SUMMARY
This article describes how to create customized hyperlinks by using cascading style sheets (CSS).
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The following examples demonstrate how to use customized settings of cascading style sheets to create personalized hyperlinks.
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Example 1: Only Underlines Are in Color
This example allows the hyperlink text color to be the same as the text color of the document. Only the line under each hyperlink should appear in a different color.
- Create a new page in FrontPage.
- Insert the following code in the <HEAD></HEAD> section of the page:
<style>
body { color: black; background-color: white; font-family: arial }
a { color: black; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px }
a:link { border-bottom-color: blue }
a:visited { border-bottom-color: purple }
a:hover { border-bottom-color: green }
a:active { border-bottom-color: red }
</style>
- Insert the following code in the <BODY></BODY> section of the page:
<p>Please see <a href="http://www.microsoft.com">http://www.microsoft.com</a> for more.</p>
<p>Please see <a href="http://www.msn.com">http://www.msn.com</a> for more.</p>
- View the page in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later. The underlines for the hyperlinks should be in a different color from the text.
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Example 2: Hover Buttons
This example creates solid hover-style buttons.
- Create a new page in FrontPage.
- Insert the following code in the <HEAD></HEAD> section of the page:
<style>
body { color: black; background-color: white; font-family: arial }
a { text-decoration: none; padding: 3px }
a:link { color: white; background-color: blue }
a:visited { color: white; background-color: purple }
a:hover { color: white; background-color: green }
a:active { color: white; background-color: red }
</style>
- Insert the following code in the <BODY></BODY> section of the page:
<p>Please see <a href="http://www.microsoft.com">http://www.microsoft.com</a> for more.</p>
<p>Please see <a href="http://www.msn.com">http://www.msn.com</a> for more.</p>
- View the page using Internet Explorer 4.0 or later. The hyperlinks should appear as hover buttons.
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Example 3: Outline Buttons
This example creates a special kind of hover button, where a colored box appears around the hyperlink text, creating an outline effect.
- Create a new page in FrontPage.
- Insert the following code in the <HEAD></HEAD> section of the page:
<style>
body { color: black; background-color: white; font-family: arial }
a { color: black; text-decoration: none; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px; padding: 2px }
a:link { border-color: blue }
a:visited { border-color: purple }
a:hover { border-color: green }
a:active { border-color: red }
</style>
- Insert the following code in the <BODY></BODY> section of the page:
<p>Please see <a href="http://www.microsoft.com">http://www.microsoft.com</a> for more.</p>
<p>Please see <a href="http://www.msn.com">http://www.msn.com</a> for more.</p>
- View the page using Internet Explorer 4.0 or later. The hyperlinks should appear as hover buttons that are boxes around the text.
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Example 4: Alter Text Styles
This example forces all hyperlinks to text that is non-underlined, italicized, and lowercase. Unvisited links appear in bold text, and links are converted to uppercase text when a user rests the mouse over the link.
- Create a new page in FrontPage.
- Insert the following code in the <HEAD></HEAD> section of the page:
<style>
body { color: black; background-color: white; font-family: arial }
a { text-decoration: none; font-style: italic; text-transform: lowercase }
a:link { color: blue; font-weight: bold }
a:visited { color: purple }
a:hover { color: green; text-transform: uppercase }
a:active { color: red }
</style>
- Insert the following code in the <BODY></BODY> section of the page:
<p>Please see <a href="http://www.microsoft.com">http://WWW.microsoft.COM</a> for more.</p>
<p>Please see <a href="http://www.msn.com">http://WWW.msn.COM</a> for more.</p>
- View the page in Internet Explorer 4.0 or later. The text changes styles when you rest the mouse on it.
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REFERENCES
For additional information, click the article numbers below
to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
196488 FP2000: What Are Cascading Style Sheets?
205996 FP2000: How to Create Cascading Style Sheets in FrontPage
240972 FP2000: How to Remove Underlines from Hyperlinks
222949 FP2000: Hover Effects for Form Buttons using DHTML and CSS
For a Microsoft FrontPage 2002 version of this article, see
287706.
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