Can anyone tell me what code to use in my css stylesheet so that I can set the colour of my anchor links to the same colour as the page text colour?

The word work, for example, is showing up as my general link colour

<a name="38">work</a>

whereas I need it to blend with the surrounding text.

I have tried a few combinations like

a.name {color: #666666}

but haven't cracked it yet.

Any ideas?

or you can give it an id and use that to set the style in your CSS

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Louie, thanks for that, but I have 1000s of pages on the site and would like to set the <a name=""> colour universally on the stylesheet.

Is there not a simple piece of code which can set the colour for all the name tags on the site?

Big D

yes there is but without a link to view the source of the page I can not help.

You need to look for the container id and set the a style based on that.
Don't know if you follow me but give us a link and we might be able to help you.

Okay, I'm working on an illustrated history of ireland and on this page, for example

Celtic Literature

there are 2 name tags - the first one is the word `work' towards the end of the first para

it looks the same color to me as the rest of the text.
anyway try setting the a color based on the container div "col1"

Louie,

The only difficulty I see with that is that I only want to change the colour of the <a name> links in the centre column, not the <a href> links - on some pages there will be both.

I agree re link colour but I've found it difficult to get a green colour which works across the board and stands out against the grey without looking gaudy.

I bet you wish you hadn't replied now!

sorry for saying that to you, but that's because of bad design implementation.
If you add those links between <span class='some_class'>anchor</span> you will get what you want.
Another way is to add the style on the fly using preg_replace or str_replace (php) to those links only.
There are many way to skin a cat but that will depend on your capabilities...

BTW - I am not sorry for getting involved into this at all - I can pull-out anytime if I choose to...

try this:

I'm probably doing something really thick here like not putting the code you sent in certain tags or rewording part but, no, it didn't work

@CHARSET "ISO-8859-1";
body {
font-size:90%;
font-family: Arial;
color: #666666;
}
//your variable
$desc = $row['desc'];//db field name

$desc = str_replace("<a name","<a style='color:#666666; background-color:#990000;font-weight:bold;' name",$desc);

echo $desc;
h1,h2,h3,h4 {color: #cc9933; margin: 0; padding:0;}
p { padding: .2em; text-align: justify; font: arial; line-height: 125%;}
a { color: #336633; font: arial; text-decoration: none;}
a:visited {color: #cc9933; text-decoration: none;}
hr { border: none; background:#000; padding:0; height: 1px;}
/* repeated code per header */
#title {
width: 160px; height: 50px;
background-image: url(ireland-logo.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 20px 10px;
}
#navbar {
background:#8BA870;
border: double #3D5229 4px;
padding-top: 8px;
padding-bottom: 8px;
}
#navbar img { padding:0; margin:0; display:none; }
#navbar ul li a { color: #FFF; }
#navbar ul li a:active { color: #FFF; }
#navbar ul li a:hover { background:#3D5229; }
#header ul li a.active { background:#5E7F3F; font-weight:bold; color:#fff; }
#mainmenu { background-color:#F4F4F4;}
#mainmenu { font-size: 11px;}
#mainmenu ul li a { color: #000;; }
#mainmenu ul li a:hover { background-color:#3D5229; color:#FFF; }
#mainmenu ul li a.active { background:#5E7F3F; font-weight:bold; color:#fff; }
#mainmenu ul li a.last { margin-right: 0; }
#mainmenu ul li a.reallast { margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0; }
.col1 ul
{
margin-left: 50px;
padding-left: 0;
list-style: none;
}
.col1 li
{
padding-left: 20px;
background-image: url(arrow.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 0 .5em;
line-height: 1.4em;
}

/* 3 Column settings */
.threecol {
background:#FFF; /* right column background colour */
}
.threecol .colmid {
background:#FFF; /* center column background colour */
padding-top: 20px;
}
.threecol .colleft {
background:#FFF; /* left column background colour */
}

#footer { background-color: #8BA870; color: #FFF; font-size:80%; padding:1em 2%; border-top:1px solid #ccc; }
#footer a { font-weight: bold; color: #FFF; }

div.amazon { width: 100%; text-align: center; padding: 0 0 0 0; }
div.searchGoogle { width: 100%; text-align: center; margin: 0 0 0 0; }
div.rssFeed { background-color: #FEFEFE; padding: 0.4em;}
div.rssFeed p { font: 0.8em/1.2em verdana; padding:0; text-align: left; }
div.rssFeed p.rssTitle { background:#8BA870;color:#FFFFFF; padding:0.2em; }
div.rssFeed p.title { font: 0.9em/1.4em verdana; margin:0; padding:0.3em; background: #EFEFEF; }
div.rssFeed p.desc { font: 0.8em/1.3em verdana; margin:0; padding:0.4em 0.4em 0.4em 1em; }
div.rssFeed p.link { font: 0.9em/1.4em verdana; margin:0; padding:0 0 0.4em 0; text-align: right; }
div.rssFeed p.others { font: 0.9em/1.4em verdana; margin:0; padding:0.4em 0.4em 0.4em 1em; text-align: left; }
div.rssFeed p a { text-decoration: none; color: #000000; font: 1em/1.4em Verdana; }
div.rssFeed p.link a { text-decoration: none; color: #000000; font: 0.8em/1.2em Verdana; }
div.rssFeed p.others a { text-decoration: none; color: #000000; font: 0.8em/1.2em Verdana; }