Styles for visited links problem.

I have the following css for default links:

a:link{
color:#737373;
text-decoration:none;
}

a:visited
{
text-decoration: none;
color:#737373;

}

a:hover {
color:#000000;
text-decoration:underline;
}


So i want to have the visited links the same as the unvisited links. When I move the mouse over the link, i just want to underline. And it does exactly that for links i haven't clicked before. But once i visited a link, the hover (with underlining) does not work anymore on the link. The link is still a link, but it shows up as normal text and hovering it does not underline the link anymore.

What's the problem here?

 

To the best of my knowlege, there is no psuedo class :link.

Just get rid of the :link (make it just "a") and I think it should work as expected.

 

There is a psuedo-selector called :link that works on anchors.

There are five of them, in fact. :link :visited: hover :active :focus (they must appear in that order).

:link is for the unvisited state
:visited is for the visited state
:hover is for the hover state
:active is for the active state
:focus is for when the link has focus

I'll be back in a few to look at this particular problem.

 

Ok, here's what I'd do.

Set your unvisited and visited link styles at the same time:

a:link, a:visited {
    background: transparent; /* you should always specifiy a background color, just in case the user knows just enough CSS to be dangerous and breaks your layout */
    color: #737373;
    text-decoration: none;
}

Code (markup):

Then set your hover state links:

a:hover {
    background: transparent; /* see above comment about background colors */
    color: #000; /* short hand for "black" or #000000; */
    text-decoration: underline;
}

Code (markup):

 

i'll give it a try. Although i don't think setting the link and visited link classes together will make any difference.

 

They're not classes, but states. Since you want them both to have the same effect, giving them the same code just makes sense.

And this is just the same as setting them both individually (it just reduces the amount of code written since it literally targets both the unvisited and visited states at the same time).