Change text "link" color only in Spry Tab content area

Question

I need to have multiple text link colors in my site for light
and dark background colors. The only regions in my site that have a
white background are in the Spry Tab Panel content area. I can't
figure out how to change the text color for text links in the spry
content only. I tried to add a:link ..etc... to the style sheet,
but it did not effect anything
(I also need to clean my style sheet (s). But that comes
next.
Here
is a Link to a Sample Page in my site
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Answer 1

Here is the SpryTabbedPanels style sheet in my site. I can't
seem to figure out the changes I need to make to effect the content
area.
I tried to add the following (see .TabbedPanelsContentGroup
below)
a: link {
color: #0099CC;
text-decoration: none
a:active {
color: #99CC33;
text-decoration: none
a:visited {
color: #0099CC;
text-decoration: none
a:hover {
color: #99CC33;
text-decoration: underline
@charset "UTF-8";
/* SpryTabbedPanels.css - version 0.4 - Spry Pre-Release 1.6
/* Copyright (c) 2006. Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights
reserved. */
/* Horizontal Tabbed Panels
* The default style for a TabbedPanels widget places all tab
buttons
* (left aligned) above the content panel.
/* This is the selector for the main TabbedPanels container.
For our
* default style, this container does not contribute anything
visually,
* but it is floated left to make sure that any floating or
clearing done
* with any of its child elements are contained completely
within the
* TabbedPanels container, to minimize any impact or
undesireable
* interaction with other floated elements on the page that
may be used
* for layout.
* If you want to constrain the width of the TabbedPanels
widget, set a
* width on the TabbedPanels container. By default, the
TabbedPanels widget
* expands horizontally to fill up available space.
* The name of the class ("TabbedPanels") used in this
selector is not
* necessary to make the widget function. You can use any
class name you
* want to style the TabbedPanels container.
.TabbedPanels {
margin: 0px;
float: right;
clear: none;
width: 82%; /* IE Hack to force proper layout when preceded
by a paragraph. (hasLayout Bug)*/
padding-top: 0px;
padding-right: 0px;
padding-bottom: 2px;
padding-left: 0px;
/* This is the selector for the TabGroup. The TabGroup
container houses
* all of the tab buttons for each tabbed panel in the
widget. This container
* does not contribute anything visually to the look of the
widget for our
* default style.
* The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsTabGroup") used in
this selector is not
* necessary to make the widget function. You can use any
class name you
* want to style the TabGroup container.
.TabbedPanelsTabGroup {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
/* This is the selector for the TabbedPanelsTab. This
container houses
* the title for the panel. This is also the tab "button"
that the user clicks
* on to activate the corresponding content panel so that it
appears on top
* of the other tabbed panels contained in the widget.
* For our default style, each tab is positioned relatively 1
pixel down from
* where it wold normally render. This allows each tab to
overlap the content
* panel that renders below it. Each tab is rendered with a 1
pixel bottom
* border that has a color that matches the top border of the
current content
* panel. This gives the appearance that the tab is being
drawn behind the
* content panel.
* The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsTab") used in this
selector is not
* necessary to make the widget function. You can use any
class name you want
* to style this tab container.
.TabbedPanelsTab {
position: relative;
top: 1px;
float: left;
padding: 4px 10px;
margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px;
background-color: #CCCC99;
list-style: none;
border-left: solid 1px #CCC;
border-bottom: solid 1px #999;
border-top: solid 1px #999;
border-right: solid 1px #999;
-moz-user-select: none;
-khtml-user-select: none;
cursor: pointer;
font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #000000;
/* This selector is an example of how to change the appearnce
of a tab button
* container as the mouse enters it. The class
"TabbedPanelsTabHover" is
* programatically added and removed from the tab element as
the mouse enters
* and exits the container.
.TabbedPanelsTabHover {
background-color: #99CC33;
color: #000000;
/* This selector is an example of how to change the
appearance of a tab button
