My OperaUser specified link styles
Monday, January 17, 2005 12:42:22 PM
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.
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.
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