linking to text in dreamweaver ultradev 4 - how to change the style of links?

Question

At present all my text links are in blue (purple once visited) and underlined.
Is there any way to change this (eg I would like it to be bold, black and with no underline), apart from replacing it with a graphic?

Answer 1

To achieve different appearances for links in a page, you should define a CSS style (or stylesheet) for the various link states.

You can learn how to do this using Macromedia's own Dreamweaver tutorials online: http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Dreamweaver/CSS/1

Answer 2

You can do this in your CSS (stylesheet):

a {
text-decoration:none;
font:weight:bold;
color:black;
}

However I would consider very carefully whether you actually want to do this. People expect links to be blue and underlined, and may not find them if they're not.

At the very least, you should add a 'hover' style as well so that when the mouse is over a link, it goes underlined:

a:hover {
text-decoration:underline;
}