Changing Link Colors

Oftentimes, link colors can clash with background colors. Here's a little trick to use to avoid the clash. You need to define the color in two ways, to ensure that the link color remains consistent with both Netscape and MSIE browsers. This code defines both style and font and takes care of that problem.

This is my pre-defined link color (blue) from the body tag in the head command. The visited link color is an Indian red. The table has a clear background, allowing the warrior to show through.

<body background="warrior.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#333399" alink="#660000" vlink="#990033">

Here, I want to make my link color red in this white table. Click here to see that the visited link stays red.

<A HREF="linkcolors.html" style="color:#ff0000"><font color="#ff0000">Text goes here</font></A>

Now I have a black table and I want my link color to be white. Click here to see that the visited link color stays white.

<A HREF="linkcolors.html" style="color:#ffffff"><font color="#ffffff">Text goes here</font></A>

So you see how easy it is to define link colors. It comes in most handy with defining link colors within tables.

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