- From: Tim Bagot <tsb@earth.li>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 15:58:01 -0500 (EST)
- To: Style Sheet mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> <STYLE TYPE="text/css">
> <!--
> A:link { color: #0000FF }
> A:hover { color: #0000FF; background: #FFFF00; text-decoration: underline }
> A:active { color: #000000; background: #999999; text-decoration: underline }
> A:visited { color: #666666 }
> -->
> </STYLE>
>
> For visited links, the hover is not coloring the text blue. It worked in
> 4.5, but it's not working in 5.0.
Aha. For such a link both the :hover and :visited pseudoclasses apply.
Since the two rules have the same origin, weight and specificity, the
second wins, so the colour remains #666666. Rearranging the rules, or
adding a separate :visited:hover rule, should have the desired effect.
Tim Bagot
Received on Wednesday, 29 March 2000 04:48:06 UTC