Refreshing Hyperlinks

kaycee79 · Jan 21, 2004

I have hyperlinks on my website, and to start of with, they are blue, but once a user has clicked on them, they change purple. Now, the question is, once a user has left the site, is it possible to change the hyperlinks to blue again, so they look as though they have been untouched?

Thanks in advance

BillyRayPreachersSon · Jan 21, 2004

You could do this server-side, by keeping track of which links the user has visited, and delivering them differently, only for that session (I believe this might be how Tek-Tips persists your link history across sessions).

But apart from that, I can't think of a way. Using CSS, you can do it, but when the user revisits the site, they'd stay that way.

Hope this helps,

Dan

kaycee79 · Jan 21, 2004

what is CCS? and how would i do it on there?

BillyRayPreachersSon · Jan 21, 2004

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. CSS lets you control how the content of your page looks.

To change the colour of your visited links, you'd use:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<style type=&quot;text/css&quot;>
a:link    { color: red;  }
a:visited { color: blue; }
</style>
</head>

<body>
Click <a href=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.google.co.uk/&quot;>here</a>[/URL] to visit Google
</body>
</html>

Hope this helps!

Dan

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Refreshing Hyperlinks

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