Re: Link Colors

At 2:54 AM +0000 2/9/02, Andrew McFarland wrote:
>Wouldn't div.nav a:link { color: red} be slightly more efficient? 
>That way the browser only has to inspect ancestor DIVs to find if 
>any are from the specified class, rather than all ancestor elements.

Probably; actually, since you'll have probably one (primary) navigation
bar and one (primary) content section, it makes even more sense to use
an id selector, like:

      div#nav a:link { color: red; }

>I'm a big fan of using contextual selectors and DIV elements in this 
>way. It seems much more logical to me than putting classes into each 
>element - and you can use the DIVs for formatting later on if you 
>want to - see http://aamcf.co.uk/temp/div

Yeah, I agree mainly, especially since it saves typing. ;)

--Kynn

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