tricky CSS problem - a href and with multiple font-colors

hi there, thanks for taking your precious time to help me by reading this

here a picture:


so I have an area, which I want to act as an link.
On mouseover in any part of the area the cursor should change and it should become a link.
AND there are two different font colors in this area. however both should belong to the same link.

here my approach until now:

HTML-code:

<div id="area">
<a href="http://www.digitalpoint.com">Main Title<br /></a>
<span class="subtitle">Subtitle</span>
</div>

HTML:

and

CSS-code:

#area a {
	font-color: white;
	margin: 0;
	padding-left: 5px;
	padding-bottom: 12px;
	display: block;
	background-color: #000;
}

#area a:hover {
	background-color: #ff0000;
}
.subtitle {
	font-size: 10px;
	font-color: yellow;
	position: absolute;
	margin-top: -17px;
	height: 10px;
	padding-left: 5px;
}

Code (markup):

I also tried putting the span inside the <a> </a>.. but then the subtitle font color gets white, even if a make a ".subtitle a"-tag.

any better ideas?


thanks !!

 

It would take you time to make a picture like that, so:

<a href="#">Main Title<br /><span>Subtitle</span></a>

Code (markup):

is all the html you need.

a {
	display: block;
	width: 130px;
	padding: 5px 10px;
	font: bold 16px/18px arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #FFF;
	text-decoration: none;
	background: #000;
}
a:hover {
	background: #F00;
}
a span {
	font: normal 12px/14px arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #FF0;
}

Code (markup):

 

wohooo it works

2 questions, one small one, one bigger one:

1.) what does 12px/14px mean ? - e.g. when is the first one used, when the other one?

2.) now my thing looks like this:


I've managed to change the height, through setting the "height" attribute, but I can't manage to shift the "Subtitle" higher up through setting the top-margin to a negative value .. is there a better way?


thx for your advice. I hope this will be my last questions ..
good night from europe.

 

font: 12px/14px means 12 pixel font size and 14 pixel line height (not height). The font shorthand requires only a size and 1 font family to work, just a size or font family won't work.. keep that in mind to avoid future errors

 

thanks for the help.

 

one last question:

is it possible to have more than one background picture specified by a <a> tag?

at the moment I have something like this:

<div class="foo"><a href="#">My fancy link</a></div>

HTML:

.foo a {
	display: block;
	width: 100px;
	background: #222 repeat-y left url(image.gif);
}

Code (markup):

but i would like to have another background picture aswell above the other one, at a fixed position. (and it should change on mouseover).

any ideas, how to do this in a clean way?

 

Wouldn't it make sense to just include that into the existing background image? Why have two when they both change together anyway, just merge the images together.