How to change link color when visited.

Yup, I know of the a:visited thing, but the problem is that it doesn't work when someone clicks on a link that opens a new page.

How does one go about changing the link color as soon as it is clicked?

Thanks

Skinny

 

you can use

a:hover

when the mouse roams over it the link will change colors.

I don't believe there is a way.. at least not using css....

 

Hmm darn. .

Maybe its javascript using the onclick command? and then using it to affect the style sheet?

Skinny

 

use

a:link
for normal unvisited links

a:visited
for visited links

a:active
for active links.

a:hover
for hovered links.

 

Skinny is right, you would have to use a line of javascript if I understand what you are trying to do

I'm not even sure this line works but it would look something like

<a href="http://" onClick="this.style.color='#000'">link</a>

Code (markup):

either way you are gonna needs some js

cheers

 

Thanks Jared. Gonna test it out.

Skinny

 

You're basically altering the active state with JavaScript, so a:active { } will do the job. I think the only shortcoming is IE (which IIRC still doesn't support it in IE 7), but there are ways around that.