Windows 7: Set color of visited links

eddyq · 19 Jan 2012

I have trouble seeing the difference in the blue for unvisited links and light blue for visited links. I have read that you can change a style sheet as given below but I don't know the name of the style sheet. I'm using Chrome.

<style>
a{color: green; font-size: 15px}
a:visited{color: red; font-size: 10px;}
</style>

Does anyone know the name and location of the chrome style sheet (and the IE style sheet)?

mickey megabyte · 19 Jan 2012

for chrome, you may find it easier to install an extension that does all this automatically for you - here's a good one, called change colors

it's simpler in internet explorer: interent options >> colors >> untick 'use windows colors' and choose your own.

eddyq · 19 Jan 2012

I tried your suggestion with IE but it doesn't change the colors. I changed "visited" to red. Then did a google search, visited a link and returned to the search page. The color was still blue.

mickey megabyte · 19 Jan 2012

ah - i think you also have to go into accessibility >> ignore colours specified on webpages.

sorry for leaving that step out.

however that can also affect other page elements such as background graphics.

maybe it would be better after all if you did apply your own custom style sheet which only affects links - you can specify your preferred stylesheet in the accessibility dialogue.

Dwarf · 19 Jan 2012

That is correct. It can screw up the webpage appearance though.

eddyq · 19 Jan 2012

Is there a default stylesheet that I can modify with the content I specified above?

mickey megabyte · 19 Jan 2012

for ie9, you can make your own stylesheet, call it what you want, and link to it via the accessibiilty dialogue

eddyq · 19 Jan 2012

I don't know anything about stylesheets. Is there a default stylesheet that I can modify with the content I specified above?

mickey megabyte · 19 Jan 2012

save what you've written above as mystyles.css

save it somewhere you remember, then use the accessibility dialogue in internet explorer and hit the browse button and select it.

eddyq · 19 Jan 2012

I got the code at the top of this thread from Set Link Colors, Visited Link Color Using Style Sheet - CSS (HTML) Tutorial. I tried making a .css, pasted the code to it, saved it then added it to IE using the accessability/User style sheet. But it doesn't work. I am guessing this is just a fragment and something else needs to be added to the file.

The code is:
<style>
a{color: green; font-size: 15px}
a:visited{color: red; font-size: 10px;}
</style>

Windows 7: Set color of visited links

Set color of visited links problems?