Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours

By Dick Oliver

Style Properties

The following list explains everything that you can reliably do with style sheets if you want to stay compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 or later and Netscape Navigator 4 or later. The CSS1 standard includes a number of additional formatting options, some of which are supported by version 5 browsers. I didn't include those here since a great many people today are still using version 4 browsers, but you can find the complete CSS1 specification online at http://www.w3c.org.

Note

Since the <a> tag can be used for two fundamentally different purposes (depending on whether it contains a name attribute or an href attribute—see Hours 3 and 7), the style sheet standard gives you a way to say "only <a> tags that are links." In fact, you can even say "only visited links" or "only active links," too.

For example, the style sheet in Figure 16.3 contains the following, which makes both visited and unvisited links red while making active links black:

a:link {color: red;}
a:visited {color: red;}
a:active {color: black;}

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