Odd visited links problem with FireFox 3.0.11

[dave]

Hi,

I was doing some CSSing in FF3 and got hung up on "a:visited". I have
different classes for the link colours but use the same purple for
"a:visited". I couldn't figure out why clicking on one link would
change all of them to purple=visited.

After a few hours of screwing around in Dreamweaver, I tried my page
in IE7 and it worked fine???

So I tried a page from W3C - http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_link2

In my FF3.0.11 if I click one of the 5 links, they all turn
purple=visited. In IE7 only the links you click turn purple=visited.

Is this happening to others or is my installation of FF3.0.11 screwed
up?

Thanks

[dave]

On Jun 14, 4:47 am, squaredancer <squaredan...@t-online.de> wrote:
> On 14.06.2009 05:22, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  dave to
> generate the following:? :

>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I was doing some CSSing in FF3 and got hung up on "a:visited". I have
> > different classes for the link colours but use the same purple for
> > "a:visited". I couldn't figure out why clicking on one link would
> > change all of them to purple=visited.
>
> > After a few hours of screwing around in Dreamweaver, I tried my page
> > in IE7 and it worked fine???
>

> > So I tried a page from W3C -http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_link2

>
> > In my FF3.0.11 if I click one of the 5 links, they all turn
> > purple=visited. In IE7 only the links you click turn purple=visited.
>
> > Is this happening to others or is my installation of FF3.0.11 screwed
> > up?
>
> > Thanks
>

> you will now get (at least ;-) ) a thousand requests for your URL, so
> that we can look at/ test it.
>
> first though, run the file through the W3C css-tester:http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
> maybe you'll find something
>
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Hi squaredancer,

DOHH!!!! double-DOHH!!!!

As I was converting somebody's webpages from frameset to iframe, the
left columns links launch swf's into the centre column iframe. As I
was testing I had multiple links in the left column and was using 2
local htm test pages.

So mulitple links to the same URL would lead me to believe by clicking
one, on page refresh FF3 and Opera show all the links as visited. So
it seems as IE7 is the odd one out as mulitple links to the same URL
still only turn the link you actually clicked to display as visited.

I wonder how IE8 handles this?

Thanks
Dave

[David McRitchie]

"dave"

> So mulitple links to the same URL would lead me to believe by clicking
> one, on page refresh FF3 and Opera show all the links as visited. So
> it seems as IE7 is the odd one out as mulitple links to the same URL
> still only turn the link you actually clicked to display as visited.
>
> I wonder how IE8 handles this?

I wouldn't be too surprised that you might have to hit Reload in
any browser under some circumstances (just conjecture).

[dave]

That was the other odd thing. With FF3 Reload-Refresh wouldn't clear
the links of visited status. I had to use "Clear Private Data". Yet
with IE7 a simple Refresh cleared the links of visited status.
With all the googling I've done on this I haven't found much on
Firefox's decision to use a "per link" model to activate the visited
status on hyperlinked elements whereas Internet Explorer has decided
to use a "per click element" model to do the same.

Dave