Sitefinity overriding anchor link colors and properties - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 23-Jan-2012 00:00

Hello,
In one of our new projects with Sitefinity 4.3.1885. SE, I found that Sitefinity overrides the default link colors on a page. It not only overrides the anchor link color, but it also overrides hover, visited and hover states. I found the following code that was overriding all the links on our pages from the file below:
oursite.com/Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd
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.1885.0%2c+Culture%3dneutral%2c+PublicKeyToken%3dnull%3aen%3a03746db0-4fe2-4567-92b0-24f5ce28c3e9%3ad271177c%3adff30785

a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active

color: #105CB6;

text-decoration: none;

I can override the styles by defining an div with an id and then override all the links in the div. But, I should be just fine by defining global links for my site and leave it there. Any reason why this is happening. Please find the attached screenshot.

Thank you for your time.

Posted by Community Admin on 25-Jan-2012 00:00

Hi San,

How do you declare your anchor link styles? If your links have ids or classes set to them, and you declare the css properties to them, default styles won't override them.

Greetings,
Jen Peleva
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 26-Jan-2012 00:00

Hello Jen,

Thank you for the reply. Yes, we can override the default link colors by defining a div and refer the links with the div id's. I prefer not to define id's or class for links on the site. What if a link is created by a user so will they remember to add id or class to it? They might be methods that can add id's or classes to links dynamically, but this should not be the approach. But, anyways I can override them using div id's.

Thank you.

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