get the font on a hyperlink to change color when i hover my mouse over the link.
Add to your active theme’s style.css
a:hover { color: #000066; }
change color to taste.
I’m really sorry. I don’t mean to sound ignorant, but I specified on my message that I don’t really understand code that well, so I was wondering what I need to do to enter something under onmouseover in the Insert/edit link events window with the visual editor. I also don’t know all these codes for colors. My main page http://www.sterlinghometheater.com on the right side is what I want. When you hover the pointer over recent post, tetimonies, pages etc… the font changes red. I’ve looked everywhere to try to mimic that but can’t find it anywhere?
The hover color on the right sidebar of your site is #8b0024
You cannot change the color of link hover in the insert/edit box in write panel.
You should change the color in your active theme’s style.css file. Open up the style.css with a text editor like Notepad or bbedit. Then add this after #nav block
a:hover ( color: #8b0024; }
Maybe I’m not explaining this correctely. Still confused. If I change the color in the active themes style.css, how do i apply that to a selected hyperlink phrase or word? If you look on my main page, the words Sterling Home Theater, computer, home theater, electronics, the pointer will change to a hand indicating a hyperlink that i have setup. All I want to happen is when I hover over the words, it will change to red. I know how to setup the word with hyperlink, just don’t know how to change the color.
I now understand why you’re getting confused with my suggestion to add styling for links in your style.css when I looked at the source code of your webpage. You are used to adding inline styles which you might have copied from MSWord or other application.
What I have been trying to explain here is the correct way to add styling for the elements of your site. Inline styling is bad because it could clash with your next theme should you change it. Then, you would have to change every instance of the inline styling in all your posts, not good at all. But with one line of a:hover in your active theme’s style.css, the link WILL CHANGE color when you hover over any link within the content area. Your top navigation and the sidebar links have their respective targetted stylings in the style.css for the hover state.
More importantly, online visitors might not even hover over your content’s word, keyword or phrase which are links because there’s no visual difference between the links and text within your content. So I will suggest adding this styling to your style.css file BEFORE a:hover I gave above.
a:link { text-decoration: underline; color: #1FB3DD; }
