[drewprops]

Okay, I've come a looong way since the last time I posted questions about CSS for you guys. Here's something that I'm taking to dreamland with me to puzzle over with my subconscious mind:

If I make the following paragraph:

<p class="example"><a href="http://www.applenova.com">Apple Nova</a></p>

I know that I can make a class style that renders that paragraph as a block element and that I can give that block element a background image. However, if I want that background image to work as a substitute for the text (a graphic image of the AN logo instead of the text "Apple Nova") that my success is going to be hit or miss, relying on using transparent text or spottily implemented opacity tags.

What I'm wondering is, can I instead use an ALT tag to accomplish what I'm after? I just want to make sure that I can make some alternate stylesheets for my site that are plain vanilla, graphics-sparse pages.

So, if I do THIS:

<p class="example"><a alt="Apple Nova" href="http://www.applenova.com"></a></p>

Then make my p.example style a block element with a background image for my graphics-rich stylesheet and yet make it (p.example) normal text in another stylesheet?

The answer is one experiment away, but I thought I'd post it here for discussion before I hit the sack.

Any instructional dialogue would be nice. Humming is good too.

[Gargoyle]

If I have understood you correctly, the following will hopefully lead you to where you want to be:-

<style>p.fancy {	// Set the background image	background: url(etc,blah,blah);}p.fancy b {	// Hide the <b> tag.	display: none;}p.simple b {	font-weight: normal;}</style><p class="fancy"><b>Some Text</b></p><p class="simple"><b>Some Text</b></p>

In these examples you can replace the <b> tag with whatever you want. Even a "span.someclass" might be neater.

I have deliberately not used a link, because if you hide the contents of the link, then what will the user click on?

[ast3r3x]

I'm so confused...I spend 5 minutes reading over it last night trying to figure out what he wanted to do.

I assumed he wanted formatted text to display if he didn't have the picture.

-or-

He wanted a picture to show, but have transparent text over top of it so it was the proper width/height to display the image.


Of course I was so confused that I am sure that is not it.

[drewprops]

Ha!
You're right, I should never write things when I'm half-asleep (which would of course reduce my writing output by 90%).

Gargoyle seems to have understood what I want to do very nicely, I can't wait to try it out! Ast3r3x, it was your FIRST impression that I'm after; I'd like to have my CSS degrade from displaying pretty buttons to straight-up text.

I'm not ready to show my site to the world yet but I'm PMming you guys to show you what I've been up to for the last few months (read: for the last YEAR)...