I want to set color of some elements to default link color with CSS.
That color is the same as <span style="color: link;">that</span>.
Any way to do that? This website don't change default browser's link color.
Even if you don't change the default color, it would still be a good idea to specify the color to ensure that it looks the same in all browsers. I'd put something like this in the stylesheet:
a, span.link {
color: blue;
}
a:visited, span.visited {
color: purple;
}
a:active, span.active {
color: red;
}
Then you can style spans as links by <span class="link">Your fake link</span>
after some time messing around with testing pure css and css/javascript i'm sure you can't set the color of any other element to the default link-color of the browser - but like Machine said, you can try using classes to do this (but you won't be able to use the browser defaults, you have to set your own colors)
If you want to set to a new color for a link or to prevent the change of the color of a specific link after visiting it, add inside the <a> tag:
<A STYLE="text-decoration:none; color=[select your favorite...]" HREF="link.html">test link</A>
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<div class="image-round-fit">
<img src="images/pic.jpg" alt="photo" width="300px" height="300px" />
<span class="caption">Hello World</span></br>
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</div>
You can use CSS to do it. CSS is a language to style content in HTML.
a{
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
}
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The a is the tag name it is relating to. The color and text-decoration are properties. The color changes the text color and the text-decoration changes extras to the text, including if you want to include underline or not.
Or maybe it was this? To not change the color to purple permanently.
a:visited{
color: blue;
}
a:active{
color: red;
}
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The : stands for it relating to the a when in a condition. :visited stands for when you visited it, it will do whatever below. :active does whatever below when your mouse is down on the link. Remove the :active if you don't want it to change color at any state.
Firstly, you have role=button inside your class. It should be outside your class as an attribute :
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This is for assistive technologies and button element should be used instead when possible.
I have an 'a' tag that is a normal link to another webpage.
I want to disable the default link appearance unless the mouse cursor is hovering over the link, when the default normal link appearance should be restored.
This is what I have tried so far:
(HTML)
example
(CSS)
a {
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
color: unset;
text-decoration: underline;
}
JS fiddle example of that code here
The problem is that during the mouse hover the link color remains black, and does not unset or restore to the original link blue. Is there a special CSS keyword for "original setting" or something like that?
The value for original setting you're looking for is called initial.
a:hover {
color: initial
}
However, that might make the link black. Which means it wouldn't work for you in this case. You can get around this another way though, through your a style. Use the inverse of :hover using the :not selector.
a:not(:hover){
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
}
Hi, I'm Link.
The way it works is applying the style to your link, as long as it's not the hover effect. a alone would style the :hover too, which we don't want.
Or if that doesn't work in your environment, you could style the link with the default colors:
a { color: #000; text-decoration: none; }
a:hover {color: #0000EE; text-decoration: underline; }
Hi, I'm Link.
That should work everywhere, as it's a regular color change. However, do note that the default color might slightly vary browser to browser... the perk of this is that the color stays the same across all browsers, I guess.
The difference between the middle and last piece of code is that the middle one uses the default browser settings, while the last one pushes in your own blue.
Im using bootstrap 4 if that matters, but I am trying to change the color of the texts within the anchor tags. I am using an external CSS file and can't seem to get it to work. This is probably a dumb question, but hey i'm new to front-end! Teach me wizards!
#home_nav {
background-color: #5680E9;
}
.home_text{
color:#ffffff;
}
<div class="container-fluid" id="home_nav">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-4">
<div class="display-2 home_text">Create</div>
<div class="display-2 home_text">Explore</div>
<div class="display-2 home_text">Your Library</div>
</div>
<div class="col-8">
</div>
</div>
</div>
Welcome to StackOverflow and also welcome to coding frontend!
I'll try to give some explanation.
.home_text {
color: #ffffff;
}
tells the browser to apply a white text color to elements that have the CSS class home-text.
color is also a so-called inherited property which means that child elements will also have color: #ffffff; (short: color: #fff;) unless more specific rules state otherwise.
In your case, the browser has default styles for many elements, including <a>. This is called user agent stylsheet and its rules apply unless overwritten by your css.
To overwrite a rule, your rule needs to be at least as specific as the user agent stylesheet rule.
