I want to create a hyperlink that doesn't change the text when I hover over it.
I've created a special style for that type of link as follows:
a.blank:hover{
text-decoration:none;}
and the link itself:
<a class="blank" id="asdf">asdf</a>
I also have a general hyperlink style:
a:hover, a:active {
text-decoration: none;
color: #321dd3; }
I know I could get around it by defining the text colour as being the same, but is there an umbrella method to force the hyperlink not to change anything?
There are libraries such as reset.css (And more like it) that will remove these styles, but that may affect other parts of your page. It's best to use
a:hover, a:active {
text-decoration: none;
color: inherit;
}
You will also need to add a{text-decoration: none;} and define the color property (That's what's inherited) for its parent element.
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/VhCf8/
Related
It seems the following variants produce identical results:
/* 1 */
a, a:visited, a:active { color: black; }
a:hover { color: red; }
/* 2 */
a, a:link, a:visited, a:active { color: black; }
a:hover { color: red; }
/* 3 */
a:link, a:visited, a:active { color: black; }
a:hover { color: red; }
Most guidance on the web uses 2 or 3. Why not go for the simplest variant which is 1? I cannot find a good reason to ever apply :link if all you need is one style for normal links and one for hover.
Is it best-practice to not use :link? Why or why not?
I don't care whether the link is visited or not. Both receive the same style. I only care about hover or not hover. This question is not about what the variants do - all do the same thing. It is about what the best variant is. Is one of the variants faulty? Which one is best-practice?
Because not every a is a link.
<a name="table_of_contents">Table of Contents</a>
isn't a link, it's an anchor that can be linked to with <a href="#table_of_contents">.
a will match it, a:link won't.
It is used to differentiate between simple anchors and anchors with href attributes. See demo jsfiddle here.
<style>
a { color: red; }
a:link { color: blue; }
</style>
<a name="anchor">No href</a><br />
With href
EDIT:
For this reason, it is important to cover all cases in your CSS. Option 2 is the only option that completely covers all cases. If you do not have anchor elements without href attributes, you are safe with option 1.
a:link is specifically for links that have not been visited. a applies to all <a> elements.as you said
I don't care whether the link is visited or not
then you may avoid the use of a:link ...use of only a...a:hover...a:active will satisfy your need
and also a:link wont work if there is no href in your anchor but a will do
I suppose you can use
<a>
to create a button so that could produce alternate results...
I always use a:link
It solely depends on your intention, so for your example, I would simply style all anchor elements one color and only change the style when the element is hovered.
a {color: #000;}
a:hover {color: #f00;}
In your case, you are only changing the color of the link when it's hovered. You need to add the hover pseudo element after the base rule otherwise it would be overridden due to the cascading of the style sheet.
If you were to use all of the psuedo elements in this case and you wanted the only difference to be the hover it would look like this:
a:link, a:visited, a:focus, a:active {color: #000;}
a:hover {color: #f00;}
The pseudo-class names are self explanatory:
:link - any unvisited link
:visited - any visited link
:active - when the link is active, e.g. when it's clicked or activated with a keyboard event
:focus - when the link gains focus, e.g. when a user tabs through the elements and it is the selected element
:hover - when it's hovered or moused over
The benefit of using a pseudo-class is that it will have a higher specificity than just targeting the anchor element. However, in your case it may not be needed.
So I'm just trying to create a small website. (Don't worry that's not going
to be the title)
Right now the "Home" "News" "Gallery" and "About us" are not actual buttons that direct to another page. When I do
Home
The button turns into color purple and it is underlined. (I know this is how links are shown) But is there a way that I can make these buttons stay color orange like in the picture without them turning blue and underlined. Thanks
http://imgur.com/Czsk4
You can set the styles inline, but the best way to do it is through a css class.
To do it inline:
Home
To do it through a class:
Home
a.nav-link:link
{
color: #fb3f00;
text-decoration: none;
}
a.nav-link:visited
{
color: #fb3f00;
text-decoration: none;
}
a.nav-link:hover
{
color: #fb3f00;
text-decoration: none;
}
a.nav-link:active
{
color: #fb3f00;
text-decoration: none;
}
To do it through a class, you need to put the css code in a separate css file and link it in or you can put it in the head of the document. The best practice is to put it in an external css file so it can be used throughout.
If you want the orange to be on every link throughout, just remove the ".nav-link" part of the classes and remove the class="nav-link" from the link tag. This will make all links orange unless you have defined a another class and explicitly applied it to a link tag.
Good Luck!
