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CSS CSS Foundations Selectors Link and User Action Pseudo-Classes

Posted by Bappy Golder
Bappy Golder
13,449 Points

Link Element

To select all links in a page we can also use :link what is best to use?

:link {}

/*or*/

a:link {}

1 Answer

Wendell Pulsipher
Wendell Pulsipher
10,183 Points

technically the anchor tag you are referring to is called a 'link' so you don't need the ":link" pseudo class to refer to links. You could just as easily select all links with this:

a {}

or this

a:link{}

or this

:link{}

the only thing that ":link" does is select all unvisited anchor elements with an 'href' attribute (because not all anchor elements will always have an href attribute)