link (HTML attribute)
| Depr. | Version |
|---|---|
| Yes | HTML 2 |
| IE5.5+ | FF1+ | SA1.3+ | OP9.2+ | CH2+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full | Full | Full | Full | Full |
Syntax
Description
At some point in the distant
past, a decision was made that all hyperlinks on a web page should be
underlined and blue, while visited links
should be underlined and purple. For people with certain color perception
difficulties, it may be very hard to tell the difference between the
unvisited and visited links on a page. The link
attribute provides one mechanism for overriding that default link color,
allowing us to set one that may be more in keeping with the rest of the
web page or site design.
This attribute is deprecated, so you should
avoid using it. Instead, use CSS to set link colors, using a,
a:link {color:red;} instead.
Example
This markup sets unvisited links to
"navy":
<body link="navy"> ⋮ </body>
Value
This attribute
takes as its value a recognized color name (for example,
"blue" or "red"), or a value
specified in hexadecimal notation (such as "#003366").
Note that it’s not possible to use shorthand hexadecimal values
in HTML as you can in CSS—for example, you can’t express
"#cceeff" as
"#cef".
Compatibility
| Internet Explorer | Firefox | Safari | Opera | Chrome | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 9.2 | 9.5 | 10.0 | 2.0 |
| Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full |
Every browser listed supports this attribute.
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