Using CSS instead of inline styles will work much better:
a {
color:orange;
text-decoration:none;
}
You can also get fancier and have the underline appear when you hover:
a:hover, a:focus {
text-decoration:underline;
}
This can help improve user experience (UX), though if the links are in the header it may be naturally apparent that they are links. (UX design is more complex than this of course, because you have to consider things like touchscreen users that have no "hover". :) )
All links come with different states so if you want them to stay with just one color you can modify all the states together like so:
a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active { color: orange }
You can do that by using CSS.
to set this in your code right at the end of the head-section
<style TYPE="text/css">
a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active { color: #ff8080;
text-decoration: none;
}
</style>
and change the #ff8080 in your color
I have the perfect solution for you!
I'm copying and pasting straight from my code. make it relevant to you. This definitely works for what you are trying to achieve.
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
a:link { color:#ffffff; text-decoration: none; }
a:visited { color:#33348e; text-decoration: none; }
a:hover { color:#91ac48; text-decoration: none; }
a:active { color:#7476b4; text-decoration: underline; }
</style> Order Now
I have to disable the color change of an anchor tag when visited. I did this:
a:visited{ color: gray }
(The link is gray in color before visited.) But this is a way where I explicitly state the color after the link is visited, which is again a color change.
How can I disable the color change of an anchor tag when visited without doing any explicit color changes?
If you just want the anchor color to stay the same as the anchor's parent element you can leverage inherit:
a, a:visited, a:hover, a:active {
color: inherit;
}
Notice there is no need to repeat the rule for each selector; just use a comma separated list of selectors (order matters for anchor pseudo elements). Also, you can apply the pseudo selectors to a class if you want to selectively disable the special anchor colors:
.special-link, .special-link:visited, .special-link:hover, .special-link:active {
color: inherit;
}
Your question only asks about the visited state, but I assumed you meant all of the states. You can remove the other selectors if you want to allow color changes on all but visited.
You can't. You can only style the visited state.
For other people who find this, make sure that you have them in the right order:
a {color:#FF0000;} /* Unvisited link */
a:visited {color:#00FF00;} /* Visited link */
a:hover {color:#FF00FF;} /* Mouse over link */
a:active {color:#0000FF;} /* Selected link */
For :hover to override :visited, and to make sure :visited is the same as the initial color, :hover must come after :visited.
So if you want to disable the color change, a:visited must come before a:hover. Like this:
a { color: gray; }
a:visited { color: orange; }
a:hover { color: red; }
To disable :visited change you would style it with non-pseudo class:
a, a:visited { color: gray; }
a:hover { color: red; }
It’s possible to use the LinkText system color value from the CSS 4 Color Module to obtain the browser default value if one wishes to defer to that.
a:visited { color: LinkText; }
link
However note:
These values may also be used in other contexts, but are not widely supported by browsers.
It at least appears to work in Firefox 98 and Chromium 99.
If you use some pre-processor like SASS, you can use #extend feature:
a:visited {
#extend a;
}
As a result you will see automatically-added a:visited selector for every style with a selector, so be carefully with it, because your style-table may be increase in size very much.
As a compromise you can add #extend only in those block wich you really need.
For those who are dynamically applying classes (i.e. active):
Simply add a "div" tag inside the "a" tag with an href attribute:
<a href='your-link'>
<div>
<span>your link name</span>
</div>
</a>
Either delete the selector or set it to the same color as your text appears normally.
You can solve this issue by calling a:link and a:visited selectors together. And follow it with a:hover selector.
a:link, a:visited
{color: gray;}
a:hover
{color: skyblue;}
I think if I set a color for a:visited it is not good: you must know the default color of tag a and every time synchronize it with a:visited.
I don't want know about the default color (it can be set in common.css of your application, or you can using outside styles).
I think it's nice solution:
HTML:
<body>
<a class="absolute">Test of URL</a>
<a class="unvisited absolute" target="_blank" href="google.ru">Test of URL</a>
</body>
CSS:
.absolute{
position: absolute;
}
a.unvisited, a.unvisited:visited, a.unvisited:active{
text-decoration: none;
color: transparent;
}
a {
color: orange !important;
}
!important has the effect that the property in question cannot be overridden unless another !important is used. It is generally considered bad practice to use !important unless absolutely necessary; however, I can't think of any other way of ‘disabling’ :visited using CSS only.
Use:
a:visited {
text-decoration: none;
}
But it will only affect links that haven't been clicked on yet.
The default link color is blue.
How do I remove the default link color of the html hyperlink tag <a>?
