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Tagged: css, Hyperlink, hyperlink color, lifestyle, lifestyle theme

  • This topic has 7 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 4 months ago by livewellplayhard.
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  • February 1, 2014 at 8:45 pm #88101
    livewellplayhard
    Member

    Hi,

    I am trying to preserve the hyperlink color scheme in my two menus, while changing the color of the hyperlinks in my content. I've tried a few things based on some of the similar posts in this forum, but haven't had the best results.

    My site is: http://www.holistichowto.com. You can find a couple of hyperlinks in the content on the About page.

    Thanks,
    Jennifer

    http://www.holistichowto.com
    February 1, 2014 at 9:29 pm #88103
    Summer
    Member

    If you use Firebug or Chrome's Developer Tools, you can see that the links in the body of your articles use:

    .entry-content a:link {
    color: #509ac9;
    }

    to determine the link color. If you change that, it won't affect the link colors in your menus, which should be defined somewhere under #nav and #subnav, or may be using the default link color definitions.


    WordPress / Genesis Site Design & Troubleshooting: A Touch of Summer | @SummerWebDesign
    Slice of SciFi | Writers, After Dark

    February 1, 2014 at 10:32 pm #88107
    livewellplayhard
    Member

    Thanks, Summer.

    I believe that's the code that I added (I think)

    The original code is commented above:

    /*
    .entry-content a,
    .entry-content a:visited {
    text-decoration: underline;
    }
    */

    But if you look on the About page, where there are some links in the content, they still appear as black.

    I wonder if there's something that's overriding that. I saw in Firebug that perhaps the <p> attributes might be inherited here?

    Jennifer

    February 1, 2014 at 11:27 pm #88110
    Summer
    Member

    I think the code you added is on a different line than what I pasted, because it shows up as active in Chrome Dev Tools. If it were commented out, then it wouldn't show up as being applied to that link.

    All of the hyperlinks I see on that page are underlined, and a lighter shade of blue than the menu links... I don't see any black hyperlinks at all.

    There's a definition on line 146 for a:visited that's being overridden by an a:link definition on line 777 and an a:visited definition on line 778... that's what I'm seeing.

    After you made your changes, did you do a force-reload of your page? I've noticed that with the most recent versions of both Firefox and Chrome, they are notorious about caching CSS and not refreshing, like a terrier hanging on to a rat...


    WordPress / Genesis Site Design & Troubleshooting: A Touch of Summer | @SummerWebDesign
    Slice of SciFi | Writers, After Dark

    February 2, 2014 at 12:30 am #88116
    livewellplayhard
    Member

    Thanks Summer,

    Good point about clearing the cache, which I did for both Chrome and Safari. I also restarted (it was time anyway) and now this is getting really weird.

    In Chrome :
    - Nav & Content links: Charcoal/Charcoal (unvisited/visited) - this is similar to original Lifestyle theme color options (which were still there this morning). The Content links are in fact specified in the css as Light Blue (#509ac9), but appears as Charcoal in this browser.
    - Blogroll links: Bright Blue/Charcoal (new, not desired!)

    In Safari:
    - Nav & Blogroll: Bright Blue/Charcoal (new, not desired at all)
    - Content links: Light Blue (desired)/Charcoal - this combination is desired.

    This is what is desired:
    Primary & Secondary Nav: Charcoal/Charcoal
    Content: Light Blue/Charcoal
    Blogroll: Charcoal/Charcoal

    BTW: The ability to configure Color Options in Genesis disappeared this afternoon - Genesis 2.02 upgrade perhaps? - and started me down this rabbit hole... 🙁

    February 2, 2014 at 1:35 am #88124
    livewellplayhard
    Member

    Fixed. Brute forced somewhat, I think, but fixed. Thanks for the help, Summer. I was able to learn from your suggestions.

    I'm an ex-web developer, but I've been out of it for a long time. 🙂

    Thanks again,
    Jennifer

    February 2, 2014 at 1:57 pm #88211
    Summer
    Member

    If it helps, in Firefox and Chrome on my Mac, I was seeing light blue/charcoal for the links in the body of the About page, and a darker blue/charcoal for the nav links... how odd.

    Glad you got it working!


    WordPress / Genesis Site Design & Troubleshooting: A Touch of Summer | @SummerWebDesign
    Slice of SciFi | Writers, After Dark

    February 2, 2014 at 2:48 pm #88218
    livewellplayhard
    Member

    Hi Summer,

    Yes, any feedback helps. I believe I've gotten that behavior fixed. Thanks so much for your help as well.

    I'm now having issues on with the Blog Template page in its own support post: Posts for Certain Category Don't Appear on Blog (but other categories do).

    Working through this, one item at a time. 🙂

    Jennifer

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