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What Are the Pseudo Classes on <A> Tags?

Pseudo classes are classes used by Web browsers to differentiate statuses of a HTML tag. CSS definitions can use pseudo classes as selectors with a leading colon like (:visited). There are 3 pseudo classes on the <A> tag:

  • A:link - A hyper link that has not been visited.
  • A:visited - A hyper link that has been visited before.
  • A:active - A hyper link that is currently under the mouse pointer.

If you want to the alter the default style sheets of the browser, you could define something like this:

/* show un-visited links in blue */
A:link {color: blue}

/* show visited links in yellow */
A:visited {color: yellow}

/* change background color gray when mouse over links */
A:active {background-color: gray}

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  2. What Is the Basic Unit of CSS?
  3. How Many Ways to Attach CSS to HTML Documents?
  4. How To Include CSS Inside an HTML Tag?
  5. How To Include CSS Inside the HEAD Tag?
  6. How To Store CSS Definitions in External Files?
  7. How Many Ways to Select HTML Tag Instances?
  8. What Is a Class Selector?
  9. What Is an ID Selector?
  10. What Is a Contextual Selector?
  11. What Is a Group Selector?
  12. What Is a Mixed Selector?
  13. What Are the Pseudo Classes on <A> Tags?
  14. How To Group CSS Definitions Together?
  15. What Is Style Property Inheritance?
  16. What Is CSS Cascading?
  17. What Are the CSS Cascading Order Rules?
  18. How To Remove the Top White Space of Your Web Page?
  19. How To Set Different Text Fonts Inside Tables?
  20. How To Use Class Selectors to Differentiate Tag Instances?
  21. How To Use IDs to Override Classes?

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