[thelist] No Color on Visited Links

|| cira || cira at bork.hampshire.edu
Sun Oct 19 15:47:10 CDT 2003


oh jeez, I just realized that will not work, how silly of me. 

Here's a question for you. Are you using any kind of server side language 
ie, PHP, ASP? 

-Samantha


On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Randy Pearson wrote:

> 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
> 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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