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

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

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

right, but it illustrates the point...

 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...

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

yeah, blue and navy blue may be a bit hard to see... that's why i generally
go for bold differences... black page, cyan text, yellow links, bright
purple visited links just for an example...

 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...

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

yeah, me too... but i'm heading that way, slowly but surely...

 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...

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

right... a file named "my file.txt" sans quotes would be href'd like

  my file

 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...

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

i missed it before but the fault in rendering can't be in apache... all it
does is serve up what's there... the fault in rendering has to be in the
receiver application... lynx, konqueror, netscape mozilla, ie,
crazybrowser, whatever...

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