How to ignore rule for a href using CSS - html

Question

I have simple rule form all <a>:
a:link {
text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
a:active {
text-decoration: underline;
}
But I don't want this to apply for <img> inside <a>:
<a href="link">
<img class="myClass" src="smile.png" alt="this is image link example">
</a>
How can I ignore this?

Answer 1

You would need to add another set of classes after the first, targeting a img, a img:hover, etc. However, an img element doesn't support text-decoration. What is it your trying to avoid with the image?

Answer 2

You could add a class to the <a> tag.
For example
<a href="link" class="image">
<img class="myClass" src="smile.png" alt="this is image link example">
</a>
and then with css:
a.image{
}
In this example you would have to specifically set rules to counter the previously set rules for all <a> tags
Another approach would be to use the extra class in conjunction with the :not selector
a:link:not(.image) {
text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited:not(.image) {
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover:not(.image) {
text-decoration: underline;
}
a:active:not(.image) {
text-decoration: underline;
}

Answer 3

Put your href inside of a div and assign a class to that div; you can then style the class followed by a:
<div class="stylin">
<a href="link">
<img class="myClass" src="smile.png" alt="this is image link example">
</a>
</div>
And then in the stylesheet.
.stylin a:link {
}

Answer 4

Unfortunately there is no way to look and see if an img has a link as a parent (parent selector) to then change the link element based on that. You would need Javascript or JQuery to do that or you can just add a 'link-img' class to any link elements containing an image and set it's CSS properties accordingly.
HTML:
Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
<a class="link-img" href="#">
<img src="smile.png"/>
</a>
CSS:
a:link {
text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
a:active {
text-decoration: underline;
}
.link-img {
text-decoration:none;
}

Answer 5

a:link .myClass,
a:visited .myClass,
a:hover .myClass,
a:focus .myClass,
a:active .myClass {
text-decoration: none;
}