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Hello. I'm a web design newbie and was happy to discover this site because I love the idea of CSS and am having fun figuring out how to employ it appropriately. I am hoping that some more experienced designers can help me apply a specific style to a specific kind of link. To allow users to jump to a specific page section- let's call it Leeroy Jenkins- I am currently using

a href=#section1>jump to: Leeroy Jenkins</a>

at the top of the page and

 a name=\"#section1\">Leeroy Jenkins</a>

where the section starts.

My style.css page styles links as

#main a { color: #CC3300; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold }

.
I would like the jump to links at the top of the page and the links at the beginning of each section to NOT be underlined. I understand that there is a way to do this with id or class attributes, but I can't figure out what goes in the html & where and what goes in my style sheet & where.

What I have tried is adding

a.jumpto {text-decoration:none;}

to my style sheet and using

<a href=\"#section1\" class=\"jumpto\">jump to: Leeroy Jenkins</a>

to create the link at the top of the page. This results in the non-underlined style I want for the first link, but the link at the beginning of the section, which is currently

<a name=\"#section1\">Leeroy Jenkins</a>

is still underlined.

I would greatly appreciate your feedback and suggestions. As I'm rather new to this, I'm afraid that I need someone to spell out very specifically what goes where (add ABC to the style sheet, use XYZ where you're currently using [my code]).

My CSS:

body
{
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	background: #FFF;
	font-family: \"arial\", \"verdana\", \"tahoma\", \"times new roman\";
	font-size: 90%;
	color: #444;
}

#headercont
{
	margin: 0 auto;
	width: 100%;
	height: 150px;
	background: #333 url('../images/background-headercont.png') repeat-x;
}

#header
{
	margin: 0 auto;
	width: 800px;
	height: 150px;
}

#header h1
{
	text-align: right;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 52px 0 0 0;
	font-size: 275%;
	color: #CC3300;
	letter-spacing: -2px;
	font-weight: normal;
}

#header h1 span
{
	color: #FFF;
	font-weight: bold;
}

#menucont
{
	margin: 0 auto;
	width: 100%;
	height: 40px;
	background: #CC3300 url('../images/smithbackground-menucont.png') repeat-x;
}

#menu
{
	margin: 0 auto;
	width: 800px;
	height: 40px;
}

#menu ul
{
	float: right;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	list-style-type: none;
	font-weight: bold;
}

#menu ul li
{
	display: inline;
}

#menu ul li a
{
	float: left;
	padding: 12px 15px;
	text-decoration: none;
	color: #FFF;
	
}

#menu ul li a.active
{
	background: #333 url('../images/smithbackground-menucont-active.png') repeat-x;
}

#menu ul li a:hover
{
	background: #333 url('../images/background-menucont-hover.png') repeat-x;
}

#maincont
{
	margin: 0 auto;
	width: 100%;
	background: #FFF url('../images/background-maincont.png') repeat-x;
	line-height: 150%;
}

#main
{
	margin: 0 auto;
	width: 800px;
	padding: 40px 0 15px 0;
}

#main h1, h2, h3, h4, h5
{
	margin: 0 0 15px 0;
	padding: 0;
	font-size: 200%;
	color: #CC3300;
	letter-spacing: -2px;
	font-weight: bold;
}
h2 {
  font-size:175%;
  font-weight: normal;
}

h3 {
  font-size:150%;
  font-weight: normal;
}

#main p
{
	margin: 0 0 15px 0;
	padding: 0;
}

#main img
{
	float: right;
	margin: 0 0 10px 10px;
	border: 1px solid #AAA;
}

#main a
{
	color: #CC3300;
	text-decoration: underline;
	font-weight: bold;
}

#main a:hover
{
	color: #333;
	text-decoration: underline;
	font-weight: bold;
}

.vcenter {
  min-height: 12em;
  display: table-cell;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

#footercont
{
	margin: 0 auto;
	width: 100%;
	line-height: 150%;
	font-size: 85%;
	font-weight: bold;
}

#footer
{
	margin: 0 auto;
	width: 800px;
	border-top: 1px solid #CCC;
	padding: 0 15px;
	color: #999;
}

#footer p
{
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}

#footer a
{
	color: #CC3300;
	text-decoration: none;
}

#footer a:hover
{
	color: #333;
	text-decoration: none;
}

#footerleft
{
	float: left;
	width: 250px;
	padding: 15px 0;
}

#footerright
{
	float: left;
	width: 550px;
	padding: 15px 0;
	text-align: right;
}

And some sample code:

<div id=\"maincont\">
	<div id=\"main\">
		<a href=\"#section1\">jump to: Leeroy Jenkins</a></p>
		<a href=\"#section2\">jump to: I Love CSS</a><br/><br/>
		<h1><a name=\"#section1\">Leeroy Jenkins</a></h1>
                 <p>Here is some stuff about Leeroy Jenkins.</p>
                <h1><a name=\"#section2\">I Love CSS</a></h1>
		<p>Here is some stuff about why I Love CSS.</p>
		</div>
</div>

My objective in all this is to differentiate the "jump to" links and their destinations from the other links on my site.
Thanks in advance,
Melissa

apostrophe

Wow. That's a hell of an explanation for a very simple request. :D

Just add the class "jumpto" to all the links that you don't want underlined.

Roughnite

.jumpto {text-decoration: none;}

<a href=\"#section1\" class=\"jumpto\">Leeroy Jenkinds</a>

should do the trick

autopathography

Thanks for the responses.

To get it to work, I ended up having to use

#main a.jumpto {text-decoration: none;}

instead of the suggested

.jumpto {text-decoration: none;}

I am assuming that this is okay since it validates and does what I want it to do?

I could not get

<a name=\"#section1\" class=\"jumpto\">Leeroy Jenkinds</a>

to validate, so I am using

<a name=\"section1\" id=\"section1\" class=\"jumpto\">Leeroy Jenkins</a>

but that's an XHTML thing, I suppose.

Thanks again for the quick and helpful suggestions.

TheDoc

No, it would actually be incorrect to put the "id" in like that.

I think you might have the "name" and "href" mixed up.

<a href="#jiggins" class="jumpto">Check out the Jiggins</a> (note how it's still a 'href')

will link to:

<a name="jiggins"></a>This is where your content for the Jiggins section will be. (note how this is 'name')

Because you were putting name="#xxxxx" is probably why it wasn't validating.

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