Styling email link / href="mailto:" with CSS
Thanks to StackOverflow I finally found a way to style my email link, but I wonder why it doesn't work without the solution I found on here.
Since the link is part of the span with the attributed class "about", which has font size and style defined, shouldn't the email link show up in 11px and sans serif?
and while
a[href^="mailto:"]
{
font-family: sans-serif;
color: black;
font-size: 11px;
}
works great, as soon as i try to change it into
.about a[href^="mailto:"]
{
font-family: sans-serif;
color: black;
font-size: 11px;
}
it does not function as it's supposed too.
do tags not listen to span formatting or class nesting?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
html {
height:100%;
}
body {
height: 100%;
margin-left: 20px;
margin-top:0px;
}
.bottom-left {
position: absolute;
font:sans-serif;
bottom: 15px;
left: 15px;
}
.bold {
font-family: serif;
}
.about {
font-size: 11px;
font-family: sans-serif;
}
/*a[href^="mailto:"]
{
font-family: sans-serif;
color: black;
font-size: 11px;
}*/
.address {
font-size: 11px;
border-bottom: 1px grey dotted;
}
</style>
<title>TEMP</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="bottom-left">
<span class="about">
<span class="bold">XYZ</span> is a project space . |
<span="address">Website Information</span> — <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
</span>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Answer
Hi actually you have commented your email link css:-
so now write the css like this method its working fine......
a[href^="mailto:"]
{
font-family: sans-serif;
color: red;
font-size: 11px;
}
see the demo:- http://jsbin.com/ijofoq/edit#html,live
UPDATED
Now its working fine...edit your HTML and add in your HTML
<div class="bottom-left">
<div class="about">
<span class="bold">XYZ</span> is a project space . |
<span="address">Website Information</span> — <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
</div>
basically you have to remove the span tag from .about class.
check this :- http://jsbin.com/ijofoq/2/edit