The user agent stylesheet for anchors in e.g. Chrome looks like this:
a:-webkit-any-link {
color: -webkit-link;
cursor: pointer;
text-decoration: underline;
}
This is using webkit (the engine behind chrome used to be called "webkit", thus the naming) specific syntax which you shouldn't let throw you off. The important part is that it holds a rule for color which you want to replace with your color #fff.
On top of that, browsers also have a different default color for links which have already been visited. You either need to define this for your links too (e.g. #eee for pages already visited) or simply add a second selector (separated from the first by a comma) telling the browser not only to apply your color to a elements, but also a elements in visited state. This is done by adding :visited to a.
To sum it up, if you want all links on your page to be white, you'd go with this:
a, a:visited {
color: #fff;
}
If you want only a inside of elements that have class="home_text" to be white:
.home_text a, .home_text a:visited {
color: #fff;
}
If you have any further questions, or if something is unclear, just ask in the comments!
Happy trip into frontend!
you have to add the style to 'a' specifically
.home_text a{
color:#ffffff;
}
You can try this:
.home_text a {
color: blue;
}
If you don't want the underline then try this:
.home_text a {
color: blue;
text-decoration: none;
}
Use complete selector for css .. Ex. .home_text >a
If still not working ..color must beihg set somewhere else. So check other css or write ! important for color.
Little advice
Use the full path to an ID
#home_nav .home_text a
or
home .home_text a
Sometimes you save your nerves when the element does not want to change.
I have made animated on hover divs but as soon as I attached hyperlinks to them purple outlines appeared. Codepen: https://codepen.io/forTheLoveOfCode/pen/yPEygM
The way I am attaching hyperlinks to divs at the moment is as follows:
<a href="https://www.freecodecamp.org/misskatiapunter">
<div class="communities-link" id="free-code-camp-butn">
<i class="fa fa-free-code-camp ffc-text"></i>
</div>
</a>
What would be the best way to overwrite all hyperlink styles so that the only effect hyperlink has on a div is - to link it to another page.
What you're looking for is to set the color property on the a tag, and you'll probably also want to set the text-decoration property to none:
a {
color: inherit;
text-decoration: none;
}
color: inherit states that the element should inherit the colour from the parent element, if defined. If a parental colour is not defined, it will inherit a black colour from <body>.
color: inherit is the most commonly-desired usage, allowing you to change the colour, but if you need to override this for specific links you can use color: initial, which will set it back to its default value of blue:
a {
color: inherit; /* Becomes black */
}
a.blue {
color: initial; /* Becomes blue, overriding the inheritance from a */
}
text-decoration: none removes the underline from 'regular' hyperlinks. It won't have any effect in your specific use-case, but is useful if you want to remove the underline entirely.
I've created an updated pen showcasing this here.
Hope this helps! :)
If you ever want to remove default styles, do it the same way that you would if you were to add the style. for instance: if the link has a purple outline, add a a {border: 0;} property, or if it appears whenever you hover it, do a:hover{border: 0;}, or if it shows when its clicked do a:active{border: 0;}
I want to do a dynamic word cloud and I was wondering if there is a way of changing the link colour in my html section, normally you just define the links colours in css something like:
.tag_cloud { padding: 3px; text-decoration: none; }
.tag_cloud:link { color: #0c3569; }
.tag_cloud:visited { color: #0c3569; }
.tag_cloud:hover { color: #ffffff; background: #0c3569; }
.tag_cloud:active { color: #ffffff; background: #0c3569; }
But I'm planning to do a word cloud were every word has a different colour, aka link/visited will colour will be defined dinamicaly, but is there a way of defining link/visited/hover/active inline in the html?
I Imagine it could be something like this
<a href="something" style="font:arial; ???"word</a>
Thanks.
It can't be done inline since :hover etc. are css pseudo selectors and won't work inline since that is not the intention of it.
But don't be afraid of using css classes - you will need some javascript anyway to make this work. Just define the classes you want to use like:
.cloud_item_1:link {color:red;}
.cloud_item_1:visited {color:yellow;}
.cloud_item_1:hover {text-decoration:underline;}
.cloud_item_1:active {color:black;}
.cloud_item_2:link {color:blue;}
.cloud_item_2:visited {color:orange;}
...
And than apply them to your html as you wish. No big deal here.
You would need to have some JavaScript to change the color on hover and check if the item is active.
Or you could define a class/id (dynamically) for each of the items and target them with CSS.