Formatting Links

I am finishing up my first web page and in the process of
formatting my links to define their appearance in a:link, a:hover
and a:active. I created new CSS rules for each and even created a
new external style sheet for them. When I check it out in my
browser, the a:hover is doing what it is supposed to and the
a:active is doing what it's supposed to but the a:link state (when
you are just looking at the page with none of the states in use, I
assume is set at a default state, which makes the link text blue.
That's not going to work for me and I want it to remain a certain
color #e8e8e8. Does anyone know how to change this?
Thanks, Julie

You realize that the a:active pseudo-class is only visible
when you click
and hold the mouse down, right?
> Does anyone know how to change
> this?
Certainly - you define a color for a:visited.
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"Rock Artist" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:gb0vpc$9s3$[email protected]..
>I am finishing up my first web page and in the process of
formatting my
>links
> to define their appearance in a:link, a:hover and
a:active. I created new
> CSS
> rules for each and even created a new external style
sheet for them. When
> I
> check it out in my browser, the a:hover is doing what it
is supposed to
> and the
> a:active is doing what it's supposed to but the a:link
state (when you are
> just
> looking at the page with none of the states in use, I
assume is set at a
> default state, which makes the link text blue. That's
not going to work
> for me
> and I want it to remain a certain color #e8e8e8. Does
anyone know how to
> change
> this?
>
> Thanks, Julie
>

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> Murray, I was just looking over my code and noticed the
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> are
> styled, in the first place, by a class I created in my
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> of my
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disclaimer). I do see
> my
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>
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> Springs
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/>
>
http://www.hotsprings.org/<br
/>
> </p>
>
> It took on same style as my footer links. I'm a little
frustrated, it just
> seems like it should be so simple. I'm ready to launch
this thing tonight
> and
> this is the only "little" thing I have left to do. I
hate to cheat and
> make
> each one of these site links a graphic and link it as a
graphic, but I am
> so
> ready to get this thing up.
>
> I'm just not code savvy. I am going to attach my code to
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> maybe
> you can tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks, Julie
>
>
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