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Checkmark Your Visited Links with Pure CSS

# Linked to 2 December 2007, 02:58 in by Sam Brown

Web browsers know which links on a page have been visited by a user (until the cache is cleared out, that is). It is up to you the designer to take advantage of that web browser’s knowledge, if you choose to do so. You can take control of the styling of these anchor elements in your CSS by targeting them with pseudo classes. The goal of this tutorial is to get a check mark preceding visited links for a nice visual indicator.

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Sam Brown

Sam Brown is a freelance interface designer and web standards developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sam's work can be seen at Massive Blue, blogs at Sam Brown and is on Twitter at @sambrown.