I'm displaying links that get marked as read in a database when a user clicks them. I want to style the clicked and unclicked links based on the database information not the user's browser history. So far, when I use:
10 a:visited {
11 color: #444;
12 }
13
14 a:link {
15 font-weight: bold;
16 color:black;
17 }
18
19 .read {
20 color: #444!important;
21 }
22
23 .unread {
24 font-weight: bold!important;
25 color:black!important;
26 }
and
<tr class="even">
<td><a class="read" href="example.com">blah</a></td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td><a class="unread" href="example.org">foo</a></td>
</tr>
and a link has been visited, but not from this page (it's still marked as unread in the database), I get weird results. For example only the color will work, but the weight won't, etc.
Is it possible to have one style override another when they conflict?
Thanks!
EDIT: updated code to clarify
Solution
10 a:link,
11 a:visited {
12 font-weight: bold;
13 color: black;
14 }
15
16 a.read {
17 color: #444;
18 font-weight: lighter !important; /* omission or even "normal" didn't work here. */
19 }
20
21 a.unread {
22 font-weight: bold !important;
23 color: black !important;
24 }