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Alex Autin
Courses Plus Student 166 PointsPurple Hyperlinks?
My hyperlinks are purple instead of blue in the beginner HTML course, I checked my code and started over again yet my hyperlinks are still purple instead of blue
2 Answers
Feliphe Lavor
12,099 PointsPurple is the default color used by web browsers to identify visited (ie opened) links. You can see that happening right at the end of the video, when Nick clicks on one of the captions to open the image. When he goes back to the main page, that link is now purple.
You probably opened those links while working on the lesson.
If you really want to reset them to the default blue color, you could clear your browser history, but having purple links shouldn't interfere with completing the lesson.
Brendon Soto
6,332 PointsHi Alex. Hyperlinks have different states associated with them and take on different properties during those states. You can address these states through targeting the specific state in CSS. The default property for visited links is purple, as Feliphe pointed out. You can change this by adding: a: visited { color: #whatever; }
If you want to learn more I'd recommend checking here: http://www.htmldog.com/guides/css/intermediate/pseudoclasses/
Alex Autin
Courses Plus Student 166 Pointsthank you Brendon
Alex Autin
Courses Plus Student 166 PointsAlex Autin
Courses Plus Student 166 PointsThank you so much!