Using hover syntax inline?

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Using hover syntax inline?

Defining hover attribute within a HTML tag

Bluestreak

12:31 am on Feb 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hello all,

I use a free mailing list service to deliver my html newsletters, but they strip my <head> tags completely, forcing me to do all my CSS coding inline.

The first problem I came across during my recoding is that the "hover code" is not recognized when using CSS to define the properties of a link. Here's an example:

href="http://xxxxx" style="link, visited, active {font: 11px geneva, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: #8BC7FF; text-decoration: none;} hover {font: 12px geneva, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: #FF0000; text-decoration: none;}
"

When I remove the hover syntax it works fine, but with it it bombs out. Is it possible to use the hover feature inline, or will it only work as defined within the <head><style>...</style></head> tags?

Birdman

12:39 am on Feb 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

Unfortunately, I don't think so but if someone knows how, I would love to know also.

BlobFisk

10:29 am on Feb 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

I've only tested this in IE6 and Mozilla, but if you put your anchor pseudo-classes in a <style type="text/css">...</style> in your html (ie right below you <body> tag), this will style your links correctly.

Again, the caveat being that I only tested this in IE6 and Mozilla... not in any email application.

edit_g

11:25 am on Feb 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

BlobFisk- that will work fine in most big email apps (hotmail, yahoo, outlook).

When using inline styles like this in emails you have to remember to apply they styles actually in the body as well (so its no good defining td, tr, p etc in the head). I.e. you have to go <span class="whateveryourclassis"> for every single thing you've defined- otherwise your inline styles will be overrided by the email provider's (say hotmail or yahoo's) own stylesheet.

DrDoc

9:50 pm on Feb 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

Well, here's something that would work .. It's not pretty, and it's a pain if you have a ton of links.

Anyway, why not do this?