- From: Mac Internet Explorer Talk <MacIE-Talk@lists.boingo.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:22:05 -0500 (EST)
- To: "www-style" <www-style@w3.org>
>On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>
>> Oh Taaaaanteeeeek... ;)
>>
>> In my page I have:
>>
>> <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.
>>
>> What's up?
>
>The cascade is working properly. What you want is the :visited above
>the :hover, since they have the same weight (011). So this is not a
>bug in MacIE5.
>
>However, even better would be:
>
> :link { color: #0000FF; background: transparent; }
> :visited { color: #666666; background: transparent; }
> :link:active, :visited:active { color: #000000;
> background: #999999; text-decoration: underline; }
> :link:hover, :visited:hover { color: #0000FF;
> background: #999999; text-decoration: underline; }
>
>See also:
> http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/css/1999/09/links
>
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