Tweak

A commom question in the newsgroups is: "Why is the link/visited link color in I set in 'My Link Style...' (see the Page Style preferences) ignored on most pages?" The same question can be asked about your choice for 'strike through' and/or 'underline'.

The link style is the base style you choose for links, always to be overriden by author styling when you allow author styling. So if the page sets a color for links and visited links (using a stylesheet or html attributes), Opera's settings will be ignored. And if the page stylesheet sets a value for 'text-decoration' (underline, no underline, strike-through, blink), Opera's setting for undeline and strike-though will be ignored.

If you want your preferred link style to be applied all the time, you need to use a 'User style sheet' and use the '!important' marker in it to make your styles override all author styles.

Example of such an user style sheet, just copy to a plain text file:


a:link {
color: #0000ff !important;
background-color: #ffffff !important;
text-decoration: underline !important;
}

a:visited {
color: #ff00ff !important;
background-color: #ffffff !important;
text-decoration: line-through !important;
}


To see your user stylesheet applied on top of author styling, enable it in the 'Author' presentation mode, like this:



But having you own link colors applied all the time is usually very ugly when visiting sites with a dark background.

Personally I'd use only this in my user stylesheet:


a:visited {
text-decoration: line-through !important;
}


... because it never interferes with the color scheme of sites.