Dreamweaver MX 2004 hyperlinks

[1756GR2]

Years back I used to know how to do hyperlinks without underlines on an individual basis, and in different colors. IOW, I need to do some without underline and some with, on the same page with the underlined one color and the not-underlined another color. Anyone know how?

It needs to be done without CSS. (Yes, I know...I need to get up to speed...) So far every advice I've found involves CSS or makes a change to all the links on the page.

Darned old-lady memory just didn't retain it and I don't have the old files I used it on.

[joe hx]

This link explains how: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_pseudo_classes.asp

I find w3schools.com a great tutorial and reference site.

[Eric the Grey]

You'll need to do a couple of things.

First off, you'll need to disable automatic underlining (which I believe is default). Click on a default link, and go into page properties. Go into the Links (CSS) (sorry, no choice in this one) section and change the "Underline style" option to "never underline"

Now, you can underline selectively, but they will be that way, visited, or not... (see the screen shot below)



Add the following tags to your links as you wish to use them:

<a href="http://www.link_to_site.html" <font color="#FF0000"> Link text is right here. .. </font>

Add in underlining this way:

<a href="http://www.link_to_site.html" <font color="#FF0000"><u> Link text is right here. ..</u></font></a>

Seriously though. This is going to be a lot of work, managing each type of link individually.

CSS is a better way to do this. You can create your own class for each type easily enough and then select that class for each type of link. If you need to change the look, all you need to do is change the class and it fixes all of them.

Let me know if you want some advice on how to do them. I'm learning this as we speak (I just finished the chapter on CSS in class yesterday, and it's a breeze).

I can throw together some screen shots like the one above if you'd like.

Edit: Forgot the link I was going to include: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials...le.php/3479011


Eric the Grey

[1756GR2]

Thank you, thank you both!

Yes, doing it this way makes it more work than it needs to be. I've been trying to learn CSS but have only had a few minutes here and a few minutes there, learning random bits instead of the whole. I need to carve out a chunk of time when I can sit down and keep at it. It will make my life so much easier and take less time.