What is the differences between a {...} and a:link{...} ? what are different usage of both ? How we can take benefit of both tag?
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a covers all the bases. a:link is used only if the link in un-visited, un-hovered, and in-active.
So, use a for things like font-family (if you want links to come up in a different font), then use link for the standard formatting, and visited, hover and active for 'special effects'.
EDIT: After reading Sander's W3C link, I can see that I didn't have it quite right. a:link will cascade down to a:hover and a:active, i.e. anything in a:link that is not over-ridden by the dynamic pseudo-classes will also apply to them.
Skilldrick
2009-12-17 15:48:22
Hmm interesting edit, I didn't catch that one to be honest :-)
Sander Rijken
2009-12-17 21:54:45
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a:link only affects links that have a href attribute basically (if a:visited, a:hover or a:active does not apply)... The main case where I've noticed a difference is that a:link doesn't affect Named Anchors whereas a will. Also, a is the default style if none of the other pseudo classes are defiend.
<a name="Section1">Section 1</a>
Shawn Steward
2009-12-17 15:48:36
Yeah, <a name="Section1">Section 1</a> is an example of where a:link will not affect the style.
Shawn Steward
2009-12-17 15:57:48
Woops, I accidentally removed that one. Yeah I agree that they can have content, and you could use css on `a` to change the style. It's not true thought that everything with an href is affected by `a:link`
Sander Rijken
2009-12-17 15:59:41
Yeah I guess I phrased that wrong. a:link will not affect anchors that don't have a href I should say.
Shawn Steward
2009-12-17 16:01:07
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According to W3C a:link is for not visited, a:visited is for visited, and just a applies to both.
Sander Rijken
2009-12-17 15:49:11
You're spot on. I don't know why this wasn't marked as answered already.
baeltazor
2009-12-17 16:05:39