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Hopefully this is a common problem and the solution is simple!
I have an existing site that is a mixture of text and thumb-nailed images.
I have been using FrontPage Themes but as these are becoming "chocolate box"
/ cliché I want the better control and flexibility of CSS.
As a first step I thought I would replicate the Theme in native CSS,
eliminating all the <!--mstheme ...> data and <font ...> type tags.
After a big rework of the site and the software that generates it I have got
*MOST* of the conversion to emulate the original MSFP2000 managed set of
pages.
There are two exceptions however. I'll go into the other one in a separate
posting. This one is about the ugly blue border around the thumbnails!
The site previously used the Glacier Theme, with its cool green-grey-blue
colour scheme. The thumb borders were identical to the colours applying to
text hyperlinks, and while I have successfully got the text looking right
(with a:link, a:visited, a:active and a:hover rules set to the colours from
the theme) the thumb borders are blue or purple! Generic!
I've managed to force one page to display the colours I want by setting the
body tag parameters to:
<body link="#339999" vlink="#999999" alink="#406666">
This isn't good for a couple of reasons. One - it is hardwired and means I
have style info in my pages (not true CSS philosophy). Two - MSFP cleans
out the information whenever it does a "refresh" of the site!
So how do I get the thematic coloured borders around my thumbs? I have
searched the web with Google and read the CSS2 specification, but I am none
the wiser!
Cheers, Paul
I have an existing site that is a mixture of text and thumb-nailed images.
I have been using FrontPage Themes but as these are becoming "chocolate box"
/ cliché I want the better control and flexibility of CSS.
As a first step I thought I would replicate the Theme in native CSS,
eliminating all the <!--mstheme ...> data and <font ...> type tags.
After a big rework of the site and the software that generates it I have got
*MOST* of the conversion to emulate the original MSFP2000 managed set of
pages.
There are two exceptions however. I'll go into the other one in a separate
posting. This one is about the ugly blue border around the thumbnails!
The site previously used the Glacier Theme, with its cool green-grey-blue
colour scheme. The thumb borders were identical to the colours applying to
text hyperlinks, and while I have successfully got the text looking right
(with a:link, a:visited, a:active and a:hover rules set to the colours from
the theme) the thumb borders are blue or purple! Generic!
I've managed to force one page to display the colours I want by setting the
body tag parameters to:
<body link="#339999" vlink="#999999" alink="#406666">
This isn't good for a couple of reasons. One - it is hardwired and means I
have style info in my pages (not true CSS philosophy). Two - MSFP cleans
out the information whenever it does a "refresh" of the site!
So how do I get the thematic coloured borders around my thumbs? I have
searched the web with Google and read the CSS2 specification, but I am none
the wiser!
Cheers, Paul