Re: Background to hyperlinks?

Addendum... I said previously, "In the header of my pages..." My pages are
scripted and reassembled on the server as necessary, thus the "header" file
is everything above the dynamically-changing body of the page, and since the
logo appears on every page, it's in the header.

HOWEVER, what I need to point out is that in a fully reassembled page, the
divs all appear in the BODY of the actual page; no rendering code appears in
the <.HEAD></HEAD> section... sheesh... I hope I've not made that more
confusing than it's worth! :-)

Kehvan

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kehvan M. Zydhek" <kehvan(at)zydhek.net>
To: "Hilma" <Hilma(at)Hilma.freeserve.co.uk>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 02:49
Subject: Re: Background to hyperlinks?


> Hilma,
>
> > To be honest - i had to drop the "."  from "<.div"   and "<.a href" and
> used
> > "<div" and "<a href"
> > as nothing showed with the . notation; this is something i've only ever
> seen
> > when declaring classes; so maybe that's my problem, i'm miss-using the
> code.
>
> Sorry, I forgot to mention that the . in the tags are there to prevent
them
> from rendering in HTML email readers. Most of us put the . in our code
> samples for just that reason.
>
> > Have you got your code working within style classes and style sheets,
> rather
> > than within the <div> tags?
>
> Yup, I do. I use external style sheets as much as possible. I suspect the
> problem you're having is that you're not linking to the external style
sheet
> or the selectors you've defined properly.
>
> Without having the specifics for your design available, here's a sample
from
> one of my sites to guide you...
>
> In the header of my pages, I have:
>   <.div id="pageLogo" class="pageLogo"><.a href="content.asp"><.img
> src="../images/null.gif" width="261" height="32" alt="Return to the Home
> Page / Issues Index" /></a></div>
>
> (note that the . are in there again to prevent autorendering)
> ID is for assorted control scripts, both ASP and JS, but is not required.
>
> In my external stylesheet, the class for this div is:
> .pageLogo {background: url(../images/inuniform.png); height: 32px; left:
> 25px; position: absolute; top: 5px; width: 261px;}
>
> (note that the image is a PNG format here, but could be GIF or JPG, too)
> Absolute positioning is not required for your design, if I understand it
> correctly, but is used here for other reasons. This attribute is used with
> the TOP and LEFT attributes to place the logo EXACTLY where I want it. For
> your project, though, positioning may be overkill and those tags should be
> removed.
>
> To link my external stylesheet, I use the following in the HEAD:
>  <.link href="inuniform.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
>
> (again, a . is in place to keep it from actually working)
>
> Now, with these three samples, what I get is a background image of 261
> pixels wide by 32 pixels high. The hyperlink in the div is for a
transparent
> gif used to make the logo linkable (divs cannot be encapsulated in
anchors,
> thus the workaround) -- the linkable logo was something I added AFTER the
> site had been built, otherwise I would have done it differently, but it
> works, and is a perfect example for what you're wanting to acheive.
>
> Final note: the code samples above are written to XHTML specs (which is
why
> there's a / at the end of empty tags, such as the link and img tags). The
/
> is not required for HTML, but generally doesn't cause problems with older
> browsers.
>
> You asked if I had used my method in sites per your specs, and here is the
> code I use to do just that, on a live site... and it works perfectly in
> v6-class browsers. :-)
>
> Try using the samples above, and if they are still causing you problems,
> email me offlist and we'll see what can be done.
>
> Good luck,
> Kehvan
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hilma" <Hilma(at)Hilma.freeserve.co.uk>
> To: "Kehvan M. Zydhek" <kehvan(at)zydhek.net>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 02:00
> Subject: Re: Background to hyperlinks?
>
>
> > Hi Kehvan-
> >
> > Many thanks for that -
> >
> > I've had a play and got some very strange results - much as I had before
> > :-(  (but at least i can define more where the problems are)
> >
> > Using your code, with the style defined within the /<div> tags, i got:
> > IE6      - perfect
> > NS6:    - perfect
> > Opera: - perfect.
> >
> > I then moved the style declaration up to a class defined within the
<head>
> > of the html sheet, and got:
> > IE6   - perfect
> > NS6 - perfect
> > Opera: no background image  showing
> >
> > I then moved the style declaration class thingy into an external style
> > sheet, and got:
> > IE6    - perfect
> > NS6: - background image showing, but only to the height of the text
> > Opera: no background showing
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > thanks - but still puzzling :-(
> >
> > hilma
> > --x----
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

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