Changing style of Hyperlinks

Hi, 
 
on the following site <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/project/notable2.5.php#jump_14'>New and Notable Features within BIRT 2.5</a> I found a discription for styling hyperlink. So i wrote a css file with the code below and tried to import or to use this external css-file in my Birt-project: 
 
a:link{ 
color: black; 
text-decoration: none; 
} 
 
a:visited{ 
color: black; 
text-decoration: none; 
} 
 
a:hover{ 
color: black; 
text-decoration: none; 
} 
 
a:aktive{ 
color: black; 
text-decoration: none; 
} 
 
The problem is that birt(2.5.1) says he cannot import style. 
I also tried something like this: 
.table-header a:link{ 
background : grey; 
font-size : 12pt; 
} 
 
Someone has an idea why it doesnt work?

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alex520

the css attribute you use isn't the birt style attribute, eg:
background-color:red;
font-size: small;

you can get the correct attribute name and possible attribute value from edit style editor.

peachskitt

I'm having trouble with this as well. Based on the documentation, I added these styles to my stylesheet:

a:link { color: red; }
a:visited { color: red; }
a:hover { color: red; }
a:active { color: red; }

BIRT says it can not import on any of these, even though it looks like the example say this should work?

Can anyone offer some insight?

peachskitt

Shameless bump.... higher ups demand hyperlink styles. Need help!

Chris605

Hi peachskitt,
a few months ago I needed to generate a vertical text within my report table. Finally I made it with css. At least (and I'm not really sure if it's the resolution for your problem) I've putted the .css file as a Shared Resource. Then I also got a lot of styledefinitions which BIRT can't import. After a lot of tries, I made a class named .vertical with the definition and the class could be inserted into the report. Perhaps you also have to give BIRT an URI for preview (e.g. localhost/your.css)

So for your links, you perhaps have to define a styledefinition like this:

a.new:link, a.new:visited, a.new:hover, a.new:active {color:red;}

Hope it helps you.

Regards
Chris

peachskitt

But I assume this means you will need to specify which elements in your report will use these? The result I need to achieve is that the stylesheet needs to be imported to dozens of reports, so making styles that needs to be manually applies will be very very time consuming

But if I can't figure out the way to write the links to make the style work on just a plain import without any other action, then I guess this will be my solution, or just use an outside stylesheet maybe...hmm

YaBen

Hi there,

I have the same problem as yours : I use BIRT 2.5.2 and I cannot import link styles to BIRT, despite what is claimed in the new features section. Did you find any solution for this issue ?

Thx!

YaBen.

Bri

This is a trick that works with BIRT 2.2.1.1.
Click on the Hyperlinked item (e.g. the Label object)
Click on the Script tab.
Select "onRender" for the Script.
Type in something like this:
this.getStyle().color="#333333";

This is the only way I could find to override the default blue/purple/red colors. However, I don't think this can stylize for the different events... in other words, you can't make hover a different color than visited.

Hope that helps some of you.