Question

Currently I am trying to implement my first HTML5 application, but I am having some general issues regarding HTML/CSS, specially using header tag.

Usually I put the main tag at the beginning of the CSS rule, therefore I could control each property and to don’t mix any of them.

Right now I have this CSS code:

header div.followUs { float:right; font:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;    color:#B2B2B2; font-style:italic }
header div.followUs a,a:link,a:active,a:visited { color:orange }

header nav { clear:right; float:right; margin-top:20px }
header nav ul li { float:left; margin-right: 25px; text-transform:uppercase; font-weight:bold }
header nav ul li:last-child { margin-right: 0 }
header nav ul li a { text-decoration:none }

And my HTML code is:

<header>
<div class="header-inner clearfix">
    <h1 class="logo">Client KickOff</h1>
    <div class="followUs">Segue-nos no <a href="#">Twitter</a> and <a href="#">Facebook</a>.</div>
    <nav>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="/html/">Notícias</a></li>
            <li><a href="/html5/">Quem Somos</a></li>
            <li><a href="/css/">Os Nossos Produtos</a></li>
            <li><a href="/css3/">O Nosso Portefólio</a></li>
            <li><a href="/js/">Contacte-nos!</a></li>
            </ul>
    </nav>
</div>
</header>

It is giving the same color as the div with the followUs class applied to the navigation items.

Any ideias?

Answer 1

header div.followUs a,a:link,a:active,a:visited { color:orange }

will literally mean this:

header div.followUs a { color: orange }
a:link { color: orange }
a:active { color: orange }
a:visited { color: orange }

So your links in the navigation are matching to the single a:link rule, since it is not specified to be within the header and followUs division.

You need to have the header div.followUs in front of each of the a: selectors. Although, you should just remove the extra a: selectors because the initial header div.followUs a will already cover all forms.