IWeb & Link Color

My default link color appears as red. This applies to any "page links" that show at the top of the page, as well as internal links like links that I put in my blog entries.
Is there a way to change the default link color? It seems like it is a very basic necessity to a website to have link colors that actually correspond to the website.
Thanks!

So there is a way to access the source code of what I build in iWeb? Not that it is fun to have to change things manually, but if that is a solution then I'll take it.
iweb navbar css is rendered by javascript widget and the code is in the page source.
you can change it if you like, but it isn't practical because you have to post edit every time you publish your site.
I did run a forum search before posting this, but oddly enough what I found I could only view the original post and no replies - so it didn't do me too much good.
the link in my previous post was to lay out all the possible method, you pick your poison and acquire the needed knowledge, except for method #4.
Sad that Apple would leave out something as basic as changing some generic website preferences like link color. That makes me a bit wary about actually using iWeb for large-scale projects :-\
give them feedback: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html
that said, navbar is the simplest of iweb widgets; just about everything in it can be changed with ajax and javascript, see this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11431458

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IWeb Link Colors

I am working on a website for a relative, and I'm using the Modern theme (my favorite) to make it. My concern with the theme is the links. I want to use purple for when you hover over the links, not red. I'm wondering how you can change the color of these links. If anyone could help me, that would be great. Thanks!

You will need to use a CSS editor (like CSSEdit).
The CSS style sheets are found in the individual folders (like Blog) when you publish. For example, if publishing to .Mac, look in your iDisk/Web/Sites/.
There are folders for each page. Within those folders are CSS files. You can edit link and hover color as well as font here.

Link color with iWeb '08 (2.01)

So far I have found iWeb '08 (2.01) to work fine, except that the link colors are inconsistent. Even though all of the links are set to have a color (to indicate that they are a link), sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. The behavior seems to vary among browsers, and can sometimes change their mind after refreshing the cache. However, even on the same page, they are never all blue (or whatever other color I set for it) at the same time.
The site is www.TecnoTur.us and (as of August 27, 2007) I haven't yet activated the subscription link. There are several other links on the home page that work, although most don't show any link color before hovering over them with the cursor.

When I open your first page the links are all blue and turn red when the cursor hovers over them.
The interesting thing is, if I stop your audio file from playing, the links are still blue but don't turn red for hovering. It might worth trying to upload the page with "autoplay" for the audio file turned off and see if this makes a difference.
As you say, the page has to be refreshed for red "hovering" color to come back.

Despite best efforts, cannot modify link colors in iWeb

I am having issues with changing the colors of my hyperlinks in iWeb. Specifically, I having this problem while working with the "Welcome" page in the "Modern" style template.
After searching through this forum, I followed advice to check out http://www.rowan-cottage.co.uk/Site/CSS%20in%20iWeb.html for tips on modifying the CSS and changing the hyperlink colors. While I was able to edit the .css file and change the unfollowed link colors to blue as planned, the followed link colors unexpectly changed to a strange purple color. Hovering was the same purple, but clicking the link and not releasing the mouse resulted in the link turning red (the default color) even after I had edited the .css file so that hover and followed links were to also be the same blue.
I reloaded the page several times, I reset Safari, I looked at the page with Opera, Firefox, and IE, and it looked the same way in all browsers.
Does anyone know what is going on here? Is there some sort of communication going on behind the scene that I am not seeing (such as, if unfollowed link = blue, then followed link = purple)? Do I need to edit the XML file? How?
Advice appreciated! Thanks!
iMac (PowerPC) Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Okay, that was yesterday.
Today the problem is not repeating.
I have no idea what happened, but I as long as the problem is presently gone, I'm happy.

Link colors and formats not WYSIWYG

I'm having trouble with Link colors. I have the Link Format set to a certain colors but what I see after I publish my site is a crap shoot. Sometimes the change takes sometimes it doesn't, and often what I see in Safari 4/5 or Firefox is not the same as I have set in iWeb. And yes I force a page refresh by clearing the cache and reloading the pages every time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. So far I like how WYSIWYG iWeb is but this one problem has plagued me for some time now.
John

When you set the color use the Web Safe color pallet from the color pane:
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Visited Links Color

Is there any way to prevent visited links from changing into a different color rather than returning to the original link color? (I know how to do this in HTML, but I can't find any way to do it in iWeb.)
Thanks in advance for your help.

