Safari Displays Red Links

[Vincent Vanier]

Opening our web site in Apple's Safari browser is rendering most of our links in red instead of the desired color. Found a link on Adobe's page with a solution, but I can't tell what needs to go where to make this problem go away.

Problem

Defined link styles for your page display properly in all browsers but appear red in Safari.

Solution

Check CSS files, linked or imported into your X/HTML document, for 404 errors (page not found). Safari will render the X/HTML 404 page as if it is a CSS document. Thus, if the 404 document has CSS styles defined in the head, it may override your defined link styles.

Detailed description

When checking your page in various browsers, you may find Safari displaying a bright red text color for your page anchors (links), overriding the colors you've specified in your CSS selectors.

First, look for a CSS document that may not be uploaded to your server. It will be returning a 404 (page not found) error. The simplest way to do this is to use the Web Developer's Toolbar extension for Firefox (by Chris Pederick) and simply click on the CSS > View CSS menu item. The page that appears will actually render the 404 error page code (if it exists) among the other linked and imported CSS documents. This method is effective because it pulls in any CSS documents related to your page -- even if they're brought in through a Javascript file.

Once you locate the document returning the 404 error, you can upload that CSS file to the server and your red links will disappear.

[Joshua Cyr]

OOps, meant to post to the forum and not your profile.

Adding that file should work acording to apple.
Also, it isn't loading for me still. Double check its name and place.
http://www.madhs.mad.k12.me.us/primarytemplatefiles/stylecalendar.css

[Vincent Vanier]

It's there.

[Vincent Vanier]

Well if I could spell correctly the first time I would've been all set. Seems as though the fix is to create a valid css page and save it as stylecalendar.css in the primarytemplatefiles folder. Now that I've done that, the links return to their proper colors. Thanks!