Is a mailto href ever considered visited?

Question

I styled the <a> element as follows

a:link {color:#FF0000;}    /* unvisited link */
a:visited {color:#00FF00;} /* visited link */
a:hover {color:#FF00FF;}   /* mouse over link */
a:active {color:#0000FF;}  /* selected link */

In the following using Firefox, Opera, and Chrome

<a href="mailto:[email protected]" >send email</a>

All the colors act as expected except that it is never marked as visited. Is there someway to make it visited?

This is one place IE seems to excel as it does get marked as visited!

Answer 1

mailto is not displayed as visited. I would try jquery to change the color.

Answer 2

It is not considered visited like other people already told you but if you would like to make it look visited, this might help you: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/795654/using-javascript-to-mark-a-link-as-visited