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ellenthompson
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Sep 11, 2006, 11:49 AM

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I am totally stuck on how to resolve this issue.

We are trying to create breadcrumbs that looks uniform - i.e. link text and unlinked text are the same style. I have applied styles, tried to edit the styles in images/common, all to no avail. Example:

http://www.247advisor.com/artman/publish/advisors-board-members.shtml

Thanks in advance. I greatly appreciate the help!

Ellen


ross
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Sep 11, 2006, 3:27 PM

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Hi Ellen.

Thanks for posting!

From the looks of it, the breadcrumbs on your page are within a span tag that actually has the class “breadcrumb” applied to it. The thing here is that when I checked your stylesheet, there wasn’t a definitely for “breadcrumb”.

What you’ll want to do is add something like this:

.breadcrumb { font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #339999;
}

to your stylesheet and then tweak it so it gets things displaying as you had envisioned. Give this a try and let me know how you make out Smile.
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ellenthompson
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Sep 11, 2006, 5:49 PM

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This was of great help, and I am now half way there - I can change the links to display in purple to match the visited link color.

However, I can't seem to change the visited link color for just this element, which I could probably do if I knew css better. I did manage to change parameters for the whole page, but this made a real mess.

Any idea where the visited link style is set for $cat_breadcrumb$?

Thanks again!

Ellen


Donna
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Sep 12, 2006, 2:56 PM

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Re: [ellenthompson] Help with index and article template breadcrumbs [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Ellen!

Same tag, just a different value. So, instead of defining "a.link" (or even just "a"), define "A:visited".

For example, you might have:

Code
.breadcrumb a.link {#aaaaaa} 
.breadcrumb a.visited {#cccccc}

Take a look at this page for more tutorials on how to define CSS attributes: http://www.echoecho.com/csslinks.htm

...and let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. :)

Donna

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ellenthompson
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Sep 12, 2006, 6:14 PM

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Re: [Donna] Help with index and article template breadcrumbs [In reply to] Can't Post
You have no idea how relieved I am. Thanks for your help and the referral to the css tutorial.

For future readers of the post, The final solution was:

.breadcrumb {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #ffffff;
}

.breadcrumb A:visited {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #ffffff;
}

which enables me to define breadcrumbs (which are handy for SEO, more my area of expertise than CSS!) that I place on a darker background like so:

http://www.247advisor.com/artman/publish/leadership-team-development.shtml