Title: H2 hover problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# H2 hover problem

 *  [rhealz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhealz/)
 * (@rhealz)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h2-hover-problem/)
 * In Firefox, when hovering over the date above one of my posts, it changes from
   red to a smaller font and light grey (this isn’t a problem in IE – amazingly).
   
   I’ve tried for the last week to figure out why and can’t figure it out. At this
   point, I’d like for it to be either all red or all grey. I just don’t want any
   hover activity at all. Thanks in advance for the help. [http://ryanhealy.com](http://ryanhealy.com)

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h2-hover-problem/#post-121113)
 * You need a wee bit more CSS in there.
    As it is, the date is a link, so it displays
   as the colour of a link (#DF1111). When you hover it, it’s displaying as a h2(#
   696969), so to clear it up, you need a bit more CSS. One way to do it – there
   are a couple – is this: h2 a:hover { text-decoration:none; color:#FF00FF; } That
   is a bright pink, which I guess you’ll be needing to change, but it’s in the 
   right direction 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [rhealz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhealz/)
 * (@rhealz)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h2-hover-problem/#post-121164)
 * Ah!
    Thank you. Very much. I didn’t know that h2 needed to be treated like a 
   link. God. That clears up a whole mess of questions. Heh.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h2-hover-problem/#post-121173)
 * Odd.
    Source view: `<h2>12/23/2004`</h2>
   
    Why is that link in there ? It doesn’t
   seem to be doing anything useful ?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h2-hover-problem/#post-121179)
 * What actually is it you want the date to do ?
    If it’s a link, then to what does
   it link ? Where would I go if I clicked it ? If it’s not a link, why do we need
   a hover behaviour ? If you can describe exactly what the date is meant to look
   like and where it’s meant to be, the css won’t be a problem. This hover stuff
   has me very puzzled though..
 *  Thread Starter [rhealz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhealz/)
 * (@rhealz)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h2-hover-problem/#post-121181)
 * Fair enough.
    I’d like the position of the date to be where it is currently (
   I reinserted the h2 tags) and also to look like it does currently. Except without
   the hover behavior, of course. I don’t want it to be a link or go anywhere if
   you click it. Does that make sense?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h2-hover-problem/#post-121207)
 * Can you post the actual code from index.php which covers the date ?
    And are 
   you using some sort of ‘Time since’ plugin ?
 *  Thread Starter [rhealz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhealz/)
 * (@rhealz)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h2-hover-problem/#post-121214)
 * Here’s the code:
    ` <?php if ($posts) : foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp();?
   > <h2><?php the_date(); ?></h2> <div class="post"> <h3 class="storytitle" id="
   post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link: <?php the_title();?
   >"><?php the_title(); ?> <span><?php edit_post_link(); ?></span></h3> <div class
   ="meta"><?php the_author() ?> | <?php the_time() ?> | <?php the_category() ?>
   </div> <div class="storycontent"> <?php the_content(); ?> </div>  And I am using
   a Rich Manalang’s Time Since plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [rhealz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhealz/)
 * (@rhealz)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h2-hover-problem/#post-121215)
 * Crap.
    I need to put divclass = h2, don’t I?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h2-hover-problem/#post-121222)
 * Rich Manalang’s Time Since plugin
    That’s messing with the_date and causing the
   grief I suspect.
 *  Thread Starter [rhealz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhealz/)
 * (@rhealz)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h2-hover-problem/#post-121223)
 * Yep. I deactivated it and it got rid of the hover activity.
    That’s too bad because
   I liked that plugin. Thanks for your help. I would never have suspected that 
   problem.
 *  Thread Starter [rhealz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhealz/)
 * (@rhealz)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h2-hover-problem/#post-121421)
 * Dissurion- Thanks for the idea. I’ll give it shot and see what happens.
 *  [dissurion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dissurion/)
 * (@dissurion)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/h2-hover-problem/#post-121509)
 * Hey np, there are different solutions possible. There is as far as I remember
   just one output line from the plugin so you could take whatever you feel comfortable
   with.

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