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I'm trying to change the link colors for the quickbuttons above the postarea -



ul.quickbuttons a:link
{
color: #0000FF;
}




Works fine until I add a:visited -



ul.quickbuttons a:link, a:visited
{
color: #0000FF;
}




The color takes effect, but it changes the a:visited color elsewhere on the forum - admin, messages, etc.  Since the color is specific to just this pseudo class, why is it  affecting other areas?

I also hope the issue concerns all help. Thank you very much.

Hey Krash..
I donno what you are trying to achieve but your second snippet should be :
ul.quickbuttons a:link,ul.quickbuttons  a:visited
{
color: #0000FF;
}

Try that and let me know :)

Ricky is correct. The way you had it, it definitely would hit every visited link on the page. An attribute after a comma in CSS does not read what comes before the comma. It's code, not a sentence. ;)

That fixed it, thanks.

One odd thing I found last night, when I deleted all the a:visited styles from index.css, it displayed visited links in an awful purple color (810081) that does not exist in index.css.  How can it display a color that's not in the code?

That's default HTML behaviour when no style is specified. God knows why they chose those colours, but they did. Try disabling CSS on a page and you'll see the effect. :).