califdon
THANK YOU
You pointed me in the right direction to solve the problem !
I had started in the wrong direction: Thinking I could debug the source code.
[ Stop laughing. 20 years of cobol ruins a good mind ]
For those looking at software; there is Nusphere
http://www.nusphere.com/PhpED/
But the key was Califdon's words "font family"
I was focused (bad pun) on <a href> because it was the LINK that was the wrong colour and the wrong size.
WRONG
FIREFOX has the solution (built in)
If you RIGHT CLICK on an item, the popup menu says "Inspect Element"
Then, in the menu at the bottom of the (webpage), you can click on STYLE
It shows all the styles, and inherited styles too.
From there, it was a matter of backtracking
As you can see in STYLES.CSS below
the COLOUR is 898989 - which is "red" (as I found out, colours change based on page properties etc....)
So, once I had the colour, I was able to find the offending code:
.pageContent { font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: #898989; }
.pageContent a { font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: #898989; }
Thus the FONT-FAMILY and FONT-SIZE and COLOUR were the culprits.
THANK YOU CALIFDON
FOR POINTING ME IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION !!!!
/* content */
.text-header { font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial Narrow, Arial, sans-serif; color: #555555;}
.pageContent { font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: #898989; }
.pageContent a { font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: #898989; }
/* top elements */
.company { font-weight: bold; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial Narrow, Arial, sans-serif; color: #30586F; text-transform: uppercase; }
.slogan { font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial Narrow, Arial, sans-serif; color: #F2F1EF; text-transform: uppercase; }
/*main menu*/
.menu { font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: #686868; text-decoration: none; }
.amenu { font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: #686868; text-decoration: underline; }
/*submenu*/
.submenu { font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: #686868; text-decoration: none; }
.asubmenu { font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: #686868; text-decoration: underline; }
/*bottom menu*/
.bmenu { font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: #555555; text-decoration: none; }
.abmenu { font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: #555555; text-decoration: underline; }
/*copyright*/
.footer { font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; }
/*backgrounds*/
.main-bg { background-color: #ffffff; }
.color-bg { background-color: #54809B; }