Problems with visited links being inconsistent

[Matt Stanley]

I'm experiencing frustration with our site not consistently displaying
visited links. We use CSS, and the links on some pages work as intended, but
others do not.
To see an example of what I'm talking about visit the following page:
http://hwcs.com/products/index.asp

Click the "20 software products" link, then click back and Refresh the
page... the link does not change color. The problem exists in both IE & NS.

Any idea what's going on here, or how to fix it? Thnx in advance for your
help.

Stan
gr********@msn.com

[Darin McGrew]

Matt Stanley <gr********@msn.com> wrote:

http://hwcs.com/products/index.asp

Click the "20 software products" link, then click back and Refresh the
page... the link does not change color. The problem exists in both IE & NS.

Any idea what's going on here, or how to fix it?

Most of the a:link selectors in your style sheet specify the same rules as
the corresponding a:visited selectors, so of course your visited links look
just like your unvisited links.

In this case, the relevant bit is:

.pageBody A:active, .pageBody A:link, .pageBody A:visited {
color: #0000FF;
text-decoration: underline;
}

HTH
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Darin McGrew, mc****@stanfordalumni.org, http://www.rahul.net/mcgrew/
Web Design Group, da***@htmlhelp.com, http://www.HTMLHelp.com/

"You can't strengthen the weak by weakening the strong."

[Steve Pugh]

"Matt Stanley" <gr********@msn.com> wrote:

I'm experiencing frustration with our site not consistently displaying
visited links. We use CSS, and the links on some pages work as intended, but
others do not.

To see an example of what I'm talking about visit the following page:
http://hwcs.com/products/index.asp

Click the "20 software products" link, then click back and Refresh the
page... the link does not change color. The problem exists in both IE & NS.

Any idea what's going on here, or how to fix it? Thnx in advance for your
help.

Your CSS is setting unvisited and visited links in that part of the
page to the same colour:
..pageBody A:active, .pageBody A:link, .pageBody A:visited {
color: #0000FF;
text-decoration: underline;
}

No doubt those links where it works are not inside pageBody and thus
are affected by other styles.

Steve

--
"My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you,
I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." - The Doctor

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net> <http://steve.pugh.net/>

[Matt Stanley]

Thanks to both Steve & Darin! It's so obvious now that I feel silly for
missing it. I inherited this code from a 3rd party vendor that developed it,
and am often discovering weird quirks like this one that need fixing.
Sometimes it just takes another set of eyes, though I should have examined
the CSS more closely. Thanks again!

Matt

"Steve Pugh" <st***@pugh.net> wrote in message
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"Matt Stanley" <gr********@msn.com> wrote:

I'm experiencing frustration with our site not consistently displaying
visited links. We use CSS, and the links on some pages work as intended, butothers do not.

To see an example of what I'm talking about visit the following page:
http://hwcs.com/products/index.asp

Click the "20 software products" link, then click back and Refresh the
page... the link does not change color. The problem exists in both IE & NS.
Any idea what's going on here, or how to fix it? Thnx in advance for your
help.

Your CSS is setting unvisited and visited links in that part of the
page to the same colour:
.pageBody A:active, .pageBody A:link, .pageBody A:visited {
color: #0000FF;
text-decoration: underline;
}

No doubt those links where it works are not inside pageBody and thus
are affected by other styles.

Steve

--
"My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you,
I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." - The Doctor

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net> <http://steve.pugh.net/>

[Dean Speir]

Matt Stanley <gr********@msn.com> asks...

I'm experiencing frustration with our site not
consistently displaying visited links. We use CSS,
and the links on some pages work as intended,
but others do not. To see an example of what I'm talking about visit
the following page: http://hwcs.com/products/index.asp Click the "20 software products" link, then click back
and Refresh the page... the link does not change color.
The problem exists in both IE & NS.

And Firefox as well.

I'm probably missing something, but how would you expect <a
href="product_list.asp"> to perform based on your external style sheet
at http://hwcs.com/library/css/global.css?

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- Dean Speir