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My link colours will not work

by kimkitch
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Can somebody please help me and if I had any hair I would be tearing it out by now. I cannot get the links on my blog to show anything other than a grey colour. I have tried changing the colours manually and by inserting the different html colour codes but nothing seems to work. I would like my links to be blue or red. Could it be anything to do with the wordpress theme that I am using.
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Please I desperately need your help

Thanks

Kim
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  • Profile picture of the author James A. Miller
    You're probably changing the colors within the page's code instead of the style.css file.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Sanchez
      You need to go your Admin Panel.

      Click on Appearance

      Click on Edit

      Your stylesheet.css should be displayed.

      Edit them there.
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      • Profile picture of the author kimkitch
        Originally Posted by Steve Sanchez View Post

        You need to go your Admin Panel.

        Click on Appearance

        Click on Edit

        Your stylesheet.css should be displayed.

        Edit them there.
        Steve

        Thanks for the answer

        Which part of the stylesheet do I edit please

        Regards

        Kim
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        • Profile picture of the author Killer Joe
          A lot of times this happens if the "#" character is not placed before the six digit color code. (ffffff instead of #ffffff, as an example)

          KJ
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          • Profile picture of the author xiaophil
            Hi Kim,

            In your stylesheet:

            wp-content/themes/Body Building 1/style.css

            Around line 30 you have:

            Code:
            a , a:visited
    {
        text-decoration:none;
        color:#aeaeae;
    }


            Just change #aeaeae (which currently means grey) to the color of your choice.

            Phil
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            • Profile picture of the author kimkitch
              Originally Posted by xiaophil View Post

              Hi Kim,

              In your stylesheet:

              wp-content/themes/Body Building 1/style.css

              Around line 30 you have:

              Code:
              a , a:visited
    {
        text-decoration:none;
        color:#aeaeae;
    }


              Just change #aeaeae (which currently means grey) to the color of your choice.

              Phil
              Phil

              Thanks for answering

              As you can see i have changed the colour code to what should be blue, but my links are still Grey
              Anything else I may need to change

              a , a:visited
              {
              text-decoration:none;
              color:#0000ff;
              }



              Regards

              Kim
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              • Profile picture of the author Killer Joe
                Kim,

                Try clearing your browser temp files and see if your links look different. If you have clicked the links your browser will show the color (colour) of a visited link instead of the color you want your links to appear like prior to being clicked on.

                KJ
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                • Profile picture of the author Steve Sanchez
                  You can change the color of your visited links as will as your link.

                  This will change the color on your page since you've already visited the links.

                  Hope this helps.
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                  • Profile picture of the author Aaron Moser
                    Originally Posted by Steve Sanchez View Post

                    You can change the color of your visited links as will as your link.

                    This will change the color on your page since you've already visited the links.

                    Hope this helps.
                    Agreed,

                    This is your problem...

                    Check the active links and visited links color in your style.css

                    The best way I found learn and edit CSS is to download this Firefox add-on called Firebug. It's a CSS developer tool that helps you identify the CSS that's controlling the style. You just point or highlight what you want to see the CSS for and it shows you where it's located. You can also make the changes live on the page to see how it looks. It's a great tool for this kinda stuff!
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                • Profile picture of the author kimkitch
                  Originally Posted by Killer Joe View Post

                  Kim,

                  Try clearing your browser temp files and see if your links look different. If you have clicked the links your browser will show the color (colour) of a visited link instead of the color you want your links to appear like prior to being clicked on.

                  KJ
                  KJ

                  That sorted it, thanks for the advice

                  Regards

                  Kim
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  • Profile picture of the author sentient
    I was looking for the solution to this, so thanks Phil.
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