This is an inquiry into how people go about styling their links, more
specifically which psuedo-classes people use.
From what I can gather, people are least likely to use the active
state, followed by the visited state. The visited state is used
slightly more because it has quite an obvious use, but people often skip
it because it's often difficult choosing a suitable way of styling.
As far as I know, link and visited are mutually exclusive, and I quite
often see people do things like "a:link, a:visited {}", but i'm having
difficulty understanding why people doing it this way.
Wouldn't just styling the "a" tag by itself achieve the same effect? In
fact, I can't really see any reasons to use the :link class at all. Is
there something bad about not using the :link psuedo-class?
Any insight into the "correct" way of doing things (and reasoning) along
with your own individual approaches to link styling (including any lazy
habits, like not styling visited or active links) would be greatly
appreciated.
- Andrew Ingram
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