* container after the user has clicked on it to activate a
content panel.
* The class "TabbedPanelsTabSelected" is programatically
added and removed
* from the tab element as the user clicks on the tab button
containers in
* the widget.
* As mentioned above, for our default style, tab buttons are
positioned
* 1 pixel down from where it would normally render. When the
tab button is
* selected, we change its bottom border to match the
background color of the
* content panel so that it looks like the tab is part of the
content panel.
.TabbedPanelsTabSelected {
background-color: #FFFFFF;
border-bottom: 1px solid #EEE;
color: #000000;
/* This selector is an example of how to make a link inside
of a tab button
* look like normal text. Users may want to use links inside
of a tab button
* so that when it gets focus, the text *inside* the tab
button gets a focus
* ring around it, instead of the focus ring around the
entire tab.
.TabbedPanelsTab a {
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
/* This is the selector for the ContentGroup. The
ContentGroup container houses
* all of the content panels for each tabbed panel in the
widget. For our
* default style, this container provides the background
color and borders that
* surround the content.
* The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsContentGroup") used in
this selector is
* not necessary to make the widget function. You can use any
class name you
* want to style the ContentGroup container.
.TabbedPanelsContentGroup {
clear: both;
border-left: solid 1px #CCC;
border-bottom: solid 1px #CCC;
border-top: solid 1px #999;
border-right: solid 1px #999;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
color: #000000;
a: link {
color: #0099CC;
text-decoration: none
a:active {
color: #99CC33;
text-decoration: none
a:visited {
color: #0099CC;
text-decoration: none
a:hover {
color: #99CC33;
text-decoration: underline
/* This is the selector for the Content panel. The Content
panel holds the
* content for a single tabbed panel. For our default style,
this container
* provides some padding, so that the content is not pushed
up against the
* widget borders.
* The name of the class ("TabbedPanelsContent") used in this
selector is
* not necessary to make the widget function. You can use any
class name you
* want to style the Content container.
.TabbedPanelsContent {
padding: 4px;
/* This selector is an example of how to change the appearnce
of the currently
* active container panel. The class
"TabbedPanelsContentVisible" is
* programatically added and removed from the content element
as the panel
* is activated/deactivated.
.TabbedPanelsContentVisible {
/* Vertical Tabbed Panels
* The following rules override some of the default rules
above so that the
* TabbedPanels widget renders with its tab buttons along the
left side of
* the currently active content panel.
* With the rules defined below, the only change that will
have to be made
* to switch a horizontal tabbed panels widget to a vertical
tabbed panels
* widget, is to use the "VTabbedPanels" class on the
top-level widget
* container element, instead of "TabbedPanels".
/* This selector floats the TabGroup so that the tab buttons
it contains
* render to the left of the active content panel. A border
is drawn around
* the group container to make it look like a list container.
.VTabbedPanels .TabbedPanelsTabGroup {
float: left;
width: 10em;
height: 20em;
background-color: #CCCC99;
position: relative;
border-top: solid 1px #999;
border-right: solid 1px #999;
border-left: solid 1px #CCC;
border-bottom: solid 1px #CCC;
/* This selector disables the float property that is placed
on each tab button
* by the default TabbedPanelsTab selector rule above. It
also draws a bottom
* border for the tab. The tab button will get its left and
right border from
* the TabGroup, and its top border from the TabGroup or tab
button above it.
.VTabbedPanels .TabbedPanelsTab {
float: none;
margin: 0px;
border-top: none;
border-left: none;
border-right: none;
/* This selector disables the float property that is placed
on each tab button
* by the default TabbedPanelsTab selector rule above. It
also draws a bottom
* border for the tab. The tab button will get its left and
right border from
* the TabGroup, and its top border from the TabGroup or tab
button above it.
.VTabbedPanels .TabbedPanelsTabSelected {
background-color: #CCCC99;
border-bottom: solid 1px #999;
/* This selector floats the content panels for the widget so
that they
* render to the right of the tabbed buttons.
.VTabbedPanels .TabbedPanelsContentGroup {
clear: none;
float: left;
padding: 0px;
width: 30em;
height: 20em;