The best way to get an answer is to post a link to the website.
Can you provide one?
As a guess:
Links have five "states"
link (blue by default in most browsers)
visited (purple by default in most browsers)
hover
active
focus
If no rules are defined for one or more of the states then the browsers default color applies.
I'm guessing you've defined a CSS rule for a:link but nothing for a:visited.

Setting link colors

The link colors I set using the Inspector appear as I want them in iWeb, but aren't being changed on published web pages. I read in this forum:
... The thing with hyperlink colors is to make sure that the "Normal" and "Visited" colors and U settings are the same for each link ...
BUT surely it must be possible (and is certainly desirable) to have different 'Normal' and 'Visited' colors?
How can I do this, and make my chosen colors appear on published pages?
Thanks

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. You can have any combination of normal and visited colors for each text based hyperlink on your page. You are referring to text based hyperlinks, right?
What's the URL of your site so we can examine it first hand?
OT

Controling link colors in javascript

I have 3 links next to each other, one is the addtoany social bookmark (code below, inserted with web maestro), one is an html snippet and one is an iweb link. The link colors do not match (such as visited). How do you control the link colors in code like below? link, hover, visited, etc. Don't assume I know anything...lol. I did try some standard HTML, but that did not work. Is there a javascript approach?
Is there a more appropriate web site to ask javascript questions?
THanks
Bob
<<a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save" <style="text-decoration:underline;font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:16px;"<title="Share or save to social networking sites, Email to a colleague or Bookmark this page" <>Share / Email / Bookmark<</a><<script type="text/javascript"><a2alinkname=document.title;<a2alinkurl=location.href; <a2ashow_title=1;<a2a_color_main="CCFFFF";<a2a_color_border="669999";<a2a_color_link _text="000000";<a2a_color_link_text_hover="333333";<a2a_colorbg="99CCCC";<</script><<script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.addtoany.com/menu/page.js"><</script><

no responses, but removed from open questions.

Vote Here: Link Color for Blank White Template

Okay I'll have the Blank White template ready tonight and I'll let you guys decide what the navigation bar styles and hyper link colors should be.
Right now they're a beautiful Aqua color: #0080FF or 0,128,255
For this template, I think I'll make a bunch of variations so if half of you want blue links and half want black with underlines (or whatever) I'll make them both.
Please specify as much detail as you want, i.e.
Nav bar default: size 11, color #777, verdana, bold
Nav bar selected: size 11, color #000, times, normal
Nav bar hover: etc, etc etc
Hyperlink normal:
Hyperlink hover:
Hyperlink visited:
Body text:
Titles/Headings:
that covers the basics...
I will be unlocking the entire template where it makes sense so that you can delete any object. This excludes the required fields for the blog and podcast obviously because those won't work if you delete the fields
Don't worry if you don't see this for three days. I'll watch the thread regardless and make versions based on common preferences.
SB

Suzanne
Given that the white template is just that, and while Aqua is a really nice colour, I think I'd be suggesting that users of the white template will get maximum compatibility with the design elements they may add to it if the treatment of hyperlinks etc is kept to "standard" colors and texts as much as is possible.
Boring ... yes, but maximim design integration.
I am also not sure I'd be mixing a sans serif typestyle with a serifed typed style in the one template as well (Verdana and Times) - try to keep all typestyles either sans serif or serifed.
Given yours and Cyclosaurus skils I would have thought that the two of you would team up and develop an iWeb specific template editing tool that any idiot, like me, could use to modify a template to our own needs / desires / wants - rather than you writing templates yourself.
Just a thought at not worth more than $0.00000002c.
iMac G5 (Rev A) 20in, 1.42ghz Mac Mini G4, 1.67ghz PowerBook Mac OS X (10.4.5) 1gb in all Macs

