3.5.15 Pro to 4 Pro

Freeway
1

Having just upgraded, I am not understanding certain behaviors.

For instance:

The assigned link colors are ignored. Should be a light green for normal, white for active, darker green for visited.

Instead, everything is black, with a colored underline.

This is all contrary to everything I have become accustomed to in previous versions, and contrary to the description given in Help.

Thoughts? Am I missing something?

Matt

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2

Rebuilding the rollover (separate message) fixed that problem, so I thought perhaps rebuilding this page might solve this one. Not a pretty thought, possibly having to rebuild everything in my site.

Anyway…

That changed nothing. A freshly built page demonstrates the same disregard for the set preferences: what should be normal link text in light green is black with a light underline. Active is ignored, visited is ignored. These are basic links, no special styles.

Looking at the page in layout it looks OK, but it is as described in any preview.

Removed the Not In Frameset Redirect action, just in case. No Difference.

Would really appreciate some help.

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3

Can you give us a link to the page in question so we can have a look please.

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http://www.VirtualVermont.com/sponsors2.html

Intended to occupy the left frame of http://www.VirtualVermont.com/ and look the same.

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5

Just having a look at the source code shows this:

a:link { color:#cfc; text-decoration:underline }

a:visited { color:#696; text-decoration:underline }

a:active { color:#fff; text-decoration:underline }

.Caption10 { color:#000; font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:10px
All Seasons Motel

So your links are primarily styled “Caption10” which has a colour value of 000 - which is Black

Why not create a style for your links in the bottom 4 boxes in the inspector links section using styles that you have created for use elsewhere on your pages (not just the top 3 where you have just chosen colours)

Create new styles in the styles inspector for link, visited, hover and active with the attributes that you want. Save them as permanent styles with appropriate names eg .Link, .LinkHover, .LinkVisited etc then select them in the bottom 4 sections of the Link part of the Page Appearance selector.

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6

So, I take it this is a new behavior in 4?

Up to 3.5.15, all I did was specify a link as a certain color, and no matter what the underlying text style was, the link was that color.

Now, I have to redo everything?

It is a tad disconcerting that everything looks proper in layout, but that goes away in preview and published.

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7

Nothing changes.

I created appropriately named link styles and assigned them to the master page.

How do I get the underlying text style to go away so as to honor these link styles I have assigned?

Additionally, I accidentally clicked on another style, and have no idea how to make that go away either.

What is the point of having the Normal, Active and Visited color selections in the Inspector if they are completely disregarded?

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