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    So I’ve been playing with the design again and I’ve knocked something out and need some help with a few things:

    1) my links will not change colour, I have feeling I’ve left something open in the css – I know there are 1001 and errors in the css, this is mostly down to the use of moz values. But, all my links are blue and changed them to something else does now work. I need change all h2 and h3 links as well as a couple of others.

    2) at the top is the search – and there is a blue bar. I have created a banner image large enough to cover the search, however, even by using background: transparent; I can’t seem to make the image show through. So basically the header would encompass the search.

    3) the links used to be in the top left hand corner – I can’t remember how to get them back in the top left hand!

    I think that’s it really.

    Thanks in advance if you can help.

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  • Thread Starter jinsan

    (@jinsan)

    1) still need help
    2) Mostly done need help with the links, using negative margins which causes IE to display a white band – need to be able to do without neg margs.
    3) Done

    You might try posting the relevant portion of your CSS style sheet – then someone might be able to take a look and see if something’s missing. ??

    Thread Starter jinsan

    (@jinsan)

    hmm the relevant portion…

    well posting code is not really wanted here, it makes sense as it clutts the post.

    The top left navigation is under the “top Bar” heading in the CSS.
    The top right search box is under the “forms” section in the css.
    The links under “links”.

    View source will provide the path to the css, and using the developer extension should prove even easier.

    I can change one of the links. The others not.

    Well, without seeing your code, I know that I mostly have CSS problems when I’m using incorrect syntax or missing a brace – a formatting issue. Have you run your CSS through a validation service, or had someone else proof it? Have you tried it on different pages, with the same problem?

    Thread Starter jinsan

    (@jinsan)

    to answer your questions in order:

    1) yes it’s been through a validator:
    https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsekhu.net%2Fwp%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2Fgespaa%2Fstyle.css&usermedium=all

    2 warnins and the only error is that I’m using whitesmoke instead of hex.

    2) It should be correct, but now you can see the code for yourself so I’ll let you decide ??

    3) tried it on various pages.

    Now the result of all this faffing around is that I have fixed 80% of the problem – the only link that won’t change now is the prev_next_nav link which forever remains blue. In IE ALL links are blue and won’t change.

    Jinsan, have you searched your css for the hex code for the blue you don’t want? If you can’t find it, then there’s an unstyled link element somewhere, which is defaulting to blue….

    Try searching for all “a” elements and looking at them one after the other, it’s easy to miss one when you’re running through a huge page of css.

    Thread Starter jinsan

    (@jinsan)

    I know, I know ?? I’ll go through it tomorrow just been spending time working on another site which is coming along ever so nicely. thanks for the tips guys ??

    Heh. I thought you probably did. One of the LEAST fun things about a site redesign is chasing niggling errors. Good luck, Jin!

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