Suzanne — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 01:08:32 +0000

ha, hardly a master, I just have a lot of room in my head for semantics (and some other antics).

In general, I read folks like Eric Meyers (his books, articles and website), pay attention to the links provided by The Web Standards Project, and keep on learning.

http://www.wpdfd.com/
http://www.digital-web.com/
http://www.alistapart.com/

Projects like the Zen Garden are helpful in bringing the beauty and possibility of CSS and standards to the forefront. Dave Shea (who started and runs it) is a large contributor to the current understanding and future aims of standards as well. His website is beautiful and he posts regular articles where many others contribute intelligent considerations.

On the whole, I don't have a particular authority other than the http://www.w3c.org to offer. I read a LOT of websites and follow the links. I find using a news reader and using the RSS feeds has helped considerably.

I will be putting some of the more common urls I've read online in the future, but, typically, real life takes precedent.

Keep reading, keep learning, keep asking! That's all *I* do.

Dorn — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 00:55:17 +0000

thank you... that did the trick. You are the CSS MASTER. Have you seen CSS Zen Garden ?? I would love to see what you could do there.

I suppose that I should say that I checked out your site. With your help here and what I saw there... I suspect that it would be good.

thanks again

Oh! would you mind sharing some of your reference sites? Or do you store all this information in your uber CSS brain?

Suzanne — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 00:14:05 +0000

You can, you just had the syntax wrong.

#menu a:link, a:active, a:visited means for all hyperlinks (unvisited, nonactive) in the element identified by "menu", and for all active and visited hyperlinks, do this. Notice that it no longer includes the specification "in the element identified by "menu"".

#menu a:link, #menu a:active, #menu a:visited on the other hand says for hyperlinks in #menu, and active hyperlinks in #menu and visited hyperlinks in #menu, do this.

It's not that your declarations have been over-written, it's that you haven't written any (in your original as posted here). Does that help?

Edited to add:

Also...

#where a:link, #where a:visited, #where a:active is what you should have in the #where declarations.

Edited again to add:

You should also have the #where a:hover AFTER the a:visited bits.

Dorn — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 23:15:22 +0000

so what you are saying is that I should not group the selectors as I have?
If that is the case when is it OK to group them and when not?

thanks for the quick reply.

Suzanne — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 23:03:34 +0000

#menu a:link, #menu a:active, #menu a:visited {}