You may have seen on other sites an effect whereby the background colour of a containing element changes colour when you hover over it. A look at their CSS might reveal something like div:hover or li:hover. This is also how a lot of CSS dropdown menus work too, by applying a :hover to a list item.
April, 2006 archive
Why doesn’t :hover work in IE?
What is shorthand CSS?
Shorthand CSS is the method of writing related style properties all on one line instead of several. Using shorthand CSS results in files that are smaller in size and easier to read and maintain.
How do I make my CSS file smaller?
The key feature of Cascading Style Sheets and probably the one not realised by most newcomers to CSS is that certain style properties are inherited. This means that style properties (mostly those relating to styling text including color, font-size, text-alignment etc.) set on a parent element are inherited up by every descendant element (any element contained within the parent whether directly or indirectly).
What’s the difference between classes and IDs?
Classes and IDs are how we create different styles for different elements on the page.
IDs are unique identifiers and can only be used once on any one page. Classes can be reused and applied to different elements.
My links won’t change colour when I hover over them
Usually when people have trouble with their links not doing what they want, it’s because they’ve arranged them in the wrong order. More on My links won’t change colour when I hover over them
How do I get different styled links?
So you’ve set up the styles for the links of your page but you have one section that you want to be different from everything else. To do that, you need to assign a different class or ID.
