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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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.