Chapter 59. Applying Styles to Hyperlinks

HTML provides a basic set of attributes for controlling the appearance of hyperlinks on your page. These attributes appear in the body tag:

<body link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF00FF" alink="#FF0000">

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An unvisited link is a link to a page that the browser doesn't remember visiting. A visited link is a link to a page that the browser does remember visiting. An active link is a link that the visitor is currently clicking or highlighting.

Table 59.1 summarizes the link attributes. As you can see, HTML ties them to three link states: the unvisited state, the visited state, and the active state. You use color to tell the three states apart. An unvisited link is a link to a page that the browser doesn't ...

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