Overridng link colour with extra CSS

cyruss · 04-07-2011, 05:56 AM

Hi all.

I'm trying to override the default link colour (from blue to black) with an external CSS, but it doesn't work. I've tried these and other variations:

a {color:black}
a:link {color:black}
.calibre10 {color:black} // this is class label for links in the HTML.

I've also tried using external stylesheets from the command line, and adding the CSS text into the text field. Note that other overrides, such as body {background-color:yellow} works fine.

Any ideas? I'm coverting from HTML to epub.

kovidgoyal · 04-07-2011, 11:12 AM

IIRC overriding link colors is not going to work. This is because of a workaround to support broken rendering of links in some readers.

cyruss · 04-08-2011, 07:58 AM

It worked fine after a subsequent epub-to-epub conversion. Is that expected?

04-07-2011, 05:56 AM	#1
cyruss Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle	Overridng link colour with extra CSS Hi all. I'm trying to override the default link colour (from blue to black) with an external CSS, but it doesn't work. I've tried these and other variations: a {color:black} a:link {color:black} .calibre10 {color:black} // this is class label for links in the HTML. I've also tried using external stylesheets from the command line, and adding the CSS text into the text field. Note that other overrides, such as body {background-color:yellow} works fine. Any ideas? I'm coverting from HTML to epub.

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04-07-2011, 11:12 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,159 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	IIRC overriding link colors is not going to work. This is because of a workaround to support broken rendering of links in some readers.

04-08-2011, 07:58 AM	#3
cyruss Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle	It worked fine after a subsequent epub-to-epub conversion. Is that expected?

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