Is my HTML for my splash page overriding my CSS code?!?

  • Hi

    I’m hoping someone can help me – I am a complete code newbie but managed to put together a splash page to showcase my different sites. I have a number of links of the page and I want the text to change colour when I hover over the links…I looked it up and I understand that the following code should do so:

    a:hover {
    color:#E16F1D
    text-decoration:underline;
    }

    But then nothing happens on the page. I think that there is something in my html code that may be overwriting the CSS but I don’t know what or where to look for it. Tried a quick search for “hover” but that didn’t bring anything up.

    Or if there is a way to get CSS to override the HTML, that would be cool too.

    Please help.

    Thanks in advance.
    Wani

    The blog I need help with is https://www.waniolatunde.com.

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  • your links seem to ‘formatted’ by a span with inline styles;

    example:
    <td align="center"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><a href="https://www.weddings.waniolatunde.com/"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><img style="border: 2px solid #BCBCBC;" title="Nigeria Wedding Photographer Website" src="https://wop.smugmug.com/WOP/Admin/WOP/i-KzMfPNR/0/X3/wedding-image-for-splash-page-X3.jpg" alt="wedding image for splash page X3 Home "></span></a>??<a href="https://www.weddings.waniolatunde.com/"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><br>

    remove all inline styles from the templates and contents, and move all the styling into style.css…

    you will need to switch to the html mode of the post or page editor to find and remove the inline styles.

    Thread Starter WaniOlatunde

    (@waniolatunde)

    aah great thanks. just to be clear, where does the inline style end? would it be?

    <span style=”color: #ffffff;”>

    thanks

    yes, this part <span style="color: #ffffff;"> and the corresponding </span>

    https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_span.asp

    Thread Starter WaniOlatunde

    (@waniolatunde)

    great thanks – this is super helpful. will try it now…

    Thread Starter WaniOlatunde

    (@waniolatunde)

    Hi Alchymyth

    I removed on the inline styles and now the page changed all the text to black with only the links remaining white and I still can’t get the links to change colour when I hover.

    Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks
    Wani

    Thread Starter WaniOlatunde

    (@waniolatunde)

    Ok – got my text back by changing the colour in this code:

    #outer {
    font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    color:#fff;
    font-size:12px;
    width:1400px;
    margin:0px 5px;
    }

    but still can’t get the hover to work :-/

    there is a semicolon missing after color:#000

    a:hover {
      	color:#000
	text-decoration:underline;
}

    has to be:

    a:hover {
      	color:#000;
	text-decoration:underline;
}

    nothing to do with WordPress …

    Thread Starter WaniOlatunde

    (@waniolatunde)

    Perfect – works now. Thanks for all your help!

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