Registered: Aug 2005 Location: the netherlands Posts: 1045 "@ben: a: active only shows the state of a link on click and will disappaer the moment you let the mouse of the link, I want to know how to make this "stick". And thanks for your offer and compliment." But then....use a:visited?. Unless you use images for the buttons, and use javascript to control it so that once a buttons been hovered/clicked on, it permenantly remains in its altered state. But Ive been told from said reliable web designer source, its not good practice to use images for links.