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CSS Links
With CSS, links can be styled in many different ways.
Styling Links
Links can be styled with any CSS property (e.g. color , font-family , background , etc.).
Example
In addition, links can be styled differently depending on what state they are in.
The four links states are:
- a:link — a normal, unvisited link
- a:visited — a link the user has visited
- a:hover — a link when the user mouses over it
- a:active — a link the moment it is clicked
Example
/* unvisited link */
a:link color: red;
>
/* visited link */
a:visited color: green;
>
/* mouse over link */
a:hover color: hotpink;
>
/* selected link */
a:active color: blue;
>
When setting the style for several link states, there are some order rules:
Text Decoration
The text-decoration property is mostly used to remove underlines from links:
Example
a:visited text-decoration: none;
>
a:hover text-decoration: underline;
>
a:active text-decoration: underline;
>
Background Color
The background-color property can be used to specify a background color for links:
Example
a:link <
background-color: yellow;
>
a:visited background-color: cyan;
>
a:hover background-color: lightgreen;
>
a:active background-color: hotpink;
>
Link Buttons
This example demonstrates a more advanced example where we combine several CSS properties to display links as boxes/buttons:
Example
a:link, a:visited <
background-color: #f44336;
color: white;
padding: 14px 25px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
display: inline-block;
>
a:hover, a:active background-color: red;
>
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Example
This example demonstrates how to add other styles to hyperlinks:
Example
Another example of how to create link boxes/buttons:
a:link, a:visited <
background-color: white;
color: black;
border: 2px solid green;
padding: 10px 20px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
display: inline-block;
>
a:hover, a:active background-color: green;
color: white;
>
Example
This example demonstrates the different types of cursors (can be useful for links):
COLOR PICKER
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:visited
The :visited CSS pseudo-class applies once the link has been visited by the user. For privacy reasons, the styles that can be modified using this selector are very limited. The :visited pseudo-class applies only and elements that have an href attribute.
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Styles defined by the :visited and unvisited :link pseudo-classes can be overridden by any subsequent user-action pseudo-classes ( :hover or :active ) that have at least equal specificity. To style links appropriately, put the :visited rule after the :link rule but before the :hover and :active rules, as defined by the LVHA-order: :link — :visited — :hover — :active . The :visited pseudo-class and :link pseudo-class are mutually exclusive.
Privacy restrictions
For privacy reasons, browsers strictly limit which styles you can apply using this pseudo-class, and how they can be used:
- Allowable CSS properties are color , background-color , border-color , border-bottom-color , border-left-color , border-right-color , border-top-color , column-rule-color , outline-color , text-decoration-color , and text-emphasis-color .
- Allowable SVG attributes are fill and stroke .
- The alpha component of the allowed styles will be ignored. The alpha component of the element’s non- :visited state will be used instead. In Firefox when the alpha component is 0 , the style set in :visited will be ignored entirely.
- Although these styles can change the appearance of colors to the end user, the window.getComputedStyle method will lie and always return the value of the non- :visited color.
- The element is never matched by :visited .
Note: For more information on these limitations and the reasons behind them, see Privacy and the :visited selector.
Syntax
Examples
Properties that would otherwise have no color or be transparent cannot be modified with :visited . Of the properties that can be set with this pseudo-class, your browser probably has a default value for color and column-rule-color only. Thus, if you want to modify the other properties, you’ll need to give them a base value outside the :visited selector.
HTML
a href="#test-visited-link">Have you visited this link yet?a>br /> a href="">You've already visited this link.a>
CSS
a /* Specify non-transparent defaults to certain properties, allowing them to be styled with the :visited state */ background-color: white; border: 1px solid white; > a:visited background-color: yellow; border-color: hotpink; color: hotpink; >
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CSS Links
With CSS, links can be styled in many different ways.
Styling Links
Links can be styled with any CSS property (e.g. color , font-family , background , etc.).
Example
In addition, links can be styled differently depending on what state they are in.
