[Pro] expanding links ?

Hi,

I’ve a site which on a few pages (not the whole site) the links have an expanded style, when hovered over the letter spacing expands. Irritating enough but I’m about to innitiate a css menus as part of a revamp and the same thing happens to the navigation, very very irritating and unaccessible.
Its fine on Safari but not with firefox or partner in crime Camino, on both pc and mac.
Has anyone come across this and have a remidy ?
I’ve looked at the various styles I have but cannot track it down.

Could it be a bug on just a few pages ?

thanks in advance,

seoras


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Could you post a (non-expanding) link to the trouble page? I haven’t seen that problem before in Freeway, but I have certainly seen it in other sites and, particularly in navigation, it can be a real pain.

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Hi Walter,

Its something I’ve noted on some other sites also, non of mine.
Here is the link to where its at: http://www.isleofrum.com/

I first wondered if it might be an underline thing as most of the sites links have an underline but looking at the bird page, some there don’t have an underline but neither do they expand. No, that shouldn’t make any difference.

I’ve rebuilt (a while ago) the first two ‘welcome’ pages from scratch in an attempt to irradicate the problem, I did however cut n paste the content, making me think its a style issue somewhere but I’ve gone through all the text to check the styles are clean and match ok. Something hidden somewhere.

thanks,
seoras

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You have a bit of style in the page for a:hover, and that style has letter-spacing turned on:

a:hover { font-family:Lucida Sans,Helvetica,Verdana,Arial; text-decoration:none; font-size:11px; letter-spacing:1.54px }

If you also apply another style to the text that contains the link that has a different letter-spacing property, then when you mouse over the link, it will expand out.

I can’t tell for sure if this style was made using the Inspector (while nothing on the page was selected) or if you hand-entered this style rule in the Page / HTML Markup dialog. But that’s where it’s coming from.

Rosie says “woof”! She’s a 3 y/o standard poodle.

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Hi Walter,

Yes I see now but how do I get rid of it ?

I’ve tried several permutations and looked at all the styles I have. Even removed quite a few. Republished the page etc. my ‘maintextwhite’ style predominates and most have same 10% spacing. There is no page style.
Tried to duplicate link styles etc from the ok pages but without desired result.

I generally don’t do code so I won’t have inserted any markup but anyway I’ve gone through that.

It is certainly that line, removed it with an editor with desired result. I could do that each time but it would be a real pain, the site gets updated fairly regularly.

Could it be a glitch in Freeway? that it just insists come what may inserting that line. Grasping at straws here.

Meanwhile, theres a dram in the optic and a biscuit for Rosie.

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Sometime around 20/6/09 (at 07:30 -0400) seoras said:

Could it be a glitch in Freeway? that it just insists come what may
inserting that line. Grasping at straws here.

It won’t be a glitch, it will be a style that’s set somewhere,
somehow. Definitely.

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Hi Keith,

Gone through all the styles and can’t see anything. Whatever, it also effects the css menu I’m trying to implement.

If it is a style, would it be a page style and if so why is there no style indcated ? When looking at the style inspector.

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Sometime around 20/6/09 (at 08:17 -0400) seoras said:

If it is a style, would it be a page style and if so why is there no
style indcated ? When looking at the style inspector.

Have you ever done anything with HTML markup at all? Try looking in
Page > HTML Markup.

Have you ever used any actions that do anything with styles?

Have you ever pasted any text in from Microsoft Word?

Also, with nothing selected, try looking in the Inspector palette, in
the second icon (Page’s appearance settings), in the Link panel.
Click the ‘More’ button and look in the Edit Link Styles dialong that
this opens.

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Have you ever done anything with HTML markup at all? Try looking in Page > HTML Markup.

No, looked at that.

Have you ever used any actions that do anything with styles?

Text link style action.

Have you ever pasted any text in from Microsoft Word?

Only using "paste and match style’.

Also, with nothing selected, try looking in the Inspector palette, in the second icon (Page’s appearance settings), in the Link panel. Click the ‘More’ button and look in the Edit Link Styles dialong that this opens.

BINGO !!!

Little blighter was hidden there. Well I never… So, although a style instruction it doesn’t appear as such elsewher, more of some form of markup. Or something.

Well done Keith and many thanks. One in the optic (if not the top shelf) for you as well, I’ll hold on the doggy biscuit :slight_smile:

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BINGO !!!

Superb. I knew it’d be something like that. :slight_smile:

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