Spry Menu Bar link colors not consistent

I have a horizontal Spry menu bar set up with 4 items in it.
The first item is the Home link and does not have a submenu, but
the other 3 items do. What I want is when you roll over the main 4
items the text link color will be purple (#583399). When an item
has a submenu the rollover text link on the submenu links will be
green (#89b11a).
My current code almost works, but the problem I am having is
that the Home link
without the submenu changes to a green color instead of
purple like the other 3 main links. If I add a test submenu to the
Home link then it turns purple like the other links. How can I get
the Home link to change to purple like the others without having a
submenu attached to it?
Here is my html code that refers to the menu:
<ul id="MenuBar1" class="MenuBarHorizontal">
<li><a href="index.html"
class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">HOME</a></li>
<li><a href="about.html"
class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">ABOUT</a>
<ul>
<li><a
href="services.html">services</a></li>
<li><a
href="bios.html">bios</a></li>
<li><a
href="news.html">news</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="work.html" class="MenuBarItemSubmenu"
>WORK</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="design.html">design</a>
</li>
<li><a
href="advertising.html">advertising</a></li>
<li><a href="casestudies.html">case
studies</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="contact.html"
class="MenuBarItemSubmenu">CONTACT</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#">.</a></li>
<li><a
href="location.html">location</a></li>
<li><a
href="opportunities.html">opportunities</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Here is the Spry CSS code that pertains to the links:
/* Menu items are a light gray text with padding and no text
decoration */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a
display: block;
cursor: pointer;
padding: 0.5em 0.75em;
color: #666666;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
/* Menu items that have mouse over or focus have green text
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:hover, ul.MenuBarHorizontal a:focus
color: #89b11a;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to
MenuBarItemHover with purple text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemHover,
color: #583399;
/* Menu items that are open with submenus are set to
MenuBarItemHover with purple text */
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarItemSubmenuHover,
ul.MenuBarHorizontal a.MenuBarSubmenuVisible
color: #583399;
And
here
is a link to my test file so you can see what I am talking
about.
Thanks for any help and let me know if you need anything else
to help with it.

Anyone??

How to have 2 link colors on one page?

Learning CSS and am unable to make this happen. What am I doing wrong?
http://larrysullivandesign.com/sourceprintmedia.com/_contact.html
http://larrysullivandesign.com/sourceprintmedia.com/sourceprintmedia.css
The text links at page bottom (link-typeA) load up blue, even though the stylesheet calls for them to be gray (#E8E8E8), so they'll read on dark background.
I want blue links site-wide, and grey at page bottom, only for link-typeA
I want only one style sheet, if possible.
How do I make all the link stage (active,hover, etc) colors apply to just link-typeA ? Only way I can see is in Page Properties, which makes one single embedded style on each page. confused....
thanks!

The divs are always referenced in the body and then you assign a class to that div. You can also asign a class to a table if you are using tables.
First make a refernce to an external style sheet and place all your css in there.
make your page and then assign the classes to the divs or tables.
If you think of a div as a container then you assign a class of (footer) to the container. The reference then looks to the external style sheet of where to find that class and then finds the .footer and assigns the correct attributes to it such as the .footer a:link{color:#000;}
you can also see the styles and assign them without handcoding by going to window/CSS styles

Opening An External Application With Using An iWeb Link

How do i open an application with an iWeb link so that when people click the link it opens an application on the computer? e.g. Link called play now and it opens Gameranger straight from the browser when the link is clicked.
Thanks

For security concerns I, for one, would not want a Web page to load or launch other applications based on links or downloads.
Only a handful of files are considered "safe" and even then the end user can turn that feature "off".

How to change the Hyper links color in the XML form

HI SDNs
Do u have any idea how to change the hyperlink color in the xml form. My requirement is as follows.I have created xml form by using xml template and i displayed this xml form by using Km document iview. I need tochange the hyper link color in the xml form content. I dont want to go for manual process by editing the xml form. because i have several hundreds of xml forms.
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Thanks
Ramana

Hi Ramana,
The most convenient way to change the hyper links is by using the Theme Editor. Go to System Administration --> Portal Display --> Select Theme --> Component-Specific Styles --> Links --> Function/Result Link.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Joost

Need help with link colors.....

New assignment at school (our 4th project).
Our teacher has given us a preformatted .html document that we
are not allowed to touch at all.
Having a hard time grasping working this way......
How do I change the color of the link in the top header
without changing the color of the other links?
How do I line the four paragraph divs up across my page
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[Locked] Link colors work in Firefox but not Internet Explorer

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You have replied to a message that's more than a year old. If you're having problems with your links, post a URL to your site, and someone can have a look to see what the problem is.
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