Reputation: 10339
I've a button and I wanted to know if it is possible to make the css bellow shorter.
.button a:link, .button a:visited, .button a:hover, .button a:active {
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
}
I mean maybe:
.button a:* {
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
}
Maybe there isn't any shorter way, but I just wanted to know. I found something like this out:
.button a:link:visited:hover:active {
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
}
But it wasn't working, don't know why.. For information - I've general css for a in the top of the file:
a:link {
color: #DA5632;
}
a:visited {
color: #CE3408;
}
a:hover {
color: #289BF8;
}
a:active {
color: #CE3408;
}
So the button class a should overwrite the main a css.
Upvotes: 9
Views: 5989
Reputation: 5905
.button a
is all you need
I always set a default style on a
, and target pseudo classes only when I need to have a different effect.
Edit to include fix from comments:
Because a default style for the a element is declared like:
a:link {
color: #DA5632;
}
a:visited {
color: #CE3408;
}
a:hover {
color: #289BF8;
}
a:active {
color: #CE3408;
}
at the top of the stylesheet, we need to make it body .button a
by increasing selectivity we increase the importance of the styles applied.
Upvotes: 5
Reputation: 10466
Here are some things to try
make sure that your stylesheet has a rule for ".button a" - also make sure this stylesheet is included after the global one defining rules for "a".
If that doesn't work, try being more specific, as in: ".button > a", only selecting direct descendants.
If THAT doesn't work, while it's bad practice, you could always mark your styles as important, like so:
color: #fff !important;
this will demand that they are parsed last.
Upvotes: 0