[thelist] No Color on Visited Links
MaKo
shark at mako4css.com
Sun Oct 19 19:28:08 CDT 2003
Randy,
> We're trying to achieve an appearance wherein once a linkhas been
visited,
> there is no longer any special coloring. IOW, it then appears to be just
> regular text. We cannot just specify:
>
> a:visited{color: black;}
>
> because the surrounding text could be in other colors than just black.
(This
> is a syntax-coloring situation to show source code in tutorials.) It
seemed
How do you specify the text color of that surrounding text?
If you apply styling to the <p> or a class, you could easily get away with
a contextual selector, like:
p, a:visited {
color: #FF0000;
}
-- HTH,
MaKo
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"Randy Pearson" <randyp at cycla.com> wrote in message
news:19051392122334 at dserver.cycla.com...
> the logical choice was:
>
> a:visited{color: inherit;}
>
> This indeed worked as we wanted in Firebird/Mozilla, but not in MSIE. Is
> this an MSIE bug, or is there a more proper way to accomplish what we
want?
> If a bug, are there any hacks/workarounds for MSIE?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Randy
>
>
>
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