Custom Color with Same Page Hyperlink? 1

[bsquared18]

Am I correct that in basic HTML, when you want a hyperlink to something on the same page using code like <A HREF="#portrait">, that (to paraphrase Henry Ford) you can have any color you want, as long as it's purple?

I searched the web and tried every way I could think of to customize the color of this link without success. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Bill

 

[trollacious]

You have link for any link on the page, alink for active link, vlink for links that have already been visited. You can set them to any color you wish:

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/document/body_text.html

Lee

 

[bsquared18]

Thanks! I thought I had tried that but must have done it wrong. Using the code from your link, it works fine.

Bill

 

[Vragabond]

In today's world you should really embrace the css and do it there. This goes in the head of the document, or even better, a separate stylesheet:

<style type="text/css">
a:link { color: red; }
a:visited { color: #77ab3f; }
a:hover { color: black; }
a:active { color: #a3b298; }
</style>

This is just an example. You can even skip the other states, if you want to just change the color of the default link.