mark lewis wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> HTML sure does have its share of peculiarities.  I've been
 RJT> working on some stuff here and hit on an oddity where the link
 RJT> wouldn't change color after you were there.

 ml> this may be part of the html page... consider the following... 

 ml>  alink="#00ffff" vlink="#00ffff">

Ok,  I have something like that,  but with somewhat different values in it.

 ml> the background color is #000000
 ml> the document text is #00ffff
 ml> a link is #00ffff
 ml> an active (being pressed) link is #00ffff
 ml> a visited link is #00ffff

 ml> so, the links, no matter what state, are the same color as the
 ml> document text...

In my case it's 0000FF and 000080,  blue and navy.  Not a *real* high
contrast,  but some.  I'm thinking of changing that,  but...

 ml> yes, you can use the font tag to alter the color for specific
 ml> sections of text... not sure, but i believe so, that you can alter
 ml> the color of specific links...

 ml> i'm not even going to touch on CSS (cascading style sheets) other
 ml> than to say that not only can they control the font style and size
 ml> but also the color...

That's further into it than I want to get at present.

 RJT> They're not terribly different,  but they should be noticeably 
 RJT> different, as that's the way I have it set up. I was only having 
 RJT> this problem with one set of links out of a whole big page.  I 
 RJT> finally figured out a workaround, putting underscores in place of 
 RJT> the spaces that were embedded within the filename.

 ml> you could possibly use %20 in the link, too and leave the spaces...

Not sure how you mean,  there.  The space was actually in the filename, 
not in the part between ">link text,  where spaces don't
give me any trouble.

 RJT> I have *NO* idea whether the fault was in the Konqueror browser 
 RJT> or in Apache, though I suppose I could set up a test and try IE 
 RJT> from the w98 box.  Weird stuff,  anyhow...

 ml> as long as you remember that IE doesn't always follow the 
 ml> standards, it is one test, yes...

At this point it's about the only one I can think of,  offhand.

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