The four links states are:
- a:link — a normal, unvisited link
- a:visited — a link the user has visited
- a:hover — a link when the user mouses over it
- a:active — a link the moment it is clicked
Example
/* unvisited link */
a:link color: red;
>
/* visited link */
a:visited color: green;
>
/* mouse over link */
a:hover color: hotpink;
>
/* selected link */
a:active color: blue;
>
When setting the style for several link states, there are some order rules:
Text Decoration
The text-decoration property is mostly used to remove underlines from links:
Example
a:visited text-decoration: none;
>
a:hover text-decoration: underline;
>
a:active text-decoration: underline;
>
Background Color
The background-color property can be used to specify a background color for links:
Example
a:link <
background-color: yellow;
>
a:visited background-color: cyan;
>
a:hover background-color: lightgreen;
>
a:active background-color: hotpink;
>
Link Buttons
This example demonstrates a more advanced example where we combine several CSS properties to display links as boxes/buttons:
Example
a:link, a:visited <
background-color: #f44336;
color: white;
padding: 14px 25px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
display: inline-block;
>
a:hover, a:active background-color: red;
>
More Examples
Example
This example demonstrates how to add other styles to hyperlinks:
Example
Another example of how to create link boxes/buttons:
a:link, a:visited <
background-color: white;
color: black;
border: 2px solid green;
padding: 10px 20px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none;
display: inline-block;
>
a:hover, a:active background-color: green;
color: white;
>
Example
This example demonstrates the different types of cursors (can be useful for links):
COLOR PICKER
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:visited
:visited CSS псевдо-класс представляет собой ссылки , которые пользователь уже посетил. По соображениям конфиденциальности стили, которые можно изменить с помощью этого селектора, очень ограничены.
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Стили, определенные псевдоклассом :visited , будут переопределены любым последующим псевдоклассом, связанным со ссылкой ( :link , :hover или :active ), который имеет по крайней мере равную специфичность. Чтобы правильно оформить ссылки, поместите правило :visited после правила :link , но перед правилами :hover и :active , как определено LVHA-порядком : :link — :visited — :hover — :active .
Privacy restrictions
Из соображений конфиденциальности браузеры строго ограничивают то,какие стили вы можете применять с помощью этого псевдо-класса,и как их можно использовать:
- Допустимые CSS свойства color , background-color , border-color , border-bottom-color , border-left-color , border-right-color , border-top-color , column-rule-color , outline-color , text-decoration-color и text-emphasis-color .
- Допустимые атрибуты SVG: fill и stroke .
- Альфа-компонент разрешенных стилей будет игнорироваться. Вместо этого будет использоваться альфа-компонент состояния элемента non- :visited .В Firefox, когда альфа-компонент равен 0 , стиль, установленный в :visited , будет полностью игнорироваться.
- Хотя эти стили могут изменить внешний вид цветов для конечного пользователя, метод window.getComputedStyle будет лгать и всегда возвращать значение не :visited цвета.
- Элемент никогда не сопоставляется :visited .
Примечание. Дополнительные сведения об этих ограничениях и их причинах см. В разделе « Конфиденциальность» и селектор «посещение» .
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Examples
Свойства, которые в противном случае не имели бы цвета или были бы прозрачными, нельзя изменить с помощью :visited . Из свойств, которые можно установить с помощью этого псевдокласса, ваш браузер, вероятно, имеет значение по умолчанию только для color и column-rule-color . Таким образом, если вы хотите изменить другие свойства, вам нужно дать им базовое значение вне селектора :visited visit.
HTML
a href="#test-visited-link">Have you visited this link yet? a>br> a href="">You've already visited this link. a>
CSS
a < / * Укажите непрозрачные значения по умолчанию для определенных свойств, позволяя им стилизовать с состоянием: посещенное * / background-color: white; border: 1px solid white; > a:visited < background-color: yellow; border-color: hotpink; color: hotpink; >
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Specifications
HTML Links — Different Colors
An HTML link is displayed in a different color depending on whether it has been visited, is unvisited, or is active.
HTML Link Colors
By default, a link will appear like this (in all browsers):
- An unvisited link is underlined and blue
- A visited link is underlined and purple
- An active link is underlined and red
You can change the link state colors, by using CSS:
Example
Here, an unvisited link will be green with no underline. A visited link will be pink with no underline. An active link will be yellow and underlined. In addition, when mousing over a link (a:hover) it will become red and underlined:
a:visited color: pink;
background-color: transparent;
text-decoration: none;
>
a:hover color: red;
background-color: transparent;
text-decoration: underline;
>
a:active color: yellow;
background-color: transparent;
text-decoration: underline;
>
Link Buttons
A link can also be styled as a button, by using CSS:
Example
To learn more about CSS, go to our CSS Tutorial.
HTML Link Tags
For a complete list of all available HTML tags, visit our HTML Tag Reference.