Hi

My links now seem to have a broken-lined rectangular box around them when you select a link. The line is the same colour as the link itself, but this was not there yesterday. Do you think I have a fault with the Dreamweaver application or is there another explanation?

Regards
John

PS It takes a bit of time to get your head around Dreamweaver CS3 Advanced but Janine is getting me there!!!

Hi John,

If the links are actually broken, you need to reset them in Dreamweaver to fix them and should check to make sure you’ve completed the Site Set Up process first.

If it’s just that they look different, you probably have a style for the ‘visited link’ that is different from the main link style. In HTML you can have up to four different styles for the four different states of links. The visited link style appears after you’ve clicked on a link, so your links will look one way the first time you view a page in a web browser, and then they will change to the visited-link style after you’ve clicked on them. That would explain why they look different today than yesterday.

To fix this, look for a style in the CSS Styles panel with the name a:visited. You can also choose Modify Page Properties and then click on the Links category to change the style. You can use the same color for all four settings or a different color for each, depending on whether or not you want your links to look different once a visitor has clicked on them.

Hope that helps and I wish you all the best,
Janine

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