Styling links

Link to The Computer Science Department

Link to World Wide Web Consortium

Link to A silly animation

The link color is different depending on whether nor not the browser has recently visited the link. It also changes to bright red if you hover over it with the mouse.

The lime green designated for the basic anchor is not actually used because the other rules take precedence.

The style rules

    body {background-color: white; color: black}
    a {color:lime}
    a:link {color: #0099ff}
    a:visited {color: #990000}
    a:hover {color: red}