when you use hover you cannot use inline styles. you have to write it like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
a.hover
{
text-decoration: none;
color:red
}
a.hover:hover
{
text-decoration: underline;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<a class="hover" href="">Site Map</a>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
This will work for you.
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title>ABC</title>
<style type="text/css">
a.hover {text-decoration: none; color: red;}
a.hover:hover {text-decoration: underline;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<a class="hover" href="">Site Map</a>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Read more about css specification.
I think that you should write code like: (Demo here: http://jsfiddle.net/BH7YH/)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
a {text-decoration: none; color:red}
a:hover {text-decoration: underline;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<a class="hover" href="">Site Map</a>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
The inline style overrides the style on the page.
Remove the inline style and uses this:
<style type="text/css">
a {text-decoration: none;}
a:hover {text-decoration: underline;}
</style>
Also advise you not to use <style>
, uses an external css file. Will greatly facilitate maintenance.
The style
attribute is more specific than any selector, so it will always be applied last in the cascade (horrible !important
rules not withstanding). Move the CSS to the stylesheet.
a.hover {
color: red;
text-decoration: none;
}
a.hover:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
(I also suggest a more semantic name for the class).
This might help!
a.hover:link {text-decoration: none;}
a.hover:hover {text-decoration: underline;}