I can't set the colour explicitly, because sometimes the text is a link, so who knows what colour it's supposed to be. Man, the whole set of :: functionality seemed so cool, but it's been a bit of a headache today.

Maybe I'm approaching it wrong. Must think more.

Well, what exactly are you trying to do?

You see the links in the right hand panel that have the red plusses in front of them? I wanted to make those lists of links be actual lists instead, and use CSS generation to create the red plus. Which, with ::before and ::first-letter was simple enough to do.

But how would I override that to remove the red plusses in a successive style sheet? I can remove the plus easily enough, but I can't turn off the red first letter.

You see the links in the right hand panel that have the red plusses in front of them?

You mean the left hand panel, right?

Of course I do.

Define the color of the plus in the :before section.

ul.class_list li.class_item_with_plus::before { content:"+"; color: #990000; }

That should eliminate the need to use :first-letter.

Et voila! Thanks a bunch.

I can't believe I had to understand specificity to make that work.

Ah, well. I'll probably forget it in a couple seconds.

Help! My Aspire One will not start windows. This morning it was stuck on (with an alarm going off because I used an online alarm clock), and I had to shut it down manually. When I turned it on again, it went to that screen where you can start from the last known good settings or in various safe modes. I have tried them all. The first just goes back to the starting screen, and the safe mode runs through a whole lot of files and then stops.

This computer has no CD drive...

Commodore 64 reincarnated in laptop form

The build uses a genuine 'C64C' motherboard, along with a gamecube power supply and SD card doing its best floppy disk impersonation. But I'm guessing that vintage keyboard feel is the best part!