spectrum48k

Has anyone got any CSS & HTML to change background colour of a table cell when the user hovers over a link ?

bad example (menu table on the upper left of screen)
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bob269

Table Cell Background Colors Change on Mouseover with CSS

spectrum48k

cheers Bob, you are indeed THE MAN

I wrestled with certain search engine terms but couldn't get a decent site - just users in forums and dodgy replies!

That's just what I was looking for.

bob269

I think the key is to use american search terms, such as color not colour, i've found myself in the past getting no useful returns on a search, it wasn't until recently i for some reason decided to try american spellings and low and behold it worked

HankScorpio

CSS and using tables....

spectrum48k

I'm no web designer - I just happen to be able to code in it , albeit old school. Just doing a website for a mate. At least I don't use Internet Explorer only code, which I seem to come across time and time again!

So Hank, if I want to divide the browser window into 3 columns, the central one say 770pixels, would I use DIV instead ?

Semper

What should be used then?

LeeMac

iTrader: (1)

just CSS

but thats just designers, doesn't really matter does it

HankScorpio

Nope, I still use tables.

The web design purists will tell you that tables are for tabular data, not for layout but until there's widespread interpretation of CSS standards it ain't going to happen.

s48k, you can certainly use divs and I have done that to good effect.

It can be a bit of work to get started and get into it but once done, rewarding and dead easy to update/maintain (I change the all colours on one of mine about once a month and takes ten minutes).

Take a look at these for starting points:

CSS Layouts: A collection of 168 Grid and CSS Layouts
CSS Layouts - Code-Sucks.com
Dynamic Drive CSS Layouts- Tableless, CSS based templates

Dynamic Drive is a fantastic resource for all sorts.

If you go down that route, use firefox with the FireBug plugin, a great tool that let's you change css on the fly so you can dick around to get what you want before saving and uploading. saves loads of time if you're a trial and error learner like me.

spectrum48k

bookmarked those!

had a look through ironmyers code and they're using nested DIVs with particular classes linked back the stylesheet

I already use stylesheets so its not a problem to give DIVs a go like this, although TABLES are pretty intuitive too.

HankScorpio

If you really want to do tables in CSS, this is some light reading:

Tables