help? css? dreamweaver 8

[powerlily]

hello! I am at the pathetic first attempt to make a web site and I got stuck at what has probably a very simple answer

I want the text in the page to have a different link colour than the text in the menu
I set the page properties
and I put class=menu in the code of what I want to be the menu, to follow menu properties that I have set

it doesn't work

what can I do?
((I am working with layers, not tables))
thank you for any suggestion

 

[rogersmj]

I suggest you read some CSS articles. This is asked here a lot and is covered in any decent tutorial. As I posted here a week or so ago:

For example, if you have links in two different parts of your page:

<div id="header">
  <a href="#">Link in header</a>
</div>

<div class="navigation">
 <a href="#">Nav link</a>
</div>

Then to give them two different colors you would have something like this in your CSS file:

#header a {
   color: #990000; /* red */
}

.navigation a {
   color: #000099; /* blue */
}

What you're seeing there is very basic CSS selectors. Having "#header a" as the selector says "For any <a> tag inside of something with an ID of 'header', the following applies." Same deal with navigation, except I used a class instead of an ID.

You can take this idea further and define their hover behaviors differently:

#header a {
   color: #990000; /* red */
   text-decoration: none;
}
#header a:hover {
   text-decoration: underline;
}

.navigation a {
   color: #000099; /* blue */
}

That addition removes the default underline on the links in the #header div only, but applies the underline when you hover over them. The behavior of other links on the page remains unchanged.

 

[powerlily]

thanks a lot guys! it worked indeed - the problem also was that I wrote "font" instead of "font-family", now fixed

 

[epochblue]

http://www.w3schools.com/ will be your best friend for syntax-related questions.