Really pathetic XHTML question(s)

Trip

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Question: In plain XHTML how do I change the color and style of a link? I want to make my links a plain color and have no underline... but I can't seem to work out how to do it. [Edit: Another question is:] How can I put a space between plain text on a page? For example, if I want this: "ExampleExample" to look like this: "Example [a lot of space here] Example"?

Excuse: I'm not having a very pleasant day.
 
As for the space issue, have you tried using simple HTML "&nbsp" code where you want the spaces? So the code would look like:

Code: 
Example       (...)   Example
 
For the color question you would do that with CSS

Code: 
a:link
{
   color: colorcode;
   text-decoration: none; /* no underline */
}
a:visited
{ /* put visited style here */}
a:hover
{ /* put hover style here */}

check out http://www.w3schools.com for info, its usually pretty easy to find stuff there
 
You could also use a tag or two with CSS for the space issue. Do you have a pic, sketch, or example of what you're trying to do?
 
Now for a REALLY stupid question:

How (exactly) do you get the css to work with XHTML? I mean... how do I get my xhtml page to connect to (and use the info in) my css page?

Thanks for all of your help guys!
 
Trip said:
Now for a REALLY stupid question:

How (exactly) do you get the css to work with XHTML? I mean... how do I get my xhtml page to connect to (and use the info in) my css page?

Thanks for all of your help guys!
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First save the doc you ahve all your CSS stuff in as whatever.css (say, yourfile.css for this example), then link to it within the <head> of the html doc that willl be accessing it in one of two ways:

1.
Code: 
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"  href="yourfile.css">

2.
Code: 
<style type="text/css"> @import "yourfile.css"; </style>

Most of the time #1 is best, but the @import version (#2) is handy because it will not be recognised by very old browsers like Netscape 4. Which is a good thing, because NS4 will probably not render your CSS properly.
 
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