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How do I disable a CSS anchor hover?"Dave, I've been having great results using the hover attribute within my CSS style sheets, but when I have graphical buttons, sometimes they end up with the background-color change hover attribute as a small drop-shadow that only appears when the mouse is over the element. Y'know what I mean? How do I disable this?"
This is a classic challenge when you start working with anchor color changes within Cascading Style Sheets. It's all well and good to have a:link, a:visited, a:hover and a:active in your CSS, but typically it ends up being defined for the entire document and that's not always a desirable result. To sidestep that, you can most easily create a class that has the hover effect and apply it to the blocks where you want your tags to have this nice effect. It might look like this:
<style type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
.hoverpink a:hover { background-color:#fcc }
</style>Then you can use it within a block of HTML by simply adding a class="hoverpink" in the div tag itself: <div class="hoverpink">
Another approach would be for you to use a CSS style that lets you define the behavior of the anchor's hover for the entire document, then override it with your images, like this: <style type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
.nohover a:hover { background-color: transparent; }
</style>You'd use this by wrapping your img tags with either a div or span, depending on context, like this:
<div class="nohover"><a href="/ask.html"> <img src="/Graphics/marker-tray.gif" border="0" width="749" alt="whiteboard markers" height="31" /></a></div>If you view the source to this very Web page and scroll to the very bottom, you'll see this is exactly what I've done with the little marker tray graphic. That should help you change the sometimes confusing CSS anchor attributes into what you seek!
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Tagged: Previous: How can I use Google and other Web tools to identify and research competitors? Next: How do I write a full-screen bash shell script? Reader Comments To Date: 9Denis Co said, on October 26, 2009 5:26 PM:
Somebody has to say it! Consider onclick/active instead. sree said, on November 18, 2009 8:08 AM:
A:link A[Disabled]:hover A:visited A:hover XU said, on March 11, 2010 6:56 AM:
Cool! Yadaf said, on April 22, 2010 3:34 PM:
Hello Dev Taylor, So, I want to disable the mouse over function on it . My blog address is- "http://bangladigonto.blogspot.com" . Please Visit my blog and give me a solution . -Thanks Seemas said, on September 26, 2010 6:53 AM:
how to disable the status bar display of a link ?? Ceres said, on October 30, 2010 10:25 PM:
OMG THANK YOU!!! I have been to at least 40 different sites in the last 3 days and all of there suggestions didn't work but yours does! :D my hair thanks you since it is no longer being pulled in frustration over that stupid sidebar. Axinar said, on May 8, 2011 12:44 PM:
Thanks for this tutorial; it saved me alot of headaches, made me learn more about CSS and fixed my problem, which was caused after setting up RSS to point to a set of page anchors... only to find that the a refs, that were not really links, were triggering the default hover behaviour to be applied to text that was wrapped for anchoring when they were meant to stay black in my grand design. Thanks again! Scylla said, on January 28, 2012 11:25 AM:
YOU ARE AMAZING! I looked about 6 or 7 others websites and nothing worked but when I opened your page I fixed it in 2 minutes. Thank you] Website Coming soon
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If you choose to "disguise" a link as a non-link, you can also specify the cursor to be a nondescript arrow (default) by including '.nohover a:hover { background-color: transparent; cursor: default;}" in your style declaration. You can also disable the status bar display with javascript. I use this for a link to the database backend for my customers.