Visited Links - how to maintain colour?

Seanie M

Just a query.
I'm messing about with a few pages in Dreamweaver MX 2004. You know you have the links options in Page Properties (Link/Visited Link/Rollover Link/Active Link colours). I want to maintain the links' colour, even after being visited with the property of only showing underline when rolledover.
Problem is, if I select Visited Link to be the same colour as Link colour, then the rollover doesn't happen. Is this a flaw of sorts in Dreamweaver?

Seanie

Seth Brundle

No it isn't a flaw.
You are using basic HTML to generate the link colours. What you are wanting though is to use CSS to dictate the link properties.
See http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/pseudoclasses/

rsynnott

The answer is, of course, don't do that. Ever. It's naughty and confuses people. See http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040503.html

yeraulone

rsynnott wrote:

The answer is, of course, don't do that. Ever.

Yeah - Of course its nessecary if your designing a larger site with tonnes of links, but its not a big deal if you are dealing with a small number of links on a page.