I have three HTML boxes with a colored backgrounds and white type in them. I made that white text into a link. In the Inspector for colors I set Normal = white Visited = none Hover = black and Active = black. These were all set up on the Master page.
Everything works as expected other than Active if I understand Active correctly (which is a big “if” for me). I thought that if I clicked on one of these, when I got to the page it leads me to, it would be black because that was the active page for that link. Is that wrong? If not, any ideas why it’s not working, and if it’s wrong, how can I get that effect?
A Normal link state is the standard unvisited state of a link. Meaning nobody has clicked on it yet and therefore it is just a standard color.
A Hover link state is when someone hovers their mouse over the link itself which might result in an underline or changing of a color.
A Visited state is when someone clicks on a normal unvisited link and goes to another page and then comes back to that first page. You can set a specific color so your users know where they have been.
A Active state is what color occurs when a user pushes their mouse button down while hovering. So for instance they hover, push down their mouse, the active state is the color or style that turns into. This is typically left the same as a Hover state.
When using the CSS Menu action in Freeway, Freeway applies a style of .fwCurrent to whatever the current page is making it easier to target a current page style. This is handled by the action though.
Thanks, Dan. I guess I knew what everything did except the Active. I have used the CSS menu action on this site horizontally at the top of the page and was able to set that style of .fwCurrent and it works like a charm. I started to use it for these links, too, which need to be vertical. But I wanted wider lines than I was able to get when I applied the action. I’ll take another look. It may just be operator error.
Again thanks,
Martin
On Feb 1, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Dan J wrote:
Here is a brief run through on links:
A Normal link state is the standard unvisited state of a link. Meaning nobody has clicked on it yet and therefore it is just a standard color.
A Hover link state is when someone hovers their mouse over the link itself which might result in an underline or changing of a color.
A Visited state is when someone clicks on a normal unvisited link and goes to another page and then comes back to that first page. You can set a specific color so your users know where they have been.
A Active state is what color occurs when a user pushes their mouse button down while hovering. So for instance they hover, push down their mouse, the active state is the color or style that turns into. This is typically left the same as a Hover state.
When using the CSS Menu action in Freeway, Freeway applies a style of .fwCurrent to whatever the current page is making it easier to target a current page style. This is handled by the action though.
So I went back and took a look and, as I suspected, it was “operator error.” I had overlooked the width setting in the Actions window. Thanks for inspiring me to take another look.
Martin
On Feb 1, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Rice Martin wrote:
Thanks, Dan. I guess I knew what everything did except the Active. I have used the CSS menu action on this site horizontally at the top of the page and was able to set that style of .fwCurrent and it works like a charm. I started to use it for these links, too, which need to be vertical. But I wanted wider lines than I was able to get when I applied the action. I’ll take another look. It may just be operator error.
Again thanks,
Martin
On Feb 1, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Dan J wrote:
Here is a brief run through on links:
A Normal link state is the standard unvisited state of a link. Meaning nobody has clicked on it yet and therefore it is just a standard color.
A Hover link state is when someone hovers their mouse over the link itself which might result in an underline or changing of a color.
A Visited state is when someone clicks on a normal unvisited link and goes to another page and then comes back to that first page. You can set a specific color so your users know where they have been.
A Active state is what color occurs when a user pushes their mouse button down while hovering. So for instance they hover, push down their mouse, the active state is the color or style that turns into. This is typically left the same as a Hover state.
When using the CSS Menu action in Freeway, Freeway applies a style of .fwCurrent to whatever the current page is making it easier to target a current page style. This is handled by the action though.