The problem: After clicking on my linked image and returning to my site, and refreshing, the image disappears. I think it must be a conflicting "a:visited" directive, but I can't find it.
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I'm using a global content block (called 'amazon') to place an image above my left CSS vertical menu, and applying a link beneath it to open a new site in a new browser window. I'm doing it this way so that my client can change the image or the link easily at some later date. The content block looks like this:
My style sheet, an edited version of the CMS stock "Layout: Left sidebar + 1 column" is here below:
Any help would be much appreciated./*****************
browsers interpret margin and padding a little differently,
we'll remove all default padding and margins and
set them later on
******************/
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
/*
Set initial font styles
*/
body {
text-align: left;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 75.01%;
line-height: 1em;
}
/*
set font size for all divs, this overrides some body rules
*/
div {
font-size: 1em;
}
/* if img is inside "a" it would have borders, we don't want that */
img {
border: 0;
}
/*default link styles*/
/* set all links to have no underline */
a,
a:link
a:active {
text-decoration: none /*no underline;*/
/* css validation will give a warning if color is set without background color.
this will explicitly tell this element to inherit bg colour from parent element */
background-color: inherit;
color: #385C72; /* for some reason this changes the color of the prev/next links */
}
a:visited {
text-decoration: none /* underline;*/
/* background-color: inherit; this blanks out an image if left on...*/
color: #385C72; /* a different color can be used for visited links */
}
/* remove underline on hover and change color */
a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
background-color: inherit;
}
/*****************
basic layout
*****************/
body {
background-color: #ccc;
color: #333;
margin:1em; /* gives some air for the pagewrapper */
}
/* page wrapper, min max width */
div#pagewrapper {
border: 1px solid black;
margin: 0 auto; /* this centers wrapper */
max-width: 900px; /* IE wont understand these, so we will use javascript magick */
min-width: 700px;
background-color: #fff;
/* color: black;*/
}
/*** header ***
we will hide text and replace it with a image
we need to assign a height for it so that the image wont cut off
*/
div#header {
height: 70px; /* adjust according your image size */
background: #FFFFFF;
}
div#header h1 a {
/* you can set your own image here */
background: #FFFFFF url(images/cms/spine2.jpg) no-repeat 0 0px;
display: block;
height: 70px; /* adjust according your image size */
text-indent: -999em; /* this hides the text */
text-decoration:none; /* old firefox would have shown underline for the link, this explicitly hides it */
}
div#crawl {
padding: .0 0 0 0;
text-align: center;
color: #0000FF;
font-weight: bold;
}
div#crawl a{
text-decoration: none;
color: #0000FF;
}
div#crawl a:hover{
color: #000000;
}
div.breadcrumbs {
padding: .5em 0; /* CSS short hand rule first value is top then right, bottom and left */
font-size: 80%; /* its good to set fontsizes to be relative,
this way viewer can change his/her fontsize */
margin: 0 1em; /* css shorthand rule will be opened to be "0 1em 0 1em" */
/* border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;*/
}
/*** main ***/
div#content {
margin: 0.5em 0 2em 0; /* some air above and under menu and content */
color: #00000;
}
div#ad_bar {
float: right; /* set sidebar on the left side. Change to right to float it right instead. */
width: 170px; /* sidebar width, if you change this please also change #main margins */
display: inline; /* FIX IE double margin bug */
padding: 0 0 5px 10px;
}
/* ***** remove for now, and add later with "advertise here" contact
div#ad_premium {
background: #FFFFFF url(images/cms/ad-1.jpg) no-repeat 0 0px;
display: block;
height: 170px;
}
*/
div#adsense {
/* background: #FFFFFF url(images/cms/sample-ads.gif) no-repeat 0 0px;*/
display: block;
height: 580px; /* adjust according your image size */
}
div#main {
margin-left: 200px; /* this will give room for sidebar to be on the left side,
make sure this space is bigger than sidebar width */
margin-right: 180px; /* and some air on the right */
}
div#printbutton {
float: right;
}
