[Wylug-help] Style problem.

[Gary Stainburn]

On Thursday 01 March 2007 11:45, Smylers wrote:
> Gary Stainburn writes:
> > The code below does exactly what I want it to do. It displays a green
> > box and a brown box, both with white writing in.  However, when I try
> > to do this on the page I need it for, I always black writing. Does
> > anyone have any clues why?
>
> Yes.  Because on the live page after:
> > td#day54 { color: #ffffff; background-color: #876811;}
> > td#day55 { color: #ffffff; background-color: #72bf44;}
> > <snip>
>
> You then have:
>
>   #rostertable a
>   {
>     display: block;
>     text-decoration: none;
>     color: #000;
>   }
>
> The text in your table cells is all links, so both rules match.  Note
> that both that rule and the td#day54 ones match one ID and one element
> name, so they have the same specificity -- which means the latter rule
> is applied and the links turn black.
>
> If you change that to:
>
>   color: #FFF
>
> then all links in the table will be white (and you can remove the text
> colour from each separate cell).
>
> If you want the link (text) colour to depend on the background colour
> then make the link text be:
>
>   color: inherit;
>
> and it will use whatever is specified as the text colour for the cell as
> a whole.
>
> Smylers

Thanks to both of you for your replies.  

The 'color: inherit;'  worked. 

Cheers

Gary
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Gary Stainburn
 
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