Styling different states of a link using CSS

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<p style="">Using CSS pseudo selectors, namely, :active, :hover, :link and :visited, we can style different states of a link. For proper functionality, the order of these selectors is given by:- :link, :visited, :hover, :active.</p><h2>Syntax</h2><p style="">The syntax of CSS text-indent property is as follows −</p><pre class="result notranslate" style="">a:(pseudo-selector) {    /*declarations*/ }</pre><h2>Example</h2><p>The following examples illustrate the styling of different states of a link −</p><p><a class="demo" href="http://tpcg.io/lzuobqOv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Live Demo</a></p><pre class="prettyprint notranslate" style=""><!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <style> div {    margin-left: 20px;    display: flex;    float: left; } a:link {    color: navy;    text-decoration: none; } a:visited {    color: yellowgreen; } a:hover {    color: orange;    text-decoration: wavy underline; } a:active {    color: red; } </style> </head> <body> <div> <div> <a href="#">Demo link </a> </div> <div> <a href="">Demo visited link</a> </div> </div> </body> </html></pre><h2>Output</h2><p>This gives the following output −</p><p style=""><img src="https://www.tutorialspoint.com/assets/questions/media/33925/Styling_different_states_of_link.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="336" height="71"></p><p>On hovering the first link, we get the following output −</p><p style=""><img src="https://www.tutorialspoint.com/assets/questions/media/33925/Styling_different_states_of_link1.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="324" height="78"></p><p>While clicking the second link, we get the following output −</p><p style=""><img src="https://www.tutorialspoint.com/assets/questions/media/33925/Styling_different_states_of_link2.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="315" height="78"></p><h2>Example</h2><p><a class="demo" href="http://tpcg.io/KRroj4n6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Live Demo</a></p><pre class="prettyprint notranslate" style=""><!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <style> div {    display: flex;    float: left; } a {    margin: 20px;    padding: 10px;    border: 2px solid black;    text-shadow: -1px 0px black, 0px -1px black, 0px 1px black, 1px 0px black;    font-size: 1.1em; } a:link {    text-decoration: none; } a:visited {    color: blueviolet; } a:hover {    color: orange;    font-size: 150%;    font-weight: bold;    box-shadow: 0 0 5px 1px grey; } a:active {    color: red;    box-shadow: inset 0 0 15px red; } </style> </head> <body> <div> <a href="#">Kapow!</a> <a href="">Dishoom</a> </div> </body> </html></pre><h2>Output</h2><p>This gives the following output −</p><p style=""><img src="https://www.tutorialspoint.com/assets/questions/media/33925/Styling_different_states_of_link3.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="284" height="123"></p><p>On hovering the first link, we get the following output −</p><p style=""><img src="https://www.tutorialspoint.com/assets/questions/media/33925/Styling_different_states_of_link4.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="236" height="138"></p><p>During the click of the first link, the following output is returned.</p><p style=""><img src="https://www.tutorialspoint.com/assets/questions/media/33925/Styling_different_states_of_link5.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="296" height="152"></p>

AmitDiwan

Updated on 06-Jan-2020 10:41:05

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