Question

I’m using the below for a global link opacity overlay.

a:hover {
    text-decoration: none;  opacity: 0.6; /* css standard */
    filter: alpha(opacity=60); /* internet explorer */
} /* mouse over link */

How can I add color to this? Is this possible with CSS or am I looking at a JS / jQuery solution only?

Answer 1

If you want the colour e.g. black to be on the background then your code will be

a:hover {text-decoration: none;  opacity: 0.6; /* css standard */
filter: alpha(opacity=60); /* internet explorer */ /* mouse over link */ background: #000; }

and if you want the a tag to have a colour of eg black then your css will look like this

a:hover {text-decoration: none;  opacity: 0.6; /* css standard */
filter: alpha(opacity=60); /* internet explorer */  /* mouse over link */ color: #000; }

for some reason you have an extra } in your code.