
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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