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HTML How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Use Color in CSS

Posted by emile
emile
7,980 Points

If I remove "nav a:visited" the link/text stays white. Even after I clicked it. So when do and don't you have to use it?

In the video it is said that you have to use "visited" to keep the links the same color. It's not used in h1 and h2. Those stay white. But even when I removed "nav a: vistited", the text stays white after I clicked it. Bit confused when you do have to use it

Guillermo Zendejas
Guillermo Zendejas
8,896 Points

When I tried clearing cache as Andrew suggested, links still stay white even after I've clicked on them (this is after I erased the "nav a:visited" selector).

Should they be turning another color without "nav a:visited", or is something else keeping them white?

1 Answer

Andrew Fellenz
Andrew Fellenz
12,170 Points
Andrew Fellenz
Andrew Fellenz
12,170 Points

Hey, after you remove the a:visited style from your css document, please clear your browsers cache. If you are in Chrome, that can be done by going to clear history and then checking the "cache" option. Information about visited links is stored in that, so even after you remove the style, the page may still hold that value.

Hope that helps!

emile
emile
7,980 Points

Thanks Andrew