What's this STYLE Tag doin' ?

[Setya]

Hi all,
I'm a newbie in web development. I've got some samples of HTML pages.
However, in one of those samples I've found the following tag in the HEAD
section :

<style fprolloverstyle>
A:hover {color: #FF0000; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold}
</style>

Could anyone tell me what's above tag doing ? It doesn't seem to have any
effect on the page at all (I've tried to remove it and it doesn't make any
difference on the page appearance).Please feel free to also send your answer
to my personal e-mail address.

Thanks in advance

Setya

[Russell Jones]

The style tag causes links to turn red and become underlined when you hover
over them with the mouse. Add a link (an anchor tag) to your HTML to see
this in action. For example: <a href="somefile.htm">This is a link</a>.

"Setya" <jsetya@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3bc92dd5$1@news.devx.com...
>
> Hi all,
> I'm a newbie in web development. I've got some samples of HTML pages.
> However, in one of those samples I've found the following tag in the HEAD
> section :
>
> <style fprolloverstyle>
> A:hover {color: #FF0000; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold}
> </style>
>
> Could anyone tell me what's above tag doing ? It doesn't seem to have any
> effect on the page at all (I've tried to remove it and it doesn't make any
> difference on the page appearance).Please feel free to also send your
answer
> to my personal e-mail address.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Setya
>

[Setya]

"Russell Jones" <arj1@northstate.net> wrote:
>The style tag causes links to turn red and become underlined when you hover
>over them with the mouse. Add a link (an anchor tag) to your HTML to see
>this in action. For example: <a href="somefile.htm">This is a link</a>.
>
>"Setya" <jsetya@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3bc92dd5$1@news.devx.com...
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I'm a newbie in web development. I've got some samples of HTML pages.
>> However, in one of those samples I've found the following tag in the HEAD
>> section :
>>
>> <style fprolloverstyle>
>> A:hover {color: #FF0000; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold}
>> </style>
>>
>> Could anyone tell me what's above tag doing ? It doesn't seem to have
any
>> effect on the page at all (I've tried to remove it and it doesn't make
any
>> difference on the page appearance).Please feel free to also send your
>answer
>> to my personal e-mail address.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Setya
>>
Thanks Mr. Russell
Now that makes sense, but what 'bout the 'fprolloverstyle' part ? Is
this an attribute ? the syntax doesn't seem so. Could you also recommend
me a complete documentation on how to use the "A:hover {color: #FF0000; text-decoration:
underline; font-weight: bold}" part ?

[Russell Jones]

My guess is that it's something generated by FrontPage, based on the "fp" at
the beginning of the attribute. Browsers simply ignore attributes that they
don't "understand", which is convenient when you want to do something such
as identify a tag type based on a custom attribute or store information in a
tag. IE has a concept called "expandos" which are exactly what you're
seeing--custom attributes added to a tag. Search for "expando property" if
you want to know more.
For example, if you had some custom code that inserted HTML into a page, and
you wanted to be able to hide all the elements that your code inserted, you
could add an expando to your tags that you could later search for with
script. That way, you could interact with only *your* added tags without
affecting any content that was already on the page.

"Setya" <jsetya@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3bc9444b$1@news.devx.com...
>
> "Russell Jones" <arj1@northstate.net> wrote:
> >The style tag causes links to turn red and become underlined when you
hover
> >over them with the mouse. Add a link (an anchor tag) to your HTML to see
> >this in action. For example: <a href="somefile.htm">This is a link</a>.
> >
> >"Setya" <jsetya@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3bc92dd5$1@news.devx.com...
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >> I'm a newbie in web development. I've got some samples of HTML
pages.
> >> However, in one of those samples I've found the following tag in the
HEAD
> >> section :
> >>
> >> <style fprolloverstyle>
> >> A:hover {color: #FF0000; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold}
> >> </style>
> >>
> >> Could anyone tell me what's above tag doing ? It doesn't seem to have
> any
> >> effect on the page at all (I've tried to remove it and it doesn't make
> any
> >> difference on the page appearance).Please feel free to also send your
> >answer
> >> to my personal e-mail address.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance
> >>
> >> Setya
> >>
> Thanks Mr. Russell
> Now that makes sense, but what 'bout the 'fprolloverstyle' part ? Is
> this an attribute ? the syntax doesn't seem so. Could you also recommend
> me a complete documentation on how to use the "A:hover {color: #FF0000;
text-decoration:
> underline; font-weight: bold}" part ?
>

[Jon Crosse]

<STYLE> tags are related to CSS (Casscading Style Sheets)
For more info on them go to:

http://www.projectcool.com/developer/cssref/index.html

_________________________
Jon Crosse


"Setya" <jsetya@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>"Russell Jones" <arj1@northstate.net> wrote:
>>The style tag causes links to turn red and become underlined when you hover
>>over them with the mouse. Add a link (an anchor tag) to your HTML to see
>>this in action. For example: <a href="somefile.htm">This is a link</a>.
>>
>>"Setya" <jsetya@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3bc92dd5$1@news.devx.com...
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I'm a newbie in web development. I've got some samples of HTML pages.
>>> However, in one of those samples I've found the following tag in the
HEAD
>>> section :
>>>
>>> <style fprolloverstyle>
>>> A:hover {color: #FF0000; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold}
>>> </style>
>>>
>>> Could anyone tell me what's above tag doing ? It doesn't seem to have
>any
>>> effect on the page at all (I've tried to remove it and it doesn't make
>any
>>> difference on the page appearance).Please feel free to also send your
>>answer
>>> to my personal e-mail address.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>> Setya
>>>
>Thanks Mr. Russell
> Now that makes sense, but what 'bout the 'fprolloverstyle' part ? Is
>this an attribute ? the syntax doesn't seem so. Could you also recommend
>me a complete documentation on how to use the "A:hover {color: #FF0000;
text-decoration:
>underline; font-weight: bold}" part ?
>