The inherit value:
a { color: inherit; }
… will cause the element to take on the colour of its parent (which is what I think you are looking for).
A live demo follows:
a {
color: inherit;
}
<p>The default color of the html element is black. The default colour of the body and of a paragraph is inherited. This
link would normally take on the default link or visited color, but has been styled to inherit the color from the paragraph.</p>
Try something like this:
a {
color: #0060B6;
text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
color:#00A0C6;
text-decoration:none;
cursor:pointer;
}
If text-decoration doesn't work, change it to:
text-decoration: none !important;
The !important rule overrides every other styling to the text-decoration attribute. You can read more about it here.
If you don't want to see the underline and default color which is provided by the browser, you can keep the following code in the top of your main.css file. If you need different color and decoration styling you can easily override the defaults using the below code snippet.
a, a:hover, a:focus, a:active {
text-decoration: none;
color: inherit;
}
.cancela,.cancela:link,.cancela:visited,.cancela:hover,.cancela:focus,.cancela:active{
color: inherit;
text-decoration: none;
}
I felt it necessary to post the above class definition, many of the answers on SO miss some of the states
This is also possible:
a {
all: unset;
}
unset: This keyword indicates to change all the properties applying to
the element or the element's parent to their parent value if they are
inheritable or to their initial value if not. unicode-bidi and
direction values are not affected.
Source: Mozilla description of all
Simply add this in CSS,
a {
color: inherit;
text-decoration: none;
}
that's it, done.
You have to use CSS. Here's an example of changing the default link color, when the link is just sitting there, when it's being hovered and when it's an active link.
a:link {
color: red;
}
a:hover {
color: blue;
}
a:active {
color: green;
}
<a href='http://google.com'>Google</a>
You can use System Color (18.2) values, introduced with CSS 2.0, but deprecated in CSS 3.
a:link, a:hover, a:active { color: WindowText; }
That way your anchor links will have the same color as normal document text on this system.
I had this challenge when I was working on a Rails 6 application using Bootstrap 4.
My challenge was that I didn't want this styling to override the default link styling in the application.
So I created a CSS file called custom.css or custom.scss.
And then defined a new CSS rule with the following properties:
.remove_link_colour {
a, a:hover, a:focus, a:active {
color: inherit;
text-decoration: none;
}
}
Then I called this rule wherever I needed to override the default link styling.
<div class="product-card__buttons">
<button class="btn btn-success remove_link_colour" type="button"><%= link_to 'Edit', edit_product_path(product) %></button>
<button class="btn btn-danger remove_link_colour" type="button"><%= link_to 'Destroy', product, method: :delete, data: { confirm: 'Are you sure?' } %></button>
</div>
This solves the issue of overriding the default link styling and removes the default colour, hover, focus, and active styling in the buttons only in places where I call the CSS rule.
That's all.
I hope this helps
a:link{color:inherit;}
this is the simple one line can do all stuffs for you <3
I too wanted to remove the default blue link color of a tag.
As I was using bootstrap version 5 I decided to look for the solution in bootstrap documentation.
I searched for "link color" and the result was this link: "https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/helpers/colored-links/"
bootstrap version 5.0 has a class to customise the link colors which I found very helpful and also I was able to change the default blue color of my 'a' tag without any fuss.
Hope this is helpful.
Here are two methods to remove the default link color:
Method 1: Using inline CSS
Link Text
Method 2: Using a CSS stylesheet
a {
color: black;
}
<style>
a {
color: ;
}
</style>
This code changes the color from the default to what is specified in the style. Using a:hover, you can change the color of the text from the default on hover.
This will work
a:hover, a:focus, a:active {
outline: none;
}
What this does is removes the outline for all the three pseudo-classes.
How can I make a link in HTML turn a color when hovering and remove the underline using CSS?
You want to look at the :hover pseudoselector, the color property, and the text-decoration property.
a:hover { color: red; text-decoration: none; }
To assure your hyperlink is styled as you want (and does not conflict with other style rules), use !important:
a:hover { color: red !important; text-decoration: none !important; }
Also in addition to stragers answer, make sure to declare the pseudo classes in the LoVe HAte way. You have to declare :link first, then :visited, then :hover and then :active. Otherwise some browsers may not apply the pseudo classes.
a:link{
/*this only apllies to named anchors*/
}
a:visited{
/*possible styles for visited links*/
}
a:hover{
/*when mouse hovers over a-tag*/
text-decoration:none;
color:red;
}
a:active{
/*possible styles on active (when a-tag is clicked)*/
}