How can I check if a link is already visited?

[xlocalghostx]

Ok my goal is to mark with a special gif image a link which is already visited. Please help me check with Javascript if the link is visited...


Thanks a lot

 

[onpnt]

the first thing that comes to mind is setting a cookie when a page is visited and then if that cookie is present in the home page show the image. In the grand scheme of things ASP could do this for you in a few lines but if you must stay client then I think that would be the way to go. You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
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[wray]

The browser knows if a link has been visited, uses this knowledge to implement

 a:visited

and

 a:link

stylings. Seems likely you could check the links

 style.color

property for link status -- if the current color is the same as the

 a:visited

setting you could deploy the spiffy image.

There may be browser/platform quirks and this could turn into something of a project. (Can users override link and visited settings?) Sometimes the actual value of a DOM Style property isn't available to JavaScript until after the script has written to the property.

 

[y2k1981]

I know that this isn't exactly what you want to do, but you could use CSS to set the A:VLINK attribute to say, a different color. Or maybe there's some way to use this with JavaScript...

Sorry I'm can't realy help any more, but it's just a thougth