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1. mytaxsite.co.uk,

Aug 1, 2012 8:13 PM in reply to skronwith

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it always show up as blue. The hover works, when I hover it turns red, but it starts as blue and after I click it to be the active link, it remains blue instead of changing to the active red color, the same as the one used for hover. In fact, no matter where I put a link in my site, it's blue, not black. In the designer view, the linked text shows as black, but as soon as I go to the browser (either Safari or IE), it's blue. Any ideas? Thanks

the blue color signifies that the link has already been visited. The color: #3300ff; is blue and it is shown in a:visited. I suggest change it to:

color: green;

And all your links will be shown to green.

To clear this, you need to clear the cache of your browser.

You also need to correct the fonts to show like this:

font-family : "Times New Roman", Times, serif;

Notice there is a speech marks around Times New Roman and the reason is if you want this to be treated as one work#d then you must enclose it around the quotation marks.

Hope this helps.

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2. skronwith,

Aug 1, 2012 8:35 PM in reply to mytaxsite.co.uk

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Now I'm really confused. I reset Safari, then cleared the cache. Then went and changed the Times New Roman as you suggested and changed the visited link color to green. Now when I run it, the virgin links come up as green, as if they were visited, but they're not. They should be black, as prescribed in a:link. Why not?

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3. skronwith,

Aug 1, 2012 8:49 PM in reply to skronwith

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Actually, I got it to work by not only clearing the cache and resetting Safari, but closing it entirely and then restarting. Now it all works. Thank very much.

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4. mytaxsite.co.uk,

Aug 1, 2012 8:53 PM in reply to skronwith

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skronwith wrote:

Now I'm really confused. I reset Safari, then cleared the cache. Then went and changed the Times New Roman as you suggested and changed the visited link color to green. Now when I run it, the virgin links come up as green, as if they were visited, but they're not. They should be black, as prescribed in a:link. Why not?

I just recreated the page using this code and it works OK in IE9 and FF14:

body {
background-image : url(images/babies.jpg);
background-repeat : repeat;
}
a {
font-family : "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-weight : bold;
font-size : 18px;
}
a:link {
color : aqua;
}
a:visited {
color: darkorange;
}

a:active {
color : crimson;
}
a:hover {
color : chartreuse;
}

p {
font-family : "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size : 18px;
font-style : normal;
}

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5. mytaxsite.co.uk,

Aug 1, 2012 8:56 PM in reply to skronwith

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skronwith wrote:

Actually, I got it to work by not only clearing the cache and resetting Safari, but closing it entirely and then restarting. Now it all works. Thank very much.

Closing the browser is one way but another method is to refresh the tabs. I don't use Safari so I don't know how you refresh the page but in FF it is a question of Right-click on the tab and "Reload Tab"

OK so this is now resolved and you can move to the next assignment.

Good luck.

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6. skronwith,

Aug 1, 2012 9:12 PM in reply to mytaxsite.co.uk

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One last thing. I have never, even now, been able to see the active link color. I used yours, crimson, but once I click a link, it remains green (the previous one you suggested for a visited page). Shouldn't the green turn to crimson once the page loads and just go to green once I click on another link?

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7. MurraySummers,

Aug 2, 2012 4:44 AM in reply to skronwith

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Most people misunderstand what the :active state means. It is only intended to be shown when you click and hold the button down. As soon as you release the button the link will become :visited. Some browsers don't even bother to show it. The active state is NOT a persistent state, i.e., it's not what is shown when the linked page is currently being shown - which is how many interpret it, including you in your previous post.

To make your link behave the way you describe, you will have you use a bit more complex CSS trickery, as shown here -

http://alt-web.com/Articles/Persistent-Page-Indicator.shtml

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link colors always blue no matter what I put in

Aug 1, 2012 7:00 PM

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