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December 4th, 2009, 09:54 AM

toddw

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HTML Link Question.

Hello,

I just created my first Website for work.
Not really an web designer.

I did notice that with all of my Links, when you click on them they turn purple, which is fine. I believe like a lot of sites though, they are caching. Whenever I navagate to any site now, or close and reopen my browser they are still purple.

I was wondering what code do I need to add to refresh the links in between pages. Is their a refresh tag or do I use a no cache tag.... I appreciate the advice.

Thank You.

December 9th, 2009, 02:54 PM

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Yes, it's caching which causes the link to stay purple, after you've exited your browser. To fix this, in IE you'll need to empty your cache (Tools > Internet Options > Delete... under Browsing History section > Delete... under Temporary Internet Files section) and then add in this code to the head of your HTML document, below the title tags;

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-store">

Explanation of code:
There are three Meta tags here, because we're allowing for deviations between rendering engines in different browsers.

However, this is not recommended if you simply want to change the link color, because not only can this easily be achieved in CSS (see below), but caching a webpage is good for saving bandwidth.

You'll need to add this pseudo-class into your CSS properties;

Code:

a:visited {
color:#FFF;
}

Change the #FFF (which is white) to the color you'd like your link to be once you've clicked it.

March 25th, 2010, 03:25 PM

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heyy thanks for the information...i really appreciate it...
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help

you can also put a body tag in it to keep you links the color you want at all times even when there clicked.

<body link="blue" vlink="purple" alink="green">

i do believe thats the code lol its been awhile haha

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November 2nd, 2012, 01:54 AM

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For example you are working with UL LI
The code will be
ul li span{a:visited:#fff}

November 5th, 2012, 01:27 PM

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Thanks for your reply, but this topic hasnt been seen, not is the user probably still active since the posting was made (2010). Thanks for your input though and helping out =]

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