Visited Link & Hover

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Adela D

I customized a theme with the colors I wanted for links, active, hovered, and visited. Everything seems to be woring OK except the once a link has been visited, it will no longer show the hover color. Is there anything I can do to make it work - to make visited links respond to the hover?
 
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Wally S

Are you using CSS? If so, the hover color has to come last.

Wally S

Adela D said:
I customized a theme with the colors I wanted for links, active, hovered,
Click to expand...
and visited. Everything seems to be woring OK except the once a link has
been visited, it will no longer show the hover color. Is there anything I
can do to make it work - to make visited links respond to the hover?
 
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Adela D

I am using a template, and I cutomized the HTML tags in the theme under text style. Is there a way I can control the "last" from there? If not, is there another built-in way to do that, or would I have to do it via HTML?
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

You have no control over this, as this is controlled by the browser and the user would have to clear
their Cache to reset the link colors.

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Adela D said:
I am using a template, and I cutomized the HTML tags in the theme under text style. Is there a
Click to expand...
way I can control the "last" from there? If not, is there another built-in way to do that, or would
I have to do it via HTML?
 
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Adela D

Thank you. You have saved me a lot of time... I would have been on a pointless quest!
 
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E. T. Culling

The proper oder for everything to work is: Link, Visited, Hover, Active...
"LVHA". Use CSS to accomplish this. (Is this not possible using a theme?)
Eleanor

Adela D said:
I customized a theme with the colors I wanted for links, active, hovered,
Click to expand...
and visited. Everything seems to be woring OK except the once a link has
been visited, it will no longer show the hover color. Is there anything I
can do to make it work - to make visited links respond to the hover?
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

Adela,

When you use a theme, the link colors are controlled by the theme, so in that case you may have no
control, however if you do not use a theme, you should be able to do this using CSS to specify the 4
states of links.

On a page not using a theme where you use the <body> tag to set the 3 states, you can use the
following embedded CSS to set the hover color:

<style>
<!--
a{text-decoration:none}
a:hover {color:#800000}
//-->
</style>

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==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
==============================================
 
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Adela D

I don't know -- perhaps someelse can answer this question.

I did look at the HTML. Near the top of the page, it has a style section. Link, Visited, and Active are there. I do not know where the Hover comes in, because it is not there, but it does work -- on the Unvisited links only, however.
 
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Stefan B Rusynko

Just edit the style section you have to add a style Hover style between the Visited and Active styles
- note: if using a theme the theme styles will override any style in the HEAD section




| I don't know -- perhaps someelse can answer this question.
|
| I did look at the HTML. Near the top of the page, it has a style section. Link, Visited, and Active are there. I do not know
where the Hover comes in, because it is not there, but it does work -- on the Unvisited links only, however.
|
| "E. T. Culling" wrote:
|
| > The proper oder for everything to work is: Link, Visited, Hover, Active...
| > "LVHA". Use CSS to accomplish this. (Is this not possible using a theme?)
| > Eleanor
| >
| > | > > I customized a theme with the colors I wanted for links, active, hovered,
| > and visited. Everything seems to be woring OK except the once a link has
| > been visited, it will no longer show the hover color. Is there anything I
| > can do to make it work - to make visited links respond to the hover?
| >
| >
| >
 

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