div#sidebar {
float: left; /* set sidebar on the left side. Change to right to float it right instead. */
width: 185px; /* sidebar width, if you change this please also change #main margins */
display: inline; /* FIX IE double margin bug */
margin-left: 1;
margin-bottom: 5px;
}
div#amazon {
/* background: #FFFFFF; */
height: 50px; /* adjust according your image size */
/* text-decoration:none; old firefox would have shown underline for the link, this explicitly hides it */
margin-left: 1px;
}
div#amazon a:visted{
text-decoration:none;
}
div#links {
margin: 1em auto 1em 1em;
font-size: 1.2em;
}
div#links a,a:link{
text-decoration: none;
color: 385C72;
}
div#links a:hover{
text-decoration: none;
color: #000000;
}
div#footer {
clear: both; /* keep footer below content and menu */
color: #385C72;
background-color: #FFF;
}
div#footer p {
font-size: 0.8em;
text-align: center; /* centered text */
margin: 0 0 1em 0;
}
div#footer p a {
color: #000000; /* needed because footer link would be same color as background otherwise */
text-decoration: none
}
/* as we hid all hr for accessibility we create new hr with extra div element */
div.hr {
height: 1px;
padding: 1em;
border-bottom: 1px dotted black;
margin: 1em;
}
/* relational links under content */
div.left49 {
width: 49%; /* 50% for both left and right might lead to rounding error on some browser */
font-size: 0.8em;
}
div.left49 a{
text-decoration: none
}
div.right49 {
float: right;
width: 49%;
font-size: 0.8em;
text-align: right;
}
div.right49 a{
text-decoration: none
}
/********************
CONTENT STYLING
*********************/
div#content {}
/* HEADINGS */
div#content h1 {
font-size: 2em; /* font size for h1 */
line-height: 1em;
margin: 0;
}
div#content h2 {
color: #294B5F;
font-size: 1.6em;
text-align: left;
/* some air around the text */
padding: 0.7em 0 0.6em 0.5em;
/* set borders around header */
border-bottom: 1px solid #CC0033;
border-left: .5em solid #CC0033;
line-height: 1em;
/* and some air under the border */
margin: 0 0 0.5em 0;
}
div#content h3 {
color: #294B5F;
font-size: 1.1em;
line-height: 3em;
margin: 0 0 0 0;
}
/* address style*/
div#content h4 {
color: #000000; /*294B5F; */
font-size: 1em;
line-height: 1.1em;
margin: 0 0 0 0;
}
/* style for restaurant highlights, bullets (without the bullets) */
div#content h5 {
color: #294B5F;
font-size: 1em;
line-height: 1.1em;
margin: 0 0 0.45em 0;
}
/* heading for menu */
div#content h6 { /* heading for menu */
color: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 1.1em;
text-align: center;
/* some air around the text */
padding-left: 0.1em;
padding-bottom: 5px;
padding-top: 5px;
/* set borders around header */
border-bottom: 1px solid #CC0033;
border-top: 1px solid #CC0033;
border-left: 1px solid #CC0033;
border-right: 1px solid #CC0033;
background-color: #CC0033;
/* line-height: 1em;*/
/* and some air under the border */
margin: 1em 0 0.5em 0;
}
/* END HEADINGS */
/* TEXT */
p {
font-size: 1em;
margin: 0 0 1.5em 0; /* some air around p elements */
line-height: 1.4em;
padding: 0;
}
blockquote {
border-left: 10px solid #ddd;
margin-left: 10px;
}
strong, b {
/* explicit setting for these */
font-weight: bold;
}
em, i {
/* explicit setting for these */
font-style:italic;
}
/* Wrapping text in tags. Makes CSS not validate */
code, pre {
white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */
word-wrap: break-word; /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
font-size: 1em;
}
pre {
border: 1px solid #000; /* black border for pre blocks */
background-color: #ddd;
margin: 0 1em 1em 1em;
padding: 0.5em;
line-height: 1.5em;
font-size: 90%;
}
/* Separating the divs on the template explanation page, with some bottom-border */
div.templatecode {
margin: 0 0 2.5em;
}
/* END TEXT */
/* LISTS */
/* lists in content need some margins to look nice */
div#main ul,
div#main ol,
div#main dl {
font-size: 1.0em;
line-height: 1.4em;
margin: 0 0 1.5em 1em;
text-decoration: none;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
div#main ul li a,
div#main ol li {
margin: 0 0 0.25em 0;
text-decoration: none;
}
/* definition lists topics on bold */
div#main dl dt {
font-weight: bold;
margin: 0 0 0 1em;
}
div#main dl dd {
margin: 0 0 1em 1em;
}
div#main dl {
margin-bottom: 2em;
padding-bottom: 1em;
border-bottom: 1px solid #c0c0c0;
}
/*div#bulletmenu ul li {
font-size: 1.0em;
line-height: 1.4em;
margin: 0 0 1.5em 1em;
*/
}
/* END LISTS */
Thanks!
~sieg
