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aLink attribute (body)

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Sets the color of the active hypertext links in the entire document.

This attribute is deprecated.

Use the active pseudo with the color style property to modify the color of an active link: 'a:active {color:#00FFFF;}'. See Example 2 for details.

JavaScript page for this attribute: aLink. You can find other example(s) there.

Possible values:

A legal color value. It can be a hexadecimal, RGB or predefined color value. For more information, see the page for colors.

Default: this attribute has no default value.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the aLink, link and vLink attributes:

<body aLink="green" link="red" vLink="black">
    Click on the following hyperlinks to see the default, normal and visited states:
    <br /><br />
    <a href="#first">Hyperlink text</a>
    <br /><br />
    <a href="#second">Hyperlink text</a>
    <br /><br />
    <a href="#third">Hyperlink text</a>
</body>

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Example HTML code 2:

This example illustrates the use of the color style property for hypertext links:

<head>
    <style>
        a:link { color: red; }
        a:visited { color: black; }
        a:active { color: green; }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    Click on the following hyperlinks to see the default, normal and visited states:
    <br /><br />
    <a href="#first">Hyperlink text</a>
    <br /><br />
    <a href="#second">Hyperlink text</a>
    <br /><br />
    <a href="#third">Hyperlink text</a>
</body>