Getting rid of the blue color of links

How do I get rid of that blue color for a link?
<div align="center"><span class="style17"><a href="kitchen.html">Kitchen</a></span><br class="spacer" />

Thats the code.
I want it to be set at a certain hex color and it is, until I make it into a link. How do i keep it as a link but also retain the original hex color?

 

Google is your friend

 

Thank you for that blissful answer mate, however thta does not help me as it was the first place I looked. Try again.

 

You looked at G and didn't find it ?? You mean you didn't find how to change the color of a link????

 

The easiest way to do things like that is through css. I'm guessing your not using a style sheet though?

To do it through styles you will see something like this somewhere on the page:
<style type="text/css">
<!--
.style17 {color: #FFFFFF}
-->
</style>

and then you have the link:
<div align="center"><span class="style17"><a href="kitchen.html">Kitchen</a></span><br class="spacer" />

see how it says style17? find style17 in the style section and change the corresponding color. or make a new style.

 

Either use a style sheet:

<style type="text/css">
.style17 a {
  color: #ff00ff;
}
</style>

<div align="center"><span class="style17"><a href="kitchen.html">Kitchen</a></span><br class="spacer" />

HTML:

or you could use an inline style:

<div align="center"><span class="style17"><a href="kitchen.html" style="color:#ff00ff">Kitchen</a></span><br class="spacer" />

HTML:

 

Or the <FONT COLOR="#fdd700"> ...OR just by Googeling

 

Tried Font color before I asked didn't work, tried and no result. I google everything mate before it's asked.
To the others, thanks. I am using a css sheet but it's my first time and this is an isolated link that is turning blue. All other links on the page retain their original color, thanks though will try the css codes.

 

The font element was deprecated in HTML 4.01:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/graphics.html#edef-FONT

so if you are using a doctype of HTML 4.01 or anything more recent then you should use styles instead.

 

Well the inline style made it work, the color was already set in the css. I don't know why it changed when adding the link.
Alls settled now, thanks mates.

 

It makes sense now, it happened because it's the only link with a style, the rest are controlled by css. If you delete the style from the link it will be controlled by the css again.

 

On first level...

 

well, has anybody here heard of google code? they have a whole search engine tailored to just looking for snippets of code! pretty cool eh? our friend up there may not have been too far off (although he didn't know it at the time)

I recommend the W3Cschools, they made the standards, they explain them best!

best of luck in the future, innovat!

 

W3Schools has NOTHING to do with the W3C, it's just that the domain name was acquired by some LUCKY people.

Anyway, the thread starter's code just reeks of bloat - there should be no need to wrap an anchor inside a span that's inside a DIV like that.

Kngavl, if you don't mind me asking, what does your entire page look like?

 

Not my design, someone else's and I'm just messing with bits of code and such. Gonna finish up my beta for it in a couple days once I'm done and then my code will be the one for my site spartansaving.

Btw I have never used CSS before and my coding is just basic html haha, pretty brutal and what I do is quite sloppy.

 

Ah. That would explain a few things. Anyway, if you ever want to take up CSS, just let me know and I'll give you some quality resources that'll help get you started.

 

Here's an example of what you can do.

<style type="text/css">
A:link {text-decoration: none}
A:visited {text-decoration: none}
A:active {text-decoration: none}
A:hover {text-decoration: underline; color: red;}
</style>

 

(just wanted to let you have the order wrong - it should be link, visited, hover, active, focus - LVHAF)