CSS to style "jump to" links differently than other links?

[autopathography]

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

Code:

a href=#section1>jump to: Leeroy Jenkins

at the top of the page and

Code:

a name=”#section1″>Leeroy Jenkins

where the section starts.

My style.css page styles links as

Code:

#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

Code:

a.jumpto {text-decoration:none;}

to my style sheet and using

Code:

jump to: Leeroy Jenkins

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

Code:

Leeroy Jenkins

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:

Code:

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:

Code:

jump to: Leeroy Jenkins
jump to: I Love CSS

Leeroy Jenkins

Here is some stuff about Leeroy Jenkins.

I Love CSS

Here is some stuff about why I Love CSS.

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]

Code:

.jumpto {text-decoration: none;}

Leeroy Jenkinds

should do the trick

[autopathography]

Thanks for the responses.

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

Code:

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

instead of the suggested

Code:

.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

Code:

Leeroy Jenkinds

to validate, so I am using

Code:

Leeroy Jenkins

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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