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CSS - replace <a> link text with an image?

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Hi all,

I'm trying to write my web site as dynamically as possible. Currently, I'm using <ul> to make up my list of links like so:

&lt;ul id="menu"&gt;
 ?&lt;li id="News"&gt;
 ? ?&lt;a href="http://www.exit138.com" id="selected"&gt;News&lt;/a&gt;
 ?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

I'm not going to write out the CSS I'm using, but it's typical decorative stuff.

So, let's say that I want one design to use text for the links, and another to use background images. I thought this would work:

#menu li#Photos a
{
	background:url(menu\Photos.jpg);
}

But it doesn:(t :(. It puts the background image in as well as the text. I'd like to know what I could do to just not draw the text, either using transparency or some other trick. Thanks.

Mike

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OK:

http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=041%2F041%2Ecss

vs.

http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=020%2F020%2Ecss

Text is used on the top link for "Select a Design" and "Archives", and an image on the bottom link.

I want to do that with the text you use in a hyperlink <a>Replace me</a>

Mike

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I don't understand why it's so difficult for people to understand what I want to do.

<a href="#">Link</a>

I want to replace "Link" with an image so that with one CSS file it uses text, on another it uses an image. Very simple. Here's the code I'm working with:

&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;

#textonly
{
	font: 22px Arial;
	color:red;
}

#image
{
	z-index:2;
	color: black;
	background: url(rss2.jpg) no-repeat;
}

#image h3
{
            border: none;
            margin-top: 5px;
            margin-bottom: 10px;
            height: 30px;
}

#image h3 span
{
	display:none;
}

#links
{
	list-style-type: none;
	position:absolute;
	top:90px;
	left:10px;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	height: 22px;
}

#testlinkx
{
	display:none;
}

#href
{
	width:60;
	background: transparent url(rss2.jpg) no-repeat;
}

#testlinknotused a
{
	border: none;
	margin-top: 5px;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
	height: 30px;
}

#testlink span
{
}

#testlink2 a
{
	font: 22px Verdana;
	color:green;
	text-decoration:none;
}

&lt;/style&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;

&lt;div id="textonly"&gt;
hello
&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div id="image"&gt;
	&lt;h3 class="select"&gt;&lt;span&gt;image&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;ul id="links"&gt;
	&lt;li id="testlink"&gt;
  &lt;a id="href" href="test"&gt;&lt;span&gt;test&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
	&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li id="testlink2"&gt;
  &lt;a href="test"&gt;test2&lt;/a&gt;
	&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

See how you can replace regular text with an image? I want to do that with the text of a hyperlink. Can it be done or not?

Mike

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  Starman said:
OK:

http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=041%2F041%2Ecss

vs.

http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=020%2F020%2Ecss

Text is used on the top link for "Select a Design" and "Archives", and an image on the bottom link.

I want to do that with the text you use in a hyperlink <a>Replace me</a>

Mike

Ok... the second link has text with an image background. That's what you want, only on links? Or... you want just an image and no text?

Basically, just an image as a link instead of text as a link? ...only you want to do it with css and not html?

You're not being clear at all. :/

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See how you can replace regular text with an image? I want to do that with the text of a hyperlink. Can it be done or not?

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Ok, then how about this:

You want to use Arial in one design, but Avant Garde in another.

How do you do that?

Use text in one design, and you HAVE to use an image in the other.

MIke

How is that not clear? Instead of TEXT I want an IMAGE. Yes, as a link.

Mike

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