name there if you wish: red, blue, green, etc.

To highlight on hovering the mouse is more complicated. You need access to the CSS file. Actually, there is an inline way that should work but I haven't been able to.

[drhowarddrfine]

You can do this. It's against the rules but it works. Put this as close to the top of your page as you can:
<style type="text/css">
a:hover{
background-color:yellow
}

This rule set isn't supposed to go there but, if it works ....