visited link not working

I have the CSS code for the visited link which will work in IE on my
Mac.
It doesn't change color in Netscape on the Mac and it doesn't work on
a PC at all. It does work when you refresh the page though. Because
these links open in a Pop up window and your not leaving the page is
the problem. Is there some code I can place to have the page refresh
when the link is clicked? Here is the problem page.

http://www.sagebrushdesign.com/client/essmanns/links.html

On 12 Jul 2004 in macromedia.dreamweaver, PixelDog wrote:

I have the CSS code for the visited link which will work in IE on my
Mac.
It doesn't change color in Netscape on the Mac and it doesn't work on
a PC at all. It does work when you refresh the page though. Because
these links open in a Pop up window and your not leaving the page is
the problem. Is there some code I can place to have the page refresh
when the link is clicked? Here is the problem page.

http://www.sagebrushdesign.com/client/essmanns/links.html

PixelDog:

You asked this exact same question not once but three times back in June:

http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=images&ie=UTF-8&as_ugroup=macromedia.*&as_uauthors=pixeldog

You got answers all three times. The answers haven't changed, nor has
your code. You hold yourself out as a web developer; if you want to be
taken seriously, read the answers you've been given and act on them.

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email: http://makowiec.net/email.php

Joe Makowiec <makowiec (AT) invalid (DOT) invalid> wrote

On 12 Jul 2004 in macromedia.dreamweaver, PixelDog wrote:

I have the CSS code for the visited link which will work in IE on my
Mac.
It doesn't change color in Netscape on the Mac and it doesn't work on
a PC at all. It does work when you refresh the page though. Because
these links open in a Pop up window and your not leaving the page is
the problem. Is there some code I can place to have the page refresh
when the link is clicked? Here is the problem page.

http://www.sagebrushdesign.com/client/essmanns/links.html

PixelDog:

You asked this exact same question not once but three times back in June:

http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=images&ie=UTF-8&as_ugroup=macromedia.*&as_uauthors=pixeldog

You got answers all three times. The answers haven't changed, nor has
your code. You hold yourself out as a web developer; if you want to be
taken seriously, read the answers you've been given and act on them.

Hello Joe,
I have lost count of the hours I have struggled over this link
problem. Since I have requested help I have tried all the suggestions.
I added an :active link, I removed the space %20 on my style sheet. I
replaced all the null (#) links with real ones. And I added a ;return
false; on click to all the links. The suggestion to add a space
between the mainava:visited. to mainav a:visited actually removes all
the styles to the link, and changes the font weight in some of the
links to normal instead of bold. I don't know what else to try. So I
have acted on the
answers given. I am not holding myself out as a web developer, I use
the monicker PixelDog
because I'm an artist or pixel pusher, not a code warrior. I work out
of my house and I have no where, or no one else to turn to for help.
If you have any other suggestions they would be welcomed.
Sincerely,
Dane

On 14 Jul 2004 in macromedia.dreamweaver, PixelDog wrote:

I have lost count of the hours I have struggled over this link
problem. Since I have requested help I have tried all the
suggestions. I added an :active link, I removed the space %20 on my
style sheet. I replaced all the null (#) links with real ones. And I
added a ;return false; on click to all the links.

Those are all good. However, you've done (several) things in a
nonstandard way. You used layout mode to create that table, and it's a
mess of rowspans and colspans. Never use layout mode. Try re-creating
that page using nested tables:

<table>
<tr>
<td>
<!-- Navigation table goes here -->
<table>...</table>
</td>
<td>
<!-- Content goes here; it doesn't need to be in a table -->
</td>
</tr>
</table>

One of the comments you got consistently was to separate the "a" out in
your navigation classes, say subnavigationa to subnavigation a. The
way you're doing it:
<style>
..subnavigation {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 10px;
color: #cdc8b1;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
}
..subnavigationa:link {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
}
..subnavigationa:visited {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
}
..subnavigationa:hover {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #4f4f4f;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
}
</style>
....
<table>...
<td width="170" bgcolor="8b8970" class="subnavigationa">
<a href="cabinetry.html" class="subnavigationa">Custom Cabinetry</a>
</td>

The subnavigation class never gets applied; subnavigationa *is*
applied, but only because you force it onto every link. The way most
developers would do this is:

<style>
..subnavigation {
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
background-color : #8b8970;}
..subnavigation a:link {
color : blue ;}
subnavigation a:visited {
color : purple ;}
subnavigation a:hover, subnavigation a:active {
color : red ;
text-decoration : underline ;}
</style>
....
<table class="subnavigation">
<tr>
<td><a href="cabinetry.html">Custom Cabinetry</a></td>
....

Because the table has the "subnavigation" class, every subelement of
the table will also have that class. Any links <a> within an element
which has class "subnavigation" will have the pseudoclasses as defined
above.

I've spent more time on this than it's worth; do some reading:

http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/pseudoclasses/
http://www.thepattysite.com/pseudoclass.cfm
http://www.thepattysite.com/linkstyles1.cfm
http://www.mako4css.com/

The suggestion to add a space between the mainava:visited. to mainav
a:visited actually removes all the styles to the link, and changes
the font weight in some of the links to normal instead of bold. I
don't know what else to try. So I have acted on the answers given. I
am not holding myself out as a web developer,

http://www.sagebrushdesign.com/website.html

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email: http://makowiec.net/email.php

Thanks for all the suggestions. I just downloaded a tutorial on nested
tables. It also addresses the layout mode snafu. I will rebuild the
pages.
Joe there seems to be a problem with your email form on your website.
Every time I tried sending you an email when I hit submit an OOPS!
invalid email address comes up.
Thanks to everyone for there help.
Dane

On 15 Jul 2004 in macromedia.dreamweaver, PixelDog wrote:

Joe there seems to be a problem with your email form on your website.
Every time I tried sending you an email when I hit submit an OOPS!
invalid email address comes up.

What domain are you using? Don't post the real e-mail address you're
using, else you'll get spam; post just the domain here.

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email: http://makowiec.net/email.php

Joe Makowiec <makowiec (AT) invalid (DOT) invalid> wrote

On 15 Jul 2004 in macromedia.dreamweaver, PixelDog wrote:

Joe there seems to be a problem with your email form on your website.
Every time I tried sending you an email when I hit submit an OOPS!
invalid email address comes up.

What domain are you using? Don't post the real e-mail address you're
using, else you'll get spam; post just the domain here.

My domain is http://www.sagebrushdesign.com
Dane

On Thu 15 Jul 2004 03:41:18p, PixelDog wrote in macromedia.dreamweaver:

Joe Makowiec <makowiec (AT) invalid (DOT) invalid> wrote in message
news:<Xns9527532C29D46makowiecatnycapdotrE (AT) 216 (DOT) 104.212.96>...
On 15 Jul 2004 in macromedia.dreamweaver, PixelDog wrote:

Joe there seems to be a problem with your email form on your
website. Every time I tried sending you an email when I hit submit
an OOPS! invalid email address comes up.

What domain are you using? Don't post the real e-mail address you're
using, else you'll get spam; post just the domain here.

My domain is http://www.sagebrushdesign.com

What domain did you use in the email address you posted to the form? As in
myaddress (AT) mydomain (DOT) invalid?