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linkColor property (document)

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Sets or retrieves the color of the hypertext links in the entire document that have not been visited and activated yet.

This property is equivalent to the link property.

The preferred solution to set the color of links is to use the color style property: 'a:link {color:#00FFFF;}'.

See Example 2 for details.

Syntax:

object.linkColor;

You can find the related objects in the Supported by objects section below.

This property is read/write.

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: #0000FF.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the linkColor property:

<head>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        document.alinkColor = "green";
        document.linkColor = "red";
        document.vlinkColor = "black";
    </script>
</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>

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Example HTML code 2:

Recommendation (color):

<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>